When the ministers all walked around the swill bucket and stood up again, Ran Min said lightly: "Zhuqing, this doesn't taste good, right?" ”

Shang Shu Ling Cui Hao swallowed his saliva and said, "Back to Your Majesty, this is swill, right?" I don't know how many I put it, it's really smelly, it stinks. ”

"It's good to know it stinks!"

Ran Min squinted, pointed to the thirteen swill buckets and shouted, "See these swill buckets?" It was taken from the bucket of swill in the house of you ministers! Do you see what's inside? Nests! Shark fin! Paws! Roast suckling pig! There are all kinds of precious ingredients! You've opened my eyes! ”

Seeing Ran Min furious, the ministers all lowered their heads and didn't dare to speak.

Ran Min said angrily: "I am really ashamed to see the contents of these swill buckets, and I am really ashamed of you!" Do you know what I eat? I eat vegetables, carp, mutton, and pork! During the New Year's holidays, or entertaining your officials, these precious ingredients will be put on the table, and then everyone will enjoy them together! You eat better than I do! ”

"Eat better than me, that's all. You have this condition, you have this freedom, it stands to reason that I don't care, but I have already made an order before, and I made a decree in the second year of the emperor's reign. Remember how I came to be? ”

The ministers were so frightened that everyone dared to stand up and talk.

"Cui Hao, you!"

Hearing this, Cui Hao said tremblingly: "Back to Your Majesty, in the second year of the emperor's opening, Your Majesty has already decreed that the country is only difficult, and the whole country, from the emperor down, should be strictly thrifty, and the wind of luxury cannot be long, let alone extravagant and wasteful!" ”

"Good. That's what I did back then, but did you do it? Yes! ”

Ran Min's eyes erupted with fiery anger, and every minister he glanced at was ashamed and eager to bury his head in the ground.

Ran Min stretched out the big sleeves on his crown again, opened his arms, and saw that there was an imperceptible patch on the huge sleeves!

"Do you see the court robe I'm wearing? I wore it for five or six years, and it was all patched, and the queen was sewing and mending it for another three years, and I was reluctant to change it. Which of you can do this? ”

Ran Min then said bitterly: "I'm sorry for the queen. The queen's clothes were washed and washed, and they were all white, but she was still reluctant to change them! Having such a queen is a blessing for me and a blessing for Great Wei! But what about you? Ask yourselves, which of the garments you wear for more than a year, apart from the court robes? ”

When the ministers heard this, they were even more ashamed. At the same time, I was worried in my heart, for fear that Ran Min would be angry and would have to take a few ministers who lived a more luxurious life on weekdays.

The key is that the officials are accustomed to brocade clothes and jade food, and are accustomed to the rich life of clothes to stretch out their hands and food to open their mouths.

If you don't even have this pursuit, what kind of strength will that person live?

And hearing Ran Min like this, Ran Ming, who was following behind, was aware, but his face was unwavering, expressionless, and in fact, his heart was already happy.

Although Ran Min is not a person who likes luxury and waste, his daily life is definitely not frugal. As for the crown dress he wears, it has been five or six years, but there are seven or eight full sets, and if you put a patch on it, you will come to fool these "ignorant" ministers.

Ran Min said again: "I am really ashamed of your behavior! Zhu Qing is a well-read person, and the subset of scripture and history should be all knowledgeable. During the Jin Taikang period, the wealthy families pursued fame and fortune, despised and diligent, and competed with extravagance to boast about it, and the world style sank day by day! ”

"Bohai Shi Chong's deeds should be known to all the kings. Shi Chong was the son of Situ Shibao of Jin at that time. During his tenure in Jingzhou, he plundered merchants and became rich. Its wealth is abundant, and the room is magnificent! There are hundreds of concubines, all wearing gold and cui, gorgeous clothes, as for the food and use, all of them were selected at that time, and there are countless treasures and fields! ”

"How absurd is Shi Chong's extravagance? Even in the toilet of the Shi family, there are often more than a dozen maids, and beautiful clothes and makeup are lined up. It is also equipped with spices such as nail decoction powder and agarwood for the use of visitors. After the guests went to the toilet, they put on new clothes before letting them out. As a result, many guests are embarrassed to go to the toilet. Every time Shi Chong invites guests to a banquet, he often asks the beauties around him to toast the guests. If the guests don't finish drinking, kill the toasting beauties immediately! ”

"With such a style of luxury, how can the country not decline?"

In fact, in the Western Jin Dynasty, the powerful not only were extravagant and wasteful, but also liked to "fight for wealth"!

令人瞠目结舌的，当数石崇与贵戚王恺、羊琇等饶争豪斗富。 王恺是魏兰陵侯王肃之子，晋武帝司马炎的舅父，官至后将军。

Wang Kai has repeatedly fought with Shi Chong for wealth. He washed the pot with starch sugar and dry rice, Shi Chong used candles to make firewood, he used purple gauze to make a walking barrier for forty miles, and Shi Chong used brocade to make a walking barrier for fifty miles.

