Chapter 243: Compilation and Revision of "Jianwen Grand Ceremony" (Part 2)(1/2)
In the Ganqing Palace, Zhu Yunwen did not introduce his idea of "Jianwen Encyclopedia", but instead sent the test papers for the Southern Zhili Provincial Examination and asked the four of them to read it first. If nothing unexpected happened, all the four of them couldn't help but frown.
"Some of the test questions in Nanzhili are about people's livelihood, some are about business and law. If nothing unexpected happens, they will be a mess."
Zhu Yunwen chuckled and shook his head, but said good things to these candidates.
"There is no way, it's because I've thought it's simple. Let a group of people who have never been an official come to take the place to manage the place. Where can I do well in the exam?"
When everyone drinks, they can always blow the mountains and sea whistles. When encountering specific incidents, these grassroots scholars are irritated and rack their brains. They don’t know what to do. Apart from the big truth of fake and empty words, they are more smooth than anyone else.
"I remember that in the Hongwu year of the Hanlin Academy, he edited a book called "Instructions for the Acceptance of County Magistrates" and "Responsibility Regulations". That's right."
When the four of them laughed when they heard Zhu Yunwen ask about this.
In the year of Hongwu, many Hanlin Jinshi were delegated to grassroots county magistrates, but the work of county magistrates was completely different from their studies in the capital. Many students were instantly disgusted when they arrived at the place, and they didn't know where to start, let alone carry out their work. For this reason, Emperor Taizu found several outstanding county magistrates similar to later generations and summoned them to the Hanlin Academy to edit such an official guide.
When a county magistrate goes to a place, he first needs to do what work he needs to do, secondly, where he needs to visit, and finally what difficult and complicated diseases he needs to deal with. There are all in that book.
How amazing is this book? There are more than 100 matters in a county, and it can be said that you can tell you clearly, no matter how big or small it is, you don’t have to worry about asking your master, just take this book and follow the above steps to govern, so that you can pass the three years of local provincial government officials’ examination.
Later, some officials with good family conditions became even more lazy, so they simply asked a master to act on behalf of the county magistrate according to this book, and lie down at home and sleep well. Another person from the Ministry of Personnel issued a "Regulations on Responsibility", which are the compulsory texts for the Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty.
These two subjects, which can be called official textbooks, were implemented from the year of Hongwu until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
This is what is called governing according to the rules.
Taizu means that I don’t need you to have your ideas, I just need you to become an official according to my ideas.
A book "Instructions for County Magistrates to Take the Terms" allows countless Jinshi County Magistrates to copy and copy the actions he did when he was delegated, whether he went to Liaodong, Gansu, or Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, or Yunnan. He did everything he did to the local area so hard that he did not know how to adapt.
There were no such arrogant people. They were quite thoughtful and thought that being an official should not be so blunt and could not govern according to the rules. They felt that they could manage the place well.
Who can't govern a country?
As a result, his own ideas were even more messy and he was slashed over by Taizu in anger. From then on, he scared the county magistrates all over the world to be honest.
Small-book governance became the norm in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
"I have read this book "Instructions on the Attendance of County Magistrates" and also read the "Responsibility Regulations". I was inspired by this, so I wanted to edit a "Kaowen Ceremony". You can understand it as the new "Instructions on the Instructions on the Advocate".
After hearing what Zhu Yunwen said, Yang Shiqi was the first to agree.
"Your Majesty is wise and you must know that this kind of thing is indeed very important for an official. The scholars study hard and read all the books they read. They go deep into the grassroots to safeguard the people and the localities, and they cannot use any saints' remarks. They do need some guidance to teach the official."
After saying these flattering nonsense, Yang Shiqi raised concerns and doubts.
"But I'm bluntly saying that governance still needs to be adapted to the times and local conditions. We cannot create a lot of identical county magistrates at one time according to printing techniques. It's better to be in the Jiangnan area near the center, but in remote provinces, just one ethnic customs problem is traumatized. Like Guangdong, Guangxi and Guizhou, it's still a small blow a day and a big blow a day, and bloodshed incidents are endless. These problems can be solved by an official's instructions."
The instructions for being an official are like the assembly line of a factory. A large number of officials who are carved out of a mold are mass-produced, and even their thoughts are exactly the same. The Central Plains where the Han people are concentrated can still be played, and the frontiers where the Han people live together cannot do it.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the conflict between my country and the young people continued for six or seven hundred years and did not stop. There were countless bloody suppression of sending troops to quell the chaos. In the Hongwu period alone, there were dozens of large-scale suppression battles with more than 10,000 troops. There were records of suppression of quelling the chaos, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Liaodong, Gansu and Fujian.
