Chapter 465 The desire to be emperor does not exist at all
Chapter 465 There is no desire to be an emperor at all
Author: East Zhejiang Pifu
Chapter 465 There is no desire to be an emperor at all
As a pseudo-pure emperor, Hauge certainly could not neglect his trial. All the questions that should be asked were asked. Even if everything was expedited, it took more than ten days.
Finally, on October 18th of the 10th year of Longwu, Hauge was finally clarified of all his crimes. The charges alone were written in many pages. There were also many high-level officials of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty who were dead and could not be tried. They were also detained during the period. Let’s give a conclusion.
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On the day the verdict was announced, Hauge was escorted to Lingchi outside Chengtian Gate, and his close relatives who were captured with him were also Lingchi, but each had a different number of swords.
The number of knives Hauge endured was naturally the most since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, far more than the previous typical traitors. However, it was still impossible to achieve 10,000 knives, as executioners were not that good at craftsmanship.
It's just a symbolic breaking of the historical record to ensure the maximum number. In fact, the specific numbers are of little significance.
Even Hauge's concubines and women were sentenced to death in half to show that the Ming Dynasty was a civilized country and a country of etiquette, and would never again engage in the barbarian behavior of "killing their husbands and taking possession of their wives."
And anyway, Hauge’s concubines were all Manchus. The upper-level officials of the Qing Dynasty in this era did not have the habit of seizing Han women as concubines. Hauge was a typical person who rejected the Sinicization faction. Therefore, such punishment would not hurt the forced ones.
Innocent compatriots.
The only thing that Haug was lucky about before his death was that he could actually see his women being chopped in half in front of his eyes, watching them die first to ensure that they would not be humiliated.
This made his original deep-seated hatred for Zhu Shuren fade a little. He knew that Zhu Shuren only had a clan dispute with him, not personal enmity, and did not bother to humiliate him.
When he was dying, Haug just felt that it was too ironic and laughed wildly, as if he was crazy:
"Haha, I snatched it back and forth. In the end, I only became emperor for a year, but I snatched Lingchi from my ninth brother. It's really ironic. If I had known that I would not be able to do this, I would let my ninth brother become the king of complete subjugation.
My brother will be totally embarrassed to see the late Emperor when he is under Jiuquan!"
But there is no regret medicine in the world. I can only say that the opportunity to become an emperor is too tempting, and even people with a little less self-control can't resist it.
Even if he is only emperor for one year, even if he only controls one province, he still puts people on the line for Ling Chi after his death, which really makes future generations sigh.
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The execution lasted for three days from October 18th to 20th. Finally, all the heads were sent to the Ancestral Temple to worship the ancestors, and the ceremony was held by the Ministry of Rites for several days before the work was completed.
At this point, the grievances between the Ming and Qing Dynasties were finally completely settled.
Emperor Longwu held a banquet for his officials in the Forbidden City, and the whole world celebrated together. He also formally rewarded meritorious service in civil and military affairs, and gave out countless gold, silver, wealth and silk.
When Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, he granted the title of Six Dukes and Twenty-eight Marquises. When Zhu Di usurped the throne, he also granted a bunch more titles.
This time, Zhu Changzi will definitely seal a little less than Zhu Yuanzhang. The main reason is that Zhu Shuren also considered that the Ming Dynasty's expansion has not yet completely ended, and it will be difficult to control and worthless if there are too many seals now.
The final result of the trade-off was that a total of four dukes and sixteen marquises were granted, and a total of twenty people became dukes for their role in destroying the Qing Dynasty.
Zhu Shuren himself has already been granted the title of king, and he cannot be promoted and does not need to be promoted.
Among the four dukes, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong are considered to have the highest military merit among the generals. Cao Bianjiao is the Duke of Dai, and Huang Degong is the Duke of Liao.
These people will later be used as important ministers to pacify the border areas, and implement local management policies in the newly occupied border areas that are different from those in the mainland. However, they will not be hereditary, and when their generation dies of old age, there will be no similar establishment in the future.
It is a temporary position, so there is no need to worry about becoming a vassal town like Jiedushi. It is just a temporary special task.
Although the Ming Dynasty used culture to control military power, such general forces did not appear before. The Li Chengliang family in Liaodong and the Wu Sangui family in western Liaoning are both negative examples.
Now Zhu Shuren is still much younger than these two military generals with the highest military merits. Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong's life span will definitely be far longer than Zhu Shuren's, so they can't make trouble. After they pass away, Zhu Shuren can still make adjustments himself.
Cao Bianjiao will be placed outside the customs of Datong and Zhangjiakou. In the next ten years, he will be fully responsible for the integration of Chahar, Horqin and Ordos, supervise border trade, and crack down on prohibited traitor merchants.
