Zhu Yuanzhang's expression condensed and he asked with a smile: "What do you have in mind?"
Zhu Yunxuan asked in return: "Grandpa Huang, do you hope that the Ming Dynasty will be in charge of the country for hundreds of years, and then be overthrown by the people and change dynasties, or do you hope that the Ming Dynasty will be eternal and unshakable for all eternity?"
Lao She smiled and said: "Of course I hope that the Ming Dynasty will last forever and never change."
"That's right." Zhu Yunxuan's voice was childish, but his tone was extremely firm, and said: "After Qin II died, the Northern Zhou Dynasty did not exist for many years."
"This shows that their actions may seem reasonable, but in fact they are not."
"Since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, dynasties have changed, and the fate of the country has taken hundreds of years to decades. Have you ever seen a dynasty that will last forever?"
"Literati say that the general trend of the world will be divided if it is united for a long time, and it will unite if it is divided for a long time."
"The same goes for the change of dynasties."
"It is extremely difficult to have a national destiny that lasts three to five hundred years, and it is even more worrying that it will last forever."
Lao Zhu remained silent.
Although he hopes that the Ming Dynasty will last forever, he also knows that this hope is actually slim.
Which dynasty in history did not die?
Who can truly live forever?
Zhu Yunxuan continued: "Those who plan for the overall situation plan for a place, and those who plan for the world plan for a moment."
"Whether it is the five techniques of controlling the people, the use of corrupt officials, or the theory of killing corrupt officials, they are all just techniques. They can only achieve temporary happiness, but cannot protect the eternal foundation."
Lao Zhu asked: "In your opinion, how can we have the foundation of eternity?"
"Grandpa Huang, as the old saying goes: the world has changed forever."
"The sea may one day become farmland, and the farmland may become the vast ocean."
"The mountains may disappear, and the rivers and lakes may no longer exist in ten thousand years."
"For example, in the past, soldiers used swords, axes, and bows and armor to fight. But my grandson's new army abandoned swords and axes, threw away bows and armor, and only used flintlocks. Instead, its combat power increased a hundred times. Why?"
"Everything in the world is in the process of change and development."
"The beauty of a gentleman will be cut down in five lifetimes."
"To make it fixed is to go against nature."
"Even if you can find temporary peace, it will destroy the foundation of eternity."
"Let the class be solidified, let the people be imprisoned, the son inherits the father's inheritance, and the grandson will inherit it, and the descendants will never change. This seems beautiful, but it goes against the great principle that everything in the world will not change."
"How can it be possible to govern a country like this for a long time despite being stable for a moment and experiencing changes for eternity?"
Zhu Yunzhen's voice is not loud and very immature, but his words are very resounding.
Lao Zhu stood there blankly, his expression frozen.
"Then if you say so, our old Zhu family's empire will be lost one day. Is this a destiny?"
Zhu Yunzhen said solemnly: "If we respond to the situation by maintaining stability, and pursue it by maintaining stability, wouldn't it be natural for the country to change hands?"
"Grandpa Huang was just a commoner back then. When the situation was changing, he got the destiny's call and worked hard to start a business. Today's Ming Dynasty is the result."
"When the fate of the Ming Dynasty falls, there will be people who will answer the fate."
Zhu Yunxuan said word for word: "If you want to have a foundation for eternity, you can only adapt to the changes in nature."
"Say it quickly." Lao Zhu's breathing suddenly became heavy.
Unlike emperors such as Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu Taizong of Han, Lao Zhu never asked for immortality.
He knew very well that they were all false.
But Mrs. Zhu hopes that the Ming Dynasty will always be in the hands of the Zhu family.
Eternity, eternity, eternity, never change.
Of course Zhu Yunzhen knew that this was wishful thinking.
However, it is possible to think of some ways to extend the life of the Ming Dynasty.
"As Grandpa Huang said before, when Yu the Great controlled floods, it was better to block them than to remove them."
"Blocking the rivers and preventing the water from flowing may appear to be temporarily stable, but in fact it has laid the foundation for a huge crisis."
