My Daming New Empire

The ministers can object, but under the emperor's tough measures, no matter how unwilling they are, they will eventually accept it.

So, there is no need for any conspiracy at all.

Then this matter becomes not so simple, because what is the significance of this voluntary relinquishment of rights?

Of course, Zhu Zhanji would not directly say that this is just the beginning of a change. They deliberately gave up a little power just to let all the ministers enter the game.

As long as the ministers are in the game, the future situation will be more beneficial to the royal family. This is to take a step back and withdraw their fists in order to fight harder.

And he is also confident that after he ascends the throne, he will re-limit this part of the abandoned power.

In history, the Ming Dynasty was the "golden age" ruled by civil servants. They monopolized the imperial power and let Jiajing and Wanli not go to court for decades without affecting the overall situation.

This kind of decline of imperial power, even though a group of civil servants boasted of a peaceful and prosperous age when the civil servants were in power, made Daming a deformed one-legged one.As a result, Daming was teetering in the midst of prosperity, and it collapsed with a slight push.

From the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, when Hu Weiyong was dismissed from the position of prime minister, a century-old struggle with civil servants began.

Zhu Di killed Fang Xiaoru and supported the inner prisoner, all of which were to curb civil servants' struggle for power.

Zhu Zhanji's untimely death brought this struggle to an end.After his death, his son was still young, so Sanyang gained the upper hand in the struggle between imperial power and civil servants.

A change in civil engineering fortresses, the honorable class, and the internal prison forces all fell, and the imperial power fell, ending with the victory of civil servants.

In other words, no matter how Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji guard against it, this kind of struggle cannot be stopped.

It is precisely because of this that civil servants were surprised and frightened by the emperor's willingness to give up part of his power.

But because Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji threw out the position of speaker, in the eyes of the ministers, this is a disguised prime minister, which made everyone excited and covered up this little fear.

Compared with the power that can be obtained, a little hidden danger is nothing.

But for the middle-level and lower-level civil servants, it is impossible for them to touch the throne, so they also want to find out why.

Zhu Gaochi was a little confused at this time. He was worried that this plan was proposed by Zhu Zhanji, and Zhu Zhanji would be hated by civil servants, so he wanted to call Zhu Zhanji to Zhan Shifu to ease the tension between the two parties. relation.

Some things are far better to be told face to face than to be kept in mind.

But now it is discovered that civil servants don't care about the restrictions imposed on them by this rule of procedure, and are even more excited because the emperor is willing to give up the balance of power in the court.

He frowned and thought for a while before he realized that although the emperor still needed to make a ruling in the end, civil servants had more room for power.

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said, "Bachelor, how old is my imperial grandfather?"

Yang Shiqi was stunned for a moment, then he understood and showed a knowing smile.But most people haven't figured it out yet, and the conversation needs to go on.

He replied: "Your Majesty's life span is 20 years from Yuan to Zhengzheng, and he is 59 this year."

Calculated according to actual age, Zhu Di was born in 1360. This year is the end of 1418, and his actual age is 58 years old.But according to the current calculation, the second day of May next year will be Zhu Di's [-]th birthday.

However, when Zhu Di learned that Zhu Zhanji was coming back at the end of the year, he had already decreed that the Longevity Festival would not be held next year, because at that time, he must be in Star City in Nanyang.

Western Expedition has now become his obsession. In comparison, it doesn't matter if it's just a birthday.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "The emperor is going to be sixty soon, and he is determined to go west. In the future, the court will still need the father and the ministers to maintain. But the father is not in good health, and the energy is naturally inferior to the emperor's grandfather, so Appropriate decentralization is also the trend of the times.”

At this moment, everyone understood at once, but apart from being happy, they did not forget to congratulate Zhu Gaochi on his better and better health.They are all close ministers of Zhu Gaochi, so they naturally hope that Zhu Gaochi's health will be better.

Using this excuse to cover up the real purpose is what Zhu Zhanji had thought about a long time ago, because this is "reality" and very credible.

