Last time, it was mentioned that Zhu Youxiao brought Xu Xiake and Monk Jingwen back to Beijing, and let Zhang San harvest him as an apprentice, and used "Daigo empowerment" to transform his body.

At this time, the entire "Xian'an Palace" (Luban Gate) within a radius of ten miles was surging with clouds, lightning and thunder, and heavy rain poured. With the steady progress of the "Daigo Empowerment", under the action of Zhang Sanfeng's powerful true yuan, mana and spiritual power, a large number of "heaven and earth vitality greatly shocked", and flocked to forcibly inject.

Half an hour later, when Xu Xiake and Monk Jingwen not only had strange mana fluctuations all over their bodies, but also the meridians of their whole body were also strong and forcibly opened by external forces, whether it was the five internal organs, the eight veins of the strange meridians, the Zhou Tian acupoints, or the essence blood and soul, they were all rapidly evolving in the direction of perfection.

After some washing and marrowing, the dantian of the two finally generated a "sea of qi" (cyclone), and at the same time, the "sea of spirit" (divine consciousness space) and "sea of blood" were forcibly opened up in the mind and heart, thanks to Zhang Sanfeng who opened the "Jindan vision, blood atavism" when he washed the muscles and marrow for the two.

However, because the two of them are nearly half a hundred years old and no one in their ancestors cultivates the truth, the qualifications of the spiritual roots obtained are average, and they are all "three elements miscellaneous spiritual roots", and they can barely be included in the door wall by various cultivation sects in the "cultivation realm". When the two stopped screaming and fell into a fainting, Zhang Sanfeng slowly withdrew his palm and asked the surrounding eunuchs to carry the two down so that they could be washed and sent back. At that time, Zhang Sanfeng will cast a spell to wake him up and arrange the task.

After another half an hour, after the two were washed by the eunuchs and the emperor's "internal official" clothes, they were carried together in front of everyone. This is, I saw Zhang Sanfeng pinching his finger and releasing two white lights that hit Xu Xiake and Monk Jingwen in a coma at the same time, and immediately made the two slowly wake up.

"Uh...... Master...... This...... Rude faux pas! As soon as the two of them woke up, they felt that something was wrong, and when they saw that the clothes on their bodies had changed, they immediately understood the cause and effect, and they couldn't help but be shocked, especially the monk Jingwen, who was worried that he would be handed over to the palace maids to serve after he fell into a coma.

"Haha/quack/cluck...... You don't have to be like this, since you have already worshiped my Wudang sect, you have to serve the court, and it is understandable to enjoy the treatment of the imperial court. Everyone couldn't help laughing when they saw the two of them embarrassed, but Zhang Sanfeng shook off the dust and said: "As the saying goes: 'Wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha stays in his heart'." ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone laughed again, until a voice sounded out of thin air: "Giggles, if you have a Buddha in your heart, you are a Buddha, and if you don't have a Buddha in your heart, you can easily become a demon." As soon as the words fell, it turned out that the nine sisters of the urging family who followed Zhu Youzhen around had merged into a three-foot tall "giant girl" who had fused into a three-foot tall "giant girl" urging her younger brother.

"Huh? Immortal? It turned out to be your ......" Just when Xu Xiake and Monk Jingwen were dumbfounded, Zhu Youzhen and his concubines and Zhang Sanfeng hurriedly stepped forward to kneel and bow down: "I've seen Master/Master." I don't know if you are here, do you have any advice? "————" Giggles, two apprentices, still don't kneel down? ”

"Apprentice? Belch...... Grass people/poor monks, oh no, the disciples have seen the ancestors. The two of them were sincerely afraid: "I don't know that the master is coming, and the disciples and grandchildren have missed the welcome, please forgive the sin." As soon as the words fell, Xu Xiake and Monk Jingwen nodded to each other inexplicably: "The two of us feel light and healthy at the moment, which is wonderful." ”

