In the Palace of Qianqing.
Zhu Jianshen chuckled and said, "This old fox does have something."
Zhang Bao, who was standing aside, felt frightened when he saw the smile on His Majesty's face.
Although Zhu Jianshen was smiling, this smile was mixed with anger that was difficult to conceal.
Zhang Bao didn't know what the emperor saw and didn't dare to say anything more.
I can only wait by the side.
After a pause, Zhu Jianshen said again: "Is Menda back?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, Menda returned to Beijing yesterday."
"Is Zhu Ji back too?"
"Your Majesty, Commander Zhu is also back. He also entered Beijing yesterday."
"Okay, after the court meeting tomorrow, you ask Li Xian, Xu Youzhen, Han Yong, Peng Shi, Zhu Ji, and Menda to come and discuss matters in the Qing Palace."
"Yes, Your Majesty..." Zhang Bao responded quickly, feeling even less confident.
Zhu Jianshen stood up and said, "Zhang Daban, come with me for a walk."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
While talking, Zhu Jianshen walked down the jade steps and walked straight outside.
And Zhang Bao followed closely behind.
After leaving the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Jianshen kept wandering around the deep palace. Still feeling bored, he asked the young eunuch to get Li Xian's memorial before leaving the palace.
The emperor suddenly decided to wander out of the palace at night, which was a bit unusual, but Zhang Bao did not dare to ask more questions, so he could only go down and arrange for a chariot and escort...
Zhu Jianshen's abnormality comes from Li Xian's memorial.
Han Yong gave six strategies to appease the people.
The emperor ordered officials to express their thoughts after reading the book.
Many officials just write nice words, express gratitude, brag about the emperor, and get by with it.
But if Li Xian is serious, he should be facing Han Yong.
Han Yong's Six Strategies, Li Xian's feelings after watching it are filled with tens of thousands of words, and they are named ten memorials.
The previous part is a reflection. It describes the specific things that the court should do after the lack of people's power. It is very comprehensive and greatly supplements Han Yong's memorial. It even provides some descriptions of the laws of the people.
Zhu Jianshen benefited a lot from this paragraph, because Li Xian has some abilities, and many of what he said in his previous memorial are more feasible than Han Yong's.
And what follows are some views on official governance.
The Ming Dynasty with Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and the Ming Dynasty without Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang were completely different in their attitudes towards the people and officials. They could even be said to be two different countries.
It can also be said that the Ming Dynasty, without Emperor Hongwu, has moved closer to the Song Dynasty. Although the emperor and scholar-bureaucrats did not shout the slogan of sharing the world, the things they could do were the same.
The group of scholar-bureaucrats is officials who came from the imperial examination.
They are all masters.
They are all reincarnations of Wenquxing in the sky, so that they can enjoy wealth and official status in the human world.
In the past, officials' salaries were very low.
With a meager salary from the court, they have great power in their hands. They can get a lot of wealth by using their brains.
In the middle and later stages, the imperial court also allowed local officials to make money. They knew it but would not stop it or bring it to light.
As long as there is no trouble, you can do whatever you want.
But now after Ming Dynasty implemented the new tax system, the treatment of officials has also been improved. From the beginning, officials in the two capitals were improved. In the past two years, local officials have also begun to receive year-end red envelopes.
Maintaining a stable life is not a problem.
If all officials want to enjoy luxury and luxury and dare to compare their lives with those of the emperor, even if their salaries are increased dozens of times, it will not be enough.
These officials have to find ways to make money.
There is a saying among common people that you should put salt in your food, and you will need money when you go to court. If you don’t put salt in your food, it will be tasteless. If you don’t get money in the lawsuit, you will definitely lose.
The gate of the Yamen opens to the south. It is also a kind of irony of the common people to not come in if you have no money.
In fact, it's not just about litigation. As long as it has anything to do with the government, you have to shed a layer of skin first. biquge.biz
Li Xian did not shy away from this point in his memorial and disclosed it without any cover-up.
This does take courage.
