As soon as these words came out, the civil officials became even more silent. But unlike the previous silence, this silence is more like acquiescence and resistance.
Next to Zhu Su, Zhu Ping and Zhu Di's faces were red with anger. Most of the credit for this trip should be attributed to their fifth brother. The two brothers knew this well.
If there are any five deadly sins committed by Lao Wu, how should they deal with them?
Even Zhu Biao had an angry look on his face. His fifth brother had made great contributions to help the court and subdued Naha, a serious nuisance. Qianban Tui doesn't want the court to praise his achievements, so that's all. Now he is talking empty words and wants to add guilt?
"That's nonsense!" However, Lao Zhu shouted angrily. "Do you think we are made of paper and clay? Do you dare to confuse right and wrong and talk nonsense in front of me?"
"The credit for capturing Naha alive has turned into a small achievement in your opinion?"
Before Yang Xunwen could argue, Lao Zhu waved his sleeves: "Come on!"
"Take this old man down! Keep him in jail for a few days! When he is no longer confused, we will decide how to deal with him!"
Erhu responded loudly, and Yang Xunwen, who was interrupted, looked confused. Your Majesty, why don't you follow the plot?
Under normal circumstances, shouldn’t we first ask what the “five deadly sins” are?
It can only be said that these civil servants underestimated Lao Zhu's strong character. If he wants to do something, he must do it even if the road ahead is Daoshan Oil Pan.
Yang Xunwen tried to use this lobbyist-style method of "big words and threats" to deal with Lao Zhu, but it can only be said that he completely used the wrong person.
Emperor Hongwu doesn't care about your three or five deadly sins. If you dare to show this cleverness in front of us, you will be guilty of a thousand crimes!
Seeing that Yang Xunwen was about to be taken into custody, some people in the civil service team began to show anxiety. However, Lao Zhu's prestige was so deep that for a while, no one thought of a legitimate enough reason to stop him.
Before Yang Xunwen could speak up, Erhu and his guards covered his mouth and nose and dragged him out.
"Wait!"
Fang dragged him to the entrance of the palace, and finally someone suddenly spoke up. Everyone was overjoyed and wanted to see which eminent person spoke uprightly.
Looking around, I found that the person who spoke was none other than the fifth son of the emperor, Zhu Su, who was at the center of Fang Xunwen's criticism just now!
Seeing that it was the fifth prince who spoke, Erhu did not dare to neglect and stopped at the entrance of the palace. Zhu Suqe glanced at Yang Xunwen, then turned around, bowed to Lao Zhu on the throne and said:
"Father, Mr. Yang said that I have five major crimes. The kid is really curious."
"It is not known whether there is anything inappropriate that Xu Shihaier did during this trip. Why not let Mr. Yang explain the charges clearly one by one?"
"If something is wrong, correct it; if not, please encourage me. If it is true, I still need to thank Mr. Yang for correcting me!"
Now that things have happened, Zhu Su has finally come to his senses.
Yang Xunwen and the civil servants were so unwilling. After thinking about it, the problem lay in the position that Lao Zhu had asked him to take, the "Guozijian Sacrificial Wine".
The Imperial College in the early Ming Dynasty was not the "poor and dilapidated yamen" that it became later. At this time, the Imperial College was taking a more advantageous approach to "getting to the top in one step" than opening a subject to obtain a scholar, "supervising the history of students."
Customized in the early Ming Dynasty, the Imperial College students studied for a certain number of years and were assigned to various government departments as interns for officials, which were called "Lishi". In the third month of the internship, after assessment, the top candidates will be reported to the Ministry of Civil Affairs as candidates, but they must return to prison to study for another year before they are officially awarded the official title.
In the eyes of later generations, this system is actually much more scientific and effective than the "eight-legged writing" with its widespread legacy. Studying in the Imperial College and reviewing events in various ministries can be said to have upheld the "theory" in cultivating talents in the feudal era. A model of integration with practice.
After all, the supervisors who have gone through internships are much more reliable than those Jinshi masters who only know how to study hard and are directly "awarded" once they are successful.
However, no matter how good the policy is, it will inevitably be distorted by the people below. Although it is necessary to pass historical records to be appointed as a supervisor, it is still much easier than the imperial examination. So since the Hongwu Year, many people have racked their brains and tried every means to place their nephews in the Imperial College. Among them there are many high-ranking officials, nobles and nobles.
