Chapter 566: The common people’s daily needs are the way to go
Zhu Yijun is not a dictator who cannot listen to any opinions. Otherwise, people like Lin Fucheng who give advice to the government all day long would have been dismissed long ago. If his throat is blocked, where can he get his turn to chatter endlessly?
Lin Fucheng has been very cautiously hovering on the edge of the red line.
If you are not in your position, you will not seek your government.
You are not in that position, and you don’t know what kind of difficulties you will face. Of course you can point out the problems, but if you have to make plans for specific decrees, then you can take the route of imperial examination and official career, one step at a time Climb to the highest position in one step.
Just like Zhang Juzheng, who would be at the top of the mountain, looking at all the mountains and small hills, he would make plans for the fate of the country.
A vivid example like Zhang Juzheng is displayed here.
Zhu Yijun glanced at Li Zhi for the last time. It seemed that his visit to Beijing was a big blow to him, and he felt a little lost.
A dandy boy made Li Zhi speechless, which made Li Zhi doubt his life a little. He felt that Jingtang was indeed a crouching tiger, hidden dragon!
Are Mr. Huang and Mr. Wang ordinary people? One is backed by the General's Mansion, and the other is backed by his father, the Minister of the Second Auxiliary Ministry of Punishment. They are not ordinary people. Moreover, it is well known to everyone in the capital that these two are eloquent. They can talk to the scholars without being weak. Lin Fucheng, who stole the show in many meetings, was no match for Mr. Huang.
Huang Gongzi is no playboy. He is clearly the devil himself who challenged the great devil. Not only did the devil not stay in the palace and set up various levels of challenges for the warriors to gain comrades and equipment on the way to challenge, but Blocking people directly in front of the Novice Village and killing all around would naturally mean that they would not be defeated in a hundred battles, and that would be somewhat devoid of martial ethics.
"Check this Li Zhi's past and send it to the palace." Zhu Yijun explained to Tishuai Zhao Mengyou that one day, the Ming Emperor wanted to know all the information about this Li Zhi. Three minutes would be a bit too long. It’s hard to be a human being.
Zhao Mengyou accepted the order and handed it over to Qianhu, a mountain man like Li Zhi. It was not Zhao Mengyou's turn to personally take action.
The emergence of liberals like Li Zhi and Lin Fucheng is very normal, because the economic structure of the Ming Dynasty is quietly undergoing earth-shaking changes, especially the five major shipping companies. Lin Fucheng is from Songjiang Prefecture, and Li Zhi is from Quanzhou. People, they are all at the forefront of opening up the sea, thinking about where the Ming Dynasty should go in the exchange and integration of Chinese and foreign cultures.
The economic structure of the country is changing, and the social structure is also changing rapidly. Society will move towards transformation. During this period of transformation, everyone in the Ming Dynasty is thinking about the change of the system. In the wave of great speculation, it is certain that Various characters will emerge, a hundred schools of thought contend, and a hundred flowers bloom.
Li Zhi heard about the gatherings in the capital, and it would be strange not to come.
This kind of gathering without any bottom line and without any rules is actually very dangerous. It will tear apart the various groups throughout the Ming Dynasty, and then fight over various ideas, and the liberals are the first to emerge, because They are the most courageous, the most unconstrained, the most eager to break stereotypes, and the most daring to question and express.
Zhu Yijun watched the excitement, and even went to the end to block the warriors in Xinshou Village. In fact, he was setting rules. The rules are that you can find problems and express opinions, but you cannot dictate policies. In a way that I am absolutely The correct posture was to attack the imperial decree and take actions that further worsened the situation in the Ming Dynasty.
Take Li Zhi’s ideas at this gathering as an example. He made a violent argument that attracted everyone’s attention, and then he kept shouting about this violent argument, making more and more people believe it. , gaining more and more people's support, and finally became a joint force to influence the imperial decree.
There will be no taxation without representatives. If there are no representatives of the poor coolies in the government, then the poor coolies will not have to pay taxes. This seems very good, but those classes are pretending to be false and pretending to be the poor coolies. Those who are above will take away the definition of poor people and coolies, because there are no rules, and they will be even more unscrupulous.
