Ying Tianfu. The temple of the body. Today, there are eight ministers who take care of their lives present, plus Zhao Xuan, Li Qing and others who he specially summoned, and now more than a dozen people are sitting in the hall with Zhu Zhanji as the center.

The discussion triggered by Liu Jia's family affairs discussed the difference between a humane society and a legal society from the transitional law enforcement of the village elders.

"Your Highness, the minister thinks that the imperial court is not only a matter of cost, nor is it just a matter of education, but also a struggle for power." The ministers and the squire of the military department, Zhao Xuan, were shocked when they heard this, their eyes staring at Li Qing, not knowing what to say.

Jian Yi was also there today, and when he heard the words, he reprimanded: "Li Shilang, be cautious." Zhu Zhanji was smiling, he looked at Li Qing, who was black and thin, like a black judge, but he felt that he was extremely pleasing to the eye.

Li Qing is now a squire in the Ministry of Works, but Zhu Zhanji specially summoned him, just to let his cannon exert his might.

Now that Yang Rong is not there, several people in the cabinet are more literate than talented. For example, Xie Jin, his understanding of many matters is floating on the surface.

Gu Zuo is a contemporary Bao Gong, but he has a tough personality and does not have an aggressive momentum. Only Li Qing is proficient in the law, and he is a cannon who is strict with himself and can't rub sand in his eyes.

He was originally because he was too public

"Dispatched" to the Ministry of Industry, but he still did not change his nature, and no one in the Ministry of Industry was not afraid of him. Zhu Zhanji just wants a minister like him who dares to speak and do to remind himself.

After listening to Li Qing's words, Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Jian Aiqing, I summoned Li Shilang to come today, and I just want to listen to the truth." Lone likes the truth the most, because in this world, when the truth is the greatest, as long as what Li Shilang said is reasonable, Lone will not care about it. Li Shilang, tell me, why is the imperial power going to the countryside mainly a power struggle? Li Qing did not weaken his momentum at all because of his righteous status, and said: "During the Warring States Period, the rule of the king went deep into the countryside, there was the Qin generation, and the Qin had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but the total population was only five million. During the ten-year unification war, the Qin State mobilized about a million soldiers, which is equivalent to one in two men serving as soldiers. However, after the death of the Qin Dynasty, Confucianism flourished, and in the Han Dynasty, the hundred schools were deposed and Confucianism was respected. As a result, the power of the king was restricted, and from then on, the king's power no longer went to the countryside, but became a king and a scholar to rule the world. Especially since the Song Renzong and Song Shenzong periods, the status of scholars has been improved more and more, and the countryside has become an area where the royal power cannot enter. Where is the king? The more Li Qing said, the more excited he became, and he bowed down and hugged his fists and said: "Your Highness, now that I am in the Ming Dynasty, Jingping is thriving, and this court law is going to the countryside, not impossible, not for." I wish to take the reins for His Royal Highness and turn the whole world into a place of court law. Everyone else's faces were a little unpleasant, including Xie Jin.

Li Qing's words directly unveiled the conflict between the interests of the royal power and Confucianism, which was difficult for ministers who had always wanted to downplay the dispute.

Although Xie Jin is also a dumbfounder, he is simple-minded, and many things can't be thought of deeply. But Li Qing, who was stunned, saw it clearly, but he was dedicated to the country, but he looked down on Confucianism for being good at infighting.

In his opinion, this world should be the emperor's world, and the scholars only have the reason to help, how can they think of competing for merit?

Jian Yi interjected: "Although Qin is strong, he died in two lifetimes, why does Li Shilang think? ”

"The eunuchs are evil, and the removal of Fusu has caused great disasters."

"No, it's really Qin's tyranny......"

"This is just Han in order to promote his own justice and discredit Qin, this dynasty, there is no darkness and tyranny?" The two ministers fought with each other, you came and went, and debated around the fall of the Qin Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanji smiled and clapped his hands, and the two immediately stopped. He said with a smile: "Talking about things is the law of the imperial court, and it is often off topic to play. What the two ministers said is reasonable, but because of the position, it is not comprehensive, and this matter will be discussed later......" Zhu Zhanji sat up straight, and everyone sat up upright, suggesting that he and Li Qing bend down to Zhu Zhanji, and then sit down.

