Official Secretary of the Ministry of Justice.

After explaining the current situation in Beijing to Hai Rui, Zhang Wei took out a pack of cigarettes from his purse. The pattern of the cigarette box was printed on the blue sea, and a huge sailboat was shaking the waves.

Hai Rui recognized that this is a Coast Guard cigarette. It is not sold on the market, but is exclusively for Coast Guard officers and soldiers.

Zhang Wei first handed a cigarette to his boss. Hai Rui waved his hand and refused. He did not touch any hobbies except tea.

Moreover, when you drink tea, you only drink high-crumbs. The so-called high-crumbs are the layer of crushed powder under the tea jar. Although it is lost in shape, it is more broken and the tea tastes more fragrant when brewing.

The key is that it is cheap, and you can drink it for a month if you buy ten cents. Hai Rui then allows himself to keep this little hobby.

In fact, the monthly salary of a first-rank official has changed from a monthly salary of 72 shi. In recent years, it has been changed to a discount of 150 taels of silver, which means the issue of silver. The monthly salary of 150 taels is an absolute high income wherever it is placed.

However, since Hai Rui became the governor during the Longqing period, he has donated most of his income to the Sales Children's Bureau and the Career House of the poor counties in Qiongzhou Prefecture for helping the children and elderly care.

In another time and space, Hai Rui died of illness when he was appointed as the censor of the Right Censor of Nanjing. Because he had no son, after his death, his subordinate Wang Yongji, the Censor of Nanjing, took care of his funeral.

Wang Yongji came to Hai Rui's residence and saw that the bed was hung with cheap kudzu cloth, and the furniture was also ragged bamboo utensils, and some were unwilling to use by poor literati. After searching for Hai Rui's residence, he only found a few torn clothes with patches and a few torn boxes containing torn clothes.

This is all the property left by the second-rank official who has been an official in his life...

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Zhang Wei lit a cigarette with a lighter, then said, "These young censors are amazing. Their attacks were carefully planned and followed the predetermined steps step by step. They often start with some small things and impeach some middle and low-level officials. They discuss some sensitive topics to attract the attention of the government and the public and attract more officials to join the battlefield. In time, small things gradually develop into big things; small officials gradually involve high officials; some small things at the end of details eventually become big cases that affect the world."

"In terms of action, they are also very organized. The first step is to cause a storm by the unknown. Before the effect is achieved, they will never take the next step rashly. Until the time is right, the general will take action!" He said with a meaningful look at Hai Rui:

"The opponent's general has already appeared, which means that the killing game he has been painstakingly arranged is ready and is about to harvest a wave. How can the old master doom disrupt the game at this time?"

If a person with a huge influence like Hai Rui joins, no matter whether he supports or opposes the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng, those censors of the younger generation will not get any benefits.

It is not necessary to say that he opposes liquidation. If he supports it, he will instantly become the focus of the overthrow, and the censors will become the wedding dress for him. This is naturally unacceptable to the censors who are eager to accumulate political capital and become famous.

"Well, I understand..." Hai Rui took a sip of strong tea and nodded. He had never seen any storm before, so he naturally knew what those censors had planned.

"What are the plans of the old tribe?" Zhang Wei asked tentatively.

"Let's take a look first." Hai Rui said slowly: "I have been away for so many years, so there is no need to be impatient to speak up as soon as I come back."

"Yes, when this kind of cloud is in chaos, it's better to be cautious..." Zhang Wei nodded with a smile, chatted with Hai Rui for a while, and then left.

Hai Rui sent him to the door of the official hall, looked at Zhang Wei's back, and showed a playful expression.

This person was not only a friend of Zhao Shouzheng's same year, but also persecuted by Zhang Juzheng, but also had no idea about He Xinyin's group of people. There are even rumors that he also took Zhao Hao as his teacher, and the nickname "Hongyang" was given to him by Zhao Hao.

In short, this person has a very complicated background, so it is most appropriate to find him to understand the situation, but you should not trust it easily.

Moreover, Hai Rui didn't believe that Zhao Shouzheng would have a small test and would have a capsized boat in the gutter. That would be too underestimated by the premier of the Ming Dynasty... and his son.

As for those censors who were worried that they would steal their limelight, they were completely blind. This time Hai Rui’s only goal to return to Beijing was the emperor, and the emperor was still hidden behind the scenes. Why are you anxious?

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Wenyuan Pavilion, the chief minister is in the room.

Zhao Shouzheng sat behind the large table of rosewood that he had used before. Through the glass window, he looked at the magnificent Wenhua Hall not far away, and felt a burst of headaches.

He has been serving as the chief minister for half a year. He has been exhausted in the past six months and has lived like years. He used to be gray on his temples, but now his hair is gray. Fortunately, his hair is still quite considerable and there is no risk of being sparse and bald.

How can I not have a headache? In the past six months, the lectures on the imperial court have stopped, and the morning court has not been discussed, and the new policy of Wanli has gradually become vain.

