"Mr. Jiang."

Zhu Di was silent for a moment: "You'd better be talking about Huang Wulang." ”

"I'm talking about Huang Wulang."

Jiang Xinghuo glanced at this Captain Yan and replied nonchalantly.

But Zhu Di's heart at this time could no longer be calm, and his mood was tumbling like angry waves in the sea.

This is because, as the largest military leader of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di knows too well the virtues of the violent organization of the Ming Dynasty's official army.

If it really reaches the end of the rule of the feudal state of the Ming Dynasty, based on the "law of blood reward" summarized by Jiang Xinghuo, the officers and soldiers in charge of defense on the border of the Ming Dynasty will almost definitely become a violent organization that raises self-respect.

The reason couldn't be simpler, just like in Jiang Xinghuo's "Duck City Storm" story, Duck City recruited Huang Wulang to exterminate the bandits, and he wanted to die and not make money, and he also had to worry that his strength would be damaged and other official and military factions would rob him.

If it comes to the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di is very sure that according to the Ming system, it may be difficult to appear as completely divided border warlords as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but Zhu Di is also sure that at that time, I am afraid that most of the Ming border army's combat motives are for interests rather than other factors such as the country.

Therefore, the border army will definitely play the trick of raising the self-respect, and at the same time, in order to appease the court and the emperor, it will also definitely support a 'fake bandit' that is easy to fight without killing people, preferably the kind that a border army can fight a hundred. The military exploits look good-looking, and they can also allow the imperial court to continue to collect 'hemp salary' from the common people and supply them to the border army.

At this thought, Zhu Di couldn't help but feel a headache.

What can I do?

It is definitely not possible to give the border army greater autonomy, and that will raise An Lushan.

If you follow Song Taizu's example of raising millions of redundant soldiers, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will not be able to bear it.

Zhu Di really couldn't think of a way, so he had to set his sights on Jiang Xinghuo.

"And then?"

"Later, Huang Wulang, the leader of the bandits, sent an invitation to Wang Mazi, the leader of the bandits, and wanted to cooperate with Wang Mazi, so that the bandits could wander around Yacheng every once in a while, and they would symbolically pursue and suppress them but they would never be exhausted, so that they could cooperate to earn money from the people of Yacheng."

"But Wang Mazi doesn't want to!"

Jiang Xinghuo said: "Wang Mazi is not only unwilling to cooperate with Huang Wulang, but also played the banner of 'doing the right thing for the sky', calling himself Yacheng and timely rain, and began to win the hearts of the surrounding people. ”

Zhu Gaoxu gave a thumbs up: "It's a good man!" ”

"Huang Wulang's thief heart is not dead, he just feels that the chips he gave are not enough, so the two sides made an appointment for a Hongmen banquet Huang Wulang's officials and soldiers pretended to be bandits, and kidnapped the sons of two big families in Yacheng, Huang Wulang said to Wang Mazi that as long as Wang Mazi killed a few bandits as a vote, not only could he hand over the sons of large families to him for ransom, but also announced that Wang Mazi was dead, and let him take his brothers to be officials and soldiers in the future."

"Does Wang Mazi agree?" Zhu Gaoxu asked curiously.

"I didn't agree, and then I was assassinated by Huang Wulang once, and I didn't agree, but tried to assassinate Huang Wulang, of course, I only killed Huang Wulang's stand-in."

"And later?"

Jiang Xinghuo said: "In this way, the two sides are on the same page, but they are completely torn apart, Wang Mazi ordered his bandits to spread rumors around Yacheng, counting Huang Wulang's crimes, Huang Wulang has been in Yacheng for many years, not thinking about protecting the territory and the people, but taking advantage of it, naturally not popular with the people, for a time Yacheng can be said to be like water and boiling everywhere. ”

Wang Mazi thought that the time had come, so he led people to encourage the people of Goose City to slaughter Huang Wulang with him, but the people were taken by Huang Wulang's prestige for many years, but they really didn't dare to follow a gang of bandits to make trouble. At this time, the deputy envoy of Yacheng sent a message that he was willing to cooperate with Wang Mazi. ”

"The two sides negotiated for a long time, and after confirming that it was not a trap, Wang Mazi led the bandits to attack Yacheng, and the deputy envoy of Yacheng really captured Huang Wulang, and the two sides escorted Huang Wulang to the street, and on the high platform at the entrance of the Yacheng vegetable market, the deputy envoy of Yacheng announced Huang Wulang's crime, Wang Mazi personally pulled out a knife and beheaded Huang Wulang, and returned a justice to the people of Yacheng."

"Gone?"

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, this somewhat dreamy and perfect ending made him a little uncomfortable for a while.

Jiang Xinghuo nodded.

Of course, he can say: If you think it's gone, then it's gone, you think there is, and you can go on to tell that Huang Wulang Jin Cicada got out of his shell, went to Jiannan Province and moved the rescue troops back to counterattack the bandits, or Yacheng recruited the deputy envoy and became the new Huang Wulang, or Wang Mazi was betrayed by his subordinates, so on.

But Jiang Xinghuo didn't want to talk about it.

Because that's the end he gave to the story.

