Chapter 180 King’s Law? Your Majesty’s will is the greatest royal law of the Ming Dynasty!
Why Zhang Juzheng’s grain boxes are used? Because at present, the grain of Ming Dynasty will be transported by land + sea + land, which reduces the trouble of weighing. In the past, grain transportation was often due to weighing reasons. , a lot of disputes arose, a series of problems such as new and old grains, steaming and drying, carriages and horses, etc., have all been improved with the standardization of degree bypass.
The same issue also involves the issue of supervision and accountability.
Every time these grain boxes pass through a hand, a seal will be affixed to them. Once there is a problem with the grain, it will be traced to where it goes. This is also the basic supervision of whether the boxes are secured or not. Principle, this is an important part of Zhang Juzheng's examination method. If it can be generalized, it can even form an effective accountability mechanism in business. At present, the Daming Woolen Official Factory has used this method.
As soon as the seal is affixed, a corner is torn off from the sealing place. This is an ancestral law formed after the Kongyin case in the Hongwu period.
The Ming Dynasty's management method of 200 years was to sew together the bookmarks and seals, and to tear off a corner of the valuables as proof of suitability.
In order to ensure that these 200,000 grains can reach the harbor smoothly, the Ming Dynasty's most advanced ship will also be used, with five masts and 21 sails, twenty feet long and four feet wide, with a length-to-width ratio of 5: 1. A five-masted transoceanic ship with a mainmast height of three feet and two feet is used for transportation.
This is also the first time that a five-masted ocean-going ship has sailed to Beijing. One ship can carry 12,000 shi of grain, and the rest is taken care of by the accompanying 66 three-masted plywood ships led by Songjiang Town soldiers. At the same time, there are 20 coastal defense patrol officers, driving hydrofoil sailboats to deliver messages and escort in the middle.
A mighty fleet is gathering in Songjiang Mansion. They are not preparing to go out to sea for trade, but to send southern grain to Beiya.
This is the Ming Dynasty silver and grain convection system initially designed by Wang Guoguang. The Ming Dynasty brought silver to the north, and then let merchants transport grain from the south to the north. This was also the specific role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal at that time. The land in the north was barren. With frequent battles, food supply is always in short supply. If there is a slight disturbance, the price of food will rise rapidly.
The same was true for the salt-grain convection system at that time. However, as time went by, the gradual loss of salt in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty and the systematic and structural destruction of the Ming Dynasty's Kaizhong method finally made the salt-grain convection completely unbalanced. To this day, the reason why Shiohiki still has exchange value and use value is because it is legal.
This salt guide is a legal salt policy. The merchants of the Ming Dynasty were not always bold. Recently, the tax collection and arrears collection of the imperial tax office have been in full swing, which has made the exchange value and use value of the legal salt guide obtain. A rapid increase. In the past, a small salt yin was worth 1.5 taels of silver, and a large salt yin was worth 5 taels of silver. Recently, it has soared by about 15%. The price of a small salt yin (120 kilograms) has increased to 1.725 silver, and a large salt yin (400 kilograms) has increased to 1.725 silver. ) value soared to 5.75 silver.
Yin Yin does not need to be exchanged at the official factory. Salt Yin only represents the legality of the salt business. From the first year of Wanli to the third year of Wanli, the court issued a total of 3,963,270 Yin, which is about 132 yuan per year. million yin, and the demand is still growing. Based on the number of salt yin, Wang Guangguang estimated that the approximate population of the Ming Dynasty was around 100 million.
This estimate is very rough and is not used as the basis for the collection of four differential silver. The only data basis for the Ming Dynasty's official tax and labor service is the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book.
Ling Yunyi, the governor who was transferred from Jiangxi to Guangdong and Guangxi, the powerful people finally couldn't help but want to impeach him. The gentry in Guangdong and Guangxi thought that there was a governor who was neither corrupt nor corrupt, that was the arrival of Mr. Qingtian. , I didn’t expect that it was really Master Qingtian. He, Ling Yunyi, might as well be a little greedy!
