In the study, Liu Bowen's words made Zhu Zhen look confused.

"Master, no...... Aren't you advocating forgiveness? The sixth asked puzzled.

"Why did Your Highness say this?" Liu Bowen asked.

The sixth brother said that the eldest brother told him about the past between his father and Liu Ji.

said that in the fourth year of Hongwu, the celestial phenomena changed, and the father wrote to ask Liu Ji, who was sent to Shi, and said: "Yuan lost the world with leniency, and I saved it with fierceness." However, the villain is happy to be lenient, so he slanders. Today, the sky is changing, what is the meaning of the Qingqing? ’

To put it simply, let's summarize the lessons of the Yuan Dynasty and save the world with fierce medicine, but the hundred officials like the kind of leniency of the Yuan Dynasty and are very dissatisfied with my strictness. Am I doing something wrong now?

Liu Ji replied in handwriting: 'After the snow and frost, there will be spring. Now that the prestige of the country has been established, it is advisable to be less and more lenient. ’

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"That's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I want to plant a seed of forgiveness in His Highness's heart." Listening to the words of the King of Chu, Liu Ji couldn't help laughing and said:

"Of course, the prince didn't arrange the old man, this is indeed what I said. One piece and one relaxation, the way of civil and military. Leniency and severity are a policy of governing the country. At that time, the emperor had already taken a strong medicine to establish the national prestige, and the next step should indeed be a little looser, so that the officials and the people would have a chance to breathe and not break the strings. ”

"Oh." Zhu Zhen nodded, and said in his heart that being uneducated is not good, and he didn't know if he was tricked by his eldest brother.

But the prince didn't tell His Royal Highness that the old minister and His Majesty actually have the same concept of governing the country, and they both advocate the use of heavy codes in troubled times, and the fierce medicine under the scabies. Otherwise, it will be impossible to sweep away the accumulated shortcomings of the former yuan, and it will not be possible to completely reverse the corrupt atmosphere of officialdom. Liu Bowen's eyes flashed and he said:

"Your Royal Highness may not know that when the country was founded, the teacher took the initiative to ask the emperor to serve as the middle of the imperial history. The so-called 'Song and Yuan Kuan have lost the world, and now it is appropriate to Su Jigang' is actually instilled in the emperor by the teacher.

"There are lawbreakers in the public ministers and nobles, civil and military officials, and as teachers, there is no way to avoid the impeachment of imperial history. In less than a year, hundreds of officials were sent to prison, in short, there was no one in the government and the opposition at that time who was not afraid of being a teacher, and they scolded me for being a 'cool official' behind my back. Liu Bowen said.

"Holy, really?" Zhu Zhen was very shocked, he always thought that Lao Liu was an old man who fished all day long.

"Still lying to you?" Liu Bowen struggled to maintain a dignified image and said: "At that time, even Li Bin, a relative of the Korean duke, asked the crown prince to behead him after I found out that he was corrupt and illegal!" ”

"Oh, I have an impression of this." Zhu Zhen patted his head and said.

He heard that Li Shanchang secretly begged Liu Bowen to let Li Bin go, but Liu Bowen was not accommodating. Li Shanchang is the Taishi and Prime Minister of Zuo, if his relatives can't keep it, where will he put his face?

So Li Shanchang asked Zhu Yuanzhang to suspend the death penalty on the grounds of a long drought and no rain, so as to save Li Bin's life.

Boss Zhu is still very in awe of God, and feels that it is not the will of heaven, why can't it be his turn to become the emperor with a meal. So Boss Zhu didn't dare to make God angry. asked Liu Bowen if he wanted to do it.

Liu Bowen said categorically, 'Kill Li Bin, the sky will rain'!

Zhu Yuanzhang was still very superstitious about Liu Bowen at that time, so he executed Li Bin.

Outcome...... Still no rain. How can Li Shanchang spare Liu Ji now? Immediately launched the impeachment of Liu Bowen's insistence on killing, angered God, and demanded that he be killed as well, so that God would be angry.

