Chapter 667 Seeing his father getting old, Zhu Biao began to be afraid Even though Zhu Biao had always understood his father very well, deep down he still felt some resentment. After all, he only saw his father fighting outside, and he only saw his father achieve so-called military merits. But the reality is that there is no way to care about how their family lives. Zhu Biao always felt that his father seemed to care nothing about how the family was doing. They don’t care about how their brothers and sisters survived. He didn't care at all how tired his mother was while waiting for him to come back. This fear and worry has accumulated so many emotional fluctuations. This may have led to the mother's body being unable to withstand the slightest setback in peacetime, or even dying early. So Zhu Biao did not express all these things, but it cannot be denied that he always had such feelings deep in his heart. That's why he suppressed all these things.

It was not until today when he saw his father accepting Chen Han's advice to go farming that he realized that this was not the case. It turns out that my father has always been missing my mother. Their feelings may not be as simple as they imagined, and maybe the way they get along with each other is different from others. They may have been in a tense state because of the war, so they can actually understand each other better. When it comes to dealing with the impact of family and career, and even family and dynasty change, parents have ways of getting along that others cannot understand. To a large extent, this leads to outsiders thinking that they may not be so harmonious in their relationship, but in fact they themselves are able to express themselves very harmoniously. So much so that in places that seem contradictory to outsiders, they appear to be very normal. What seems normal in front of outsiders may seem very awkward among them. Because of this, they have always used this special way of getting along with each other, which involves conflict and confrontation, and at the same time, they can focus on solving major problems. Zhu Biao had not experienced such changes, nor did he know that getting along with others was not actually that simple. Although they seem to be harmonious on the surface, sometimes conflicts, disagreements and even fierce quarrels are actually a special way for them to get along with each other. Zhu Biao did not experience the urgency that his mother felt while waiting at home for news of his father's return. It is also impossible to understand the dangers that everyone, even the king, may face on the battlefield. As a result, the mother, while waiting, actually wants to receive news about her father, but also does not want to receive news about her father. Because often the good or bad news is not just a report of safety from an ordinary family, and it is definitely not just a greeting from an ordinary family. Rather, it concerns the changes in the entire world and the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers. Therefore, this greeting and letter could not be sent casually. Even though I have been away from home for many years, the absence of any news is actually good news. This is how his father and mother got along with each other. It was normal that Zhu Biao couldn't understand it during this process. It was not until this moment that I finally realized that my father was really old. The old man really makes people feel that when the current Ming Dynasty was once shrouded in the majesty of his father, there was actually nothing to worry about.

But now, when he saw that his father was really old, he finally felt that if he really wanted to change history in the future and did not die, he would take over the Ming Dynasty. How should I face the world? Sometimes he would feel particularly confused that what his father Yongde had experienced was not something he could do. First of all, his father laid the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. He was the founder of the entire Ming Dynasty, so he possessed enormous authority. No matter who they are, when they mention their father, they will think that the good life we ​​have now is all due to the efforts of His Majesty the Emperor alone, so they must never betray the will of His Majesty the Emperor. Under the inspiration of this emotion, even if His Majesty the Emperor did something wrong, it would be infinitely diluted by the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the people will be more tolerant of His Majesty the Emperor. But things were different after I took over. Even though his prestige in the army and official circles is very high, his prestige among the people has not yet been reflected. Instead, it was his own son-in-law who carried out reforms. As the lives of ordinary people became better and better, he accumulated his own personal reputation. Even though Chen Han has been emphasizing that his reforms will be successful, there is a high probability that it is due to the support of the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. So everyone should be grateful to the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but the people are very emotional creatures. They never see that there is so much support behind the entire success. They only see the person who is in the front. This may be a contradiction and paradox in reform or in doing things. Sometimes if a person wants to do something, he has to take some risks. For example, if the reform failed, the problem Chen Han would have to face would directly cost him his life. So this is a contradiction in doing things. If you succeed, then everyone will be happy and everyone will be happy for you. Everyone will applaud you. Everyone will give you flowers. They will be grateful for your reforms and the benefits they will bring to them. They will appreciate the improvement you make to their lives. They will be grateful to you for bringing more opportunities and development to their lives. They may even be grateful to you for making a difference in their lives and those of their offspring. But if they fail, then these people will not just counterattack. These people will not just follow your opponents to accuse and attack you. They may even transfer all the dissatisfaction in life onto you.

