Wanli Youming

Chapter 125

Chapter 125

"In addition, sir, you don't have to focus on the interests of the world only on the land!"

"And you should know that commodity trading is not only convenient for people to get what they need, but also facilitates production."

"For example, the Aoshan Fireworks and Lantern Festival will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars on the surface, but there will be more people selling all kinds of goods in the city, which will increase a lot of business taxes."

"Once the Aoshan Lantern Festival is no longer held, the flow of people will drop sharply, and the number of merchants selling various goods will also drop sharply. This will affect the production of paper and saltpeter near Gyeonggi."

"In terms of business, the impact on various tariffs is probably no less than the cost of the Aoshan Fireworks and Lantern Club. Not to mention this, it will reduce the income of many craftsmen and small merchants who rely on this for a living, and the impact Ding Yin next year."

Seeing this, Zhu Yijun took the initiative to speak again.

What Zhu Yijun said is indeed true.

The entertainment life of ordinary people is basically difficult to link with luxury, after all, their own financial resources are limited.

Even if it is gambling and drinking, it is difficult to spend a lot of money every day. Even if you listen to books and watch local operas, you are only rewarded with a few copper coins. Most of them are just shouting and singing well.

Because of this, Zhu Yijun, who came from a later generation, knows more about the bottom class and who is the main class of luxury consumption, so he still doesn't think that banning Aoshan fireworks and lantern festivals will bring much benefit to thrift.

Zhu Yijun even believed that the Aoshan Fireworks and Lantern Festival could enrich the entertainment life of the common people, promote the prosperity of commercial transactions, and increase the income of a group of craftsmen who made lanterns.

What's more, as far as the imperial court is concerned, the official money spent is actually not much, and it is really not comparable to the cost of holding a grand ceremony.

The imperial court can also earn back through taxation due to the increase in transaction volume.

But if you really want to respect frugality, it's almost as good as doing something to the rich and powerful.

Originally, the increase in the income and consumption scale of civilians in Ming Dynasty was far less than that of the rich and powerful officials and gentry.

Therefore, we can’t just let the dignitaries and gentry spend money everywhere with their own homes, listen to operas, play prostitutes, or even compete for wealth, while the common people are not even allowed to watch any fireworks and lantern shows, making the common people really like cattle and horses, but can only Eat, have children, work, read sage books, but not entertainment.

In this way, it will only cause the people to lack spirituality and lack of consumption desire.

In this way, how can we talk about enthusiasm for work?

What's more, this will make it more difficult for the people to have the concept of a country, and it will be difficult to realize that the prosperous age is related to themselves.

Instead of letting the people realize that the Ming Dynasty is strong, at least the imperial court can allow itself to get greater spiritual satisfaction in culture and entertainment.

In this way, the people's awareness of the orthodoxy of the dynasty is also deeper, and therefore it can curb the unscrupulous spread of cults that take advantage of the spiritual deficiency of the people.

Therefore, if we really want to limit extravagance, we should prohibit the extravagance of powerful scholars and bureaucrats, and impose heavy taxes on those who bid high prices for famous prostitutes and antiques.

Properly organizing some ethnic cultural activities for the common people will help the common people to have the concept of the king and the country.

Zhu Yijun also said to Zhang Juzheng that foolish people would give evil cults an opportunity to prevent the common people from having the concept of a ruler and father of the country: "What do you think now, sir? Father, father, do you really want the people to only know that there is a king and not know that there is a king?" father?"

Hearing what Zhu Yijun said at this time, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but tremble slightly.

And Zhu Yijun continued to ask: "Sir, do you really want the people to be easily used by evil cults and evil words because of their ignorance, and they don't know the necessity of being loyal to the emperor?"

"Even if you have read the book, because you only know the sage's words, you will not understand the practice, so that in the future, there will be robbers and robbers, and you will not know how to resist, but only obey?"

"Even if you become a scholar-bureaucrat by studying, when you encounter this situation, you only know to read the books of sages and seek answers from sages, but you don't know how to speak?"

Zhang Juzheng wanted to explain: "Your Majesty, minister."

Zhu Yijun didn't wait for Zhang Juzheng's explanation, and continued to speak first: "Even the king only knows how to control the people, but he doesn't know how to plan for a rainy day, and he doesn't know that he must consider increasing the people's profits from the beginning, so he has to embark on the road of reforming again to save the country. And because there are more and more pedantic and wealthy people, and the resistance to reform is much greater than before, it will lead to the worse of the reform, and thus the rapid death?"

After Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he said: "I say something that displeases you. In terms of understanding human desires and natural principles, you are not as good as Gao Gong!"

Hearing what Zhu Yijun said, Zhang Juzheng suddenly knelt down towards Zhu Yijun: "I am ashamed! I dare not persuade your majesty to restrain the nobles and gentry with the virtue of a saint, but only dare to persuade your majesty to discipline yourself and even control the people with the virtue of a saint."

"I have let His Majesty down!"

After Zhang Juzheng said a word, he held the elephant wat and fell to the ground.

Zhu Yijun hurriedly got up and helped Zhang Juzheng: "Sir, don't say that! In my heart, Mr. is already a rare good teacher and minister."

Zhu Yijun said to Zhang Juzheng carefully: "I sincerely treat my husband as a teacher, not as a servant who can be driven to scold me!"

"Therefore, sir, there is no need to have such thoughts. I and my husband are not only monarchs and ministers, but also teachers and students of the same way, so there is no disappointment. There is only learning and inheritance. Although I respect you, I respect the righteous way of governing the country even more!"

"So, sir, please understand that I am not arguing against you, but discussing the right way to govern the country!"

Historically, Zhu Yijun did not dare to question Zhang Juzheng.

Only Zhang Juzheng is responsible for educating Zhu Yijun.

But in this life, Zhu Yijun will always use his status as a king to question Zhang Juzheng.

Because the current Zhu Yijun is not influenced by the Empress Dowager Li and Feng Bao psychologically, but respects and fears Zhang Juzheng, so he respects Zhang Juzheng but does not fear him, so whenever there is a disagreement, he dares to question Zhang Juzheng, and even force him in the opposite direction. Zhang Juzheng changed his will.

Up to now, Zhu Yijun has started to talk about Gao Gong in front of Zhang Juzheng.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng did not have the confidence to educate the emperor in front of Zhu Yijun, as he did in history, and even had a lot of awe of the emperor, and the feeling of being with the king like a tiger.

After all, although Zhu Yijun said that he would not liquidate him, he often expressed disappointment towards him both openly and secretly.

Before the matter of going out to patrol orchids in micro-services, Zhang Juzheng satirized Zhang Juzheng who only allowed himself to be lustful, and forbade the emperor from not mentioning the matter of lust.

Now, Zhu Yijun satirizes Zhang Juzheng for not daring to forbid extravagance to scholar-bureaucrats, and even mixed with dissatisfaction with his extravagant private life and insufficient self-discipline.

How can Zhang Juzheng bear this?

Especially now that Zhu Yijun is married and eighteen years old.

Naturally, Zhang Juzheng dared not disrespect Zhu Yijun and care about Zhu Yijun's point of view.

Therefore, even if Zhu Yijun refuted him, he didn't dare to be angry now, he just wanted to explain, and in the end he simply admitted his mistake, saying that he had let your majesty down.

Fortunately, Zhu Yijun hastily lowered his figure now, respecting him as a disciple and explaining it, which relieved Zhang Juzheng a lot.

Even Zhu Yijun's sentence "Although I respect Mr. Zhang, I respect the righteous way of governing the country even more", surprised Zhang Juzheng even more, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty is already capable of governing the country!"

After speaking, Zhang Juzheng explained the reason: "At least, I really didn't expect how important it is for the king to have a heart to benefit the people, but only know that the king should be benevolent and thrifty."

"It can be seen that His Majesty has understood better than the minister!"

"Although Mr. does not know the importance of benefiting the people, he also knows the importance of the people suffering from the country."

Zhu Yijun replied with a smile.

"Although I respect my husband, I respect the righteous way of governing the country even more."

Shen Li, the daily life note officer, also wrote these words into the daily life note with a solemn expression.

Zhang Juzheng cupped his hands again: "Although the minister is far-fetched, he is the most important thing in the country. I would like to take back the previous words asking your majesty to ban the fireworks and lantern festivals in Aoshan, and ask your majesty to order Shuntian Mansion to strictly prevent the occurrence of flooding, and set up fire soldiers (fire brigade) .”

"Prelude!"

"Mr. Another also believes that the king should know how to benefit the people, so in the future reform, it should not only enrich the country and strengthen the army, but also add the idea of ​​'benefiting the people'!"

Zhu Yijun said with a smile.

Zhang Juzheng bowed his hands and said yes.

Here, Shen Li also smiled and hurriedly wrote Zhu Yijun's words into the daily notes.

(End of this chapter)