Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 240 There is no one like Yunfu in ancient and modern virtuous ministers

The reason why Zhu Biao summoned Chen Yunfu suddenly was indeed something serious, and it was considered a major event.

suddenly.

Li Chenggui has entered Kaijing.

This name was still in Chen Yunfu's mind for several times before Chen Yunfu figured out who it was.

The general of Goryeo and the founding king of Joseon.

Of course, the founding king of North Korea was recognized by North Korea itself, and Ming never did.

Therefore, from the perspective of the jurisprudence of the suzerain-vassal system, Li Chenggui has never been the king of North Korea in his life, and his official position is "the right to know the affairs of North Korea".

Zhu Yuanzhang refused to canonize Li Chenggui as the king of North Korea until his death, because Li Chenggui relied on mutiny and rebellion, which made Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor, no match.

Therefore, after Li Chenggui took power, he sent missions to Jinling every year to beg for Zhu Yuanzhang's canonization, but Zhu Yuanzhang refused.

The descendants of North Korea praised Li Chenggui, "My great ancestor has perseverance".

"Li Chenggui rebelled, determined to be the Sima family of Goryeo. It is unrealistic to expect him to return power to the Goryeo royal family. Goryeo's change of dynasty is estimated to take only two years. The fourth son sent a letter back, asking for instructions. Do you want to take advantage of the complicated situation in Goryeo to strike? After all, a completely unified Goryeo is not a good thing for my Ming border."

"No!"

It was completely subconscious, Chen Yunfu blurted out.

"No?" Zhu Biao was a little surprised: "I remember you told me when you came back from Liaodong, saying that this neighbor is not law-abiding."

"Yes, I did say so." Chen Yunfu responded straight away, "But in a short period of time, Goryeo will not and will not dare to conflict with me, Ming Dynasty, but if we want to move Goryeo, it is difficult to say that this battle will be over in a short time. It is not good for us to finish the fight, win the fight, or delay it for a long time.

In addition, the situation in Liaodong has just improved, and Koryo is too close to Liaodong. With the flames of war, the good situation in Liaodong is bound to be affected. Therefore, I do not recommend conflicting with Koryo now. "

"Well, I don't really want to fight too much."

Zhu Biao nodded, he was not very interested in expanding the territory, and now the territory of Daming was already big enough, and there were too many newly recovered places, which could not be digested, so there was no need to pursue expanding the territory.

Internal government affairs are what Zhu Biao cares about now.

"The main reason is that the fourth brother can't stay idle. The internal fighting in the grassland has been raging like a raging fire in the past few years, and he doesn't dare to offend my northern border. So the fourth brother is thinking about Goryeo, a warrior."

Zhu Biao forwarded Zhu Di's memorabilia to Chen Yunfu with auspiciousness. The latter took it and read it, put it down and said with a smile: "King Yan has a heart to serve the country, which is a good thing."

"The only thing left in my mind is fighting."

Zhu Biao shook his head, stopped talking about this matter, and asked instead: "How is it, which item will your cabinet proceed with today?"

"The financial budget of each department next year."

"The military expenditure can be reduced a bit. In the past two years, the Ming Dynasty has fought a lot of wars, and the deficit is quite large. Save the money and use it for local development. Let's rest with the people."

"Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous." Chen Yunfu boasted, but then said hesitantly: "But I estimate that next year, including the next two years, the military expenditure, especially the local military expenditure, will be indispensable, because the local area may use weapons."

Zhu Biao asked curiously, "How?"

Chen Yunfu then said truthfully: "The minister has simplified the etiquette."

"Etiquette?" Zhu Biao said puzzledly: "Etiquette is the foundation of the country, you say you have nothing to do with it."

"Just because etiquette is the foundation of the country, so the ministers have to touch it."

Chen Yunfu cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I secretly think that the so-called rituals today are more like a political product concocted by the scholar-bureaucrat group in order to carve up the power of the world with the emperor, and it has harmed our court.

Don't you think that the current etiquette has been overhauled and changed beyond recognition?

Under the restraint of high-pressure etiquette, local village patriarchs put a few locks called moral locks on the gate of their private kingdom. After closing this door, all their actions are covered with moral cloaks, standing on the commanding heights of morality, Transform everyone in their territory into private slaves without personal will and thought.

Any resistance and questioning will be labeled as disloyal, disrespectful, disrespectful, or simply labeled as morally corrupt and shameless, and lynched freely.

Over the course of hundreds of years, countless rural areas have formed huge and highly compact clan forces with the surname clan as the branch and the patriarch's direct line as the core.

