Eagle-eyed and wolf-watching

Chapter 1611 A moralist!

royal palace, royal study
Ye Mingsheng, who was sitting on a chair, looked at the memorial in his hand and couldn't help but frowned.

The memorial that Ye Mingsheng was reading now was another memorial criticizing Ye Mingsheng's style of work written by Fang Shi, the Censor of the Metropolitan Censorate, following his last criticism of Ye Mingsheng for reforming the new government!
Fang Shi believed that as an emperor, Ye Mingsheng did not strictly discipline himself, but was rather indulgent in his words and deeds!
Half a cup of tea ago, when Ye Mingsheng saw Fang Shi's criticism of him, he was really surprised. After all, in Ye Mingsheng's opinion, there was no big problem with his words and deeds, nor did he do anything that would anger heaven and man, or be extravagant and wasteful. The word "indulgence" could not be said to exist!
However, after Ye Mingsheng finished reading Fang Shi’s memorial, he realized how completely different his worldviews were from Fang Shi’s!
Fang Shi accused Ye Mingsheng of not being strict with himself and of indulging in his words and deeds. He was referring to some of Ye Mingsheng's verbal titles. Fang Shi also gave examples in his memorial. For example, according to the laws of the court, Ye Mingsheng, as the emperor, should call himself "朕", but Ye Mingsheng often called himself "我" in his daily life and work!
In addition to the verbal address, Fang Shi also accused Ye Mingsheng of wearing a dragon robe instead of casual clothes all day long.

This kind of title and clothing issue, in Ye Mingsheng's opinion, is completely unimportant and there is no need to talk about it. When he just proclaimed himself emperor, An Miaoyi also reminded him of this issue, but Ye Mingsheng is really not used to being told all the time that he wears a dragon robe...
Although everyone in the world wants to become an emperor and wear a dragon robe, after Ye Mingsheng really wears it, he feels that the dragon robe is not a good thing. Although the dragon robe looks gorgeous and majestic, the clothing is too complicated and difficult to wear.

Ye Mingsheng felt uncomfortable wearing it, so after forcing himself to wear it for two days, Ye Mingsheng simply threw the dragon robe aside. Except for wearing it during grand ceremonies, Ye Mingsheng basically never wore it in his daily work and life!

An Miaoyi also talked about Ye Mingsheng about this, and Ye Mingsheng also ridiculed himself that he was dog meat that could not be served at the table!

Fang Shi believed that the emperor was the common ruler of the world and the supreme ruler, so the emperor should act like an emperor. An emperor who called himself "I" every day and did not wear a dragon robe was completely against the court's etiquette and brought shame to the court!
Fang Shi believed that Ye Mingsheng's behavior was disrespectful to himself and the court, and that Ye Mingsheng's bad behavior had also affected several princes. For example, according to the rules, the princes and princesses should call Ye Mingsheng "Father" and their mother "Queen Mother" or "Consort Mother"!
But now people call their father and mother "Dad and Mom" ​​just like ordinary people. How can this be tolerated?

Fang Shi believes that Ye Mingsheng's unruly and rule-abiding behaviors are undermining the royal dignity, so Ye Mingsheng must correct them immediately and cannot continue to act recklessly and let his temper run wild!

Ye Mingsheng also has his own thoughts about Fang Shi’s memorial!
If Ye Mingsheng's behavior of not calling himself "Zhen" and not wearing dragon robes on a daily basis was an unintentional act of Ye Mingsheng, then the princes and princesses calling him "Father Emperor" and calling their mothers "Empress Mother" or "Mother Consort" was Ye Mingsheng's deliberate acquiescence...
Ye Mingsheng believes that the wheel of history has already rolled forward. With the development and progress of the times, the organizational structure of feudal imperial power is bound to be ended. This is something that no one can stop and is inevitable!

Ye Mingsheng had complicated feelings about this. He knew what was right, but he did not have the courage and determination to revolutionize himself!
Fortunately for Ye Mingsheng, the development of things requires a process. Ye Mingsheng judged that the new era would take at least a hundred years at the fastest, and two to three hundred years at the slowest. This also meant that he, Ye, would not be able to see these things happening.

