Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 291 Where did the rights come from?
Regarding the definition of the imperial court and the government, this is a big problem that has stumbled in almost all dynasties.

It is said that the emperor is the son of heaven, but no one has seen God, and they all say that the officials are herdsmen on behalf of the emperor, but many officials and gentlemen only think about how to get money in their pockets, but they don't care about the life and death of the people at all.

The root cause is that there is a problem with the definition of the court and the government—they all put the court and the government above the common people, and believe that people are divided into ranks, the emperor is the highest nine supreme, and the prince, the county, etc. The king and the like are the princes who are second only to the emperor. The officials are responsible for taking care of the world for the emperor and the princes. As for the common people, they belong to the flock to be "shepherded".

This problem also exists on Europa. Although there is no saying that all officials replace the king's shepherds on Europa, those priests all call themselves shepherds.

Zhu Jinsong curled up his fingers, knocked on the table and said: "It is not wrong to put the court and the government above the people and manage the people. After all, the people are easy to be coerced by others, and some troubles will happen if they are not careful."

"Let's not talk about him like the Bagua Sect and the White Lotus Sect before. It's the fight between the two small villages of Xingping Village and Xing'an Village that I encountered before. If there is no army to suppress it, I'm afraid they will also make a mess of it. Big mess."

Hearing the names of Xingping Village and Xing'an Village, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs couldn't help but feel a little weird on their faces—no matter who would have thought that the two could not be found on the national map of Daming, Even the two small villages that can't be found on the map of the Chief Political Officer of Jiangxi, and can only be found through the map of Ganzhou City, can make such a big commotion?
Hundreds of thousands of young men, more than a dozen cannons, hundreds of flintlock guns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, hundreds of grenades, all kinds of strategies and tactics, plus a temporary battlefield headquarters and veterinarians As a wartime hospital, there is also a logistics team composed of old women and children...

Zeng Cheng felt that it would be courting death for them to fight against the soldiers of the guard with just these two improvised miscellaneous cards, but if they were to fight against that little fellow Napoleon, whoever would win Maybe it's really hard to say.

But Zeng Cheng felt something was wrong.

According to what His Majesty and his elders are saying now, do we still need to consider the definition of the court and the government?That must be to manage the people, or if the people are in trouble, the government and the court will come out to clean up the mess in the end?
However, when Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were stunned, Zhu Jinsong whispered some instructions to Zhang Dequan, and then slowly knocked on the table.

Zhang Dequan also went back soon, but when he came back, he had a few more newspapers in his hand.

Zhu Jinsong took the newspaper from Zhang Dequan's hand, glanced at it for a while, and then threw it on the table, signaling Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs to take it over and have a look.

Zeng Cheng and the other bigwigs were a little confused.

As the bigwigs of the Ming court, it has almost become their instinct to read the "Daming Newspaper" every day-even if many of the policies on it come from the cabinet or the six ministries, this part of the policy-related content is very important for Zeng Cheng and others. It was useless to the bigwigs, and the so-called latest news on other pages lagged behind the news sent by Jin Yiwei and Yushitai.

but!

What if Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, published some new articles in the newspaper?

If everyone else in the entire Ming Dynasty knew the content of the new article, but these bigwigs in the court didn't know anything, wouldn't it be a joke?
That's why Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs feel confused—it's something they watch every day, but now they're showing it to others?
However, this thought disappeared without a trace after Zeng Cheng picked up the newspaper on the table.

The newspaper on the table was not "Da Ming Newspaper" at all, nor was it "A Certain Chief Commissioner's Newspaper" approved by the Ministry of Rites to be published by the ritual department under each Chief Political Commissioner, but a tabloid from nowhere.

Then the problem is coming.

How did these newspapers come out?
Who approved it?

How much did you sell again?

More importantly, since Zhu Jinsong, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, had someone sort out these newspapers, the contents here...

After Zeng Cheng took a few glances, he couldn't help gloomy, and quietly exchanged glances with Liu Huaiwen and other bigwigs.

