Chapter 172: Qing Officials and Good Officials

"Chen Xinshu, I have read all your records in the Ministry of Officials, as you yourself said, you once entered the officialdom with full of blood, but you failed to stick to this belief, on the contrary, you finally chose to go along with the darkness of officialdom, which makes me feel sad. Chen Xinshu, think about it, did you sleep soundly at the beginning, or do you sleep peacefully now? ”

Chen Xinshu didn't know why I asked like this, and thought about it: "Your Majesty, when the minister was just an official, he was basically able to fall asleep with his head upside down, but now he has to toss and turn repeatedly before he can fall asleep, and his sleep situation is not as good as before. ”

My eyes were like torches, staring at Chen Xinshu and said: "People have good and evil sides, and the so-called good and evil are of one mind. Chen Xinshu, when you were just an official, although you couldn't get through the left and right, you had an upright heart, that heart can release goodwill, shelter your potential consciousness, and make your spirit smooth, and now, although your officialdom experience has become very rich, it can be said that the roads and trails of officialdom are all well understood, but your heart is no longer right, it releases basically evil, can no longer protect your inner peace, sleep recurrence may be your own thought that there are too many affairs, in fact, your potential consciousness has been full of evil, This evil makes you no longer feel relieved, and sooner or later it will consume you completely. ”

"Your Majesty, this, this ......"

Chen Xinshu felt a little stunned, although he roughly understood what I meant, but what I said seemed to be too mysterious, he didn't dare to refute my remarks, and he couldn't refute it, which official's appearance was not righteous and awe-inspiring? No one will associate evil with themselves. In officialdom, even evil people will advertise themselves as clean officials who are loyal to the monarch and patriotic and love the people like children.

I didn't care if Chen Xinshu understood it, and continued: "Chen Xinshu, don't you want to be a good official who will be famous for future generations? ”

"Minister, minister willing." Chen Xinshu has a lot of thoughts, and he seems to have the enthusiasm of his youth again.

"Okay, sit down too." I pointed to the position next to Ye Mengding and said, "What is the official road, the official road is the connecting pipe between the court and the people, the first emperor's surname is gentle, advocating science, and intends to govern the country with nothing, but it is surrounded by annihilation, bullying the upper and lower levels, resulting in the corruption of the dynasty, and the source of the pipeline is completely polluted. I also have more or less experienced, in this kind of turbid pipeline, the clear water is not easy to circulate, the result is that the officials of our dynasty only know to make profits for themselves, the officials behave like this, the people no longer have a sense of trust in the government, and they are also following suit, and finally form a situation in which the people of our dynasty are not the people, and the officials are not officials, so at present, the national strength of our dynasty has begun to gradually decline, and if this continues, the country will not be a country, and sooner or later it will be defeated by the hands of Mongolia. Alas, is this a situation you would like to see? ”

After Chen Xinshu sat down, he replied cautiously: "The minister is naturally unwilling. ”

"Judging from people's original surnames, as an ordinary Han person, the vast majority of them are unwilling to be slaves to the country, and as an official, the vast majority of them are also unwilling to leave a thousand years of infamy."

Ye Mengding nodded and agreed: "What Your Majesty said is reasonable. ”

"Therefore, I still believe that the people of my Great Song Dynasty can distinguish between right and wrong, including you Chen Xinshu and most of the officials on Fujian Road. And what I have to do is to completely remove the pollution from the source, I will not use the law of inaction, I will improve the law, and use the law to remove the pollution. As for you, you need to rely on the law to keep the pipes open, and to extinguish any pollution as soon as it appears, so that you and I will be able to return to me on a clear and sunny day. Ye Aiqing. ”

"The minister is here."

"Tell me to serve the food, I've said so much, and I'm a little hungry."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the Fujian cuisine in this Juying Building is still very good."

I turned my head to Yuan Jian behind me and said, "Sir, sit down and eat together." ”

All the staff of Juying Building only serve our table of guests, and the wine and food are naturally served quickly. Wen Zhang at the door held a silver needle in his hand, and after careful inspection, one dish after another, he was sent into the house.

