When Tian Guizi said this, Su Yonglin thought of his only relative, Zhao Xirui's natal family.
Zhao Zuoliang is still the nominal supreme head of the Ming Dynasty government and a political advisor to the imperial court, but his three sons do not receive any special treatment.
A younger one is still studying.
A man with a criminal record before the founding of the Ming Dynasty was watched and studied hard by Zhao Zuoliang. However, he failed the imperial examination twice in a row. He was really not a good candidate for study. He was also old. In the end, Zhao Zuoliang sent him back to his hometown in Shandong to farm and take care of the ancestral hall. Quite a fool’s errand.
The second son is smart and talented. He passed the second imperial examination in the fifth year of Hongwu and entered the Ministry of Justice as an official. He is now the director of the judicial office in a county in Hexi Province. His work results are not bad and he has prospects for promotion.
Su Yonglin's own eldest son and second son are still young and are studying, so they have nothing to say.
The three sons of the Zhao family, the only relative, are nothing special. Compared with other families, there is nothing extraordinary about them. There is really nothing to criticize.
It would be better to say that Su Yonglin was deliberately suppressing the Zhao family, not allowing them to be superior to anyone else, and trying his best to maintain the fairness of talent selection and promotion.
However, this kind of effort based on oneself is seriously opposed by many people.
Opponents have even formed a certain alliance under his nose, are working hard to oppose him, and even have the idea of dominating the Ming Dynasty.
They believe that Su Yonglin's efforts to maintain fairness are inappropriate and inconsistent with their interests. They hope to obtain higher status and treatment through their qualifications, as well as a smoother way to obtain power.
To this end, they formed an alliance, stayed together, worked hard to take advantage of the rules and regulations stipulated by Su Yonglin, and tried their best to cover up. Until they were discovered, they did not think they had done anything wrong.
This made Su Yonglin feel angry, but also a little disappointed.
"Qiao Feng has indeed changed, but some of the things he said are not completely unreasonable. I seem to be using a relatively saintly standard to ask the officials and have a lot of expectations for them, and these requests seem to be true. Pretty harsh, isn’t it?”
Tian Guizi shook his head.
"Since you have decided to become an official in the Ming Dynasty, you must be prepared in this regard. If you are not so aware, you might as well not become an official in the first place. Our officials in the Ming Dynasty are destined to be different."
"That's right."
Su Yonglin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I have thought about how I would treat criminals countless times, but when they really stood in front of me, I still couldn't help but feel disappointed. I thought I would just do it. I can take the lead, but in fact... I still underestimate human desire."
Tian Guizi objected.
"Your leadership is indeed very powerful. With your leadership, I believe that the Ming Dynasty officials are uniquely honest and efficient, and the Ming Dynasty people's trust in the Ming Dynasty government must also be unique."
"But if this situation continues to develop, how many people will become like Qiao Feng and the others?"
Su Yonglin smiled bitterly and said: "Now, they will use the excuse that the Jiangnan old man did not receive the treatment that meets his qualifications to unite a large group of people for personal gain. Then what reasons and excuses will they use to form a party for personal gain?
I don’t want to imagine, and I don’t dare to imagine, but now I also know very well that for them, the ideal does not mean that much, or they think that the ideal has been realized and they can start enjoying it, right? "
Tian Guizi was speechless.
"Seeing this strange current situation in officialdom, it's no wonder he would shout slogans that uphold natural principles and destroy human desires."
Su Yonglin murmured in a low voice: "Perhaps it is because I have witnessed too many ugly acts that this slogan was born. This slogan can be shouted out, maybe it is an ideal in itself, but this ideal is used In the wrong direction.”
"Preserving heaven's principles and destroying human desires?"
Tian Guizi wondered: "Whose words come from such remarks? It is really unimaginable."
"That's not important. What's important is... Gezi, do you feel the same way about selecting and appointing officials in the Ming Dynasty?"
Su Yonglin looked at Tian Guizi with a serious expression.
Tian Guizi pursed her lips and did not tell any lies.
"yes."
"Hahahaha, actually I think officials should be what we stipulate. Now that they have power, they have to bear more responsibilities, because their power will affect many, many people. To hold such power, of course, you have to pay of."
