However, Zhu Youxiao believes that these people on the surface dare not stop him too directly.

After all, I am still the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Whether it is the Liao army town or the Jiangnan gentry, they do not want the emperor to be too strong, but they have to admit the emperor's rule over himself.

Because their privileges all need to be recognized as the emperor in order to be obtained.

After all, they don't have other emperors worth investing in.

The Donglu don’t know that they surrendered, because no one knows that the Donglu will become the lord of the Central Plains in history.

Even Donglu himself didn't have this idea.

Otherwise, Li Ruzhen, who belonged to the Liaodong Military Town in history, would not have been questioned by the court for not actively rescued, would rather commit suicide than rebel and surrender to the Donglu.

Therefore, in Zhu Youxiao's view, he did not dare to break up with himself completely before he had no other choice.

What he needs to be wary of now is that these people are making trouble in secret.

The risk of directly killing a monarch and replacing a emperor is too high. After all, if you fail, you will be killed.

What's more, the deaths of Zhou Yanru and others have not been long since passed.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao felt that these people were very unlikely to do something, but they were likely to do something to their confidants, thereby achieving the goal of preventing them from doing something.

After all, as long as the emperor's confidants are removed, the emperor will become a real widow. At that time, the emperor will not be able to leave the Forbidden City without the support of officials from the outside dynasty.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao did not rule out that anyone would attack him as the emperor.

But Zhu Youxiao was not anxious because of this, nor did he decide to compromise because of fear of death, and became a generous and kind emperor who was loved by the powerful and noble gentry.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, at this time when the Ming Dynasty was difficult to return, he was destined to be the Emperor Taiping.

Because even if he did not take the initiative to innovate and eliminate evil and save the Ming Dynasty, there would be a large number of scholars and officials who were dissatisfied with the status quo and hoped that the emperor would reform.

What's more, at this time, the contradictions within the ruling class are also very sharp, and different forces will intensify internal struggles due to the struggle for interests.

As long as one force gains the upper hand, it will force the emperor to implement the new policy and use the new policy to eliminate dissidents.

This is something that the emperor cannot escape.

Escape, inaction, will be killed.

Because, sitting in this decision-maker's position, inaction is also a kind of action.

Even if they are not killed by the forces within the ruling class, they will be killed by the external forces after being enlarged due to inaction, or by the peasant uprising because of internal infighting, and by the peasant uprising because of internal infighting, they will be killed by the peasant uprising because of internal infighting, and they will be killed by the peasant uprising because of the peasant uprising that has not been successfully suppressed.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao knew that once he became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, an empire that had developed for more than two hundred years, he would be unable to stay out of it and he had to do it.

After all, if you do nothing, you will be assassinated, and if you do something, you will be assassinated. It is better to act boldly, and you may really be able to escape danger.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youxiao is so unscrupulous.

He would rather be assassinated for offending vested interests than be nearly assassinated by the people in the Forbidden City like Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty because he failed to improve the increasingly worse living conditions of the people.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao would not be really unprepared.

Zhu Youxiao’s long-term plan is to strengthen his confidants as much as possible, and use the concept of interest binding and loyalty and filial piety to win over most forces. After having the opportunity in the future, he should try his best to transfer the conflicts. Dividing the cake will definitely offend people, but making the cake bigger will make it a good situation for you and me and everyone.

The short-term plan is to strengthen the strength of the factory and guards, try to use severe punishments to increase the risk of risky chess, and use the power of spies to keep an eye on everyone for yourself.

As for the rest, it can only depend on luck.

Zhu Youxiao actually wanted to directly divert domestic conflicts through external plunder.

But the problem is that now he must first strengthen his imperial power, that is, to take back the power of his cake to make a bigger cake.

Otherwise, according to the current model, the Ming Dynasty's cake has been growing, and all silver in the United States has almost flowed into the Ming Dynasty. As a result, only a small group of people are rich, so domestic conflicts have been getting more and more acute.