Zhu Zhanji said again: "It is true that the imperial power goes to the countryside, but it cannot be denied that the imperial power must be restrained. Otherwise, if you meet a wise king, you can certainly be politically harmonious, but when you meet a faint king, the people will be miserable. Throughout the dynasties, the kings of the first few generations can be called wise, but the later they are, the more mediocre they become. Therefore, no matter what kind of measures, they should be mutually restrained and mutually restricted, otherwise one child will make a mistake and the whole plate will be lost. Jian Yi looked at Zhu Zhanji with some surprise, and couldn't believe that such words came from the mouth of the domineering Zhu Zhanji.

Since Zhu Zhanji took office, he has been putting in the rope and letting the ministers use it for him. Although it is unreasonable that those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me die, anyone and anything that dares to stand in front of him will be bulldozed.

The Kong family is like this, and so is the crown prince. But now, he even said that he was in favor of restraining the power of kings, and that the sun was coming out of the west.

Although Xie Jin did not agree with Zhu Zhanji's suppression of Confucianism, he absolutely agreed with him to retract power, because the Ming Dynasty needed a strong emperor to move forward bravely.

Zhu Yuanzhang is such an emperor, Zhu Di is also such an emperor, and now Zhu Zhanji is also such an emperor.

How could he have not yet sat firmly in his position, so he took the initiative to say that he wanted to restrain the imperial power! If Zhu Zhanji hadn't crossed over, of course he wouldn't have said such a thing, but he was a person who had crossed over, and he could know the advantages and disadvantages of Confucianism, and of course he could also know how terrible it would have been if imperial power was not restricted.

Of course, saying that, this is just to give the ministers a hope, so that Zhu Zhanji will not abandon his martial arts and restrict the imperial power now.

Only when the Confucian forces no longer dominate the government and the opposition, and the system is perfected, will the power of the ministers be limited, and the imperial power will be restricted.

This is also a kind of protection of imperial power, because no one can guarantee that future generations will be wise and virtuous.

Xie Jin stood up and said: "Your Highness, how can it be the principle of governing the country to contradict yourself like this...... Zhu Zhanji waved his hand and said with a smile: "Master Xie doesn't need to worry, he knows what he is talking about." A huge empire is governed gradually, and many governance strategies will also contradict each other. When faced with such a situation, it is necessary to deliberate again and again to form a compromise and balance. For the Ming Dynasty to be strong and for the people to live a prosperous life, we need the unremitting efforts of all of you. Among them, the two most critical points are the law, and the other is to open up the wisdom of the people. It takes generations of disdainful efforts to open up people's wisdom, and it is a long process, and it is not to be talked about for the time being. Let's start with the question of this testimony. Emperor Taizu originally ordered Li Shanchang, the prime minister of the left, to formulate the Daming Law, which collected two volumes of the law of officials, seven volumes of household law, two volumes of ritual law, five volumes of military law, eleven volumes of criminal law, and two volumes of work law, and another five punishments, ten evils, and eight discussions, totaling 460 articles. Although these laws cover many aspects, there are many omissions, so that the people act according to the old precedents, and the judgment becomes the mainstream. If you are alone, you are willing to pick up the gaps and perfect the law. This law should not only restrict the civil and military ministers and the common people, but also the imperial power and the clan. This law is just only if everyone in the world keeps the rules. Only with such a set of laws can the Ming Dynasty make everyone abide by the law and behave in accordance with the rules. In order to be famous all over the world, the people's aspirations. Today, the princes are here, and they promise to say that if they improve their own laws, once they adopt them, they will be rewarded. Jian Yi asked with some excitement: "Your Highness, how to adopt this new law?" Zhu Zhanji said: "Any law will be discussed by the court first, and then reviewed by the cabinet, and then reviewed by Lonely." Once adopted, no one is allowed to change it privately, and the law can only be amended with the consent of more than seventy percent of the officials of the imperial court. Regardless of decency, Jian Yi knelt on his knees and kowtowed: "Your Highness is wise!" In fact, although this is considered an improvement, the implementation of the law must be approved by Zhu Zhanji, that is to say, some laws that are not in line with the interests of the imperial power cannot be passed at all.

