Why Zhang Juzheng's grain box is used? Because the grain of Ming Dynasty will be transported by land + sea + land, which reduces the trouble of weighing. In the past, grain transportation often caused a lot of troubles due to weighing. A series of problems such as disputes, new and old grains, steaming and drying, carriages and horses, etc., have all been improved with the standardization of degree bypass.
This issue also involves the issue of supervision and accountability.
These grain boxes will be sealed every time they pass through the hands of the yamen they pass through. Once there is a problem with the grain, it will be traced to where it goes. This is also the basic supervision principle of holding the boxes and not holding the goods. This is what Zhang Juzheng studied This is an important part of the legal system. If it can be generalized, it can even form an effective accountability mechanism in business. At present, the Daming Woolen Official Factory has used this method.
Once the seal is affixed, a corner is torn off from the sealing place. This is the ancestral law formed after the Kongyin case during the Hongwu period.
The Ming Dynasty's management method of 200 years was to sew together the bookmarks and seals, and to tear off a corner of the valuables as proof of suitability.
In order to ensure that these 200,000 grains can reach the seaport smoothly, the Ming Dynasty's most advanced ship will also be used. It has five masts and 21 sails. It is 20 feet long and 4 feet wide. The length-to-width ratio is 5 to 1. The height of the main mast It was used to transport the three-foot-two-foot five-masted transoceanic ship.
This is also the first time that a five-masted ocean-going ship has sailed to Beijing. One ship can carry 12,000 shi of grain. The rest is taken care of by the accompanying 66 three-masted plywood ships led by Songjiang Town soldiers, and there are also 20 people. Coastal defense inspection, sailing a hydrofoil sailboat to deliver messages and escort in the center.
A mighty fleet is gathering in Songjiang Mansion. They are not preparing to go out to sea for trade, but to send southern grain to Beiya.
This is the Ming Dynasty silver and grain convection system initially designed by Wang Guoguang. The Ming Dynasty brought silver to the north, and then allowed merchants to transport grain from the south to the north. This was also the specific role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal at that time. The land in the north was barren and there were many conquests, so the food supply was always limited. There is a shortage, and if there is a slight disturbance, the price of food will rise rapidly.
The same was true for the salt-grain convection system back then. However, as time went by, the gradual loss of salt in the official circles of the Ming Dynasty and the systematic and structural destruction of the Ming Dynasty's Kaizhong method finally made the salt-grain convection completely unbalanced. To this day, the reason why Shiohiki still has exchange value and use value is because it is legal.
This salt introduction is a legal salt policy. Merchants of the Ming Dynasty are not always bold. Recently, the tax collection and debt collection of the imperial tax office have been in full swing, which has caused a rapid increase in the exchange value and use value of legal salt introduction. In the past, A small amount of salt is worth 1.5 taels of silver, and a large amount of salt is worth 5 taels of silver. Recently, the price has soared by about 15%. The price of a small amount of salt (120 kilograms) has increased to 1.725 silver, and the value of a large amount of salt (400 kilograms) has soared to 5.75 silver. .
Salt yin does not need to be exchanged in official factories. Salt yin only represents the legality of the salt trade. From the first year of Wanli to the third year of Wanli, the court issued a total of 3,963,270 yin, which is approximately 1.32 million yin per year, and the demand is The amount is still growing. Based on the amount of salt introduced, Wang Guoguang estimated that the approximate population of the Ming Dynasty was around 100 million.
This estimate is very rough and is not the basis for the collection of four differential silver. The only data basis for the Ming Dynasty's official tax and labor service is the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book.
Ling Yunyi, the governor who was transferred from Jiangxi to Guangdong and Guangxi, the powerful people finally couldn't help but want to impeach him. The gentry in Guangdong and Guangxi thought that a governor who was neither corrupt nor corrupt was here, that is, Lord Qingtian was here, but they didn't expect it to happen. It's Master Qingtian, Ling Yunyi might as well be greedy!
