The whipping method of the Ming Dynasty has been around for a long time. Starting from the first year of Zhengtong, the Zhengfu of the fourteenth government in Nanya began to transfer part of their money to Beijing, with an annual income of about one million taels of silver.
But the person who really confirmed a whip law and proposed that taxes in the Ming Dynasty should be changed from physical tax to monetary tax was named Gui E.
Gui E was a Jinshi in the sixth year of Zhengde, and in the eighth year of Jiajing, Zhang Cong, a scholar from Wuyingdian, entered the cabinet as a secondary assistant. The following year, Gui E published the "Ren Min Kao Shu" and proposed a whipping method.
Gui E put forward the concept of monetary tax, and outlined the requirements for compiling and reviewing corvees and abbots. However, he was criticized by Yang Yiqing and others. Gui E had no choice but to become an official, and died of illness not long after.
Yang Yiqing and others were very resistant to Gui E's whipping method and defeated Gui E. However, the country still suffered a huge financial loss. If the court had no money, it could not support soldiers, talent, and hope, and it could not develop. With a hundred official salaries, nothing can be done.
In March of the 10th year of Jiajing's reign, Fu Hanchen, the imperial censor, submitted a petition asking for an order to implement a weaving (whip) method.
Zhang Juzheng opened his mouth and said: "Mencius: "All the Hearts" says: There are the levies of cloth, the levy of corn, and the levy of force. A gentleman uses one of them, slows down the other, uses the second and the people perish, and uses the third to separate the father and his son. .”
"What is the levy of cloth, it is a commercial tax; what is the levy of millet, it is a land tax; what is the levy of labor, it is a corvee."
"Meng Shengyan said that only one of the three can be levied. If the other two are levied, it will be a heavy tax and people will starve on the road. If cloth, corn and other physical goods are levied, and the citizens are forced to perform labor, the fathers and sons of the people will be separated. , the family is ruined.”
"This is also one of the reasons why all dynasties have criticized the tyranny of Qin's law, because Qin's law was the beginning of the three conquests. Qin's three conquests made the world tired and violent Qin was destroyed. However, Qin's law has been followed for hundreds of generations, and the three conquests have never been discontinued."
This is a basic fact. The Qin Dynasty conquered the Three Kingdoms, and everyone criticized the Qin Dynasty for its destruction. However, after more than a thousand years, it still continued to conquer the Three Kingdoms?
Zhang Juzheng continued: "During the Han, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, people were responsible for land rent and labor service."
"In the Tang Dynasty, rent, Yong, Tiao, and Suidai were used. Ren refers to the payment of two stones of millet per ding; Tiao refers to the payment of three zhang of silk and two liang of hemp per ding; Tiao refers to the payment of three zhang of silk and two liang of hemp per ding; Yong refers to twenty days of corvee service per ding. For loans, two out of ten are collected at trading places on Jinji's main roads and shops, which is called rate loans."
"Our dynasty, Taizu Emperor Gao, established the law of three levies in the Ming Dynasty, and established the law of three levies, and the business tax was drawn at six points per hundred; the land tax was determined for the yellow book and the fish scale atlas, which were first drawn for fifteen, and from the 23rd year of Hongwu, it was drawn for Draw one out of thirty, and Su Song will take two out of ten. There are many types of corvee, which can be roughly divided into four categories: Jia, corvee, miscellaneous, weak and so on."
"In the 10th year of Jiajing reign, Fu Hanchen, the imperial censor, submitted a petition, asking for a system to assign a small amount of grain to a province's corvee, and to measure the number of privileges and exemptions. Each grain should be judged with a certain amount of silver, and each grain should be judged with a certain amount of silver. Consider the complex and the simple, and accommodate scientific schools."
"One method of codification is to combine land tax and labor service, that is, the collection of corn and labor service, into one law, and collect them by acres."
Yitiao method, originally called Yitiao method, combines land tax and labor since ancient times.
One hundred and ten dings constituted an armor, and each district was assigned to a prefecture or county. The prefectures and counties were consolidated into each government, and each government was consolidated into the Chief Secretary. The Chief Secretary would then convert the land tax and labor service of a province into silver taels and distribute them equally among all the acres.
