Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 244 The Other Side of Fishing Grandpa

In the study, Liu Bowen's words stunned Zhu Zhen.

"Master, it's not... don't you advocate tolerance?" The sixth child asked puzzled.

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

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

It is said that in the fourth year of Hongwu, the celestial phenomena changed, and the emperor wrote to Liu Ji, who had become an official, and said: "Yuan Yikuan lost the world, and I saved it with fierceness."However, the villain likes to be lenient, so he slanders freely.The sky is changing today, how do you feel about it? '

To put it simply, we summed up the lessons of the Yuan Dynasty and saved the world with strong medicine and strict governance, but the officials liked the leniency of the Yuan Dynasty and were very dissatisfied with my strictness.Am I doing something wrong now that the astronomical phenomenon is abnormal?

Liu Ji replied in handwriting: "After the snow and frost, there must be Yangchun."Now that the country's prestige has been established, it is advisable to use less money to be lenient. '

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"That's His Highness the Crown Prince, I want to plant a seed of benevolence and forgiveness in His Highness's heart." Hearing King Chu's words, Liu Ji couldn't help laughing and said:
"Of course the crown prince didn't make arrangements for the old man. I really said this. One piece and one relaxation, the way of civil and military. The combination of leniency and strictness is the policy of governing the country. At that time, the emperor had already used strong medicine to strengthen the country's prestige. It should indeed be a little more relaxed, okay. Let the officials and the people have a breathing space, so that the strings will not be broken."

"Oh." Zhu Zhen nodded, thinking that it's not good to be uneducated, and he didn't know if he was tricked by his elder brother.

"But the crown prince didn't tell His Highness that the old minister and His Majesty actually share the same philosophy of governing the country. They both advocate heavy codes in troubled times, and heavy medicines for serious illnesses. Otherwise, it is impossible to sweep away the evils of the past, and it is impossible to completely reverse the trend of corruption in the officialdom." Liu Bowen's eyes flashed brightly and said:

"Your Highness may not know that when the country was founded, he took the initiative to ask the emperor to serve as the censor Zhongcheng as his teacher. The so-called 'Song and Yuan Kuan even lost the world, now it is appropriate to Su Jigang' was actually instilled in the emperor by the teacher.

"Gongqing Xungui, civil and military officials have lawbreakers, and being a teacher will make the censor unavoidable. In less than a year, hundreds of officials were sent to prison. In short, there was no one in the government and the public who was not afraid of being a teacher. Behind the scenes You also call me a 'cool official'." Liu Bowen said casually.

"Fuck, is it true or not?" Zhu Zhen was very shocked, he always thought that Lao Liu was just a fishing grandfather who was always sick.

"Can I still lie to you?" Liu Bowen tried to maintain a majestic image and said: "At that time, even Li Bin, a relative of the Duke of Korea, was found guilty of corruption by me, and I also asked the crown prince to kill him!"

"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, as the Grand Master and Prime Minister Zuo, if his relatives can't keep him, where will he save his face?

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

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

But Liu Bowen categorically said, 'Kill Li Bin, it will rain'!
Zhu Yuanzhang was still very superstitious about Liu Bowen at that time, so he executed Li Bin.

As a result... it still didn't rain.How can Li Shanchang spare Liu Ji now?Immediately mobilize the party members to impeach Liu Bowen for insisting on killing people, which angered the heavens, and demanded that he be killed as well, so that the heavens would be appeased.

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

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"Well, at that time, I watched the sky at night and speculated that it was going to rain." Mentioning this defeat, Liu Bowen sighed and said: "Who would have thought that the prediction was wrong. Alas, it is really 'I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet' .”

"Master, the weather forecast is not accurate, let alone your old cold legs." Zhu Zhen said sharply.

"Oh, how do you know the method of the old man's prediction?" Liu Bowen was taken aback, and praised: "Your Highness is indeed 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 the imposition of severe punishments and strict laws," Liu Bowen said in a deep voice, "the only difference is that the emperor is much stronger than me. When I watched the stars, Ming Dynasty had 30 years of murderous luck."

"Is it lucky to kill in 30 years?" Zhu Zhen counted, and it didn't happen that there would be another 30 years until the fourth brother finished killing someone.

But he never told Lao Liu what happened in the 50th year of the country...

It can be seen that Liu Bowen is supernatural, and he is not just playing tricks, he still has two brushes.

"At that time, my teacher felt that if I were allowed to rule the country and use thunderous means to wipe out the common evils, the lenient government would be restored in a year or two." He also heard Liu Bowen say murderously:

"But now I don't think so. I still think too well about these scholar-bureaucrats who came over from the Yuan Dynasty. They haven't changed at all, and they don't want to change at all. When it comes to the Ming Dynasty, they still do the same thing as the Yuan Dynasty. Don't kill them all. , Daming has to follow the old path of the Yuan Dynasty. If it were me, I would have to kill for ten or eight years! Cough cough cough..."

"Master, it's Chinese New Year's Eve, don't be so angry." Zhu Zhen hurriedly reassured him, and after Lao Liu had recovered his breath, he asked, "Master, didn't you mean the magistrate? Why are you talking about the old officials of the Yuan Dynasty?" gone?"

"Because they are the same kind of people!" Liu Bowen said in a deep voice, "Your father can rely on his Huaixi brothers to conquer the world, but to govern the world depends on civil servants. At that time, his foundation was so shallow, where did he get civil servants? Why not rely on the scholar-bureaucrats of the Yuan Dynasty? Even your master and I are from the former officials of the Yuan Dynasty."

"I know that." Zhu Zhen nodded, and this was one of the reasons why Father Huang always didn't trust Master.

"From defeating Zhang Shicheng to attacking Yuan Dadu, the emperor only took one year. It can be said that the prefectures and counties in the world fell overnight. How many demoted officials changed their skins and continued to be Ming Officials? It’s better in the imperial court, but this is a very common phenomenon in the localities.”

"Yeah." Zhu Zhen nodded, understandably.The replacement of old and new regimes is inevitable.

"When I was at Yushitai, they restrained themselves for a while. But after I was gone, they joined Taishi Li's family one after another. Relying on his protection, they began to revert to their old ways."

It was only now that Zhu Zhen understood why his father wanted to bring the magistrate to him first...

These remnants of the previous dynasty are the ones who have the least status in politics and should be cleaned up the most.If they restrained themselves, they might still be able to land safely, but they still follow the Yuan Dynasty's set, dancing as they dance, horses as they run, and they are merciless in corruption and bribery. I'm afraid they will have a big cleanup if they change to another emperor. ?

The king of Chu asked again: "Then the killing is over?"

"The people behind can always calm down for a while." Liu Bowen sighed and said, "Oh, the key is to build after breaking, not to break. Just beheading can't solve the problem, but not beheading is absolutely impossible. "

"Understood, Master." Zhu Zhen nodded slowly.

"But what should we establish?" Liu Bowen murmured, "Do you have the answer?"

Zhu Zhen shook his head.

"No hurry, there is still time, let's think about it carefully." Liu Bowen smiled at him and said, "Before we think about it, let's fix it for your father."

"Yes." Zhu Zhen nodded in response.

ps. Write another chapter.

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