Zhu Houzhao is not stupid at all.

This man is quick-thinking and energetic. After discovering the constraints imposed on him by the civil servants, he worked hard to oppose the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty and built a leopard room. In name, it was a place for taming animals and playing, but in fact it was used to secretly handle military secrets.

In order to take back the emperor's power from the civil servant group, the power of the entire Ming Dynasty emperor was greatly restricted. Zhu Houzhao could not stand this restriction, so he did all kinds of incredible things.

Because of this man's disobedience, his death was extremely strange. He was shocked by flooding and died in March.

When later generations studied the cause of Zhu Houzhao's death, there were many conspiracy theorists who said that Zhu Houzhao was murdered by the original civil servant clique. The most likely murderer was his reading teacher Yang Tinghe. Otherwise, why would Zhu Houzhao be so strong?

Just a man who fell into the water and became seriously ill? When he was seriously ill and the treatment failed, Zhu Houzhao asked to change the imperial doctor and find someone from the private sector. Why did Yang Tinghe and others deliberately obstruct it?

All these records can't help but evoke various associations. Even later generations' evaluations of Zhu Houzhao also have two extremes. Some say he is a saint, while others say he is absurd. Various evaluations are inconsistent.

But that is just an inference drawn by later generations through clues in the history books. The Zhu Houzhao in Xiao Li's Flying Knife is not the same person at all, but has the same name. In Yang Xingzhou's view, the Zhu Houzhao in front of Yang Xingzhou is really extremely shrewd.

Even the internal strength cultivation is extremely advanced. The only people around him who can surpass him in cultivation are probably the eunuch Liu Jin and the great Confucian Wang Yangming. Even Jiang Bin, who has extremely advanced martial arts cultivation, is not as good as him.

"I, the Great Zhou, have no intention of offending the Ming Dynasty. You said that the Great Zhou Dynasty was outflanking the Ming Dynasty. In fact, it was just that we followed the trend and captured Goryeo and Tatar, as well as the small countries in the south. This formed the situation of encircling the Central Plains.

.Brother Zhu, if I wanted to attack the Central Plains, I would have attacked it long ago. Why wait until now? I am also a citizen of the Central Plains. I will not go to war against the Central Plains unless necessary."

Yang Xingzhou glanced at Zhu Houzhao: "So in order to reduce friction, I proposed to the Ming Dynasty. In the future, I will have children and grandchildren with the Princess of the Ming Dynasty. The two families are friendly, and the children and grandchildren will help each other and form an eternal alliance to defend against foreign enemies. This is what I truly believe."

Something you want to pursue!”

Zhu Houzhao was doubtful: "Brother Yang, I know how powerful you are, and I also know your character. I can't believe your words."

"You'd better believe it!"

Yang Xingzhou shook his head and sighed: "I really don't want to see Ming seclude itself in the country and sink step by step. I want to help him before I propose to Ming. Otherwise, I just have to wait patiently for a few years. Ming will be in chaos if it doesn't attack, and the eunuchs will have exclusive power.

, the confrontation between the king and his ministers will cause big problems sooner or later. At that time, I will send troops into the pass, how can you stop me?"

Zhu Houzhao didn't believe it: "You are kidding, what kind of eunuch has exclusive power? Why didn't I know?"

Yang Xingzhou smiled and said: "The great eunuch Liu Jin has always harmed the people, and has killed Mr. Yangming several times. He is domineering and lawless. Many of the things you do are instigated by Liu Jin. He is not authoritarian, so who can?"

Autocratic power?”

Zhu Houzhao's face changed color slightly. Liu Jin was his personal eunuch and had a very deep relationship with him. Many people had already exposed Liu Jin's domineering nature to him, but he suppressed them all. After all, Liu Jin was as docile as a dog in front of him.

Everyone in the group was extremely respectful and never did anything offensive, so it was always hard for Zhu Houzhao to believe that Liu Jin would do such an outrageous thing.