Let's turn the words back.

Zhu Youxiao has clear opinions on what kind of emperor he should be and how he should protect himself.

Now Zhu Youxiao feels that he still has to strengthen his protection of his trusted forces and take the initiative to prevent some forces from attacking the forces around him from attacking the emperor.

Because I, as an emperor, can't wait for others to cut off all my trusted forces and then be killed by others.

Therefore, Zhu Youchao ordered Wei Zhongxian: "Dongchang should continue to strengthen the power of investigating the world, set up various industrial shops for sentry detection. It is best for every town to have the eyeliner of the Dongchang, as well as various yamen and academies and high-ranking officials and officials' homes, and increase the number of eyeliners. Not only should we investigate those traitors who have already had evidence, such as the powerful officials and gentry who were colluding with the Shanxi merchants after confiscating this time, we should keep a close eye on it, but we should not rush to attack, so as not to rush to the wall, and even send news to the public that you have not found out what you have yet to find out, and paralyze them! In addition, we should also protect the loyal ministers I rely on now! We should also add eyeliners to their families. Fang Congzhe's son is a lesson. Although you Dongchang knew about this matter in time, they failed to use this matter to dig out the people behind it. We should reflect on it carefully!"

Wei Zhongxian knew that Fang Congzhe's son made his Dongchang and Jinyiwei very embarrassed. After all, Beijing was considered the territory of the factory guard, but the chief minister's son was kidnapped.

So, he immediately replied with a correct attitude: "Don't worry, my elders! I have already asked the Dongchang to follow your order to add more suspicion. The ministers and their relatives in the court were watching from the Dongchang. Whoever has taken a new concubine and bought a new maid and a servant, and I ask the people below to report it quickly!"

Zhu Youxiao pointed out: "Transfer my order and allocate another 500,000 taels of funds to the East Factory!"

"I will thank the Emperor on behalf of the East Factory! I and the East Factory will definitely live up to the Emperor's entrustedness."

Wei Zhongxian thanked him gratefully.

But what Wei Zhongxian didn't expect was that as soon as he arrived at the East Factory to convey Zhu Youxiao's instructions, Xu Xianchun hurriedly replied: "Main! Just now, news came from the market that Xu Guangqi's mother Qian is gone! It seems that you are right. Someone really wants to use this method to make trouble."

After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian looked solemn and said, "At the Qianqing Palace just now, the emperor was talking about this with our family. We asked our Dongchang to strengthen the surveillance of court officials and families. Unexpectedly, this happened! Are our people from the Xu family in Jiangnan replying to the news? Is this true? If it is true, the emperor will really get angry! What is our Dongchang doing? It is to eliminate the conspiracy carried out by those sinister villains before it happens, and to kill the things that may cause trouble to the emperor in its infancy in its infancy state!"

"Don't worry, factory owner! Jiangnan responded to news that a gangster bribed a maid next to Qian and wanted to attack Qian. The chronic poison he used to apply to start several months ago. However, we found out that we controlled the maid and convinced Qian and important figures of the Xu family through our spies in the Xu family, and dropped Qian family. Now the poisoned person was just a prisoner who was sentenced to death because of pimping someone. Now the gangster who assassinated Qian family didn't know that we had ruined them, so he really thought that Qian was gone. Now he specially asked the factory to order, what should we do?"

Tian Ergeng, who was transferred to the East Factory by Wei Zhongxian, who was specifically responsible for monitoring all officials, reported to Wei Zhongxian.

After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian nodded: "Our family must go into the palace immediately to ask the emperor!"

...

"Who is so vicious? He is using the method to deal with Zhang Juzheng to deal with me! Investigate me strictly! Follow the clues, be sure to find out the mastermind behind the scenes! Fortunately, I have strengthened the power of the East Factory and asked you to be prepared for these things in advance, otherwise they will really get trapped in!"

After Zhu Youxiao learned about this, he took a heavy breath and then ordered Wei Zhongxian.
Chapter completed!