The so-called restriction of imperial power, at present, is just a big pie. After these words, everyone's topic returned to the affairs of the Liu family.

The Liu family originally used the Mao family to steal Han and dealt with her in accordance with the regulations of the 19th major item of the Daming Law on Gongle Household and Women's Crimes.

However, in the original article, the crime of adultery by a woman is only one hundred rods and eighteen ransoms. The Liu family disposed of the Mao family, originally for her family house and eight acres of land, how could they be willing to let the Mao family take out eighteen yuan, but they regarded the money as their own.

What's more, there is privacy in this, that is, according to the previous case files, Mao's stealing is actually unnecessary.

Mao's husband died, according to the law of the imperial court, less than thirty, and he should have remarried. She just didn't look down on the prodigal son chosen for her in the clan, and she found a solid widower in the outer village, and she was framed and sunk in the river, which was completely careless of human life.

As for the course of the case, everyone soon had a clear retrial procedure in accordance with the law, and the key lies in what purpose Zhu Zhanji used this case to achieve.

Zhu Zhanji put forward two requirements and said: "First, everyone knows that although the village elders represent the imperial court, they cannot judge life and death. Second, the patriarchal law must be less than the national law. Li Qing clenched his fists at this time and said: "Your Highness, I am willing to go to Linzhou to review this case and let this case be known to the world." Zhu Zhanji laughed noncommittally and said: "Use a knife to kill chickens, Li Shilang is a little restless." Li Qing was indeed a little anxious, he was transferred from the Criminal Department to the Ministry of Industry, and he was originally going to be a scholar, but because Zhu Zhanji couldn't get used to Wu Zhong, a good old man, being a secretary of the Criminal Department, he drove him back to the Ministry of Industry to do his old job.

Wu Zhong went back to the Ministry of Industry, and there was also a Song Li as a scholar, so Li Qing was delayed.

Zhu Zhanji didn't know Li Qing before, and trusted the famous Gu Zuo more, and now let Gu Zuo be the secretary of the criminal department, Li Qing is not easy to arrange.

But through this period of contact, Zhu Zhanji found that talents like Li Qing are the cadres he needs the most now.

He doesn't have Gu Zuo's sleek, long-sleeved and good dancing, but he lacks a general, a catfish in a pond.

Daming's officialdom is too stable, and it is a bit conservative, so such a person is needed to stir things up.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji has now received the news that Zhu Di has arrived in Star City and is about to go to the West, so he feels that he can move.

In today's Ming Dynasty, there are two corrupt officials, one is Liu Guan and the other is Fang Bin. Fang Bin is the secretary of the military department, and the handle is pinched in Zhu Zhanji's hand, and when he doesn't need to maintain stability, Zhu Zhanji will not move him.

If you don't move him, you have to move Liu Guan, and Liu Guan, as one of the Nine Qings, is also a high-ranking person.

Take him down and let the second stunned Li Qing go to be the imperial history of the left capital, which is more suitable than anyone else. Fourteen years ago, in the fifth year of Yongle, he served as the left deputy capital of the Imperial Governor in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for more than a year.

In just over a year, he impeached the governor Cai Fu for selling illegal salt, Xin Chengbo and Zhao Yi for killing Yunfu without authorization and stealing military salaries; The governors Tan Qing and Zhu Chong were greedy and indulgent.

Governor Fei Wang was deceitful, Liang Ming was greedy and cruel, and Cao De, the governor of Texas, was greedy for money. On average, a super second-grade member was pulled off by him in two months, which shows his strong ability.

It's just that most of the officialdom pays attention to leaving a line for people, so that they can meet in the future and be harmonious. It was unpopular for him to do this, so he was later recommended by other officials to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and he was appointed as the prefect of Shaoxing, but he was not allowed to report people.

But Zhu Zhanji won't care about this, Li Qing's knife, he will only be afraid of disadvantages. Near noon, when today's noon dynasty was coming to an end, several ministers made arrangements according to Zhu Zhanji's intentions.

The first is to ask the Linzhou County Government to retry the case of the Liu family Mao, and will directly follow up and report it in the Di newspaper, so that everyone in the world knows about this case.