And Zhu Zhanji said: "I was born alone in wealth and prosperity, and I grew up in a prosperous age. I enjoyed luxury since I was a child, and I like strange skills and ingenuity. Even if I take power in the future, I don't want to be busy for seven or eight hours a day like Gaozu, and I won't be like the emperor. The same is true for all directions, and the hundreds of beauties in my harem alone need me to take good care of them!"

Although this sentence was not clearly stated, everyone understood the meaning.In other words, even if Zhu Zhanji ascends the throne in the future, he will think about having more fun every day instead of dealing with government affairs all day long.

Since he wants to play, who will handle the political affairs?Of course they are civil servants.

So after hearing this passage, everyone was a little alienated from Zhu Zhanji at first, but now everything has become hot.

Before today, Zhu Zhanji received a lot of criticism for liking strange skills and not paying attention to Confucianism, but now when he is willing to "decentralize power", all these shortcomings have disappeared and become advantages.

It doesn't matter if you don't like Confucianism, as long as you are willing to delegate power to us and let us have a bigger stage to realize our life ambitions, you are good and you are right.

Seeing everyone's expressions, Zhu Zhanji also secretly laughed in his heart, these people are really foolish.Perhaps they would never have imagined that their great-grandson would be fooling them from now on.

As long as today's words are spread, Zhu Zhanji believes that there is no one in the entire court who does not want him to be on the throne, and no one will support him.

Xungui, the generals supported him because they had formed an alliance long ago, and the inner eunuchs supported him because he could bring more benefits to the inner eunuchs than Zhu Gaochi.

As long as the civil servants change their attitude towards him now, who would not support him?

In such an atmosphere, everyone naturally threw out good words without money, and Zhu Zhanji had a happy chat with a courtier of the East Palace.

Zhu Gaochi now fully understands, and feels that his worries are really unfounded!

He also wanted to ease the relationship between his son and civil servants, but one sentence from his son was more effective than ten sentences from him.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji's words are also in line with his positioning, because he himself feels that the emperor does not need to intervene in everything, he only needs to control the overall situation, and let civil servants handle more affairs.

And when Zhu Zhanji left from Zhanshi's Mansion, his words had passed through the mouths of countless people, word of mouth, and caused huge waves among civil servants.

There is no conspiracy, no traps, everything is because the emperor is old, and he has no energy for the Western Expedition, so he will delegate power.

And these civil servants who originally opposed the Western Expedition, now one by one can't wait for the emperor to go to the Western Expedition after the New Year, so that they have more space to realize their life ambitions.

They opposed the Western Expedition because it cost too much and hurt the country.

Expedition to the Timur country in the west not only requires sending a larger fleet to sea, but most of the cost is in the northwest.

Although it is far away from the sea, all the supplies can be loaded on the ship, and there is no need to requisition civilian labor, saving countless manpower and material resources.

Daming now has nearly [-] first-tier and second-tier warships, [-] large treasure ships, and more than [-] small boats under a thousand stones.

If it's just a naval battle, it doesn't matter if Ming can organize an army of two or three million.

However, the national foundation of the Timurid state cannot be harmed just from the sea. If you want to achieve full success, you must also go out on land, and attack from north to south.

It is five thousand miles from Yingtianfu to the northwest, and then from the northwest to conquer the Turpan Kingdom, Yilibali Kingdom, and have to deal with the Golden Horde Khanate and the Eastern Chahatai Khanate to reach Samar, the northern capital of the Timurid Kingdom rare.

For the long march of more than ten thousand miles, hundreds of thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands of troops were needed, and the delay on the road was more than a year.

The consumption of millions of people for one or two years is a huge burden. Although Daming has now built a cement road to the northwest, the expedition speed is much faster, but what about Jiayuguan?

There is also the distribution of grain and grass for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, which is much farther than the northern expedition to Tatar, and consumes more.

Although Zhu Di has prepared for three years and has made various preparations, civil servants still oppose this plan. The main reason is that the gains outweigh the losses.

But now, they don't care anymore, anyway, it's not their loss.It was ordinary people who were requisitioned, and what was spent was the court's money, the emperor's money.

They can also use this opportunity to let the emperor go out for two or three years. He is not in the country, but they have the final say in this country!