Shen Gai may have felt that the question he raised was very lethal and could have an instant killing effect, giving Zhang Shi a severe blow.
But he didn't realize that his IQ might not be much different from Zhang Shi's, or in other words, slightly behind Zhang Shi's.
What he can think of, Zhang Shi can't think of?
Is Zhang Shi a fool?
Regarding this issue, Zhang Shi once asked Su Yonglin for advice in detail in a letter, and Su Yonglin also gave him a very clear answer.
"Not to mention whether you should pursue what you say to do good deeds, but at least it seems like this."
Zhang Shi said slowly: "So I also asked the chairman. I wrote a letter to communicate with him and asked him how the Ming Dynasty could subvert the Song Dynasty's system, how to eliminate this evil at the root, and how to allow upright people to ascend the throne. A high position works for the welfare of the people.
The chairman told me that in the Song Dynasty, doing good deeds was regarded as stupid and unreachable. If you don't think about yourself but think about others, this will not end well at all. An upright official who asks for orders for the people will be punished. Elimination, kind-hearted people consider others, but are framed.
Under such a vicious cycle, the Song Dynasty has reached an irreversible end, but it is different in the Ming Dynasty. What the Ming Dynasty did is actually very simple, which is to let those who do good things have good rewards. , rather than being constantly eliminated. "
Hearing this, Shen Gai seemed to have heard some big joke. He threw his head up and laughed. He laughed for a while before he stopped and looked at Zhang Shi with a joking expression on his face.
"Good people are rewarded? Zhang Jingfu, how old are you? Do you still believe this? You said that young children believe this. I think it is excusable. The child is young and ignorant, but you are already in your thirties. , is it a bit too naive to still believe this?”
"So, this is a problem caused by the entire Song Dynasty court system, which affects all aspects. No one in it can escape from it, no matter what his identity or status.
Even the official who thinks he is superior cannot actually escape from it. Instead, he is deeply trapped in it and cannot extricate himself. That is why the situation you mentioned occurs. "
After saying this, Zhang Shi seemed to have remembered something, and sighed with emotion on his face.
"It's normal to do the right thing and get the right reward. But since when have we all been distorted and believe that only by doing bad things can we get the biggest reward? Isn't this very strange? Something unusual?"
Hearing this, Shen Gai gradually faded the smile from his face.
After a while, he sneered.
"I don't know when it started. I just know that I was born like this."
"You were born this way, do you just admit it? Do you accept it without any doubt?"
Zhang Shi shook his head: "Perhaps, many people will reluctantly admit it, gradually become one of them, give up struggling, sink into it, become an accomplice of this phenomenon, and promote this phenomenon to become more and more intense.
But the Ming Dynasty, the comrades of the Ming Dynasty headed by the chairman, they said no to this kind of thing, they did not recognize this wrong thing, and they wanted to change this phenomenon. "
Shen Gai didn't believe it at all and looked disdainful.
"What a big tone. It's easy to say. How to do it? How to correct it? How to make people believe that good deeds will be rewarded? It is really that easy to lead people to do good. We are no longer Confucian scholars, but temples I’m a monk! Knocking wooden fish every day can lead people to do good, how wonderful!”
Zhang Shi shook his head.
"The chairman said that the Ming Dynasty is building a completely different system that runs from top to bottom, called the mass representative system. The Ming Dynasty wants to use this system to reshape this society."
"Representative of the masses? What do you mean?"
"I just heard that in order to better formulate national policies and better hear the voices of people from all walks of life in all regions across the country, the State Council is planning to pilot a mass representative system. It is said that ordinary people will be widely selected to attend meetings in the central capital. .”
Zhang Shi said slowly: "Officials can participate, officers and soldiers can also participate, workers, farmers, and businessmen can also participate. The standard for participating in the meeting is to make a contribution, and there are many different things about what a contribution is. standards.
For example, there were many factories in the Ming Dynasty. Workers who worked in the factories would be commended if they worked hard and achieved outstanding results, or if they did other things that were beneficial to the factory or society. When positions are in need of people, they will be promoted first.
There are also officials and clerks. Their duty is to govern the local area and work for the welfare of the people. Therefore, they will be commended for their achievements in their posts. If they report corruption by other officials, they will also be commended. Superiors or Subordinates can also be commended if they point out things they have done wrong in a timely manner and make efforts to correct them.
Officials or staff who have been commended can be elected as mass representatives and can go to the Central Capital to hold meetings on state affairs. Once there is an opportunity for promotion, officials who have been commended have priority and can be promoted first. "
"Wait, officials...and farmers, industrialists, and merchants? The masses?"
Shen Gai was quite surprised. After a while, he thought clearly, calmed down, and asked, "Did the Ming Dynasty want the distinction between scholars, farmers, industry and commerce to disappear?"
"This is how it should be. Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce should never be a hierarchy, but four professions that are juxtaposed in society. Four professions with the same status. There is no distinction between high and low."
Zhang Shi said: "Those who are engaged in agriculture, industry and commerce are the masses, and officials are also the masses. They will not be detached from the masses just because they are officials. No matter how high the official position is and how powerful the power is, including the Ming Emperor himself, he is a citizen of the Ming Dynasty." , this is the first general rule of the first chapter of the Ming Code."
"Su Yonglin... at the beginning, he said that he would serve all the people as emperor and would not be the emperor, but only the human emperor. Did he really write this rule into the law?"
Shen Gai was very confused and asked: "Scholars, peasants, industry and commerce have always been hierarchies. They have existed since ancient times. The country emphasizes agriculture and suppresses commerce. Agriculture is the basis and business is the lowest. If scholars, peasants, industry and commerce are equal, wouldn't it mean that the foundation of the country is shaken?" Doesn’t Su Yonglin understand?”
"It's natural to put agriculture first, and it also makes sense to restrict commerce and prevent it from interfering with agriculture. But what does this have to do with people?"
Zhang Shi spread his hands, shook his head and said: "I didn't understand it until I corresponded with the chairman, and he told me that scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are professions, not people, and they should not be classified as hierarchies.
In the Ming Dynasty, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were synonymous with occupations, not people. People were the masses. The masses chose different professional lives. The imperial policies had different regulations on occupations, but they were always the same for people.
Ming Dynasty will not think that you are superior because you are an official, nor will it think that you are inferior because you are engaged in business. What does professional distinction have to do with people?
People can change jobs at any time and do what they want. The ancients divided society in this way, binding professions to people, restricting social circulation, and blocking up and down passages. Their intentions were sinister, but it made me very unhappy. "
"you……"
Shen Gai suddenly felt that Zhang Shi had offended the ancients and was very unhappy. He said angrily: "Abandoning the original and chasing the inferior, forgetting the ancestors! Abandoning the original of the country without caring about it! Zhang Jingfu, you... you are really hopeless!"
"You are the one who is hopeless."
Zhang Shi was not angry, but sighed: "Reshape society, change wrong things, and do right things. How can we abandon the basics and pursue the last? What the ancients did right should be inherited, but if the ancients did wrong, Then we must correct it and resolutely abandon it!”
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