Currently, those who hold military power for the emperor in the Ming Dynasty include Qin Liangyu and Chen Ce, generals who served in the Privy Council due to their military merits, as well as civilian officials such as Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Keli who also served in the Ministry of War due to their military merits.
After all, Emperor Zhu Youxiao is just one person.
Although he is the supreme commander of the Ming Dynasty, only he can make decisions on all military orders.
But he couldn't control it.
Naturally, these people act as the emperor's military power.
However, the situation formed by these personnel who represented his military power was more conducive to the emperor's control than before.
In the past, it was just the civil service group that acted as the emperor's military power.
Now there are also military commanders participating.
Naturally, civil and military checks and balances can be achieved in military power, so that the emperor is not controlled by either civil servants or military generals.
Moreover, the civil servants who acted for the emperor's military power were no longer the entire civil servant group. The officials of the Sixth Section and the Metropolitan Procuratorate no longer dared to interfere. Only civil servants who had served as border ministers and had military merits would be summoned by the emperor to the Privy Council to discuss military plans.
Therefore, in this way, professionalism has also been improved.
If the Beijing camp is rectified, the interests that will be harmed will be the nobles and the middle and lower-level civil servants of the Ministry of War.
Because the main officers in the Beijing camp are still nobles, they rely on this to earn their salaries and also rely on this to enslave the soldiers.
It can be said that the imperial court's support of the capital camp was sometimes equivalent to raising domestic slaves for the nobles.
The middle and lower-level civil servants of the Ministry of War increased their extra income by extorting money from corruption in the logistics of the Beijing camp and the process of retirement of soldiers due to old age and illness.
However, neither of these two types of forces are currently in the core circle of imperial power.
Therefore, these two groups of forces did not know that officials such as Yuan Keli had begun to advise the emperor to touch their cheese.
Zhu Youxiao naturally also wanted to rectify the Beijing camp.
The reason why it has not been reorganized is because he has never had a truly reliable army of his own before.
Later, after Zhu Youxiao's new guards were trained, the internal turmoil continued due to reforms, and there was no time to rectify it.
But now that Yuan Keli proposed changes, Zhu Youxiao did not refuse.
However, as the emperor, Zhu Youxiao had to consider more things because he knew more than others.
Therefore, after returning to the palace, Zhu Youxiao summoned Yuan Keli alone.
"These are the exact words of Xie Sheng, the young minister of Taichang Temple. They are also beneficial to the country and prevent the emergence of aristocratic families. I have been hiding this matter for you. Why did Aiqing tell it? Does Aiqing think that there is no one in the world except If I don’t kill you, no one will dare to do anything to you?”
Zhu Youxiao gave Yuan Keli the Dongchang Quotations Book containing Xie Sheng's quotations.
Yuan Keli took the quotation book with a calm expression.
He was not surprised that the emperor could know the ministers' conversations. He knew that his emperor, like Shimiao, had many ears and eyes.
But after Yuan Keli read the content of the quotation, his breathing became a little rapid. His eyes were like spitting fire. He stared at the quotation book and couldn't help but said: "How unreasonable! How unreasonable! This despicable villain! He does one thing in front of others and another behind his back!"
"Are you forming a clique?"
Zhu Youxiao asked directly.
Yuan Keli was stunned.
"I dare not deceive Your Majesty, yes!"
Nowadays, Zhu Youxiao usually sits with the ministers to discuss politics, so Yuan Keli has always been sitting down. However, now he had to stand up holding an elephant wat and bowed to reply.
"But I am forming a party for justice, not for personal gain!"
Yuan Keli added another sentence.
"Is it for the sake of reverse?"
Zhu Youxiao still looked serious.
"yes!"
Yuan Keli replied.
Then, Yuan Keli said again: "Your Majesty is a wise king. He must also understand that Fang's father and son are now very powerful."
"No need to say anything more, my dear!"