The courtiers were a little nervous, but Ling Yunyi really had no room for negotiation. Any powerful gentry who refused the court's orders would be labeled as treason and punished by physical destruction.
Ling Yunyi does what he says. For example, in April of the third year of Wanli, Ling Yunyi reported to the court and announced that no one was allowed to trade with the Yao people in Luopang Mountain, and no one was allowed to sell salt into the mountain. Violators would be severely punished, and those who violated the rules would be severely punished. Communicating among the people, making noise, and participating in civil unrest are all equivalent to conspiracy to commit treason.
After getting approval from the court in June of the third year of Wanli, an announcement was made and it would be implemented from the first month of the fourth year of Wanli. In the first month of the fourth year of Wanli, Ling Yunyi blasted open the doors of two powerful families and killed the two heads of the family. , more than ten people, including his family members who rebelled against him, were convicted and sentenced to death. The memorial has been sent to the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment.
It was a real blast. He pushed the cannon and blew open the door of the house. Then he swarmed up and captured the whole family.
Now the ultimate decision-making power comes to the Wenhua Palace.
On the one hand, Ling Yunyi's gangsters quelled the civil unrest, and on the other hand, the powerful families asked the court for mercy. The criterion was whether the Dianbai Lin family and the Guangzhou Wu family should be executed.
Ling Yunyi’s evidence is conclusive. Starting from the first month of the third year of Wanli, he began to collect evidence of the other party’s crime. Waiting until the first month of the fourth year of Wanli, the other party still resisted the imperial edict and went to Luopang Shanyao. The key to the people's office sending salt was that these two families were also involved in instigating people to join the civil unrest. Ling Yun Yiwei sent these criminals to Beijing, which is irrefutable evidence.
The powerful gentry complained and pleaded for mercy, and the reasons were pretty good. They said that when Yin Butang, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was around, everyone was doing business with the bandits, and Yin Butang ignored him. It was also about defeating the Japanese pirates, who were wiped out in just four years. Yin Butang did ask for too much money and food, and everyone was unhappy. However, Yin Butang had always been so demanding. If the court asked for too much, it would be Isn’t it a violation of the saint’s benevolence?
Wang Chonggu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, finally remembered his own job and said: "After the case came to Beijing, our ministry checked the files. The witnesses and physical evidence were proven. The Ministry of Punishment believed that he should be killed and convicted. To be executed in a round is to resist the imperial decree and commit great treason. If the crime is not punished, where is the dignity of the imperial court?”
The officials began to discuss whether they should be killed.
Due to the lack of food and salary in Guangdong and Guangxi, Yin Zhengmao used a wide apportionment system. He pulled out all the powerful gentry on the list and made direct calculations. If he did not pay, he would tear down the door and move the bed if he did not pay. Although the method and method were not gentle, but The powerful gentry of Guangdong and Guangxi indeed provided food and salary to help the army quell the Japanese invaders.
During the discussion, Wan Shihe leaned forward and said: "After investigation by the Ministry of Rites, there are no officials of third grade or above in the two families, and they are not included in the eight discussions."
Chaotang Weather Vane Wan Shihe's trend means that the discussion trend has completely shifted towards killing.
"Are Da Sikou and Da Zongbo too radical?" Zhu Yijun had a strange tendency. He felt that Wang Chonggu was a bit radical.
Wang Chonggu was stunned for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty Code has not been completed, and the names of the punishments are confusing. I have just been serving as an officer for a short time, and I am not familiar with the names of the punishments. Please ask your Majesty to use Zhubi to judge."
When there are differences of opinion between the Ming Law and the Ming Emperor, the Ming Emperor's opinion shall prevail.
Wang Chonggu never believed that there was such a thing as law in the Ming Dynasty. This was one of the sources of disagreement between him and Zhang Juzheng’s emphasis on Xunli officials. How could the Ming Dynasty have any laws for law-abiding officials?
