Chapter 20 You shouldn’t love the people!
“That’s enough!” Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table angrily, his eyes crazy as he wanted to eat people.
He stared at Xia Zhibai, his chest rising and falling, pointing at Xia Zhibai's nose and said: "What qualifications do you have to accuse us?"
"We When did we treat the common people as slaves? When did we treat the officials as permanent workers?"
"That's nonsense."
"You ask around the world, who doesn't applaud Zhu Yuanzhang, who doesn't praise me for loving the people like a son, and the many practical things we have done for the people are simply beyond the imagination of a nerd like you."
"I don't care at all if you Confucian scholars and scholars complain about us and hate us."
"I don't care at all about what you say."
"We didn't want you to understand, let alone expect you to speak for us."
"We only know that the way of the world depends on the people's hearts. As long as we know that the people still think of us well, that is enough Yes, we have done so much for the people of the world, there is no need to tell you.”
"But you think you are justified."
"Then I will tell you."
"Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we have done so much for the people of the world."
< br>"In the fifth year of Hongwu, we issued an edict to liberate slaves and maidservants. Those who kept slaves in common people's homes were given a hundred sticks, and they were released into good deeds. Those who committed repeated offenses were punished by castration and became slaves without official positions."
< br>"Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we have ordered that all uncultivated fields and farmers will be owned by themselves after cultivating them, and they will be exempted from taxes and servitude for three years. Since then, a total of more than 1,805,000 hectares of cultivated land have been added, accounting for today's Almost half of the world’s land is owned by officials and people.”
"How many people have been fed by this."
"We built water conservancy projects all over the world, repaired spiritual canals, irrigated tens of thousands of hectares of fields, dredged flood canals, and irrigated Jingyang, Sanyuan and other fields for more than 200 miles."
< br>“There are countless such things.”
“But I never brag about these, because these are what I, the emperor, should do, but among all the emperors in the past, I am the only one who hates corrupt officials so much. "
"Why do we hate corrupt officials so much? Because when we were young, we suffered a lot from these corrupt officials, so we told the officials below again and again not to be corrupt. As long as we catch it, we will definitely peel it off.”
"We have only been in the country for eighteen years, and we have reduced and exempted many taxes for the world. We have even personally set the total amount of rent for the world. The court now only collects three or four bushels of rent per mu of land."
"We have also set up guard posts, lightened the burden on the people, and raised our own troops, and so on, there are countless others."
"We do not love the people."
"We are the most powerful among the ancient and modern emperors. Love the people!"
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered.
If he really didn't regard the people of the world as his own people, how could he do so much? It is entirely possible to exact and exact levies arbitrarily.
But he didn't.
And he also served the people a hundred times a thousand times.
In fact, he didn't want to explain at all, and he didn't bother to explain. Xia Zhibai was a scholar and scholar, so he would naturally regard him as a tyrant, because he didn't consider these people at all, let alone what they would think or think. .
In his eyes.
Scholars and Confucian scholars are meaner than dogs!
It’s just that Xia Zhibai provoked him one sentence after another, which made him completely annoyed. Then he decided to refute one or two words to tell Xia Zhibai that his shallow opinions didn’t understand anything.
Absurd and ridiculous.
Xia Zhibai shook his head coldly.
He stared at Zhu Yuanzhang without making any move.
"Emperor Hongwu, have you ever heard such a sentence?"
"What words?" Zhu Yuanzhang said.
"The more a person emphasizes something, the more he cares about something in his heart, and the more he lacks something." Xia Zhibai said lightly, with a slight smile at the corner of his mouth.
Zhu Yuanzhang's face changed slightly.
Xia Zhibai sighed, looked at this majestic hall, and said lightly: "Since Qin, dynasties in the world have been changing constantly, and many wise and foolish kings have emerged."
"But among the emperors of the past dynasties, which one would always talk about loving the people like your Majesty, and would even ask his ministers if he loves the people, and do the people praise him?"
