Chapter 323 Zhu Gaojie: Will eventually rise to become a dragon!
【Simulation ends.】
Zhu Di was a little surprised: "Isn't it so short?"
do not!
Play another paragraph, it’s so short that no one can read it!
Don’t you mean to make fun of me, Fourth Master Zhu?
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The Literary Academy was already in a commotion at this moment.
It's all because of Zhu Gaojie's speech in class, firstly about his views on corrupt officials, and secondly about the eighteen-level meritocracy system he established.
He seemed to be saying to officials all over the world: It's okay to be greedy, but don't let me catch you. I don't care whether you were corrupt during your tenure, as long as you don't let me find out, and I will kill you if I find out. Also, you are in office.
During this period, no matter how greedy you are, you have to do practical things.
If you are capable, I will give you a promotion. Not only will I give you a promotion, I will also give you a lot of honest money. You can make a lot of money without being greedy, and you will rise to the top. If you are only greedy for money and do nothing serious during your reign.
, then I’m going to fuck you.
The system of eighteen levels of merit and nobility is clearly distinguished, and literati can also be granted the title of duke or marquis during their lifetime!
Compared with military honors, it is particularly difficult for civil servants to be ennobled. Even Liu Bowen, the great scholar of the Qingtian Dynasty, who made great contributions to the founding of the Ming Dynasty, was just an earl. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, only Zuo was the only civil servant who could be granted the title of a duke during his lifetime.
The prime minister, South Korean Gong Li Shanchang, is one person.
When Li Shanchang was seventy-seven years old, he, together with his wife, daughter, brothers, and more than seventy nephews, were all sent to the West by Lao Zhu.
This shows how difficult it is for a civil servant to get a title. But now Zhu Gaojie presented the opportunity to people, which shocked everyone.
Although the title awarded by the eighteenth-level meritorious service is only hereditary and not hereditary, it is already very tempting.
Hereditary and hereditary succession sound the same, but there is a big difference.
Starting from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the hereditary system of Chinese dynasties began to be divided into two types: "hereditary" and ordinary hereditary.
Ordinary hereditary, the number of hereditary inheritances is limited, and the inheritor can only inherit a title that is one level lower than the original title of the inherited person. But hereditary inheritance, the number of hereditary inheritances is unlimited, and the inheritor can also inherit the original title of the inherited person.
For example, Duke Cheng Zhu Yong is the son of the former Duke Cheng Zhu Neng. If it were just an ordinary hereditary, after Zhu Neng's death, the hereditary title passed to Zhu Yong would be downgraded by one level to just a marquis. After Zhu Yong's death,
This title will disappear and will not be allowed to be passed on to his descendants.
And hereditary inheritance is an unlimited inheritance. As long as the Ming Dynasty survives, the title of Duke Cheng will be passed down forever. It can be called the most powerful iron rice bowl.
If you want to cut off the hereditary inheritance, there are only two possibilities.
First, the holder of the title suffered a violent death. The most typical example was General Lan Yu, Duke of Liang. Not to mention inheriting the title, his whole family was slaughtered.
The second type is like Tang He, the Duke of Xin. Although he survived the sacking of Hongwu's heroes, after Tang He's death, his descendants, grandsons, and great-grandsons all died young and he was unable to ascend the throne.
The titles of the Ming Dynasty were basically hereditary. Unless they were posthumous titles, they could be passed down from generation to generation and live as long as the Ming Dynasty.
What Zhu Gaojie promised in the eighteen-level meritocracy system was ordinary hereditary inheritance, which could only be passed down to one generation at most, but this had already made the officials crazy with excitement.
"What a liberal arts college, but you've made it look like a muddy fish pond."
Xia Yuanji sighed, "What do you think you are doing? What you said in class is too dangerous. Isn't this just a legitimate reason for corrupt officials to be greedy for money? You, you, you
, it’s still too hasty.”
Zhu Gaojie smiled slightly and said: "The turbider the water in the fish pond, the easier it is to catch fish. Only in murky water can you catch fish."
Mr. Xia frowned slightly: "After the water is muddy, the fish cannot see clearly what is in the water, and it is also difficult for the fishermen to see clearly. If there is a poisonous snake hidden in such turbid water, it will be caught off guard.
If you take a bite, I'm afraid it will come back to bite you."
"As the saying goes, those who are famous are honored, those who are noble are honored, those who are wealthy are honored, and those who are powerful are crowned with crowns."
Zhu Gaojie said leisurely, "Those who have power are looked up to by ten thousand people. If one person controls ten thousand people, they will follow. Those who follow without losing track of their path will be blessed. Heaven and earth are good, mountains and rivers are flowing, and saints make meritorious deeds at the right time. Punishments are given to the ten forces.
Hold it in the court, and the sage will turn it into the palm of his hand."
"When you look at things, you can't look at them with your naked eyes, you have to use your heart's eyes."
