Chapter 91                                                             �

This is also conducive to the differentiation of the people in Jiangnan.

After all, although the Ming Dynasty's court deliberately or unintentionally suppressed Jiangnan people politically, when Jiangnan people occupied a prominent position in the court, they were still in the Zhejiang-Western group such as Liu Bowen when the founding of the country. However, these people were also blown away by the rain and wind in the brutal struggle at the beginning of the country.

However, in terms of economy, Jiangnan's size made Zhu Qizhen not ignore it, and dare not ignore it.

As Li Xian said, it is necessary to attract the hearts of the people in Jiangnan.

Li Xian looked worried and said, "Your Majesty----"

Who are the people in the world?

This is a very difficult category to determine.

Li Xian understood very well that in many contexts, the people in the world are prominent gentry or clan leader, etc.

It’s not that I know the people at the bottom of the world.

Because many times, the lower-level people have no possibility of dealing with the government directly.

Even if there is anything, it will deal with the government through the middle level, namely the patriarch, local scholars, and prestigious elderly people.

Even in modern times, many ordinary people do some government-related matters. The first reaction is to find someone instead of doing it themselves.

This thinking pattern is actually an inheritance of ancient times.

Many people think that history is written on paper, and it is very far away from us. In fact, if you look closely, you will know that we are part of history. We are consciously or not, but you know it or not.

Therefore, Li Xian knew very well that it was useless to show kindness to ordinary people.

Ordinary people are the silent majority and often have no right to speak. Even if they are good to them, they prefer to listen to the patriarch, the local scholars, and the prestigious elderly.

Because they are all very close, and the emperor is too far away.

For them, the emperor was just a symbolic god carrying a golden hoe.

Only these patriarchs, scholars, fame and fortune, and older people can directly affect their lives.

This time, Zhu Qizhen slapped the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River and even the gentry in the south, but the sweet date was a little small.

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "I have decided."

As soon as this statement was spoken, the ministers below stopped talking.

After all, today is not the late Ming Dynasty. Several monarchs in the early Ming Dynasty, Taizu, Taizong, Renzong, Xuanzong, had almost complete monarchy, and at least military power was always in hand.

When Zhu Qizhen first ascended the throne, his power was actually very limited. Now, through a series of external battlefields and internal reforms, people's expectations have been gathered.

Now Zhu Qizhen's prestige is probably inferior to Emperor Taizong, but above Emperor Xuanzong.

In the Ming system, the emperor could be completely unreasonable, but now this is the case. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, Xiong Gai sent to Jiangnan to do something like Kou Shen.

It’s just that Xiong Gui is not as cruel as Kou.

Zhu Qizhen really wanted to slap them. Could it be that these gentry in Jiangnan do anything else? If they dared to do something similar to the tombstone of the five-person, Zhu Qizhen would dare to let the army enter Suzhou City.

But this is what everyone wants to see.

It was only from this incident that Zhu Qizhen had obtained information from the prince and other aspects of information. He found out more and more what the enemy he was facing was like.

When the literati and official groups enter, they become officials, when they retire, they become gentry. When they are in the court, they control the power of the court, and when they are at home, they control the grassroots power in their hometowns.

Not to mention the advantages of meaning form.

Even the old farmer who doesn't know how to speak knows how to respect scholars, and scholars have knowledge. This kind of knowledge and insight is a kind of power in itself.

Faced with such a huge monster, Zhu Qizhen felt that his emperor was a parasite. The parasite was above the huge group of gentry.

If Zhu Qizhen had just begun to support the noble group, it was an instinctive act of seizing military power, but at this moment, he realized that this was a trick.

There is nothing else, only one political group can fight against another political group.

The nobles were representatives of the Sanhedral Institute of the Ming Dynasty. Now, after the reform of Zhu Qizhen, the military has gone from bottom to top. Although it is weaker than the gentry group, they are also a behemoth alone.

