This time, Zhu Yuanzhang did not panic after waking up from his dream as usual, but was unusually calm! .

His thoughts revolved around only one mystery, that is, who is the bloodline of this child named Darhan?

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up alone, without summoning any servants, he put on the dragon robe by himself, and paced in the bedroom in deep thought!

Darhan!

The existence of the Kusai Khanate!

This person and country may become a major concern for the Ming Dynasty in the future, and may even bring serious disasters to the Ming Dynasty!

However, what is shocking is that this child is suspected to be the bloodline of his Zhu family royal family, perhaps he is Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson!

What worries him more is whether this child knows the mystery of his life experience?

It seems that everything needs to be signed in for enough days, and then Darhan's life simulator will be started to reveal the answer!

Based on the current progress rate, it will take until the end of the year!

He can uncover the truth about the child's origin!

At the same time, he can also grasp the child's whereabouts. However, no matter whose offspring the child is, he must bring him back to the Ming Dynasty first!

"Your Majesty, it's time to change clothes and go to court!"

Just then, Yun Qi's voice broke the silence.

However, when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang ready to go and standing in the bedroom, even Yun Qi couldn't help but be stunned!

The emperor got up so early today?

And it looks like he has been up for a long time!

"No court today, let all officials go!"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand in annoyance!

He just fell into deep thought, but was interrupted by Yun Qi's voice, which made him very unhappy. He was recalling some key details of "230" that he had seen in the life simulator before, and he didn't want to be disturbed at this time!

"Yes, sir!"

Yun Qi's heart trembled. He didn't expect Zhu Yuanzhang to suddenly cancel the morning court!

He seemed to find that the emperor had been absent from court for no reason more and more times in the past six months!

Of course, this was not something he should ask about. Since Zhu Yuanzhang had spoken, he only needed to convey it according to the order!

After Yun Qi left, Zhu Yuanzhang calmed down again and continued to recall all the details he had seen in his dream before!

After each deduction of a person's life, Zhu Yuanzhang would carefully sort out every detail in the dream to ensure that he did not miss any important information!

In this case, he naturally had no intention of going to court to handle government affairs!

This time in Zhu Zhanyan's life simulator, Zhu Yuanzhang saw many things he had been eager to know before!

After ascending the throne, although the fourteenth prince handed over the power to Zhu Zhanyan, the prince, to let him supervise the country, in fact, the country's development direction and a series of reform measures were all planned by the fourteenth prince long ago!

It can be said that Zhu Zhanyan only needs to follow the plan of Old Fourteen to easily deal with everything!

In this process, Zhu Zhanyan's execution ability and overall situationThe concept has also been well trained and improved!

Although the fourteenth old man is a hands-off boss, his control over the court is unmatched!

His ruling power makes the civil and military officials in the court feel like walking on thin ice, and the pressure they face is even greater than when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power!

Because the fourteenth old man is more decisive and ruthless in handling government affairs!

In contrast, Zhu Zhanyan's character is more gentle and generous, and he is more like the former crown prince Zhu Biao!

So the ministers in the court hope that the fourteenth old man can always give power to Zhu Zhanyan, so that their lives can be better!

It is for this reason that the reform measures promoted by the ministers and Zhu Zhanyan are particularly smooth, and few reckless people dare to obstruct!

After all, no one wants to anger the powerful backing behind Zhu Zhanyan-Emperor Chengwu!

In other words, if someone is ignorant of the times and deliberately makes trouble, he will become the target of public criticism in the court!

Therefore, when Zhu Zhanyan began to supervise the country, the series of decrees he issued were almost unconditionally implemented by all ministers and departments!

It can be said that Zhu Zhanyan's career as a prince has been smooth and peaceful since the beginning!

However, because of the excessive smoothness in the early stage, some potential problems were quietly covered up during the reform process and were not exposed in the early stage.

This does not mean that the reform plan formulated by Zhu Zhanyan has defects, but any system is inevitably flawed, and there will always be problems of one kind or another!

The responsibility of those in power is to find a relatively balanced point!

Even if these problems cannot be completely eradicated, corresponding countermeasures must be taken to deal with them!

This puts extremely high demands on the ability of Zhu Zhanyan, the regent prince!