Mr. Xia Laoshang said with a smile: "I don't use the eyes of the naked eye nor the eyes of the mind. I am a person who falls in the eyes of money. What I pay attention to is a common word."
Xia Yuanji has been tied to money in his life. He is the money bag of the Ming Dynasty. He was reincarnated by Abacus and only sees things with the smell of copper.
In his eyes, it would be foolish to establish a liberal arts academy just for the sake of the eighteenth-level merit system.
This is all money!
Every brick and stone that built the academy was saved by Mr. Xia’s frugality!
What military commanders care about is face, while civil servants care about character. In the final analysis, they all have good face. Mr. Xia doesn’t care about face, so he only cares about money. If anyone dares to ask for an extra penny from the treasury, he will fight with his life!
Want money? No!
Damn it, I won’t even give it to you!
"Old Minister Xia, if you fall into the inferior position, you should look down upon the world. Don't stick to your immediate needs. You should look at the grand plan and the great cause."
Zhu Gaojie said with a smile, "Guess where my next son will land?"
Xia Yuanji took out two copper plates from his sleeves. The copper plates were covered with a thick layer of grease. He threw them into the air and landed in the palm of his hand. He closed his eyes lightly as if he was about to perform a dance.
This is the arithmetic unique to Xia Laoshu. Two first-class Hongwu Tongbao are carried close to the body, and the copper plates are used to communicate. You only need to borrow these two copper plates to calculate where the cause and effect are.
Someone once tried to buy these two copper plates from Xia Yuanji with a huge amount of money, but was rejected.
In fact, there is no such thing as ghosts and gods.
This is nothing more than mental tricks. Mr. Xia only needs to play with the copper plates, and his heart will be as clear as a mirror and his mind will be as clear as a mirror. Even if he exchanges two copper plates, the effect will be the same.
"call--"
Xia Yuanji suddenly opened his eyes, as if thunder was rushing through his eyes, and he murmured, "Huangzhi, official administration."
Zhu Gaojie was a little surprised: "Is it possible that this copper plate is a spiritual thing? Can Mr. Xia lend it to me for a few days?"
"Lending it to you? I'm afraid it's like a meat bun beating a dog. Once it's gone, there will be no return. When did the things that came into your prince's hands be let go?"
Xia Yuanji was even more surprised than the other party, "His Highness really plans to go through the Academy of Arts and take action against Huang Ce and Li Zhi?"
Zhu Gaojie waved his hand: "This matter is not urgent. Please tell me first how you calculated these."
"This matter is not difficult to guess."
Xia Yuanji put away the copper plate and said slowly, "His Highness established the eighteenth-level military merit system to imitate the twenty-level military merit system of the Qin State. But when Great Qin established the twenty-level military merit system, it was to allow Great Qin's army to sweep across
The forces from all directions are unstoppable and the six kingdoms are unified. Your Highness has established an eighteen-level meritocracy system. Of course, it is impossible for you to be bored and make yourself uncomfortable."
"You must have a purpose, and you want to use the hands of hundreds of officials to carry out careful things. Using the world as a chessboard and hundreds of officials as chess pieces, you have a far-reaching plan."
"The only thing I can think of is the administration of officials. You want to use the Academy of Arts and the eighteenth-level meritocracy as a guide to lead to the chess game behind it."
"If you want to rectify the administration of officials, it is most appropriate to start with the Huangce Library. Previously, His Highness ordered Mr. Yang Ge to spend a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources to move the Houhu Huangceku in Nanjing to Beijing. In fact, it didn't take long
Things, if we combine the Academy of Arts and Huangceku, many things can be explained."
"Rectify the yellow records library, eradicate illegal households, collect taxes from the people, and eliminate future troubles from illegal households. If you want to accomplish such a big thing, it is obviously not enough to rely on imperial power alone. The role of imperial power is to make ministers obey. The reason why ministers obey imperial power is because imperial power can give
They also bring benefits. And the rectification of the yellow book obviously also hurts their interests. In the face of interests, the imperial power seems insignificant."
"After all, if all the black households in the world are really wiped out, not only the wealthy families and landlords will have to pay taxes that they don't have to pay, but the local bureaucrats will also lose a lot of gray income. Even you will inevitably end up here.
Stop in front of huge resistance."
"The eighteen-level meritocracy system is actually about breaking up and reorganizing the originally solidified bureaucratic system, overthrowing everything in the past and starting over."
"With such courage, it is truly a chess game in the world!"
Xia Yuanji has not been the Minister of Household Affairs for more than ten years for nothing. He is a lonely minister. The so-called lonely minister means that he controls more power and offends more people. He is like a rootless duckweed on the sea, relying on the imperial power.
Survive.
On the surface, the six ministers are headed by Libu Tianguan. In fact, the six ministers will be decentralized because they control too much power. No one can monopolize the power. But Xia Yuanji is different. As a lonely minister, he has offended everyone.
Man, only the imperial power can keep him alive.
