Chapter 293: Success Depends on People, Don't Make Final Conclusions; Times and Luck Are Contrary, People Leave the Crowd

"There is absolutely no problem with the two ministers' memorial. It appears to be restraining the behavior of the Tax Audit Institute, but in fact, it confirms the legality of their actions. For example, this Article 54, 'Subrogation Rights,' I think it is interpreted very well." Zhu Yijun read Wang Guoguang and Zhang Xueyan's memorial very seriously, convinced that they were all loyal and patriotic people.

"Subrogation rights"—a very unfamiliar term. To understand this term, one must combine it with cases. The Great Ming's laws were not decided by high officials on a whim, but came from practice. Rules that were decided on a whim and then made everyone scratch their heads in practice were difficult to be generally followed.

Law is actually the universal consensus and universal contract among all people. It is the bottom line of morality and the last bottom line that must be held as a human being.

When this bottom line cannot be held, one becomes a criminal. A criminal with a tattooed face is "low status," and "low status" is not a human being.

February of the 6th year of Wanli, before the Emperor's grand wedding, Inspector Luo Bingliang Bingliang handled a case in the Southern Yamen. It was a human tooth agency in Yangzhou named "Yunlu Tea Club," responsible for selling tea. The business of this human tooth agency also used tea leaves as a code word, such as going to various charity halls to purchase goods, called "new tea," and various teas were different, black tea, green tea, Pu'er tea.

Yunlu Tea Club was a multi-share joint business, and the business was very large. The tax audit room of the Tax Audit Institute in Suzhou discovered that this family had never paid taxes from beginning to end. How could this be? They immediately went to investigate, and from the first year of Wanli, they pursued the arrears, totaling over 32,000 silver in tax arrears.

And this business, after paying 2,000 silver in arrears, began to test the waters and no longer paid the arrears. The Tax Audit Institute went to inquire and found that the business indeed had no money.

The business of the human tooth agency was in full swing. On the books, there was indeed no money, only debt.

That's right, the human tooth agency lent all the money to other businesses in the form of debt, and even some businesses had long since closed down, all of which were a pile of bad debts. When it reached this step, the imperial court had already discovered that it could not be pursued.

And the shopkeeper of the human tooth agency raised his own doubts: according to the Great Ming Emperor's practice of "letting bygones be bygones," why should the business of the human tooth agency be traced back to the first year of Wanli, instead of the fifth year of Wanli when the Suzhou Tax Audit Room was established?

The powerful families behind the human tooth agency found it difficult to understand. The Suzhou Tax Audit Room had been auditing taxes for more than a year, and the reputation was mixed. Scolding was naturally scolding the tax audit room for only recognizing money and not feelings. Praising was actually praising the tax audit room for being flexible in handling affairs. Before the establishment of the tax audit room, the previous tax arrears were also let go.

Difficulties in checking accounts, huge realistic resistance, extremely low recognition of the tax audit room, and many other objective factors made the imperial court choose to gloss over the bad debts of the past when establishing the tax audit room.

But only for the business of this human tooth agency, it had to be traced back to the first year of Wanli. For others, it was to the fifth year of Wanli. Only for the human tooth agency would it be traced back to the first year of Wanli. What kind of logic was this?

According to Wang Guoguang and Zhang Xueyan's memorial, this was the Great Ming imperial court's additional punitive tax rate. The existence of the human tooth agency was evil, but in the current environment, it was very difficult to eradicate it. Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng argued about this matter. Xu Jie gave many examples, which was a common phenomenon.

This heavy tax was to strike at the existence of this industry.

The shopkeeper of the human tooth agency understood this punishment. Most of those who did this industry knew what kind of harmful things they were doing, so they accepted this statement. But there was no money to pay taxes. Either the imperial court should raid them.

In the case of Yunlu Tea Club, there was no money on the books, only debt. After Inspector Luo Bingliang Bingliang, the Commander of the Tax Audit Institute, deeply understood the situation, he chose the business of collecting arrears on behalf of others, that is, subrogation rights. That is, in the process of tax auditing, the tax audit room replaced the creditor and became the actual creditor, implementing collection on the borrower.