"Giggles, that's right." The giant girl urged her brother Jiao and said with a smile: "Although the two of you have now obtained the 'cultivation qualification', you can only obtain the 'Three Elements Miscellaneous Spirit Root' because you are over half a hundred years old. However, if you can cultivate diligently, you should have no problem building a Dao foundation, and if you survive the Heavenly Tribulation by chance, you may not be able to get married. It depends on your personal creation and understanding. In addition, you are suitable for cultivating the Innate Five Elements Creation Recipe and taking the path of becoming immortals. ”

As soon as the words fell, the "giant girl" urged her brother to pinch her fingers and flick her fingers, sending out two dazzling lights that hit the heads of Xu Xiake and Monk Jingwen respectively, and immediately stunned them, making everyone stunned. However, the "Soul Villain" in the "Spirit Sea" of the two is infiltrated with red, yellow, blue, white, and black five kinds of dazzling light at the moment.

After the power of the five elements was completely integrated into the body of the two of them, the "Soul Villain", which was still half-empty and half-real, quickly became condensed. As a result, it once again caused a large shock in the surrounding heaven and earth vitality, and then automatically filled the body, breaking through its cultivation realm from the early stage of qi refining to the middle stage of qi refining in one fell swoop. Moreover, this "Innate Five Elements Creation Formula" is a "god-level intermediate exercise" that can be cultivated to the realm of "Daluo Immortal", and it comes with its own spells without a teacher.

Correspondingly, the "Divine Soul Villain" (Life Soul) of these two people was also refined into a "self-contained clone" by the "Giant Girl" urging the younger brother, but everyone couldn't sense it, after all, only after the other party cultivated to the "Yuan Shen Period" and could trigger the power of the "Long River of Destiny", it would be taken back by the younger brother.

This is a kind of "cultivation method" that quickly improves the realm of cultivation, similar to the "Distraction and Mind Dafa" and "Zhuang Zhou Mengdie Soul Sending Divine Technique", and also integrates part of the operation principles of "Shinto Dharma Body Technique" and "Puppet Secret Text", which can be regarded as urging the younger brother to observe the world by manipulating the body and soul of others.

"Giggles, okay, the purpose of this seat has been achieved, so let's continue to play when we are young." As soon as the words fell, after the "giant girl" urged her brother to fluctuate with strange mana, she immediately fell apart and reverted to the nine sisters of the urging family again, who were curiously looking at the two old men in front of her, frowning slightly.

"Ahh O gods! Sure enough, it's a god descending to earth! In this way, the two of us seem to be enlightened, and we have mastered the ability to 'fly to the heavens and the earth' out of thin air, which is really wonderful! I finally understand what it means to be 'different from immortals', haha, woo woo......" The two cried with joy, unconsciously immersed in their memories.

At this time, when everyone asked, the two of them would answer, and even what they had seen and heard during their years of traveling abroad and the reasons why they did not want to become officials in the court were also said. Everyone was surprised when they heard the two of them talk about the root cause of corruption in the imperial court was bureaucratic corruption, but after listening to the deeper reason, they were speechless, because the reason why the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty was more corrupt than the bureaucracy of any previous dynasty was forced by the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang was originally born as a poor peasant, although he had been a monk and a beggar before and after, but he was a "pariah" with an extremely low social status, and he was often looked down upon and spurned everywhere he begged, so he swore that once he became the emperor, he must collect heavy taxes on certain areas!

This is also a place adjacent to each other, but ordinary people have to bear the task of paying taxes that are several times or even more than ten times different from each other, the reason is that when Zhu Chongba was still a "traveling monk" who came here to ask for food, he was spurned and insulted by the rich and poor people of all walks of life, which caused harm and psychological distortion.

Monk Zhu is a "ruthless man" with a strong sense of revenge, and later after joining the "Red Turban Army", he was even more decisive and killed without blinking, and it was normal for him to take revenge on those ordinary people who looked down on him back then after controlling the world. However, because Zhu Baba was a "traveling monk" before, no matter where he went to beg, he saw the corrupt officials of the Yuan Dynasty who preyed on the people, making the people miserable, so he thought that "the world is as black as a crow", and there are no good people who are officials!