Whoever owns the field asks who collects taxes. All the labor services of various types are combined on the field and collected from the acres. This is to consider the complex and simple and to accommodate the scientific schools.
The greatest significance is to reduce the number of excessive and miscellaneous taxes, reduce the dependence of strong people, and reduce the tax pressure on tenants and homeless people.
Zhang Juzheng continued: "Li Lou's wisdom and Gong Shuzi's cleverness cannot form a square circle without rules; Shi Kuang's cleverness cannot correct the five tones without following six laws; the way of Yao and Shun cannot rule the world peacefully without benevolent government."
"Even if you have a vision as good as Li Lou and a skill as good as Gongshuzi, you can't draw a square circle without using a compass and a ruler; even if you have a good listening ability like Shi Kuang, you can't correct the five tones without using the six rhythms; Even with the teachings of Yao and Shun, if benevolent government is not implemented, the world cannot be governed well."
"The matter of land tax and labor service, the levy of millet, and the levy of labor force are important weapons of the country and cannot be tampered with easily. Let's leave it aside for the time being." Zhang Juzheng talked about a compilation method, and he only touched on it briefly.
If a law is to be implemented, it needs to be cleared; to measure the acres of land in the world, it is necessary to know whose hands are the 7.01 million hectares of permanent land in the world; to clear the land, officials need to implement it, and government requires the elimination of bribery and appeasement. In addition to the disadvantages of bribery and appeasement, it is also necessary to use the examination-based promotion mechanism to break the past inherent promotion mechanism based on human relations and sophistication.
This all takes time. It all requires constant struggle to achieve a state of harmony between yin and yang. It requires constant summation of experience and lessons in the collision of spears and shields. Changes bit by bit are not achieved overnight, let alone one line. The government decree can be accomplished by asking the little emperor to stamp it.
The collision between spears and shields will become more and more intense, and the more sparks will burst out, the more doubts will arise. Only by solving these doubts can we effectively implement the decree.
In this collision of spears and shields, preventing the country from overturning is the meaning of the existence of Zhang Juzheng, the leader and assistant of the country.
Zhang Juzheng opened his mouth and said: "Luo Gongchen said that the foreign ships were divided, and they were talking about the cloth levy, that is, the commercial tax, which was collected from the red-haired fans. The sage said: Without rules, there is no square circle. If you open the sea Trade cannot last long without rules. If you draw points today and don't draw points tomorrow, it happens over and over again. Many people are surprised and doubtful, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty don't know what to do."
"To put it simply, if there are more business taxes, the land tax and corvee can be exempted from being too harsh, which is also good for the world's gentry."
Wan Shihe, the Minister of Rites, immediately said: "Competing with the people for profit is a great harm to the world! It causes the people to go overseas. What's the point? The world's wealth is lost overseas. We, the Ming Dynasty, have no wealth. How can we collect taxes? Our ancestors have established laws and established laws. There is a ancestral reason for the sea ban.”
"During the Longqing period, just for the sake of ease and convenience, a month-long port was opened for the convenience of merchants, Japanese pirates, and snakes. They were all paid, and all the people were paid. This money was countless. If the court took it away, how could the people make a living? "
"Take it like a baht and use it like sand. The heart of one person is the heart of thousands of people! The Qin Dynasty loved the stern law and luxury, and people thought of its cruelty. The Qin Dynasty died and today they also take the stern law and luxury! The days are mourning, for me And you will all perish!"
"If you ask me, let's just leave this Yuegang. If Japanese pirates arise, the king's troops will gather together. They can take them like a bag and pacify them."
Zhang Juzheng said that if we don't follow the rules, we can't make a circle, so we must establish rules, collect taxes on foreign ships, and manage the affairs of this month's port well.
But the money of all the people is counted, and the money of all the people is counted. Taking the money of the Jin gentry is equivalent to taking the money of the people. When the time comes, the people of the court will be devastated, just like why the sun does not perish, and the people will cooperate with the court. Die together.
Zhu Yijun raised his head and glanced at Wan Shihe, then lowered his head, looking at his book and taking notes slowly. Wan Shihe, like Lu Shusheng, had already taken advantage of it, so he was doing this for this person. It's such a rush to open the sea.