Huang Degong stayed in Jilin, performing duties similar to the original Jilin generals of the Qing Dynasty, and engaged in land reclamation under militarized management of the local areas. This was equivalent to organizing the Ming Dynasty version of "Breaking into the Guandong", developing the Songnen Plain, and to a certain extent, alleviating the situation within the Guan.
Population growth pressure after long-term peace in the future.
The farming area of the Northeast Plain is larger than that of North China. As long as the Great Northern Wilderness is reclaimed, the Ming Dynasty's population will double and the population will not be without food. Huang Degong's ancestral home is a native of Liaodong, so if he is sent to Jilin, he will not have to leave his hometown too much.
Far from being accustomed to the local environment.
Zhu Shuren also took this into consideration before arranging the military garrison area with Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong. Who knew that Cao Bianjiao was from Shanxi and Huang Degong was from Liaodong?
Except for the two generals who have the highest merits, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong, the other two princes naturally have to be left to the civil servants.
There is no way, the Ming Dynasty system is there, and it still emphasizes civility more than military affairs. The central government is responsible for the central deployment and coordination of resources, and the credit is also very important, but it is not as obvious as the front line.
In the end, of course, Shi Kefa, the chief assistant of the cabinet, was granted the title of Duke of Liang, and Shen Tingyang, the second assistant of the cabinet, was granted the title of Duke of Korea.
In any case, Shen Tingyang also contributed so much money, and his son couldn't be promoted for his meritorious service, so there was no problem in giving him the title of Duke.
In this way, Zhu Shuren's second son, the bastard named Huishen whom Fang Ziling gave birth to, will be able to inherit the title of a Duke in the future and will not have to be a marquis for the rest of his life.
Zhu Shuren's first three sons were an emperor, a king and a duke, so no one would suffer too much.
After the four great princes, among the sixteen marquises, Li Fuming, Zhu Wenzhen and others were ranked high, followed by Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo, etc. There is no need to go into details one by one.
For these marquises, Zhu Shuren also found something for them to do. In the future, they can also attack other enemy countries with friction around them. Especially Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo are still young, and they will have many opportunities to make contributions in this life.
Maybe when they are forty or fifty years old, they will eventually be able to accumulate merit and be promoted to the rank of Duke. That is a story for another day.
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After getting the reward promotion, a few days later, Zhu Changzi held another private banquet in the inner palace. This time, he was alone with his son-in-law and daughter, enjoying family happiness, talking freely, listening to his son-in-law's thoughts, and seeing what the future of the Ming Dynasty had in store.
There is nothing in martial arts that needs to be checked and filled.
"I didn't expect that our Ming Dynasty would be able to completely quell the internal and external rebellion, expand the northern frontier to the annihilation of Manchu and Mongolia. This achievement has surpassed that of Taizu and Chengzu. It was actually possible to turn the world around in twenty years when the Ming Dynasty was extremely ill. It's really
An unprecedented achievement.
I am so virtuous and capable, I feel really ashamed when I think about it. You take the world as your responsibility and do not care about your own fame, even though the ancient sages and sages are beyond your reach."
In the Wenhua Hall, Zhu Changzi had a few drinks with his son-in-law, and he couldn't help but sigh. To be honest, he felt that even if his son-in-law usurped the throne, he would be regarded as "a virtuous person."
In ancient times, those Taizus who changed dynasties probably did not have as much merit as Zhu Shuren.
Zhu Shuren didn't take it seriously and signaled to Zhu Changzi not to worry.
It seems that in order to completely dispel the other party's inner worries and make the other party realize the fundamental reason why he could not steal the throne from Ming Dynasty, Zhu Shuren rarely stepped back and prepared to open the skylight and say a few bright words.
With his current authority, he has accomplished a great job and is qualified to say such things.
"Does my father think that those who have claimed the title of emperor and founded the country since ancient times are all talented people? From the perspective of my ministers, seven or eight times out of ten, they are just ignorant and blind followers, and do not even know what they want.
When Zhao Kuangyin released his military power, he once said: Being the emperor for one year is not as happy as being a military envoy. Just because of the position of emperor, who is ignorant and does not want to try?
I believe that Zhao Kuangyin's words are quite sincere. When he was wearing a yellow robe, he had little education and knowledge of history. He was confused and did not understand. He followed others' opinions and dug his own grave.
During the period of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, there were some people who served as military envoys for decades and were rich and noble for several generations. There were more than a dozen families whose wealth, clothing, food, authority, and appearance were no less than those of the emperor.
As for the size of the power of enjoyment, it actually doesn't matter. One government's surplus grain and taxes are enough to support a clan, which is enough to indulge in extravagance and lust. Why do 400 states need to support a clan?
