The 10th day of the ninth month of the tenth year of Wanli.

The golden crow shines brightly, and the hibiscus flowers of the Guozijian compete with each other.

Zhu Yijun came here with a group of civil and military ministers and prisoner Xu Jie.

It's just that in the team of the emperors and ministers in red robes, followed by a prisoner Xu Jie, it also made Xu Jie look particularly abrupt.

So much so that all the ministers in the entourage couldn't help but glance at Xu Jie.

But that's what Zhu Yijun wants.

He wants these bureaucrats to see that people like Xu Jie are officials, and the outcome is no better than that of Zhang Juzheng.

As the emperor, he needs to give a good guide to the officials.

Moisturizing things silently.

The ministers who can go to the front of the emperor, regardless of martial arts, are already like human beings, and they don't need the emperor to say much, they also know what the emperor asked Xu Jie to come to the country with him.

When Luo Wanhua, the priest of the Guozijian and Zhao Zhigao, the priest of the country, and the prisoners of the Guozijian were all waiting for the holy car, they all noticed Xu Jie, who was particularly conspicuous among the emperor's generals, and their eyes showed surprise.

However, when Zhu Yijun appeared, these officials and prisoners of the National Prison gradually changed from surprise to excitement.

The young prisoners, in particular, couldn't help but straighten their chests.

After all, it's the Holy Driver.

In this era of the supremacy of monarchy, the emperor's position in the hearts of scholars is still very important.

And Zhu Yijun's visit to Guozijian undoubtedly released a signal of attaching importance to cultural governance, so they could not hide their excitement.

Guozijian is now the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty and a reserve institution for the imperial bureaucracy.

Zhu Yijun naturally came here to send a signal to the current and future bureaucrats of the empire, a signal of what they needed to do to get his attention.

And Xu Jie, such a living textbook, has already caused some impact on their hearts first.

After Luo Wanhua and the others greeted Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun went directly to Guozijian's class, sat in the position where Dr. Guozijian was sitting in the past, and said: "Give Xu a seat, after all, he is wearing a golden step and is old." ”

Xu Jie naturally thanked him.

It's just that the full hall of ministers and scholars are standing around at this time, and only the emperor is sitting opposite him as a prisoner, which makes Xu Jie more conspicuous.

At this time, Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Hong to take the testament of governing the country left by Zhang Juzheng, and held the suicide note and said: "This is a book written by Mr. before his death, and it is about the scriptures and opinions expressed in the study of the past saints. ”

"Since I ascended the throne, I have been assisted by Mr. for ten years, and I have been able to be proficient in my studies, and now I am in charge of state affairs, and I can't be cautious, and Mr. once said that the head of governing the country is in the outline, the program is accepted and the eyes are smooth, and the program is exemplified, so how should I govern the state affairs? This is a big problem, and one that needs to be identified the most at the moment. ”

"Mr. is deceased, and I have also completed my studies, so the system of lecture and reading has been cancelled, but it does not mean that I don't have to pay attention to my studies, and the world is at my disposal, as the saying goes, if you cook a small and fresh country, you can't be in a hurry to stir-fry, you have to have rules, and now it is this rules that need to be determined."

"Therefore, even if I talk about reading and concluding, it does not mean that I and Zhuqing can no longer discuss studies, except for the scriptures, I should often discuss the world's knowledge with Zhuqing, and today I came to the country to discuss this knowledge that can be the outline of the world, and to study and discuss with Zhuqing, and to let what learning be the outline of the world, start with the master's suicide note."

Zhu Yijun said.

And after Zhu Yijun said this, the ministers and prisoners had to take a serious look at Zhang Juzheng's suicide note next.

Even Xu Jie was handed a copy of Zhang Juzheng's original suicide note by Zhu Yijun.

For a while, when these people were all looking at the same, Zhu Yijun first asked Zhang Siwei: "What do you think of the second assistant?" ”

Zhang Siwei actually didn't want the Son of Heaven to do this.

But he didn't expect that the Son of Heaven really wanted to govern the country seriously, and he was really taught by Zhang Juzheng to take the world's society and the common people to heart, and to discuss the country's affairs with the ministers and even the world's scholars, and even now he specially came to the country to learn Zhang Juzheng's concept of governing the country as an ancestral teaching.

The key is that "Emperor Ming Zuxun" has not been studied so seriously, so that scholars and doctors at all levels have to participate together, and even military ministers have to participate.

Zhang Siwei and many civil servants, in fact, advocate that Weifu should be returned to the lord, and advocate that the emperor be a holy lord and benevolent monarch, not really want the emperor to govern the country seriously, but just want the emperor to make the appearance of governing the country seriously.

After all, if the emperor is really serious, many times it is not the people who suffer, but the bureaucrats and doctors.

