Zhu Di knew that everything he had now was a world of fantasy and false.
But this fantasy world... is so awesome!
In one hand, he held the Rouyi of Princess Yan, whom he longed for, and in the other hand, he held the immature Prince of Huai'an County, Zhu Gaojie. The family of three were strolling through the palace of Prince Yan in the summer. Time seemed to have stagnated at this moment, and he was already immersed in it. In the happy time of family reunion, the bullshit tasks have long been forgotten.
As for the three remaining cubs?
Stay somewhere cool.
Princess Xu of Yan felt that something was not right. For the first time, her prince was as gentle as he is now. It was hard to imagine that this was actually the King of Yan, Zhu Di, who was in love with military affairs.
The young Zhu Gaojie also felt that something was wrong. This was the first time he felt the presence of his father's love, and he seemed a little uncomfortable for a while. In his heart, he should be the child who was least favored by his father. , his father used to look at him the same way he looked at the maids and eunuchs in the palace.
Mrs. Xu hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, why do I feel that something happy has happened to you?"
Zhu Di was stunned for a moment: "Oh, is it so obvious?"
"You just have the word Lehe written on your face..."
Mrs. Xu calmed down and thought about what major events had happened recently that deserved the joy of her prince.
After thinking about it, it seems that the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and it doesn't seem to be a big deal...
I heard that His Majesty has been in poor health recently. Is there anything worth celebrating about this?
Your father is dying, how can you still be happy here?
What a wise woman Xu is, she asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty has been in poor health in recent days. You don't have any presumptuous ideas, do you?"
Zhu Di said seriously: "I didn't, so don't talk nonsense."
Xu: "???"
Only then did Zhu Di realize that he had made a mistake. At this time, he was still just the King of Yan, and the heir to the throne was Zhu Yunwen, a little brat.
When the young Prince Zhu Gaojie of Huai'an County heard this, his eyes flickered unnoticeably, but he hid his emotions very well and continued to pretend to be ignorant and didn't understand anything.
Zhu Di came back to his senses and realized what he should do during this time.
Lao Zhu is about to die, and the one who will inherit the throne is Zhu Yunwen, a little brat. If nothing happens, something will happen soon.
If time is allowed to develop as it did before, I'm afraid he won't be able to enjoy this wonderful time for long, and Zhu Yunwen will have to swing the butcher's knife that cuts down the vassal clan on his head.
Tsk...you should do something.
[Remind the host: You have a total of ten opportunities to roll back. 】
Zhu Di was a little confused: What does backtracking mean?
[Rewind: refers to going back in time to the original moment. 】
Zhu Di:! ! !
In this case, wouldn't it be possible for me to... do whatever I want?
He glanced at Zhu Gaojie beside him, and suddenly a bold idea came to his mind.
Since this is a fantasy world, can I... give it a try and make the world unified?
…
In the fifth month of the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu passed away. His grandson Zhu Yunwen came to the throne and ordered the kings to stay in the feudal country and not to attend the funeral in the capital. In less than a year, King Zhou, King Min, King Xiang, King Qi, and King Dai were deposed one after another.
In July of the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Di captured the nine gates of Peiping and took control of Peiping. He shouted the slogan "The world is harmonious, benefiting the country and the people" and vowed to go to war.
At the beginning of the war, because most of the northern generals were their old tribes, many surrendered. But two months later, Emperor Jianwen issued an imperial decree and ordered King Zhu Quan of Ning, King Zhu Zhi of Liao, and the Daning Army and Liaodong Army to jointly send troops to suppress Zhu Di.
In the same year, Zhu Di died.
…
Time goes back to May of the 31st year of Hongwu, the eve of Zhu Yuanzhang's death.
Zhu Di was sitting in the courtyard of Prince Yan's Mansion. It was still sunny and sunny, but he was lost in thought.
Why the hell does this not match the original script!
"Why did King Ning and King Liao obey Emperor Jianwen's order and send troops against me?"
This is what Zhu Di doesn't understand the most now.
Among the kings of Hongwu's vassal, in fact, the strength of Prince Yan's palace was not the strongest, and could only be ranked third.
Zhu Quan, king of Ning, who guarded Daning, controlled dozens of cities in the territory, covering an area of more than a thousand miles. He had 80,000 armor and 6,000 leather chariots. He was regarded as the most powerful among all the kings.
Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao who guarded Guangning, patrolled the entire Liaodong like a fierce tiger. The three guards of Guangning were brave and good at fighting, and they were also assisted by Guo Ying, the Marquis of Wuding, and Song Sheng, who was later worshiped as the northwest general in the Yongle Dynasty.
But these two little brothers were not his enemies in the original history. King Liao was deprived of military power by Emperor Jianwen, and King Ning was emptied of his family fortune by Zhu Di's tricks.
Their common enemy is Emperor Jianwen.
But now Emperor Jianwen gave an order, Ning Wang Zhu Quan and Liao Wang Zhu Zhi came to bite Zhu Di like mad dogs and tore the Yan Palace into pieces. Their ferocity almost cast a shadow on Zhu Di.
The Daning Army and the Liaodong Army were both elites who fought bloody battles at the border. They were even more powerful than the army of Prince Yan. Under the overwhelming number of troops, two famous generals, King Ning and King Liao, were in command. Even Guo Ying, one of the twenty-four generals of Huaixi, was only assigned to these two border guards as his deputy. Zhu Di came to follow Play the same.
"What is dad thinking about?"
Hearing this childish voice, Zhu Di took a look and saw that it was Zhu Gaojie, a porcelain doll that was no higher than his knees. He was upset and suddenly felt much more relaxed. He said gently: "Xiao Si, be good. , Dad is thinking about something, don’t make trouble.”
At this time, a certain Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Gaoyang County who did not want to be named, passed by the garden and shed indisputable tears when he saw Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu, who were loving father and son.
It was obviously me who came first...
Damn Zhu Di, he was very kind to Zhu Gaojie, but he kicked me hard.
Zhu Gaoxu left angrily.
…
Zhu Di said casually: "Xiaosi, have you ever thought about a world where the world is unified?"
The young Zhu Gaojie was stunned for a moment: "Father, can you be more specific?"
"Well... it's a world like the Utopia, where everyone is equal, everyone is fair, everyone has a common belief, the power of the country is handed over to the people, a country without a monarch."
Zhu Di scratched his head and sighed, "Forget it, why am I telling you this? How can you understand at such a young age?"
Later, the young Zhu Gaojiu mused: "No matter what kind of system it is, progress can only be promoted by constantly squeezing the power from the bottom. In order to pursue the speed of progress and maximize the benefits to extract value, the bottom will be crazily oppressed. class."
“Keep the people of the lower class at a level where they can only rely on hard work to survive. Because the people at the bottom work too hard, they will create enough value so that the ruling class can easily fight with other forces. The people at the bottom only have the ability to work. Power, exploited power, oppressed power, but no power to think, no power to speak, no power to participate in rule or express opinions, only such a bottom is suitable for the rule of the top.”
"If you do not consider the external factors of foreign wars, the most serious thing in this system is actually the internal struggle. The internal struggle is not only the struggle between the rulers and the parties that assist the rule, but also the struggle between political parties. Competition. Weak political parties gradually lose power and are absorbed or defeated by powerful political parties.”
"Correspondingly, in addition to the bureaucracy, the relationship between the people and the aristocratic families is also the same. The people are constantly suppressed by the aristocratic families. In the early days of the establishment of the dynasty, a small number of people could barely rise to the top of the empire. But as the dynasty progressed, After a long period of time, the interests have been divided up, and there are no seats for the people at the table of interests, and the channels leading to the head of the people have become narrower and narrower until they are completely broken."
“As a result, the entire country was eventually divided into two classes with directly opposing interests. One was the ruling class that controlled 100% of the distribution of power and interests, and the other was the people at the bottom who only had the power to be exploited. It was like a volcano built in the crater. The fortress seems to be in peace, but as long as there is any disturbance, such as a natural disaster or war, the crater will completely erupt and burn the fortress to ashes."
"The fatal point is that all problems cannot be solved, because it is a problem of the system itself. The ruling class wants benefits, and the people are not willing to be exploited cattle and sheep. This is a natural law generated by the system itself. Just like the wind. Like rain, it does not change according to human will. If you want to solve the problem, you can only start by changing the system."
"And the person who first proposes changing the system will become everyone's enemy."
"They will kill anyone who dares to touch their interests."
"In the face of the interests of the class, all personal interests seem extremely small. The infighting between aristocratic families can beat each other's brains into dogs, but once someone proposes that this country does not need aristocratic families, the aristocratic families will instantly They happily joined hands to kill the person who spoke."
