Chapter 243: Editing the Jianwen Dictionary (Chinese)

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yunwen did not introduce his idea of the "Jianwen Canon" first, but sent the examination papers of the Nanzhili Provincial Examination and let the four of them read it first, and unsurprisingly, all four of them couldn't help frowning.

"Nan Zhili's exam questions, some of them are in terms of people's livelihood, as well as business and law, not surprisingly, the exam is a mess."

Zhu Yunwen chuckled and shook his head, but he said good things for these candidates.

"There's no way, it's as simple as I thought, let a group of people who have never been officials come to govern the place, where can I do well."

When everyone drinks in Pingsuri, they can always blow the whistle of the mountains and the sea, and when they really encounter specific incidents, this group of grassroots scholars and students are numb, racking their brains and not knowing what to do.

"I remember that when the Hanlin Academy was in the Hongwu year, it also edited a book of "Instructions for the Arrival of County Orders" and "Responsibility Regulations", there is such a thing."

Hearing Zhu Yunwen ask about this, the four of them all laughed.

In the year of Hongwu, many Hanlin Jinshi were delegated to the grassroots level to serve as county commanders, but the work of county orders was completely different from their learning in the capital, and many students instantly blackened their eyes when they arrived at the place, and they didn't know where to start, let alone carry out their work.

When a county order is issued to a locality, it is necessary to grasp the first work, the second place to visit, and the last to deal with the incurable diseases, all of which are all in that book.

How powerful is this book, there are more than 100 matters in a county, and it can be said that everything will be explained to you clearly, you don't have to bother to ask the master, just take this book and follow the above steps to govern, and ensure that the officials of the local provincial government can pass the examination for three years.

Later, some officials with good family conditions were even more lazy, so they simply asked a master to let him perform the duties of the county order according to this book, and he lay down and slept at home.

And these two themes, which can be called official textbooks, were implemented from the Hongwu year to the end of the Qing Dynasty.

This is known as programmatic governance.

Taizu's meaning is that I don't need you to have your ideas, I just need you to be an official according to my ideas.

A book of "Instructions for the Arrival of County Orders" made countless Jinshi county orders decentralized, whether he went to Liaodong or Gansu, or to Fujian, Liangguang, and Yunnan, what he did when he went to the local area was so rigid and rigid that he didn't know how to be flexible at all.

In the past, it was not without that kind of arrogant people, but they were quite thoughtful, and they felt that they could not be so blunt as officials, and they could not govern according to the guidelines, and they felt that they could govern the place well.

Who doesn't know how to govern a country anymore?

As a result, his own ideas were even more messy, and he was cut down by Taizu's anger, and since then he has been so frightened that the county orders in the world have been honest.

Governing the country with a small foundation became the norm in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"I read this "Notice for the Arrival of the County Order" and also read the "Responsibility Regulations", and I was moved, so I want to compile a "Jianwen Dictionary", which you can understand as the new "Notice for Officials".

After listening to Zhu Yunwen's meaning, Yang Shiqi was the first to agree.

"Your Majesty, it is indeed very important for officials to know this kind of thing. The scholars studied hard, and the books they read were all big truths, and when they went deep into the grassroots and peaceful places, they didn't need any sage remarks at all, and they really needed some guidance for official teaching materials. ”

After talking about these touted nonsense, Yang Shiqi raised concerns and questions again.

"However, with all due respect, the administration still needs to be adapted to the time and local conditions, and it is not possible to make a large number of identical county orders at one time according to the printing press, and it is better to be close to the Jiangnan region near the center, but in remote provinces, the problem of one ethnic terroir alone will be broken and bloody, like Liangguang and Guizhou, which are still a small dozen a day, a big dozen in ten days, and bloodshed incidents emerge one after another, and these problems can be solved by a book of official instructions."

