During the three-day holiday of Wanshou Festival, government affairs should not be discussed, but rules are dead and people are alive. Especially the dozen or so ministers who discussed government affairs all had crane patches on their chests, and many of them even wore bright red silk clothes. If you are given clothes such as python clothes, bullfighting, flying fish, etc., then the nature of them is different.
In this situation, even if the emperor himself came over in person, he would definitely not say that they had violated the rules. He could only say, "I am deeply gratified that you all love me and are loyal to the country."
Although the emperor sat far away, the throne was in the highest position after all. The two tables of the cabinet and the seven ministers began to "talk to each other", so he could clearly see what was going on.
In normal times, these six pavilion elders plus the seven ministers of the imperial court, a total of "Thirteen Taibao", would start "talking small talk" with each other under such circumstances. Generally, they could only write odes on the spot, that is, birthday wishes to the emperor. poetry. However, when writing birthday poems, not everyone will write a long poem - it's only a few sentences in a poem, why do you improvise a Han Yuefu poem?
Moreover, the expressions on the ministers' faces were wrong. They all looked solemn and looked as if they were facing a national crisis. They were obviously not talking about happy topics.
The emperor frowned slightly and observed for a while. Judging from Gao Pingshi's continuous verbal sparring with Xu Xuemo, Shi Xing, and Wang Xijue, Zhu Yijun guessed that they were discussing "Innovation Station Shu" at this time.
But until this moment, Zhu Yijun clearly noticed that although Gao Pragmatic faced a round of battles from several important ministers, he always remained calm and confident. The minister who launched an offensive against him shut up while talking.
The outcome of the competition can be judged immediately. Zhu Yijun was very pleased with this and felt relaxed.
But after Shen Shixing ended up in person, the situation was still a bit wrong. Zhu Yijun sensitively discovered that Gao Pragmatic seemed to be acting more as a listener at this time. Even if he occasionally spoke, the speaking time was very short, and it seemed that he was just asking about certain details.
At the same time, Shen Yuanfu himself didn't look right. Zhu Yijun believes that if Mr. Shen is also talking about issues related to "Innovation Station Shu", then judging from the expressions on his and Gao Pragmatic's faces, it is clear that they have the upper hand, so why are their faces so solemn?
This is obviously unreasonable.
In fact, Zhu Yijun has always been a very smart person. He has learned many ways of thinking under the influence of Gao pragmatism for many years. He is especially good at analyzing characters by combining all aspects of intelligence, so he quickly thought of the incident reported by Jin Yiwei.
Yes, it turns out that Mr. Shen did not really argue against pragmatism, but resorted to procrastination, using one big thing to suppress another big thing. He was forcing pragmatism to weigh which thing was more important, or... …more urgent.
Zhu Yijun suddenly realized that he could guess how Gao Pingshi would decide on this matter without even thinking about it.
As Gao Pragmatic's classmate for ten years, he is very aware of Gao Pragmatic's style: in peacetime, domestic affairs must be given priority; in times of war, defeating the enemy must be given priority.
Being pragmatic will definitely choose to contain the danger in Tumen first! Zhu Yijun was determined in his heart.
The evaluation of Emperor Wanli by later generations is very interesting. If a person has only read Yuan Tengfei's books, he will think that Wanli is an out-and-out trash, miser, and saboteur; if a person has only read "History of the Ming Dynasty" , one would think that Wanli was a mediocre and foolish king; if a person had only read "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", he would have thought that Wanli was a man who was not brave enough and was willing to fall; if a person had only read "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" ", you will think that Wanli is a very complex, strange, and often contradictory person.
We can understand them, really, every statement can be understood, because what they saw was indeed the performance of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun in a certain aspect.
Yuan Tengfei is a history teacher, a person with vested interests, an out-and-out Song fan, and an out-and-out angry youth. He looked at Wanli from the perspective of the civil servants and gentry, so Emperor Wanli was indeed not a good person.
"History of the Ming Dynasty" is supposed to be a trustworthy history, but due to well-known reasons, any place related to certain things in this book is often maliciously portrayed. Especially in the second half of the book, the ugly face of the author is as disgusting as the one portrayed by the BBC and his ilk in later generations.
Back then, Mingyue was a scholar with humanistic sentiments. In the world at that time, there were not many people with humanistic sentiments. He happened to be one, which was very rare. He analyzes Wanli from the perspective of human nature. Although limited by space and style, he may not be able to say too much, but he still allows readers to realize from his perspective that Wanli is a flesh-and-blood person who truly existed in this world. people.