"Let the descendants of farmers continue to be farmers, let the descendants of soldiers always be soldiers, let the descendants of craftsmen always be craftsmen, and let the prostitutes always be prostitutes."
"On the surface it looks the most stable, but in fact it buries huge instability factors."
"As time goes by, drops of water will penetrate the stone."
"The descendants of farmers are unwilling to be farmers, the descendants of soldiers are unwilling to be soldiers, the descendants of craftsmen are unwilling to be craftsmen, and the descendants of prostitutes are even more resistant to continuing to be prostitutes."
"If they are forcibly solidified, the pressure accumulated later will become greater and greater and become increasingly impossible to suppress."
"Only by respecting the way the heaven and earth change, and following the principle that everything in the world changes, let them change."
"A wealthy businessman today, a craftsman tomorrow."
"Today you are a high official, tomorrow you are a poor person."
"Today you are poor and humble, and tomorrow you are high and noble."
"Thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river, the feng shui has taken turns."
"As an emperor, you must adapt to these changes, change with the times, and change with the times."
"On the contrary, if you are greedy for the temporary fixation, suppress it, and act against nature, how can you not perish?"
Zhu Yunzhen took a deep breath and added: "In the past, Wen Yanbo once said: The emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats rule the world together, not the common people." "
"Shang Jun's book on the Five Skills of Controlling the People and Su Chuo's theory on officialdom are all based on this principle."
"But in Sun'er's view, the most powerful and powerful people in the world are always the people at the bottom."
"Grandpa Huang used to be a commoner, but he was able to conquer the world because he relied on thousands of poor people."
"As the emperor, you should ally with the largest force in the world and stand with the people instead of suppressing them."
"Let him change if he changes; let him become stronger if he is strong."
"The emperor does not need to be afraid, just accept it calmly."
"As long as you change at the right time, follow the way of heaven, let it change, the world will be turned upside down, adapt to it, and respond to it."
"We will always be with the people and share the world with them. How can the people rebel?"
"The Tang-Wu revolution follows nature and responds to man!"
"They want to change. We don't wait for them to revolt. We don't wait for them to rebel. Let's change ourselves and revolutionize ourselves."
"Then they have no reason to overthrow the Ming Dynasty."
"Only in this way can we sit back and watch the ups and downs of the wind and clouds, and only by lying on a fishing platform can we have a foundation for eternity."
Will society be stable after class consolidation?
From a short-term perspective, it is indeed the most stable.
But from a long-term perspective, class cannot be solidified forever and will definitely change.
If classes are not allowed to flow freely and the pressure of change is fully released during the flow, then one day it will be released suddenly like a volcanic eruption, destroying everything and overthrowing the rule.
Then establish a new dynasty.
This is the law of dynastic period.
In the later stages of the dynasty, class solidification will become more and more serious, and the upward passage is basically blocked.
The lower class was completely desperate and then exploded.
The rulers are trying every possible means to solidify the hierarchy, which is actually laziness, stealing temporary convenience, and ruining long-term development in the future.
It is of course much more difficult in social governance to allow classes to flow freely instead of being solidified.
It caused a lot of inconvenience to the government.
But doing so is precisely the most stable in the long run.
The mobile class will make the power of resistance disappear and achieve true stability.
Of course, this requires the rulers to constantly formulate different policies according to the time, place, and people, constantly adjust themselves, adapt to the development and changes of society, and constantly carry out self-revolution.
Otherwise, it will also be swept into the dustbin of history.
Continuous self-revolution to adapt to the development and changes of the times and things is the only way to maintain the foundation for eternity.
On the surface, the feudal emperor was the representative of the landlord class and the largest landlord in the country.
But in Zhu Yunxu's view, if this is really used to position the emperor and position himself, it will be the most natural thing for him to be overthrown by peasant uprisings and rebellions in the future.
Only by stepping out of this framework, choosing farmers who make up the majority of the population among the landlord class and the peasant class, and choosing to be with the common people, can we always hold power.
