Zhu Cizhuo did not speak to Dong Hanchen immediately, but hurried into the house and put the riding crop on the table.
Then, Zhu Cizhuo glanced at Dong Hanchen and sighed: "After all, it is more difficult to be a Taoist than a magician! Uncle Meng, have you forgotten that the philosophy of Xingming Society is to let the sun and the moon shine on everything? For the Han people!"
"I have not forgotten it! But when necessary, there is nothing wrong with using one or two power tactics. This does not mean that we will not end the autonomy of these Western barbarians in the future and make them a place under the control of our Han civilization!"
Dong Hanchen defended and clapped his hands together.
"Then you should know that the temporary military control of these foreign foreign countries in the early stage of unification was to facilitate the forced establishment of our Han civilization! Now it is just to fill personal pockets, to achieve personal power, and to provide officials assigned by the imperial court in the future. Confessing the ruler of the country increases the difficulty of governance. Once there is such an official, the ruler is incapable of governing and cannot bear to be punished by the court and colludes with him, allowing him to continue to govern himself and become a puppet himself, making him not truly a Han. What should we do if our family is civilized? Doesn’t this go against ideals? If everyone does this, what’s the point of unifying our Ming Dynasty?!”
When Zhu Cizhuo asked this, he picked up the whip on the table and pointed it at Dong Hanchen: "What's more, when we raise troops, we also have the responsibility to improve the wealth of these places and increase the market here, so that our Ming Dynasty can maintain prosperity. ! How can you put personal desires and utilitarianism above national interests?!"
Snapped!
As he said that, Zhu Cizhuo slapped his whip on the table and said: "This Karl Kesten is deliberately corrupting the rulers of our dynasty in order to achieve the goal of continuing autonomy! His bad intentions and his cunning are really hard to tolerate. !”
"Therefore, this great general has decided not to peacefully resolve the issue of the unification of the Principality of Prussia, but to directly raise troops to punish Kalksten's crime in the future and to deter the nobles of other ununified Western countries. !”
Zhu Cizhuo then ordered: "First write this matter into a memorial, and you and I will jointly submit it to the court, so that the court will know the sinister intentions of these people! It will also allow the court to promptly prevent any Western nobles from trying to corrupt me. Inside the Ming Dynasty!”
"yes!"
Therefore, Dong Hanchen could not persuade him any more.
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"Very good, what a fifth prince who doesn't just care about personal gain!"
"I didn't expect that when he said that he didn't admire the throne, he wasn't lying. I was betrayed by this flaw, and I actually discovered another crown prince who puts the public interest of the nation first!"
After Zhu Youxiao saw the memorial jointly signed by Zhu Cizhuo and Dong Hanchen, he couldn't help but praise it secretly in his heart, and told Wen Tiren and other assistant ministers:
"Tell him Zhu Cizhuo that I already know it. It's good for him to do this. In the future, taxes on newly opened areas will still be collected by Xichang and will no longer be collected by the local government. Xichang immediately organized troops and horses to follow the army to the west. Zheng, I would rather spend more manpower and financial resources than let these barbarians take advantage of the loophole and want to govern themselves? I don't want to see if I have the ability to govern myself!"
"In addition, if the Fanyi dare to resist the tax, the punishment will be severer. Their female relatives will be made into wives of Han soldiers, and the men will be castrated and they will die in the service!"
"Yes! In that case, we have to order the Western Expeditionary Army to temporarily stop its expansion. We have to wait until all the Western Factory Service Officers and Schools have arrived in each army before we can expand."
Zhang Tongchang suggested after responding.
"That's natural. When the Privy Council issued the order I just made, they issued such a decree at the same time."
Zhu Youxiao said.
Lu Xiangsheng said at this time: "Your Majesty, I believe that the Council of Ministers must establish a motto for the governance of the vassal states as soon as possible to clarify the duties and powers of each vassal state in the future, so as to prevent the future leaders of each vassal state from doing things that are detrimental to our unification of the Ming Dynasty. Something that is detrimental to the interests of our Han family!"
"Although it is said that for the convenience of the people, remote areas need to be autonomous by vassal states; but this does not mean that other vassal states can cause chaos, abandon Chinese characters, abandon the Chinese language, let the church control the vassal government, or even demote If the Han Dynasty respects the barbarians, or does perverse things for personal selfishness, our central court cannot control it. If there is a rule of thumb, even if such a weird vassal leader does such a thing, there will be laws to govern it. In addition, even if the leader of a vassal state does inherit and does not know how to govern his own vassal state, he can still have a guideline to follow, instead of not knowing how to be the king of a vassal state, so that the power is controlled by the Fanyi!"
What Lu Xiangsheng calls "Zhenbian" means law.
Most ancient people called the law of officialdom the official maxim, but Lu Xiangsheng also habitually called the rules that restrained and taught each vassal state the official maxim at this time.
