"That is to say."

"He wants to replace the master and take the master's position to increase his power. He wants to be a highly respected minister and shine on the family lintel?"

"Ah!"

"You are greedy for money and land, and you only think about how to be corrupt. You rob properties and shops for your own enjoyment. How dare you want to serve as the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Is he the only one who dares to think about abolishing the New Deal?"

"Take it, I want to see what he has to say."

After hearing what Zhu Youxiao said, Eunuch Wei hurriedly went to do it.

Xu Shuangbo has actually noticed the problem.

As people who had contact with him suddenly disappeared, Xu Shuangbo knew that his affairs had been exposed.

Therefore, when Dongchang Fanzi found himself in front of him, Xu Shuangbo seemed very calm.

"Xu Shuangbo, deputy imperial envoy and minister of Dali? Something has happened to you, let's go!"

Several gangsters shackled Xu Shuangbo and took him away.

In an inconspicuous yurt behind the camp, charcoal fires were burning, making the yurt a little stuffy.

Xu Shuangbo, who had taken off his official robe and was handcuffed to a torture device, lowered his head and said nothing.

When the door curtain opened and a gust of cold wind came in, Xu Shuangbo raised his head and looked. The person who appeared in front of him was wearing brocade boots, a python dragon robe, and a black cloak. It was his dream.

He was replaced by Zhang Haogu, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty.

"It turns out that Prime Minister Zhang is here." Xu Shuangbo sneered, as if he was not the one being cuffed.

Zhang Haogu calmly brushed off the frost and snow on his body and walked to the charcoal fire nearby to keep warm.

After drying his hands repeatedly in front of the charcoal fire, Zhang Haogu rubbed his hands: "Why did you betray the imperial court?"

*** said nothing.

Zhang Haogu continued: "I admired you very much from the beginning."

"One is you, and the other is Hanlin, the censor of the former left capital. They are both talents that I appreciate."

"You are all great talents and have the ability to serve the imperial court. Therefore, I can pretend that I have not seen any details."

Xu Shuangbo looked at Zhang Haogu's indifferent expression and couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Zhang."

Zhang Haogu turned to look at Xu Shuangbo: "Is the imperial court sorry for you, or is this pavilion sorry for you?"

"In less than ten years, you have become a third-rank official of the imperial court. As the deputy imperial envoy and minister of Dali, what else are you dissatisfied with?"

"The food and salary allocated to you by the imperial court every year are not enough for you to support your family?"

"As a third-rank official in the capital, you are provided by the court for all your food, clothing, housing and transportation. In addition to your annual salary, you also have money to support your integrity. During festivals, the court's etiquette is never interrupted. Isn't this money enough for your expenses?"

Xu Shuangbo couldn't help but ask: "You also know that I am a third-rank official in the capital. What kind of salary and money are enough to support me?"

"It doesn't cost money to entertain colleagues? Or does it cost money to buy gifts?"

"You, Zhang Haogu, are the prime minister of the imperial court. You are amazing and noble!"

"You can't spend all the salary given to you by the court, and you don't need to give gifts to anyone. Banquets are only done by others who entertain you and give you gifts."

"But what about me? I also want to be promoted. I won't entertain my colleagues to build good relationships, and I won't give gifts to my superiors during holidays. How can I be promoted?"

Zhang Haogu said coldly: "Since the implementation of the New Deal, appointments and dismissals in the imperial court are based on merit, regardless of closeness. How can you win promotion by entertaining colleagues and giving gifts to superior officers? Only your own character and ability are the key to promotion!"

"You have political achievements and abilities. How can the court turn a blind eye and still need you to give gifts to please the superior?"

"If you only focus on forming cliques for personal gain and connecting people from top to bottom, how can you get promoted?"

Xu Shuangbo looked disdainful: "Oh, can you be promoted if you have political achievements and ability?"

"Mr. Zhang, you don't really think that as long as you work diligently and make political achievements, the court will see it, do you?"

"What the court sees is only a small part, a small part, and what is invisible is the majority!"

"There are many people in the world who have made political achievements, but how many of them have been seen by the court, and how many have been seen by you, Prime Minister Zhang?"

"Aren't most of them continuing to be mediocre and having trouble getting promoted throughout their lives?"

"Mr. Zhang, the world does not run according to your ideas. If you don't please your superiors, you don't make good colleagues, and there is no one to help you, how can you achieve political achievements and show them to the emperor?"

"In officialdom, there are two mouths, upper and lower. If you don't feed the upper and lower mouths, how can you achieve political achievements? People are carrying people in sedan chairs. If you are noble, others will not tolerate you!"

Zhang Haogu nodded: "It makes sense, so you choose to assassinate the king and kill him?"

Xu Shuangbo said: "The New Deal, the New Deal, the New Deal is not good governance but harsh governance!"

"Being an official is not for money and power, but for the so-called common people, the common people?"

"Who is an official but not for the glory of his family, thousands of hectares of fertile land, and ten thousand taels of silver?"