A book of official instructions is like the assembly line of a factory, mass-producing a large number of officials who seem to be carved out of a mold, and even their thoughts are exactly the same.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the conflict between our country and the Shaomin lasted for six or seven hundred years and did not stop, and the bloody suppression of sending troops to quell the chaos was even more numerous, only in the Hongwu Dynasty, there were dozens of large-scale suppression campaigns with more than 10,000 troops, and there were records of suppression of the rebellion in Liangguang, Guizhou, Yunnan, Liaodong, Gansu and Fujian.

The local people stretched out their hands to ask for power, and even wanted independence, and to engage in China, at the big said, this is splitting the country, and at the smallest, everyone wants to be the overlord of the soil, and would rather be the head of the chicken than the tail of the phoenix.

"That's right, it's based on this consideration that I want to call you to discuss how to write the editing of this "Jianwen Canon."

Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but bow his head, and then said his thoughts.

"I plan to divide this "Jianwen Canon" into categories, including humanities, politics, economy, history, law, literature, and sports."

The four of them began to copy in their respective small notebooks, listening to Zhu Yunwen's incessant chatter.

"Each major category should collect all the things that have been recorded in writing since the pre-Xia and Shang periods, and put them together in different categories.

For example, humanities, in this category, it should include the customs of various places, the cultural customs of various ethnic groups, some common sense of people's daily life, and the national conditions of various countries except for our Ming Dynasty.

The purpose of describing these events is to ensure that no new official in the future will have a certain amount of knowledge, so that when they go to a new place, they will know how to understand and respect the cultural differences of the place, and they will be smart, and they will use this knowledge to stabilize the management or rule.

Politics, this broad category of my thoughts, includes current affairs, the policy program of the imperial court, and some of the ideas and arguments of the cabinet published in the Qiushi newspaper.

The purpose of learning this knowledge is to enable those grassroots officials and officials to maintain a high degree of ideological consistency with me and the cabinet, and not to let them do whatever they want, so as not to deviate from the administration.

In terms of economy, this category should not be too deeply touched for the time being, I am still thinking about it, so I will briefly mention two sentences, such as business can enrich the country and the people, and we must encourage non-governmental business behavior to have the courage to reform and open up, and some other arguments will be controlled for the time being.

Qing History, since the Xia and Shang periods to the present dynasty, this piece is the best to collect and sort out, and it will record the dynasties of my China for thousands of years with the passage of time, including the development of our neighbors and small countries in addition to my Ming Dynasty, and those with written accounts are also recorded.

The ancients, taking history as a mirror, can know the rise and fall. Let them learn more history books, so that they can know what to do and what not to do.

The law is more important, in addition to the current law of the Ming Dynasty, since the birth of the law before the ceremony, to the present dynasty all the content related to the ceremony, law, and letter are recorded, including the Sui and Tang dynasties, the two Song Dynasty official cultivation and collection of legal documents must be included word for word.

As for the number of literature, that is, literature and mathematics, literature does not need to be said much, only mathematics is mentioned.

I took a look at the mathematical progress of the Central Plains during the two Song and Yuan dynasties, including the 'Ming Numbers' that I have researched and implemented that are now used in the market for alternative characters, all of which must be recorded.

And the most important thing is Shen Kuo's book "Mengxi Writings", this book is amazing, which shows that our ancestors have studied mathematics, science and technology and engineering (physics), gunpowder (chemistry), medicine (biology) and other fields, which must be collected and sorted out in detail.

As for the sports analysis category. ”

Zhu Yunwen glanced at the hall and spoke solemnly for a long time, which immediately surprised everyone.

That is, from the beginning of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising to Taizu's "Edict to the Central Plains", for thousands of years, all the big and small uprisings, rebellions, restoration of the country, the Northern Expedition, and all other acts that were under any banner and whose ultimate goal was to obtain political rights, you call it rebellion, and here, I have given him a new name, called the revolutionary movement.

Revolution is not a dinner party, a fuss, a painting and embroidery, it cannot be so elegant, so calm, so "courteous", so "gentle, courteous and frugal". A revolution is an insurrection, an act by force and bloodshed in which one class overthrows another.

