Chapter 203 Ming Dynasty Cold Joke
After chatting with Zhu Zaijing, Huang Jin felt comfortable.
Every time Zhu Zaijing could come up with some good ideas and new ideas that made him feel amazing, and these good ideas and new ideas just scratched the itch of Emperor Jiajing.
So every time Huang Jin was ordered by Emperor Jiajing to talk to Zhu Zaijing about some current political issues, he couldn't help but spread some ideas and listen more to Zhu Zaijing's opinions. It would be better for him to go back and communicate with Emperor Jiajing.
At the same time, it can also make the friendship between him and Zhu Zaijing deeper.
After all, from the outside, the relationship between the two seems to be a tacit business partner; from my own perspective, it is a life-long friendship that has carried guns and been on the battlefield together, which is simply not comparable to ordinary relationships.
And whether it is Huang Jin himself or Zhu Zaijing himself, both of them are self-aware people.
Huang Jin's self-knowledge is that he knows whose slave he is, whose words he should listen to, and whose authority and interests he should safeguard.
Zhu Zaijing's self-knowledge is that he knows his ability level and intelligence level. He will never think about or reach out to those powers that are beyond his ability to bear.
He just did his job well and calmly, and took the initiative to explain his "handle" and frank his suggestions, so that Emperor Jiajing could rest assured. We will never engage in small acts such as forming gangs, forming cliques, or conspiring to subvert.
Therefore, the relationship between the two seems particularly pure.
If I have to say something else, it is that Huang Jin is more optimistic about King Yu's future, and Zhu Zaijing wants to express his loyalty and filial piety to Emperor Jiajing through Huang Jin!
Other than that, there are no secrets between the two, let alone an alliance.
After all, the feudal monarchy has developed to this stage. Regardless of whether it is a prince or a prince, they have lost the ability to recruit staff and ministers, set up separate government directors, and have imperial guards who only take orders from individuals during the Han and Tang Dynasties. qualifications.
And now the ministers are very clear about who they should be loyal to.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, except for the accident that King Zhu Di of Yan had too many bugs when the dynasty was first established, which caused the prince to have too many soldiers and was too powerful to repair in time, the rebellion of the vassal kings for the remaining two hundred years was a joke.
It is a funny existence that can make people laugh to death whoever is against it.
So in the period after Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty, if they got news of the feudal king's rebellion, the civil servants and generals who went to put down the feudal king's rebellion would be more excited than the emperor. This was a God-given experience package. , I don’t want it for nothing!
So this is also a cold joke during the Wude Dynasty - King Ning rebelled!
When the news reached the capital, not only was no one afraid, but Emperor Zhengde was so excited that he thought he was finally having fun.
In the end, they finally persuaded all the officials in Beijing to stage a big show of the imperial chariot and his own administration. The army had just walked halfway through the journey and had not yet reached Nanjing. Wang Yangming, who had returned as a saint, solved it in a few moments.
This made Emperor Zhengde so angry that he couldn't help but ordered Wang Yangming to release Prince Ning to give Prince Ning another chance to rebel.
From this incident, we can see what a big joke the vassal rebellion was in the Ming Dynasty.
So much so that the emperor didn't care about giving the rebel king a chance to rebel again, and wanted to play an entertainment show of his own conquest.
It can be seen that after many years of system construction, the princes, princes and local vassals of the Ming Dynasty have become dynasty ornaments and do not have any ability to rebel at all.
So now, whether it is Zhu Zaijing himself or the Qingliu people who plan to support Zhu Zaijing as the prince, they will not be stupid enough to conspire to rebel against Emperor Jiajing.
Qingliu people only need to stand on the moral high ground of righteousness and ethics, keep fighting, and keep talking, so that they can show their attitude and loyalty. Why do they have to do that kind of beheading? business?
Besides, the emperor has been ruthless since ancient times. He doesn't know how to follow the dragon at all, and he will fall out whenever he wants. Therefore, these Qingliu people who support Zhu Zaijing are not supporting Zhu Zaijing himself, but they are supporting the great cause that Zhu Zaijing's identity currently represents.
