at the same time.
Emperor Zhu had also gotten up and was having breakfast in the Shanghai Palace.
Breakfast is very simple.
Xiaolongbao, millet porridge, boiled eggs, and a plate of pickles.
Although it is simple, it is also the handiwork of the chef of the royal palace, and it sounds loud on the table.
However, Emperor Zhu's mind was not on this either. There were thick documents and newspapers on his table. He was holding a barbecued pork bun with chopsticks in his right hand and holding the documents in his left hand, looking attentively.
Queen Luo walked in, and Emperor Zhu didn't notice it.
"Your Majesty, it's getting late, and you haven't eaten your breakfast yet. Would you like someone to bring it down and heat it up?"
Queen Luo sat over.
She actually couldn't quite understand Emperor Zhu's concerns about Caobang standing in for the porters.
This has been like this since ancient times.
All the coolies on the dock have to worship the mountain. Isn’t that how the Caobang came to be?
What's there to be afraid of?
Can these workers still rebel?
But now Emperor Zhu is the Zhu Sage in the Ming Dynasty, and the things he worries about are often different from others, so Empress Luo does not dare to refute.
"No need, I can just deal with a few mouthfuls."
Emperor Zhu said, still staring at the contents of the newspaper.
Queen Luo went over and took a look. It turned out to be the big news in Shanghai in the past two days.
It's a lawsuit.
It's a lawsuit between Cao Gang boss Huang Si and the Shanghai Narcotics Enforcement Bureau.
From Empress Luo's point of view, this lawsuit is a very common corpse law case.
At most, the Cao Gang leader offended someone from the Tiandihui and had him punished by the government, which meant he was exiled to Siberia.
it's not a big deal.
Could it be that Emperor Zhu thought this Cao Gang leader was pitiful and wanted to punish them?
According to Empress Luo's understanding of Emperor Zhu, this is definitely impossible.
Emperor Zhu still knows his identity very well. If he helps the Cao Gang today, tomorrow someone will interpret that Emperor Zhu is going to attack the military meritorious group.
When he reaches the position of Emperor Zhu, his every move will be scrutinized and analyzed.
Therefore, Emperor Zhu would not take action on such trivial matters easily.
But it was different from what Queen Luo imagined.
Of course Emperor Zhu would not come forward for Cao Gang.
He doesn't think that the Cao Gang was framed, and he doesn't care about any of this. The only thing he cares about is this corpse method competition - a Ming Dynasty corpse method system, and the Cao Gang underworld boss who destroys social harmony. contest between.
The result of this contest.
Emperor Zhu was very worried.
A reporter from [Junzi Daily] interviewed Wu Wanghai, the lawyer who defended Cao Gang leader Huang Mu.
Emperor Zhu had already seen this name from the information sent by Jin Yiwei.
A young man who came back from Europe with a somewhat crooked mind.
I originally thought that I would settle down after graduating from college.
I didn't expect that I would now have a relationship with the Caobang.
This is not a very good sign.
The combination of educated youth and Caogang, a force that can organize thousands of workers, is really dangerous.
In addition, there is a dangerous bud in the Ming Dynasty Corpse Law - the judicial world of the Ming Empire is likely to become a money-making game for lawyers in the future.
Judging from the review articles in several major newspapers bought on Shanghai Street.
Signs of the corruption of the corpse method have appeared.
first.
It’s a question of who the corpse method serves.
These newspapers have always thought.
Corpse law should be independent and impartial, treating everyone equally.
Listen, listen.
What fallacy is this!
How could the corpse method of the Ming Empire be independent?
Isn’t independence accidentally exploited by external forces?
The media circles of the Ming Empire should be advocating for the independence of corpse laws in other countries. How could they put this trick on themselves?
These propaganda people are all a loser.
I don’t know how low the level is.
Who does the corpse method of the Ming Empire serve? This is a political issue!
The corpse method of the Ming Empire should of course serve the interests of the Ming Empire!
"Your Majesty, Duke Lan and Duke Zhao are here."
"Invite them in quickly!"
Emperor Zhu put down the newspaper in his hand, and soon two veterans, Luo Fangbo and Zhao Si, came in. Emperor Zhu asked them to sit down and sighed.
