Shen Shixing sighed when he saw Hai Rui, and said: "Since most of the princes think that it is not appropriate to interfere with the use of His Majesty's internal funds, and how His Majesty uses his internal funds does not violate the virtue of advocating frugality, then I will not make a statement to the king." ”

"The matter of advocating virtue and suppressing luxury is too strict, even if it is not a difficult gentleman, as long as it is a legitimate income and does not violate the king's law, it is not easy to be rated as thrifty."

Shen Shixing looked at Liu Yingjie and Wang Xijue as he spoke: "I don't know what the two pavilion elders think?" ”

"Yes!"

"Yuanfu is good at accepting public opinions, and honesty is good!"

Shi Xing and other civil officials also hurriedly replied at this time.

Time.

Except for a few civil officials such as Hai Rui and Zhao Nanxing, who were depressed on the side, the entire civilian official group obviously got along very well.

Hai Jui is frustrated because he does not have a colleague who is really willing to serve the world as much as he does.

Zhao Nanxing and others were disappointed because they saw that many old friends easily turned their backs on their original ideas because of interests.

"Therefore, the public also thinks that His Majesty is no longer comparable to Yao Shun, but the first saint of the ages?"

At this time, Wang Xijue followed up and asked.

Shi Xing replied first: "Naturally, as long as you have the heart of public loyalty to the country, no one will think so." ”

Yu Shenxing also followed: "There is no monarch in the world, Your Majesty can be the emperor, and he has already reached the virtue of Yao Shun, and the courtiers should not talk about the gains and losses of the monarch's father." ”

Hai Rui shook his head.

"Why did the male shake his head?"

Shen Shixing asked Hai Rui in a low voice when the officials were discussing with each other.

Hai Rui also replied in a low voice: "It's too much! ”

"Fortunately, Your Majesty does not want to make the world the owner of his private property, otherwise, I am afraid that because of the loss of the Son of Heaven, I will not be able to admonish it early, and reproduce the tragic scene of the royal family's big greed, hundreds of bureaucrats and small greed, and the world's people's wealth is gone."

"Therefore, it is the virtue of His Majesty to have today's prosperity."

"In addition, now this is the general trend of the world, and the public does not have to mind too much, as the ruling party, he can only try to reconcile the world's officials with less selfish desires and more public hearts, and if they really want to force everyone to be like this, it will make the decree inaccessible, either lazy and inactive, or disobedient or even deliberately sabotage."

"Therefore, a servant cannot ask His Majesty to be completely selfless in order to protect the people of the world, nor can he ask them to do so."

After Shen Shixing said, Hai Rui replied: "I know, don't worry, Yuanfu, with the heart of Your Majesty to bless the people today, I will not resign because of this!" ”

"I didn't ask them to be like me, but the question now is, I don't know if they can tolerate me!"

"I'm afraid I've already said I'm broad! Because the turbidity current has always been difficult to tolerate Qingtan, non-Qingtan is unwilling to get along with the turbidity current! ”

Shen Shixing smiled.

"The Yellow River is turbid, the Yangtze River is clear, and there is no one in the world who abandons a single water and does not use it."

"Please believe in Your Majesty, Your Majesty needs a clear and sweet spring to moisten the people."

"Otherwise, how can you give the public a gold plaque of 'blessing of all people'?"

After Shen Shixing said this, he stood up and shouted, "Everyone! ”

Then, when everyone was quiet, Shen Shixing smiled and said:

"What you are saying is that although the new rite requires the world to respect the elders and treat the weak and the young with kindness, it is not disrespectful to the elders, and the monarch should also be sincere and respectful, and the wise men should also be lenient and generous, so it is still the same sentence, we will not go together to make a statement to the Son of Heaven, but follow the things that directly bully the king."

"That's how it should be!"

"Very good, for the minister, you must know your duty!"

Most of the civil servants chimed in.

The court hall of the entire Wanli Dynasty has never been as harmonious as it is at this moment.

At this time, Shen Shixing continued: "Since everyone thinks that the monarch's father should not put his beak in his mouth, and His Majesty is already the first holy lord of the ages, then we, who are auxiliary monarchs, should also change to the ambition of the monarch to Yao Shun to ensure that the country will always be prosperous!" ”

"After all, Zhijun is Yao Shun, and Taishi has realized it for us."

