Zhu Biao left with Zhu Di. Lao Zhu calmed down and took Zhu Su to the Qianqing Palace.
After all, the Qianqing Palace was more heavily guarded.
This time, he also specifically ordered Erhu that no one except the queen and the prince was allowed to come or go.
Zhu Su was quite familiar with Qianqing Palace. Zhu Yuanzhang still asked the guards to be on guard outside, while he took Zhu Su inside. The father and son were sitting at the tea table in the middle, and Lao Zhu said:
"Let's continue talking about what happened just now... Lao Wu, you really don't have any policies. How can you deal with the 'Three Hundred Years Curse'?"
"Really not." Zhu Su shook his head like a rattle.
"Don't you still think that even if we really enact a good policy, it will go astray?" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously. "Don't worry about this. We will publish an 'ancestral precept' for future generations, asking future generations of monarchs and ministers to follow the methods of our founding king from generation to generation, and let hundreds of officials and officials work together to restrain the court. It will never happen There is such a thing as going astray.”
"I know, "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions", right?" Zhu Su waved his hand. "That thing is of no use, it will still go astray."
"What?" Lao Zhu was stunned. Using the "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions" to restrain the imperial court was a method he came up with after thinking about the failure of the military household system in the past few days and learning from it.
I just came up with this name last night!
He wanted to create a perfect operating law. In his opinion, the military household system finally went astray. Although it may be due to the imperfection of the military household system itself, part of the reason must be that later generations did not follow it faithfully. This will lead to this good government turning into bad government.
Now that I know the shortcomings, as long as I put some effort into improving this system to perfection, and then constrain it according to the ancestral teachings, I will be able to completely make up for this hole.
But Lao Wu actually opened his mouth and said the name of Huang Ming's Ancestral Instructions. Lao Zhu was surprised and asked: "Could it be that we were going to compile this "Huang Ming Ancestor's Instructions" in the original way?"
"That's right." Zhu Su spread his hands. "You were thinking about making up this ancestral teaching a few years ago, right?"
"Not bad." Lao Zhu nodded. "In the second year of Hongwu's reign, we thought about leaving this ancestral precept for our Zhu family."
"But at that time we just wanted to pass on a good family tradition, and the name hadn't been decided yet... Why, our "Emperor Ming Ancestor Instructions" wasn't taken seriously?" His voice couldn't help but be a little angry. meaning.
"Your ancestral teachings are quite useless. From all aspects, they are quite complete. But times are changing. Some things may have been applicable to the situation at the beginning of the founding of the country, but after a few years, they are no longer applicable." Zhu replied solemnly.
"Originally, things like policies have to change with time. How can it be that easy if you keep thinking about a set of policies that will last for tens of thousands of years?"
"How can a pool of stagnant water not stink? The same principle applies!"
"How can a pool of stagnant water not stink..." Lao Zhu frowned, as if he had caught something. Before he had time to think deeply, Zhu Su continued:
"If it's not used at all, that's it. But it comes in handy again: as long as the emperor does something that goes against the wishes of the civil servants, the civil servants will immediately go to your book "Huang Ming's Ancestor Instructions" and point out the ancestral injunctions. The clauses in it that are beneficial to them shout that 'the laws of our ancestors are immutable'. With your ancestral teachings here, future emperors can only do nothing."
"Unexpectedly, those civil servants either came up with excuses to misinterpret the provisions that restricted their civil servants, or they pretended not to see it."
"This ancestral precept has been played out by civil servants."
Zhu Su's words were sarcastic. Isn't that right? After the Ming Dynasty, none of the civil servants who shouted "the laws of the ancestors are immutable" dared to mention the "law of the ancestors" of "peeling skin and filling it with grass".
"What!" Lao Zhu blushed and stood up, feeling quite annoyed and angry. "We knew it, we knew it!"
"How dare you use our words to prevaricate our descendants!"
"These officials are indeed a serious concern of my Ming Dynasty!"
He remembered what he said before about "the water is too cold", and also about Prime Minister Wang who gave him eye drops in the morning, and all the old and new hatreds suddenly came to his heart at the same time.
These officials dared to get in the way while I was still here. No wonder they dared to manipulate their descendants like that!
It seems that before trying to find a way to solve the three-hundred-year-old curse, we must first sort out these officials!
Otherwise, with them holding us back, how could I let go and plug these big holes for future generations?
"As expected, we are still too kind and righteous to those civil servants." Lao Zhu gritted his teeth.
He took the tea that Zhu Su poured for him, drank it up and felt a little relieved. Then he sat down and said angrily:
"Lao Wu, we want to abolish the position of prime minister first. What do you think?"
There was a fierce glint in his eyes. He also knew that if he wanted to abolish the prime minister, it would inevitably cause great waves. It is likely to cause the court's operations to stagnate for a long time, or even cause other unpredictable chaos.
But what time is it now? Our Ming Dynasty will die in more than two hundred and seventy years! How can I care about that!
This is the time to work together and work hard in one place!
How can we accomplish anything if we have such an extra prime minister?
"Deposed prime minister?" Zhu Su was stunned. "Are you already thinking about abolishing the Prime Minister?"
"We have it a long time ago! If we hadn't been busy attacking Yuanting a few years ago, we needed someone to help manage it..." At this point, Lao Zhu stopped in surprise: "From your tone, I know that we want to abolish Mutually?"
"Did we really do this later?"
Zhu Su nodded. Not only did he do that, but he also killed people all over the place!
Even in later generations, Hu Weiyong is still famous as the last prime minister of China and the one with the most burials.
More than 30,000 people died because of him...
"Are we deposing the prime minister?" Lao Zhu stared at Zhu Su. "Aren't you saying that our descendants are still bullied by civil servants and that civil servants still control the government?"
"Without the powerful official position of prime minister, how could civil servants become such a disaster?" He was confused.
"Dad, your decision to depose the prime minister was arbitrary!" Zhu Su corrected.
This kind of opportunity to preach to Emperor Hongwu is rare. Zhu Su pretended to pick up the tea cup, closed his eyes and took a sip of tea: "Have you ever thought about how vast our Ming Dynasty is, and how many government affairs need to be handled in a day?"
"Although the position of prime minister takes away the power of the emperor, to put it bluntly, it also shares the burden on the emperor's shoulders."
"Historical records state that within eight days from September 14th to the 21st in the 18th year of Hongwu, you reviewed a total of 1,660 memorials from internal and external officials and handled 3,391 state affairs. . On average, there are more than 200 memorials to be reviewed and more than 400 state affairs to be handled every day..."
"And every day, I can't sleep for two hours!" Zhu Su made a "two" gesture.
"So what!" Lao Zhu waved his hand. "It's just more hard work. We are the emperor, and if this can leave an iron-clad empire to our descendants, I'm willing to do it!"
