Wanli Youming

Chapter 530 What is the Righteous Way of an Emperor?Be a rich man!

Chapter 530 What is the Righteous Way of an Emperor?Be a rich man!

After hearing this, Gu Xiancheng asked Gu Xuancheng: "Are other big households like this?"

"It's even more serious!"

"Observing the employees of Qian's family when the master gave them kindness and was about to renew their contracts, they actually directly asked the master for a monthly salary increase. They couldn't work after five hours. Lose money and allow them to leave."

"The Qian family naturally disagrees with such a contract, but they don't want to let them go, so they let the county government arrest them and accuse these hired workers of plotting chaos."

"As a result, these hired workers gathered instead, drove away the county government, surrounded Qian's house, and confiscated Qian's house. Now the government is arresting people everywhere."

Gu Xuancheng replied.

Gu Xiancheng was quite astonished after hearing this: "How bold are the people copying the eunuchs?"

Gu Xuancheng chuckled: "It's not because of the new ceremony that I caused trouble!"

"When the holy master's filial piety temple was abolished, the employers had to treat their parents as if they were parents, otherwise it would be a criminal law of treason, and the employees were allowed to set up their own labor unions to negotiate with the employers. As a result, the workers were naturally more pampered."

"These unscrupulous people think they have some skills and are proud of their talents. They don't pay attention to their employers or even the government. They are also guided by some literati in the labor union who are afraid of chaos in the world. They think that the peace of the world depends on them. Bureaucrats The gentry are raised by them, so they become more and more arrogant, and they don't know how to respect the lord."

"The more this is the time, the more we as a family of officials must be united, and we can't really let the world's rituals collapse."

"I've said before that the implementation of the new rituals will definitely mess up the rituals of the world."

Gu Xiancheng started talking, and said: "I wrote to Mr. Ying Tianxun and asked him to come to Donglin Hall to give lectures. When the time comes, I will tell him about it. I hope he will not dare to explain the new situation to the court because he is afraid of the power of the new party. The ceremony will make the people feel proud of being a thief and hate the venerable, and the emperor really thinks that the introduction of the new ceremony will only make everyone more polite, and it is best to influence the Confucian officials in the Eastern Palace, and then influence the Eastern Palace through the Eastern Palace. , let Donggong know that the new ceremony will perish the world."

Gu Yuncheng quite agreed, and said, "Very true!"

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"If you don't push the new rites, the country will perish. If you push the new rites, the world will perish!"

"Qizou Your Majesty, this is a popular saying among the people. Because there were indeed many riots in many places where people smashed, smashed and looted big households, this saying became popular."

"Of course, the cause is mostly related to the fact that the big households are unwilling to fulfill the contract and want to use the power of the government to force the people to follow their wishes."

While the three brothers of the Gu family were discussing the problem of the collapse of etiquette and happiness brought about by foreign development.

Xiyuan Shi Yusi is on duty.

Shen Shixing was talking to Zhu Yijun about what he had heard recently.

"Don't the people want to live a peaceful life?"

"The people are willing to make trouble?"

"As the saying goes, a slap can't make a sound. If many things are done according to the contract, if you want to, you will, and if you don't want to, you won't. If you respect anyone's choice, you won't go to this point."

"For the riots that occurred, tell the three jurisprudence divisions that they must be dealt with carefully, and order the chief ministers. It is my right to kill and kill. Whoever dares to kill someone without the order will be punished as guilty even if he has quelled it! After all, no one knows. Did the riots happen because the powerful and the right bullied the people and the bureaucrats bullied the people?"

"The vassal state still treats the people of the previous country as human beings, why doesn't the country treat its own people as human beings?"

"It is better to kill less than to kill wrongly. This is the gift of the people of this country like a child, and it is the foundation of respecting their lives."

Zhu Yijun said.

After hearing this, Shen Shixing cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty is right."

Zhu Yijun asked Shen Shixing again at this time: "Master, tell me, do you also hate the people who are violent, ignorant of the king's law, and wanton destruction?"

Shen Shixing cupped his hands and replied: "I dare not hide it from Your Majesty, I cannot accept the riots of the rabble!"

"However, I don't think that it is wrong for the new rites to be based on the people who practice the Han rites. You can't stop benevolent government for the people just because the people's wisdom is not developed;"

"In my humble opinion, today's ordinary people are fighting fiercely, and even violate the king's law. It is because they are not fully rich and they are not fully aware of rituals. Many ordinary people are either easily instigated by radicals, or they are already influenced by old rituals. Resisting not being treated with kindness, but also not treating others with kindness, so I feel that the rich are all guilty, and I only want to die with them, and even I would rather be poor."