In the process of execution, Inspector Luo Bingliang Bingliang discovered that Yunlu Tea Club was playing a trick of "left hand changing to right hand." The actual borrower of Yunlu Tea Club was actually the owner behind Yunlu Tea Club. The debts of those closed businesses, and even non-existent businesses, were actually headless accounts created by these owners.

The reason for taking this step, rather than choosing to distribute dividends directly, was to avoid the imperial court's pursuit of arrears.

Inspector Luo Bingliang Bingliang exercised the creditor's power on their behalf and pursued the arrears from these owners, collecting a total of over 123,500 silver in taxes, and then walked away.

Yunlu Tea Club only owed 20,000 silver? How did the Tax Audit Institute collect 120,000! A full 100,000 more!

Because after the tax audit room intervened, first, it discovered problems with their accounts and found secret accounts, which required continuing to pursue tax arrears; second, it was penalty interest, that is, the additional tax also had to be penalized, and this penalty interest was extremely heavy; the third was that the tax audit room's audit costs had to be fully responsible by the tea club, and this cost was not calculated based on specific matters, but the overall cost of the tax audit room was allocated according to the tax amount.

The tax audit room's activity funds had details, and all activity funds from last year were responsible by the powerful families pursued in the second year.

Yunlu Tea Club's tax payable was 51,000 silver. After penalty interest and labor costs, it increased to over 120,000 silver. The bulk of this was penalty interest, totaling over 60,000 silver.

The imperial court's collection ticket had arrived at the door of the tea club. Not reporting taxes honestly and still wanting to deceive the sky and cross the sea, the interest rate of penalty interest was very, very high. This interest rate was also punitive, and 30% of this penalty interest would remain in the Suzhou Dai Fuya. This was a large income for the Suzhou Dai Fuya.

And Wang Guoguang and Zhang Xueyan's memorial was explaining the pursuit of arrears, penalty interest, subrogation, investigation, and labor costs of the Tax Audit Institute. This memorial had the signature of the Great Ming Second Grand Secretary and Minister of Justice Wang Chonggu, and also the signature of the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review Lu Guangzu. It was a judicial interpretation and the official interpretation of the imperial court on the behavior of the Tax Audit Institute.

This memorial was actually very good. Zhu Yijun was very satisfied after reading it, perfectly explaining the various behaviors of the Tax Audit Institute.

The memorial was good, but Zhang Juzheng was not in the court.

Zhu Yijun authorized Zhang Juzheng to sign this memorial.

The "Great Ming Collected Statutes," Wanli Edition, Zhang Juzheng was still the Chief Editor. Every volume had to be sent to the Yicheng Bo's mansion for review and correction. This point had not changed even after Zhang Juzheng retired. And "Discussion on the Tax Audit Institute's Tax Audit Regulations" was also content to be included in the "Great Ming Collected Statutes," so Zhang Juzheng had the right to review it.

The matter submitted was completely reasonable and had extremely important guiding significance for the Great Ming's tax reform. Zhang Juzheng also signed that it was feasible. All processes were very reasonable, but it got stuck when it reached Zhu Yijun. The Emperor refused to approve it.

The Great Ming imperial system was designed around the Emperor. If the Emperor did not approve, it could not be executed.

"Your minister thinks that since it is compliant and reasonable, it should be executed. This, this, this, what kind of logic is this? National affairs giving way to private feelings, your minister thinks it is inappropriate. The Grand Secretary would not be happy if he knew." Zhang Xueyan still thought it should be executed. He did not directly state his doubts.

After Zhang Xueyan returned to the capital, Zhang Juzheng had already retired. It was difficult for him to understand the Emperor's approach when he was not in the court. Zhang Xueyan actually wanted to ask, could the Great Ming not operate without Zhang Juzheng! What kind of logic is this?

If Zhu Yijun knew Zhang Xueyan asked this, he would definitely answer, "Hello, yes."

