Chapter 336 Shortening the period of filial piety and emergence
But Yunxi had no intention of stopping talking. He had been thinking about it a year ago, and how could it be the only thing that was officially announced until today.
Yunxi said: "In this case, it seems that all the ministers think that what I said is that the purpose of Kong Sage's three years of filial piety is to let the children feel the difficulty of raising children by their parents, but not to make the children have to mourn for three years.
Is such an external form correct?"
At this time, some of the ministers had already guessed what Yunxi was going to say, but such people remained silent without exception. As for the ministers who had not guessed what Yunxi wanted to say, they did not dare to speak.
Yunxi saw that no one spoke as expected, so he continued: "It seems that my understanding is no problem. Then, in fact, as long as the people of the world miss their parents in their hearts, there is actually no need.
Strictly observe the funeral rites of filial piety for three years, and mourn for one year to express condolences. After the mourning is over, you can still mourn your deceased relatives in your heart."
"Similarly, all of you who love me do not need to abide by the three-year filial piety period. Whether you are truly filial does not depend on these external performances. So I have decided," after saying this, Yunxi said emphatically: "In the future, all ministers
It doesn't take three years for Ding You to serve all the officials, but one year for Ding You."
Yes, Yunxi's purpose is to reduce the time of officials. In his opinion, worrying about parents for a long time is a waste of time, especially for those outstanding talents. And now most of the ministers whom Yunxi trusts and reuse are
They are not too old, and their parents are still alive. If Ding You's time is not shortened, then three years of rest at home plus the round trip will be lost. Yun He said that he cannot accept such a waste of time by talented people.
.And although there is also the saying of robbing love, there are strict rules and regulations for robbing love, and frequent use will arouse criticism.
Although directly issuing orders to reduce Ding You's duration would also arouse criticism, Yun He expected that it would not have much impact, and it would be even smaller than issuing frequent orders to seize love.
Because the reduction of Ding You's time is for all officials, there is no individual distinction; and most officials actually don't like Ding You, so they will not make irresponsible remarks for their own benefit, in case Yunxi withdraws his decree due to rumors.
That's tragic.
However, seizing love is different. Seizing love is aimed at every individual, and there will always be someone in the court who cannot be dealt with. The opponents of ministers who are allowed to seize love may spread some rumors to attack seizing love. Is it reasonable to do so two times at a time?
The second best thing to say is that the criticism of often stealing love is not small.
So Yunxi decided to solve the problem once and for all, instead of waiting for the problem to come to an end and issue an order to seize the favor.
At the same time, the reason why Yunxi only shortened Dingyou's time from three years to one year, rather than directly canceling Dingyou, was to leave a way out for future generations. Although Yunxi does not think that he is very political now, he thinks he can still do it.
Control the court; but what if future generations encounter a helpless minister? At this time, you can use the fact that he has to go to Dingyou to force him to temporarily leave the court and get a chance to adjust.
Let’s not talk about Yunxi’s next thoughts, just talk about the thoughts of the ministers present. Because of the frequent purges of ministers during Zhu Yuanzhang’s period, there were not many older officials present. Qi Tai, who was only in his thirties, became
The civil servants who have become second- and third-rank officials will not surprise everyone. Zhu Yuanzhang even appointed ministers who were less than 30 years old.
Therefore, many of the officials present still have their parents living in Gaotang, and they may go to Dingyou one day. Therefore, for the sake of their own future, although it is not convenient for the officials present to publicly support Yunxi, everyone remained silent, which was regarded as acquiescence.
The new chief of the Rites Department seemed to want to step forward and say something, but the assistant minister Dong Lun immediately stopped him and signaled with his eyes not to speak. Dong Lun had a good relationship with the new chief of the Rites Department Zhang Yunyi, so no matter what he said at this time
It was not good for him, so Dong Lun stopped him.
Zhang Yunyi originally wanted to show his strength by admonishing him. However, after being blocked by Dong Lun, he was stunned and did not speak out.
Yunxi narrowed his eyes when he saw Zhang Yunyi making some movements, but in the end Zhang Yunyi retreated without saying anything. As for the others, there was even less movement.
While Yunxi lamented that after so many things happened since he came to the throne, the officials had learned a lot and no longer played the trick of "showing character" with him, and felt a little lonely; at the same time, he felt that it was good to get things done smoothly like this.
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Yunxi glanced at the officials present again, and then said: "Since none of you have any objections, I will issue an edict. From tomorrow onwards in the capital and from the date of the edict in other places, all registered officials will no longer have to travel.
Kill Cui Fu in three years!"
Immediately after Yunxi returned to the Qianqing Palace, he asked the people in Zhongshushe to draft an edict. Although some low-level officials in Beijing and officials from other places later made remonstrances in order to show their integrity, they were all upright people.
Among the subsequent Ding Yous, no one had Ding You for three years. They all came back to work after one year. But this is all a story for another day.
Yunxi didn't know these last words at this time. Although he finally put down a big thing after drafting the decree, he immediately threw himself into work. He also accumulated a lot of tricks in the past few days, so he had to hurry up.
Yunxi answered dozens of papers neatly and neatly. Just when he was about to finish all the papers accumulated in the past few days in one go, a piece of paper slowed him down.
Zhezi was recommended by Pan Ren, a doctor in the Civil Service Examination Department. It turned out that there was an official vacancy in the Ministry of Household Affairs, so Zhezi was recommended by the official responsible for selecting middle and low-level officials. Although Pan Ren was not a doctor in the Wenxuan Department, the Examination Department was also responsible for examining officials.
, you can also recommend officials. If it were just this, that would be enough, but among the recommended people, people from the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang actually appeared.
In the 29th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang dealt with corrupt officials in the court and killed a group of people, among which officials from the five Jiangsu and Zhejiang prefectures were the most numerous. From then on, Zhu Yuanzhang decided that the Ministry of Household Affairs would no longer appoint people from the five Jiangsu and Zhejiang Prefectures as officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang told Yunxi the reason for doing this, and Yunxi also thought it was reasonable, so since then he has not appointed anyone from the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang as household officials. This time this person wrote a letter recommending people from the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to be household officials.
What are the intentions of the officials in the ministry?
And after Jin Yiwei's investigation, there must be an interest group composed of people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang behind Pan Ren. Although Jin Yiwei has not yet detected the big shot, so Yun Xi did not act rashly, but Yun Xi still knew about Pan Ren.
is not trustworthy.
Yunxi hesitated for a moment, and in order to prevent them from finding anything strange, he dismissed the entire list with a stroke of his pen.
Yunxi thought: "After dismissing his accusation, let's change Pan Ren's position. In the past six months, there has been no associate of Pan Ren in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so he probably doesn't have any. Let him go to another yamen.
Let’s see if we can find other accomplices.”
"We still need to order Qin Song to step up the investigation of their interest group. After a while, we will call Qin Song to give instructions. We must dig out these big rats!"