Zhu Youxiao also adopted it after listening to it, and ordered the cabinet to draft a decree and send it to the advisory council for court discussion.
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"Xichang recruited 500,000 captains and experienced officers and sent them to Europe. All students in the third grade and above from major financial schools took the Xichang selection examination in advance. Those who passed the exam were selected to join Xichang? All because General Dingxi was promoted to Shu. The implication is that the nobles colluded with the military officers to hide taxes, so they issued such a decree."
"Why is Lao Wu doing this? He has to let the emperor notice in advance that he must tighten the military's financial power! It's a pity to give him the position of general!"
After reading the newspaper, Zhu Cikai slammed his fist on the table in frustration.
He feels that everyone should maximize their own interests within the scope allowed by the rules, and he does not think there is anything wrong with doing so. After all, if people do not serve themselves, they will be destroyed by heaven and earth. If they cannot use the power they have at the moment to make the most A decision that benefits oneself is a failure to control this right.
Therefore, he felt that Zhu Cizhuo, as the general of Dingxi, should take advantage of the opportunity when Emperor Shan Gao and his generals were not accepted by the foreign emperors to properly pave the way for him, so that he could live up to the opportunity to hold the power of the general. After all, There are not many opportunities for this kind of military and political affairs to be seized.
But Zhu Cikai didn't expect that as a member of the royal family, Zhu Cizhuo was more honest than Zhou Yuji, and he didn't even want a chance to make money! What's more, the consequence of doing this is just to allow the Western barbarians in the annexed country to be autonomous for a few more years. When the people from the imperial court come in the future, all these Western barbarians will be killed on the grounds of rebellion. They are not Han people anyway. , killing them all is nothing, no different from killing a group of pigs.
As for trustworthiness and so on, naturally it doesn't matter. What kind of trustworthiness should I talk to the barbarians?
If we really want to consider the interests of the nation, the loss of a group of Western barbarians will have no impact on Han civilization.
The views of Zhu Cikai and Zhu Cizhuo are obviously different.
Moreover, he actually sent people alone to contact the rulers of other countries on the European continent. In the name of being the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, he deliberately took the opportunity to enrich himself, so that he could use some money to buy such political tricks to expand himself in the future. power.
But Zhu Cikai did not expect that Zhu Cizhuo would take the initiative to cut off this opportunity to seek power and rent, so that he lost this opportunity to enrich himself.
After all, Xichang is not as easy to control as the nobles of European countries.
Most of the official schools in Xichang are students from various schools whose ideological censorship is strictly controlled and their abilities are also strictly controlled. There are even many people who are secretly informants in the inner factory and are the emperor's cronies.
Therefore, even the prince would not dare to corrupt Xichang easily or kill Xichang's people to silence them.
After all, once found out, he will be insulated from power for life, and even in serious cases, he will be charged with treason.
Therefore, Zhu Cikai had no choice but to say to Earl Wattis, who came to meet him on behalf of the Electorate of Hanover: "Your Highness does not need any donations from you, let alone allow you to govern yourself, because that is what the General means, I can only help you Go and see him, and there’s nothing else you can do.”
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Wattis also came to Zhu Cizhuo with the help of Zhu Cikai, and explained that the Electorate of Hanover wanted to submit to the Ming Dynasty in name only, but hoped to continue to maintain its autonomy, and said:
"I heard His Majesty Seventh Prince say that your country is not willing to rule us by paying the general alone, and that this is what you want, general. So, we would like to know, does the general really think so?"
"Yes, that's what I meant!"
Zhu Cizhuo, who had just returned from inspecting the military camp, couldn't help but tighten his riding whip and replied.
"General, why are you doing this? This is something that will make you rich."
Wattis replied.
Zhu Cizhuo sneered and said: "You are so stupid! How can you expect to obtain independence and autonomy that you can't get with your fists by bribery! Even if you can live with it for a while, how can you collude for eternity, even if you are just afraid of the consequences? more serious."
Zhu Cizhuo put the riding whip on the table as he spoke: "Send off the guests! Instruct the fourth-rank and above officials to come and discuss the matter."
Wattis had no choice but to leave here.
After a while, Zhu Cikai, Li Dingguo, Liu Zhaoji and other main officers and generals of the Western Expedition Army came to Zhu Cizhuo.
As soon as Zhu Cikai came in, he saw Zhu Cizhuo's cold face and a pair of tiger eyes, which were obviously facing him.
He naturally guessed that Zhu Cizhuo was dissatisfied with him.
However, he believed that Zhu Cizhuo was the crown prince, but he didn't take it to heart. He even raised the corner of his mouth slightly and regarded Zhu Cizhuo as if he was nothing. He took the initiative to sit in the first place on the lower left side of Zhu Cizhuo, with his right hand on his On the table, he flicked his nails and asked, "Where's the tea?"