Lu Shusheng originally opposed Luo Gongchen's plan to pay foreign ships.
Wan Shihe also objected.
By doing this, the Minister of Etiquette somewhat disgraced etiquette.
Etiquette and law are the disciplinary code of the world. Originally, in the early days of the Kingdom, the six departments were headed by the Ministry of Rites. Now the yamen of the Ministry of Rites is becoming more and more noble. To say it is noble is a nice way to say it. But to say it is an unpleasant thing, it means that the Ministry of Rites is not down to earth and its status is steadily declining. It has descended to the rear of the crane above the Ministry of Industry.
Due to Confucian etiquette, the Ministry of Industry's status has always been very low, ranking last in ten thousand years. If this continues, the Ministry of Rites will probably become the last.
"Wan Shangshu, what you said is really interesting." Tan Lun sat up straight and looked at Wan Shihe jokingly and asked: "You mean, by taxing the foreigners, the imperial court is collecting the taxes of the Jin gentry." Money, collecting money from Jin gentry means collecting money from people all over the world, that’s what I mean.”
"Yes!" Wan Shihe nodded with certainty and said: "The corrupt officials peeled off the corrupt officials, and the people fled and fell. Now we are talking about dividing the foreign ships. Isn't it just that the imperial court has earned what the merchants should have earned?" Money? Didn’t the merchant transfer this part to the people? Am I wrong? "
When Tan Lun heard what Wan Shihe said, he immediately asked: "The campaign of cloth, corn, and labor are all taking the people's money. Why don't we just stop the campaign altogether? What does Wan Shangshu think?"
Wang Guoguang smiled and said: "Wan Shangshu, why don't you come to the Ministry of Household Affairs as a minister?"
"The clan needs money and food, the honorary relatives need money and food, the officials need money and food, the Nine Borders need money and food, the nurturing talents need money and food, the disaster relief and pension need money and food, the river dredging needs money and food, the post road leveling and the official road need money and food, and the construction of the Great Wall and Dingding requires money and food. , every winter, the Ming Dynasty asks the Ministry of Household Affairs for money and food everywhere, you come and don’t ask for anything, just open your mouth wide open, I don’t give money and food, I wish I could eat my people and calm them down.”
"You can be the Minister of the Ministry of Finance."
Wan Shihe immediately said: "The sage said that if a gentleman uses one of them, the people will perish if he uses the second, and the father and son will be separated if he uses the third. For three generations of law, just use one of them."
Hai Rui looked at Wan Shihe and asked with a smile: "Wan Shangshu usually lives by eating vitality and living as a god?"
Hai Rui's scolding was so unpleasant that Wan Shi and the Confucian scholar were directly expelled from Confucianism.
The Master's words are strange and powerful, and his words are out of touch with reality. It is as unrealistic as a person who can live without grain and food, and who only needs to be enlightened to live a long life.
Wan Shihe was scolded and didn't know how to retaliate, but the meaning he expressed was too far from reality.
"Is it enough? Is it enough to requisition one or two of them for use?" Wang Guoguang tilted his head and looked at Wan Shihe and asked: "Of course you must listen to the sage's instructions, and you must practice them. The country's finances are suffering a huge loss and it cannot make ends meet. If If Zhang Cheng and Luo Gongchen returned to Beijing with 240,000 silver this time, the government office would not even have the firewood for next month."
When Wan Shihe heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched twice, and finally he couldn't continue to talk back, so he said, "That's the Ministry of Finance's business!"
"Then the Ministry of Household Affairs agreed to draw points for foreign ships." Wang Guoguang immediately took over the conversation, which was regarded as a statement.
"The Ministry of War also agrees to draw points for foreign ships." Tan Lun expressed his position on behalf of the Ministry of War. Without silver, money and food, how can the soldiers be allowed to fight?
"Mr. Yuan Fu handled it properly." Zhang Han, the Minister of Civil Affairs, is an honest man. His statement on this matter is that Yuan Fu did the right thing. As for why it was right, the courtiers have made it very clear, just like people need to eat. Likewise, the court needs to collect taxes.