His idea is logically consistent and very reasonable.
In terms of status, a gentleman is the one who governs others; a villain is the one who is governed;
The common people do not understand the laws of the Ming Dynasty at all, nor do they know the laws. Wherever, when something happens, the first thing to do is seek shelter from the powerful and ask the powerful to lobby for them, and this is often very effective. This is a concrete manifestation of the disadvantages of Ming Dynasty's appeasement.
For meat-eaters, the laws of the Ming Dynasty are simply a blank piece of paper and cannot effectively restrain meat-eaters, because meat-eaters and those who govern others are highly overlapping and closely related.
So the laws of the Ming Dynasty cannot restrain meat eaters at the top, nor can they restrain the common people at the bottom. Isn’t this law just a blank piece of paper? When talking about the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the Minister of Punishment only found it ridiculous. There was only one law in the Ming Dynasty, and that was the King's Law, His Majesty's Golden Words.
Wang Chonggu’s understanding of Xunli is a person who can do things and accomplish things. This is the fundamental face of Xunli, not an official who abides by the law.
Wang Chonggu’s understanding is based on his own practice. Emperor Sejong had a book called "Qinming Prison Records", compiled by Zhang Cong, the first assistant. It contains several cases, all of which were ordered by the emperor to intervene. The irrefutable judicial evidence includes the case of Li Fuda, the robbery and murder case of Changsha wealthy man Li Jianxing, the illegal act of Guangyuan Chen Yuju in his hometown, the case of Zhang Fu in the capital who murdered his mother, etc.
Especially the case of Li Fuda was widely implicated in the party struggle of the Great Ceremony. Li Fuda was a monster like Zeng Guang. This monster’s pseudonym was Zhang Yin. He became the commander of the Taiyuan Guard because of his food donations. Originally, Li Fuda has been found guilty because he was implicated in Wudinghou Guoxun, and Wudinghou Guoxun only used one sentence to overturn the case.
Wuding Marquis Guo Xun said: Your Majesty, I offended everyone because I agreed to give honorary titles to the emperor's biological parents, so they wanted to skin me and kill me.
Emperor Jiajing immediately issued an order to start a re-examination. In the end, Li Fuda was acquitted, and he was reinstated as the commander of Taiyuan.
It was not until the forty-fifth year of Jiajing that the Sichuan bandit Cai Boguan was arrested, and the truth came to light. Li Fuda was Zhang Yin, and Zhang Yin was Li Fuda. An injustice that had lasted for several years was finally brought to light.
Does it really matter what the truth of the case is? unimportant.
Because of their political stance on reform, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng highly agreed with the judgments of Zhang Cong and Gui E. In the records of Emperor Muzong of the Ming Dynasty, the Li Fuda case was still considered a false accusation, and Li Fuda and Zhang Yin were confused. A false accusation, not a monster case.
So, whether the Li Fuda case was an unjust case was not during the Jiajing period, it was an unjust case during the early Longqing years, and it was no longer an unjust case from the fourth year of Longqing to the Wanli period.
Whether Li Fuda is Zhang Yin or not, and whether this case is a false accusation, has nothing to do with the facts. At the beginning of the case, the case was completely affected by political stance.
So Wang Chonggu does not think that there is such a thing as the Ming Law in the Ming Dynasty. There is only the emperor's will, which is the largest piece of heaven in the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Fa? Your Majesty’s will is the greatest royal law of the Ming Dynasty!
So when the little emperor asked whether it was too radical, Wang Chonggu immediately changed his gun and changed his tone. He asked the emperor to declare the decree directly on the grounds that he had just become a Situ and did not understand the names of the punishments, and the Ming Dynasty Conference had not yet been completed. The decree is finalized, a traditional art skill of the Ming Dynasty, and a standard passive skill of the Minister of Justice.
