Chapter 631: Making everyone satisfied means making everyone dissatisfied

Confucius's "don't blame things that are already past" is the first basic principle of political activity. That is, only look at the present, and you need to solve the practical contradictions before your eyes before discussing the future or the past. Handling the present is the top priority, and it is also the "light and heavy" mentioned by Guanzi.

There is another basic logic: "Adding one thing brings one thing's trouble; yielding one point brings one point's gift." "Better to have one less thing than one more thing" is the basic logic for bureaucrats to do things. Shen Shen Shixing was out of this logic that he was unwilling to deal with these feng shui masters, because paying attention to them would bring more trouble, so he simply ignored them.

Shen Shen Shixing liked to balance water, which meant he didn't like to cause trouble. If he could have one less thing, he would have one less thing.

If it were someone like Yin Yin Zhengmao or Ling Ling Yunyi, they would probably send them to the mines to work honestly for two years, and they wouldn't talk about dragon veins. The most important thing in mining is to find the dragon vein from the ore seedlings. If it were Wang Wang Jiaping, he would make these feng shui masters wish they were dead.

If it were Wang Wang Yie, these swindlers who wagged their tongues would definitely be executed according to the law, and their deeds would be carved on a stone tablet.

Among the governors of the Great Ming, the one who did things most according to the rules and principles was Wang Wang Yie. Because Wang Wang Yie was a disciple of Xu Xu Jie, he never dared to overstep the rules in his work. He did things with chapters and regulations. But everyone still missed Ling Ling Yunyi. Ling Ling Bu Tang killed people, but Ling Ling Bu Tang did not attack the heart.

Shen Shen Shixing's personality was very gentle. He didn't look for trouble with these feng shui masters, but the feng shui masters went from bad to worse and looked for trouble with Shen Shen Shixing.

Four feng shui masters brought a group of disciples and followers, totaling more than a hundred people, and ran to the front of the Songjiang Prefectural Southern Yamen to start a sit-in!

From the end of the Emperor Wanli era to the Tang Shunzhi era, slave revolts broke out continuously in Jiangnan. "Cao Cao Ge Suo Qi" was the most violent form of struggle. There was another kind, which was "Juzu Suoqi," similar to a strike. They gathered together and demanded that the powerful clans hand over their deeds of sale. If they didn't return the deeds of sale, they wouldn't work.

And the four feng shui masters knew how to attract people's attention. He brought a group of disciples and followers and blocked the Songjiang Prefectural Southern Yamen, demanding that Shen Shen Shixing give an explanation for destroying the feng shui dragon veins!

"These few feng shui masters have such big guts? Or is there someone behind them?" The Qingpu Magistrate, Xu Xu Bingzheng, frowned and said. He had been called to the prefectural Southern Yamen by the Governor to discuss the construction of the high-speed road, and he happened to run into the sit-in of the feng shui masters.

Xu Xu Bingzheng felt it was very abnormal. Were these feng shui masters crazy! The Great Ming was a feudal imperial system. Running to the Southern Yamen gate to make trouble had only one outcome: to be executed according to the law.

The feng shui masters weren't crazy; it was just that someone was behind them. Xu Xu Bingzheng leaned toward the latter. Someone had given them a promise that no matter how fierce the trouble was, nothing would happen.

Shen Shen Shixing said solemnly, "When the Emperor first dealt with the remonstrating officials, he told the ministers: 'Take one step back, and they will take three steps forward. If you retreat again and again, behind you is a bottomless abyss. Retreat? Jump down and commit suicide?'"

"Later, when the Master was writing the 'Theory of Contradictions,' he annotated: 'Interest groups are always surrounding struggles, which produces contradictions. And when interests cannot satisfy everyone, the struggle is not to yield an inch. However, human desires are insatiable, like gluttons. Therefore, interests can never satisfy everyone, so the struggle is endless. And the struggle is to be vengeful, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.'"

Regarding the struggle, the attitudes of the Emperor and Zhang Zhang Juzheng were exactly the same: you cannot retreat, you absolutely cannot yield interests in exchange for temporary peace. Shen Shen Shixing hadn't yielded any interests, hadn't retreated, and hadn't invited these feng shui masters to look at feng shui, but these feng shui masters still came to his door.

At this moment, Shen Shen Shixing suddenly understood the truth Zhang Zhang Juzheng had taught him back then.

"I think what County Magistrate Xu said is reasonable." Yao Xu Guangqi said calmly, "In fact, just think about it a little, and you'll know what this group of people wants to do. Once the Southern Yamen arrests people, they will let all the mouthpieces clamor together, thereby causing greater turmoil, forcing the Southern Yamen to compromise, and forcing the imperial court to withdraw its decree."

"Once they are allowed to succeed, it is as dangerous as a dam breaking, and it is difficult to deal with."

