Compared with Fang Yizhi's indignation, Shen Shuren's tolerance for Wei Zaode's speech was still higher.

He knew that the imperial advice could not be a debate, and there was no point in attacking others.

So he first listened carefully to all the views of Wei Zaode and others with a humble attitude.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" only said that Wei Zaode emphasized to the emperor that "you must be ashamed", but how to do it, it is impossible to write in detail in the history books.

Now that the audience has listened to it, Shen Shuren has actually gained a lot. I also have to admit that Wei Zaode does have a little brush, not just a high-profile slogan.

To sum up, he realized that the "unspoken rules of officialdom" in the Ming Dynasty now have a very bad coercion on all officials, and many officials are not bad in nature, but they are trapped in this net and cannot be left alone.

Therefore, he urged the emperor that no matter how much pressure he was on, he must never relax his tone of moral criticism. It is necessary to repeatedly emphasize the heart of right and wrong, and create an atmosphere of officialdom that "knows shame" in order to save some people who are "involuntarily self-conscious".

This is where Wei Zaode is higher than the same year, and it is also the key to his ability to be named the champion.

When Shen Shuren heard this part, he also agreed.

This reminded him of "Daoxian Huan Hai Experience": When Zhang Jixin was the governor of Shaanxi Province, he had to send routine silver to all his superiors, including Lin Zexu, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu - Is Lin Zexu greedy? Of course not. But there is no way, in that kind of atmosphere, if you don't accept it, you will be excluded.

The unspoken rules of officialdom at the end of the Ming Dynasty are definitely more terrible than those at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In the end, many people were forced by Chongzhen to donate their family property to help the army, they did not donate, they would rather die in the country and be tortured - not everyone does not want to donate, some are afraid of the follow-up disasters, will be liquidated, will be attacked by colleagues, and it will be difficult to ride a tiger.

Shen Shuren had also mixed with the system before he crossed over, and he knew this helplessness.

Take the simplest example in later generations: official banquets are not allowed to drink Moutai. In Shen Shuren's opinion, this is very useful.

Because a post-80s generation like him, he had to endure humiliation in order to be happy with the leader. After beating Moutai as an unhealthy trend, of course, it is useless to alcoholics, but those who are tired of alcohol have found a shield.

If Chongzhen can really create an atmosphere of "shame", it can have the same effect.

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Of course, Shen Shuren's patience was not to applaud Wei Zaode.

His ultimate goal is also to know himself and his opponent, find the key to checking and filling in the gaps, and pointing out the problems.

Therefore, he quietly listened to the other people play the right game for more than an hour, and waited for those who echoed Wei Zaode to say the same.

Chongzhen asked people to add it several times, and no one could add it anymore, leaving only some unconventional oppositionists, including Fang Yizhi, who didn't like to listen to what Chongzhen said, and casually reprimanded a few words.

At this time, Chongzhen seemed to finally remember: There were a few people who had read the papers from the Ministry of Rites last night, and there seemed to be one Shen Lin who didn't ask.

So Chongzhen finally took the initiative to ask questions by name.

Several prospective jinshi next to him all cast envious glances at Shen Shuren.

After the mainstream views are finished, he was specially named by the emperor, which is not an ordinary treatment.

Shen Shuren was confident, he knew that he would definitely wait for this moment - it was not that he was arrogant, but that he had the biggest advantage over other candidates, he was already an official of the Zhengqipin Imperial Court, and his previous performance had also reached the heavens.

There are not many candidates that Chongzhen can remember, and he is definitely one of them, so he will definitely be asked.

Shen Shuren took a deep breath and talked eloquently:

"Your Majesty, it is just what you said in the same year, and the minister was quite inspired. Zi said: Before politics, it must also be justified. The name is justified, honor and disgrace are divided, and the gentleman can be loyal and patriotic without worry.

However, the minister thought that this law could only prevent the gentleman from being coerced by the villain, but it could not save the villain, the ignorant people, and the soldiers. Peaceful world needs the help of people all over the world, and it is not enough to rely on a gentleman.

