.Shen was in the auxiliary room, looking through the memorials presented by various provinces. This was the first time he stood at the height of the empire's governor and looked down at the panoramic view of the Ming Dynasty. He was almost complaining, as if it was a big event of 100,000 yuan. No matter what was solved, there was a danger of mountains and rivers changing color. But if it was solved, the court did not have the power to distinguish these matters. How could Shen be so worried about it? Only then would he understand the meaning of Xu Jie's words.
If hesitation is a virtue..., Chen couldn't help but laugh at himself: "Then let me continue to be beautiful." So he calmed down and focused on reading the memorials. When Xu Jie came back, he didn't write a single word.
Xu Jie was not surprised by this result, and asked him with a smile: "Why didn't you comment on a word for so long?" "Students dare not..." Chen Zi's lips hung a wry smile. He said, "I'm afraid that if you don't study with the teacher for three or five years, students will not dare to cook this pot of fresh food."
"It's not approved," Xu Jie smiled and said, "If you do it rashly, I will doubt my own eyes..." As he said, he smiled and said, "No hurry, learn slowly in the future, let's help me take a closer look." Then he took out the piece of paper in his sleeve and placed it gently on the table.
"This is..." Chen asked softly, and he saw three horizontal bars on the piece of paper, as long as three.
Xu Jie said slowly: "I just went to ask for a meeting, but the emperor did not see me, so he just handed it out." After a pause, he said again: "It is said that the emperor is making excuses."
Chen Zhima understood what these three horizontal bars were. The tenth one was the three yang lines in the hexagram, and couldn't help but whisper: "Qian Gua." "Yes." Xu Jie nodded and said, "What do you think... the emperor will mean?" "Qian Gua is the upper hexagram above the sixty-four hexagrams." Chen Zhi pondered for a moment and whispered, "The emperor's meaning should be good."
"Haha..." Xu gave a smile with unknown meaning, and gently tapped the hexagram and said, "Gan, no Henry Zhen. Do you think the word Zhen refers to Hu Zongxian?" Hu Zongxian's name is Ruzhen. Obviously, Xu Jie had thought about it repeatedly on the way back and had gained something.
Chen said to himself, you have been thinking about the holy will in this life, and you are almost obsessed with it. Why do you love guessing riddles more than me? But he was also happy that Xu Jie looked in this direction, and then said: "The teacher said that the students suddenly opened up... You see, Yuan refers to the sky; Heng refers to the openness; and profit refers to the advantage. Does it mean that the will of heaven is beneficial to Hu Zongxian?"
Xu Jie didn't feel diligent at all, because this routine was very consistent with the emperor's way of thinking. At least he could be sure that after seeing this hexagram, the emperor would probably think so. Then he twisted his beard and sighed slowly: "It seems that Hu Zongxian's fate should not be lost."
"What the teacher said is..." Chen is like a child and listened with respect. He also said positively: "Zhen is a ritual, and the emperor should also want Hu Ruzhen to maintain his ritual." He lowered his voice and said: "After all, he is a general whom the emperor has relied on for many years. If he is ruined with a false charge, the emperor will inevitably fall into the bad reputation of Emperor Gaozong of Song."
This is actually a thorny statement. If Jiajing is compared to Emperor Gaozong of Song, wouldn’t Xu Jie become Qin Hui? Old Master Xu’s face turned slightly red and had to nodded slightly and said, “I’m so stupid. Since he is never stopped, you should let him cherish this opportunity.” “Students, one by one” Although there is nothing good to do, Shen Zi still gritted his teeth and said, “I will do my best.
"Let's do this." Xu Jie pondered for a while and said, "The war in the east is coming to an end. The emperor actually had the intention to abolish the governor's office of the six provinces. In the past few days, I will ask for an order to surrender and order him to return to the court to take important positions. How about?" Before Chen could answer, Master Xu sighed at the first place: "This is the limit that the court can accept."
Chen knew that let Hu Zongxian come back to take...the so-called important position is just to give him a transition so that everything seems less abrupt. Take care of his self-esteem and keep the rebound to the minimum.
But Xu Jie had already said that, and he fought for it again. It was just a waste of fun, so he could only shut up in a depressed manner. "You go back and prepare and explain the errands at hand." Xu Jie said without any discussion: "After drafting the imperial edict in a few days, you can work hard to go to Jiangnan to pass the imperial edict."
