"It's back......"

In June, outside the palace of King Qi, when Lu Wenzhao, who led the team back to the capital, returned to the capital after many years of absence and stood here, his heart was full of mixed feelings.

Behind him, Shen Lian, Lu Xian, Lu Xiu and others were also in the dust, and they could see that they were in a hurry.

"His Royal Highness has an edict, and it is rumored that the Jinyi Guards will command Lu Wenzhao and others to meet him."

When a familiar voice came out of the door of the Qi Palace, shouting a familiar tone, Lu Wenzhao looked up and saw Cao Huachun who seemed to be smiling.

"Haha!"

Lu Wenzhao laughed, stepped forward and hugged Cao Huachun, who had not seen him for many years, and Cao Huachun also quipped: "If you delay any longer, I'm afraid Your Highness will be angry." ”

"No delay...... Don't delay......" As soon as he heard that His Royal Highness was angry, Lu Wenzhao immediately put Cao Huachun down, and then took Shen Lian and Cao Huachun and Cao Huachun towards the inside of the Qi Palace.

The old friend hadn't seen each other for many years, and the two chatted all the way until they climbed the steps of the carrier hall, and the two stopped.

"Let's go inside." Cao Huachun's eyes motioned for Lu Wenzhao and the others to go in, and Lu Wenzhao also nodded with a heavy heart.

He stepped into the carrying hall with a very worried crotch, and then walked towards the side hall.

With Shen Lian and the three of them, he walked into the side hall, but he kept his head down and didn't dare to raise his head, as if the shadow of Zhu Youzhen's scolding of him was still there.

"They're all in, who are you going to look at with your head down?"

"Please ...... Your Highness"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen's voice sounded, Lu Wenzhao immediately saluted, but Zhu Youzhen's voice came from the other side.

"It's just a table and chair, it doesn't move, and it's not lonely."

"......Forehead" Lu Wenzhao looked up, and sure enough, Zhu Youzhen was not on the table and chair, so he heard the sound and looked, only to find that Zhu Youzhen was sitting on the ladder of the towering bookshelf in the side hall, holding a book in his hand.

These books Lu Wenzhao knew that they were all copies of the "Yongle Canon".

Since the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen has reproduced more than ten sets of Yongle canons, either in the mansions such as Shuntian and Yingtian, or in the palace of the king of Qi.

"Your Highness......" Lu Wenzhao hurriedly saluted after reacting, and Zhu Youzhen also sat on the ladder and watched the four of them.

"It's been a good year." He praised him, so that the stone in Lu Wenzhao's heart finally landed.

"It's all the subordinate officials' own duties, and the subordinate officials didn't do a good job before!" Lu Wenzhao's attitude of admitting his mistake was very good, but Zhu Youzhen had already lost his anger.

To put it bluntly, Lu Wenzhao is the old man who accompanied him out of the Miaoqin Palace after all, unless Lu Wenzhao does something that he shouldn't do, otherwise no matter how big it is, he can forgive it.

"Let's do things well when I come back, after so many years of running, I think I should have a long memory."

Zhu Youzhen flipped through the books in his hand, and Lu Wenzhao also said yes again and again.

However, after he finished speaking, Zhu Youzhen looked at Shen Lian and the three again:

"Xiao Xiyang, South Kunlun, and Qi Kingdom, these three places need three brocade guards, do you three have any intentions?"

"Go back to Your Highness, and the ministers will follow Your Highness's arrangement!"

Shen Lian and the three didn't say much, after all, they knew that Zhu Youzhen actually had the answer in his heart, so he didn't ask them, but to see his attitude.

"Then step down, rest in the outer court, and have a meal together."

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and motioned for them to retreat, but he was still ready to leave them for dinner.

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao and the others breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and then honestly withdrew from the carrier hall.

During this process, Wang Chengen watched as a bystander, and it was not until Lu Wenzhao and they left completely that Wang Chengen took the initiative to speak:

"Your Highness, I heard that Gu Bingqian and Yuan Keli's health has not been as good as before recently, and now it is the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, so Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou ......"

Wang Chengen's words made Zhu Youzhen pay attention, and he couldn't help but close the book and put the book on the shelf.

"Let people go and see if he's faking illness or really sick."