These people don’t know what the laws of the country are, and they may not know what the laws of etiquette are. They only know that as children, listen to your parents, as collaterals, listen to your direct descendants, and as juniors, listen to your elders. If you don’t obey, you will be punished and cast aside by everyone. , Is not tolerated by morality.

Concealment between relatives is only the most obvious layer of harm under the deformed etiquette. Now in my Ming Dynasty, this kind of thinking has reached the point where there is a family but no country, because the country can be changed, and the emperor's iron-clad ancestors. "

"Cough cough."

Ji Xiang behind Zhu Biao coughed twice, reminding Chen Yunfu that what he said was a little rash, but Zhu Biao, the clinker, waved his hand.

"Go on, it sounds reasonable to me."

"The reason why etiquette has developed to this point is because of its original correctness."

"Etiquette, or morality, is the most basic bottom line of being a human being, such as honoring parents, loving children, respecting elders, and caring for weak ones. Therefore, etiquette and Confucianism have the same root and origin. The two are bound together and develop more and more. powerful.

All the basic behaviors of being a human being mentioned before have begun to be magnified. It seems that as long as a person is not in harmony with his family, that person is heinous. On the contrary, as long as a person is filial enough, his virtue is enough to be worthy of an official position.

The emergence of the system of filial piety and honesty came from this, and the allusion of lying on the ice and begging for a carp came about by chance.

If it is only up to this point, and the etiquette does not have any obvious harmfulness, then the next thousand years of increasing the scale will not amplify the etiquette, but completely demonize it.

I gave a simple case. A daughter-in-law had just passed away when her father-in-law passed away. She was accused of being unfilial because she had no emotion and could not cry.

Whether this case is proper or not, I dare not speak falsely about whether it is right or wrong, I only talk about the follow-up of this incident. Not only was Li Zheng not held accountable, but this woman was labeled as unfaithful.

The imperial court acquiesces, and even supports, the local clan forces to act recklessly under the banner of etiquette, law and morality.

They held up this flag in one hand, and took out their own family laws formulated based on the word morality in the other hand to control the ethnic groups and villagers. Restraints and ideological restrictions on the common people have become etiquette.

The national law and imperial power cannot go to the countryside, because there are so-called "village covenants" and "family laws" and other barriers, so naturally they cannot enter.

If the laws of the country and the imperial power insist on breaking the wall, it will be "the rites collapse and the music will be destroyed", and it will be a foolish king.

The countryside is the last piece of interest for the gentry and landlords, and they will not and cannot be willing to return it to the court, so the ministers decided to use the national law to replace the etiquette law.

Let the law be the last line of defense of morality, rather than some village covenant or family law. "

"Let go of the constraints of etiquette and law, and let the national law fill in the gaps. In the future, whatever the people do, as long as there is no law prohibiting it, the thoughts that have been restricted by deformed and distorted etiquette laws for thousands of years will be unsealed, and there is no need for the court to do it." , one generation, only one generation is needed, and the new generation will dare to take the initiative to challenge the decadent rules.

They dare to stand up to question or even criticize without worrying about being attacked and betraying their ancestors, so they will be punished by some ancestor's family law and become a walking dead without will again.

The fortress will be blasted from the inside, and the clan will collapse within two generations. Their structure will never be as tight as that of a country, and the collapse will be very fast. "

Zhu Biao was silent for a long time, and finally said.

"Once you use etiquette, you will be rebellious and will be attacked by the whole world. You said that you will retire in ten years. Have you ever thought about what you will be like in ten years?"

"I haven't thought about it, and I don't plan to think about it." Chen Yunfu said calmly: "I not only want to move the etiquette, but also want to move the land that the local clan landlords live on. Those clan landlords say they are Han people, and What is the difference between the chieftains in Huguang, Guizhou? If they don’t move the land they have held for hundreds of years, my Ming Dynasty will have a long road to prosperity, and I will not see it for another ten years.

The minister was still thinking about solving the problems in Huguang and Guizhou in ten years. "

"You are simply crazy."

"That's because you and the Supreme Emperor are still here."

Chen Yunfu smiled and said: "In this world, only the Supreme Emperor and you can kill ministers. As long as you two protect ministers, ministers will not die. If you two don't want to protect ministers, then ministers don't care about etiquette and land. Didn't he die long ago?"

Zhu Biao laughed: "You have spoken the truth, but have you ever thought that in the future, amidst the turbulent accusations, I or my father may be for, um, for the anger of the people or for the consideration of balancing the current situation. Well, it might kill you."

"Your Majesty will never kill your ministers. As for the Supreme Emperor, it was the Hu Weiyong case and the Guo Huan case that he personally launched back then. In his eyes, as long as the sky hasn't collapsed and the world hasn't dried up, the current situation in the world will It’s all called calm.”

