With Zhu Youxiao's order to thoroughly investigate the people on the book of the people, the atmosphere in the capital suddenly became tense, Tian Ergeng personally took a large number of Jinyi guards to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Dongchang led by Wei Zhongxian also became particularly active, and a fan wearing a high hat appeared around the official's house from time to time, making many officials panic.

This is not counting, Lu Xiangsheng also personally led 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion to patrol the streets day and night to deter Xiaoxiao, and saw those well-equipped officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion with helmets and armor and firearms patrolling the streets with neat steps, and many green-skinned gangsters who were active in the streets and alleys in the past all hid like quails.

For a while, the public security situation in the entire capital suddenly became very good, which made the officers and soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division a little crying and laughing, and they wanted to protest against the people in the Beijing camp for stealing their jobs, but they were afraid of attracting the revenge of those Qiu Ba in the Beijing camp, so they could only watch the people of the Beijing camp walk in front of them all day long, and they were helpless.

For this situation, the people of the capital are naturally the first to feel it. The common people of the Imperial City were born with a keen instinct for politics, both now and centuries from now.

"Your Majesty, what's going on? actually sent the Beijing camp to inspect the streets to deter Xiaoxiao, is there something big going to happen recently? ”

"Tsk...... Everyone is looking at it, the sky in the capital is about to change, I don't know how many years, the capital camp of the Ming Dynasty has never been so vigorous, and His Majesty now has the atmosphere of Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Chengzu back then! ”

"Huh...... It is as if you have seen the two Majesties of Gaozu and Chengzu. ”

"You kid, even if the old man has never seen it, he has always heard the older generation talk about it!"

"The older generation, how old can you see these two old people."

The situation in the capital is naturally a fog for these people in the capital who raise bars to each other, but for the people in the officialdom, this is tantamount to a very obvious signal, that is, the current emperor is no longer willing to push the eunuchs out to charge for himself, he wants to make his voice heard, he is loudly telling the world that the big tomorrow is going to change.

"Your Majesty, is it really appropriate for you to do this?"

In the imperial garden behind Kunning Palace, Empress Zhang Yan was walking with Zhu Youxiao.

Today's Zhang Yan is wearing a chicken-hearted collared pipa placket and a floral skirt, and is wearing a violet halo brocade. There is a phoenix crown full of gold and jade in the dark and dense cloud temples, a gold-inlaid nine-dragon bead bracelet is worn on the hand with skin like clotted fat, the waist is tied with silk and a long spike silk ribbon, there is a fragrant bag hanging on it, and the feet are wearing soft satin embroidered shoes, the whole person looks beautiful and vulgar like a spring flower, after giving birth to a child, she has added a maternal halo compared to usual, even Zhu Youxiao, who is already an old husband and wife with her, is a little dizzy.

Moving his eyes away from Zhang Yan's body, Zhu Youxiao smiled faintly, "Zitong, you only know one and don't know the other, my Taizu Gao Emperor expelled Yuan Meng from outside the pass to establish the Ming Dynasty for nearly three hundred years, at the beginning of the creation of the Ming Dynasty, our Taizu Gao Emperor and Chengzu have always adopted a strategy of paying equal attention to civil and military affairs, and that period of time is also the heyday of my Ming Dynasty, which can be described as a fierce general.

But after arriving at Renzong (Zhu Gaochi), the situation changed, Renzong was calm and quiet by nature, recognizable in words and deeds, and liked to read. After he ascended the throne, he pardoned many old ministers during the Jianwen Emperor period, rehabilitated many unjust prisons, abolished many harsh policies, stopped the large-scale use of troops in the Chengzu period, and the people of the world were rested, and the treatment of scholars was improved. ”

"Troubled?" Zhang Yan asked puzzledly: "Your Majesty, when the concubines are not out of the cabinet, they always hear that they can fight the world immediately, but they must not rule the world, and the reason why Meng Yuan was expelled from the Central Plains by Emperor Taizu Gao is precisely because of this, is this wrong?" ”

"Of course that's true, but it depends." Zhu Youxiao sneered: "It seems right that Renzong promoted the status of civil officials, but he underestimated the ambitions of those people. ”

"Ambition?"

"Yes, it's ambition!"

Zhu Youxiao sighed lightly: "You see, Emperor Gaozu killed Hu Weiyong back then, revoked the prime minister, and set up six ministries to check and balance each other, in order to prevent the power of civil officials from getting bigger and bigger, forming a trend that will not fall." But after arriving at Chengzu, Chengzu felt that his energy was limited, so he became a cabinet again, and set up a cabinet of university scholars. At first, the cabinet scholars only had the status of advisers, and the emperor had the power to make final decisions, and the scholars rarely had the opportunity to participate in the decision, but later on, the taste gradually changed. ”

Zhu Youxiao said, Zhang Yan listened with relish, limited by the regulations of the harem not to interfere in politics, Zhang Yan is not very clear about these things that will be familiar to later generations.

