Hearing the apocalypse say that King Xin was rich, everyone looked at King Xin to see how he reacted, King Xin nodded and asked: "The household department has some money now, but there are many sources and their own accounts, I don't know which part of the imperial brother has taken a fancy to?" ”

Tianqi said: "I started to sell titles before last but I didn't sell much at the beginning, and my brother wanted to give some subsidies to retired ministers and honest civil officials, but he only took out his share of the income, and it is said that the income and expenditure were equal at that time. A year and a half has passed in a blink of an eye.,I heard that last year sold more than the year before.,This year's sale of the title is better than last year.,So naturally there will be some reservations.,It's this part of the ‰ used to visit this site.。 ”

King Xin thought for a while and said: "The money from the sale of the title is indeed saved, and the imperial brother wants to take this money to those officers in the army to replace the military field and return to the younger brother, but the amount is not enough, I am afraid it is not enough." ”

Apocalypse said: "According to the current trend, there will be more and more in the future, because no one likes to kneel down at every turn, and with the popularization of equality consciousness and life getting better and better, I believe that more people will come to buy knighthoods." ”

Gao Panlong asked at this time: "Is it necessary for the emperor to indulge them like this?" ”

Apocalypse said, "I'm not indulging them, I'm changing a rule that has been running for many years, and because it has been running for a long time, the backlash must be strong. Because of the tight schedule, it is not possible to force changes or imperceptibly, and in this case, some appropriate compromises are necessary. Forget it, don't talk about these unhappy things, this matter is so decided, Lord Liu began to say that the Holy Academy has summed up three kinds of relationships, and has already said two relationships, and then let's talk about the third relationship, which is the relationship between the people and the officials. ”

Liu Zongzhou thought for a while before saying: "I'm afraid this third relationship is a little difficult to say, this is what we have summarized through reasoning and analogy, even the ministers themselves can't believe this result, the emperor should not be angry when he hears it." ”

Apocalypse said: "Even if you say it, you don't have to do what you say, you can do it selectively." ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "In the past, officials were selected by the imperial court, and when they were promoted, they were judged on whether they should be promoted, transferred, or demoted according to their performance. The reason why it is necessary to change now is because of two reasons, one is that the emperor requires that future officials should be unanimously approved by the top and bottom, and the other is that the emperor requires that officials cannot be promoted based on past performance. ”

Tianqi said: "I'm afraid I won't understand what it is, but you say that it is summarized through analogy and reasoning, and it is easier to understand what kind of analogical reasoning method is." ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Standing at the level of a country, it is not easy to make it clear that the relationship between the people and the officials is somewhat high. For example, Daming is now a big family, the emperor is the head of this family, and officials at all levels are the emperor's housekeepers. In the past, all housekeepers were directly appointed by the head of the house, and the head of the house let these large and small housekeepers manage all the hired servants to serve the whole family, but later the identity of these hired servants changed, and they were no longer outsiders hired by the head of the family and became members of the family, and this change made the housekeeper's way of doing things also change. ”

Hearing Liu Zongzhou say this, Tianqi couldn't help but be a little surprised, and said in his heart that this truth can't be talked about randomly, nor can he change his past thoughts casually, he just mentioned a few words of equality, freedom, etc. in the imperial court, and now the Holy Academy has actually deduced that everyone's identity will change. From Liu Zongzhou's statement, it can be seen that everyone realizes that under the influence of the ideas of equality and freedom, the ordinary people in the dominant position will gradually become equal to the status of the ruling class, and from Liu Zongzhou's analogy, it can be found that the change from hired workers to family members is the change in the identity of all the ruled.

Tianqi took a deep breath and said, "Lord Liu started to say that I would be unhappy, right? You don't have to worry that I'm not angry about this, on the contrary, I'm happy in my heart. There are hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, but the country is weak and the people are poor, the reason is that the common people do not regard themselves as the masters of the country, even officials at all levels only regard themselves as working for the entire royal family to earn money, so there will be the consequences of civil officials greedy for money and military generals afraid of death, how can the country be strong and prosperous in this way? Only when the identity is changed, everyone will have a sense of ownership, and will do their best to do things for themselves and for everyone. ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Since the emperor is not angry, the ministers are relieved, but this is also the result of the emperor's demand for equality and freedom for more than a year. Isn't that what we read in vain? But then I thought about it carefully and figured it out, everyone is raised by their fathers and mothers, they only have one head and two hands, except for the emperor and the princes and nobles of the shadow, no one should be born nobler than others, and they must work hard to get a high status. ”