After all, it is easy to copy and paste, but it is the most challenging to correct and get the correct answer in time after discovering problems in the plagiarized content!

Fortunately, Zhu Zhanyan did not disappoint Zhu Li.

Although he encountered big and small problems during the reform process, he solved them one by one with his wisdom!

This makes people sigh that "a tiger father will have a dog son"!

In terms of training Zhu Zhanyan, the successor, the fourteenth brother obviously devoted a lot of effort!

At first, the fourteenth brother did not let Zhu Zhanyan go to Yingtian Prefecture to study. Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that he did not receive the best royal education and might have problems in the future.

But now it seems that staying with the fourteenth brother may be the wisest choice for Zhu Zhanyan!

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang also found that the fourteenth brother treated his three sons, including the prince Zhu Zhanyan, equally and fairly!

In court affairs, he gave Zhu Zhanyan great power; in military affairs, the overall situation was mainly controlled by Zhu Zhanye and a bastard named Zhu Zhanxuan born to the subsequent Li family!

What is more gratifying is that there was no struggle for power among the three brothers. Zhu Zhanye and Zhu Zhanxuan also assisted theirBig brother!

Except for the difference in status between the crown prince and the vassal king, the fourteenth son showed the same love and attention when treating these three sons!

This surprised Zhu Yuanzhang and made him feel a little ashamed!

Because he thought he could not treat all his sons equally. In the past, all his attention was focused on the crown prince Zhu Biao!

Although Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that this was not fair to other sons, as a member of the royal family, he had too many frustrations and helplessness!

He hoped to let other sons know in this way that the position of the crown prince was not something they could covet, so he never sent them any signals that might make them mistakenly think that they were valued!

However, now Zhu Yuanzhang had to shift his attention to the fourteenth son!

What was even more unexpected to him was that although the fourteenth son did not explicitly abolish the system of primogeniture, this system was in name only for him!

Because in the eyes of the fourteenth son, it seemed that there was no distinction between legitimate and illegitimate sons!

Just like Zhu Zhanxuan was born to Li and was legally only a concubine's son, but the Fourteenth Prince paid as much attention to him as the legitimate sons Zhu Zhanyan and Zhu Zhanye!

Even at certain times, he would deliberately take care of Zhu Zhanxuan, the concubine's son!

Zhu Yuanzhang had some suspicions in his heart. If Zhu Zhanye and Zhu Zhanxuan had not entered their seventies, if Zhu Zhanyan had not died in their prime, and Zhu Zhanye and Zhu Zhanxuan were still young and strong, then he might have chosen one of his other two sons to inherit the throne.

Compared to Zhu Zhanye, who was more outstanding in military affairs, Zhu Zhanxuan, a prince from a concubine, was more comprehensive in talent.

If it comes to choosing between Zhu Zhanye and Zhu Zhanxuan as the heir to the throne, in terms of suitability, Zhu Zhanxuan, the concubine's son, seems to be better.

It was precisely because Zhu Zhanye and Zhu Zhanxuan were old, and everyone could see that Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have some complaints about the fate of these three sons, that the throne finally fell on the head of his grandson Zhu Jiantang.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, this was undoubtedly a subversive decision.

According to his original plan, if Zhu Biao died early, he would first choose one of Zhu Biao's descendants as the crown prince, and he favored his grandson Zhu Yunwen.

This seemed natural to him.

However, this self-evident idea was overturned by him after he examined Zhu Yunwen's life trajectory.

Zhu Yuanzhang could of course continue to support Zhu Yunwen to ascend the throne according to the original plan.

But the trajectory of history seemed to have destined Zhu Jian to become the emperor.

What Zhu Yuanzhang hated most was that he did not want to see civil strife like Emperor Jianwen's reduction of the feudal system and the Jingnan Campaign happen again in the future.

These turmoils not only shook the foundation of the country and caused innocent casualties, but what made him even more sad was that those who were deposed and killed were his own flesh and blood.

Since the throne will eventually belong to the Fourteenth Prince, why not avoid those tragedies from the beginning?

Once such an idea took root in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, it could never be eradicated.

Now, for Zhu Yuanzhang, the only thing that made him difficult to let go was perhaps the choice between the system of establishing the legitimate heir and the eldest son.

