Brother Zhu Youxiao

"came back……"

In June, outside Prince Qi's mansion, when Lu Wenzhao, who led the team back to the capital, returned to the capital where he had been away for many years and stood here, he had mixed feelings in his heart.

Behind him, Shen Lian, Lu Xian, Lu Xiu and others were also busy, and they could see that they were in a hurry.

"His Royal Highness has an oral order, and it is said that Lu Wenzhao, the Commander of the Jinyiwei Capital, and others will have an audience."

When a familiar voice came out of the gate of Prince Qi's mansion, shouting in a familiar tone, Lu Wenzhao looked up and saw Cao Huachun who was smiling but not smiling.

"Ha ha!"

Lu Wenzhao laughed loudly, stepped forward and hugged Cao Huachun, whom he hadn't seen for many years, and Cao Huachun also joked, "If you delay any longer, I'm afraid Your Highness will be angry."

"Don't delay...don't delay..." As soon as he heard His Highness was angry, Lu Wenzhao immediately put Cao Huachun down, and then walked towards the palace of Prince Qi with Shen Lian and others.

The old friend hadn't seen each other for many years, and the two chatted all the way until they climbed the steps of the Chengyun Hall, where they stopped.

"Go in." Cao Huachun signaled Lu Wenzhao and others to go in with his eyes, and Lu Wenzhao nodded with a heavy heart.

He stepped into the Chengyun hall with a very apprehensive heart, and then walked towards the side hall.

With Shen Lian and the others, he walked into the side hall, but he kept his head down, not daring to raise it, as if the shadow of Zhu Youjian scolding him was still there.

"They're all in, who are you looking down at?"

"Respectfully, Your Highness..."

As soon as Zhu Youjian's voice sounded, Lu Wenzhao immediately saluted, but Zhu Youjian's voice came from the other side.

"It's just a table and chair, it doesn't move, and it's not lonely."

"Eh..." Lu Wenzhao looked up, and sure enough Zhu Youjian was not on the table and chairs, so he heard the sound and looked, only to find that Zhu Youjian was sitting on the ladder of the towering bookshelf in the side hall, holding a book in his hand. Book after book.

Lu Wenzhao knew that these books were all reproductions of "Yongle Dadian".

Since the fourth year of Tianqi, Zhu Youjian ordered more than ten sets of Yongle Canon to be reproduced, and they were either placed in schools such as Shuntian and Yingtian, or kept in the Qi Palace.

"Your Highness..." Lu Wenzhao quickly saluted after realizing it, and Zhu Youjian also sat on the ladder and looked at the four of them.

"You've done a good job these years." He praised, and the stone in Lu Wenzhao's heart finally fell to the ground.

"It's all the job of a lower official. It's just that the lower official didn't do a good job in the past!" Lu Wenzhao admitted his mistake very well, but Zhu Youjian had already calmed down.

To put it bluntly, Lu Wenzhao was the old man who walked out of Xuqin Palace with him after all, unless Lu Wenzhao did something he shouldn't have done, no matter how big it was, he would forgive him.

"Just do things well when you come back. After so many years of running around, I think I should have a long memory."

Zhu Youjian flipped through the books in his hands, and Lu Wenzhao also repeatedly said yes.

But after he finished speaking, Zhu Youjian looked at Shen Lian and the others again:
"Xiaoxiyang, Nankunlun, and Qi State, these three places need three envoys of Jinyiwei. Do you three have any intention?"

"Return to Your Highness, I will follow His Highness's arrangement!"

The three of Shen Lian didn't say too much. After all, they knew that Zhu Youjian actually had the answer in his heart, so the question was not to ask them, but to look at his attitude.

"Then step back, rest in the outer court, and have a meal together later."

Zhu Youjian waved his hand to signal them to retreat, but he still planned to keep them for dinner.

"Yes..." Lu Wenzhao and the others heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the words, and then honestly withdrew from the Chengyun Hall.

During this process, Wang Chengen has been watching as a bystander. It was not until Lu Wenzhao and the others completely left that Wang Chengen took the initiative to say:

"Your Highness, I heard that Gu Bingqian and Yuan Keli are not as good as before, and it has been 14 years since Tianqi, so Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou..."

Wang Chengen's words caught Zhu Youjian's heart, and he couldn't help but close the book and put it on the shelf.

"Let someone go and see first, to see if he is pretending to be sick or really sick."

