Chapter 398: Lao Zhu's court game
As soon as these words came out, the civil officials were even more silent. But unlike the previous silence, this silence is more like a kind of acquiescence and rebellion.
By Zhu Su's side, Zhu Fan and Zhu Di's faces were flushed, and most of the credit for this trip was due to his fifth brother, and the two brothers knew about it.
If there are five major sins in the old five, how should they deal with themselves?
Even Zhu Biao was angry, his fifth brother made a great contribution to the court, and subdued Naha's confidant. In every way, he didn't want the court to praise his merits, so he just did. Now he has empty mouths and white teeth, and wants to add to the sin?
"Nonsense!" However, Lao Zhu was already shouting angrily. "Do you think we're a piece of paper? In front of us, dare to reverse black and white and talk nonsense like this? ”
"The credit for capturing Naha alive has become a small merit in your mouth?"
Without waiting for Yang Xunwen to refute, Lao Zhu already waved his sleeves: "Come on!" ”
"Take this old boy down! Locked up in prison for a few days! When he is no longer old and confused, we will decide what to do with it! ”
The second tiger shouted loudly, and Yang Xunwen, who was interrupted, looked confused. Your Majesty, why don't you follow the plot?
Under normal circumstances, shouldn't we first ask which "five sins" they are?
It can only be said that these civil officials underestimated Lao Zhu's hardness. If he wants to do something, even if it is a knife mountain oil pot in front of him, he has to do it.
Yang Xunwen tried to use this lobbyist-style method of "big words and intimidation" to deal with Lao Zhu, but he could only say that he was completely wrong to the wrong person.
Emperor Hongwu doesn't care what your three major sins are. Dare to shake this wit in front of us, and you will have a thousand sins!
Seeing that Yang Xunwen was about to be escorted down, some people in the civil official team began to show anxiety. But Lao Zhu Jiwei was very profound, and for a while, no one thought of a sufficient legitimate reason to come out and persuade him.
Yang Xunwen didn't have time to speak, so he was covered by Erhu and the guards and dragged out directly.
"Wait!"
Fang dragged to the entrance of the hall, and finally someone suddenly spoke, and everyone was overjoyed, just to see which virtuous man spoke up.
Following the prestige, I found that it was none other than the fifth son of the emperor who was in the center of Fang Xunwen's attack, Zhu Su!
Seeing that it was the fifth prince who spoke, the second tiger did not dare to slack off, so he stopped at the gate of the palace. Zhu Su glanced at Yang Xunwen, then turned his head and bowed to the old Zhu on the throne and said:
"Father, Lord Yang said that I have five major crimes. The child is really curious. ”
"Xu is a child is on this trip, and I don't know what is really inappropriate. Why don't you let Lord Yang explain this crime one by one? ”
"If there is, it will be changed, and if there is none, it will be encouraged. If it's true, the child still needs to thank Lord Yang for his correction! ”
So far, Zhu Su can be regarded as having a retrospective.
Yang Xunwen and the civil officials are so reluctant, thinking about it, the problem lies in the position that Lao Zhu let him take, the "Guozi Priest Wine".
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Guozijian was not the "dilapidated poor yamen" later. At this time, the Guozijian was holding a path that was more "one step to the sky" than opening a branch of science, and "the history of the prisoner".
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Guozi supervised students studied for a certain number of years and were assigned to various government departments for internships, which was called "history". The internship is in March, and after the assessment, the superior will be reported to the Ministry of Officials as an alternate, but must return to the prison to study for another year before being officially conferred.
If this system is seen in the eyes of later generations, it is actually much more scientific and effective than the "eight shares" that have left a wide range of poisons, and it can be said that it is a model of "combining theory and practice" in the cultivation of talents in the feudal era.
After all, the inmates who have gone through the internship are much more reliable than those Jinshi masters who only know how to study hard in the cold window and directly "award officials" once they were successful.
However, no matter how good the policy is, it will inevitably be misrepresented by the people below. Although the inmates need to pass the history, it is always much easier than the imperial examination. So since the year of Hongwu, many people have hollowed out their minds and tried every means to insert their children and nephews into the national prison. Among them, there are many high-ranking officials and nobles, and after the famous gentry.
