Wanli Youming

Chapter 256 Prisoner Xu Jie Faces the Saint

Chapter 256 Prisoner Xu Jie Faces the Saint

Obviously, what Zhang Juzheng said to Zhu Yijun in the mansion before leaving the capital deeply touched Zhu Yijun.

Because of this, Zhu Yijun is determined to fulfill his duties as an emperor, to guide the people of Ming Dynasty in a general direction, and to build new hope.

As long as people have hope, they will not be world-weary, or even despise life, and ignore respect for others.

As long as the country still has hope, there will be no decline in the national fortune, and there will be no situation of perishing the world.

And when Zhu Yijun was thinking about how to start his first step in governing the country after taking office, Zhang Juzheng's posthumous letter on governing the country written by order was also sent to the imperial court.

Zhu Yijun read it carefully.

He had to admit that Zhang Juzheng had indeed written new Confucian classics books according to the theoretical constructions of the monarch and his ministers, and it was finally based on the theory of seeking truth from facts and the world should regard Han as the respect, using a way of borrowing the words of sages. And logically connected.

Zhu Yijun thought he couldn't write it.

After all, the construction of ideological theories is not an easy task.

"Your Majesty, now that Yuan Fu has returned, and His Majesty is also proficient in articles, should lectures and reading be abolished, and only regular feasts and court visits will be enough?"

And when Zhu Yijun received Zhang Juzheng's ideological books on state governance written by order, Zhang Siwei also began to ask Zhu Yijun on this day whether to continue reading.

"Since the master has gone, there is no need for the system of lectures and readings to exist anymore. It can be regarded as letting the world know that I have completed what my master taught me."

"It's just that after Xu Jie came to Beijing, I remembered to draw up the Daoist decree, asking the cabinet ministers, ministers, and the Confucian scholars of the Imperial Academy to go to the Imperial Academy with me, and let Qi Jiguang from the Privy Council and Li Rusong, Ma Gui, and Chen Lin from the Military Guard go with me."

"Shen Li from the Ministry of Rites, Wang Xijue from the Ministry of Officials, and Wang Shizhen from the Taichang Temple also went with their followers."

Zhu Yijun started talking at this time, and ordered: "Tell them, anyone who has left them private letters on state governance and ancient and modern knowledge can bring them."

Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing were a little surprised.

Moreover, Zhang Siwei also took the initiative to cup his hands at this time and said: "Your Majesty, Xu Jie is a treacherous national traitor who has failed the emperor's grace. How can he go to such a clean place as Guozijian with his retinue and humiliate the people of the country? I think that Xu Jie should not be allowed to go too." , this person should quickly clarify the canonical punishment, so that he can understand the law and correct people's hearts!"

"Need him to go!"

"Both he and my husband are key figures in the Yuanfu of the Three Dynasties, and Xu Jie used to be the representative of Qingliu, but the ending is quite different;"

"If he doesn't go, how can Qingliu have a deeper understanding of state governance?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

After hearing this, Zhang Siwei had no choice but to say yes.

Xu Jie also arrived in the capital on the sixth day of September in the tenth year of Wanli.

Zhu Yijun specially announced to meet him at the Yuntai Gate.

When Xu Jie himself entered the palace, he was not very embarrassed about his experience at this moment.

No matter what, he never thought that one day he would enter the palace as a prisoner to face the saint.

Xu Jie began to think of the time when he was the first to enter the palace, Honglu, to roll his name. At that time, he was still a young man who dared to speak and hate.

Then, Xu Jie thought of the days when he and Yan Song were ministers in the same palace. At that time, he was trembling and cautious.

Xu Jie naturally also thought of the days when he had set things right by drafting Jiajing's last edict, and the days when he practiced the rule of "returning prestige to the Lord, government affairs to the ministers, and punishment to reward public opinion".

At that time, he was quite self-satisfied, meeting the leaders of scholars in Lingji Palace.

But Xu Jie never imagined that he had been cautious all his life, but in the end he still had an unsatisfactory end.

"I thought I could die well."

Xu Jie muttered to himself, and then asked himself:

"But why the situation has become a situation that I can't die well."

Xu Jie couldn't help thinking carefully about the reasons why he became a prisoner.

