Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 525
Zhu Yihai closed the account book in his hand, put it on the red sandalwood case in front of him, and cast his eyes on Liu Zongzhou, the censor of Zuodu.

Liu Zongzhou, who was honored by him as the censor of Zuodu at the beginning of being called the supervisor of the country, has not moved his position until now, and he is still one of the ministers of the Prime Minister's Office, which is enough to prove that he is still very important in the emperor's heart.

For more than a year, Liu Zongzhou also claimed to have rebuilt the Metropolitan Procuratorate, completely completed the system of the government office, and recommended many upright and upright ministers as the supervisory department. Salt, river inspection, tea inspection, sea inspection and even military supervision.

He deserves it.

"The chief constitution can be straightforward, what is the disarmament and salary reduction law?" Zhu Yihai said directly, Liu Zongzhou is a good chief constitution, but Zhu Yihai doesn't like many of his ideas.This is an old-fashioned official, a great contemporary Confucianist, and some people commented that he is full of sour Confucianism.

Zhu Yihai prefers to use bookishness to evaluate him. This is a person with political cleanliness and high requirements for personal morality. Compared with the obvious pragmatic hypocrites like Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and even Qian Qianyi in the late Ming Dynasty, he seems very noble.

However, as an emperor, or an emperor in such troubled times, he is doomed to employ people not only on character, but also on ability.Since the end of Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party once gained power and came to power, but these Donglin Party, who claimed to be gentlemen, tossed and tossed but did not do a few real things.

Put more energy into party struggles, and once you gain power, you will be even more unforgiving.

It is said that Liu Zongzhou’s ancestor was the descendant of Changsha King in the Han Dynasty, but for several generations up to Liu Zongzhou, he was just a farmer in Shaoxing, and he could only be said to be a small rich peasant who had studied. Because his father died early, Liu Zongzhou grew up with his grandfather. At the age of 20, he passed the examination.

After being elected, he also followed Daliu to visit a squire who had become an official. As a result, his mother knew that this man was a corrupt official with a bad reputation, so she scolded him.

He concentrated on his studies, and after failing to win the Jinshi the following year, he studied hard for three years and finally won the top three No.5.He returned to his hometown with joy, but only saw his mother's new grave. His mother refused to let him know because she was seriously ill for fear of affecting his exam.

Standing in front of his mother's grave, he made a somewhat pedantic oath, vowing not to make friends indiscriminately. If he is not a comrade, he will avoid him even if he encounters him.

After serving the funeral for his mother, he formally became an official and appointed pedestrians as pedestrians. However, in the court, he was very dissatisfied with the atmosphere of the court at that time. During the period, he borrowed Dashan Temple to teach the clan children.Although his family was still poor, sometimes he couldn't even afford food, and relied on loans of rice from the monks of Dashan Temple, Liu Zongzhou still didn't enter the public court, and even if local officials came to visit, he refused to see him.

After Ding You finished, he still didn't go to Beijing to go for the election, he still stayed in his hometown to teach, he was so poor that the bowls for drinking water were broken, but he still insisted on himself.

Staying at home is eight years.

Until later, Ye Xianggao was a cabinet minister, Sun Piyang, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Gao Ju, Governor of Zhejiang, etc. were all Qingliu, and they were committed to attracting celebrities, so he was reinstated as the original official.

Although he was introduced by Qingliu, Liu Zongzhou was not close to the Donglin party members, and even the fellow from Zhejiang who came to win him over from the Kunxuan party at that time did not agree.
This made Liu Zongzhou a well-known pedantic scholar in Beijing, so he only stayed in Beijing for three years before returning to his hometown to continue teaching and writing.

It was already the first year of Tianqi, and he was 44 years old when he became an official again. He was a Jinshi at the age of 24, but it turned out that he wasted 20 years.

He started to be the head of the Ritual System Department of the Ministry of Rites. He was a small official, but he went to Beijing on the fourth day of the junior high school, performed his duties on the 25th, and impeached Wei Zhongxian on the [-]th.

If it weren't for the great scholar Ye Xianggao's efforts to save him, he would have been beaten to death by Wei Zhongxian's sixty court staff.

