open sea

Chapter 1147
Because in the eighth year of Wanli, Hangzhou once again organized night patrols for the people.

This time, Ding Shiqing also felt dissatisfied, so he went to report to the government first, and the government didn't care about the matter; Ding Shiqing went to Beijing alone to sue, but how could he, a student who had no official career, make his voice heard?He was tricked back in the capital, but the matter still could not be resolved.

In the past, when Ding Shiqing made a complaint in Hangzhou, no one would do anything to him even if the matter was not resolved, but this time he went to Beijing to file a complaint, which seemed to have touched the bottom line of the local officials. They arrested Ding Shiqing and tortured him severely.

This angered the citizens of Hangzhou. When the mutiny was asking for wages, the people had already gathered along the street to applaud and scream, and then the civil uprising broke out, which has become a scene that no one can control.

"The three armies of Dongyang, Nanyang, and Xiyang pay attention to personal wealth and disaster relief, right?"

The emperor slowly put the letter on the desk. He was thinking about one thing, not a mutiny, a civil uprising, or a rebellion. He squinted his eyes and looked at Huode Xingjun in the Qianqing Palace in a daze, and murmured: "Wang An, you Speaking of this money, where did it go?"

"What kind of money is grandpa asking?"

The imperial court's military expenses, in Hangzhou, are battalions, not guards, and their military expenses are also financially responsible. The governor Wu Shanyan cut military expenses, and the imperial court did not spend less money.

For the interim tax in Hangzhou City, don’t care how much the money is. Hangzhou City collects the money to hire people to watch the night for the people. After the people pay the money, they still go to watch the night. Where does the money go if you pay someone to watch the night?
"If they hand over the money to me, I don't blame him, I just think he is fatuous, wicked and shameless." Wanli said, his little round face became serious, little white teeth clenched his lower lip and said: "But I didn't receive the money, and it ruined my reputation. How could there be such a person? How could such a thing happen? The court refused to let me leave the Forbidden City, just because of these things?"

"If the people hadn't robbed the telegraph room, I would never have known such a thing in the world!"

Speaking of this, Wanli seemed furious.

He felt that he had been greatly deceived.

"Go to the telegraph room and tell Ding Shiqing that I want to recruit him to Beijing. Not only him, but also twenty other people. Let them take out the "Dajiao" that my grandfather published and print the portrait of Grandpa Taizu. Please come out, and then take the telegram and the "Da Gao" sent by me, and hold up the portrait of Grandpa Taizu, and go and tie up all the officials who they think are corrupt and disrespectful of people's power, and escort them to the capital along the way, and no one can stop them."

"Let the officials of the Ministry of Punishment get ready, I will be waiting for them at the South Gate of Beijing."

After the emperor gritted his teeth, he clenched his fists and said, "I wish I could fly to Hangzhou. Why don't these kings do things like this? But it's a good time!"

If he hadn't come, Wanli would have always thought that his empire was safe and peaceful.

"Your Majesty, just leave these matters to the courtiers below. You don't have to be angry about it."

As soon as Wang An's persuasive words fell, Wanli was already anxious: "Don't be angry about this? How can I not be angry? I will hand it over to the officials below. The officials want to put down chaos and suppress them. Of course, the officials will solve the problem, but They have to wait until the suppression of the chaos and suppression is over before solving the problem, that is their job."

"I'm different. I can solve the problem directly, because I'm the emperor, the only emperor." Wanli didn't know what he suddenly thought of when he said this, and he waved his hand with a helpless expression: "Go send a telegram, and then Send Xichang Tiqi to one hundred households, and go to Hangzhou to wait for the telegram.”

Wang An accepted the order and saluted: "Yes!"

In the empty Qianqing Palace, the emperor walked up to Huode Xingjun, touched the god's head with a bad expression, and muttered to himself: "I'm working hard, I don't even ride on you, I don't hold cats anymore, I'm a success!" I have been thinking about fighting wits and courage with the clan and courtiers all day, and they will repay me like this?"

In fact, the helplessness on Wanli's face just now was because he had already felt it.

I feel that even if I have the utmost prestige, even if I reach the peak with the charisma of the monarch, I still cannot completely rule the world.

Oh, the world is too big.

When I was a kid playing coloring games on maps, I never thought about how big those places were, but now that I think about it, two capitals, 140 provinces, 190 prefectures, 130 three states, and [-] eight counties, what did he get? rule?bureaucracy.

