Obviously, what Zhang Juzheng said to Zhu Yijun in his official residence before leaving the capital deeply touched Zhu Yijun.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun was determined to fulfill his responsibilities as an emperor, guide the people of the Ming Dynasty in a general direction, and establish new hope.
As long as there is hope, people will not be weary of the world, or even despise life and ignore respect for others.
As long as there is hope for the country, there will be no decline in national fortunes or the collapse of the world.
When Zhu Yijun was thinking about how to start his first step in governing the country after taking office, Zhang Juzheng's suicide note on governing the country was also sent to the emperor.
Zhu Yijun read it carefully.
He had to admit that Zhang Juzheng did write the new Confucian classics books in accordance with the ideas of the emperor and his ministers on theoretical construction, and finally used the theory of seeking truth from facts and respecting the Han Dynasty in the world, in a way that borrowed the words of sages. And connected logically.
Zhu Yijun believed that he could not write it.
After all, the construction of ideological theories is not a simple and easy task.
"Your Majesty, now that Yuan Fu has returned, and Your Majesty is also familiar with articles, should lectures and readings be banned at this time, and in the future it will only be enough to pay regular visits to the court?"
When Zhu Yijun received the ideological book on state governance written by Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Siwei also began to ask Zhu Yijun on this day whether he should continue to read it.
"Now that your husband has gone, there is no need for the system of lectures and readings to exist anymore. It can be considered as letting the world know that I have completed your teachings to me."
"It's just that after Xu Jie enters the capital, he remembers to draw up a Taoist edict and ask the cabinet ministers and the eminent scholars of the Hanlin Academy to go with me to the Imperial Academy, and ask Qi Jiguang of the Privy Council and Li Rusong, Ma Gui, and Chen Lin of the Imperial Guard to go with me."
"There are also Shen Li from the Ministry of Rites, Wang Xijue from the Ministry of Personnel, and Wang Shizhen from Taichang Temple. They are also going with the Hu."
Zhu Yijun started talking at this time and ordered: "Tell them that anyone who has a private message left by their husband to discuss state governance and ancient and modern knowledge can bring it with them."
Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing were both a little surprised.
At this time, Zhang Siwei took the initiative to raise his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Xu Jie is a traitor and traitor who has failed the emperor's favor. How can he follow his troops to a clean place like the Imperial College and humiliate the people of the country? Therefore, I believe that Xu Jie cannot be allowed to go as well. , this person should quickly understand the canonical punishment, so that he can understand the law and correct people's hearts!"
"He needs to go!"
"Both he and his husband were key figures in the Yuanfu of the Three Dynasties. He, Xu Jie, was once a representative of Qingliu, but his ending was very different;"
"If he doesn't go, how can the Qingliu people have a deeper understanding of the governance of the country?"
Zhu Yijun asked.
After hearing this, Zhang Siwei could only say yes.
Xu Jie arrived in the capital on the sixth day of September in the tenth year of Wanli.
Zhu Yijun specially announced to meet him at Yuntai Gate.
When Xu Jie entered the palace, he was not very sad about his experience at this moment.
No matter what, he never thought that one day he would enter the palace as a prisoner to face the saint.
Xu Jie began to think of the time in the past when he entered the palace and was called upon by Honglu. At that time, he was still a young man who dared to speak out and hate.
Then, Xu Jie thought about the days when he and Yan Song were ministers in the same palace. At that time, he was trembling and cautious.
Xu Jie naturally also thought of the days when he had rectified chaos by drafting Jiajing's edict, and the days when he practiced the rule of "repay the Lord with power and blessings, return government affairs to the officials, and return punishments and rewards to justice."
At that time, he was quite proud and met the scholar leaders in Lingji Palace.
But Xu Jie never expected that after being cautious all his life, he would not end well in the end.
"I thought I could die well."
Xu Jie then murmured to himself, and then asked himself:
"But why has the situation turned into a situation where I can't end well?"
Xu Jie couldn't help but think carefully about the reasons why he became a prisoner.
First, he himself was driven into evil and deliberately connived. Because of his family's dishonesty and greed for money, his Xu family gradually became the main backstage of smuggling pirates through his power.
The second is that people are unpredictable, and someone has framed their own sins on him.