He is also the only one among the six ministers who has truly built his department into a unified one. He is also the one with the greatest authority among the six ministers.
However, being a lonely minister is not that easy. Firstly, he has made too many enemies, and if he is not careful, he will die without a burial place. Secondly, if he does not have amazing abilities, why should the emperor ask you to help him take power?
Therefore, those who can sit in the position of a lonely minister are often the smartest and most capable ministers.
Xia Yuanji is one of the smartest and most capable people in our generation.
He is also one of the very few people who can keep up with Zhu Gaojie's ideas.
There are countless outstanding people around Zhu Gaojie, but if we really want to say who is the most effective minister under his command, only Xia Yuanji dares to claim the first place.
Zhu Di was flanked by the "Prime Minister in Black" Yao Guangxiao, and beside Zhu Gaojie was the "Prime Minister in Copper" Xia Yuanji.
"The one who knows me is Master Xia."
Zhu Gaojie sighed, "I sprinkled a handful of bait into the fish pond, which caused hundreds of carps to scramble for it, turning the clear pond into a bottomless pool of muddy water."
"The only ones who can stay awake in this muddy water are Mr. Xia and I."
He changed the topic and said: "Old Minister Xia knows so much, but does it mean that since ancient times, those who have made great achievements and conquered their masters, and whose ministers' wisdom surpassed their masters, rarely end well?"
Xia Yuanji is so smart that even his lord is scared.
It is not a good thing for a minister to be able to figure out his lord's thoughts.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Xiu, the son of Taiwei Yang Biao, was a typical example of someone who was misled by his cleverness. It was precisely because he was too clever that he was killed.
Xia Yuanji laughed and said: "Xia has never thought about a good death since the moment he stepped into Prince Qi's Mansion!"
On the Qinhuai River, he boarded the ship of Qi King Zhu Gaojie.
He promised that he would be a sacrifice for King Qi and change the sky for the Ming Dynasty!
Whether it succeeds or not, he will definitely die.
When things are done, Xia Yuanji will stand up and block the wind of the world's scholars, bear the anger of the world's people with his body, and be burned to ashes in the flames.
If the incident fails, Xia Yuanji will be besieged by the angry literati from all over the world, and his body will be left intact.
That day, he said to King Qi on the Qinhuai River:
"It's just death, why should we fear it?"
Today, he still has this attitude.
If he, Xia Yuanji, could rectify the official administration of the Ming Dynasty and create great achievements with his own sacrifice, then he would have deserved his death!
Xia Yuanji said with a smile: "I, Xia, am actually a stingy person, and everyone in the world knows this. I can't even pick up two copper coins, let alone Xia's life."
"If someone else said that I, Xia, should sacrifice my life for the Ming Dynasty, I would definitely go up and slap him twice."
"If I don't go to hell, whoever loves me will!"
"But it is really rare to meet a Ming Lord in this life. Chao Cuo of the Western Han Dynasty was killed in Dongshi, Tian Feng of the Eastern Han Dynasty was abandoned by Yuan Shao, and Fan Zeng was so unwilling at the Hongmen Banquet, all because he did not meet the Ming Lord."
"Although I, Xia, am stingy, I still know a thing or two about business."
"Which one is more important, life or enlightenment? Obviously, enlightenment is more rare. Although there is only one life, people are bound to die after all. Wouldn't it be happy if they could die willingly?"
"When Xia meets His Highness, if I can express my ambition, I will have no regrets even if I die."
Xia Yuanji bent his unruly waist and bowed to Zhu Gaojie.
If he had not met Zhu Gaojie, how would later history books evaluate him?
He is probably a "smart, capable and calculating person".
But Xia Yuanji didn't want to stop there. He wanted to use his heart's blood to leave hot and bright red words in the history books.
Xia Yuanji is not just a money bag belonging to the abacus.
He wants to follow the British master and spread his fame all over the world!
Zhu Gaojie put his hand on Lao Xia's shoulder and raised the corners of his mouth: "You make me, I will make you."
"The words monarch and minister are too shallow to describe the cause and effect between you and me. You and I are close friends."
Just like Zhu Gaojie’s original intention when he established the Civil and Military Academy.
——The world’s civilized and martial arts are all brought into my arms.
The Martial Arts Academy was a sharp blade he forged for the dynasty; the Literature Academy was the cradle of talents that he carefully decorated for the Ming Dynasty.
He used the world as a chessboard and the officials of the world as chess pieces. However, the boundary between the chessboard and the Chu-Han River was "official administration".
This is the biggest hurdle for the Ming Dynasty. For a behemoth like the Ming Dynasty, the biggest problem does not come from the outside, but from the inside. If you cannot overcome this hurdle, everything will be a passing cloud and an ordinary page in the history book.
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If you can overcome this hurdle.
He and the Ming Empire will both usher in their respective sublimations...
Ascend to become a dragon!
“We are taking a path that has never been taken before or since.”
"Everything we have done will always be remembered and praised by future generations."