Those who were sent by the emperor were nothing more than Jiedushi, and there was a risk of being attacked and destroyed by others. After all, there was a sharp knife hanging over their heads. If you don't destroy others, you may be destroyed by others.
If this point can be solved well, there is no need to worry about being attacked and destroyed. For example, the Qian family, the king of Wuyue at that time, had three generations and five kings, and had continuous wealth and honor. Isn't it much better than the fate of the emperor of the five generations?
If Liu Zhiyuan and Guo Wei could serve as Jiedushi all their lives, not provoking, keeping a low profile, not fighting for power, and not becoming an emperor, they might be able to be like the three generations and five kings of the Qian family, who maintained a stable and separatist regime for eighty years in troubled times, but they took the step of becoming an emperor.
At that step, in the end, the family only prospered for three to five years, ten to eight years, and then collapsed.
If you become a military governor, you can retire safely, and your descendants will not be exterminated. But if you become an emperor and want to retreat, if you are destroyed by force, your descendants will have no survivors.
After a change of dynasty, the new emperor, unless he is pretending to abdicate, can still keep the previous dynasty's subjugated king alive for one or two generations. If the country is destroyed by force, it must be absolutely inhumane.
In contrast, the descendants of the Qian family of Wuyue King survived in much better circumstances than the descendants of the Zhao family. Just because they did not take that step, they kept their titles when the Zhao and Song Dynasties existed. When the Zhao and Song Dynasties died, Qian
The Zhao family does not have to live with the country like the Zhao family.
Therefore, at that point, unless the emperor himself has too much power and wants to kill decisively and carve up the world, the only advantage of the emperor over the feudal lords is that the emperor does not have to worry about someone with more power above him to deal with you at any time.
But there is still some uncertainty hanging over the feudal town.
If someone can eliminate this uncertainty, so that he does not have to be an emperor, and does not have to worry about himself and his descendants being liquidated, then what is the difference between being an emperor and not being an emperor? Even if he is not an emperor, he can still be the emperor hundreds of years later.
A less bloody exit.
It's just that 90% of the founding kings in the world were more than capable of military prowess but insufficient in civility. They couldn't understand this reason, and eventually they turned from the masters of the imperial power to the slaves of the imperial power - the imperial power was only used to realize personal ambitions or ensure the safety of the family.
The means are not the end in itself.
If you forget to think about what the imperial power can be used for, whether these uses are what you need, and blindly pursue the imperial power itself, then you are ignoring the essentials and considering the ends, and treating the means as the ends and the tools as the ends."
Zhu Shuren has received modern education, and his stance when looking at problems is much higher than those of the ancients who were in shackles.
At least the ancient emperors must have never read Max Weber's "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capital Attention", and it is impossible to hear Max Weber's sentence "People need to pursue value rationality and instrumental rationality, but instrumental rationality should only be a means to realize value rationality."
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It's just like making money is to use money to achieve certain things that you couldn't do without money, not to make money itself. Money is just the most universal tool.
The same goes for power, but it is not as universal as money and not as easy to exchange. However, this also leads to more "preventive hoarding" of power by those who are insecure.
In contrast, money is easier to exchange and circulate than power, so as long as people have the ability to ensure that they can obtain money quickly, they don't care so much about hoarding money all the time.
Many people with official-oriented thinking think that they usually hoard the power that is difficult to exchange urgently. When the power is needed, they can use it directly. And when money is needed, they can use the power they hoard to exchange money quickly.
Just come and use it.
People who regard tools as their ends can be called tool people.
Zhao Kuangyin is just the emperor's tool. Of course, he is a relatively high-ranking emperor's tool. After all, he has far fewer options.
The tool men of Cao Pi and Zhu Wen who are in the process of opening Pandora's box are the best among tool men.
Zhu Changzi was in a trance for a while. He had never thought about these issues, never thought that this kind of problem could have such an angle. Just because he was cowardly and did not fight, he naturally managed to live in peace with his son-in-law for more than ten years, but he never thought about the theoretical heights.
The problem.
Now that his son-in-law spoke so bluntly, he was a little confused, and suddenly felt that he could let the topic go completely.
Zhu Changzi thought for a while: "But, apart from the Qian family of Wuyue from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, are there any examples of people who don't have to ascend to the throne and don't have to worry about the liquidation of their descendants? Even if a thousand-year-old family has been destroyed, it may not be subject to the centuries-old rule.
Son of Heaven."
Zhu Shuren smiled: "Father also said that there are thousand-year-old families, but the emperor can only live for four hundred years at most. In comparison, it is enough. Moreover, there are thousand-year-old families that cannot be eradicated by the emperor even if the emperor changes dynasties.
It is possible to reach the level of Confucius and to be a saint and a duke for two thousand years. This means that he has wealth and fame, and at the same time he has more longevity than the emperor, but has less authority to kill others than the emperor.
