Zhu Biao put down his tea cup and said seriously to Li Shanchang: "It doesn't matter if we push Hu Weiyong to come to power. After all, my father also likes this person very much. But after Prime Minister Li retires, you should stay away from him and don't have any more contact."
Li Shanchang was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly thought of the topic he discussed with the prince last time, and then thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's character.
Li Shanchang stood up and bowed to Zhu Biao: "Old minister, thank you His Highness the Crown Prince for your advice. I was almost in danger of losing the evening."
Zhu Biao stretched out his hand to help him and said: "Li Xiang, just think about it. You have worked hard all your life, so why worry about it anymore? After you return to the hospital, you will have glory and wealth waiting for you."
Li Shanchang is a sensible person. Xiao He needs to taint himself in order to protect himself, not to mention Li Shanchang. If a person wants to stand up in the world, he has to be smarter.
However, shrewdness and skills vary from person to person and from place to place, and sometimes you can’t be too smart. It is not uncommon for such people to be "clever but misguided by their cleverness"; there are countless people in the history books who were too upright and popular and led to death.
Don't show your intelligence everywhere when dealing with others. When necessary, you should not only attribute your intelligence to others, but also be good at damaging your own image and show a "great wisdom but foolishness" appearance. It would be better to suffer some losses or be scolded by others at that time, but to protect yourself and avoid getting into trouble.
Li Shanchang sighed in his heart. It seemed that after retirement, he would have to have several concubines.
Zhu Biao looked at him and comforted him: "Li Qi is not bad. I heard that his knowledge has also improved a lot. Let him go with me to Shanxi to handle the relocation matters."
Li Shanchang hurriedly thanked him. This meant that the prince was ready to accept Li Qi as a vassal of the East Palace. This was a great kindness to the Li family.
After Li Shanchang was confident, he said: "General Huaixi has many good talents in his family, and they will all be His Highness's subordinates in the future. Why don't we bring them all over this time."
Zhu Biao smiled, saying that it is easy to talk to smart people. He expressed his goodwill to protect the Li family. Li Shanchang should naturally reciprocate the favor. Zhu Biao is not young now, and he should have a group of real team members.
Among those scholars, Zhu Biao felt that there was hardly anyone with great potential, so he could only turn his attention to the noble sons.
The nobles of Huaixi must be suppressed, and it is necessary to eliminate a group of restless ones, but those who remain must still be retained.
How could Zhu Biao not know that if the nobles were suppressed, civil servants would easily lose checks and balances. The Song Dynasty was a system of using civility and military power, which led to a series of consequences.
The Ming Dynasty in history was not because of the system, but because of Zhu Yuanzhang's founding and Zhu Di's peace, as well as a series of foreign wars. These wars gave birth to a large number of famous generals and meritorious families. At this time, military generals were very important to both the emperor and the government. It has great influence. If it develops normally, the influence of the military generals group will gradually decrease, and the influence of the civilian officials will gradually increase, but this change will only be subtle.
With the stability of the government and the reduction of wars, military commanders will inevitably face the problem of reduced voice. After all, governing the world still relies on civil rule, and war decision-making power will gradually be transferred to civilian hands. This is the general trend.
However, the status of military generals in the Ming Dynasty has not been weakened too much. After all, the lessons of the Song Dynasty are right in front of us. The previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty raised their nobles in honor. Although the military generals did not do anything, they relied on the emperor's blessing. Not afraid of the civil servants, the two sides just checked and balanced each other until the Tumu Fort Incident happened.
The Tumubao Incident directly resulted in the death of a large number of elite troops, including dozens of generals including Zhang Fu, a veteran of the Four Dynasties and the famous general. The general group suffered heavy losses.
What's even more fatal is that the subsequent defense of Beijing was completed under the command of civilian officials headed by Yu Qian. The problem was that it was successful, which directly led to a great shock to the reputation of the civilian officials group. After the military commander group experienced the reshuffle during the Jingnan period and the blow of the Tumubao Incident, its influence was greatly reduced.
After that, there were many phenomena of military generals commanding troops and civil servants serving as commanders. For example, Wang Yangming pacified the rebellion of King Ning, and Hu Zongxian annihilated the Japanese pirates. All these have intensified the shift of war decision-making power closer to civilian officials.
Later, when a second-grade military general met a seventh-grade civil servant, he would often dismount his horse and salute first to avoid him. Qi Jiguang, the prince's younger brother, wrote to Zhang Juzheng, a civil servant of the same rank, calling himself a "lackey".
Injustice between civil and military officials is never a good thing. Zhu Biao can tolerate civilian officials being half a level older than military attachés. After all, the threat of rebellion by military attaches is far greater than that of civilian officials. Necessary weakening is necessary, and this is also to protect them.
But it won't work like it did in history. If there is no way out for military attaches, then they will still be willing to join the army and serve the country. Everyone can just take the imperial examination. Anyway, becoming a military general is far inferior to being a little censor.
Moreover, Zhu Biao planned to establish a cabinet as the goal of civilian officials, so the military commanders must also have an organization similar to the Military Aircraft Department, where civil and military affairs stand in harmony and do not interfere with each other, and conflicts between them are controlled by the emperor.
The martial arts examinations should also be held, which will also give the people another way out. If reading the Four Books and the Five Classics cannot succeed, practicing martial arts and learning military tactics can also be used to honor the ancestors, and in the future, military officers and soldiers must be allowed to refer to it.
Zhu Biao nodded and said: "It's just that Prime Minister Li also knows that I rarely go out of the palace and I am not very familiar with the generals' children. Can you please recommend me to Prime Minister Li?"
The selection of the team is not something that can be done casually. If their father and brother are not smart, they will inevitably be implicated in the future, and Zhu Biao does not want to waste his energy on cultivating people who will die.
Zhu Biao's status is too high. Even among the Huaixi nobles, only a few big bosses can attract his attention. Zhu Biao doesn't know the character of the rest. As the leader of Huaixi, Li Shanchang naturally knows best. of.
Li Shanchang stroked his beard and thought for a while. The current situation is still quite complicated. Hu Weiyong has taken over a lot of his connections and has become brothers with several of the generals. These people have average minds and are unlikely to die well. Naturally, their descendants cannot Recommended to His Highness.
Li Shanchang finally named more than a dozen names, including some whose families had lower titles but were die-hard loyalists. These people were similar to Ma Nanshan in that they were not smart, but they were all people who were willing to die for the Zhu family.
Zhu Biao nodded with satisfaction. His favorite person, Li Shanchang, had recommended him, which meant that he was indeed good.
While the two were talking, Liu Jintong's voice came from outside. It turned out that it was Hu Weiyong who came to pay homage to Li Shanchang. He didn't expect Zhu Biao to be here, but since he was here, he naturally wanted to pay homage to His Highness the Crown Prince.
Li Shanchang looked at him, Zhu Biao nodded, and Li Shanchang said loudly: "Let Hu Weiyong come in to meet the prince."
Liu Jin outside agreed as soon as he heard it. He also knew that without Zhu Biao's signal, the prime minister could not make the decision.
After a while, Hu Weiyong came in, straightened his clothes and immediately fell down towards Zhu Biao: "I see His Highness the Crown Prince, Your Highness Qianqiu."
Zhu Biao did not ask him to get up immediately, but said: "I was passing by just now and heard you arguing with Yang Xian. You are both important officials of the imperial court. How can you behave in public!"
Hu Weiyong did not defend himself, but immediately bowed his head and said, "I am guilty, please punish me."
Zhu Biao nodded with satisfaction. If he told him whether this matter was right or wrong, Zhu Biao would be disappointed.
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