In today's world, national disasters are still frequent, and people's hearts have been slightly scattered, so it is necessary to gather people's hearts in an eclectic manner, so that people all over the world realize that 'the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband', so as to get twice the result with half the effort. ”

As soon as Shen Shuren's words came out, the emperor and his peers were not very satisfied.

Chongzhen's first reaction was to label Shen Shuren as "this is a person with a flexible moral bottom line".

How can he open his mouth as if he was persuading the emperor to turn a blind eye, forgive those who have made small mistakes and sins, and try to unite the majority?

Fortunately, Shen Shuren still affirmed the value of "shame" in the first half of the sentence, and did not directly oppose it, which made Chongzhen somewhat patient.

And the same people next to him felt that his self-proclaimed "minister" was quite harsh - the quasi-jinshi had not been awarded an official yet, how could he call himself a minister? In the crowd, almost someone jumped out to reprimand him for his deceitfulness.

Fortunately, there were a few candidates who knew the inside story, whispering legends, and everyone knew that this person was an official first and then took the exam, and he was qualified to be a minister, and the discussion subsided.

Chongzhen on the throne, after adjusting his emotions, continued to ask: "Then Yiqing only saw it, how to save the hearts of those ignorant people in the world?" ”

Shen Shuren always maintained a tone that was neither humble nor arrogant: "Ministers dare not speak falsely, the world is the most unpredictable, and the hearts of the people are also." In order to save people's hearts, there is no permanent law, and it is necessary to judge the situation and make things different.

In the past Qin Dynasty, the world was turbulent, and the people's hearts were suffering from severe punishment and harsh laws, and Liu Bang won the hearts of the people by three chapters of the law.

In the Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turbans rose everywhere, and Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi and other generations issued an edict to beg the thieves, saying: Now the sea is unified, only the Yellow Turban rebels, if they are allowed to surrender, there is no way to persuade the good, so they do not follow the three chapters of the law to save the policy, but also to destroy the thief.

Therefore, there are places where leniency and severity can be used, and the key is to recognize the enemy you are facing before choosing a strategy, whether it is Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others, or Zhang Jiao and Huang Chao's generation. ”

Chongzhen patiently heard this, although he still couldn't wipe his face because of his moral cleanliness, but he agreed with Shen Shuren's character a little more.

He also saw that Shen Shuren was not simply moral and flexible, but analyzed the difficulties of reality realistically, at least his attitude was loyal and patriotic.

Chongzhen took a deep breath and asked, "Then what do you think, the thief Li Chuang and Zhang Rebellion, is it Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, or Zhang Jiao Huangchao?" ”

The "thief" in his mouth is Luo Rucai. Luo Rucai compared himself to Cao Cao, so much so that the official documents of the imperial court at that time mentioned that he would write the bandit name instead of his real name.

Chongzhen put Luo Rucai in front because when Chongzhen was thirteen years old, these three giants seemed to have similar status and strength, and Luo Rucai was not weaker than the other two.

Later generations are accustomed to only emphasizing the strength of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, which is nothing more than hindsight and taking the conclusions of history books backwards.

Shen Shuren thought about it carefully and said cautiously: "The minister thinks that these three people can't be classified into one category, Li Chuang and Cao Thief are good at attacking and coercing, and to deal with them, they need to be dignified, and when the civil and military are at war with them, the court must not tolerate the cowards among them."

Zhang Shun is good at coercion, when Chongzhen was eight years old, when the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum was destroyed, Zhang Shun was the leader, forcing the remaining twelve thieves to dye this crime together, for the name of the petition.

After that, although Xiong Wencan appeased Zhang Wei, he could finally use the original vote to arouse Luo Rucai, Junzhou Fourth Battalion, Gezuo Fifth Battalion and other fears of liquidation, and turned back.