Su Yonglin smiled bitterly and said: "But maybe the bureaucrats don't understand this truth correctly. They feel that the process of gaining power is too difficult, so after gaining power, they want to enjoy the blessings, not to pay, but to take back.
Gezi, I found that looking at this matter from your and my perspective is different from their perspective. What we see is giving, and what they see is taking. Is this because of the difference in status? ? "
"There must be a certain connection, but it must be said in full, which is not always the case."
Tian Guizi shook his head: "Maybe after taking power, some of their ideas gradually changed."
"For example, if I'm not allowed to do anything else, am I not even allowed to be promoted?"
Su Yonglin smiled and joked. Hearing this, Tian Guizi also smiled and then shook his head.
"Real revival members will not be like this. Being an official for the sake of ideals and learning the ideals for the sake of being an official are two completely different things. These two kinds of people coexist in the revival association, and they have been like this from the beginning. "
At the beginning?
Tian Guizi's words made Su Yonglin feel a little relieved.
Yes, in the beginning, they had no choice, and they had no choice, whether their choice was to sincerely accept the ideal, or to accept the ideal helplessly, it was the same.
Everyone has no choice. There is only one way to go, and that is to go all the way to darkness. No matter life or death, fight for a dawn. Even if you die, it is better than simply starving to death.
But it's different now.
There are so many choices now.
The choice is still in your own hands. As long as you are brave, is there anything you can't do?
As a result, the choices of the two people are obviously different, and they gradually move towards two roads, two roads that are separated from each other and cannot come together.
But sadly, the former kind of people are destined to be less common than the latter kind of people.
If Su Yonglin wants to ensure that Ming Dynasty continues to move forward and maintain a positive cycle, two conditions need to be met.
The first thing is to find ways to increase the number of people in the former category.
The second is to find ways to continuously defeat the second group of people.
Neither of these two conditions is easy, they are quite difficult, far more difficult than becoming an emperor. To achieve these two conditions, the difficulty level that needs to be overcome is enough for Su Yonglin to be an emperor for five or six lifetimes.
The possibility is infinitely close to zero.
But the clever thing is that Su just likes to say no to the impossible.
impossible?
No.
Everything is possible.
Looking up at the bright moonlight, the corners of Su Yonglin's mouth curled up slightly.
"Guizi, do you believe it? My life in this life does not actually belong to me. It was because of my great luck that I should not have been allowed to continue my life. That's why I can live until now. I can Stand here and establish the Ming Dynasty."
Tian Guizi was a little confused about this.
"What do you mean?"
"Means nothing."
Su Yonglin looked at Tian Guizi with a smile: "I just want to say that since the life of this life does not belong to me, then I want to try the wish that I did not achieve in my previous life. I want to try the feeling of living for my ideals all my life. .”
What does it feel like to live for your ideals all your life?
Tian Guizi was stunned for a moment, and gradually understood what Su Yonglin meant.
"That should be good, right? It must be wonderful to live for your ideals all your life."
"No, it should be miserable, because you will have to face betrayal again and again, and you will have to wipe away your tears again and again and continue to move forward. The ideal road must be full of blood and tears, which is more painful than the most painful in the world. The road ahead will be even more difficult, so difficult that people can’t believe it, and in the end, success may not be possible.”
Tian Guizi thought about what happened this time.
"In this case, does the chairman still want to go on?"
"Of course, living for your ideals should be the highest state a person can achieve in his life. I can't think of a more meaningful way to live than this."
In front of Tian Qizi, Su Yonglin showed a happy smile that he had never seen before.
"Is there anything more romantic than living like this for a lifetime?"
"………………"
Tian Guizi doesn't know if there is any more romantic way of living than living for an ideal.
But he felt that Su Yonglin, who had such a sentiment, must be a very romantic person to his core.
Only a person who is very romantic to the core can laugh so happily in the face of such a heavy reality.
On this night, Su Yonglin made a decision.
From now on, he will be the most romantic person in the world.
He wants to lead this country into an unprecedented heroic and romantic revolution.
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