Chapter 96: The Unrivaled Hero (Thanks to 'Shou Tan Wang' for becoming the leader of this book)
Every emperor has the desire to expand territory and defeat foreign enemies.
This desire was rooted in the emperor's bones from the moment he ascended the throne.
But the education they received since childhood would suppress their desire, for example, Confucianism.
Since the Western Han Dynasty, Confucianism has been popular and has rooted "peace and kindness" in the genes of emperors of all dynasties.
So much so that when the crown prince suggested that more Confucian scholars should be employed, Emperor Xuan of the Former Han Dynasty was furious and said: The Han Dynasty has its own system, which originally mixed the ways of the hegemon and the king. Why should we rely solely on moral education and the Zhou Dynasty's politics? Moreover, vulgar Confucian scholars are not up to date, preferring the past to the present, making people confused about the name and the reality, and not knowing what to uphold. How can they be entrusted with such a task?
But the historical trend is unstoppable.
As a result, Confucianism gradually became a circle composed of rules, which confined emperors and generals within it.
Don’t come out, if you come out you will be a tyrant!
Don't jump up, because if you jump up you will be competing with the people for profit.
In every game, the emperor was defeated miserably without exception.
But to whom did the emperor lose?
Emperor Jiajing patted his cousin on the shoulder and looked at those ministers, his heart slightly moved.
He walked down the stairs. Seeing this, Lu Bing hurried to follow him. Several civil servants advised:
"Your Majesty, do not come near."
"Those people were armed with knives and guns and were dangerous."
Emperor Jiajing turned a deaf ear and walked to the front of the formation.
This was the first time in many years that the Ming emperor had been so close to a military man.
Looking at these excited faces, Emperor Jiajing walked up to a soldier with an injured arm and asked, "Where are you from?"
The soldier was so excited that he trembled a few times. "Your Majesty, it's from Daxing."
"How many years have you been in the army?"
"Seven years."
"After training for a while, how do you feel compared to before?"
The sergeant thought for a moment, "Before...the villain was a bug."
"What about now?"
"Now I feel like I am... a fierce tiger."
Emperor Jiajing patted the sergeant on the shoulder and said, "Very good."
He turned and walked out.
"Bugs, tigers!"
Those military generals and military heroes, including officials from the Ministry of War, felt their faces burning.
They said that the guards in the capital were like that and there was no way to change it.
And the guards are not as bad as Jiang Qingzhi said.
But wait and listen!
Emperor Jiajing glanced at these people with sharp eyes.
insect!
Is this the not-so-bad Beijing guard you guys are talking about?
And you guys have been slandering me, saying that there are various problems with Qingzhi's training of the Huben Zuowei.
what is the problem?
His biggest problem was that he had trained a group of bugs into a group of tigers!
And this makes you feel ashamed and angry.
"Father."
The prince came over and whispered, "Chang Wei Bo has made too many enemies. He can be appeased."
"Hmm?" Emperor Jiajing looked at the prince.
“After all, the guards in the capital and the rest of the country have to rely on these ministers to control them,” said the prince.
"Do you know how they control the guards in the capital and the guards in the world?"
Emperor Jiajing suddenly became angry, "A bunch of bugs!"
The prince was stunned, "Father..."
Emperor Jiajing looked at the prince with complicated eyes, "Who taught you?"
"It's my own idea." The prince said, "It won't last long, Father."
This statement implies a warning: You fought with the ministers for decades over the great ceremony, which was a sign of your firmness, preferring to break rather than bend. As a result, how many state affairs were delayed?
Now, you have started a dispute with your ministers again over the training of the guards in the capital. This is not the way of an emperor!
Emperor Jiajing suddenly strode away.
The prince stood there in a daze.
Not far away, Prince Yu asked his uncle, "Uncle, why is father angry?"
"Your Majesty probably doesn't know why he is angry." Jiang Qingzhi had a guess, "Emperors are domineering in their bones. They all want to suppress their ministers and rule the world. But the ministers banded together, in the name of Confucianism and the overall situation, to suppress the emperor..."
