Chapter 78: The Emperor's Mind is Tricky, and the Government Decree Is Difficult to Execute
"Why is Father so happy?"
Zhu Biao was puzzled, could it be that the emperor was scolded, shouldn't he be angry?
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced back at him, but did not explain, some things can only be understood but not spoken, and Zhu Biao's understanding will be understood sooner or later.
Zhu Biao was prompted by Zhu Yuanzhang, and vaguely found his own answer.
As kings, the emperor and the scholarly class relied on each other and fought against each other.
Today's accident in the court is the most intuitive battle, the scholar class took advantage of the Yan Shenggong incident to force the emperor into the palace in a small way.
If the emperor retreats this time, the king's authority will be affected,
But on the contrary, the emperor suppressed Liu Bowen's momentum, and the king's authority was consolidated again.
It's hard to be an emperor!
Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Biao's thoughtful appearance and smiled:
"Did you figure it out?"
Zhu Biaohui:
"Father, the son has figured it out, but the son also thinks it's funny...... This Uncle Zhang can always be inexplicably involved in this kind of unwarranted disaster every time! ”
As soon as his voice fell, the emperor stopped and looked back at him silently.
Zhu Biao was shocked, could it be that Zhang Ming's fate today was actually deliberately guided by the emperor? When he thought of this possibility, he instantly felt a chill down his spine, and his father's scheming was deep, which he couldn't imagine at all.
Use Zhang Normal to deal with the Kong family and give the Zhang family enough favors, but these favors will also bring the hatred of hundreds of officials to the Zhang family, and then, use hundreds of officials to balance the Zhang family?
"The Emperor's Heart Technique, the first weight is checks and balances, there are still a lot of things you have to learn!"
Lao Zhu patted Zhu Biao's shoulder and walked forward by himself.
Zhu Biao thought for a long time, understood a little, and then followed.
Back to the Imperial Study.
On the other side, Li Shanchang, the left prime minister, Liu Ji and others in the imperial history, came over with the Zhang family's father and son.
Because of the contradiction just now, the people on all three sides did not speak.
After the eunuch reported, Zhu Yuanzhang handed over the medical skills to Liu Ji, and Liu Ji couldn't sit still when he saw it.
Let's not talk about whether this method is good or not, at least the medical skills are reliable all the way.
From Ge Hong to Wang Dan......
In fact, pox methods have been recorded in the past, but their value has been submerged in the long river of history, and no one has really used this method.
Now Longhu Mountain has been taught by the gods to save the common people.
Only then did this method really present itself to the emperor in its entirety.
"Liu Bowen, what do you have to say?"
Zhu Yuanzhang asked coldly, Liu Bowen sighed, and knelt directly in front of the emperor.
"It's the minister who is reckless, if this law of Longhu Mountain is true, Zhang Zhenren deserves a better reward!"
"My Ming rule, talking about meritorious deeds, if you make merits, I will not be stingy with rewards, if you just want to rely on Zuyin, I can give so much, the Kong family wants more, fight for it yourself!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's words can be regarded as setting the character for Yan Shenggong's incident.
Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang glanced at each other, these two people, who were originally political enemies, bowed to the emperor together.
A small contest between the two classes of kings and courtiers ended with Zhu Yuanzhang winning a complete victory.
"Okay, I'm looking for you to come here, not to discuss these with you, I'm asking you to discuss how to find an effective promotion method!"
Promoting the pox method in the form of a royal decree is something that Zhu Yuanzhang must do.
Whether this matter is from the perspective of selfishness or public morality, it is a good and harmless thing!
From the top of public morality, if China fully rolls out the pox method, because the number of people who die of the plague will be greatly reduced, the benefits are far and near, from a close point of view, after the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, as well as the Northern Expedition that is about to be completed, the Ming Dynasty will sooner or later enter the stage of recuperation and recuperation of the new dynasty.
People are one of the most important resources for the future rule of the new dynasty, and the pox method can indeed reduce the loss of the Ming people.
And in the long run, the promotion of this pox method is not an overnight benefit of the Ming Dynasty, but a thousand years after China, and the people will benefit.
From a selfish point of view, the person who promotes this matter is destined to leave a name in the history books.
The person who is promoting this matter now is naturally Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty......
After Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang want to understand the details, they will not contradict this matter.
Li Shanchang has already begun to think about how to benefit himself in this matter.
He studied the medical book and was secretly surprised by its contents.
After thinking about it for a while, Li Shanchang said:
This law is simple and easy to understand, and the minister thought that he could directly make this law public to the world, and implement it in the form of an official document, and ordered the magistrate to organize local famous doctors and promote the pox law.
If the number of pox is included in the assessment for the coming year, the officials will naturally implement it! ”
This is the simplest and most efficient way, but Liu Bowen disagrees:
"If it were really that simple, Your Majesty would not come to ask for the opinions of you and me, Lord Li is still thinking too simple...... if you do it according to your method, I'm afraid it won't hurt Your Majesty......"
"Liu Ji, what do you mean? You have something to say."
Li Shanchang and Liu Ji's short-lived alliance immediately became-for-tat as their common goal was lost.
"In fact, Lord Li's idea is not wrong on the whole, but it is simple and rude, this method is based on the pox on the body of a person or a cow as a medicine, it is a method of attacking poison with poison, replaced by Lord Li, you first know this method, do you dare to try?"
Liu Bowen stopped Li Shanchang, he kept his face calm and didn't speak.
"The people are not scholars, they are illiterate, even if the government publicizes the effectiveness of this law, they may not dare to verify it, the adults say that it is right to implement it in the form of government decrees, but the local officials will inevitably go astray!
For example, I see that there are two kinds of pox seedlings, sometimes seedlings and mature seedlings, among which the steps of making mature seedlings are cumbersome, but the seedlings are very simple.
Master Li said that this matter will be included in the assessment, so have you ever thought that the magistrate would choose a simpler time and seedlings for the people because he wants to complete the assessment?
However, when the seedlings are dangerous, three or four out of ten people who plant pox will react and worry about their lives.
The people are not familiar with the pox method, if it is because of the death and injury of Shi Miao, it will go against His Majesty's original intention of implementing the pox law, and it will also hurt the people's trust in the government.
Can Master Li afford the stakes in this? ”
Li Shanchang didn't expect that a suggestion he had made casually would be caught so much by Liu Ji.
What he mentioned was only the first draft, and it would naturally be handed over to the Chinese Book Province for slow study later.
It's just that Liu Ji didn't give face, and the seriousness of the problem was too high at once, which was equivalent to roasting him on the fire.
The atmosphere between Li Shanchang and Liu Ji suddenly became tense.
Zhang on the side, listening silently, suddenly had an understanding.
When he saw the two competing, what he thought of was Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi once told him that if the pox planting method was not seriously implemented by Emperor Hongwu, it would be almost impossible to really promote it.
Zhang Normal thought at first that Zhang Yi's words were a bit exaggerated.
However, the dialogue between Li Shanchang and Liu Ji made Zhang Normal vaguely understand that even if Emperor Hongwu worked hard to implement it, it would not be so easy to accomplish one thing.
Government decrees are difficult to enforce, and governing the country is not as easy as others think.
A bad thing can turn into a bad thing......
(End of chapter)