I am the king of the dead

Internally, they use the so-called context, teacher, origin, place of origin, and political appeals to classify them, carry out cruel internal strife, and finally gain power, at the expense of public and private interests, regardless of the public interest of the country, just for the prosperity of the family.

They are sincere and united to the outside world, advocating monarchs and ministers, advocating the ancients, rituals and laws, the Four Books and Five Classics, monopolizing knowledge and the right to interpret knowledge, manipulating politics, judiciary, financial affairs, and military affairs, only to realize their own interests, and to occupy distribution positions by all means. And in vain to care about the country and the country.

In Hu Wei's view, some literati who read books into the stomachs of dogs, waved flags and shouted for the expropriation of the people are undoubtedly enemies and traitors.

National thieves should be punished naturally.

For example, the Kaihai of the Ming Dynasty clearly uses His Majesty's method, the city ship department draws points, and encourages commercial activities, which can achieve a win-win situation for His Majesty, the imperial court, luxury households, handicraft workshops, craftsmen, and ordinary people.

However, for his own selfishness, for his own monopoly position in commerce and trade, and for better rent collection, he continued to make noise and realized a 15-year sea ban.

The literati who work on the principle of harming the interests of Ming Dynasty and safeguarding their own self-interest are not the enemies of Ming Dynasty, so what is it?

Therefore, this strategy is against the enemy.

Zhu Zhanqian also highly agrees with this method of teaching sinners. In Zhu Zhanqian's view, Hu Wei is often called immoral by others, but as the Duke of Ming Dynasty, the greatest public morality should not be loyalty to His Majesty ?Shouldn't it be to protect the interests of the most common people in Ming Dynasty?

If Hu Wei is judged based on Zhu Zhanqian's theory of public morality, Zhu Zhanqian thinks that Hu Wei should have public morality without loss and personal morality without dirt.

Compared with the former Chief Assistant Chen Xun and the current Chief Assistant Wang Wen, how much better are their personal morals?In order to let his son take the imperial examination, there was a lot of trouble in the city, and finally the lawsuit was brought before His Majesty.

On the contrary, Hu Min's eldest son never took part in the imperial examination. After his death, the courtiers did not know what Hu Min's second son, Hu Changxiang, was doing.

Zhu Zhanqian knew it.

Hu Changxiang practiced alchemy in the imperial hospital, and Hu Changxiang, who inherited Hu's medical skills, has become a life-saving imperial physician in the imperial hospital.

Hu Changxiang has a "Father of the Minister of Rites", but he is an imperial physician in the Imperial Hospital whose father is unknown to others.

Is Hu Wei's virtue really as bad as the courtiers said?

Zhu Zhanqian said quite sincerely: "So, there are methods such as Lao Hu Shangshu handing over to the emperor's heir."

Hu Wei leaned over, pressed the "Sinners of Famous Teachings" and said seriously: "It still needs to be improved, for example, let the Ministry of Rites preside over this matter. As a ruler, how can your majesty order the Hanlin to write poems and essays?" What about swearing? This matter has to be handled by the Ministry of Rites."

"And His Majesty, as the final judge, has the power to control the incident so that it will not be magnified. When the situation is so loud that it is about to be out of control, His Majesty can come forward to calm the storm. In this way, all the officials will be obedient, which is the king's art." .”

Emperors naturally have skills, but His Majesty is taking the road of serving the world, so naturally this skill is rarely used.

"Mr. Hu's father is still transparent. An old man in the family is like a treasure." Zhu Zhanqian was convinced. No wonder Yu Qian repeatedly emphasized in the memorandum that Hu Shangshu had read and perfected this "Sinner of Famous Education" and taught it to the emperor's heir. , such an improvement, there will be political room for turning things around.

The meaning of political leeway in court dogfights is to prevent party struggle from turning into one of the four disasters of national subjugation. The leeway is precious in political activities, and political activities that tear faces are called party entrapment.

At that time, the stele of Yuanyou party members failed to control the power of the court and the court, and the party prison became a footnote to the subjugation of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Even if it is covered with a fig leaf, that is decent and leeway, isn't it?

"As for this book." Of course Hu Wei knew the content of "The Breeder Ding Never Added Fu Shu", and before Shen Yi handed in the memorial, he also got through with the masters.

Hu Wei was also a little hesitant, he knew the meaning of this memorandum, and it was also the most vicious thing in the court recently, Hu Wei very much hoped that this memoir could pass the court push, and finally become a permanent example of Ming Dynasty.

Holding the memorial, Hu Wei took a deep breath, looked at Zhu Zhanqian and said, "Your Majesty is wise and wise. What astounds the ministers most is His Majesty's achievements in financial affairs. Only production can lead to prosperity."