Regarding the former, Xu Jie asked himself that he had indeed failed to strictly discipline his children, but he had to admit that his own greed was also at play. The main reason was that he really did not expect that the imperial court would suddenly change direction and move toward expansion, sending troops to control the situation. The Japanese occupied several important trading areas, cut off his financial resources, and took advantage of his neglect of his daughter's personal dignity to directly track down his Xu family.
Xu Jie originally thought that according to the inherent laws of history, the Ming Dynasty, which had gone through two hundred years, would only become more and more conservative.
After all, let alone external expansion, even Xia Yan was beheaded by Jiajing because he advocated regaining his homeland of Hetao.
But the facts did change, and Ming Dynasty did not develop in a direction that was beneficial to him, a big bureaucrat and big landowner.
As for the latter, Xu Jie could only lament that Jin Yiwei worked harder than before, and lamented that the emperor really loved his Mr. Zhang, so much so that when he got to the bottom of it, Xu Jie was about to be harmed by a villain.
"The criminal has met His Majesty!"
When Zhu Yijun saw Xu Jie, who was pale-haired and wearing a white prison uniform, kneeling in front of him, he ordered: "Give him a chair to sit on."
"Convict, thank you, Your Majesty."
Xu Jie started to kowtow.
Zhu Yijun said: "You don't need to thank me, I just see that you are really old."
"Your Majesty is as kind as heaven, but I have failed you."
Xu Jie said.
Zhu Yijun laughed: "It's already this time, why are you still saying these things? If Xu Huating really cared about me and the common people in your heart, you wouldn't just let Gao Gong do the policy of opening up the sea, and let Qing Zhang's land be taken care of. My husband will take care of the rest."
"What your Majesty said is that I am very cowardly and selfish. I am not worthy of comparison with Duke Gao and Zhang Er."
Xu Jie responded to Zhu Yijun obediently.
Zhu Yijun said: "But your words sound good. The idea of 'returning blessings to the Lord with authority, returning government affairs to the officials, and using punishments to sacrifice rewards to pay back justice' is the same as what some people now advocate, 'things belong to the six departments and words belong to the six subjects'. The core is It all lies in imagining the power of the cabinet and allowing the emperor to do nothing. After all, although the power is returned to the Lord, government affairs belong to the officials, and it is up to the public to decide whether to use actions or give rewards. In this way, unless all the civil servants in the world advocate reform, the Ming Dynasty can only The old ways will continue until the country is destroyed."
"What Your Majesty said is that these are all manifestations of cowardice and selfishness."
"I don't have the guts to innovate to eliminate shortcomings and turn the tide, but I don't want to be scolded for being mediocre and incompetent, so I cater to the late emperor and the people of the world and say such words. It is obviously to show that I have no desire to rule alone, but in fact I use it to cover up my own They dare not revitalize the country."
"I am really a villain!"
Xu Jie began to actively belittle himself in front of Zhu Yijun.
"Don't belittle yourself like this, you still have merit."
"At least you trained my husband and saved Hai Rui. Regardless of whether your true purpose is noble or despicable, in terms of behavior, what you did was right. I and everyone in the world can only affirm it."
"I'm here to meet you today, and I don't want to hear how you criticize yourself. Don't just flatter me just because I can kill you, and don't treat me like nothing just because I'm not a threat to you."
"I am here to meet you today because I just want to know how that young man who dared to speak out and hate the powerful officials gradually turned into a treacherous official who, although he was full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, was full of male thieves and female prostitutes; I want to hear your own analysis. "
Zhu Yijun started talking.
Xu Jie became silent after hearing what Zhu Yijun said.
When Zhu Yijun saw this, he continued to ask: "Is it because of the supreme imperial power, or because of the Wang Xue that you highly admire, or because of the social customs after the rise of commerce."
Xu Jie opened his mouth to speak.
But Zhu Yijun spoke first: "You don't have to rush to tell me the answer now. Go back and think about it yourself. When I ask you again, you must tell the truth to me."
"In this case, I may let you go away with dignity."
Zhu Yijun said and left Xuanzhimen.
Xu Jie stood up, bowed to say goodbye, and tremblingly uttered one word: "Yes!"
Then, Xu Jie also staggered away from here.
