Throughout history, although natural disasters are powerful, the losses caused to the country are not even one thousandth of those caused by man-made disasters.
It is unfortunate to encounter a natural disaster.
However, natural disasters were followed by man-made disasters, making the people in the disaster even more miserable.
The landowners who break the bones and suck out the marrow, the profiteers who are unkind to get rich, and the indifferent and indifferent government!
Especially those corrupt officials who have enriched themselves through corruption under the pretext of disaster relief, causing harm to the people so much that nothing can be done about it.
A lot of the land owned by the powerful was taken from the common people at a low price during the natural disaster years.
Many businessmen made their fortune by colluding with officials and businessmen to take advantage of disasters and suck the blood of the people.
Natural disasters are unavoidable and man-made disasters must be eliminated!
Since ancient times, dog officials have corrupted the imperial court.
Natural and man-made disasters often become the last straw for the imperial court.
If the Ming Dynasty wanted long-term peace and stability, it must pay attention to every disaster. Pay attention to the lives of the people at the lowest level.
Otherwise, even if your army is strong and your country is rich, it will be difficult for the country to be stable!
Human nature is profit-seeking, and for the sake of money, many people are willing to be beasts! Are you willing to sell your conscience! I am willing to be someone else’s dog!
In the face of disasters, we cannot rely on human nature.
Otherwise, the country will fall into their hands sooner or later.
Due to the current Ming Dynasty, transportation and communications are still lagging behind.
Even with homing pigeons in hand, it would take several hours for the news to spread from the disaster area to the capital, and back from the capital. In remote places, it might take a day.
Therefore, Ming Dynasty must put the sword on those who want to take advantage of the country's difficult fortunes.
For this reason, Zhu Youjian had already thought of various countermeasures. In addition to droughts, other major natural disasters will disrupt transportation and turn the disaster area into an isolated island.
In the early days of the disaster, from a mathematical point of view, the supplies in the affected area were enough to be used by the disaster area within ten days and a half.
These ten days and a half were enough for the court to reconnect the disaster areas.
But the reality is often cruel. For the sake of their own interests, ruthless landowners and ruthless profiteers will refuse to sell the materials in their hands at a fair price!
What's more, they will use their own information advantages and financial resources to take the lead and gather the materials circulating in the market into their own hands.
If you encounter a procrastinating government.
The people will either die or rebel!
If the disaster area is larger, sorry, this dynasty is doomed.
You usually treat the people as nothing but grassroots and fail to actively rescue when disaster strikes. The people will not be able to survive. Why do you still expect the people to be patriotic?
The ancients said:
The king is a boat; the common man is water. Water will carry the boat, water will overturn the boat!
The so-called monarch seems to have overwhelming power. It can influence the direction of the dynasty and determine the life and death of the people in the world.
In fact, the monarch is nothing more than a bad sailing ship on the sea.
Lose one's virtue and forget one's authority.
Sooner or later it will be over!
Zhu Youjian is just an ordinary person, he is not a saint. Even if he talks about being in six, in reality, it is impossible to repay evil with kindness!
When your enemy is hurt, it would be good not to stab him, but you are even more stupid and cannot risk your own life to save the other person!
The same principle applies to countries.
Love the country and people, and talents love the country!
How can we dare to ask the people to be patriotic if we don’t sentence the dog officials to serious crimes?
Is the country good or not? Policies are important, but even more important is the integrity of officials. The proportion of good officials!
An honest official is not necessarily a good official! But corrupt officials must be dog officials.
Many so-called honest officials at the grassroots level are incapable of benefiting the people. Qingliu, who has reached a high level, doesn't allow others to do things if he doesn't do them himself.
It is not conducive to the development of the country.
But there is a solution to all this.
If you don’t have enough ability, train it!
Quite clean and quiet!
Then change the system, divide responsibilities, and ration work. The duties of each official's position have been determined.
If you want to do it, do it, if not, get out. Save yourself the trouble of occupying the latrine.
It’s hard to find a three-legged toad, so is it still hard to find someone who wants to be an official?
With the continuous implementation of basic education in Ming Dynasty, the proportion of scholars is getting higher and higher.
Although many people have not yet truly become talents, they have laid a good foundation for Ming Dynasty.
Even if Zhu Youjian now imitates Emperor Hongwu and strips off those corrupt officials, there is no need to worry about no one becoming an official.
But Zhu Youjian has been the emperor for so many years, and his mentality has already changed.
After many years of imperial career, Zhu Youjian is no longer the stupid boy he once was.
Killing corrupt officials is easy! Stabilizing the world is difficult.
It is unrealistic for a country to continue to rely on generations of wise kings.
After all, no one is a sage, so who can have no faults?
Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan, the founding emperor of Southern Liang during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, was the only emperor in history to starve to death.
In his early days, Emperor Wu of Liang was intelligent and wise, diligent in government affairs, accepting advice readily, opposed extravagance and practiced frugality, and had outstanding political achievements. Such actions can be regarded as a first-rate figure among the emperors of the past dynasties.
However, Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty fell into a coma in his later years, and his early wisdom, knowledge, and kindness were all gone. He also became obsessed with Buddhism. He went to the temple several times to serve as an abbot, but the ministers spent money to redeem him. Chaos, starved to death.
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In the early years of Tang Xuanzong's reign, Li Longji was very accomplished in politics.
He was diligent in political affairs and took measures from all aspects to consolidate and develop the Tang Dynasty regime. Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty paid attention to bringing order out of chaos, appointed Yao Chong, Song Jing and other wise ministers, worked hard to govern, and created the most prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty - the Kaiyuan era.
However, in the later period of his reign, he gradually neglected the government affairs and favored the treacherous ministers Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong; he also favored Concubine Yang Guifei, coupled with policy mistakes and re-employing An Lushan and other ethnic groups outside the Great Wall in an attempt to stabilize the Tang Dynasty's borders, which resulted in the eight-year Anshi Rebellion. .
Coupled with the fact that countless young emperors ascended the throne in history, which often led to the decline of the country, Zhu Youjian did not believe that the country could continue to be strong by relying on human rule.
If you want the country to be strong and prosperous, you must implement the rule of law and supplement it with rule by people.
In a society governed by the rule of law, the law has absolute authority, and all behaviors and interactions have certain patterns to follow. People rely on the guidance of the law to determine their actions.
People's legitimate expected interests can be realized, and damage to people's rights and interests can be sought for legal compensation.
The legal system can greatly enhance social stability.
But the law is made by humans after all. Humans are not gods and cannot think perfectly.
This leads to the fact that the legal system can indeed establish a social order that people generally follow, but its advantages often become its fatal shortcomings.
The certain stability, persistence and continuity of order often mean a certain degree of conservatism and lag.
Social life is complex and society is constantly changing. Limited rules and regulations cannot fully frame the colorful world.
At this time, human governance is needed to solve the problem.
