“Zi Hou great talent, a glimpse of a spot to know the whole picture, how unfair the heavens are, Zi Hou writing brush calligraphy and ink are so excellent, I did not expect the political vision is also so insightful.”Zhang Siwei let out a sigh of emotion and looked at Zhu Pingan and joked.
“This which counts as political vision ……,” Zhu Pingan disdainfully brushed his mouth, picked up the teapot and filled it with tea for Zhang Siwei and himself respectively.
“You’re just being modest.”Zhang Siwei shook his head and smiled at Zhu Pingan, then proceeded to speak down.
“The governor Zhang Sijing and other people in the Zhai woodcutting is to give the saint on the congratulatory table, lost lift “ten thousand longevity two words”, the saint was furious, the entire governor in the people were given a beating of the court cane, but also special orders to give the governor Zhang Sijing and other people wearing court dress to receive the court cane……None of the people in the six departments of the giver’s office escaped, alas, it’s simply a disgrace.”Zhang Siwei said with a sigh.
The six departments are an important part of the speech officer of the Ming Dynasty, plus thirteen imperial historians constitute the Ming Dynasty speech officer system, the level of the Ming Dynasty speech officer is not high, but the power is very wide, although not the actual power, but the upper can persuade the emperor, the lower can monitor the hundred officials, can be said to be the disciplinary committee of the Ming Dynasty.
The six departments to give the middle and Zhu Pingan and Zhang Siwei in the Hanlin Academy closer relationship with the same four Yamen, to some extent, Hanlin Academy is also considered a wide area of the speech officer it. The six departments, the thirteen royal historians, plus the Hanlin Academy, the Ministry of Appointments, and called the four Yamen.
The six departments to the important thing, Jiajing Emperor even all to beat?
“The entire ministers have been beaten?”Zhu Pingan was a bit shocked at his words, but he hadn’t paid attention to this matter in modern times. Originally Jiajing emperor on the speech officer attitude is not good, and now because of a word to the entire minister of a caning, the insult to the Secretary, can be said to be unprecedented, this speech officer can be more and more bad to do.
“Well, all beat up.”Zhang Siwei nodded.
“But despite this, despite this, the giver has not forgotten his duties.”Zhang Siwei said appreciatively, “the governor Wang Mingchen petitioned to strictly prohibit the royal family to encroach on the tax and grain, said: today, the clans collect people’s land for their own private business, with the power to hold hostage to the local, so that the division can not make up the difference in the tax collection, the burden of the grain mile. Please order the royal inspector to strictly investigate the encroachment of the tax of all send Riajia Zhuang Tian, will be used as the royal family food. If any of the Secretaries of Departments have been indulgent, they shall be punished for their offences. His Majesty grants his request.”
Zhu Pingan nodded at the words, land annexation was a cancer of the feudal dynasty, the last time he was successful in the examination, the townspeople’s land cast offerings, he realised the seriousness of the problem. Of course, as a modern man to realise this problem is not at all strange, to the Minister Wang Mingchen can realise this problem and uploaded out, this is rare and valuable.
It can be seen that there are still a lot of insightful people in the Ming Dynasty. Although Wang Mingchen just see the corner of the land annexation, just the land annexation of the royal family clansmen, but it is also considered rare.
“The Ministry of the household to review the Minister Wang Guozhen article section of the financial use of six things: one, the border army to give rewards, it is appropriate to its place near and far, the time for a long time for the difference, shall not make the mainland official army to aid the example of presumptuous request ……”
“Jiangxi Province Imperial Secretary Xu Shen please cut redundant officials ……”
“The Ministry of Revenue has changed the salt law, and the Ministry of Industry is casting money. ……”
“half a month ago, Mongolia I answer rate more than 20,000 riders, from Datong north broke through the border wall, plundered Datong left, right guards, as well as the seventeen guards in Andong. Within a few days, it also divided its troops to plunder Pingruwei, Shuozhou, Yingzhou, Shanyin, and Mayi. Afterwards, he resumed dividing his troops to attack the three passes of Shanxi and Ningxia. However, it is good that did not continue to the south, otherwise it is again a scourge …… all Royal Secretary Mao Bo Wen and others had petitioned to build the capital city outside the city to prevent the scourge of the past years, but the Ministry of the household and the Ministry of Works of the adults to the insufficient amount of money and silver as the reason, has not been able to start …….For this reason, both sides fought a long time war of words ……”
“Because of the Mongolian I’d Khan’s matter, the day before yesterday, the saint issued an imperial edict to change the old inner teaching grounds for the inner camp, drilling the chamberlain, the purpose is to think that the capital soldiers are not enough to defend the enemy, want to rely on the chamberlain camp as the enemy, the arch of the capital.”