"So rather than thinking that ordinary people don't deserve to be treated with kindness, it's better to say that the rulers have not benefited the people and enriched the country to the point where everyone is rich and polite."

"Qizou Your Majesty, in fact, the dyeing workshop of the minister's family also encountered a situation where the hired workers did not want to stay in the dyeing workshop and went to Dongying to set up a workshop. The family deliberately asked the minister to find a way to stop these hired workers, but these hired workers knew about this in advance. , also made a big fuss, but was persuaded by the people sent back in advance by the minister."

Shen Shixing continued at this time.

Zhu Yijun smiled after hearing this: "How did the master persuade you?"

"Our Shen family agrees with them to leave, and even those who have not yet expired the contract can apply to leave early, and the Shen family will cooperate with them, invest money and send skilled workers from the mansion to Dongying to share with them the new dyeing workshop , to solve their problem of insufficient money and insufficient talent.”

"As a result, the family members had no objection to this, but were happy to see the result, and the hired workers who were about to leave were also happy, so there was no further trouble."

"I have a saying that if you want to give and take, you must give it first. If the court wants the common people to know the rules and obey the law, and to be loyal to the emperor and the country, they must first give them the opportunity to be rich, instead of blaming or even contemptuously forcing them to destroy themselves and follow the king's law."

Shen Shixing answered.

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Master is indeed a person who is good at handling conflicts. The most important thing is not to be harsh on others. He is more considerate to me and the common people. If all the powerful and right in the world are as good at handling conflicts as master, how can you be so cruel?" Since I was in power, I have had to kill so many people in order to enrich the country, strengthen the army and benefit the people."

"Your Majesty is wrong."

"The minister is not very frightened."

"The minister is actually a person who is useless to the country, but only because of His Majesty, he has become a person who is useful to the country. Therefore, the person who can really regulate the world is Your Majesty!"

At this time, Shen Shixing hurriedly cupped his hands and replied.

What Shen Shixing said was indeed the truth. If the emperor hadn't insisted on not liquidating Zhang Juzheng, he would not have dared to be the second Zhang Juzheng with the courage of Shen Shixing.

Zhu Yijun also understood, so he just smiled and said: "Master, you don't have to be too modest. In my opinion, the techniques used by the master are the skills that an emperor should have. Those who rely on the profits of one place for a lifetime will not hesitate to suppress the desires of others, and even the extreme ones will suppress their own desires, so teach the prince."

Shen Shihang said yes.

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"Your Highness, although I was recommended by Yuan Fu to teach Your Highness Confucian classics, but today I will not teach Your Highness these things, because these sages' principles are just for others to listen to, but in fact, real emperors cannot follow this principle. do it."

"I first teach His Royal Highness the mind skills that a real emperor should have."

"First of all, Your Highness should understand that the Son of Heaven is the one who is strong in soldiers and horses, not the one who is virtuous;"

"Secondly, Your Highness should understand that the people are the foundation of a country, but the people are not inviolable. Killing [-] people or killing [-] people is harmless. As long as Your Highness allows them to live in peace for a few years, the common people will still be like weeds blown by the spring breeze. Crazy."

"Finally, Your Highness must be clear that the people should be weak, and should be restrained by Confucianism and human relations, not to make them truly intelligent, nor to make them have personality and desires. Although they can aspire, they must be in line with the ambitions of saints. It must only be based on the long-term peace and stability of His Majesty's country."

"Otherwise, if everyone has knowledge and everyone is not unified, His Highness will be hard to be a king!"

"Besides, the real emperor should not allow anyone to control himself, and if he kills him, he will steal his wealth!"

"Thus, if Your Highness becomes an emperor in the future and wants to become a true emperor, the first thing to do is to liquidate Zhang Taiyue and Shenwu counties, so that the people of the world will know that the overbearing officials cannot have a good end, even if they are heroes of the country, they cannot break the rules. It was Kuang who helped the emperor to follow the right path!"

Qian Tongmeng, the East Palace lecturer recommended by Shen Shixing, was also giving lectures to Prince Zhu Changxuan in the East Palace when Zhu Yijun met Shen Shixing, but he did not lecture on Confucian classics. Pick up private goods.

(End of this chapter)