“But shouldn’t an emperor be humble and kind?” Prince Yu was puzzled.
"Who taught you?" Jiang Qingzhi said with a cold face.
"Yes, sir."
"Don't take those bullshit words of mercy seriously." Jiang Qingzhi said, "Do you remember Emperor Xuan of Han and Emperor Yuan of Han, father and son?"
Prince Yu nodded.
Jiang Qingzhi said: "Emperor Xuan of Han once said, the one who ruined my family was the crown prince! Why?"
Prince Yu shook his head.
Jiang Qingzhi smiled, "I forgot that your professor would definitely skip this part."
"Please give me some advice, uncle."
Prince Yu was very sincere.
King Jing was talking to someone not far away. When he saw this, he wanted to come over, but he was entangled by the people around him and couldn't get away.
Jiang Qingzhi said: "The Han Dynasty has its own system, which was originally a mixture of hegemony and kingship. How can we rely solely on moral education and use Zhou politics..."
Prince Yu was stunned.
"Never taught?"
Prince Yu shook his head.
"Yes, this is a record that slaps Confucianism in the face. Anyone who is proud of Confucianism will definitely skip it."
Jiang Qingzhi thought about his previous life when he was studying. In the physiology class, the teacher would skip the part about something.
It seems that students will learn bad things if this paragraph is mentioned.
The same is true for Confucian believers. When teaching their disciples, they often skip the part where Emperor Xuan of Han scolded the crown prince.
At this time, someone screamed behind them, causing everyone to turn around.
The soldier who was being questioned by Emperor Jiajing jumped three feet high, "Your Majesty spoke to me, Your Majesty spoke to me."
In front, Emperor Jiajing was walking faster and faster. When he heard the scream, he stopped and looked back.
"I won't wash these clothes anymore, they'll be heirlooms!"
The sergeants cheered.
"A pure heart." Emperor Jiajing nodded.
Jiang Qingzhi was moved when he saw this, "There is no one around His Majesty, why don't you go quickly?"
"Oh!" Prince Yu trotted over.
"What did you learn today, Old Three?"
Emperor Jiajing felt better.
Prince Yu said: "Hearing is not believing, seeing is believing."
"That's right." Emperor Jiajing said approvingly, "Do you know why I let you leave the palace?"
"I don't know."
Prince Yu was very honest. "Most emperors were born to women in the palace. They have been sitting in a well and looking at the world since they were young, and they don't know what the outside world looks like."
Emperor Jiajing said: "So, they really believed what the gentlemen said the outside world was like."
Prince Yu seemed to be thinking about something.
"Fortunately, I grew up in Anlu. Although I didn't have freedom, at least I wasn't restricted too much. I could walk around the city freely and see what the people were like. Otherwise..."
Emperor Jiajing suddenly asked, "What do you think of the relationship between me and my ministers?"
Prince Yu was about to praise the emperor when he remembered what his cousin had said, which urged him to be honest with his father and face his father with genuine filial piety.
"Father, I think... you are the fighter that my uncle mentioned."
"Fighter?"
“It’s the fighter who refuses to bow down in the face of oppression.”
This was a completely new insight. Emperor Jiajing smiled and said, "Shouldn't an emperor be open-minded and tolerant towards his subjects?"
Prince Yu scratched his head and blurted out those words, "The Han family has its own system, which was originally a mixture of hegemony and kingship. How can we rely solely on moral education and use Zhou politics..."
Emperor Jiajing stopped and looked at him, then turned his eyes and saw the prince not far away. There were several civil officials around the prince, who were talking to him.
"How do you know this?"
The teachers of several princes avoided this passage when teaching. When Emperor Jiajing found out, he just smiled, thinking that these monkeys were trying to cover up something that was only making it more obvious.
"My uncle told me."
"Qingzhi?"
Emperor Jiajing looked at Jiang Qingzhi who was being dragged by Zhu Xizhong not far away, and said quietly: "Many things are too late."
His gaze turned to the prince again, and seeing that the prince looked humble, a surge of anger rose in his heart.