The Ministry of Punishment only needs to check the case rooms of the Procuratorate's Department in any province, and every case will be counted as a business for the government.
From the senior officials to the junior officials below, almost everyone makes a lot of money.
During the reign of Emperor Taizu Hongwu, this kind of thing was impossible to happen.
But after that, this became the norm.
In Li Xian's memorial of tens of thousands of words, he bombarded the local prosecutor's office with harsh words and listed several incidents.
For example, the case of bullying women caused a sensation in Xi'an Prefecture.
In the eighth year of Chenghua, he was the prefect of Xi'an. Geng Huai, the son of Geng Pingzhong, the current inspector of Shaanxi Province, was domineering and lustful in Xi'an. He bullied women from good families, up to 16 times a year, which made the people agitated, but the people had no way to redress their grievances. When the inspection censor inspected Xi'an, he was stopped by hundreds of people and sued Geng Bingzhong and Geng Huai. After the inspection censor learned about it, he handed it over to the Inspectorate and the Ministry of Punishment.
Special interrogation by the Ministry of Punishment, questioning and beheading after rebelling against the Autumn. Seven years have passed, Geng Huai has not been killed, and all the files of the Ministry of Punishment have disappeared. Geng Huai changed his name and is still at large. His father Geng Pingzhong was still promoted as usual in six years... …
If the people don't fight with the officials, they won't win. Even if the case is settled, it can still be overturned by officials with great eyes and hands.
Another example is a land embezzlement case that occurred in Kaifeng in the sixth year of Chenghua. Hundreds of people were at a loss and lost their land. All of them were occupied by local gentry. These people also lost their identity. He became a tenant farmer of the wealthy gentry's family. The common people quarreled in the government office for a long time, but finally it was settled. The lost identity could not be recovered, and the lost land could not be returned, just because the local gentry had a fifth-rank official in Beijing. Brother.
After the Ten Memorials, Li Xian began to encourage the young emperor. His core ideas are: diligently study the saints, obey the advice, give up sensuality and other hobbies, stop playing good, act cautiously, advocate frugality, fear the destiny, encourage the ministers, and inspire the scholars. Wind unites people.
The emphasis is on inspiring morale and uniting the people.
Li Xian wrote these ten memorials without knowing how determined he should be.
In fact, throughout the whole article, the focus is on the official system and the imperfection of the law.
Of course, as an official who puts prudence and self-preservation first and plays with the golden mean, it is indeed rare and valuable that Li Xian dares to write such a memorial, because he himself is a representative of scholar-bureaucrats and a spokesperson for the civil servants.
Talking about their internal affairs in this way is equivalent to directly showing the ugliest side of their group to the emperor.
It probably means, well, take a look at that boy sitting on the dragon throne. We people know the Four Books and Five Classics well, but we talk about people and don't do people's business. We take your money and return it. I'm smashing your pot, are you angry? Just be angry. Who told you to rely on us to govern the country? Without us, would you still be the emperor? Can you still sit on the dragon throne and take it seriously? Emperor Long, stop joking, everyone is busy. If you enjoy it, we should enjoy it too. Why, you are angry, bear with it when you are angry...
This memorial was like a blow to the young emperor's head.
If it were any other emperor, he would definitely be furious after reading these things.
But Zhu Jianshen didn't react much.
Because he knows that the things in Li Xian's memorials all exist in reality, especially in this era of information congestion.
A county magistrate is like a local emperor who splits the earth for hundreds of miles and controls hundreds of thousands of people. Whatever happens, he is not surprised at all.
Especially in a country where the concept of superiority and inferiority has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people from ancient times to the present, government administration is always the most difficult thing to do.
Because you have to use the same group of officials to supervise.
They collude with each other, and even the Ninth Five Supreme Beings cannot change it...
The increasingly mature Zhu Jianshen also knew that it was impossible to completely change this model. What they had to do was to establish a more stable model to reduce this kind of thing.
The Ming Dynasty is so big that there will always be haze, but they still have to do their best to let the sunshine shine into the haze and expose all the darkness and injustice to the world...
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