The original meaning of the family is the family of Shiqing Shilu, and the secretary here is not the general secretary of state, but the three princes and nine ministers in particular. That is to say, even if it is a big member of one party, even if it is the prefect and the county guard, it does not count, only people in the family who have achieved the level of three princes and nine kings for generations and who are good at the beginning and the end in this position can be called a family.

And the generation mentioned here must be more than three generations.

This was the original definition of the Maison.

There is no doubt that being able to do the three princes and nine kings and start and finish well in this position shows that the person who is an official is extremely outstanding in terms of personal ability and morality. Because of the lack of ability, you can't climb this position; If you are not virtuous enough, you will not be able to start and finish well in this position.

Similarly, there are people in the family for three or four generations who have achieved the position of three princes and nine kings, which means that this family is very good at educating their children and grandchildren.

In other words, the family must have two conditions from the beginning: there are enough capable and virtuous people in the family, and the family has excellent education for the family members.

In this world, the most powerful power is always time, he can change a thing beyond recognition, and can also make the originally imperfect things become perfect under the wear and tear of time.

The Maison is an outstanding creation that has been polished little by little by time.

The emperor waved his hand to let the spy retreat, and with this action, the emperor calmed himself down a little, and said, "I really can't figure out how that girl of the Jia family was recognized by those old families. Their Jia family does not meet the standards of the family, and even behaved completely opposite to the family at one time. Even that girl is the same. ”

How the emperor didn't know the family, it can be said that in order to compete for power with the emperor. He once tried to use the power of the family, but after being rejected by those old foxes, the emperor began to use careerists like Jia Yucun.

The emperor also thought that a careerist like Jia Yucun would be a very useful chess piece, but in fact, this kind of careerist is just a greedy glutton, not to mention a big appetite, and there is no trace of a bottom line. And even more than once trampled on the law.

For example, there was an official surnamed Zhou, when he was a child, he went to the mountains to collect firewood when he was young, but was arrested and beaten by the local landlord. After this official is developed. created an unjust, false and wrongful case, killed the landlord's family and turned the family's daughter into the family's singer and humiliated wantonly. In fact, the reason why the landlord refused to let the family go up to the mountain to collect firewood was because the mountain was full of fruit trees. And the so-called firewood is actually to cut down other people's good fruit trees! Not to mention. The landlord had to pay a large amount of tax to the state every year for this mountain forest.

The emperor once firmly believed that only the best people were easy to control. In fact, he did the same in those days. He is also only close to those who are ambitious and **, and he will also favor careerists like Jia Yucun between those who are really the children of the family and careerists like Jia Yucun.

In the beginning, this practice did give the emperor a certain amount of authority, and the emperor was once secretly happy about it. He even felt that it was not a big deal to put himself in power with a small, extra expense.

But this time, the drought in the Gyeonggi area gave the emperor a slap in the face.

and he drew the authority of the camp. It's his own, and he doesn't need to exchange anything extra for it. And those "small extra expenses" that he used to care about. It almost ruined Daqi.

Because of his bias, he spoiled those careerists so much that he didn't know how high the sky was, trampled on the law again and again, traded power for money again and again, and created unjust, false and wrongful cases again and again.

It's just that the emperor at that time has been favoring these people for the sake of his own power.

The emperor's actions directly caused the law of the country to be null and void, and those careerists also amassed a lot of wealth in an extreme time. No one knows better than the emperor the original origin of those careerists, unlike Wang Ziteng, who was originally born in a noble family and the family originally had a considerable amount of money, those careerists, many of whom were the sons of ordinary farmers, relied on the sacrifices of their brothers and sisters to get to where they are today, so after they ascended the throne, they used various ways to "compensate" their families. And the officials of Daqi do not have a lot of money, even if they are a member of the Ministry of Labor of Zhengwupin, the salary of a year is only more than 100 taels of silver, and they can't even afford their own expenses, let alone subsidize their families.

The "compensation" of those officials is naturally full of all kinds of darkness.

But at that time, because of the existence of the Emperor Taishang and the power of the Emperor, the emperor's power was restricted, and this restriction also blinded the emperor's eyes. The emperor began to unconditionally favor his "henchmen".

The emperor's bias and the endless ** of those careerists made several huge rich families appear in Daqi in an extreme time, but these people were not satisfied. When the property of the common people could not satisfy their **, these people stretched out their hands to the official warehouse and the regular position.

The emperor remembered very well how he felt when he learned that the official warehouse in Gyeonggi had been emptied by these careerists, and he also knew very well how cold he felt after hearing that Changping could not take out neither the food for disaster relief nor the military salaries in Changping.

The official warehouse is also big, because of the relationship between the military department, often close the perennial empty position, as a result, the entire northern Xinjiang was looted by the Di people, so that the emperor had to send his own daughter to the relatives, that kind of shame is still fresh in the emperor's memory. But the scars of Princess Changle here have not faded, and Chang Ping turned out to have problems again, and the emperor didn't know how to face his daughter at that time.

But it didn't end there, but it got worse as the situation got worse.

The people finally rebelled, and the emperor hurriedly mobilized the army to suppress it, and the army mutinied because of hunger. The end result was that the displaced people in Beijing even gathered to storm the palace.

If it weren't for the Daomen and the family, the emperor even felt that he might be the first king to be driven out of the palace by the exiles.

The emperor didn't know how he would be described in the history books.

It was at that time that the Emperor Taishang stood up. reached an agreement with Daomen and the family to suppress the situation. Daomen and the family were invited by the royal family from other places. Including the grain transferred from neighboring countries, and a large number of red vetches were also sent from the northern Xinjiang, which alleviated the mood of the people, and the return of the sea ship a month and a half later not only brought enough rations for Baixinge, but also brought enough seed food for the people.

