It is now the early spring of the fourteenth year of Wanli, and it is rainy and slightly cold.

In front of the steps of the great Shoufu Mansion, the snow had not yet completely melted, and Shen Shixing walked down the stairs at this time, and stepped into the garden, where the withered branches had just sprouted, poking their heads out of the white mist, and in a short time they were full of beads due to the drizzle.

Shen Shixing walked in it, couldn't bear to touch the sprouts of shallow spit new pearls, and walked cautiously on the gravel road, while Ren slender rain slapped the wet towel robe, and looked at the gloomy sky intently, thinking about what to do.

Li Zhe and a group of counselors accompanied him.

For his part, Shen Shixing knew that it was time to test his resolve and ability, and that these fellow civil servants in front of him were both his assistants and opponents in reform.

Shen Shixing has both the embankment and the heart.

This seems to be a contradiction, but in fact it is not a contradiction, as the first assistant, he really wants to defend the embankment when it should be the embankment, and push the heart when it is time to put the heart in the belly.

Therefore, Shen Shixing suddenly took the initiative to ask Li Zhe at this time: "Then why didn't you inform the servant earlier?" You are from Fengxiang, your hometown is in this catastrophe, you shouldn't be silent! ”

Li Zhe hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Enfu Rongyu!" How can students blame Enfu's new policies because of changes in their hometowns, and ruin Enfu's great cause? ”

"Besides, there will be no price to reform, my hometown is unlucky, and it is inevitable that I need to bear this price, and students cannot ignore the overall situation because their hometown has borne this price!"

"At that time, the Taishi reform, because of the newly developed fields in Liangguang, the local people were unwilling to clear the zhang, so it was still inevitable to kill some of the people who had become thieves due to the reform, so that the people of the world knew that the national policy must be implemented, and if they are not willing, they must be willing!"

"Therefore, from the perspective of students, it is the same now, this is actually an opportunity to establish authority for reform, and let the people know that even if they are hungry and can beg for food, they cannot easily rebel, which is indecent!"

"The second is to give the army a chance to make meritorious contributions, so that the army will naturally be more able to support the New Deal."

"The servant made Li Rusong the commander, and made a mess by cleaning up the Buddhist temple with the power and power of the embankment, not that the embankment will one day make meritorious contributions by killing the people!"

"Besides, it is against the New Rites to kill the people because of the New Deal!"

"After all, according to the new rites, the people are all naked, how can they rebel until they have to?"

As he spoke, Shen Shixing glanced at the Jinyi guards standing around in the rain, which reminded him of the efforts of Zhang Jingxiu and others and the persistence of Zhu Yijun, the Son of Heaven, and he was even more reluctant to give up for a while.

And Li Zhe persuaded at this time: "Enfu, with all due respect to the students, the new rite should only be said to the people of the world, not really to do it!" ”

"If the new rite is just to hear about it, then how can the Son of Heaven be willing to promote the new rite?"

"How can you make the Son of Heaven willing to treat us as innocent sons instead of domestic slaves because of the new rite?!"

After hearing this, Shen Shixing suddenly asked Li Zhe very seriously.

Li Zhe was speechless for a while.

Shen Shixing climbed the stairs and said as he walked: "I usually let you read more of Mr. Yangming's books, but you don't listen!" ”

"Do you know what it means to be one with knowledge and action? It is to set an example for the etiquette that you admire, otherwise you can't say it in the world! ”

"Although Your Majesty is trying to govern now, it is because the new rites make the national government have the idea of benefiting the people, but let the Son of Heaven also benefit, and he is more free than a caged bird, so the Son of Heaven is willing to treat the people of the world with kindness for the great rule of the world! Although he wields the power of dictatorship, he does not regard hundreds of officials as domestic slaves! ”

"If we ourselves do not observe the new rites, and still regard the people as nothing, then we cannot expect the monarch to treat us with courtesy, and we must kneel and listen to the teachings instead of sitting and discussing politics!"

"Do you want to see such a country?"

Li Zhe hurriedly handed over his hand: "The student understands, thank you for teaching!" Students will never dare to have this thought again, and they must be the same as their words and deeds! ”

"Go ahead!"

"Although you should be shrewd as an official, don't be too shrewd, too shrewd is too easy to fall into narrow-mindedness, read more history in your spare time, and see how many princes and princes have done things that future generations feel extremely stupid because they are too shrewd, which is why Du Fanchuan sighed."

"Yes!"

Li Zhe replied with some frustration.

