The news that King Xin assisted in government affairs was circulated from the birthday of Emperor Tianqi, which caused another shock to the government and the public. Although Emperor Tianqi did not have much real power to assist in government affairs, Emperor Tianqi's move was indeed intriguing. Even the King Xin of the person involved could not help but ask himself in his heart, what is the purpose of Emperor Tianqi doing this?

When Zhu Yinglong told Shi Kefa, Xiong Hu and others the news, everyone was naturally overjoyed, but opportunities and crises were with each other. This was really a plan that could not keep up with changes. There was no fixed number in this world, and people walked out of the road.

Although the imperial wine in the palace is not high, it is all good wines that have been stored in the cellar for more than ten years. It is very mellow and long. He didn't drink much, only seven or eight cups. When he returned to the study room of the mansion, he felt a little dizzy. He took off the purple fur outside and handed it to Xiong Hu who followed him in, and then walked to his desk and sat down. His head was still the scene of the palace just now on the birthday festival of the Palace.

"Shulan, are Lianyi and the others asleep?"

"Not yet, I'm waiting for you in the room." Xiong Hu said calmly. Among the three women, Xiong Hu was the one who knows Zhu Yinglong's mind the best.

"Let them sleep first, don't wait for me. I want to be alone tonight." Zhu Yinglong slowly closed his eyes, leaned against the back of the chair, and said with his back.

"I'll give you some hot water to wash your face and smell of alcohol." Xiong Hu turned around and said.

Zhu Yinglong made no sound, Xiong Hu paused at his feet and went out.

After a while, Xiong Hu pushed open the door, walked in with a plate of hot water, twisted the hot towel and walked towards Zhu Yinglong.

Before Xiong Hu could apply a hot towel to his face, Zhu Yinglong suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a trace of blood. He grabbed Xiong Hu's hand, stared at her and asked, "Li Niang, do you regret giving me yours?"

Drunk people are prone to telling their true feelings to others. This is to say the truth after drinking. Xiong Hu lets Zhu Yinglong grab his hand, staring at him with gentle eyes and said, "No, Li Niang has never regretted it."

"No, Li Niang, you lied to me." The alcohol came up, and he was a little confused by the sudden assistant government affairs. In addition, after drinking a lot of alcohol, his fragile side showed up, spraying alcohol. He asked in pain, "What should you do with your ideal?"

Xiong Hu's face was stunned. This man was thinking about himself all the time. Can't he sacrificed for this man? The burden he was carrying on his shoulders was too heavy, and he shouldn't increase the burden on his shoulders any more.

"I think I'm very happy now. Fighting and killing is really not suitable for women to do. I can't live without the prince." Xiong Hu said softly.

"Really?" Zhu Yinglong asked with joy on his face.

"Really." Xiong Hun's face showed a smile and repeated.

The seductive red lips, charming curves, intoxicating fragrance, and alcohol can inspire people's lust. He needs to vent now and need a catharsis. Xiong Hu's gentleness and considerate undoubtedly has a dense temptation to Zhu Yinglong now.

Zhu Yinglong tonight was obviously different from the past. He became very wild and collided hard, bringing Xiong Hu to the happiest top again and again. In the end, the two of them hugged each other and fell asleep.

The morning sun shone through the window on a pair of sleeping men and women hugging each other tightly. The partition paper blocked the window, so the light was not so dazzling. However, the biological clock still awakened Zhu Yinglong, who was hangover on time. Thinking of last night's ridiculousness and the will to assist in government affairs, Zhu Yinglong couldn't help but shake his head. It turned out that people still had his fragile side, and even the strongest people were there. Looking at the tired face that nestled on his chest, you knew how rough he was last night. I'm so sorry, I didn't expect that he had such a violent tendency towards women.

After sobering up, his mind was also clear. In order not to wake up Xiong Hu, who was still sleeping, Zhu Yinglong lay quietly, constantly planning what he wanted to do next, and was anxious to eat hot tofu. Wei Zhongxian is very powerful now. It is not a rational way to fight for power directly with him. Instead, it will make Emperor Tianqi suspicious, but it is not enough to wait and not do it. God knows whether Emperor Tianqi is examining his abilities. Zhang Yan once told him in person that Emperor Tianqi intends to make him the crown prince. Regardless of whether it is true or false, he must act cautiously. The complex struggles above the temple are unimaginable.

The next day, Emperor Tianqi officially issued an imperial edict, ordering the king to assist in the government affairs, nominally higher than the Chief Secretary of the Cabinet, and above 10,000 people. In fact, it is just a decoration, with only the power to listen and watch. However, there is one thing that must be known to him in all court affairs, so he gave Zhu Yinglong a chance to fully understand the affairs of the court affairs and be familiar with the operations of various departments of the court. This opportunity is still very rare.

