"In my place, I personally think that Lao Zhu is qualified to enter the top three of the total ranking of historical emperors, and Zhu Yuanzhang has always been someone I admire." Hua Huang replied affirmatively, "But I can't represent the people of the world, everyone can have their own view of history, this is just my personal opinion, this is not forced, Hua is a country of freedom of speech." I have never publicized Zhu Yuanzhang's achievements in public, and there is no part of Huaguo's current textbooks that particularly glorify Zhu Yuanzhang. ”

Huahuang has participated in the compilation of all the textbooks in Huaguo, especially the textbooks from primary school, junior high school, to high school in the past 7 years.

The 322 education system still used in China, what is 322? That is, three years of elementary school, two years of junior high school, and two years of high school, and everyone must receive three years of primary education, which is compulsory education, and if there is a case of abandonment of school-age children's studies, parents and magistrates must be held accountable.

There are already two Chinese texts in the primary school textbooks of Huaguo that talk about history, and children need to memorize all the dynasties and need to understand the important emperors of each dynasty, which is required by the Chinese emperor.

In junior high school, there is a special history course.

Catherine nodded, "After years of arduous campaigns, Zhu Yuanzhang flattened the heroes, ended the rule of the Meng Yuan, unified the whole country, established a new and powerful state, and restored the long-lost power of the Han nation within the traditional Chinese territory. The national status and national self-confidence of the Han nationality, as well as many other ethnic groups who are also descendants of the Yan and Huang people, have been restored and greatly enhanced, and the excellent traditional Chinese culture that has been greatly damaged has been restored and magnified. On the one hand, this improvement was aimed at further strengthening the imperial power and stabilizing the political power structure, but subjectively and objectively it also perfected the feudal system to a certain or even considerable extent, promoted the progress of the political system, and even laid a solid foundation for its qualitative leap in modernity. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang learned from the experience of the early Han Dynasty, implemented the policy of light taxation and light taxation, and recuperated and recuperated, carefully planned and worked diligently for the interests of the people in the world, so that the ordinary people living in the early Ming Dynasty lived a happy and healthy life after the war that was devastated. Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously rectified the officialdom and cracked down on and executed a large number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and his strong determination and iron-blooded methods to fight corruption and corruption not only corrected and deterred the Hongwu Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, but also wrote the guidelines for future generations on how officials should behave as officials. I think the same as His Majesty, I also think that Zhu Yuanzhang should be qualified to enter the top three, and I like to watch the story of Zhu Yuanzhang's punishment of corrupt officials. ”

Emperor Hua smiled and nodded to Catherine in approval.

In his later years, in order to rectify the ranks of the bureaucracy and eliminate corruption, Zhu Yuanzhang launched a nationwide study of the government and the people and a mass rebellion. Zhu Yuanzhang's idea of the "Great Message" movement was based on the rapid spread of corruption in the early days of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang took the most draconian measures in Chinese history to punish corruption. Zhu Yuanzhang would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of a corrupt official. Due to the excessive punishment, none of the administrative officials in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangzhou, and Fujian from the first year of Hongwu (1368) to the nineteenth year (1386) had completed their term of office, and they were often deposed or beheaded before the final examination.

Despite the severity of the punishment, corruption has never been eradicated. The big corruption cases are gone, but the small ones are still emerging.

The corruption cases reported by the supervision officials and the Jinyi Guardian are piled up every day. For officials who are so fearless of death and willing to follow the law, Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked, but also thought hard about the reason. He attributed the reason to the contamination of the old dynastic minds.

For this reason, he personally composed the "Great Message", which is a strange text for thousands of years, as a study material for this movement.

The so-called "Great Message", to put it simply, is a bloody compilation of cases, similar to the current compilation of clean government cases. Zhu Yuanzhang compiled the major and important cases he punished into a book, mixed with a large number of clichés and preaching. Because it was written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, the writing of this book is vulgar, the style is messy, and there are many incomprehensible sentences. Because of the purpose of threatening and intimidating officials and ordinary people, the cases he chose were all bloody and cruel.

It is such a collection of miscellaneous documents that has become a spiritual wealth that the people of the whole country must learn from.

In order to completely eradicate corruption and build a pure and pure contingent of officials, Zhu Yuanzhang thought of turning to the broad masses of the people for help.

