On both sides of the south end of the palace, the east side is the Wenhua Hall, and the west side is the Wuying Hall.

The six branches of Langfang are in the Wuying Palace, and the cabinet is in the Wenhua Palace.

Wenyuanak is not just an attic, but the name of a building complex, and the main hall in the middle is where the cabinet ministers work, and the buildings built around the main hall in turn are provided to the rest of the officials.

Lu Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, came specially to discuss the matter in the newspaper with several cabinet ministers.

Yang Shiqi looked through an article sent by the Ministry of Rites with a solemn face, and after a fierce dispute in the social newspaper, most people tended to publish it, but they still reported it to the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites did not dare to specialize after seeing it.

"I heard that the people of heaven want to obtain its good law in order to live in peace, and then the country will be peaceful and the society will be stable. In the past, Ming Jun, such as Xia Qi, Shang Tang, and Zhou Wu, all ruled the country by law and were impartial.

"The law is the way, and it is the rule that the Son of Heaven and the common people abide by. It is not the Son of Heaven who can transcend the law, nor can the common people be arrogant. The Son of Heaven broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people. This is the norm of heaven and the foundation of humanity. ”

"There is no incurable person in the world, and there is no incurable law. Only good law and good governance should be based on fairness and justice. Therefore, it is said: before the law, everyone is equal. No noble, no cheap, no virtuous or foolish, all must abide by the law and discipline in order to fulfill their responsibilities. ”

"If a man wants to practice the rule of law, he must first understand this righteousness. The common people of the Son of Heaven are protected by the law and punished by the law. In this way, the country will be governed and the people will live and work in peace and contentment. ”

No wonder even the Ministry of Rites didn't dare to make judgments, Yang Shiqi looked at Xie Jin.

The cabinet went around and around, and there were several personnel changes, and it returned to the original state, but Hu Guang had died of illness, and Huang Huai had gone to the seven western provinces, as well as several new cabinet ministers.

At present, Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin, whether they are qualified or prestigious, belong to the current cabinet of the first assistant, and who the first assistant is in the end depends on the prince's mind.

Xie Jin stroked his beard and ignored Yang Shiqi's gaze.

Yang Shiqi withdrew his eyes and looked at Lu Zhen again.

"Does Lu Butai think it should be sent?"

Lu Zhen hesitated, he was going to Zhishi this year, not because he was noble, but because he was too old, and in the face of the increasingly heavy affairs of the Ministry of Rites, he felt that he had more than enough heart but not enough strength, so he had the idea of Zhishi.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has agreed, but there is no suitable candidate for the Ministry of Rites, so Lu Zhen still temporarily stabilizes the situation of the Ministry of Rites.

Today's Ministry of Rites is no longer the Ministry of Rites of the past, not only has more authority, but the workload of affairs has also increased greatly.

Lu Zhen shook his head, and said busily: "Why should Elder Yang Ge embarrass the old man, if the old man is considerate, why should he send it to the cabinet for discussion." ”

Yang Shiqi sighed.

The current cabinet is at a critical juncture, and he knows the mind of His Royal Highness the Prince, so Yang Shiqi was reluctant to make extraneous branches, but he didn't expect such a major event to happen, so he could only play.

This article is of great significance, and it is about the foundation of the country.

There are so many major events in the world, but the imperial court has its own laws, and each performs its duties in an orderly manner, so although there are many things, the cabinet actually has a charter to deal with, which is not a big trouble.

But some things are very crucial, Yang Shiqi can see the weight contained in them clearly, although he doesn't want to do much, but he has a responsibility in his position, and he must do so.

Since the introduction of the New Deal, the palace has stopped recruiting new eunuchs.

Over the years, the old eunuchs have been old-fashioned, and the young eunuchs have also been old, although they are still in the palace, but the authority of the palace affairs has been reduced.

There were female officials and female histories in the inner palace, and the external affairs were handled by the Imperial Palace Affairs Bureau, and the correspondence with the imperial court was maintained by the officials of the Wenhua Palace Clerk's Office.

In fact, the current clerical room is somewhat similar to the cabinet in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but the current cabinet of the Ming Dynasty is very different, and it is only one foot away from the door to get a name.

Reputation is very important, and the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty in history is lacking a name.

If the name is not right, it is not good, so although the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty has been the core of the imperial court in history, it is still subject to a lot of constraints, and it is not easy to manage the various ministries of the imperial court.

Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin met with Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi quietly read the first draft of the newspaper.

Zhu Gaochi had actually been prepared for a long time, although Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin couldn't see the mood of His Royal Highness the Prince, in fact, Zhu Gaochi did not have any waves in his heart.

Nothing comes into being in a vacuum, the evolution of the world is gradual, and the germination and development of ideas sometimes takes a longer time, and it is even less likely that they will emerge suddenly.

In the more than 50 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the last 20 years, the industrial development and ideological change guided by itself are an inevitable phenomenon that there are today's melons.

Very early on, Zhu Gaochi had given up thinking about the origin of Western industrial development, because it was really impossible to test, which also led Zhu Gaochi to abandon the road of imitating Western modernization.

Because according to later generations, the source of the Western Industrial Revolution was the Renaissance, so what was the source of the Renaissance?

Martial arts cheats.

Yes.

It's the same as in the middle, starting with a young man picking up a treasure book.

Florentia Village, a symbol of Italian civilization, learned Chinese silk drawing and weaving techniques from Muslims, and began to produce silk for sale in Europe.

The development of the economy has made the local financial center, and the rich Holy See has to complete the huge local cathedral, which people do not know when the construction of this cathedral began, only that it has not been completed.

As it happens, Cosimo from the Medici family, when he was only twenty-five years old, found some books and manuscripts from the ancient Greco-Roman era in the corner of the unfinished church.

Eventually, thanks to the knowledge of these manuscripts, Cosimo completed the topping out of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, built by the Holy See, and was paid handsomely.

For this reason, Cosimo became interested in collecting scrolls and manuscripts, and over the years it became the largest library in Europe, which led to the revival of knowledge in ancient Greece and Rome, and the Renaissance, which in turn led to the Industrial Revolution.

Such a statement is really an insult and ignorance of the process of the development of civilization.

Zhu Gaochi doesn't know if there is a young man like Cosimo in China who has picked up the treasures of the pre-ancient period.

However, most people do not agree with this idea, because the younger people who have more ideas in later generations think that the descendants must have more knowledge than the ancestors, and the most powerful ancient secrets only exist.

The achievements of civilization in the later generations of the West are definitely not achievements that can be achieved by relying on a few so-called ancient Greek classics, and there are all kinds of birds when the forest is big, and there are unreliable scholars in China, and the same is true in the West.

Just as some people in later generations think that the moon in foreign countries should be rounder, and some young people in foreign countries think that Chinese love to learn since childhood, and the content of the video is all knowledge content.

Abandoning preconceptions and inferiority, and thinking based on his own identity, Zhu Gaochi changed the market by creating demand, thus promoting the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty.

But it is undeniable that the ideology of the Song Dynasty was highly advanced under the slavery system of the Yuan Dynasty, and many bad habits were taken for granted in the hearts of people in the early Ming Dynasty, such as those generals who had many records of violations of law and discipline.

What Lan Yu did was not accepted by public opinion in the Song Dynasty.

And at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was not only Lan Yu who did this, but people also thought it was normal.

The ideas of the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty were already very different, not only in terms of law, but also in terms of morality.

The brutal things that Jin soldiers did in the capital of the Song Dynasty were shocking, not only that later generations thought it was barbaric, but also that the Song people at that time were stunned.

Just like in the 21st century, a country that claims to be a civilized country insists on committing genocide despite the opposition of the entire civilized world.

In the same way, after the destruction of the Jin Yuan in turn, the civilized world has long been destroyed.

Not only in terms of technology and knowledge, but also in people's minds.

People are accustomed to the world where slaves exist, obviously they are the same race, and it has only been a hundred years, although they shout about reviving the Song system, they still retain the slavery system and the funeral system left over from the previous dynasty.

This is only one aspect, the regression and decay of the whole society in all aspects.

People no longer pay attention to law and morality, but are accustomed to force oppression.

The Song Dynasty had the lightest conviction for official corruption, but the degree of corruption among bureaucrats was lower than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty implemented a well-known high-pressure policy, but the phenomenon of corrupt officials was repeatedly prohibited, and even in the Qing Dynasty, it was a joke that officials were not greedy, and buying and selling officials had become a universal phenomenon.

This is because of the high level of civilization.

The glory of a civilization is definitely not only the economy and military, but also includes the ideology, even ordinary people are more moral, and it is precisely because of the high moral level that people will have a high degree of self-discipline.

