"Your Majesty, please take back the edict!"
Duke Cheng Guo knelt down.
Most of the officials in the hall behind him knelt down. Although they did not speak, they expressed their thoughts with practical actions.
Looking at this scene, Chongzhen shook his head.
"Your Majesty, I have something to say!"
Li Banghua left work: "I have a few questions to ask Hu Ke, Yao Zongwen."
"Just ask!"
With Chongzhen's permission, Li Banghua looked at the household department and asked Yao Zongwen: "Master Yao, your household department is in charge of the world's money and food.
To put it more directly, it is to manage the food rations of the people of the Ming Dynasty so that they have food and enough to eat.
Now Your Majesty returns the land to the people, isn't it good for the people to cultivate their own land and have enough to eat? Why do you think something will happen easily when you are full?
Don’t you think it’s ridiculous for an official from the Ministry of Household Affairs to say this?
Second, you said that problems are easy to occur with accounts and even with collection of accounts, so what do you need to do?
If you don't do well, then resign and leave. There are many people in this world who will settle the score!
There is also the matter of the gentry and wealthy merchants' cultivated land being abandoned. What does this have to do with the people and the court? Is it because the court refuses to allow farming?
Why do people have to cultivate their land? Your logic is absolutely ridiculous. "
Hu Keqiu's face turned red when Yao Zongwen was shocked by Li Banghua's words.
Without waiting for him to speak, Li Banghua looked at Qiu Yu, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, and said: "Master Qiu, what does it mean that the court cannot do business? Salt or iron, which one is not done by the court, if the form is different, it is not business?"
As for what you said about officials doing business, I just want to ask, how many adults in this court do not have shops or manors at home? This is not a business?
Is business the reason for official corruption? Shouldn't you start a business after being corrupted to make money for your enjoyment? "
Having said this, he turned his attention to Tang Binyin, the Imperial Academy's sacrificial wine: "Master Tang, just now Master Yao of the Ministry of Revenue said that people will cause trouble when they are full. Do you agree with this?"
Tang Binyin frowned, not sure what Li Banghua meant.
After a moment of Shen pause, he said: "When you are full and warm, you will think about lust, and when you are rich, you will have a chaotic mind. According to this saying, it is correct!"
"Does Mr. Qiu also agree?"
"Master Tang's words make some sense!"
"So you agree?"
Li Banghua chuckled lightly, and then knelt down towards Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I would like to ask your Majesty to issue an order to punish the crimes of offering wine at the Imperial Academy and the crimes of deceiving the emperor and treason by the right minister of the Ministry of Rites!"
The officials were stunned and looked at Li Banghua in disbelief.
We were having a nice chat, but why did we end up being charged with these two crimes of confiscating our homes and destroying our families?
Tang Binyin and Qiu Yu shivered in fright, and then looked at Li Banghua with angry expressions on their faces.
"Li Banghua, although we have different ideas, the debate is just, why are we doing this?"
"Li Banghua, if you don't speak clearly, I will charge you with disrespect!"
Facing the anger of the two people, Li Banghua remained calm and calm, his eyes full of coldness.
"My lords, if the people have their own fields, they can cultivate them with all their heart, hoping to get more food. You can calculate the account between the food of the five acres of real estate and the needs of the people yourself.
If people have extra money, will they send their children to study?
After all, studying can change their destiny. Even if the hope is slim and they can't win the top three, being a scholar or even a bookkeeper is better than facing the loess and back to the sky!
The Ministry of Rites and the Imperial College train students. Do you think the scholars you train will rebel?
Then I would like to ask, what do you teach? Does it teach the Confucian values of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, sacrificing one's life for righteousness, propriety, justice, integrity, benevolence, filial piety and loyalty? Or teach rebellion?
Then according to what you said, wealth brings chaos, does that mean that everyone in the court and the tribute students in the Imperial College are going to cause trouble? Are they all being pulled out and chopped?
You are even more afraid that there are too many children from poor people studying, and that they will seize the opportunity for the children of gentry and wealthy businessmen to take the imperial examination.
At a small level, you are suppressing the children of the common people. At a large level, you are causing the court to lose many outstanding talents and hindering the development of the court. "
I fuck you...
This was the voice of all the officials in the court, who looked at Li Banghua with speechless eyes.
Although Li Banghua's logic is a bit confusing, it makes sense after careful analysis.
What can children understand? Isn’t it taught by the county school’s teachings?
There are more civilian children, and the number of people taking imperial examinations has increased, but the number of top three has remained the same. Doesn’t competition just increase?
The eyes looking at Tang Binyin and Qiu Yu were full of anger.
No matter what the final outcome of this matter is, the relationship between these two people and the ministers will never be as close as before.
When news of today's debate spread, the Gongsheng students of the Imperial Academy and the scholars of the world would scold the two of them to death, labeling them as potential rebels for no reason.
"Your Majesty, I don't mean this. Li Banghua is misinterpreting my meaning!"
"Misinterpretation? You said it's easy to get into trouble when you're full?"
"you you……"
Tang Binyin's white beard was trembling with anger, and everyone was really afraid that they would die without being able to catch a breath.
Seeing the frightened expressions of Tang Binyin and Qiu Yu, Chongzhen felt extremely happy, but his face turned cold.
Looking at the two people: "That's not what you mean? Then what do you mean? Please explain it to me."
"Your Majesty, I really don't mean this, I just..."
"enough!"
Chongzhen shouted angrily, interrupting Tang Bin and Yin's defense: "As the gatekeeper of scholars in the world and the god of wealth among the people, what I said and thought was extremely narrow-minded and inappropriate. I am very disappointed.
He was punished to stay in seclusion for three months and was demoted to one level to be retained! "
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"
Hearing the coldness in the emperor's words, the three of them did not dare to say anything more. They could only stand up and retreat to the class, lowering their eyebrows and looking solemnly.
The three of them were filled with bitterness. Originally, their official positions were not high, but now they have been demoted one level, and their say in the DPRK is even lower.
Looking at the appearance of the three people, Chongzhen smiled coldly. What the court was afraid of was not the partisan struggle, but the various parties fighting against each other uniting to embarrass the emperor.
Until Xungui takes over, the Qi Party, the Chu Party, and other parties cannot make major moves and can only suppress it.
But these people all have small books, and they will be sorted out after a while.
Chongzhen looked at the ministers and said, "My dear friends, who else has something to say?"
"Your Majesty, I still have something to say!"
"Your Majesty, I have something to say!"
Li Banghua's voice and another voice sounded at the same time. The ministers followed the voice and saw that it was Zhang Tingdeng, the censor of the left capital of the Inspectorate.
Everyone trembled again. The Supervisory Council is in charge of supervision, impeachment and recommendations. If their boss speaks out, it means someone is going to be unlucky.
The person who had just spoken out panicked and secretly thought something was wrong!
"Master Li, can you let me speak first?"
"Master Zhang, please!"
Zhang Tingdeng's eyes swept over the ministers, and his sharp eyes made everyone who was targeted lower their heads slightly.
Finally, it stopped at Chengguo Gong Zhu Chunchen.