I feel that it is because of your reforms that my future life will become difficult. It is because of your reforms that my life has become miserable, and I have neglected the element of my own efforts. They may even think that their misfortune is caused by your reforms, while ignoring the fact that they are lazy and want nothing more than food and clothing. Although he is not destined to be a young master, he always hopes to be treated like a young master. This is human nature, and this is the very realistic problem that Chen Han has to face. Now he has succeeded, otherwise how would Chen Han face the whole world in the future? It would be a huge challenge. Zhu Biao thought about this problem, and he also understood that if his son-in-law did not succeed, the problems he would face might drive him crazy. Therefore, he had no difficulty understanding the achievements that Chen Han had made and everyone's praise for him. He even felt that his son-in-law deserved such praise. It should be praised by these common people. So what he is more worried about now is how he should face the whole world and the doubts raised by him after becoming the emperor. Even if you are very popular among officials in the officialdom, even if you have a strong prestige in the army, what can it do? If these things were on the battlefield, they would definitely achieve a lot of cumulative effects. But when you are governing the world, the people will not understand you. If your policies go wrong, the people will definitely blame you based on a set of ethics. That is, you see, this son is not as good as his father. Once this accusation forms a certain public opinion, it will create tremendous pressure when it is fed back to oneself. Yes, your father is so great. If you, as a son, cannot make breakthrough progress in the system, in the economy, and in leading everyone to create a better direction, then it is a manifestation of incompetence. When he thought about these pressures, life at this time was actually very confusing, and he didn't know how to deal with them. He also didn't know whether he would be defeated by the pressure. He also didn't know whether he would feel fear when facing the pressure around him. So now that I see that my father is really old and is in the process of aging, I am afraid and worried that he will have nothing to do, so I have to go farming to relieve my worries. I saw how much my father missed his mother when he grew old. When I saw my father finally taking off the armor of a strong man and behaving like an ordinary person. He finally understood what kind of problem he would face in the future. I must think about this problem carefully. When his father was around, he never felt that this was an issue he needed to consider. Because he is already in his thirties, but due to the inertia of his father's management, he does not feel that this kind of pressure can be transmitted to himself. He even felt that he should be able to slowly adapt to the pace of governing the world like his father.

But now, when he saw that his father had really grown old, was really starting to reminisce about his mother, and was really starting to think about how to find something to do, he finally woke up. It turns out that the situation I faced was different from that of my father. When his father had just established the empire, he might have been worried that the empire would collapse again, or that the Northern Yuan Dynasty would move south again. He might be worried that the people in Zhang Shicheng's old territory in the south would oppose him. He might be worried that heroes like Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang might rise again and overthrow his dynasty. So the problems he was worried about were solved in a very cruel and quick way, that is, anti-corruption. Under the Yuan Dynasty system, which saw the emergence of a large number of corrupt officials, many newly appointed officials of the Ming Dynasty felt, due to the inertia generated, that they might be able to govern the world in the same way as they had done in the Yuan Dynasty. They might think that as long as they are not caught committing corruption, they can continue to commit corruption according to the Yuan Dynasty's institutional inertia. Under the inertia of the Yuan Dynasty that had just been destroyed, many officials did not feel that the reforms of the Ming Dynasty were very significant. They also didn’t think that there was any difference between Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and the Mongolian emperors. They even thought it was just a change of surname. The emperor is still the emperor, the officials are still the officials, and the people are still the same people. So they were led by this inertia, or in other words, they were influenced by the trauma inherited from the Yuan Dynasty system. I always feel that as long as my behavior is within the framework of the Yuan Dynasty system, it is legal. After all, in order to raise military funds, the Yuan Dynasty at that time resorted to every possible means, allowing its officials to exploit the people unscrupulously in order to raise enough military funds. It was used to suppress peasant uprisings, but it failed. But officials do not view this approach as wrong. Or perhaps the officials were limited by their own knowledge and traffic conditions and had no idea at all. It turns out that the exploitation of the lower classes and the uprisings that result from it are often more destructive. They just hold the traditional view that the reason for the uprising in the world is not because we officials did not do a good enough job. It’s not because we have made good use of loopholes in the system, but because you, the emperor, have not set a good example. Therefore, you, the emperor, will have to bear all the bad consequences. As for us officials, we don't need to worry about this issue. So they still unscrupulously exploited the people out of inertia, but they finally tasted the bitter consequences. That is, the new emperor, first of all for his own personal reasons, his resentment towards corrupt officials intensified his efforts to purge corrupt officials after he came to power. A variety of problems left over from the institutional trauma of the Yuan Dynasty, such as official corruption, institutional rigidity, and a loose bureaucratic constraint system. Zhu Yuanzhang realized that if he wanted to rebuild the basic DNA of the Ming Dynasty, he would have to perform major surgery on this body full of sores. Therefore, various anti-corruption campaigns have suddenly made people ignore the various loopholes that were brought about when the Ming Dynasty was founded. Perhaps because of the death toll from the war, the remaining fields were large enough to feed the remaining people.

It may be because Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang took drastic measures to crack down on corrupt officials, which led to a sudden boost in public morale and diluted the resentment that the newly established Ming Dynasty did not bring good days. That's why my father's governance can be stable and power can be more concentrated. All this is due to the dividends brought by the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. What do I have? …… (End of this chapter)