The main propaganda points here are Zhu Zhanji's two demands. It is not a simple matter for the imperial power to go to the countryside, the world is so big, and most of the people are illiterate, so they can't send people one by one to tell them what the court law is.

Moreover, this follow-up involves the issue of the appointment of officials, and if it is really necessary to increase the number of officials several times at once, the court will not be able to stand it.

So it's still a step-by-step question. As for the dispute between the imperial power and the scholars, no one mentioned it again at this time, not even Zhu Zhanji, because the time was not ripe.

However, when the dynasty was dispersed, Zhu Zhanji stopped Li Qing, who was a little lost, Li Qing was overjoyed, and the others were also secretly frightened, because everyone knew who Zhu Zhanji wanted to reuse, so he would meet him alone and stay for dinner.

Li Qing is going to get up! After the others left, Zhu Zhanji looked at Li Qing, who was full of excitement, and said: "The motherland is in the first place, and it needs stability and peace. The emperor's ancestors are difficult, and they must also win the hearts of the people. Now the country and the people are safe, the court is harmonious, and the officials are gradually happy with luxury, so they want to reorganize the government. When Li Qing heard this, he immediately clenched his fists and said: "The minister asks His Royal Highness to prohibit private merchants, and everything is assigned to the internal prison, and even more to prohibit nobles and hundreds of officials from engaging in business." Zhu Zhanji shook his head with a smile and said: "One yard is one yard, the economy needs to be active, and this will not change." Rectify the rule of officials, but you can't waste food because of choking. Li Qing is a clean official, he hates corrupt officials, his family has no business, and his hometown only has 80 acres of official land.

This is extremely rare for a minister of three grades. But he doesn't see the importance of developing the economy, so he has to make it clear to him in this regard.

Zhu Zhanji asked: "Aiqing thinks that there is a lot of wealth in this world?" Influenced by Confucianism, Li Qing thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to answer like this.

Because everyone can see that the former Ming Dynasty couldn't even afford to pay officials, so they just replaced it with grain.

But over the years, more and more money has been paid, and most of their money is distributed directly through the bank, and they don't owe it at all.

Li Qing originally thought that all this gold and silver were flowing in from overseas, so he increased the volume. However, when he looked at the financial situation at different times in history, he became more and more confused.

For example, in the Southern Song Dynasty, only half of the country collected 50 million yuan in taxes every year, which is nearly twice as much as it is now.

And at that time, most of the wealth was still snatched away by the Liao State and Meng Yuan. So where did the money come from?

If he didn't understand the economy, he didn't dare to reply casually, and said honestly: "The minister is foolish and rude, and he has always been puzzled." Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "There is a specialization in the art industry, and Aiqing's ability to investigate, handle, and collect evidence is still very reassuring to Lone." However, the most important thing for a country is to provide a better life for its people on the basis of stability. Therefore, we cannot affect peace because of the investigation of the case, nor can we affect the development because of the investigation of the case. Although Liu Guan, the current imperial history of Zuodu, is not as greedy as Fang Bin, he has also done a lot of bad things over the years, and there is a lot of evidence about him collected here. Now it's May, and the danger of rivers is about to appear, although there has been cement in recent years, many rivers have been dredged, and reinforcement has been improved, but it is not enough. Lonely wants to let the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Song Li, and the left capital Yushi Liu Guan go to the north and south respectively to supervise flood control. After you eat, you went to Yang Zhangde, the Jinyi guard, and asked him for some evidence about Liu Guan, and asked you to clarify all the facts of Liu Guan's case that Liu Guan had gone to the abyss step by step over the years within two months, can you do it? Although Zhu Zhanji didn't say it, but now if he wants to win a Zuodu Yushi, let him host it, if he doesn't know that this is to make way for him, he will have lived for so many years in vain.

Speaking of which, although this Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is not as good as the officials of the six departments, it is a position that he likes more, because his specialty is to investigate cases.

So he immediately knelt down and said: "The ministers are broken and have no regrets in their deaths." ”

"Lone likes to be reasonable, to talk about the law, as long as you don't kill yourself and go on the wrong path, Lone will protect you for a lifetime. You have to keep in mind that the purpose of investigating the case is to remove the scar, but it must not affect the safety of the body. Zhu Zhanji confessed again, and Li Qing really remembered it.