Zhu Youjian didn't care about Gu Bingqian, a guy who was in Gu Dang and stood on the wall. What he cared about was Yuan Keli's illness this year.

Despite his different political views, Zhu Youjian still admires Yuan Keli's ability and character from the bottom of his heart.

He does need to vacate two positions in the cabinet, but now is not the time.

Going down the ladder, returning to the chair and sitting down, Zhu Youjian began to deal with the memorial, and Wang Chengen didn't bother seeing it.

Lu Wenzhao's return is just an episode, and his influence on the government is not very great.

What really affects the world is the financial pressure that accompanies the first batch of students from government schools to graduate.

Since the first batch of students in government schools ranged in age from seven to 15 years old, the number of students in this grade could be described as diverse.

There are 2000 million students in government schools, and students in this age group alone account for 600 million people.

As they graduated, the basic expenditure of government schools dropped from more than 200 million taels to 96 taels, saving the court a lot of money.

Of these more than 600 million students, the older ones participated in Enke last year, while the younger ones went directly to the prefectural school.

There are a total of [-] prefectural schools in Ming Dynasty. For the students, they collected a tuition and miscellaneous fee of [-] Wen a semester on the basis of the textbook fees for beginners.

Although it seems that there are not many, some families still feel that it is not worthwhile. After all, most of their children are seventeen or eighteen years old, and they have reached the age to marry a wife and have children.

Therefore, out of more than 600 million students, less than 200 million people finally went to the government schools, and the teachers of these government schools were all Yanshan students who graduated from Shuntian and Yingtian schools.

By the 14th year of Tianqi, the Ming Dynasty included Zhejiang into the official school system, and the last batch of students from Yanshan official school also graduated. Therefore, Yanshan official school was also abolished collectively and merged into the official school.

Such a move was expected by many Yanshan officials, and they were not surprised.

The Yanshan faction didn't make any moves, and it was even less likely that the officials of the conservative faction would do anything.

All officials are busy with relocation and disaster relief, without exception, so they can't take care of other things at all.

More than 80 officials are busy with the affairs of more than 6000 million people. Although there is no such thing as overtime, none of them does not work overtime if they want to handle the official duties at hand.

In recent days, the six ministries have repeatedly asked Enke to recruit more people this year and send more manpower to the ministries, but Zhu Youjian simply ignored them.

He knew very well in his heart that the current staff of the Sixth Department was just enough to do things.

If there are more hands, they will relax, and if there are fewer, they will work hard.

Only by maintaining the current number of officials can they keep tense and have no time for corruption.

This is not Zhu Youjian's personal conjecture, but the result of his practice.

With the reward of the severe drought, Jin Yiwei was busy making meritorious service, so the supervision was tight. The officials did not dare to slack off, so they could only work hard, and the corruption incidents suddenly decreased a lot.

However, Zhu Youjian also knows that there will be dissatisfaction one day when officials are squeezed like this.

But that doesn't help. If you are dissatisfied, you can resign. Anyway, there are people behind.

His thoughts made the civil officials uncomfortable, but the generals were very comfortable, not only in Beijing, but also outside Beijing.

Zhu Youjian is in control of the overall situation. It can be said that he is sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. The only thing that makes him a little concerned, apart from the drought, is the affairs of Mobei and the Western Regions.

Since Sun Yingyuan intensified the burning and attacks on the various tribes in Mobei, Karaqin took the lead in moving westward, and Daming also took the opportunity to send troops to recover the Qiwangfu City in the Yuerhai area and renamed it Xishan City.

After Karaqin's Subdi moved westward, Chechen Khan Shuolei faced more than 3 fine horsemen from the Eastern Army's governor's mansion. He was beaten terribly and moved westward.

However, Shuo Lei did not move westward directly to Helin, but retreated to Saliqier City at the foot of Langjuxu Mountain.

He gave up the Qianli Grassland, but the Ming army could no longer attack them due to logistical problems, so they could only occupy the two cities of Hara Manglai, Baer and Stan, and renamed them Monan and Mobei.

In this way, the Ming army had a foothold in the eastern part of Mobei.

When the Liaomo railway is completed, the Ming army can also use the water transport of Hara City in Modong to transport grain to Mobei City in the east of Mobei by boat. It will be much easier to attack the three major tribes of Waikha from Mobei City.

