Zhang Bao had been floating in the palace for thirty years, how could his first thought be wrong?
Zhu Jianshen took advantage of Zhang Bao and asked him to tell the Empress Dowager Sun what he could not say. Even if it was beyond Zhu Jianshen's plan, Zhang Bao did not tell the Empress Dowager and decided to take him out of the palace secretly. Zhu Jianshen also refused I will follow Zhang Bao out, but I can only think of other ways.
Because Zhu Jianshen was the emperor of Ming Dynasty, he could not put himself in danger.
The security required for the emperor to leave the palace cannot be arranged by Zhang Bao, an eunuch. This kind of thing must be done openly. The cabinet must be informed and the central government must know that the young emperor has left the palace today.
After the emperor leaves the palace, is he still the emperor?
Is the whole world a royal land?
No.
The emperor is only an emperor because he has a powerful army to support him and a government office that is in charge of the country's operations. With these two things, he is the supreme emperor.
If Zhang Bao takes him out of the palace, he will be an eight-year-old child with no ability to protect himself.
It is said in movies and TV shows that emperors go out incognito to inspect the world's sufferings. They are almost all false. Their patrols have a purpose, and the purpose is very targeted, and the protection measures are not bad. Every qualified emperor has If your head gets hot, no one will say that you will go on patrol incognito and put yourself in a dangerous situation.
His father, Zhu Qizhen, was not a qualified emperor.
Zhu Jianshen went to the Empress Dowager Sun to express his gratitude, and Zhang Bao began to go down to prepare. First, he informed the cabinet. When Yu Qian and Li Xian learned about it, they were not very surprised. On the grounds that the emperor was young, he proposed , it is not advisable to overwork people and money, and to clear the roads wantonly. The process should be simplified, and the emperor's personal guards, Jin Yiwei, should be responsible for ensuring safety.
Zhu Jianshen did not resist. He was only walking around Beijing and did not need any honor guard. With tens of thousands of guards, he should simplify the traveling team and only let a few people in the center know about it.
Then Zhang Bao found Zhu Ji and conveyed the wishes of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor.
After Zhu Ji learned about it, he immediately transferred more than 300 Jinyi guards and put them into regular clothes.
The little eunuch who delivered the order had already arrived at the British government house to deliver the order and asked them to prepare.
Zhang Zhong, the legitimate son of the British Duke, is disabled and unable to govern. At this time, the person who should inherit the British Dukedom is Zhang Mao, the eldest son of the concubine. He has just turned 15 this year. After Zhang Fu became seriously ill, Zhang Mao has already taken charge of the British Duke. , just waiting for Zhang Fu's death to inherit the title of Duke of the country.
It can be said that Zhang Mao played a very important role in the Chenghua, Hongzhi and Zhengde dynasties.
He was smart when he was young. In the original history, in the second year of Tianshun's reign in Zhu Qizhen, he went to Tumubao to mourn his father and Zhu Shou. In other words, he went to replace Zhu Qizhen.
In the ninth year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen inspected the troops in Xiyuan. Zhang Mao performed well and was awarded a gold belt. Ten years after Chenghua, he began to take charge of the Central Military Governor's Office and supervised the five military camps. Daizong's throne was requested by Zhang Mao Zhu Jianshen, and after Zhu Jianshen agreed, Zhang Mao was responsible for all affairs. The two were very similar in age, and the monarch's personal relationship was relatively good.
Therefore, after Zhu Jianshen's death, Zhang Mao took charge of the military affairs of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and remained active in the court of the Ming Dynasty until the tenth year of Zhengde. After his death, he was posthumously named King of Ningyang, with the posthumous title of "Gongjing".
When Zhang Mao learned that the emperor was coming, he immediately ordered people to clean the Duke's mansion, spread red carpets on the floor, burn incense and pray, and sent people to invite Duke Cheng Zhu Shou, Marquis of Taining Chen Ying and other distinguished officials to come to the mansion. .
Six years have passed since the shadow of war.
The city of Beijing has also returned to its usual prosperity.
Zhu Jianshen sat in the carriage, opened the curtain, and looked at the scene outside the carriage. It was prosperous and peaceful. This kind of beautiful thing should continue forever.
It has been eight years since he came to this world. Zhu Jianshen has never left the palace once, and he is not impatient. When he was a primary school teacher in his previous life, he rarely left school. Apart from books and students, he only had collections in his life. This is a hobby.
At this time, Zhu Jianshen had already adapted to his identity change.
When you are a teacher, you must teach your students well; when you are an emperor, you must govern the country well.
Although the Ming Empire had many bad policies, due to its own self-healing ability, it slowly reduced the harm of bad policies. Of course, there are also some bad policies that have existed since the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Some people say that death was due to party strife and corruption, death was due to Shenzong's neglect of government, death was due to natural and man-made disasters, death was due to the collusion of Shanxi merchants, death was due to Chongzhen's suspicion...
It's not unreasonable, the benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom.
Zhu Jianshen also has his own opinions.
He has lived in later generations for more than 30 years, and has also studied these, talking about death and party struggle, the mutual attack and defense between the Donglin Party, the Eunuch Party, the Qi, Chu and Zhejiang Party in the late Ming Dynasty. When you finish singing, we will appear on the stage, which will indeed transfer the energy of the center It was all wasted on party struggle, but Zhu Jianshen felt that party struggle was just a method of the emperor. Whoever became big would support another force to fight. This is understandable. As long as the emperor can control it, there will never be a fatal threat to the country. .
It was indeed unfair to Emperor Shenzong to die at the hands of Shenzong, but he could never escape his involvement.
