My Daming New Empire

The two talked about everything about their hometown, and many memories that had been blurred in Liu Wan's mind became vivid now.

He suddenly missed his sister who was five years younger than him, who was his closest relative, and he didn't know if he was alive or dead.

In the past, he didn't want to think about it, and he didn't dare to think about it, but now, his longing has been aroused.

It's been 17 years, and His Highness won't leave the capital these few years. Should I ask for an errand to Linzhou to find the younger sister who left me at the age of three...

The snow outside was getting bigger and bigger, and when it was almost dawn, there was already a thick layer outside.

Some of the young eunuchs on duty have already woken up, and they have prepared the tools to clear the heavy snow, and they will start to clear the snow when the nobles get up.

Although they didn't sleep all night, neither Liu Wan nor Yuheng felt sleepy.Hearing the movement from the back room, His Highness should have woken up.

Liu Wancai said to Yuheng: "In this Xingqing Palace, relying on His Highness and Master, my words are still useful. If you encounter any grievances in the future, don't hide them. I will support you. If you miss your parents, I can also take the letter back for you, or even arrange for them to come to the capital to meet you, it's not difficult."

Yuheng shook his head and said: "If I was assigned to other bureaus at the beginning, I would be able to go home after ten years of work. I still hope that one day I will go home. But since I entered the palace, this is my destination from now on. I can't go back either."

Liu Wan knew very well that His Highness had been thinking about reforming the palace, but now he didn't have any confirmation, and he didn't dare to give him hope.

He said with relief: "You just pray that Zhuang Fengyi can conceive a dragon species soon. Whether it is a little prince or a little princess, as long as you have a child, it will be much better in the future. In the future, you can even use this palace as a... family .”

Yuheng didn't understand, and looked at Liu Wan in surprise.Liu Wan felt a little ashamed, embarrassed to face the other party again, and quickly said: "Your Highness is awake, I'm going..."

When Zhu Zhanji woke up, everyone started to get busy, waiting for him to wash up, and then he left Yongfu Palace quickly.

Yuheng only had time to go back to Zhuang Fengyi's bedroom at this time. Zhuang Fengyi, who always woke up early on weekdays, was still sleeping in Haitangchun at this time, and the morning movement did not wake her up.

Looking at the somewhat messy bed, and smelling the somewhat disturbing smell, she suddenly understood the meaning of Liu Wan's words just now, and her face turned red with embarrassment.

But seeing the strictness of this palace, and thinking of the one-night conversation last night, she didn't seem to be disgusted in her heart.

Zhu Zhanji is free today, of course not because he has nothing to do, but because he doesn't have to go to Fengtian Temple to watch the quarrel of civil servants.

Zhu Di vigorously arranged the distribution of the money, and introduced the rules of procedure. There has been no Dachaohui in the past few days.

All the ministers were busy connecting with each other while waiting for the day of the seal to come up with a plan that everyone recognized, which seemed busier than ever.

Zhu Zhan was basically able to rest for a few days, but now he started to sort out all kinds of information on the Northwest and the Timur Kingdom. His study seemed busier than ever.

The Counseling Department in Donghuamen is also busier than before. In addition to intelligence personnel from other places returning to Beijing to report on their duties, many people from the Political Department and Jinyiwei also came.

They cooperated with each other, summed up and analyzed pieces of information one by one, and then handed over the results to Xingqing Palace.

On Jinyiwei's side, Yang Zhangde, the commander of Jinyiwei, sits in charge in person, suppressing the people in Jinyiwei not to have conflicts with the people in the Advisory Department.

On the side of the Tongzheng Secretary, Zuo Tongzheng Liang Jie just came over to meet him. Seeing that Zhu Zhanji hadn't come, he arranged for the fifth rank right councilor Pang Bo to be in charge of coordination here.

Since Zhu Zhanji began to collect and sort out information, everyone knew that this was the matter of the Western Expedition to be officially put on the agenda.

But now no one cares about this. Whether to let the six hall officials take turns to be the speaker, one person takes turns for a year, or to fix one person to be the speaker for five consecutive years and preside over the court, is now what the civil servants are concerned about.

