Longevity Begins with Jinyiwei

"Abandon Jiangnan..."

Outside Datong City, surrounded by the army, in the tent of the emperor, the emperor held a plan proposed by the general staff, and his expression was obviously uncertain.

Jiangnan, a general term in a broad sense, is half of the world, and it is also the most important place for finance and taxation in the world since the clothes went south.

But sadly, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of years of fostering practitioners created a deformity of the integration of officials and businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River.

If everything follows this special group, then Jiangnan can barely be used by the imperial court.

Of course, this use is under the premise of not touching their interests.

Once their interests are touched, even in the slightest, they will inevitably be met with strong backlash.

In history, regarding the sea ban, regarding finance and taxation, in the end of the Ming Dynasty, how many people with lofty ideals, but in the end, either the people perished and the government died, or it was nothing.

As for him, Li Xiu, since his rise, his identity as a warrior, and his style of not complicity with him, doomed him not to be accepted by scholars in Jiangnan, and even the gentry in the world, not to mention his military reform, which seriously violated their core interests.

Historically, the reason why Li Zicheng declined at an unimaginable speed after his defeat was because when Li Zicheng entered the capital, the gentry and landlords were eager to join the new master, but they were slaughtered by Li Zicheng.

There is no gentry and landlord to help Li Zicheng stabilize the world, and Li Zicheng does not have a stable base. If he loses, he will naturally be defeated like a mountain.

And he Li Xiu, strictly speaking, is not much better than Li Zicheng.

The reason why he has always been tolerant of literati, even though he usurped the country and established himself, did not cleanse the old ministers of the former Ming Dynasty in the slightest, just to stabilize the hearts of the gentry in the world.

But if there is a stable world situation, the tolerance under such power may also make the gentry in the world hold their noses and shout long live.

But obviously, in today's world situation, they have too many choices, moreover, what he did, Li Xiu, ran counter to the traditional gentry landlord class.

The two, above innate, are on opposite sides.

Although this military aristocracy represents his will of Li Xiu, it seems that the traditional gentry landlord class is dissatisfied with his will of Li Xiu.

But in a sense, it's actually very simple. The plate in the world is just that big. In the past, this plate belonged to the traditional landlord class. They had the final say and everything was theirs.

However, with the rise of the emerging military aristocracy, it will naturally take away the interests and voice of the traditional gentry and landlord class.

This is a conflict of interests between classes. Although there is room for the two to coexist harmoniously, what is needed is Li Xiu’s concession to the gentry and landlords, as well as the stability of people’s hearts. These two, now, are undoubtedly both impossible things.

Therefore, he, Li Xiu, showed more tolerance towards the gentry and landlords, but in terms of politics and economy, in fact, he was no longer tolerated by the mainstream.

The reason why he was able to hold on was that he was never the ruling class of literati and gentry who were scheming, and he was never accepted by the traditional gentry and landlord class of this era.

He can reach the present, and can stand at the top, relying only on the military and aristocratic class under his command.

Only the military and noble class under his command is a complete community of interests with him.

The southern part of the Yangtze River has always been his weak spot, and it has always been a place of confrontation with him, Li Xiu, and the military and aristocratic class under his command.

Jiangnan occupies at least half of the mess of the former Ming Dynasty!

As far as the current situation is concerned, this proposal of the General Staff is obviously more beneficial than detrimental.

He tried his best in Jiangnan, with various layouts, but there was no return in the slightest, and he also contained too much energy from him and his military elite group.

If you give up Jiangnan directly, let the situation in Jiangnan spread, and concentrate on stabilizing the basic business of the military noble class in the north.

In another day, we will send troops to the south of the Yangtze River to suppress dissatisfaction.

In this way, giving up the huge burden of Jiangnan can also be moved back to the north.

In this way, it seems that this war is a good thing for Daheng.

After a lot of thoughts, in the end, the emperor shook his head and forcibly suppressed the thought.

The General Staff only considers the pros and cons of the military, and the world has never only been military.

He is Li Xiu, the commander-in-chief of millions of troops, and the emperor of this Daheng!

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.

A lot of things, no matter how difficult, must persist.

Abandoning soil and losing land, this kind of thing, even internally, must not set the slightest precedent!

This is the bottom line, the principle, and must not be broken!

Li Xiu let out a long sigh, shifted his gaze, and then fixed on the military map in the tent.

Between the eyebrows, it is also difficult to hide the worry.

Even if there are hundreds of thousands of invading enemies, if it is just a simple war, he will not be afraid at all.

But, this war, where is it just war...

Politics, economics, military...and the most unpredictable...people...

Unless he can in a very short period of time, repel all the enemies who will commit in the future.

Otherwise, the situation will only become more corrupt, and things he doesn't want to see will eventually happen.

But... even if he used his soldiers like a god, he couldn't escape the limitations of the world.

Thinking of this, Li Xiu slowly turned around, his eyes were also fixed on a stack of recordings on the table, which originated from Jinyiwei's intelligence recordings.

Today, the war in northern Xinjiang is in full swing, the world is in chaos, and the capital city is also... turbulent!

…

"Your Highness, they all have ulterior motives, they just want to take advantage of you, Your Highness, you must not trust them!"

In the residence of King Shou, Wang Chengen was lying on the ground, crying and praying, his face was full of despair!

He has always known that the little emperor is precocious, but he never thought that the little emperor who was only six or seven years old would have such a scheming!

Looking for an excuse to let him go out of the house, but when he came back, the King Shou, who should have been isolated from the world and lived his life carefree, was actually involved in the changes of the outside world!

"I am the son of Da Ming, the minister of Da Ming, and it is right to be loyal to me!"

"I, repeating the sun, moon, mountains and rivers is also a matter of course!"

"Why not? Why not?"

Between Zhu Cilong's immature face, there is maturity that is far from his age, his words are clear, and at a glance, there is an unspeakable majesty.

For a while, Wang Chengen was at a loss for words. Immediately, he was deeply saddened. He kowtowed to Zhu Cifeng again and remained silent.

"You have to stop me?"

Zhu Cihong scolded.

"The servant did not stop His Highness, the servant just did not want His Majesty to take the risk in person!"

Wang Chengen kowtowed: "If Your Majesty has a heart, you can control it secretly. When everything is safe, His Majesty will come out and take control of the overall situation. In this way, the servants will never object!"

"When the sky changes like this, I don't stand up and call on the subjects of the world, so how do I face the subjects who are eagerly awaited by the world?

"Your Majesty thinks that he doesn't know about all this?"

Zhu Cifeng was stagnant for a while, but soon, his tender face became firm again:

"The emperor guards the gate of the country, and the king dies!"

"I am the descendant of the Zhu family, and I am the son of tomorrow. If you die, why should you be afraid!"

As these words sounded to his ears, Wang Chengen stared blankly at the little emperor in front of him, this familiar, yet extremely unfamiliar little emperor.

The immature face reminded him of the age of the little emperor all the time, but it seems that although he is young and ambitious, he has reached the clouds.

"Your Majesty, little majesty... You have become a talent!"

Wang Chengen kowtowed, the tears could not stop flowing.

The sky has no eyes, and the master has already appeared, but why is it so worldly!

Why must the two dragons coexist in one lifetime!

why...why is this...

Zhu Cilong's tightly clenched fist also slowly loosened, and he slowly stepped forward, his footsteps stagnating for a while, but in the end, he was extremely determined to cross the crawling Wang Chengen and walked out of the hall...