This was already happening in the Ming Dynasty. It was not Zhu Yijun’s unfounded worry. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were a large number of almshouses and official residences in various prefectures to accommodate homeless homeless people through the severe winter. However, these almshouses Courtyards and official residences are all occupied by some people. They obviously have a lot of resources, but they still want to covet the poor coolies' little survival food and cut off their last hope.
Zhu Yijun returned to the palace. Li Zhi's personal resume was placed in front of Zhu Yijun's imperial case, and all the articles Li Zhi wrote before entering Beijing were also placed in front of the emperor.
Li Zhi is no longer young. He was born in the sixth year of Jiajing and is now fifty-six years old, only two years younger than Zhang Juzheng. At fifty-six, he is a mountain man, while Zhang Juzheng is ten years old. A year ago, at the age of forty-seven, he was already the chief minister of the empire.
Li Zhi and Zhang Juzheng were both scholars in the Ming Dynasty. They both entered the stage of imperial examination. Li Zhi became a scholar at the age of twenty-two and a scholar at the age of twenty-six. However, Li Zhi did not pass the imperial examination, and Hai Rui also became an eunuch. The year Li Zhi became an eunuch was the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing. By the ninth year of Wanli, he became an official as the prefect of Yao'an, Yunnan.
“It’s nothing unusual to become an official first and then a monk.” Zhu Yijun looked at Li Zhi’s life and found that compared with the bones of Hai Rui carrying the coffin and admonishing him, Zhang Juzheng tried to save the world by serving as prime minister and regent. For example, Li Zhi's political achievements as an official were not outstanding, not outstanding. He was an unknown person, and his evaluation for several years was not very good.
Looking from the perspective of Emperor Zhu Yijun, Li Zhi failed to get involved in official circles.
After becoming the prefect of Yao'an in Yunnan, Li Zhi lived in the home of Geng Dingli's younger brother Geng Dingli. Geng Dingli disliked Li Zhi's apostasy very much, so after Geng Dingli became seriously ill, Li Zhi moved to Macheng and then returned to Macheng. Quanzhou, and then came to the capital from Quanzhou.
Talk gatherings in the capital were very popular, and Li Zhi came to the capital for talks because of his own opinions, which belonged to Li Zhi's theory of freedom.
At the age of twelve, Li Zhi began to criticize Confucius. In other words, Li Zhi has always been the kind of person who is not very willing to be bound by rules.
People like him are not popular in the officialdom, because the officialdom is a place where rules are more important than the sky. If he does not abide by the rules and can only stay behind closed doors, Li Zhi's career will naturally not be smooth.
"The theory of old farmers and old farmers." Zhu Yijun saw what Li Zhi said about Confucius when he was twelve years old.
Old farmer and old nursery, from "The Analects of Confucius·Zilu".
Fan Chi, a disciple of Confucius, asked to learn how to farm. Confucius said: I am not as good as an old farmer; Fan Chi asked again to learn how to grow vegetables, Confucius said: I am not as good as a vegetable farmer;
Wait until Fan Chi leaves , Confucius said to his disciples: What a villain, Fan Xuye! If you are good at etiquette, the people will not dare to be disrespectful; if you are good at righteousness, the people will not dare to be disobedient; if you are good at trust, the people will not dare to be unkind. If this is the case, then the people from all over the world will arrive carrying their sons, so how can they use their crops?
Fan Chi, villain, if a superior is good at courtesy, no common people will dare to be disrespectful; if a superior is good at morality, no common people will dare to disobey; if the superior is good, then no common people will dare to be dishonest, as long as he uses etiquette, justice and trust , then people from all over the world will come to seek refuge with their infant children on their backs. Where is the need for farming?
This is the same as Mencius’s use of division of labor to refute the principle of agriculture. The world of great harmony pursued by Confucianism is a hierarchical world, and everyone does their own thing.
‘The sage and the people farm together’ is Xu Xing’s proposition of agricultural science, but Mencius refuted Xu Xing with the division of labor.
In the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, etiquette is more important than anything else, so every spring when the emperor is offering sacrifices to the God of Spring, he just pushes the plow, which is enough to express his intention and an attitude of joint participation.
