allendalepharm Chapter 264 I can't forgive myself
Chapter 264 I can't forgive myself
Chapter 264 I can't forgive myself
And Zhu Yijun also learned from Jin Yiwei's undercover agent that Jin Xuezeng, Sun Bin, Shen Yourong, etc. did not dare to be too greedy after they robbed the Xiyi merchant ship and obtained a large amount of thief money. Sixty percent of the money obtained from the thief was given to the emperor.
Even if Zhu Yijun would give them another [-]% by way of rewards as the emperor of the empire, it would be true that these people really did meritorious service in suppressing bandits.
That is also fifty-fifty.
It is [-]% more than the [-]% that the eunuchs sent by Wanli in history collected mining taxes.
If compared with the fact that the emperor could only get [-]% of the mining tax because of the resignation of the civil servants, the current Zhu Yijun can only get [-]% by nodding in the Forbidden City.
And the civil servants, military generals and eunuchs below only share the remaining [-]%.
It can be said that the current Zhu Yijun is more respected than Wanli in history.
Of course, this is also because he, the emperor, has his own military power, so he has a lot of real power.
After all, in this life, Zhu Yijun didn't break his own arm. He first whipped Zhang Juzheng's corpse, then drove Qi Jiguang to Guangdong, and even sat back and watched the elite soldiers of the South were falsely accused of treason and slaughtered.
Therefore, no matter how greedy the civil servants, military generals and eunuchs are, they have to weigh whether the emperor will not allow them to do so because they pay too little money, so they have to pay more, in order to continue to work part-time as pirates in the future, I would rather score less now.
Zhu Yijun admits that doing so is also a kind of depravity.
But he also has to admit that improving the level of technology and then making profits through normal trade is really too slow to boost wealth growth, compared to the way of directly plundering with the improvement of the level of technology.
There is no way, the former requires the market to mature and a transaction process.
At present, in order to accumulate a large amount of wealth as soon as possible, Zhu Yijun can alleviate the contradictions within the domestic ruling class that have not been eliminated because the New Deal reform has not been abolished, so he can only adopt some low-level primitive methods, or secretly acquiesce means.
In short, Zhu Yijun either abolished the New Deal and continued to suffer from the people of his own country to stabilize his personal emperor's rule, or he did not abolish the New Deal and consolidated his rule through foreign plunder.
And Zhu Yijun chose the latter.
However, if the improvement of technology can make a major breakthrough, and even set off a revolution, maybe this method can be made more civilized.
But if there is no major breakthrough in technological improvement, or even reaches the bottleneck stage, I am afraid that this method will become more barbaric and primitive.
This cannot be transferred by Zhu Yijun's personal will.
As the emperor, the only choice Zhu Yijun can make is to choose to suffer from the common people or from outsiders.
Even, according to the original trajectory of this land, Zhu Yijun's choice of the latter was a choice made against inertia. It can only be said that his generation of emperors was making an attempt.
Zhu Yijun didn't know if his attempt would be successful.
But Zhu Yijun still thinks it is very fragrant to make a lot of money after falling down.
What's more, he has no sympathy for the foreign barbarians in this era. After all, these foreign barbarians are also pirates themselves, and what they do is not much cleaner than the navy of Ming Dynasty.
Of course, Zhu Yijun still intends to pretend to be civilized on the bright side, in order to establish a trade order in the future, improve the civilization level of the entire human age of voyage, and weld the car doors that can be primitively accumulated by the way!
That is to say, except that Ming can do this in the initial stage of transformation from an agricultural empire to an industrial empire, it is illegal for other regimes to do so, and they can only maintain their own rule within the rules set by Ming.
Zhu Yijun could resolve the inner court's dissatisfaction with the inability to abolish the New Deal by issuing a "private plunder license", but it is not easy to resolve the dissatisfaction of the world's big bureaucrats and landlords for not abolishing the New Deal.
It can be said that because Zhu Yijun did not abolish the New Deal, the big bureaucrats and landlords could only watch a large number of industrious, docile, and productive people in the country live an increasingly peaceful and prosperous life, instead of being squeezed wantonly , for the big bureaucrats and big landlords, it is like letting a greedy person see a table of delicious food and can't eat it, which makes them feel uncomfortable.
Therefore, even if they know that Zhu Yijun is the emperor, the emperor with military power, and the father they have to enshrine as the lord of the world for their own benefit, there will still be most of them who cannot restrain their desires and instinctively Continue to find ways to abolish the New Deal and liquidate Zhang Juzheng.
First of all, because Zhang Siwei was not firm enough in abolishing the New Deal and liquidating Zhang Juzheng, it even led to the first batch of officials who tried to prevent Pan Sheng from joining the cabinet in order to abolish the New Deal and hoped that the emperor would recognize the New Deal as a tyranny because of the birth of the eldest son of the emperor. Executed, and so, the civil servants on the road attacked Zhang Siwei first.
