Tianqi said while eating: "Are you still used to it after so long?" ”

King Rui said: "The ministers are very ashamed, they feel that they are very useless, and they do not understand many things very well. ”

Tianqi asked King Xin, "What have you arranged for several uncles?" ”

King Xin said: "Several uncles are not very familiar with government affairs, and the younger brothers let them be in charge of the law department, mainly in charge of the custody and distribution of the dossier. ”

King Hui also said: "The minister has been here for so long, and some things can be seen, but he can't say it as smoothly as a few of them." ”

Tianqi laughed and said: "Actually, a few uncles have done a good job, what I mean is that as long as a few uncles sit here, I can rest assured that the king should also be at ease, don't you say that the king believes?" ”

King Xin also said: "Yes, if only the ministers are here, they are really a little jealous of those old ministers, and a few uncles feel that they have something to rely on as soon as they sit beside them,"

Tianqi said: "Yes, in the final analysis, this world is still our Zhu family's, no matter how capable outsiders are, they are still outsiders, a few uncles Wang look at it more, don't let those people bully my brothers." ”

King Gui also said: "The emperor can rest assured, the ministers know it." ”

After eating and waiting for the eunuch to clean up, seeing that Ye Xianggao and others had not yet returned, King Xin said: "At first, the imperial brother said that Wei Zhongxian's secret report was forced to buy and sell, and there were also Ye and Han's two adults, and the courtiers were wondering if they were changing their accounts now?" ”

Apocalypse said: "If you want to change it, change it, as long as you change it beautifully." ”

King Xin said: "If you don't find it, you will deceive and change it if you find it, don't you want to punish them?" ”

Apocalypse said: "If everyone is honest and only they deceive me, then they are looking for death, but now there are too many people who deceive me, and it is also a good thing to have two people who can make mistakes and change them." ”

Seeing that King Xin looked puzzled, Tianqi said: "Whether it is governing the country or governing a small place, you can only fight a very small number of people to win over the majority of the people, the blow is too big, the resistance is great, even if the thing is done, it is very tiring and annoying, if there is too much opposition to it, it will become a pot of raw rice, then it will be troublesome." ”

The king said, "Didn't this scholar say that a gentleman is righteous? Will you do it in private regardless of profit? ”

Tianqi said: "This scholar is also a human being, and those who don't seek profit and only talk big are either liars or fools, as long as they don't make too much money, they just turn a blind eye, it's not easy for everyone." ”

Tianqi saw that King Xin was still a little unimpressed, so he continued: "A while ago, when Brother Wei wanted to implement things such as selling titles and economic censorship, several ministers spoke out against it, and many people echoed them, do you hope that every time you do something, someone will desperately oppose it?" ”

King Xin asked, "What does the imperial brother mean?" ”

Tianqi said: "There are many things to be implemented in the future, I don't want to spend so much time every time, now they have a mistake and must be ashamed in their hearts, as long as my ideas are not too outrageous in the future, it is estimated that they are embarrassed to talk about the ancestral system and the great truth to oppose it." Besides, even if you get rid of them all, it's not easy to get along with two self-righteous gentlemen, and now is a special period, and the order of employing people should be obedient first and ability second. ”

At this time, King Gui also said excitedly: "Yes, they will be more obedient when they hold their sore spots, just like when plowing the field, they will be obedient when they put a rope on the nose of a cow." ”

King Xin said: "Brother Huang and Uncle Wang have said well, I am still too young. ”

Tianqi said: "People have to grow up slowly, I have great expectations for you, learn from the old ministers and grow up as soon as possible." ”

At this time, Ye Xianggao and the others came over, Zhu Yanxi walked behind, there was no expression on his face, as if he had just slept and woke up, he couldn't tell whether he was happy or worried, Ye Xianggao and Han Yi had richer expressions, and they walked in with a gloomy face and knelt down and cried: "The minister is guilty, please punish the emperor!" ”

Tianqi thought to himself: "Could it be that the two of them were bullied by Old Man Zhu?" He said, "What's the matter?" Don't cry, get up and talk. ”