Now, if the Beijing Camp Commander Qi Jiguang were dismissed, the Beijing Camp's stall would fall apart tomorrow. Organization construction was underway. If you kicked the designer out, what kind of organization construction are you doing? Wen Zhang, Wu Qi—the left and right arms of the Great Ming Emperor.

"Your minister thinks that His Majesty is wise, and this matter should be left as it is for now." Wang Chonggu held down the restless Zhang Xueyan. He could understand the Emperor's decision and even chose to support it. He didn't know the Emperor's concerns before, but when he learned that Zhang Juzheng wanted to run away, he immediately chose to support His Majesty, using national affairs to tie Zhang Juzheng down.

Want to run? Humph, no way!

Wang Chonggu was a witness. Zhang Juzheng's role in the new policy could be summarized in five words: "Zhang Juzheng's New Policy."

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Xueyan and said, "Success depends on people, don't make final conclusions; times and luck are contrary, people leave the crowd."

"Indeed, the Wanli New Policy is the trend of the times, but it is also human effort. In the 29th year of Jiajing, the Northern Barbarians Altan invaded, and there were Japanese pirates in the Southeast. In the second year of Longqing, the Northern Barbarians Tumen invaded, and there were still Japanese pirates in the Southeast. Was there no trend of the times then? No, no."

Zhang Juzheng's worries had already happened. By the sixth year of Wanli, the imperial court had enough for six years of expenditure. Even the court officials who entered the Wenhua Hall had doubts about Zhang Juzheng. Is it really necessary to go to this extent?

Zhang Juzheng wanted to run away, also because of this. He thought he had completed his historical mission. The era of Zhang Juzheng had ended, so he should quietly exit the stage. Leave the praise and blame to the Spring and Autumn period.

Zhu Yijun let Zhang Juzheng stay in the court based on realistic considerations. The Great Ming's new policy required "ten thousand people with one strength." How could he, Zhu Yijun, and Zhang Juzheng alone make the Great Ming clear and bright?

It required everyone to work together.

"Ten thousand people with one strength, invincible in the world."

Zhang Xueyan still didn't understand and wanted to speak, but Wang Chonggu stood up with Zhang Xueyan and bowed, "Your ministers retire."

Wang Chonggu walked out of the Guanghan Hall and walked forward two steps. Seeing Zhang Xueyan still looking back, he knew he still wanted to say the words he hadn't said. How could such a wise monarch rely so heavily on Zhang Juzheng?

The master of the world is His Majesty!

Wang Chonggu looked around the Guanghan Hall, looked at Zhang Xueyan's appearance, stood with his hands behind his back, and let the spring breeze blow his robes.

"Minister Zhang." Wang Chonggu looked up at the plaque of the Guanghan Hall and said, "I know you have doubts in your heart. Look up and see, who forced His Majesty to live here?"

"Is it not a joy to have friends come from afar? Comrades, fellow travelers, only then can we have fun together."

Zhang Xueyan frowned when he saw the three big characters "Guanghan Hall," and immediately understood Wang Chonggu's meaning, suddenly enlightened.

Wang Chonggu had committed the crime of usurpation, and Zhang Juzheng was the person Wang Chonggu feared most. Reaching this position, one could actually fully understand that the only ones who could pose a substantive threat to the Emperor were these high officials in the Wenhua Hall.

Balance exists between all things.

Wang Chonggu's meaning was that His Majesty needed a fellow traveler. Zhang Xueyan's understanding was also no problem: one is metaphysical, one is the practice of the physical.

Wang Chonggu saw that Zhang Xueyan understood his words, looked around at the five ridges and six beasts of the Guanghan Hall, and revealed a smile. The Great Ming was flourishing.

"His Majesty is going out, idlers move aside!" A small eunuch ran over in a hurry. This was the Emperor going out of the palace, and the Embroidered Uniform Guard was about to clear the street.

Zhang Xueyan walked down the moon terrace quickly and asked with confusion, "What is His Majesty going to do?"

