"Those who seek profit are easy to distinguish, but there is a difference between those who seek fame, some people seek the name of the time, and some people seek the name of eternity."

Emperor Longqing's words made the young prince a little difficult to understand. Looking at his son's puzzled face, Zhu Zaigao also felt that he might be too profound, and his son was still young, how could he understand?

So after thinking about it, he decided to give an example, and said: "Good boy, you may not know that when my father was still King Yu, because of Yan Shifan...... In short, Yuwangfu is getting poorer and poorer, and he barely survives on the money given by the imperial court. But in fact, the royal family has gifts, but I can't get them. At that time, Mr. Gao put down his identity and heart, ran back and forth for his father, and even came to the door in person, begging Yan Shifan with humble words, so that his father could get that pitiful example. Good boy, you must know that Mr. Gao is a pillar of talent, so he is like a beggar, he works hard for his father, how can his father not be grateful for his kindness? ”

Zhu Yijun was taken aback: "En? Not work? ”

"It's grace, and it's also merit." Zhu Zaigao said: "Mr. Gao is my teacher, preaching, receiving karma, and solving doubts. He can sacrifice so much for me, but he can only regard it as 'grace'. ”

Zhu Yijun hesitated slightly, and hesitated: "But Daddy said that Mr. Gao also has selfish intentions. ”

"Isn't Mr. Gao's selfishness just what I want?" Long Qing said with a smile: "Didn't I say it, Mr. Gao's goal is to manage Zhong Leyi, and my father knows his talent and courage, so I let him do it, what can I do?" What he wants is Zhongxing Daming, doesn't Daddy, the emperor, want to? ”

"However, my son heard that Xu Jie blasted Gao Ge Lao away the year before last, and his father only got back to him not long ago, so why?" Zhu Yijun asked strangely.

Hearing this, Emperor Zhu Zaiyuan of Longqing fell silent, his eyes were a little distracted for a while, and he muttered: "Sometimes, there is always some sacrifice to do great things, but in fact, there are not many people who are really willing to sacrifice for you." ”

He remembered that not long after he ascended the throne, because of the so-called greed for money, lust, and the "neglect of government" that seemed to be indifferent to everything, and asked the cabinet about everything, an old minister who was known for his uprightness commented angrily: "Since the beginning of the world, I have never seen such an emperor who can still create a prosperous era!" ”

Such an angry reprimand, but he Zhu Zaiyuan didn't mind, he had his own way of being a king, he believed that he could create a prosperous world, and he could create a Zhongxing.

In fact, many officials in the world know that he was very bitter and cowardly in his early years; But what many people don't know is that he is used to seeing the hardships of the people's livelihood and experiencing the coldness of officialdom. This is a compulsory course for emperors, and he knows it earlier and deeper than many emperors.

Moreover, although Jiajing was mean to him, he was still trained with him as his successor, and which of the teachers Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others equipped for him was not a great talent?

Even after the king came to the world, he never forgot the hardships and hardships of the year. Once, when he saw a magistrate asking for a commendation for his filial son, he remembered the past with his mother and burst into tears on the spot. This tearful memory is planted with the ideals he has always adhered to, just as he sighed to Gao Gong after the revival of the high arch: I have encountered many difficulties since I ascended the throne, but what I have not forgotten is the eight words on the enthronement edict - "Adaptation is appropriate, and it is necessary to carry out Xinhua!" ”

As it turned out, he delivered on that lifelong promise. And his methods are two idioms: knowing people and being good at their duties, being soft on the outside and rigid on the inside. These eight simple words are exactly the ruling policy of his Son of Heaven.

The reason why he Zhu Zaiyuan is "lazy and stupid" is because he believes that although there are many problems in the Ming Dynasty, there is only one root cause -- the treatment of officials. If this point of view is highly pragmatic here, it may not be fully agreed, but it is the view that Zhu Zaiyuan adheres to.

Zhu Zaiyuan also believes that among the officials in the government, the most shocking thing is the ever-intensifying corruption.

In the past, sneaky corrupt behaviors, such as bribery, bribery, and embezzlement of public funds, have now become the norm on the table. As for the seniors teaching the juniors to be greedy, and the leaders leading their subordinates to learn badly, it is even more commonplace. Mr. Gao once said to him: "It is unbreakable with greed", and he agreed with Mr. Gao's words. The atmosphere of officialdom is even more degenerate without a lower limit, and some ministers have commented that it has become modest to welcome the horse, and the people have become generous, and the folk description is more scathing: "The jackal of the office, the eagle dog of the private door." ”

In fact, a similar problem was also encountered by Chongzhen sixty years later. But Zhu Zaiyuan's understanding is obviously more than one grade higher than Chongzhen's, and he openly said: "All the countries in the four directions, how can I investigate it alone", and asked for collective wisdom and efforts to govern the country according to law!

But to do this, it is similar to the principle of bird hunting, not only to open a good net, but also to lay out the bait and let the fragrance out. His "lazy and stupid" is just blowing incense. In the singing and dancing, Zhu Zaiyuan's first "big net", Jingcha, began.

