armyinform Chapter 374
Chapter 374
Chapter 374
This is a change.
Under the coercion and lure of the imperial court, local scholars had to accept the custom of not binding their feet.
However, Peng Yingshen, the magistrate of Wuqing County, ordered a batch of full-foot embroidered cotton shoes with his salary, so that most of the people in Wuqing County were more willing to accept the behavior of letting go of their feet. Zhu Yijun's praise.
Therefore, when the official department took him, he was appointed as an official to Shizhong, replacing Dai Guangqi who was executed.
Daming does not lack officials who can do things and know how to do things.
Even though many Qingliu courtiers were punished because of the burning of the central palace this time, the court was still able to quickly select a large number of local officials who were close to the people who were qualified for the positions of Ke Dao and the Six Departments, etc., to serve as officials in Beijing.
Even basically non-commissioned officers.
Who made Daming have a lot of Jinshi?
You must know that most of the Jinshi in each session are the top three fellow Jinshi, and most of these fellow Jinshi can only go around in the local area, wasting their lives.
Therefore, as long as the emperor does not slacken his administration and does not maliciously leave official positions vacant, there will be no shortage of people who can fit a certain official position in this land.
Even if the requirements are raised a bit, it is still okay to say that you must be a Jinshi, you must be an excellent student, and there are many Jinshi bureaucrats in Ming Dynasty who have outstanding abilities but cannot wait for promotion.
This is why the gentry today is far inferior to the aristocratic families in the Han and Tang Dynasties.
The cost of studying to become a civil servant has been greatly reduced.
A large number of ordinary people and small landlords can also cultivate one or two scholars, causing people all over the world who want to be officials to be like crucian carp crossing the river.
They are not afraid that the imperial court will fight fiercely, but they are afraid that the imperial court will not give them a chance to make progress.
Personally, Zhu Yijun is not afraid of killing literati too hard. What he is afraid of is that in the late Ming Dynasty, after annexing enough land, the great gentry would unite with several big gentry to monopolize the township councils, and even build a strong relationship network in the officialdom. After that, he manipulated the local government, and then engaged in extensive fraud in the imperial examinations, using various means to monopolize the number of students and candidates in the imperial examinations, thus blocking the way for ordinary scholars to make progress.
According to the statistics of later generations, regardless of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as the dynasty developed to the later stage, the proportion of Jinshi who came from the common people and the landlord class would gradually decrease, and even drop to a serious level.
And it was the same at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because the way to advance was gradually blocked, and there was a situation where the students also rebelled, the so-called white-headed army.
It stands to reason that, as a member of the ruling class, students should not rebel against themselves, but it did appear in history.
Of course, Zhu Yijun didn't dare to continue to act badly. After properly letting Shen Shixing and other ministers in power who still cared about the common people see what would happen if he, the emperor, acted badly, he had to continue to work diligently.
Because Zhu Yijun couldn't predict how unbalanced the mentality of the local officials would be if he, the emperor, continued to act badly after seeing that he was delayed in getting a promotion; Will it be more mentally unbalanced?
And then will it completely annihilate the idea of safeguarding the long-term interests of the entire landlord class, and start to act badly or even more rampantly?
Therefore, Zhu Yijun naturally did not dare to put it down for more than 20 years like Wanli in history.
He quickly approved the new Taoist official of the Qingliu Branch of the Ministry of Officials.
Although many Taoist officials in Qingliu Branch have bad mouths, they are indeed a sharp weapon to supervise the officials in the court. After all, they are young and somewhat energetic, and can curb cronyism among the officials in power.
Otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have allowed small officials to take power at the beginning.
The turmoil caused by the burning of the Central Palace was a good thing for the court, because after that, a large number of new Qingliu officials were basically implementing the new ritual construction, that is, banning footbinding and abandoning babies. Good local people friendly officials.
These people's entry into the position of admonisher in the central government will naturally make the progress of the new ceremony smoother.
"Qizou Your Majesty, the establishment of the new rites should re-draw the rites between the country and the people, the officials and the people, the people and the people, and the barbarians and the people. The most important thing right now is the establishment of the new rites between the people and the people, and between the barbarians and the people. .”