Zhu Youxiao interrupted Yuan Keli's words and said: "You think that letting Fang Congzhe fall can solve everything. It's better to overthrow me first. I will benefit the country the most. What's more, people's hearts are unpredictable. You feel that you If you form a party for justice, how do you know that others will definitely stand for justice? The court is not a battlefield, and it is not so clear whether you are an enemy or a friend. Just like this Xie Sheng, people are calling you crazy, so he must be in front of you. That’s not what you said.”
Yuan Keli had to shut his mouth.
"As for the aristocratic families, to be precise, what will appear in the Ming Dynasty in the future will not be the aristocratic families before the Song Dynasty, but chaebols, but this is inevitable. I will become a chaebol, and you, Yuan Aiqing, will also become a chaebol. I can't stop it, you It can’t be stopped, at least not within a few hundred years;
The only thing I can do is to try to let the wealth flow to the common people without causing the country to overthrow. I believe that the other chaebols mentioned by Ai Qing will not want the country to overthrow. They even have greater motivation to preserve our Ming Dynasty than the nobles in the past. Because their wealth cannot be separated from the imperial court and mine;
Unlike the gentry in the past, although one gentry is nothing and is not enough to shake the foundation of the imperial court, the gentry love to form factions, just like you, Yuan Aiqing, do now. Once they unite, the harm they cause is not small! In addition, the nobles can ignore the rise and fall of the imperial court. As long as the world changes, they can still serve as officials. I dare to bet you that if the Ming Dynasty dies, your Yuan family can still serve as officials and serve as officials for a famous family. "
Zhu Youxiao said at this time.
After hearing this, Yuan Keli only replied: "Your Majesty, if the real country is destroyed, I will sacrifice my whole family for the country!"
"You can only guarantee that your Yuan family will die for the country. Can you make all the nobles in the world die for the country? In addition, if you, Yuan Aiqing, really want to make your whole family die for the country, have you ever asked your people if they are willing? If you order your relatives to end their lives for the sake of integrity, they Can you control your life?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
"But Your Majesty, the interests of the country can make the people richer, how can we let the plutocrats take advantage of them?"
Yuan Keli asked.
"There is no other way. The common people in the world have not yet realized how to speak for themselves. They are just waiting for good emperors, good officials and good people to come to save them. They even put their hope in Bodhisattvas and gods, but they have never thought of fighting for it on their own. So, now give If you give them money, they won't be able to keep it. It's better to give them knowledge and let them study and understand. Only in this way, more and more of them will become one of you, and then start to fight against me. "
Zhu Youxiao smiled bitterly as he spoke.
"I don't dare!"
Yuan Keli hurriedly replied, meaning that he did not dare to go against the emperor.
"This is not a matter of daring or daring. Anyone who has read a little bit of books will not be willing to be anyone's lackey. If he is, then he has given too much and has not paid attention to the people in the world."
Zhu Youxiao said: "I allow you to do the rectification of the capital camp, but I don't allow you to do it now to prevent the emergence of aristocratic families and benefit the country. When you scholar-bureaucrats are only part of the world, The people of the world can only be represented by me, and I must have the greatest power, and if I want to have the greatest power, I have to rely on them."
"Yes! I will obey your Majesty's instructions."
Yuan Keli left the palace with a solemn expression.
The emperor's words just now made him think deeply.
Yuan Keli couldn't help but thought: "Your Majesty seems to know the people of the world better than I do! But he has never seen a plow and a hoe, right? But what your Majesty said is indeed reasonable. It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, and the same is true for governing the country and bringing peace to the people. in this way."
And then, Yuan Keli really focused only on rectifying the Beijing camp.
The next day, Yuan Keli went to court to request the emperor to issue an order to rectify the capital camp.
Zhu Youxiao quickly approved the matter and asked Yuan Keli, Lu Jiude and the British Duke to take charge of the matter.
And because of this, the peaceful capital city suddenly became unstable like a stone dropped into water.
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