Chapter 365 The disintegration of hierarchical society
Hangzhou West Lake.
The red leaves are printed with ink-colored leaves on the turquoise water.
The breeze blew without causing any waves. The lake surface was as elegant and pure as Jiangnan blue calico, yet exuding tranquility.
Zhu Houzhao was sitting in a painting boat. In the painting boat, Wu's music was melodious and Kun Opera was melodious. He had just eaten two glasses of rice wine and didn't know whether he was drunk or fascinated.
But the peaceful wind without the sound of fighting or the smell of blood made him finally fall asleep.
After all, Jiangnan is still singing and dancing and is not in a mess due to the Japanese rebellion. This makes Zhu Houzhao completely relieved and sleeps day and night on the West Lake.
Zhu Houzhao did not prohibit the people from coming when he came to visit the West Lake.
Therefore, due to his influence and the fact that the West Lake is as charming as the West Lake, the whole West Lake is filled with tourists. Under the dark green color, it is hard to know where the crowd is and where the water is.
But fortunately, it is the Ming Dynasty, and the world of the Han family is in a time of peace and prosperity, when the control of rituals and music is not very strict, and the customs are flourishing.
Therefore, although these scholars and people were very densely packed, the unique Eguanbo belt with colorful sleeves and white gauze that was unique to Hanfu also made these Han scholars and people cluster everywhere like flowers.
Wu Nong's soft words, accompanied by the fragrance of flowers, sound very friendly to people's ears. At least there is no nonsense or Oriental accent.
However, Zhu Houzhao found that in addition to Wu Nong's soft language, the sounds rippling among these clear waves also included the sounds of Ming Mandarin. This is the Mandarin of this era. The popularization of universal education and the popularization of standard pinyin pronunciation have made people from different regions People with different dialects can use one language to communicate, instead of just relying on words and acquaintances to translate.
"Listen to this voice that looks like Mandarin but still has the accent of local dialects. It can be seen that decades after the road guide system was banned, more and more Ming people came to visit various scenic spots. Even this West Lake, There are also countless people from all over the world.”
Zhu Houzhao said with a smile, and Zhu Wan, who was standing by and reporting on the annihilation of Japanese pirates everywhere, smiled and replied:
"As your Majesty said, with the outlawing of the road guide system, the people of the world would be better off returning the birds to the forest. They will be much freer, and it will also promote the current prosperity of tourism. Suzhou and Hangzhou and other places have gained huge profits from this, and some scholar-bureaucrats are even willing to open it to the public Private gardens are used for people to play and charge fees, and some people can make more than ten thousand silver dollars a day. "
"Speaking of which, this is also related to the fact that Your Majesty created the first prosperous era of our Ming Dynasty. Only when the people are rich can they travel. What's more, in today's Ming Dynasty, even between villages, there are cement hard roads, and steam locomotives travel all over the world. The hermits in the world have nowhere to hide, and the people in the world have nowhere to wander!”
Li Tianchong also echoed.
Zhu Houzhao just smiled slightly after hearing this, but he also admitted that the series of reforms he carried out during his administration had indeed promoted the development of tourism in Ming Dynasty.
After all, before this, traveling around the world was only an entertainment activity reserved for scholar-bureaucrats, and the common people had neither the opportunity nor the interest to travel.
But it is different now. The great enrichment of material life and the increasing free space given by the imperial court, coupled with the increasing demand for culture and tourism due to the popularization of education for all, make the Ming Dynasty’s tourism industry more and more popular. Thrive.
Some officials have even begun to suggest that the imperial court should establish a tourism bureau to manage tourism affairs around the world.
For Zhu Houzhao, the development of tourism is undoubtedly beneficial to the interests of the entire Ming Dynasty. It can also enrich people's lives and boost the local economy.
Otherwise, Zhu Houzhao would not have traveled around in his seventies and left his calligraphy everywhere. He even paid a lot of money to ask some literati to leave their names here in order to promote the development of tourism in the Ming Dynasty.
But not everyone can understand Zhu Houzhao's thoughts, or are willing to see Zhu Houzhao do this.
Traveling around the world is the privilege of the ruling class and a welfare for carnivores, just like wearing gold, silver, and red.
But now, these have begun to become commonplace.
This is undoubtedly unacceptable to some scholar-bureaucrats.
After all, this means that a highly hierarchical society is gradually becoming more equal, and the privileges of the upper class are being shared by the masses.
"Traffickers, lackeys, women, children, and ordinary people all dare to comment on Li Dusuxin, and they dare to go to this scenic spot to leave their names and express their feelings. It is really a breakdown of etiquette and music, and they are shameless!"
Wang E, the Minister of Rites in Nanjing who had become an official, strongly denounced this phenomenon and found it difficult to accept it.
Now, what makes it even more difficult for him to accept is that because there are so many people coming to see the saint, even a country squire who lives in West Lake can only queue up to see him.
Although it is difficult for Wang E to accept the phenomenon that the treatment originally belonging to the scholar-bureaucrat class is gradually becoming civilians, this is indeed an irreversible phenomenon.