Zhu Yijun's marriage to farmers and mulberry trees was a very deviant behavior. There was no trouble at first. Everyone thought that the ten-year-old child was just messing around. At that time, the scholar-bureaucrats in the entire dynasty could not find anyone who knew how to farm. It was Zhang Juzheng. I found a Xu Zhenming who was active in the capital and sent it to the emperor.
But today, ten years later, the firehouses for raising sweet potato seedlings in the Ming Dynasty have spread all over the country. Sweet potatoes, a food for famine relief, have been widely planted. At the same time, various pastures from Western Europe have also been planted. Throughout Suiyuan, sugar cane, rubber trees, and palms are planted all over this Nanyang plantation.
To a certain extent, Zhu Yijun's behavior is very consistent with Li Zhi's teachings.
For example, Li Zhi believed that women should also study. The Zhiyuan School for Girls in the Ming Dynasty was the first public school in the history of the Central Plains to provide a place for women to study. Previously, women studied at home.
Li Zhi said that there were no representatives of poor coolies in the court, but the poor coolies and farmers in the Ming Dynasty were highly overlapped.
Is an emperor who knows how to farm a farmer, or is he qualified to be a representative of the poor coolies? Various political orders formulated in the Ming Dynasty need to be explained to the emperor, which means that they must be responsible for the farmers in the world.
Zhu Yijun believes that he has this qualification. He has been farming since he was ten years old, and he has to do farming and mulberry farming every year. He also personally went to the desert land and saw the diligence and helplessness of farmers in the Ming Dynasty. Lin Fucheng pointed to Baoding The government scolded the emperor for being incompetent. As the final reviewer, Zhu Yijun tolerated Lin Fucheng and let him scold him. Wasn't it just to make the people feel better?
The imperial edict abolished the status of humble slaves, which is extremely benevolent and meritorious. The countryside and fields are full of miserable people;
The emperor’s imperial edict abolished the status of humble slaves, and the scholar-bureaucrats in the court were singing praises. This is of course a benevolent government, but there are still miserable people in the countryside and fields. The Ming Emperor's imperial edict is as useless as a fart.
This is denying Zhu Yijun's efforts, and even accusing Zhu Yijun of being incompetent. You are a dignified emperor, and it is useless to issue an imperial edict. What is it if it is not incompetence? Zhu Yijun only deleted the acid word, but retained the entire article. The entire article criticized the emperor's decree for not being implemented.
Zhu Yijun felt that as an emperor, he was qualified to represent the poor and hardworking people. He would rather be scolded than make the lives of the people better.
Li Zhi criticized Confucius at the age of twelve, which was somewhat childlike. At the age of twelve, Li Zhi asked: If you don’t study how to farm, what will Confucius eat and drink?
Li Zhi is a very unruly person, so he is naturally insulated from the Eight-part essay. In Li Zhi's own words, "I cannot be in love with Master Zhu because I blame myself and want to abandon him." I am a weird person and cannot be compatible with him. With Zhu Xi's tactics, we have no choice but to give up.
Zhu Yijun liked Li Zhi's articles very much. Li Zhi was the lifelong enemy of Confucianism. In comparison, the criticism of Confucianism in the court seemed very mild, and Zhu Yijun's criticisms all seemed mild.
Li Zhi even criticized Confucius. Mencius and Zhu Chengxue, in Li Zhi’s writings, are simply garbage swept into the garbage heap of history.
"According to Li Zhi's statement, we should immediately burn books and humiliate scholars again." Zhu Yijun looked at Li Zhi's article and said happily to Feng Bao.
Feng Bao leaned over and looked at it, and said with disgust: "The crazy man is arrogant. When he said these words, there was no contradiction. He burned all the Confucian classics and ensnared all the Confucian scholars. Kill, what's the point? He said it nicely, but these folk madmen have always been like this. They think they have the truth, and gesticulating is the most annoying thing." , we have something that can be replaced. Doesn’t it take time to be effective? If we really do what he said, then the world will be in chaos. It’s like burning clothes and not getting new ones. Clothes, what to wear? "
Feng Bao doesn't like this kind of crazy man at all, including Lin Fucheng. He eats your Majesty's food, drinks your Majesty's food, takes shelter from your Majesty, and in turn makes your Majesty jealous. What the hell!
