Suddenly a burst of spring rain came, making the sky darker. After hearing what Zhang Jingxiu said, Zhu Yijun looked at the beaded curtain outside the eaves, pondered for a moment, and then stood up and sighed: "As I said before, the construction of Xinli is not something that happens overnight. Even a descendant of an official like you will have his dignity ignored. , not to mention the people?”
"It can even be said that I am not regarded as a human being by them, but just a symbol of power according to etiquette."
"Your Majesty is right! However, it is not that the Qing army is bullying the people everywhere in the name of seducing the Qing army. It is indeed only a few places that are disturbing the people in the name of the Qing army seducing the army."
"Moreover, after the imperial edict strictly prohibited the Qing army from hooking up with the army, most local bureaucrats also took the initiative to patrol and stop it, and did not dare to really ignore the edict."
"Generally speaking, there are good and bad bureaucrats in the world. Although the law has not been abolished and officials are tightened, it can only be said that there are few particularly bad ones, and they cannot be eradicated." Zhang Jingxiu replied.
"If it's everywhere, then isn't the implementation of the New Deal in vain?" Zhu Yijun asked with a smile, and then said with a serious face: "The reason for everything is that the new etiquette has not been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!"
"Of course, the reason why the new rites have not been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is that the way of obtaining profits from the world has not been fundamentally changed. The method of obtaining profits through internal and external development to benefit the people of the world has not completely replaced the method of obtaining profits from land cultivation."
"Officials and people still keep their eyes on the land!"
"But I believe that with the change in the way of gaining profits in the world, everything will change completely. These disadvantages caused by the collapse of the old etiquette and the failure of the new etiquette to take root in the hearts of the people will be solved!"
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
"Most people are used to living in peace, and so are officials. Most prefer to live in peace and quiet and hate to pass exams."
"In this way, the evil officials, local gangsters, evil gentry and local tyrants become more and more unscrupulous, and even coerce the bureaucrats to pursue fame and fortune. The right way is to follow evil as if it has collapsed, and to do good as if it has ascended. After the collapse of old etiquette, the people are more likely to be cruel inside and flatter outward, bully the weak and fear the hard; New rituals can solve this problem.
Zhang Jingxiu replied.
"But new etiquette is not so easy to recreate!"
"As you just said, people's desire is to enjoy dignity and live in peace, rather than to work hard and rebuild new etiquette."
"Once a person is used to being free and loose, it will become difficult to restrain himself!"
"Do good as you climb up."
"Therefore, if we want people in the world to observe etiquette and laws again, we cannot expect them to take the initiative to establish new etiquette and laws. They will only think about rebuilding etiquette and laws when they bring this country and nation to the abyss of subjugation and subjugation of the world. But then At this time, the price will be high, and I don’t know how many lives will be tortured.”
“There will even be no time to think about and establish new etiquette, and only time to follow the old path.”
"So, we still need to strengthen supervision!"
"First of all, factory guards must not be damaged, otherwise, the final supervision and protection will be lost."
"Once the Jin Yiwei is in peace, the law will follow in peace, and then all the officials will follow in peace, the subordinate officials will become rampant, and the gentry will change from good to evil!"
"In the end, I am afraid that a local ruffian and bully will destroy a village and a town, and the decrees and laws will be regarded as nothing."
“Secondly, we need to further open up the people’s wisdom as national funds and people’s wealth continue to increase.”
"It is not just about opening up the people's wisdom, including that of the scholar-bureaucrats. Nowadays, most of the people of this dynasty do not have the awareness that they are responsible for the rise and fall of the world, let alone the awareness of respecting their own inner conscience."
"Even scholars are mostly not the kind of people who took the world as their own responsibility in ancient times. Instead, they pay more attention to inner harmony and advocate tranquility of mind."
"Therefore, many scholar-bureaucrats do not hesitate to wrong themselves and everything for the sake of peace in the world. Even if he is Zhao Nanxingguan and becomes the doctor of the merit examination department, in order to avoid the possibility of causing trouble for you in the future, he will not hesitate to destroy the fairness of the merit examination. My own conscience, I even forgot the etiquette requirements of treating a gentleman with courtesy.”
"The same goes for Lian Jinyiwei. He would rather abolish his power and try not to investigate the crimes of hundreds of officials to avoid causing more trouble;"
"If this continues, can the emperor rather not use the imperial power and try not to ask the common people of the country or the pros and cons of the world?"