In front of the table in Qianqing Palace, the young emperor wrote down the words herdsman, wolf, dog, and sheep with a pen.

Wanli has gradually realized that the starting point of what he always wanted to seize power is right, but the way is wrong.

If the herdsman wants to save trouble, he must take good care of the yellow dog. The yellow dog will lead the flock and drive away the wild wolves outside. What was eaten by wolves was far less than what was eaten by my own yellow dog.

He can pick out some good ones from the yellow dogs and expel some who always steal lambs, but the number of yellow dogs is always increasing, and generations of herdsmen will be like him, picking out some good ones and expelling some who steal sheep.

Once a generation of herdsmen is too lazy to choose, or a generation of herdsmen raises a yellow dog that is too smart, it secretly eats sheep without letting the herdsmen know, and things will break down.

This fact means that he wants to monopolize power, always wants to monopolize power, but the premise of monopolizing power is that the bureaucratic system still exists.

It is the so-called standard of law.

It is the system.

And the system was not planned by a sage, nor was it like the suggestion in the letter from the Eastern Marshal Chen Muhui, the vision of the future, and the systems of various countries for his reference.

Wanli had seen those systems and conjectures, but he didn't take them seriously.

The establishment of the system is based on the satisfaction of everyone. To put it bluntly, everyone can eat enough, and they can eat enough while sitting without feeling angry.

People in the Beiyang Industrial Zone who are able to eat enough and not feel angry in the traditional sense still live a good life; if they don’t have enough food, even if it’s just a night watch or a salary cut, the city of Hangzhou will still make trouble.

The imperial court can send troops to suppress as much as possible. He has a lot of elite troops, such as the Jinyiwei in the imperial city, the four guard camps trained by himself, and the Beiyang Sixth Phase in the root of the Great Wall.

But if you suppress it this time, next time you change to another place, there will still be troubles for the same reason, and the troubles will be even worse.

This time Ding Shiqing ran away for 18 years and didn't get things done. What kind of temper is this?If it was Master Wanli who took his money and refused to do things for him, he would turn over the table the next day. Ding Shiqing ran away for 18 years.

This is actually the reason why Wanli has no intention of referring to the world system.

His Ming Empire stands at the fork between the past and the future. This is a great empire independent of the world. The road that this great empire will take should be the road of the game between the people of the empire and the status quo of the empire, not the road of other countries. The road that the people have played with other countries.

What Wanli intends to do is to establish a small system and create an opportunity for the people to play a fair game with the bureaucracy.

Let the common people have a voice.

　"Ming Shilu": "At the beginning of the Yiyou period, the Mutiny in Hangzhou...Ding Shiqing was also a refugee from Shangyu. He had accumulated treacherous schemes for a long time, and worked hard to protect Jia. With his advice, he called on the citizens to accuse them of hating the township officials. Township officials’ homes were plagiarized.”

　　"Wanli Hangzhou Fuzhi": "Ding Shiqing, a native of Shangyu, lived in Hangzhou, and taught and read for the society of Donglifang. Seeing that the people in Huicheng were exhausted by their husbands, they did not take office. , Fully prepared to dispatch night patrols, since the households have paid for the recruitment of the chief fireman, and then sent and Baojia, so that the people and financial resources are depleted, please dismiss them all.

　　In history, when Zhang Jiayin arrived in Zhejiang Province, he quelled the military and civil uprising with soft and hard tactics. Nine people including Ma and Yang were killed, and 52 people including Ding Shiqing and Han Jin were killed. The uprising was put down.

　　Later governor Zhang Jiayin stabilized the area and implemented ten decrees, two of which were to change Baojia to hired labor and exempt the interim tax, and the government hired people to patrol at night.

　　After the incident, the imperial court issued an edict: "Recently, civil and military officials have used cruelty to exploit Shang Shang. Their behavior has lost the hearts of the people, and they are helpless when things happen. They are in a hurry and humiliate the country. It is extremely abhorrent!"

　　Afterwards, although Ding Shiqing was killed by the governor, "Wanli Hangzhou Fuzhi" still included him in the biography of "Character·Yixing" and gave him a very high evaluation.

　　The Second Change in Zhejiang was an awakening of citizens' consciousness in the Ming Dynasty.

　　
　
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