In the middle of the Hongwu Dynasty, an unprecedented event occurred in the Ming Empire: the emperor called on the people at the bottom to rise up and create a rebellion against the bureaucratic class.

In the beginning, the emperor gave the people the right of supervision. Zhu Yuanzhang told the people that they could report the officials' violations directly to him, and promised that the emperor would reward and punish the officials based on the opinions of ordinary people. In nineteen years, his policy took a big step forward, and he made an astonishing claim that anyone in his empire could storm the government and arrest the officials he was not pleased with! Giving lowly peasants the power to directly punish officials without going through any legal process has never been done before in China's political history.

This call once again proved a certain loyalty to the peasant ideals of the emperor, who had ascended to the throne through a peasant uprising. For this stormy mass movement throughout the empire, Zhu Yuanzhang held out great hopes. The edict was issued, but there was no "mass response" in the world as Zhu Yuanzhang imagined. After all, since the beginning of the country, the Chinese people have been prostrate at the feet of officials. Faced with the emperor's call for "rebellion", they were at a loss for a moment.

Zhu Yuanzhang is on fire. Naturally, he had his way. In the nineteenth year of Hongwu, he severely punished some citizens of Zhenjiang City for not actively arresting the corrupt official Wei Dong as he requested, and allowed him to act in Zhenjiang until the corrupt official was discovered by the emperor himself.

This is Zhu Yuanzhang's mobilization method. Under this mobilization and intimidation, Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-corruption campaign finally sprung up in various places. The fact that the cowardly common people dared to tie up and arrest officials has finally emerged a earth-shaking phenomenon that the people of China have never dared to imagine. From the 18th year of Hongwu to the 28th year of Hongwu, the emperor worked closely with the people to crack down on corruption.

At that time, there were almost no killings every day. In some yamen, because too many officials had been killed and no one had to work, Zhu Yuanzhang had to implement the methods of "wearing the death penalty and doing things in vain" and "beheading, hanging, imprisonment, and exile in office", and asked the criminal officials who had been sentenced to return to the public court with shackles. Being an official in the Hongwu era was really an extremely dangerous thing. In this atmosphere of terror, all officials, big and small, are terrified, and they don't know when a catastrophe will come. Legend has it that the Beijing officials at that time, every morning into the court, would say goodbye to their wives, and when they returned home safely in the evening, they would celebrate with their families, and they were glad that they had survived another day. It turns out that the scholars who love to be officials the most in the world also regard their careers as daunting at this time. Some families have studious sons, and they are afraid that they will be known by the county and county, so they will be made officials, but they are told to take a leave of absence from school and farm. Some even mutilate their limbs in order to avoid being forcibly recruited.

Zhu Yuanzhang clearly knew that there were many innocent people among the people he killed, but his principle was that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one. What he wants is a pure and pure bureaucratic corps insulated from corruption, and he wants to achieve such a miracle on earth at any cost, which has not been achieved in other dynasties, not some fairness and justice. If this goal can be achieved, Zhu Yuanzhang will have no regrets about how many people have died unjustly.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's era, it was almost impossible to get out of the officialdom, and some people thought that it was better to take the blame at every turn anyway, so it was better to take a handful as soon as possible. Even the villagers' autonomy, on which Zhu Yuanzhang had pinned his greatest hopes, soon went bankrupt. Because he has power and can handle ordinary cases, the old man also quickly becomes corrupt. They have no self-respect, abuse their power for personal gain, and even covet wine, food, and bribes, "justice is not obvious, chastity and evil are indistinguishable, and they are vain, and right and wrong are reversed." As for the arrest of the offender, the negative effects were quickly reflected.

The heat of the mass movement is the most difficult to master.

Emperor Hua appreciates Lao Zhu's willingness to stand in the perspective of the common people as an emperor, but he really disagrees with Comrade Lao Zhu's skills, it is estimated that it is caused by Lao Zhu's personality, and when he is old, he will sometimes do some extreme and naïve things, if Lao Zhu was young, he would not be so 'fierce'.

Soon after, for the sake of political interests, local magistrates threatened and lured the common people to protect themselves and attack others, and in many localities, the masses arrested the tax officials who were doing their normal work in Beijing in order to resist the payment of taxes.

This kind of thing is far more than the corrupt officials who are really caught, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang angry. In his later years, the emperor was confused and wavered in his violent punishment of corruption.

