Chapter 497 Human Nature
The spring is cold and new buds are beginning to sprout. Although the capital in early spring is still as cold as ice and snow, the vitality of the resurrection of all things is unshakable hope and tenacity.
No matter how bad the natural environment outside is, they still dare to burst out the cry of spring in such harsh weather!
In Prince Yu's Mansion, Zhu Zaijing was leaning leisurely on a backrest, still not holding the eternal "Yongle Dadian" booklet, which seemed to have become Zhu Zaijing's favorite book in the past ten years. I'm used to it. When I'm free, I don't have a copy of "Yongle Dadian" in my hands. I always feel that something is missing.
So now in the entire Ming Dynasty, apart from Emperor Jiacheng, the person who has read the most copies of "Yongle Dadian" is undoubtedly Zhu Zaiyu.
This day is still the imperial court's New Year's holiday, but this kind of holiday is only friendly to some yamen that have more leisure time. Most yamen that should be busy still have to work overtime.
Therefore, many yamen and officials with heavy responsibilities do not really enjoy a few days of vacation. They will continue to do whatever they should do. Otherwise, when the Spring Festival and New Year's Day holidays are over, they will have more things to do. In a hurry.
"Your Majesty, Mr. Gao is here."
Meng Chong walked lightly into the greenhouse where Zhu Zaijing was and whispered a reminder to Zhu Zaijing.
Hearing Meng Chong's voice, Zhu Zaijing also raised his eyes and looked at Meng Chong. Then he placed the "Yongle Dadian" in his hand on the small table in front of him and said, "Please come here."
Meng Chong said yes, and then went to invite Gao Gong over.
Gao Gong entered Zhu Zaijing's conservatory. After bowing to Zhu Zaijing, he took off the cloak he was wearing and handed it to the young eunuch serving in the conservatory.
Zhu Zaijing also personally poured a cup of hot tea for Gao Gong at this time, "Mr. Gao, sit closer and drink some hot tea to go away the cold first."
Gao Gong faced him again Zhu Zaijing handed over his hands to thank him, then sat on the small chair next to Zhu Zaijing, and also sat cross-legged in front of the small table, and carefully took a sip of the tea that Zhu Zaijing had just poured for him.
After Gao Gong took a sip of tea, Zhu Zaijing asked: "Why is Mr. Gao free to come to my place today? Your officials shouldn't be busy with the capital in the past few days. Is it something to investigate? ”
The capital inspection Zhu Zaijing mentioned is the capital official assessment system held every six years in the capital. This system originated very early, but the formation of the six-year customization began in the Hongzhi Dynasty, and it has been sixty or seventy years now.
Gao Gongdao: "To be honest with you, the prince, although the capital police are very important, they are just going through the motions every time. After all, the capital officials are different from the local officials, and there are not many places where they can make mistakes. Can they make mistakes?" Successfully passing the Beijing inspection is within the thoughts of their respective officials. All the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Metropolitan Inspectorate can do is to review the official evaluations reported by their respective officials. "
Zhu Zai. When Jing heard Gao Gong's words, he also believed it.
After all, there is a big difference between the central dynasty in the feudal era and the central government in later generations.
Although they are all centralized government organizations, the power and resources they can control are very different.
The greatest power of the central court in the feudal era was the power to appoint and remove personnel and some financial rights. As for more other detailed powers, such as the management and approval powers of important projects in various places, they still cannot be achieved with the control power of the feudal era.
Therefore, in many cases, except for the six key important yamen, most of the official yamen in the capital can actually do the writing work of copying and writing, and more of them are not What a useless effort.
That’s why there are many Qingshui Yamen among the officials in Beijing, and this is one of the important reasons why the officials in Beijing live a miserable life.
Zhu Zaijing sighed, "It is really not easy for these ordinary officials in the capital. From now on, their well-being will all rest on your shoulders."
Gao Gong heard Zhu Zaijing At this sentence, I couldn't help but want to smile bitterly, "The prince is joking, how can I have such ability?"
Zhu Zaijing smiled and said: "It all depends on people. Many things must be viewed from the perspective of development, and problems cannot always be dealt with statically. If everything in this world is to obey the ideas and rules of the past, then where will the Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties be? What? With these changes of times, this shows that the world The problems will gradually change with the development of time.”