"Since His Majesty ascended the throne, what He has done is aimed at improving the productivity of Ming Dynasty. This is His Majesty's original intention in everything. If you can see this original intention clearly, you will be able to understand His Majesty's actions."

"Your Majesty, you have never been a king whose Sacred Heart is unpredictable. On the contrary, it is very easy to guess, and you don't even need to guess."

In Hu Wei's opinion, there is no monarch who can guess his mind better than His Majesty.

His Majesty is like a transparent person in front of the ministers, what he wants to do is clearly written, and his Majesty is afraid that others will not know, so he has to write an imperial decree to tell everyone what to do and why he did it.

Hu Wei paused for a while and continued: "As far as the criminal case handled by His Majesty in Guangzhou Mansion is concerned, the criminal bandits are the domestic slaves and tools of the four major families in Guangzhou Mansion. When the knife is broken, the common people can transfer the cost of living to marriage, childbirth, and parenting.”

"When there are more people, the productivity can be improved. People-oriented, in order to keep so many people alive, we must find ways to increase the yield per mu, improve the efficiency of division of labor and cooperation, and increase the number of acres."

"Otherwise, people with red eyes who are hungry will lose their humanity when they hear that the rich and powerful are eating delicacies from mountains and seas. They won't tell you about etiquette, righteousness and shame. They will just smash the heads of people who have food and feed themselves."

"Ten years ago in Fujian, the governor of Fujian stretched out his hand to the last ration of food for the people. There were millions of people, and the civil unrest spread to five provinces, and the country was shaken."

Hu Wei pointed out the main reason why His Majesty agreed to this memorial. His Majesty is not only looking at the death of people and government, but also the improvement of Ming's productivity. This is the key.

His Majesty has been unswervingly and firmly eliminating some carnivores who only want to lie down and collect rent. The purpose is to loosen the shackles on the people's necks and expand productivity.

With 60 million people, if there are so many people in Ming Dynasty [-] years later, then Ming Dynasty will either be in chaos or rule, and there is no other way.

"Hearing Mr. Hu's words, I was really enlightened, drink tea, drink tea!" Zhu Zhanqin said with his eyes getting brighter and brighter, pushing the tea cup.

Luo Bingzhong asked in a low voice: "Look at Hu Shangshu, this will never be added, should we do it or not?"

Hu Wei held the memorial tightly and said: "Do it! Tell the world to do it! No matter how much resistance there is, it must be done."

"Your Majesty, don't worry about the matter of Ting Tui, come and discuss it with the courtiers."

Hu Wei doesn't know when his destiny is, he wants to help His Majesty do more things while he is still awake enough and still has prestige in the court.

"Then it's up to Shangshu Hu." Zhu Zhanqian heaved a sigh of relief, and with the help of Hu Wei, this matter would only be simple through the court's push.

Zhu Zhanqian asked helplessly: "But how to carry it out?"

Hu said confidently: "The bureaucratic bureaucrats are responsible to their superiors. When it comes to their promotion, it becomes extremely important. After being admitted into the exam, some people must be unwilling to have their pockets deflated. go down."

Hu Wei has been in the officialdom for fifty years, and he has stood still. He knows these bureaucrats too well, and they are only responsible to their superiors.

The examination method and the gentry's one-time payment of food are important results of His Majesty's suppression of the rebellion of the Nanya Dynasty. Of course, we must make good use of it.

Zhu Zhanqian asked: "What if someone doubles it?"

""Famous Religious Sinners"." Hu Mei patted another book of memorials, and said quite seriously: "If someone dares to repeat it, use this method to teach him to be a man. Use cursing poems and thousand-character prose, and after stone carvings, fill in Filling his family's ancestral hall, it will leave a bad smell for thousands of years."

Emperor Gao, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, judged that the Pu family was sorry for the Song family, and ordered the Pu family not to participate in the imperial examination. With this move, the Pu family, which had been famous for hundreds of years, changed its name and surname, and finally disappeared.

If you teach sinners by name, the effect will be better. This is the sword that His Majesty gave King Xiang to govern.

"Then I have no doubts." Zhu Zhanqian nodded solemnly.

Hu Wei stood up on crutches, and walked towards the outside of the imperial study step by step. He stood at the stairs and stopped for a long time. Luo Bingzhong and Cheng Jing who saw him off did not bother Hu Wei.

A few people just stood there quietly, looking at the unremarkable staircase.

Neither Cheng Jing nor Luo Bingzhong knew what Hu Wei was looking at.

Hu Wei was holding the crutch in his hand vigorously. Back then, His Majesty's imperial study was on the second floor of the Juxian Pavilion in the Lecture Hall, not the first floor. He once saw His Majesty going up the stairs, and paused at the corner of the stairs. His Majesty Later, the royal study was moved to the first floor.

Obviously Xing'an, who went out to announce his audience, told His Majesty about this, and His Majesty made this decision.

