Wanli Youming

Chapter 456

Chapter 456

It is already the early spring of the 14th year of Wanli, and it is rainy and slightly cold.

In front of the steps of the huge chief minister's mansion, the snow had not completely melted. Shen Shixing walked down the steps and stepped into the garden. The dead branches in the courtyard had just sprouted new buds, and their heads poked out from the white gauze mist. After a while, it was covered with beads due to the continuous drizzle.

Shen Shixing walked among them, not having the heart to touch the buds that spit out fresh pearls, and walked cautiously on the gravel road, while letting the slender drizzle wet his robe, he looked intently at the gloomy sky, thinking about the countermeasures .

Li Zhe was accompanied by a group of counselors.

As far as Shi Shihang is concerned, he knows that now is the time to test his determination and ability, and these civil servants in front of him are both his assistants and opponents in his reform.

Shen Shixing has both embankment and heart-to-heart confidence.

These words seem to be contradictory, but they are not contradictory. As the chief assistant, he really wants to defend when he should, and when he should confess his heart.

Therefore, Shen Shixing suddenly took the initiative to ask Li Zhe: "Then why didn't you tell the servant earlier? You are from Fengxiang, and your hometown should not be silent when there is such a disaster!"

Li Zhe hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Enfu looks great! How can students criticize Enfu's new policies and destroy Enfu's great cause because of the changes in his hometown?"

"Furthermore, there will be no price for reform. My hometown is not lucky, and it is inevitable to bear the price. Students should not ignore the overall situation just because their hometown bears the price!"

"When the Taishi reformed, the newly developed fields in Guangdong and Guangxi made the local people unwilling to clean up their husbands. Therefore, it is still inevitable to kill some unscrupulous people who have become thieves because of the reform, so that people in the world know that the national policy must be implemented. If you want to, you have to be willing!"

"Thus, from the perspective of students, it is the same now. This is actually an opportunity to stand up for reform. It lets the people know that even if they are hungry and can beg for food from officials, they cannot easily rebel. This is indecent!"

"The second one also gives the army the opportunity to make contributions, so that the army will naturally be more able to support the New Deal."

"The servant asked Li Rusong to be the admiral to prevent the powerful and powerful from cleaning up the Buddhist temple and causing chaos, not to prevent that one day he will kill the people to make meritorious deeds!"

"Furthermore, it is against the new rituals to kill the rioters because of the new policy!"

"After all, according to the new etiquette, the common people are all innocents, so how can they rebel unless they have to?"

As Shen Shixing spoke, he glanced at the Jinyiwei standing around in the rain. This reminded him of the efforts of Zhang Jingxiu and others and the persistence of the emperor Zhu Yijun, and he was even more unwilling to give up for a while.

But Li Zhe persuaded at this time: "Enfu, excuse me for speaking bluntly, the new rituals should only be said to be heard by the world, not really to be done like this!"

"If the new ceremony is just for listening, how can the emperor be willing to praise the new ceremony?"

"How can the emperor be willing to treat me as a child instead of a slave because of the new ritual?!"

After hearing this, Shen Shixing suddenly asked Li Zhe a very serious question.

Li Zhe was speechless for a moment.

Shen Shixing climbed up the steps and said as he walked, "I usually ask you to read more books by Mr. Yangming, but you won't listen to them!"

"Do you know what is the unity of knowledge and action? It means that the etiquette that one admires must be set as an example, otherwise you will not be able to speak to the world!"

"Although Your Majesty is trying to rule now, it is because of the new rites that although the government of the country has the idea of ​​giving benefits to the people, it also benefits the emperor and is more free than a bird in a cage. Therefore, the emperor is willing to treat the world with benevolence for the great rule of the world! Although he exercised the power of dictatorship, he did not regard all officials as domestic slaves!"

"If we don't abide by the new rituals ourselves, and still treat the people as nothing, we can't expect the gentleman to treat us with courtesy, and we have to kneel and listen to the training instead of sitting and discussing politics!"

"Do you want to see such a country?"

Li Zhe hurriedly cupped his hands: "Student understands, thank you Enfu for teaching me! Students don't dare to think like this again, they must be consistent with words and deeds!"

"Go!"

"Although one should be shrewd to be an official, don't be too shrewd. Too shrewd can easily lead you into narrow-mindedness. In your spare time, you should read more history and see how many princes, dukes and ministers have done things that later generations will think are extremely stupid because they are too shrewd. That's why Du Fanchuan sighed."