A few generations later, most of the students in the Imperial College will be such people. Not only did he have no real talent and knowledge, he only spent his time fighting cocks and walking dogs, and the number of supervising students was also increasing day by day. There are too many places in the school, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for those supervising students who are truly talented and knowledgeable to find a way out.
Therefore, during the Zhengtong period, the calendar system was abandoned.
However, this trend was in the early Ming Dynasty, and the number of officials who were born from supervisors was not less than those who were recruited by Enke. The position of the Imperial College's wine minister is to control the entire Imperial College, even if it is only in name, he is still a "powerful" bureaucrat.
Could it be that Lao Zhu wanted to use himself to control the promotion channels of officials, so that "all the officials in the dynasty could come out of the elite family". And it was precisely because the civil servants sensed danger that they decided to oppose it. Yang Xunwen even went so far as to contradict Sheng Gong because of this?
Zhu Laowu felt the aura of trouble.
It is true that Lao Zhu wanted to deal with these weak officials in the court, and Zhu Su agreed. Very few of the civil servants in the early years of Hongwu were good people.
Most of these people came since the change of dynasties in the late Yuan Dynasty and "let nature take its course", or they came from wealthy families who could still afford to read and go to school in the troubled times of the late Yuan Dynasty.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court was decayed and the people were in dire straits. However, as the saying goes, "The wine and meat smelled stinky in the Zhumen, and bones were frozen to death on the roads." Even though the floods in the Yuan Dynasty were raging, they could not drown those high-ranking government officials; and those whose families had thousands of acres of fertile land and servants like Yun, a man who calls himself "The Heirloom of Farming and Reading".
Although these people are in the Ming Dynasty, many of them still "miss the old dynasty". Although the Yuan Dynasty had been in control of the Central Plains for a hundred years, it always regarded itself as an outsider. It only wanted to enjoy the flowers and mountains of the Central Plains and had no intention of governing the place.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the control over officials in the world was the loosest. "The Ancestral Instructions of the Emperor Ming Dynasty" once said, "The Great Yuan lost the world with mercy." For the common people and bureaucrats of the world, it was almost free of charge. Even the most critical taxation adopts the extremely backward "tax package system", which allocates the tax amount to officials and even merchants. As long as you can pay the tax amount in full, I, Dayuan, will not bother to care about you.
It is precisely for this reason that officials often exploit the people unscrupulously. During the Yuan Dynasty, the oppression of the people was unprecedentedly cruel. Officials and even businessmen can set taxes at will and exploit the people at will. Lao Zhu's parents died at the hands of the "tax-packaging" officials and businessmen.
It's ridiculous that in later generations, there are still people on the Internet who wantonly misinterpret this word "Kuan" and advocate the Yuan Dynasty's "tolerance". Such people are probably not born with crooked buttocks.
During the Yuan Dynasty, although the people had little food to eat and no permanent property, the bureaucrats and merchants were full of food and had never been so wealthy. Therefore, today's officials of the Ming Dynasty, and even businessmen and gentry in the countryside, are all "thinking about their old roots".
After all, Bo'er only has such a generous boss, but you, Boss Zhu, are so picky that you will be beheaded if you embezzle sixty taels of silver. Being an official is so depressing, why don't men be allowed to reminisce about the generosity of the past?
There are also quite a few people who are accustomed to being wealthy and secretly hide it from Lao Zhu, and continue to exploit the people according to the old rules.
The Hu Weiyong case and the Lan Yu case in history were Lao Zhu's attempt to deal with Prime Minister Quan and Huaixi bureaucrats; while the Kongyin case and Guo Huan case actually targeted such old officials of the Yuan Dynasty. Finding an excuse to replace all the old officials of the Yuan Dynasty who were sitting on their butts was not only not a "cruel and tyrannical act", but an act of loving and protecting the people and consolidating the country. Only the founding emperor like Lao Zhu could do this. A courageous move.
It's a pity that the official word has two pronunciations, and the common people in the feudal era did not have a voice, so those who wrote books and told history, and even the Qing Tartars and others were able to smear it wantonly.
Now that Lao Zhu wants to control the official promotion channels of the Imperial College and weaken the influence of these old Yuan bureaucrats in disguise, Zhu Su certainly supports it with both hands and feet.
(End of chapter)