The courtiers were a little nervous, but Ling Yunyi really had no room for negotiation. Any powerful gentry who refused the court's orders would be labeled as treason and punished by physical destruction.
Ling Yunyi kept his word. For example, in April of the third year of Wanli, Ling Yunyi reported to the court and announced that no one was allowed to do business with the Yao people in Luopang Mountain, and that no one was allowed to sell salt into the mountain. Violators would be severely punished, as well as interact with, make noise, and participate in the unfavorable people. Civil turmoil is the same as conspiracy to commit rebellion.
After receiving the approval from the court in June of the third year of Wanli, an announcement was made and it would be implemented from the first month of the fourth year of Wanli. On the first month of the fourth year of Wanli, Ling Yunyi blasted open the gates of two powerful families, and took the two heads of the family to the rebellious family. After waiting for dozens of people to be sentenced to death, the memorial has been sent to the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment.
It was a real blast. He pushed the cannon and blew open the door of the house. Then he swarmed up and captured the whole family.
Now the final decision-making power comes to the Wenhua Palace.
On the one hand, Ling Yunyi's gangsters quelled the civil unrest, on the other hand, the powerful families asked the court to show mercy. The criterion was whether the Dianbai Lin family and the Guangzhou Wu family should be executed.
Ling Yunyi's evidence is conclusive. Starting from the first month of the third year of Wanli, he began to collect evidence of the other party's crime. Waiting until the first month of the fourth year of Wanli, the other party still resisted the imperial decree and sent salt to the Yao people in Luopang Mountain. The key point These two families were also involved in instigating people to join the civil unrest, and Ling Yun Yiwei sent these criminals to Beijing. This is irrefutable evidence.
The powerful gentry complained and pleaded for mercy, and the reasons were pretty good. They said that when Yin Butang, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was around, everyone was doing business with the bandits, but Yin Butang didn't care. Yin Butang also suppressed the Japanese bandits. The Japanese pirates were wiped out in just four years. Yin Butang did ask for too much money and food, and everyone was unhappy. However, Yin Butang has always been so demanding. If the court demands too much, would it be a violation of the saint's benevolence? ?
Wang Chonggu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, finally remembered his own job and said: "After the case came to Beijing, our ministry checked the files. The evidence of witnesses and physical evidence can be traced. The Ministry of Punishment believes that it should be killed, and he will be executed in the wheel of punishment. The anti-imperial court Ming The purpose is to commit great treason, if the crime is not punished, where will the dignity of the court be?"
The ministers began to discuss whether they should kill him or not.
Because Yin Zhengmao lacked food and salary in Guangdong and Guangxi, he widely apportioned the powerful gentry and gentry on the list and calculated them directly. If they didn't pay, they would tear down the door and move the bed. Indeed, he provided food and salary to help the army defeat the Japanese invaders.
During the discussion, Wan Shihe leaned forward and said, "After investigation by the Ministry of Rites, there are no officials of third rank or above in the two families, and they are not included in the eight discussions."
The trend of Wan Shihe's direction in the court means that the direction of the discussion has completely shifted towards killing.
"Are Da Sikou and Da Zongbo too radical?" Zhu Yijun had a strange tendency. He felt that Wang Chonggu was a bit radical.
Wang Chonggu was stunned for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty Code has not been compiled yet, and the names of the punishments are confusing. I have only just been serving as a criminal for a short time, and I am not familiar with the names of the punishments. Please ask your Majesty to use Zhubi to judge."
When there are differences of opinion between the Ming Law and the Ming Emperor, the Ming Emperor's opinion shall prevail.
Wang Chonggu never believed that there was such a thing as law in the Ming Dynasty. This was one of the sources of disagreement between him and Zhang Juzheng's emphasis on Xunli officials. Law-abiding officials, how could there be any laws in the Ming Dynasty?
His idea is logically consistent and very reasonable.