This is miserable, not long after the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty, the officials of the Yuan Dynasty were forcibly integrated into the bureaucratic system of the "Ming Dynasty" by the "ruthless" Monk Zhu by brute force, and became the meat on the chopping board of this vengeful boss.

This monk emperor, who had been a beggar, was found at home, because all officials in the Ming Dynasty must abide by the various regulations set by Zhu Baba, otherwise they will be severely punished, and they would rather kill by mistake than let go! The simplest is to embezzle more than 60 taels of silver and behead them on the spot, as well as "peeling lasts".

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated: First of all, officials do not have "vocational fields", and "vocational fields" have existed since the Tang Dynasty, but they were forcibly canceled by Zhu Yuanzhang; Secondly, the number of "Lu rice" has been greatly reduced, and "Lu rice" is the grain that the imperial court has given to officials as wages in successive dynasties, and the amount of Lu rice varies from official to different grades.

During the Tang Dynasty, a five-grade official earned hundreds of stones of "Lu rice" every year, and at the same time, he also had a monthly salary of 60,000 or 70,000 yuan. In contrast, the officials of the same level in the Ming Dynasty only had 192 stones of "Lu Mi" per year, and there was nothing else, which was less than three-tenths of the officials of the Tang Dynasty!

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the annual income of the highest-ranking Zhengyipin official was only three hundred taels of silver, which was not worth the cost of three months for a child of a wealthy family in Beijing. Third, Zhu Yuanzhang is reluctant to give officials retirement salaries, which means that officials are unemployed when they retire, and they have nothing to support when they are old;

Fourth, the children of officials in the Tang and Song dynasties can directly become officials, which is called "Yin Feng", that is, "Feng Wife Yin Zi". However, Zhu Yuanzhang also canceled it. This low-pay system continued throughout the Ming Dynasty, and it became lower and lower in later years, making Ming officials the lowest-paid "civil servants" in ancient China. Such low salaries are "not enough to earn a living," forcing many officials to find it difficult to support their families, and they have to do everything possible to seek public gain for personal gain, and to be corrupt.

For example, Chen Guan, who participated in politics in Shaanxi during the Hongwu period, was roughly equivalent to the vice-provincial cadres of later generations, "in Shaanxi to be honest and respectful....... His wife is also dead, and his wife can hardly survive on her own." He is not greedy, he lives on his salary, but as soon as he dies, his wife and children will not be able to live immediately, that is to say, even such a big official at the deputy provincial level can't save a penny by his salary, plus there is no pension, which leads to the fact that once he retires, the whole family will immediately fall into trouble!

For another example, Liu Song, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials during the Hongwu period, lived in a thatched house with his three brothers since he was a child, and the brothers only had 50 acres of land together. After he became an official, his family's predicament did not improve at all, a quilt was covered for ten years, and it was bitten by rats before it was replaced with a new one.

However, the old quilt still had to be sewn and mended to make up for his son's cotton clothes. During the Yongle period, Qin Hong, the head of the household department, was an official for more than 40 years, but his wife often starved, and when he died, the family had no money to spare. It didn't take long for some of the children and grandchildren to be too poor to live. This is completely different from the ancient officials imagined by the people of later generations. The reason is that Zhu Chongba did not have a good impression of the bureaucrats of the Yuan Dynasty before he became emperor, and thought that there were no good officials and must be sanctioned!

Objectively speaking, "being an official" is also a profession, and like the "civil servants" of later generations, it is also a job to earn a living. If you work well, you should be paid normally and reasonably, and if your salary cannot even maintain a normal life, it is unfair. However, it is not good if the civil servants are too well treated!

In addition to causing honest officials to not be able to guarantee a normal life, the low salary system is more about forcibly stimulating the ugly side of human nature, after all, people are "social animals", and "seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages" is the nature of "animals" and even all living things. If you have to encounter poverty to be a clean official or a good official, then the problem is very serious, because what is even more terrible is that there can only be a small number of honest officials, and the effect of low salaries is more to activate the greed in the human nature of most officials.