The three ministries have already voted in favor. According to the weight of the court officials of the Ming Dynasty, this court meeting has been passed, because Zhang Juzheng has the highest weight, he is a cabinet minister, and the cabinet holds the floating votes. Zhang Juzheng ignores them and insists on doing what he wants. Posting floating tickets can be done by convincing the emperor.
The reason for the court meeting was Zhang Juzheng's promise to the emperor.
In Zhang Juzheng's "Chen Wu Shi Shu", he made specific requirements for the young emperor. He also made requirements for himself: to listen to government affairs, review memorials, and summon ministers and court officials. If the request is met, Beijing officials need to be assessed.
"The Ministry of Punishment believes that the foreign ships should not break the soil to breed because they are afraid that Hong Mao Fan will learn about Macao affairs. Hong Mao Fan has always been unreasonable and immoral. If it goes deep into the inland to breed, I am afraid it will cause endless harm and lose the country for a cowhide." Wang Zhigao agreed. Allocate foreign ships, but allocating foreign ships does not mean giving red hair to break the soil.
If he didn't understand, he asked. Ge Shouli was stunned and asked in confusion: "Losing the country for a cowhide? What kind of allusion is this?"
Zhu Yijun also raised his head. This allusion was very new and it was the first time he had heard of it.
Wang Zhigao, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, explained: "The allusion to Luzon being destroyed by Fo Langji is that during the Zhengde period, the Hong Mao Fan of Fo Lang Ji was strong and traded with Lu Song. After a while, the Hong Mao Fan saw that its country was weak and it was desirable. In the 30s of Jiajing In the second year, Fo Langji offered a generous bribe to the king of Luzon and begged for land as big as an oxhide to build a house on."
"The surviving king of Lu Song did not realize the deceit and agreed to it."
"The Red-haired Fans are splitting the hides of cows, and are united to thousands of feet. They are surrounding the land of Luzon and forcing them to do as promised."
"The king was horrified, but he had already made a promise, so he had no choice but to listen to it. In the fourth year of Longqing, Francisco, the governor of the Ming Dynasty in Yuegang, killed the king and drove the people on the island into the sea. And founding the country.”
Hai Rui looked at Ge Shouli and said, "I was in Qiongzhou and heard the remnants of Luzon and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty say so. Luzon has indeed been destroyed."
"Lu Song was destroyed?" He asked Ge Shouli if he didn't understand, feeling disappointed. Lu Song was also a tributary country of the Ming Dynasty. It paid tribute once every three years, so he was afraid he would never see it again.
The courtiers were silent for a while. Today's discussion was about Luo Gongchen's collection of foreign shipping taxes. As a result, after much discussion and discussion, the issue was passed, but they found that things seemed to have changed overseas.
Zhu Yijun had been listening to the political affairs and became quiet when he heard it. He put down his pen, sat upright and said, "Dear gentlemen, I have something to say."
As soon as the little emperor spoke, everyone looked at His Majesty the Emperor on the stage.
Zhu Yijun looked around and said: "Sun Quan, the minister of Honglu Temple, reported that Oda Nobunaga, the great name of Japan's Owari Kingdom, was exiled by the Muromachi shogunate, and the king of Japan who was conferred by Emperor Chengzuwen was expelled. Starting from the 12th year of Masanori, the Ming Dynasty There were three conflicts with the Xiaofo Langji people on Tuen Mun Island, and then they wiped out the red-haired pirates in Zhoushan."
"Now I am listening to the discussion of the ministers, and I have doubts."
"Little Folangji people come from the west, and big Folangji people come from the east. They claim to be from the west of Thailand. All Ming Gongs are ministers of my country, the Ming Dynasty. Where are these big and small Folangji people? They all come from the west of Taipei. They One came from the west and the other came from the east, how did he get to Ming Dynasty?"
Xiao Folangji was a Portuguese, and Ming Dynasty knew it better. After all, during the Zhengde period, Portugal had two envoys who stayed in the capital for a long time. One was named Huo Zhe Ya San and the other was named Tomei Pires.
In the first year of Jiajing, the Portuguese envoy Huo Yasan was executed by the order of the newly enthroned Emperor Jiajing. In the third year of Jiajing, the Portuguese palace pharmacist Tomé Piles died in prison.
