Zhang Juzheng originally planned to go out to greet him, but as soon as he changed his mind, he asked his eldest son Jing Xiu to greet him on his behalf, and he took off his coat and pretended to be sick while lying down.

When Shen Mo was welcomed into the bedroom, Zhang Juzheng asked Si Xiu and Mao Xiu to help him to salute. Shen Mo saw his slow movements, it was really like that, but the wind and grass on Zhang's house couldn't escape his ears and eyes, but he didn't break it, and pressed Zhang Juzheng back into the quilt, and said to the two eldest nephews: "Quickly cover your father with a quilt, 1 Bu Xin has a cold, and his condition is aggravated." ”

Si Xiu and Mao Xiu are both pregnant gentlemen, and it is inevitable that their faces are very unnatural, so Zhang Juzheng had to deal with it: "I'm sick and hot, and I can't cover the quilt." As he spoke, he gave his son a look and said, "Go down and speak for your father and Lord Shousuke." ”

"Yes" the sons hurriedly withdrew, like méng's amnesty, and staying too much on such occasions really damaged the image of the great father in his heart.

Shen Mo sat beside the chuáng, looked at Zhang Juzheng's ruddy and healthy face, and sighed: "I thought that my brother was just sick, but now when I look at your face, I find that I am really sick." Well, if my brother is not in his prime, why is he sick like this? ”

Zhang Juzheng rolled his eyes in his heart and scolded secretly: "How do you know that I look like a long illness? , but there was a faint sadness on his face: "Alas, life and death are fate, wealth is in the sky, I can see it." ”

The two of them talked a few words without being salty, and then said with a look of regret: "I came this time, first, to visit Brother Ren, and secondly, to see if you can go out of the mountain. ”

"Hehe" Zhang Juzheng didn't deny it, nor did he agree, but just smiled and said: "Yuanfu thinks too highly of me." The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, there are so many young people in the court, more than one and less I am the same. ”

"Alas, you are the mainstay." Silent and fake: "It's just your current situation" I am very sad to see it, how can I let you come out and suffer again? He shook his head and said, "It's really a big loss to the country..."

These two people are vain, but they are fighting for the initiative. In fact, there is nothing to fight about, but it has become a habit to fight openly and secretly for half a lifetime.

"Speaking of the new deal, I also know a thing or two" After all, the mood is different, Zhang Juzheng was worried that Shen Mo really thought that he didn't want to go out of the mountain, so he changed the topic and said: "I have some opinions that I want to put forward to Yuanfu." ”

"How's that, isn't it?" Shen Mo smiled and said, "It took me a lot of brains." ”

"Would you rather hear the truth or lie?" Zhang Juzheng squinted at him and said.

"What about lies?"

"Lord Yuanfu is kind-hearted, and he is kingly" is there any reason for not succeeding? If he can take the opportunity to be sarcastic and silent, he will naturally not be merciful: "In time, it will be clear in the future, the world will be the same, and your wisdom will be passed on for thousands of years!" ”

"And what about the truth?" Shen Mo still smiled.

"The truth is that Lord Shousuke's decree looks flawless and flawless, but if it is actually to be implemented, IMHO, the decree is too lax" If those businessmen and officials are honest and duty-bound people, it will be possible. Zhang Juzheng shook his head and said: "Since ancient times, those who have not relied on the Tao to achieve great things, and they still have to use the Legalist set to do great things." ”

"I want to hear about it." Shen Mo nodded, and said shyly.

Yuan Fu said that it is necessary to strengthen supervision, "the user department supervises the folding, the local officials are used to supervise the merchants, and the metropolitan procuratorate is used to supervise the household department and the local officials, so naturally it cannot be miscalculated." Zhang Juzheng sat up unconsciously, and said carefully: "Because this is exactly what Emperor Taizu did." What's more, if you want to do this, "you must increase your official position a lot, and hundreds of officials will definitely support it, but what is the effect, I don't deceive it, I'm not optimistic!" Needless to say, Emperor Taizu did not rely on this system to dominate civil officials in the end, "but relied on the pervasive Jinyi Guard." ”

"Why is this happening?" Shen Mo asked.