“It has been more than two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and many rules and problems have changed drastically from those when Taizu founded the country. changes, so if you want to achieve results, you must surpass the previous Otherwise, why would the court set up any rules and thresholds to select officials and let them manage the affairs of one party? "
"After all, the original intention of the court still needs these officials to be able to implement it? While maintaining the will of the imperial court, some achievements can also be made. Otherwise, if everything goes on like a pool of stagnant water, no matter how high or low it is, what's the big deal?"
Gao Gong never expected that Zhu Zaijing would talk about such far-reaching topics. It's easy to talk about these things, but it's really true. What you have to do is not as difficult as the sky.
So Gao Gong also sighed after Zhu Zaijing finished speaking: "What the prince said is true, but no one knows what to do with these things? Making changes rashly will sometimes not only fail to achieve The expected effect may even make things worse, and such examples are not uncommon in all dynasties. Therefore, I sometimes feel a heavy responsibility and don't know what to do."
Zhu Zaijing smiled again and said: "Then aren't you doing it now? Your Majesty has handed over to you the issue of salary adjustment for officials and the issue of housing provident fund for Beijing officials. Aren't these things a change?"
Speaking of this matter, Gao Gong does have some experience. After all, these things have been explored in the Capital Special Administrative Region, and some of them were handled by him when he was the governor of the Capital Special Administrative Region.
Now he is placed in the position of Minister of Civil Affairs to handle these things with a wider perspective. Although Gao Gong is not familiar with this, he still has some experience.
So this time Gao Gong came to Zhu Zaijing for this matter.
Gao Gong said: "Your Majesty, I have made a preliminary plan. Would you like to help me take a look at it?"
After saying that, Gao Gong took out a written plan memo from his sleeve pocket and presented it to Zhu Zaijing.
After Zhu Zaijing reached out to take it, he glanced at it and put it on the small table in front of him.
Zhu Zaijing said: "Sir, you can't be too active in this matter. You have to be begged by others before you can do it. Otherwise, you can just rely on your enthusiasm to get rid of this matter. If you get up, not only will you be praised by all the officials, they will even think that you are breaking the court rules. Do you know what this means?"
After Zhu Zaijing said this, he said gently. He picked up the tea cup in front of him and took a sip, then looked at Gao Gong. Gao Gong thought for a moment and finally said: "Human nature?"
Zhu Zaijing smiled and said: "Yes, it's human nature!"
Then Zhu Zaijing continued his sermon: "No matter whether they are big or small, or high or low, they all claim to be sages. Qingliu of books. How can such an upright Qingliu be bribed by your few taels of silver? If you take action to complete this matter, not only will you not get unanimous praise from them, but they will even get the benefits while scolding you for destroying the ancestral system."
"So, regarding the adjustment of official salaries and the housing provident fund for Beijing officials. This matter, this matter can only be postponed, and it can only be kept thundering and raining, so that these Beijing officials As long as we see you worrying about this matter, as for when this matter will be accomplished, it depends on whether these self-proclaimed noble officials can take the initiative to ask you."
"If they even ask. They don’t even ask for anything, they just wait eagerly for you, sir, to complete this matter for them. When the time comes, the backlash of the evil of human nature will not be just one or two. It can be revealed in just one sentence. "
"So if you want to promote this, you have to show a lot of momentum and no motivation to do things. Wait until they are all anxious. They couldn’t help but jump out to ask about this matter. When the matter is urged, it is the time when it should be done.”
After listening to Zhu Zaijing's words, Gao Gong couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile, "Your Majesty has seen clearly, human nature is really like this sometimes. I have made this matter simple."
< br>Zhu Zaijing smiled and said: "It's not as simple as what you think, but It’s because they have too much airs, so if you want to accomplish this, you have to lower their airs and let them recognize reality and ideals.”
Gao Gong looked at Zhu Zaijing with admiration. Bowed: "I understand."
Zhu Zaijing Then he said with a smile: "As long as you understand, you have to use some means to deal with these people who value their face more than their clothes. You can't make them think that all good things are deserved, and you can't spoil them and let them Developed the habit of picking up the bowl to eat and putting down the chopsticks to scold Mother's habit. ”
“Let them understand the principle of ‘Every grain of hard work’ and let them have a grateful heart. Only then can they be more active in giving when they receive benefits. own abilities.”
