Great Ming National Teacher

Li Yunya and Zhu Youjian gossiped about snacks and tea, and gradually turned to political affairs. Zhu Youjian dismissed all the eunuchs and maids, and even Xu Yingyuan, who brought the closest person from the palace, was kicked out, and no one was allowed near.

"This morning, Wei Zhongxian asked me to resign." Zhu Youjian said in a low voice.

"Oh, His Majesty is certainly not allowed."

"He's testing me. If I get it right, I'm afraid he's going to jump the wall!" Zhu Youjian said angrily.

"I still advise Your Majesty not to kill Wei Zhongxian." Li Yunya said hesitantly.

"You don't have to say it!" Zhu Youjian was a little unhappy. They had already argued about this topic, "If Wei Zhongxian is not dead, if the eunuch party is not eliminated, the Ming Dynasty will have no peace! As I said at the beginning, I will take office. The first thing is to eradicate the eunuchs!"

"Ah." Li Yunya took out a handful of peanuts from the hanging stove and put them on the table, peeled them off and gave them to Zhu Youjian to eat, "Don't be angry, I told you not to kill Wei Zhongxian, and I killed him for you and for the Ming court." It does more harm than good.”

Peanuts had just been introduced to China at this time, and they were slightly planted along the southeast coast, and the quantity was very small. Zhu Youjian had never eaten them. He watched Li Yunya poke the corners of peanuts, and there were four red nuts lying inside, and poured them out. Pass it to yourself.

He tried to pick one up and put it in his mouth, and tasted it carefully. The hanging stove peanuts were first boiled in soup, and then fried. They were fragrant and crispy, and they were the best for drinking. He fell in love with this taste, but he didn't show it, not because of the emperor's intentions, but because he was a little reserved, and he didn't want to act like a rare bastard in front of Li Yunya.

He thought Li Yunya peeled it slowly and couldn't get enough of it, so he grabbed a handful by himself: "I'll just peel it myself."

Li Yunya grabbed his hand, opened his fingers, dug out the peanuts, then pinched his fingers to lift them up and looked around. Zhu Youjian's fingers were very slender, his skin was fair and tender, and his nails were neatly manicured. It would be best: "You better keep this hand, I'll just peel it off for you."

Zhu Youjian secretly swallowed his saliva, and returned with two peanuts: "Go on, what are the pros and cons of killing Wei Zhongxian?"

"Your Majesty, do you know where the so-called eunuchs come from?"

"It's just a group of villains who are following the trend, and they formed a party by relying on Wei Zhongxian."

"Wrong!" This bag of hanging stove peanuts uses four red peanuts as the raw material. This kind of peanut has a low yield, but it tastes good, and each corner must be four. The red coat of the peanut inside is dark purple. Every time you peel off a corner, give Zhu Youjian two pills, and eat two pills yourself, "During the Wanli Dynasty, there were Donglin Party, Qi Party, Zhejiang Party, and Chu Party in the court hall. Friends form factions, don't ask right or wrong, don't ask right and wrong, conquer each other, and eradicate dissidents."

"Huh." Zhu Youjian took a sip of tea and said angrily, "Gentlemen are not partisan, villains are not partisan!"

"Yes, but if others form a party, I don't form a party. Not to mention a foothold, there is no way to get in, so everyone forms a party. After two dynasties, almost everyone has a party. After Wanli, the East The Lin Party, relying on the merits of the dragon to protect the holy car twice, controlled the court, and the family was dominant. In the early years of the apocalypse, Zhao Nanxing, the leader of the Donglin Party at that time, made a theory of the four evils, talking about the leaders of other parties as metaphors. Become the ancient Taotie, Qiongqi, Wuwu, and Chaos, and then they fought all the parties to a complete defeat. These party members were unwilling to fail, so they turned to Wei Zhongxian one after another, so they became the later eunuchs. They in turn took revenge on the Donglin Party. The Donglin Party was defeated again within a few years. So what I am worried about is that once you completely eradicate the Wei Party, the Donglin Party will definitely regain power. People are in the city of sorrow, they can't get out, and even the eunuchs around them are bought by them..."

"They dare!" Zhu Youjian slapped the table and almost knocked down the teacup.

"Your Majesty!" Xu Yingyuan heard it from outside, thinking that Zhu Youjian was furious, and wanted to punish Li Yunya. While asking someone to call the guards in the palace, he was about to rush in. Before he could say the word "escort", Zhu Youjian interrupted.

"Get out! As I said, you are not allowed to come in without my order. Are you going to disobey the order?"

"Slaves don't dare!" Xu Yingyuan broke into a cold sweat from fright, and hurriedly led the people out of the door again.

Zhu Youjian is a very excitable person. He stood up and walked around the room, shaking his head: "No! That will never happen! I will never allow that to happen!" Of course, he is also a very rational and intelligent person, so he sat down and asked Li Yunya quickly, "Do you mean to balance the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, and let them fight each other to maintain the political balance?"

Li Yunya nodded: "If you don't watch them fight, you have to fight them yourself."

"Nonsense! Friends and cliques have always been said to be tolerated by the court, how can I let them..."

"Whether you can't help it or not, they will form gangs and cliques for selfishness. People are selfish. Gentlemen are like Bodhisattvas. They are rare national treasures in the world. Small people are the majority. And governing a big country is like cooking small fish. We can't worry. step by step."