In terms of status, a gentleman is one who governs others; a villain is one who is governed;
The people of the Ming Dynasty did not understand the law at all, and they did not know where the law was. When something happened, they immediately took refuge in the powerful and asked the powerful to lobby for them, and they were often very powerful. The result is a concrete manifestation of the shortcomings of Ming Dynasty's appeasement.
For meat-eaters, the laws of the Ming Dynasty are simply a blank sheet of paper and cannot effectively restrain meat-eaters, because meat-eaters and those who govern others are highly overlapping and closely related.
Therefore, the laws of the Ming Dynasty cannot restrain carnivores at the top, nor can they restrain the common people at the bottom. Isn’t this law just a blank sheet of paper? When talking about the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment only found it ridiculous. There was only one law in the Ming Dynasty, and that was the King's Law, His Majesty's Golden Words.
Wang Chonggu's understanding of Xunli is a person who can do things and accomplish things. This is the fundamental face of Xunli, not an official who abides by the law.
Wang Chonggu's understanding is based on his own practice. Emperor Sejong had a book called "Qinming Prison Records", compiled by Zhang Cong, the first assistant. There are several cases in it, all of which are ironclad evidence of the emperor's official intervention in the judiciary. The case of Li Fuda , Changsha wealthy man Li Jianxing's robbery and murder case, Guangyuan Chen Yu's illegal residence in his hometown, the capital Zhang Fu's mother-murder case, etc.
In particular, the case of Li Fuda was widely implicated in the party struggle of the Great Ceremony. Li Fuda was a monster like Zeng Guang. This monster had a pseudonym of Zhang Yin. He became the commander of the Taiyuan Guard because of his donations of food. Li Fuda had already been convicted. Because Wu Dinghou Guo Xun was implicated, Wu Ding Hou Guo Xun overturned the case with just one sentence.
Wuding Marquis Guo Xun said: Your Majesty, I offended everyone because I agreed to give honorary titles to the emperor's biological parents, so they wanted to skin me and kill me.
Emperor Jiajing immediately issued an order to start a reexamination. In the end, Li Fuda was acquitted and returned to his original position as commander of Taiyuan.
It was not until the forty-fifth year of Jiajing that the Sichuan bandit Cai Boguan was arrested, and the truth came to light. Li Fuda was Zhang Yin, and Zhang Yin was Li Fuda. An injustice that had lasted for several years was finally brought to light.
Does it really matter what the truth of the case is? unimportant.
Because of their political stance on reform, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng highly agreed with the judgments of Zhang Cong and Gui E. In the records of Emperor Muzong of the Ming Dynasty, the Li Fuda case was still regarded as a false accusation, and Li Fuda and Zhang Yin were confused as a false accusation, not a demon case. .
Therefore, whether the Li Fuda case was an unjust case was not during the Jiajing period, it was an unjust case during the early Longqing years, and it was no longer an unjust case from the fourth year of Longqing to the Wanli period.
Whether Li Fuda is Zhang Yin or not, and whether this case is a false accusation, have nothing to do with the facts. At the beginning of the case, the case was completely affected by political stance.
Therefore, Wang Chonggu does not think that there is such a thing as the Ming Law in the Ming Dynasty. There is only the emperor's will, which is the largest piece of heaven in the Ming Dynasty.
Wangfa? Your Majesty’s will is the greatest royal law of the Ming Dynasty!
So when the little emperor asked whether it was too radical, Wang Chonggu immediately changed his gun and changed his tone. On the grounds that he had just become a Situ and did not know the names of the punishments, and the Ming Dynasty ceremony had not yet been completed, he asked the emperor to directly announce the decree, and the decree was finalized. According to the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, Artistic skill, the standard passive skill of the Minister of Justice.
"Da Si Kou, I don't mean to kill or not to kill. This case is just investigated and settled. I'm confused for the time being. I'll hold it first. There is no shortage of these rations in the prison." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu and told him. Have your own thoughts.
Zhu Yijun looked at the ministers and said, "Let me tell you what I think."
