Wanli Youming

Chapter 216

Chapter 216

"Go to the book!"

"Go to the book!"

"Even if Jiang Ling punishes me because of this, I will go to the book and speak out for the villagers!"

Cheng Lai looked at the private letter also sent by his family with a sad face, and talked to Gu Xiancheng, Li Zhi and others.

"It won't work if you don't read the book!"

"Hai Rui has gone too far in Nanzhi, instigating unruly people to rebel and intimidating the gentry, which has caused complete chaos in the south of the Yangtze River! If we don't pay our respects, we are sorry not only for our hometown but also for our country!"

Gu Xiancheng also spoke with a solemn expression.

Li Zhi also slapped the table at this time and stood up, saying: "Then let's go to the book together! He Jiangling has the ability to kill all the Beijing officials in my Nanzhi! He didn't take a single person from Nanzhi, and split the country. , completely turning the court into the court of Chu people!"

"I also agree with Shang Ben, otherwise, I will indeed have no face to see my elders!"

Yu Maoheng, the censor of the capital, also followed up at this time, and also glanced at the private message in his hand.

In short, after receiving letters from relatives and friends one after another, many Nanzhi Beijing officials could no longer bear the rent reduction, interest rate reduction and money processing movement launched by Hai Rui and the pro-military guards, nor could they bear the local bureaucrats such as Hai Rui. The government only cared about maintaining the emperor's guideline and state law, and ignored the gentry's face. They also forced the gentry to return the seized land, forced the gentry to work as errands for strict payment of grain, and even strictly controlled the behavior of the gentry to disturb the post station.

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"The reason why I emphasize that the people of my own country should be more valuable than the people of other countries, the Huayi, and the nation is not only to strengthen the people, but also to prevent the future occurrence of the Han family's rivers and mountains being occupied by foreign captives; I also want to use this method, Easing and diluting the contradictions between the powerful and the right in the government and the small people."

"I know that Mr. Hai Rui is not happy to let Hai Rui encourage the common people in Nanzhi to force the gentry to make concessions. He thinks that the gentry should be treated preferentially in order to benefit morality."

"After all, this can let the people know that all things are inferior and only studies are high. As long as you want to be a good person, you can only study and work for the court. As a small citizen, the reason why you suffer and suffer like an ant It is because the failure to become a Wenqu star is due to fate, and you should accept your fate, do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and place your hopes on your descendants, so that you can win the hearts of the world."

"However, sir, there is a limit to the patience of the people, and it is not enough to blindly give them the hope of becoming a human being. Because human beings have basic survival needs, only when this need is met, people will talk about other things, and this If the demand is broken, no matter how good the art of winning people's hearts is, it will be useless."

"If the annexation and exploitation are not curbed, the problem of the conflict between man and land will not be fundamentally resolved, and the number of refugees will only increase. Sooner or later, it will lead to a large-scale civil uprising, and then the Ming Dynasty will eventually be destroyed like the previous imperial court. Perhaps not only It is the destruction of the country, and the entire Han family is reduced to the world of barbarians!"

"And those in power have the responsibility to ease this kind of contradiction, and even use foreign wars to ease and dilute it, and use things between ethnic groups to dilute the dissatisfaction of ordinary people with the government and the court."

"That's why I intend to honor the people of my own country more than the barbarians."

The local Haoyou in Nanzhi and the Nanzhi officials in the capital could not stand the pro-democracy movement related to rent reduction and interest rate reduction, so that when a group of Nanzhi officials wanted to impeach Hai Rui and other bureaucrats, Zhu Yijun was in the Qianqing Palace , and Zhang Juzheng continued to exchange each other's ideas of governing the country and the people, and they are gradually converging.

After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng relaxed his brows, nodded as if he had realized something, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty has indeed grown up, and he is better than I imagined."

"Sir, since you are the emperor's teacher and minister, you shouldn't praise me like this, otherwise I will be proud, and I will never hear harsh words again."

Zhu Yijun smiled and said.

"Remember, sir!"

Zhang Juzheng clapped his hands back and said, "That is to say, although His Majesty took the initiative to ask Hai Gangfeng to encourage the small people in Nanzhi to force the big households to make concessions, he intended to use Hai Rui to do this once in Nanzhi, so as to benefit all the rich and right people in the world." See, do they have any weaknesses?"

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Naturally! There is only one Hai Rui in the world, he is the only one who is trusted by the people, and there is only one Nanzhili in the world. The officials are not as evil as the gentry, and the literacy rate is high. The conflict between the people and the scholars is the sharpest. Therefore, Only then can such a democratic movement be quickly launched in Southern Zhili, allowing one class to deal with another class; at the same time, let the bureaucrats and rightists in other places see whether they really want to underestimate the power of the common people."

"Your Majesty sees everything clearly!"