After Zhu Gaojie said this, he gasped for air. Sure enough, for such a young body, it was still too difficult to speak such a long paragraph without breaks.
Everyone in Zhu Di was dumbfounded.
He looked at Zhu Gaojie blankly, with a huge doubt in his mind, and asked: "How old are you this year?"
Zhu Gaojie answered honestly: "Eight years old."
Zhu Di stood up angrily: "What the hell is he eight years old?!"
Who can an eight-year-old child say this?
The key is...
After Zhu Di heard this, he thought it made sense!
Zhu Gaojie explained the origin of the conflict between the ruling class and the people at the bottom, the division of interests between the bureaucracy and the aristocratic families, and the status of the people in the class.
Zhu Di could not understand things even if he scratched his head, but this boy could explain them clearly.
I see.
Zhu Yunwen's violent vassal reduction and stupid reform methods aroused the public indignation of all the royal family and the dissatisfaction of the noble families. Compared to the stupid Zhu Yunwen, they hope that Zhu Di will take over and continue to maintain the status quo of the class and avoid national turmoil.
With great luck and class support, Zhu Di won the battle of Jingnan, and everyone was happy.
Then when he proposed the great unity of the world, he essentially shook the interests of the ruling class and kicked out all the royal classes from the division of interests. Including the royal family, all the aristocratic families in the world would never tolerate the appearance of such a fool. Zhu Di instantly became the target of public criticism.
Originally, they were against Emperor Jianwen. After all, restoring Zhou Rites sounded stupid. But when Zhu Di proposed world unity, they suddenly felt that Emperor Jianwen was still very smart compared to Zhu Di, a fool.
Compared with Zhu Di’s idea of world unity, is Emperor Jianwen’s restoration of Zhou rites a piece of shit?
Restoring the Zhou rites would just mean going back thousands of years. The whole world would be harmed by the royal family!
No wonder King Zhu Quan of Ning and King Zhu Zhi of Liao would risk their lives to beat Zhu Di. They were not loyal to Jianwen. They were clearly trying to defend the interests of their own class!
Zhu Di, who was born in a royal family and was expected to compete in the world, became a traitor to his class when he proposed world unity.
Zhu Di asked tentatively: "So, do you think if I want to propose the concept of world unity and everyone's equality, can you figure out how to win this battle for me?"
Zhu Gaojie fell into deep thought after hearing this.
When Zhu Di saw this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
He was really out of his mind to ask such a question to an eight-year-old child.
If it were Zhu Gaojie, the Hengjing Emperor who would support the entire empire with one person in the future, he might be able to think of a solution. But today's Emperor Hengjing is still just a boy with no hair on his head.
Zhu Di already felt that it was outrageous that an eight-year-old child could say something that shocked him. How could he think of how to win a battle that even he couldn't win?
This is not a battle of sending troops and generals, this is a class war, a war against everyone.
Zhu Di felt that this was an impossible battle to win.
Then just when Zhu Di was about to give up this unrealistic idea, Zhu Gaojie said: "Unite allies who can unite and fight against a common enemy."
"The great unity of the world is to bring democracy to the forefront. All the peasant class and the poor are our allies. In fact, those who propose the great unity of the world are not enemies of the world, but allies of the world."
"It is extremely foolish to blindly be enemies with the ruling class. One person cannot defeat a group of people. Correspondingly, the ruling class is a minority, while the people are the majority. When we can unite the people all over the world, the ruling class will The few people there seem extremely insignificant.”
"Of course, it is not easy to unite people all over the world."
"The people will not enlighten themselves. They need a wise and powerful person to guide them to awaken. Without an awakener, the people will always be like a pool of stagnant water. Thousands of years have made them accustomed to being enslaved. Being oppressed, they are used to having a man named the Emperor lording it over their heads.”
"Only when they can no longer survive, they will choose to rebel, overthrow the original class, and then replace that class. The imperial system has a template for learning. Everyone is learning how to rule like Qin Shihuang, and everyone who cannot survive People like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are also imitating the uprising, but there is no template for the world to be unified, and in history, no rebels have ever established a country where the world is unified."
"If there is no template, then create a template to awaken the people and guide them."
"Everyone in the world is equal."
"Everyone in the world is an ally."
"How can a jackal, tiger or leopard be an enemy?"
(End of chapter)
