Chapter 235 We just wash our feet together often and there is absolutely no rebellion (please subscribe!!)
"Yes!" Ouyang Lun nodded, "My father-in-law, the emperor, believed those rumors and sent Zhou Zhen to Beizhili to investigate. In fact, wasn't it because he was worried that some of us would be disobedient and rebel? Uncle, please rest assured about this. Me, Second Uncle Tang, and Third Uncle Xu simply have similar interests. We often wash our feet together and so on. We are loyal to our Ming Dynasty and have absolutely no intention of rebelling."
"Nephew Ouyang Xian, why are you telling Boss Ma this?"
"Boss Ma, please listen to my explanation."
Tang He and Xu Da are going crazy. What do you mean by taking the initiative to mention "rebellion" in front of the emperor?
What's the difference between this and getting darker as you draw? !
Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang's expression immediately changed when he heard Ouyang Lun's words.
"You three want to rebel?!" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.
"Uncle, you are wrong. I just said that we didn't want to rebel, we just have a good relationship!" Ouyang Lun continued: "Although I control the military and political power in North Zhili, Uncle Tang controls the coastal defense in the east, and Uncle Xu controls the border defense in the north. , the three of us rule more than 500 million people, and the total number of troops in our hands is more than 30, isn't this a rebellion! Why are you in such a hurry?"
Zhu Yuanzhang:
Tang He and Xu Da almost cried and looked at Ouyang Lun desperately: Please, stop talking!
Zhu Yuanzhang silently moved away Ouyang Lun's hand on his shoulder, twitched the corners of his mouth, and said excitedly: "You mean to let me go back and help you fool the emperor and empress?"
"You are trying to drag me into the water!"
"Do you know that if I bring what you just said back to the capital, and if the emperor and empress know about it, your guilt will be even greater?"
Forehead.
Ouyang Lun didn't expect Zhu Yuanzhang's reaction to be so big.
"uncle."
"Don't call me uncle! I don't have a nephew like you!"
"Good uncle."
Zhu Yuanzhang: "."
"Uncle, please don't get excited. I just asked you to help me say a few nice words, and I didn't ask you to deceive the emperor's father-in-law or the queen's mother-in-law." Ouyang Lun said with a smile: "Actually, you don't know, in a place like ours It is very difficult for officials or generals at the border. They have to be responsible for the people and the territory of the country, and they have to obey the orders of the court and the emperor. It will be even more uncomfortable if the court and the emperor think they are self-righteous and like to micro-manage and issue orders frequently."
"The final result is that the people below are dissatisfied, and the court above is dissatisfied. In the end, they are dismissed from office and even have their homes confiscated to hold them accountable."
As soon as Ouyang Lun said this, Tang He and Xu Da on the side nodded their heads, feeling very much the same.
Zhu Yuanzhang was thoughtful and said in a deep voice: "Continue talking."
"As the saying goes, oranges grown in Huainan are tangerines, and those grown in north Huaibei are tangerines. The leaves are similar, but the actual taste is different. Why? The water and soil are different."
"Therefore, the situation in each place is different, and the policies implemented should also be different. Many policies have good intentions, but when implemented in some places, they not only have no effect, but also have negative effects. At this time, local officials need to adapt to local conditions. Only then can the problem be solved, and if we blindly act in accordance with the court’s policies, the consequences can be imagined.”
"As far as I know, there are still many capable people in Ming Dynasty who can do good things and do good things for the people. But these people often have one thing in common, that is, they have their own ideas. Because of this, these people Officials are easy to make mistakes, easy to be suppressed, and easy to be hidden! In the end, they end up buried in a lowly position for the rest of their lives."
"My subordinate Zhao Tianming, who participated in the political affairs of Beizhili and Yong'an Prefecture, is an example. From now on, he is definitely an all-around talent in governing the country and has great enthusiasm for work. He is currently supervising the construction of the new Great Wall, and he can still do so in the future. He is responsible for more important things, but two years ago, he was just a ninth-grade official in Yong'an Mansion. If it weren't for my discerning eyes, he would probably have been buried."
A discerning eye?You, Ouyang Lun, really put gold on your face!
But having said that, what Ouyang Lun said does make some sense.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not interrupt Ouyang Lun, but continued to listen.
"Look at Yong'an Mansion again. I have been in charge of the government in these years. Under my open management, many capable officials have emerged. Not only did Yong'an Mansion become the most developed state capital in the Ming Dynasty, but it also provided a large number of supplies to the Ming Dynasty. Talents, but many officials who came out of Yong'an Mansion were very capable and achieved good results in Yong'an Mansion, but they were buried in other parts of the Ming Dynasty. This is the impact of environmental factors!"
