Chapter 183: Getting people to guard is the hard part! (Second update)
Zhu Yuanzhang’s face turned completely dark.
Xia Zhibai was already directly criticizing Sang and Huai, saying that he was deceiving himself.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were not many "scholars" at all. From himself to the officials, they were all from "landlords". It was just because the status of "scholars" in the past was too prestigious, so everyone in the court was Scholars all flocked to him, and they were all willing to label themselves as 'scholars'.
This also leads to a big problem.
That is, the top and bottom are out of order.
The world order he wants to create is that all officials are people, and the number of officials must be strictly controlled.
Therefore, even now, the number of official officials in the Ming Dynasty is still less than 10,000, and the vast majority are 'officials', 'subordinate officials', and some serving 'officials'. This part of the 'officials' 'They are not eligible to enjoy privileges such as exemption from military service and using their status to offset punishment.
In Xia Zhibai's view, this is a very bipolar and distinctly hierarchical society under extreme autocratic imperial power.
But.
These so-called ‘officials’ in the Ming Dynasty were actually ‘landlords’, and in Zhu Yuanzhang’s mind, the landlords were a group of ‘people’.
That’s why the current chaos in disciplines is caused.
Allowing a group of central 'landlords' dressed in 'shi' clothes to manage local landlords and households will naturally not achieve the great social governance they want. On the contrary, it will intensify the complicity of the world, and lead to destructive effects. Society continues to collapse because the Ming Dynasty's "officials" and "officials" will mix in more and more members of the three religions and nine streams over time.
And he actually tried to get a group of 'landowners' to talk about ethics and morality.
Aren’t you deceiving yourself and others?
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was livid, and the hand holding the memorial had blue veins popping out.
Seeing this, Zhu Biao quickly poured a cup of tea for Zhu Yuanzhang and comforted him: "Father, Xia Zhibai has always spoken freely. Father, please do not hurt your body because of this."
Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath, glanced at Zhu Biao, waved his hands and said: "We are fine."
"We are just worried."
"This Xia Zhibai doesn't want to see us so much." ? Do you have to regard us as the big landlord in the world? ”
"I used to say that we regard all officials as long-term workers and the common people as slaves. Now they even call us by name and say that we are the biggest landowners in the world. We overthrow the rule of Baoyuan. In his eyes, is it so innocuous?"
“We have selfish motives.”
“But what did we do wrong?”
“I want to be pointed at and scolded by Xia Zhibai again and again. ?”
Zhu Yuanzhang’s face turned red with anger, and he hammered the table with both hands, the anger in his eyes nowhere to be released.
Zhu Biao was also frightened by Zhu Yuanzhang's rage. His face turned pale with fright, and he was so frightened that he did not dare to breathe.
Zhu Yuanzhang was like an angry lion at this moment, with the murderous intention in his heart reaching the extreme. However, as an emperor who had been in power for nearly twenty years, he finally forced himself to calm down. He was angry and annoyed. I was annoyed, but I had to admit that Xia Zhibai's words made some sense.
Few of the distinguished nobles who lived with him were from high-ranking families.
Even Li Shanchang, a gentry, is not the slightest bit different from the nobles of the past.
Are there any scholars in the Ming Dynasty?
Maybe.
But these people can't climb up.
He pursues all over the world and advocates pragmatism. As long as it can be useful in governing the world, it will be reused. However, over the years, more people like Guo Huan have really occupied the court. An official in a dead position.
They have no short-term considerations and no long-term plans.
These people share similar odors and can easily form gangs.
He spent a lot of effort to suppress these two groups, the Zhejiang East Group and the Huaixi Group. Now, he doesn’t have much spare power to make a selection in the world. This generation has passed, and the people trained by the Ming Dynasty Scholars are mostly like 'racons of the same feather'.
This is what worries Zhu Yuanzhang.
After these three killings, he has felt the difficulty of changing this social trend.
It is even impossible.
Zhu Yuanzhang slowly closed his eyes and calmed himself down completely.
He knows.
The reason why Xia Zhibai wrote so much is to accuse himself of misjudgment of the current situation and the pattern of the world, and then chose a wrong path. If he does not recognize the mistake, he cannot make a decision. If it corrects itself, Ming will only go further and further down the wrong path until it becomes difficult to return and the country is overturned.
Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the magnifying glass again and looked at this thick memorial again.
“If you have a wrong understanding of the world, you will naturally go astray.”
“If you want to re-understand the world, you can only start from the actual situation of the world. As the traditional political system becomes increasingly corrupt, the old In some cases where the internal structure of the system has been damaged, we can only focus on the most basic direction.”