After a few generations, most of the prisoners and prisoners of the country were such people. Not only do they have no real talents, but they only know how to fight cocks and walk dogs on weekdays, and spend their time in vain, and the number of prisoners is becoming increasingly redundant. There are many monks and few porridges, and the prison students who really have real talents and real learning have a way out.
Therefore, in the Orthodox years, the calendar system was abolished.
However, this was the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of people who became officials from prison was not less than that of Enke. The position of the Guozi Supervisor of the Priest of Wine, controlling the upper and lower levels of the Guozi Prison, even if it is only a name, it belongs to the "weight" category of bureaucrats.
Lao Zhu Mofei wants to use himself to control the promotion channels of officials, so that "the officials of the Manchu Dynasty can go out of Zhumen". And it was precisely because the civil officials smelled the danger that they decided to oppose it, and Yang Xunwen even did not hesitate to contradict the holy bow because of this?
Zhu Lao Wu felt the breath of trouble.
It is true that Lao Zhu wants to deal with these unconscious officials in the court, and Zhu Su is in favor of it. These civil officials in the early years of Hongwu, there are really few good things.
Most of these people came from the late Yuan Dynasty when the dynasty changed, and they "went with the flow", or from those wealthy families who could afford to read and go to school in the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court was rotten, and the people were struggling to make a living, but as the so-called "Zhumen wine and meat stink, and the road has frozen bones", even if the Great Yuan world has been flooded, it can't drown those high-ranking yamen officials; and those old men who have thousands of acres of fertile land at home, slaves like clouds, and call themselves "cultivators and heirlooms".
Although these people are in the Ming Dynasty, there are many people who still "miss the old dynasty". Although the Great Yuan Dynasty has been in charge of the Central Plains for a hundred years, it has always regarded itself as an outsider, and only wants to enjoy the flowers and rivers of the Central Plains China, and has no intention of governing the place at all.
In the final Yuan Dynasty, the control of the officials in the world was the most relaxed. "Emperor Ming Zu Xun" once said, "Dayuan loses the world with leniency", for the people and bureaucrats in the world, it is almost free-range. Even the most critical tax is based on an extremely backward "package tax system", in which the tax amount is apportioned to officials and even businessmen, and as long as you can pay the tax amount, I will not bother to care about you.
It is precisely because of this that officials are often unscrupulous and oppress the people. In the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the oppression of the people was unprecedented. Officials and even businessmen can arbitrarily draw up tax amounts for the people and exploit them wantonly, and Lao Zhu's parents died under the coercion of officials and businessmen who "package taxes".
In the ridiculous network of later generations, there are still those who distort and advocate the "generosity" of the Yuan Dynasty because of this word "wide". This kind of person is afraid that he was not born with a crooked butt.
During the Yuan Dynasty, although the people did not have enough to eat and their families had no permanent property, the bureaucrats and businessmen were full of food and had never been so rich. Therefore, today's Ming officials, and even the merchant gentry in the countryside, are full of people who "think of the old yuan".
After all, people are only so generous as the boss, but your boss Zhu is picking at the rope, and if you embezzle sixty taels of silver, you must be killed. Being an official is so depressed, and the grandfathers are not allowed to remember the generosity of the past?
There are even more generous people, who secretly hide from Lao Zhu and exploit the people according to the old routines, and there are many of them.
In the historical Hu Weiyong case and the Lanyu case, Lao Zhu had to deal with Xiangquan and Huaixi bureaucrats; And the empty seal case Guo Huan case is actually aimed at such old officials of the Great Yuan. Finding a reason to replace all these old officials of Dayuan who sat crookedly is not a "cruel and tyrannical act", but a bold move that only a founding emperor like Lao Zhu can make.
It's a pity that the official characters are two mouths, and the common people in the feudal era will not speak out, so those who write books and tell history, and even the Qing Tartars and the like wantonly smear them.
Now that Lao Zhu wants to control the officials who hold the Guozijian to promote the channels and weaken the influence of these bureaucrats in disguise, Zhu Su of course raises his hands and feet in favor.
(End of chapter)