"Da Si Kou, I don't mean to kill or not to kill. This case is just investigated and settled. I'm confused for the time being. I'll hold it first. There is no shortage of these rations in the prison." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu and told him. Have your own thoughts.
Zhu Yijun looked at the ministers and said: "Let me tell you what I think."
"The powerful people in Guangdong and Guangxi generally support the imperial court in quelling the Japanese bandits. Yin Bu Tang and Ling Aiqing presided over the pacification of the Japanese pirates in Guangdong and Guangxi. No matter what methods were used, the powerful people pledged donations, including the Guangxi official transportation salt incident. The powerful people were also cooperative. If the Japanese pirates were pacified now, they would start calling for a fight. Calling for killing, is it suspected of killing a donkey? "
"If the imperial court kills, the powerful people will feel sorry for each other, and they may further communicate with the Yao people, which will further lead to the corruption of the war between Guangdong and Guangxi. "
Zhu Yijun actually does not want the powerful people to stand completely opposite to the court and give Ling Yunyi more room to operate. Once the powerful people collude with the people again, the court will kill people and let Ling Yunyi have more room to operate. Ling Yunyi does things better.
This is just a typical political method. He also wants Ling Yunyi to really accomplish something.
After hearing this, Tan Lun, Minister of the Ministry of War, thought carefully and asked: "Your Majesty, if the powerful people are still at odds with the Yao people, wouldn't it be good if the powerful people were killed together?"
< br>"What Grand Sima said makes sense." Zhu Yijun was stunned, silent for a moment, and agreed with Tan Lun's statement. His statement was very consistent with the reality. Since the powerful man still wants to disobey the imperial edict, he will be punished and executed directly. If we just wipe out the powerful people together, wouldn’t it be over?
Wan Shihe Sixiu said again and again: "Your Majesty is kind-hearted and virtuous. I think this is a blessing for the Ming Dynasty. But he openly defies the imperial decree, and I think it should not be tolerated."
Times Fu Lu Tiaoyang asked: "What do Yuan Fu think?"
"I think what your Majesty said is reasonable." Zhang Juzheng's statement highlighted an ambiguity.
His Majesty advocates not killing, and also agrees with Tan Lun's violent theory of annihilating powerful people together, so Zhang Juzheng said that His Majesty's words are reasonable, but should he kill or not kill? Or, as long as what His Majesty says is correct?
Respecting sovereignty is the core of Zhang Juzheng's reform, so what he means is that as long as what His Majesty says is right.
"Then kill him. I am far away in Beiya, and Guangdong and Guangxi are in the extreme south. I can't explain in just a few words what kind of dilemma the ministers are facing. Since the evidence is conclusive, then kill him." Zhu Yijun finally After making a decision, the Ming Gongs all said they would kill him. Even Wan Shihe, the gentlest man, made it clear that if he did not advocate leniency, he would just kill him.
It must be noted that the gentry of Guangdong and Guangxi impeached Ling Yunyi for his bloodlust and asked the court for leniency, instead of saying that Ling Yunyi was referring to a deer as a horse and confusing right and wrong. Ling Yunyi was by no means an unjust, false and wrong case. The Jin gentry of Guangdong and Guangdong also knew that the Dianbai Lin family and the Guangzhou Wu family deserved to die, and they just asked the court to forgive them.
Zhu Yijun made the final decision, so Da Sikou and Da Zongbo no longer had to be embarrassed, and the case successfully advanced to the next step.
In fact, the situation faced by Ling Yunyi was far more difficult than the court imagined. If the conflict had not intensified to a certain point, Ling Yunyi, a Confucian student, was not a bloodthirsty person. He would have been able to handle the matter if he had not killed anyone. , don’t want to be a good old man, hello, me, hello everyone? It was precisely because the conflict had intensified to a certain point that Ling Yunyi asked the court for help.
Zhang Juzheng believes that it doesn't matter whether he kills or not. Killing can intimidate the powerful and give Ling Yunyi more support. Not killing can give Ling Yunyi more political leeway and give Ling Yunyi more room to advance and retreat.
