Chapter 188: The country is most righteous, but the heart is the most evil!
The side hall.
Xia Zhibai waited in the palace for a while before Zhu Biao arrived.
Zhu Biao looked a little tired.
Seeing Xia Zhibai, he yawned unconsciously and seemed a little low on energy. He asked the eunuch to make a cup of strong tea for himself, and then asked the eunuch to prepare a cup of light tea for Xia Zhibai. Just sitting in tandem.
Zhu Biao did not speak.
Xia Zhibai also did not speak out first.
Both of them remained silent.
When the tea was delivered, Zhu Biao blew the hot air and took a sip with a sullen face, then looked at Xia Zhibai and said: "Xia Zhibai, you have been away from Kyoto for more than nine months, right? You might as well tell me where you went specifically. I am very curious about your route."
Xia Zhibai nodded and said calmly: "I will tell your majesty when I leave Kyoto. However, the salt market in the north must be integrated.”
"In the past nine months, except for the initial stay in Peiping, I spent the rest of the time traveling to various northern governments to tell the local officials one by one about my plan to integrate the salt market. Although there were many twists and turns, in the end it was I got my wish.”
“Ten days ago, I went to Dongping, Yanzhou, Shandong.”
“Yanzhou?” Zhu Biao was stunned.
I don’t know why Xia Zhibai suddenly mentioned this place.
But after thinking for a while, he knew what was going on. A strange color flashed in his eyes, and he said curiously: "If I remember correctly, you were not present when Guo Huan died. He was interrogated by the court. At that time, you did not go to see Guo Huan in prison. When Guo Huan’s house was confiscated, you did not go there at all. How did you fulfill your promise?”
Zhu Biao looked curious.
He was just slow to react.
After all, I didn’t have much rest last night and had to rush to the morning meeting. I was low on energy, a little unconscious, and my reaction was a little slow, but I quickly figured it out. Yanzhou Dongping is Guo Huan’s hometown, and Guo Huan Before the accident, he met Xia Zhibai once and asked Xia Zhibai to send clothes back to his hometown.
But as far as he knows.
Xia Zhibai has never had any interaction with Guo Huan since that day.
Where did Xia Zhibai find Guo Huan's clothes?
Did the two of them meet before?
Xia Zhibai nodded, shook his head, and said with a smile: "I did go to Guo Huan's hometown. There is no longer a family named Guo in Dongping. The original family named Guo Everyone took the initiative to change their names to avoid disaster. As for the clothes, haha.” I brought back bricks and tiles to Guo Huan.”
"Every brick of Guo Huan's house."
"Let Guo Huan die, there will be one brick to rest on, and one tile to protect him from the wind and rain."
"Let him not be successful after death. "A lonely ghost."
"As for other so-called 'clothes', they don't mean much to Guo Huan. Instead, they will cause unnecessary troubles. Dongping is very poor, even if it is just a piece of clothing. Bu, if someone discovers it, there will be a fight. Guo Huan is dead, but I still hope that he can find some peace after his death."
Zhu Biao was stunned.
He looked at Xia Zhibai blankly and approved of Xia Zhibai's actions.
Because of Guo Huan's incident in Dongping, Yanzhou, the Guo family was wiped out and all nine tribes were wiped out. This had a great impact on a small county in Dongping.
If Xia Zhibai really builds a good tomb for Guo Huan, I am afraid it will cause a lot of trouble and cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Brick by brick is indeed the best choice. It not only gave Guo Huan a sense of dignity, but Xia Zhibai himself also gave a relatively perfect explanation for his original promise.
Very wise indeed.
As for where the bricks and tiles come from.
This is even simpler. The entire Guo family was ransacked, and the whole family was ransacked.
The bricks and tiles also fell to the ground.
Xia Zhibai looks for someone and takes one or two intact pieces. It is simple and will not attract anyone's attention.
Zhu Biao said: "You did a good job."
"Guo Huan served the Ming Dynasty for a long time. Although he committed a heinous crime, he still had merit. You can consider it so carefully, which can be regarded as fulfilling Guo Huan's wishes."
< br>Xia Zhibai smiled and said: "Businessmen value trust."
"At that time, I received one hundred taels of silver from Guo Huan, so I naturally had to fulfill my promise, otherwise it would ruin my reputation."
Zhu Biao looked at Xia Zhibai, shook his head and said: "You are really strange. Sometimes you appear extremely unruly, sometimes you appear polite, sometimes you become extreme and crazy, and yet you can act very rational and calm. , can do all kinds of things that are jaw-dropping, and can also do things that are admirable.”
“It’s really hard to see through.”
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"I am very curious."
"What are you thinking about?"
"I read your first memorial. When I got it, it was just the beginning. , which made Gu couldn't help but feel a shiver down his spine, and a tingling pain on his back. When Gu Zhen finished reading the memorial, he only felt a burst of panic and uneasiness. "
"I know you. He has great ambitions and really cares about the world.”
“But Gu just wants to know.”
"What do you think the Ming Dynasty is?"
"You have made such a profound analysis of the world and put forward chilling views. What exactly do you want to express?"
"You What would the world look like under that vision? ""Unexpected!"
Zhu Biao looked at Xia Zhibai with deep eyes, waiting for Xia Zhibai's answer.