These newspapers that came out of nowhere are actually questioning whether Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, is a descendant of Emperor Chongzhen. Where did someone come from?If you rebel, just rebel in an open and honest manner. What are you doing in the name of Emperor Chongzhen?
What's even more exasperating is that these tabloids are still opening films with each other. After some tabloids questioned whether Zhu Jinsong was the Chongzhen Emperor, some tabloids showed how many Beijing temples Zhu Jinsong built and how many major cases were involved. It proves that Zhu Jinsong must be a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang. After all, it is a big case involving tens of thousands of people. Apart from Zhu Jinsong, it is also Zhu Yuanzhang. With such a similar style, it is a bit unreasonable to say that they are not a family.

So Zhu Jinsong was also confused.

Where is this riding horse?

When I rebelled, you didn’t jump out to question, even the Daqing Group headed by Qian Deaf and Old Dog didn’t jump out to question whether I was after Emperor Chongzhen, but now you city foxes and social rats who came out of nowhere are instead Want to question me?

The key is that you don't question the stupid things about Qian Deaf and the old dog's unknown life experience. You don't question how much money and how many people have been harmed by the six trips to the south of the Yangtze River, but you actually question me?

Of course, if you just question Zhu Jinsong’s background, then it’s not a big deal. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty never stopped such nonsense. For example, Mr. Zhu was born to Empress Ma himself, so some people doubt Mr. Zhu Si's background?For example, Zhu Laosi obviously didn't punish Fang Xiaoru's ten clans, aren't those unofficial histories written with nose and eyes?
In the final analysis, the Ming court of all dynasties didn't care about messy things at all. People let them write if they want to write, and let them pass on if they want to pass it on. Anyway, unofficial history does not affect official history. Not the so-called unofficial history.

Zhu Jinsong also has the same attitude towards this, anyway, he won't lose two pieces of meat, and the common people have something to talk about after dinner, which is much better than letting them have nothing to do and fight with weapons.

but!

Most of these newspapers are particularly fond of the Wenzhi period of the Song Dynasty, thinking that the Dasong period was indeed the heyday of Wenzhi, the business was prosperous, the people lived in peace, and the political conditions were the most relaxed. Anyway, it was all kinds of benefits. All kinds of rules are listed to prove that Da Ming is not as good as Dasong, and all inside and outside are implying that Da Ming's control over business and merchants is too strict.

This is what Zhu Jinsong can't bear to accept the most - Zhu Jinsong has nothing to doubt about the prosperity of literary and political power in the Song Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to say Wenzhi.

Zhu Jinsong really couldn't refute the fact that business was prosperous during the Dasong period. After all, Dasong has always been a small imperial court rush to buy a package tax system, and the status of merchants is indeed a group of high ones.

But if you want to say that the people live in peace... Isn't riding a horse a joke?If the people in Dasong really live and work in peace and contentment, how can they continue to rebel for 300 years?As for creating a Xiang army that is huge in scale but can't fight at all?
And the so-called political conditions are the most relaxed... Zhu Jinsong even wondered if they welded Su Dongpo's coffin to death first.

Furthermore, why Daming strictly controls businesses and merchants, this kind of thing should be known to anyone with a brain-how did the eight major locust merchants team up to sell Daming?
If the Eight Locust Merchants and Yuan Dadudu hadn't been giving Jianyi blood transfusions, how many rounds could Jianyi have survived Ming's military attack?

In the third year of Chenghua's Chenghua Liting, although Jianyi could not be completely wiped out, the Ming army at that time was actually in a period of decline, and the phenomenon of nobles enslaving soldiers in the Beijing camp had also begun to emerge. You can plow Jianyi again, but the battalion soldiers who have become more and more professional after Jiajing failed to clean up Jianyi. What's going on here...

What's more, Zhu Jinsong never planned to loosen the control on business and merchants even without the messy things of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Who said that, as long as there is a [-]% profit...

Thinking of this, Zhu Jinsong said with a gloomy face again: "Dequan, tell Zhu Qing about the situation in these newspapers."

Zhang Dequan immediately bowed in response, and then said to Zeng Cheng and others: "Most of these newspapers come from Jiangnan, mainly in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially in Songjiang Mansion."