When Li Dingguo, Liu Zhaoji and others saw Zhu Cizhuo's cold face, they all held their breath and concentrated, and first bowed their hands to Zhu Cizhuo and saluted: "Your Highness!"
Zhu Cizhuo looked kindly and said, "Generals, please sit down."
After Li Dingguo and others sat down, Zhu Cizhuo said: "The Privy Council has sent an order to continue resting before the arrival of the Xichang Military Academy. In this case, I have decided to take this opportunity to rectify the conduct. Strict discipline! In particular, some high-ranking officers and generals took advantage of the power of our army in Europe to seek personal gain. They also went behind the back of this general and did not put military discipline, national law, imperial guidelines or even the interests of the Han family at all. In my heart and conscience, I let the dogs eat me!”
When Zhu Cizhuo spoke, Zhu Cikai lowered his head and still looked at his nails, but when he heard Zhu Cizhuo say this, he still raised his head.
It happened that at this time, Zhu Cizhuo also looked towards him.
Eyes facing each other.
Zhu Cizhuo continued: "The first person to reveal the instructions is the commander of the Western Expedition Army, the Seventh Prince Zhu Cikai, who is responsible for military aircraft staff and logistics dispatch!"
Zhu Cizhuo continued: "Starting from this general, everyone here must expose Zhu Cikai. If there are any mistakes, expose them. If there are no mistakes, point out some areas that you hope he can correct further! In order to promote his progress. "
Zhu Cikai pushed the chair away on the spot and looked at Zhu Cizhuo: "Lao Wu, you are a general. If you want to train me, I have nothing to say. But you want them to train me, what do you mean?"
"They are all outstanding generals of the Western Expedition Army, and they are also our elders. Moreover, they are all ministers of the Western Expedition appointed by our father. They have the right to discuss and report, so why can't we train them?"
After Zhu Cizhuo asked, he said: "I'll come first!"
Then, Zhu Cizhuo picked up the riding whip on the table and asked fiercely: "You secretly made friends with the Western nobles without my permission! This is the first violation; three days ago, you also sent someone secretly Even if I go to meet the Elector of the Principality of Saxony, don’t think I don’t know!”
After hearing this, Zhu Cikai pointed at Zhu Cizhuo: "Send someone to monitor me!"
Zhu Cizhuo whipped his horse whip towards Zhu Cikai: "Now, you have the obligation to tell all the ministers of the Western Expedition and let them know what you are doing! Do you still have the imperial court in your eyes?"
Zhu Cikai directly caught Zhu Cizhuo's riding whip and held it in his hand: "You want to whip me?! I'm not your horse!"
Zhu Cizhuo pulled the riding whip outward hard.
Zhu Cikai gritted his teeth and did not let go of the riding whip.
Seeing this, Zhu Cizhuo simply kicked Zhu Cikai.
As soon as the heavy military boots passed by, Zhu Cikai hit the chair behind him and rolled to the ground.
"If I don't teach you a lesson today, I won't be your fifth brother!"
After Zhu Cizhuo finished speaking, before Zhu Cikai got up, he kicked him in the ribs again.
"ah!"
"Zhu Cizhuo, you bastard! Even if my father kicks me, you can kick me too. I will fight with you!"
Zhu Cikai bared his teeth and shouted.
Zhu Cizhuo continued to beat Zhu Cikai violently: "I am just teaching you a lesson for my father!"
After a while, Zhu Cikai couldn't stand it anymore and shouted: "That's enough! I admit it!"
Only then did Zhu Cizhuo stop.
Zhu Cikai also sat back.
Then, Zhu Cizhuo asked Li Dingguo and other officials to also instruct Zhu Cikai.
At first, Li Dingguo and other officials were a little afraid.
But Zhu Cizhuo said coldly: "Why, is it true that my general's order can't move you all?"
Li Dingguo, Liu Zhaoji and others had no choice but to follow the instructions and began to expose some of Zhu Cikai's wrongdoings.
Zhu Cizhuo also ordered Zhu Cikai to make a clear statement on the issues pointed out by Li Dingguo and other officials, and asked these Western Expedition ministers for supervision.
Zhu Cikai had no choice but to reluctantly comply.
At this point, most of the generals in the army looked down upon the seventh prince Zhu Cikai. Even at that time, they would sometimes offer good strategies and tricks, but only followed the advice of the fifth prince Zhu Cizhuo.
Because there is a prince who he can instruct, so why should he be in awe of him?
Naturally, Zhu Cikai hated the fifth prince Zhu Cizhuo deeply for this reason.
"I have to do this. If I don't fight off his evil tendencies first, other officers and generals will follow suit. It's better to just teach him, Old Seven, than to teach all the officers and generals! The foolish brother is always looking for someone to take charge of the army for the first time. To establish one’s authority personally.”
Zhu Cizhuo told the eldest prince Zhu Ciwei about this in a letter afterwards.
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