"Two dear friends, our Ming Dynasty looks good on the surface. It has repeatedly won foreign wars, the local economy is developing rapidly, and the national strength can be said to be prosperous. However, there are many hidden dangers. The first is because of the city With modernization and industrialization, a large number of farmers have entered the city, which has become the soil for the vicious expansion of gangs and other evil forces. The second is the corpse method of the Ming Dynasty. There are signs of corruption in the corpse method of the Ming Dynasty! These two hidden dangers are combined, and I am afraid that in the future It will become the source of the weakness of the Ming Empire!"
Luo Fangbo and Zhao Si looked at each other.
The worry on Emperor Zhu's face didn't look like he was faking it at all.
But to them, or to most people, the emperor's worries seemed a bit unfounded.
The Tiandihui, the largest gang in the Ming Dynasty, was mainly dedicated to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, and was the embodiment of the power of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty among the people.
When the primary school students of the Ming Dynasty shouted "Long live the emperor, move forward for the emperor."
If you want to look for a country similar to the Ming Empire from history.
Probably the Second German Empire, or the Japanese Empire after the Meiji Restoration.
But the difference is that the population and resources of the Ming Empire are more than ten times that of these two countries!
With the size of the Ming Empire, their opponents can only be the kind of super-large countries that may exist.
In fact, in Emperor Zhu’s opinion.
That is, Tsarist Russia, the United States, and France, which have the potential to unify half of Europe.
As for the British Empire.
Their territory is indeed huge.
But their homeland is too small and their population is not large.
Wait until the life-threatening trench war breaks out in the future.
Can the British Empire still seize people from well-known places and put them in the trenches?
not to mention.
Now the only Indian colony left in the British Empire is Bengal.
Other places are either too sparsely populated, with a population smaller than that of the British Isles.
Either the local indigenous tribes are too primitive and cannot use these human resources with the capabilities of the British Empire.
Therefore, Britain, which had the weakness of being too narrow in its own territory, was not actually an opponent that Emperor Zhu was eager to weaken.
before this.
Emperor Zhu took action against the Russian Empire and occupied Eastern Siberia in Tsarist Russia. Now he supports the Ottoman Empire in an endless war with the Russian Empire.
As the pattern of warfare changes.
The current war mode is obviously beneficial to the defender.
Therefore, Emperor Zhu is not in a hurry to launch an attack on the Russians - they are hiding in trenches and are really not easy to attack.
During the First World War, both sides consumed each other's lives in several trenches, which became the most cruel war pattern in history.
Although Emperor Zhu didn't worry much about the lives of his subjects, he didn't want to waste his life in these places.
And he also knows
How can we break out of this trench warfare model?
But it’s useless to know.
He has to wait for technological advancements.
Therefore, in the west, towards Russia, the expansion of the Ming Empire temporarily came to an end.
Support the Ottomans in fighting a war with Tsarist Russia that would last for more than ten years or even decades.
The Ming Empire can focus on the New World - as long as the Ming Empire can establish a powerful Chinese country in the west of the New World, then there will be no conditions for America to dominate the world in the future!
even.
In this time and space, whether there is still America is another question.
The Ming Empire will definitely dominate the world in the future.
But this glorious era has not yet come.
Emperor Zhu had already seen signs of weakness in this great empire.
Because these symptoms have occurred many times in history.
For example, take the British Empire, which has dominated the world for two hundred years in history.
In London, Manchester, and Liverpool, there were a large number of republicans, Chartists, and Irish separatists.
These people caused chaos in major cities, turning the streets of London and Manchester into battlefields, and even often dropped bombs on Windsor Castle and Downing Street. They were simply lawless.
However, the British Empire's corpse law system was not able to punish these enemies of the empire very well.
The leaders who launched the Chartist Movement, such as Lovett, O'Connor, Harney and Jones, were enemies of the British Empire but were all safe. This was the most fundamental reason for the decline of the British Empire!
Luo Fangbo and Zhao Si looked at each other, wanting to say something but not knowing how to say it.
In their view, the New Ming Dynasty was a prosperous era that had never been seen before in history.
The king in front of him is truly the first emperor of all time.
His empire stretched far beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the land he conquered was comparable to that of Mengge (the period of great expansion of the Mongol Empire was actually not during the Genghis Khan period, but during the Mongol period. At that time, the Mongol Empire truly spanned the East China Sea to The super empire on the Baltic coast ) was compared!
The two looked at each other. They really didn't know what to say. How could a small corruption in the gangs and corpse law system become the root cause of the Ming Empire's weakness?
If someone else had said this, neither of them would have believed it.
