[Simulation ends. 】
Zhu Di was a little surprised: "Oh my god, it's so short?"
do not!
Play another paragraph, it’s so short that no one can read it!
Don’t you mean to make fun of me, Fourth Master Zhu?
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The Literary Academy was already in a commotion at this moment.
It's all because of Zhu Gaojie's speech in class. One is his views on corrupt officials, and the other is the eighteenth-level merit system he established.
He seemed to be saying to officials all over the world: Greed is okay, but don’t let me catch you. I don't care whether you were corrupt or not during your reign, as long as you don't let me find out, I will kill you if I find out. Also, during your tenure, no matter how much you are greedy, you have to get real things done.
If you are capable, I will give you a promotion. Not only will I give you a promotion, I will also give you a lot of money to raise you. You can make a lot of money without being greedy, and you will be successful. If you are only greedy for money and do not do serious things during your reign, then I will kill you.
The system of eighteen levels of merit and nobility is clearly distinguished, and literati can also be granted the title of duke during their lifetime!
Compared with military honors, it is particularly difficult to ennoble civil servants. Even Liu Bowen, the Qingtian scholar who made great contributions to the founding of the Ming Dynasty, was just an earl. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, only the Prime Minister Zuo Han Gong Li Shanchang has been granted the title of Duke during his lifetime by civil servants.
When Li Shanchang was seventy-seven years old, he, together with his wife, daughter, brothers, and more than seventy nephews, were all sent to the West by Lao Zhu.
This shows how difficult it is for civil servants to get a title. But now Zhu Gaojie presented the opportunity to people, which shocked everyone.
Although the title awarded by the eighteenth-level meritorious service is only hereditary and not hereditary, it is already very tempting.
Hereditary and hereditary substitution sound the same, but there is a huge difference.
Starting from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the hereditary system of Chinese dynasties began to be divided into two types: "hereditary" and ordinary hereditary.
Ordinary hereditary inheritance has a limited number of times, and the inheritor can only inherit a title that is one level lower than the original title of the inheritor. However, hereditary succession is unlimited, and the inheritor can also inherit the original title of the inherited person.
For example, Duke Cheng Zhu Yong was the son of the former Duke Cheng Zhu Neng. If it were just an ordinary hereditary title, after Zhu Neng's death, the hereditary title held by Zhu Yong would be downgraded by one level to just a marquis. After Zhu Yong's death, this title will disappear and will not be allowed to be passed on to his descendants.
As for hereditary succession, it is an unlimited inheritance. As long as the Ming Dynasty survives, the title of Duke Cheng will be passed down forever. It can be called the most powerful iron rice bowl.
If you want to cut off the hereditary inheritance, there are only two possibilities.
First, the holder of the title was killed. The most typical example was General Lan Yu, Duke of Liang. Not to mention inheriting the title, his whole family was slaughtered.
The second type is like Xin Guogong Tang He. Although he survived the sacking of Hongwu's heroes, after Tang He's death, his descendants, grandsons, and great-grandsons all died young and he was unable to ascend the throne.
The titles of the Ming Dynasty are basically hereditary. Unless they are posthumous titles, they can be passed down from generation to generation and live as long as the Ming Dynasty.
What Zhu Gaojie promised in the eighteenth-level meritocracy was ordinary hereditary inheritance, which could only be passed down to one generation at most, but this had already made the officials crazy with excitement.
"What a liberal arts college, but you have made it look like a muddy fish pond."
Xia Yuanji sighed, "What do you mean by what you did? Just what you said in class is too dangerous. Isn't this a legitimate reason for corrupt officials to be greedy for money? You, you, you , it’s still too hasty.”
Zhu Gaojie smiled slightly and said: "The turbider the water in the fish pond, the easier it is to catch fish. Only in murky water can you catch fish."
Mr. Xia frowned slightly: "After the water is muddy, the fish cannot see clearly what is in the water, and it is also difficult for the fishermen to see clearly. If there is a poisonous snake hidden in such turbid water, it will be caught off guard. If you take a bite, I'm afraid it will come back to bite you."
"As the saying goes, those who are famous are honored, those who are noble are honored, those who are wealthy are honored, and those who are powerful are crowned with crowns."
Zhu Gaojie said leisurely, "Those who have power are looked up to by ten thousand people. If one person controls ten thousand people, they will follow. Those who follow without losing track of their path will be blessed. Heaven and earth are good, mountains and rivers are flowing. Saints are good at making meritorious deeds at the right time. Punishment is given to the ten forces. Hold it in the court, and the sage will turn it into the palm of his hand."
“When looking at things, you must not observe them with your naked eyes, but with your mind’s eye.”
Mr. Xia Lao Shangshu smiled and said: "I don't use the naked eye or the mind's eye. I am a person who falls in the eyes of money. What I pay attention to is a common word."
