It's a change.

Under the coercion and inducement of the imperial court, the local people had to begin to accept the custom of not binding their feet.

Peng Yingshen of Wuqing Zhixian ordered a batch of full-foot embroidered cotton shoes with silver, so that most of the people in Wuqing County were more willing to accept the behavior of letting go of their feet, which was considered to be a flexible behavior that was very good at using human nature, and was praised by Zhu Yijun.

Therefore, when the officials were taking, they specially made him up as the official to the ministry, and replaced the executed Dai Guangqi in the ministry.

Daming does not lack officials who can do things and can do things.

Even if many Qingliu courtiers were sentenced because of the incident of burning the Middle Palace, the imperial court was still able to quickly select a large number of local pro-people officials who were qualified enough to serve as officials in Beijing.

Even basically they are still non-commissioned officers.

Who made the Ming Dynasty have a lot of Jinshi.

You must know that most of the Jinshi in each session are the top three Jinshi, and most of these Jinshi can only go around in the local area and waste a lifetime.

Therefore, as long as the emperor does not neglect his administration and does not maliciously leave official positions vacant, there is no shortage of people in this land who can be suitable for a certain official position.

Even if the requirements are raised a little, it is still said that it must be a jinshi, and it must be an excellent exam, and it is okay, Daming has a jinshi bureaucrat with outstanding ability but can't wait for the opportunity to be promoted.

This is also why today's scholars are far inferior to the families of the Han and Tang dynasties.

The cost of studying to become a civil servant has been greatly reduced.

A large number of ordinary people and small landlords can also train one or two scholars, resulting in people who want to be officials in the world like carp crossing the river.

They are not afraid of fierce fighting within the court, but they are afraid that the court will not give them the opportunity to improve.

Zhu Yijun is not afraid of killing the literati too hard, what he is afraid of is that in the late Ming Dynasty, because the Dashi clan monopolized the township discussion because after annexing enough land, it united several Dashi clans to monopolize the township discussion, and even manipulated the local government after building a strong network of relations in the officialdom, and then committed fraud in the scientific field, and used various means to monopolize the number of students admitted and promoted in the imperial examination, and then blocked the way for ordinary scholars to advance.

According to the statistics of later generations, regardless of the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the development of the dynasty to the later period, the proportion of ordinary landlords among the Jinshi will gradually decline, and even decline to a serious point.

And the same was true at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because the road to advancement was gradually blocked, there was a situation where the living people also rebelled, that is, the so-called white-headed army.

It stands to reason that the students, as members of the ruling class, should not create their own rebellion, but it did occur in history.

Of course, Zhu Yijun didn't dare to continue to be rotten, and after letting Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers who still had the society in mind see what the consequences would be if he, the emperor, was rotten, he had to continue to be diligent in government.

Because Zhu Yijun did not predict how unbalanced the mentality of local officials would be after seeing that he had not been promoted for a long time; Especially after seeing that the colleagues who are corrupt and illegal have not been dealt with at all, will they be even more unbalanced?

Will it completely wipe out the desire to safeguard the long-term interests of the entire landlord class, and will it also begin to act in a rotten manner or even more rampantly?

Therefore, Zhu Yijun naturally did not dare to be like Wanli in history, and directly put it on for more than 20 years.

The newly added Qingliu Branch Taoist official in the Ministry of Officials, he quickly approved the red.

Although many of the Qingliu Provincial officials have a bad mouth, they are indeed a sharp weapon for supervising the senior officials of the DPRK and China, after all, they are young and somewhat energetic, which can curb the cronyism of the senior officials in power.

Otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have let the petty officials take power in the first place.

The turmoil caused by the burning of the Middle Palace was a good thing for the imperial court, because after that, a large number of new Qingliu branch officials were basically local pro-people officials who performed well in the implementation of national policies such as the construction of new rites, that is, the prohibition of foot binding and the abandonment of infants.

The appointment of these people to the post of central officials will naturally make the progress of the new ceremony smoother.

"Your Majesty, the establishment of the new rites, we should reformulate the rites between the country and the people, the officials and the people, the people and the people, and the people and the people, and the most important thing at the moment is the establishment of the new rites between the people and the people, and between the people and the people."