Since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted the sentence 'Princely generals, would you rather have a kind?' It is the first revolutionary slogan in the history of my Central Plains, they want to reform the life of the Qin Dynasty, and the life of the Han Dynasty of Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Rebellion, similarly, Emperor Taizu Gao's Northern Expedition, the revolution is the life of the tyrannical Yuan, there is nothing that cannot be seen, Zhang can't open his mouth, the fact is the fact, whether you mention it or not, it is all here. ”

There was a dead silence in the Qianqing Palace, and the four members of the cabinet all widened their eyes and looked at Zhu Yunwen in disbelief.

The first time I heard that an emperor wanted to collect and sort out the uprising and rebellion in this history, and even teach it to the people of the world, what kind of commotion is this?

Teach the world how to rebel?

Or, like the emperor said, teach the people of the world how to reform the life of the Ming Dynasty?

"Your Majesty, by all means."

Yang Shiqi took the lead in bowing down, and persuaded again and again: "Is there a reason to write a book for the rebels?" In this way, the country will not be a country. ”

Since Yang Shiqi, the other three people are also busy bowing down and admonishing, the caliber is all for Zhu Yunwen to be able to take back his life, these first items are good, and it will indeed be of great benefit to the grassroots scholars of the Ming Dynasty to be officials in the future, but this last item is too outrageous, how can he teach his subjects how to rebel.

The reaction of these people was completely within Zhu Yunwen's expectations, because he had been considering this idea as early as when he was preparing to implement the provincial examination, and today, he felt that his idea had been perfected and had extremely high feasibility, so he chose to take it out.

Why do you want to transcribe all the rebellions or revolutionary acts that have emerged in the history of thousands of years?

This is like the parents of later generations, who rarely teach their children about sexuality, which is an unspeakable behavior that is taboo by people.

The social atmosphere before Zhu Yunwen just crossed over was already very open, and among the ten families, there were one or two enlightened parents who would start educating their children at the age of their children's puberty, so that children could understand what physiological structure and some knowledge of sexual life were, but there are still the vast majority of parents who will never tell their children what sex is!

Zhu Yunwen remembered that when he was very young, his parents said that he picked it up in the garbage heap, even in high school, in the nineties, he Zhu Yunwen still thought so!

For this reason, he also asked his teachers and classmates, but the teacher was difficult to say, and the classmates were all from the garbage heap like him.

Does the garbage heap still have the function of producing children?

Children don't understand, parents don't teach, but the sexual impulse of adolescence is the only way that every child must experience, then it will be thunderous and out of control.

In the same way, in ancient times, rebellion was the biggest taboo, and no one dared to say it, let alone collect and organize a collection of rebellions.

But if you don't mention it, the common people won't understand?

Although he doesn't understand, he knows that if he can't live, he will kill people, he knows that there is food in the official warehouse, and he knows that he can live if he enters the official warehouse, which is just like a child who doesn't understand what sex is, but he will also follow the instinct of biology and carry out piston movement.

If the common people rebel, they will die, and the children will steal the forbidden fruit, and if they don't know how to protect them, they will get pregnant.

Thousands of obstacles, but in the end, it still led to bad results.

"Do you know why I want them all to know what a rebellion is, or what a revolution is?"

Zhu Yunwen walked down the imperial steps, helped up the four cabinet ministers, and simply sat between the four of them and explained to them.

"Do you know why the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Yellow Nest Rebellion gathered dozens or even millions of people in an instant?"

"The people have no life to rebel against themselves."

Yang Shiqi replied, and saw Zhu Yun's head skewed.

"Yes, the people have no life to rebel, so there is a saying that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and those who lose the hearts of the people lose the world, but the reason is that the common people don't understand what rebellion is, and only a few people who have started an incident understand, so they use slogans and painting pies to bewitch this group of people, so that the people believe in the nonsense they call 'equal land and tax exemption', and they are willing to charge into battle for these ambitious factions and forget their lives."

Slogans have the power to deceive people.

What kind of king came and didn't pay for food, what Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's "cultivators have their fields, dwellers have their houses, and businesses have their property." "The old have something to rely on, and the young have something to support, these ugly things are like painting a big pie.