What Zhu Houzhao brought to the Ming Dynasty was not only modern weapons and industrial systems, but also modern civilization that gradually became more equal, and the trend of the gradual disintegration of hierarchical society.
Listening to the various official dialects brought by the warm wind, Zhu Houzhao discovered that almost everyone in the Ming Dynasty at this time could casually recite a few lines of Tang poetry and Song lyrics, as well as his own original ones.
This made him very gratified, gratified that the cultural popularity of Ming Dynasty had really reached a very high level.
Zhu Houzhao has always thought about what it would be like if everyone in the world became scholars.
Now, he, the Supreme Emperor, has been able to get a glimpse of the results of this social reform. At least what he can see is that the people have the ability to think proactively.
The so-called highly respected and knowledgeable people are often easily exposed as swindlers, and even some great Confucians will be challenged by folk thinkers.
The Japanese pirates did not cause trouble to the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, which was undoubtedly a great setback for some coastal gentry with ulterior motives.
But the coastal gentry soon discovered that the Japanese pirates did not cause great trouble to the people on the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty. This was not because the Japanese pirates were not bad enough, but because the Ming army deployed in the southeast was too strong. Moreover, this was not the case with Zhu Wan, Qi Jiguang and others. It’s about people. then.
Some rumors about Zhu Wan's indiscriminate killings and Qi Jiguang's plundering troops appeared out of nowhere.
In addition, some literati who had been bribed by the gentry also began to express their opinions and criticized the imperial court for deploying too many troops in the southeast, causing disturbance to the people and unrest in Jiangnan.
But contrary to expectations, these rumors and various remarks that despised the military failed to have much impact, and even suffered refutation from many people.
"Everyone can see that the Japanese pirates today are far better than those a few decades ago in terms of combat strength and numbers. They kill people and burn villages whenever they see them, but they only target the common people and the government. It is obvious that these Japanese pirates are Those who deliberately create panic and collude with local forces want to disrupt the government of the court. Therefore, the current rumors slandering the government and the army are either the foolish opinions of scholars or deliberate actions. "
A young student wearing a Ming Dynasty student uniform was walking and talking to several of his classmates.
Zhu Houzhao, who was doing a private interview in Weibo, couldn't help but hear the truth and laughed for a moment, thinking that the people of the Ming Dynasty today are indeed no longer comparable to the people of decades ago. The improvement of education level has enabled them to have their own judgment on public opinion.
Of course, although the people are no longer stupid people, the people are the people, and they still cannot influence the government.
The Ming Dynasty was still a court where civilian officials made the final decisions.
Although the military ministers are no longer subject to the control of civil servants, because today is a peaceful and prosperous era, there are no major wars in the country, and most military generals are not interested in internal affairs or cannot interfere in internal affairs. Therefore, it seems that the current Ming Dynasty has repeatedly failed in the political arena It is these civil servants who play an important role.
As long as civilians are in charge, there will naturally be bickering and intrigue;
On the surface, the most noteworthy matter in the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty today is the refusal of Xia Yan, the chief minister of the cabinet, to implement Emperor Zhu Zailei's request to deport vassals from various places to Beijing and levy additional taxes. People can't help but find out that Xia Yan actually dared to do so. So bold!
Zhu Houzhao is also paying attention to the follow-up of this matter. He is not worried about whether Xia Yan will be eliminated by his emperor's son, because he believes that Xia Yan must be prepared to bear the consequences of doing so. He does not think that Xia Yan is doing this. It is a challenge to the imperial power, because his emperor's son can remove Xia Yan and re-appoint a chief minister who is willing to countersign his signature.
Zhu Houzhao was worried that Xia Yan's prestige and relationship with him would make him, the emperor's son, afraid to break with Xia Yan directly, but he would also resent Xia Yan and be taken advantage of by some villains.
As Zhu Houzhao expected, Xia Yan was not dismissed by Zhu Zailei. As the newly ascended emperor, Zhu Zailei did not dare to dismiss an old and prestigious chief minister at will, especially when he, the Supreme Emperor, was still alive. Therefore, On the surface, Zhu Zailei gave in and let the resolution be put on hold for the time being.
However, not long after Zhu Houzhao visited the West Lake, he saw a messenger coming to Zhu Wan. The content of the order was to change the military affairs of Fujian and Zhejiang to inspect the military affairs of Fujian and Zhejiang. This meant that he no longer had the power to mobilize troops along the southeast coast.
"The news came from the capital that the right officer of the military department, Lin Ye, suggested that the imperial court change his position as the admiral of Fujian and Zhejiang military affairs to inspect the military affairs of Fujian and Zhejiang on the grounds that the minister was not authorized to mobilize troops to disturb the local area. Unexpectedly, his majesty actually agreed." Zhu Wan told Zhu Houzhao. I couldn't help but sigh, and then I couldn't help but said angrily:
"Most of these officials from Fujian and Zhejiang are the disciples of Yuan Fu, and now they see that Yuan Fu is not pleased by His Majesty, and they take advantage of this to slander!"