Living in the palace and not going to court for more than thirty years, the ministers' memorials and recommended officials were all not approved and kept in the middle without promotion, which reduced the central government's control over the local area. There was even a shortage of officials in the capital. Extremely, this is fatal for a huge empire, because what a huge empire needs most is local management by officials. Only with proper local management can you ensure that the power of the entire country can be united in a short time, but During the reign of the Carpenter Emperor, Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs solved this problem.
Although the eunuchs did something that was outrageous and resentful, they did have their own methods. By uniting the localities, this problem would be over.
Some people say that it was pitiful that Chongzhen perished. If he had been placed before Shenzong, the Ming Dynasty would not have had that ending. But history will not assume that even if Shenzong had the character of Chongzhen, he would be guaranteed to do better than his grandfather. ?
Will not.
Such a large country needs capable ministers and emperors to cooperate with each other to govern.
But can the emperor find no capable ministers?
Every emperor's period has capable ministers. Wang Yangming in the Zhengde period was a big boss, Gao Gong and Xu Jie in the Jiajing period, Zhang Juzheng in the Shenzong period, Sun Chengzong, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting in the Chongzhen period...
Talented and famous ministers emerged in large numbers, but the emperor did not know people's names, and laymen commanded experts. All this stemmed from the poor quality of the Zhu family emperors in the late Ming Dynasty.
Is it a character flaw of the old Zhu family? No, it’s not, it’s the cultivation of the emperor.
During the period of Emperor Hongwu, Prince Zhu Biao was appointed early to supervise the country and assist in government affairs, so that he could exercise his ability and control over the country early, so that he would not arbitrarily compete with ministers for power. However, during the period of Emperor Yongle , Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Zhanji, a prince and a grandson have already been decided.
There is not much problem with their abilities.
But since Zhu Jianshen's father, the quality of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty has dropped to a higher level.
It’s not that I’ve become stupid, but that I have loosened my self-restraint and lacked authority and control over the country.
Therefore, Zhu Jianshen thought that when he changed the bad government, he also established a crown prince system for the Ming Dynasty. Only by establishing a prince early and getting in touch with state affairs early could he know earlier whether the prince would become a qualified emperor.
If it is really a rotten wood that cannot be carved, then it should be replaced early, and it cannot be left to damage the last unified Han empire in history.
Of course, in this era, due to the system of etiquette and law, coupled with the constraints of the emperor's ancestral precepts left by Zhu Yuanzhang, it was difficult for the emperor to abolish the prince.
But as long as Zhu Jianshen becomes an accomplished emperor like Zhu Di and Zhu Yuanzhang, all this can be controlled.
If you are capable, you go up, if you are not, you come down. The emperor's eldest son has priority in inheritance. If you fail to live up to your expectations, this priority in inheritance will be revoked...
Of course, Zhu Jianshen also knew that if he did this, it would leave hidden dangers for the Ming royal family, but the world is cruel. If you don't become stronger, someone more powerful will pull you down, causing the entire nation to suffer because of the emperor. Incompetent, and facing the bloody storm, he sank.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the British government is coming soon. Your Majesty, please don't fall asleep." Zhang Bao, who was living in front of the carriage, put his head in and said.
Zhu Jian gave him a deep look and said, "I am a two or three-year-old child, and I can fall asleep whenever I want."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Zhu Jianshen was so eager to see Zhang Fu because he wanted to hear Zhang Fu's views on various systems of the Ming Dynasty, of course the most important thing was the military aspect.
The household registration system during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty was indeed practical in the early days, but in the later period, it also became a drag. Military households had no combat effectiveness, resulting in the army also having no combat effectiveness. The long-term household registration system suppressed the creativity of the entire nation.
The first thing Zhu Jianshen did after taking office was to take action on the household registration system.
Zhang Fu is an evergreen tree in the Ming Dynasty and knows a lot about these things. As long as he takes a look at Zhang Fu and chats with him, he will have richer insights.
When Zhang Fu was 25 years old, he joined the army with his father and launched a challenge to the entire Ming Dynasty from a corner of the empire.
At the age of 26, his father Zhang Yu was killed in battle, so he took his place and commanded the army in the north and south.
At the age of 28, he invaded Nanjing and made four major contributions to the Jingnan Campaign. He was awarded the title of British Duke.
At the age of 30, Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu and other famous generals passed away, making Zhang Fu the first general of the Ming Dynasty. He was just thirty years old that year.
At the age of 32, he conquered the country in the south and recovered Jiaozhi, which had been occupied for more than 400 years.
At the age of 40, he went on three southern expeditions and destroyed the four puppet regimes in Jiaozhi, South Vietnam, which changed the mood of the people of Jiaozhi. However, due to the influence of national policies, Jiaozhi once again left the embrace of the Ming Dynasty.
According to records in the history books of South Vietnam, the auxiliary units often engaged in killings, including piling corpses into mountains, removing intestines and tying them to trees, frying meat for meat, or cannon-roasting for opera, and some even had their fetuses cut open and made into two dishes in response to orders. Zhujing Road was surrendered one after another. They sent all the people to plunder and turned them into slaves, and then sold them and dispersed them.
At the age of 48, he followed Zhu Di in the Northern Expedition, led his army deep into Mobei to pursue the Mongolian army, and returned with a great victory.
At the age of 51, he helped Emperor Xuanzong put down Zhu Gaoxu's rebellion.
According to the original history, this Ming God of War, who had made countless achievements in his military life, would die in the Tumubao rebellion at the age of seventy-five.
Zhu Jianshen's words changed Zhang Fu's fate and retained some dignity for him in his later years.
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