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Chapter 1281 Let Civil Officials Repair Civil Officials

A group of people entered the restaurant, this time they didn't stay in the lobby, but asked for a private room for lunch.

After all, it was a bit of a limelight at the pier just now, if you eat in the lobby, maybe some onlookers will be able to see it, at least know the identity of Jin Yiwei, that would be bad.

During the meal, Emperor Chongzhen did not speak, and except for Concubine Yuan Gui, other people generally did not speak.Concubine Yuan Gui's temperament was quiet, and it was possible that what happened just now was still affecting her, so she didn't speak.In this private room, there is almost no sound.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to these things, but was thinking about something in his heart, thinking about what happened just now.

Such things as human trafficking have existed legally since ancient times.This kind of thing is still a bit difficult for the souls of future generations to accept.But for this day and age, it is commonplace.According to the nature of Emperor Chongzhen, he wanted to directly prohibit human trafficking.The reason why he didn't let her go to the buyer just now is because of this later life factor.

Of course, with his current prestige, it wouldn't be a big deal if he really ordered to ban it.However, Emperor Chongzhen was unwilling to be so arbitrary.For now, it is considered a legal business, and simply using administrative orders is not the best solution.

However, even if it is legal human trading, there will be many gray areas, and even lead to crimes, etc. For this, the ultimate goal is to make the human trading in Ming Dynasty disappear and be prohibited.

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, and soon thought of a simple method, which is to increase the tax on population transactions and increase the cost of population transactions.

If it is said that one of the prerequisites for human trafficking in the past was that they could not survive, or the living conditions were too poor, they voluntarily sold themselves as slaves, concubines, or other things.As for Daming today, the economy is developing at a high speed, as long as he is not too stupid, he can always find job opportunities to support himself.No matter how bad it is, there are still other feudal states to go to!

Nowadays, there are more and more vassal states entrusted overseas, and each vassal state needs a large number of Ming people to enrich the ruling population of the country to suppress the local aborigines.It can be said that the common people of Ming Dynasty basically no longer have the premise of population trading.

Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about this while eating.Suddenly, there was some noisy sound, which forced him to interrupt his thoughts and return to reality. After listening for a while, he knew what was going on.

It just came from the private room next door. From the sound, it was a group of young princes shouting.

"Everyone Chen played the piano well, let's have another one!"

"Everyone Liu sings well too, all good, all good!"

"Haha, today's oiran is indistinguishable!"

"Everyone, everyone, this is good, let's compare poetry and see which one of you..."

"..."

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen's brows slightly frowned, and his profile turned towards the private room next door, Liu Xingzuo approached Emperor Chongzhen and whispered, "The local scholars next door should be drinking and having fun, and they have invited local famous prostitutes to accompany them. Or, villain Go and tell them not to be so loud?"

Emperor Chongzhen still frowned slightly, looked at a captain of Jinyiwei and asked, "Are all the scholars in Yangzhou Prefecture like this?"

Regarding the matter next door, Liu Xingzuo and Emperor Chongzhen basically had completely different views.

In Liu Xingzuo's eyes, this is a normal thing, but they are too noisy, which affects the emperor, so he just wants to make the place quiet.

On the side of Emperor Chongzhen, he thought of the issue of morals at the first thought.

Whenever Emperor Chongzhen went to a place, Liu Xingzuo would send a local Jinyiwei to accompany him, which was a bit different from the previous tours.It can also be said that this is a bit of experience summed up after previous tours.After all, if there is a local Jinyiwei accompanying him, he will not be ignorant of local affairs, or it can shorten the time to know the local situation.

The Jinyiwei captain that Emperor Chongzhen asked about was naturally from the Yangzhou government.Hearing Emperor Chongzhen's question, he immediately replied respectfully: "Returning to the master, the scholars in Yangzhou Prefecture have been divided. Some scholars gather on weekdays and are already discussing scientific and technological knowledge. But most of the scholars are still As in the past, drinking and having fun with prostitutes, fighting for power and jealousy. But there is a little difference, and now there are less criticisms of court affairs."

The Jiangnan side, including Yangzhou and other places, used to be the territory of the Donglin Party members, and later it was the territory of the Fushe.But with the exile of Zhang Pu, the leader of Fushe, the four masters of Fushe were also attacked last year, especially after Fang Yizhi, one of them, immersed himself in scientific and technological knowledge, there were fewer things to dictate to the court.