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“Oh, also, Yan Ge Lao Jue’s saint west garden palace people are too few, played the election of the capital inside and outside and Shun Tian and other eight provinces folk female eight years old to fourteen years old three hundred people into the palace. The saint approved, yesterday shun tianfu began to select folk women ……”
Zhang Siwei sporadically said what happened in the capital in general, Zhu Pingan listened to the silence for a long time.
Can be said that the capital’s political climate, all Xu step, Yan Song, six big members in the show, the least is to give the middle of the political veterans who have long been up and coming on the stage, you side sing I climbed on stage, with Zhu Pingan they are these new into the small officials do not have half a penny relationship.
Not to mention performing on the stage, I’m afraid that even the seats under the stage were not their turn.
They were still far from qualified and could only watch from afar.
Of course, Zhu Pingan was not lost in silence because of this, but only because the bigwigs in the capital were turning over the clouds, and the political winds were changing, but almost nothing was related to people’s livelihood. He came all the way from the lower river village, but he has seen a lot of hardship in the people’s livelihood.
Especially through the route of Henan, Shandong area, but also on the people’s life hard to have a deeper feeling.
Henan, Shandong southwest of these two years after repeated natural disasters, floods, droughts, locusts and so on several times ravaged this area of the people, the last time to catch the examination on the time to encounter a displacement of the victims, that time it is the Yellow River ice floes lead to extinction, Juye Jiaxiang around the most affected.
In fact, all the way here, ear hear eye see mouth ask, Zhu Pingan also understand a lot of Ming officials, Ming officials corruption is very heavy.
The result of natural and man-made disasters is that the people do not have enough to live on, and the starving people are displaced.
More than a month ago, Henan, a private salt peddler called Shi Shangzhao led the starving people to rise up, by the Jiajing Emperor’s counter, that is to say, private salt peddlers, I feel that the private salt peddlers is one of the highest rate of rebellion in ancient China’s occupation, the end of the Sui Cheng Bite Jin, the end of the Tang Huang Chao, the end of the Yuan Zhang Shicheng, the five generations of the Ch’ien Gold …….
This division Shangzhao put forward the slogan “do not kill, do not rob, put the amount of disaster relief, relief of the poor”, within a few days on the development of tens of thousands of armed forces, but also embraced by the people, a time of great prestige, and the Shandong volunteers echoed each other, the work of plagiarism near and far, breaking the Guide, the turn of the war and the east, a total of broken a government, two states, eight counties.
Of course, when Zhu Pingan passed through the area of Henan and Shandong, Shi Shangzhao’s uprising had already failed, and he himself, including his clan, were all beheaded and hung on the city wall.
This is the closest peasant uprising to Zhu Pingan, previously seen in books, this time it is a bloody reality, Zhu Pingan through the local time, the blood under the city wall has not been washed away ……
The uprising has exposed many problems in the Ming Dynasty. Although the government army suppressed and annihilated the uprising in just 40 days, the fighting strength of the government army has been reduced so much that it is not much stronger than that of the peasants’ insurrection.
Moreover, the division Shangzhao mentioned “do not kill, do not rob, put the amount of disaster relief, relief of the poor” such a slogan, can easily call tens of thousands of armed ……
This proves how disappointed the people are with the government, who would sell their lives to revolt if they had a chance to live.
The people are living in dire straits and are displaced.
However, the bigwigs in high positions are stingy to look at them, and it is no wonder that the people are disappointed to follow the rebellion.
The rise and fall of the country, a man has the responsibility; the rise and fall of the man, the country has the responsibility, as a national administrator of us officials, naturally, the responsibility is unshirkable.
I want to go on stage ……
to put on a show.
Zhu Pingan picked up the wine cup and drank a cup, and his eyes turned to the window, looking at the Xiyuan, the political power centre of Daming.