"The powerful people in Guangdong and Guangxi generally supported the imperial court in quelling the Japanese bandits. Yin Butang and Ling Aiqing presided over the quelling of the Japanese bandits in Guangdong and Guangxi. No matter what methods were used, the powerful people pledged donations, including The powerful officials in Guangxi have been cooperating with the salt affairs in Guangxi. If the Japanese pirates are now suppressed and they start shouting and killing, is it not suspected of killing the donkey?"
"If the imperial court kills him, the powerful tycoons will feel sorry for him, and they may further communicate with the Yao people, which will further lead to the corruption of the war between Guangdong and Guangxi."
Zhu Yijun actually didn't want the powerful people to stand completely opposite to the court and give Ling Yunyi more room to operate. Once the powerful people colluded with the people again, the court would kill people so that Ling Yunyi could do things better.
This is just a typical political method. He also wants Ling Yunyi to really accomplish something.
After hearing this, Tan Lun, the Minister of War, thought carefully and asked: "Your Majesty, if the powerful people are still at odds with the Yao people, wouldn't it be good if the powerful people were killed together?"
"What Grand Sima said makes sense." Zhu Yijun was stunned, silent for a moment, and agreed with Tan Lun's statement. His statement was very consistent with the actual practice. Since the powerful man still wanted to disobey the imperial edict, he would directly accuse him and kill him. Hao just wiped them out together, wouldn't it be over?
Wan Shihe Sixiu said again and again: "Your Majesty has a benevolent heart and virtue, and I think this is a blessing for the Ming Dynasty. However, he blatantly defied the imperial decree, and I think it should not be tolerated."
The second assistant, Lu Tiaoyang, asked: "What do you think, Yuan Fu?"
"I think what your Majesty said is reasonable." Zhang Juzheng's statement highlighted an ambiguity.
His Majesty advocated not killing, and also agreed with Tan Lun's violent theory of annihilating the powerful people together, so Zhang Juzheng said that His Majesty's words were reasonable, but should he kill or not kill? Or, as long as what His Majesty says is correct?
Respecting sovereignty is the core of Zhang Juzheng's reform, so what he means is that as long as what His Majesty says is right.
"Then kill him. I am far away in Beiya, and Guangdong and Guangxi are in the extreme south. I can't explain in just a few words what kind of difficulties the ministers are facing. Since the evidence is conclusive, let's kill him." Zhu Yijun finally made a decision, Ming Gong Everyone said they would kill him, and even Wan Shihe, the mildest man, made it clear that if he did not advocate leniency, he would just kill him.
It must be noted that the gentry of Guangdong and Guangxi impeached Ling Yunyi for his murderous nature and asked the court for leniency. They did not say that Ling Yunyi was referring to a deer as a horse and confusing right and wrong. Ling Yunyi was by no means an unjust, false and wrong case.
The Jin gentry of Guangdong and Guangdong also knew that the Dianbai Lin family and the Guangzhou Wu family deserved to die, and they just asked the court to forgive them.
Zhu Yijun made the final decision, so Da Sikou and Da Zongbo did not have to be embarrassed, and the case successfully advanced to the next step.
In fact, the situation faced by Ling Yunyi was far more difficult than the court imagined. If the conflict had not intensified to a certain point, Ling Yunyi, a Confucian student, was not a bloodthirsty person. If he could solve the problem without killing people, he would not be willing to be a good man. ,good for everyone? It was precisely because the conflict had intensified to a certain point that Ling Yunyi asked the court for help.
Zhang Juzheng believes that it doesn't matter whether he kills or not. Killing can intimidate the powerful and give Ling Yunyi more support. Not killing can give Ling Yunyi more political leeway and give Ling Yunyi more room to advance and retreat.
Zhang Juzheng advocated killing because he did not want to see Guangdong and Guangxi like the northwest. The ritual and music conquests came from the princes. Ling Yunyi killed the powerful gentry, which was a concrete manifestation of not being like the local snakes and rats. When he was in power, he wanted to ensure that the Ming Dynasty would not Any vassal town will appear again.