Yao Xu Guangqi thought for a while and said, "When I was fighting with Wang Qian in the capital, I tried this trick several times, but unfortunately, they were all cracked by Wang Qian. Sometimes, Wang Qian's way of doing things is truly unscrupulous."

Yao Xu Guangqi was speaking from experience. He had truly done this, but it was all cleverly resolved by Wang Qian.

In the 30th year of Emperor Wanli, the Emperor Wanli Emperor, who had been hiding for fifteen years, issued an edict for the eunuch Wang Chao to go to the Xishan to mine coal, because that year, the eunuch of the Xixin Office reported to the Emperor that the firewood in the horse mouth was exhausted. They should have received 50,000 catties of firewood, but only 1,300 catties remained. The wood factories in Hongluo, Yizhou, Mashuikou, and Jinshuikou were all in short supply.

With no firewood to use, they had to use coal.

The Qianqing Palace, the Emperor's sleeping quarters, had 124 kiln wells in the Xishan, but they had been abandoned for a long time. Wang Chao went to the Xishan to mine coal, but it turned out that these kiln wells, which were under the name of the Emperor's sleeping quarters, had already been occupied by others.

In July of the 30th year of Emperor Wanli, Wang Chao accused Huang Song Dajing, Wang Shoukuan, Yang Guaizi, Xu Jinhuai, and others in front of the Emperor of occupying kiln wells, concealing kiln taxes, and leading a crowd to beat up the Southern Yamen runners.

Wang Chao, as a eunuch in the palace, was used to being arrogant and domineering. When had the Eastern Depot agents ever suffered such grievances? They went to mine coal, but were beaten by these local ruffians!

The Emperor Wanli Emperor immediately ordered: "The criminals named in this memorial should be arrested by the factory and depot officials, together with the local Southern Yamen runners, and brought here for questioning!"

The factory and depot moved out together to arrest people!

But as soon as the people were arrested, outside the Changan Gate, "the road was crowded with many people, all with sallow faces and short clothes, countless in number, crying out for justice and knocking their heads on the ground," accusing the eunuch Wang Chao of "publicly looting, and every household has suffered from his harm." This was the capital, the place of the Son of Heaven, so naturally, it couldn't be so chaotic. The Senior Grand Secretary at the time, Shen Shen Yiguan, released all the suspects.

Shen Shen Yiguan ultimately didn't see the Emperor Wanli Emperor, but the Emperor Wanli Emperor still compromised, recalled Wang Chao, replaced him with Chen Yongshou, stopped the coal mining, and changed it to setting up a coal extraction bureau at Lugou Bridge to extract coal for the use of the inner palace.

This matter wasn't over. In the 32nd year of Emperor Wanli, the kiln people again "gathered in groups of hundreds, weeping at the Changan Gate." In the end, the Emperor Wanli Emperor had to compromise again and had to issue an edict: "The kiln tax and levies on the people are all stopped and exempted, to show the imperial court's virtue of cherishing the foundation of the local area."

Yao Xu Guangqi also knew this trick, but the strange thing about Wang Qian was that he was ruthless. Yao Xu Guangqi dared to let the impoverished laborers petition, but Wang Qian dared to lead these petitioners to the Meridian Gate and the Huangji Gate to petition!

Petitioning and petitioning at the gate were two different natures. One was aimed at the imperial court, and the other was aimed at the Emperor himself. Wang Qian dared to do this because he knew the Emperor was clear-sighted. The true demands of the impoverished laborers could be satisfied, and those who caused trouble behind the scenes would not be able to escape, so he wasn't afraid at all.

Wang Qian fought this way, essentially being unreasonable!

Therefore, Yao Xu Guangqi was at a disadvantage everywhere in his fight with Wang Qian in the capital, because Wang Qian's backing was the Holy Emperor. As long as there were no fundamental errors in the route and stance, Wang Qian could make the Emperor restless, but the Emperor wouldn't make things too difficult for Wang Qian.

Shen Shen Shixing thought about it again and again and stood up, saying, "I want to see how big they can make this matter! At worst, we'll take it to the capital, take it to the Emperor!"

"Open the Southern Yamen, arrest them!"

Shen Shen Shixing's personality was extremely gentle. He was also that kind of traditional Confucian scholar who liked compromise the most—everyone is happy, the world is peaceful. He wasn't willing to make a big mess. In Shen Shen Shixing's view, if he had the energy for this internal friction, he might as well put more energy into production. Every time one more fast sailing ship was built, it could bring hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in revenue to the imperial court every year.

But this "Master of Balancing Water" finally discovered in practice that if you want to do things, being gentle is impossible, because your gentleness is seen by the enemy as retreat, as weakness!

Shen Shen Shixing exploded. This was the first time he had exploded since arriving in Songjiang Prefecture, or rather, since entering officialdom after passing the imperial examination in the 41st year of Emperor Jiajing.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng had criticized Shen Shen Shixing's personality for being too gentle more than once, but "people teach people a thousand times and they don't learn; things teach people once and they learn."

