allendalepharm Chapter 126 Is it Zhang Juzheng?
Chapter 126 Is it Zhang Juzheng?
Chapter 126 Is it Zhang Juzheng?
Zhang Juzheng was finally persuaded by Zhu Yijun, and realized the importance of benefiting the people and making them happy.
Zhang Juzheng also finally paid attention to the common people at the bottom, not only limited to keeping the common people from mourning and starving, but also began to realize that the people also need entertainment, and also need to use some activities organized by the imperial court to deepen their goodwill towards the imperial court, and then There is a sense of loyalty and patriotism.
But Zhang Juzheng still had a particularly dignified expression.
Rao was after leaving Qianqing Palace.
He also failed to recover from the sudden cold wind that hit his face, and his thoughts seemed to be still immersed in the disagreement between the monarch and his ministers during the imperial dialogue just now.
It was indeed a disagreement, not a conflict. After all, the emperor was not displeased from the beginning to the end, and he was not at the point where he had to resign.
But even if it was just a disagreement, Zhang Juzheng seemed to want to reflect on it again after leaving the palace, and told the bearer who carried his shoulders: "I will not take the sedan chair today."
"Yes!"
However, just when Zhang Juzheng decided to take a walk, Shen Li, the living officer who came out, walked over quickly: "Master!"
Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but stop, waiting for Shen Li to come.
Shen Li held the daily life note book, Zhang Juzheng bowed first, and then said: "The student wants to ask the teacher to approve the student to resign as the daily life note officer, and let the student go out."
Zhang Juzheng glanced at Shen Li after hearing this, and asked with a smile: "Isn't it good to be a close minister of the emperor?"
"Of course it's not bad."
Shen Li hurriedly replied, and then said: "It's just that your majesty said today that although he respects his teacher and his husband, he respects the righteous way of governing the country even more."
"Students are ashamed. Although they have worshiped under the teacher's door for many years, they have not had the consciousness of His Majesty."
"It stands to reason that students spend more time with their teachers than His Majesty spends with their teachers. However, students have never questioned all the teachings of their teachers like His Majesty, and they have not even had the awareness of His Majesty today. .”
When Shen Li said this, Zhang Juzheng gradually felt that something was wrong, and thought: "You have to question me to be considered a good student, right?"
"Although the students are dull in qualifications, they also have the heart to seek the right way to govern the country, so they want to let it go outside. Besides the benefits of land, what other benefits should we care about?"
"After all, His Majesty told the teacher, let the teacher not only focus on the benefits of the land, and perhaps the students should not focus on the land either. Instead, find a solution to the increasing population and limited land in the future!"
Shen Li said.
Zhang Juzheng laughed.
Then, Zhang Juzheng asked Shen Li: "Do you think His Majesty is really disappointed in being a teacher?"
Shen Li said: "From a student's point of view, the son of heaven is far more mature than his peers, and he is surprised by the profoundness of the country's fate; and his understanding of dignitaries, officials, and common people is not like that of a woman who is more mature than a woman. The innocence possessed by the hand is really like a gift from heaven!"
"So, the Son of Heaven must have understood the teacher's appearance, and he also understands the teacher's appearance. It is not a disappointment, maybe it is only a persuasion."
"You're right!"
"Gao Xinzheng was not the only one who had childishness in the past, why didn't I have such thoughts?"
"Although, as I become more and more aware that the wisdom of the Son of Heaven is like a gift from heaven, there is still this kind of thought that I should ask questions for the elderly first, and be more enlightened than others."
"Otherwise, this time, I wouldn't have come to the point of saying that I disappointed the emperor."
Zhang Juzheng nodded and replied.
"But fortunately, the teacher didn't directly resign because of this, forcing His Majesty to compromise, and followed the holy will, and didn't play tricks; instead, he agreed to add 'Benefiting the People' to the outline of the new policy in the future!"
"Students believe that His Majesty will respect the teacher even more because of this, and know the teacher's thoughts of 'Going to benefit the community, life and death'!"
Shen Li comforted.
Zhang Juzheng laughed and said again: "However, then again, as a teacher, he only dared to make His Majesty and the common people frugal and eliminate their desires, but did not dare to make the dignitaries and bureaucrats do this. His Majesty must have been disappointed."
"The teacher said so."
"Your Majesty obviously has half-belief and half-contempt for our scholar-bureaucrats. He is willing to believe that my scholar-bureaucrats are willing to benefit the country and disregard life and death, but he also despises my scholar-bureaucrats for being too sanctimonious. He only speaks the words of saints to others. And never use the words of the sages to act and behave."
"Thus, Your Majesty is the one who bestows favor on civil servants who carry out the New Deal, and will also reward them with benefits, such as raising honesty silver and rewarding gold, which can be seen from the beginning of the past."
