Chapter 106: The Mingjun is in power, and the dynasty is filled with fierce ministers! (First update)
Yingtianfu Street.
Xia Zhibai walked with a heavy heart.
He was still sorting out his thoughts bit by bit.
But after thinking about it, he only came to one starting point, which was that Zhu Yuanzhang was old.
Zhu Yuanzhang was killed from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. He himself was not afraid of death, but he was worried that the things before him were not finished.
So Zhu Yuanzhang was anxious.
The Northern Expedition, in addition to consolidating Zhu Yuanzhang's own political achievements, was also clearing the way for the emperor to succeed. Zhu Yuanzhang did not trust any of his ministers, and he did not want to leave these matters to Zhu Biao or even other successors. In the hands of the emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that Zhu Biao would not be able to suppress the powerful ministers and bandit generals in the dynasty.
Before his death, he wanted to eradicate the existences that could threaten the imperial power one by one.
The kind that doesn't matter the cost.
From the beginning, the Hu Weiyong case was used to clean up the Zhejiang Civil Service Group.
Now, through the Guo Huai case, the Huaixi civil servants headed by Li Shanchang have been slashed, and Li Shanchang's influence in the court has been reduced to the extreme, and he has been reduced to a mere commander, and finally Li Shanchang, who might become 'Sima Yi', was dealt with.
This is the treatment of civil servants.
There are also generals.
Lan Yu, Feng Sheng and others can't escape either.
Perhaps many people in later generations said that if Zhu Biao did not die, Lan Yu would not die, but during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, this argument itself was untenable.
Just as he accidentally saw a sentence, it is the same when applied to Lan Yu.
Lanyu may indeed have no intention of rebellion, and even Zhu Yuanzhang knew it well, but he had the ability to rebel and the prestige to usurp the throne, and that was Lan Yu's crime.
Lanyu is related to Zhu Biao, but not to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang only has the Zhu family's eternal life in his eyes, and any existence that can threaten the imperial power will be eradicated by Zhu Yuanzhang.
But now that the residual Yuan is not destroyed, Lan Yu, Feng Sheng and other generals are still valuable, but when the residual Yuan is greatly damaged and no longer poses a threat to the Ming Dynasty, it will be the time for Zhu Yuanzhang to raise the butcher knife.
There is no emotion in politics.
Even if Zhu Biao is alive, Zhu Yuanzhang will take action.
Zhu Yuanzhang will never tolerate a dynasty filled with fierce ministers when a wise king reigns.
Xia Zhibai sighed.
The Ming Dynasty will officially enter a period of turmoil.
The king doubts the minister, and the minister fears the king.
It is a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang planned everything for future emperors, but in the end he went to the opposite side.
He crazily slaughtered civil and military officials because he wanted to avoid the situation of "a wise king reigning and a dynasty full of tough ministers". However, in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, there were basically "tough ministers" in power for every generation.
Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system and tried to limit the rights of ministers to ensure the supremacy of imperial power.
The subsequent cabinet was more authoritarian than any previous prime minister.
Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that people were not allowed to move around. However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, refugees became popular and wandered around, and the court could not restrain them at all.
He strictly ordered the eunuchs not to interfere in politics, but the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty were second to none in terms of power.
The so-called "Da Gao" and "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions" were shelved in less than a hundred years and became a pile of waste paper.
Zhu Yuanzhang was too superstitious about power.
So superstitious that as long as you control the power, you can control the world.
Xia Zhibai came back to his senses.
He stopped and looked in the direction of the Ming Palace, his eyes a little deep and dignified.
In today's world, no one who plays power, mind, or politics with Zhu Yuanzhang can be Zhu Yuanzhang's opponent. If you want to truly shake Zhu Yuanzhang's power ideology, you must ultimately follow the truth of how the world operates. .
math!
Hit the snake seven inches.
If you know mathematics, you know it, and if you don’t know it, you don’t know it.
Emperors are no exception.
And Zhu Yuanzhang was particularly poor at arithmetic.
This is the only way Xia Zhibai can think of to break the situation. Now Zhu Yuanzhang has fallen into the trap of power and high pressure, and he cannot listen to ordinary words at all. Only the cold and bone-chilling numbers can wake Zhu Yuanzhang up. Sleeping soul.
"The emperor's career was wasted when the bamboo and silk smoke were sold out, and the Guanhe River was empty and the ancestral dragon's residence was locked up."
"The ashes in the pit were not cold yet, and Shandong was in chaos. Liu Xiang did not study at all."
"I once thought this sentence was a joke, but now I realize that it is realistic."
"It's just that the person who didn't study was not Liu Xiang back then, but the emperor who can't let go of the scroll today."
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Xia Zhibai shook his head.
He looked at the dim road ahead and stepped forward resolutely.
Kyoto Salt Shop.
Fang Mo and others did not dare to rest.
I have been waiting in the store, looking extremely anxious.
They were worried when Xia Zhibai went this time. Zheng Ao clearly had bad intentions this time and was deliberately making things difficult for Xia Zhibai.
With Guo Shilang's arrogance, I'm afraid Xia Zhibai will suffer a lot if he goes there. Moreover, Xia Zhibai is already frivolous and doesn't know how to restrain himself. This time he even dared to sell one hundred taels a pound. The amount of salt will make anyone sweat.
If something happens to Xia Zhibai, it will be a big deal.
Xia Zhibai is the number one scholar.
Thousands of people in the salt industry and coal mines now live their lives pointing to Xia Zhibai.