Not to mention the relationship between the two, and to pass the imperial edict as the Minister of Rites, it has shown that the court's attitude is extremely solemn. If he still doesn't know the truth, he will be in the officialdom. "Abide by the order..." Once Mr. Xu does not talk about democracy to him, he will have to obey the orders.
Seeing his depressed expression, Xu Jie sighed lightly and slowed down his qi: "Tell him well and tell him the attitude of the court. No matter what wrong things he has done, as long as he can turn back, the court will not blame him and end it with a decent ending." Chen silently nodded and said, "I know how to do it." "Explain the errand at hand." Xu Jie stood up and said, "The imperial edict has not been there for these two days." He said, patted his back and said, "Go." "Yes." Chen said softly.
He left Xiyuan with great worries, and Shen sat in the sedan chair. He felt a little frustrated and opened the curtain of the sedan chair. The cold air in the evening came in straight in his shoes. He felt a little more excited, but the expression on his face was still very serious. There was no one around him now, so he didn't have to hide his inner depression. It was not because he was sad for Hu Zongxian, but because of the future situation in Southeast China.
Although Chen and Hu Zongxian were not loyal to each other, they were at least sympathetic and helped each other in the great cause of anti-Japanese war. Chen cooperated with Hu Zongxian with all his strength, and did everything he could, could not do, what he should do, what he should not do, what he should not do, what he should not do, what he should not do, what he should not do, what he should not do, so he always turned a blind eye to many arrangements in the southeast. Especially in the later period, in terms of economic policies, he fully accepted Chen Ju's opinions and opened one after another five or six foreign trade ports including Shanghai, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, etc. to protect the freedom of industry and commerce, lift the household registration restrictions in the southeast, absorbing a large number of northern labor, etc. A series of enlightened measures were implemented effectively under the unprecedented authority of the Southeast Governor, and the war-torn land of Jiangnan quickly regained its vitality.
The wealth lost by the anti-Japanese war has gathered again; from top to bottom, people from all walks of life are full of hope. It can be said that everything is moving in a good direction, and bad things have not yet grown, and Jiangnan is about to enter a great revival era.
But everything that was so hot that did not excite the old men far away in Beijing. They only focus on provinces and regions that were affected by disasters, died, and lived in miserable lives, because if they let these places go, it would be likely to cause disasters that endanger the country; but they lack interest in places where they can live... Compared with the completely opposite attitudes of the imperial monarchs and ministers towards the Japanese riots in Jiangnan, they knew that this was true.
The reason is that first, the thinking of the entire imperial ruling class still stays on "just live". Their highest pursuit is to sit on the stubborn country and enjoy privileges for a long time; then... the talented and powerful Taizu, after all, could not get rid of his own limitations and construct the empire's regime with the consciousness of small peasants. The Ming Dynasty has repeatedly proved that his set of things that wanted to make the Ming Dynasty last forever has become a sling on the neck of the empire. As time goes by, it is almost killing the country he created with his own hands.
This is by no means a slander. First, because of the lack of correct understanding of the central government's finances, Zhu Wuzhang believed that the local money and grain were concentrated in the central government and then distributed by the central government, which was a waste of pants and farts. Therefore, the power of finance and taxation was delegated. Each province only had to pay a part of the national tax every year, which could be maintained by the state machinery. The remaining local fiscal expenditures and the supply of garrison food and wages were all solved on the spot by the enemy departments of each government and enemy departments, and there was no need to be dismissed to the treasury. The Ministry of Revenue became a national accounting department and could only point fingers on the books; except for the millions of taels of silver that were dry every year, there was no investment in the treasury. Even if the south was rich, it would not affect the starvation of rats in Taicang.
But the more important reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang lacks understanding of the role of commerce, and his national policy of treating commerce was full of rebellious actions. Throughout Chinese history, although there has always been a view that agriculture is the end of the commerce industry, the status of merchants has continued to rise from the Han and Tang Dynasties to the Song dynasties, and the importance of commerce in the national economy has become higher and higher. By the Southern Song Dynasty, it even replaced agriculture and became the main source of national finance. Even the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties where foreign races entered the Central Plains, commerce was also flourishing.
