Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 261 Chen Yunfu talks about managing politics for an official

On the second day after the symposium was held in Henan, Chen Yunfu boarded the carriage back to Beijing.

He is too busy to spend too much time in Henan.

Of course, the working group I brought this time did not follow Chen Yunfu back to Beijing, but stayed in Henan to continue working.

The only ones returning to Beijing were Chen Yunfu and Yang Shiqi, and the Jinwu Guards who escorted them along the way.

The carriage was pulled by two horses, it was very spacious, and there was no pressure for the two of them to sit down.

Regarding the specifications of driving, everyone is familiar with the phrase "The Son of Heaven drives Si", but this etiquette has long been outdated, at least in the Song and Ming Dynasties.

Zhu Yuanzhang was driven by nine horses, so it was also called Jiulong Chariot. When he arrived at Zhu Biao, the crown prince, he took four horses.

Now that the eldest brother succeeded to the throne and became the emperor, he naturally inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's Kowloon carriage, and Zhu Yunqi took the four-horse carriage.

Chen Yunfu, the chief minister of the cabinet, naturally dare not and cannot be of the same rank as the crown prince, so he can only be demoted to a second class and ride on two horses.

In the Ming Dynasty, princes and princes at the first level can ride on two horses.

The advantage of driving with two horses is that the carriage can be made larger. Like Chen Yunfu, he can read memorials and prepare snacks and tea in the carriage.

Like the Kowloon car, it is divided into two rooms, the inside and the outside. The guards and secretaries are all equipped. If you are sleepy, there is a dragon couch to rest on.

"In the past two days, Mingtai's speeches in Henan have all been memorized by his subordinates. After returning to Beijing, he will write to the general secretary immediately."

In the carriage, Yang Shiqi was busy filling tea for Chen Yunfu, while carefully flattering him: "Knowing is easy but doing is difficult. Where is the difficulty? The difficulty is that there is no direction. The original heart can be said to point out the direction of practicing the way of being an official, and with Mingtai's instructions, the subordinates feel that in the future, it will not be easy to know and difficult to do."

Chen Yunfu was reading a book, when he heard this, he looked up at Yang Shiqi.

The latter's flattery was more or less disgusting, but it also reminded Chen Yunfu.

Governing the country is about educating officials, and educating officials is about changing the wrong ethos that has been cultivated in the officialdom for thousands of years. If you want to change the ethos, you must urge officials to do practical things and be willing to do things.

Any official who can pass the imperial examination to become an official is full of classics and history, and knows more about the principles than anyone else, but he is unwilling to do it, and has not developed the habit of unity of knowledge and action.

There are many classics on persuasion, most of which were summed up by the ancients to educate and become officials, including in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang himself compiled a set of "Instructions for Arrival", which listed 37 or [-] items of content, all How does education work.

Otherwise, I would have the audacity to extract part of Mr. Wang Yangming's theory of mind first, and compile a set of books for officials to manage politics?
Seeing that Chen Yunfu didn't speak, Yang Shiqi could only follow the words and continue speaking.

"I have a personal experience of Mingtai's idea that knowing is easier than doing, so I hope that more people will know this truth, so as to practice the standard of unity of knowledge and action."

"How to understand the law personally, talk to Benfu and listen."

Hearing Yang Shiqi say that he also had a personal experience that is easier to know than to act, Chen Yunfu couldn't help but feel gossip, and asked.

Yang Shiqi murmured: "When Menxia was still in his hometown in Jiangxi, he once fell in love with a girl, and that girl also liked Menxia, ​​but the two of us couldn't achieve good things in the end, and Menxia didn't dare to tell my heart."

"Really?" Chen Yunfu became even more interested now. Yang Shiqi was one or two years younger than himself, and it was the age when he first fell in love. It would not be an exaggeration to have a romantic affair.

"But the girl's parents are not willing?"

"That's not it."

"That is, Ru Gaotang disagrees with this marriage?"

"Not at all."

Chen Yunfu was surprised, and asked even more curiously: "Since both parties are willing, the girl also has feelings for you, who else is not willing?"

"The girl's man doesn't want to."

Chen Yunfu was dumbfounded at first, and then he said a little sullenly: "Is Shiqi just looking for Benfu's joke?"

Yang Shiqi hurriedly got up and bowed: "I dare not, because I didn't make it clear that the girl is a widow, and her husband died of illness on the day of her marriage, but the dowry gift has been given and the ceremony is over, so the girl is settled. name.

Therefore, even if the sect and the girl met by chance, they both fell in love with each other, but it would not be possible. The sect could not bear to tarnish the name of chastity, so it is said that the deceased husband did not want to. "

Did Yang Shiqi love a widow when he was young?
It is true that feelings are uncertain, but of course this is not a mistake, and it is not about hooking up with married men and committing adultery.

Chen Yunfu understood, and nodded: "Benfu understands."

"Before Mingtai said that knowledge is easy to do but hard to put forward, and the heart is easy to achieve but it is difficult to act, because the traces will be affected by many objective facts. The lower officials deeply believe that, the lower officials obviously have a heart for beauty, but they can be subject to secular etiquette. But it is impossible to do this, for fear of hurting her reputation of chastity, and from then on she will bear the notoriety of an unchaste woman.

If there is no such objective influence, the subordinates will definitely speak up on their own initiative, hoping to achieve good luck and good things. "

Another ignorant boy who is trapped by etiquette.

Chen Yunfu laughed, waved his hands and said: "This assistant should be considered a big event. The etiquette and law have been cultivated. If they are in love, it will be considered a beautiful thing. It is not a good story."

Yang Shiqi couldn't help thanking him.

"Okay, sit down."

Now that the misunderstanding is cleared up, Chen Yunfu also signaled Yang Shiqi to sit down, and said in a gentle voice: "Although this supplement emphasizes the unity of knowledge and action, this knowledge must first be pure, not to say that you can do whatever you want. We must be cautious about the extent to which we indulge evil and commit crimes under the guise of unity of knowledge and action."

Yang Shiqi nodded as if he understood, but then he asked: "Then what should be done to be called the right thing, and how to judge right and wrong."

"It's very simple." Chen Yunfu gave the simplest and intuitive example: "The purpose of the state to formulate laws is to regulate and restrain the behavior of the people, and to tell the people what is right and what is wrong in a clearly stipulated way. Anything that is prohibited is allowed, and anyone who violates the law is called wrong.

This also applies to us as officials, the only difference is that in addition to abiding by the law, we also need to know what is not feasible without authorization.

We should not do anything that the court and the law have not authorized us to do. With this heart in mind, we can make our deeds match our hearts on the basis of knowing right and wrong. "

"It can be done without the law's prohibition, but it can't be done without the law's authorization."

Yang Shiqi recited these two sentences silently, and then copied them eagerly to learn, and kept saying them.

"When this book is written, it will definitely be regarded as a standard for officials and politicians."

(End of this chapter)