If something happens to Xia Zhibai, the livelihood of so many people may not be stable.
How can the merchants who have been completely squeezed out of the market give up? Without the 'official' Xia Zhibai standing in front of them, they were just a piece of fat meat on the chopping board. No one dared to touch it, especially after the imperial court took back all the machines, they would have no choice but to be slaughtered.
A group of people were pacing back and forth in the store, and from time to time someone would go to the street to watch.
Finally.
More than half an hour later, Xia Zhibai's figure appeared.
Still carrying the backpack.
The steps are very light.
As if nothing happened.
Fang Mo hurriedly came forward, took the basket on his own initiative, and asked, "Sir, Shilang Guo, are you not making things difficult for you? You're really scaring me to death. If something happens to you, The Kyoto Salt Industry is really going to collapse.”
Xia Zhibai put down his backpack and chuckled: "What have you been worrying about all day?"
"How could Guo Shilang, a dignified third-rank official, be as knowledgeable as me?"
"It's okay. ."
"The salt has been delivered."
"Shilang Guo is very satisfied with this business."
Fang Mo was stunned for a moment, and said dumbfounded: "One hundred taels of salt? Mr. Guo has no objection?"
"This is the special price." Xia Zhibai replied with a half-smile, and he walked inside Tang, not wanting to say more about the matter, asked: "Have the invitations for tomorrow been sent out?"
Fang Mo said quickly: "They have all been sent out."
"In the city Invitations have been sent to more than a hundred restaurants and restaurants, and according to your request, even to the salt merchants in the city. I am afraid that those salt merchants have already received the invitations, and their faces must be very exciting. "
Fang Mo showed a wicked smile.
When Xia Zhibai saw this, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
He didn't deliberately make fun of these salt merchants, he just wanted to call these people over and tell them something.
The family workshop model of the past is no longer feasible in the future.
They have to make changes.
Otherwise, merchants will have no choice but to wait to die if they cannot sell anything.
In fact, industry and commerce in the early Ming Dynasty were still very prosperous, and to some extent they were influenced by the Yuan Dynasty.
The Yuan Dynasty was a relatively mercantile dynasty, and the various khanates occupied all four directions. Therefore, both land and sea trade in the Yuan Dynasty developed vigorously, and industry and commerce also received greater development during this period. Development, although after the war, industry and commerce suffered a certain decline, but after more than ten years of cultivation, it is gradually recovering its vitality.
It’s just that this recovery is temporary.
As Zhu Yuanzhang focused all his energy on dealing with Bei Yuan, in the third, seventh, and fourteenth years of Hongwu, he successively closed down shipping departments in various places, and successively issued orders to prohibit people from coastal areas from communicating with overseas countries. Trade on the Daming Sea was basically interrupted.
The road leading to the Western Region is now controlled by the Mongol Khanate.
In a sense, the Ming Dynasty has actively or passively stopped all business dealings with the outside world.
However, industry and commerce are already in the recovery stage, and normally the impact will not be significant.
Just after having some exchanges with Guo Huan, Xia Zhibai was also suddenly shocked by something. It was this 'Guo Huan case'. In order to raise military pay for the subsequent Northern Expedition, Zhu Yuanzhang basically knew The rich peasants, merchants and landlords all over the world were wiped out.
Without capital and money, private industry and commerce can no longer develop, and whether they can survive is a question.
And Zhu Yuanzhang originally despised businessmen. Now the tax dividends during the recovery period of private industry and commerce will also be wiped clean under this kind of 'big looting'. Private industry and commerce has a low status in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart. In the future, I'm afraid it will completely plummet.
Industrial and commercial development will also directly go backwards.
He originally wanted to take advantage of this excitement to publicize to the merchants in the city, let them broaden their horizons, not be too attached to family workshops, but keep pace with the times, cooperate energetically, and strengthen industry and commerce together. As a result, Now, it's more like keeping a little spark of fire for the industry and commerce that will completely fall into a downturn or even malaise.
Xia Zhibai was also a little bit dumbfounded.
I couldn't help but curse in my heart, the emperor's great achievements were harmful to others.
Xia Zhibai reminded Fang Mo and others about things to pay attention to tomorrow, and asked Fang Mo and others to go down and rest early.
Return to guest room.
Xia Zhibai took off his shirt, sat on a stool, poured himself a cup of herbal tea, and drank while sorting out his thoughts.
How to save the industry and commerce that Ming Dynasty is about to die suddenly.
Think about it.
Xia Zhibai only thought of one way.
Throw money.
But he is really strapped for money now. The salt shop has just started to get on the right track. Coal is still operating at a loss and relies entirely on blood transfusions from the salt industry. The textile industry has not yet been settled. He is now a monkey and can't change. money to bail out the market.
This money can only be borrowed from Zhu Yuanzhang.
It’s just that Lao Zhu’s miser would probably not want to borrow it.
Thought for a long time.
Xia Zhibai took out a piece of paper and listed some things on it. After thinking for a while, he crossed them out one by one.
In the end, only two numbers were left on the paper.
0→1.
Knowledge changes life forever.
In the end, only mathematics is reliable.
It's just ordinary data that can no longer 'tempt' Zhu Yuanzhang.
It takes strong medicine and large doses.
Zhu Yuanzhang must be made to truly realize that his current simple and crude one-size-fits-all approach is wrong, and it is a big mistake.
Of course it is not possible to rely solely on Zhu Yuanzhang.
Merchants also have to save themselves.
(End of this chapter)