Maybe His Majesty has long forgotten about it, but Hu Yi always remembers it.

Hu Wei opened his mouth and said to Luo Bingzhong and Cheng Jing: "The king is the head of the minister, and the minister is the thigh of the king."

"Mencius told King Xuan of Qi: The king regards his ministers as brothers and feet, and the ministers regard the emperor as his heart. Your majesty is generous, benevolent, virtuous and loving. The minister is grateful and remembers the five things."

"gone."

After Hu Yi finished speaking, he walked out of Juxian Pavilion step by step, walked into the sedan chair, and headed towards the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

In the early morning of the next day, the sun was shining brightly, and the weather in the capital in July became a bit hotter. At this time, the atmosphere in the Wenhua Palace was like a raging fire cooking oil.

His Majesty approved Shen Yi, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, that he would never add an inscription, and newborns would no longer be subject to poll tax. Yu Shaobao made an annotation and sent it to the Wenhua Palace for discussion.

The ministers of the six ministers, the left and right censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the bachelor of Wenyuange, the eunuch who is the temporary head of the chief inspector of ceremonies, Shizhong of the six divisions, Wuqinghou Shiheng, the governor of the five armies, and the governor of the five armies, respectively sat in the Wenhua Hall. On both sides of the long table.

On the long table in the Wenhua Hall, there is a glass-pressed half-dragon banner. It is the half-dragon banner that King Jili was captured by His Majesty in front of the Xuande Gate.

Shi Heng, who was already graying at the temples, spoke first: "I'm a rough man, I don't understand so many twists and turns, but I remind you: the Beijing Army is Your Majesty's Beijing Army!"

"As the commander-in-chief of the capital, the Ming army will fight wherever His Majesty's sword points! We will go through fire and water, and we will die!"

"I'm done talking."

loyalty!

The Daming Jingying is the ballast of Daming, and Shi Heng's attitude is very obvious, he highly supports what His Majesty wants to do, and he will beat whoever His Majesty wants to kill, even if he dies.

The reason why Shi Heng said such harsh words in front of so many people was entirely because someone approached him recently.

Annan, the prefecture of the Ming Dynasty, is a foreign war, and after the war, there must be a duke to be named. Shi Heng is already a prince, and he was still in the war, but he did not become a general who conquered the barbarians.

Some people thought that Shi Heng must have resentment in his heart, so they approached Shi Heng to oppose the decree of never adding taxes.

What others don't know is that before His Majesty left Beijing, he had a heart-to-heart chat with Shi Heng about this issue.

In the selection of the coach, Shi Heng is a general in the north and has no combat experience in the south, while Chen Mao has rich experience in southern combat. This is Shi Heng's biggest shortcoming.

Secondly, what Shi Heng wanted to beat up most was the Oirats, so he has been training cavalry in the north to suppress bandits. Even if the Oirats escaped, if His Majesty wanted to chase him, Shi Heng would be of use.

Do you want to chase after His Majesty?This is a question, and both Shi Heng and His Majesty knew clearly that they must be pursued, and blood feuds need blood to wash away.

Shi Heng didn't have any resentment, on the contrary, he was full of ambition to swallow thousands of miles like a tiger.

Chapter 771 Hu Shangshu's trump card

After Shi Heng made his statement, he stopped talking, and the Wenhua Hall fell into silence. The wind blew the curtain and rolled it up, and the sunlight outside the window sprinkled half of the dragon flag on the table.

Uncharacteristically, Hu Wei didn't look at the nose, nose, and mind to pretend to be confused, but sat upright, holding three memorials in his hand, but his eyes didn't seem to be on the memorials, but he was a little absent-minded, as if he had fallen into memory among.

Hu Yi let out a long breath, picked up the first memorial and said: "Your Majesty's words to the four families of Guangzhou Mansion, "Sinners of Famous Education", Cheng Jingda, please read it for everyone."

It was also the first time for Cheng Jing to see this memorandum. He took it over and glanced at it for a while, and began to read it. The more he read, the paler the faces of the civil servants.

It made His Majesty anxious, His Majesty really wanted to kill someone.

Moreover, this memorial was spoken by His Majesty, but it was written by Yu Shaobao who persuaded Renshu. That is to say, if His Majesty's anger really flared up, Yu Qian would not only not put out the fire, but would also add firewood.

In today's world, who can stop His Majesty who is so angry?Only Yu Shaobao left, and even Yu Shaobao expressed his attitude that he would not stop him, and if he hit the gun, he could only say that he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

Hu Wei continued: "Your Majesty always likes to speak clearly. After you speak clearly, there will be no misunderstandings. Your Majesty's intention is very clear to support the breeding of people proposed by the Ministry of Households, and will never be added."

"I'm 83 this year, and I'm getting old. Today, I'm relying on my old age to sell my old age, and I'm going to make my point clear."