But Zhang Siwei naturally didn't dare to tell the truth now, so he only said against his will: "Back to Your Majesty, in the opinion of the minister, Yuanfu is Yuanfu in the end, and the opinion he holds can be used as a political motto!" ”

Zhu Yijun nodded, and didn't comment on whether Zhang Siwei was right or not, but looked at the others: "What do you think?" ”

"Your Majesty, according to Yuanfu's opinion, politics should be pragmatic, scholars should have the will to innovate and eliminate evils, and they should learn from others, because people are not born to know it; When he said this, it was obvious that he would attach more importance to the application of the world, and that the scholars and doctors would pay more attention to the merits of the world, and that they should despise virtue a lot. ”

Wang Jiaping said at this time.

"Virtue is not unimportant, but the first priority of governing the country should pay more attention to whether it can benefit the country and the people, that is, whether it can effectively strengthen the country and secure the people."

Shen Yi refuted Wang Jiaping at this time, and then said to Zhu Yijun:

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Yuan Fu sees is a high view, and it can be said to have the effect of initiating the minister."

"In the opinion of the ministers, the auxiliary ministers should not only know the political opinions of the six departments and follow the precedents, but should have some needles, some ideas, and a governing outline, so that the emperor's father's temple and society can be stable for a long time, so that it is the real favor of the king."

Zhu Yijun looked at Xu Jie: "Xu Jie, what about you, tell me what you think." ”

Xu Jie laughed: "Back to Your Majesty, the sinners used to gather well-educated people to give lectures in the Lingji Palace, but at that time, the sinners presided over the lectures, which was different from Your Majesty's purpose. ”

"Tell me what your purpose is."

Zhu Yijun said.

Xu Jie bowed down and said: "The criminals are to practice their own concept of 'rewarding justice with sacrifice', and I hope to use this way to make all the corporal doctors in the world willing to call their ministers virtuous, knowing that the ministers do not impose authority on them, and even speak for them, giving them the right to discuss politics, so that they can manipulate the court situation;"

"In this way, even if the minister is unwilling to solve the ills of the world, he can still get a virtuous word."

"And even if the Son of Heaven makes great efforts, he will only feel that the minister is just emphasizing empty talk and ignoring practice, and he will not be dissatisfied with the minister because of his arbitrary power;"

"Because the minister has no claim, there is no source of hatred for the minister."

"The minister is only responsible for passing on the public opinion to His Majesty, and if His Majesty hates it, he only hates the public opinion, and he can't hate the minister."

"The sinner is for Gou'an, so he uses the name of lecturing to cover up his heart of Gou'an."

"Your Majesty is different now, in the name of lecturing, he is exploring the way of governing the country, and he really hopes to strengthen the country and enrich the people."

"Taishi Zhang, who is the teacher of His Majesty, also agrees that he has good intentions and really takes the common people of the community to heart."

"Your Majesty will indeed be more suitable to use auxiliaries with their own ideas in the future."

"Such an auxiliary minister is not 'rewarding the public with sacrificing punishment', but ruling on behalf of His Majesty, listing his own charter for the program set by His Majesty, and practicing his own governing philosophy, which can only be done by people with real ambitions and people who really care about society."

"Sinners are not such virtuous men."

"Although the sinner did not use his power to value harmony on the surface, and gained a great reputation for a day, in fact, he gave up as early as when he realized that it was rare to be a true virtuous minister."

Xu Jie smiled bitterly when he said this: "What's more, whether you are virtuous or unvirtuous is not up to you!" ”

"As Your Majesty asked before, what made the minister choose to be a traitorous and loyal? On the surface, everyone in the world is good, but secretly it has the interests of the people's property and invasion of the country. ”

"The root cause is not the supremacy of imperial power;"

"After all, although the imperial power is supreme, the imperial power cannot stop the desire for profit;"

"It's not that Wang Xue harms people:"

"Although Wang Xue said that he has a conscience, he can choose what is his conscience or in ourselves, and it is the minister himself who chooses Gou An to be selfish as his conscience;"

"The reason is that after the boom in commerce, the desire for profit has increased greatly, and there are more and more people who are only for profit, and there are fewer and fewer people who are benevolent, righteous and moral."

"When the minister himself first entered the office, he had not yet become rich because of business, and the heart of seeking profit was not heavy, but after entering the office for a long time, after relatives and friends became rich by relying on the minister's business, the heart of seeking profit was heavy;"

"But it is also inevitable that business will flourish, and if agriculture is developed, there will be surplus wealth, and if there is surplus wealth, there must be transactions, so everyone is more profit-seeking, and the ministers are more and more forgetting etiquette, righteousness and shame."

"Your Majesty!"

Xu Jie looked at Zhu Yijun and said: "Because of this, in fact, people like ministers are the majority, such as the second assistant Zhang Ge Lao once said to the minister in Hanlin that he supported the matter of the six ministries and said that he was dissatisfied with the politics of the six ministries as a cabinet minister at that time, thinking that it would be inevitable to abolish the Qing Dynasty and nourish the ministers; ”

"In fact, he is also reluctant to reform the system, and hopes that everyone in Shilin will be kind, and will not fall into each other because of their different opinions;"

"It can be said that the second assistant Zhang Ge Lao also has the heart of Gou'an, not the heart of strengthening the country and reassuring the people."

Zhang Siwei couldn't help but glance at Xu Jie when he heard this.