Chapter 653: As long as he raises objections, no matter how great his contributions were, he will die At first Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to speak, but after listening to Zhu Biao's words, he didn't know why he felt a faint sadness in his heart. "Although we don't know what Chen Han is thinking, if you do this, it will be more or less not good for the child." Zhu Yuanzhang now looks at this issue from the perspective of an old man who understands his descendants and grandchildren, because he has also experienced those very extreme events. Which of the cases he handled was not extremely difficult and incomprehensible to others? Zhu Yuanzhang used to think that he was a great emperor. Everyone thought that he wanted to make people live better and officials clean. But he didn't expect that no matter how hard he tried, Neither the common people nor the officials are able to do things according to the pace they set. Ordinary people have always wanted to break free from the household registration system they set, have always wanted more freedom, have always wanted to go out, have always wanted to go into business, have always wanted to live a so-called better life. Don’t ordinary people know that the path I set for you is the best? Aren’t you satisfied? So he really didn't understand what the people were trying to do, nor did he understand why the people were rebelling against the path he had set for them. He always thinks that I am an ordinary person. When I was begging, I saw too many evil hearts and too many uncertain factors, so I have always produced the best and most ideal templates for you. It can be said that I have worked hard. I want all of you to live a good life. I want all of you to live a truly happy life, the same happy life that I wanted when I was begging for food. But why don't you guys understand my determination to bring you happiness? Why do you still want to resist my decisions? Why do you think your wisdom is higher than mine?

You should think about what kind of person I am. I have experienced many vicissitudes of life. My parents starved to death in front of me, and I didn’t even have a piece of land to bury them. Have you had the same experience as me? Since you don't have the same experience as me, the same wisdom as me, the same determination as me, and the same means as me, why do you want to deny the decision I make? Why is it that you people are completely unable to understand my good intentions? I don't let you move around because there are too many temptations out there. I don't let you do business because all those businessmen are dishonest. I don't let you go to the sea because there are many robbers on the sea who want to rob you of your wealth. I arrange everything in your life like a kind father. You just need to do things according to the template I set for you, and you will be very happy. Is there anything that cannot satisfy you? If I had such a father when I was a child, and if I had such a person to arrange everything for me when I was a child, I don’t know how happy my life would be. My life would be very fulfilling, and my life would be as free as the immortals in the sky. So I really don’t understand why you people are resisting my decisions, why you always feel that you are not free in your hometown, why you always feel like you are oppressed, you should know how much I wanted the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty to arrange all this for me. If the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty could have arranged all this for me, I would rather farm in my hometown all my life. I would rather never leave my hometown. I know that no one I meet after leaving my hometown will be sincere to me. They always want to get something out of you, they always want to cheat you out of your last penny. So I have seen too much, I know too much, and I understand too well what those people are thinking, so I don’t want you to live that kind of life. Is there anything wrong with that? Isn’t this enough for you to be grateful? Why do you still resist? Why do you still feel it's unfair? It was precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang saw that these common people were somewhat unsatisfied that he treated them in that way, making them only know about corrupt officials without knowing that all these were actually contradictions he had created for them. He did exactly as Chen Han and Zhu Biao thought. He deliberately created corrupt officials and let the people hate him. After that, he would take action to eliminate those corrupt officials. In this way, the people would be grateful and would never dare to resist the emperor again. To be honest, before Chen Han came, he always thought that his method was very good, and even complacent about it. However, he did not expect that after Chen Han came, he would find that his policies had such big loopholes. Moreover, this loophole was so unbelievable to himself. He had never thought that the so-called economy existed in that way. His so-called printing of money was actually wrong. Even Zhu Yuanzhang had never thought that Chen Han would say that he was wrong to want to give the people more money. It turns out that having more money is not necessarily bad for the entire market economy, and directly giving money is not necessarily good for the people. Originally, everything had to follow the so-called market laws, but he didn't know what the market laws were. As an ancient person, it was difficult for him to understand what the economic market was all about. He also couldn't understand why the people were not happy after getting the money. But when Chen Han came and explained everything to him, he realized that everything was just as it was. It turned out that the people did not misunderstand him, but they really felt that they would be punished by God if they continued like this. He was actually very unhappy to hear this, but after Chen Han came and explained it to him, he felt that what the people said seemed to be not wrong. At the same time, he couldn't understand why those officials didn't listen to him, why they couldn't just do their jobs well with that little salary, and why they couldn't treat the people well? Instead, you feel that the salary is too low, and that you don’t give enough. Have you never experienced what kind of life ordinary people live? Don’t you know that ordinary people don’t even have enough food, clothing and daily necessities?