Generally speaking, the power of the Xungui Group is mostly in the north, nine sides, and Hebei is the most powerful.

Especially in Hebei, many Hebei people changed their families because of their military service. In Jiangnan, gentry controlled the countryside power, but in Hebei, gentry with fame and military meritorious families were equally divided.

It was just because the reorganization of the Ming Dynasty Jingying Camp was still short and there was insufficient accumulation. If this pattern remained unchanged, about a few decades later, there would definitely be a family in Hebei that would have joined the army for generations.

However, this differentiation did not satisfy Zhu Qizhen.

What is a mud foot giant?

In Zhu Qizhen's view, the situation in the Ming Dynasty interprets this concept.

The Ming Dynasty seemed to be a giant, but its ruling foundation was based on the cooperation between the Ming gentry and it.

This is to rule the world with scholars and officials.

Just think about it, the people of the Ming Dynasty were supplying tens of thousands of officials, hundreds of thousands of troops, and even the royal family, as well as thousands of families of all counties and counties.

With the imperial examination as the center, the officialdom and local governments are advancing and retreating.

Everyone is used to it.

However, Zhu Qizhen should be glad that it is not yet at the point where it is difficult to return.

Emperor Taizu started a massacre and I don’t know how many powerful landlords had migrated. It can be said that the landlords with more than 3,000 acres of land were all swept away by Emperor Taizu.

Of course, it may not be a killing. Just move them out of their hometown and they can understand what it means to leave their hometown.

Therefore, there are still many self-cultivated farmers in the Ming Dynasty, but the trend of decline is also very obvious. If this continues, it will not take decades. There may be no room for self-cultivated farmers to survive in the world.

Why could millions of people in Qin provide 600,000 troops to destroy Chu? By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was no soldiers in the imperial court.

This development reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, there are not people in the literati group without discerning eyes.

Just like Li Xian, why Li Xian supports Qingzhang is actually a means to curb land annexation, but more often, it is easy to cut other people's meat, but it is difficult to cut one's own meat.

Li Xian coordinated more with all parties, and kept the Ming Dynasty safe and secure, allowing the gentry from all over the country to expose some benefits.

This method seems to be too soft to Zhu Qizhen.

But even so, Zhu Qizhen had to use Li Xian.

It is precisely because he sees clearly what he is facing that Zhu Qizhen is becoming more and more cautious.

There is nothing else, don’t look at the faction of the Ming gentry into this sect and that sect, Li Xian, Liu Dingzhi, Liu Qiu, Wang Wen, and behind every cabinet minister is a large number of people.

But it really touches their core interests, such as the imperial examination and Taoist dynasty.

What Zhu Qizhen has to face is definitely not such gentle opposition.

Even in Qingzhang land, Lu Yong almost used his death to fight against the court to speak out. When it really touched their interests, even Li Xian and Liu Dingzhi would be close to Zhu Qizhen, but they would be the enemy country.

This is why Zhu Qizhen has always wanted to find his own reform ideas in the Confucian Taoism, and why he respects the ministers in the cabinet very much, or tolerates them to some extent.

It's nothing else, because of strength.

Politics is the most important thing about strength. Zhu Qizhen is also extremely pragmatic.

The Ming Dynasty and the scholars and officials ruled the world together. Whether Zhu Qizhen admitted it or not, it was a fact. Even if Zhu Qizhen could kill the cabinet from beginning to end, from six ministries to the Censorate.

It is impossible to change this fact.

This is the situation, how to break the deadlock?

Zhu Qizhen has been thinking about this. If he did not want to live in harmony with all officials when reforming at this moment, peace can be achieved and the world can be governed, and it will not be an exaggeration to call it a prosperous era in the future.

But this is not what Zhu Qizhen wants.

But facing such a big situation, if it is a little wrong, it is even a bustling situation in the world, and Zhu Qizhen can only test it step by step and move forward.

Hope it can moisten things silently.
Chapter completed!