" Your Majesty, don’t you think it’s over?”
Zhu Yuanzhang’s eyes were cold, and his mood that had just calmed down had become agitated again. Xia Zhibai withdrew his gaze and looked up along the hall. He saw the dragon chair, which was indeed lifelike. Just one glance made people feel surrender and fear.
He continued: "The more a person shows off, it is not about what he has really achieved, but about what he lacks."
"Your Majesty has only one purpose for doing this."
"Comfort yourself, deceive yourself, and seek the approval of the officials, so that you believe it, and let the officials believe that you really love the people."
“Take this to tell yourself.”
“You are right!”
“This is why I say that your Majesty pretends to love the people and abuses them. The reason is that His Majesty sometimes likes to deceive himself too much.”
"Since ancient times, it has not mattered at all whether the emperor loves the people or not. What is important is the development of the world. If he can take into account the people during the development of the world, he will be called a wise king."
"Your Majesty is putting the cart before the horse. "
"I am still self-righteous and complacent."
"But in His Majesty's eyes, there is really no problem in emphasizing love for the people, because the emperors of the past dynasties were all members of the family."
“Your Majesty is different.”
"What your Majesty wants is to be a big landowner."
"And this is the world you have been striving for since the founding of the country to build the Ming Dynasty."
"That's why you can be so casual You can shamelessly say that you love the people by insulting and beating officials to death, because in your eyes, officials are the long-term workers of the landlords. If you can't really control them, there is no need for these people to exist. "
< br>"You are also deliberately wary of them."
"You are worried that these "long-term workers" of the imperial court will steal your Zhu family's power and occupy your Zhu family's property, so you use spies like Jin Yiwei. Organize and be on guard against these people, lest your property be stolen by these people.”
"Don't you feel that the things you did in the court are the same as your parents who were tenant farmers and were watched when they were tenants in the landlord's house?"
"How did those landlords bully your family back then? , now that you have stood up and become the master of the family, you will use more cruel methods to bully you back, even worse."
"It's just that the landlord only has more than a hundred acres of land, and you are sitting on it. It’s the whole world.”
“The good thing about you is that you are born in a commoner family, but the bad thing is precisely because of this background, because the people at the bottom are the best at fighting against the people at the bottom.”
“You. I have climbed all the way up from the bottom. I have seen all the darkness at the bottom, and I also know the limits of survival for those at the bottom.”
"So you actually know the key points of the people better than the emperors of the past dynasties, and you also know how to exploit the people at the bottom to the extreme."
"You have calculated everything in detail, and you have included the entire world in it. It can even be said that every effort is made to squeeze the world to its extreme. "
"The ideal country in your mind is a static society with no vitality and high intensity of control."
"People monitor each other and report each other. Without a road guide issued by the government, they cannot leave the place where they are registered."
"And the road guide fee is very expensive, which actually discourages people from applying. Lu Yin, if the people can’t move, they won’t move.”
"Guarantee that there will be no 'vagrants' in society."
"Everyone must make a living in an industry recognized by the imperial court. They cannot change their identity at will, and rich people or groups with organizational capabilities are not allowed to appear."< br>
“What you want is for the people to live and die according to your ideas under the system you set, without any variables.”
“To completely determine the death of all people in the world under you On the Zhu family’s land, I will work for your Zhu family’s slaves forever and ever to support your entire Zhu family.”
“Did you do something wrong?”
"No."
"You conquered this world, and you have the absolute power to deal with it, but you are also wrong. The mistake is that you always talk about loving the people."
< br>"You clearly have no love for the people, but you give hope to the people at the bottom again and again, and then destroy it again and again. You are too cruel to the people."
"Zhu Yuanzhang, you shouldn't love the people."
“At least you shouldn’t lie to the people who have always believed in you, trusted you, and even been grateful to you.”
"What did they do wrong?"
"To be humiliated and tortured by you?!"
(End of this chapter)