Wanli Youming

Chapter 257

Chapter 257

The tenth day of September in the tenth year of Wanli.

The golden crow is shining brightly, and the hibiscus flowers of the Imperial College compete with each other.

Zhu Yijun came here with a group of civil and military ministers and prisoner Xu Jie.

It's just that Xu Jie, a prisoner, is following a prisoner in the team of emperors and ministers in python clothes and red robes, which makes Xu Jie look particularly abrupt.

So much so that all the ministers who followed couldn't help looking at Xu Jie.

But this is what Zhu Yijun wanted.

He wants these bureaucrats to see that people like Xu Jie are officials, and the ending is no better than that of Zhang Juzheng.

As the emperor, he needs to give the officials a good guide.

Moisturizing is silent.

The ministers who were able to go to the imperial court, no matter whether they are civil or military, are already like human beings. They don't need the emperor to say much, they also know why the emperor asked Xu Jie to come to the Imperial College with him.

When officials such as Jijiu Luo Wanhua, Siye Zhao Zhigao, and Guozijian supervisors were waiting for the holy driver, they also noticed Xu Jie who was particularly conspicuous among the emperor and generals, and they all showed surprise in their eyes.

However, when Zhu Yijun appeared, the officials and supervisors of the Guozijian gradually changed from surprise to excitement.

Especially the young supervisors couldn't help but straighten their chests.

After all, it was Shengjia who came personally.

In this era of supremacy of the monarchy, the position of the emperor in the hearts of scholars is still very important.

And Zhu Yijun's visit to the Guozijian in person undoubtedly sent a signal that he attached importance to cultural governance, so they couldn't hide their excitement.

Guozijian is now the highest institution of learning in Ming Dynasty, and it is also a reserve institution for imperial bureaucrats.

Zhu Yijun came here naturally to send a signal to the current and future bureaucrats of the empire, a signal of what they need to do to get his attention.

As for Xu Jie's living textbook, it had already had some impact on their hearts.

After Luo Wanhua and others greeted Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun went directly to the Guozijian classroom, sat where the former Guozijian doctor sat, and said: "Give Xu Jie a seat. age."

Xu Jie naturally thanked him.

It's just that all the officials and scholars were standing around at this moment, and only the emperor was sitting opposite him, a prisoner, which made Xu Jie more conspicuous.

At this time, Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Hong to take over Zhang Juzheng's suicide note on governing the country, and holding up the suicide note, he said, "This is a book written just before the death of Mr. From the perspective of Confucian classics, I will call it Jinxue for the time being, and asked the Printing Bureau of the Supervisor of Rites to print a hundred copies. These printed copies will be distributed today. Let’s send a representative to get a copy and pass it on.”

"Since I came to the throne, I have had the opportunity of my husband to assist the prime minister for ten years, and I have been able to be good at my studies. Now I can govern the country by myself, but I have to be cautious. And my husband once said that the first thing to govern a country is the outline. Zhang, how should I raise the issue of governing the country? This is a big question, and it is also the one that needs to be determined the most right now."

"Mr. is dead, and I have completed my studies, so the system of lectures and readings has been abolished, but it does not mean that I don't have to pay attention to my studies, and the world is free to do whatever I want. As the saying goes, governing a big country is like cooking a small dish. Don't rush to stir fry. There are rules, and what needs to be decided now is the rules.”

"So, even if the teaching and reading are closed, it doesn't mean that I can no longer discuss academic studies with you. Apart from the sutra banquet, I should often discuss the world's knowledge with you. Today I came to Guozijian to discuss that this can be the outline of the world. If you want to learn about the knowledge of the world, let's discuss it with the master's suicide note."

Zhu Yijun spoke up.

And after Zhu Yijun said that, all the ministers and supervisors who were present had to read Zhang Juzheng's suicide note seriously.

Even Xu Jie was handed Zhang Juzheng's original suicide note by Zhu Yijun.

For a while, when all these people saw the same, Zhu Yijun first asked Zhang Siwei: "What do you think of Cifu?"

Zhang Siwei was actually quite unhappy that the emperor would do this.

But he didn't expect that the emperor really wanted to govern the country seriously, and he was really taught by Zhang Juzheng to care about the society and common people in the world, to discuss the state affairs with the officials and even the scholars in the world, and even now he came to the Imperial College specially to discuss the state affairs. Zhang Juzheng's philosophy of governing the country is to be learned as the teachings of the ancestors.

The key point is that "Emperor Ming Zu Xun" has not been studied so seriously, so that scholars and bureaucrats at all levels should participate together, and even military officials will also participate.

Zhang Siwei and many civil servants actually advocated that Weifu should be returned to the Lord, and that the emperor should be a holy lord and a benevolent monarch. They didn't really want the emperor to govern the country seriously, but just wanted the emperor to act as if he was serious in governing the country.

After all, if the emperor is really serious, in many cases it is not the people who suffer, but bureaucrats and bureaucrats who suffer.

But Zhang Siwei naturally didn't dare to tell the truth now, so he just said against his will: "Return to Your Majesty, in the opinion of my minister, Yuan Fu is Yuan Fu after all, and what he holds can be regarded as the motto of governance!"

Zhu Yijun nodded, and didn't comment on whether Zhang Siwei was right or not, but looked at the others: "What do you think?"