"Perhaps, the prince should have been sent there..."
If the prince had been allowed to meet Jiang Qingzhi and let the two of them have more contact, would the prince still be trapped by those Confucian scholars at this moment?
Emperor Jiajing felt a surge of regret in his heart.
But at this moment, Jiang Qingzhi could not be arranged to be next to the prince.
Otherwise, the two brothers Prince Yu and Prince Jing, who regarded Jiang Qingzhi as their teacher, would inevitably be at odds with the Crown Prince.
Hey!
Emperor Jiajing sighed deeply and then got on the carriage.
"Your Majesty, return to the palace!"
Emperor Jiajing asked, "Where is Shou's wife?"
"The eldest princess...is with Long Wilbur."
Zhu Xizhong was dragging Jiang Qingzhi to go drink, but Jiang Qingzhi wanted to go home. Just as the two were arguing, Jiang Qingzhi felt someone pulling his skirt.
When I turned around, it was my little niece.
"Shou's mother."
Jiang Qingzhi smiled and asked, "What's the matter?"
Not far away, the eunuch shouted, "Grand Princess, His Majesty is calling you."
"right away."
Zhu Shou'an looked up at her uncle and said seriously, "Uncle, you are amazing!"
After saying this, Zhu Shou'an ran away.
Running and laughing.
This is a cheerful and lively little girl.
I came here specifically to praise my cousin.
Several palace maids followed closely, their hair disheveled and their hairpins hanging in disorder, until they ran to the front of the carriage.
"Princess, please stop running around."
"Ok!"
Zhu Shou'an got on the carriage, and the female official following her grumbled, "It will be time to talk about marriage in a few years. You are so casual, and those young men will not be happy."
Zhu Shou'an wrinkled her nose, "I'm still not happy about it!"
The female official was shocked, and worried that Zhu Shou'an had been taught a bad lesson by someone, "Why did the eldest princess say that?"
Zhu Shou'an said: "I want to marry a hero in the future."
"Who does the eldest princess think is the hero?"
The female official smiled, thinking that this was just the aspirations of little girls. And how could they know what a hero was? To be honest, the female official herself didn't know either.
"I want someone like my cousin!" Zhu Shou'an's eyes were filled with longing. "Do you think my cousin is a hero?"
The female official didn't say anything, but the image of Jiang Qingzhi standing motionless on the podium earlier appeared in her mind.
Although his body looked thin, she felt that it was an insurmountable mountain.
"Slave, I don't know."
The female officer said.
The little girl looked up and suddenly discovered something. She pointed at the female official and said:
"Why are you blushing?"
The female official's face became redder and redder.
"You like your uncle!"
"Slave, slave...no."
"If you like it, then you like it. There are many people who like my cousin."
"Don't say anything, Princess."
Zhu Xizhong suddenly found himself in great demand.
"Duke Chengguo, in a few days I will treat the most expensive prostitute in Baiyun Tower and the best wine and food, but can I invite Long Wei Bo to come along? Let's all get together!"
Zhu Xizhong laughed and thought to himself, why would Qingzhi bother to make friends with a fool like you who is just trying to get ahead of others?
"Everyone, everyone, I have something to do at home! Another day, another day!"
"Duke Cheng is showing off!"
"That's right. When Chang Wei Bo was inconspicuous, you, Duke Chengguo, became friends with him. Duke Chengguo really has a keen eye for talent!"
"Haha!" Zhu Xizhong was proud in his heart, but pretended to be humble.
"Duke Chengguo, could you introduce us to Lord Wei?"
Zhu Xizhong took a look at this person and thought to himself, do we have such a relationship?
Unknowingly, in the eyes of many people, Jiang Qingzhi has become a resource.
"Is Long Wilbur married?"
Someone stopped Jiang Qingzhi over there.
What the hell!
Jiang Qingzhi got a headache when he heard this, "No, but..."
"My little daughter is thirteen years old, she is virtuous and kind..."
"Long Wilbur..."
"Don't run, Long Wilbur!"
……
The third update is sent.
(End of this chapter)
