Wanli Youming

Chapter 445 Strengthening the Monarch Power

Chapter 445 Strengthening the Monarch Power

Seeing Hai Rui sighed, Shen Shixing said, "Since most of you believe that it is inappropriate to interfere with the use of your majesty's internal funds, and how your majesty uses the internal funds will not violate the virtue of advocating frugality, then I will not present your statement to you."

"It is no longer too strict to respect morality and suppress extravagance in the exam. It is considered not to embarrass a gentleman. As long as it is a legitimate income and does not violate the king's law, it is not easy to be judged as not frugal."

As Shen Shixing spoke, he looked at Liu Yingjie and Wang Xijue: "I wonder what the two elders think?"

"It is!"

"Yuan Fu accepts all opinions and is sincere and good!"

Shi Xing and other civil officials hurriedly replied at this time.

a time.

Except for a few civil officials such as Hai Rui and Zhao Nanxing who were unhappy, the entire civil official group obviously got along very well.

Hai Rui was disappointed because there were no colleagues who were as willing to serve the world as he was.

Zhao Nanxing and others were disappointed because they saw that many old friends in the past easily abandoned their original ideas because of their interests.

"So, everyone agrees that His Majesty is no longer comparable to Yao and Shun, but the number one sage in the ages?"

At this time, Wang Xijue followed suit and asked a question.

Shi Xing replied first: "Of course, as long as there is a heart of loyalty to the country, no one thinks otherwise."

Yu Shenxing also said: "There is no such thing as a father in the world. If your majesty can be an emperor, you have already achieved the virtues of Yao and Shun. Your ministers should not lie about your father's gains and losses."

Hai Rui shook his head.

"Why are you shaking your head?"

Shen Shixing asked Hai Rui in a low voice when all the officials were discussing with each other.

Hai Rui also replied in a low voice: "Too much!"

"Fortunately, Your Majesty is not the owner who wants to make the world use up his private property. Otherwise, because of the emperor's failure, he may not be able to warn early, and the tragic scene of the royal family's big greed, hundreds of bureaucrats' petty greed, and the world's people's wealth will reappear."

"Thus, it is due to His Majesty's virtue to be able to achieve today's prosperity."

"In addition, now that the general trend of the world is going to be like this, you don't have to worry too much about it. As the ruler, you can only try to reconcile the world's officials with less selfish desires and more public hearts. If you really want to force everyone to be like the public, it will make the government orders fail. Mastery, or laziness and inaction, or obedience and defiance, or even vandalism."

"So, I can neither ask His Majesty to be completely selfless in order to protect the people of the world, nor can I ask them to do so."

After Shen Shixing said, Hai Rui nodded and replied, "I know, Yuanfu, don't worry, just because His Majesty has the heart to protect the people, I will not resign because of this!"

"I didn't ask them all to be like me, but the problem now is, I don't know if they can accommodate me!"

"I'm afraid I've already said that I'm pedantic! Because the turbid current has always been difficult to accommodate the clean pool, and the pure pool does not want to get along with the turbid current!"

Shen Shixing smiled.

"The water of the Yellow River is turbid, but the water of the Yangtze River is clear. I have never seen anyone in the world throwing away a piece of water instead of using it."

"Please trust Your Majesty, Your Majesty needs clear and sweet springs to nourish the people."

"Otherwise, why would you give the public the golden plaque of 'Blessing of All Peoples'?"

After Shen Shixing spoke, he stood up and shouted: "Everyone!"

Then, when everyone was quiet, Shen Shixing said with a smile:

"What you said is that although the new ritual requires the elders in the world to treat the weak and young with benevolence, it is not disrespectful to the elders. They should also treat the emperor with sincerity and respect, and treat the sages with generosity and honesty. Therefore, it is still the same sentence, and we will not be together. Go and make a statement to the Son of Heaven, and follow suit to directly deceive the emperor."

"It should be like this!"

"Very kind, a minister must know his duty!"

Most of the civil servants agreed.

The court hall of the entire Wanli Dynasty has never been as harmonious as it is at this moment.