"Duck City Fengyun is such a story, what this story wants to tell, I believe you also know. The law of blood reward is an eternal rule that violent organizations cannot break. ”

"Actually, the question I want to ask is." Jiang Xinghuo said slowly, "It's not about how this story is resolved, but to say, whether it's a gang or an official army, they can obviously knock on the bones of the common people, why do you need to kill a few bandits with bad rules like Wang Mazi, and Yacheng recruits the deputy envoy to read out Huang Wulang's guilt?" ”

"Could it be that Wang Mazi and Yacheng recruited the deputy envoy cleanly? Didn't they receive their share of blood from the two violent organizations of the gangs and the official army, which belonged to them, and perhaps even a large proportion? ”

"We need to calm the boiling hearts of the people in Duck City."

Zhu Di said suddenly.

"Yes."

Jiang Xinghuo smiled inexplicably at Captain Yan in front of him.

Jiang Xinghuo concluded: "The story just mentioned is the first question of the first part of the content of "National Management", that is, what is feudal state management? ”

"Here's a definition." Jiang Xinghuo said, "The feudal state management, that is, the state is established by violent organizations based on the law of blood reward, and in order to pursue the long-term maximization of blood reward benefits. The characteristic is that violent groups will gradually move towards an orderly and sustainable approach to fishing, rather than pumping water for fry, without thinking about what to do in the future. ”

Jiang Xinghuo paused and continued.

"And what follows is the second question of the first part, who is the person who runs the feudal state?"

Zhu Gaoxu replied: "Naturally, they are civil officials and small officials. ”

Jiang Xinghuo nodded and said, "Actually, a lot of truths are applicable to the border army that raised the self-respect of the Kou just mentioned, and it is also applicable to the officials in the fish and meat township." ”

That is, violent organizations are after blood reward, and there is a law of blood reward. Civil officials and petty officials, especially petty officials, you should know that hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of petty officials are the real dominant force in running this country, what do you think the petty officials are pursuing? ”

Hearing this question, Zhu Di was silent.

Because Zhu Di suddenly felt that this seemed to be the pit dug for him by his father Zhu Yuanzhang.

It's like the vassal king system and the Ming treasure money system.

Zhu Di sighed in his heart: "Dad, when you set the ancestral system for the Ming Dynasty, did you not expect that every system would miss something?" ”

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In the secret room, several people also fell into thought.

"What are the little officials after?" Zhu Gaochi muttered.

"Wealth!"

Instead, Xia Yuanji replied very quickly and crisply.

"For ordinary people, their dreams are nothing more than to have a full stomach, warm clothes, a wife, and children. But the petty officials demanded a lot, and they sought wealth, beauty, fame, status, and honor. They are looking for more than ordinary people. ”

"When officials climb up, they will find ways to climb the high branches, thinking about promotion; And when the officials climb up, they will only frantically grab more profits and think about seeking wealth. ”

Xia Yuanji pondered for a moment and said, "Because Da Ming didn't provide too many opportunities for the junior officials to be promoted. ”

It is to be said here that Jiang Xinghuo learned in his previous life according to the information recorded in the Ming Dynasty's "Huidian" that the Ming Dynasty's small officials did not have any upward channels, but the highest is the seventh grade that can be done, the premise is that they served in the first grade of the yamen, if they served in the second, yamen or third grade yamen, the highest officials they can do can only be the eighth or ninth grade.

But, however, this is for the small officials in the Jingshi Yamen.

For the yamen of the local government and county, the little officials have been small officials all their lives!

Of course, although the petty officials are at the bottom of the chain of officialdom contempt, from the perspective of ordinary people, the petty officials are still a high-ranking "official".

Although the salary of the little official on the face is not very high, cough cough, thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang's picking and searching, or simply say that it is basically a loss of money to go to work.

But there is a lot of oil and water in the "officials" themselves when they work, which has been the same since ancient times, and this phenomenon is also well reflected in popular novels. Do you rely on it? Apparently not.

Zhu Gaochi was fully aware of the seriousness of the problem.

That is, the Ming Dynasty did not leave many channels for the promotion of the small officials, maybe in the yamen of the Beijing Division, the small officials can still change from "officials" to "officials", but in the local area, the small officials cannot become "officials", since there is no hope of promotion, then the pursuit of the small officials, naturally only one is left.

- Get rich!

As long as the petty officials take the first step to collect money through rent-seeking the public power of the yamen, it means that they will completely exceed their original intentions in the end.

Moreover, the rule of the local officials of the Ming Dynasty began to be uncontrollable as early as the middle and late Hongwu Dynasty, and it was really uncontrollable, and it was not easy to kill people.

Therefore, the small officials who have survived for a long time in such an environment are often a hundred times more terrible than the "officials" for the ordinary people at the bottom.

Dao Yan sighed faintly at this time, but said something very reasonable.

"The so-called desire is the ugliest and dirtiest thing in human beings, but it is also the foundation on which human beings live, even eternity."

"What are the desires of the servants? They crave wealth. They use all means to gain power in order to gain wealth. ”

So, is this what Jiang Sheng intends to talk about in "National Management"? In feudal countries, both violent and administrative organizations will gradually degenerate because of the pursuit of wealth rewards such as blood or money. ”

Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but ask, "But how can we stop this degeneration?" You must know that even if Emperor Taizu Gao kills no one to be an official, he can't stand the greed of the officials below, and the management of the feudal state is obviously inseparable from them. ”