Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 686

Lu Zhenfei, Zhang Shenyan, Meng Zhaoxiang and most other officials have never been on a sea ship, and it is now in June, which is the typhoon season, so there is no way to go north by sea.

Although riding a horse by land is the fastest way, many officials are too old and weak to ride.

So in the end, more than 300 tank boats were simply recruited to take thousands of Beijing officials, tens of thousands of personal servants and their luggage from Nanjing, and transport them northward.

Going to Shanyang County, Huai'an Prefecture, there is another good news.

"Everyone, there is good news." Lu Zhenfei finished reading the pond newspaper sent by the messenger, and the smile on his face could no longer be hidden, "Wu Sangui was defeated and captured a few days ago."

"Really? Wu Sangui was also captured?"

"It's all right now, the northern border of Daming is finally at peace."

"Well, it can only be said that peace is halfway. Although Beizhi, Liaodong, and Shandong are already in peace, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Sichuan are not yet in peace, and there is something to fight."

"It's wrong, it's wrong, Mr. Zhang Ge's words are wrong."

"Jiannu was destroyed, and the troubles in the heart of the Ming Dynasty have been eliminated. As for the thieves and thieves, they are just the ears of mustard moss, and they can be calmed down as soon as the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty arrive."

"I'm afraid it won't be that easy."

"Back then, the thieves and the thieves made a lot of trouble."

"Hey, this time is also the other time. Today's Ming army is no longer the Ming army of the past. With the strength of Jiannu, it can be wiped out with one blow, let alone thieves and thieves. It can be wiped out with just one hand."

In the cabin of the official ship, several elders and more than a dozen ministers and servants had a lively discussion.

Except for Zhang Shenyan and a few other people, the rest of the elders, ministers, and ministers were very optimistic, thinking that the Ming army's suppression of the thieves and the thieves and the peace of the northern border were just around the corner.

Lu Zhenfei was also looking forward to and excited.

What I look forward to is naturally that the Ming Dynasty can return to unity as soon as possible.

Lu Zhenfei is still looking forward to the governance of the government after the reunification of the Ming Dynasty, because with the return of Beizhi, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces to the Ming Dynasty, there will inevitably be a large number of governors and prefects If there are vacancies for local officials such as magistrates, prefectures, and county magistrates, the number of secondary officials will be even greater.

For him, this matter is undoubtedly a huge political resource.

Lu Zhenfei even secretly made up his mind that the local officials in these provinces must select talents and appoint them, and assign those officials who are honest, self-confident and courageous to serve as officials to these provinces as much as possible.

Since the ranks of officials in these provinces have almost been uprooted, it is equivalent to cutting off the old official circles before, so the newly appointed officials can drastically reform the bureaucracy, and if there is no such chronic disease, there will be a chance to completely eradicate it , The officialdom in the north can be completely new.

Then you can use the northern officialdom to flog the old southern officialdom.

The ultimate goal is to make the officialdom of the entire Ming Dynasty completely new.

Regardless of whether it will be successful or not, Lu Zhenfei's wish is still very good.

Needless to say, Lu Zhenfei's excitement was due to his achievements!
Although he did not make much contribution in the process of Daming ZTE, but one fact that no one can deny is that Daming realized ZTE in his first assistant position.

Based on this, he is worthy enough to enjoy the Taimiao.

He was a great minister during his lifetime, and deserved to enjoy the Taimiao after his death.

When a scholar has reached his level, what more can he ask for?
Lu Zhenfei suddenly felt dizzy in his head, what's going on?
He obviously only drank half a can of Mingjiu just now, why did he get drunk?

But soon, an uninvited guest pulled Lu Zhenfei from the cloud back to the ground.

The uninvited guest who boarded the tank boat in a small boat was Gao Qiqian, the celebrity in front of the Holy Majesty.

"There is a decree!" Gao Qiqian just roared, Lu Zhenfei and a dozen other high officials in the cabin hurriedly raised their robes, ready to kneel down to receive the decree.

"The elders of the pavilion and the elders of the department hall are waiting." Gao Qiqian said, "Before leaving, the Lord Long Live specially told me that the public opinion of the ruling and opposition parties has already reached a conclusion regarding the dispute about the Great Ritual Education."

"In the final analysis, it is a sentence that Confucius said."

"Self-restraint and return to propriety, benevolence, the core is self-restraint."

"It can be seen from this that the essence of etiquette lies in self-denial, not restraint."

"Restraining people has its own laws, and the establishment of etiquette lies in Confucian self-cultivation and self-denial, rather than imposing on others."

"For the world, there is no prohibition by the law, but Confucians can strictly restrain themselves with higher moral standards."

"In view of this, all those rituals and laws that are pedantic, decadent, ignorant, and formalized to restrain the world are all abolished, such as forcing subjects to kneel to accept the imperial decree, which runs counter to the Confucian concept of benevolence and love for others. If you really love the emperor, why use the pretense of kneeling to accept the imperial decree? If the subjects don’t respect and love the emperor, kneeling to accept the imperial decree is respect? I’m afraid they have already scolded the emperor like a dog behind his back.”

"This..." Lu Zhenfei and other cabinet ministers felt a little confused.

Why did the Holy Majesty make this all of a sudden?Don't let me kneel down after receiving the order?
But thinking about it carefully, what the Holy One said seemed to make sense.