"In other words, don't put your mind on the virtue of the Son of Heaven in the future."

"In the future, we should put our minds on how to assist the monarch to make the world always rule and the prosperity of the world forever, as determined by the former Taishi and His Majesty, how much population should be reached, how much territory should be reached, how much grain production should be increased, and how rich the people should be, etc."

"And specifically, it is to see if the servant, the first assistant, has done these things for the monarch's father, if not, you should impeach him to Your Majesty, and if there is but it is not satisfactory, you should also say it to Your Majesty."

"In short, it is all for governing the country and benefiting the people, not to sell fame and reputation to bully the king, but to advise Your Majesty how to do things, not to teach Your Majesty how to be the king."

"None of us are emperors!"

After Shen Shixing, these people all surrendered their hands and said yes.

"Thank you for your efforts."

Immediately afterwards, Shen Shixing replied with a smile, and then said:

"Nowadays, the cabinet Yu Gong is old, Pan Gong Zhishi, the great uncle Xu Gong and the great secretary Kou Yang Gong are also Zhishi, His Majesty has issued an order to push the court, and the cabinet minister Jiuqing and the Taoist official will be able to push together tomorrow, and it is also appropriate to be decent at that time, and it is not appropriate to criticize the gentleman and the virtuous minister, and push it if it can be pushed."

"Yes!"

Everyone bowed their heads.

So far.

Shen Shixing was able to get the entire bureaucracy to reach an agreement, officially clarifying that the emperor's domination of internal funds had nothing to do with the virtue of advocating frugality, and even the emperor's position in the ideology of etiquette and law had been officially established as the king of sage and wisdom without any mistakes.

That is, no one can attack and doubt the emperor's character and ability, but only supervise the implementation of the emperor's ambitions and goals, and be regarded as a good emperor's eyes, and see for the emperor whether the world is developing in line with the emperor's intentions.

It can be said that the bureaucracy took the initiative to strengthen the monarch's power under the mediation of Shen Shixing, but did not affect the monarch's power because of Zhou Hong's implicit decree that the emperor was not thrifty.

When Zhou Honglun was escorted to the execution ground, he was very disappointed and wanted to cry, because he found that a civil official had complained about him from beginning to end.

And when Zhou Honglun was escorted to kneel on the execution ground, he also saw his son Zhou Peicheng also being escorted in prison clothes.

For a while, Zhou Hongyan was shocked and asked Zhou Peicheng: "Why do you want to be beheaded?!" ”

Zhou Pei said: "Father, the son wants to die on your behalf, but the Son of Heaven refuses, saying that I only know that there is a father, but I don't know that there is a king, I only know that my biological father is dead, and I don't know that my father is humiliated, so I say that I am not faithful, and I should be executed if I am unfaithful." ”

Zhou Peicheng looked frustrated as he spoke: "And that's it, no courtier is willing to speak for his son until now!" ”

"Don't you all plead your way to Your Majesty?!"

Zhou Honglun turned around and loudly questioned Wang Zongmulai, the right attendant of the criminal department who was imprisoned.

Wang Zongmu said with a calm face: "What kind of love is Chen, isn't what the holy decree says?" ”

Zhou Honglun was speechless for a while, so he had to look up to the sky and shout:

"Your Majesty, the minister is wrong!"

"Ministers should not embarrass you, and if you are not considerate, you also need to use benevolence to show favor to the emperor's relatives and relatives, and you also need to be decent; However, it is not a pity for the minister to die, but the dog is really because he is young and ignorant, so he did a foolish thing, and please don't kill the dog, be kind to him! ”

But it was useless for Zhou Honglun to say anything at this time, and it didn't take long for both of them to be beheaded, and the blood that spilled red stained the snow on the execution ground on the spot.

……

"Emperor, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs has reported that the Zhou father and son have been beheaded."

It didn't take long for Zhu Yijun to learn about this situation from Sun Xin, and only said: "Got it." ”

Then, Zhu Yijun asked again: "How did the officials react?" ”

Sun Xindao: "No one interceded for Zhou's father and son. ”

(End of chapter)