"In order to establish these two new types of rituals, it is not only necessary to get rid of the disadvantages of the old rituals, namely the prohibition of foot binding and the abandonment of babies, but also to clarify the concept of the father should be righteous and the mother should be kind!"
"Parents should not use the old rituals to restrain their children, nor should they use the old rituals to kill their children in vain; life and death should be the right of the emperor, and the people of this country are all the people of the emperor.
When discussing the new ceremony, Xu Xuemo, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, reported to Zhu Yijun the opinions on the construction of the new ceremony agreed by several of their ruling ministers in the political affairs hall.
However, when Xu Xuemo said that the emperor should not kill his people in vain, he couldn't help but glance at Zhu Yijun.
Zhu Yijun was not angry.
One is that he comes from later generations, and he is not so repulsive to the request that the emperor respect his people's right to life;
The second is that he also knows that if he wants the Han people to say that the nation loves Ming Dynasty, first of all, he, the ruler of Ming Dynasty, must treat the Han people as his own compatriots, and let people know that the country and the monarch of the country treat them as human beings and not treat them as human beings. When the cattle and horses are mustard.
Therefore, after hearing this, Zhu Yijun only said: "I have always governed the country with benevolence. I have never killed people, and I will never kill people in vain! Parents, officials and parents in the world should not kill people in vain. They should treat the subordinates with benevolence instead of requiring the subordinates to treat the superiors with respect. This aspect needs to be corrected, not just emphasizing that the lower should be respectful to the upper, but also pay attention to the building of benevolence from the higher to the lower."
"What your Majesty said is that I believe that the Ministry of Punishment should revise the criminal law, abolishing the old law that parents kill their children only with court rods, and change it to hang for those who commit the most serious crimes, so as not to continue to harm their children."
"At the same time, each clan is not allowed to execute the juniors of the clan without authorization, and replace the national law with the so-called clan rules."
"In addition, parents should encourage the choice of personal conscience, at least they can't deal with it on behalf of the law!"
"Although etiquette should exist in customs, the law must be in the hands of the department; therefore, in the criminal law, for those who are punished by their parents for disobeying their parents' decisions, they should not be punished as prospective parents in the name of their children's unfilial crimes, but should be punished for their parents' inhumanity. "
At this time, Yang Wei, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments followed suit.
Yang Wei is the same ideologically as Shen Shixing, advocating the coexistence of Zhu and Wang, and even advocating benevolence for the people, not just emphasizing father, father and son as stipulated by Neo Confucianism, so he hopes to have certain constraints on parents.
Of course, this is what will inevitably happen at this stage of the restructuring. From the opening of the sea to encourage the people to go to sea to do business, to the government's recognition of Zhu Wang's respect, it is destined that the new etiquette will come to the point where there are certain restrictions on parents.
After all, the system design and legal principles of Ming Dynasty from top to bottom all originated from the relationship between parents and children in the ethical relationship.
What the new ceremony should do is to give children a certain freedom.
Only when the children in the ethical relationship are freer can the Han people be freer, the personal dependence of the Han people on the landlord will be reduced, and more emerging citizen and working classes will emerge, which in turn will make the grassroots of the entire Ming Empire more refined.
At that time, the imperial power will go to the countryside more thoroughly,
It is also an unprecedented move for the Han people to reduce the personal bondage from the clan and parents, and to promote the growth of the citizen class, and it is also an inevitable phenomenon after the development of the commodity economy.
"Prelude!"
Zhu Yijun approved this, and asked: "As for the relationship between the barbarians and the people, do we have to be polite to the barbarians?"
"Returning to Your Majesty, the barbarians are people who don't know how to be kings. They are afraid of power but not virtuous, so they shouldn't be polite!"
"The disadvantage of the old rituals is that they are polite to the barbarians, but they are not polite to the people of their own country, so that it is out of date; now we should rectify the chaos, so that the new rituals are only polite to the people of our own country, not to the barbarians, but to the barbarians. Discipline it with magic."
"After discussing with the old ministers, I believe that the new ceremony is not inferior to the barbarians!"
Xu Xuemo, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, said.
(End of this chapter)