The officials of the Yuan Dynasty were spoiled in one sentence, they were a little too indulgent and free, arrogant, lascivious, greedy and greedy, and they were the ones who were sick and difficult to return from after a hundred years, if Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't had no way back then, he would have cut most of them down.

It's just that the territory was fought too fast back then, and the territory couldn't run without the officials left by the Yuan Dynasty, and someone needed to do it for taxation and conscription, and Zhu Yuanzhang was all big and rough at that time, and it was almost the same to let them go to be bandits.

Although the imperial court has been using the Guozijian to train officials, and also to promote and select officials from all over the country, they are far from enough people, and the imperial examination scholars come up more than 1,000 officials every year, and they are all local petty officials.

When everyone said almost, Zhu Yuanzhang made a version and said: "Mingsheng is young and ignorant of the world, so he will be exempted from the gift of Mingsheng kowtowing to the ground and bowing down to ask for sin, and when the time comes, the prince will come forward to appease him with the courtier's courtesy, and canonize Mingsheng as the Marquis of Guiyi and give him a house in the capital." ”

Zhu Biao led hundreds of officials to bow down to receive the order, and then Zhu Yuanzhang announced that he was going to the next court, Zhu Biao followed his father to prepare to return to the imperial study, and was caught up by the little eunuch behind him as soon as he walked out, it turned out that Song Lian wanted to meet the prince.

Zhu Biao ordered to invite Song Lian to a side hall first, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was walking in front, also heard it, turned around and said to his son: "This old master, this will be open soon, he probably doesn't want to preside over anymore, and wants to go back to his hometown to be lazy." ”

Zhu Biao thought about it, this was indeed Song Lian's doing, but in the end it was his own husband, so he excused himself: "Master Song has already been the examiner once, and it is really inappropriate to be again." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care and said casually: "You watch and deal with it, come back quickly." ”

Zhu Biao bowed down to send his father and the emperor away, and then turned around to see Song Lian, after entering the hall, Song Lian bowed down in a regular manner, not a formal occasion Zhu Biao naturally did not accept it, and held Song Lian with his own hands, the old master is sixty years old this year, fortunately, his body is not bad.

After Song Lian sat down, he sighed and said: "The old minister feels more and more that his body is not good, and he wants to go back to his hometown to recuperate, and I hope that His Royal Highness can be gracious." ”

Zhu Biao said with relief: "Master Song is old and strong, isn't the "History of the Yuan" finished, if Master Song is tired and returns to the house to recuperate for more than a month, the palace will tell his father." ”

Song Lian smiled bitterly and said: "The old minister is really tired, the sages in the court gather all the people in the Zhengying Dynasty, why do you need the old minister to occupy the position, it is better to let the minister go back." ”

Zhu Biao also had a headache when he heard these words full of connotation, remembering that his old master had just been demoted to the Seventh Rank Hanlin Editing Fellowship two months ago because of the loss of the dynasty, and he heard that he was ridiculed by other officials.

Zhu Biao asked Liu Jin beside him to fan him to the old master, and then comforted him softly: "If it is a matter of position, why should Master Song care, you are the gentleman of this palace, and your father has a lot of trust in you, this demote punishment is just to show the laws and regulations, so after this palace goes back, I will persuade and resume my position as a political doctor tomorrow." ”

Song Lian stubbornly turned his head and said: "The old minister is not for the sake of his position, but he has the intention to return to his hometown, the tree is thousands of feet high, the fallen leaves return to the roots, the northern geese fly south, the fox dies on the head hill, and I hope that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be fulfilled." ”

Zhu Biao persuaded a few more words and finally said: "Even so, it is not easy for the disciple to stop it anymore, it is time for Song Shi Huanhai to return to his hometown to meet his relatives for many years, but this palace can't let you go back like this." ”

Song Lian is the prince's teacher, it is Zhu Biao who is so demoted to his hometown, the teacher of this era is not the teacher in the school of later generations, if Zhu Biao is not the prince's respect, it is appropriate to ask every morning and evening to catch up with the carriage and horse.

He instructed Liu Jin: "Send the frame of the main palace to the Song Mansion, and when the Song master returns home, he will send a hundred people from the East Palace guards to escort him all the way." ”

Song Lian naturally hurriedly excused himself, and dragged on for a while before sending the sobbing Song Lian out, Zhu Biao took advantage of Song Lian's move to make an appointment, and when he had rested enough in his hometown, Zhu Biao would pick him up.

After the old master Song left, Zhu Biao pinched his eyebrows, the older Song Lian gets, the more he does what he wants, but Zhu Biao is not bored, there are only a few people he is really close to, it is estimated that Song Lian is the first to go, while the people are still there, just take care of them.

What's more, Song Lian's official position in the court is not obvious, but in the literary world, it is the sect of a generation, who does not know the name of Song Longmen, Zhu Biao, as his disciple, has also gotten a lot, and the students of Xinke Jinshi and Guozijian are naturally close to him, but not only because he is the prince.

After Zhu Biao dealt with this matter, he hurried to see his father, Zhu Yuanzhang was reviewing the chapter, and when he saw his son coming, he asked, "I heard that he went out crying?" ”

Zhu Biao smiled and nodded to tell the matter again, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head disdainfully, thinking that literati were hypocritical, but Zhu Yuanzhang was still very grateful to Song Lian, and felt that the prince was so good, and Song Lian had a great credit to the Zhu family.

Zhu Yuanzhang instructed the outside world: "Jin Feng Song Lian is a political doctor, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and he is allowed to return to his hometown for glory." ”

There was a sound of promise outside, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care anymore, looked at his son and said: "The autumn harvest is imminent, and it's time for corrupt officials to make a fortune, so we are going to arrest a batch of local officials this year." ”

Zhu Biao naturally has no opinion, the end of the foreign war is naturally going to start to settle down, the nobles are not moving for the time being, the civil officials don't have to take care of it, it just so happens that after the exam, there will be hundreds of more officials to fill the vacancy, and it is time for the students of Guozijian to pull out a batch to see the results.

Zhu Biao thought for a while and said: "The question is who should be sent to the local area to inspect corruption, whether it is Zhongshu Province or the officials of the six ministries themselves, they are not clean, and when they get to the locality, I am afraid that not only will they not punish corruption, but they will also take the opportunity to blackmail local officials." ”

"If they send Qingliu Yushi, they may have a clean and honest heart, but they may not be able to find out anything when they go to the locality, a corrupt official can be done by an official, and a clean official is not so easy to do, especially now that the officialdom is like this."

After listening to this, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "It's difficult to do it, the trend of greed and corruption among officials for hundreds of years can't be changed overnight, but we must show the attitude of our Zhu family, and let the people know that the emperor wants to govern corrupt officials and stands with the people, but he hasn't caught those rats for the time being." ”

Zhu Biao understood as soon as he heard it, because of the relocation of the people to the south and other matters in the past two years, although the imperial court has not stopped purging the rule of officials, it has not been too serious, and now Zhu Yuanzhang's long-standing butcher's knife has finally been brought up again.

Now I can't see black and white, but as long as Qin Cha goes to the place, everything is clear, there is no impermeable wall in this world, and after the pro-army Captain's Mansion is over, he will naturally know who is trustworthy.

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