When he heard that it was Han Jingyun's idea, Han Du's expression suddenly changed.
Han Du feels that as a girl, she is becoming more and more independent now. I remember at the beginning, I would only stand timidly behind myself and call "big brother".
Now, they dare to make decisive proposals on major matters that affect the future of more than a hundred people.
This is the confidence that knowledge brings to her. The more she reads and the more knowledgeable she is, the more confident she feels inside.
He knows that if a girl doesn't have a good enough reason to convince her, she won't listen to him. Han Du hasn't figured out how to refute her yet, so he doesn't even think about going to her immediately.
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Kunning Palace.
After Empress Ma's preparation, the celebration banquet for Zhu Zi and the four of them was held very grandly. Apart from inviting the courtiers to celebrate together, this is already the best thing.
Except for the prince who was no longer able to come, even Zhu Biao, other princes and princesses came. Of course, many of Lao Zhu's concubines also gathered together.
The palace has not been as lively as it is now for a long time. It is only on Lao Zhu's birthday that we can compare it with now.
The banquet officially began. First of all, Lao Zhu expressed his exclamation and congratulated Zhu Zi and others for achieving such a good ranking in the examination. Lao Zhu's family has been farmers for eighteen generations, and they have no connection with the scholarly family background. Even though Lao Zhu took over the world and became emperor, Lao Zhu still had this obstacle in his heart.
Otherwise, with Lao Zhu's arrogance, he would never have thought of clinging to Zhu Xi and preparing to recognize Zhu Xi as his ancestor. Fortunately, Queen Ma persuaded him to give up, and then Lao Zhu talked about Huaiyou Buyi.
It can be seen that Lao Zhu still attaches great importance to family status, but he has no choice but to do nothing because his ancestors do not help. Zhu Biao was indeed talented enough to win the first prize, but unfortunately he was the eldest son and had been crowned prince early, so it was impossible for him to compete with the world's scholars in the examination room.
Now it's good, four talents of Huiyuan suddenly appeared in Lao Zhu's family, which can be regarded as making up for the shortcomings of the royal family.
Next, Queen Ma and Zhu Biao congratulated several people in turn.
After three rounds, Lao Zhu happily wiped the wine drops that had fallen on his beard because he drank too eagerly. The more I look at my sons, the more satisfied I become. Thinking about the chaos that Zhu Zi had caused in the palace in the past, Lao Zhu was filled with emotion.
At that time, Zhu Zike made Lao Zhu worried. He cursed the palace maids and eunuchs at will, and even had an affair with the palace maids at a young age. It was precisely because Lao Zhu knew this that he took advantage of the establishment of the academy to throw him out of the palace early. In order not to arouse speculation, the other three princes were also brought to the academy.
But it seems to Lao Zhu now that in just a few years, where does Zhu Zi still have that surly and arrogant look? As he has grown older in the past two years, Zhu Zi's appearance has become more handsome. Holding a glass of wine, with a light smile on his face, he seemed to be polite to everyone, a perfect picture of "the best young man in troubled times, coming to the world for the first time".
"Old Shi, you are not young anymore. If it weren't for the fact that you were studying in the academy, I should have got you married two years ago and given you a fief. Now that you have accomplished something in your studies, you can get married and become a feudal lord. I can also prepare for you." Lao Zhu sighed with the emotion of having a grown-up son in our family.
Not only Zhu Zi, but the other three people also raised their heads and looked at their father after hearing this.
Coincidentally, Lao Zhu also turned his attention to them and said: "You are the same, but as my reward for your high school entrance examination, you can choose your own fiefdom."
Fiefdom, for the kings, was a matter of glory and wealth. Even though he is Lao Zhu's son, he has been shouting the golden key since he was born, but the fate of the kings is completely different.
Lao Zhu's favorite son was Zhu Biao, and he gave him the title of prince. Secondly, there are those sons with military talents. These princes were sealed in the border fortress by him. Although the environment is a little more difficult, after all, with military power in hand, life will not be bad no matter what. The worse ones were those who could not lead troops to fight, but were obedient and eager to learn. These were also quite popular with Lao Zhu, and he thoughtfully granted them some wealthy lands in the interior. The worst were the princes who were incompetent in culture and military affairs. Lao Zhu didn't pay attention to these sons at all and just sent them away wherever he found. As for whether the enfeoffed vassal states are good or bad, it almost all depends on luck.
Now Lao Zhu lets the four of them choose their own fiefdoms, which is really more beneficial than rewarding them with more gold, silver and jewelry.
Zhu Zi took a look and saw that the other three younger brothers did not answer, so he drank a drink and said: "Father, I don't want a fiefdom. I want to stay in the capital. If the father really wants to reward me, If so, then give your son a royal palace."