"They keep saying that they are fighting for the rights and interests of the proletarian and unsurviving people, why did the people become emperors after they spilled their blood and lost their lives to lay a large country for them? Shouldn't this emperor be the same as all the common people? ”

Inside the main hall, all four of them laughed.

are all emperors, so who does this emperor lead and rule?

Having said that, Yang Shiqi and the four of them understood what the emperor meant.

Why blatantly put such a thing as rebellion into words, the purpose is to cultivate more 'careerists'!

If you want to rebel, you can, the court will teach you.

This rebellion needs demagogy, it needs to agitate the uneducated people, it needs the help of manpower, it needs slogans.

Learned?

Then go and rebel.

"In the past, one person raised the flag to rebel, gathering tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, and then 100,000 people wanted to rebel, who will be the boss?"

Zhu Yunwen laughed: "People's hearts, they all want to be the boss, they will shout slogans, and the result is that no one will obey anyone, and in the end, the big guy will find out that no one will obey anyone, and as a result, he will simply be too lazy to rebel." ”

The more people who know about rebellion, the more rebellion it will not be able to make.

The reason is as simple as that, you will shout slogans, I will also shout slogans, don't talk to me about bullshit lofty ideals, pour chicken soup, I know that your purpose is actually to be the emperor, just to pursue power.

If you say that you are asking for the people's life, then I will also say that I am asking for the people's life.

The common people are puzzled, and they all ask for my life, so who do I listen to?

Didn't you say that you would ask for my life, why did we use knives to cut people on this kind of thing, and you sloganists hid behind?

When society progresses to this form, a form that is very different from rebellion is born:

Rallies and marches to protest!

Since the beginning of the Republic of China, the common people no longer believe in rebellion, because the common people understand the true meaning of rebellion, and they will no longer be easily seduced by the ambitionists and choose to solve the problem violently, but will choose to express their demands through rallies, parades, etc., hoping that the government can change its policy and benefit the people.

In later generations, anyone who has attended nine years of compulsory education will simply understand some politics and history, and also know what is called revolution, so who will be willing to be a pawn just because others shout two slogans?

Don't make a fuss, who will be a stupid boy.

In later generations, strikes and demonstrations were the most common in foreign countries, but even if they were exploited by capital, it was difficult for the working class to unite and fight, and it was often easy to be divided by interests, which was the self-interested behavior in human nature.

"A rebel is a dragon, and a group of rebels is a swarm of worms."

As soon as Zhu Yunwen said this, the eyes of the four people in this hall lit up.

"I have collected all the uprisings of all dynasties and dynasties, and written them in books to tell the world that in the future, I will popularize education in the world, so that the common people can also read and write, and also understand the nature of rebellion, and then there will be no more rebellions in the world."

"Your Majesty is very right."

Yang Shiqi was amazed and convinced.

"Since ancient times, rebels have responded to every call, so that they can set off a wave that breaks the embankment and sweep the world, and if even the lowest people understand what a rebellion is, then who will pay their lives to fulfill someone else as an emperor? For the grasp of human nature, His Majesty's holy eyes are like torches, and the ministers are shocked. ”

"The ancients did not want to make the people wise, but they were afraid that the people would be wise and shake the rule, but they did not know that the smarter the people, the more difficult it is to deceive."

Suddenly, Zhu Yunwen sighed.

"When a person has wisdom, he will consider interests in his every move, and will weigh and calculate, but if the people are not wise, they will be easily deceived and instigated, and in the end things will become bigger and bigger, and the whole situation will be overturned.

The purpose of establishing the "Jianwen Canon" is to open up the wisdom of the people in the world, so that the country of my Ming Dynasty can be truly indestructible! ”

A king can enter the city of Beijing and force Emperor Chongzhen to death, what about a group of kings?

Hundreds of years later, no matter how loud Li Zicheng's slogan is, no one will pay attention to him!

Follow you to rebel, and we will make you emperor?

Make your spring and autumn dreams!