What Chen Youliang did really broke the moral bottom line.
It is true that in the long history, there have been dim-witted kings like Chen Youliang. Even wise emperors, there are many who are rhodium and cesium skins, such as Li Shimin, Li Zhi, Li Longji, etc. In the future Qing Dynasty, such deeds will also be
Too many to mention.
However, none of them lived in the same era as Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang. It is not that Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang have a high moral bottom line, but that they rose from humble beginnings and their moral values are more in line with ordinary people's thoughts.
Zhu Han could only use two words to describe Chen Youliang's behavior: disgusting!
But at the same time, Zhu Han also gave Zhu Yuanzhang a thumbs up: "Brother, you can do it. Spies have been stationed in the palace. They can find out such private things. This espionage work is really good."
After being praised by Zhu Han, Zhu Yuanzhang looked very proud, and then said very seriously: "The soldiers and horses have not moved, food and grass go first. In our opinion, intelligence is equally important. When I was reading recently, I saw Han Xin's last stand. A last stand is
It's a big taboo for military strategists. The reason why he dared to do this is because he got accurate information in advance and made corresponding arrangements. Only then did he dare to fight. So before you said to find spies, we agree with this sentence more and more now.
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Zhu Han gave Zhu Yuanzhang a thumbs up. Regarding the things Zhu Yuanzhang did, even though he was a time traveler who had known about it for five hundred years, he had to admire Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang's growth does not need to be mythical. Zhu Yuanzhang was an emperor among the grassroots. In order to avoid being imitated by ambitious people, in the original history, in order to maintain Zhu Yuanzhang's rule and let the world recognize the legitimacy of Zhu Yuanzhang's throne, in
When continuing the family tree of Zhu Yuanzhang, let Zhu Xi become the ancestor of Zhu Yuanzhang, letting the world know that he, Zhu Yuanzhang, is not a grassroots, but that his family has fallen into decline. Then Zhu Yuanzhang inherited the Zhu family's luck and rebuilt the world, so those who want to become emperors should not
Don't make up your mind anymore, there is no Zhu Xi among your ancestors.
However, in this life, Zhu Yuanzhang was not assigned to a non-existent ancestor.
First of all, the power of civil servants is much weaker than in the other world.
Zhu Han took the lead in the charge and directly overthrew the Kong family, the holy place in the hearts of civil servants.
After this incident, the civil servants could no longer resist the imperial power.
As for what the civil servants said, they were worried that ambitious people would imitate Zhu Yuanzhang after learning about his origins. Zhu Yuanzhang did not take it to heart at all. Instead, he laughed: "If some people follow others in rebellion, it is because Zhu Yuanzhang did not let them live a good life."
Today, if a court cannot even let the people live a good life, then what is the meaning of its existence? Let me say, it is better to overthrow such a court as soon as possible! "
Zhu Han agreed with Zhu Yuanzhang's words, but he shocked the other ministers. They looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han in disbelief, secretly thinking that they were serving two people.
Which emperor doesn't want his country to survive for thousands of years? To be passed down from generation to generation?
But when we got to Zhu Yuanzhang, why did it become something else?
They did not seem to care about the longevity of the Ming Dynasty, but believed that if it was not good for the people, the country should be overthrown. In the eyes of many people, Zhu Yuanzhang was an outlier among emperors.
But look at what Zhu Yuanzhang did, he was indeed an outlier. Not only did he conquer the world, but he also conquered the east and west, incorporated all the surrounding small countries into the Ming Dynasty, and continued to expand. He was even crazier than Temujin.
The war maniac.
When Temujin and Kublai Khan were fighting, they conquered through land anyway. Zhu Yuanzhang was even more wild. He not only fought on land, but also on the sea, but he was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he also fought
We have discovered a lot of fertile land that has never been developed, which makes people jealous when they hear about it.
The most important thing is that the population of Ming Dynasty has exceeded 200 million and is still growing. This does not include the indigenous people in some overseas enclaves of Ming Dynasty. If those people are added in, the population of Ming Dynasty is larger than imagined.
Much bigger.
Those who had opposed Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning no longer dared to speak. Their faces were swollen. Who dared to speak anymore? Zhu Yuanzhang was angered and sent them all overseas to teach the indigenous people the Four Books and Five Classics.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang conquered so much land, which is also good for the officials. They don't have to steal, rob, or accept bribes. They only need to invest their wages and coffin capital, and the annual income can increase their income.
Triple it.
Who is willing to accept bribes when you can make a lot of money yourself?