The Dafo Langji people are Spaniards who have not had much contact with the Ming Dynasty. Their captain and the Governor of Luzon just had a large sailing transaction with the Ming Dynasty in Yuegang, and the four million taels of silver were divided into two hundred and forty thousand silver.
Both of them are from Western countries, one from the east and the other from the west, both can reach the Ming Dynasty. Why is this?
As a young emperor with a thirst for knowledge, Zhu Yijun asked, "Where are these two countries?"
Zhu Yijun knew the geographical location of Portugal and Spain, and also knew that the earth was a ball, from east to west to the Ming Dynasty, but the courtiers did not know.
The ministers were silent.
Wan Shihe bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the big and small Folangji countries are just small countries that are not worth mentioning. They are just barbarians on the northern border of the northwest. They don't know the king's culture and they don't know the etiquette. It's nothing to worry about."
Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe and asked, "Wan Shangshu, is there nothing to worry about?"
"A captain of Da Flangji people, excluding the cargo on board, has more than four million taels of gold flowers and silver. Wan Shangshu, four million gold flowers and silver, is not a worry. I, the Ming Dynasty, have become so rich. What’s the situation? My dear, Liang Youchong, is this how you coax your children?”
"I don't dare! I'm guilty, please forgive me." Wan Shihe was so frightened that he knelt down to plead guilty. If the accusation was proven, he would be deceiving the emperor.
Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe and asked coldly: "Does Master Wan know where Big and Little Franji are?"
"I don't know." Wan Shihe knelt on the ground and answered the question.
Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe and said in a bad tone: "Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing. Knowing means knowing, not knowing means not knowing. You, the Minister of Rites, want a child from me to teach you the Analects of Confucius." ?”
"Aren't you the Minister of Rites? Honglu Temple is under your control. Don't you know where the big and small Buddhas are? How did you become the Minister of Rites?"
"You don't know the ancestral Dharma, you haven't learned the Analects of Confucius clearly, and you are in charge of Honglu Temple but you don't know where Haiyi is. What are you doing every day?"
"In the past two months since you entered the court, every time there was a discussion that might harm the interests of the Jin gentry, you have been messing around. You have been scolded by the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, and the General Constitution."
"Are you serving as an official for the Ming Dynasty? Or are you serving as an official for the Jin gentry?"
"My lord..." Wan Shihe was unable to answer the question asked by the little emperor. The little emperor listened to the government and heard every word he said clearly. jump out.
"Answer me!" Zhu Yijun's tone became even colder. He looked at Wan Shihe and said, "Raise your head, look at me, and answer me, who are you serving as an official?"
"The Ming Dynasty, or the Jin gentry?"
Zhu Yijun omitted the previous questions and asked this question alone. He asked too many questions and Wan Shihe couldn't answer it.
Zhu Yijun just wanted to remind the Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty to pay attention to the changes taking place overseas. The Japanese country was moving towards unification. The big and small Folangji came from the east and west and successively attacked the tributary countries such as Goa, Manchuria, and Luzon. Three of the fifteen unconquered countries of the Ming Dynasty have been destroyed.
Wan Shihe had to come out and say: The emperor shouldn't know where these two barbarian countries are. Anyway, they are small barbarian countries and are not worth mentioning. Isn't this scolding? What are you doing?
As the minister of Tuogu, and as the emperor's advisor, whenever the emperor had questions, Zhang Juzheng would scratch his bald head and find a way to solve the problem.
Wan Shihe jumped out and said, Your Majesty does not need to know, he is the elder, and he asked the emperor not to know!
"I am serving as an official for the Ming Dynasty." Wan Shihe replied bravely.
Zhu Yijun sneered, and the entire Wenhua Palace could hear the little emperor's slightly jumping laughter, but no one jumped out to accuse the little emperor of misconduct, because the Ming Gong who should question the little emperor's misconduct, the Minister of Rites, Wan Shi He knelt on the ground to plead guilty, and the little emperor's sneer was mocking Wan Shihe.
The little emperor shook his head and said: "Tch, do you believe it yourself? Ask our Ming Dynasty officials, do they believe it? Ask the officials of praise and ceremony, do they believe it?"
