Zhu Gaoye smiled and said,"
"The so-called method of killing saints can't be simple. We need to think of a way to cut off their wings first. Otherwise, these people can support a new saint at any time.”
"Let's not talk about the distant ones. Isn't that Sage Zhu Xi a Sage supported by these scholars? With Zhu Xi's ability, he could be considered a great scholar, but how could he become a Saint?”
"And those wealthy merchants will collude with civil officials in the future and even dare to plant people in the palace.”
Hearing Zhu Gaoye's words, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air. These people actually dared to plant people in the palace. They were simply bold and lawless!
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di didn't have much of an impression of a Sage nurtured by these people. After all, there was a Sage in the Ming Dynasty, and it was an aristocratic family.
However, what kind of place was the imperial palace? It was a barrier that separated the members of the royal family from those who were not. It was also a boundary established by the royal family. Outside the boundary was the world, and inside the boundary was the royal family.
However, Zhu Gaoye said that these people wanted to cross the line. It was like a person barging into your house for no reason. Not to mention the royal family, even ordinary people would not be able to tolerate it.
However, before Zhu Gaoye could finish his sentence, he continued,"
"When that time comes, the royal family will no longer have the final say. Even the safety of the princes will be in the hands of these people.”
"Whoever they want to inherit the throne can inherit the throne. If they encounter an emperor they are not satisfied with, they can even change the emperor.”
When Zhu Gaoye said this, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di instantly felt their scalps go numb. These wealthy businessmen and civil officials actually dared to be so bold. How was this any different from the aristocratic families and clans that controlled the world back then?
When he first started his army, he had come into contact with those aristocratic families. Those people were all willing to pay money and food to help him seize the world. Their request was to let his aristocratic children enter the court as officials in the future to help Zhu Yuanzhang govern the world. However, in the end, they were all sternly rejected by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well what these aristocratic families were up to. They wanted to take advantage of the opportunity when the Mongolians wiped out the entire Central Plains and use this opportunity to restore the prosperity of the imperial court during the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Later on, Zhu Yuanzhang encountered two major crises. One was Zhang Shicheng's sudden invasion of the border, and the other was Chen Youliang's sneak attack. Both were because he refused to lower his head and cooperate with these aristocratic families, and he was hated for revenge.
Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang had the support of powerful families behind them. This was something that he only found out after killing the two of them. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang had always been extremely vigilant against these powerful families.
Zhu Gaoye's words were not baseless. They were all based on facts.
The history books recorded that Emperor Zheng De fell into the water and died from a cold. It was simply ridiculous.
No matter how absurd an emperor was, his attendants and eunuchs were always loyal to him, especially in an era like the Ming Dynasty where eunuchs were completely dependent on the imperial power.
Without the Emperor, those eunuchs of high status and power were nothing. Therefore, even if the Emperor really fell into the water, these attendants and eunuchs could not let the Emperor stay in the water for too long.
Not to mention that the Imperial Academy of Medicine was a place where famous doctors from all over the world gathered. A small cold from falling into the water could actually cause the death of a country's ruler.
No matter who heard it, they would only think that it was full of conspiracy.
Following that was the fact that Emperor Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao, had no heir. These civil officials had picked out Emperor Jiajing, who they thought was easy to control, from the side branch, and wanted to use this person who had never learned the emperor's mind to control the court.
Who knew that he would find himself a big trouble.
When Emperor Jiajing first ascended the throne, he was also ambitious. He lifted the ban on the sea, carried out currency reform, and gradually reformed the people's livelihood. He fought against the civil officials in the court.
The civil officials were caught off guard at the beginning. They were indeed caught off guard by Emperor Jiajing, but it later attracted even more intense revenge from the civil officials.
In the end, the palace maids and eunuchs who were almost bribed were killed in the palace. However, Emperor Jiajing was still unconvinced at that time and continued to fight with the civil servants.
However, as the eight princes of Emperor Jiajing slowly died, only Prince Yu and another prince were left.
Emperor Jiajing was finally completely disheartened. He began to indulge in cultivation and ignored the government.
Moreover, in order to protect Prince Yu, he even believed the prophecy that the two dragons would not meet each other made up by those civil officials. Only then did he save Prince Yu's life.
From then on, the civil officials paid special attention to the selection of the heir to the royal family.
The Ming royal family would no longer have the power to contend with the civil officials. Even if the later emperors trusted the eunuchs and appointed eunuchs, it would be useless.
After the Emperor passed away, everything would be reshuffled and start all over again. Every time this cycle occurred, it would increase the confidence of these civil officials and give them a greater motivation to suppress the imperial power.
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, the people's livelihood was exhausted and all industries withered. In order to let the people recuperate and live, and to let all industries in the world prosper again, he formulated an extremely low tax rate.
Especially the business tax, which was as low as 30% tax, which was basically nothing. However, even so, there were still countless businessmen who evaded taxes and tried their best not to pay taxes.
He knew all of these things. The Jinyiwei who were everywhere were not fooling around with anyone. At least in the years when Zhu Yuanzhang was the emperor, the Jinyiwei could be said to have completely played the role of the emperor's eyes and ears.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not choose to make a move on these merchants because he wanted to use these merchants to revitalize the world's economy. He did not expect that in the end, these merchants actually dared to collude with the civil officials to control the Ming Dynasty and seek benefits for themselves.
At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang finally realized where the problem was. The problem was that he was too kind to these people. He always thought that the people were suffering too much, but he did not expect these people to slowly breed such wild ambitions!
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