Both plans have their own advantages and disadvantages. The former plan is relatively fair, and all six court officials have the opportunity to serve, and no one will be superior to others.

However, this is not what civil servants hope, because no matter who it is, who doesn't have an ideal of being superior to others?

To fix this position, to become the head of civil servants, to lead civil servants to fight with the emperor, although not a prime minister, but still comparable to a prime minister!

In the past few days, the holiday will be sealed, and all ministries will have nothing to do except the Ministry of Rites, which needs to prepare the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven.

However, the personnel of the various ministries in the capital are more complete than in the past, and even those who asked for leave have started to work one by one.

Even if they can't participate in the high-level competition, they still want to know the exact news as soon as possible.

Zhu Di paid close attention to the attitudes of the ministers, but Zhu Zhanji didn't bother to find out what kind of decisions they would make.

No matter which option they accept, the end result is the same.

All his energies were focused on intelligence in the Northwest and the power comparison between the ministers of Chinese and military affairs of the DPRK and the eunuch group.

His ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed a great talent. Although he was born as a monk, he became a master of the generation from illiterate to the end.

In particular, his ability to control people's hearts and manage them can be called the pride of the previous generation.

Although Confucianism has a limited side, they resist all development and let anyone only toss within the established range, but they have given this nation a strong coagulation force.

Since the past dynasties, Confucian civil servants have never lacked "loyal ministers", who can throw their heads and blood for their ideals.

After Zhu Yuanzhang drove away the Mengyuan people, a large number of ghosts who were afraid of death immediately turned over and became their masters, and they became not afraid of death.

Zhu Yuanzhang used civil servants to govern the country, military generals to suppress civil servants, and then eunuchs who were always united with the royal family to restrict military generals.

After the construction of such a cycle of power links is completed, the imperial power has mastered the balance and arbitration, so that no party can occupy an absolute advantage.

However, there is a big problem here, that is, the talent generation!

Military generals are not like civil servants. They need to fight on the battlefield and face various difficult situations to mature.

In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, after decades of fighting, he had a large number of generals with rich combat experience, including the ability to fight politically.

Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Tang He, Lan Yu, any one of them can suppress a large number of civil servants.In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, civil servants were much less powerful than generals.

But as the country stabilizes, the older generation of military generals are killed, the old are old, and the dead are dead. The new generation of generals is not as good as the old generation.

But civil servants are different. With the stability of the country, their number is increasing, their power is growing, and their experience is getting richer.

In Zhu Di's time, with Zhu Neng's death, only Zhang Fu and Mu Sheng were left with a bit of political savvy.

Mu Sheng is stationed in Yunnan, and Zhang Fu is also stationed in Jiaozhi now.In today's Ming Dynasty, the original situation where military generals check and balance civil servants is gone forever, and civil servants are becoming more and more powerful.

Zhu Di had no choice but to support the eunuchs to help the generals check and balance the civil servants. This was also the root cause of the great power of the eunuchs during the Yongle period.

Of Zhu Di's seven eunuchs, except for one Li Qian who is Han, two Hui, two Jurchen, and two Mongols.This is not only because the foreign race is more loyal without relying on it, the main reason is that they have less fear of civil servants.

Zhu Zhanji didn't understand at first why Zhu Di liked to use foreign races, but after he really integrated into this era, he realized that he couldn't use the thinking of later generations to think about problems.

In later generations, the country and the nation have become a universal basis for ideological education.

But in this era, although the concept of nation has been formed, there is no concept of country at all.

No matter which nationality people are, they will not be loyal to which nation or country, they will only be loyal to a certain person.

Wang Yan's original name was Wang Gou'er, which was given by Zhu Di.He was originally a Jurchen.But in the early days of Yongle, he served as the eunuch guarding Liaodong, and he was not relentless in killing the Jurchens. On the contrary, he had to think more about killing the Han people.

To him, Jurchen is nothing, he will be loyal to whoever treats him well.

Except for the universal love like Zheng He, the other eunuchs are all like this. They are loyal to Zhu Di, the emperor, not Daming.

This is mainly because the national consciousness has not yet awakened.