For Gu Bingqian, a guy who is in the Gu Party and stands on the wall with his heart, Zhu Youzhen doesn't care, he is a little concerned about Yuan Keli's illness since the beginning of this year.

Despite the difference in political views, Zhu Youzhen still sincerely admires Yuan Keli's ability and morality.

He does need the cabinet to give up two positions, but now is not the time.

Walked down the ladder, returned to the chair and sat down, Zhu Youzhen began to deal with the sparseness, and Wang Chengen did not bother when he saw this.

Lu Wenzhao's return is just an episode, and his influence on the government is not very great.

What really affects the world is the financial pressure that accompanies the graduation of the first class of government students.

Since the first batch of students in the government school ranged in age from seven to fifteen years old, the number of students in this grade can be described as a large number.

There are 20 million students in government education, and 6 million students in this age group alone.

With their graduation, the basic expenditure of official education also plummeted from more than 2 million taels to 960,000 taels, saving a lot of silver for the imperial court.

Of the more than 6 million students, the oldest ones participated in Enke last year, and the younger ones were directly admitted to the university.

There are a total of 900 schools in the Ming Dynasty, and for students, they collect 300 yuan a semester of tuition and miscellaneous fees on the basis of the book fee for beginners.

Although it may not seem like much, some families still feel that it is not cost-effective, after all, most of their children are seventeen or eighteen years old, and they are also old enough to marry and have children.

Therefore, out of the more than 6 million students, less than 2 million of them eventually went to the Fuxue, and the teachers of these Fuxue were all Yanshan students who graduated from the two Fuxue schools of Shuntian and Yingtian.

In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty incorporated Zhejiang into the official school system, and the last batch of students of Yanshan official school also graduated, so Yanshan official school was also collectively abolished and merged into the official school.

Such a move was expected by many Yanshan officials, and they were not surprised.

The Yanshan faction didn't make any moves, and the officials of the old faction were even less likely to make any moves.

All the officials were busy with relocation and disaster relief, without exception, so they didn't care about anything else.

More than 800,000 officials are busy with the affairs of more than 160 million people, and although there is no such thing as working overtime, there is not a single person who does not work overtime when he wants to handle the official business at hand.

In recent days, the six ministries have been asked to recruit more people this year and send more people to each department, but Zhu Youzhen simply ignored it.

He knew very well in his heart that the people under the six departments at the moment could be said to be just enough to do things.

With more manpower, they will slacken, and with less, they will work hard.

Maintaining the current number of officials is the only way to keep them tense and have no time for corruption.

This is not Zhu Youzhen's personal conjecture, but the result of his practice.

With the reward of the great drought, Jinyiwei was busy making meritorious contributions, so the supervision was tight, and the officials did not dare to slack off, so they could only bury their heads in hard work, and the corruption suddenly became much less.

However, Zhu Youzhen also knows that if officials are squeezed like this, some people will be dissatisfied one day.

But that won't help, it's good to resign if you're dissatisfied, anyway, there are people behind.

His thinking made the civil officials uncomfortable, but the generals were very comfortable, not only in Beijing, but also outside Beijing.

Zhu Youzhen is in control of the overall situation, and it can be said that he is sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, and the only thing that makes him a little concerned is that in addition to the drought, it is the affairs of Mobei and the Western Regions.

Since Sun Yingyuan increased the burning and attack on the Mobei tribes, Karaqin took the lead in moving westward, and the Ming Dynasty also took the opportunity to send troops to recover the Qi Wangfu City in the area of Yuerhai, and renamed it Xishan City.

After the Karaqin Subudi moved westward, the Chechen Khan Shuo Lei faced the more than 30,000 elite horsemen of the Eastern Army Governor's Palace, and they were beaten unspeakably, so they also moved westward.

However, Shuo Lei did not move west directly to Helin, but retreated to the city of Sali Cowardice under the Wolf Juxu Mountain.

He gave up thousands of miles of grassland, but the Ming army could no longer attack them due to logistical problems, so they could only occupy the two cities of Hara Manglai and Baal and Stan, and renamed them Monan and Mobei Cities.

In this way, the Ming army had a foothold in the eastern part of Mobei.

When the Liaomo Railway is completed, the Ming army can also take the water transportation of Hara City in the east of Modong to transport grain to Mobei City in the east of Mobei by boat, and it will be much easier to attack the three major departments of Transkhalkha from Mobei City.