"Let Sun Yingyuan increase the pressure and force them to either surrender or move west."

Zhu Youjian reviewed the memorial, and Wang Chengen also nodded.

The two continued to handle government affairs. At the same time, as time went by, the scale of immigrants in the north continued to increase.

In June, as many as 17 people migrated from the north, 22 in July, 26 in August, and after the autumn harvest in September, this number increased to 33.

Most of the paddy fields in Henan and Shandong have been turned into irrigated fields. The local area cannot support such a large population. Facing the soaring grain price of [-] Wen, most people choose to relocate, especially the most tenants under the command of landlords.

If the tenants want to move, the landlord will naturally not allow it, but the landlord is unwilling to pay for food to support them, which naturally leads to some conflicts, among which Shandong is the representative, and Shandong is represented by Yanshenggong Mansion.

The matter was reported, and it happened to be caught by Zhu Youjian who couldn't find the handle on the Kong family.

Qufu Confucius, this is an aristocratic family that has been passed down for more than 2000 years. The reason why it can be passed on for so long is because of Kong Zhongni alone...

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed all schools of thought and only respected Confucianism, and then Emperor Xuandi's son Emperor Han Yuan lavishly praised Confucianism, Confucius was revered as a saint, and the Kong family in Qufu also started a long-lasting path of weak legs.

In the mid-Western Han Dynasty, there were frequent natural disasters and social turmoil. The Confucian Mei Fu believed that this was due to the failure to properly arrange the sacrifice to Confucius, and thus God was angry.

The imperial court accepted Mei Fu's proposal and named Confucius a descendant of Shang Tang, who continued the sacrifices of the previous kings. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucius was formally regarded as the public god of the country, and his status was equal to that of the God of Sheji.

The Tang Dynasty ordered every county to build a temple to worship Confucius. There are two major sacrifices in spring and autumn every year, and two small sacrifices on the first and 15th of each month.

After the Tang Dynasty, the status of Confucius continued to increase, and the titles of Confucius also continued to increase, and Confucius also won the hereditary title of Duke Yansheng.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Confucianism had not changed its taste, and they did not submit to the aliens and moved south, while those with weak legs stayed and took refuge in the Kingdom of Jin.

Later in the Ming Dynasty, in order to win over scholars, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to continue to follow the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, allowing Confucius to inherit the hereditary title of Duke Yansheng.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Qufu Confucianism had become a cancer.

In the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the entire Shandong arable land was only 6000 million mu, and the Confucianism in Qufu occupied more than 300 million mu, and the large, medium and small landlords attached to them occupied more than 600 million mu.

They don't need to pay taxes or pay taxes, which shows that the dynasty gave them rights that previous dynasties did not have. As a result, these guys knelt down immediately after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

On the first day of September in the 17th year of Chongzhen, Kong Yinzhi expressed his willingness to return to the Qing Dynasty on the "Chu Jin Biao Wen".

In the second year, the imperial court issued an order to shave their hair, and Kong Yinzhi led all the prestige clansmen to shave their hair first, and played the "Memorial on Shaving their Heads" to the Qing court.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the people of Confucianism still knew about going south. As a result, at the end of Ming Dynasty, Confucianism, who had enjoyed the best treatment, was too lazy to go south and surrendered to the Manchus.

Now the tenants want to emigrate, and the Confucian government organizes servants to stop them, making Zhu Youjian very sick.

"Tell the people in the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials that according to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" set by Emperor Taizu Gao, the tenants of the Kingdom Dynasty and the landlords are in an employment relationship and should not be harshly punished."

"The Confucian government arbitrarily organized family members to besiege and beat the tenants, ordered the Ministry of Officials to abolish Kong Yin Zhiyan's title of Holy Duke, and ordered the Ministry of Punishments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to thoroughly investigate the Confucian government."

"Order again, from now on, the Confucian mansion will be divided into mu, and anyone who violates the law will be dealt with according to the law!"

"Your Highness, this..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Wang Chengen turned pale with shock.

He didn't sympathize with the Confucian family, but he was afraid that Zhu Youjian's treatment of the Confucian family would make Confucian respecters in the world speak falsely to the court and Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian looked at Wang Chengen, frowned and said, "I know what you want to say, but this Confucian family has been favored by the emperor and can do things that violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty. What's the use of such Confucianism?"

If he really wanted to support a Confucian family, Zhu Youjian would rather support the Meng and Wang families.