At this time, Jingcha was a mere formality, and the evaluation of officials was basically a formality, often opening the way with power and money, and who had the money. If you have the right, you can stay. For a long time, there have been fewer and fewer good officials, but there have been more and more corrupt elements. So for this Jingcha, everyone was very relaxed, thinking that it was still going through the motions. What they didn't expect was that the breakthrough point of Zhu Zaiyuan's rectification of the rule of officials was the "Jingcha" that was only aimed at Beijing officials this time.

In the first month of the first year of Longqing, the results of the thunderous Beijing inspection were announced: a large number of Beijing officials were deposed, and even more than half of the officials who had been protected by the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the past and could never be provoked were dismissed this time.

Such a fierce Jingcha has a severity not seen in decades, because its presiding officer is Yang Bo, the secretary of the Ministry at the time. This capable minister is old and stubborn, and the Metropolitan Inspectorate, which originally cooperated with Jingcha, was also hung up by him as an ornament.

However, Yang Bo's anti-corruption did not forget his hometown, as a native of Shanxi, he didn't even arrest a single Shanxi person, and his "love for his hometown" was so blatant that the capital was in an uproar.

Sure enough, not long after the results were announced, Hu Yingjia angrily wrote to the matter, strongly criticizing Yang Bo's shameful behavior of shielding his fellow villagers in Jingcha. Incidents like this are common in all previous Beijing inspections, and the vast majority of emperors never take things seriously, especially rarely deal with scolding officials.

But to everyone's surprise, Zhu Zaiyuan, who was busy drafting girls, playing with jewelry, and entering the cave room, heard that Yang Bo was scolded, so he angrily wrote an edict to the cabinet, saying that this official named Hu Yingjia is really not like words, and your cabinet will discuss it and teach this guy a lesson!

When the edict was sent to the cabinet, there was also an uproar, but this was the scene that Zhu Zaiyuan was waiting for. He wants to use this edict as a lead to lead out the disease hidden under the seemingly majestic body of the Ming Dynasty - inaction!

And the people who suffer from the disease of "inaction" are headed by Shoufu Xu Jie.

Longqing looked at the ministers around him, Zhang Ju was a disciple of Xu Jie, Chen Yiqin was fair and did not dare to be the first, Yin Shidan was the same year as Zhang Ju, and he was also a disciple of Xu Jie......

Zhu Zaiyuan can only launch the high arch to fight with Xu Jie!

As a result, everyone knew: "The full dynasty is inverted", and the high arch is connected with more than 20 resignations, and he returns to his hometown.

Xu Jie seemed to have won a big victory, but Zhu Zaiyuan sneered behind his back.

The real loser is actually Xu Jie: the people of his vein are completely exposed in front of the emperor, and he has gone too far this time, which has aroused the anger of the public - Gao Gong is gone, but the "Gao Party" will not be scattered in an instant!

As a result, Xu Jie was surprised to find that many of his thugs were either rectified or dismissed, and several other colleagues in the cabinet also began to disobey him...... After being so aggrieved for a few months, in the second year of Longqing, Xu Jie finally found out that this might be the emperor quietly manipulating him, so he made a resignation report to see the situation.

Of course, the situation is very bad, because Longqing Tianzi Yubi Zhu Pi: You go home when you are old, and you don't send it slowly.

When Xu Jie's fight with Gao Gong, the reason why Gao Gong left at the beginning is also this: the country has many drawbacks, but the new emperor has just ascended the throne, but he must take stability as the first priority, so he not only wants Xu Jie's strength to be exposed, but also temporarily needs Xu Jie's "licorice pavilion elder" to ensure the stability of the court; Until it's time to go deep into the rectification, Emperor Longqing will naturally not forget the teacher who can really dominate the world in his mind!

So, the king of the high arch returned.

In order to ensure the success of the rectification, Zhu Zaiyuan also broke the old system and let the teacher Gao Gong concurrently serve as the secretary of the ministry as a cabinet scholar, and grasp the administration and personnel.

In the face of the almost unreserved trust of the emperor's students, Gao Gong will certainly not be ambiguous, which is also the reason why Gao Gong repeatedly said that it was not that he didn't want to do it, but that there were more important things at the moment.

Long Qing Tianzi shook his head, freed himself from his contemplation, smiled a little inexplicably, and said to Zhu Yijun: "For this reason, Daddy will teach you next time, and today Daddy wants to ask you another question: If these noble children can't accompany you for a long time, how about Daddy find you a civil official to accompany you?" ”

Zhu Yijun asked rhetorically: "Whose son?" ”

"Mr. Gao's nephew." Long Qing smiled and said, "You also said that you had a good time talking with him." ”

"Is that him?" Zhu Yijun's eyes lit up: "My son thinks he's not bad." ”

Zhu Zaiyuan nodded, and said pointedly: "Then next, Daddy will hold it up for a few more days, make the trouble outside bigger, and then ...... It's up to your little friend to behave. ”