Fujian cuisine is light and fresh, heavy and sweet and sour, pay attention to the soup to enhance freshness, developed to later generations, and is also one of the eight major cuisines in China.

"Chen Aiqing, Fujian Road is one of the few areas that our dynasty has not experienced the trauma of war, over the years, the economy of Fujian Road has been developed to a certain extent, in this regard, you have merit, but the growth of tax is far lower than the growth of the economy, you have also had this. Since you are willing to follow me to rejuvenate our dynasty, then I will not cure your past sins for the time being, and if your future performance can satisfy me, I will slowly forget your crimes. But if you don't perform well, if you miss a moment, I'll settle your old and new accounts together. ”

Chen Xinshu hurriedly got up and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers should do their best to repay the emperor's kindness." In the future, whatever the emperor says, the minister will do. ”

When I heard me call him Chen Aiqing, a stone in Chen Xinshu's heart was finally put down. Fortunately, he followed Jiang Baoshan's advice and asked Ye Mengding to convey his determination to be loyal to the imperial power in advance, otherwise this time it would be almost completely finished, Chen Xinshu thought to himself.

"Ye Aiqing, Chen Aiqing, how is my court official?"

Ye Mengding said: "Back to Your Majesty, my court's salary is higher than that of the previous dynasty, there is money, as well as rice, tea and wine money, kitchen material money, charcoal money, horse material money and other subsidies, and even the servants' clothing, food and wages of the officials' domestic envoys are also paid by the imperial court, so it should be said that all officials can live a luxurious life of brocade clothes and food." ”

"Chen Aiqing, isn't that so?"

"Your Majesty, what Lord Ye said is correct, since the Jiupin officials in our dynasty, the money I have obtained is enough to have enough food and clothing."

"Hmph, can't you pay a high salary like this?"

Chen Xinshu hurriedly responded: "Your Majesty, once people's greed is formed, it will be like sucking five stone powder, and they will be addicted. ”

Ye Mengding sighed: "Yes, Your Majesty, even if a person is an official to the first grade, the food he eats every day, the bed he sleeps on is not so much, it is so big, they can't use up these greedy silver taels in their lives, and they can't take it away when they die, but they just want to be greedy, this is just like Lord Chen said, they have formed a kind of **, a kind of unstoppable **." ”

"Chen Aiqing, are you like this too?

"Your Majesty, that's exactly the case." Chen Xinshu's old face flushed and said, "Repentance, repentance." For the ** of gold and silver, he lost his original surname. The minister has studied hard since childhood, and won the name of Jinshi for ten years, and was favored by the first emperor, and was an official for decades, but for this greed, embarked on the evil road, if it was not for the emperor to mention it in time, the minister would indeed be swallowed by evil, and the minister Chen Xinshu confessed, confessed, and repented. ”

When Chen Xinshu talked about repentance, he was already in tears, I don't know if there was a lot of drama in it, or if it was really touched.

"Chen Aiqing, since you can be enlightened, then from tonight, be a person and an official again, and be a good official who can last for a hundred years."

"The emperor can rest assured, the minister will do what the emperor wills."

Chen Xinshu remembered what Jiang Baoshan said, if the emperor asks you to be greedy, you will be greedy, let you not be greedy, you can't even be greedy for a copper coin.

I nodded and said, "Chen Aiqing, I have two things to tell you in advance, one is that I plan to promote you to the Fujian Road Envoy. ”

"What about Lord Shi?" Chen Xinshu was happy and worried, and his promotion was naturally gratifying, but he was worried that he thought I was going to punish Shi Hongsheng, so he hurriedly said, "Master Shi has never been greedy, he is a clean official." ”

"I know that Shi Hongsheng is a clean official, but he is not a good official, what I want is a good official who can do things for the people and can do things for the court, Shi Hongsheng, the scholarly business is too strong, it is not suitable to be an official here, I have other arrangements."