"Your Majesty only asked Hai Rui to do this in Nanzhi, so you didn't try to persuade him!"

Zhang Juzheng replied again at this time, and said: "As for what His Majesty said, to cultivate the national consciousness of the whole people, and to dilute the contradiction between the rich and the right in the government and the small people with the contradiction between the Hua and Yi, I think it is feasible! Come to think of it, what I am doing now The current restructuring is still nothing more than repairing and patching up the leaks, and the big ship of the Ming Dynasty, if it wants to completely get rid of the rotten wood, it has to adopt a new way of governing the country to be the program of future generations of monarchs and ministers. We should no longer only emphasize the rites and morals that the saints value, but we should emphasize the wealth and honor of our own people, and turn the king into a foreign barbarian! To govern with virtue is not enough; to govern with merit, it should be the first! This is A real reformation!"

Zhu Yijun laughed and nodded. He was very happy that Zhang Juzheng could fully accept his ideas, and he was willing to completely change the Ming Dynasty from ruling the country by morality to the direction of ruling the country by merit.

"Since you said so, you should make some achievements in this knowledge, and discuss it with Shen Qing, the Hanlin, and the great Confucians in the imperial prison! If you achieve something, report it to me!"

Zhu Yijun said accordingly.

Zhang Juzheng bowed his hands and said yes.

But at this moment, Zhang Jing walked over quickly: "Your Majesty, many courtiers from Nanzhi have come to Huijimen to impeach Hai Rui for colluding with local bureaucrats, instigating the people to rebel, and bullying the gentry. Use Hai Rui to wipe out the anti-people, and say that the etiquette and education in Nanzhili have been greatly corrupted, and chaos abounds."

Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng looked at each other after hearing this.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers from Nanzhi have come to the book one after another, explaining that what Haigong did in Nanzhi this time has really hit their sore spot, which has made all Nanzhi officials restless. Please Your Majesty's associate ministers will meet with them and reason with them."

Zhu Yijun nodded, and then looked at Zhang Jing: "You go with the master. If the master's reasoning does not convince them and speaks outrageously, you will ask for an order to explain the factory guard's reasoning to them."

Zhang Jing was stunned, then cupped his hands and said: "Your maidservant obeys the order!"

So, not long after, all the Nanzhi officials in Shangben were called to Huiji Gate.

Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Jing met these Nanzhi officials here.

"According to the order, I would like to ask you, why did you impeach Hai Rui and the Nanzhi officials, and why did you oppose the rent reduction and interest rate reduction that Hai Rui presided over in Nanzhi? Let me analyze and understand, Xie Lier and other yin and yang. "

Zhang Juzheng first looked at Gu Xiancheng, Li Zhi and others and said something first.

"If Mr. Yuanfu Zhang can't mediate your misunderstanding about Hai Rui, then our factory guard will mediate."

Zhang Jing also said something in a cold voice at this time.

All the Nanzhi officials glanced at Zhang Jing because of this, with anger in their eyes.

Some officials directly sarcastically said: "I really don't know whose house slave I am!"

Zhang Jing just pretended not to hear.

Here, Gu Xiancheng directly asked first: "Yuanfu, I just want to ask, why did the imperial court allow Hai Rui to encourage troublesome people to make trouble?!"

Zhang Juzheng sat on the chair, looked at Gu Xiancheng, and said, "This is not a matter of the imperial court's permission or disapproval, nor is it caused by Hai Rui's instigation. This is the public opinion!"

"Nowadays in Nanzhi and even in eastern Zhejiang, big gentry households are besieged by unruly people and bullied by evil officials. They are in a state of panic, and they all want to obey the etiquette to the death!"

Li Zhi also started talking at this time, and asked: "Could it be that Yuanfu really wants to let Nanzhi Shilin be murdered by Hai Rui like this?!"

Zhang Juzheng said: "One side is the sentiment of the people, and the other side is the opinion of the people. What do you let the servants do? As the saying goes, the people are the most precious. At this time, there is no reason for the imperial court to deal with Hai Rui because of the popular opinion!"

Both Gu Xiancheng and Li Zhi were at a loss for words after hearing this.

At this time, Yu Maoxue asked Zhang Juzheng instead, and asked: "Then Yuanfu really wants to let Hai Rui instigate troublesome people, so that he can do things like this in Nanzhi, so that the southeast will be disordered, and Taizu's mausoleum will be uneasy?"

"People's grievances are like water, easy to disperse and not easy to block; if we don't solve the source of people's grievances, how to restore order, I am afraid that Taizu's mausoleum will always be uneasy!"

Zhang Juzheng replied.

"But the anti-thief ears, why talk about public grievances?!"

At this time, Li Zhi asked a question and gritted his teeth.

"shut up!"

Zhang Juzheng got up suddenly, pointed at Li Zhi, and sternly shouted.

(End of this chapter)