Yingtian, the Forbidden City.

In Zhu Jishi's bedroom, the two looked at each other silently, one of them was sitting on a sofa chair, it was Zhu Jishi, the son of the Great Tomorrow, and in front of him kneeling a naked blonde woman, not the Yanma Maria. Who is Clementina? Zhu Datianzi held a proposal in his hand, but his eyes were annoyed and helpless looking at the beauty kneeling in front of him.

The room was quiet, and only Zhu Jishi's heavy panting voice was heard.

After arriving at the end, Zhu Jishi shook his hand, threw the proposal in front of Maria, and snorted coldly: "I thought that Xiangmei was afraid of you, a big ocean horse, so she was in a hurry to establish a regular in the harem, but I didn't expect her to be instigated by you...... It's just that what do you do for what you want? Are you worried about Su Yuniang and Wang Yunjiao? Do you think I'm not a little serious? If the two of them had a son and a half daughter, where would they have their current status? And I'm still young, only in my early 30s, so I must be able to live for a long, long time, and some have time to tidy up the harem......

…… Do you think I don't know the harm of too much power in the harem concubines? But the guards and the brocade guards, if they don't let the concubine control them, who will control them? There are many factions in my court, the Xianghu faction, the Tiandihui faction, the Lanfang faction, and the Liangjiang faction, although these people are all my subordinates, but they are foreign ministers after all, and they ...... These people don't have the same philosophy as I do! So I can't fully trust them! Although Su Yuniang and Wang Yunjiao are also old brains, they are still absolutely obedient!

If, as suggested by the majority of the Constituent Assembly, the harem was handed over to the queen for strict control, and the harem concubines were forbidden to hold official positions in foreign courts. Restrict the contact between harem concubines and the outside world. Turn the harem into one. A cage. I don't have a henchman to rely on. The current Ming Dynasty has no eunuchs......"

There is a big generation gap between our Emperor Zhu and the Chinese of this era in terms of thinking! And after returning to China for many years, he found that while changing China, he was also being assimilated by the ancients of this era! The gap between his way of thinking and Zuo Zongtang and Luo Zenan is getting smaller and smaller, not that Zuo and Luo are improving, but that they are regressing! He feared that one day he would become a feudal emperor completely, and he would probably be interrupted from making all major changes. So deep down, he couldn't really trust his courtiers. Only family seems to be more reliable......

Listening to Zhu Jishi's counting, Maria. Clementina suddenly laughed, looked up at Zhu Jishi, and said softly: "Jason, I can understand your concern, really, I can understand it...... You are different from them, you know that the system of monarchy and dictatorship will eventually decline. But in the face of a group of ministers whose thinking is still stuck in the Middle Ages, you have to strengthen the dictatorship, as Peter the Great did. If it were not for his dictatorship, let the Russian aristocracy, the clergy. Even the Russian peasants decided the future of the country, and the Russian Empire may well no longer exist, but became a colony of Western countries! But the dictatorship will inevitably lead to a weak political base, and the current power of the Russian tsar can only be maintained by a few nobles, while the political base of France and England includes the entire middle and upper classes. ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, looking at Maria's gaze softened a lot, confidant! The entire Ming Dynasty probably can't find a second person who can understand himself in this way - in fact, Zhu Jishi's later China has many things in common with Britain and France in the mid-nineteenth century, especially in the concept of governing the country is almost identical! That's why Zhu Jishi will put Maria. Clementina was cited as a confidant. As for his other wives and concubines, they really don't have any common language, and Zhu Jishi marries them either out of political considerations or for beauty.

"Get up, get up." Zhu Jishi waved his hand and let Maria get up and sit on the bed.

Maria picked up a nightgown and draped it over herself, and said: "My Majesty, compared with Peter the Great, you have more hole cards in your hands, and you have more reliable hole cards in your pocket than concubines, so you really shouldn't use concubines to directly participate in politics and power, which will make the queen and the foreign court have unnecessary worries." ”

Zhu Jishi's expression did not move, and he said lightly: "Do you mean money?" ”

"Yes, money is everything!" Maria. "In England and France, politics is closely linked to money. British politicians have probably been elected to power on the basis of bribery, while French politics has always been linked to the bankers' cash chest. Your Majesty, we have the largest bank in Asia and possibly the world! ”

Zhu Jishi's expression was calm, he had heard of Jin Yuan politics, but he was not familiar with it.