Zhang Juzheng advocated killing because he did not want to see Guangdong and Guangxi like the northwest. The conquest of rituals and music came from the princes. Ling Yunyi killed the powerful gentry. This was a concrete manifestation of not joining the local snakes and rats. He was the leader of the country. At this time, we must ensure that no vassal town will appear again in the Ming Dynasty.
The court meeting was finally over, and Zhang Juzheng began to teach the banquet again. His Majesty could already read many books smoothly, so the professor's speed was very fast, and His Majesty learned really well.
After giving the banquet, Zhu Yijun began to ask some questions about the grain tank, and then began to ask about the law of money, especially copper coins. If the Ming Dynasty minted money to lose money, it would be water without a source and a tree without a root. In the end, water Will dry up, the tree will wither, this must be asked clearly.
After listening to the emperor's inquiry, Zhang Juzheng shook his sleeves, found a yellowed memorial and said, "I have this to submit."
"In April of the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, At that time, Hu Ke gave Yin Zhengmao, who was in charge of the matter, the task of opening a copper mine and casting copper coins to relieve the imperial court's huge financial losses and earn high profits. At that time, the imperial court was fighting Japanese invaders in the southeast and resisting the captives in the northwest, so the country was stretched. "
"It was approved at the time, but the Ministry of Revenue thought that the investment was huge and it was not as good as casting money locally in Yunnan. As a result, the matter was messed up. In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Yunnan copper was stopped."
What is the interest rate? The minting interest is the seigniorage tax. One tael of silver is exchanged for 1,000 copper coins, and the total cost of 1,000 copper coins is about 0.625 taels. This is the seigniorage tax.
Yin Zhengmao advocated vigorous mining of Yunnan copper.
"Is it Yin Butang's memorial again?" Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Hong to submit it. After carefully reading Yin Zhengmao's memorial, he said with great conviction: "Yin Butang really has the talent to help the world."
Yin Zhengmao means that Yunnan copper was exported from Yunnan and coins were cast in places such as Chenglingji, Yanziji, and Caishiji. The three famous rocks on the Yangtze River are Chenglingji in Yueyang, Yanziji in Nanjing, and Caishiji in Ma'anshan. , are all good ports on the Yangtze River.
Coin was minted along the Yangtze River and then spread to places inside and outside the Ming Dynasty. However, such investment was very huge. First, the waterway must be dredged. Secondly, good ports on the Yangtze River must be built, and private facilities along the way must be rectified. Passes and other things.
The Ministry of Households planned to save trouble and said: Chenglingji is a gathering of people from all directions, so it is possible to cast it here to avoid treachery and treachery; Yunnan is a rare place where simple things are done, so it is cheap to cast mountain drums. So money was minted locally in Yunnan.
Yin Zhengmao reported in July that he strongly disagreed with the actions of the Ministry of Revenue. He believed that the Ministry of Revenue was greedy for small gains and suffered big losses. It did not transport Yunnan copper out, and the money was silted up in Yunnan and Guizhou, and it was ultimately unsustainable.
Sure enough, the local coinage prevented Yunnan copper from leaving Yunnan, causing copper coins to accumulate in Yunnan, and the money formed a barrier in Yunnan, while silver fulfilled its monetary duties. Silver was precious and copper was cheap. In the end, Jiajing Forty-four years later Yunnan stopped minting money.
Yin Zhengmao said that he only needed to invest 390,000 taels of silver a year, which would earn him 650 million taels, and the court could make a profit of 530,000 taels. The Ministry of Revenue invested 20,000 taels of silver in Yunnan, casting 33 million taels, and the court Profit of 20,000 taels of silver.