Xia Yuanji has been tied to money in his life. He is the money bag of Ming Dynasty. He is reincarnated by Abacus, and he only sees things with the smell of copper.
In his eyes, it would be foolish to establish a liberal arts academy just for the sake of the eighteenth-level merit system.
This is all money!
Every brick and stone that built the academy was saved by Mr. Xia’s frugality!
What military commanders care about is face, and what civil servants care about is character. In the final analysis, they all have good face. Mr. Xia has no face, so he only cares about money. If anyone dares to ask for an extra penny from the treasury, he will fight with his life!
Want money? No!
Damn it, I won’t even give it to you!
"Old Minister Xia, it's not right to fall behind the wheel. When you look down on the world, you can't stick to the present. You have to look at the grand plan and great cause."
Zhu Gaojie said with a smile, "Guess where my next son will land?"
Xia Yuanji took out two copper plates from his sleeves. The copper plates were covered with a thick layer of grease. He threw them into the air and landed in the palm of his hand. He closed his eyes lightly as if he was about to perform a dance.
This is the arithmetic unique to Xia Laoshu. Two first-class Hongwu Tongbao are carried close to the body. The copper plates are used to channel psychic energy. You only need to borrow these two copper plates to calculate where the cause and effect are.
Someone once tried to buy these two copper plates from Xia Yuanji with a huge amount of money, but was rejected.
In fact, there is no such thing as ghosts and gods.
This is nothing more than mental tricks. Mr. Xia only needs to play with the copper plate to make his heart as clear as a mirror and his mind as clear as a mirror. Even if you replace two copper plates, the effect will be the same.
"call--"
Xia Yuanji suddenly opened his eyes, as if thunder was rushing through his eyes, and he murmured, "Huangzhi, official administration."
Zhu Gaojie was a little surprised: "Is this copper plate really a psychic thing? Can Mr. Xia lend it to me for a few days?"
"Lend it to you? I'm afraid it's like a meat bun beating a dog. Once it's gone, there will be no return. When did the things that came into your prince's hands be let go?"
Xia Yuanji was even more surprised than the other party, "His Highness really plans to go through the Academy of Arts and take action against Huang Ce and Li Zhi?"
Zhu Gaojie waved his hand: "This matter is not urgent. Please tell me first how you calculated these."
"This matter is not difficult to guess."
Xia Yuanji put away the copper plate and said slowly, "His Highness established the eighteenth-level military merit system to imitate the twenty-level military merit system of the Qin State. But when Great Qin established the twenty-level military merit system, it was to allow Great Qin's army to sweep across The forces from all directions are unstoppable and the six kingdoms are unified. His Highness has established an eighteen-level meritocracy. Of course, it is impossible for him to be bored and make himself uncomfortable."
"You must have a purpose, and you want to use the hands of hundreds of officials to carry out careful things. Use the world as a chessboard and hundreds of officials as chess pieces, and you have a far-reaching plan."
"The only thing I can think of is government administration. You want to use the Academy of Literature and the eighteenth-level meritocracy system as a guide to lead to the chess game behind it."
"If you want to rectify the administration of officials, it is most appropriate to start with the Yellow Register. Previously, His Highness ordered Mr. Yang Ge to spend a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources to move the Houhu Yellow Register in Nanjing to Beijing. In fact, it didn't take long If we combine the Academy of Literature and Huang Ceku, many things can be explained."
"Rectify the yellow records library, eradicate illegal households, collect taxes from the people, and eliminate future troubles from illegal households. If you want to accomplish such a big thing, it is obviously not enough to rely on imperial power alone. The role of imperial power is to make ministers obey. The reason why ministers obey imperial power is because imperial power can give They also bring benefits. And the rectification of the Yellow Book obviously also hurts their interests. In the face of interests, the imperial power seems insignificant."
"After all, if all the black households in the world are really wiped out, not only the wealthy families and landlords will have to pay taxes that they don't have to pay, but the local bureaucrats will also lose a lot of gray income. Even you will inevitably end up here. Standing still before great resistance."
"The eighteen-level meritocracy system is actually to break up and reorganize the originally solidified bureaucracy, and to overturn everything in the past."
"With such courage, it's really like a chess game in the world!"
Xia Yuanji has not been the Minister of Household Affairs for more than ten years. He is a lonely minister. The so-called lonely minister means that he controls more power and offends more people. He is like a rootless duckweed on the sea, relying on the imperial power. Survive.
On the surface, the six ministers are headed by the official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In fact, the six ministers will be decentralized because they control too much power. No one can monopolize the power. But Xia Yuanji was different. As a lonely minister, he offended everyone, and only the imperial power could allow him to survive.
He is also the only one among the six ministers who has truly built his department into a unified one. He is also the most powerful one among the six ministers.
