In the winter of the eighteenth year of Hongwu, the heavy snow finally fell. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Guo Huan case, which shocked the whole country, finally ended with the execution of the chief trial Wu Yong, but the impact of this case has not subsided, not only the scattered officials of the six ministries looked at the empty yamen and secretly mourned in their hearts, but even Zhang Zhaohua in the rural village could feel the faint aftershock.

This case is too big, and the implication is too wide, Zhang Zhaohua began to sigh from knowing the whole story, maybe at the beginning he saw that tens of thousands of people were implicated, and it seems that it cannot be compared with a casual movement after the founding of the People's Republic of China in later generations, especially the great revolution, but you must know how many officials are at this time.

Later historical materials show that during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, there were two capitals and thirteen provinces in the country, with a population of nearly 200 million, and millions of gentry and eunuchs, but only 20,000 officials. Among them, there is also one-tenth of the Beijing officials. There are 18,000 people left, and they have to manage two capitals, thirteen provinces, and more than 1,100 counties.

In other words, Zhang Juzheng is leading 20,000 officials to fight with vested interests across the country. However, in later generations, there were more than 20,000 civil servants in any city-level city.

Not to mention Zhang Juzheng, let's just talk about the Hongwu period in front of me - a few years ago in a Hu Weiyong case, the emperor slaughtered pigs and sheep and killed 30,000 officials and ordinary people, killing officials in two wars, but the emperor is not worried about no one to call, and the vacant positions are naturally climbed up by camps.

And the Guo Huan case that the emperor is now rising shows a truth - the heads of these officials are like leeks, and if the roots of this stubble rot, the emperor will cut this stubble, anyway, the emperor's land is big, and countless leeks will emerge.

But can killing alone stop this layer of corruption? This major case in the Hongwu period is shocking, and it is even more violent and terrifying than the corruption of officials in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. But why is this, why are there still people who risk their lives to commit crimes under such harsh punishments, and there are not just a few of them, but they are effective from the top to the bottom, from the corruption of the first-grade official to the seventh-grade official?

If Emperor Zhu was not strict in the rectification of corrupt officials, then I am afraid that there is no strictness from ancient times to the present.

Because the rule at this time is that officials who embezzle sixty taels of silver will be beheaded, and after death, they will be skinned and filled with grass, even if their son-in-law or cronies commit a crime, they will not be punished with grace. At this time, the punishments of flogging, rods, exiles, imprisonment, and death, except for rebellion, were almost all applied to corrupt officials -- but no matter what, corrupt officials could not be killed, just as he himself lamented, a batch of kills in the morning, and a new batch will come out in the evening.

The killing was inexhaustible, and Emperor Zhu finally sighed rarely: "I am only sparse and thin, and the way to control the emperor is exhausted!"

Of course, he couldn't understand what the problem of the system was, and some of the rare people who appeared in this era and could see the truth clearly had already been killed by him.

For example, there is a man named Ye Boju, who went to Emperor Shu as early as the ninth year of Hongwu and put forward his views on national construction.

In his "Feng Zhao Chen Yanshu", he hit the nail on the head and said: "There are three things in today's affairs: it is too extravagant to divide the seal, too much to use the punishment, and too quick to seek treatment. He also said his own judgment, the second thing is easy to see but late, and the other is difficult to see and fast, which means that two things are easy to see clearly but break out late, and one thing is difficult to see clearly but breaks out early.

Separation, torture, and treatment!

It is obvious that the punishment is too complicated, Emperor Zhu used heavy codes to govern the world, and found that the officials were unqualified, and used heavy punishments, and the remaining officials carried shackles to go to work in the yamen.

The person who could see the disadvantages of dividing the feudal king in the ninth year of Hongwu was a far-sighted person, but his earnest suggestion was considered by Zhu Yuanzhang to be "divisive flesh and blood", and he died in prison.

The last very interesting assertion is that "the cure is too fast", which is a very surprising summary.

As for agriculture and schools, the foundation of the king's government is regarded as a false document, so how can he educate the people...... However, he was promoted to a scholar, or within a few months, he was elected to the official position, and occasionally entrusted to the civil society. The ministers are afraid that their people are not familiar with current affairs, are not familiar with the etiquette of the imperial court, cannot preach morality, and are obedient to national politics, and the people are also ......"

The question of why there is such a speed as to why there is such a thing as a state of governance did arise not only during the Hongwu period, but also after the founding of the People's Republic known to Zhang Zhaohua.

During that period, in order to pursue the high speed of industrial and agricultural output and construction, various slogans appeared, and the whole people worked vigorously and vigorously, and the result was that the economic ratio was seriously out of balance, and instead of advancing and retreating.

If we compare, we will find how similar the two eras are -- the current Hongwu period is a time when the population is rising and the money and grain are overpaid, and as for agriculture and mulberry and school education, they are all false, and it is true that culture should serve politics.

Ye Boju mentioned the issue of the appointment of this Tai student as an official, saying that these students who have entered the Guozijian have been entrusted with important tasks for a year and a half, or only a few months.

This is really incomparable with the selection of officials in the back, and the Jinshi has to read at least ten years of books, even if he is not proficient in practice, he is considered a highly educated intellectual.

The country is creating, all wounds are healing, and all systems are still improving, in fact, there is no need to be so eager to do the work of several generations alone.

If Emperor Zhu really knew how to be a founding emperor, he should understand that his mission was not to take care of the work of prime ministers and officials, but to establish all the correct systems like Washington in the West.

Only a system can keep the country running, and only a good system can keep the country young.

"The minister is foolish and says that the world tends to rule, and it is still hard to be icy. The ice is not caused by the sun. Yang energy occurs, the earth veins move slightly, and then it is melted. The rule of saints in the world is also the same. Punishment is prestigious, etiquette is guided, the people are benevolent, the people are righteous, and then it turns into bustling. Confucius said: 'If there is a king, he will be benevolent after the world.' This is not empty words. ”

The slow rule of the world is like a process of ice melting into water, which can not be achieved by exposing the sun in winter for one day, but needs to be slowly melted by yang energy -- what is the yang energy of a country, not the imperial decree, but etiquette education, educating the people to open up the wisdom of the people, is the fundamental way to make the country strong.

When Zhang Zhaohua read this piece of Ye Boju's words, his heart was almost like a stormy wave.

Every word and every sentence is the truth that has been enshrined as a guideline by later generations and proved by countless practices, and if the country is governed according to what he says, then the prosperous era will definitely be just around the corner.

It turns out that in every era, there are people who are ahead of this era.

But it's a pity that the forerunner of this era died in a dark and narrow square inch, even if after the martyrdom of King Yan, people only found out the prophet of this person, but they only sighed twice, and resealed his suggestions for this era.

And Zhang Zhaohua also tossed and turned at night for the first time after six years of wearing, and it was difficult to sleep.

She stared at the dark roof, and for the first time thought of a question.

Could it be that God asked me to go back to the era of the Ming Dynasty, just to watch from the sidelines, and after consuming seven tons of rice noodles, I crossed my fingers and said, I have experienced Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle and ...... She couldn't remember what era and emperor were next, but she realized that she was no different from a native.

Her heart told her that she didn't want to.