"It's not Yuanfu's problem, it's not Taizu's problem, it's that for thousands of years, we've gone the wrong way." Zhang Juzheng sighed and said: "Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone," I Huaxia has replaced the legal system with the beginning of Taoism. Ethics and morality have become the standard for governing the country, and the imperial court uses the "Four Books" to select scholars, which is to require us officials to be sincere and benevolent to the people and love things.

Only when both the DPRK and China are such officials can all systems be implemented perfectly and can the country and the people be safe. ”

"Is it just reality? In the eyes of scholars, nature is realistic, didn't the sage say that people are good? Is this the way of an upright emperor? Zhang Juzheng said: "Of course the words of the sage will not be wrong, what is wrong is the world, who let the things in this world flow sideways and dye the white paper into ink?" The history of thousands of years has long proved that there are not no people with pure hearts and virtues, but these people are hung up and worshipped as idols. Why? Because scarcity is expensive, that is the ideal state of people, and it is really rare to achieve it. The vast majority of people in this world have sī hearts and sī yù. ”

"Officials don't really become sages just because they read a sage book for a few days. The motivation for their ten years of hard work is Qian Zhongsu and Yan Ruyu! Instead of talking about governing the country and leveling the world! Lord Shoufu, when you walk out of a big household, you can naturally treat money like dung, but most of the scholars in the Ming Dynasty are like me, and they exhaust the assets of the whole family in exchange for the title of one person on the gold list. Why? Because the whole family regards writing as a hope to change their fate. Even if we want to clean ourselves, are you worthy of your hard-working father and mother, and worthy of your uncle and uncle who sponsor you? ”

"In fact, when a person gets a jinshi, someone immediately comes to give advice, how to buy land and lend money, how to play lawsuits, how to use power as capital for extra income! Some moneylenders in Beijing often lent money to poor Beijing officials, and as soon as the latter appointed magistrates, these creditors would follow them, and in addition to recovering their loans, they would also increase their costs and costs. Zhang Juzheng said: "The world is like this, how many people can get out of the mud like Hai Rui without staining?" The vast majority of officials are going to the sea, but to varying degrees. Those who can grasp a degree, only between legal and seemingly illegal, and take some extra money to subsidize the shortcomings of the official Dai, can be regarded as a clean official. ”

"Therefore, relying on the consciousness of officials is like letting a wolf look at a sheep, expecting them to be honest and not steal their mouths." It seems that Zhang Juzheng has been resting for most of the year, and after saying so much, he is still full of energy, and his mouth is not dry: "As for the layers of supervision", although the system is complete and seems to be seamless, the problem is still the same, you have to come to Zongcheng. One of the major terminal diseases of officialdom is the relationship network of friends, the teacher-student relationship between the owner and the protégé. Born in a province and a county: the friendship in the same year's examination: and the marriage formed by intermarriage. These various "friendships" make the relationship between civil officials and officials complicated. They nominally serve in various ministries and monasteries, each with its own official organization, but behind them there are factions of their sī people. And what they really serve, unswervingly, is often the "friendship" under the sī, but it is not this court, not their own official position! ”

As the boss of the largest faction in the DPRK, Shen Mo's face was slightly red when he was said, and he coughed, "Then what do you say?" ”

"Those measures are very good, they don't need to be changed!" Zhang Juzheng had already entered the state, and unconsciously landed on the ground, stepping on the carpet with bare feet and said, "Just add one, and you're good to go!" ”

"What?" Shen Mo looked at him standing on the ground, "I don't break it, and I still asked humbly."

"Passing the test!" Zhang Juzheng said: "Over the years, I have relied on this method to promote the strip compilation and Qingzhang in Nanzhi, Shandong, Jiangxi, and Liangguang. How can such a good way not be used? ”

"Yes" nodded silently, and said slowly, "If I add this article, how can I cure your illness?" ”

"Oh" Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but be stunned, and then came back to his senses, "It turned out that he was moving for a while, and he unconsciously ran to the ground." Deng Shi was annoyed and angry, "I knew, I knew, you guy likes to play this set!" Why did I fall for you again?! ”

"Hehe, don't blame it." Shen Mo smiled and said, "This is also because you have been sick for too long, so I took some medicine." Said a little proudly: "How about it, the medicine is in addition to the disease, right?" ”

"Please go to the study for tea first!" Zhang Juzheng directly said, "Contemptible people want to change clothes!" ”

After a cup of tea, Zhang Juzheng put on his robe and came out to meet him, and both of them no longer mentioned the matter of illness, but talked in detail about the implementation of the "One Whip Law".

