Hai Rui, director of the Yunnan Qing Officials Department of the Ministry of Households, played here: In order to correct the monarchy, clarify the responsibilities of his subordinates, and seek peace and order for all generations, I want to state the first thing in the world.

The king is the master of all things in the world, and it is precisely because he is the master of all things in the world that he has a great responsibility. If the people's livelihood measures are not taken properly, it is the monarch who has not taken responsibility. Therefore, the courtiers should try their best to serve the monarch, be loyal to their duties, and speak freely. When the courtiers have fulfilled their responsibilities, the responsibilities of the monarch have also been fulfilled. The people who used to try to curry favor and bend their minds to entertain and not let the monarch hear the actual situation now do not need to talk about them. Alarmist people may say: A gentleman always has a lot of ideas, even if he meets a wise monarch and the era of political clarity, he often thinks of danger in times of peace and worries, but he is afraid that it will make people think confused and not understand the direction. This statement does not correspond to the current situation!

The minister received the favor of the state, and would rather offend him bluntly than tell a lie, the good is good, and the bad is bad, and he does not dare to hide it in the slightest. I don't want to please the above, and I don't care about the gains and losses, but today I will pour out my heart and tell you a few truths to Your Majesty. Jia Yi, a famous minister of the Han Dynasty, once said to Emperor Wen: "The people who speak below always say: The world has been ruled greatly, and the ministers think that it is not." Those who say that the world is peaceful and governed are either ignorant or sycophant. "Emperor Wen is considered a virtuous monarch of the Han Dynasty, and Jia Yi is not too demanding of Emperor Wen. Emperor Wen of Han's quality and style is good, he has the virtue of loving the people, he is also kind and frugal, calm and humble, but the disadvantage is that he is in Xuan Lao, not specializing in government affairs, and many political affairs have been delayed and not done well. If your subordinates do not see these ills and blindly think that the world has been cured, this is ignorance. If his subordinates can't see that Emperor Wen's talent is limited after all, and blindly praise him with words that have been settled and ruled, this is flattery.

How does Your Majesty think of himself compared to Emperor Wen of Han? Your Majesty is gifted and decisive, wise and wise, and has the potential to become kings like Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen, and Wu, Your Majesty is as diligent and conscientious as Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, generous as Emperor Guangwu, invincible as Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, as able to quell rebellions in various feudal towns as Tang Xianzong, and His Majesty also has the virtue of forgiveness of Song Renzong. In the early years of your reign, you eradicated the accumulated evils, made a clear declaration, and worked with the people of the whole country to reform political affairs. Let's take a rough example: You have written an article "Respect for a Proverb", advocating discipline; Some of the crown and costume systems were revised, and the statues in the Confucius Temple were ordered to be abolished, and only the wooden master was used; weakened the internal and external powers of the eunuchs; The ancestor of the Yuan dynasty was removed from the tablets sacrificed in the temples of the emperors of the past dynasties; In the Confucius Temple, Confucius's parents are also worshipped. At that time, everyone in the world was looking forward to it, thinking that you must be able to do a lot. Knowledgeable people believe that as long as there are good courtiers to help, it will not take long for the world to be peaceful, and you must be much stronger than Emperor Wen of Han. However, Emperor Wen was able to carry forward the nature of benevolence, frugality, compassion and love for the people, and Lu Zuqian of the Song Dynasty said that he was good at employing people and could make the best use of people's talents. For a time, although the world was not ruled greatly, the treasury was full, and even the strings of money were rotten, and the people were happy and rich. It is widely recognized that he is a virtuous monarch after the Xia, Shang, and Third generations. Your Majesty, you are determined to make a difference, but it doesn't take long for you to be led to other places by a jumble of thoughts. You use your strength and wisdom in the wrong place, thinking that people can really live forever, and you blindly cultivate the mysteries. Your Majesty is rich all over the world, but he does not think that it is the fat of the people, and he often builds and repairs palaces and temples. His Majesty has not been in the court to deal with government affairs for more than 20 years, which has led to lax discipline and corruption. The imperial court sold officials and bought officials, and the invocation of this kind of charter became more and more indiscriminate, and it was called a case of promotion, which led to the rise of heroes and powers, and the proliferation of famous people. You are only with Fang Shi for alchemy, and if you don't see your own sons, people think that you lack the love of father and son. You often slander and insult your subordinates with suspicion, and people think that you lack the courtesy of a monarch and a minister. If you stay in Xiyuan all day and don't return to the palace, people think that there is a lack of husband and wife love. Corruption among officials in the world, weak armies, floods and droughts are happening all the time, and the people are struggling to make a living. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, it has been like this for the past few years, but it is not serious, but now the taxes and forced labor are getting heavier and heavier, and officials at all levels have followed the example of the imperial court and exploited the people excessively. His Majesty has spent a lot of money to worship Taoism, and he has done it to the extreme for more than ten years. Therefore, when His Majesty changed his name, everyone in the world guessed: this means that "Jiajing said that all the families are clean and have no money"

