Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 548 Daming needs vigor and arrogance
Zhu Youjian's mood at the moment is heroic and excited.

Even if the Tongzhou City in front of you is still in the hands of the Qing army.

"Li Mingrui, what kind of emperor do you think I am compared to the previous emperors in the nearly three hundred years of my emperor's Ming Dynasty? To be honest, I will not punish you."

Even though Zhu Youjian said so, he had secretly decided that as long as Li Mingrui dared to disobey him, he wouldn't mind being a cunning dog.

"Your Majesty has the general plan of Taizu, and the ambition of becoming an ancestor. They are all difficult roads, so they can rule the world without disadvantages, and their achievements are comparable to those of ordinary emperors."

Li Mingrui naturally knew that his majesty the emperor was about to regain the northern capital, was about to rule the world again, and the imperial power would become stronger. It was the time when he was most proud. If he still wanted to die, he could not say a word of disobedience. Compare Zhu Youjian with Zhu Di.

Zhu Youjian only smiled lightly:
"You don't need to use Confucianism to judge people in the world. The ancients must be better than the present? Yao, Shun and Yu Tang can know firearms, Tang Zong and Song Zu know the money method, Taizu had a good heart at the beginning, but Ming can have today Chaos, never was it not the fault of the old rules and regulations, Cheng Zu had the ambition to gather imperial power but had no courage to change the world! I still prefer Li Yishan's poem of young Feng Qing Yu Lao Feng Sheng, this world is progressing, not trying to restore it to ancient times The era of slash-and-burn farming."

Li Mingrui was quite shocked in his heart. He didn't expect that His Majesty didn't even think about Taizu Chengzu at all, not even Tang Zong Song Zu, or even Yao Shun Yu Tang.

Li Mingrui couldn't help but think of his Majesty's sacred theory and the popular "Tianyan Lun" on the market, and sighed secretly: "Your Majesty is going to be an unprecedented emperor, but in this way, the orthodox position of Confucianism is in jeopardy. After all The sages of Confucianism are all ancients, if the ancients are not better than today's people, then they are not worthy of being saints, only today's people can be saints, but who can be a saint today, of course, is my emperor!"

As soon as Li Mingrui thought of this, he couldn't help but glanced at Zhu Youjian, and immediately made a big salute: "My humble minister is stupid, but fortunately His Majesty pointed it out, with His Majesty's achievements, he is an emperor through the ages, a sage king who has never been seen before or since! "

"It is true that there is no one before, but I don't hope that there will be no one in the future. There must be people smarter than me among the billions of people in the Ming Dynasty. Maybe you, Li Mingrui, are also wiser than me. It's just that you are all regarded as the disciples of saints. I have been harmed for hundreds of years, I have neither my own thinking nor my own thinking, so I appear to be extremely stupid. Maybe after enlightening the wisdom of the people for a few years, I will only be oblivious to everyone in this era, and it may even be hundreds of years later. Be laughed at by posterity."

When Zhu Youjian said this, Li Mingrui only felt that his Majesty's remarks were too shocking, so he hurriedly bowed in fright: "I don't dare, but there are people who are stupid, but how dare I be wiser than your majesty."

"Hypocrisy! As a civil servant, you have to be crazy. The doctrine of the mean is the most abominable thing. I know that many of you literati think that you are the best in the world, but you want to be humble on the surface. Why do you want to be so , I don't hate you for thinking that I am the best in the world, I hate your superficiality!"

Zhu Youjian's sudden reprimand caused Li Mingrui to wipe the sweat off his forehead: "Yes, yes, Your Majesty, you are right, my humble minister Li Mingrui is indeed not an ordinary minister, but a humble minister who can be the chief minister. The suggestion of moving south was the first one proposed by Weichen."

"Very good, this is the look of youthfulness. It is not a shortcoming to show your sharpness. You, Li Mingrui, are still the fearless Zuo Zhongyun who dared to defy the world's civil officials who first proposed the proposal of moving south. Don't be afraid of villains. As long as you I will protect you as long as I am still in power, just like Hai Rui, as long as I have enough justice, even if others slander me!"

Zhu Youjian patted Li Mingrui on the shoulder, smiled and walked towards Liu Xiyao's main tent ahead.

The civil and military officials of Daming are already used to the way that their own emperors do not send internal officials to summon the subordinates, but go to the subordinates themselves, so Li Mingrui didn't find it so strange. At this time, he was just quite shocked in his heart. He was shocked by what His Majesty Zhu Youjian said just now.

He suddenly felt that he actually hated hypocrisy and moderation, but after being an official for a long time, he suddenly forgot that what he should care most about is what he can do for the country, not protecting himself, nor making himself gradually become a clumsy person .

Because I am a Jinshi who has been selected from tens of thousands of scholars, and I am a veritable smart person, so why pretend to be a fool, it is too tiring!
"Da Ming needs energetic people to rule the empire instead of lifeless old men! Ever since the Taizu, Da Ming only hoped that farmers would farm the land honestly and soldiers would fight with peace of mind, but the world is changing and advancing. So Da Ming has been seeking stability for more than 200 years, but there is a great chaos that almost destroys the country! I, Li Mingrui, will never let Da Ming become lifeless again!"

Li Mingrui seemed to have thought through something, and suddenly he felt a lot more comfortable, and he smiled, and no longer just followed Zhu Youjian's ass because he was worried that his majesty would think he was arrogant, but took the initiative to find the first guard of the guards. The governor of the Second Corps of the First Army discussed political reform with the soon-to-be magistrate of Tongzhou County.

As a person of later generations, although Zhu Youjian has become an emperor, he has the spirit of killing and decisive in every gesture, but his casual and unselfish identity and the independent personality of modern people who don't care about anyone's opinion have not affected his behavior. The majesty of the emperor, on the contrary, brought him some intimacy. For officials like Liu Xiyao who were born as civilians, it made them more loyal to Zhu Youjian than giving them glory and wealth.

More than 100 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, there was such an emperor, a simple but not stupid emperor, an unruly but daring emperor, but also one of the most miserable emperors who were hacked.

Zhu Youjian didn't know if he would be the worst hacked in the future.

But he is too lazy to think about these things now. He even thinks that as long as he conquers Beijing, unifies Daming again, and becomes the true master of the whole world, he can completely use his power to subvert the standard that defines whether a king is wise or not. .

boom!
The Qing army fired first, and the huge iron bullets smashed towards the guard camp.

Zhu Youjian saw with his own eyes that the guards soldiers were smashed into meatloaf by the iron bullets, and he also saw his soldiers rushing towards Tongzhou City tenaciously like a tide, and he also saw the military industrial crystallization he had painstakingly built like a rifled cannon. The cannonballs exploded at the solid gate of Tongzhou City, blasting bricks and rocks, and fireworks skyrocketing.

(End of this chapter)