"Your Majesty, according to Yuan Fu's opinion, the government should be pragmatic, and the scholar-bureaucrats should have the ambition to innovate and eliminate disadvantages, and should learn from others' strengths, because people are not born to know them; when he said this, he obviously put more emphasis on the world, and made the scholar-officials pay more attention to meritorious service. In the world, Lide should be underestimated."

Wang Jiaping spoke at this moment.

"Virtue is not something that cannot be valued, but the first priority of governing the country should be to pay more attention to whether it can benefit the country and the people, that is, whether it can actually strengthen the country and stabilize the people."

Shen Yiguan refuted Wang Jiaping at this moment, then cupped his hands to Zhu Yijun and said:

"Your Majesty, I think what Yuanfu saw is a great idea, and it can be said to have a enlightening effect on me."

"From the point of view of the ministers, the assistant ministers should not only be close ministers who only know how to follow the established rules and follow the political opinions of the six departments, but should have criticisms, propositions, and guidelines for governing, so that the ancestral temple of the monarch To achieve long-term peace and stability, this is the real way to repay the king's kindness."

Zhu Yijun looked at Xu Jie: "Xu Jie, how about you, tell me what you think."

Xu Jie laughed: "Returning to Your Majesty, criminals once gathered educated people to give lectures in Lingji Palace, but at that time the criminals presided over the lectures, which was different from Your Majesty's purpose."

"Tell me, what is your purpose?"

Zhu Yijun said.

Xu Jie bowed and said: "The criminals are trying to practice their own philosophy of 'giving up punishment and rewarding public opinion', and hope that in this way, scholars and bureaucrats in the world will be willing to call their ministers virtuous, knowing that ministers will not impose authority on them. They will even speak for them and give them the power to discuss politics, so that they can control the court situation; "

"In this way, even if I don't want to solve the world's ills, I can still get a virtuous character."

"Even if the Son of Heaven tries his best to govern, he will only feel that his ministers are just focusing on empty talk and despising practice, and that they just follow the old rules and have no opinions, and they will not be dissatisfied with them because they take power for granted;"

"Because the minister has no claim, there is no root of hatred for the minister."

"The minister is only responsible for conveying the public opinion to His Majesty, if His Majesty hates it, he only hates the public opinion, not the minister."

"Criminals want peace, so they use the name of lectures to cover up their peace of mind."

"However, His Majesty is different now. He is using the name of lectures to explore the way of governing the country, and he really hopes to strengthen the country and enrich the people."

"Master Zhang, who is His Majesty's teacher, also has good intentions, and really puts the people of the country in his heart."

"Your Majesty will indeed be more suitable to use ministers who have their own opinions."

"This kind of assistant minister is not 'still use punishment and reward for public opinion', but governs on behalf of His Majesty, draws up his own charter for the outline set by His Majesty, and practices his own governing philosophy. He is a truly ambitious person. Only those who truly care about the community can do it.”

"Criminals are not such virtuous ministers."

"Although the criminals are not good at power and regard peace as the most important thing on the surface, they have gained a great reputation, but in fact, they gave up when they realized that being a true minister is hard to get a good reputation."

When Xu Jie said this, he smiled wryly: "What's more, the virtuous and the unvirtuous can't be controlled by ministers!"

"As Your Majesty asked before, what made the minister choose to be a traitor who seems loyal? On the surface, he is kind to everyone in the world, but secretly he takes advantage of the people's property and invades the country."

"The root cause is not the supremacy of imperial power;"

"After all, although the imperial power is supreme, it can't stop the desire for profit;"

"It's not Wang Xue who harms people:"

"Although Wang Xue said that he is confidant, it is up to us to choose what confidant is. It is the minister himself who chooses Gou'an and selfishness as his confidant;"

"The reason is that after the prosperity of commerce, the desire for profit has increased greatly. There are more and more people who only want to benefit, but fewer and fewer people who are benevolent and moral."

"When I first entered the official position, I hadn't yet become rich through business, and my desire for profit was not heavy. But after I became an official for a long time, after my relatives and friends became rich through business, they became more interested in profit;"

"But commercial prosperity is unavoidable. If the agriculture and mulberry industry is prosperous, there must be surplus wealth. If there is surplus wealth, there must be transactions. Therefore, everyone is more interested in profit, and ministers are more and more forgetful about propriety, justice and shame."

"His Majesty!"

As Xu Jie spoke, he looked at Zhu Yijun and said, "Because of this, in fact, people like me are the majority. For example, Mr. Zhang Ge, the Ci Fu, once told Chen when he was in Hanlin that he supported the return of things to the six departments and the return of words." Ke Dao, but was dissatisfied with Gao Xinzheng's arrogance with the administration of the six ministries as a cabinet minister at that time, thinking that this would inevitably abolish the Qing Dynasty and nourish the power ministers; "

"Actually, he is unwilling to change the system, and hopes that everyone in Shilin will be kind and not fight each other because of their different opinions;"

"It can be said that the second assistant, Mr. Zhang Ge, still has the heart of peace, not the heart of strengthening the country and peaceful people."

Zhang Siwei couldn't help but glance at Xu Jie when he heard this.

(End of this chapter)