"After Dongchang's investigation, the imperial court did not approve the publication of these newspapers, and these newspapers were not reported by the imperial court at all, but were approved by the local ritual officials themselves."

Hearing this, Zeng Cheng couldn't help interrupting Zhang Dequan: "Eunuch Zhang, Zeng remembers that Daming Law didn't allow Li Ke the right to approve the establishment of a newspaper?"

Zhang Dequan laughed and said: "Mr. Zeng Ge has a good memory. It is true that our "Da Ming Law" did not give Li Ke the right to approve the establishment of a newspaper. It should be reported at all levels and approved by the Ministry of Rites."

Zeng Cheng immediately turned his attention to Meng Fanzhi, the head of the Ministry of Rites, and frowned, "Does Meng Butang know about the existence of these newspapers?"

Meng Fanzhi was startled, he stood up from the chair, bowed to Zhu Jinsong and said, "I'm guilty, sir!"

Zhu Jinsong snorted coldly, waved his hand to signal Meng Fanzhi to sit down, and then said: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate will naturally look for you about your matter, and what I want to talk about now has nothing to do with that."

After Meng Fanzhi sat down full of anxiety, Zhu Jinsong motioned Zhang Dequan to continue talking.

Zhang Dequan said: "These newspapers are not issued in the name of newspapers at all, but in the name of poetry anthology or anthology. Generally, local rites do have the power to approve."

Seeing that the complexions of Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were getting darker and darker, Zhu Jinsong sneered and said: "See? No matter how well your court manages, can you manage everyone?"

"It just so happens that this time, I also intend to see how far the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Yushi Yamen can handle the matter after they have been split-today's matter came out of my mouth, and entered the court and so on. Ear, if there is any wind that spreads out..."

Going on, Zhu Jinsong did not continue, and Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs knew very well that if the news of these things leaked out today, Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, would never mind restricting the imperial power It is not out of the question that there will be a ruthless one before, and then another big case that may involve tens of thousands of people.

But Zhu Jinsong went on to say: "Judging from these messy things, the concept of the imperial court managing the people cannot be said to be wrong, but there is really nothing wrong with this concept? You might as well think about it." Think about it, who are the people who put forward this idea?"

Zhu Erdan immediately replied: "It must be scholars or officials. Ordinary people certainly don't think so. Anyway, I didn't think so before rebelling with the emperor."

Liu Huaiwen also hummed and said: "Erdan's words are correct. Before we rebelled, who didn't hate the government?"

Zeng Cheng suddenly twisted his body slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable all over - he was the magistrate of the Qing Dynasty back then, and what kind of birds the officials and gentlemen of the Qing Dynasty were in the hearts of the people, Zeng Cheng didn't know nothing Know.

It's just that when he was an official in the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Cheng also felt that the people needed to be managed, and he had to use heavy codes to manage them, otherwise the people in the Qing Dynasty would not know what it means to obey the law.

But since he voted for Meng Lianggu's rebellion cause, Zeng Cheng began to doubt whether his previous ideas were right or not. After all, the Meng Lianggu rebel group that only occupied Yizhou at that time did not use any severe punishments to treat the people, but Yizhou The common people especially supported Meng Lianggu's rebel group, and there was even a saying that they left the last grain as military rations and sent their last son to serve as a soldier.

From then on, Zeng Cheng felt that it was right to think of the people in every way, just like what Zhu Jinsong said, those who put the people in their hearts, the people will hold them high above their heads.

The key is that after the Ming dynasty gradually unified the world, all kinds of messy incidents impacted Zeng Cheng's ideas all the time. It seemed that the people still needed to be managed, otherwise they could always come up with some new ideas. Come on.

It is precisely these ideas that come back and forth that give Zeng Cheng such a headache.

Zhu Jinsong went on to say: "Qing and others may wish to think about it, whether it is the emperor of Ming Dynasty or Qing and others, where did the power come from? God gave me the right, and then I took this power Is the right distributed to you? Or, is it the people who have given the right to the emperor, the court, and the government?"

(End of this chapter)