Boss Zhu was also a little angry and didn't protect him so much. As a result, Liu Bowen was disgraced, and resigned and went home on the pretext of his wife's death.

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"Alas, at that time, the old man watched the sky at night and speculated that it was about to rain." Speaking of this defeat, Liu Bowen sighed and said: "Who would have thought that the prediction was wrong." Alas, it's really 'walking by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet'. ”

"Master, the weather forecast is not accurate, let alone your old cold legs." Zhu Zhen hit the nail on the head.

"Oh, how do you know the old man's prediction?" Liu Bowen was taken aback and praised: "Your Highness is really born to pass on my mantle." ”

"Let's get down to business, Master." Zhu Zhen coughed lightly.

"In short, both the teacher and the emperor advocate severe punishment," Liu Bowen said in a deep voice: "The only difference is that the emperor is much more fierce than me." Back then, I watched the stars, and the Ming Dynasty had 30 years of killing luck. ”

"Thirty years of luck?" Zhu Zhen pinched his fingers and calculated, until the fourth brother finished killing, it would be thirty years.

But in the first fifty years of the country, he never told Lao Liu......

It can be seen that Liu Bowen is not just a trick, but also has two brushes.

"At that time, I felt that if I was made a country and swept away the vulgar evils by thunderous means, I could resume leniency in a year or two." I heard Liu Bowen say murderously again:

"But now the old man doesn't think so. I still think too well of these scholars and doctors from the Yuan Dynasty, they haven't changed at all, and they don't want to change at all, and they still do the same thing as the Yuan Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. If you don't kill them all, the Ming Dynasty will have to follow the old path of the Yuan Dynasty. If I were replaced, I would have to kill for ten or eight years! cough cough cough ......"

"Master, don't be so angry for the New Year." Zhu Zhen hurriedly gave him a smooth breath, and when Lao Liu took a breath, he asked, "Master, didn't you say that the magistrate, why did you get involved with the old ministers of the Yuan Dynasty again?" ”

"Because they're the same kind of people!" Liu Bowen said in a deep voice: "Your father can rely on his Huaixi brothers to fight the world, but he has to rely on civil officials to govern the world." At that time, his foundation was so shallow, where did he come from? Don't rely on the scholars of the Yuan Dynasty? Even your master and I are from the old ministers of the Yuan Dynasty. ”

"I know that." Zhu Zhen nodded, this is also one of the reasons why his father always distrusts his master.

"From defeating Zhang Shicheng to attacking the capital of Yuan, it only took the emperor a short year. It can be said that the prefectures and counties of the world have fallen overnight. How many officials have changed their skins and continued to be officials of the Ming Dynasty? It's better at the imperial court, but it's a very common phenomenon at the local level. ”

"Hmm." Zhu Zhen nodded, understandable. The change of regime between the old and the new is inevitable.

"When I was at the Goshidai, they restrained for a while. But after I was gone, they all threw themselves into Taishi Li's disciples, relying on his protection, and began to relapse again. ”

Only then did Zhu Zhen understand why his father wanted to bring the magistrate to a pot first......

These remnants of the former dynasty are the ones who have the least status in politics and should be cleaned up the most. If they converge a little, they may be able to land safely, but they still follow the Yuan Dynasty's set, dancing and dancing, horses running, corruption and bribery without mercy, I'm afraid that if they change to other emperors, they will also come to a big cleanup, right?

The king of Chu asked again, "What about the killing?" ”

"The people behind can always restrain for a while." Liu Bowen sighed and said: "Alas, after breaking, the key is to stand, not break." You can't solve the problem by killing your head alone, but you can't do it without killing your head. ”

"Understood, Master." Zhu Zhen nodded slowly.

"But what should I set up?" Liu Bowen muttered, "Do you have an answer?" ”

Zhu Zhen shook his head.

"There's no hurry, there's still time, let's think about it." Liu Bowen smiled at him and said, "Before we think it through, let's tinker with your father first." ”

"Yes." Zhu Zhen nodded in response.

ps. Write another chapter.

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