Gao Gong hummed again, "What the prince said is absolutely true!"
In fact, Zhu Zaijing didn't want to play tricks like this on welfare and benefits such as raising wages and setting up housing provident funds for officials, but what about these people? I don’t know if I’m stupid because of reading, or if I’m really good at pretending.
If you directly give them benefits, not only will they not cherish them, they will even say generous words such as "poor and lowly cannot be moved" and "food that comes from afar".
Obviously this is the appearance of a bitch who has never experienced any beating from society.
So Zhu Zaijing’s idea for Gao Gong was to delay until these people changed their supposed mentality into a desire mentality.
In this way, when the next changes and policies are implemented, these bureaucrats with vested interests will truly understand what is good for them.
Otherwise, when Zhu Zaijing really wants to take control of the power and implement policies that benefit the country and the people, these bastards will still be arguing about what they have done, and what kind of ancestral system they have.
Now drag them on the chariot of "destroying the ancestral system" and get the benefits of destroying the ancestral system. Let's see how stubborn they are in the future to talk nonsense about the ancestral system being irreversible.
So Zhu Zaijing wanted to adjust their salaries and increase benefits, not because he really felt sorry for them working too hard as officials, but because he wanted to use this matter to shut up their mouths so that they could be more " Reform and advancement of "deviant".
It can be said that Zhu Zaijing also brought human nature to the extreme in this matter, using a simple conspiracy to defeat the current Ming Dynasty.
After talking about this matter, Zhu Zaijing also asked Gao Gong curiously, "How is Wang Bengu's matter recently?"
When it came to Wang Bengu's matter, Gao Gong suddenly became energetic. , he did not expect that Zhao Wenhua's actions would be so sharp. No wonder Prince Yu wanted to take Zhao Wenhua under his command. Such a person does things neatly and neatly, without any sloppiness.
Gao Gongdao: "There is sufficient evidence that Zhao Wenhua is targeting Wang Bengu. Now the Metropolitan Procuratorate is also worried about Wang Bengu. Although there is no direct evidence that Wang Bengu participated in the land annexation in his hometown, But it is undeniable that his home He is in his hometown of Fish and Meat Village just because of his influence, and he has never stopped his family's evil deeds, which shows that he has a greedy heart."
"So, this time. I gave it to the Beijing Examination List sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Wang Bengu received a 'C' rating. You must know that this C rating has not been given several times in decades. Now that he can be given a C rating by Zhou Yan, it can be regarded as the beginning of his career as an official."
Zhu Zaijing heard Gao Gong say this about Wang Bengu, I couldn't help but laugh, "I hope you can make this case a typical case, and then use this case to warn officials all over the world not to neglect the discipline of their families when they are upright in their duties as officials. ”
"Otherwise, wouldn't what this official did just be superficial? So next, your Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Metropolitan Procuratorate should also take advantage of the opportunity of this case to conduct an in-depth discussion on the moral education of officials' families. From the ideological, moral and institutional levels, formulate new rules and Let officials at all levels and their families abide by the rules."
Listening to Zhu Zaijing's words, Gao Gong nodded with deep understanding, "I will communicate this matter with the Metropolitan Procuratorate and strive for it. Come up with a charter as soon as possible and submit it to His Majesty.”
Zhu Zaijing hummed, "Very good. Only if these matters are handed over to the master, can I rest assured. If they are given to others, I really don't know what will happen in the end." It looks like.”
“There is a long way to go, but we still have to look forward to it. I hope you can always maintain your original intention and help your majesty do these important things that benefit the country and the people."
Gao Gongbai said: "I will definitely live up to the prince's expectations and will definitely assist the prince and serve your majesty. Be loyal and do everything that benefits the country and the people!”
Hearing Gao Gong's assurance, Zhu Zaijing also hummed, and poured Gao Gong another cup of tea, "Sir, let's continue to have tea."
Gao Gong thanked Zhu Zaijing again for the tea, Then the two chatted about other things. When it came time for dinner, Zhu Zaijing originally wanted to invite Gao Gong to eat with him.
As a result, at this critical moment, an uninvited guest came to Prince Yu’s house in a panic and asked to see Prince Yu urgently!
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