But Liu Zongzhou is such a pedantic person, and he continued to be pedantic afterwards, and he continued to make some pedantic remarks.

After the turmoil in Tianqi Chongzhen, he was awarded the title of Tongzheng Siyou Tongzheng. As a result, he not only resigned but also impeached Wei Zhongxian, and finally ended up being dismissed for the people.

When Chongzhen became an official for the fourth time in the first year of Chongzhen, he was awarded the title of Governor of Shuntian Prefecture. When he met the emperor, he had not yet performed his duties. Some actions of the emperor.

Fortunately, although Chongzhen was young at that time, he still respected the world-famous Confucian Liu Zongzhou.

Liu Zongzhou was the Governor of Shuntian Prefecture, but at this time, the wind and rain were precarious. Although he was a corrupt Confucian, he was concerned about the country and the people, but it was of no avail.

Later, this nerd still offended the treacherous ministers Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru. They could not tolerate such rotten accusations, and kept saying in front of the emperor that Liu Zongzhou was pedantic and just a nerd.

The emperor also gradually became impatient with Liu Zhouzong's rhetoric. Liu Zongzhou, the governor of Shuntian Fu, couldn't do it anymore, so he had to write his resignation every day. Chongzhen was approved in three years and continued to return to his hometown to give lectures.

Because he wrote a memorial to the emperor on the way home, criticizing the government, he was decreed to be dismissed as a civilian.

This time, he stayed at home for more than five years. In the 14th year of Chongzhen, the emperor remembered that there was Liu Daru, and specially ordered him to be appointed as the left servant of the official department.

He resigned many times, but in the end he was unable to enter Beijing the next year. After arriving in Beijing, he was awarded the Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

As soon as he took office, he went to Shu, saying that there are fewer people but more thieves, and more officials will make things worse.

Not long after, the emperor summoned the minister Zhongzuomen to ask about politics, and Liu Zongzhou accused the emperor of letting the general of Jinyi go to jail, which hurt the country's constitution. As a result, he angered Chongzhen again, ordered him to be dismissed, and asked the Ministry of punishment to commit a crime. It was under the persuasion of other ministers that the word "criminal crime" was crossed out. This time, he only served as Zuodu censor for two months, and then he was dismissed and returned home.

The road home was not peaceful, stop and go, and it was already June 16 of Chongzhen when we arrived home. In the following year, Li Zicheng invaded Beijing and Chongzhen hanged himself. Write letters to Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Zuo Liangyu, etc., asking to join forces to hunt down thieves, and even recruit volunteers.

Later, when King Fu succeeded to the throne in Nanjing, he ordered him to be a reinstated official. On the way, he even went to Sishu, and even took a new name for himself on the grounds of the country's loss.

Before he arrived in Nanjing, he had already impeached Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing and others in several memorials, and later impeached Ma Shiying for forming a party for personal gain. In Jingkou, there happened to be a conflict between the soldiers of the governor of Zhejiang and Jiang Fangming's army. When it spread to Nanjing, he became a bookworm of Liu Da He is uniting with the governor of Zhejiang to ask Qing Jun to get rid of traitors and frighten Ma Shiying and others.

Gao Jie and Liu Kongzhao even sent an assassin to assassinate Liu Zongzhou on the way. As a result, the assassin sneaked into Liu Zongzhou's residence in the middle of the night. Instead, Liu Zong's family was shocked by his righteous words and deeply admired him. They escorted him to Beijing before leaving in shame.

Although Liu Dapao entered Nanjing, Ma Shiying and others regarded him as a thorn in his flesh, spreading rumors every day to smear him, and finally Liu Zongzhou, Gao Hongtu, and Jiang Riguang were forced to resign and leave.

Liu Zongzhou, who returned to his hometown of Shaoxing, soon heard that Hongguang had abandoned Nanjing to escape and was captured. Hangzhou Lu Wang’s supervisory army had surrendered within five days. However, this rotten Confucian still kept in touch with his disciples and old friends, recruited volunteers, and planned to fight against the Qing Dynasty to the end.

Later, when he heard that all Ningshao officials had surrendered, he was so desperate that he started a hunger strike, wanting to die for his country.