"Until the time of Sejong, Xia Yan, Yan Song and others were in charge of the cabinet, and their status was the real prime minister, and they could also suppress the six ministries. Zitong, take a look again, what is the difference between the current cabinet and the prime minister of the previous dynasty? ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yan also suddenly realized, "Eh...... Oh, yes! ”

Zhu Youxiao showed a wry smile on his face: "Emperor Gaozu worked hard to abolish the position of prime minister, but I never thought that after hundreds of years, another "prime minister" appeared again, and the initiator is still the descendant of Emperor Gaozu, do you think this is ridiculous?" ”

Is it ridiculous?

Comrade Lao Zhu spent more than ten years abolishing the position of prime minister, which could compete with the emperor, and racked his brains to share the power of the prime minister with six Shangshu, but after his death, his descendants made a new "prime minister" for the Ming Dynasty, which is really ridiculous to think about.

It's just that Zhang Yan can't laugh, yes, some things in this world are so ridiculous, and the things that the predecessors worked so hard to abolish have been restored by the descendants themselves, if Comrade Zhu had knowledge, would he be so angry that he jumped out of the grave and strangled those unscrupulous descendants again?

It's just that Zhang Yan has another layer of worry, she asked worriedly: "Your Majesty, aren't you afraid of provoking civil uprisings in all parts of Jiangnan when you order Jinyi Wei to strictly investigate the people in all parts of Jiangnan with such fanfare?" ”

"Civil unrest?" Zhu Youxiao let out a cold snort from his nose; "What if it's a popular uprising?"

After a pause, it seemed to organize the words, "Yang Aiqing once told me that the so-called popular uprising is divided into two kinds, one is that the people at the bottom really can't survive, they are bound to rise up and overthrow the imperial court, this kind of popular rebellion is the most dangerous, and usually the consequence of this kind of popular uprising is to change the dynasty."

The other kind of popular rebellion is the popular rebellion that the rich people say, a certain policy of the imperial court violates their interests, so they also want to provoke the "popular uprising", and this so-called popular rebellion is made by the rich people to put it bluntly. Yang Aiqing also said that throughout the thousands of years of Chinese history, he has never seen those rich people who can overthrow the imperial court. ”

"Oh...... The concubine understood. Zhang Yan is a smart woman, and she immediately understood when Zhu Youxiao said this. I saw her nodding again and again: "The reason why you let Yang Feng go to Fujian to open the sea ban and set up customs is to break the situation that has been controlled by the gentry from all over the country for many years, as long as the court has food and silver, and then has military power in your hands, you are not afraid of those so-called "popular uprisings" even if there are more!" ”

"Right!" Zhu Youxiao laughed: "Zitong is really smart, Yang Aiqing is a minister of Zhongxing given to me by God." Zitong, think about it, what was I like before I met Yang Aiqing, what was Daming like, and after I met Yang Aiqing, what is Daming like now? What am I like? Now some people know about the impeachment of Yang Aiqing all day long, saying that he is arrogant and rude in supporting the army, and he will inevitably be the second Wang Mang and An Lushan in the future, but I know that Yang Aiqing is really for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and for my good, but if he has the slightest objection, I am afraid that I will say goodbye to Zitong Tianren long ago. ”

"Yes......" Zhang Yan also sighed lightly: "A few days ago, Hai Lanzhu attacked to accompany the concubine to chat, saying that she had been separated from Yang Feng for too long and wanted to go to Fujian to accompany him for a while, and the concubine asked you for grace, and you agreed, but Yang Feng was also very sensible, and sent his pregnant concubine to the capital, originally the concubine was not used, but Yang Feng still stubbornly sent her over, from here it is enough to see that he has respect for you in his heart." It's just that the concubines are worried about how those people will evaluate you, the emperor, a hundred years later. ”

Zhu Youxiao shook his head with a smile, "Where to consider so much now, leave these things to future generations to comment, I just want to be able to leave a strong Daming country to our children, so that the Daming country can last for a few hundred more years." ”

Zhang Yan said angrily: "Your Majesty, you are talking nonsense again, the Ming Dynasty will naturally continue for generations, will you be satisfied in a few hundred years?" ”

"Hahaha......" Zhu Youxiao laughed, "Zitong, you can be regarded as a person who has read some books, have you ever seen a country that can last for all generations?" What even the Qin Emperor and Han Wu can't do, why do you think I can do it? I only ask that the history books of future generations can objectively write about what I am doing now and what I have done with good intentions, and I will be satisfied. ”

Zhang Yan didn't speak, she knew very well who wrote the history books, and now Zhu Youxiao can be said to have slowly stood on the opposite side of the readers, will the history books give her husband a justice in the future?

Just when Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan and his wife were in the Imperial Garden, the situation in Fujian began to become tense again. After getting Sonord's promise, Zheng Zhilong Group desperately attacked and harassed the passing merchant ships along the coast of Fujian, and in order to protect the merchant ships from being attacked, Yang Feng also made a-for-tat counterattack against those pirates.