Recently, Yan Song dismissed the prime minister, and Yan Shifan was sentenced to death, which was barely satisfactory, and he was called the world clear for a while. However, Yan Song's political affairs after his resignation as prime minister are almost the same as before he became prime minister, and they are not necessarily much clearer. His Majesty is far worse than Emperor Wen of Han. The people of the world have been dissatisfied with you for a long time, and this internal and external ministers know it. The "Book of Songs" says: "There is a gap in the declining position, but Zhongshan Fu can make up for it", which means that King Xuan cannot fully fulfill his duties, and Zhongshan Fu can remedy it. It is your duty to remedy and correct the mistakes and put everything on the right track today. The saint must not fail to make mistakes, otherwise the ancient officials, as long as he was an official, it was enough, and there was no need to ask them to give advice, nor did they need to set up officials, let alone words such as wooden ropes and golden stones. His Majesty repaired the palace and set up an altar to pray, so that the ministers competed to offer incense and immortal peach and immortal medicine, and asked the courtiers to enter the table to congratulate. His Majesty wants to build a palace, and the Ministry of Industry will do its best to manage it; His Majesty wanted to take incense and find treasures, and the household department sent people everywhere to ask for it. Your Majesty's actions were wrong, and it was unreasonable for the ministers to obey, and no one spoke up for Your Majesty. The practice of openly discussing right and wrong, contributing good words, and preventing evil has not been heard for a long time, and the atmosphere of flattery is too great. However, people dare not speak out, but in their hearts they can't help but be ashamed, they are not angry, they dare not say it in person, but they talk about right and wrong behind their backs, people obey Your Majesty on the surface, but hide their true hearts, so sing praises for Your Majesty, what a big crime of deception? If you admit that cultivation is harmful and unbeneficial, then the transformation of the courtiers, the blessings and misfortunes of the people, and the safety of the world will be different from this, so you should immediately repent, go to the court every day to govern the government, and talk about the interests and disadvantages of the world with Zaifu, Jiuqing, attendants, and officials, and wash away the mistakes of decades of monarchy, so that you can be in the midst of the Ming monarchs such as Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen, and Wu, and also enable your subordinates to wash away the shame of flattering the monarch for decades, and put them in the ranks of virtuous ministers like Gaotao, Yi, and Fu, so that the monarchs and ministers can encourage and respect each other. There are too many eunuchs and palace maids in the inner court, servants in the kitchen of Guanglu Temple in the outer court, those who benefit from the grace of their ancestors in the brocade guards, and those extra redundant personnel in various yamen, who have nothing to do and become officials. In the royal warehouse, in the household department, the Ministry of Industry, and the Guanglu Temple, there are many things such as satin, silk, grain, jewelry, utensils, wood, etc., which are useless to pile up there, and it is a pity that they are wasted in vain. The courtiers admonished you, and you adopted it, but it was only a thought to you to save. A piece of gold in the capital is worth a hundred pieces of gold to the people in the fields. If you save a little, the treasury will have a surplus, and the people will have savings, and I don't know how many benefits there are, but why doesn't Your Majesty do it?

Today's officials are incomplete, do things in a refractive manner, perfunctory, and do not abide by the law and discipline, but they still think they are good. We should urge the observance of basic ethics to correct the behavior of officials, and stop using money to buy officials to sort out their careers; Let the civil and military officials be content with their positions, and oblige them to make achievements; usually train and select sergeants, so as not to fight and temporarily recruit the people; Let those monks and Taoists who eat white food go home and return to the trades of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce; The magistrates of Fuzhou and counties should pay equal attention to livelihood and education, and establish good etiquette and customs; The collection of cantonment fields and salt should be resumed in kind to replenish the reserves of the border army; Pay grain according to the acre of land, and enlist according to the population, so as to restore the vitality of the people; Reporting the corruption and extortion of officials in the world has made those who are corrupt and pervert the law cowardly, and they will be punished in accordance with the criminal law, without tolerance. In this way, it is benevolent government, and it will take a few decades before it can bear fruit, and the great deed of coexisting with heaven and earth can be accomplished. Such a thing is proposed by the ministers, and it is only for Your Majesty to carry it out. As soon as we cheer up and all the wastes are lifted, all kinds of evils will be eradicated, and the glorious rule like the Tang and Yu dynasties can be revived, and why doesn't Your Majesty implement it? Your Majesty only needs to save and cheer up a little, and it is not for you to work too hard. Jiuqing grasps the major policies, the hundred officials assume specific responsibilities, the governor, the inspector, and the six departments give things to rectify and clean up, maintain the atmosphere, and His Majesty evaluates the implementation of the political program and urges them to make achievements. Try to find talented people and appoint them to do things, and you will save yourself effort. Just like the fortune of heaven is above, each of the four seasons and six qi has its own order, as long as the monarch is virtuous and influences his subjects, he does not have to manage everything himself. Heaven and earth are one, and all things have their own truth. The people live and work in peace and contentment, creating an atmosphere of peace, and His Majesty can naturally feel true happiness and value. Heaven and earth are incarnated into all things, and people also have the ability to help heaven and earth incarnate, and can be ranked with heaven and earth as the "three talents". The Tao and the heavens are connected, and our destiny can be controlled by ourselves, and Your Majesty can naturally enjoy true longevity. This is the real truth, you can do it by turning around, and you can see the effect immediately. If you still take some elixir of immortality, it is not the reason to hope that you can become an immortal and ascend to heaven. So to do can only be in a hurry to disperse Juelu, let the spirit be nervous in vain, Xuan Xiu seeks immortality, it is a fantasy to catch the wind and catch shadows, Your Majesty has been asking for it all his life, but has he gotten it or not?

The monarch's imright way and unclear subordinate positions are the most important thing in the world. Needless to say, what more? The minister flattered for the sake of the black gauze hat, the minister was afraid of being convicted and obedient on the surface, His Majesty made a mistake but did not know, could not correct it and could not implement it, and the minister was heartbroken every time he thought of this. Therefore, today I will risk my life and be loyal to you, and sincerely advise Your Majesty. I hope that Your Majesty can change your mind and change your direction, and the rule of the world or not, the peace and unrest of the people and things depend on you, if Your Majesty can really adopt it, it is the luck of my temple, the community, the country, and the luck of the people of the world! [