"Your Majesty, now Daming has provincial public bureaus, a constituent assembly, and freedom of speech and the press, but there is no political party in the real sense."

"Political parties?" Zhu Jishi glanced at the stack of proposals on the ground again, if he had a party that could control the Constituent Assembly, there would not be so many unappetizing suggestions - there were many people who suggested restoring the eunuch system, I really don't know if these guys would like to be eunuchs?

"How?" Zhu Jishi once ran a half-party and half-gang Damingshan, but now it has become a bubble.

"A royalist party should be formed to control the provincial bureaus and the Constituent Assembly."

"How to control it?" Zhu Jishi frowned and asked.

Maria smiled: "It's a bribery now, you can fight an election campaign in the future, but if you can't do it, you can also bribe the election, in short, you must control these public opinion institutions." ”

"That's ...... That's a way. ”

The Constituent Assembly and the provincial public bureaus have the right to propose impeachment, and if it is inconvenient for them to put forward some reform proposals, they will let the Constituent Assembly put forward them, and some officials who are not in tune with themselves can also be impeached by the Constituent Assembly, so that they can remove him from power in an open and honest manner! And this still represents the will of the people, the Constituent Assembly is for the people, what else can those Confucian officials say?

Thinking of this, Zhu Jishi's mood suddenly improved a lot, and he looked at Maria with a smile: "My dear, your suggestions are very good, I accept them all." But...... Why didn't you bring it up in the first place? Why do you want to encourage the queen to jump up and down to annoy me? You must have some kind of conspiracy, right? Do you want the queen to fall out of favor and replace her in the future? Don't be honest yet! Otherwise, it will be served by the family law. Well, in the proposal of the "Royal Family Model", some people proposed to implement corporal punishment in the harem, and the concubines who told right and wrong should be rectified with whips! ”

Seeing Zhu Jishi's vicious appearance with his teeth and claws, Maria smiled bitterly and thought, am I playing with this right and wrong alone? Your queen was so nervous when she heard that you had put the guards and the secret police under the control of your concubines...... But whip or something, it's quite an exciting way to play, it's popular in France, I haven't played it myself, and now it's time to taste it......

……

The door of the Xinuan Pavilion of Kunning Palace creaked open, and a girl's voice was heard: "The emperor (in fact, Zhu Jishi has not officially called the emperor at this time), the emperor has arrived!" ”

The emperor is here!

Luo Xiangmei and Luo Xiangju sisters were stunned for a moment and glanced at each other. Today's Constituent Assembly has put forward a lot of proposals that are definitely not in line with Zhu Jishi's wishes, and the newspapers outside are very angry, although Maria Ken came forward to share the responsibility, but who knows if Zhu Jishi's anger has completely disappeared? What if that woman falls into the well again......

Thinking of this, Luo Xiangmei also felt as if she had been shot by Mary Adam!

When he was worried, he saw Zhu Jishi striding in. The two women hurriedly knelt down to greet them. Zhu Jishi smiled and waved his hand: "No courtesy, no courtesy...... I didn't come here to see you two being short, but for the sake of "The Royal Family"...... Maria has already told me the ins and outs. The rules of the harem should indeed be established, and it is indeed inappropriate to let the concubine serve as a foreign official. Of course, you are not doing this well, and Maria has a great responsibility, and I have already punished her by whipping her with twenty lashes. ”

Whip up! Luo Xiangmei felt a chill behind her, Zhu Datianzi came to beat herself?

Seeing Luo Xiangmei's expression, Zhu Jishi smiled secretly, but his face was still tight: "Xiangmei...... As for you, I won't punish or fight, but Yu Niang and Yun Jiao's errand, you have to persuade them to resign automatically. They are all powerful behind them, I don't care how to settle them, I don't care how many benefits your Lanfang faction gives to the Heaven and Earth Society, but they must all be happy. After saying that, he nodded slightly, turned and left.

Can everyone really be happy? Looking at her husband's back, Luo Xiangmei's brows were tightly furrowed. (To be continued......)