At least when Xu Hongru rebelled in the second year of Tianqi, the Meng family still defended the city with the people, while the Wang family perished in the Ming Dynasty. For the grace of the country, if the righteousness is not changed, it is enough to repay the king's father with death, and then he dies."

In the final analysis, these two families are considered to be loyal to Ming Dynasty. On the other hand, Kong’s speculative behavior during the Song, Jin, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, what kind of example has this set for scholars, and what is the use of it?
Zhu Youjian's words made Wang Chengen speechless, so he could only bow to him honestly, and then sent the memorial to the cabinet.

However, as he expected, when the cabinet received Zhu Youjian's memorial to abolish the Duke of Yansheng, they immediately turned pale with fright.

Dragging his sick body, Gu Bingqian, Yuan Keli, Bi Ziyan and others rushed to Qi Wang's mansion to see him.

Zhu Youjian summoned them, and immediately saw the skinny Yuan Keli and Gu Bingqian, as well as Bi Ziyan who recovered a little bit after a period of cultivation.

The three of them entered the side hall, and immediately saluted in unison: "Your Highness, please withdraw the decree to abolish Duke Yansheng's Mansion..."

What the three of them said was within Zhu Youjian's expectations, so he said frankly and honestly: "Yansheng Gong's mansion must be abolished alone."

"Lying on the saint's credit book, you can exploit the common people? Corruption and perverting the law?"

"The merits of the saints can save them once or twice, but it is impossible to save them three or four times."

"The Confucian scholars all over the world are proficient in historical records, don't they know that Yansheng Gong's mansion has taken refuge in the Kingdom of Jin?"

"If a saint is born in the ancestors, he can ignore the laws and regulations of the country, so should the world change his surname to Kong?!"

"The ministers are in panic!" Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, the three of them were so frightened that they lowered their heads.

The meaning of Zhu Youjian's ability to say such words is self-evident, anyone who wants to provoke him again, just think about the end for himself.

"There are more than [-] officials in the world. Since you feel that the treatment is unfair, let the officials in the world come to draft a ticket!"

As soon as Zhu Youjian opened his mouth, the three of them immediately felt bitter.

Who doesn't know that there are more than [-] officials in the world?But the problem is that among the more than [-] officials, more than [-] are students from Yanshan.

What they learned in Yanshan was not the Four Books and Five Classics. To them, Yan Shenggong was a moth that sucked the blood of the court, not only Yan Shenggong's mansion, but also other old-fashioned officials.

The abolition of the Yanshenggong Mansion has slapped the conservative officials in the face. If the Yanshan officials knew about this kind of thing, they would have applauded it long ago.

To put it bluntly, it is to pull out Yanshenggong Mansion for public execution, so that everyone can see how unpopular it is.

"The date for the votes will start in September. As for the date for the announcement of the results, it will be announced at the Zhengdan Chaohui."

"Your Highness..."

"The three should care more about the common people!"

As soon as Zhu Youjian spoke, the three wanted to dissuade them, but they were interrupted by Zhu Youjian before they could finish speaking.

His face was sombre: "It is said that the parents are the parents, and the three of them can't even bear to starve the dog that guards the house. How can they not be able to do it to the common people?"

"Bi Shangshu..." Zhu Youjian looked at Bi Ziyan, whom he always believed to love the people, "Do you think it was wrong for Yanshenggong's government to prevent the tenants from relocating?"

"Xiaguan..." Bi Ziyan showed a tangled face, he was not entangled in who was right and who was wrong, but he felt that Zhu Youjian's actions had put him in a dead end.

Who doesn't know the virtues of Yanshenggong Mansion?Zhu Yuanzhang also didn't want to pay attention to the Confucian mansion, but it turned out that he was given the title of Duke Yansheng by civil officials.

Bi Ziyan admitted that Zhu Youjian's thinking in governing politics is different from ordinary people, but he always does this, and he is still worried that Zhu Youjian will be attacked by groups.

Facing Zhu Youjian's staring eyes, Bi Ziyan could only bite the bullet: "According to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", Yanshenggong's mansion is guilty, but the crime is not enough to degrade the noble..."

"Yuan Cifu..." Zhu Youjian got the answer, and asked Yuan Keli again, and asked more sharply: "You have served as the chief envoy in Shandong, dare to ask about the things that Yanshenggong's mansion did, can you stand it?" ?!"