"Your Majesty, I am terrified. At that time, the Ministry of Revenue was really helpless. The court was in deficit and wars were going on. How could we get 400,000 taels of silver to mint money? At that time, Yan Song was in power, and Yan Song The party's unjust killing of Xia Yan is indeed a traitor, but from a practical point of view, it is still a disaster caused by the poverty of the court." Zhang Juzheng's words also excused Yan Song's suspicion, but Zhang Juzheng still believed that when the Ministry of Household Affairs minted money, it was actually a problem of poverty.
According to Yin Zhengmao's idea, the 530,000 taels of silver earned must be continuously invested in quelling banditry in the Yangtze River, dredging the Yangtze River, and building seaports. Only in this way for five years can the court really start to make a profit.
Of course the Ministry of Revenue knew the danger Yin Zhengmao said, money would block it, and it would definitely happen, but the imperial court did not have the money to supervise the construction.
The logic is this. The imperial court has no silver, so it has to mint money. The purpose of minting money is to make a profit. As a result, it requires a large investment, but the imperial court has no silver, and it has fallen into a vicious cycle.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "The Ministry of Household Affairs now has 7.03 million taels of silver."
"So the strategy drawn up by Yin Butang back then can be implemented." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said.
"Sir, don't you like Yin Butang?" Zhu Yijun closed the memorial and looked at the rolled corners. Zhang Juzheng was holding this memorial and had obviously read it many times. There were Zhang Juzheng's notes on it. Zhang Juzheng had obviously studied it carefully. of.
Zhang Juzheng said confidently: "I just don't like that Yinbutang is in Guangdong and Guangxi. Bribery in government will inevitably breed appeasement, and appeasement will inevitably lead to the risk of vassal towns. I am the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and I am in charge of the country. He is now in Lu Song, that is the Sishui Bo who was loyal to the emperor and the country in the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Yijun smiled and asked Zhang Hong to put Yin Zhengmao's "Yin Guang Casting Money to Charge the Country" into the political science display window. The "Grain Tank Method" was put on the display window of engineering.
The grain box method is not entirely the wisdom of Zhang Juzheng, but the wisdom of all the boatmen in Nanya Shipyard.
Zhang Juzheng took out another memorial from his sleeve and said: "Your Majesty is engaged in farming and mulberry farming, and uses sweet potatoes to save famines. Baoqisi promotes sweet potatoes and has some success. I would like to ask your Majesty to read it."
Baoqisi promoted sweet potatoes as a famine-relief grain. Zhang Juzheng personally presided over them. They were widely planted north of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains of the Ming Dynasty. This stuff could not be used to collect taxes, so the planting and promotion went very smoothly, mainly for reclaiming wasteland. The potato seedlings only needed one A spoonful of water and a spoonful of dung can help you survive.
Two points for planting, three points for tubes, and five points for fertilizer. Daming’s sweet potato yield is about 60% to 80% of Baoqisi’s. It all depends on fertility. Baoqisi’s is not farming, but potato seedlings. Serve the ancestors.
The main difference is the fertilizer. Even so, sweet potatoes are used by countless people.
Shaanxi and Shanxi have opened a total of 300,000 acres of farming fields. These farming fields are not consecutive, but are involved in various prefectures and counties. There are several cellars, and potatoes are mainly grown instead of The planting area of sweet potatoes has reached more than 30,000 hectares, and the number of deaths due to hunger has been significantly reduced compared with previous years.
Henan and Huguang have only 200,000 acres of farmland and only about 20,000 hectares of planting area. The main production areas are concentrated in some hilly areas.
Farmland in Gyeonggi and Liaodong. Gyeonggi has 400,000 acres of farmland, while Liaodong only has 50,000 acres of farmland, with a planting area of more than 45,000 hectares. The Ministry of Household Affairs has already announced plans to tax sweet potatoes, but Zhang Juzheng still refuses, and It is believed that sweet potatoes are used for famine relief and should not be levied. However, the Ministry of Household Affairs still believes that taxes should be collected starting from the tenth year of Wanli. Otherwise, it will become a common practice not to accept regular taxes in the name of sweet potatoes.
