I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

At the beginning of peace, Wu Changqing was busy planning to award honors to the generals, and the civil servants also started their actions.

In a secret house, seven or eight men gathered.

Those who are familiar with Dahua's officialdom will be surprised to see these people, because there are many heavyweights gathered in this secret house.

Gu Yanwu, Minister of Personnel, Qian Qianyi, Minister of Rites, Dai Li, Minister of Work, Wen Junxuan, Minister of Rites, Wang Lang, Zuowei Shizhong, Supervising Censor Huawu...

The ministers and ministers are all important court officials and the core of the empire.

As for the six divisions, although the rank of the supervising censors are not high, they are all officials, and they are specially responsible for criticizing the court officials and the emperor, and they speak a lot.

Naturally, these people will not be bored after being full, and they will talk about which top card of Qinhuai River is more beautiful.

These people more or less have a common label, Donglin Party, or Donglin Yu Party.

The Donglin Party represented the civil service group of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. Even if it was repeatedly pushed out by the Wanli Emperor, suppressed by Wei Zhongxian, persecuted by Ruan Dacheng, and suppressed by Wu Changqing, it could not be completely eliminated.

The reason is mainly because the land of Dahua has always been a human society.

The relationship between everyone is maintained by human affection, not by the legal system.

After a jinshi candidate becomes an official, it is natural to join the party in their hometown, such as the Donglin party, the Zhejiang party, the Qi party, the Xuan party and so on.

Or, when candidates are in the middle, they will automatically join the faction of their chief examiner. After all, the chief examiner is equivalent to their high school benefactor.

Or because of other interests, have to join a certain faction.

In short, being an official in the DPRK alone has almost no possibility of promotion.

As long as there are people, there will be factions and partisanship.

And Jiangnan is the most prosperous place in the world. The Donglin Party, which represents the interests of Jiangnan, is extremely powerful and deeply rooted. Naturally, it is impossible to completely destroy it.

Officials from the Jiangnan scholar-official group, they all have to serve the Jiangnan scholar-official group.

At present, the Jiangnan gentry group has a very urgent demand, that is, to increase the right to speak in the court and to limit the imperial power.

At present, Wu Changqing's power is too great, so big that he can say anything about everything. This is unacceptable to all officials, and it is also unacceptable to the gentry of Jiangnan.

Without the right to speak, they have no sense of security.

If the emperor wants to increase taxes, he will increase taxes, if he wants to carry out reforms, he will carry out reforms, and if he wants to cut wool, he will cut wool.

No restrictions on imperial power, no matter how much money you make now, it is not necessarily your own.

As long as Wu Changqing makes a random rule, their wealth may shrink significantly, and then it is equivalent to making money for Wu Changqing.

This kind of thing, big businessmen can not accept.

In the past, when the world was in great chaos, everyone put up with this situation in order to support Wu Changqing to calm the world first.

But now that the world is unified, and without a strong external enemy, they will begin to engage in internal power struggles.

When later generations watch ancient dramas, they feel as if the emperor can do whatever he wants, and kill whoever he wants, but it's not like this at all.

This world, from ancient times to the present, has never belonged to a certain person, but belonged to one or more groups.

An authority is often a compromise of a group of people.

There has never been a situation where one person can control the world.

On the surface of the court, the emperor and the officials have a subordinate relationship, but in fact it is more like a cooperative relationship.

Everyone controls the world together, the emperor eats the fattest piece, the officials eat the rest, and the ruled class eats the soil.

No emperor has ever dared to let himself and his people live a good life, and then let officials live a miserable life.

If the emperor dared to do this, he would be overthrown in minutes.

This cooperative relationship was most evident in the late Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Wanli wanted to abolish the crown prince, but he could not change the heir, and the officials did not agree.

Because the relationship between the prince and the Donglin party was better at that time, the Donglin party preferred the prince as a partner.

Faced with this situation, Wanli had nothing to do. He could only protest in such a way that he did not go to court, but he had no way to remove or kill all those officials.

It was even more so in the Chongzhen period, when Chongzhen wanted to collect some businessmen's taxes, it was a dream.

The civil service group representing the interests of the big landlords and businessmen firmly refused to agree.

And those officials can directly scold him for wanting to compete with the people for profit. The people in their mouths refer to the gentry class, not the people at the bottom.

As for Chongzhen, he had no choice but to hang himself in the end.

Before he died, he also shouted that all ministers in the world could be killed.

However, before he died, he did not order to kill all the officials he hated, because he knew in his heart that even if he issued such an order, no one would obey it.

It's just a cooperative relationship. When it is profitable to work together, everyone will respect you, long live the emperor.

After the cooperation is unprofitable, who will be your emperor?

After Chongzhen died, there was not even an official willing to collect his body. To put it bluntly, everyone looked down on this incompetent collaborator.

During the Chongzhen period, the power of civil officials reached the peak of history.

Chongzhen ordered the minister to write the memorial, and the minister could directly refuse. worship

Zhen has the right to remove those who refuse to write, but those who come in will certainly refuse to write.

In the end, it was often Chongzhen, not Wenchen, who complied.

Today, the gentry class in the south of the Yangtze River also wants to restore the right to speak.

Only when you have enough right to speak can the money you earn truly belong to you.

Of course, this is difficult, after all, Wu Changqing is in control of the army.

However, the civil servants are not at all helpless. How to make up the emperor, this class has been studied for thousands of years.

"The world has been decided. It's time for your Majesty's draft. His Majesty still needs to enrich the lower harem. Currently, His Majesty has too few heirs and is not an icon of ZTE."

Wen Junxuan said.

His words seemed to be thinking for Wu Changqing's sake, but all the smart people in the room instantly understood what he meant.

They all knew that Wu Changqing was a wise and marvelous emperor.

Unlike some emperors, they don't know how much an egg costs, and can only be played with by officials.

Lust is probably the only weakness they currently have.

As long as you make good use of it, you can find enough stunning fairies to indulge Wu Changqing.

Wu Changqing was addicted to beauty, so naturally he didn't have the time and energy to deal with the affairs of the government. Those things could only be left to other ministers, which was equivalent to delegating power.

At that time, if the appointment and dismissal of official positions are decided by the Ministry of Personnel, there is no need to notify Wu Changqing. Then the other officials naturally tried their best to please the Ministry of Officials, who would be the emperor of Wu Changqing again.

After all, this emperor only cares about pleasure and doesn't care about his own glory and wealth.

It would be even better if Wu Changqing had excessive sexual intercourse, resulting in premature aging of his body and early death.

Support Wu Changqing's youngest son to ascend the throne, continue to let Wu Changqing's family enjoy the glory and wealth, and then they will actually control the world.

At that time, the world was nominally still owned by the Wu family, but in fact it was all controlled by their civil service group.

And this is what they want the most.

They don't mind having an emperor on their head and enjoy the best material life, they just want their class to be able to live a luxurious life.

"Lord Wen's words are very true, and most of His Majesty's harem are from unrighteous backgrounds and behave erratically. This is very bad. As a concubine, she actually wrote books to make money, and she lost the face of the royal family.

If this matter were leaked, outsiders would think that the royal family had abused her. What's more, he is still engaged in work, often in contact with other men, which is simply ridiculous.

In the next draft, well-educated ladies and gentlemen must be selected from the gentry's family, and they must abide by their duties. "

Wang Lang added a point that can be criticized, that is, Wu Changqing was too indulgent to what his concubines did.

For Wu Changqing's current women, they have great opinions.

In their opinion, those concubines should be pondering all day long how to squeeze the emperor dry and exhausted.

How should you spend your time on writing books, saving people, and playing mahjong?