Chapter 55 Ending

Jiajing's tone was slightly sneering.

How to end.

When things got to this point, did Zhou Mengchen want to end? Jiajing made such a decision to the ignorant and stupid woman, the Crown Princess. His son died with him was simply a natural couple, and he was astonishingly stupid.

To be honest, Jiajing had even the worst plan for a completely out of control situation. For example, Zhou Mengchen is today's Cao Cao. He also understands it. But Zhou Mengchen still wants to end it?

Zhou Mengchen didn't know what it means to shoot the bow without turning back. Didn't he know that he would never do it or stop.

Zhou Mengchen's actions today have greatly offended the imperial power. Yes, the Crown Princess is a fool. After all, the Ming Dynasty has always chosen the queen from a small family. This makes the queen's political awareness not high.

This is a common problem of the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty.

Just like Empress Hongzhi, if she had high political awareness and was elected as the emperor, she would have made herself look unfamiliar inside and outside. In the end, her late years were extremely desolate. In history, Empress Li, the biological mother of Wanli, would not obey the wind and rain, and let Gao Gong go home. Although Zhang Juzheng's reform was very successful, Zhang Juzheng's power at that time did exceed the authority of the chief minister and threaten the monarch's power.

The same is true for the Crown Princess.

The Crown Princess never looked at things from the perspective of the emperor. She just wanted to keep everything intact and wait until the child grew up.

As for the checks and balances, it was a matter of the previous dynasty, she didn't think much about it.

But Jiajing believed that every adult emperor would not endure being such an emperor.

Zhou Mengchen wanted to end this matter, but as long as his Zhu family was still the emperor, he would not be able to end this year.

Moreover, Zhou Mengchen said that the ending was just a matter of fact. On the contrary, what Zhou Mengchen said before was that he had no other thoughts. Even if he had other thoughts, he was only limited to being a sage-powerful minister without any other thoughts.

So, Jiajing agreed.

Zhou Mengchen said: "The Duke of England and Duke Cheng Guo were in trouble. He should dismiss his title and issue an edict to punish him. He should recall Duke Feng as the Privy Council envoy to command the Jingying camp. If there is such a chaos in the Jingying camp, the loyal and kind army of Xuan border troops should supplement the Jingying camp. The Jingying camp will divide a part of the army and go out to guard the border."

"The implementation of the new law in Jiangnan is not good, and the important officials should be sent to supervise it. I think it is appropriate to high gong."

Zhou Mengchen took a deep breath and said, "Next year, I will retire and return home. Please rest assured that my loyalty to the Ming Dynasty can be seen at the sun."

Zhou Mengchen's words are the truth.

Some people say that as long as I control the power of issuing money, I don’t care who has the power. Zhou Mengchen is, as long as the whole world is in my plan, I don’t care who is the emperor.

It can be said that within the next ten years, the emperor's power to interfere in the cabinet will be the lowest. Zhang Juzheng did not give it for nothing. It can be said that after Zhang Juzheng stepped down, the next one would be left with a huge power cabinet.

And no one thinks there is too much power.

No matter which chief minister is next, he will make the decision to control such power.

This has nothing to do with the emperor's wisdom or not.

If the emperor is strong, like Jiajing, at most he suppresses the cabinet, and may not be able to shake the cabinet fundamentals. Just like during the Jiajing period, was Jiajing strong? But most of the weight of the cabinet was determined by Yang Tinghe.

Jiajing could only interfere with the selection of cabinet personnel and form checks and balances within the cabinet, but he did not have the ability to abolish all Yang Tinghe's system and turn the Jiajing Dynasty's cabinet into the Hongzhi period of Chenghua.

With the same problem, Zhou Mengchen's original choice was destined. He could only make improvements and could not overthrow the Ming Dynasty. So what he wanted was the ideal state of civil servants, that is, the Holy Emperor ruled with his pride.

Jiajing's ideas were old. In his thinking, powerful ministers would be liquidated unless they usurped the throne. Huo Guang's fate has explained everything.

Zhou Mengchen's idea was new. In his opinion, in the late Ming Dynasty, the power of ministers became heavier and the power of the king became lighter and lighter. If Wanli had not been hiding for so many years, it was just that there was no new ideological leader, which eventually led to paralysis of the court.

