My Daming New Empire

It is not terrible to be a civil servant who is not monolithic.Suppress a group, win over a group, and support a group.Then divide them, divide and conquer.

In the end, they will find that the gap between them is difficult to integrate, and they have no strength to compete with the imperial power, so they can only cling to the imperial power honestly. "

Zhu Di admired Zhu Zhanji's self-confidence very much, and said with a happy smile: "It's a very simple thing, but you insist on making it so complicated, why?"

"It's very simple, grandson is lazy! In order to enjoy more blessings in the future, do more now. Half of what I said to Yang Shiqi and the others today is also my grandson's truth.

It is not what grandson wants to be emperor like Gao Zu, and it is not what grandson wants to be emperor like Grandpa Huang.

Moreover, who can guarantee that the descendants of Zhu's family will be like Gaozu, able to be as capable as Grandpa Huang?If there are a few foolish kings, wouldn't the Zhu family's country be doomed?So also take precautions.

If the grandson's plan is fully realized, the subsequent small court meetings can be cancelled, and only two major court meetings per month are enough.

It is easy to be the emperor, and the ministers have no possibility of covering the sky with one hand, is this not good? "

After reading some court reform plans written by Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Di was not surprised by what Zhu Zhanji said.

Because although that plan is a bit shocking, if it is really fully realized, it will be really easy to be the emperor.

He neither worried about the fall of power, nor worried that the powerful ministers could cover the sky with one hand, nor worried that the emperor's ability was not enough.

The imperial court is no longer one imperial court, but four imperial courts each performing their duties. Each party cannot be the only one. Even if it is an extremely powerful minister, it can only manage a set of affairs within its own authority and cannot intervene in other departments.

The four families restrict each other, and after a long time, they will naturally split. After the split, it will be difficult to restore the hearts of the people.

Moreover, when the selection of talents by the imperial court has changed from general talents to specialists, anyone can be an excellent minister in their own position, so why bother to merge with other departments?

Even if a person wants to, there is nothing he can do without support.

Zhu Di shook his head and smiled and said, "You are a rebellious son, and you don't care about your ancestors or legal system at all."

Zhu Zhanji also shook his head and said: "Grandpa, the literati can talk about Confucianism, but the emperor can't, because Confucianism is for the common people to listen to the emperor's words. The literati can talk about the legal system, but the emperor can't, because the legal system is to restrict civil and military ministers." And ordinary people. It doesn’t make sense that I am the biggest in the world, but I want to limit myself.”

Zhu Di slapped his thigh and sat up. "Well said, that's how it should be!"

Excited for a while, he sighed again: "You should talk to your father about this, and let him understand the truth of being an emperor."

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said: "This is your business, where in the world is there a son who taught me a lesson!"

Zhu Di still had some worries in his heart, fearing that Zhu Zhanji played too much and couldn't stop playing, and it would be difficult to clean up the mess.Seeing his full confidence now, I felt a little more at ease.

His heart also became more determined to send Zhu Gaochi out, and he could not let this son stay in the capital to restrain his grandson.

The purpose of his coming to Zhu Zhanji was not for this matter. Anyway, after the implementation of this set of rules of procedure, it was like a noose, slowly tightening the necks of civil servants. The harder they struggle, the tighter they will find .

Knowing the signs of changes in the attitudes of civil servants, he wants to discuss the affairs of the Western Expedition with Zhu Zhanji, which is what he cares most about now.

Zhu Zhanji went to the north with him and personally went into battle to kill the enemy.Later, he personally presided over the affairs of the Eastern Expedition, which was handled very properly.

As a coach, you can't do everything that the generals do, it will make them not know what to do.You can't just ignore everything and let those soldiers get out of control.

It is precisely because Zhu Zhanji served as a coach very well that Zhu Di saw his military talent.

So he is willing to discuss with Zhu Zhanji before things are settled.

"Zhan Ji, I still remember the idea of ​​the Western Expedition, which was provoked by you. It has been three years, and now I am almost ready. I will go to the expedition in March next year at the latest. You have been to the Timurid Kingdom, Do you have any suggestions?"