"I won't ask anymore. If you ask again, you should commit suicide when you go back. By then, I will have a reputation of being cold and ungrateful."
"Get up and think carefully about how you should be the Minister of Rites. Don't just be a cashier and talk nonsense all day long. The government of the country is achieved through bribery. You are a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty. Listen to me. Those words don't sound shabby to you, I think they are shabby, and the court also thinks they are shabby."
Wan Shihe knelt on the ground. He didn't get up, didn't get up, hit the pillar, didn't hit the pillar, went back to commit suicide, or didn't commit suicide. He could only say tremblingly: "Thank you, Your Majesty." kindness."
"So, gentlemen, where are these big and small Folangjis? Why are they all in the west of Thailand, one coming from the east and the other from the west?"
Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, Rong Chen has figured it out and will report it to Your Majesty again."
"There's no rush, let's continue the court discussion." Zhu Yijun waved his little hand and smiled, restoring his sunny and cheerful image. Yuan Fu was very pleasing to the eye. He was not losing his temper with Yuan Fu.
Mr. Yuan Fu smashed his understanding of the world to pieces every time, and reconstructed it again to answer the little emperor's questions. This is a respectful heart, and this is a gentleman.
Wan Shihe just deserves to be scolded!
Zhu Yijun was not pro-government, nor did he chase Wan Shihe and scold him. Wan Shihe singled out Wan Shihe himself, so Wan Shihe had to taste Zhu Yijun's emperor-shattering fist.
Zhang Juzheng then sat down, looked at Wan Shihe and said with an unkind expression: "Your Majesty has doubts, and it should be clarified. What does it mean to be insignificant and not worth worrying about? After three months of figuring this out, if you still don't want to find out the truth, I report that you cannot bear the crime of deceiving the emperor."
"Yes!" Wan Shihe was sweating like rain, and kept wiping the sweat with his hands. If he had known that court discussions in the Wenhua Palace were such a difficult thing, he would not have been a courtier and wasted so much energy. Son, I finally became a court official and was scolded every day. I was scolded every day, and I was always scolded without words.
A smile appeared at the corner of Feng Bao's mouth, and soon the smile began to spread. He tilted his head, rested his elbow on the armrest, covered his mouth and laughed, and then finally laughed out loud.
"Feng Dajue, this is the Huangji Palace." Tan Lun smiled with great kindness and reminded Feng Bao that there was a ceremonial officer in the Huangji Palace.
"Thank you, Da Sima, for reminding me. No, I usually don't smile. It's really..." Feng Bao shook his head and said: "Confucius said: If a person has no faith, he doesn't know what he can do. A big cart has no support [ní], and a small cart has no tail [yuè] ], how can it be done?"
"The Master said that a person must be honest in his heart. This is the foundation of all things. If a person does not have trustworthiness, everything will be false. A car can only run if it has a chain link. Only a person who has trustworthiness can stand on his own. If a person has dishonest intentions, his words will not be true. , then everyone will despise him!"
"Master, you will not deceive me! If you don't know, you just don't know. What are you talking about? Everyone is despising others. It's just because they despise themselves."
After the emperor finished scolding people, Feng Bao gave him a harsh blow, allowing Wan Shihe to see what it means to have a sinister heart.
Even if the ten-year-old emperor lied, he is still not a human being!
Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and found that he didn't seem to know where Taixi was and how far it was from the Ming Dynasty. They all started from Taixi, one to the east and the other to the west. How could they all come to the Ming Dynasty? Moreover, this problem seemed difficult to solve. clear.
It doesn't matter, just do it step by step.
The court discussions were still going on, and the little emperor continued to listen to the government. The courtiers were noisy, but Wan Shihe remained silent, lowering his head in shame.
Neither becoming an official nor committing suicide is acceptable. If you become an official, it will appear that the emperor is cold and ungrateful. Employing people in the court is like child's play. You become an official because of humiliation, but you will be even more humiliated after becoming an official.
When others talk about it, Wan Shihe, the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, why did he become an official or commit suicide out of shame and anger?