"Your Majesty doesn't seem to want to believe that rewards such as giving obedience, letters, even giving titles to parents, and giving memorial archways, etc., will be a great encouragement to us scholar-bureaucrats, and we will also reward a lot of money. Seeking profit only emphasizes virtue, but in fact, virtue is also important, and profit is also important.”
After Shen Li returned, he smiled and said: "But it seems that this effect is indeed better. Every year during the festival, His Majesty receives more congratulatory forms than the late Emperor, which shows that there are indeed more ministers who are willing to praise His Majesty than those who are willing to praise the late Emperor. I'm afraid it's because His Majesty spread the money well."
"That's exactly the reason!"
"I intend to ask Your Majesty to extend more kindness to his officials, but not to reward wealth and honor, not to mention wasting the country's money, and also to think that courtiers are not gentlemen but profit-seeking villains."
Zhang Juzheng sighed: "I have always tried my best to teach him, to believe that most of the civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats are gentlemen, and to rely heavily on scholar-bureaucrats to govern the country. It is just for the emperor, who needs to understand their yin and yang, admit that the scholar-bureaucrats have public and selfish intentions, and must spur and suppress them. Selfishness, but did not make him feel that the morals of scholar-bureaucrats are not much higher than those of eunuchs and common people, and therefore he has a heart of contempt and embarrassment towards scholar-bureaucrats."
"Master, don't be disappointed."
"Although Your Majesty has such thoughts, he still believes that our scholar-bureaucrats also value the life of the common people."
"It's just that the teacher is the emperor's teacher, and he is not only a minister, but also a teacher. Therefore, the words and deeds of the teacher have more important influence on your majesty, ten times more than other courtiers!"
"So, as long as the master can set an example for the world's scholar-bureaucrats, His Majesty will gradually change his view of our scholar-bureaucrats, and in the future it will not gradually become the point where we really only value honor and honor, or even spoil eunuchs."
Shen Li said.
Zhang Juzheng looked at Shen Li after hearing this, and asked in a deep voice: "You mean, I'm still not good enough to be a teacher? Your Majesty's disdain for scholar-bureaucrats stems from my injustice in the first place?!"
"Teacher calm down!"
Shen Li hurriedly bowed his hands.
Zhang Juzheng "hummed" and didn't talk to Shen Li again.
As soon as he got home, Zhang Jingxiu greeted him: "Father, according to reports, He Xinyin fled to Beijing!"
Zhang Juzheng's expression became even worse after hearing this: "What is he doing in Beijing? He still wants to give lectures?"
Zhang Jingxiu said: "I don't know, I also heard from a few classmates."
Zhang Juzheng said: "Leave him alone for now. From now on, you brothers should be more safe and thrifty, don't learn from other anointed men and women, or even play prostitutes to gamble and ruin the family tradition!"
"You know, there are already factory guards watching at home."
"Father, don't worry, we've been doing well."
"Even if the second brother studies, he borrows them from the monastery in the outskirts of the city. In his spare time, he can only talk about Buddhism with the old monk. After all, going down the mountain is not easy."
"As for the child, you know that, not to mention women, you don't even have a dog. Up to now, you are only served by a few ugly maidservants that your mother put in the house."
"Besides, my child has always been mainly a vegetarian, not looking for delicacies from mountains and seas, and ordinary clothes are bought only once every two years."
Zhang Jingxiu said.
After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng felt that something was wrong, so he slammed the table, got up and asked Zhang Jingxiu in a loud voice:
"What do you mean by that, I'm the only one in this family who doesn't know how to be thrifty?!"
"And you can only use ways that you dare not be extravagant to secretly persuade my father?!"
Seeing that Zhang Juzheng was so angry, Zhang Jingxiu hurriedly knelt down: "Father, calm down! My boy has no such intentions. He just said that even if someone from the factory guard bribes someone in the house, father doesn't have to worry. We are not afraid of being crooked. , not afraid of left or right!"
"What's more, the Son of Heaven, Shengming, will not forcibly slander the family of the emperor's teacher, and damage the face of the royal family, so that people will know that the emperor's teacher is a hypocrite!"
"Still blocking me with words!"
Zhang Juzheng said with a rough breath.
Zhang Jingxiu had no choice but to kowtow and said: "Father, let me tell you, my child has no such intentions!"
"Never mind!"
Zhang Juzheng himself sat back at this time and said: "Students persuade, sons also persuade, what else can you say as a father? Then set an example, even if you dare not let the world's dignitaries and bureaucrats advocate frugality and refrain from extravagance, then Let yourself be frugal and suppress extravagance! Let go of everyone in the family who can be released, and reduce the supply and expenses that can be reduced!"
(End of this chapter)