As a scholar, Huang Renyu puts aside his prejudices against people and interprets the Wanli Dynasty from a historical perspective, which is relatively thorough and in-depth. But unfortunately, in the turbulent Wanli Dynasty, it is difficult for even Wanli Emperor himself to say whether he is the protagonist or not. It is more likely that he is just a background that makes future generations feel pity, pity or even pathetic.
Without Gao's pragmatic intervention, Emperor Wanli's life would have been a life of struggle with powerful ministers, civil servants, and gentry groups. Since there is a struggle, there must be winners and losers.
Unfortunately, he has his grandfather's IQ, but not his grandfather's persistence; he has his father's wisdom in employing people, but not as smooth and tolerant as his father; he has the military sensitivity like the ancestor, but does not have the integrity of his words. .
Therefore, without the existence of high pragmatism, Emperor Wanli's life is destined to be a tragedy - even if he is smart enough.
In the first twenty years of his life, he was shrouded in a shadow named Zhang Jiangling. In the shadow of powerful ministers, he was constantly oppressed, growing and learning, until one day he realized: I am the emperor; emperor.
Therefore, he was unwilling to accept it, he resented it, and he endured it. During this period of time, he was so diligent, studied so hard, and was so good at thinking and making judgments. And all of this was actually just to paralyze that person, to restore the glory of the ancestors, and to be worthy of his status.
In the world after he became sensible, his feelings for Zhang Jiangling were always the feelings of a puppet emperor towards his powerful ministers. On the surface, he was trembling, but in fact, he was filled with murderous intent.
He would not think about whether Zhang Jiangling was a capable minister, because such thinking was not necessary for the emperor at all.
Zhang Juzheng in history is different from Gao Pragmatic at this time. Zhang Juzheng can be replaced, but Gao Pragmatic, at least for now, no one can replace him.
What's more, no matter how great the impact of capturing the deceased Zhang Juzheng is, it will not be greater than capturing Gao Pragmatic at this moment: Zhang Juzheng almost only represents himself, but Gao Pragmatic represents a powerful group. This group has both civil and military power, officials and businessmen. If it makes any move, it may cause chaos in the world.
Emperor Wanli in history discovered when he was 20 years old that the shadow hanging over his head had finally dissipated. He couldn't wait to erase the humiliation and oppression this person had brought to him, as if this person had Never existed. After erasing the evidence of this person's existence, a 20-year-old young man couldn't wait to take over the government, work hard to govern, and revitalize the Ming Dynasty.
Then, he was slapped on the head by the civil service group. The constant struggle with the civil service group made him discover that although he was an emperor, he was useless: he did not have his own team. The previous team was left to him by that person. When he cleaned up everything about that person, he discovered that he was actually But he is a loner.
What can he do to fight against the huge civil service group? As long as any of his orders goes against the wishes of the civil servants, they will never leave the Forbidden City.
So he was unwilling to give in. He started to fight, started to quarrel, and started to endlessly fight with the civil service group. In the end, he found that no one was looking down on him at all. Although no one in the civil service group is far from his opponent, but overall, he is far from the opponent of the entire civil service group.
So he understood and compromised. It was not that he had purged everything about that person's existence, but that another group of people wanted to purge everything about that person's existence.
His life lost its meaning, and he began to reflect on everything he had done. Since his existence could not change anything, then why did he exist? He was disappointed and failed. He was so angry that he refused to go to court and put himself in solitary confinement.
Since it's the same with or without me, why do you need me? But life is long after all. After experiencing a long period of depravity, he found that he needed to find some meaning for his existence. After all, he was still the emperor, and he still wanted to do something for the Ming Dynasty and for himself.
He summarized for a long time and found that the fundamental reason for his failure was that he did not have his own people or his own money.
If you don’t have your own people, you have no right to speak; without money, you can’t do anything in this world. There were too many holes in Ming Dynasty, as if it were a bottomless pit, but having new goals, he still wanted to fill them.
What's ridiculous is that the civil service group has become monolithic since that person's death - well, actually it's not monolithic, but even if it's not monolithic, no one is his own member of Emperor Wanli.
He was not as lucky as his grandfather, because he did not find another Zhang Cong, he could only find the person closest to him - the eunuch. After so many years of struggle, he has understood why Daming became like this. He is a smart person, so he wants to change.
