After Zhu Yijun said this, he looked at the vast river and frowned.
He knew that these people had never given up the illusion of returning etiquette to the past.
But Zhu Yijun has not been sitting still and waiting for death, and he also believes that the reforms he followed the trend will not go back so easily. At least the reform has not been done by him alone, nor has he believed in it alone.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun would ask Jin Yiwei if he could stop it at this time.
"Your Majesty, the Jin Yiwei can only stop a group of people who are sure to breach the embankment, but what the Jin Yiwei cannot be sure of is whether there will be others who are going to breach the embankment besides this group of people."
"Because they are already spreading the word 'when the autumn rain stops, the embankment will be broken', so according to our Jinyiwei estimates, it may not be just the few people we Jinyiwei have identified who want to prepare to break the embankment and flood the holy drive, but there may be There are several groups of traitors who have grievances against the imperial court who are not in contact with each other. They may or may not have the intention to break the dike."
"But, no matter what, it is not advisable for Your Majesty to be involved in danger. Therefore, I suggest that Your Majesty, the ministers, and the military guards should immediately evacuate Huaiyang to the south of the Yangtze River."
After Zhang Jingxiu answered, Zhu Yijun nodded: "Old Wangge mentioned that the grievances of the southern people cannot be ignored; I didn't expect that they have prepared such a big gift for me now!"
At this time, Wang Xijue took the initiative and said, "Your Majesty, no matter whether the Jinyi Guards can stop this or not, I think it is best to be prepared to deal with such a thing."
Zhu Yijun nodded at this: "You have to be on guard!"
Zhu Yijun knew that in the eyes of normal people, destroying embankments and drowning people might not be a good thing, but in the eyes of greedy people, it might actually be a cannibalistic feast.
First, you can take advantage of the opportunity to merge fields at a low price; second, you can take the opportunity to fry grain and salt;
Maybe even if he, the emperor, doesn't come to Huaiyang, these people will take advantage of last year's natural disaster and stage another man-made disaster this year!
"His Majesty!"
"In my opinion!"
"The first thing to do now is to immediately order the department to strengthen supervision of the river, and send additional troops to keep an eye on the river at all times. They cannot withdraw until the river is dredged;"
"The second is to adjust grain and salt as soon as possible to prepare for relief and prevent the price of grain from being extremely high, which will lead to the price of land becoming cheap;"
"The third is to order all government agencies to notify each household of this situation so that each household can respond."
Wang Xijue continued talking at this time.
Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "This matter will be supervised by the minister, and the decree will be passed on. Wang Xijue, the deputy assistant to the cabinet, will be the imperial envoy to supervise the minister of disaster relief and take charge of military affairs, rivers, and grain roads."
Wang Xijue raised his hand and said yes.
Then, Zhu Yijun added: "Such things still have to rely on people who sincerely support the new rituals and new learning. Therefore, I have decided to set up a reserve military household system. All officials involved in the subsequent disaster relief matters will be given the status of reserve military household. Including the Wang Qing family, once they perform well, except for the Wang Qing family who can be directly promoted to the military through my personal examination, the rest of the officials, whether they are outstanding or not, will be recommended by the Wang Qing family to determine whether they should be promoted to the military."
Zhu Yijun was worried about the enthusiasm of the bureaucracy. In order to increase their enthusiasm, he decided to give them the opportunity to join the military household.
Anyway, the number of military households is not large now, so it is just right to attract a group of people with high consciousness to come in and improve the quality of the entire military personnel.
Of course, Zhu Yijun also has a tendency to engage in party politics.
Although the current officials of the Ming Dynasty are basically required to accept new etiquette ideologically and are required to be willing to implement the governance program proposed by Zhu Yijun entrusted by Zhang Juzheng, it is inevitable that there will be no people who deliberately hide their true ideas and fish in troubled waters.
to this end.
Zhu Yijun has long been interested in strengthening the ideological examination of officials, not just their ability and integrity in politics.
You must know that many officials who do not agree with Zhu Yijun's idea of ruling the country for the benefit of the people actually have good conduct themselves. Many are true gentlemen, honest and do not use conspiracy methods, but they just do not accept the imperial court's excessive centralization of power and do not approve of the imperial court's external expansion.
Therefore, from a moral perspective alone, I don't think they are enemies, but such people do create trouble for reform politically.
Back to the topic.
Zhu Yijun wanted to strengthen the ideological inspection of officials, so he planned to introduce officials with acceptable ideological standards into the military household system in the name of strengthening the status of military households, and eliminate military officials with outdated ideas.
As for why Zhu Yijun did not directly establish a modern political party, it is because the Ming Dynasty had only proposed new ideas and new rituals for more than ten years, industrialization had only recently begun, and the power of the landlord class was still very large.
A large part of the bureaucrats still rely on the ideological theory of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness to do their work, and even most of the people still have this idea.
In addition, the power of the workers and merchant citizens is not strong enough. Only in economically developed places do there exist a large number of towns and workers.
thus.
If Zhu Yijun simply starts over again and establishes a political party without putting new wine in old bottles, a problem will arise, that is, there are actually very few people who truly share the same goals with him, so few that he may end up like Wang Mang.