Chen has been in the south for a long time, and he has also transported military rations for the defenders of Luzhou, personally fought with the thieves of the fifth battalion of Gezuo, and also captured prisoners and tortured them. Although these thieves rebelled with Zhang Yi, some of them were just out of fear in their hearts, lest they would not be able to prove to the court that they and Zhang Yi were not all the way, so they could only make a desperate bet. ”

Shen Shuren's remarks were fully drawn on the results of historical research in later generations.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong did have different styles when they formed the game. Li Zicheng and Luo Rucaila's favorite method is Mongolian-style coercion:

When attacking a city, if you surrender directly, you will not kill or rob. If the city is broken after two days of resistance, then kill 30% of the soldiers and civilians as a warning, and the longer the resistance, the more ruthless the killing and plundering will be after the city is broken.

If the city that did not surrender for ten days and half a month was finally breached, then the chicken dog would not leave the city to completely slaughter and scare the Ming Dynasty officials behind.

Zhang Xianzhong's style is: I will force you to do something sorry for Chongzhen first, and let me tell you, Chongzhen does not rub sand in his eyes, as long as you don't do a good job, you will be liquidated and killed in the end, so just vote.

He dug the tomb of Emperor Fengyang to force the generals who surrounded and suppressed him to death, and later attacked and killed the King of Chu to force Yang Sichang to death, all of which made full use of Chongzhen's human weaknesses.

Li Zicheng is Δ and has strong toxicity. Zhang Xianzhong is Ο, the toxicity is hidden, and the infection is strong.

Of course, Shen Shuren couldn't say it so bluntly in front of the emperor, so he still slightly embellished his wording. But the meaning of the subtext is to hope that the emperor will recognize it:

To deal with Li Zicheng's generals, it is necessary to strictly enforce military law, so as to arouse the hatred of the people below and not be frightened. "As long as you hit Li Zicheng for the first time, you have to fight to the end, because Li Zicheng will not forgive those who beat him and then surrender."

To deal with Zhang Xianzhong's generals, you must be more tolerant, and you can't let Zhang Xianzhong play "As long as you are sorry for Chongzhen, you can only completely put sorry to the end, because Chongzhen will not forgive those who have been sorry for him."

Chongzhen hadn't really thought about it from this perspective.

Over the years, he has changed so many military secretaries and governors of the five provinces who chased and suppressed thieves.

But no one had analyzed with him that there were so many factions with different ideological programs within the thieves.

After listening to Shen Shuren's way of combining leniency and severity, his words are indeed reasonable. But the face is really a little unbearable.

First of all, it is impossible for the emperor to admit that the policy of the year was wrong, and secondly, it is not easy for the emperor to give in to the public and change his course.

Chongzhen is also a person who loves face very much, and after struggling for a while, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

After thinking about it, he rolled his eyes, and decided to dethrone Shen Shuren first! Whether it will be used in the future or not, it cannot be admitted in front of the sixty jinshi now.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Shen Qing, your words have disappointed me so much!" Do you think that the civil and military forces that have surrounded and suppressed Zhang Xianzhong over the years should not be punished? You just said that you must also correct your name and distinguish between right and wrong, honor and disgrace, but you didn't expect that it is unreasonable to do things.

That's all for today, I see that Wei Zaode and Gao Eryan are doing well, and you also have to see the sages and think together, so let's step down. Shen Lin stays, I want you to reflect on it! If it weren't for the palace test, you wouldn't even be able to keep the last place in the top two! ”

When everyone next to them heard this, they were a little gloating. The sixtieth among these sixty people seems to have come to light, and it is this Shen Shuren.

Maybe it will be recorded by the historian: Shen Shuren had a political dispute when he advised the emperor because of the palace test in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, which angered the emperor and was rated as the last in the second class.

Shen Shuren was not worried at all, his heart was bright, he knew that Chongzhen wanted to save face, first punish him last, and then leave him to ask for advice in private, so as not to openly lose face.

As for being punished by Chongzhen, this kind of thing will become political capital after Chongzhen's death - look, we tried to persuade the first emperor back then, but the first emperor didn't listen, and it was over in the end, right?