"Yes!"

Li Zhe responded with a bit of frustration.

Afterwards, he left Shen Shixing's place, and later met Yang Menggao, the doctor of the Ministry of punishment, and said, "Enfu didn't have the heart to stop cleaning up the Buddhist temple because of this."

Yang Menggao was quite disappointed after hearing this: "Why, you didn't tell him the truth about the place?"

"said!"

Li Zhe replied, "But he just sighed that the reform is difficult."

"Since you know it's difficult, why don't you stop in time?"

"Why not allow Buddhist temples to benefit the people internally and at the same time enrich the country and the people externally?"

"It has to be forced to make the sky angry and the people complain, and there will be bandits everywhere."

Yang Menggao complained rather puzzled.

Of course, what he said is to benefit the people internally, but he actually means not reforming the internal distribution model, and still allowing Buddhist temples to exploit the small people for the powerful and powerful gentry, so that the powerful and powerful gentry can not only profit from the small people internally but also externally. Invest in the imperial court and then share dividends for profit.

It is equivalent to wanting to share a large part of the newly added cake, but not willing to give up part of the original cake.

Greed is human nature. Therefore, if foreign expansion is to enrich the country and benefit the people, it must be accompanied by the reform of the distribution system. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the people to get a lot of benefits. Instead, they will be dissatisfied with foreign expansion because their children have sacrificed the most in foreign expansion.

Therefore, the imperial court's external expansion is often in line with the wishes of some very greedy powerful and gentry, but they don't want to take too little for themselves.

Li Zhe also sighed: "I don't know what Enfu is insisting on. He obviously doesn't know much about the people's conditions in various places. At this time, he should know that stopping is the old way of seeking the country, or implementing it with an iron fist. But he obviously Not only is Qingliu ignorant of the people's sentiments, but it's also very pedantic."

"How do you say that?"

Yang Menggao asked.

"He really wants to abide by the new rituals! Cherish the people of the common people and regard them as the children of our compatriots!"

"He did this so that the Son of Heaven would be willing to reform, would not take the Son of Heaven as his own self, would not be lazy in governing, and at the same time be respectful to the people of the world!"

Li Zhe said.

After Yang Menggao heard this, he couldn't help saying: "It's really not the emperor's intention to dare to reform. It's because people like him in Shenwu County don't want to listen to politics on their knees, but want to use the new rituals to mess up the difference between the monarch and his ministers!"

Bang!

After Yang Menggao said that, he punched the table.

……

Bang!

Shen Shixing punched the case here, and mentioned Li Zhe: "Why did I click on his article in the first place! After sitting in front of the emperor for a long time, who wants to kneel?"

"Father, are we really going to continue cleaning up Buddhist temples?"

"According to Li Shixiong, the cleanup of Buddhist temples this time is still the same as in the past, and most of the pain caused by this policy will ultimately be borne by the people!"

The second son of Shenshihang, the second son of Shenyongjia, asked about Shenshihang at this time.

Shen Shixing said with a smile: "In the officialdom, there is always me in you, and you in me. Li Zhe's words can't be trusted completely. As for whether to continue to clean up the Buddhist temple, it's not for my father to make a good decision."

"Is that the Son of Heaven?"

Shen Yongjia asked.

Shen Shixing said, "Not the Son of Heaven?"

Shen Yongjia was stunned: "Who is that?"

Shen Shixing said with a smile: "It's the planning department!"

"Department of Strategy?"

Shen Yongjia looked at Shen Shihang curiously.

"That's right!"

"It is necessary for the policy department to analyze the feasibility of the new policy according to the plan, and then the servants and the ministers of the cabinet will discuss it before the emperor, and ask the emperor to make a decision. It does not mean that the cabinet will persuade the emperor to make a decision out of fear because there is a lot of external noise. end a state policy."

"This is the most commendable reform to the center since His Majesty came to the throne. Everything is based on reality and data, and we work together to minimize the possibility of the emperor and the ruling being misled when making decisions. After all, sometimes seeing may not be true, but numbers are not. Lying, His Majesty calls it a scientific policy, no matter how fearful, restless, or wanting to end it quickly, I can’t make a decision on my own, only those who don’t know think that I’m really stupid and don’t know how to stop in time.”

When Shen Shixing said that, he looked at Shen Shixing: "I'll go to sleep for a while, and when the people from the planning department come, call me again!"

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)