The court meeting was finally over, and Zhang Juzheng began to teach the banquet again. His Majesty could already read many books smoothly, so the professor's speed was very fast, and His Majesty learned really well.
After Zhu Yijun gave the banquet, he began to ask some questions about the grain tank, and then began to ask about money laws, especially copper coins. If the Ming Dynasty minted money to lose money, it would be water without a source and trees without roots. In the end, the water will dry up and the trees will wither. , this must be asked clearly.
After listening to the emperor's inquiry, Zhang Juzheng shook his sleeves, found a yellowed memorandum and said, "I have this to submit."
"In April of the 34th year of the Jiajing reign, Yin Zhengmao, who was in charge of the Hu Ke at that time, asked him to open a copper mine and cast copper coins, so as to relieve the imperial court's huge financial losses and earn high profits. At that time, the imperial court was fighting against Japanese invaders in the southeast and fighting against Japanese invaders in the northwest. , the country and the dynasty are stretched thin.”
"It was approved at the time, but the Ministry of Revenue thought that the investment was huge and it was better to cast money locally in Yunnan. As a result, the matter was messed up. In the 44th year of Jiajing, Yunnan Copper was abandoned."
What is cast interest? The minting interest is the seigniorage tax. One tael of silver is exchanged for 1,000 copper coins, and the total cost of 1,000 copper coins is about 0.625 taels. This is the seigniorage tax.
Yin Zhengmao advocated vigorous mining of Yunnan copper.
"Is it Yin Butang's memorial again?" Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Hong to submit it. After carefully reading Yin Zhengmao's memorial, he said with great conviction: "Yin Butang really has the talent to help the world."
Yin Zhengmao meant that Yunnan copper was exported from Yunnan and coins were cast in places such as Chenglingji, Yanziji, and Caishiji. The three famous rocks on the Yangtze River, Chenglingji in Yueyang, Yanziji in Nanjing, and Caishiji in Ma'anshan, are all A good port on the Yangtze River.
Money was minted along the Yangtze River and then spread to places inside and outside the Ming Dynasty. However, such investment was very huge. First of all, it was necessary to dredge the waterway, and secondly to start the construction of good ports on the Yangtze River, and to rectify the private passes along the way.
The Ministry of Households planned to save trouble and said: Chenglingji is a gathering of people from all directions, so it is easy to cast it here to avoid treachery and treachery; Yunnan is a rare place where simple things are done, so it is cheap to cast mountain drums. So money was minted locally in Yunnan.
Yin Zhengmao reported in July that he strongly disagreed with the actions of the Ministry of Revenue. He believed that the Ministry of Revenue was greedy for small gains and suffered big losses. It did not transport Yunnan copper out, and the money was silted up in Yunnan and Guizhou, and it was ultimately unsustainable.
Sure enough, it came true. Minting money on the spot prevented Yunnan copper from leaving Yunnan, causing copper coins to accumulate in Yunnan. Money formed a barrier in Yunnan, while silver fulfilled its monetary duties. Silver was precious and copper was cheap. Finally, in the 44th year of Jiajing, Yunnan was stopped. Coin money.
Yin Zhengmao said that he only needed to invest 390,000 taels of silver a year, which would yield 650 million taels of money, and the court could make a profit of 530,000 taels. The Ministry of Household Affairs invested 20,000 taels of silver in Yunnan, minted 33 million taels, and the court made a profit of 20,000 taels of silver.
"Your Majesty, I am scared. The Ministry of Revenue was really helpless at that time. The imperial court was in deficit and wars were going on. How could we get 400,000 taels of silver to mint money? At that time, Yan Song was in power, and Yan Song's party was united in fighting against different injustices and killed Xia Yan. Although he is a treacherous person, from a practical point of view, it is still a disaster caused by poverty in the court." Zhang Juzheng's words exonerate Yan Song, but Zhang Juzheng still believes that when the Ministry of Household Affairs minted money, it was actually a problem of poverty.