But Shen Shixing continued to say at this time: "Since everyone thinks that the father's money should not be mentioned, and His Majesty is the most holy and benevolent monarch in the ages, then those of us who assist the monarch in governing the government should also change the monarch to Yao and Shun." Aim for the eternal prosperity of the country!"

"After all, Zhijun is Yao and Shun, and the Grand Master has realized it for us."

"That is to say, don't focus on the virtue of the emperor in the future."

"In the future, we should focus on how to assist the emperor so that the world will continue to rule and the prosperous age will last forever. As the grand master and your majesty set in the past, how much population should be reached, how much territory should be reached, how much food should be increased, how rich the people should be, and so on. "

"To be more specific, it is to see if the servant, the chief assistant, has done these things for Junfu. If not, you should impeach him to His Majesty. If you do, but you are not satisfied, you should also tell His Majesty."

"In short, it's all about governing the country and benefiting the people. It's not about cheating the emperor by fishing for fame. It's about admonishing His Majesty how to do things, not about teaching His Majesty how to be a king."

"None of us are emperor teachers!"

After Shishixing, these people all bowed their hands and said yes.

"Thank you for your cooperation."

Immediately afterwards, Shen Shixing replied with a smile, and then said:

"At present, Mr. Yu in the cabinet is getting old, and Mr. Pan is retiring from office. His Majesty has decreed that the court will be promoted, and the cabinet ministers and officials will be promoted together tomorrow. It is also appropriate at that time. In order to save face, it is not appropriate to criticize gentlemen and virtuous ministers, but push them away if you can."

"It is!"

The crowd nodded.

This is the end.

Shen Shixing made the whole bureaucratic group reach a consensus, officially clarifying that the emperor's control of internal funds has nothing to do with the virtue of advocating frugality, and even the emperor's status in terms of etiquette and law has been officially determined as a sage king without any mistakes.

That is to say, no one can criticize or doubt the character and ability of the emperor. They just want to supervise the execution effect of the chief assistant on the emperor's ambitions and goals. It can be regarded as the eyes of the emperor, and see for the emperor whether the world is developing in line with the emperor's intentions.

It can be said that the bureaucratic group took the initiative to strengthen the monarchy under the mediation of Shen Shixing, but it did not affect the monarchy because of Zhou Hong's secret decree that the emperor was not frugal.

When Zhou Honglun was taken to the execution ground, he was so disappointed that he wanted to cry because he found that a civil servant complained for him from the beginning to the end.

Moreover, when Zhou Honglun was escorted to kneel on the execution ground, he also saw his son Zhou Peicheng being escorted in prison uniform.

For a moment, Zhou Honglun was horrified and asked Zhou Peicheng, "Why are you going to be beheaded too?!"

Zhou Peicheng said: "Father, my son wants to die on your behalf, but the Son of Heaven refuses, saying that I only know that there is a father, but not a king. Loyalty deserves death."

Zhou Peicheng said with a dejected look on his face: "And that's all, no courtier is willing to speak up for his son until now!"

"Aren't you going to report to His Majesty?!"

Zhou Honglun turned his head and questioned Wang Zongmu, the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment, who had been supervised and beheaded loudly.

Wang Zongmu said with a sullen face: "What's the matter, isn't the imperial decree right?"

Zhou Honglun was speechless for a while, so he could only look up to the sky and shout:

"Your Majesty, I was wrong!"

"I shouldn't embarrass you. If you don't understand, you need to use benevolence to benevolent to the emperor's relatives, and you also need to be decent; it is not a pity for me to die, but it is true that the dog did something stupid and filial because he was young and ignorant. Also, please don’t kill the dog, be kind to him!”

But it was useless for Zhou Honglun to say anything at this time. Not long after, both of them were beheaded, and the blood spilled by Biao dyed the snow on the execution ground red on the spot.

……

"My lord, the Ministry of Punishment wrote in this newspaper that Zhou's father and son have already taken their heads."

It didn't take long for Zhu Yijun to learn about this situation from Sun Xin, and he only said: "Got it."

Then, Zhu Yijun asked again: "How did the officials react?"

Sun Xindao: "No one came up to intercede for Zhou's father and son."

(End of this chapter)