"Let Sun Yingyuan increase the pressure and force them to either surrender or move west."

Zhu Youzhen will review it, and Wang Chengen will also be shocked when he hears it.

The two continued to manage government affairs while the scale of immigration to the north increased over time.

In June, 170,000 people migrated from the north to the outside of the border, 220,000 in July, 260,000 in August, and 330,000 after the autumn harvest in September.

Most of the paddy fields in Henan and Shandong have been turned into irrigated fields, and the local areas cannot carry such a large number of people, and in the face of the soaring grain of eight cents, the vast majority of people have chosen to relocate, especially the tenants under the command of landlords.

If the tenants want to move, the landlord will naturally not allow it, but the landlord is unwilling to pay for food to support them, which naturally leads to some contradictions, among which Shandong is the representative, and Shandong is represented by the Yansheng Mansion.

The matter was played, and it happened to be caught by Zhu Youzhen, who couldn't find the handle of the Kong family.

Qufu Confucius, this is a family that has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, and the reason why it can be inherited for so long is only because of Kong Zhongni alone......

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, and then Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty's son Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty vigorously promoted Confucianism, Confucius was revered as a saint, and the Qufu Confucian clan also began an enduring soft road.

In the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, natural disasters and social turmoil occurred frequently, and the Confucian Mei Fu believed that this was due to the failure to properly arrange the sacrifice to Confucius, so the heavens were angry.

The imperial court accepted Mei Fu's proposal and named Confucius as the descendant of Shang Tang, continuing the sacrifice of the previous kings, and officially regarded Confucius as the public god of the country in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and its status was the same as that of the god of Sheji.

The Tang Dynasty ordered every county to build a temple to worship Confucius, with two major sacrifices in spring and autumn every year, and two small sacrifices on the first and fifteenth days of each month.

After the Tang Dynasty, Confucius's status continued to increase, and the title of Confucius also increased, and Confucius also received the hereditary title of Yan Shenggong.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Confucius had not changed its taste, and moved south without succumbing to foreign races, and those with weak legs stayed and took refuge in the Jin Kingdom.

Later, when he came to the Ming Dynasty, in order to win over scholars, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to continue to follow the example of the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, and let Confucius inherit the hereditary title of Yan Shenggong.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Qufu Kongmen had become a cancer.

In the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the cultivated land in Shandong was only 60 million mu, and the Confucius Gate in Qufu occupied more than 3 million mu, and the large, medium, and small landlords who depended on them occupied more than 6 million mu.

They don't have to pay taxes or taxes, so it can be said that the Ming Dynasty gave them rights that previous dynasties did not have, and as a result, this group of guys immediately knelt down after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

On the first day of the ninth month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Kong Yinzhi expressed his willingness to return to the Qing Dynasty on the "First Entry Table".

In the second year, the imperial court issued a shaving order, and Kong Yinzhi led the prestige of the clan to take the lead in shaving their hair, and played the "Shaving of the Head" to the Qing court.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the people of Confucius still knew about Nandu, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Confucius, who enjoyed the best treatment, was too lazy to go south and surrendered directly to the Manchus.

Now the tenants want to emigrate, and the Confucian government also organized the family to block it, which made Zhu Youzhen disgusted.

"Tell the people of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials that according to the "Great Ming Law" set by Emperor Taizu Gao, the tenants and landlords of the dynasty have an employment relationship and must not be harshly punished."

"The Confucian Mansion organized the family to besiege and beat the tenants without authorization, and the Ministry of Officials abolished the title of Duke of Kong Yin Zhiyan, and ordered the Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to thoroughly investigate the Confucian Mansion."

"Order again, from now on, the Confucian Mansion will be paved into the mu, and if there is a violator, it will be dealt with according to the law!"

"Your Highness, this ......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Wang Chengen was shocked.

He was not sympathetic to the Kong family, but he was afraid that Zhu Youzhen's treatment of the Kong family would make the world's respected Confucians speak falsely to the court and Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Chengen, frowned, and said: "I know what you want to say, but this Confucian family is favored by the emperor and can still do things that violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty, what is the use of such Confucianism?" ”

If he really wants to support a Confucian family, Zhu Youzhen would rather support the Meng family and the Wang family.