"What is open management?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously.
"It means decentralization of power, giving full play to the capabilities of the people below and giving them enough power to make decisions independently." Ouyang Lun explained with a smile.
"Isn't that just being a hands-off shopkeeper?" Zhu Yuanzhang was quite speechless.
"Ahem." After being exposed, Ouyang Lun still didn't blush and said with a smile: "There is a difference between open management and a hands-off shopkeeper."
"It's different there?"
"name."
"Uh" Zhu Yuanzhang was completely speechless.
Ouyang Lun continued: "Uncle, please don't care about these details. The development results of Yong'an Mansion have proven everything!"
"For another example, my old boss Mao Youfu, who is now the chief envoy of Guangdong Province, is considered a capable official. However, there has been no news since he was transferred to Guangdong Province. He seems to have disappeared. That time During the disaster relief work, I discovered that Mao Youfu was ostracized by the then chief minister when he was participating in politics. Apart from doing some innocuous things, he could not do anything else at all. He was even threatened with house arrest for a time. Fortunately, he was later corrupted by officials in Guangdong Province. The dirty officials were thrown away in one fell swoop, and this was the time for Mao Youfu to emerge."
"So! The trust of the court and the emperor is still very important. My father-in-law, the emperor, hired a royal guard to monitor this and that every day. Not many things were accomplished, but it made people panic and created an atmosphere of terror. The officials below Even if I want to do something, I will become timid, and I will even just lie down and do nothing. After all, if you don’t do something, you won’t make mistakes.”
Oh shit!
Being trained again!
Zhu Yuanzhang reacted and felt quite unhappy, but he had to admit that what Ouyang Lun said made some sense.
"Humph! It's just some talk. Do you think the emperor will not understand this? I admit that many good officials among the Ming Dynasty officials have been buried, but there are still many corrupt officials. If we blindly delegate power, it will not take long The forces are getting stronger and stronger and cannot be restrained, and then the world will be in chaos, do you know?"
"Also, Jinyiwei has made a lot of contributions in the previous Hu Weiyong and Kongyin cases. Monitoring officials also allows the emperor to understand the situation in time so that he can make the right decision. It is precisely because of the existence of Jinyiwei that he has been severely punished many times. Corrupt officials!”
"Of course what you said makes sense, but there is no practical solution. I don't believe you have a better solution!" "Is there a solution?" Ouyang Lun smiled and then nodded, "I actually have one. "
"any solution?"
"Actually, in my opinion, my emperor's father-in-law did not master the correct use of Jin Yiwei!" Ouyang Lun said with a smile.
"Arrogant!" Zhu Yuanzhang said loudly: "This royal guard was set up according to the emperor's wishes. How could it not be used correctly?"
"Uncle, are you anxious again? Listen to me. The reason why I say this is because I have a better way." Ouyang Lun smiled confidently, "First of all, the current Jinyiwei is simply collecting intelligence and monitoring officials. And the role of spying on the enemy."
"In fact, we can open up the situation a little bit. Don't let them just supervise officials, but let them supervise the entire Ming Dynasty!"
"Supervising the Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Yuanzhang was a little confused and asked curiously: "Is this any different from supervising hundreds of officials?"
"The difference is huge!"
"The names are different again?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.
"Of course not. Supervising hundreds of officials is just a point, but supervising the Ming Dynasty is just a face. If you control the face, are you afraid of problems? As for how to supervise the Ming Dynasty, it is also very simple. I heard that Jin Yiwei is everywhere They all have secret bases that allow them to compile statistics on local people’s livelihood indicators such as per capita income, consumption power, and deposits, as well as basic data such as iron ore production, timber production, stone production, and tax revenue. Don’t tell me that these governments are also doing statistics. They After all, they are not professional, and there are often adulterations. If we have Jin Yiwei’s professional statistics, they can also be used to prove whether local officials have lied or concealed their reports!"
"It doesn't matter if Jin Yiwei doesn't know statistics. I will soon build a university in Beiping, called Qingbei Vocational and Technical College. There will be many professional courses offered by then. As long as you pass the entrance exam, you can come to study! If you have good grades, you can be exempted. Tuition, and even a scholarship!”
Ouyang Lun said, patting Zhu Yuanzhang on the shoulder, "Uncle, I have only told you this matter so far. It doesn't matter if you don't understand. Remember what I said, and then go back and tell my queen's mother-in-law, or tell the emperor directly. Even the father-in-law can do it, I guarantee that it will shine in their eyes!”