After all, it is a feudal dynasty, and the Confucian government with money and power can't do too many things.

Even if Kong Yinzhi, the hereditary duke of Yansheng, did not do these things, can he guarantee that the members of the Confucius family did not do these things?

As long as one person does it, Zhu Youjian can track it down, and then pile up all the things done by everyone in the Confucian Mansion on top of Yan Shenggong's mansion, making him a black pot and unable to turn himself over.

Yuan Keli didn't know his thoughts, his thoughts, but...

"I don't understand..." Yuan Keli said something against his will, after all he is also a Confucian disciple.

"Old Gu Ge!" Zhu Youjian raised his voice, not as gentle as he was to Bi Ziyan and Yuan Keli, he looked at Gu Bingqian with sharp eyes, and looked at Gu Bingqian, who was sick and sick, feeling uncomfortable all over his body, as if being pricked by needles.

"The lower officials think that the Confucian government is guilty...the crime is not enough to deprive the nobles."

Gu Bingqian brought Bi Ziyan's words here, which fits his character of being careless when encountering major events.

After getting the answer, Zhu Youjian didn't keep the three of them, but got up and walked in front of the three of them: "Three...Think about it carefully, are you officials of Daming or Yanshenggong's mansion!"

Zhu Youjian's words made the three of them break out in cold sweat. What he said was not so much about Yansheng Gongfu, but Confucianism.

Since the Han Dynasty, no matter which dynasty or generation, they are actually Confucianism skin and bones. The difference lies in which one is heavy on skin and which one is heavy on bones.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Law was more important than Confucianism, but as time went on, Confucianism was more important.

In the reign of Tianqi, this phenomenon was not curbed until Zhu Youjian came to power.

Zhu Youjian wanted the law and Confucianism to go hand in hand. In the words of the Han family, it means that "the great Ming is dominated by kings and domineers."

The Confucian culture is good, especially in the domestication of the people and the surrounding states, but its disadvantages are also obvious.

Confucianism, which has undergone several revisions, is no longer the Confucianism of the time of Confucius.

Confucius even knew that "repaying grievances directly" and "fighting for every inch of land". In the late Ming Dynasty, although the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were much better than the civil servants of the Song Dynasty in terms of martial arts, they were on a straight decline in morality.

Zhu Youjian does not deny that this has something to do with the Zhu family's mean and ungrateful temperament, but the civil servants themselves have serious problems.

Since you want to play the rules of "the monarch, the minister, the father, the son, the son", then have fun.

Confucianism serves the king, not the king serves Confucianism.

"Go back!"

Zhu Youjian withdrew his gaze, turned around and walked back to his position.

"The next official will leave..." Seeing Zhu Youjian leaving, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief and then saluted and left.

After they left completely, Wang Chengen, who was dealing with the memorabilia in the corner, stood up, added a cup of tea for Zhu Youjian, and said at the same time:

"Your Highness was a little angry just now?"

"Let's figure it out..." Zhu Youjian swallowed his anger for so many years. It's not because he has a good temper, but because he doesn't want others to see his temper. But facing Wang Chengen, he can still release his personal emotions.

"I'm afraid the three cabinet ministers won't be able to sleep when they go home tonight..."

Wang Chengen couldn't help thinking of the appearance of Gu Bingqian and the other three just now, and couldn't help laughing.

When Zhu Youjian heard the words, he couldn't help showing a touch of contempt:
"It's good if you can't sleep, so as not to cause so many things..."

When he said this, the three of Gu Bingqian also walked out of Qi Palace.

Standing in front of the palace, looking at the words "Prince Qi's Palace" on the plaque, Gu Bingqian heaved a sigh of relief, and at the same time looked at Bi Ziyan and the others:

"This matter about Yanshenggong Mansion..."

Gu Bingqian had some headaches, and Yuan Keli was not silent. Only Bi Ziyan could say calmly: "Let's go to the school and give it to Wansui first. If Wansui agrees, then follow the imperial decree."

Bi Ziyan's words seemed to push the matter of abolishing the title of Duke Yansheng to the emperor, but Gu Bingqian knew that the emperor was not a fool, and he would definitely not accept such a thing.

However, this is the only way to delay the time and let Yan Shenggong's mansion know what happened.

Therefore, Gu Bingqian could only nod his head: "Let's do it like this..."