Daming Super Dimension Company, President Zhu Yuanzhang!

It is a cliché that corruption destroys a country, and this conclusion is correct.

People hate corruption, even the corrupt themselves hate it - it's okay for me to be corrupt, how can the rest of you be corrupt?

But this thing exists objectively.

I don’t know if there was corruption in primitive society. Anyway, it has been there since the slave society. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had reached an extremely serious level.

Therefore, the conclusion that "corruption will destroy a country" is actually a progressive tense.

Xiao Ran now used one sentence to express this matter directly and tactfully.

"Uncle, old man, in fact, corruption must exist in any country, and the country is in ruins. Of course, the country is not in ruins yet, I mean it is in ruins."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned. He felt that Xiao Ran's words were a bit arrogant.

"What do you mean by this? Why are we getting more and more confused the more we listen to it? Xiao Ran, why is your speaking style so similar to the civil servants in our court?"

Xiao Ran laughed: "It does sound confusing, but if I explain it slowly, you will understand."

"Since the country is only being subjugated and not really subjugated, then the cliché saying that 'corruption will subjugate the country' is not convincing at all and has no real sense of oppression."

At this point, it was Zhu Youjian who understood what Xiao Ran meant first.

He said somewhat sadly: "So those ministers, they kept shouting 'Corruption will destroy the country', but no one took it seriously. Corrupt elements continued to be corrupt even though they should be corrupt, and even gradually, they became corrupt with confidence. Just As Mr. Xiao said, when the country is subjugated one day, they will at most become slaves of the subjugated country, or simply become traitors, sell themselves to another court, and then continue to be corrupt."

Xiao Ran nodded: "So, 'corruption will destroy the country' should be made more clear. When corruption reaches a certain level, the country will inevitably be destroyed. However, to what extent will corruption lead to the destruction of the country? There is actually no way to quantify this, or there is a clear standard."

In fact, it can be said in other words that the results of Chinese liberal arts and science subjects are usually not very good.

It is really difficult for them to classify the degree of corruption based on mathematical model thinking.

Therefore, most of their measures of corruption depend on their feelings, that is, the scale in their hearts.

But what is the weight in the heart, that is, the reference? That is naturally due to the level of corruption of the people around you.

If he has been corrupted so much and still has nothing to do with it, then I can be more corrupt than him. One by one, it will naturally come out gradually.

But Xiao Ran can also do the analysis by changing his thinking.

"Actually, if we really want to classify corruption into levels for reference and measurement, I personally think it can be divided into eight levels from light to severe. This basis can be used not only in the Chongzhen period, but also in any dynasty. This method can be used as a reference to measure corruption."

"As for the corruption during the Chongzhen or Jiajing period, there is actually not much to say. I have already said it before. But with this set of reference arguments, I think it can be retained. It is suitable for any dynasty. useful."

"Zhu Youjian, write it down." When Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di heard this, they knew that what Xiao Ran was going to say was something very important from now on. The father and son ordered Zhu Youjian with a tacit understanding.

Zhu Youjian:......

I don’t know what the two ancestors meant by these words, whether they were criticizing themselves or simply wanting to record them.

Seeing that Chongzhen was ready, Xiao Ran continued: "I will call the first level and the lightest level the typical corruption level. That is to say, the Ming Dynasty has just been established, and the uncle has an extremely serious and uncompromising attitude. However, there are always loopholes in the system and corruption problems always exist."

"Maybe this seems to be my uncle's anti-corruption failure, but in fact, anti-corruption itself is not a one-time goal, but a long-term and continuous behavior. So I think we cannot say that my uncle's anti-corruption Failure can only be said that in the course of history, the day my uncle passed away, the Ming Dynasty’s iteration had come to an end.”

But Zhu Yuanzhang was a little puzzled.

"Did that kid Zhu Yunwen not fight against corruption after we died?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought in his heart, this shouldn't be the case. Even if this grandson had to choose the successor in the end, he had suffered a period of corruption by his side. The awareness of anti-corruption and anti-corruption should still be very strong.

Xiao Ran looked at Zhu Yuanzhang silently and rolled his eyes.

"Uncle, even if the people were allowed to arrest officials and send them to the capital, wouldn't it still lead to the empty seal case? Judging from the empty seal case, corruption has formed a nest of crimes and bureaucrats colluded with each other. But at that time, military resources had not been used yet. Carve it up, and monitor the bureaucracy before it is penetrated by the officials. These are the levels I will talk about later.”

Hearing the three words "empty printing case", Zhu Yuanzhang also fell silent.

Based on his understanding of Zhu Yunwen, this child was not decisive enough to kill so many people.

If similar things happen in the future, he may really not be able to stop it.

Even if the fourth son, Zhu Di, succeeds to the throne, it will be after Zhu Yunwen has been emperor for a period of time. This period of time is enough for those officials to do a lot of things.

"The second level I want to talk about is the level of military resources being lost. Bureaucratic corruption cases have existed since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. During the Zhengde period, Liu Jin's reform, and the 'emperor' Liu Jin wanted to rectify the loss of military resources. After all, whether it is the carving up of military fields or other things, this kind of thing has seriously threatened the imperial power."

"As a result, Liu Jin was not only attacked wildly by the civil officials, but also the eunuchs did not support him, let alone the army. So Liu Jin's reform failed and he was executed."

"Then the more serious third level is the corruption level of officials. This is the current situation during the Chongzhen period. The organizational departments that control officials' hats have been infiltrated into sieves, and the rules on the road have become clear rules. There are also almost all positions in the bureaucracy. They can all be bought and sold, and the price is clearly stated.”

"But the degree of corruption during the Chongzhen period was far more than that. This reached the fourth level, where the supervisory system was infiltrated. As a landmark thing, the eunuch and royal guards system of the emperor's supervisory department was infiltrated, and the eunuch Wang An colluded with the Donglin Party. But this matter already existed during the Jiajing period."

"Corruption has reached this level, and there is nothing to say. Not to mention that the army is rotten, and even the emperor's secret service system is unreliable. These people are not clean, and their supervision of the bureaucracy is almost useless. They are just disguised. It has become a tool of political struggle, and everyone uses the banner of anti-corruption to eliminate dissidents.”

"However, Guo Jia's system of civil servants, generals, eunuchs, spies, etc. is almost rotten. It can only be considered seriously corrupt, but it has not yet reached the level of decay."

As soon as Xiao Ran said this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but asked: "This is not considered decadent, so what else counts?"

"There is a person named Guo Jia, let's take it as a sign that his fundamental policies are misguided. This is considered the fifth level in my mind, the level of decadence."

"In fact, many of Guo Jia's policies were misguided in the early Ming Dynasty. For example, after Zheng He's voyages to the West, the maritime trade organized by the imperial court was completely stopped. At the same time, maritime trade was controlled by bureaucratic interest groups."