Without worldly good ideas, no matter how good a system is, it is just a fictitious system.

If up to 80 percent of taxi drivers think that they will become corrupt officials, then any supervision policy will not work, on the contrary, if 80 percent of taxi drivers think that they will never be corrupt officials, then a very simple supervision policy will also have a good effect.

The report on the investigation of taxi drivers was a small-scale activity that did not attract publicity in later generations.

In the process of continuous development of civilization, imperial power will inevitably be constrained.

In a country with a highly developed level of civilization, the imperial power is not controlled, and the two absolutely cannot coexist, and the imperial power is not only the imperial power, but also represents a series of rights behind it.

So when the imperial power is facing restrictions, the existence of a new guarantee for the development of civilization is what Zhu Gaochi needs to consider.

It does not have the level to lead the development of civilization.

Zhu Gaochi never thought of fighting.

Confronting the trajectory of things is a reversal that defies the general trend, which not only cannot last, but will only stimulate contradictions even more. The struggle between the imperial power and the bureaucratic class in the middle and late Ming Dynasty belonged to this kind of phenomenon in Zhu Gaochi's view.

There are more and more people who read books, and when they read books, they no longer think that they are inferior.

The high degree of education system of the Ming Dynasty and the system of preferential treatment for scholars doomed the scale of this group to be very huge, and with the foundation of the people, even if the imperial power was compressed to promote the accepted rules, that is, to respect the law, it became inevitable.

Then the new learning of the mind that appeared in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and even scolded Confucius and criticized the emperor, not only was not banned, but became more and more popular, which is also the inevitable development of things.

There were many reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but the imperial family definitely had a great responsibility.

A feudal dynasty is a feudal dynasty.

It is an ideal country in the Western population, which does not mean that there is no problem with the imperial family of the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Gaochi is willing to delegate power, but Zhu Gaochi is not worried about whether the cabinet has the ability to carry the banner and whether it can maintain the detached status of the royal family.

The imperial family of the Ming Dynasty can delegate power, but it cannot disappear, at least not for now, otherwise it will only lead to civil strife.

It's just that Zhu Gaochi didn't expect that the things that should have come came a little early.

He has always done things in front, so Daming has been smooth sailing over the years, even if there are some natural disasters, it is insignificant under the rapid development of Daming's cultivated land area, fertile land, and fertilizer technology.

Even if he wants to consider the cabinet this time, he also wants to do things in front of him and provide a foundation for the change of thinking in ten or twenty years, and Zhu Gaochi is both relieved and distressed.

He is glad that this is what he is pursuing, and he is troubled by whether Daming's management system has kept up with the level of ideological development.

Zhu Gaochi never dared to think that the things of later generations could be achieved by the current Ming Dynasty.

That is disrespectful to the ancestors and martyrs.

The iron will that has been tempered by a long period of fire and blood, a hundred years of suffering, and an advanced team created are definitely not comparable to the current bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty.

In Zhu Gaochi's view, although the current Ming Dynasty has a much better social environment than the historical Ming Dynasty, there are still many shortcomings.

The worries of the world are worried, and the joys of the world are happy.

Although it is just a poem, it is also the high realm pursued by literati.

In a nutshell.

People all believe that only in a society where it is oneself and absolutely not a corrupt official can the justice and implementation of the law be truly achieved, and it is not something that Zhu Gaochi can change by formulating a few laws.

Zhu Gaochi did not expect everyone to be moral and virtuous, which was impossible.

But the same is true of public opinion in general.

Whether the ability of the imperial court has been reached, and whether the quality of the local officials and the directors of the film workshop has been reached.

On the other side of Zhu Gaochi's desk is the investigation report sent by Jin Yiwei, about the director of the film studio who bullied people and committed more than 20 Da Ming laws, how many such things are behind it.

According to the provisions of the Ming Law, the director of the film studio does not have such great rights, and the people have the right to disobey the illegal demands of the director of the studio, but so what, the facts are the facts.

But Da Ming is too big.

There is also a demand for the suppression of imperial power, which is the paradox.

Zhu Gaochi read two different notes, and finally saw Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin.

The two went to Beiping in their early years to study the theory of industrialization, learned to be rich and rich, to be talented, to have experience, to have ability, the top political talents in the Ming Dynasty.

The business of the merchants, the business of the mind. The future of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaochi decided to take a look.

This is the most valuable wealth that Zhu Gaochi left to Daming. (End of chapter)