"Probably going to watch the fun," Wang Chonggu raised his brows and said happily.

His Majesty is a person who loves to watch the fun.

Wang Chonggu was right. Zhu Yijun was indeed going to watch the fun, but the place he was going to was not in the capital. March 23rd, it was time for the monthly visit to the Yicheng Bo's mansion. According to the previous vermilion comment, the 24th was a day off for court discussion.

Zhu Yijun was going to inspect the troops, then go to the Yicheng Bo's mansion in the Western Hills, and then go to the Western Tucheng to watch the fun. This time, Empress Wang was still accompanying him. As for Noble Consort Li and Noble Consort Liu, they did not have this qualification. They were concubines, not the legitimate wife, the Empress.

Wang Yaozhuo did not feel bored at the Wu Ying Building of the Northern Great Camp. Holding a telescope, she watched her husband galloping on the shooting range. The Emperor's long-standing concern for riding and shooting could finally hit nine out of ten targets. Every time he hit, it drew cheers.

Early the next morning, Zhu Yijun took Zhang Juzheng and Empress Wang to the Western Tucheng.

Western Tucheng, the resettlement area for the powerful families of the Southern Yamen to enrich the capital region. Everyone chose to pay money to settle in the capital, rather than go to Liaodong. In the eyes of the gentry and powerful families, Liaodong was not a place for people to stay; only those with no way out would "break into the Northeast."

So Western Tucheng also began to become lively.

Zhu Yijun was dressed as a noble young master, and with the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard Zhao Mengyou and others following behind, he was clearly dressed as a playboy. When he entered the city, he took out a letter plate: "Huang of Penglai, a wealthy merchant from Shandong." This was Zhu Yijun's identity outside.

The fun Zhu Yijun was going to watch today was a poetry society that had existed in the Southern Yamen for over a hundred years, named "Qinglian Poetry Society." Today, there was a poetry gathering to be held in Western Tucheng.

"Feng, you opened this Yanxing Building to this Western Tucheng? Amazing." Zhu Yijun stopped in front of a very imposing five-story, five-building pavilion, looked at the Yanxing Building plaque, and was stunned. Feng Bao was actually a person very good at doing business.

The implication of Yanxing Building was the prosperity of the Yan mansion. It was founded during the Yongle era, originally to entertain envoys from vassal states, and later fell into disrepair and was sold many times.

Now this brand had reached the Imperial Manor.

Feng Bao said with a full face of smiles, "Imperial Grandfather, poverty leads to change. Now that there is a deficit, we must find a way to get silver."

The investment in the Southern Yamen had just begun. After the Emperor's grand wedding, the inner treasury had some deficits. It was not necessary to beg from the national treasury. The monthly profit of the Imperial Manor was enough for the inner treasury to draw from. The business of the Imperial Manor was all done under the names of wealthy households. Yanxing Building changed hands several times. Now, among the Great Ming's powerful families, except for those sitting in the Wenhua Hall, who knew the details of Yanxing Building?

Information cocoons are everywhere.

This Yanxing Building was truly luxurious. These five floors and five buildings were all connected by corridors. Undoubtedly, this was the largest "money-burning cave" in Western Tucheng.

"Twelve distinguished guests in the fifth-floor elegant pavilion." The waiter who solicited customers checked the invitation and the letter plate, and shouted loudly.

Yanxing Building was the territory of the Inner Secretariat, and this Western Tucheng branch was also the same. When the Emperor was about to come, all the guards and thugs were replaced by Embroidered Uniform Guards. Feng Bao was not very confident about protecting His Majesty's safety. Professional matters should be handed over to professionals. His Majesty's security was completed by the Commander and the inner barbarians together.

Zhu Yijun leaned on the back of the chair, looked at the rising incense, and asked, "Feng, if one plays to their heart's content here, how much money does it take?"

"On average, one person needs this number," Feng Bao said, holding up a hand.

"Fifty?" Zhu Yijun asked with confusion.