"Your Majesty is lenient. In this decree, you have only seen the second half of the sentence saying "never add money", but have you seen the first half of the sentence about breeding people?"

"That is to say, Dingcha and other four kinds of silver are calculated based on the number of people in Jingtai's ninth year. This money is not exempt, but it will not be collected for the new population in the future."

"Speak more clearly, Your Majesty didn't touch the rotten meat on your plate, you should eat it, but if you want to put more on the plate, it's absolutely impossible."

"Your Majesty has already given you a lot of face, and also left you meat to eat, so don't be ungrateful."

Hu Wei is relying on the old to sell the old, without any ambiguity, he has completely explained the decree, and the opponents in the court have a lot of reasons, but they are all focused on the four words of never adding gifts, not the four words of breeding people. words.

Seeing that no one was talking, Hu Ming continued: "In the past, His Majesty's handling methods included dismissal, removal of fame, beheading, family members, exile to Yongning Temple or Jilong Island, and clans are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, all families are copied and beheaded, Send them to the Jail House and the current Mingjiao criminals."

"Your Majesty is not in the capital right now, if there is a real disturbance, you'd better weigh it."

"Your Majesty is a very understanding person. I think everyone understands it. If there is anything you don't understand, just ask someone who understands it and you will understand. There are only three lines in your Majesty's mind. Let me reiterate."

"The first line is the common people. Do not easily involve the common people in the political struggle between the DPRK and China, especially if there is no result in the struggle. Don't take it lightly. Once the result of the struggle is achieved, everyone must obey the result. The repeated people can't stand it."

This is the red line that His Majesty never touches. You can fight, fight casually, but once the result of the fight is reached, don't make it easy. Changing orders overnight is far more terrifying than wrong government orders. This is the lesson of Danggu in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Hu Yan sipped his saliva, moistened his throat and continued: "The second line is the army. The Beijing Camp was built by His Majesty with all his heart and soul. For the 22 soldiers who are good at fighting, His Majesty is on duty in the lecture hall every day, and It's not the Wenhua Palace, ten years are like a day, Lords of Gungun, fight to fight, don't get the army involved."

The army is the product of His Majesty's painstaking efforts to prevent the Ming Dynasty from falling into the three misfortunes of the king's departure, captives' entry, and relocation. Once political struggles are mixed with military affairs, blood will flow like rivers, and party fights will become party prisons.

"The third line is the students." Hu Wei paused after speaking.

"Students are still young, they have a long time to live, they are still full of fantasies about the dirty world of cannibalism, their blood is hot, and they are irritable, if you incite students to make trouble for the sake of the family, His Majesty is back, and no one guarantees that His Majesty will not send the whole family of the instigator to Jieyuan Yuan to relieve his worries."

Will His Majesty?

Yes, and His Majesty has been doing so.

With these three lines, His Majesty would definitely do this, and the masters in the court would not say a word.

Hu Wei took out the second memorial and held it in his hand and said: "Everyone, this is a memorial that the breeding of people will never be added. The Ministry of Households takes the lead, and I have already signed it."

Jiang Yuan, Minister of the Ministry of War, reached out and took the memorial, wrote his name on it, then took out the official seal, pressed it on the memorial, and his face relaxed.

This Wenhua Palace is really too depressing. He has been waiting for the vote. As the Minister of the Ministry of War, as Chen Ruyan took the initiative to let the talents of the virtuous, he will naturally not hinder this matter.

The sergeants in the Beijing camp are recruited. The more people there are, the better his work will be carried out. Jiang Yuan is not from a wealthy family, nor is he a clean stream, and he has no reason to object.

Yu Shiyue looked at the memorabilia on the table and took it over, and began to sign.

Yu Shiyue is the only one of the six ministers with taints. He once sent his family to the south during the battle of the capital, and stayed to live and die with Daming. His Majesty never punished him for this matter, but he was afraid.

These four bad money are exorbitant taxes. How many troubles are caused every year because of the armed resistance to taxes exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes?Yu Shiyue has no reason to disagree.

This memorandum was passed around in the hands of everyone. Shang Ren, who was sitting next to Wang Wen, was hesitant to lose his name. Wang Wen coughed lightly and reminded Shang Ren not to offend the Minister of Rites.

Shang Ren is now writing "The Veritable Records of King Ji Li", and there are too many pitfalls in it, which offended Hu Shangshu. Shang Ren's history book is his reminder.

Shang Ren immediately wrote his name and left the seal of the Imperial Academy.

The memorandum initiated by the Ministry of Household Affairs quickly returned to Hu Wei’s hands. He read the memorandum carefully in front of the sun, and he was sure that there were no mistakes. .”

"To tell you the truth, His Majesty is not bad to us. We live in the official residence, and the salary is paid. The supply of the official residence is not bad. We have also taken into account the past and the afterlife."