First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Zhu Biao put down his teacup and said to Li Shanchang seriously: It doesn't matter if you push Hu Weiyong to the stage. After all, the emperor also likes this person very much, but after Li Xiang retires, you should stay away from him and don't have any more contact with him.

Li Shanchang was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly thought of the topic discussed with the prince last time, and thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's character.

Li Shanchang stood up and bowed to Zhu Biao: Old minister, I would like to thank His Royal Highness for your advice. It is almost impossible to be safe at the end of the day.

Zhu Biao stretched out his hands and said, It's good that Li Xiang understands, you have worked hard all your life, why worry about it, after returning home, you will have glory and wealth waiting for you.

Li Shanchang is a sensible person, Xiao He needs to defile himself in order to protect himself, not to mention Li Shanchang, if a person wants to stand in the world, he has to be shrewd.

However, shrewdness and skills vary from person to place, and sometimes you can't be too smart. It is not uncommon for such people to be misunderstood by their cleverness; there are too many people in the history books who are too upright and win the hearts of the people and lead to death.

Don't show off your intelligence when dealing with people. When necessary, you should not only attribute your intelligence to others, but also be good at self-destructive image, showing an appearance of great wisdom is like a fool. I would rather suffer a little loss at that time, or be reviled by others, but also protect myself, so as not to cause trouble to my upper body.

Li Shanchang sighed in his heart, it seems that after retiring, he will have to take a few concubines.

Zhu Biao looked at him and said with relief: Li Qi is not bad, and I heard that he has made a lot of progress in learning, so let him follow me to Shanxi to deal with the emigration.

Li Shanchang hastened to express his gratitude. This meant that the prince was ready to accept Li Qi as a subject of the East Palace. This was a great kindness to the Li family.

After Li Shanchang had a solid mind, he said: General Huaixi has many good seedlings in his family, and they will all be His Highness's servants in the future. Why don't we bring them here this time.

Zhu Biao smiled, talking to smart people is easy, he expressed his goodwill to protect the entire Li family, Li Shanchang should reciprocate, Zhu Biao is not young now, and he should have a group of real people.

Zhu Biao, a group of scholars, felt that there was no one with great potential among them, so he could only turn his attention to the noble children.

Huaixi nobles must be suppressed, and it is necessary to eliminate a group of restless ones, but those that are still must be kept.

How could Zhu Biao not know that if the nobles are suppressed, the civil officials will easily lose their checks and balances. Isn't the Song Dynasty a system of using literature to pursue military affairs, which led to a series of consequences.

The Ming Dynasty in history was not because of the system, because Zhu Yuanzhang’s founding of the country and Zhu Di’s peace, plus a series of foreign wars, these wars gave birth to a large number of famous generals and meritorious families. is more influential.

If it develops normally, the influence of the generals group will gradually decline, and the influence of civilian officials will gradually increase, but this change will only be subtle.

With the stability of the government and the reduction of wars, generals will inevitably face the problem of a reduction in the right to speak. After all, governing the world still depends on the rule of law, and the decision-making power for war will gradually be transferred to the hands of civilian officials. This is the general trend.

However, the status of military generals in the Ming Dynasty has not been weakened too much. After all, the lessons of the Song Dynasty are in front of us. The previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty raised honorable nobles. Not afraid of the civil servants, the two sides just check and balance each other, until it happened - the Civil Fortress Change.

The civil fort change directly led to the death of a large number of elite troops, including dozens of military generals including the veteran of the four dynasties and the famous general Zhang Fu, and the group of generals suffered heavy losses.

The subsequent defense of Beijing was completed under the command of the civilian officials headed by Yu Qian, and it was a success. This directly led to the popularity of the civil official group. Who said that we will not fight wars.

However, after the generals group experienced Jing Nan's reshuffle and the impact of the Civil Fort Change, its influence has declined greatly.

Afterwards, there were many phenomena where military generals led the army and civil servants were commanders. For example, Wang Yangming put down the rebellion of King Ning, and Hu Zongxian wiped out Japanese pirates. All of these have intensified the further closeness of the war decision-making power to civilian officials.

Later, when a second-rank military general met a seventh-rank civil servant, he often had to dismount first and bow to avoid it. Prince Shaobao Qi Jiguang wrote a letter to Zhang Juzheng, a civil servant of the same rank, to call himself a running dog.

Civil and military injustice is definitely not a good thing. Zhu Biao can tolerate civil servants being half a rank higher than military officials. After all, the threat of rebellion by military officials is far greater than that of civil officials. Necessary weakening is necessary, and this is also their protection.

But like in history, it doesn’t work. There is no way out for a military officer, so who wants to join the army and serve the country? Everyone just needs to take the imperial examination.

Moreover, Zhu Biao intends to set up a cabinet as the goal of civil servants, so military generals must also have an organization similar to the Military Aircraft Department, where civil and military affairs are separated and do not interfere with each other, and the conflicts between them are regulated by the emperor.

Martial arts should also be carried out, so as to give the common people another way out. If reading the Four Books and Five Classics is not enough, practicing martial arts and military tactics can also be used to honor the ancestors, and in the future, the generals and soldiers in the army will be allowed to refer to it.

Zhu Biao nodded and said: It's just that Li Xiang also knows that I seldom go out of the palace, and I don't know too well the children of those generals. Can I ask Li Xiang to recommend it.

The selection of the team is not something that can be chosen casually. If their father and brother have bad brains, they will inevitably be implicated in the future. Zhu Biao doesn't want to waste his energy on cultivating people who are going to die.

Zhu Biao's status is too high, even if it is Huaixi nobles, only those big bosses can make him pay attention, and Zhu Biao doesn't know the behavior of the rest of the people. Li Shanchang, as the leader of Huaixi, naturally knows best of.

Li Shanchang stroked his beard and thought for a while. The current situation is quite complicated. Hu Weiyong has already taken over many of his connections, and he has become brothers and sisters with some of the generals. Recommended to His Highness.

Li Shanchang finally mentioned more than ten names, including some families with lower titles but loyal family members. These people are similar to Ma Nanshan, and their brains are not bright, but they are all willing to die for the Zhu family.

Zhu Biao nodded in satisfaction, Li Shanchang recommended all his favorites, which meant that he was really good.

While the two were talking, Liu Jintong's voice came from outside. It turned out that it was Hu Weiyong who came to see Li Shanchang, but he didn't expect Zhu Biao to be here.

Li Shanchang looked at him, Zhu Biao nodded, and Li Shanchang said loudly: Let Hu Weiyong come in to meet the prince.

Liu Jin outside agreed as soon as he heard it, and he also knew that without Zhu Biao's signal, the prime minister could not make the decision.

After a while Hu Weiyong came in, tidied up his clothes and immediately bowed to Zhu Biao: I see His Royal Highness, Your Highness Qianqiu.

Zhu Biao didn't ask him to get up immediately, but said: Just now when I passed by the Palace, I heard you arguing with Yang Xian. You are both important officials of the imperial court, how decent it is in public!

Hu Weiyong didn't make excuses, and immediately bowed his head and said, I'm guilty, please punish me, Your Highness.

Zhu Biao nodded in satisfaction. If Hu Weiyong told him the right and wrong of this matter, Zhu Biao would be disappointed.

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