It is not possible to directly tax the people. The people are already in a very difficult situation; the money given to the noble clans will not be obtained in vain, because they may not be the basis of the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but they must be the basis of the rule of the Tianjia; then we have to recruit the gentry The taxes of the landowners, the taxes of the landowners, and the taxes of the civil servants who enclosed the land.
So he invented the salt mine tax supervisor, and he sent his close eunuchs to collect taxes and get money for me. With money, I can compete with the civil servant group.
The results of it? As a result, the eunuch was beaten to death by the gentry's domestic slaves. As a result, the gentry encouraged the domestic slaves and tenant farmers to cause a civil uprising.
Want to take money from us? Go ahead and dream of your spring and autumn dreams! Since ancient times, imperial power has not been extended to counties. Your Majesty, you have crossed the line! Do you understand?
Then, the civil servants who controlled public opinion began to scold him again, and of course even scolded the eunuchs. But he still didn't give up. Even if no eunuch was willing to go down, he persisted and promised the eunuchs benefits, saying that since you risked your lives to collect money for me, we would give you a 40-60 split.
Finally, someone was willing to go down, and he smiled as he watched his money increase day by day. Although the money collected each time is actually not much, Ming Dynasty is big enough, and a little can be accumulated into a lot. When I have money, I will have the right to speak, I can compete with civil servants, and I can work hard to revitalize the Ming Dynasty!
But his luck still seemed to be bad. He fought several big battles in a row and spent most of the little money he had worked hard to earn. Although the money gradually increased, it was a pity that he was getting old. Then, he died, and his son listened to the deception of the ministers and spent most of his life savings in less than a month...and then his son died.
Looking back on his life, the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng was said to be repaying kindness with hatred. However, as an emperor, where did Zhang Juzheng's "kindness" come from? Since ancient times, kindness comes from the top and is bestowed on the bottom. How can it be that kindness comes from the bottom and is bestowed on the top!
If there is, it means that during the previous period, it was basically upside down and the monarch and his ministers changed positions. Which emperor can really tolerate this kind of birdiness!
The collection of mineral taxes even dug up the ancestral graves of the civil service group. Therefore, the civil service group still scolded him during the Tatar Qing Dynasty, and even concocted the theory that "the Ming Dynasty died in Wanli" - please stop making trouble? Without Wanli's money to fight the war, the complete victory of the three major conquests added another wave of majesty to the Ming Dynasty. It is hard to say whether the Ming Dynasty would have had the Taichang Dynasty, let alone Tianqi and Chongzhen!
Wanli's problem is that he is not as stubborn as his grandfather, as smelly and hard as the stones in the pit, and he is not as stubborn as his father who doesn't care about personal honor and disgrace. What's more, he has never found his own Zhang Cong or Gao Gong.
However, none of these problems were due to his lack of wisdom, but now he has overcome all the above problems because of his high pragmatism.
He is not as tough as Jiajing, but Gao is pragmatic enough to solve various difficult and complicated diseases. The civil servant group that he could not deal with was now divided into three factions by Gao Pragmatic, and then he held one faction, attacked another, and stabilized another. The political situation in the court seemed to be fiercely fought, but the final decision-making power was in the hands of him, the emperor.
He is not as forbearing as Long Qing, but Gao Pragmatic is not as stubborn and straight-tempered as Gao Gong. He and Gao Pragmatic are both smart people and have been classmates for many years. The two tested each other's bottom line and quickly reached a compromise. From now on, you will be your holy king, and I will be my wise minister. We, the king and ministers, will help each other and prosper together, creating an everlasting story. How beautiful it is!
Zhu Yijun let out a breath of turbid air, turned to look at the hourglass, waved to Chen Ju who was waiting on the side, called him over and said: "After the banquet is over, you send someone to see pragmatism and bring the Jin Yiwei Give him all the information submitted. Then you tell him... just tell him what I want to do next, and come up with an idea early. In addition, if he feels that this matter will eventually lead to a war, let him arrange how to fight. Right—but it’s best to let Zhou Yong speak out.”
"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand." Chen Ju did not call himself a slave this time, because it was a political matter, so he used "I", but he added another question: "Uh, Your Majesty... Do you want to fight this battle or not?" Do you want to ask Da Situ? Do you have anything to explain?"
Well, in fact, Chen Ju did not ask the emperor "Does he have anything to explain", but "Does he have anything to imply" - it was just eunuch talk.
But Zhu Yijun just smiled, shook his head and said: "I have nothing to explain. Pragmatists will definitely think more carefully about these things than I do. Just keep your words."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Chen Ju bowed again to accept the order.
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