"The essence of all matters is mathematics. If it cannot be solved by mathematics, then it is theology!"
"As long as we have this data in our hands, who will worry about whether we will rebel or not!"
Zhu Yuanzhang did not really understand what Ouyang Lun said, but he felt that it was worth a try to ask Jin Yiwei to calculate some people's livelihood indicators and basic data, and he had already kept these in his mind.
"Humph, you've been talking for a long time and you're still complaining about being tired."
"Even if you didn't kill Zhou Zhen, you don't have to talk about doing business with the grassland people, right? Don't you know what the relationship between Ming Dynasty and Can Yuan is now?" Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly.
"The imperial court issued repeated orders not to do business with the prairie people, but to trap them and starve them to death in order to weaken their combat power. It's a good thing that you just sold 20 sheep. On the day of the transaction, 20 people were sent out all over the land. You are trying to catch sheep, but you gave the grassland people millions of taels of supplies, and I heard you even had iron tools. Tell me, what is the difference between this and collaboration with the enemy?"
"If those people in the capital find out about this, do you think you will still be alive?"
"Also, if the prairie people had sent you not 20 sheep that day, but an army of 20 elite cavalry, catching you off guard, even the strongest city wall would have been destroyed!"
Um! ?
"Uncle, you even know this!" After saying that, Ouyang Lun looked at Tang He and Xu Da behind Zhu Yuanzhang. At this moment, the two of them were looking up at the sky in tacit agreement, not daring to look directly at Ouyang Lun. See.
traitor!
It must be these two informants!
Ouyang Lun gave Tang He and Xu Da a pair of blank looks, and then said: "Uncle, after all, you still don't believe that I am a good and upright official!"
"I wanted to tell you my plan yesterday, but my aunt was sick, so I couldn't talk. Today, while you are all here, I will tell you my plan in detail!"
"I did buy 20 sheep from the grassland in order to improve the food supply for the two million craftsmen who built the Great Wall. I also paid for the sheep from my own pocket. I wonder if everyone would think that I could spend 200 million to buy sheep. What's the objection?"
"I know you are rich, so tell me the important point!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.
For talking about 100 million taels of silver so easily, Ouyang Lun is probably the only one in the entire Ming Dynasty!
This guy is showing off his wealth!
Damn, he pretended to be there again.
"One thing to say, when I do business with the prairie people, I have no intention of collaborating with the enemy. I also said it yesterday, this is a big game of chess on my part!"
"As long as my plan succeeds, the grassland problem can be easily solved. From now on, my Ming Dynasty will not have to worry about the northern border!"
Oh!
Solve the grassland problem in one fell swoop!
He said it with such certainty, it seemed like there was something inside.
Zhu Yuanzhang, Tang He, and Xu Da all looked at Ouyang Lun, looking forward to what Ouyang Lun would say next.
Perhaps in order to stimulate Ouyang Lun, Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately said: "Hmph, I think you are just bragging. You want to solve the border issue by doing business with the grassland people. If this works, it would have been possible as early as hundreds of years ago during the Han Dynasty. It was done, and the result was not dependent on Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Northern Expedition against the Xiongnu."
"Fists are the last word in this world!"
After speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang also waved his fist deliberately.
Ouyang Lun raised the corners of his mouth slightly, raised his fist at the same time, and said with a smile: "Uncle, you are right. It is true that whoever has the bigger fist has the right to speak. Only a fight can determine the outcome."
"Winning or losing is very important, but this process cannot be ignored. The grassland nomads can be said to be natural warriors, especially cavalry. Therefore, there have been powerful grassland peoples such as the Xiongnu, Turks and Mongolia in history. After the decline of Mongolia, there will be no future. There will be others.”
"So in your opinion, this is one reincarnation after another. When the grassland people become stronger, they will go south to capture the dragon. When the Han people in the Central Plains become stronger, they will go to the north to seal the wolf as a slave. Dynasties change, and the grassland rotates. But in my opinion, it is It’s caused by not solving a fundamental problem.”
"That is the survival problem of the grassland people. People on the grassland have a single type of food, goods, and entertainment. They basically cannot do without grassland, cattle and sheep. They are fine at other times. But once winter comes, heavy snow covers the grassland, and the production of cattle and sheep is reduced. The grassland people There is an existential crisis.”
"What can they do? They can only set their sights on the south, the richer Central Plains."
(End of this chapter)