If one day Emperor Jiajing’s iron tree blossoms, the queen of the middle palace will be happy and give birth to a legitimate son.
Then Zhu Zaijing would be abandoned in an instant and turned aside to support his legitimate son as Chu. And this is the focus they have always emphasized and the integrity they have always wanted to maintain.
So during the Ming Dynasty, even in the Chenghua Dynasty and Wanli Dynasty, which were the most fierce disputes over the country, there were no incidents of officials being killed because of the issue of who to make the prince.
Because the support of these officials from beginning to end was not the prince himself, but the righteousness and decency expressed by the prince's identity.
With Zhu Zaijing’s new suggestions and ideas, Huang Jin left happily.
Zhu Zaijing also sent him to the front yard. Looking at the weather with cold plum blossoms in the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Zaijing thought again of the neither humble nor arrogant Haigangfeng he met last winter.
"Do you remember that Hai Rui?"
Zhu Zaijing asked Meng Chong who was standing behind him.
Meng Chong replied: "Of course I remember that the prince favored him very much. He also asked Mr. Gao to help him tutor his essays and helped him become a second-class Jinshi."
Zhu Zaijing He said with emotion: "Yeah, I don't know how he is doing this winter? If you have time, go and see him and give him some New Year's goods and charcoal to keep out the cold. Just follow the old rules. How much money should be counted?"
Meng Chong responded: "Yes, I will prepare it now."
Then Zhu Zaijing waited in the front yard for a while, not in a hurry to go back.
Because there is another "big shot" coming today, Zhu Zaijing also has to show respect.
Yesterday, an edict came from the palace, ordering Zhang Juzheng, editor of the Hanlin Academy, to serve as a lecturer in Prince Yu's palace, and to teach Prince Yu the principles of sages and sages' classics.
So today, Zhu Zaijing was waiting in the vestibule.
Zhu Zaijing was also very curious about Zhang Juzheng.
However, with the knowledge and experience gained in the past two years, Zhu Zaijing has gradually become calmer, and he no longer has the excitement that he felt at the beginning when he saw a historical celebrity.
However, Zhu Zaijing will still give him the respect he deserves.
After all, when Gao Gong came to Prince Yu's Mansion, Zhu Zaijing personally went to the gate of the Prince's Mansion to greet him and called him sir.
Now Zhang Juzheng is here. Although Zhu Zaijing was not excited enough to greet him before going to the palace, he at least gave him the courtesy of waiting in the vestibule.
It can be regarded as Zhu Zaijing's respect and balance for Zhang Juzheng.
Lest one day in the future, Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong would have a rift in their hearts because of this trivial matter, which would lead to the breakdown of their subsequent cooperation.
Of course, Zhu Zaijing also knew that these people who had achieved great things would not get into discord over such trivial matters. The biggest reason for their disagreement was due to their different political ideas and the tempting chief minister. The chair is causing trouble.
After all, they are all talented people who dominate the world. At the important political moment when Wanli took over the throne and dominated the country, who would be willing to be inferior to others and stoop to be small?
Who doesn’t want to take advantage of the fact that the little emperor is still unable to exercise imperial power, monopolize the power and display his ambitions?
So in history, the subsequent dispute between Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong was also an inevitable political struggle. No one was willing to waste the "golden period" in which they could fully display their ambitions.
Therefore, if he wants to reconcile the future political battle between these two heroes, Zhu Zaijing can only work hard to live longer and give them enough stage to display their respective political ambitions.
Otherwise, according to the original historical development, Zhu Zaijing, who had been the Longqing Emperor for six years, was hurriedly offline, and there would be a life-and-death political fight between the two!
So if he wants to untie this knot, Zhu Zaijing has to work hard!
As long as he can live long enough, it will be possible for Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong to work together to innovate for the Ming Dynasty, open up a new rejuvenation situation, and achieve the goal for the Ming Dynasty. A true "life again"!
(End of this chapter)