Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 196

"Father, what do you mean..." Zhu Biao couldn't help being happy when he heard this.

"You mean, let your son save the criminals in the prison?"

"Naturally, we have to distinguish between serious and serious." Old Zhu said. "Those who haven't committed crimes, and those who have committed minor crimes, will naturally ask you to show mercy."

"We don't have to be a tyrant. We don't want to be a tyrant in our Ming Dynasty. We can have fewer rebellious officials and thieves. The descendants of our old Zhu family don't have to hang themselves on that mountain of coal anymore?"

"We have considered the four major cases among the old five, and we have thought about them carefully. One is that Hu Weiyong and Guo Huan, the corrupt officials and thieves, really made us angry."

"You know, your grandparents were forced to die by those corrupt officials and tax collectors in the former Yuan Dynasty!"

"If we really see that Daming is also a corrupt official, we will definitely not be able to suppress the anger in our hearts!"

"Boss, you must always remember that the people are the foundation of my Ming Dynasty! On weekdays, the people seem to be submissive, and they are far less eloquent than those officials who show their eyes in the court and dance in front of us every day." step."

"But our Zhu family, we must be open-minded. Officials are actually not worried about no one doing it. How many people have been cut down, there are people rushing to do it! We set off four big crimes and killed tens of thousands of officials. Daming didn't have any." Turned upside down?"

"But if the hearts of the people are completely gone, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will be born in the world!"

"You shouldn't just look at the officials in the court. There are no truly wise emperors in the court!"

"We should go more among the people and among the people. Only by personally understanding the conditions of the people can we not be fooled by those officials."

When Lao Zhu talked about his parents, even though he is now the Ninth Five-Year Senior, his eyes still couldn't hide the sadness and indignation. It was obvious that the blow to him was extremely serious that year.Zhu Biao also looked solemn.What Lao Zhu said was the golden and jaded words he had realized from the bottom all the way, and Zhu Biao hurriedly handed over his hands and listened to the training.

Zhu Su couldn't help but nodded.Lao Zhu's words are similar to the phrase "come from the masses, go to the masses".

Speaking of which, it is also recorded in the history books that the crown prince Zhu Biao has visited Beijing many times. Even before the princes took over the feudal domain, Lao Zhu would order the princes who are about to assume the feudal domain to go to Fengyang, the central capital, to practice for a period of time.Come to think of it, this is because Lao Zhu wanted to teach his sons this truth.

"Secondly, the situation at that time really required that." Old Zhu continued. "According to Lao Wu's description, we estimate that it was a few years later that we really made up our minds to depose the Zhongshu Ministry and the prime minister system."

"At that time, we didn't have any advice from the fifth generation, and we didn't set up a cabinet to give the government a back-up. Hu Weiyong was intertwined in the government and the opposition. If we didn't want to punish him, how could we uproot Hu Weiyong's party and let them completely cut off Have you thought about it?"

"If you're not ruthless enough, when you, Biao'er, or even the kings of later generations are in power, they will rely on their mouths to restore the prime minister system by citing scriptures!"

Zhu Biao pursed his lips, knowing that his father was right.If he, the founding emperor, did not act resolutely enough in this matter, if there is someone who is soft-hearted in future generations, the system of prime ministers will inevitably be revived.

After all, the prime minister system has been in this land for thousands of years, how could it be so easy to completely dissipate?Even if Zhu Biao was not persuaded, there is no guarantee that future generations of kings will not be deceived by those literati and bureaucrats and resume the prime minister system.

And even in history, the literati still did not give up their efforts to seize power with the king and let the king "grow the arch and rule the world".Isn't the cabinet in the middle and late Ming Dynasty just a Zhongshu province and prime minister system with a different name?
Even a benevolent person like Zhu Biao has to admit that it is indeed necessary for Lao Zhu to clean up the officialdom under such circumstances.

"When it comes to the Lanyu case, you and your mother, Biao'er, are... both gone." Even if it was just talking about it, Lao Zhu's voice still trembled when he mentioned it. "We are impatient, but on weekdays, you two are always persuading me."

"If the two of you are gone, what else can we worry about at that time?"

"In order for our grandson to sit securely, is there anyone in the world that we dare not kill?"

Perhaps it was substituted for the state of mind of Zhu Yuanzhang in his later years during the period of bereavement of his wife and children, the old Zhu's voice could not restrain the desolation and murderous intent.

"Father, father, my son knows your old intentions." Zhu Biao was very moved. "My son shouldn't blame you for being tyrannical in my heart. If you explain it to him and explain it to him, how can your son not know your painstaking efforts?"

"As long as you know." Old Zhu patted Zhu Biao's hand. "We do all this in the hope that in the future, we can safely hand over this burden to you!"

Zhu Biao's face was reddish, but he nodded heavily.

"Father, what are you going to do next?" It was Zhu Su who spoke, interrupting the atmosphere of fatherly love and filial piety between Lao Zhu and his elder brother.After he killed Zhu Xian, he had already made a feud with Yongjia Hou Zhu Liangzu. If his father didn't help him out and let his elder brother protect him, wouldn't he have to take a detour when he saw Zhu Liangzu?

After all, a prince with real power, in real terms, is completely worthy of a prince like himself who only has a name for the time being.

"Although we said that before, we don't run philanthropic halls." Old Zhu sneered. "This time, Hu Weiyong was pulled out, but a lot of rotten smells were brought out. Do we have to hold our noses and let go of these?"

"Lu Zhongheng and Zhu Liangzu...huh, they gathered around Hu Weiyong, and they complained about us. Do you really think you are enough to be a prince and a king?"

"Regardless of officials and nobles, we have to really kill a group of them, so that those guys know what it means to be afraid! We see that the method of 'skinning and filling grass' mentioned by the fifth child is good. It is said that we came up with it later? "

"There is indeed a bit of our ruthlessness..."

In the middle of the speech, I suddenly remembered something, and turned to look at Zhu Biao: "Biaoer, you have to stay behind closed doors in the mansion for a while. We have to take advantage of this momentum to abolish the Prime Minister of Zhongshu Province, and put The cabinet will be launched."

"Some stupid officials opposed the abolition of the prime minister system, so they just used Hu Weiyong's name to talk about it, and put them in the imperial prison, saving us from making noises in our ears all day long!"

Zhu Su couldn't help laughing. Old Zhu wanted to "silence" all the opposing voices first!When they come out of the imperial prison later, the prime minister system has been abolished, and the cabinet has become a general trend.

Zhu Biao also shook his head, as if he felt that his father's acting like this was really child's play.But at this time, he was no longer the dumb-headed young man he used to be, and this method was indeed a good way to abolish the prime minister and preserve those old-fashioned and upright officials, so he nodded and agreed to Lao Zhu.

(End of this chapter)