Although this means that in the court, the emperor will become a real loner and lose the power of support.
But with the power of the emperor and the thousands of people at the lower level, it may not be impossible to succeed.
An emperor should be transcendent, not limited by his own class, and should jump out of his class.
The emperor should be a mediator between conflicts between different classes, and should be consistent with the interests of the majority of people, rather than standing against them.
The emperor should be a judge who transcends classes, not a participant in class movements.
Only by being a referee can you never lose.
As long as you participate, the class will change. Today the east wind will overwhelm the west wind, and tomorrow the west wind will overpower the east wind. How can it last forever?
This may be difficult.
Because the power of the vested interest class is too strong.
But if you don’t try it, how will you know?
Lao Zhu was silent for a long time after hearing what he said.
After a full quarter of an hour, he let out a long sigh and said, "Zhen'er, what you said is right."
"Nothing in this world remains unchanged forever."
"If future generations of the Zhu family want to preserve the country forever, they can only continue to adapt to changes."
Lao Zhu smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that the "Ancestor's Instructions" compiled by us should be burned."
Zhu Yunxian was startled, but he didn't expect that Lao Zhu could be persuaded so easily.
It should be noted that a person's thoughts are very difficult to change.
The older you get, the more stubborn your thoughts become and the less willing you are to accept new ideas.
In his previous life, he had seen countless keyboard warriors on the Internet. His face was swollen by others, but he still refused to admit that he was wrong.
But then I thought about it, who is Lao Zhu?
He can climb all the way up from a beggar until he becomes the Nine-Five Supreme Being.
Start with a bowl and conquer the entire country.
How can his learning ability, ability to accept things, and ability to change himself be compared to those keyboard warriors of later generations?
After all, a person's progress comes from the constant denial of his past.
Realize that you were wrong in the past and keep changing, so that you can make progress.
And for those who refuse to admit their mistakes, there is no difference between being sixty and twenty. Their knowledge will never improve.
Most people are like this.
Therefore, most people live an ordinary life.
When they educate their children, they still teach them a lot of wrong things.
But Lao Zhu obviously does not belong to the majority.
Therefore, he quickly realized his previous mistakes and corrected them.
This is Lao Zhu's most terrifying ability.
"Grandpa Huang." Zhu Yunzhen didn't know what to say for a moment, so he could only call him softly.
Lao Zhu held him in his arms.
"My grandson still has some political matters, and he wants to discuss them with Grandpa Huang."
Zhu Yunxuan thought about currency reform.
This is not a trivial matter and should be discussed with Lao Zhu first.
After the maritime ban is lifted, the matter of sending ships to sea should also be put on the agenda.
During this time, he had already drawn a rough map of the world based on his impressions from his previous life.
I plan to talk to Lao Zhu about the world situation and the situation overseas.
"Needless to say." Lao Zhu shook his head gently: "We will leave this Ming Dynasty to you, and you can manage it according to your own ideas. You don't have to report everything to us."
"When we talked to you today, we originally wanted to have a smooth explanation. But now it seems that we have worried too much. You think clearly, even more clearly than Grandpa Huang."
"Stand with the common people, stand with the largest group in the world, well said."
"We, the descendants of the old Zhu family, must keep this in mind."
"The world belongs to our old Zhu family, and even more to the common people."
"The emperor represents the herdsmen and establishes his destiny for the people of the world."
"Our Lao Zhu family wants to have a foundation for eternity, not to be greedy for temporary pleasure, and to share the world with the people."
"Follow the destiny, change when the time comes, and revolutionize yourself."
Lao Zhu stood up and looked at the setting sun in the distance.
"Grandpa Huang will go to Yangshan to recuperate tomorrow, and the government will be completely entrusted to you."
"You just go ahead and do it."
"We want to see where the Ming Dynasty will go under your governance?"
"Don't be afraid, even if the sky falls, Grandpa Huang will hold you up."
In the sunset, the old man stood quietly, his back slightly hunched.
(End of chapter)