But now the person who is saying this is the Qiangu Emperor, the Guangfu Emperor of the New Ming Dynasty.
They have to think about this possibility.
The first emperor of the ages saw the hidden danger in the prosperous age, so it must be reasonable.
Finally, Luo Fangbo spoke: "Your Majesty, do you think this Wu Wanghai is a hidden danger? Why not instruct the Jin Yiwei to give him to..."''
Of course, the Jinyiwei is a spy organization directly controlled by the emperor and not subject to the constraints of the corpse law system and the administrative system.
Of course there is no problem in letting them kill Wu Wanghai.
But this is not a victory for the Ming Dynasty’s corpse method system, but a victory for the imperial power over Wu Wanghai personally...
This is meaningless because if you kill one Wu Wanghai, there will still be thousands of Wu Wanghais.
In addition, using Jin Yiwei to kill people is quite dangerous.
Because this can easily lead to the loss of control of this huge intelligence system!
This requires that the power to use Jin Yiwei to eradicate someone cannot be delegated at all, and must be firmly in the hands of the emperor!
Otherwise, once the Jin Yiwei is controlled by careerists, the emperor's throne will be unstable.
This means that the number of "Wu Wanghai" that can be eradicated secretly by the Jin Yiwei is limited. The emperor cannot ignore other things and only engage in assassinations, right?
Moreover, assassination orders cannot be given randomly, otherwise the power of the commander of the Jinyi Guards will also slowly expand. After the death of Emperor Guangfu, it will be unclear whether the emperor commands the Jinyiwei or the Jinyiwei commands the emperor.
Obviously, it is very dangerous to use Jin Yiwei to replace the corpse method system to attack the enemy. You might risk the lives of your descendants...
So what about placing the corpse legal system under the administrative system?
In fact, the concept of independent corpse law was only implemented after the new bureaucrats of the "Daohua family" gradually entered the corpse law department.
At present, only a few prefectures with particularly developed economies have established tribunals that are truly independent of the administrative system. In most areas of the Ming Dynasty, magistrates are still subordinate to the chief executive. In some places, administrators even serve as magistrates.
In those areas, corpse law served the administration.
The Magistrate will pass judgment based on the order of the Chief Executive.
However, in this system, administrative officials have too much power, and most of these administrative officials are Confucian scholar-bureaucrats with outdated minds and questionable ethics.
If these people are allowed to continue to grow bigger, in a few years, the Ming Empire may go back to the old path of the previous Ming Dynasty.
Now Emperor Zhu is working hard to promote the independence of corpse law.
He just wanted to use Daohua legal scholars to control corpse law and use them to restrain the scholar-bureaucrats.
This was also his first step in cultivating new bureaucrats in the Daohua system...
But can these college students really become qualified officials to protect the interests of the Ming Empire?
At this time, Song Xiang, the prefect of Shanghai, and Dai Quheng, the governor of Jiangsu, came hand in hand.
Today, the two of them will accompany Emperor Zhu to visit the countryside of Shanghai Prefecture.
Now that the Spring Festival has passed, it is time to prepare for sowing.
In the past two years, Shanghai's rural areas have also undergone tremendous changes.
The first, of course, is the rapid concentration of land.
With downtown Shanghai just around the corner, life in a metropolitan area is more attractive to some young people.
Therefore, in rural Shanghai, it is much easier for landlords to withdraw their tenants than in Sichuan.
in addition. Due to its proximity to the port, the cost of immigrating from Shanghai to Northeast China, Southeast Asia and the United States is also relatively low.
Stories about immigrants getting rich are also spreading more and more widely, and most young people in extreme poverty are willing to go out and make a living.
Secondly, the crops grown in rural Shanghai are also changing.
Half of the original "land of plenty" has disappeared, replaced by vast tracts of cotton fields planted with high-quality cotton seeds introduced from the Americas.
"I'm not going to see the countryside today. I'm going to attend a trial."
Emperor Zhu raised his finger and pointed to a copy of "Jun Zi Bao" spread out on the table.
Song Xiang glanced at it, nodded quickly and said, "I will make arrangements right now."
Emperor Zhu waved his hand, "There is no need to arrange anything. We can just change our clothes and go by ourselves. I just want to see how the court of Ming Dynasty hears cases."
Trials in tribunals are open to the public.
Anyone can attend.
As long as there are enough locations on site.
Many reporters will go to hear the trial and then write about it in newspapers.
(End of chapter)
