Wanli Youming

Chapter 351

Chapter 351

"presumptuous!"

The Chief Assistant Shen Shixing who was also standing in the Yuntai Gate suddenly changed his color, and sternly shouted at Zou Yuanbiao.

Zhu Yijun waved his hand: "No problem!"

Then, Zhu Yijun looked at Zou Yuanbiao and asked with a smile, "Then tell me, where did I go wrong?"

Zou Yuanbiao raised his head and glanced slightly at Zhu Yijun, then lowered his head in a moment of haste: "The sinful minister seems to have said something wrong! Your Majesty is right! Your Majesty is a unparalleled sage!"

"Say!"

"Speak out what's on your mind, if you don't say it, you'll be escorted back to the West Market Pailou!"

After Zhu Yijun answered in a deep voice, he threatened Zou Yuanbiao.

Because of Zhu Yijun's roar, Zou Yuanbiao trembled for a moment, replied "Yes" tremblingly, and then said:

"The guilty minister feels that His Majesty's fault is that he is too harsh on the gentry, and he doesn't know the etiquette of raising a gentleman, and he doesn't know the difference between high and low;"

"Corrupt officials, it's reasonable for His Majesty to kill them. After all, since they eat the king's salary, they should do so;"

"But the gentry are the heads of the four peoples, they are venerables, and they have the ability to appease the people and collect taxes; even if they are wrong, your Majesty should not punish them severely, but should protect their dignity, otherwise how can they rely on them to appease the people and collect taxes?"

"Once your Majesty despises them, the common people will also despise them. In this way, the common people will become troublesome people, and if the tax-resisting criminals go up, I am afraid that the slaves, servants and servants will ignore the rules and regulations, and then follow suit. Bad too!"

"According to what you said, if noble people like gentry commit a crime, they should cover it up if they can?"

Zhu Yijun asked after hearing this.

Zou Yuanbiao said: "I..."

"Answer truthfully! As I said, you will speak out what is in your heart."

"Since you want to be an outspoken minister, the first thing you need to do is to be honest with the king. Regardless of whether what you say will offend Long Yan, you must first be true!"

"Don't be stinging and stinging here, and still thinking about how to speak so as not to be torn apart by the car, so as to satisfy me, this is not what an admonishing minister should be like!"

"Since you believe that I am not a faint king, then you should have the true appearance of an adjudicative minister, not just like a gambler who wants to gamble on his reputation!"

"If Haiqing's family hesitated like you back then, I'm afraid Shimiao would have cut him down long ago, instead of leaving it to the late emperor and me!"

Being good at being a teacher is a common problem of human beings, and Zhu Yijun was no exception, and he actually started to educate Zou Yuanbiao at this time.

"Yes!"

"Your Majesty said yes!"

"The honorable person, if he can cover up his moral faults, he should cover them up, and if he can cover up his faults, then he should cover up his faults. This is how we treat ancient sages and sages when compiling history, and we should do the same with the sages and sages of the present when asking for sins. "

"This is a gift!"

Zou Yuanbiao thought for a while, then answered Zhu Yijun's question seriously, and talked eloquently, as if he was sorting out and brainwashing himself.

Zhu Yijun continued to ask: "In that case, am I the venerable?"

"Your Majesty is the lord of the world, so naturally he is the most respected and noble."

Zou Yuanbiao replied.

Zhu Yijun asked again: "Are you worthy?"

"Since he came to the throne, His Majesty has made great efforts to rule the country. He has been more diligent in the banquet and the court than in the previous dynasty. The tax exemption and labor relief efforts are even stronger than the previous dynasty. The poverty of the people in Dasu has increased the yearly income by more than 3000 million taels of silver, and the tax field has increased by hundreds of millions of acres. , to resist the strong captives from outside, and make the Hu people dare not invade the border, you can be called a virtuous king!"

Zou Yuanbiao replied truthfully.

"Not flattery?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

"It's not flattery! Otherwise, how would I dare to go to the court?"

Zou Yuanbiao replied.

Zhu Yijun said: "In this way, I can also do a few things that violate the moral principles without being held accountable, and even cover it up if I can."

Zou Yuanbiao suddenly raised his head.