At least in the second year of the Apocalypse, when Xu Hongru rebelled, the Meng clan still defended the city with the people, and the Wang clan fell in the Ming Dynasty and when the Qing court went south, in the face of the persuasion of the Qing court, the Wang family could still cry and say: 'The world receives the grace of the country, the righteousness does not change, and it is enough to die to repay the monarch's father in the ground, and then die".

These two, in the final analysis, can be regarded as loyal to the Ming Dynasty, on the other hand, Kong's speculative behavior when the Song, Jin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasty were communicating, what kind of example did this set for scholars, and what was the use of leaving it?

Zhu Youzhen's words made Wang Chengen speechless, so he could only respond honestly, and then sent the song to the cabinet.

It's just that, as he expected, when the cabinet received Zhu Youzhen's announcement that he wanted to abolish the title of Duke Yansheng, they were immediately shocked.

Dragging the sick body, Gu Bingqian, Yuan Keli, Bi Ziyan and others rushed to the Qi Palace.

Zhu Youzhen summoned them, and also saw the skinny Yuan Keli and Gu Bingqian for the first time, as well as Bi Ziyan, who had recovered a little after cultivating for a while.

The three of them entered the side hall and immediately saluted in unison: "Please retract the decree of the abolition of the Yansheng Mansion......"

The words of the three were within Zhu Youzhen's expectations, so he said openly and honestly: "Yansheng Mansion, Lone must be abolished." ”

"Lying on the merits of the saints can fish the people? Graft? ”

"The merits of a saint can save them once, twice, but it is impossible to save them three or four times."

"Confucian scholars all over the world are proficient in historical books, don't they know that the Yansheng Mansion has taken refuge in the Jin Kingdom?"

"If the ancestor has a saint, he can ignore the rules of the country, then should he change his surname to Kong in this world?!"

"The ministers are terrified!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, the three of them were so frightened that they lowered their heads.

Zhu Youzhen can say this kind of thing, the meaning is self-evident, whoever wants to provoke him again, think about the end.

"There are more than 800,000 officials in the world, since you feel that it is unfair to deal with Lonely, then let the officials of the world draw up the votes!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, the three of them immediately felt bitter in their hearts.

Who doesn't know that there are more than 800,000 officials in the world? But the problem is that among the more than 800,000 officials, more than 500,000 are students who came out of Yanshan.

What they learned in Yanshan was not the Four Books and Five Classics, for them, Yan Sheng Gong was a moth that sucked the blood of the imperial court, not only Yan Sheng Gong's Mansion, but also other old-fashioned officials.

The abolition of the Yansheng Mansion slapped the face of the old-fashioned officials, and if the Yanshan officials knew about this kind of thing, they would probably have applauded a long time ago.

Let the vote be drafted, to put it bluntly, it is to pull out the Yansheng Mansion for public execution, so that everyone can see how unpopular it is.

"The date of the vote will start in September, and as for the day when the results will be announced, it will be made public at the Zhengdan Festival."

"Your Highness......"

"The three of you should care more about the people!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, the three of them wanted to dissuade them, but they were interrupted by Zhu Youzhen before they could finish speaking.

He had a calm face: "People say that parents are parents, and the three of them can't even bear to be hungry even if they are the dogs of their own guards, so why can't they go to the people?" ”

"Bi Shangshu ......" Zhu Youzhen looked at Bi Ziyan, who he had always thought loved the people: "Do you think it's wrong for the Yansheng Mansion to block the relocation of tenants?" ”

"Xiaguan ......" Bi Ziyan looked entangled, he was not entangled in who was right and who was wrong, he felt that Zhu Youzhen was putting himself in a dead end by doing this.

Who doesn't know what kind of virtue is the Yansheng Mansion? Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to pay attention to the Confucian Mansion, but he was not given the title of Yan Sheng Duke by the civil officials.

Bi Ziyan admits that Zhu Youzhen's thinking in the area of governance is different from ordinary people, but he always does this, he is still worried that Zhu Youzhen will be attacked by a group.

Facing Zhu Youzhen's straight eyes, Bi Ziyan could only bite the bullet: "According to the "Da Ming Law", the Yansheng Mansion is guilty, but the crime is not to be cut off ......"

"Yuan Cifu ......" Zhu Youzhen got the answer, and asked Yuan Keli again, and asked more sharply: "You have served as a political envoy in Shandong, dare to ask those things that the Yansheng Mansion does, can you watch it?!" ”

After all, it is a feudal dynasty, and there are not too many things that the rich and powerful Confucian Mansion can do.