Ye Xianggao and the others did not move, Ye Xianggao said: "The ministers compare Wei Zhongxian's secret report with the number of self-reports below, there are more than 30 families that are not much worse, and there are 17 families involved in the officials of the court, including the families of the ministers, the ministers have been deceived by their families and have been devastated by the grace of the gods, please ask the emperor to punish the crime!" ”

When Tianqi heard this, he thought: "This intellectual is just brainless, and he doesn't cherish the opportunity to cheat when he gives you." He said, "It's right to be deceived and reformed, what is not sinful?" Hurry up, please. ”

Ye Xianggao said: "The emperor is tolerant, and the ministers are inexplicably grateful, but the ministers and others said to their subordinates the day before yesterday that they should be selfless for the country and the people, and other big words, such a thing happened today, and it is really shameless to stand on top of the court again, and I implore the emperor to allow the ministers to resign and return to the country!" ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said, "I have a word, I wonder if the two adults are willing to listen to it?" ”

Ye Xianggao and Han Yi said: "Please give instructions to the emperor." ”

Tianqi said: "Then you two get up and sit down, and I can't say anything when I see two old people kneeling on the ground." ”

Ye Xianggao and Han Yi had to get up and sit on their chairs, and after seeing them sit down, Tianqi said: "I think that there are not only two kinds of people in this world: gentlemen and villains, on the contrary, pure gentlemen and villains are very, very rare in this world, and they are basically ordinary people who have both advantages and faults. No matter how brilliant and great a person is, there are shortcomings, and in turn, no matter how bad a person is, he can find a shining point, so the principle of employing people is not to judge heroes by moral level, but to judge success or failure by your ability and how many achievements you have made through your ability. If you hold everyone to the standard of a gentleman, it won't be long before you find that all the people around you have become hypocrites who deceive the world, which I don't want to see. What is our purpose now? It is to buy surplus grain from the hands of wealthy families and give it to those who have no food to eat, instead of rectifying the atmosphere by arresting people and punishing crimes. As for resigning from the government and returning to China, you have read the books of sages since you were a child, and you should understand the truth of kings and ministers, fathers and sons, but now there are constant internal and external troubles, but because you want to protect your worthless reputation, you can endure to see your father's daily troubles and sorrows and enjoy pure happiness at home? ”

Hearing Tianqi say this, Ye Xianggao and Han Yi got up again and were about to kneel down to confess, Tianqi waved his hand and said, "Don't kneel, say what you have to say, and stand and say it if you can't say it while sitting." ”

Ye Xianggao was stunned for a moment, bent down and said: "The minister doesn't say anything, the emperor has an order to just order." ”

Apocalypse said, "Good! Now you go and notify these 30 or so big households, and let them check and report again. I have been very tolerant, allowing them to keep enough food for three years according to the number of people in their families, and the rest will be borrowed or sold to the country, and it is not that they will not pay it back, and when the country is good, everyone can be good for a long time. There are also those who do not grow grain and take the field to grow other things, and change it back within half a month, and I will not say anything cruel and let them not make mistakes. ”

Ye Xianggao and Han Yi said: "The emperor can rest assured, the minister will do a good job." ”

Tianqi said again: "King Xin, the Government Council will send a letter tomorrow to ask the northern prefectures and counties to recruit people, and tell the people that if they go to the south, they will have food, housing, and land, and if they don't think about it, it doesn't matter if they sit at home and wait to die, anyway, I don't care if I starve to death." Let Yang Lian send half of his two hundred people to the northern provinces to see how the preparations for recruiting escorts are going, and the other half to the southern provinces to see if the preparations for resettlement sites and pick-up and drop-off are done. These two hundred people don't do specific things, just look at who does it and who doesn't, and those who are ineffective are immediately replaced and let them take over. ”

Zhu Yanxi said: "Your Majesty, it's still the same sentence, where does the silver come from?" ”

Tianqi said: "I calculated that the household department can move out 1 million, and I will send another 500,000 internal funds, so that the victims can carry food on their backs and exchange food on the road, and if the post station house is not enough to live along the way, they will build a straw hut, and the old and weak will follow by themselves in the car, and the 1.5 million car and boat expenses should be enough. ”

Zhu Yanxi said: "It can only be like this. ”

Tianqi said: "In any case, it is imperative to pull people who lack food in the north to the south to work in exchange for food, and the officials who block it will change people without changing their brains." ”