Feng Bao sighed and said, "Five hundred taels."

"You are slaughtering guests. Aren't you afraid they will go to the Shuntian Dai Fuya to impeach you? Extravagant!" Zhu Yijun took a cold breath when he heard it. It was too expensive. That was 50,000 catties of pork. This group of wealthy households from the Southern Yamen truly had strength.

The gentry of the Southern Yamen were richer than the gentry of the North. This was directly reflected in the business of fine-spun wool, which even the manipulator could not understand.

After the gentry of the Southern Yamen entered the market, they directly set the price of fine-spun wool at 20 taels of silver per foot. In just two months, millions of silver entered the market.

"Clearly marked prices, no cheating, doing business with open doors, all are willing. The more expensive, the more they feel it is worth it." Feng Bao recited his business scripture. He was truly running this business very well. These powerful masters valued this expensiveness; if it wasn't expensive, they wouldn't come.

Zhu Yijun leaned on the back of the chair, talked to Zhang Juzheng about Wang Guoguang and Zhang Xueyan, and the Commander Zhao Mengyou went out for a turn, confirmed that there were no ears behind the wall, stood in a strange position, scanned the entire Yanxing Building, and several Embroidered Uniform Guards stood casually at strange angles, monitoring all suspicious people.

"Your Majesty is overthinking. The Second Grand Secretary also signed it. His family pays taxes honestly and doesn't owe a cent, while others are in arrears and stealing. The Second Grand Secretary is certainly not happy. 'People do not worry about scarcity, but about inequality.'" Zhang Juzheng clearly understood the Emperor's concerns and felt a bit amused. He did have the idea of retiring after the Emperor's grand wedding, but could he leave?

If he could leave, he would not have returned after leaving in the 33rd year of Jiajing.

Zhu Yijun said with worry, "The Yunnan Provincial Surveillance Commissioner Li Le submitted a strange memorial, talking about what he saw and heard on his way to Yunnan. The imperial warehouses along the way are severely empty. In some places, they can't even pay salaries, such as Henan Prefecture, which has begun to owe salaries to the three-class officials."

"After owing, they have to find a way. There are roughly several ways. The first is to create various names, setting up checkpoints and apportioning has become a convention for various prefectural yamen. The second is to collude with the gentry, indulging various wandering gangs in the city to do evil, and apportioning taxes at will. The third is to plunder the countryside."

Zhang Juzheng hesitated and said, "Your minister has also seen it."

"The Grand Secretary has also seen it?" Zhu Yijun was stunned. Zhang Juzheng had said that the warehouses were empty but hadn't said it in such detail. Zhang Juzheng knew it very clearly, but he was powerless to solve it, so he never mentioned it. Now that he wanted to say it, it was naturally because he had a solution.

"Your Majesty has already changed this situation." Zhang Juzheng said with great certainty.

Zhu Yijun asked sluggishly, "Ah, did I do it? What did I do?"

"The penalty interest of the Tax Audit Institute will be retained by 30%." Zhang Juzheng answered with a smile.

Zhu Yijun thought seriously and said, "That's not much, and it's not 30% of the tax audit retention."

"Your Majesty, the most important thing in this matter is not how much is retained, but that it has torn a hole in the local accounts. If you want the money from this penalty interest, you must be restrained by the imperial court. The Ministry of Revenue will ask where this money went, and further investigate the local accounts. Your Majesty, the local area is actually not short of money. The Great Ming's tax burden and the imperial court's retention are split 50-50, not the imperial court taking 80% and the local area retaining 20%." Zhang Juzheng saw that the Emperor was still not clear about the twists and turns here, so he turned on the "Grand Tutor mode" and began to explain.

The Great Ming's local area is absolutely not short of money, because the imperial court and the local area are split 50-50. The imperial court does not know at all how much the local area collected. The specific retention ratio is only known to heaven. And this problem will become an important grasp for the imperial court with the retention of this penalty interest money.