Xia Zhibai was silent for a moment and said slowly: "The ancients once left such a saying: the journey of the great road, the world is for the common good."
"It also pioneered the idea of a great harmonious society."< br>
“What I want the world to achieve is such a harmonious society.”
“It’s just that Your Majesty and Your Highness are worrying too much.”
“The movement of the world, It is never a straight road, but winding and winding, with ups and downs, progress, and regression. It will take at least hundreds, or even thousands, of years to achieve such a harmonious society."
"But what I want is indeed the direction the world is destined to go."
"It just takes a long time to explore and explore."
"I don't force it."
"But in your eyes, I, Ming Dynasty, am Qin Sui." Zhu Biao said coldly, his eyes a little cold.
Xia Zhibai nodded, shook his head again, and said with a smile: "Qin Sui, as far as I am concerned, they played a connecting role in the world at that time. They played a role in the world after the great chaos. It was in the exploratory stage, so it made many mistakes when governing the world, and was eventually replaced by the Han and Tang Dynasties. The Han and Tang Dynasties learned the lessons of the previous dynasties, and then created a prosperous age for the world. "
"The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Xia, Liao, Jin, and Song Dynasties were also in the process of division and a stage of great destruction and establishment."
"It was only because Mongolia used barbarism to forcibly destroy the process."
"The Ming Dynasty continues."
"At the end of the Song Dynasty, the traditional politics of the world had become increasingly corrupt, and the internal structure of the old system was already facing collapse. As far as your majesty is concerned, it was commerce and commodity production that led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The emergence of this situation has led to an extreme suppression of business, hoping to restore the past system to the world."
"But your Majesty misjudged one thing."
"Commerce and commodity production are just symptoms of changes in the world."
"Not the fundamental reason."
"The fundamental reason is that with the disintegration of the old social hierarchy, the traditional hierarchy in the past has It is no longer applicable to the world.”
“It’s just that the world today is still unable to prove, or is unwilling to accept, that the old social system has undergone fundamental changes, and still allows the world to follow the past. Inertia, but in fact, in addition to the most superficial business, the fundamental changes in the world are more prominently reflected in the social elite."
"Today's obvious class society has long replaced the original traditional hierarchical society. ”
"The social hierarchy in the past has long lost its luster."
"His Majesty is actually aware of it now. It's just that he doesn't want Ming Dynasty to be the 'Sui and Tang Dynasty'. His Majesty wants Ming Dynasty to be the 'Han and Tang Dynasty' , so today His Majesty is directly patching up the foundation of the Yuan Dynasty, and even relies on his own power to forcibly maintain and support this old social hierarchy."
"This is a historical retrogression."
“It’s just that I can understand how all this happened.”
“Because the development of history is inherently spiral, not straight forward.”
"The society that Ming Dynasty lives in has indeed not broken away from the structure of hierarchical society, but the old concept of hierarchy has changed."
"Da Ming is in a stage where it is impossible to go up and down."< br>
“If the Ming Dynasty moves forward, it must accept this change and reorganize the structure of the world.”
“If the Ming Dynasty really does this, it is very likely to become the 'Qin Sui', the result of one step. , the world becomes chaotic, and chaos means uncontrollability. For a unified dynasty, uncontrollability means the danger of overthrow. "
"Your Majesty's choice today is to go down."
"Relying on absolute centralization and absolute strength, we can force the world to return to its old state, keep the world in its past state, and then ensure that the Ming Dynasty will not die prematurely. Many people with relatively low status in the world have long wanted to get rid of it. They are old clothes, but now His Majesty does not allow them to wear them. If they don’t wear them, they will be killed.”
“This kind of forceful retreat is very scary.”
“ It will also cause great damage to the world.”
“The ultimate result is either a complete historical regression, or a complete disconnect between the upper and lower levels, that is, the lower levels will gradually push away the closed and solidified nature over time. The social structure will break down many unfair policies and customs in the world, and will continue to break down the traditional hierarchy at the bottom and seek to improve the status of society. "
"While the upper class will gradually become corrupt, and eventually become completely hopeless. ”
"If we continue to maintain the current situation, a very contradictory phenomenon will appear in the future."
"That is, traditional politics is becoming more and more corrupt, while on the other hand, social and economic and other aspects are becoming increasingly prosperous. This is also It is inevitable in the process of system transformation. "
"It is just the corruption at the top that will eventually lead to the Ming Dynasty's ministers becoming less and less bloody. If there is external trouble, they may completely collapse. No matter how hard the body bones are, if If there is something wrong with the brain, no matter how strong the body is, it will not be able to function."
"If this strong body and bones undergo another brutal destruction, the original course of history will retreat even further. "
"This will also be a great tragedy for the world."
"If I want to revive it, I'm afraid it will take an unknown amount of time, and countless people will be killed or injured."
"The Ming Dynasty won the country in the most righteous way."
"But after winning the country, the heart was not right. "Yeah!"
Xia Zhibai sighed, a look of sadness flashed in his eyes.
In a sense, the Ming Dynasty died after the second generation, but Zhu Yuanzhang relied on his own personal wisdom to let the descendants of the Zhu family take over the world again. Just because of the same lineage, the world finally took a huge turn. The word 'zig'.
(End of this chapter)