"You bastard, you are asking us to be your guardians." Zhu Biao pointed at Chen Yunfu and smiled helplessly: "It's over, it's over, won't I give you all of my fame in this life, and in the future, those people will counterattack. Wouldn't it also give me the notoriety of being an unreasonable and foolish king?"

At the end of the talk, Zhu Biao also had a look on his face.

"Thinking about it this way, I suddenly don't want to support you anymore. For you to display your ambitions alone, I and my father have both gained reputation, and it's not worth it."

There was a little silence in the Jinshen hall, Zhu Bianben thought that Chen Yunfu would be disappointed, but saw that the latter was drinking tea in a leisurely manner at the moment?
"Did you hear what I said?"

"I heard you." Chen Yunfu put down his teacup, and cupped his hands at Zhu Biao: "Your Majesty said that he will fully support me, so I thank you."

Zhu Biao was overjoyed, and laughed and scolded directly: "Fart, when did I say I would support you, what I said was against."

"Why does His Majesty object?"

"The reputation of me and my father."

"Isn't that support?"

Just as Chen Yunfu laughed, he was reprimanded by Zhu Biao.

"What's the matter, according to what you mean, I and my father are the kind of people with notorious reputations?"

"Cough cough."

Chen Yunfu hurriedly got up and bowed to the end: "I don't dare, I just want to say that anyone who is an emperor through the ages will do it again and not hesitate to be famous.

The Taishang Emperor started the Huaixi case and the Guo Huan case back then, although the ties to the Huaixi case and the Guo Huan case were extensive, and there were mistakes, but sometimes I also thought that since the Huaixi case and the Guo Huan case, millions of people who have been bathed in the grace of the king because of this The people will inevitably praise the great achievements of the Supreme Emperor.

When the minister wanted to abolish the corvee, this was the most benevolent government in the ages. If His Majesty agreed, then no matter whether the abolition of the corvee is successful or not, the reputation of the eternal benevolent king will belong to your Majesty.

But after thinking about it again and again, you realized that the time was really not ripe enough, so you decisively chose to give up this reputation, and re-do it pragmatically without hesitating.

It can be said that both you and the Supreme Emperor are people who don't care about fame, because you and the Supreme Emperor both firmly believe that the future history will give you and the Supreme Emperor a fair evaluation.

So I firmly believe that you will definitely support me. "

Zhu Biao got up and laughed, pointed at Chen Yunfu and called Ji Xiang and said: "Ji Xiang, did you see, it is our brother after all, he understands our heart best."

In addition to being happy, Zhu Biao looked at Chen Yunfu again and said, "But objectively, the resistance is indeed huge, can you be sure?"

"Any national policy will have people who support and oppose it." Chen Yunfu said frankly: "Everything has a yin and yang side, and the same is true for national policies, which will always harm the interests of some people and benefit others.

Regardless of the etiquette or the land, the minister will inevitably hurt the local clans and landlords, but the minister is not afraid, because the minister has 10,000 million supporters while offending tens of thousands or 6000+ people!
Just like the Supreme Emperor back then, he offended [-] criminals and their families in the Huaixi case, but he won the infinite belief and support of millions of people in Huaixi.

Why do we always hold our hands back because we worry about offending others, but never let go because we can help others?

Because the disadvantages of offending others will appear quickly, but the benefits brought by helping others will take time to return slowly. Therefore, no matter whether we are in the egoistic thinking or in the middle of the mean, we are not willing to do things that offend others easily. matter.

The minister is an official, and an official who can only serve for ten years. Ordinarily, the minister should be more worried about this, and the minister is also afraid that someone will liquidate the minister in ten years.

But the ministers, the courtiers, and all the officials are moderate. They don't want to take responsibility and risk, and they refuse to let go of things that they know are rotten for thousands of years, even though they know that the final result is to fall into the abyss together.

But everyone is not afraid, because when that day comes, everyone will die in a group. Thinking about it this way, I feel much more comfortable. It is better to die together than to die alone.

Chen is a brainless person, and Chen is also a person with a cleanliness habit, so I decided to die alone, so I stopped hugging those people to die. "

In the end, Chen Yunfu showed a bright smile on his face.

Zhu Biao's face twitched violently.

It subsided after a long time.

"Go ahead and continue your cabinet meeting."

"Yes, I retire."

Chen Yunfu didn't waste too much time, bowed and left, leaving Zhu Biao who couldn't calm down for a long time still staring at him.

"There is no worthy minister in the past or present who can compare to Yunfu!"

(End of this chapter)