The local people seek power, or even independence, to build China. To be larger, this is a splitting country, and to be smaller, everyone wants to be a local overlord, so it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail.
"That's right, it's because of this consideration that I want to call you to discuss how to write the editing work of the "Jianwen Encyclopedia"."
Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but nodded, and then expressed his thoughts.
"I plan to classify the Jianwen Encyclopedia, including humanities, politics, economy, history, law, literature, movement and other categories."
The four of them buried their heads and began to copy their own small notebooks, listening to Zhu Yunwen's constant murmuring.
"Every major category needs to be collected from the Xia and Shang dynasties, and all the things in our Central Plains and neighboring countries have been classified into categories.
For example, humanities, in this category, we should include the customs and customs of each place, the cultural customs of each ethnic group, the daily life knowledge of the people, and the national conditions of each country except the Ming Dynasty.
The purpose of describing these things is to allow no new officials to have a certain knowledge reserve in the future, so that they can understand and respect local cultural differences after they go to a new place. Those who are smart will use this knowledge to stabilize management or rule.
In politics, my ideas include current affairs, the court's policy program, and some of the cabinet's ideological arguments published in the newspaper "Qiushi".
The purpose of learning this knowledge is to enable grassroots officials and clerks to maintain a high degree of ideological consistency with me and the cabinet, and they cannot let them do whatever they want, so as to avoid going off the line of their governance.
For the economy, this category should not be touched too deeply for the time being. I am still thinking about it. I will just mention a few simple sentences, such as business can enrich the country and the people, and private business behaviors should be encouraged to be brave in reform and opening up, and some other arguments should be temporarily controlled.
History, from the Xia and Shang dynasties to the present, this area is best included and sorted out. It will record all the dynasties that have been in China for thousands of years as timelines, including the development of our neighbors in the small country with written records, including those recorded in writing.
The ancients said that learning from history can help you know the rise and fall. Let them learn more about history books so that they can know what to do and what not to do.
Law is more important. Except for the current laws in our Ming Dynasty, since the rituals before the birth of the law, all the content related to rituals, laws and letters in the present day have been recorded, including the selection of law documents compiled and collected by officials during the Sui and Tang Dynasties and Song Dynasties.
As for literature numbers, that is, literature and mathematics, there is no need to say much about literature, only mentioning mathematics.
I looked at the mathematical progress in our Central Plains during the Song Dynasty and the Anti-Year Planets, including the current "Ming Dynasty Numbers" that I have studied and implemented, which are now used in the market. These must be recorded.
The most important thing is Shen Kuo's book "Dream of Dreams" back then. This book is amazing, which shows that our ancestors have researched on mathematics, science and technology and engineering (physics), gunpowder (chemistry), medicine (biology), etc., and all of these need to be carefully included and sorted out.
As for the type of motion analysis.”
Zhu Yunwen glanced in the hall and spoke solemnly for a long time, which immediately surprised everyone.
"That is, from the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to Taizu's "Edict on the Central Plains", for thousands of years, all major and large-scale uprisings, rebellions, restoration of the country, and Northern Expedition, all the ultimate purpose of obtaining political rights, no matter what banner the banner is, you call it rebellion. Here, I gave him a new name, called the Revolutionary Movement.
Revolution is not about treating guests to dinner, making articles, paintings and embroidery. It cannot be so elegant, so calm, "gentle and kind" or "gentle" or "gentle and kind". Revolution is a riot, an action of one class overthrowing another class through force and bloodshed killing.
Since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted, "Would there be a king, prince, general, and minister?", it is the first revolutionary slogan in the history of the Central Plains. They want to revolutionize the Qin Dynasty, and Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Han Dynasty. Similarly, Emperor Taizu Gao's Northern Expedition was the fate of the Yuan Dynasty. There was nothing to be ashamed of, Zhang could not speak out. The facts are facts. Whether you mention it or not, it is here."
The Qianqing Palace was silent, and the four people in the cabinet widened their eyes and looked at Zhu Yunwen in disbelief.
For the first time I heard that an emperor wanted to include and organize the uprisings and rebellions in history, and even teach them to the world. What a slutty operation?
How to rebel in the world?