This kind of greed belongs to the instinctive reaction of "living organisms" to "seek advantages and avoid disadvantages", which has nothing to do with morality, law, and ideological realm, and urges them to use their power to be greedy! Zhu Yuanzhang gave Ming officials the lowest salary in history, and the result was that the Ming Dynasty became the most corrupt bureaucratic dynasty in Chinese history.

Gu Yanwu, a thinker at the end of the Ming Dynasty, pointed out sharply that the reason why the corrupt trend of today's officials has penetrated into their hearts and cannot be eliminated is that their salaries are too low to support their families. Therefore, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the implementation of the "sea ban", the tax revenue of the imperial court was sharply reduced, the financial crisis broke out, and corruption also broke out!

So, why was Zhu Chongba, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so stingy and mean to the bureaucratic group? This is also easy to say, because he himself was born as a poor peasant, worked as a monk and beggar, and was a famous "Emperor Called Huazi" in history, and how were the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty eating the people? He has the most real and thorough personal feelings when he begs in the wandering side, and his simple peasant thinking makes him think that there are few good people who are officials.

He once said that when I was an ordinary citizen, I saw that most of the governors of the prefectures and counties were not sympathetic to the people, and they were often greedy for money and lust, drinking and doing wasteful things, but they turned a blind eye to the suffering of the people, which made me really resentful! If I am allowed to dominate the world, I will make the life of corrupt officials worse than death!

With such an antipathy to the official class, Zhu Yuanzhang continued to use the thin salary system of the Yuan Dynasty on the grounds that the economy was withering at the beginning of the founding of the country, which was even lower than the official salary given by the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang hoped that these followers of Confucius and Mencius could "see righteousness and hope for profit", only eat the spiritual food of Confucius and Mencius, and work for him selflessly.

However, this kind of practice of "wanting the horses to run and not to eat grass" violates both "human nature" and also takes things to the extreme. Because, from the perspective of a peasant, Zhu Baba felt that the wages he gave to the officials were actually not a lot, and they were superior to the vast majority of peasants.

Moreover, being an official also has a sense of psychological accomplishment and face gain such as honoring one's ancestors and establishing a name for future generations. Therefore, Monk Zhu felt that he was interesting enough.

Because of his harshness with bureaucrats, many people say that Zhu Yuanzhang is a peasant emperor. But this is only a superficial phenomenon, don't be mistaken, because Zhu Yuanzhang was only born in a poor peasantry, and he is not a pure "peasant class emperor", because what he did exposed his extreme selfishness.

Zhu Baba transferred all the saved bureaucrats' salaries to his own family's children and grandchildren! Because Monk Zhu was afraid of treating the Zhu family very well, he set a very high level of income for the Ming Dynasty clan and royal family, for example, after his sons were named "princes", the annual salary was 10,000 stones! You know, this is nearly seven times the annual income of the highest-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty at that time!

Zhu Chongba stipulated that the clans were not allowed to work, and that the imperial court would provide for them and their children and grandchildren. This places a heavier burden on the people everywhere than on the high salaries of officials. Moreover, as time went by, the descendants of Monk Zhu reproduced rapidly like rats and grew savagely, causing the royal population to explode in horror! By the Jiajing period 180 years after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the imperial population had increased by 400 times!

At that time, there were 4 million stone of grain for the capital in the world, but the expenditure of Lu rice in the palace of the kings was 8.53 million stone, and there was a gap of 4.53 million stone. These vacuum loopholes all have to be filled by the increased exploitation of the people by the imperial court and the government, so how can the society of the Ming Dynasty not be chaotic?

Therefore, Zhu Chongba was only born in a poor peasant, but he must not be counted as a "peasant emperor", after all, the most benefited from the entire Ming Dynasty was not the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, but the children and grandchildren of Zhu Chongba.

It was precisely because of Monk Zhu's move that the Ming Dynasty society bred corruption far beyond that of previous dynasties. And the vast number of people living at the bottom of the society are brainwashed into walking corpses all day long by "the way of Confucius and Mencius", "loyalty and patriotism" and "Song Ming science", and the poorer they are, the more stupid they become. On the contrary, the corrupt officials understand that no matter how corrupt they are, they are always not as corrupt as the emperor's relatives and relatives.

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