"You say yes or no?"

Zhu Yijun continued to ask Zou Yuanbiao.

Zou Yuanbiao stammered again: "Chen, minister..."

"Answer me!"

Zhu Yijun said in a deep voice.

Zou Yuanbiao had no choice but to say loudly: "Return to Your Majesty, yes! It stands to reason that there is indeed a father who is not wrong in the world. Thunder, rain and dew are all due to your kindness."

"Your Majesty, the subject is guilty!"

"I shouldn't blame Junfu, it's a crime to blame Junfu!"

After Zou Yuanbiao said that, he immediately bowed to the ground.

Zhu Yijun asked: "Is this true?"

"It's the truth."

Zou Yuanbiao replied.

Zhu Yijun said: "Then why did I set up an admonisher?"

As Zhu Yijun spoke, he yelled sharply: "If you have made mistakes for the king, the admonisher should admonish! You, Zou Yuanbiao, as an official official, have the power to admonish, so you are not guilty!"

"His Majesty!"

Zou Yuanbiao suddenly shouted excitedly, then kowtowed and cried:

"The minister is guilty!"

"The crime of the minister is deceiving the emperor!"

"Your Majesty is not wrong, so the bureaucrats and gentry used by His Majesty are all right, they should treat each other with courtesy, but before the minister, he only thought of treating the gentry with courtesy, and forgot to treat the emperor with courtesy, so the minister deserves to die!"

"In addition, Ke Dao is not an admonishing officer. There is no need for an admonishing officer in the world today! Ke Dao officials are only officials who investigate and supervise for His Majesty. Moreover, there should be no officials in this world who are admonishing your father. It's against etiquette!"

"So, even Wei Zheng is not a virtuous minister in the eyes of now!"

Zhu Yijun: "..."

present?

He seemed to smell staleness now.

"Your Majesty, please punish me with death!"

"It's okay to crack the car!"

At this time, Zou Yuanbiao suddenly stopped being greedy for life, and he gritted his teeth and asked for it.

Shen Shixing on the side closed his eyes and sighed when he saw this.

Hai Rui lowered his face.

After Zhu Yijun looked at Zou Yuanbiao for a long time, he said solemnly: "Gentlemen commit crimes, and I will punish them according to the law; if I make mistakes, all officials should dare to advise; it is not to maintain the old order of etiquette. Crimes cannot be punished, and people's grievances cannot be tolerated, otherwise, the whole world will be silent, and how can the country and the nation last long?"

"In today's world, gentry and common people often change after several generations, and there are few thousand-year-old families. Therefore, your majesty can rule alone, and make the world follow your majesty's will."

"So, if His Majesty wants to strictly control the gentry, he can do it. Even if there is resistance, it is nothing more than the example in the south of the Yangtze River. Divide and rule or rule by grace."

"but!"

"Your Majesty, have you ever thought about it? Even if this is successful, in the end, some powerful tyrants will incite the common people to rebel, and many common people will be implicated and executed as rebels. At that time, wouldn't it be contrary to His Majesty's benefit and love for the people?" heart of?"

"That's why, I ask your majesty to follow the general trend and rule the country with rites, not the law; please believe that all scholars and officials are gentlemen, and believe that no matter what you do, you are a holy king!"

"In this way, the common people will not be troublesome, because there are gentry who govern on behalf of His Majesty, and only know how to pay taxes and farm! The gentry will also regard the king as their father and the country as their home!"

"And because of this, Your Majesty should punish the courtiers, but forgive the arrested gentry!"

Zou Yuanbiao began to talk eloquently, with a serious expression on his face, obviously believing that his point of view was correct, beneficial to the community, and beneficial to the long-term interests of the entire landlord class.

Pan Sheng and Liu Yingjie couldn't help nodding their heads at this moment.

Even the eunuch Zhang Hong began to feel that it was right, and looked at Zou Yuanbiao.

"You agree too?"

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Hong, and asked with an angry smile.

Zhang Hong hurriedly knelt down: "This old slave dare not lie to the emperor, what Zou Yuanbiao said is quite right! At least this old slave thinks that he himself deserves to die."

(End of this chapter)