After Zhou Mengchen retreated, he did not stop doing things. He could devote more energy and energy to other places, such as the construction of new political ideas.

At that time, the constitutional monarchy that integrates the wishes of civil servants and officials: "The Holy Emperor governs with his pride" will emerge.

The same thing has different ideas and different opinions.

Jiajing agreed immediately.

However, no matter how much you agree, today's so-called ending is just a temporary ending for the conflict between the monarch and the ministers.

There are too many historical problems today.

It’s just that due to various reasons, it’s not Zhou Mengchen and Jiajing who want to solve this problem in the future.

For many people, a night is long, and for many people, a night is short.

Many people don’t know what happened, they just know what seemed to be happening in the Beijing camp and what specific things were, but they don’t know. They just feel that the atmosphere in the capital suddenly becomes tense.

When Zhou Mengchen left the palace, Lu Huan and Feng Bao were waiting outside.

Zhou Mengchen strides forward. Lu Huan and Feng Bao are in a position behind Zhou Mengchen. Zhou Mengchen said: "Did you send someone to see the Lu family in overseas territory?"

Lu Huan said: "No need to read it, I can trust you. Since you have said overseas bans, you will definitely succeed."

Zhou Mengchen had no choice but to send out such bargaining chips.

Because Zhou Mengchen knew something very well that his people were uneven. Even if Zhou Mengchen used Jiajing's great purge to threaten them, there would not be too many willing to follow Zhou Mengchen.

The human heart is really hard to figure out.

Zhou Mengchen can only give others greater benefits to others and let others follow whom.

The benefit Zhou Mengchen gave Lu Huan was to posthumously confer Lu Bing as Duke of Jing, and ignore it in the past, leaving some places overseas. Although there was nothing on the surface, it was actually almost the control of the local area by the large families of ancient families.

Zhou Mengchen discovered this situation and felt that after he discovered that the Xu family's control over Taiwan and the Tang family's control over Luzhou was far greater than the control of the domestic aristocratic families over the local area.

The reason is very simple.

Overseas, even if the imperial court sets up an official government, its influence is limited. Many things require local leaders to organize the people. For example, reclaiming land, dredging rivers, and other big and small matters, it is difficult for the imperial officials to manage.

And there is no right to do anything. If several people have the final say in a matter, it will definitely not be able to do it. Whoever leads everyone to do these things will naturally have an influence above ordinary people.

In this process of operating overseas, expelling, absorbing indigenous people, and turning overseas land into land in the Ming Dynasty, one or two powerful families will naturally form. It seems that they still disappear in Chinese history, and five families with seven surnames and ordinary families emerged again.

Zhou Mengchen discovered that this phenomenon was irreversible.

It means that the court should have insufficient strength and the cost of doing things is very high. If the court is allowed to do it overseas, the funds of the Nanyang Governor's Office will have to be repeated a few more times. And it would be much better to use the power of the people.

For a long time in the future, with the overseas expansion of the Ming Dynasty, such situations will only be more and less.

This is also the reason why Zhou Mengchen set up a private army overseas.

Even though Zhou Mengchen doesn't care about money, this kind of dividend of the times will probably only be available in the next one or two hundred years. I missed it. The descendants and grandchildren are completely different from others.

Now he also uses this as a bargaining chip to attract help.

Lu Huancai was willing to stand out because he knew that as the emperor's closest guard, Zhou Mengchen would do such a thing, he didn't know, but if the Lu family did not prepare early, they would definitely die.

To gain a foothold overseas, it must be felt that other families are exiled. But it may not be a good thing for the Lu family. After all, Lu Bing worked too hard for Jiajing at the beginning. Although Lu Bing later woke up, he planted more flowers and less thorns, but it was too late.

Many people will never forget what Lu Bing did.

Lu Huan must find a way out for the Lu family, otherwise, once Jiajing dies, the Lu family's fate will be worrying.

In history, as soon as Jiajing died, many cases of censors in Jiajing's dynasty were immediately overturned. At the same time, Lu Bing's reputation behind him was destroyed into the abyss.
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