However, being a lonely minister is not that easy. Once you make too many enemies, you will die without a burial place if you are not careful. Secondly, if you don't have amazing abilities, why would the emperor want you to help him take power?
Therefore, people who can sit in the position of a lonely minister are often the smartest and most capable ministers.
Xia Yuanji is one of the smartest and most capable people in our generation.
He is also one of the very few people who can keep up with Zhu Gaojie's ideas.
There are countless outstanding people around Zhu Gaojie, but if we really want to say who is the most effective minister under his command, only Xia Yuanji dares to claim the first place.
Zhu Di was accompanied by the "Prime Minister in Black" Yao Guangxiao, and Zhu Gaojie was accompanied by the "Prime Minister in Copper" Xia Yuanji.
"The one who knows me is Master Xia."
Zhu Gaojie sighed, "I sprinkled a handful of bait into the fish pond, which caused hundreds of carps to scramble for it, turning the clear pond into a bottomless pool of muddy water."
"The only ones who can stay awake in this muddy water are Mr. Xia and I."
He changed the topic and said: "Old Minister Xia knows so much, but does it mean that since ancient times, those who have made great achievements and conquered their masters, and whose ministers' wisdom surpasses their masters, rarely end well?"
Xia Yuanji is so smart that even his lord is afraid.
It is not a good thing for a minister to be able to figure out the master's thoughts.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Xiu, the son of Taiwei Yang Biao, was a typical example of a man who was misled by his cleverness. It was precisely because he was too clever that he was killed.
Xia Yuanji laughed and said, "Xia has never thought about a good death since the moment he stepped into Prince Qi's Mansion!"
On the Qinhuai River, he boarded the boat of Qi King Zhu Gaojie.
He promised that he would be a sacrifice for King Qi and change the sky for the Ming Dynasty!
Whether it succeeds or not, he will definitely die.
When things are done, Xia Yuanji will stand up and block the wind of the world's scholars, bear the anger of the world's people with his body, and be burned to ashes in the flames.
If the incident fails, Xia Yuanji will be besieged by the angry literati from all over the world, and his body will be left intact.
That day, he said to King Qi on the Qinhuai River:
"It's just death, why should we fear it?"
Today, he still has this attitude.
If he, Xia Yuanji, could rectify the official administration of the Ming Dynasty and create great achievements with his own sacrifice, then he would have deserved his death!
Xia Yuanji said with a smile: "I, Xia, am actually a stingy person, and everyone in the world knows this. I can't even pick up two copper plates, let alone Xia's life."
"If someone else said that I, Xia, should sacrifice my life for the Ming Dynasty, I would definitely go up and slap him twice."
"If I don't go to hell, whoever loves me will!"
"But it is really rare to meet a Ming Lord in this life. Chao Cuo of the Western Han Dynasty was killed in Dongshi, Tian Feng was abandoned by Yuan Shao of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Fan Zeng was so unwilling at the Hongmen Banquet, all because he did not meet the Ming Lord."
"Although I, Xia, am stingy, I still know a thing or two about business."
"Which one is more important, life or Mingzhu? Obviously, Mingzhu is more rare. Although there is only one life, people must die after all. Wouldn't it be happy if they could die willingly?"
"When Xia meets His Highness, if I can express my ambition, I will have no regrets even if I die."
Xia Yuanji bent his unruly waist and bowed to Zhu Gaojie.
If he had not met Zhu Gaojie, how would future history books evaluate him?
He is probably a "smart, capable and calculating person".
But Xia Yuanji didn't want to stop there. He wanted to use his passion to leave hot and bright red words in the history books.
Xia Yuanji is not just an abacus money bag.
He wants to follow the British master and spread his fame all over the world!
Zhu Gaojie put his hand on Lao Xia's shoulder, and raised the corners of his mouth: "You make me, and I make you."
"The words monarch and minister are too shallow to describe the cause and effect between you and me. You and I are close friends."
Just like Zhu Gaojie’s original intention when he established the Civil and Military Academy.
——All the civilized and martial arts in the world are taken into my arms.
The Academy of Martial Arts was a sharp blade he forged for the dynasty; the Academy of Arts was the cradle of talents that he carefully decorated for the Ming Dynasty.
He used the world as a chessboard and the officials of the world as chess pieces. However, the boundary between the chessboard and the Chu-Han River was "official administration".
This is the biggest hurdle for Ming Dynasty. For a behemoth like Ming Dynasty, the biggest problem does not come from the outside, but from the inside. If we fail to cross this threshold, everything will be nothing but smoke in the past, an ordinary page in the history book.
If you can get over this hurdle.
Both he and the Ming Empire will usher in their respective sublimations...
Ascend to become a dragon!
“We are taking a path that has never been taken before or since.”
“Everything we have done will always be remembered and praised by future generations.”