According to Yin Zhengmao's thinking, the 530,000 taels of silver earned must be continuously invested in quelling banditry in the Yangtze River, dredging the Yangtze River, and building seaports. Only in this way for five years can the court really start to make a profit.
Of course, the Ministry of Revenue knew the danger Yin Zhengmao said, that money would block it, and it would definitely happen, but the imperial court did not have the money to supervise the construction.
The logic is this. The imperial court has no money, so it has to mint money. The purpose of minting money is to make a profit. As a result, it requires a large investment. However, the imperial court has no silver, and it has fallen into a vicious cycle.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "The Ministry of Revenue now has 7.03 million taels of silver."
"So the strategy drawn up by Yin Butang can be implemented." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said.
"Sir, don't you like Yin Butang?" Zhu Yijun closed the memorial and looked at the rolled corners. Zhang Juzheng was holding the memorial and had obviously read it many times. There were also Zhang Juzheng's notes on it. Zhang Juzheng had obviously studied it carefully. of.
Zhang Juzheng said confidently: "I just don't like that Yin Budang is in Guangdong and Guangxi. Bribery in government will inevitably lead to appeasement, and appeasement will inevitably lead to the risk of vassalage. I am the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty and is in charge of the country. He is now in Luzon. That is the loyal emperor of the Ming Dynasty." The uncle of Surabaya in Tiguo."
Zhu Yijun smiled and asked Zhang Hong to put Yin Zhengmao's "Discussions on Minting Money for National Use" in the display window of political science, and "Law of Grain Tanks" in the display window of engineering study.
The grain tank method is not entirely the wisdom of Zhang Juzheng, but the wisdom of all the shipwrights at Nanya Shipyard.
Zhang Juzheng took out another memorial from his sleeve and said: "Your Majesty is engaged in farming and mulberry farming, and uses sweet potatoes to relieve famines. Baoqisi promotes sweet potatoes and has some success. I would like to ask your Majesty to take a look."
Baoqisi promoted sweet potatoes as a famine-relief grain. Zhang Juzheng personally presided over them. They were widely planted north of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains of the Ming Dynasty. This stuff could not be used to collect taxes, so the planting and promotion was very smooth, mainly for reclaiming wasteland. Only one scoop of potato seedlings was needed. Water, a spoonful of dung, and you can live.
Two points are planted, three points are managed, and one point is fertilizer. Daming's sweet potato yield is about 60% to 80% of Baoqisi's. It all depends on fertility. Baoqisi is not farming, but serving the potato seedlings as ancestors.
The main difference is the fertilizer. Even so, sweet potatoes are used by countless people.
Shaanxi and Shanxi have opened a total of 300,000 acres of farming fields. These farming fields are not consecutive, but are involved in various prefectures and counties. There are several cellars, and potatoes are mainly grown instead of sweet potatoes. The planting area has reached More than 30,000 hectares were occupied, and the number of deaths from famine was significantly less than in previous years.
In Henan and Huguang, there are only 200,000 acres of farmland, and the planting area is only about 20,000 hectares. The main production areas are concentrated in some hilly areas.
There are 400,000 acres of farmland in Gyeonggi and Liaodong. Gyeonggi has 400,000 acres of farmland, while Liaodong only has 50,000 acres of farmland, with a planting area of more than 45,000 hectares. The Ministry of Household Affairs has already announced plans to tax sweet potatoes, but Zhang Juzheng still refuses, and It is believed that sweet potatoes are used for famine relief and should not be levied. However, the Ministry of Household Affairs still believes that taxes should be levied starting from the tenth year of Wanli. Otherwise, it will become a common practice not to accept regular taxes in the name of sweet potatoes.