And if a person doesn't want to kill people and enjoys the pleasure of dealing with the life and death of others, then just looking at other conditions, being a Confucius is more satisfying than being the founding emperor."
Zhu Changzi: "Are you sure that your achievements and legacy will reach those of Confucius in your lifetime?"
Zhu Shuren: "I'm not sure, but Yu'er is already stable, so it doesn't matter if he's a little bit behind Confucius. Besides, I can open up another track, be virtuous in the world, and benefit the people. It's not necessary to be with Confucius.
Compete on the same track.”
Zhu Changzi couldn't help but admire: "Your vision is beyond compare."
Zhu Shuren: "Furthermore, have you ever thought about it? To put it bluntly, if the Ming Dynasty was replaced by a dynasty, and the one who replaced it was still a Han ruler, would he be able to last for a long time?
Before the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, someone had to replace Ming Dynasty, and it would be difficult for him to last long. If the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, and there were still people to avenge the Ming Dynasty, there would be some hope. Some things happen once, and they happen countless times.
Just like a virgin remarrying, if her husband dies, can she not continue to remarry?
Chen Zhi's reading of history divided the world since Qin into three categories: external conquest, resistance and integration, and internal usurpation.
For example, the Qin, Sui, and Yuan Dynasties were three times of foreign conquest and national integration. Corresponding to the birth of the Han nationality, the integration of the Wuhu, and the integration of the Liao, Jin, and Meng. The emperor came to power as a conqueror, and his ruling methods were often arbitrary, and the dynasty was short-lived.
But the conqueror posture also has advantages, that is, they don't have to care about the lessons of the conquered's previous failures in internal fighting, so they don't have to worry about warriors usurping the throne, and they don't have to spend a lot of resources on guarding against their own people, so they have abundant martial virtue.
During the Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties that followed the Qin, Sui, and Yuan dynasties, they all resisted the abuse of the people and re-adjusted to ascend to the throne. Although they did not achieve the success of opening up the territory at first, they after all raised the status of the dominant nation and were considered virtuous in the world.
In addition, if the ruler absorbs the lessons of the previous dynasty that was great in martial arts but short-lived, and appeases the people, it will last much longer. The ruler is confident and has good external military ethics.
After the decline of the Han and Tang dynasties, until the next national fusion, those small dynasties usurped power internally. These founding emperors had neither the virtue of external conquest nor the virtue of internal promotion of the status of the main nation. Some were just one family.
The improvement of surname interests.
As soon as this was opened, all the ambitious people in the world were ready to take action. Since Wei and Liang usurped the Han and Tang Dynasties, why couldn't Jin usurp them? The monks can touch them, but I can't touch them?
Then came the endless iterations of usurpation, Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou and Song. In the end, most of the energy was spent on preventing one's own people from usurping the throne, abolishing martial arts, and eventually being destroyed by foreign enemies, and everything was reset and cycled.
Therefore, the Qin, Sui, and Yuan dynasties were the trials and tribulations before the Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties, and the Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen dynasties and the Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou, and Song dynasties were the remnants of the usurped Han and Tang dynasties respectively.
After the fall of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the world has been experiencing worsening civil strife and division for hundreds of years, and the lessons of increasingly weakened martial ethics are not tragic enough? Now I am finally standing on the cusp of the third great cycle of China, and I will not do it with my own hands.
This is my own gravedigger.
I really can’t understand that my father could imagine Tianxia as a woman and the founding monarch as a man. Qin Suiyuan was the first person to meet someone who wanted to conquer Tianxia after she was reincarnated three times, but they used force and Tianxia directly
If they resist, they will be killed.
When the Han and Tang Dynasties saw the cause of Qin Suiyuan's death, they first fell in love with the world and slowly went through the process of three matchmakers and six hires. However, after hundreds of years, conflicts gradually accumulated, and the Han and Tang Dynasties ended up with domestic violence and unable to support themselves.
His wife and children couldn't bear it anymore and joined forces with outsiders to kill them.
Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou and Song were the two, three, four, five, six and seven marriages after each reincarnation. Because they did not rely on external conquest but internal usurpation to gain power, they were considered successors.
The more ex-husbands there are in the world, the more afraid they are, because they know that the loyalty of the second, third, and fourth marriages is definitely not as good as the first marriage, and the later the marriage is, the more unstable it becomes. In the end, the chain of suspicion accumulated and internal friction became more intense, and the ruler and the world perished together and were destroyed by foreign enemies.
National integration leads to reincarnation, and the cycle begins again with violence and first marriage.
I will not change the new body that Hua Xiaxia finally fused after his third reincarnation from a first marriage to a second marriage. What else do you have to worry about, father?"