Zhu Zhanji is very afraid that he, a stunned man, will cause chaos in the world in order to investigate the case, and the investigation can be done, but it cannot affect the stability and development of the Ming Dynasty, which is more important than anything else.

Li Qing had lunch, and Wang Yan had already sent a messenger to Linzhou to deliver the order. Zhu Zhanji did not rest for a moment, and directly arranged a boat to prepare for the Xinjiang Estuary Naval Division.

This year, the southern trade winds came later, and it was not until May that the winds stabilized. Mainly because of the Shandong grain case, which led to the rearrangement of the imperial court's grain transfer, the Second Fleet went to sea to explore Dongzhou, which has been delayed until now.

America is a must go, no rubber, no rubber wheels, which makes the transportation of the Ming Dynasty has entered a bottleneck.

The carrying capacity of wooden wheels is limited, and a heavy carriage with six wheels can only carry about 4,000 catties.

Even so, the wheels are often damaged. Today's post road, on the national highway, is a carriage repair shop every other distance, and it is not possible to set it up.

With rubber wheels, the capacity can be increased tenfold immediately, and this use of productivity can free up a large number of manpower.

After taking a nap on the boat for a while, when Zhu Zhanji arrived at the Xinjiang Estuary Naval Division, he became energetic again.

Here in the Xinjiang Estuary Naval Division, Meng Ying has already led the fleet to Nanzhou. The Xinjiangkou Naval Division is mainly commanding oxen and is currently undergoing active training.

In addition to the new Jiangkou Water Division, Zhu Zhanji also set up the Jiajiang Water Division, the Shogunate Water Division, the Jiangning Water Division in the upper reaches, the Zhenjiang Water Division in the lower reaches, and the Yangzhou Water Division in the lower reaches.

There are more than 30,000 people in these six major naval divisions, and the total number of local canal sailors under the control of the three naval divisions has reached 50,000.

Before the new young army was trained, this force was the most reassuring to Zhu Zhanji except for Yu Linwei.

There were not many personnel of the First Water Division who went to Dongzhou, mainly the personnel of the Second Water Division. Moreover, the personnel who went to Europe with Zhu Zhanji basically did not call this time, and selected those who had not gone to sea.

The two commanders of the fleet are mainly Hou Xian, supplemented by Yi Xin, and the internal supervisors who go to sea with the fleet are also much smaller this time, because in the Americas, there are not many tribes that can do business with the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the purpose of this expedition of the Ming fleet was mainly to loot and conquer. Wang Jinghong actually wanted to go out, but Zhu Zhanji didn't let him out.

Zheng He is now in charge of the navy and cannot do without him. At present, the only general who can manage a large fleet is Wang Jinghong.

Zhu Di's expedition to the west, if everything goes well, it will be fine, if the war is unfavorable, he is the only general who can reassure Zhu Zhanji.

From the Ming Dynasty to the Persian Gulf, these tens of thousands of miles of sea route are safe, and you must have a person who you can fully trust to rest assured.

Therefore, Wang Jinghong must stay in Daming, and Zhu Di's safety is more important than exploring Dongzhou. Hou Xian is now stationed in the Xinjiang Estuary Naval Division, and like him, Yi Xin has been honestly preparing the fleet to go to sea in the capital in the past few months, and he does not dare to be distracted by his Zhonglian Bofu.

This is also a smart move, otherwise, if he is not a hot man in the middle of the league, Zhu Zhanji will directly cut him.

Because of several small achievements in the process of going to sea, Sunan has been promoted to garrison after returning. And Duan Renzhi, who took the shit luck, discovered a big gold mine when he was in Nanzhou, and with a few small achievements, he was also promoted to President Qian when he came back.

Ma Dezhong does not have the luck of Duan Renzhi, nor does he have the stability of southern Jiangsu, because he has not experienced a major war, has not made many meritorious contributions, and has not been promoted.

But because of the case of the Kong family, Zhu Zhanji remembered his merits because his case was more important in the process of forcing the Confucian Mansion to bow his head, and specially promoted him to the rank of president.

Now they are all generals under Niu Zhuang, because Niu Zhuang knows that Zhu Zhanji treats the three of them differently, so he specially brought them to greet Zhu Zhanji this time.