Although the examination method is still there with my own persistence, the string that has been tightened for too long by all officials will inevitably relax. The focus of the Ming Dynasty court has shifted from endless reform assessments to popular political struggles.

With the tacit consent and even secretly promoted by Emperor Wanli, some ambitious people who hated Zhang Taishi to the core, had different political views, or wanted to take the opportunity to take the lead, and with a considerable number of censors, the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng's actions have become increasingly fierce and are in an unstoppable situation.

Zhao Shouzheng didn't want to see this situation, but he knew in his heart that this was inevitable.

In his opinion, there are at least three reasons.

First of all, Zhang Juzheng ignored that this dynasty was a country based on morality. In this vast empire and a large population, the imperial court had limited administrative capabilities. Although various laws were promulgated, in actual operations, it was impossible to follow the law and punish violations. Therefore, morality must be used to maintain social stability.

To put it bluntly, it means repeatedly promoting Confucian morality, allowing everyone to be a good person with low desires, and making society as easy to manage as a flock of sheep. People are slaughtered by others like sheep, can eat grass on their own, and can contribute milk, fur and flesh. In this way, only a few sheepdogs can be used to manage thousands of sheep, and the administrative cost is naturally greatly reduced.

Therefore, in the rule of the Celestial Empire, morality is the supreme way, and specific administrative ability is an unimportant technique. Morality can not only guide administration, but also replace administration. This is why censors always attack ministers morally. No matter how capable an official is, as long as there are moral flaws, even if they do not violate any law, their career will be ended.

However, Zhang Juzheng actually tried to govern the country with laws, put laws and decrees above morality, instead of moral guidance of administration, and made the final ruling. This moved the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and dug the ancestral grave of the civil servant group! Can it not cause their strong rebound?

Because morality is almost unchanging, the classics of two or three thousand years will not be outdated. Therefore, as long as scholars read the scriptures well, they do not have any administrative experience, they can guide the country and criticize the administrative decisions of the court!

The laws must keep pace with the times and cannot be summarized in general. They must be treated in detail in specific issues and constantly modify or formulate new laws according to changes in actual situations.

This requires specialization in the profession. For example, if military decrees are not discussed in the moral field but at the technical level, only experienced War officials have the right to speak.

The same is true for finance, taxation, water conservancy, engineering, justice and other aspects.

This deprived a large number of officials who only knew Shi Yunzi, and especially made the censors unable to fire at will without blind spots.

What? Let them investigate and become experts? That's too painful! How can you get irresponsible and random fireworks?

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Juzheng died, they would be impatient to return to the era above morality and would definitely put all the laws formulated by Master Zhang under their feet!

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Furthermore, Zhang Juzheng regarded the civil servant group as an administrative tool, but ignored that they were the ruling class that shared the Ming Dynasty with the emperor.

Not only did he control them too strictly and punish them too hard, which made them lose their sense of security and run like a dog, so he naturally felt resentment.

Zhang Juzheng also lacks respect for those "opinion leaders" who lack administrative capabilities.

In fact, his hiding of Hai Rui is an example.

For example, Wang Shizhen, who was the leader of the literary world for many years, was actually quite addicted to officials. The leader of the Wang family always hoped to be the Minister of the Six Ministry and put a perfect end to his bumpy career.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to flatter Zhang Juzheng in various ways, such as giving his parents a birthday preface and giving him a lot of antique calligraphy and paintings. However, Zhang Juzheng was not grateful, but after receiving a letter from Wang Shizhen that he hoped to serve Yuanfu, he replied, "Wu Gan Yue hook, if you use it lightly, you will have to fold it; if you hide it in the box, your essence will be complete."

The leader of the Wang Alliance was arrogant and was regarded as a genius in the world by Zhang Juzheng as a bad guy. Naturally, he was so angry that he was so angry that he smoked his orifices. Since then, Taiyue has been in a dark life and will start to squirt after seizing the opportunity.

He wanted to write articles in the newspaper several times, but he failed to pass the review. In anger, he set up a newspaper called Yingtianbao. At first, there were three issues per month, and later, there were one issues per month, which specifically sang the opposite tune with Zhang Juzheng...

With the influence of the leader of the king among traditional literati, Zhang Juzheng's reputation can still be better

In the end, he forgot that he was actually a member of the civil servant group, but he made drastic reforms from the emperor's standpoint. As a result, he not only offended the civil servant group, but also made the emperor lose his authority.

It’s okay for the emperor to appreciate it. If you meet a ungrateful person like Wanli, you will naturally fall into something inside and outside.

Of course no one dares to act rashly when he is alive, it would be strange if he is not upset if he dies.

Zhao Shouzheng knew very well that the emperor and the civil servant group had been suppressed in the shadow of Taishi Zhang for too long and had long been on the verge of the explosion.

Therefore, the reverse forces have a broad support base, which makes them seem so uncontrollable.

If Zhao Hao hadn't had a cauldron to remove the firewood from the underworld and at least openly withdraw from this ugly carnival, the situation facing Zhao Xianggong would have been much more difficult...
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