, "The art of war has clouds, and it can be shown but cannot be shown" is used and shown without it, near and shown far, far away and shown near. "In front of Zhang Juzheng, you don't need to be as high-sounding as you are to Ge Shouli"

There is only one thing to say: "The government and the opposition are not small in their resistance to the new law, and if they want to pass it smoothly, they must make less criticism in the future." After a pause, he said, "But you are right, these high-sounding things are not enough. I've come to you this time to discuss something other than words. ”

"Only by passing the test can we do this!" Zhang Juzheng said categorically: "The affairs of the world are not difficult to legislate, but difficult to enforce the law: if the law does not work, people are not powerful, what is the benefit of discussing the law without discussing people?" ”

"Honestly, wonderful!" Silence led the way.

"The lack of government affairs is not due to the lack of institutions, so I do not advocate increasing the number of personnel in institutions.

It is not the lack of laws and regulations, the two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty has infiltrated the elements of follow, and "placing Na and passing it on to the Quartet" has become the destination of all government decrees. Laws, regulations, everything, just a waste of pen, ink and paper. A few people with fat brains led a group of people with yellow faces and thin muscles, working all day long, but in fact, they were just doing paper! The paper came out of the Beijing South Paper Shop, sent into the Yamen, and after it was done, it went out of the Yamen and entered another Yamen for filing, and then disappeared and disappeared, and did not see the light of day! Kumon politics can't defeat Kumon politics, so I don't advocate proposing new laws and regulations, which can only increase waste. ”

In this way of talking, Zhang Juzheng was equally blunt, and criticized Shen Mo: "We just need to give an innocent explanation." The method is very simple, requiring the household department and the provincial and county yamen to list the work to be completed one by one at the beginning of each year and copy it into a book. It also caused two account books to be sent to the capital. If there is a long time that has not been implemented, it will be sent to the Cabinet for examination at any time. In this way, whoever fails to complete the task will be punished accordingly. If the levy is less than eight points, it will be demoted and used, and if it can't be completed, it will be lowered again until the roll is covered and rolled home! Everything is in black and white, and no one can deceive! ”

"Actually, when I was in Suzhou, I learned this method of yours, and it really showed immediate results." Shen Mo smiled: "Taiyue Huang is really a talent who has passed through the heavens and latitudes!" ”

"When you were in Suzhou?" "Zhang Juzheng is a little confused, he was still teaching ten years ago, where did he get the test method?

"I'll do as you say." Shen Mo smiled and diverted the topic: "But what I want to discuss with you is not this, but my Ming Dynasty's hundred-year plan." ”

"A 100-year plan? ”

, nodded silently and said, "Just now you said that Taizu is not, in order to reassure you, I will also say a few words." Zhang Juzheng smiled and listened to him continue: "Most of the merits accumulated in the past two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty must be credited to Taizu's account. During the period of the founding of the dynasty, some policies took detours, went farther and farther, and caused more and more harm......"

"Not bad." Zhang Juzheng nodded with a wry smile and said, "I have been holding this in my heart for half my life, but I let you say it." The military system, the clan, the finances, and the factory guards, all of today's major troubles, are all due to the Taizu, and now they have all become the ancestral family law, and it is even more difficult to move. ”

"But if these problems are not solved, it is a symptom but not a root cause, and it can only be extended for a few years for the Ming Dynasty, but it cannot change the result." He said in a deep voice.

"Not bad! Zhang Juzheng's eyes lit up and said: "I always thought that you didn't have the courage to move these ancestral family laws, but I didn't expect that I would underestimate the heroes of the world!" ”

"When you can't move, the eight winds don't move, and when you can, you have to move!" Shen Mo nodded, and said in a deep voice: "What I want to do this time is to sort out the national finances, change the original local revenue and expenditure, to the national total revenue and expenditure, except for those who are required to be withheld as local funds, and report them to the central government, and then the household department will coordinate them!" ”

"Good! Good! Good! Zhang Juzheng shouted loudly: "If you can do this matter well, it will be a hundred years away, if you don't take advantage of the lack of constraints in the past few years, you will do this matter, and no one will be able to do it in the future!" ”@。