Central-local contradictions have existed since ancient times. This kind of struggle, the Emperor's physical feeling is not deep, and he cannot even feel it, but the tearing is extremely fierce. The six ministers are all court officials in the Wenhua Hall. They have partial decision-making power over national affairs. Their decision-making power is realized through participating in government and discussing politics, expressing their own opinions in court discussions, and compromising in discussions to produce an effective method. This is the influence on national affairs.

Use administrative power to realize it.

"Where did the money go? There are two results: it is in the accounts, but it has not been collected; it has been collected, but it is not in the accounts. These two can actually be greatly changed through the 'six books and one account' payment accounting method. If the treasury is still crying poor, then there must be pests, and it is time for Hai Rui, the Chief Censor, to catch the corrupt." Zhang Juzheng explained this problem very seriously.

The Great Ming's treasury deficit is completely different from the treasury deficits of previous dynasties. The Great Ming's local retention ratio is too high, which instead breeds corruption. With such a high retention ratio, it should not be short of money, but the treasury is still empty. This problem is an administrative problem. As the Great Ming's official governance gradually becomes clear, the central-local contradiction does not need the Emperor to feel it too deeply, because then the battle will not be the Emperor alone, but the battle between the capital and the local area.

Zhu Yijun thought for a long time after listening to Zhang Juzheng's problem and said, "In the final analysis, it is still land, land policy?"

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng never thought of letting the Emperor become a monarch who is unfathomable and dog-fighting with court officials. A monarch like the Jiajing Emperor, who is unfathomable, cannot solve the deep-rooted problems of the Great Ming. The Emperor does not need to dog-fight with court officials; that is the job of the court officials.

Zhu Yijun wants to be a wise and heroic monarch. Actually, he only needs to do one thing well, and that is to grasp the direction of the Great Ming ship. This is the Emperor's duty.

Land and land policy are means of production, and official factories are also means of production. The Great Ming imperial court has official factories belonging to the imperial court, and the local area is also actively exploring this path, and it is quite effective. According to different local natural endowments, various official factories with local characteristics have also sprung up like mushrooms.

For example, Shaanxi Viceroy Shi Maohua made the wool official factory that Great Ming merchants dreamed of. Although there is no fine-spun wool, coarse wool is enough for the expenditure of Lanzhou and even the entire Gansu Garrison.

The Great Ming Emperor's route is not crooked. The capital officials are the sharp blades in the Emperor's hands. If the Emperor's route is crooked, the capital officials are the sharp blades that bite back at the imperial power.

Great Ming bureaucrats, this precise machine, have always been double-edged swords. It is absolutely not that there are only benefits, and it is absolutely not that there are only disadvantages.

Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng chatted enthusiastically. Zhang Juzheng is absolutely an excellent Grand Tutor and an excellent Chief Grand Secretary. Lu Diaoyang is not good, and Wang Chonggu is not good either. It was not until the surroundings became noisy that Zhu Yijun realized the poetry gathering had begun.

"Who is that person standing on the stage?" Zhu Yijun tilted his head and asked who had arrived. Clearly, this person was the main speaker of this poetry gathering. Gathering to lecture was prohibited, but this kind of poetry gathering participated in by scholars could gather. This did not violate the imperial court's laws.

The imperial court is worried about evil spirits, not letting people shut their mouths. Clearly, these Confucian scholars also understood this very well.

"Named Kunming Hermit, real name Huang Yuezhong, makes a living by teaching. He is a famous scholar in the Sanwu area. Those who have been taught by him are all famous scholars, and they have repeatedly passed the examinations. Every time the examination results come out, he privately ranks them, and there is no discrepancy when the list is released." Feng Bao explained the origin of the person standing in the middle with all his might.

Huang Yuezhong, named Kunming.

"He is Huang Yuezhong." Zhu Yijun understood. Qi Jiguang's letter specifically criticized a lowly scholar, Chen Xingrui, a Jinshi of the second year of Wanli, who arrived at Danning Guard and still wanted to drink Qingqian Longjing tea. Tan Lun did not indulge him and directly gave him labor education. And Chen Xingrui was Huang Yuezhong's chief disciple.