Obviously, there was no ordinary drought with locust plague in more than one county, but a group of corrupt officials caused such a big disaster. And most of these corrupt officials were summoned by the emperor himself, and the emperor didn't know how he faced the emperor during that time.

It was during those days that the emperor learned of his stupidity. In the Maison's parlance, it is. His own behavior is simply raised by a little woman.

Hearing this, the emperor was very angry, but he had to admit that he was unqualified. That's what led to such serious consequences.

These days. The emperor has been studying behind closed doors and is also introspecting. The emperor already has a full understanding of his mistakes, but because he has a full understanding of himself and a deeper understanding of the family than in the past, the emperor is more and more confused, why did those families accept Jia Jiu?

Hearing the emperor ask again, Wang Jien had to speak: "Your Majesty." Maybe it's because the county lord Jia is very filial. ”

The emperor shook his head and said, "His father is also filial." But in those years, I didn't see those people say a good word about him, even if they said that he was filial, they would add an extra word in front. ”

Foolishness.

Wang Jien also heard what the emperor meant, so he had to say more humbly: "Long live, maybe it's because the county lord of Jia doesn't value the future or fame and fortune." ”

The emperor shook his head and said, "Not necessarily. What kind of family is the Jia family, others don't know, I don't know? It is said that I am not doing well, but compared to the original situation of the Jia family, I am much stronger! Those people in the Jia family, but the masters are more incompetent than the other, and they feel that their faces are very glorious when they see those minions taking their family's money and enriching their own pockets. How can a child from such a family be recognized by a family like the Yan family? ”

The emperor knew very well that although the system of three princes and nine secretaries originally used to evaluate the family had completely disappeared into the long river of history, the criteria for judging the family were also changing.

Today's family is no longer the definition of the family of Shiqing. In fact, even without those three hundred years of alien rule, the definition of the family is very different from what he originally did.

Many families have been passed down for hundreds of years, and in these hundreds of years, countless prominent families have disappeared into the long river of history for various reasons, and the families have also learned valuable experience and lessons from the rise and fall of these families.

For example, the family will never do anything to the official warehouse and water conservancy money, and they will not use such means as squeezing the people to satisfy their selfish desires, because they know better than anyone that "the big river is shallow and the small river is dry". Therefore, when the children of the family are in office, they will use various means to ensure the food production under their rule, and they will also use various means to promote the local economic development, and even use the family's resources to stimulate the local economy when necessary.

In the eyes of others, this is just a way to make money with money, but for the local people, their income is more, and the price of salt, rice, cloth and silk on the market has decreased, which is naturally a good thing. The children of the family also pay great attention to water conservancy construction, so even in a year of famine, the people do not have to worry about not having food.

To sum up, in the eyes of the people of the world, the children of the family have become a collection of good officials, clean officials and capable people, and officials from the family are welcomed in every place.

But the greed of the Jia family is obvious to all. The emperor didn't think that the people from the Jia family could be compared with those children of the family.

When Wang Jien heard this, he had to say: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten about the red lotus?" According to the old slave's opinion, just by virtue of the red lotus, they can give their Jia family an extra title, but the county lord of Jia, who knew the sense of proportion at a young age, took this and exchanged it with Banzai, thus saving his father. In the eyes of the old slave, the county lord of Jia is not only filial piety, but also the unique characteristics of the family that are light on wealth and goods over fame and fortune. ”

The emperor said: "You say that he is so light on wealth and goods and light on fame and fortune? Do you know how much he earned on the cattle, red deer, and sheep to the north? That year, Domun used his income from the north to feed the entire Gyeonggi homeless people. It was because of this entry that he was able to mobilize Daomen's resources at will. Otherwise, who do you think will take him seriously with his ten-year-old baby? It is because the goods are his own that he has the right to call them. ”

The emperor saw very clearly, what textile workshop, what Zhuangzi in northern Xinjiang, where was the money of Daomen, it was actually Jia Jiu's own money, but it was just borrowing people from Daomen.

"Your Majesty can still see it." Wang Jien replied respectfully.

The emperor sighed and said, "I want to say that what really attracts attention about this girl is the resolute energy she showed when she kept the Lin family's property. It was 10 million taels of silver, but he threw it out like that, not only keeping the Lin family's property, but also keeping his own money. ”

Wang Jien said: "No, the strategy of the county lord Jia has always been the best. One thing, there is a conspiracy hidden in the conspiracy, and the conspiracy is wrapped in the conspiracy, which makes people unable to guard against it. If it weren't for the batch of stones from the county lord of Jia, I was afraid that the Marquis of Rong Guo would retreat again and again under the hands of that lady, and then even the Lin family's wealth would be squeezed out. ”

The emperor nodded and said, "Indeed." It's a pity that from this point alone, this girl still doesn't have the qualifications to enter the eyes of those people? The matter of salt fertilizer and sea ships is a later matter. ”

The emperor was puzzled.

Wang Jien didn't dare to speak.

After a long while, I saw the emperor react from his contemplation and said, "Forget it, at least, after suffering such a big loss, I finally understand a truth, in this world, not everyone who is pitiful is justified." Following my previous behavior, taking what originally belonged to me for another thing that also belonged to me, not to mention the loss, and being regarded as a fool. I'm stupid. ”

Wang Jien didn't dare to speak, but the emperor stared at him, but he couldn't help but say, he could only say: "It's all the fault of that Wang girl." At the beginning, if he hadn't made a lot of nonsense and brought those strange theories into the palace, he would not have brought His Royal Highness Princess Duanrong badly, and His Majesty would not have suffered from it. ”

"How long ago was that?"

Although this reason is not reliable, after hearing about it, the emperor is still much more relaxed. (To be continued.) )