Zhu Di's legs are not good. After studying the geographical location of the Timur Kingdom, he decided to personally lead the South Army to cross by sea.However, he has not announced who the coach of the North Route Army is. At present, Liu Sheng, who is second only to Zhang Fu, is the most vocal.

Since you want to go by sea, you must catch the monsoon, so as to save time.

Otherwise, after March, when the north wind stops and the south wind changes, the army will have to spend twice as long on the sea, and the consumption will also increase a lot.

Zhu Zhanji also sat up straight, turned his thoughts in a few seconds, pondered for a while and said: "At present, I have more than 20 firearms and more than [-] artillery pieces. I mainly rely on cold weapons to deal with Timur Kingdom. of……"

"What is a cold weapon?"

Zhu Zhanji smiled, and he inadvertently popped out the nouns of later generations, but this is a small section, and he doesn't care at all.

"After gunpowder was used in weapons, my grandson categorized weapons. The swords and spears in the past, those that didn't use gunpowder, were all cold weapons. Those that used gunpowder were hot weapons."

Zhu Di nodded. "You continue to say..."

"Although the Timurid Kingdom has muskets, their muskets are similar to the muskets of Europa brought back by their grandson. Not only are they not powerful, they have a short range, and they are scarce. For them, the range of muskets is not as good as that of their hard bows. Far.

Therefore, I am sure to win this battle!But what kind of goal you want to achieve, and to what extent you want to end this war, still depends on Grandpa Huang. "

Zhu Di said: "I have no intention of destroying the country. As long as they surrender, they can withdraw their troops."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Then the strategic significance is for conquest, not occupation, so we don't need to care how much local hatred and losses are."

But Zhu Di hesitated, and said: "If we can occupy it, we can still garrison..."

Zhu Zhanji was a little speechless.

He supported this costly war not because he could take back countless treasures from Timur.Even if it is to evacuate Samarkand, it is not as big as Daming's effort.

In the past three years, Daming had invested more than ten million taels of silver in preparing for this war, and the investment specifically for the Western Expedition also exceeded five million taels.

This does not include the losses of the tens of thousands of people who were off-duty for training, nor the indirect losses of those peasants who delayed farming.

Since there is no profit, why fight?The main reason is to display the national aura of the Ming Dynasty and create an invincible image of the Ming Dynasty all over the world.

The backbone of a nation is neither spoken nor won by earning countless silver coins.

Although Ming is now invincible, it is still limited to East Asia and South Asia, and its influence on the entire world civilization is still very limited.

In later generations, the history textbooks of many countries did not recognize the spread of Eastern civilization, or even the influence of the Han nationality in the world.

They listed seven empires that influenced the course of world history. Except for the Mongol and Yuan Empires, they recognized them. In the entire 5000-year history of civilization, they did not recognize other dynasties.

And some small countries, who ruled a little bigger place, were all included by them.

Because there are two important factors in it, one is the power of cultural transmission, and the other is the history of conquest.

In terms of cultural transmission, except for Japan, North Korea, and northern Vietnam, our characters have not even spread to the Philippines and Cambodia, which are close at hand.

Our inventions are said to have benefited the world, but they were all spread through other nations.For example, some countries in the Western Regions, such as Mongolia and Yuan.

But the Arabs, who had long been occupied by alien races, were excluded because they spread their writing and their inventions to all parts of the world.

Let's talk about the history of conquest.Qinghai-Tibet in Central Asia and the plateau and desert in the northwest separate the East from the world.Except for the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties that fought all the way to Europe, the armies of other dynasties have never gone out of the country, let alone conquered other regions.

Therefore, no matter how large the Han population is, no matter how large the territory of the Han people is, many people believe that Han culture is only a regional culture, not a world culture.

Of course Zhu Zhanji doesn't agree with this ranking, but there are some places where there is nothing to say.

So in this era, he is going to Europe.