If everything goes well and the Daqian Dynasty can be successfully passed on, this should be the problem that Ye's descendants will face!
Although Ye Mingsheng felt that his descendants would have their own blessings, he would have turned into dust in a few hundred years and he should not worry about that!

But Ye Mingsheng still hopes that his descendants can follow the trend rather than go against it!
Ye Mingsheng felt that although he lost power and became a mascot, it was not the worst thing. After all, even as a mascot, your living standard and welfare benefits were still far higher than those of an ordinary citizen!
So based on this idea, Ye Mingsheng wanted to pull the emperor, the supreme ruler, back to the mortal world from his high position.

In addition, as the old saying goes, there is no father and son in the royal family. Many emperors feel that they are alone, but Ye Mingsheng feels that although he is an emperor, he still feels that he is a son, a husband, and a father. He has more than just the identity of the Emperor of Daqian!
Therefore, Ye Mingsheng still does not want to be alone. As a living person, Ye Mingsheng also has his own emotional needs.
It was precisely because of these ideas that Ye Mingsheng did not force the children to change their way of addressing him!
To be honest, Ye Mingsheng still has a headache about Fang Shi!
In Ye Mingsheng's opinion, Fang Shi is a moralist under the feudal organizational structure. Traditional concepts are deeply rooted in his heart. It is difficult to change him and make him accept new things, new ideas, and new concepts. These things are heretical to him!
For such a moralist, if he has problems with his own personal morality, for example, in terms of money or law, Ye Mingsheng will not be polite to him at all. Ye Mingsheng will directly arrange people to collect evidence of his crimes and slap him in the face, and then arrest him and punish him according to the law!

Ye Mingsheng has dealt with many people in this way. Many people like Fang Shi, who talk about morality and justice when they speak and talk about morality and justice when they keep silent, are completely two-faced people. They are thieves and prostitutes who do all kinds of evil behind the scenes. Ye Mingsheng has seen too many people like this!
So when Ye Mingsheng received Fang Shi's criticism of his reform memorial, he handled it in the old way and asked the Coordination Office to investigate Fang Shi's illegal behavior to see if this bastard had done anything bad!
Ye Mingsheng originally thought that this Fang Shi was no different from those two-faced people he had met before, but what surprised Ye Mingsheng was that according to the investigation of the Coordination Office, this Fang Shi was an honest official. Although he was an imperial censor, his family depended on his salary for their livelihood...
In addition, Fang Shi's wife suffered from some illnesses due to the fact that she did not take good care of herself after giving birth. Therefore, Fang Shi has spent a lot of money to hire doctors and prescribe medicine to treat his wife over the years. In addition, the prices in Yijing are very high, so Fang Shi's family lives in poverty.

Before he knew about Fang Shi's situation, Ye Mingsheng was still very angry with such a moralist. But after really knowing Fang Shi's situation, Ye Mingsheng's anger towards him dissipated a lot!

Ye Mingsheng knew that he had given the order to Ji Xian, and Ji Xian must be aware that he wanted to deal with Fang Shi, so given his nature, as long as Fang Shi had any problems, he would spare no effort to find them out.

And now that Ji Xian cannot be found, it is very likely that Fang Shi is really an official like Hai Rui!

Ye Mingsheng has also been in officialdom for many years. He knows very well how rare it is to find an official like Hai Rui in a feudal court that is full of desires and temptations!
So even though Ye Mingsheng disliked moralists like Fang Shi, he did not want to harm him. After all, from Fang Shi's perspective, he was an imperial censor and had to dare to speak out in the court. From the perspective of traditional concepts, many of his practices were indeed unorthodox and difficult to accept for such moralists!
So Fang Shi did nothing wrong, he just did what he thought was right...
After figuring this out, Ye Mingsheng had deeper thoughts. He even felt that Fang Shi’s existence was not a bad thing for him, but might even be a good thing!
One of the important reasons why Ye Mingsheng believed that he could conquer the world was that he, Ye, was very accurate in his analysis and judgment of himself!
Although he conquered the world and became emperor through war, he did not have the outstanding military command ability like Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang, so Ye Mingsheng seldom commanded specific operations. Most of the time, Ye Mingsheng let his subordinates be responsible for specific command, and he was just a figurehead!