And here, Wang Chonggu still excelled in the sweet potato promotion work in Xuanda and other places in the northwest, and once again won the crown, farming 300,000 yuan in Xuanfu and Datongfu. Mu, the planting area is 30,000 hectares, and the yield per mu is 80%, which is far ahead.
Mainly due to the resettlement of 190,000 laborers, the increase in human feces has increased the sweet potato production in the northwest, which is only 60% in other places.
"I don't know whether it is right or wrong to let Da Sikou return to Beijing. After Da Sikou left Xuanda, Xuanda's farming not only did not increase, but also declined." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in his hand and noticed A phenomenon, Wu Dui and Wang Chonggu drifted apart.
To be more clear, Wu Dui is seeking death.
Wang Chonggu said that he could still control it within two or three years. After that, he really couldn't guarantee what kind of trouble would happen in the northwest.
This is also true. Wang Chonggu left Xuanda University for only one year. Not only were his political achievements not promoted, but they declined.
"The clan party and the vassal town are at risk." Zhang Juzheng said very calmly. He had already anticipated this situation. When he returned to power, he would not give His Majesty a Ming Dynasty riddled with holes.
At this time, Zhang Siwei, who had moved to Wang Chonggu's house, hurriedly found Wang Chonggu after hearing that the imperial court wanted to kill the powerful gentry in Guangdong and Guangxi.
Wang Chonggu has never changed his position, he just wants to make money.
Zhang Siwei's complexion is no longer golden, but now his complexion is more terrifying, it is waxy yellow. He said in a loud voice: "Life and death, life and death! Uncle! What did I say? The imperial court has the power of life and death, and all the money we make is It’s just for saving money for the court. The court unjustly killed the powerful Jin gentry for money.”
Wang Chonggu looked at Zhang Siwei and said in disbelief: “Why do you like to confuse right and wrong so much?” It has been more than a year since we started to publish a list to prevent the rich gentry from colluding with the people of Luopang Mountain. In June of the third year of Wanli, His Majesty issued an order to Guangdong and Guangdong, and started to implement it from the first month of the fourth year of Wanli."
" Your Majesty still intends to forgive them for the sake of helping the army. I, your uncle, agreed to kill. Your Majesty did not want to kill, but the court officials agreed to kill, and finally the court decided to kill you."
"You. Can you sort out the order of development of this matter and think about the problem? "
"The imperial court does have the power of life and death, but if these two powerful families abide by the law, the imperial court will have nothing to do but threaten and punish them. ? Their little property is nothing, now there are seven million taels of silver lying in the Ministry of Household Affairs!"
"The imperial court is the most powerful family in the world! "Hu, do you understand?"
Zhang Siwei said still unconvinced: "Aren't they all the officials who came to criticize the wealthy Jin gentry?"
Wang Chonggu spit out deeply. With a turbid air, he said earnestly: "Nephew, your position is yourself, that's okay, but have you ever thought about it, people live in groups, and no one can live without others. Can you cook? Can you do carpentry? ? Do you know how to farm? You don't know how."
Mencius refutes the idea that the emperor of agriculture is engaged in farming. The main reason is the division of labor.
Wang Chonggu spread his hands and said: "Opposites are unified, do you understand?"
"You can't just ask without giving. Asking and giving are opposites, but they are also unified. Asking is giving, and giving is also asking. Yang Zhu's study of valuing oneself is already evil, but Yang Zhu's study also pays attention to plucking a hair. The world has nothing to do with it, nor does it harm the world by taking even one cent. "You just don't plucking a penny, but you don't want to take a penny. Your thoughts, even It’s better to learn from Yang Zhuzhi.”
Wang Chonggu strongly supported Zhang Juzheng’s banning of the sixty-four academies. Wang Chonggu did this work himself. Look at Zhang Siwei’s way of thinking about the problem. It is clear that this is not noble. It means that if I am respected, the whole world will revolve around me.
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