Kneeling to receive the decree must be to respect and love the emperor?It's more of a shock.

However, is Confucianism enacting etiquette to make subjects fear the emperor?
At this time, the cabinet ministers did not know that their emperor was about to declare a full-scale war on formalism, and any etiquette that was mere formality or contrary to human nature would be eradicated.

After talking a lot, Gao Qiqian asked again: "Several pavilion elders and all the ministers, do you understand the meaning of Long Live Lord?"

"Understood." Lu Zhenfei said happily, "Sacred orders must not be disobeyed, I will wait to receive the order."

"That's right." Gao Qiqian nodded, unfolded the imperial decree in his hand and read in a high voice, "Several elders, officials of the Six Departments, and various ministers, the capital is restored, and the northern border is generally peaceful."

Hearing this raised their heads, Lu Zhenfei and other senior officials were buzzing.

Is this not even the form of imperial decree?Did the Emperor Feng Tian Chengyun say that they don't want it?

Gao Qiqian didn't care about the reaction of these cabinet members, and continued to read: "I have decided to restore the old capital and rebuild a new Ming Dynasty. You can try to discuss three things on the way north."

"First, I want to reset the Imperial Academy in Beijing."

"Beijing Guozijian is the same as Nanjing Guozijian."

"The difference is that Nanjing Guozijian trains military officials, while Beijing Guozijian trains civilian officials."

"From now on, all Ming Dynasty students, regardless of whether they are Gianshan students, Zengguang students or Fusheng students, will automatically have the qualifications to apply for the Beijing Imperial Academy and Nanjing Imperial Academy. , you cannot be an official unless you graduated from the Imperial College in the two capitals.”

Hearing this, Lu Zhenfei and other members of the cabinet were shocked.

Liu Lishun even blurted out, "Could it be that His Majesty is really able to predict the future?"

Meng Zhaoxiang also said: "Yes, I was still discussing the matter of re-establishing the Beijing Imperial College just now, but the Holy Majesty's order came immediately, and it happened to mention the matter of re-establishing the Beijing Imperial College."

Liu Lishun said again: "Now it seems that it is imperative to add prefectural schools, state schools and county schools."

Now, even Zhang Shenyan, the only opponent, has nothing to say, because there are only [-] to [-] students in the whole world. The school should also be run according to the scale of Nanjing Guozijian, which means that [-] students will be admitted every year.

2 students have to admit [-] students, which is a bit too high.

After a pause, Gao Qiqian went on to read: "Secondly, to judge Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and other subordinate generals, what I mean is that the punishment for second ministers and surrendered generals needs to be differentiated, and the surrendered generals should be mainly murdered. For second ministers, the most important thing is to punish the heart, that is, to make second ministers live in remorse all the time, so painful that they would not want to live."

"Then, exactly how to kill and how to punish one's heart."

"Qing and others can have an in-depth discussion on the way north to the capital."

"Murder and murder?" Lu Zhenfei and other members of the cabinet were a little surprised.

They originally thought that generals such as Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui would inevitably die after being captured. However, according to the meaning of the Holy Majesty's will, generals such as Wu Sangui would undoubtedly die, but they seemed inclined to stay with Hong Chengchou and other generals. His life?And then let them regret their stupid choice?

However, exactly how to kill someone, how to punish one's heart?

The meaning of the Holy One is to let them discuss this.

After another pause, Gao Qiqian read again: "Thirdly, liquidate the northern gentry!"

Hearing this, the cabin became silent for a while, and almost all the cabinet officials were downcast, so the matter was related to their vital interests.

By the way, one of the most important reasons for the smooth return of the capital is that most of the ministers of the cabinet and the officials of the six ministries and officials of the nine ministers are from the north, and they all hope to return the capital to the capital.

For example, in the cabinet, among the five cabinet elders, only Wu Linzheng is from Haiyan.

Of the six ministers, only Wu Jinxi, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was from Wujiang, Suzhou.

Therefore, Chongzhen's proposal to return the capital had little resistance in the court.

On the contrary, the resistance from the Ministry of Internal Affairs is very strong, because the scholars in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are basically from the south, and it seems that only Ma Mingpao, who is in charge, is from Baocheng County, Shaanxi.

This is also one of the reasons why Chongzhen decided to return the capital to Beijing.

Because the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Scholars’ Camp has too much influence in the south of the Yangtze River, if things go on like this, the power of the imperial court will definitely be severely robbed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. By then, the imperial court will become a puppet of the foreign court and truly control the country The government has become the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the inner court, which Chongzhen does not want to see.

Chongzhen still hopes that the imperial court and the Ministry of Internal Affairs can perform their duties without interfering with each other.

The separation of the three powers does not necessarily mean the separation of the legislative, judicial and administrative powers. The separation of the three powers of civil servants, generals, and the emperor is also the separation of the three powers. If necessary, the separation of the four or even five powers is not impossible. The key That is, the top-level design of power must conform to the national conditions of Ming Dynasty.

How to deal with Chongzhen has not been decided yet, but he still has enough time to explore.

As a time traveler, Chongzhen knew very well that the separation of powers between legislation, judiciary and administration was not suitable for Ming Dynasty, so Chongzhen dreamed of finding another power structure suitable for Ming Dynasty, so as to prolong Ming Dynasty's Guozuo as much as possible.

(End of this chapter)