Tianqi shook his head and said: "The natural status of the princes and nobles is because their ancestors have made special contributions to the country, but the benefits obtained by these people are obviously too much, for example, the tens of thousands of royal families surnamed Zhu in the country have become a heavy burden on the people of the Ming Dynasty, and when the opportunity comes, I will slowly weaken the share of the princes and nobles□ since the people have changed from hired laborers to family members, let's talk about how the housekeeper manages the family members." ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Because the hired workers have become family members, then these people will no longer be obedient, they also have their own requirements and their own thoughts, and the housekeepers can not only think about how to carry out the orders of the head of the family when managing them, but also consider the requirements of these managed family members, which is what the emperor said is the same from top to bottom." The emperor also mentioned Mencius's idea of the people's nobles and kings lightly many times, and the ministers believed that under the new form, the housekeepers needed to take more into account the thoughts of the family members, which meant that in the future, all officials of the Ming Dynasty should focus on listening to the voices of ordinary people. ”

Tianqi disagrees with Liu Zongzhou's overkill statement from the heart, because Tianqi thinks that since it is consistent from top to bottom, it should be the same and should not be biased, for an official, the requirements of the superiors are considered from the perspective of the whole, representing the common or the embodiment of the overall situation, and the requirements of the people below are mostly based on individual needs, not necessarily reasonable, and can only consider the requirements of the majority□ Zongzhou, this kind of Zhuanzhi from the whole time suddenly became too **, I'm afraid it's not a good thing, Just as dangerous things can only be managed by people with a sense of responsibility, everyone will definitely be in a society with a knife and a gun.

Tianqi looked at Liu Zongzhou, who had a resolute expression, and knew that he had no selfishness, but he was moved by his own passion, and he couldn't bear to hit his positivity - he looked at Xu Guangqi, and saw that although Xu Guangqi didn't say anything, he was nodding slightly, knowing that he had been brainwashed by Long Huamin, Deng Yuhan and other Taixi people for a long time, and agreed with Liu Zongzhou's statement. Although Gao Panlong was expressionless and couldn't see his preferences, judging from the Donglin Party's habit of always taking the pro-people line, Gao Panlong also agreed with Liu Zongzhou, and maybe there was also the credit of the Donglin Party.

Tianqi finally looked at King Xin, and when he saw King Xin thinking, he asked, "What does King Xin think of Lord Liu's words?" ”

King Xin thought for a while and said: "The younger brother felt very novel and felt a little inappropriate about Lord Liu's words, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't find any mistakes, and then he thought that the imperial brother himself took the lead in paying taxes to the imperial court, and felt that the idea of equality was approved by the imperial brother and spared no effort to implement it, and there was nothing wrong with looking at Lord Liu's words in turn." ”

Liu Zongzhou asked, "Does the emperor think there is anything wrong?" This is just an immature idea of the ministers, and the emperor thinks it is wrong or feels that the time is not ripe, so he can not implement it for the time being. ”

Tianqi said: "It doesn't matter if you say it to me, if you easily affirm or deny it is not good for everyone now, wait for the opportunity to reflect your idea in the formulation of specific policies, just like the Bo Academy is engaged in good seeds, and only after practice will you know whether it is correct or incorrect." Now what do these officials do when they focus on listening to the voices of the people? ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "The year before last, the emperor required every official to hand over in the form of a written report when he took office and when he left office, and to clearly write down the specific conditions of the local population, acres of land, and production, which played a great role in the later process of formulating the system. The emperor once said a few years ago that when an official takes office, he should not only write down the understanding of the current situation, but also write what he will do in the future. ”

Tianqi asked: "I said something like this, and Lord Liu wants to revise it before it has been implemented, so what modification does Lord Liu want to make?" ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Is it possible for every official to make a plan for administration according to the arrangements made by the auxiliary government organs for the future, and if the plan is unanimously approved by the top and bottom, let him strictly implement it, and if he disagrees with the plan from above or has opinions from below, let him revise it until everyone is satisfied." ”

Liu Zongzhou's idea can already be said to be very bold, not only to let officials make a plan for administration, but also to make this plan satisfactory to everyone, and if everyone is not satisfied, it must be revised until they are satisfied, and this already has a requirement for officials to serve the people.

Tianqi thought for a while and asked Gao Panlong: "Lord Gao is in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the appointment, dismissal, and promotion of this official are mainly up to you, what do you think of what Lord Liu said about letting officials make governance plans in advance, and asking for his governance plan to be approved by everyone?" ”

Gao Panlong didn't speak, but if he didn't speak, it didn't mean that he had no opinion, on the contrary, he still agreed with Liu Zongzhou's words very much. Seeing the apocalypse asking him, Gao Panlong replied: "The minister thinks that since it is necessary to achieve the same from top to bottom, it is necessary to make a governance plan according to the envisaged arrangement of the auxiliary political institutions, but the imperial court must completely control the auxiliary political institutions in various places, and let the auxiliary political institutions in various places implement the intentions of the imperial court without discount, otherwise there will be big trouble." In terms of satisfying the following, it is a good idea to make a policy plan first and revise it until the following is satisfied. ”