And here, Wang Chonggu still excelled in the sweet potato promotion work in Xuanda and other places in the northwest, and once again won the crown. He farmed 300,000 acres in Xuanfu and Datong Prefecture, with a planting area of 30,000 acres. The yield per hectare and mu is 80%, far ahead.
The main reason is the resettlement of 190,000 laborers. The increase in human feces has increased the sweet potato production in the northwest, while it is only 60% in other places.
"I don't know whether it is right or wrong to let Da Sikou return to Beijing. After Da Sikou left Xuanda, Xuanda's farming not only did not increase, but also declined." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in his hand and noticed a phenomenon. Wu Duihe Wang Chonggu gradually moved away.
To be more clear, Wu Dui was seeking death.
Wang Chonggu said that he could still control it within two or three years. After that, he really couldn't guarantee what kind of trouble would happen in the northwest.
This is also true. Wang Chonggu left Xuanda University for only one year. Not only were his political achievements not promoted, but they declined.
"The clan party and the vassal town are in danger." Zhang Juzheng said very calmly. He had already anticipated this situation. When he returned to power, he would not give His Majesty a Ming Dynasty riddled with holes.
At this time, Zhang Siwei, who had moved to Wang Chonggu's house, hurriedly found Wang Chonggu after hearing that the court wanted to kill the powerful Jin gentry in Guangdong and Guangxi.
Wang Chonggu has never changed his position, he just wants to make money.
Zhang Siwei's complexion is no longer golden, but now his complexion is more terrifying, it is waxy yellow. He said loudly: "Life and death, life and death! Uncle! What did I say? The imperial court has the power of life and death, and all the money we make is It's just saving money for the imperial court. The imperial court unjustly killed powerful tyrants and gentry for the sake of money."
Wang Chonggu looked at Zhang Siwei and said in disbelief: "Why do you like to confuse right and wrong so much? Ling Yunyi started to publish the list in the first month of last year to prevent the rich Jin gentry from colluding with the people of Luopang Mountain. It has been more than a year. Wanli Three In June of that year, His Majesty's decree was sent to Guangdong and Guangxi, and it was implemented starting from the first month of the fourth year of Wanli."
"That's it. Your Majesty still intends to forgive them for the sake of helping the army. I, your uncle, agreed to kill them. Your Majesty did not want to kill them, but the court officials agreed to kill them, and finally the court decided to kill them."
"Can you sort out the order of development of this matter and think about the problem?"
"The imperial court does have the power of life, death and seizure, but if these two powerful families abide by the law, the imperial court will have nothing to do and punish them? Their little family property is nothing. Now there are seven million taels of silver lying in the Ministry of Household Affairs! "
"The imperial court is the most powerful family in the world! Your Majesty is the most powerful family in the world. Do you understand?"
Zhang Siwei was still unconvinced and said: "Aren't they all just officials who come here to criticize the wealthy Jin gentry?"
Wang Chonggu took a deep breath and said earnestly: "Nephew, your position is yourself. This is no problem, but have you ever thought about it? People live in groups and no one can live without others. What will you do? Cook? Can you do carpentry? Can you farm? Can you? You can't do anything."
Mencius refuted the idea that the emperor of agriculture was married to farmers and mulberry trees, mainly because he was discussing the division of labor.
Wang Chonggu spread his hands and said: "Opposites are unified, do you understand?"
"You can't just ask without giving. Asking and giving are opposites, but they are also unified. Asking is giving, and giving is also asking. Yang Zhu's study of valuing oneself is already evil, but Yang Zhu's study also pays attention to plucking a hair. The world should not do anything for it, nor would it harm the world if it takes even a tiny bit of it."
"Don't plunk out a penny and take nothing. You just don't plunk out a penny, but you don't want to take nothing. Your ideas are not even as good as those of Yang Zhuzhi."
Wang Chonggu strongly supported Zhang Juzheng in banning the sixty-four academies. Wang Chonggu did this work himself. Look at Zhang Siwei's way of thinking. This is not about respecting oneself. He is clearly respecting me. The world will surround me. It means to turn.
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