"If officials are not allowed to be corrupt and officials are not allowed to take advantage of it, why should officials do things for the court?"

"Since ancient times, only when officials have land and money can they work for the court, and only then can the gentry be willing to obey the court."

"Without these, everything is empty!"

"You can't have money and land as an official, and you can't show off your power. What's the point of being an official?!"

"Mr. Zhang, you are noble and great, but how many people in the world can be as non-greedy and non-grabbing as you? And how many people can achieve your position?"

"You are an extremely humane minister and have no desires or desires, but what about your colleagues in the world?"

“Who doesn’t run around all day for the sake of his family and glory and wealth?”

Zhang Haogu looked at Xu Shuangbo's very reasonable words and nodded: "I understand."

Xu Shuangbo continued: "Zhang Haogu, you are just one person. A single man like you will not last long!"

"Everyone in the world is like me. How long can you sit in this position?"

"You can't stop the general trend of the world. Now it seems that you and the emperor have won, but the facts will prove that we won in the end!"

"If I die, you won't have a good death in the future!"

Zhang Haogu ignored Xu Shuangbo. Xu Shuangbo's words and deeds seemed very reasonable, but in fact they were full of fallacies!

If you are not greedy or corrupt, will you not be able to support your family and bring glory to your family?

Without thousands of hectares of fertile land and ten thousand taels of silver, what would it be like being an official for nothing?

Being an official for thousands of miles is just for wealth, if you don't care for yourself, will heaven and earth destroy you?

To put it bluntly, it's just that desire confuses and the gap is difficult to fill.

This man is already unconscious, so there is no point in asking any more questions.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the files compiled by Dongchang Fanzi, and recorded the conversations between Zhang Haogu and Xu Shuangbo.

Seeing Xu Shuangbo's remarks, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh: "Can an official like this not be able to bear the word "greedy"?

Zhang Haogu was silent for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, in the final analysis, this is the desire of the human heart, and the gap is difficult to fill."

"Take Chen's family as an example. Chen's father was a wealthy landlord in Shandong from the beginning. His family owned a lot of land."

"As I received your Majesty's new appointment, the official position became bigger and bigger, and the family's land, shops, and servants also increased."

"It's as if without so much land and money, my job as an official would have been in vain. It's as if without so many servants to take care of me and support me, paving the roads with loess and splashing water on the streets can't show my power."

"These, in the final analysis, are all human desires and the expansion of the human heart."

"No matter how big the official is, he is just a minister of His Majesty. He has to be responsible for the common people in the world. No matter how much land and money he has, he will still have to eat as much as he needs for one meal. No matter how many things he has to fill his stomach, no matter how many servants he has to take care of him,

, it’s just the same few people.”

"Take your Majesty as an example. Your Majesty commands the world. These thousands of miles of rivers and mountains and hundreds of millions of subjects belong to your Majesty. The gold and silver in the palaces and palaces in the world also belong to your Majesty. But can your Majesty live here and spend money here?"

"Your Majesty has endless wealth and power, but he doesn't live in a room, and he doesn't eat a few dishes. Even if he has gold, mountains and silver seas, doesn't he only have two chopsticks?"

"Your Majesty does not have seven or eight stomachs, and your Majesty only has one body and one pair of feet. No matter how much wealth you have, it is just a pair of chopsticks in your hands and a pair of shoes at your feet."

"And what is the use of the officials in the world who want to acquire so much wealth, plunder so much people's fat and oil, build dozens of acres of houses, and accumulate more food than they can eat in ten lifetimes?"

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Master's words speak to my heart."

Sitting on a round stool and warming himself by the fire, Zhu Youxiao said slowly: "It's not that I don't love money, but I also know that I can't use so much money."

"Speaking of houses, I have the largest and most houses in the world. The palace in the capital has so many houses. How can I possibly live in it? And no matter how many dishes I serve at one meal, I can only fill my stomach with those portions."

"My food, clothing, housing and transportation are all I need. No matter how extravagant I am, I can't live in two rooms and eat ten meals at the same time."

"The people in this world have just had enough to eat and are still wearing cotton clothes. But for these officials, the court is in charge of food, clothing, housing and transportation. The official robes, meals, shelter, and carriages are all provided by the court. They only need to deal with them every day.

Government affairs are easier and more comfortable than most people in the world, but they are still not satisfied."

"It's easy for this person to be greedy, but it's hard to be satisfied. There are too few who know enough is enough and know moderation like Master."

Zhang Haogu said: "Your Majesty, after reflection for a long time, the reason for this is not only that I don't know people well, but also that the New Deal has not been implemented thoroughly. The thinking of these officials has not been corrected. In the final analysis, it is because the people below have not realized the importance of the imperial court.

intention."

"I believe that after returning from this trip, the imperial court needs to unify its thinking again, declare the intentions of the new policy, and let officials all over the world understand the imperial court's new policy thinking."
To be continued...