Or, as the emperor said, how to teach the world how to revolutionize the Ming Dynasty?
"Your Majesty, you must not."
Yang Shiqi took the lead in bowing down and repeatedly advised: "How can there be any reason for the rebels to write books and biography? In this way, the country will not be a country."
Since Yang Shiqi, the other three people have also quickly bowed down and advised him, all for Zhu Yunwen to take back his fate. These previous items are well said. It is indeed of great benefit to the future grassroots scholars of the Ming Dynasty to be officials, but this last item is too outrageous. How can you teach your subjects how to rebel?
The reactions of these people were completely within Zhu Yunwen's expectations, because his idea had been considered as long as when he was preparing to implement the provincial exam. Today, he felt that his idea had been perfect and had extremely high feasibility, so he chose to come up with it.
Why copy all the rebellion or revolutionary behaviors that have emerged in thousands of years of history?
This is like the reason why parents in later generations rarely teach their children about sexual life is one thing. This is an act that is difficult to describe and is taboo.
The social atmosphere before Zhu Yunwen traveled was already very open. Among the ten families, there were one or two enlightened parents who would start educating their children around the age of adolescence, so that they could understand what physiological structure and some sexual life knowledge were. However, most parents still would never tell their children what sex was!
Zhu Yunwen remembered that when he was very young, his parents said that he had picked it up in the garbage dump. Even when he was in high school, Zhu Yunwen still thought so in the 1990s!
For this reason, he also asked his teachers and classmates, but the teachers couldn't speak out, and the classmates were like him, all from the garbage dump.
Is the garbage dump also the function of producing children?
Children don’t understand and parents don’t teach them, but sexual impulses during adolescence are the inevitable path that every child must go through, and then the sky will be thunder and fire will be out of control.
By the same token, rebellion was the biggest taboo in ancient times, and no one dared to say it, let alone collecting a collection of rebellions.
But if you don’t mention it, the people won’t understand?
Although he didn't understand, he knew that if he couldn't survive, he would kill people. He knew that there was food in the official warehouse and that he could survive by entering the official warehouse. This is like a child who doesn't understand what sex is, but he will follow the instinct of biological organisms and performs piston movements.
If the people rebelled, they would die. Children would steal the forbidden fruits and would become pregnant if they didn’t know how to protect them.
Thousands of obstacles, but in the end they still lead to bad consequences.
"Do you know why I want them to understand what rebellion is or what revolution is?"
Zhu Yunwen walked down the imperial stairs and helped the four cabinet ministers up. He simply sat among the four people and explained to them.
"Do you know why the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Huang Chao Rebellion gathered dozens or even millions of people in an instant?"
"The people should rebel if they don't live."
Yang Shiqi replied, and saw Zhu Yunwen nodding.
"Yes, the people should rebel without surviving, so the saying that those who win the hearts of the people will win the world, and those who lose the hearts of the people will lose the world. But the reason is that the people do not understand what rebellion is. Only a few people who rebelled know it. So they used slogans and painted big cakes to deceive these common people, making the people believe in the nonsense they said, "equal land, tax exemption, and willing to charge for these ambitions and sacrifice their lives."
Slogans have the power to seduce people.
What is the King of Chuang who comes and does not pay grain, what is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom "the farmer has his own land, the living has his own house, and the business has his own property." The old have a place to rely on and have a few to raise. To put it bluntly, these are painting big cakes.
"What they always say is fighting for rights and interests for the proletariat and cannot survive. Why do they become emperors after the people shed their blood and lost their lives to build a large territory for them? Shouldn't this emperor be the same as all the people?"
Inside the hall, all four of them laughed.
If they all become emperors, then who will this emperor rule?
Having said that, Yang Shiqi and the other two understood the emperor's meaning.
Why do we need to nakedly make rebellion just a word? The purpose is to cultivate more "ambitious people"!
If you want to rebel, you can do it, the court will teach you.
This rebellion requires bewitching people's hearts, inspiring uneducated people, manpower help, and slogans.
Have you learned it?
Then go and rebel.
"In the past, one person carried a flag to rebel, gathered tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people. From then on, one hundred thousand people wanted to rebel. Who would become this boss?"
Zhu Yunwen smiled: "People's hearts want to be the boss and they will shout slogans, but in the end, no one will accept anyone. In the end, everyone found that no one would accept anyone, and in the end they simply were too lazy to rebel."
The more people know how to rebel, the more they will be unable to do this.
To be continued...