If His Majesty hadn't stopped him, Lin Fucheng would have been in bad luck long ago, and those people in Dongchang would not have been eating the imperial food for nothing.
"Very good." Zhu Yijun still likes Li Zhi's articles. He shouldn't make outrageous remarks. He can sort out the collection of essays he has written over the years and publish them, and he can also become a Jingtang The mainstay of the pen.
Li Zhi just met the devil who blocked Xinshou Village, otherwise he would have killed everyone in the Jingtang literary world.
"Haha, it turns out that Li Zhi didn't come here on his own. He was driven to the capital by the people in Quanzhou, hahaha." Zhu Yijun became happy as he looked at it. Li Zhi was "sent out of the country with gifts." After Li Zhi returned to Quanzhou, the prefect of Quanzhou Prefecture took a look and said, well, such a big troll is back, you should go to the capital to dominate! The land in Quanzhou was too small to accommodate the giant Buddha, so he was given a traveling fee and sent to the capital.
“The local government has nothing to do with this kind of opinion basket. Suppress it. It will block the way of speech. If you don’t suppress it, it will really attract people’s hatred. Simply send it out of the jurisdiction and cause other people a headache. "This Quanzhou magistrate has no loyalty to the emperor. He is sending such a hot potato to the capital." Feng Bao said fiercely. When he could say bad things about civil servants, Feng Bao never had a good word in his mouth.
When Tan Lun was still a member of the Jin Party, Feng Bao also criticized Tan Lun. Later, after Tan Lun directly stated that he would no longer be with the Jin Party, Feng Bao immediately praised Tan Lun for finding his way back.
"Looking at his experience in Huangzhou Prefecture, it is very suitable. Alas." Zhu Yijun carefully studied Li Zhi's article and was convinced that Li Zhi had a lot of things, but he just made the wrong card. What happened after he became an official can no longer be described as a tragedy.
At this time in Guangde Bookstore, Li Zhi visited Lin Fucheng with gifts.
Lin Fucheng, as the leader of the Songjiang Liberal School, Li Zhi, a liberal, had to pay homage to the mountain at an old age. Lin Fucheng originally did not want to accept the gifts and was prepared to drive them out together with the gifts, but in the end Lin Fucheng still He forgave Li Zhi without any fuss.
Huang Gongzi likes to watch the excitement, but he just watches and rarely ends up in person. Since this time he has a long speech, it is natural that Li Zhi's discussion has some merits, so he is willing to chat with Li Zhi so much.
"Don't say that I am a traitor to the liberals in the future. You have also seen that in the environment of Jingtang, a Huang Gongzi is so powerful. How powerful is the Minggong in the court." Lin Fucheng He showed Li Zhi a cup of tea and said very solemnly: "Aren't we fighting among ourselves a joke to outsiders?"
"What Mr. Lin said is reasonable." Li Zhi also wiped his cold sweat and left. Unfortunately, this Jingtang is really difficult to get along with.
"However, this Ming Gong was only powerful in the Wanli Dynasty. The previous ones were just mediocre. Yan Song designed to frame Zhang Jing and Li Tianchong in order to gain the power to quell the Japanese, which caused the Japanese invasion to rage. Li Chunfang was a Qingci prime minister. Fortunately, The minister of Jin, Xu Jie, is a deceitful person who carries the banner of Qingliu and is more greedy than Yan Song."
"Gao Gong is honest and well-known, but what has he done in the world? His plan is to protect the Jin people, make the Jin Party bigger, and fight against corruption. They are all petty officials who dare not do what they want to do, and are very stubborn. "
"That is to say, Jiangling Gong is so powerful. In just ten years, the world has experienced great prosperity. It is really powerful, and Wang Chonggu is also very powerful. But if Duke Jiangling hadn't suppressed him, Wang Chonggu would have been just a rebellious and arrogant minister."
Li Zhi is here. He resigned as prefect of Yao An only in the ninth year of Wanli. He has read every issue of the Di newspaper. He knows the court better than Lin Fucheng. Ming Gong is not as mysterious as Lin Fucheng thought. If there is talent, everyone has talent. , if we say they are powerful, then of course they are all powerful, but whether they are used in the right place is another matter.