After that, he left Shen Shixing's place, and later met Yang Menggao of the Criminal Department Langzhong and said, "Enfu did not have the heart to stop cleaning up the Buddhist temple because of this. ”

Yang Menggao was quite disappointed after hearing this: "Why didn't you tell him the truth about the place?" ”

"Got it!"

Li Zhe replied and said: "But he just lamented that the reform was difficult." ”

"If you know it's difficult, why don't you stop it in time?"

"Why not allow Buddhist temples to benefit the people internally, and at the same time benefit the country and the people externally?"

"I have to force the heavens to be angry and resentful, and the rogues are everywhere."

Yang Menggao complained in confusion.

Of course, when he said that he was interested in the internal interests of the people, he actually meant that he did not reform the internal distribution model, and still allowed the Buddhist temples to cut down the small people for the powerful and wealthy gentry, so that the powerful and wealthy gentry could not only make profits by squeezing the small people internally, but also invest in the imperial court and then distribute dividends and profits.

It is equivalent to having to eat a large part of the newly added cake, but also unwilling to give up a part of the original cake.

Greed is human nature, therefore, if we want to enrich the country and benefit the people, external expansion must be accompanied by the reform of the distribution system, otherwise it will be difficult for the people to get great benefits, but they will be dissatisfied with external expansion because their children have sacrificed the most in foreign expansion.

Therefore, the external expansion of the imperial court is often in line with the wishes of some very greedy magnates and gentry, but they are not willing to take too little for themselves.

Li Zhe also sighed: "I don't know what Enfu is insisting on, he obviously knows very little about the people's feelings in various places, at this time, he should know that the way to stop is the old way to seek the country, or to implement it with an iron fist, but he obviously not only has the problem of not knowing the people's feelings, but also very broad." ”

"What does that mean?"

Yang Menggao asked.

"He really wants to keep the new rites! Cherish the people of the people and regard them as compatriots! ”

"He did this so that the Son of Heaven would be willing to reform, not take the Son of Heaven as his own selfishness, not be lazy in government, and at the same time respect the people of the world!"

Li Zhe said.

After Yang Menggao heard this, he couldn't help but say: "Dare to reform is really not the Son of Heaven, it is because these people in Shenwu County don't want to kneel and listen to the government, but want to use the new rite to disrupt the difference between the monarch and the minister!" ”

Boom!

Yang Menggao slammed his fist on the table after speaking.

……

Boom!

Shen Shixing smashed his fist on the case here, and mentioned Li Zhe and said: "Why did I order his article in the first place!" After sitting in front of the Son of Heaven for a long time, who wants to kneel? ”

"Father, are we really going to continue cleaning up the temple?"

"Listening to Brother Li's meaning, this time to clean up the Buddhist temple is still the same as before, and most of the pain caused by this policy will eventually be borne by the people!"

Shen Shixing's second son, Shen Yongjia's second son, asked about Shen Shixing at this time.

Shen Shixing said with a smile: "In the officialdom, you have always had me, I have you, Li Zhe's words can't be fully believed, as for whether to continue to clean up the Buddhist temple, it is not for the sake of the father to make a decision." ”

"Is that the Son of Heaven?"

Shin Yongjia asked.

Shen Shixing said: "It's not the Son of Heaven either? ”

Shen Yongjia was stunned: "Who is that?" ”

Shen Shixing said with a smile: "It's the Planning Division!" ”

"The Department of Planning?"

Shen Yongjia looked at Shen Shixing with some curiosity.

"That's right!"

"It is necessary for the Department of Formulation and Strategy to make a feasibility analysis of the new policy according to the plan, and then the servants and the cabinet ministers will deliberate and then play to the Son of Heaven, and ask the Son of Heaven to decide, not that because of the big external movements, the cabinet will persuade the Son of Heaven to arbitrarily end a national policy because of fear."

"This is the most commendable reform of the center since His Majesty ascended the throne, everything is based on reality and data, work together, and minimize the possibility of the Son of Heaven and the ruling being misled when making decisions, after all, sometimes seeing is not necessarily true, but the numbers do not lie, Your Majesty will call it a scientific policy, no matter how fearful and uneasy the servant is and how much he wants to end it quickly, he cannot make decisions without authorization, only those who don't know think that the servant is really stupid and doesn't know how to stop in time."

Shen Shixing looked at Shen Shixing as he spoke: "I'll go to sleep first, and when the people from the Planning Division come, they will call me again!" ”

"Yes!"

(End of chapter)