People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 463 Is Chen Han’s reform wrong?
However, the good life in the eyes of ordinary people is seen as an obstacle to their upward mobility in the eyes of civil servants.

They even think that the current reforms and changes are completely heretical.

Now Chen Han should admit that his reforms were wrong.

They should acknowledge that these policies of their civil servants are correct.

That's what they think.

So now they are very resistant to any idea of ​​reform.

They will angrily criticize anyone who dares to say that it is reform.

Because these are contrary to one's own interests.

In particular, Chen Han, on more occasions, cracked down on all those officials who gained benefits through the imperial examinations.

Many civil servants saw the crisis.

Now Chen Han is fighting everywhere.

So there is not much leisure time to pay attention to internal affairs.

But once he catches any evidence.

They will definitely be hit hard.

So they still have to find ways to improve their status.

And how to improve your status?

The only thing they can do is to exploit the military generals.

Now, each of these generals has channels for promotion at this time.

Especially fighting on the east, south and north sides at the same time gave the generals the opportunity to show their skills.

But this made the civil servants feel very threatened.

Once these military generals have a more important position in the court, it means that these civil officials will have nothing to do.

If no strong man appears to protect the interests of these civil servants at that time, they will be defeated one by one by Chen Han and his men.

So now the civil servants gathered together and immediately came up with a plan.

“Whether or not we can investigate their lies about military intelligence, we must teach them a lesson.

This is not only to avenge the humiliation we suffered at the city gate by the people of Beiping Prefecture, but more importantly to let these generals know.

Now it is up to us to decide. Even if they win many battles, as long as we intervene, we can make all their victories go to waste."

The leader of the team this time was the Minister of Rites. He was the first one who was dissatisfied with the great victory achieved by Beiping Prefecture under the leadership of Zhu Di.

Although he kept giving instructions, this investigation was not because of the humiliation he suffered at the city gate.

But in fact, everyone could see that the humiliation at the city gate intensified his disgust towards Zhu Di.

At the same time, because they were humiliated by the people when they entered the city, they knew that Zhu Di's prestige in Beiping Prefecture was very high.

If the prestige of these people is allowed to continue to expand in this way, the civil servants may face more crises.

So he proposed to give Zhu Di in Beiping Prefecture a warning.

Let Zhu Di know that it was a great mistake to allow those people to humiliate us at the city gate, and you will have to pay the price.

The other civil servants entered and hesitated.

The current investigation results are very clear. Zhu Di did not lie about military intelligence, and it is very likely that he reported it to his superiors in the most normal way.

Although it is a far-fetched number to say that Di Jun suffered more than one hundred casualties and defeated hundreds of thousands of people, it is indeed a fact.

This further proves that under the impetus of reform and change, the upgrade of weapons and equipment has made a generational difference, leaving the enemy forces with no energy to fight back.

They should have been happy, but it made the civil servants see more dangers in their future.

Therefore, it is necessary to curb the arrival of this danger.

However, some civil servants directly asked: "Now that all the evidence shows that they did not commit fraud, how can we use them to give them a warning?"

Yup!

Now all the evidence has been closed.

Judging from the current situation, Zhu Di and his men did not lie about military intelligence. Not only that, they even exaggerated it.

This would be a slap in their face.

Originally they were still suspecting that someone was spreading false intelligence in order to claim more military merits, but now investigations have shown that not only was this not the case, but the losses were actually overstated.

Because later dozens of them came back, bringing back thousands of cattle and horses as trophies.

Such a record is dazzling no matter where it is placed.

But wouldn’t this be embarrassing for the civil servants?

They swore solemnly in the court that it must be false, so His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent them here to investigate.

But now it seems as if the situation is completely the opposite.

The civil servants fell into deep thought, not knowing what to do.

After an unknown amount of time, an official said, "Have you ever thought about why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was willing to let us come here to investigate?"

When this question was asked, all the officials present were stunned for a moment. It was obvious that this question had not been noticed.

At first, of course, everyone thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted to avoid suspicion, so he asked everyone to investigate.

But after arriving here, everyone realized that this was not the case.

It might not even be what they imagined. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked them to investigate in the interest of fairness and justice.

Maybe it’s because they have always emphasized that Prince of Yan Zhu Di was up to something.

Therefore, Prince of Yan Zhu Di must be taught a lesson.

In order to ensure fairness and justice, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had no choice but to let them investigate.

Looking back now, they realize that this was not the case.

They even thought that maybe people wanted to give these people a chance to let them know who is in charge now.

You civil servants all think you are great.

Everyone feels like they have so much power.

But in the eyes of others, you are nothing at all.

To a certain extent, you civil servants are just our errand boys.

Letting you go and see the situation in Peking is to make you give up.

So when everyone saw this situation, they immediately felt that they should restrain themselves.

Otherwise, if I were caught, I would definitely kill myself.

When they thought of this, cold sweat broke out on their backs.

Because they thought of a problem.

Maybe this matter is completely under the control of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

I know you guys want to investigate.

I know that you guys are not convinced.

I know that all of you must be dissatisfied with this and that, and are thinking about how to kill these princes.

I even want to suppress those generals, so I deliberately let you come here to take a look.

I deliberately let you know that His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan in Beiping did not do so.

Then try to see if you will find something unreasonable in this process.

So when this thing was mentioned, the civil servants fell silent.

This silence.

It was like a flash of lightning in the middle of a rainy day.

This silence seemed to tell them something, and they suddenly understood.

This silence even made all the civil servants speechless at this moment.

They thought a lot.

But in this situation it is hard to say it.

Finally someone broke the silence.