It was even more humiliating to be scolded by the ten-year-old master so hard that he couldn't hold his head up, to be scolded by the little emperor to the point of shame, to be scolded so hard that he was in a daze and didn't know where to go.
The court meeting was finally over, and the ministers paid their respects to the emperor.
"I'll take my leave." After all the ministers and ministers saw the courtesy, they were about to leave. Wan Shihe stood up tremblingly, with a pale face. Suddenly, his body staggered and fell to the ground crookedly. He lay on the ground and gulped. Breathing heavily.
"Xuan Imperial Physician!" Seeing this posture, Zhu Yijun thought that Wan Shihe was trying to get into trouble, so he signaled to fetch the Imperial Physician to see what was going on.
Chen Shigong came to the Wenhua Hall as quickly as possible, took a pulse, then rolled Wan Shihe's eyelids, took out a piece of candy from the medicine box, stuffed it into Wan Shihe's mouth, and drank it with water. After a while, Wan Shihe stood up with a pale face.
Chen Shigong bowed his head and said: "Wan Shangshu fell down because he didn't eat in the morning."
"Did you get up late?" Zhu Yijun was silent for a moment and found the truth of the matter. It was winter, and it was getting late. Wan Shihe got up a little late in the morning. He didn't eat in the morning, had low blood sugar, and the excitement of the meal in the Wenhua Palace, Wan Shihe fell to the ground.
Wan Shihe did not deny it, but said helplessly: "I am guilty."
"Okay, let's go." Zhu Yijun waved his hand, indicating that Wan Shihe could leave.
This kind of misconduct in front of the palace, which should be punished by the court, is considered non-punishment. It depends on the emperor's mood whether he can be punished or not.
In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial rod was used to increase the seniority of ministers. In the third year of Jiajing, sixteen ministers were beaten to death because of ceremonial matters. The young and politically inexperienced Emperor Jiajing suddenly fell into a huge dilemma. In passivity.
Zhu Yijun doesn't care about these trivial matters. Wan Shi and the Minister of Rites can do something less disgusting, thank God.
Zhang Juzheng didn't like Wan Shihe either. When Lu Shusheng took office, Zhang Juzheng and Yang Bo sat together and looked at the talent pool of Ming Dynasty. It seemed that Wan Shihe was already the best one. .
When other people were scolded like this, instead of admitting their mistakes, they made a big fuss in the Wenhua Palace, performing scenes such as bumping into pillars. If they could get a meal of imperial sticks, it would be even more praiseworthy!
Not as good as Wan Shihe.
Zhang Juzheng watched the court officials leave, then bowed his head and said, "I will help your majesty clear up your doubts."
"Sir, do you know how rainbows are formed?" Zhu Yijun asked with a smile.
Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and bowed his head and said: "The Book of Changes says: The rainbow is the energy of the exchange of yin and yang, covering the rainy day and forming a rainbow together." "Mengxi Bi Tan" says: The rainbow is the shadow of the sun in the rain, it exists when the sun shines on the rain, and it sprays when the sun shines on the back. The water forms the shape of a rainbow. "Book of Rites: Yue Ling" says: In the month of Jichun, the rainbow begins to appear, but in the month of Mengdong, the rainbow disappears."
Turn your back to the sun and spray water hard to form a rainbow.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "The month of spring is March, and the month of winter is August. My husband said that after August, the rainbow will be invisible. Come with me, sir, and I will show you the rainbow."
"Ah? Look at the rainbow?" Zhang Juzheng looked at the little emperor blankly, what kind of monster is this? What kind of trouble is this? The little emperor who is not doing his job has come up with some novel tricks.
Zhu Yijun said as he walked: "The eunuchs in the palace all thought that Zhang Cheng offered the telescope, and Mei Shang got the job of going to Songjiang Mansion to handle Xu Jie's return to the fields, so they started tinkering with these glass pieces, which really helped them tinker with something. It’s a rare thing, it seems rare, so I’ll take Yuan Fu to see it together.”
"Here we are, this is the dark room. There is only a small hole through which sunlight can shine in."
Zhu Yijun stood still. This was his extremely simple optical laboratory and darkroom, located in the side hall of Wenhua Hall.
Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! ! ! !
(End of chapter)