Zhu Houzhao looked at the excited Zhu Wan and only stood up and patted him on the shoulder, saying: "You don't have to be so angry. It seems that the change of the admiral's military affairs to inspect Fujian and Zhejiang seems to have canceled your right to mobilize troops, but I am close. The Guards can still be mobilized.”
Zhu Houzhao then ordered Li Tianchong: "According to my decree, Wang Chonggu of the Ninth Army of the Guards rushed from Huguang to Fujian, and temporarily established the Guards Anti-Japanese General Headquarters, and appointed Zhu Wan, who inspected Fujian and Zhejiang, as the commander-in-chief! ”
The Guards was an army under Zhu Houzhao's direct control. The army's money, food, and weapons supplies were his own property, and the officers were all members of his Zhongjun Society, not the army of the imperial court. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao himself was directly mobilized.
Nowadays, some officials in Fujian and Zhejiang deliberately restrict Zhu Wan's power to mobilize troops and increase the chances of Japanese pirates causing trouble in the southeast. They even successfully exploited the contradiction between the emperor and the chief minister of the cabinet to deprive Zhu Wan of his power to mobilize troops.
However, Zhu Houzhao refused to let these officials get what they wanted, and directly transferred the Ninth Guards Corps to the southeast. Although these Guards troops were not naval and were not good at naval warfare, they were more than enough to kill the Japanese pirates on land.
Zhu Wan had no choice but to accept the order. He was now patrolling Fujian and Zhejiang in accordance with the order of Emperor Zhu Zailei, and at the same time, in accordance with the order of the Supreme Emperor Zhu Houzhao, he was participating in the deployment of the officers and soldiers of the Guards who stayed in the southeast to fight against the Japanese.
Because of this, the Japanese pirates still did not take advantage. Tens of thousands of Guards were broken into small groups and scattered throughout the southeast. Basically, four or five Guardsmen could eliminate Japanese pirates ten times their own size.
The brave and skilled Japanese pirates could only be passively shot in front of the guards officers and soldiers with modern firearms and equipment. And because of this, in the end, even the local people were no longer afraid of these Japanese pirates, and began to spontaneously resist the Japanese pirates, or directly Informing these Guards troops who were conducting independent special operations made it almost impossible for the Japanese pirates to survive once they entered the coastal territory of the Ming Dynasty.
"The south is still so peaceful! What do these Japanese pirates do for food!"
Zhao Wenhua, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, read the news that a famous theater troupe would tour in Ningbo, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places and knew that the large-scale Japanese rebellion had not happened, otherwise these folk theater stars would not dare to Going on tour along the southeastern coast at this time made him very depressed.
"According to the news brought by my family, after Zhu Wan lost the power to mobilize troops, the number of officers and soldiers on the entire southeast coast increased instead of decreasing. Finally, we found out clearly that it was the Ninth Army of the Guards from Huguang that went to Fujian. So, this must still be related to the Supreme Emperor!”
Lin Ye couldn't help but said from the side.
"It seems that Zhu Wan has voted for the Supreme Emperor, alas!"
Zhao Wenhua slapped the table helplessly. Like other civil servants who secretly wanted to benefit themselves, the southern gentry, they still had to admit that Zhu Houzhao was still their biggest enemy. But even though Zhu Houzhao had now become the Supreme Emperor, they also had to admit that Zhu Houzhao was still their biggest enemy. We can't do anything to Zhu Houzhao, because even His Majesty the Emperor dare not do anything to the chief minister of the cabinet previously appointed by the Supreme Emperor, let alone people like them.
"The Supreme Emperor, the Supreme Emperor again! According to Yi Luo, if the Supreme Emperor does not die, it will be difficult for the gentry in the world to have peace! Why not find an opportunity to kill him? He is an old man, even if he is dead, not many people will doubt him, and It’s not easy to kill!”
Qiu Luan, who has a close relationship with Zhao Wenhua, couldn't help but say.
"Be careful! How can the Supreme Emperor be killed just by saying kill him! There are many noble court officials supporting him. You don't know that when the Jiangnan gentry went on strike to protest the tax increase, the richest plutocrats in the world helped him. ! Don’t think that nothing will happen if the West Factory is in the hands of the emperor now. Although the one who went to the south has become the Supreme Emperor, he is not blind or deaf!”
The so-called think tank Luo Longwen couldn't help but say.
Yan Shifan, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but laugh sinisterly when he heard this, and walked out from the darkest corner: "You can't kill or drive away. Can't we just invite the Supreme Emperor to leave? Our Supreme Emperor must also be playing. If you are tired of the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, why don’t you go and see the grasslands and the lonely smoke in the desert? ”
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Zhu Houzhao sneezed. The increasingly cold weather forced him to admit that the coldness in the south could not be easily endured. Moreover, the climate phenomenon of the Little Glacier was becoming more and more intense. The only thing he was glad about was that he did not go outside the customs. He now I just want to go further south.
But before setting off, he had to wait for the Ming Military General Staff's strategic policy on sending troops to Japan.
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