"And to establish these two types of new rites, it is not only necessary to reform the disadvantages of the old rites, that is, to prohibit foot binding and abandon infants, but also to clarify the concept of righteousness and kindness of mothers in the five rituals!"

"Parents should not bind their children with old rites, nor should they kill their children in vain with old rites; It is the right of the Son of Heaven to take away life and death, and the people of the country are the people of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven should be merciful and righteous, and he should not kill the people in vain. ”

When discussing the new ceremony, Xu Xuemo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, presented Zhu Yijun with the opinions on the construction of the new ceremony agreed by several of their ruling ministers in the political hall.

It's just that Xu Xuemo couldn't help but glance at Zhu Yijun when he said that the Son of Heaven should not kill the people in vain.

Zhu Yijun was not angry.

One is that he comes from later generations, and he is not so reluctant to ask the Son of Heaven to respect the right to life of his people;

Second, he also knows that if he wants the Han people to talk about the nation's love for the Ming Dynasty, first of all, he, the ruler of the Ming Dynasty, must treat the Han people as his own compatriots, and let people know that the country and the country's monarch treat them as human beings, and do not treat them as cattle and horses.

Therefore, after hearing this, Zhu Yijun only said: "I have always been a benevolent country, and I have never been good at killing people, nor have I killed people in vain!" Parents and parents in the world must not kill people in vain, and they should be treated with kindness, rather than requiring their subordinates to be treated with respect, and the criminal law needs to be amended, and we must not only emphasize the respect for the superiors, but also attach importance to the construction of benevolence from the superiors to the subordinates. ”

"What Your Majesty said is that the minister thinks that the Criminal Department should revise the criminal law and abolish the old law that parents kill their children only with a rod, and change it to a crime that can be hanged to death if they commit the most heinous crimes, so that they will not continue to harm their children."

"At the same time, all clans are not allowed to execute the younger and younger generations of the clan without authorization, and replace the national law with the so-called clan rules."

"In addition, parents should encourage the choice of personal conscience, at least not by the law of etiquette!"

"Although etiquette should exist in customs, the law needs to be in the hands of the department; Therefore, in the criminal law, those who are punished by their parents for disobeying their parents' decisions should not be dealt with by their parents in the name of their children's unfilial piety, but should be punished for their parents' unkindness. ”

At this time, Yang Wei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, followed up.

Yang Wei is the same as Shen Shixing in thought, advocating the coexistence of King Zhu more, and even advocating benevolence to the people, rather than emphasizing the father, father and son stipulated by science, so he hopes to have some constraints on his parents.

Of course, this is also what will inevitably happen when the restructuring is carried out to this step, from opening the sea to encourage the people to go to sea to do business to the government recognizing the King of Zhu and respecting, it is destined that the new ritual law will come to the point where there are certain constraints on parents.

After all, the top-down system design and legal principles of the Ming Dynasty all originate from the relationship between parents and children in the ethical relationship.

And what Xinli has to do is to give children a certain amount of freedom.

Only when the children in the ethical relationship are freer, the Han people can be freer, the personal dependence of the Han people on the landlords will be reduced, and more new citizen classes and working classes will appear, which will make the grassroots level of the entire Ming Empire more refined.

At that time, the imperial power will go to the countryside more thoroughly,

Allowing the Han people to reduce the personal restraints from their clans and parents and promote the expansion of the citizen class is also an unprecedented move, and it is also an inevitable phenomenon after the development of the commodity economy.

"Quasi-play!"

Zhu Yijun approved this and asked: "As for the relationship between Yi and the people, do you have to be polite to Yi?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Yi is a person who does not understand the king, he is afraid of power but not virtue, and he should not be polite!"

"The disadvantage of the old rites is that they are not polite to the people of their own country, so that they are out of place; Now we should put things in order, so that the new rites will only be preached to the people of our own country, not to the people, and to be disciplined by magic. ”

"After the ministers and others discussed it, they thought that the new rite was not inferior to barbarians!"

Xu Xuemo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said.

(End of chapter)