Emperor Chongzhen was very concerned about the atmosphere in the south of the Yangtze River, and immediately asked: "What is the ratio between the old atmosphere of gatherings and the atmosphere of gatherings discussing scientific and technological knowledge?"

For him, is a country becoming stronger or declining?There is a big key point, which is to look at the younger generation of scholars.Of course, the books read by this scholar include the Four Books and Five Classics as well as scientific and technological knowledge.

The wind of luxury cannot last long, and the wind of corruption cannot exist!This requires both enlightenment and guidance.

After all, the morals of the Ming Dynasty were already very corrupt, even though Emperor Chongzhen had been working hard to promote scientific and technological knowledge in recent years, he must have a down-to-earth style.But this kind of thing is not something that Emperor Chongzhen can change at once.If possible, Emperor Chongzhen would naturally not miss any opportunity to change and guide the atmosphere.

The captain of Jinyiwei hesitated for a while when he heard Emperor Chongzhen's question, but he understood that the emperor must tell the truth, so he told him: "Only one-twentieth of the discussion is about scientific and technological knowledge. host."

After he finished speaking, he took a peek at the emperor's face, and then quickly added: "The situation in each place is different. Compared with Yangzhou, other places are still a little higher."

When Emperor Chongzhen heard it for the first time, he thought that after all, it had not been many years to promote scientific and technological knowledge. With this result, he thought it was okay.But when he heard the report from the Jinyiwei captain again, he gave a strange "hmm" in his heart.

The captain of Jinyiwei knew the emperor's "hmm" and asked why this happened.After thinking about it for a while, he replied respectfully: "This subordinate thinks it has something to do with the romantic place in Yangzhou."

"Oh?" Emperor Chongzhen was a little curious when he heard it, put down his chopsticks, and asked intently, "How do you say that?"

Obviously, the captain of Jinyiwei had made a conclusion, so he immediately replied: "The imperial examinations now include scientific and technological knowledge. This matter is the most important thing for scholars, so they care about scientific and technological knowledge. It should be as it should be. However, most of the famous prostitutes in Fengyue Land only learn from the old ones, and their knowledge of science and technology does not have much influence on them. And when those scholars gather to recruit prostitutes, naturally they will not talk about it during the banquet. Science and technology knowledge is mostly the same as before.”

Liu Xingzuo has been listening silently at the side, until this time, his subordinate stopped talking, and he added: "Since ancient times, romantic people and famous prostitutes mostly help each other. Relying on famous prostitutes to become famous, and those famous prostitutes also rely on the pursuit of romantic celebrities. This is the most elegant level. The lesser ones, which are mainly female, are actually more in conflict with practical learning..."

Listening to Liu Xingzuo's supplementary explanation, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly remembered a summary of the phenomenon, that is, when the phenomenon of pleasure is too much, the wind of corruption and luxury will prevail. Once the wind of corruption and luxury prevails, people's hearts will float. .In this way, how can the country be strong?Generally speaking, it is mostly at the end of the dynasty that this happens!
Hehe, the land of fireworks, I remember!Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, and decided to clean up the pleasure places across the country.The so-called romantic people, I am sitting in the position of the emperor, so I want to change the meaning of the word romantic!
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately thought of the scene on the pier again.Perhaps it is because of the prevalence of corruption and luxury that there are Yangzhou skinny horses, and beautiful girls are abducted from childhood or become members of the land of fireworks by other means.

Not only that, Emperor Chongzhen soon thought that one of the purposes of his coming out this time was to see the actual situation of women all over the country, the situation of liberating half of the human labor force, and the relationship with the issue of women's power status.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen thought a lot.

Just as he was thinking, the next door became more lively, and the laughter and laughter of men and women became more and more presumptuous.It's still noon, and there is a tendency to prostitution during the day.

Is this the current scholar?
The Department of Education must severely punish this kind of behavior, once it is discovered, it will be severely punished!

"Brother Liu is promoted, come, come, everyone, Master Chen and Brother Liu, haha!"

"That's right, you guys should make serving Brother Liu comfortable. He is now a member of the newly established Yamen, but he has something to do with you!"