"Do you want to stay in the capital?" Lao Zhu frowned and looked at Zhu Zi with an inexplicable meaning in his eyes.
When Lao Zhu asked his sons to join the feudal clan, he not only wanted to take care of each of his sons, but the more important reason was to keep them away from the center of power in the capital.
Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of princes seizing the throne against the odds. Every time such a thing happened, the brothers would kill each other, and the blood would flow like a river and they would not give up. And judging from the past dynasties, there are really very few princes who can successfully ascend the throne. They either die of illness suddenly, are assassinated, or simply take the throne by force.
The position of prince has always been an extremely dangerous position.
In order to avoid such a situation in the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu even ignored the relationship between father and son and sent his adult sons out one by one, just to prevent them from threatening Zhu Biao's future accession to the throne. Although Zhu Biao has great skills and all his younger brothers are convinced by him, even so, Lao Zhu is not willing to take risks.
Now that Lao Zhu heard that Zhu Zi didn't want to go and join the feudal clan and wanted to stay in the capital, the first thought in his mind was whether he had any thoughts about the throne.
Everyone could clearly see the change in the emperor's expression. Queen Ma silently put down her chopsticks and sat calmly on the left side of Lao Zhu. She folded her hands and put them down without saying a word.
Concubine Da Ding repeatedly pointed to Zhu Zi with her eyes, wanting him to explain properly and not to anger the emperor.
Zhu Zi saw the color of his mother-in-law, but ignored it and said calmly: "Yes."
"Why don't you want to leave Beijing?" Lao Zhu asked.
Although Lao Zhu had bad thoughts in his heart, he still persuaded patiently: "After the vassal state, you are the master of a country, and you can intervene in all the affairs of the vassal state. Besides, if you have the support of the vassal state, then Life is much easier than what you have now."
In fact, the vassal state was not as good as Lao Zhu said.
The purpose of the vassal state established by Lao Zhu was to defend the throne in the capital. The vassal king can handle all affairs within the vassal state, but at the same time, the officials within the vassal state are sent by the court. Of course, the vassal prince's palace also has its own officials, and these officials can also handle the affairs of the vassal state.
In this way, mutual monitoring and checks and balances between court officials and vassal officials were formed, which could further stabilize the situation in the Ming Dynasty.
Lao Zhu's idea is naturally good, but it is just a little too taken for granted. He did not expect that as long as they are human beings, their abilities cannot be exactly the same. They must be strong or weak, high or low.
If the vassal king is talented and capable, he can naturally take advantage of the officials in the vassal palace to completely evacuate the power of the court officials, completely turn the vassal state into his own state, and truly become the master of a country.
And if the court officials are strong, they will naturally oppress the feudal prince, and even isolate the feudal prince's palace, leaving it unable to do anything. There is no way to talk about checks and balances.
And these sons of Lao Zhu are indeed worthy of being dragon sons, and they are all full of aggression. Most of the vassal states are in the first situation. The orders of the six departments of the imperial court are not as effective as the royal orders of the vassal prince's palace within the vassal state. Only a small part is the second case.
Even Lao Zhu was so confident that there was no mutual checks and balances that could emerge.
Of course, these are all things for later. At least now, Lao Zhu believes that his purpose of mutual checks and balances can be achieved between the feudal prince's palace and the court officials.
Zhu Zi did not hesitate, and said half in thought and half in explanation: "My ministers are actually not familiar with government affairs. It is not a good thing for the people to interfere in the government affairs of the vassal state."
"You can learn if you don't understand. Did I know how to deal with government affairs when I was born? Besides, you have never dealt with the affairs of the vassal state. How do you know that it is not good for the people?" Lao Zhu's tone fell, and he slightly blamed Zhu Zi.
While sorting out his thoughts, Zhu Zi organized his words to follow his father's words and explained: "If you give orders to many people, it will do a lot of harm but no good to the people. Let me give you an example. If Erchen The people were asked to build a road, but this road may not necessarily be the most suitable. It may be a detour, or it may be discovered after the repair that there are places where soil is easily washed down from the mountains, etc. Now the court has found another route that is most suitable for construction. After this road is built, there will be no problems. I dare to ask my father, should we abandon the original road now and organize the people to continue building this road without any problems. Or should we give up the construction and make do with the original road? "
As soon as Zhu Zi's question came out of his mouth, Lao Zhu felt a strong smell of the academy.
In the past, when Lao Zhu listened to Confucian lecturers, what he often heard from these people was either this or that, black or white. At one time, Lao Zhu didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and he even felt that this was the right way.
But after the academy appeared, Lao Zhu occasionally heard remarks like Zhu Zi's just now. They are not absolutely opposed to each other, but have buffers, intersections, and differences. Two roads, one of which is defective, is not completely unusable, and the other, although flawless, needs to be rebuilt.