Although Ye Mingsheng has been learning how to handle internal affairs, he is still a little unsatisfactory sometimes. Even if he were to rate himself for handling internal affairs today, out of a full score of 100, Ye Mingsheng would only rate himself 60 points at most! This is why Ye Mingsheng has never touched Cui Shao to this day. The newly established Daqian is indeed inseparable from a great steward like Cui Shao!

Most of the time, Ye Mingsheng firmly grasps the financial and personnel power, and leads the Fengwu Army and the Daqian court through his understanding and judgment of history!

As the old saying goes, no good man is without fault, and Ye Mingsheng also made mistakes when leading the Fengwu Army to develop and progress. Ye Mingsheng felt that he had been learning and growing in the process of making mistakes, and then trying to explore and find the right path to help Daqian develop better...
But over the years Ye Mingsheng encountered a problem!
The problem is that because Ye Mingsheng's reforms touched the interests of many people, he had many opponents in the court. In the face of these opponents, Ye Mingsheng's usual strategy was to kill the chicken to scare the monkey!
Although Ye Mingsheng is the emperor, it is difficult for him to punish all the ministers who oppose his reforms, so Ye Mingsheng has always been about capturing the leader first. If you jump more enthusiastically and oppose loudly, Ye Mingsheng will let the Coordination Office find your problems and faults!

Often these people cannot withstand investigation, so Ye Mingsheng's trick has been effective time and time again. It also makes the voices opposing reform in the court much smaller, at least on the surface!

Although doing so can reduce resistance to reform to a certain extent, it also has side effects!

The side effect is that these ministers began to use silence to fight against Ye Mingsheng, using silence to fight against Ye Mingsheng!

There is now a polarized trend in the Daqian court regarding the reform. None of the high-level ministers oppose it. Even if everyone opposes it in their hearts, they will not tell Ye Mingsheng and will not submit a memorial to Ye Mingsheng on the matter!
The middle and lower classes are very resentful and feel that the reform has harmed their interests. The meteorite that Ye Mingsheng encountered before and the current wooden dragon are the results of these incidents. These are the ways in which the middle and lower class officials are fighting against Ye Mingsheng!

What these middle and lower-level officials did was actually done with the tacit approval of the high-level ministers. Some of them even exaggerated and deliberately intensified the conflicts, so as to make the people below resist the reform in a more radical way.

After learning about these situations, Ye Mingsheng was also very troubled. Ye Mingsheng knew very well that as an emperor, although he was the owner of the world in name, in fact, it was not him who owned the world, but the GLs of Daqian!
I am just a representative of Daqian GL, or I should say that I am the biggest GL in Daqian!

Therefore, if this situation continues, it will undoubtedly shake the foundation of Daqian!
Ye Mingsheng knew very well that in such a feudal era, if he wanted to govern the country, he had to rely on the GL Group. This was not the future. In this era, he could only rely on the GL Group and he could not isolate himself from the GL Group!

Therefore, Ye Mingsheng’s current idea is still to insist on reform, but in the process of reform, Ye Mingsheng wants to maintain communication with them, to understand their pain points, and to know what they really care about!

People say that ZZ is the art of compromise. Ye Mingsheng also understands that his reforms cannot be achieved overnight. He cannot become fat in one go. What Ye Mingsheng wants is to change the world and change people's ideas and concepts through a gradual and step-by-step approach!

Although Ye Mingsheng has such an idea, the problem now is that many people still use silence as a weapon to fight against Ye Mingsheng. They are unwilling to communicate with Ye Mingsheng about reform, nor do they express their opinions on it!
Therefore, in a sense, square stones are also precious!

He dared to face Ye Mingsheng's majesty, fulfill his duties as an imperial censor, and speak his mind to criticize himself!

And the ideas he put forward were definitely not his only thoughts. There must be many people in the court who had the same ideas as him, but under the intimidation of Ye Mingsheng, these people did not dare to speak to Ye Mingsheng.

So Fang Shi might be a fever-reducing medicine for Ye Mingsheng, allowing Ye Mingsheng to stay calm at the critical moment...