The most important thing is that many old-style landlords in the army will not understand or even accept it.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun could only win over the army in the name of your army.
Then, Zhu Yijun adopted Qi Jiguang's suggestion and adopted a lenient approach to military personnel. If there was anything wrong with military personnel, although they would not be killed, they would be directly expelled from the military. People with backward ideas are slowly being eliminated.
Especially after a large number of people with strong ideas are introduced, rectification will be strengthened and a large number of military personnel with outdated ideas will be eliminated.
Anyway.
Since the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty had just begun, the inertia generated by thousands of years of old thinking was still very strong, so everything had to be done slowly.
After all, modernization is not a static result, but a dynamic process. No matter how fast this process is, it cannot be completed in one or two decades.
Maybe, Zhu Yijun can't complete it all in this life.
If, coupled with the possible period of regression and stagnation in the middle, it will only be longer.
Zhu Yijun did not expect to completely modernize the Ming Dynasty in his lifetime.
He only hopes that the Chinese civilization carried by the Ming Dynasty can progress more than ever before.
What's more, as an emperor, he was actually still obsessed with the social status quo in the early stage of industrialization, where the monarch's power could be extremely expanded for the sake of primitive accumulation of capital.
After all, this kind of society is when he is most comfortable as an emperor.
However, the emperor Zhu Yijun has not yet reached the most comfortable period.
After all, the contradiction between the North and the South has not yet been completely resolved, the benefits of the Industrial Revolution have not yet been fully realized, and the effects of the military system have not yet been fully realized.
It can only be said that Zhu Yijun is still on the path that makes him the most comfortable emperor.
After Wang Xijue received this order, Shen Yiguan looked at him meaningfully.
After leaving the imperial court, Shen Yiguan couldn't help but said to his disciple Ye Xianggao who was also on the boat:
"If I had known, His Majesty would give me a chance to prepare military households, I would have risked a trip to Jiangbei no matter what!"
Ye Xianggao asked: "Then why did Enfu hesitate?"
Shen Yiguan said: "Why don't you worry about something? But who would have thought that His Majesty would give such a huge benefit. Although you are originally from a military background, your fellow disciples and brothers all need this opportunity."
After hearing this, Ye Xianggao said: "The matter has come to this, and it is useless for my mentor to regret it. He can only relax and wait for the next opportunity. However, this time, Wang Taicang got an opportunity to show his kindness and win over others. In the future, I'm afraid it won't be weaker than Shenwu County."
When Ye Xianggao said this, Shen Yiguan looked even more depressed and asked, "Are you saying that being a teacher is too timid and lacks responsibility?"
Ye Xianggao said: "It's not because Enfu is too cautious, but because His Majesty is too talented and strategizing. Therefore, as long as it is to save the common people in the world from water and fire, the Emperor will take care of him, and the care will be unexpected. People feel like they are being caressed by the spring breeze.”
"I understand what you mean. You are saying that I don't care too much about the common people in the world. Therefore, although Your Majesty is talented and resourceful, it's just that I, who care more about personal safety, cannot seize such an opportunity!"
"You're not wrong, you just might as well be more direct next time!"
After Shen Yiguan said that, he returned to his dormitory.
"Enfu, calm down!"
Ye Xianggao hurriedly replied. Seeing that Shen was always unhappy, he had no choice but to follow him and continue to explain and comfort him.
Here, Wang Xijue took Sun Jigao, Liu Yukui and other retinue officials, as well as a personal army assigned to him by Zhu Yijun, to abandon the ship and land on the shore, and came north.
"Although your army has a sacred will that cannot be violated, if you can take this opportunity to join the army, it will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for your own family, so you can't be careless, even if it offends the forces behind the dyke breach, and It's worth leaving your life here, as long as it makes the family rich."
Wang Xijue also mobilized Sun Jigao, Liu Yukui and other disciples after landing.
Sun Jigao first said: "I am willing to die for the king's orders! And to have this opportunity is all because of Enfu's courage to speak out for the people."
Then, Liu Yukui said: "Those who broke the embankment will certainly not be able to escape the involvement of the salt merchants and kitchen households in this area."
"No matter who you are, if you can prevent floods from happening, stop them from happening. If you can't stop them, you must respond quickly!"
Wang Xijue said something, and then looked at Sun Jigao: "Yide, you go to see Song Yingchang immediately, hold my king's life card, and ask him to immediately increase troops to guard against rivers and provide disaster relief!"
Sun Jigao immediately handed over his hand and said yes, then took the Wang Ming flag from Wang Xijue's hand, led several horsemen, and rode northward on fast horses.
Then, Wang Xijue looked at Liu Yukui again: "Zhiqing, please immediately take people to make a surprise inspection of the personnel and material reserves of the newly established emergency disaster prevention offices in each prefecture, prefecture and county. Don't let the floods really happen. There are no official posts! As a result, His Majesty’s benevolent and wise policies have become a place where the feudal lord’s money is wasted and officials and titles are sold.”
"yes!"
(End of chapter)