Liu Zongzhou, who had been on a hunger strike for many days, later saw the envoy sent by Zhu Yihai. He was moved by an extremely sincere letter. He said that he would not die, so he went south to vote for Zhu Yihai.

After going south, he was awarded the censor of Zuodu, and until now, Yuan Cong, the real uprising, conspired with the heroes.

In Zhu Yihai's court, this Liu Dapao was still very talkative, and he went to the court at every turn, denouncing the courtiers and even admonishing the emperor.

If you don't like it, just say it, and never hide it.

But even in this small imperial court, with his qualifications and prestige, he still maintained his true colors.

It's that pedantic.

But Zhu Yihai has always trusted him very much, because others think he is too pedantic and stupid.

However, Zhu Yihai has always believed that Liu Zongzhou's qualifications and reputation are too simple to gain power or money. It's all very simple.

But he just chose the most difficult path to walk.

It's not stupid.

He is a real scholar who reads the real way of Confucius and Mencius, the books of sages and sages, and he really has morality in mind!

So no matter how the situation changes, even if the situation is good now, Zhu Yihai never thought about changing Liu Dapao who always beat him.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate needs such a Liu Dapao, and needs such a benchmark of morality and loyalty!
He is the Dinghaishenzhen in the court, no matter what time, this kind of person is indispensable.

Even if a new remonstrance court has been set up now, led by Hong Chengchou and Qian Qianyi who are smart, capable and dare to bite, it can't replace Liu Dapao's position.

He was the first to stand up to question and oppose, in fact, it was within Zhu Yihai's expectation.

Even he had been waiting for Liu Dapao to stand up, and then he spattered all over. Of course, the emperor had prepared many rebuttals in advance.

As long as Liu Dapao can be refuted and convinced, then the emperor's set of words will be able to convince the whole world.

People like Liu Zongzhou represent Dao, and people like Ruan Dacheng represent Shu. In troubled times, Shu is very much needed, but Dao cannot be ignored.

All that is needed is for them to stand in their proper positions. You cannot let Liu Zongzhou be the decision-making center, and you cannot rely on the cannon to carry out military affairs.

"His Majesty!"

Liu Zong stood up with his long beard straightened on Monday, with a loud voice, and looked directly at the emperor, "I think that although the situation has improved, half of the country is still in ruins. It is too early to be happy. What the court needs to do is to endure humiliation and forge ahead. Moving forward is to let the people recuperate, not to try their best to search the people,
Now the imperial court should not continue to expand the army desperately, but should cut down and merge some troops.

In addition, not only the soldiers' salaries are relatively high, but the officers' treatment is even more generous. In addition, the salaries of hundreds of officials and court expenses should be reduced. Yes, raising honesty can really make officials honest, which is unheard of in ancient times!

A military officer has a salary, but also a reward for his position, and even a famous food for his relatives. An admiral pays a hundred soldiers. Isn't this a blatant waste of money?
Now is a special time, a time of national calamity, officials and generals, civil and military, don't think about how to serve the country and help the people, but think about getting promoted and getting rich, rewarding and lucrative, is there such a thing?

The minister suggested that only the existing imperial camp and Beijing camp should be retained, and no expansion should be made, and the rest of the provincial camps should be abolished, and converted to local regiment training on the spot, farming in leisure time, and assisting defense in wartime. "

"Soldiers can receive full salary, but civil servants and generals should not only return to the old salary of Chongzhen, but also only pay half salary to reduce expenses."

"The reduced salaries and military expenses should also be deducted from the current tax collection accordingly, especially lijin, which is now [-]% for department stores, and [-]% for passing by, and levied for market sales, and then the introduction of industrial and commercial tax. Not double collection?
Lijin should be abolished, and the industrial and commercial tax should be collected appropriately, but it should not exceed thirty tax one! "

Liu Dapao's core idea is not to spend money indiscriminately. It is best to tax less, so that the people will be less burdened, and then officials and soldiers should not take too much money, or the burden on the people will be too heavy.

The army can't raise too many, just about enough. There are not many soldiers, there is no need to keep recruiting soldiers and horses, because they can't afford it.

A soldier is paid two taels a month, but four or five taels is too much.

There shouldn't be any such things as raising money for honesty and famous food for soldiers.

(End of this chapter)