Zhang Yue took care of his illness at home and did not ask about anything else.
All matters concerning the Zhongshu were discussed and presided over by Wang Gui and Yuan Jiang.
Wang Gui's administration as Zhongshu was extremely cowardly. After Wang Zhongzheng took over the post of director of the Jingyuan Road Economic Strategy and asked Li Shun to supervise the military Yan Road, all the officials were in an uproar. Several young officials grabbed Wang Zhongzheng who was about to leave the capital, and Li Shunju
Is it okay to question this?
Wang Zhongzheng was forced to escape on horseback first, but Li Shunju was unwilling to go to Fuyan Road to supervise the army. So Lu Huiqing was not an easy person to deal with.
So Li Shunju was forced to report to Wang Gui in Zhongshu: "The troubles in the western suburbs are really a shame for the scholar-bureaucrats."
"You, the Prime Minister, are in power now. Do you think it is appropriate to entrust border defense to two ministers? Our ministers' duty is to sweep the courtyard and wipe the windows. Do you really think that the two of us can lead the army in battle?"
Wang Gui laughed loudly when he heard this, and then said: "Why should the escort be so humble? I am just using the escort to appease the border in order to seek peace!"
Li Shunju couldn't believe that Wang Gui was so shameless and shameless, so he retreated silently.
After Li Shunju left, Wang Gui thought deeply while stroking his beard. After Han Jiang died of illness, he had to win over people's hearts since he was the prime minister. How could he grant personal favors on top of official duties, while at the same time not being too excessive and giving others leverage and becoming someone else's?
The basis for criticism is a trick that every person in power must master.
Wang Gui knew that Han Jiang and Zhang Yue had learned from the past, and he did not dare to say a word about the government's plan to conquer Xia, and all expressed support.
Wang Gui told Yuan Sui: "Today we are intercepting Wang Zhongzheng. Write down the names of the officials promoted by Li Shun to me, and find a good job in the hall book to release them."
Yuan Sui wrote it down silently.
Eunuchs are the confidants of the official family. The emperor lost his face and Wang Gui had to get it back, but the officials below did not dare to punish him, otherwise he would be criticized.
Wang Gui thought to himself that as a prime minister, he should be upright in politics, and such behavior was also something he despised.
At that time and now, Wang Gui was no longer the Hanlin scholar who decisively retreated when faced with the edict naming Emperor Yingzong as the crown prince.
It’s not Wang Gui who loudly called ‘Huang Bo’ instead of ‘Huang Kao’ during the Pu discussion.
Wang Gui knew that as prime minister, it is not enough to bribe ministers with small favors, cultivate cronies, and establish party members. If you have no opinions on government affairs and cannot accomplish big things, you will be criticized all day long. If the officials below do not respect you, you will be in the prime minister.
Unstable.
Wang Gui told others: "Let Cai Yuanchang come to see me!"
Soon Cai Jing entered.
During Zhang Yue's absence in Zhongshu, Cai Jing's life was difficult. Wang Gui often found excuses or complicated tasks to "train" Cai Jing.
Cai Jing was 'trained' by Wang Gui and kept busy day and night. After finishing his errands, he was scolded by Wang Gui for finding fault with him.
On the other hand, Wang Gui showed his favor to Cai Jing. He proposed marriage to Cai Jing through Cai Que, and wanted to betroth his second daughter to Cai Jing's eldest son, Cai You.
Cai Jing did not agree, so Wang Gui continued to 'train' Cai Jing.
When Cai Jing came to see Wang Gui, he happened to finish the errands assigned by the other party and reported to him. Wang Gui listened to Cai Jing's report and thought to himself, this guy is really a talented person, and he can handle such difficult things in an orderly manner.
Cai Jing has this kind of temperament. The more you make things difficult for me, the better I will get things done.
Don't make a mistake twice.
This time Wang Gui made an exception and did not accuse Cai Jing but said: "Yuan Chang is a good and talented person!"
Cai Jingze said: "The Prime Minister is ridiculous. Since the Six Sages established the world, the number of households has increased every time. By the year of Zhiping, there were 12.9 million households and 29 million households in the world.
mouth."
"But by the first year of Yuanfeng, the main customers were 16 million households, while Ding only had 24 million people."
"In the prosperous year, there were six million fewer people in the country, accounting for one-sixth of the world!"
Wang Gui said with a smile: "Twenty to sixty are considered Ding. In the past, prefectures and counties were not counted. As long as men were included in the statistics, there was little change. Now they are all included."
Cai Jingdao: "The Prime Minister made it clear that in the Tang and Han Dynasties, ten households had a population of fifty, with a population of about twenty. The number of households today is not due to the war, but there are reasons for separation and separation. It is not allowed to regard the number as a period of prosperity and decline. In the past, the number of households was
To avoid taxes and servitude, the number of households is small; now we also analyze the number of fields to avoid, so the number of households is large."
Wang Gui said: "No, there will be no leakage in this dynasty's implementation of Baojia's compilation of local household numbers. Besides, this dynasty's laws require grandparents, if their parents are still alive, their children and grandchildren are not allowed to separate households and divide property and property. How can it be done without authorization?
According to the theory of household analysis, it is just that the household officials in the previous dynasty made a mistake in counting the men, and mistakenly counted the men as Ding men."
"It's a pity that the three divisions were burned down in the previous fire. Otherwise, they should be verified again."
Cai Jing shook his head. In the Han and Tang dynasties, the number of households in the census was ten households with fifty households and twenty households. Today, it has become ten households with fifteen households. No matter how the household statistics method changes, the ratio of one to two households will not change.
of.
But Wang Gui has always said that in the past statistics, all men were considered a boy, instead of today only those aged between 20 and 60 were considered a boy.