Shi Chong used the spice Sichuan pepper to make mud and paint the walls of the house, while Wang Kai used terracotta red stone grease to paint the walls.

一次，晋武帝司马炎为了帮舅父争胜，特赐与王恺一株珊瑚树，高二尺许，枝柯扶疏，世所罕见。 王恺得意地出示给石崇看，谁知石崇手执铁如意，把珊瑚树击碎。

Wang Kai was immediately dumbfounded, and while deploring the treasures, he decided that Shi Chong was "envious, jealous and hateful", and couldn't help but change his face and scolded sharply. 石崇却不以为然地，用不着记恨，马上赔给你。

So he ordered his men to bring out six or seven coral trees, three or four feet high, with a sleek and uncommon splendor and shining brightly. And like Wang Kai's big one, he has a lot of family collections.

In the end, Wang Kai lost himself!

Even the monarch of a country was so happy to fight for wealth between the powerful and the powerful, and he also participated in it, so you can imagine how exaggerated the Western Jin Dynasty was at that time.

另一位贵戚羊琇，是司马师妻子的堂弟，从与晋武帝司马炎通门，关系亲狎，官至中护军，加散骑常侍，掌管禁军十三年，深受宠遇。

He likes to have fun, drink and feast, and spend his days and nights, mixing men and women from his cousins' clan. He spends money lavishly and pays attention to pomp and circumstance. The charcoal is deliberately crushed, and then the charcoal chips are kneaded into the shape of a beast before it is used to burn warm wine.

This kind of struggle for wealth has made the nobles in the capital Luoyang compete to follow suit.

There is also a noble relative Wang Ji, the son of Situ Wang Hun, married to Princess Changshan, the daughter of Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty.

In Beibi Mountain, where there are many people and land is expensive, he bought land to build his own horseback riding and archery range. The walls of the racecourse were all arranged with money turns, and it was called "Golden Ditch" at that time.

He fought with Wang Kai to get rich, using a bet method.

王恺有一头牛，桨八百里驳”，毛色驳杂，日行八百里。 is regarded by Wang Kai as a treasure of the heart, and often cleans up the horns and hooves of the cow very cleanly. Wang Ji came to the door and paid 10 million (equivalent to 1,000 taels of gold) to Wang Kai, asking for a bet on shooting "800 miles".

Wang Kai relied on his baby to run very fast, and he didn't wait to aim and left, so he agreed and let Wang Ji shoot first. Unexpectedly, Wang Ji bent his bow and arrows, hit with one shot, and ordered his entourage to quickly take the heart of the ox. In the blink of an eye, he cut off the heart of the cow and left.

Under the hierarchical gate valve system, it is inevitable that the privileged class will use their power to seek personal gains, seize social resources, and squander social resources, and it is inevitable that there will be farces and ugly dramas of competing for the rich and rich.

Needless to say, extravagance became one of the reasons for accelerating the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty!

Ran Min said in a deep voice: "At present, the country has not yet been pacified, and China is scattered, and the Zhuqing will follow the various actions of the ministers of the Western Jin Dynasty, is it a bit too hasty?" ”

"The ministers are guilty!" All the ministers knelt down and shouted.

"Once again, extravagance cannot last. If it grows, the country will decline! If it is long, the country will perish! I hope that all of you will be able to make a name for yourself in history by virtue of your deeds, and not be remembered for thousands of years because of your bad deeds! ”

Leaving this sentence behind, Ran Min asked the ministers to pass through an arch of the Wuying Hall and sit down on the courtyard.

Across the pavilion and water pavilion, Ran Min sat straight into the pavilion, followed by the crown prince Ran Ming and the CRRC Mansion Ling Liu Zhi, and those ministers, more than 200 civil and military, sat down on a futon, quite a kind of meditation.

The ministers didn't know what Ran Min meant, so they were all silent and didn't dare to speak.

Ran Min glanced at the ministers below and said, "Zhuqing all had breakfast when they came, right?" ”

"I've eaten, I've eaten."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern!"

It's good to have eaten it.

Ran Min smiled faintly and said, "Have you ever comprehended the Dao Law?" ”

In the Manchu Dynasty, there were not a few people who studied the Tao or Buddhism. After all, in troubled times, these ministers all want to do good deeds and accumulate virtues, and make good connections, so that they can live happier lives in the next life.

Cui Hao is a Taoist who believes in it, and as soon as he heard Ran Min's words, he got up and said: "Return to Your Majesty, and the ministers will understand the Taoist method." Lao Tzu said: Taoism is natural. Lao Tzu believes that although the Tao grows all things, it is purposeless and unconscious, it is born without being, it is not ashamed, it is long but not slaughtered, that is, it does not take all things as its own, does not boast of its own merits, does not dominate and dominate all things, but allows all things to ...... naturally"

"Stop!" Ran Min covered his face and said with a headache: "Cui Hao, can you let me finish my words?" ”

"Ugh."