Tianqi took a look at the manuscript handed in by Gao Panlong, and the first article was written by Xu Guangqi, the title is Yin Jian of the reform in the early years of Wanli, and the content is to explain the importance of elected officials through the difficulty of Zhang Juzheng's reform. Xu Guangqi's manuscript was originally presented as a piece for Tianqi to read, and Gao Panlong first recommended this article to show that he agreed with this view, saying that timely handling of small problems can avoid the gathering of big problems, and also pointed out the limitations of elected officials. The reform of Zhang Juzheng has made many people dissatisfied, and the article emphasizes that it is because it is difficult to return to the problem and has to be overcorrected, and if the implementation of the democratically elected officials, they can know and deal with social problems in time.

Xu Guangqi's truth is easy to understand, just like a person who has not combed his hair for a long time, then his hair is difficult to comb, it is said that a lazy woman who combs her hair once a year feels very painful when she combs her hair, and she can't figure out why those who comb their hair every day are not afraid of pain. A lot of sloppy people wear clothes for a year or two, and it is estimated that there is no need to wash the clothes that have been worn for a year or two, because if he does not wash his dirty clothes, he can still wear them and wash them, I am afraid that they will be washed and rotten. Zhang Juzheng's reform is to remove the old dirt and nails on the premise of not washing bad clothes, which is a little admirable when I think about it now, because it is indeed a difficult job.

If small problems are not resolved, they will slowly accumulate into big problems, and when the time comes, it will inevitably make a large number of people feel uncomfortable, and this is the inevitable labor pain of reform, and those who have been hurt are not satisfied with those who are in charge of reform, and those who are in charge of reform will not feel good. Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty and Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty both carried out reforms because of their great power, and they were able to use thunder and thunder during their lifetimes, but they were all attacked after their deaths, and people with absolute authority like them did not end well, and those who had no power and no power to reform were likely to be ruined at that time.

Since everyone doesn't like Zhang Juzheng's hurtful reforms, we should find a way to completely solve them before the problems accumulate enough. When the imperial court used the bureaucratic system to govern the country, it seemed to be operating normally, and when certain problems arose, the common people were the first to feel the harm, that is, people often said that only the feet knew whether the shoes were suitable or not. Whether officials can perceive the people's sufferings in a timely manner and whether they can come up with a plan to solve problems in a timely manner is the embodiment of the official's ability, and it can be said that the elected officials can not only discover the problems in a timely manner, but also test the ability of the officials.

Of course, Xu Guangqi also said in the end that elected officials are a new thing, and there is no experience to learn from, and it is very likely that there will be repetitions and even mistakes, and only by recognizing the direction and constantly improving the methods and methods can we finally achieve success. He pointed out that the biggest uncertainty is that the elected officials may not be competent, or that the elected officials do not meet the needs of the imperial court, and the officials that the Ming really needs are those who can be supported by the people and recognized by the imperial court, and they need to find the right way in continuous experimentation.

After reading Xu Guangqi's manuscript, Tianqi felt a little uncomfortable, this manuscript was similar to the one submitted a while ago, why didn't Old Man Xu know to change it a little? I have thought of many ways to clearly express my views through many channels, and this point of view also makes the Donglin Party members, including Gao Panlong and Liu Zongzhou, agree, that is, all views and plans must emphasize loyalty to the court and the monarch before they are implemented and promoted. Xu Guangqi is a person who is engaged in practical practice, and he didn't expect this to be understandable, but what does Gao Panlong mean by ranking Xu Guangqi first?

Tianqi shook his head and began to read the second article, this one was written by Yuan Huazhong, the superintendent of the Southeast Military Region, and it was originally written as a proposal to the Military Affairs Yuan, but because its ideas were a little new, it was also selected by Gao Panlong. Yuan Huazhong said in the above book that there are many ethnic groups in the southeast who believe in gods and spirits, and that people in the Fujian area believe in Mazu in addition to believing in Buddhism and Taoism, and there are many foreigners gathering in the Guangdong area, and those who believe in God believe in Allah have everything, and it is not a good thing to continue like this in the long run.

Yuan Huazhong said that these people often hold various ceremonies outside, luring people who do not have many right and wrong recognition skills, and many families go bankrupt to donate, which is really a big scourge of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, there are even gods who take the opportunity to abduct women from good families, and finally do things that force good people to become prostitutes, and there are countless cases of taking advantage of the opportunity to steal other people's money. Now the Apocalypse has decreed that all religious figures and people of different races must hold ceremonies and other unique activities in their own homes or in specific places such as temples, temples, churches, etc., and the Southeast Military Region has cooperated with the localities to arrest many people who do not obey the holy decree.

Yuan Huazhong felt that this was not enough to punish and prevent these incidents from happening, and he thought that they could be dealt with together with the recovery of Taiwan. Yuan Huazhong thinks that those who secretly lure people into the church, as well as those who hold religious ceremonies outside privately to increase their popularity, belong to people who are full of food and panic, and a person who worries about his livelihood all day long cannot believe in gods and ghosts so obsessed, and his first thought should be about his own life and that of his family, rather than the ethereal gods, Buddhas, immortals, and ghosts' views of himself.