"..."

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen frowned even more, and couldn't help asking: "Are there any officials next door to participate?"

The local Jinyiwei captain was also a little bit unable to answer, so he asked for instructions: "I don't dare to confirm."

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and asked him to verify.Liu Xingzuo on the side played to Emperor Chongzhen: "My lord, I'm afraid it's true. Officials practice it, and there is a custom of having famous prostitutes as companions. It is also common for officials to go in and out of the fireworks place."

He has mastered Jinyiwei. Although he is from the north, he also knows the general situation of the people in the north and south?
When Liu Xingzuo said this, Emperor Chongzhen remembered it. For example, the famous Qinhuai Bayan in later generations, many of them married celebrities at that time as concubines, and these celebrities, such as Qian Qianyi, Gong Dingzi and others, They are all court officials.

Judging from the original history, these few officials probably had a lot of fun and had no integrity at all.I won’t talk about the famous Shui Tailiang, just say that Gong Dingzi, as a soldier of the Chongzhen Dynasty, should be a model of morality. As a result, King Chuang came to welcome King Chuang, and Man Qing came to welcome Man Qing. Even under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he has been the Minister of Rites.

Tong Shi, Gong's first wife, is far better than Gong Dingzi in virtue and integrity.She was granted the title of Ruren twice by the Ming Dynasty. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Gong Dingzi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Not only did she live in Hefei alone, she did not follow Gong to Beijing, and she refused to accept the reward from the Qing Dynasty (Gu Hengbo, one of the eight beautiful, was awarded the first rank. Madam), in stark contrast to Gong's actions.

In fact, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, officials are naturally not allowed to enter and exit the place where fireworks are held, but since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere has deteriorated, and this regulation has become useless.Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about this matter, and regardless of what happened next door, he entered the chat group and chatted privately with Wang Chengen, the admiral of Dongchang, and said, "Let Dongchang count the records of officials from all over the country entering and leaving the place of fireworks!"

Then, he immediately contacted Sun Chuanting, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and said: "Private morality is very important in the appointment of officials, especially those who involve people's livelihood. If private morality is not cultivated, it will have a great impact on the atmosphere of a place. Sun Qing should pay attention to it! "

As for what to pay attention to, the emperor should focus on it, so it goes without saying.

Both Wang Chengen and Sun Chuanting responded to Emperor Chongzhen immediately, and immediately began to arrange the matter.They knew that it seemed that there would be another big shock in the officialdom of Ming Dynasty.

The reason for this is that the knowledge of science and technology had a great impact on the officialdom before, and the appointment of middle and low-level officials by the Ministry of Civil Affairs focused on officials who valued scientific and technological knowledge; among senior officials, several officials in important positions, They are all labeled with scientific and technological knowledge, which can be seen from this.

Now that the crackdown on officials and romantic places is about to start again, the impression on officials is also very big in terms of the current background.

In the private room next door, the captain of Jinyiwei directly barged in, and immediately made the room quiet for a while. After all, a sudden entry of an unknown person naturally disturbed their elegant mood.

The captain of Jinyiwei just glanced around, then frowned, without saying a word, retreated, and went back to report to Emperor Chongzhen.He didn't expect that there was actually more than one official in this group of people.

These scholars at the party were a little unhappy to be disturbed in such a way. After all, they were having fun, and no one would like a stranger to suddenly barge in without saying a word or even an apology. Take a look at them The monkey show retreated again.

So, some of them who drank a little too much and were having a good time were not happy, they patted the table and chased them out, wanting to ask for an explanation.However, Emperor Chongzhen's private room was guarded by the captain of Jinyiwei, and they couldn't get in at all, so they immediately started arguing outside.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little unhappy when he heard the captain of Jinyiwei come back to report that more than one official next door was involved in this kind of thing. Dismiss those officials and send them to the Yangzhou Metropolitan Procuratorate, where they will be punished according to the law!"

It is inconvenient for the local yamen to take care of this matter, but it just so happens that the duty of the procuratorate is to take care of the officials, so it can take care of it, and it will be better than the factory guards directly taking action and letting the civil servants repair the civil servants.

　Thanks to the little policeman for the reward of 3000 starting coins, and thanks to anniexie for the reward of 500 starting coins!
　　
　
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