“It seems that the lay people have a high opinion of Duke Jiangling.” Lin Fucheng said with a smile: “I thought the lay people had many complaints against Zhang Juzheng. I have heard that hundreds of officials complained about Duke Jiangling. "It's not small."
Li Zhi said helplessly: "I just don't have the ability. If I had the ability, I would get a special Enke Jinshi! Li is incompetent and has failed to get the upper grade for nine consecutive years. , after all, he stopped being the prefect. After all, it was Duke Jiangling who gave the poor family a chance. If he can't win, he can't blame Jiangling's open society for being too small. "
Li Zhi is in the officialdom. He could only keep himself clean and stay behind closed doors, but he was somewhat ambitious and low-handed, and became the loser in the official competition.
“Where did your idea of no taxation without representation come from?” Lin Fucheng asked curiously. Could it be that he also came from the West?
Li Zhi did not hide it, and said with a smile: "It comes from the theory of contradiction. Contradiction talks about the unity and opposition of things. Therefore, the current policy of the Ming Dynasty is both top-down and bottom-up. , I have to say that this contradiction is really powerful. If I could have studied it earlier in Yunnan, I might not have been able to go further."
Li Zhi was in Yunnan, and the published version of the theory of contradictions reached. Yunnan was in the third year of Wanli. Li Zhi was a little disdainful at first and did not study it. It was not until the fifth year of Wanli that he began to study it. Once he studied it, he was immediately astonished. However, officialdom has always been like this. One step behind others is equivalent to two steps ahead. .
In the end, I couldn't win over anyone else.
“The resistance in the Netherlands is just. It was only after I had this idea that I learned that there was another Netherlands in Western Europe who had made such a claim.” Li Zhi said in detail Explain the origin of your opinion.
"That's it." Lin Fucheng nodded and said. The source of liberalism did come from the West. Lin Fucheng admitted, but it quickly completed the localization. It is actually difficult for foreign monks to chant sutras, whether they are Buddhist, Nestorian, or Muslim. Islam must be localized, otherwise it will be difficult to move forward.
None of the Huihui Temples in the Ming Dynasty have a dome, they are all Chinese-style buildings like temples.
Shi Maohua, the governor of Shaanxi Province, rebuilt the Ningxia Tongxin Huihui Temple in the seventh year of Wanli. The dome was removed and replaced with Han-style eaves. Shi Maohua said in his memorial that it was originally Qingyuan, Huaining, Guangzhou The temple is the first Huihui temple in the Central Plains. It was built during the Sui Dynasty. From the beginning, it was not domed.
The Roman hemispheric dome, the Persian gyro dome, the Ottoman pot lid dome, the Timurid radish head dome, and the Mughal onion dome are not what the Ming Dynasty Huihui Temple should look like. Shi Maohua demolished them The purpose of Tongxin's return to the temple was naturally to establish the province of Gansu, and more importantly to restart the great affairs of the Western Regions, not to cause trouble.
So any religious doctrine introduced into the Ming Dynasty must be localized, and the theory of freedom is no exception.
Lin Fucheng combined it with Xiaoyao. Now Lin Fucheng's limited liberal faction has nothing to do with the Free City of Cape Verde. It is more appropriate for him to be called the leader of the Xiaoyao faction.
"Did you understand Mr. Huang's long speech?" Lin Fucheng asked with a smile.
Li Zhi said with a complicated face: "I have some insights. What Huang Gongzi said is that it is okay to criticize, but you cannot teach the court to do things."
"Of course." Lin Fucheng kept nodding. Duke Ming of the Ming Dynasty had his own difficulties. It's okay to criticize and point out problems, but if you have to teach others how to do things, you still have to climb on top of others. Duke Ming has a high position and power, so you can't. It is already generous to care about your criticism.
To be honest, Lin Fucheng sometimes felt that he could still be alive because Huang Gongzi was really powerful. Every article he published had a recipe for death. He was like the Ming Dynasty when he was alive. A symbol of cultural openness.
"I feel ashamed to say it, but Legas still stole something and translated my strange story to the West." Lin Fucheng talked about an article he published in Xiaoyao Yiwen.