In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang said to the officials of the Criminal Department: "Foolish people break the law, such as eating and drinking, and they don't know how to stop eating and drinking." Try to prevent it, the offender will benefit the public, but forgiveness and benevolence may be able to reform? ”

To a certain extent, Zhu Yuanzhang once admitted his failure to purify the minds of his subjects through terror and indoctrination. However, he always thought that the "Great Message" he wrote by himself was a "treasure book" and could not bear to give it up. A year before his death, Zhu Yuanzhang once again said in the "Preface to the Imperial Ming Law": "Write the "Great Message" to show the people, so that the knowledge tends to be avoided and there is a long time. However, the law is in the division, and the people do not know it. Now I have a special mandate to select the essence of the entries in the "Great Message" and attach them to the "Great Ming Law". As a result, some of the articles of the "Great Message" have become permanent laws, just like the "Great Ming Law".

Zhu Yuanzhang hopes that future generations will "imitate crimes according to the "Law" and the "Great Message". Although Zhu Yuanzhang has repeatedly reiterated: "The law that has been established cannot be changed by a word", "Those who dare to change the ancestral law in later generations will be treated as traitors without forgiveness". It still can't change the reality that he once hoped that the "Great Message" that would guide the people for generations would soon be abandoned.

In the second month of Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Emperor Jianwen announced in the "Enthronement Edict": "In the future, if the officials and the people break the law, the law enforcement agencies will only follow the "Daming Law", and they are not allowed to be deeply compatible." This "deep text" obviously refers to the "Great Message".

Although no later emperor dared to explicitly announce the abolition of the "Great Message", after Zhu Yuanzhang's death until the death of the Ming Dynasty, the "Great Message" never played a practical role. Although Zhu Yuanzhang himself admired it, his children and grandchildren were ashamed to mention Emperor Taizu's crude and bloody work.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the "Great Message" was already little known. Lu Rong, a minister of the Hongzhi Dynasty, wrote in an article: "The law says that those who carry out the "Great Message" will be punished by one degree, but now the people have never even seen the "Great Message", so how can they talk about reading it!" ”

This treasure book, which once circulated tens of millions of copies, was almost no longer available among the people by the end of the Ming Dynasty.

If it has not been handed down, it is enough to show that the whole world is not interested in Lao Zhu's approach, especially Lao Zhu's own children and grandchildren.

This may have been something Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of. What Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect was that although when he was alive, through his quixotic efforts, corruption was temporarily suppressed, but he accumulated huge rebound energy.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, corruption developed rapidly and intensified. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, corruption spread to all aspects of the political body in the frenzied and shameless state of officials at all levels, and eventually accumulated into a surging evil wave, engulfing the entire dynasty. The Ming dynasty eventually went down in history as one of the most corrupt dynasties in Chinese history.

During this time, the emperor was preparing to launch a campaign to cooperate with the war, and the main direction was officials, corruption, and the direction of the hearts and minds of the people in the entire social group, so the question raised by Catherine was particularly concerned by the emperor.

"There is no solution to anti-corruption under private ownership, not to mention the big truth, in a society where the whole people look at money, they must laugh at the poor and not at prostitutes, people don't care where you get your money, just look at whether you have money or not, if you have money, you are a successful person, and if you have no money, then you are nothing. It doesn't matter if it's a white cat or a black cat, it's a good cat if it catches a mouse. If this is the case in society, how can officialdom be an exception? Doesn't the state motivate officials through money? If you have good political performance and work diligently, you will be rewarded with more bonuses and a promotion and salary increase. If an official does not love money, then he must be numb to bonuses and salary increases, then he will still be a good official who works diligently? You must know that a person engages in a profession, including being an official, isn't it all about making money to support his family? If it's not for the money, then why look for a job? What's more, it's not easy to do any kind of work. Hua Huang pondered.

Catherine didn't seem to understand, looking at Hua Huang's gaze, revealing infinite warmth, although Hua Huang's appearance is still very immature, but Hua Huang's inside, so Catherine is so fascinated, Catherine herself doesn't know why, she loves to see Hua Huang's demeanor when he speaks.

The emperor is originally a very revered profession, not to mention the emperor of a big country, or an emperor with strong ability and a super-fast rise of Huaguo.