"Land!" "Everything in the world is built on land."
"Therefore, only by looking at the land can we see everything on the land."
“At the top of the world are the royal family, relatives, meritorious officials, and bureaucrats. They are the most powerful landowner class today.”
“They are vassals of the Ming Dynasty, and their survival and development , are also affiliated with Ming Dynasty.”
"They are firmly on the side of the Ming Dynasty, but they are extremely backward and reactionary, and will continue to block other living forces from moving forward. These people are the most eager to maintain the status quo and least willing to accept changes. To a certain extent, they are also the worst. "
"They have considerable power and money, but they don't have much persistence. If the world is in trouble, these people will only seek glory and humiliation."
"Their own characteristics are destined to be the eternal enemy of the Ming Dynasty."
"The second is the gentry, the non-status landlords and the 'officials'."
"They should be classified as the middle class. queue.”
"This group of people are very contradictory. They are easily attracted and divided. Their goals are confusing. However, as local landlords, they are also conservative and snobbish. If their own interests are touched, they will become very sharp. They will also show great pain when they are targeted by the court, and they will burst into tears if they are appeased by the court."
"This group of people is destined to be unstable."
"Underneath, they will. They are self-cultivated farmers, handicraftsmen, and some intellectuals who have mastered certain knowledge but do not have enough ability to obtain student status. This class can be divided into the petty bourgeoisie. This class is currently the majority in the world. "
“For the self-cultivating farmers who travel to northern Xinjiang, currently, these people have enough money and rice.”
“According to my observation, these people have a very strong concept of getting rich.”
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"What they want most is to become a local middle class. Every day when they see landowners who own large tracts of land and don't need to cultivate their own land, they are even more envious of those landowners with a certain status and covet them. It's just that these people have the courage to do so. They are afraid of officialdom and turmoil, and will be frightened at the slightest disturbance. "
"This group of people are essentially landowners with no status, and have certain middle-class attributes."
"As for the handicraftsmen, given the current world situation, they can barely be self-sufficient."
"They also want to make a fortune, but the Ming Dynasty's system, especially the quota system, and the strong oppression of the imperial court, These people are the most dissatisfied with the imperial court and have the most resentment against them because they have craftsmanship and production capacity, but because of the imperial court's requirements, they work hard and can only get a meager income from the imperial court. Money and food.”
“There are many such people in the world now.”
"The number of kitchen households and water workers alone has reached one million."
"This is the real 'millions of water workers'."
"As for those who are unable to obtain students, Intellectuals, this kind of people are currently living a very difficult life in the Ming Dynasty. They can't get up or get down. They don't want to take off their long robes."
"As the imperial court increases the number of "services" every year. , the lives of these people are getting more and more miserable, and they usually sigh. If the world really changes, these people will be the most motivated to promote it, and they will also be the most able to make noise. "
"The second is the semi-proletariat."
"The so-called semi-proletariat refers to semi-owner farmers, poor peasants, and small craftsmen."
"Semi-owner farmers are farmers who cannot be self-sufficient. Although they have certain fields in their hands, their food is generally not enough. , You need to rent other people's fields or sell a certain amount of labor to make up for it. During the spring and summer, when there is no harvest, you will also borrow money from others at high interest rates and borrow food from others at high prices."
"Although these people live a living. It's hard, but they can barely make a living."
"As for the poor peasants, they are farmers who have no land but have some farm equipment and a place to live. They mainly work for others."
"This category. People's lives are the most difficult. They are exploited by landlords all year round. In times of famine, they can only beg for mercy from relatives and friends. Even in good years, they can only barely make ends meet, struggling to survive in hardships. "< br>
"For the subsequent small craftsmen, the main thing is to advocate the superior and the inferior, such as actors and entertainers."
"This kind of people are at the bottom of society in terms of status."
"Although they have It is a free and simple means of making a living, and it is a free profession. However, they are often subject to various types of oppression and exploitation. Moreover, their daily family burdens are heavy, their income and expenditure are often not commensurate, and they are often oppressed by poverty and have no fixed place to live. "They are basically the same as poor peasants."
"In the end, they have nothing."
"The most common people of this kind are slaves."
"The second is the sedan bearers, dung bearers and others who can be seen from time to time in the streets and alleys. They have nothing but a pair of hands that work hard. There are also long-term workers and busy workers who have no fixed residence and no land, and can only work for others."
"There are also many people in Ming Dynasty who treat them in this way. Only by making a simpler and clearer division of the world can we better understand the current situation of the world."
"The enemies of Ming Dynasty's long-term peace and stability are also clearly revealed."
(End of this chapter)