Because the fourteenth son was also a concubine's son... ....

Comparing the fourteenth son's attitude towards the difference between legitimate and concubine's sons, Zhu Yuanzhang could not help but reflect on his past persistence.

Is he really wrong?

Zhu Yuanzhang was full of entanglements, because he found that a series of systems and national policies he had formulated seemed to be overturned one by one after the fourteenth son came to power.

What shocked him most was the secretariat system promoted by the fourteenth son.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system that had been passed down for thousands of years in the thirteenth year of Hongwu by using the Hu Weiyong case, all military and national affairs, no matter how big or small, were almost all on the shoulders of the emperor and the regent prince.

This burden was extremely heavy.

Zhu Yuanzhang considered himself the most diligent emperor in history, and Zhu Biao was also the most diligent prince.

But the father and son also had to face a question: Can the monarchs and crown princes of later generations be as diligent in governing the country as they were?

This question has always troubled Zhu Yuanzhang, but he never expected that after the fourteenth prince ascended the throne, he would directly summon a group of capable ministers to set up a secretariat.

This secretariat consists of five people, namely the secretary-general, the secretary-general, the secretary-general, the secretary-assistant and the secretary-assistant.

Among them, the secretary-general has a status as high as the first rank, the secretary-general and the secretary-general are from the first rank, and the secretary-assistant and the secretary-assistant are also equivalent to the six ministers, which are the second rank.

All these positions are held by top talents selected by the Imperial Guard Academy, and they are known as the five regents.

However, although these five regents have a high status and great power of advice, they do not have actual administrative power.

Their main duties are to assist the emperor and the crown prince in reviewing memorials from various departments, and to make suggestions for handling and approval under the chairmanship of the secretary-general.

Whether these suggestions will be finally adopted or not, they must be presented to the emperor or the crown prince, and these two supreme decision-makers will decide!

To put it bluntly, these five people are essentially like the four treasures of the emperor's study, serving at any time!

They share the responsibility of governing the country with the emperor, and can always come up with the most appropriate governance strategy. In the end, the emperor only needs to make the final decision on whether to implement it!

In other words, although these five people can offer suggestions, the one who really holds the final decision is still the emperor sitting on the dragon throne!

Of course, in the complicated state affairs, the emperor naturally cannot do everything himself.

Therefore, these government affairs are also carefully divided into priorities!

For example, only memorials submitted by ministers above the third rank need to be submitted directly to the emperor for judgment; while memorials submitted by officials below the third rank only need to be finally decided by the chief secretary!

Although the chief secretary has a higher status among the five people,The most respected, but he is not the only one who has the final say.

When the five members of the Secretariat have different opinions, they will vote. Only when at least three people agree, the resolution can be passed!

In addition, they also have the power of veto.

Once someone exercises this power, the relevant resolution will not be directly rejected, but will be immediately presented to the crown prince or even the emperor, waiting for their holy judgment!

Only when everyone generally supports it and no one opposes it, can the decree of the chief secretary be successfully promulgated!

At the same time, the emperor and the crown prince will also check the daily affairs handled by the chief secretary from time to time to ensure that he will not make a big mistake due to negligence or abuse of power for personal gain!

In order to fundamentally eliminate this hidden danger, Zhu Yu also set a term of office for the Secretariat!

The maximum term of office shall not exceed five years. After the expiration of five years, the chief secretary will be rotated, and the Secretariat will also be injected with fresh blood. Of course, if you perform well, you will also have the opportunity to be re-elected!

It can be said that under Zhu Yu's careful planning, the rules and regulations of the Secretariat have become more perfect.

While assisting the emperor and the crown prince in handling government affairs, it also minimizes the possibility of excessive expansion of the Secretariat's power, which in turn threatens the stability of the imperial power!

"This Royal Guard Academy is really a treasure land full of talents!"

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but admire it sincerely.

You know, these elite talents in the Secretariat are all carefully selected from the Royal Guard Academy to govern the country.

And the learning and assessment standards they accept are simply incomparable to the imperial examination system currently promoted by the court!

It is worth mentioning that this Royal Guard Academy is a new institution that came into being after Zhu Yu ascended the throne! .

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