On the first day of taking office, the ministers of the six ministries and the cabinet ministers gave some face. They could kneel down and bow down to each other. They were very harmonious on the surface. Perhaps because of what Zhu Yinglong said to Tianqi on the Wanshou Festival, all the officials showed the thoughts of resistance to the King of Xin, who was responsible for government affairs. No one wanted to see something about his own department. The new official took office and the person who was in trouble. Some officials in the eunuch party knew some inside information and were extremely wary of Zhu Yinglong. Wei Liangqing was "cracked" by this Prince of Xin, who was not usually revealed, and even Wei Zhongxian could not save him. If he violated him, he would probably have a dead end. Such officials hid far away when they saw Zhu Yinglong, making Zhu Yinglong look like a plague god, and everyone was afraid of him.

Under such circumstances, it is indeed difficult for Zhu Yinglong to understand the real operation of various yamen in the court, but he still has Shadow. Combining what Shadow has secretly investigated, and then combining the two with what he saw and heard in his eyes, he basically understands seven or eight levels. The more he understands, the deeper the understanding, the more Zhu Yinglong wants to corrupt these corruption, bully the superiors and the subordinates, and ignore the lives and death of the people. The bastard minister who reported good news and not bad news, digs a pit and buried alive, and then burns books and burys scholars.

From the six ministers to the low-level yamen runners, they could buy them with money and clearly marked prices. Is there any reason for this? Talented people who are acquiring scholars in the official ranks must not be valued at all. They can only sit on the bench in the Hanlin Academy, or wait for a ten or twenty years as an alternate tutor. Some people will wait until their hair is gray and they will never see him.

Confucianism emphasizes self-cultivation and morality. It seems that there are no clues in these so-called important officials of the court. Zhu Yinglong is not the kind of person who is jealous of "Confucianism" as enemies. On the contrary, he agrees with the philosophical concept of Confucianism. He classified Confucianism before the Han Dynasty as real Confucianism. Since Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty, he elevated Confucianism to serve the ruling class, and even deified Confucianism is called pseudo-Confucianism. It is this pseudo-Confucianism that has bound China's development for nearly a thousand years.

The splendid culture is because of its openness and absorption. At that time, it was compared with the hundreds of schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Because of its active thoughts, it affected the whole world. However, pseudo-Confucianism reached its peak in the hands of the Second Cheng and Zhu Xi in the Song Dynasty. However, the Song Dynasty was destroyed by Mongolia, which cannot but explain its mistakes. Today's Ming Dynasty not only inherited the pseudo-Confucianism of the Second Cheng and the Second Zhu, but also became more and more misinterpreted. This is really a good person who has no life and has been ruined for thousands of years.

Economically, salt, tea, iron ore, copper ore, etc. were originally managed by the state, but now it has become a way for the powerful clans to make huge profits. Zhu Changxun, the Fuwang of Luoyang, allocated him 30,000 salt and 6 million jin of salt every year. He set up a salt sales office in Luoyang to sell salt to the vast area of ​​Zhongzhou. It is strictly forbidden for salt from all other channels to enter the sale. The eunuchs even used the imperial goods to manufacture and take charge of them.

The opportunity of his huge expenditure was to use the profits of operating salt to make up for the shortage of capital for the production of imperial goods. He used this as a reason to seek salt inducement, but in fact he won himself the privilege of selling private salt in a grand manner. Thousands of silver were flowing into the pockets of these people, and the court basically had no profit at all. No wonder King Fu was raised to be more than 300 kilograms of fat man, and in the history he knew, he was cooked and eaten by King Li Zicheng of the King of Breaking.

The tax supervision in various places is firmly in the hands of eunuchs, and the court can only get a very pitiful part of the annual profit. There are also Weaving Department, Maritime Department, Xixin Department and other yamen that can make money are firmly controlled by the eunuch party.

Admiral Wei Zhongxian's treasure and three shops made a lot of money every day. Wei Zhongxian's personal property is probably comparable to the annual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty. There are countless treasures and antiques, as well as various precious and rare objects presented by envoys of the foreign country. They are not available in the imperial palace, and are all in Wei Zhongxian's mansion.

In short, the eunuch party, the powerful and royal family members controlled the entire Ming Dynasty's economic lifeline. They used various means to plunder and exploit and seize the wealth created by ordinary people and merchants from all walks of life, especially the emperor. The world was originally the emperor, and he still loved money so much. This was a ridiculous question, but the problem was that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were famous for their lust and love money. He probably knew that no dynasty could continue for generations, so he tried his best to accumulate wealth. After he was pushed down, he could continue to enjoy it.

No wonder some later scholars believed that even if the Qing Dynasty did not enter the Central Plains, China would not enter capitalism, because this germination was not the regression of the Manchus entering the Central Plains, but the almost identical policies that the Manchus adopted as the Ming Dynasty after they entered the Central Plains. It was the Han people who really killed the germination of capitalism.

Merchants and emerging large workshops are maintaining their meager profits. They are not creating wealth for themselves or for this society. They are creating wealth for the emperor, eunuch, the powerful and social parasites of the court. Who would be willing to create wealth for others? They are constantly exploited and oppressed and have nowhere to seek justice? It is precisely because this power economic form, including imperial power, ruined the most favorable opportunity for China to transition to capitalism. Looking back on the humiliating century, how many detours our nation has taken before it has come to its senses.
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