Even if Kong Yinzhi, who inherited the title of Duke Yansheng, did not do these things, can he guarantee that the people of the Confucian Mansion did not do these things?

As long as one person does it, Zhu Youzhen can track it down, and then pile up all the things that everyone in the Confucian Mansion has done on top of the Yansheng Mansion, so that he can hold a black pot and can't turn over.

His thoughts, his thoughts, Yuan Keli didn't know, but ......

"Xiaguan...... I didn't understand ......" Yuan Keli said something against his will, after all, he was also a Confucian disciple.

"Gu Ge Lao!" Zhu Youzhen raised his voice, not as gentle as he was to Bi Ziyan and Yuan Keli, his eyes were sharp and he looked at Gu Bingqian, who was sick, and he looked uncomfortable, like a pinprick.

"The lower officials thought that Confucius was guilty...... Sin does not lead to deprivation. ”

Gu Bingqian moved Bi Ziyan's words over, which was very in line with his character when he encountered a major event.

got the answer, Zhu Youzhen didn't leave the three of them, but got up and walked in front of the three: "Three...... Think about it, are you the officials of the Ming Dynasty, or the officials of the Yansheng Mansion! ”

Zhu Youzhen's words made the three of them break out in a cold sweat, and his words were not so much Yansheng Mansion as Confucianism.

Since the Han Dynasty, no matter which dynasty or generation, it is actually a Confucian skin bone, the difference is which one is heavy skin, which one is heavy bone.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the law was heavy and Confucianism was light, but the later it was, the more Confucianism was emphasized.

In the year of the Apocalypse, it was not until Zhu Youzhen came to power that this phenomenon was curbed.

Zhu Youzhen wants to be legal and Confucian in parallel, in the words of the Han family, "the Ming Dynasty is domineering with the king".

The culture of Confucianism is good, especially in the domestication of the people and the convenience of the surrounding states, but its disadvantages are also obvious.

Confucianism, which has undergone several changes, is no longer the Confucianism of Confucius's time.

Confucius still knew that "repaying grievances with straightforwardness" and "fighting for every inch of land", in the late Ming Dynasty, although the Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty was much better than the Wenchen of the Song Dynasty in martial arts, but in terms of morality, it was a straight decline.

Zhu Youzhen does not deny that this is related to the mean and unkind nature of the Zhu family, but the problems of the civil officials themselves are also very big.

Since you want to play the rules of "kings, ministers, fathers, sons", let's have fun.

Confucianism is for the king, not for the king.

"Stand down!"

Zhu Youzhen withdrew his eyes, turned around and walked back to his position.

"Xiaguan retires......" The three of them saw Zhu Youzhen leaving, and they were relieved and left after saluting.

After they left completely, Wang Chengen, who was dealing with the music in the corner, got up and added a cup of tea for Zhu Youzhen, and said:

"Your Highness was a little angry just now?"

"Forget it......" Zhu Youzhen has swallowed his anger for so many years, not because he has a good temper, but because he doesn't want others to see his temper, but in the face of Wang Chengen, he can still release his private emotions.

"I'm afraid the three ministers won't be able to sleep when they go home tonight......"

Wang Chengen couldn't help but think of the appearance of Gu Bingqian and the three just now, and couldn't help but snicker.

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he couldn't help but show a touch of contempt:

"It's better if you can't sleep, so as not to make so many things happen......"

When he said this, Gu Bingqian and the three of them also walked out of the Qi Palace.

Standing in front of the palace, looking at the three words "Qi Wangfu" on the plaque, Gu Bingqian breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time looked at Bi Ziyan and the others:

"The matter of this Yan Sheng Gong Mansion ......"

Gu Bingqian had a headache, and Yuan Keli was not silent, only Bi Ziyan could still say peacefully: "Let's go up and give Banzai first, if Banzai agrees, then do it according to the holy decree." ”

Bi Ziyan's words seemed to push the matter of abolishing the title of Duke of Yansheng on the emperor's head, but Gu Bingqian knew that the emperor was not a fool, and he would definitely not accept this kind of thing.

However, only in this way can we delay the time and let the Yansheng Mansion know what happened.

Therefore, Gu Bingqian could only nod: "Just do it this way......"