Dingkou is the foundation of taxation and service. Wang Gui turned a blind eye to the problems in such a huge matter.
Cai Jing couldn't help but be disappointed.
Wang Gui smiled slightly, pointed to a potted plant on Chang's desk and said, "Yuan Chang, this pot has good branches, but there are no good flowers to match it. Isn't it a pity?"
Cai Jing's heart moved. He knew what Wang Gui was hinting to him, but he still struggled a little in his heart. Finally, he pretended not to know a few answers, and then left.
Wang Gui looked at Cai Jing's back and thought to himself, the inexplicable lack of Dingkou must be caused by the recruitment law. In the past, the fifth-class households had to pay exemption money and serve in the military service, so the people must have fictitious households (1st class).
(split the household into multiple households and reduce the household size), or bribe the county officials to hide the population, or directly become a refugee, or engage in business without capital.
Xining was prosperous every day, and there was a mountain of savings in the treasury. As a result, the number of Ding was reduced by six million, which was really embarrassing.
Sixteen million more).
But Wang Gui couldn't say that, because wouldn't it appear that Zhang Yue was right and the emperor would be embarrassed?
Therefore, he had to make up an excuse to cover up the error in calculating the number of men in the previous dynasty. Of course, there were also reasons for confusion in local statistics. One time, the number of men was reported, another time, the number of men, and another time the number of men.
When the imperial court was short of servitude, the local government would often only report the number of residents and even take the initiative to hide some. When there was a famine, the local government would report the number of residents and include all the people in the county.
The imperial court would not check so carefully. If the water is clear, there will be no fish.
Wang Gui thought of Zhang Yue, and it was a pity. If this student was willing to help him, why would he use Cai Jing? However, Zhang Yue has firmly stood with Han Jiang over the years, which inevitably alienated him as a teacher.
You must know that Wang Gui has always been dissatisfied with Han Jiang in his heart, and Zhang Yue is still at odds with the emperor's country in terms of "benefiting the country" and "benefiting the people."
Now Zhang Yue simply reports his illness at home.
In this case, Wang Gui couldn't help Zhang Yue.
…
At this moment, Zhang Yue was 'recuperating' in his house.
There is a saying that people work for swordsmen and I work for fish and meat.
You are either at the table or at the table, so officials dare not leave power lightly.
But Zhang Yue didn't care. He acted like "you're on your way" and took good care of himself in the house, eating and sleeping as usual.
In addition to Cai Jing, the inspector of the Zhongshu household, Huang Lu, the envoy of the third department, and General Xu of the Kaifeng Prefecture, the three of them sent confidants to the door from time to time to report the matter to Zhang Yue, who was "recuperating".
Zhang Yue just knew it, but made no plans.
Then officials from various places, including Empress Dowager Cao and Empress Dowager Gao, sent people to express their condolences.
Zhang Yue ordered people to apply turmeric water on his face to cope with the situation. Those who came to inquire could see that Zhang Yue was full of energy in his words and was obviously pretending to be ill.
The choice between becoming an official or not is Zhang Yue's choice. The choice between being sick or not is also between pretending and not pretending. There is a kind of "disease". You know that I am not sick, and I also know that you know that I am not sick, but
I still have to pretend to be sick.
The person visiting the patient was on an errand, so he had no choice but to turn around and report like this.
Of course the officials, Empress Dowager Gao, and Empress Dowager Cao knew where the "root cause" of Zhang Yue's illness was.
Today, the great-uncle Cao Yi came to visit the patient in person on behalf of the Queen Mother Cao. Zhang Yue always knew that the Queen Mother Cao valued him. And Cao Yi really cared about Zhang Yue.
Cao Yi went inside and saw Zhang Yue lying on the couch and asked, "Is your husband feeling better today?"
Zhang Yue sighed and said: "It's still not easy, I'm anxious and short of breath."
Cao Ji laughed after hearing this, then sat down by Zhang Yue's couch and said with a smile, "I have a medicine that can cure your illness!"
Zhang Yue said: "What medicine?"
Cao Yi said with a smile: "My husband is anxious because he cares about the people, but how can he care about the people if he is not in his position? I think the problem in the world today does not lie in the intricate problems, nor in the unpreparedness of laws, but in the officials."
They don't care about anything, they only care about their position, and don't care about the people."
"The people-oriented concept of Mencius mentioned by Xianggong, I can actually pronounce it as "people's servants"."
Zhang Yue was overjoyed when he heard this and said: "Uncle Guo is really a master! He said what I am thinking in one word."
Civil servant, from Liu Zongyuan's "Preface to Xue Cunyi".
There is a saying in it, "The service of the people is not just to serve the people. If the people eat from the soil, I will pay the tithe to serve the officials, so that the officials can be equal to me."
We officials are servants of the common people, not enslavers of the common people. It is the common people who work in the fields and pay one-tenth of their money to hire us and let us govern the place.
Liu Zongyuan put it plainly, all officials in the world are "people's servants", and you are people employed by the common people.
This is in line with Zhang Yue's previous conversation with officials. Did the imperial court involve people hiring the state to do their jobs, or was the imperial court a violent institution that collected protection fees from the common people?
Zhang Yue said: "In today's world, good officials are called parent officials, and bad officials are called people's thieves. But if I serve as an official, how can I be the parents of the people? This is impossible, and I don't dare to be a people's thieves. So I am called a people's thieves."
Civil servants, this is the true meaning of being an official."
Good officials are called parents, bad officials are called thieves of the people.
But parents are above us. How can we, officials, really be called parents? We can only be said to be employed by the common people, and this status is appropriate.
The theory of civilian servants further puts the idea of ‘people-oriented’ into practice.
And this is also the idea of the officials, why?
Because the sixth son of the emperor was also named Mai.
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