Mingshi

Chapter 1445 Rebuke
"Lord Luo..."

Luo Xin sighed again, shook his head, and continued walking towards the inside until he reached the cell where Hai Rui was. In Hai Rui's heart, he still had admiration for Luo Xin.Although he can't understand Luo Xin's rich clothes and fine food, he has to be convinced. Luo Xin's expeditions and wars have done everything for Daming.Standing up, saluted Luo Xin and said:
"I've seen Mr. Luo."

Luo Xin looked at Hai Rui steadfastly, but in the end he sighed aloud, and then said to the eunuch next to him:

"Let's interrogate Hai Rui first."

Then, he turned and left.The eunuch of Dongchang opened the cell door, escorted Hai Rui and followed behind.

When they came to the interrogation room, Luo Xin sat on the chair behind the desk. Under Luo Xin's instructions, he also prepared a chair for Hai Rui to sit down.

Luo Xin looked at Hai Rui who was sitting opposite, and saw that although he was in shackles and skinny, he was still sitting upright, looking at Luo Xin indifferently, calm and composed.

The eunuch who followed also sat behind a chair, prepared a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and waited for Luo Xin to ask questions.

Luo Xin took a deep breath, then exhaled and said, "Hai Rui."

"The subordinate is here."

"Hai Rui, why did you defy the emperor so much in the playbook?"

The eunuch at the side wrote vigorously, recording every conversation between Luo Xin and Hai Rui.

Hai Rui said indifferently: "I just rely on my conscience to do my duty as an official. Since the emperor came to the throne, the affairs of the Ming Dynasty have been like water, and the lives of the people have been like a hot day. As long as an official with a conscience can see it very clearly. Although Da Ming has improved somewhat in the past two years, His Majesty's cultivation has also intensified. If this continues, the look that Da Ming finally had is bound to die young. I think Lord Luo must be able to see these situations clearly. Why bother today? To ask the officer?"

The lady at the side overheard that Hai Rui cursed Daming to die young, his face was livid with anger, if Luo Xin was not the presiding judge at this time, he would have wished to go up and smoke Hai Rui.Luo Xin's expression was calm. In fact, he didn't think that what Hai Rui said was wrong. This Ming Dynasty was indeed tossed hard enough by Emperor Jiajing.

A majestic emperor who doesn’t go to court all day, only knows how to practice Taoism, spends countless financial resources every year, why do he need to build altars now, and pray to God to extend his life for 12 years? Isn’t this nonsense?
As the saying goes, what works from top to bottom, can it be good for such an emperor to lead the whole Ming Dynasty?

Sighing in his heart, he said with a calm expression on the surface: "Hai Rui, you are a little doctor, how many important national affairs do you know? Your position determines you, and you don't know much about national affairs at all, as if you are standing at the foot of a mountain. , how can you have the vision to stand on the top of the peak? So, how do you know that you are not lying?"

Hai Rui pouted his neck and said, "If I'm lying, then kill me. I just saw the injustice and said something fair for the world."

"Killing you? Will it wash away your insult to the Holy One? Have you seen injustice? How can there be absolute fairness in this world? For example, you Hai Rui, do you, Hai Rui, want to study? Everyone in the world wants to study." There are so many people, but none of them have your conditions. Is this fair?
Your mother is in church, and your wife is expecting to give birth.Let's not say that filial piety is good, but that you have implicated your mother and wife by doing this. Is this fair to them? "

Hai Rui's expression darkened: "I know I'm not filial, I'm ashamed of my mother and wife, but there are many people in Ming Dynasty who are not as good as me, and corrupt officials who broke their families and prefects are everywhere, how many people in Ming Dynasty are living happily?
If everyone thinks about their own small family and ignores all the people in the world, what is the use of us scholars in this world? "

Luo Xin said lightly: "You overestimate yourself, you, a little doctor, can save all the people in the world?"

"I don't dare to think about it! I just want to use my own strength to make His Majesty wake up, and the world will be very lucky. Nowadays, greed and extravagance are common in the civil and military courts. I hope His Majesty can clean up the government."

Luo Xin pondered for a moment and said: "Being an official has the distinction of being pragmatic and unrealistic. If you really think about the people of Ming Dynasty, then be pragmatic.

Hai Rui, today the official is interrogating you, let's take this official as an example.This official destroys the Japanese pirates in the south, Zhang Daoyuan and the White Lotus Sect, and attacks the Tartars and Goryeo in the north.This is pragmatic, and brought the people of Ming Dynasty an environment where they can live and work in peace and contentment, without having to suffer from swords and soldiers.The official runs the Shibo Department and the mutual market, which solves the financial affairs of the Ming Dynasty and makes the country more solid.This is pragmatic.

To be honest, in the eyes of this official, the most respected are these pragmatic officials, but for you who are not of high status and have insufficient vision, but use the vision of your own imagination to impeach and criticize lawlessly and unscrupulously, this official Not very impressed.If you have the ability, do things for the people and the country in a down-to-earth manner. This is the duty of an official and what a scholar should do.Instead of bringing trouble to this country, or even national chaos.

Do you know that because of your memorial, 53 officials were arrested, officials from the six cabinet ministries were locked up on duty, and thousands of officials in the entire capital were in panic. Office, the country is at a standstill.

What a mess this is, you know?

If one is not handled properly, it will cause civil unrest, you know?

Could it be that a pragmatic person like me is not as good as a pragmatic person like you? "

Hai Rui took a deep breath and said, "I know I'm not as good as your lord, and Hai Rui admires everything you do. Hai Rui knows that he can't do what your lord does, so he only does what he can do. "

"Is lying within one's power?"

"I'm not lying!"

"It's really stubborn!"

Luo sighed confidently. Originally, he didn't place any hope on Hai Rui to admit his mistake, but only had a ten thousandth hope. Now he was even more sure that Hai Rui would not admit his mistake.In this way, for Hai Rui, there was only delay.

"Take it down." Luo Xin waved his hand.

Hai Rui stood up, looked at Luo Xin and said seriously: "Lord Luo, you have arrested many corrupt officials and even killed many of them. And I don't believe you can't see the disadvantages of His Majesty's obsession with cultivating Taoism. My lord can persuade the emperor..."

Luo Xin waved his hand again and said: "I don't have that skill, do you know how much trouble you have brought to the entire Ming Dynasty because of your actions?
When the entire Ming Dynasty has no one to work, no one to work, the whole country is stagnant, no one is working in the Ministry of Industry, no weapons can be made, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have no weapons to use, they will die under the enemy's sword, and they can't make agricultural tools, which will delay the development of the people all over the world. During the farming season, once the farming season is delayed, the crops will not be harvested, and it will be the common people who will be hungry.There is no one in the household department to work, and even if there is a famine, there will be no one to provide relief, and starvation will be everywhere.There is no one in the Ministry of Rites to work, no one to teach the students, and no one to deal with the envoys of various vassal states. The former will shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and the latter will make the relationship around Daming bad.There is no one in the official department to work, and no one to assess the officials, which makes the officials complain.With no one in the Ministry of War, how to protect the territory of Ming Dynasty?There is no one in the Ministry of Punishment, and the people have nowhere to appeal for grievances.

The whole Ming Dynasty has been messed up by you, is this the result you want?
Do you think I still have that time to investigate corrupt officials?
Do you think I still have time to make any suggestions to the Holy One?
Even if he originally had a plan to monitor corrupt officials, even if he had the idea of ​​making suggestions to the Holy One.At this time also had to let go.Because the most important thing at this time is to make Da Ming run smoothly and not to cause chaos in the world. "

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