armyinform Chapter 154 Willing to do my best for His Majesty
Chapter 154 Willing to do my best for His Majesty
Chapter 154 Willing to do my best for His Majesty
"What my father said is what Zhang Shixiong also said in his letter: When the ministers were discussing matters in the new mansion, even if Zhang Shixiong and the others wanted to persuade Jiangling to stop the reform, it was hard for them to say it. I was afraid that it would not be in line with Jiangling's original intentions, so he could no longer stand in the middle of the court, and because of Wang Yangcheng's interference, and the cooperation of people like Pan Xinchang and Fang Jiayu, if it is not enough for the society and the common people, it will not be for the self-interest of the powerful, officials and gentry. Gentlemen are hypocritical villains, so they dare not say that it is inappropriate to continue reforming the system; instead, they can only ask Jiangling to decide on this matter in the name of considering Jiangling's aftermath."
Xu Ying continued: "Including the matter of you seeking peace with Jiang Ling and personally persuading him to beg for divorce, when Wang Yangcheng said that if he listened to you, he would be as arrogant as you, immediately, no one would dare to persuade Jiang Ling to listen. It’s yours, even Zhang Shixiong himself has to say that what you did was really not proper.”
Bang!
Xu Jie suddenly threw the crutch in his hand.
Seeing this, Xu Ying hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Father, calm down!"
"Cheng Zhu's learning is abolished!"
Xu Jie suddenly said four words.
Then, Xu Jie said again: "This is why I support the new Taoism! What I value is not his idea of strengthening the people, but his implied idea of emptiness!"
"I, a gentry from the south of the Yangtze River, have come to this point, the righteousness of the monarch and ministers has become the biggest obstacle for us to live and work!"
"After all, a common man is not guilty and he is guilty. Although I, the officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, are not ordinary men, the benefits I have won will not be ignored! And the only person who can take away our benefits is the one who can occupy the righteousness of the monarchs and ministers. Son of Heaven!"
"But father, if we really follow the views of the Taizhou School and let everyone be friends, wouldn't the servants and tenant farmers in the family also have dignity?"
Xu Ying couldn't help asking at this moment.
Xu Jie sighed: "Of course what you said makes sense, so the study of the mind also needs to be guided; people like He Xinyin and Li Zhi don't like people like him as fathers, and I wish Zhang Juzheng would really kill them, but I can't do it on the surface. That's all for talking; in short, He Xinyin who was executed by the court is the most beneficial to us."
"It's a pity that this Jiangling was superior. He didn't kill him, and let him confess to many famous Confucian scholars, and let these famous Confucian scholars be arrested and sent to prison. How can we guide this?"
"Even now, we have no way of knowing what new concepts the Great Confucianists of the Mind School have come up with."
Xu Ying nodded after hearing this, and then asked: "Father, is Cheng Zhuzhixue really abolished?"
Xu Jie was taken aback for a moment, then smiled: "My father lost his composure just now."
Then, Xu Jie stood up with Xu Ying's support, and said, "Whether Cheng Zhu's study should be discarded or not is for father's sake; it depends on whether the carnivores in the world need him to be a herdsman."
"But what is certain is that we still can't do without him now. After all, father and son are the foundation of our clan's stability. Now it seems that we still need to admit Zhu Zi's saying 'father and son, the king and minister, the theorem of the world';"
"So, as a father, you can't say that just now. It's just that Taoism can't stop at Cheng Zhu! If you can guide Taoism, it would be great if you only emphasize father and son and not emperors and ministers."
As Xu Jie spoke, he looked at a pair of words given to him by Zhang Juzheng that was still hanging in the hall: "Now I just hope that he in Jiangling will not have the idea of canceling the preferential treatment and making the officials and gentry pay for food and work as a errand, otherwise."
"Otherwise what?"
Xu Ying asked.
Xu Jie didn't answer.
……
"Cancel the discount?"
The west room of Wenhua Hall.
After Zhang Juzheng reported to Zhu Yijun the system that he and the ruling ministers agreed to reform if the system should continue to be reformed, Zhu Yijun asked for confirmation.
"Yes, Your Majesty, Mr. Ma Ge and Mr. Shen Ge who came back from inspections all think that it is still possible to change this system."
Zhang Juzheng replied at this time.
Zhu Yijun nodded: "Since the elders of the two pavilions have been patrolling the place for so long, they have personally listened to the opinions of the scholars and the people, and made unanimous suggestions, which shows that it is feasible."
After speaking, Zhu Yijun asked again: "What do other ministers in power think?"
Zhang Juzheng said: "There is no objection."
Zhu Yijun was taken aback after hearing this, and asked with a smile, "Really?"