"We must get rid of this increasingly outdated habit of not wanting to cause trouble among Han people all over the world. We must open up their original wisdom and know how to fight for their own rights and care about national affairs and world affairs."
“I don’t know when did this weak and cowardly idea of cowardice come into being?”
"I look at the historical data. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the world was not like this. There were commoners who dared to drive the Tartars back to the desert with only spears, and there were even more rebels who dared to go north to destroy the captive nests. Even the military officials dared to take the responsibility. When the capital was in danger, Fight bloody battles with the enemy."
"But later on, more and more people became lifeless. Fortunately, they were not completely wiped out, like Mr. Haigangfeng."
"But no matter what, we need to revive this strong and heroic spirit. We need to make the Han people have a sense of struggle and a sense of their own responsibility for the rise and fall of the country and the nation. And this first means that all Han people should read and be good at reading;"
"However, this is what I will ask the cabinet to do. What you Jinyiwei have to do is to encourage the Han people to fight for their rights, encourage them to care about the country and the world, and even supervise the country's bureaucrats. Since the new rituals are for common people, I regard all Han people in the world as national scholars, and I should accept all the opinions of the Han people in the world. This can be regarded as returning to the meaning of Taizu, encouraging the people to write letters and encourage the people to complain to the officials."
"So, what you Jin Yiwei need to do is to spread your eyes widely, and at the same time, let each Jin Yiwei thousands of households set up anonymous reporting points everywhere, and special Jin Yiwei will guard the points to prevent anyone from sabotaging them; let the people have a channel to complain to officials through Jin Yiwei."
"We say to the outside world that we are ordered to inquire about people's sentiments," Zhu Yijun said. Zhang Jingxiu raised his hand and said yes. Then, Zhu Yijun said: "But now, after you receive the appointment document, you should immediately go to rectify the Jinyi Guards, and tell Liu Shouyou what you saw, and tell him that it is my decree, and he needs to deal with these crimes immediately If the officials arrest him and bring him to Beijing, we must not tolerate him!"
"I obey!" Zhang Jingxiu responded. After Zhang Jingxiu left, Zhu Yijun ordered local officials at all levels to set up anonymous reporting points in crowded places to facilitate inquiries about public sentiment.
But Zhu Yijun is not satisfied with this. In order to prevent Jin Yiwei and bureaucrats at all levels from violating the law, they secretly prevented people from suing the officials.
On the one hand, he ordered the Supervisor of Ceremonies to print the "Imperial Imperial Edict" and distribute it to the people, so as to prevent Taizu's imperial edict that encouraged people to sue officials from being deliberately hidden.
at the same time. On the other hand, he also asked Jiangzuo Temple to continue to build a larger anonymous reporting box that only the emperor knew how to open, and set it up in various inns across the country. Jinyiwei would pick it up regularly and the emperor would personally read it.
Nowadays, the technocrats of Jiangzuo Temple, represented by Qi Changguo and Zhao Shizhen, have mastered very advanced precision mechanical gear manufacturing techniques, and it is still possible to create a sophisticated mechanical lock box that even has a password.
Of course, officially, this kind of anonymous reporting box is called by Zhu Yijun as a system to inquire about people's sentiments.
Zhu Yijun was not afraid that local officials would send people near the post station to monitor whether the oppressed people would report anonymously. He believed that smart people would know how to go to other places to submit their letters.
This is also where local officials are helpless. There are really too many officials and noble families in the Ming Dynasty. There is more than one family in every province and even every prefecture and county, and no family can make itself so powerful that the powerful officials in other places will also look at their faces, and they will only wish for their defeat so that they can be punished. Fight for a few more official positions in your own province.
After all, the provinces, prefectures, and counties of the Ming Dynasty were in a competitive relationship. They were all vying for a few official positions in the imperial court, especially those with real power in the capital. Naturally, they could not work together completely.
However, after Zhu Yijun's decree was issued, Shen Shixing had to report to Zhu Yijun: "Your Majesty, if you encourage people to sue officials in this way, it may intensify the internal strife between officials and people and encourage the arrogance of villains among bureaucrats!"
"There is a clear example of this in Taizu's time. In order to suppress honest bureaucrats, some truly corrupt and evil officials secretly instigated the people to falsely accuse honest officials. There are even more unscrupulous businessmen and evil gentry who deliberately used this system to blackmail timid bureaucrats and then coerce these bureaucrats to do things for themselves. Therefore Taizu lamented that it was too difficult to fight against corruption!"
"And for this reason, when the Da Gao was built as a temple, it was ordered not to be written in detail."