Taiwan is lonely overseas, occupied by the red-haired foreigners for so many years and cannot be recovered, not because the army of the Ming Dynasty can't beat it, but because it is separated by a trench of about 400 miles, if there is no trench, the red-haired ghosts will be as honest as those Taixi people in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. Yuan Hua means that Fujian is mountainous and there are not many people who can grow grain, and if all these mountains are filled into the Taiwan trench, the mountains will become flat land, and the islands will become peninsulas, and the Ming Dynasty will increase millions of acres of land out of thin air.

At present, the Southeast Military Region is already considering recruiting migrant workers to move mountains and reclaim the sea, and those who have difficulty in solving the problem of food and clothing are the first people to be considered by the Southeast Military Region, and for these people, it is not only necessary to provide them with food and clothing, but also to give them wages, and of course there are some people who only care about food and shelter and do not care about wages. Yuan Huazhong said that he knew that the imperial court allowed freedom of religious belief, but for those who believed in religion too much and hindered the normal life of ordinary people, they were the people that the Southeast Military Region focused on.

After reading this draft, Tianqi couldn't help but be a little amused, the deepest part of the Taiwan Strait is several hundred zhang deep, and the length of the entire Taiwan island is several hundred miles, if you really want to move the mountains of Fujian to fill up the Taiwan Strait, it is estimated that it will not be possible to do it in a few hundred years. However, it is also a good means to use this to transform the people who believe in other gods, and those who believe in other gods will definitely have their loyalty to the court reduced, and it can even be said that their loyalty to the court is not much left, and it is also meaningful to make them turn their minds through labor, and it is a good place to do this thing for hundreds of years to transform people.

Tianqi paused for a moment and then read the third article, which was written by Wen Zhenmeng, the superintendent of the Nanjing Military Region, who wrote about their ideas and some policy inquiries to the imperial court, mainly saying that Zhao Shujiao was planning how to adapt the Canal Gang. The Canal Gang is the people who transport grain goods from south to north on the canal, they have business dealings with the government but are not directly under the government's control, and over time they have formed their own forces. Wen Zhenmeng said that now these gangs on the canal are lined up and have not yet been integrated into a big gang, and it is a good time to adapt them one by one.

The north of the Ming Dynasty produced little grain, and had to transport grain from the south to the north, and the ships needed were numerous, and it could not all be the official ships of the imperial court, and the imperial court had little money before, and there was no way to outsource the transportation business to the civil groups, which formed large and small gangs for a long time, and people called them the Canal Gang. Now that the imperial court has the money to disband the Canal Gang and prepare to let the Great Iron Company take charge of the transportation business on the canal, Zhao Shujiao's task is to gradually reorganize the Canal Gang and place these people to avoid problems.

There are hundreds of thousands of people in the Canal Gang, including all of them, coolies who earn money by selling their labor, scholars who come up with ideas to eat intellectual food, young and strong people, and old people in their twilight years. Gao Panlong took Wen Zhenmeng's letter to Tianqi and thought that he also had his own meaning, because Yuan Huazhong said earlier that the Southeast Military Region needed people to move mountains and reclaim the sea, and now Wen Zhenmeng said that there are many people in the Canal Gang who may not have anything to do after the adaptation in the future, and the taste is very obvious, that is, he wants to pull some people from the original Canal Gang to the Southeast Military Region to reclaim the sea after the adaptation is successful.

Tianqi understood Gao Panlong's distress, because Yuan Huazhong and Wen Zhenmeng both represented the two major military regions of Southeast China and Nanjing, and the Military Affairs Yuan transferred these two documents to the Government Council to ask them to make up their minds, and Gao Panlong put these two letters together as a draft, which meant that Tianqi could agree to do it like this, and if he didn't agree, he would let everyone have ideas. Yuan Huazhong and Wen Zhenmeng are members of the Donglin Party but Xu Guangqi is not, what they said has some merit but neither is so satisfactory to Tianqi, Tianqi shook his head after reading it and looked at other people's drafts, and just saw two satisfactory articles, these two were written by Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, who assisted in government affairs in the Government Council.

Zhou Yanru is the champion of the Wanli period, now Chinese New Year's Eve is seventy-seven years old, Wen Tiren wants to be older than Zhou Yanru is twenty years old and is also a resourceful person, I heard people comment on them in the past two years, saying that Zhou Yanru is cautious but does not dare to take responsibility, Wen Tiren is far-sighted but only wants how to be promoted, and does not want to do things in a down-to-earth manner. After understanding, Tianqi found that Zhou Yanru was the champion Wen Tiren was a Qing official, and these two points are worthy of recognition, because this is a strength that many people do not have. ^-^^-^