The back hall of a private school, which was supposed to be a place for teaching and nurturing talents, was driven away by the gloom unique to politics at this moment, and all the scholarly atmosphere was driven away.

Zhu Wenkui never made any radical remarks to Yang Shiqi, but used one sentence to force Yang Shiqi to have nothing to say.

Seeing Yang Shiqi's silence, Zhu Wenkui knew that his words still affected Yang Shiqi's decision-making ability to a certain extent, so he took advantage of the victory and pursued: "Mr. Ge, public weapons belong to the imperial power and can be used by the court. This is what the father said personally. He insists that public weapons must belong to the imperial power."

The following words were said by Xu Buji. The general situation is such that private parties are still forming private parties. Is this correct?"

Now, what Zhu Wenkui wants is a positive answer from Yang Shiqi.

When it comes to encouraging people to form parties, and whether public weapons will always return to the imperial power, what is positive and what is negative!

If you can't even understand the pros and cons of correcting chaos, how can you talk about correcting chaos?

So now the two princes Zhu Wenkui and Zhu Wenqi are having a dispute over the position of the crown prince. This dispute is destined to sweep the world and set off a huge political storm in the court and local areas.

In this political storm, Yang Ji, who has already served as the chief minister of a province, is destined to be unable to avoid it.

If he does not clear up Zhu Wenkui's doubts today, Yang Shiqi will not be able to count on Zhu Wenkui, the eldest prince, to speak out for Yang Ji in this political storm in the future.

What if the First Prince wins?

At that time, if a big hat was placed on Yang Ji's head, Yang Ji's head would be taken away.

Yang Shiqi took a long breath, finally picked up the "Jianwen Dadian" on the case, and read it in an extremely serious tone.

“Let’s talk about this paragraph first: ‘The core of political power lies in two points, one is to rely on the people, and the other is to believe in the people’

His Majesty emphasized the two points by using the words "rely" and "believe" respectively. Both words are active and require the court to take the initiative, rather than passivity such as dependence and reliance. In other words, the initiative is in the hands of the court.

In the hands of the imperial court.

Do you rely on the people and what things do you rely on? Do you trust the people and what things do you trust?

The development of a country relies on the people, the construction of the country relies on the people, and the development of borders or the defense of the country relies on the people.

We cannot say that the country must rely on the people to make decisions when making decisions, let alone how the country should proceed in the general direction.

The people are subordinate to the policy line of the state. The state decides what to do in advance, and only when the people are called on to participate do they know how to do it.

The country believes that the people are obedient, patriotic, and loyal, filial, benevolent, and trustworthy.

But it is impossible for the country to believe that the people do not have self-interest, let alone to believe that hundreds of millions of people can do the world for the common good.

Therefore, when the people are deceived, used, and fooled, the country will not continue to believe some of the things they do out of self-interest. The country should tell the people that doing so is wrong and should be corrected.

I have been in power for twelve years, and I know your Majesty fairly well. Although your Majesty is an enlightened man, no one is allowed to comment on his tyranny in many places. Public weapons will always return to the imperial power, and public weapons must return to the imperial power. This is what your Majesty has emphasized many times.

The political turmoil caused by Xu Buji's promotion of the title of Crown Prince and Grand Master earlier is a good proof.

Therefore, when it comes to major political issues of right and wrong, it is a 'yes' to return public objects to the imperial power forever, and it is a 'yes' to lend public objects to the cabinet, the imperial court, and local yamen. However, similar behaviors such as forming cliques among the people and coercing public opinion to blackmail the imperial court are actually a 'no'.

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Is it a ‘no’ for people to form cliques?

Zhu Wenkui was shocked.

Doesn't that mean that what Zhu Wenqi, the second oldest, did was wrong?

If it was wrong, then why would the father intend to make his second son the crown prince?

This made Zhu Wenkui feel like his head was about to explode, and he couldn't make sense of the mess.

He simply took this opportunity to tell Yang Shiqi his doubts. The latter was startled, but he quickly reacted and asked.

"His Majesty plans to make the second prince the crown prince. Who said that?"

"Yu Qian."

Zhu Wenkui said Yu Qian's name and revealed that the latter had been a chess piece secretly arranged by Zhu Yunwen all these years, which made Yang Shiqi laugh.

"Then your Highness still thinks what Yu Qian said is true?"

One sentence made Zhu Wenkui suddenly enlightened.

Yes, since Yu Qian is a chess piece arranged by his father, then the truth and falsehood are invisibly shrouded in layers of fog. Could what Yu Qian said be true? What if it was Zhu Yunwen who instructed him to say it?

What about?

"But why did my father let Yu Qian say such things?"

Zhu Wenkui still found something unreasonable and continued to ask: "Since what the second son did is wrong in the eyes of the father, the father can just stop it, so why send me to Jiangnan?"

"A kind of exercise." Yang Shiqi stroked his beard and laughed: "In recent years, your Majesty, what have you seen your Majesty do in person? Your Majesty's reduced appearance is to dilute his ubiquitous influence in our country.

, in other words, began to pave the way for the future prince to succeed to the throne.

Allowing you to come to Jiangnan to deal with these matters is to strengthen your influence in the officialdom of Jiangnan. After all, you must rely on the local government to defeat the Labor Party, and in the process of relying on it, you will inevitably show up frequently.

In this way, it will not settle the hearts of the officials in Jiangnan, and Jiangnan is the top priority of our Ming Dynasty. Let the officials in Jiangnan know that you are about to become the new crown prince, then in the future you will succeed to the throne naturally, and Jiangnan will not be turbulent.

If there is no chaos in Jiangnan, there will be no chaos in the country."

Yang Shiqi's explanation made Zhu Wenkui's eyes light up, his chest felt hot, and he almost screamed out in excitement.

It turned out that the emperor's father had already acquiesced in his heart that he would succeed to the East Palace, but he never explicitly issued an edict to the world. He was afraid of being arrogant and complacent, so he continued to do this to train himself.

As long as the affairs of the Jiangnan Labor Party are properly handled, he can legitimately be crowned prince as soon as he returns to Beijing.

"Wen Kui benefited a lot from what Mr. Ge said today. Mr. Ge should pay homage to Wen Kui."

After saying that, Zhu Wenkui stood up and bowed his hands to Yang Shiqi. Yang Shiqi left the seat in a panic and stepped away, not daring to suffer.

"Your Highness, there is no need to be so polite. The profound meaning of what Your Majesty has done here can be understood by Your Highness himself in a few days. It is not a matter of fact, it is just a few words."

At present, Yang Shiqi also believes that Zhu Wenkui will definitely become the crown prince.

Because only Zhu Wenkui succeeded to the throne in the East Palace, this is reasonable and consistent with what Zhu Yunwen has done.

An emperor must have the detached and exclusive status of a nine-five-year-old king.

If we cede power to the people and entrust public institutions to the people, what else would we call a country?

How come the emperor is the country?
Chapter completed!