But now that even Yang Xingzhou is talking about Liu Jin, the eunuch who is autocratic, Zhu Houzhao has to take it to heart. After all, others say that Liu Jin is autocratic, and it may be a frame-up against Liu Jin. However, as the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, Yang Xingzhou will never make false claims.

If you dare to say that, there must be evidence.

While he was pondering, he heard Yang Xingzhou continue: "As for your ministers, do you know why they oppose the opening of the sea? That's because maritime trade is huge profits. They deliberately prevent the opening of the sea in order to monopolize sea trade. Only in this way,

Only they can get the maximum benefit, and they don't have to pay taxes. There are so many wealthy households in Jiangnan, land annexation is extremely serious, and the people are hungry, but any official in the court has thousands of hectares of fertile land, and they don't have to pay taxes. Hehe, Ming Dynasty

Most of the imperial dynasty's silver went into the hands of these local gentry, so they did not pay taxes because they had special status and were exempt from tax."

"As a result, the imperial court can only collect taxes from poor people, but not rich households. As a result, the poor want to get poorer and the rich get richer. In the face of natural and man-made disasters, the poor people are left with only one life.

, when the time comes, it will be natural to rise up. Sooner or later, one will die, and it is better to kill a few officials and then die. Hey, most of the people's rebellion was forced by the court. If you keep going like this, the Ming Dynasty will be far away

I’m afraid the day when everything is over is not far away!”

After Yang Xingzhou finished saying this, he said no more, leaned against the car wall, closed his eyes and rested his mind.

Opposite him, Zhu Houzhao looked extremely ugly and remained silent.

After arriving at the Leopard Room, Yang Xingzhou and Zhu Houzhao discussed in secret for a day, accompanied only by Wang Yangming. What the two of them discussed on this day has become an eternal mystery, but after the next day, Zhu Houzhao transferred the Ming Dynasty to Yunluo County.

The Lord promised Yang Xingzhou.

This Princess Yunluo is the daughter of King Fu Zhu Dechao. She is only 28 years old. She is active by nature. She likes riding and shooting the most. She is extremely naughty. She often takes her maids with her out of the city to hunt. She also disguised herself as a woman and walked around in the rivers and lakes, meeting Li Xunhuan's wife.

We met Lin Shiyin and were taught a lot of exquisite martial arts. Because of his restlessness, he injured many of his peers and became a tyrant in the city, which no one could do anything about.

I happened to be visiting relatives in Beijing these days. When I had a disagreement with Zhu Houzhao, they started fighting. Zhu Houzhao was so beaten that his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. He was too embarrassed to go to court and did not dare to go out until three days later.

Now that Yang Xingzhou was asking for marriage, Zhu Houzhao did not hesitate to throw this disaster into Yang Xingzhou's hands, without any reluctance at all.

After receiving the promise, Yang Xingzhou and others stayed in the capital for a few days, leaving a group of people waiting to welcome the bride when she went abroad. The rest were about to return to the Zhou Dynasty. Zhu Houzhao personally sent them off ten miles away from the capital, and then calmed down with the courtiers.

Return slowly.

The day after Yang Xingzhou left, the eunuch Liu Jin was taken down and put into prison. His crimes were later interrogated and found to be unforgivable. Zhengde was furious and executed him in a hurry. His meat was sold on the execution ground.

The people rushed to buy it, and everyone ate the meat. This shows how much resentment Liu Jin caused.

After that, several other eunuchs and favored ministers around him were also executed by Zhu Houzhao one after another. The whole court was shocked. Many people who had close contacts with Liu Jin in the past were also arrested. Later, one of the chief assistants, Li Boyuan, took the lead in attacking Yang Tinghe.

The Jiangnan faction and the Jiangbei faction began to fight internally. Zhu Houzhao intervened to mediate and leveraged his strength. Only then did he experience the joy of being an emperor.

This method of letting his subordinates disagree and make arrangements by himself was the first method that Yang Xingzhou gave to Zhu Houzhao.
Chapter completed!