In fact, the essence of business lies in circulation. In addition to promoting the entire national economy, prosperous business will inevitably inject an open, enterprising and free atmosphere into the entire nation. The so-called flowing water does not rot and the door hinges do not rot, and the country will not become dead.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was a small peasant, could not see the benefits of business, but only saw the impact of this flow on the static economy of small peasants. One by one, because his family, in the repeated social fluctuations, turned from self-cultivated farmers to tenant farmers, and finally almost all of them starved to death. Perhaps it was because of the tragic experience of the same year that made him pursue a state of stubborn and stalemate for the rest of his life, and for this, he tried his best to eliminate all factors that would cause social fluctuations.
Once you understand this and interpret Zhu Yuanzhang, you will understand all his behaviors after the founding of the country. Basically, Zhu Yuanzhang's way of governing the country is to eliminate corrupt officials with his left hand, focus on cracking down on wealthy businessmen and trade with his right hand, and devote himself to letting everyone follow his assigned roles, and not change generation after generation.
He did not want to create an ideal country that is equal to the rich and the poor. His actions were still for his own country to last forever. Because of his contempt for scholars and his pride in starting from scratch and establishing a huge empire, Zhu Yuanzhang completely ignored other people's opinions and insisted on building his empire according to his own experience. He believed that when society had a large gap between the rich and the poor, a large number of small peasants would lose their homes and land, and they would lose their characteristics of aversion to social fluctuations. In the end, from the social stability factor to the terrifying force that destroys society... Zhu Yuanzhang, who once planted the land, let go of cattle, served as a monk, and finally embarked on the road of rebellion, believed more than anyone else.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang became the most hated and discriminatory emperor in Chinese history. He believed that only those labors that "sweat drips into the soil and grow grain and cotton" were labor, while merchants were idle all day long, never produced any products, but lived a luxurious life of wealthier than princes. Obviously, they were parasites in society. Together with corrupt officials, they were the source of sin that caused the huge gap between the rich and the poor, and they must be eliminated from their own country.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang believed that engaging in commercial activities was illegal and did not recognize the identity of a merchant... In the early Ming Dynasty, when the household registration system was unprecedentedly perverted, all walks of life had their own unique household registration. They were military households throughout their lives. The craftsmen were craftsmen, as well as civilians, stoves, shops, wine households, medical households, vegetable households, even prostitutes and turtle men had a household registration, but the merchants did not have their own household registration, and for a long time, they were ignored by the imperial government...
But it is impossible for individuals to change social laws. Even if they are as strong as Zhu Yuanzhang, they cannot kill the needs of society... This was not obvious in the early Ming Dynasty, because at that time, the country was empty, extremely poor, increasing the population, and restoring production were the main ones. The demand for business was at the lowest point in history. However, after decades of recovery, with the recovery of the economy and the infiltration of the strong emperors, business flourished again. But sadly, the Ming Dynasty could not benefit from it like the previous dynasty. "Taizu did not recognize business, so commercial tax naturally had no way to talk about it. This kind of thing that would profoundly affect society was not established with the help of the founding of the country-turning world, and the vitality of the Lord's outline was formulated, and it would often be difficult to add it later.
Because merchants have long relied on various household registrations to engage in business activities, and because the state cannot provide protection for their normal operations, they can only harbor landlords, powerful officials and nobles, and have long formed a community of interests with them. If the court wants to collect commercial taxes, it is like robbing food from a tiger's mouth. They have to fight the tigers all over the mountain first... And because of Zhu Yuanzhang's stupid attitude, officials who oppose commercial taxes have the invincible aura of the ancestral laws, no one can defeat them, and no one can do anything about it.
The court cannot be strong because of the prosperity of the southeast. The prosperity of the southeast is also of no help to those provinces that have been in poverty and disaster for a long time. Therefore, after the victory of the anti-Japanese war, the adults in the court turned their attention away from the south of the Yangtze River and no longer paid attention to the life there... In fact, there are still some unspeakable factors, such as most officials are southerners and do not want the court to make the idea of ​​the south. In short, in this fragmented empire, the political center is in the north, but the economic center is in the south. It is also good to continue to spread without hearing each other... Shen has always thought that at least not the chaos will occur before the south becomes completely stronger.
But now, the two intersected, and the powerful northern politics easily tore up the southern order he had worked hard to establish, and everything could go back to its original point. Is it so difficult to make some changes in this era?
Chapter completed!