Although I intend to create conflicts, you officials seem to be more hateful. You know, now that I'm the emperor, my daily food expenses are not very high. I don't want to be extravagant, and I have never wanted to live an extravagant life. But why do you officials dare to live an extravagant life? Why do you guys want to enjoy so many benefits when you haven’t made as many contributions as I have? What’s the reason? When war breaks out, you guys all hide away, thinking that any war in the world has nothing to do with you. Then, we, the poor common people, continued to fight for our own survival and bleed. If I, Zhu Yuanzhang, had not been lucky, I might have ended up like those heroes, and eventually fell into decline, and even lost my life. But I fought with all my blood and tears, I saw so many brothers fall in front of me, I fought with great grief to win the country, why do you ask me if you can give us some power after you stand up? You should know that this world was won by me, Zhu Yuanzhang, and all my brothers fighting with all my blood, and you scholars hid when you encountered war, but when the war stopped, you wanted to get a share, you are not so shameless, right? To be honest, I think it is normal for my brothers to behave a little bit recklessly in my hometown, because if you scholars become officials, your family members will do the same things. But why do you impeach my brothers for doing these things? Even when I didn't want to deal with these things, you threatened to hang yourself one by one, and finally forced me to take action against my old brothers. Whenever I see my old brothers getting sad and upset, and when they show their anger towards me after I executed their families, I wish I could tear you hypocritical scholars apart. Ah, especially now when we are in the process of reform and change, I have finally waited for a time traveler to come. He knows the history of the Ming Dynasty and all the major events that have happened. So he wants change, he wants to centralize power, he wants all officials in the world to obey his orders, and then make the world a better place, and you actually stand up and oppose it. Just because his reforms will offend your interests, just because his reforms will make it impossible for you to do whatever you want as before, so you oppose it. What can you scholars do? You hid during the war, and you stood up to oppose the reform. Now that the Ming navy has finally gained some prestige, you all jumped out to obstruct it. Are you obstructing the Ming navy from doing whatever it wants? No, you are obstructing Chen Han's reforms. Therefore, he has always particularly disliked those scholars. He always felt that these scholars had free thoughts and wanted to stay in the same place without moving. Everyone just wants to pass on their status and connections to their descendants after they die. As for what the future of the Ming Dynasty will be like, they don't care. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang never wanted to be good to people like this, as for what his attitude was. He actually wanted the merchants to understand that he just wanted to kill all those obstructing people. As long as you dare to obstruct, the Jinyiwei would immediately fabricate charges and arrest them all. No matter what crime was used, no matter whether the scholar or the official was good or bad, as long as he obstructed the process, he would be killed. If too many people were killed, no one would dare to obstruct the process. But Zhu Biao was a benevolent king. His governance strategy was different from his own. He always felt that there were good and bad officials among them. But Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to tell Zhu Biao that you are a little too naive. No matter whether these officials are good or bad, they stand on the opposite side of reform. There is no distinction between good and bad, there are only opponents and supporters. As long as they are members of the opposition, no matter how great their contributions were in the past, they must be eliminated now, otherwise these members of the opposition will become more arrogant. It was difficult for Zhu Biao to understand Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts, and it was also difficult for Zhu Biao to understand Chen Han's approach. Chen Han and Zhu Yuanzhang had the same purpose. He wanted to kill those scholars and killed some people from the Kong family without mercy. Even if there are some violations of tradition, such as digging up the graves of some members of the Kong family, this is considered too cruel by many people. What is the purpose of him doing all this? It is to shock the whole world and let those who want to obstruct the reform know that if they go against me, their fate will not be good. You'd better consider whether you have the ability to resist. What Chen Han did did work. Many opponents no longer dared to speak out and could only curse him behind his back. Even when they were sitting face to face, they all smiled at themselves. Of course Chen Han knew that it was impossible for these people to smile at him sincerely. It was just a bitter smile, but they had no choice. Chen Han really likes and enjoys the feeling that they hate him but can't do anything to him.

This might be the result of a somewhat perverted feeling in his heart, but he doesn't care. He always thinks that it is right to do so. He always thinks that only in this way can he make these people truly afraid of him. Only in this way can we make the road to reform and change smoother. Only in this way can everyone in the world know that only my reforms are the most correct. I will not listen to anything proposed by you, the opposition. If you dare to obstruct me, I will kill you. Reforms have always been carried out on a sea of ​​blood and corpses, and have never been merciful, because after all, they involve the interests of tens of millions of people. These people will never give up their own interests just because you say that reforms will make the future better. Then everyone is hypocritical, so why bother looking for evidence? As long as he raises objections, he must be killed. As long as he raises objections, no matter how great his contributions have been, he must die. The greater his contributions, the more stubborn he became, the more he wanted to protect his own interests, and then he had to die... (End of this chapter)