Zhu Youjian already had a clue about what he meant: "Oh? Ji Jiangan will come out?"

"Don't worry, listen to me slowly. First of all, you must be determined, and you must understand what your ultimate ambition and purpose are. To eliminate the alien races in the north, it is best to solve them once and for all, and completely solve the problem of border problems. Internally, let the people live and work in peace and contentment. Everyone has something to eat, everyone has something to study, and the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is booming, right?"

Zhu Youjian thought about Li Yunya's words, nodded and said, "That's right."

"However, the reality is that the imperial court is controlled by Wei Zhongxian. If you kill Wei Zhongxian, you will be controlled by the Donglin Party. Therefore, we must first take power from Wei Zhongxian's hands, and we must ensure that we will not be taken by the Donglin Party. In the past, right?"

Zhu Youjian doesn't like to hear him say that his rights will be taken away by the Donglin Party. He has the confidence to kill Wei Zhongxian and suppress the Donglin Party. He has his own way to achieve the goal Li Yunya said, but he doesn't want to fight with Li Yunya. Argument: "You go on."

Li Yunya said: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, especially when the world is in chaos, so the first thing we need to do is to control the military power. We must have an army that is completely loyal to you and fights wherever you want! The other is financial power. You Although you are the son of heaven, you often cannot adjust the money of the Ministry of Finance, especially when the Minister of the Ministry of Accounting and the cabinet members are united, don't be convinced, look back at the previous dynasty, how many times the emperor could not get rid of it? The Ministry of Accounts can only get the money from internal funds? Even if you change the first assistant or the minister, the new one will still have party members, so the second goal is to make money. We have to get a lot of money, and we cannot rely on the Ministry of Accounts support."

The route Li Yunya said is completely different from what Zhu Youjian thought. Zhu Youjian intends to eradicate the eunuchs first, and then control the government from top to bottom. He still prefers his own method, but what Li Yunya said is also very It makes sense, and it doesn't go against my own thoughts: "How do you want to grab the military power? Could it be that you want to become the governor of Jiliao? How else can you make money? Do you want to increase your salary?" If Li Yunya hit these two Zhu Youjian will look down on him, the former is a high-ranking official, and the latter is an old man.

"Not at all!" Li Yunya felt that Zhu Youjian's thinking was deeply limited by the times, "I want to train a new army for His Majesty. As for making money, I recommend His Majesty to collect business taxes."

"Arranging and training the new army? You know how to train soldiers? As for the collection of commercial taxes...it's inappropriate." Zhu Youjian rested his chin on his hand, meditating, "Now that the country's finances are tight and we're living on a surplus, I can arrange and train the new army. Disburse internal funds, but beware of changes in the eunuch party. Someone mentioned the business tax Wanli Dynasty, and was attacked by ministers inside and outside the court, and finally nothing happened. These two things..."

"That's why we need to keep Eunuch Wei!" Li Yunya patted his chest and assured, "I'll go to Wei Zhongxian when I turn around, and I promise not to make him suspicious, and you don't need to pay for the money, no, you pay a part of it, which means 1 taels I mean, let Eunuch Wei go out for the rest."

"Will he pay the money?"

"Sure! There is also business tax collection. Don't be in a hurry. Let's take it step by step. Within three years, I will definitely finish it for you, but you must keep Eunuch Wei for me. With him not only Things are much easier to handle, and there are still people who are scapegoating."

The two chatted for a while, seeing that it was getting late, Zhu Youjian decided to invite Li Yunya to dinner.

This time he became the emperor, and instead of having a meal with each other holding a bowl of Mala Tang across the table as before, a table was set in front of each person, and the food was placed on it, and a group of court ladies and eunuchs served the dishes beside him. .

Zhu Youjian saw that there were more than 20 dishes for him, and Li Yunya only had a dozen dishes in front of him. He told the little eunuch: "Bring this dish to Yunya, give him this soup, and this... "It wasn't until Li Yunya had more than himself that he announced that he would start eating.

At this time, the eunuch came in with a jar of wine, and Zhu Youjian was a little proud: "This is the chrysanthemum wine aged by Shang Shanjian over the years. It's just right to drink when it's warm. I drank a little yesterday. You can try it." The little eunuch poured Li Yunya first.

Li Yunya snatched the wine jar and put it into the space: "You are only 16 years old, what kind of wine do children drink, don't you want to grow taller?" The eunuchs present were all frightened. Yun Ya didn't care, strode to Zhu Youjian's desk, took out a bottle of apple cider vinegar, "Drink this, it will appetizer and help digestion, so drink less alcohol in the future."

He opened the lid of the apple cider vinegar, filled a cup with his own hands and handed it to Zhu Youjian. Zhu Youjian took it and sniffed it first: "Is this the fairy liquid from heaven?" He didn't smell the wine, so he sipped it After taking a small sip, his mouth became sour, and his first reaction was to spit it out, but fortunately, he held back and held it in his mouth for a while to swallow.

"You don't need to drink like that!" Li Yunya poured himself a glass, and drank it dry with his head raised, "It's refreshing to drink like this."

Zhu Youjian drank a cup like him, it was sour and sweet, and finally tasted it. Li Yunya picked up the chopsticks on the table and took two slices of roasted mutton and fed it to him. I am very used to it, and I opened my mouth to take it very naturally.

Li Yunya returned to his table, took out a bottle of apple cider vinegar, and had a pleasant lunch with Zhu Youjian.