Zhu Yuanzhang now encourages everyone to put their money out for investment. The money earned can clearly explain the origin of the money, and Zhu Yuanzhang cannot label them as 'corrupt officials'.
This kind of business investment can make money without taking risks at all. Who wouldn’t want to participate in such a good thing?
When Zhu Yuanzhang talked about this situation, he was a little sad:
"I didn't expect that in the end we were the ones who saved them from corruption."
This can also be regarded as high salary in disguise.
"Brother, this is normal. The development of Ming Dynasty is subject to this era. After all, rich businessmen now dare not invest money easily for Ming Dynasty. They are worried about being cut off by us as leeks. Those who are rich do not need to worry about being cut off as leeks. Only
These officials at court."
Zhu Han saw it thoroughly and explained to Zhu Yuanzhang: "When businessmen see officials investing money, and some businessmen who know our policies and believe in us are willing to invest in Ming Dynasty, more businessmen in remote areas will also be attracted."
By joining it, their interests will be bound to the Ming Dynasty and become part of the Ming Dynasty's interest groups... Of course, the majority are the common people."
After a pause, Zhu Han continued: "Now there are 200 million registered people in the Ming Dynasty. Each of them takes out a copper plate, which is an astronomical figure. In the process of developing business in the future, they are the main force we need."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. Zhu Han told him that they should guide the people: "But what should these officials do? They started earlier than others and waited for the people to start investing.
By that time, officials had already taken over all walks of life."
"It won't take that long, at most a year, before people will invest in it."
Zhu Han explained with a smile, "As for the court officials, just let them withdraw when the time comes."
Zhu Yuanzhang heard what Zhu Han said so easily, but he didn't agree: "That's easy to say. How could they be willing to withdraw when they saw the money?"
"If you don't withdraw, then go do business."
Zhu Han thought of the famous wave of "going to the sea" in later generations, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother, it is a good thing for the development of the Ming Dynasty that officials go to the sea to do business."
Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, scholars are ranked first. Which of all scholars does not want to enter the court and honor the ancestors?
Business is the most despised industry. How could they be willing to give up their official positions and go into business themselves?
"Why not? It's so easy to do business."
Zhu Han said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "Scholars despise money, but they need it most. Some people take money very seriously, otherwise how could they be greedy for money? Now we give them an opportunity to do business and make money. They
Can you not do it? Brother, as long as we formulate a series of laws and systems to protect the normal operation of business and limit the influence of the bureaucracy on businessmen, there will be people with more flexible minds to do business."
After Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Zhu Han's words, he nodded thoughtfully. Zhu Han was right, but he also raised his own question: "It will probably take a long time to formulate these rules."
"Probably not. After all, the system is not formulated at once. We can formulate it first and then check for deficiencies."
Zhu Han never recognized any of the laws of his ancestors. Some things must be followed and not false, but some things have become dregs and there is no meaning even if they are preserved.
"Take the essence and discard the dross, keep the meaningful and discard the meaningless. Ming Dynasty's national policy is definitely not static!"
Zhu Han didn't want the bad habit of "the laws of the ancestors cannot be changed" to appear in the future.
Why didn’t the Song Dynasty succeed?
Isn't it because Zhao Kuangyin established the rules and then allowed the scholar-bureaucrats to become powerful?
In the future, after the Ming Dynasty conquers the world, a similar situation will definitely occur. The generals will be weak and civilians will govern the world. However, the team of scholar-bureaucrats must become a pure team of scholar-bureaucrats and win over their cronies to stand on the top of the mountain. Zhu Han does not want this situation.
Appear.
"You are right, our Ming Dynasty must be different from Ming Dynasty!"
Zhu Yuanzhang agreed with Zhu Han very much and said to Zhu Han: "Qiwu, what do you say we should do? We will do what you say."
"Continue to develop commerce and develop laws to protect commerce."
Zhu Han looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "We in the Ming Dynasty must establish our own laws to protect the normal business and trade. Only if we have credibility in the hearts of merchants, people, and officials, can our business be successful."
When business is good, it means that the national treasury is enriched. It doesn't take Zhu Han or Zhu Yuanzhang to know this.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Okay, then we know what to do."
"I know what to do too."
The brothers looked at each other like they were playing a riddle, and then they both looked at each other with smiles on their faces.
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With the help of Firuz Shah from the Sultan of Delhi, Lan Yu successfully tricked Chen Youliang once, which was considered a good start in the war to eradicate Chen Youliang and Wang Baobao.