Legas translated "Freedom" and "Xiaoyao Yiwen" and translated the idea of three mountains into Latin. His Majesty approved it and said it was inappropriate. But Legas finally gave the article to Sauron and asked Sauron to bring Tessie back.
For the Ming Dynasty, it is indeed not suitable, but for Spain, where the vassal feudal system has come to an end, it is also a way out. You must try every path, and you cannot just be so confused. If he continues to be confused, he will be blocked in the Strait of Gibraltar and unable to move. By then, it will be too late to do anything.
Spain must win the competition with England and the Netherlands, otherwise it may really be stuck in the Mediterranean Sea and unable to get out.
"I have read your article and it is too free." Li Zhi had really seen the kind of structure discussed by Lin Fucheng. He stood up suddenly and said with a frown: "You That plan seems to coincide with my elected official!"
"I seem to know why Mr. Huang criticized me so harshly!"
Lin Fucheng was stunned. The three-mountain system that does not rely on the country and the people is really in line with the arguments put forward by Li Zhi! Especially when the system is immature and exploration is insufficient, it seems that it will inevitably go through this stage.
"Fortunately, Mr. Huang refuted it, and it almost caused a disaster." Li Zhi said with lingering fear, what kind of chaos would be caused by these three mountains plus immature elected officials, One can imagine.
Li Zhi and Lin Fucheng had an in-depth discussion. The more they discussed, the more frightened they became. Fortunately, Mr. Huang refuted it, otherwise it would have really dug a hole in the sky.
"I have some articles here that I wrote in the past." Li Zhi took out his collected works. He had these collected works published after he came to Beijing, but the sales were extremely poor, so he thought of having a gathering at Taibai Tower. Everyone needs to eat.
Li Zhi wanted to make a name for himself by leveraging the sales of Lin Fucheng's Xiaoyaoyiwen.
"Serve tea, serve good tea." Lin Fucheng opened it and looked at it. Some of them were already on the market, and some were Li Zhi's manuscripts. When Lin Fucheng saw it, he immediately asked someone to serve good tea. His copy of the Notes of Baoding Prefecture was stolen, and if it was stolen, it was stolen. What he saw and heard, except that the government forced the people to rebel, he did not express it, and he had basically finished writing it.
Lin Fucheng, who was worrying about materials, found new materials.
"Look, what are you talking about about taxes? Just write this, write this out, and send it to Xiaoyaoyiwen!" Lin Fucheng said with mixed feelings after reading the material.
Li Zhi’s second and third daughters starved to death in Huangzhou Mansion.
Li Zhi was a civil servant and had a great reputation. He was also an official. He became a prefect seriously. He did not become an official until the ninth year of Wanli. However, his three daughters followed him and two of them starved to death. Li Zhi is a An honest official, he was extremely honest as an official, he had no money left, and he was so honest that he would not let anyone cheat on his land.
When he was in Huangzhou Prefecture, Li Zhi only had seven acres of thin farmland. He usually farmed his own land. However, due to natural and man-made disasters, the land he set up only yielded a few dendrobium and barnyard grass. His second and third daughters all starved to death. If it weren't for His friend Deng Shiyang provided some financial support, but Li Zhi and his eldest daughter also starved to death.
"The common people's daily needs are the way!" Lin Fucheng looked at Li Zhi and said: "Just write this! Clothing and eating are the physics of human ethics! Apart from dressing and eating, there is no ethics!"
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"Isn't it a bit too sharp?" Li Zhi said with a complicated expression.
"It doesn't involve specific decrees, so what are you afraid of?! If something happens, Mr. Huang and Mr. Wang will talk about it, write it down, and spread the gossip!" Lin Fucheng said with great conviction: "You have to believe Mr. Huang The power is overwhelming, look at this, the fifth-grade Doctor of the Five Classics dental plaque, obtained by Mr. Huang."
In order to give Li Zhi confidence, Lin Fucheng took out his official dental plaque.
Lin Fucheng is not in the officialdom, so he does not understand the process of this toothpai, but Li Zhi understands it very well!
There is a problem with this toothpaste, a big problem! Is it really possible for a young man from the General's Palace to obtain the official status of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Five Classics Doctors protected by Tiqi? !
(End of this chapter)