The censor Jiang Dongzhi first impeached Zhang Siwei, saying that his corpse was a vegetarian meal, and he only knew how to flatter him, but did not know how to get rid of the accumulated evils. However, Zhang Siwei did not choose to retaliate against Jiang Dongzhi, but resigned on his own initiative.
As soon as Zhang Siwei decided to resign voluntarily, both Shen Shixing and Yu Youding had to go to the court to persuade them to stay. The reason was naturally that the officials could not easily impeach the chief assistant and lose the prestige of the cabinet.
In order not to lose the prestige of the cabinet at this time, Zhu Yijun set a precedent of changing the chief minister as soon as the chief minister was impeached, and at the request of Shen Shixing and Yu Youding, he decreed to retain Zhang Siwei.
However, after Zhang Siwei was retained by Zhu Yijun, he quickly promoted Jiang Dongzhi to the position of Guanglu Temple Chancellor through the Ministry of Officials to make up for the vacancy of the Guanglu Temple Chancellor. The reason was that Jiang Dongzhi was outspoken and upright. It is advisable to practice a lenient policy for private grievances to retaliate against upright ministers.
"What a good one to repay grievances with virtue!"
After Zhu Yijun received Zhang Siwei's invitation to recommend Jiang Dongzhi as the Chancellor of Guanglu Temple, he said with a somber face, and said: "Approved and approved!"
Seeing this, Zhang Hong quickly bowed his hands and said yes, and he was relieved, thinking: "After all, the emperor is still sensible."
However, Zhang Siwei's move raised the arrogance of the officials, which is equivalent to clearly telling the officials of Ke Dao:
Although I, Zhang Siwei, am a cowardly and shameless villain, I am not only cowardly in front of imperial power, but also cowardly in front of scholar power. I will pamper you in the name of preserving the holiness of the emperor.
As a result, a large number of memorials fell on Zhu Yijun's case like snowflakes in a snowy sky, and it didn't take long for them to pile up like a mountain, all of which were all kinds of advice.
Unless Zhu Yijun stayed up late to see it for himself, he couldn't see it at all, so he had to go to the cabinet and let the cabinet draft it.
However, Zhang Siwei, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, adopted the method of disposing of these remonstrances in the way of the next six ministries, instead of refuting some absurd and unruly remonstrances, which made the workload of the six ministries surge, and he was even more dissatisfied with the existing examination system. .
Because according to Zhang Juzheng's examination into the New Deal, government affairs cannot be delayed, and imperial edicts approved by the imperial court must be answered within the specified time.
Even Zhu Yijun himself was exhausted by Zhang Siwei's way of conniving and admonishing wildly, because many of the admonitions involved the inner court and needed to be handled by him, the emperor himself.
"It's obviously unrealistic to release an older palace lady. Those who make such suggestions are either stupid or bad! What can an older palace lady do if she is released from the palace? Will there be a serious family who wants to marry her, or will her family be willing to support her for the rest of her life? Or let them out and be sold into slavery?"
"Are you talking about imitating the virtues of Tang Taizong? Can the situation in this dynasty be the same as it was then?! Is the world short of women, or land?"
On this day, Zhu Yijun questioned Zhang Siwei in the imperial court about the fact that some officials advised to release the older maids from the palace to reduce court expenses, so that the older maids who could not give birth to the royal heir could enjoy the happiness of human relationships.
"Such a remonstrance, Yuanfu actually went up and did not refute it, what is the meaning?"
Then, Zhu Yijun questioned Zhang Siwei again.
Zhang Siwei replied: "I also know that what he said is pedantic and impractical, but because it involves the inner court and the holy virtue of your majesty, I dare not draft it without authorization, but can only send it directly to the imperial court. Please calm down your majesty, don't be incomprehensible with this." The little minister cares about it, so much so that it hurts the dragon's body."
"Then directly vote to refute it now!"
Zhu Yijun gave Zhang Siwei a deep look, and then said this.
"The minister obeys the order!"
Zhang Siwei didn't argue, he just bowed his head and obeyed orders, which meant that the emperor decided everything.
It's just because of this that the speaker with a keen sense of smell became more confident that Zhang Siwei would not help the emperor deal with them, and became bolder.
Soon, Sun Jixian, the censor, impeached Zhang Xueyan, killed good men and pretended to be meritorious, and rewarded victory with defeat.
But Zhang Siwei did not protect Zhang Xueyan, but proposed to let Zhang Xueyan defend himself.
After Zhu Yijun knew the result of Zhang Siwei's vote to impeach Zhang Xueyan, he couldn't help but slander: "It's Zhang Siwei who wants to kill himself, but it's not that I insist on killing you!"
(End of this chapter)