After Chen Youliang learned the news, he cursed Firuzisha and wished he could dig up his ancestors and crush their ashes.
He subconsciously believed that Firuz Shah had already cooperated with Lan Yu.
Lan Yu...is going to attack him!
Chen Youliang did not have the courage to resist the Ming Dynasty and began to flee after learning the news. Lan Yu did not continue the pursuit after learning that Chen Youliang had escaped. Instead, he sent troops into Delhi Sultan to meet with Firuz Shah.
When Firuzsha saw Lan Yu, he was trembling with fear.
You must know that Firuz Shah wanted to cooperate with Chen Youliang at the very beginning. After all, the enemies in his eyes were the Brahmin nobles. After Chen Youliang cooperated with the Brahmin, Firuz Shah sent many people to see Chen Youliang.
He asked him to turn his gun and attack the Brahmin nobles, but Chen Youliang never received a response.
However, Firuz Shah was not discouraged, and still wanted to cooperate with Chen Youliang. This time he really got a response. He sent Chen Youren and Zou Pusheng to meet Firuz Shah, but he did not expect that these two people came to Delhi Sultan not to cooperate.
They wanted to take his life. If Lan Yu hadn't appeared in time, Firuzisha would have been a prisoner of Chen Youren and Zou Pusheng.
Chen Youliang suddenly betrayed him and almost killed the Sultan of Delhi. Firuz Shah did not expect that his life was saved by Lan Yu.
He also saw the intimidating power of the Ming Dynasty's army. In his mind, Chen Youliang's men were already invincible, but he never imagined that there was an even more invincible army.
Seeing the majesty of Ming Dynasty's army, Firuzisha felt very uneasy. After all, he wanted to cooperate with Chen Youliang before. If Ming Dynasty's army knew about it, would Ming Dynasty deal with him?
However, Firuzisha had to appear. The Ming Dynasty had already surrounded his royal city, and he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.
There is no way to retreat, you can only face it.
Firuz Shah stood outside the royal city, quietly welcoming the arrival of the Ming army.
At this time, he was extremely fearful because he was worried that he would be killed by Lan Yu, but when he saw Lan Yu, he saw the smile on Lan Yu's face.
Is he laughing?
Are you looking down on me, or are you giving me a sincere smile?
Firuz Shah did not dare to speak, but Lan Yu looked very polite: "Hello, King of Delhi Sultan, I am a general sent to India by His Majesty the Ming Emperor to eliminate the Han traitor Chen Youliang for you, and at the same time spread the friendship from the Ming Dynasty
Come to India."
I have to say that Lan Yu has really grown up. If he had been replaced by the previous Lan Yu, he would have cut off Firuz Shah's head and then went to enjoy the throne in the palace of the Sultan of Delhi. He can say this hypocritically
His sanctimonious words are enough to show the changes he has brought about.
Perhaps Lan Yu also knew that this was not what he wanted to do, but reality had to force him to do so.
Lan Yu kept talking about friendship from the Ming Dynasty. The Sultan of Delhi and the Ming Dynasty were separated by water and were very friendly neighbors. This time he came to Firuz Shah and also brought gifts from the Ming Dynasty.
Tea, silk, porcelain, all the oriental luxuries that Firuz Shah considered, Sapphire brought them.
Firuzisha was still very nervous at first, but he didn't expect Lan Yu to be so easy to talk to. Then look at Chen Youliang...hetui! Disgusting!
How to prevent Lan Yu and Daming people from hating themselves?
What Firouz Shah thought of was: money!
After Sapphire arrived, Firuzsha directly sent a large amount of gold to thank Sapphire for helping him.
Gold, glittering gold everywhere.
Lan Yu's eyes also narrowed. It can be seen that the Sultan of Delhi also has a lot of gold. Looking at the palace's splendid appearance... Although there is a smell of copper inside and outside, Lan Yu feels that this place is more beautiful.
It suits him, Lan Yu thought happily: "From now on, I will apply to His Majesty the King of England. I don't want any title. Just build me a golden house!"
In fact, there is no shortage of gold in the Central Plains. Even in ancient times, gold was the main currency. But later, a lot of gold was brought to the tombs of rich and noble families. Whose family lived better, and the gold and silver treasures were placed there.
The more people there are, this is why tomb robbers are rampant in the Central Plains.
After all, it is a dead man's business. No matter how you do it, it is a business without capital. If you dig it out, you can enjoy the blessings for several lifetimes. Who is not willing to take risks?