One is that he himself was made to do evil, and intentionally indulged. Because of his family's unworthy and greedy for money, his Xu family gradually became the main backstage of smuggling and pirates through his power.

The second is that people's hearts are unpredictable, and someone planted their own crimes on him.

Regarding the former, Xu Jie asked himself that he did not strictly discipline his children, but he also had to admit that his own greed was also at work, mainly because he really did not expect that the imperial court would suddenly change direction, move towards expansion, and send troops to control the former. Several important trade areas in the Wa Kingdom were occupied, which cut off his financial resources, came to a bottom line, and took advantage of his neglect of his daughter's personal dignity defects to directly find out his Xu family.

Xu Jie originally thought that according to the inherent laws of history, the 200-year-old Ming Dynasty should only become more and more conservative.

After all, not to mention external expansion, even Xia Yan was beheaded by Jiajing because he advocated regaining his hometown Hetao.

But the facts did change. Daming did not develop in a direction that would benefit him, a big bureaucrat and big landlord.

As for the latter, Xu Jie can only lament that Jin Yiwei has worked harder than before, and that the emperor really loves his Mr. Zhang, so much so that when he gets to the bottom of it, Xu Jie will also be harmed by villains.

"The criminal has seen His Majesty!"

When Zhu Yijun saw the pale-haired Xu Jie in white prison clothes kneeling in front of him, he ordered, "Give him a chair to sit on."

"The criminal thanked His Majesty."

Xu Jie kowtowed at this moment.

Zhu Yijun said: "You don't have to thank me, I just see that you are really old."

"Your Majesty is as benevolent as heaven. It is the minister who failed His Majesty."

Xu Jie said.

Zhu Yijun chuckled: "It's this time, why are you still saying these words? If you, Xu Huating, really have love in your heart and the people of the community, you won't just let Gao Gong do the strategy of opening the sea, and let Qingzhang Tianmu It will be up to my husband to do it."

"What Your Majesty said is that the minister is very cowardly and selfish, not comparable to Gao and Zhang Ergong."

Xu Jie responded obediently to Zhu Yijun.

Zhu Yijun said: "But what you said is nice. It's the same as what some people advocate now that 'things are returned to the six departments, and speeches are returned to the six departments'. It all lies in the power of the cabinet, so that the emperor can do nothing. After all, although the power is returned to the master, the government affairs belong to the ministers, and it is fair to use the rewards. Follow the old ways and continue until the country is subjugated."

"What Your Majesty said is that this is all a manifestation of cowardice and selfishness."

"I have no guts to innovate and eliminate evils, and try my best to turn the tide, but I don't want to be reviled by others for mediocrity, so I catered to the late emperor and the people of the world and said such words, which clearly shows that I have no desire to rule alone. In fact, I am using this to cover up my own Those who dare not revitalize the heart of the country."

"The minister is really a villain!"

Xu Jie began to belittle himself in front of Zhu Yijun.

"Don't belittle yourself so much, you still have merit."

"At least you trained my husband, and you saved Hai Rui. Regardless of whether your real purpose is noble or despicable, in terms of behavior, you are doing the right thing, and I and the world can only affirm it."

"I'm announcing you today, and I don't want to hear how you criticize yourself. Don't flatter you just because I can kill you; and don't treat you like nothing just because the little people pose no threat to you."

"I'm announcing you today because I just want to know how the young man who dared to contradict the powerful officials and dared to speak out and hate gradually turned into a treacherous official who was full of benevolence and morality but full of men and women; I want to hear your own analysis. "

Zhu Yijun spoke up.

Xu Jie fell silent after hearing what Zhu Yijun said.

Seeing this, Zhu Yijun continued to ask: "Is it because of the supreme imperial power, or is it because of your highly respected Wang Xue, or is it because of the world style after the prosperity of commerce."

Xu Jie opened his mouth to speak.

But Zhu Yijun said first: "You don't need to rush to tell me the answer now, go back and think about it yourself, and when I ask you again, be sure to tell me the truth."

"In this way, I may let you go with dignity."

Zhu Yijun left Xuanzhimen after speaking.

Xu Jie stood up, bowed to see him off, and uttered a word tremblingly: "Yes!"

Then, Xu Jie also staggered away from here.

(End of this chapter)