This kind of silence really makes everyone feel uncomfortable.

So the man said, "Let's just finish this task honestly and then report it to the higher-ups. Otherwise, I really don't know what we'll encounter.

We are now constantly doubting this and that.

But we don't have any evidence.

Even the things we are seeing now may have been anticipated by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince a long time ago.

They had long felt that the situation this time was normal.

Perhaps before they came here to see, they had already determined that with such good weapons, our Ming army would definitely be able to achieve such a victory.

It’s just that we have always been trapped in our own imagination, so we have been unwilling to believe it.

We even always feel that anything His Royal Highness Prince Yan does is abnormal.

But everything is normal with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

We are the only ones who are stupid enough to come to this place.

Maybe many people are laughing at us.

Even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Majesty, and even this fellow Chen Han are laughing at us."

When these civil servants thought that Chen Han was laughing at them, they felt particularly dissatisfied.

Because in their eyes, Chen Han is nothing.

He is just a man who rose to prominence by marrying the Crown Prince's daughter.

In my eyes, this guy is not even worthy of carrying my shoes.

If he hadn't come up with so many so-called reforms, would I still be working hard here?
Not required.

Even they are still thinking about it in their hearts.

It would have been better if those assassins had not only killed the man named Shen, but also Chen Han.

But when he thought about the moment when His Majesty the Emperor personally beheaded the Jiangnan tycoons who planned this incident in Ningbo, he beheaded hundreds of people just to welcome Chen Han.

They understood that everyone was thinking that His Majesty might have let it go, but he had not.

Just find a better opportunity to give Chen Han an explanation.

And the explanation is to make those guys lose their heads.

So even now, the people underground and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are on Chen Han's side.

No matter what their people did, no matter how much they found, they always felt that something was unreasonable.

No matter how many opinions they have about reforms and changes, no matter how many mistakes there are in the reforms and changes they talk about.

In fact, in the eyes of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Majesty, it has long been nothing.

They had long forgotten these dangers because of the benefits they had gained from conquering wars everywhere.

Even as more and more gold and silver were shipped in, people's lives became better and better.

The banknotes in the hands of the people are becoming more and more valuable. Even if they were once afraid to spend these banknotes, this is now increasingly confirmed.

At that moment, everyone forgot about the possible disadvantages that reforms might bring.

Because everything is getting better and better under the current environment, it has diluted everyone's idea of ​​being prepared for danger in times of peace.

When the official said this, everyone became depressed.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince already knew about this, didn't he? Did you guys guess the same thing?"

The Minister of Rites asked at this time.

The Minister of Rites was actually very confused at this time.

He served as an official all his life.

I have been fighting against these reforms all my life.

He associated the reforms of Wang Anshi and Fan Zhongyan with each other.

He is a person who firmly regards all reforms as scourges.

He doesn't believe in so-called reform.

He only believed that as long as the country was governed according to the principles of sages, it would definitely become better.

He was even very puzzled as to why the Crown Prince, who used to believe in Confucianism so much, had now become a believer in such evil ways.

In his eyes, people like Chen Han should be called villains around the emperor and should be eliminated and kicked away as far away.

But what was unexpected was that no one knew what kind of magic potion Chen Han had given to His Majesty the Emperor or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Let both the father and the son believe in someone like Chen Han at the same time.

Agree to let him carry out so-called reforms.

It's indeed getting a little better now.

But this is just the beginning.

It's only good for a year or two.

Wang Anshi's reforms at that time also made the world a little better in the short term.

Wang Anshi even said that the tributes the court paid to the Liao Kingdom in the north and the Western Xia should be paid from the profits of the reform.

At that time, Emperor Shenzong and even many ordinary people felt that the Qingmiao Law, the Mianyi Law, and the Junshu Law were very good.

But what did it become in the end?
In order to show their support for the reform, more and more officials joined the reformists.

Then they found various ways to put pressure on the people, which eventually led to chaos in the world.

Isn’t this a perfect case?

Why doesn't everyone listen?

There are already so many failed examples in history.

Why is the court unwilling to believe it?
Why are the officials unwilling to believe it?
Why is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince unwilling to believe it?
Why are ordinary people unwilling to believe that the reform will fail?

It should have been a dull past.

It has only been twenty-seven or twenty-eight years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it should have been passed more smoothly.

But the reforms were carried out in such a short period of time. What were they changing?
What has changed?
Does a new court need reforms?

When a dynasty is first established, it should appease the people, should get through the period smoothly, and should lay a better foundation for the next hundred years of rule.

We should not carry out reforms so hastily.

This is his opinion.

I have never heard of carrying out reforms right after the establishment of a new dynasty.

Of course, his thoughts are still stuck in the old-fashioned Confucian ideas.

But I didn't take it into consideration at all.

In fact, although the current Ming Dynasty has just been established, most of the systems it uses are from the Yuan Dynasty.

Even the provincial system is still used.

The Ming Dynasty lacked the institutional continuity of the Northern Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty could only adopt the Yuan Dynasty's system intact.

It's just that a little bit of change was made during the process.

And this is the part that Chen Han changed after he came.

This is no longer appropriate.

It can even be said that the feudal society and the system of dynasty change can be fully reflected in the Ming Dynasty.

How to break this cage?

We should make changes from the fundamental system.

Currently Chen Han is only making changes to the military and economic systems.

The change of thinking has not yet been achieved.

This requires that as the economy develops better and better and everyone's lives become more stable, we can gradually change everyone's thinking through education.

Only in this way can Chen Han achieve real reform.

If Chen Han directly applied his ideological reforms now, these civil servants would probably all jump up and down and curse...

(End of this chapter)