Zhu Yijun also saw the top scholar of the fifth year of Wanli, Jiao Hong, and his teacher Geng Dingqing. Geng Dingqing was still running a school.

There is still a big difference between teacher and student.

"Huang Yuezhong and Sun Jigao are from the same teacher." Feng Bao thought about it, letting His Majesty understand the origin of this person more intuitively.

One of the founders of the Donglin Party, Zhu Yijun immediately knew what kind of person he was. Just a lowly scholar.

"The minister and the monarch, the names are different but the reality is the same, both are those who govern people." Huang Yuezhong saw that everyone had quieted down and said the content he was going to talk about this time. The poetry gathering was a place for ideological collision.

Jiao Hong heard this, stood up, and said, "Nonsense."

Huang Yuezhong never expected that his long speech, just having started, would be interrupted by someone, and it was scolding him for talking nonsense. It was simply, simply, smashing the field and not smashing it like this.

"This is a typical confusion of right and wrong. How can the monarch and minister be the same? From the perspective of the people, the monarch and minister are the same. From the perspective of the minister, are they also the same?" Jiao Hong immediately asked loudly, throwing out a fatal question.

Huang Yuezhong's sentence was sophistry. From the perspective of the common people, it is indeed the same, both are those who govern people. But from the perspective of the minister, are the monarch and minister also the same? Are the rights and obligations of the monarch and minister the same?

Jiao Hong was proficient in the theory of contradictions and also proficient in the theory of public and private. Public and private are relative concepts. A larger collective is public, and a smaller collective is private. And the smallest collective unit of the country is not the individual, but the household. Every family constitutes a smallest unit collective.

This is the core content of Zhang Juzheng's theory of public and private. Jiao Hong was very proficient. The theory of public and private is a derivative theory of the theory of contradictions. Unable to view all things from a dialectical perspective, it is very easy to make Huang Yuezhong's mistake.

Jiao Hong was a famous "contrarian" in the Imperial Academy, arguing with his good friend Zhang Siwen, even to the point of physical fighting. Of course, they had also made up several times now.

Huang Yuezhong was silent for a moment and said, "Also the same! The original intention of being a monarch is to govern the world. If the world cannot be governed by one person, then officials are set up to govern it. So officials are the monarch's avatars, also the same!"

That is to say, people set up monarchs to govern the world. If the world cannot be governed by one person, officials are set up to govern it. So officials are the Emperor's avatars, which is the same.

"Haven't read the theory of contradictions?" Jiao Hong asked with confusion.

Huang Yuezhong said, "No."

"Then no wonder." Jiao Hong suddenly realized, and then said, "I am asking you, from the perspective of the minister, are the monarch and minister also the same? Can you answer this question? Don't avoid the question."

"Same!" Huang Yuezhong said with a stiff scalp.

"Then you are planning to rebel." Jiao Hong suddenly realized.

Zhu Yijun laughed directly, shaking his head repeatedly. This Jiao Hong, arguing about classics is arguing about classics, why set a trap for people? Huang Yuezhong was a bit confused by the question. Even if he thought so in his heart, he couldn't say it.

Isn't this challenging the core of the feudal imperial system, imperial power?

"Today we meet friends with literature. From the perspective of the people, the names of the monarch and minister are different but the reality is the same. What does Brother Huang think?" Zhu Yijun had a hard time watching the fun, so he found a step for Huang Yuezhong.

"Ah, yes, yes, yes, from the perspective of the people, the names of the monarch and minister are different but the reality is the same!" Huang Yuezhong saw that there was a step, so he immediately came down. And Jiao Hong saw that Huang Yuezhong admitted that his point of view had flaws, so he did not pursue it too much, but a question kept lingering in his mind.

This voice, too familiar.

Jiao Hong looked up and saw Zhao Mengyou's half-face appearing and disappearing. Zhao Mengyou appeared, then the person just now, without a doubt, was the Emperor!

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