"Returning to Your Majesty, at the moment of Ming Dynasty, all the officials are in charge of the dynasty, and the ministers are all loyal to the country, and they all have the heart of benefiting the society and the common people. Therefore, even if the preferential exemption for officials and clans is cancelled, it will suffer for the officials and clans, but you know It is for the long-term peace and stability of the country, and they are all willing to lose profits and save righteousness."
Zhang Juzheng replied.
Zhu Yijun didn't question it, but just patted his knee: "It's so good, sir, you can recommend someone well!"
"I am ashamed."
Zhang Juzheng cupped his hands and replied.
"Since the Minister and the others have no objections, and the elders of the two cabinets came back from inspecting the area, they also agreed that this new policy is feasible and for the long-term stability of the society, so I will choose the opportunity to implement this policy, and I will have to work hard when the time comes."
Zhu Yijun said something.
"I wish to do my best for His Majesty!"
Zhang Juzheng replied.
Zhu Yijun smiled slightly and said nothing more.
However, next, Zhang Juzheng was not in a hurry to express his attitude, and in the name of his intention to cancel the preferential policy, he implemented the new reform policy that the emperor wanted to implement.
Because even though Zhang Juzheng already knew clearly that the ministers of the DPRK and China, who represented the entire bureaucratic regime, chose to support all his decisions for various reasons, but Zhang Juzheng still had to consider the attitude of the army.
After all, it is a cancellation.
The clan is okay to say.
Now the clan has no military power since it moved inward.
Moreover, canceling the exemption does not mean taking back the land granted, so it is not a big problem. If it is combined with some middle and lower clans that allow them to find their own way out, and even give them a certain opportunity to participate in politics, I am afraid that there will be some opposition voices. not see.
Only the bureaucratic class, which controls the right to speak and lays the foundation for the entire Ming bureaucracy, is the most difficult to deal with in the cancellation of preferential treatment.
Because of the huge power of these officials and gentry, it is the foundation of the entire bureaucratic group to control the grassroots people below the county level for the imperial court.
The cancellation of the preferential exemption is equivalent to imposing another tax on them.
For these property owners, those who use their interests are hated as much as they want their lives.
Among the officials and gentry, there must be dissatisfied people who use their power to make trouble.
However, the abolition of the preferential treatment did not harm the officials and gentry at all. It did not force the officials and gentry to spit out the land occupied by the annexation to the common people, as Hai Rui did in Nanzhi in history, nor did it directly distribute the land to the local tyrants.
Therefore, what is certain is that the officials and gentry will not rebel in order to cancel the preferential treatment and avoid some losses.
After all, the previous dynasties were not without the dynasties where officials and gentry paid food and errands together.
But the most worrying thing is that the general who commanded the army was also dissatisfied with this, and joined forces with the officials and gentry who were equally dissatisfied with this to force the emperor to compromise in the name of the Qing emperor.
Therefore, Zhang Juzheng needs to confirm the opinion of the army.
As long as the army is fine, troubles among officials and gentry are bound to cause no big waves.
In the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang are the main ones holding heavy troops.
The former controlled the Southern Army, and basically all the important generals of the Southern Army were its former troops.
The latter is the most powerful Liaodong cavalry commander in the Northern Army.
Fortunately, Zhang Juzheng is kind enough to recommend these two people, and they are both in a relationship of mutual competition and balance, so as long as they can promise some benefits to both the southern soldiers and the northern soldiers after canceling the preferential treatment, it is not that they will not support the cancellation of the preferential treatment .
Just like Qingzhang Tianmu before, if Zhang Juzheng hadn't taken the initiative to tilt the national expenditure to the military in the name of emphasizing military equipment, Qingzhang would not have been able to proceed smoothly in the border town.
It's just that Zhang Juzheng is still considering how to confirm the military's opinion, and Zhu Yijun also knows that Zhang Juzheng is still considering it.
Because he was the supreme military commander of Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng couldn't meet Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang directly, even private communication was taboo, especially after the emperor got married.
It's okay to say when the Lord Shaoguo is suspicious, after all, Zhang is the minister of Gu Ming.
But now, even if Zhu Yijun himself doesn't mind, other people will have different ideas.
As a result, the new policy of canceling the preferential treatment has not been decided, and the matter has been dragged on like this, and it has been dragged on to February [-]th in the eighth year of Wanli.
Zhang Juzheng has not grasped the opinion of the military.
Zhu Yijun also did not receive the secret performance from Qi Jiguang and others.
However, this day is an important day.
That is the day when Zhu Yijun held the plowing ceremony.
(End of this chapter)