Shen Shen Shixing finally understood the four characters "vengeful and retaliatory," which was the basic quality that an imperial assistant must possess.

Wang Wang Chonggu never let go of anyone who dared to climb on his head, and his methods were extremely cruel—worse than confiscating property and exterminating the family; it was making them wish they were dead. Zhang Zhang Juzheng was vengeful, and the Emperor was even a bit petty, personally executing Chen Yang Youren, personally executing Xu Xu Jie, and executing Kong Kong Yinlin like a dog.

Yao Xu Guangqi and Xu Xu Bingzheng looked at each other, and both breathed a sigh of relief. Their immediate superior, Shen Shen Shixing, was good in every way, but the only problem was that Shen Shen Shixing was a "good person."

If you aren't an official, being a good person is naturally liked by everyone. But since you are rolling in the Great Ming officialdom, the biggest vanity fair in the world, a good person will definitely not have a good ending.

Evil people still need evil people to grind them. Being a good person cannot deal with evil people.

The disciples and followers brought by these four feng shui masters saw the Southern Yamen gate open wide, and just as they wanted to charge in, they saw the Southern Yamen runners pouring out and immediately knew that something big was wrong! Seeing this, these people immediately scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing in all directions.

Shen Shen Shixing began to arrest people. When the feng shui masters saw the Southern Yamen runners pouncing on them, they were all stunned. Things shouldn't be like this! Everyone knew Shen Shen Shixing was easy to bully. How could he start moving without even talking?

After a very careful interrogation, Xu Xu Bingzheng was wrong. No one gave the feng shui masters any promises, and no one stood up for them. It was just that the feng shui masters felt Shen Shen Shixing was easy to talk to. Seeing that the miscellaneous newspapers were useless, they ran to the Southern Yamen to block the door. As a result, Shen Shen Shixing, who had always been gentle, suddenly stopped being a "good old man," catching the feng shui masters off guard.

Shen Shen Shixing didn't believe it and interrogated them several times, and even had the Southern Metropolitan area Eunuch Commander Luo Inspector Luo Bingliang Bingliang take time out of his busy schedule to investigate in detail, only to find that there was indeed no one behind them. Shen Shen Shixing began to reflect on his past behavior. Was he too gentle, to the point that even feng shui masters didn't take him seriously?

Actually, it was very normal. Shen Shen Shixing was easy to talk to, but Zhang Zhang Juzheng was not easy to talk to.

On weekdays, everyone just fights within the rules. Running to the Southern Yamen to block the door is equivalent to riding on Shen Shen Shixing's head. No matter how good Shen Shen Shixing's temper was, how could he bear this anger? When the time comes, it will attract Zhang Zhang Juzheng's blow, which will be more than the loss.

Shen Shen Shixing wasn't a wild dog running around; he was a disciple of Zhang Zhang Juzheng for twenty-two years. Offending Shen Shen Shixing to death is offending Zhang Zhang Juzheng.

When Wang Daokun was the Governor of Songjiang Prefecture, not long after he arrived, he was "slept with a good family woman." Wang Daokun had no choice but to acknowledge the woman and take her as a concubine, turning it into a disgraceful romantic affair. But the powerful clans in Songjiang Prefecture really didn't dare to treat Shen Shen Shixing like that.

After the feng shui masters blocked the Southern Yamen door, the Tang Hongyuan Great Dyehouse suddenly had work. More than a dozen cotton firms ran to the Great Dyehouse to place orders. First, the Great Dyehouse's craftsmanship was truly good. The craftsmen in the dyehouse all had secret techniques passed down from the Yuan Dynasty—three hundred years of old brand, they wouldn't have survived until now without some unique skills. Second, it was naturally the universal tacit understanding among those in power.

The Southern Metropolitan area Eunuch Commander Luo Inspector Luo Bingliang Bingliang arrived in Songjiang Prefecture. This time, he came to Songjiang Prefecture mainly to audit taxes.

Shen Shen Shixing had been blocked at the door and had suffered such a great grievance. If Shen Shen Shixing stopped being a good person, with the case of the feng shui masters, he could implicate the powerful clans. It didn't even need the case of the feng shui masters; just by holding high the banner of auditing taxes, he could torture all the powerful clans until they had only half a life left.

Therefore, those in power directly loosened their grip, not letting Shen Shen Shixing continue his pursuit, maintaining a basic sense of decency.

Yuan Shen was paraded through the streets for twelve days before finally being taken away by the Emperor. During these twelve days when Yuan Shen was paraded through the streets, the powerful clans in the four counties of Songjiang Prefecture expressed one after another that they could notarize labor contracts, but the premise was that Sun Sun Kehong of the Songjiang Ocean Trading Company must complete it first.

This requirement was very reasonable. Sun Sun Kehong was a royal merchant who had surrendered to the Emperor—everyone thought so. And because of his surrender, the Sun family had bitten off a piece of fat meat in the high profits of maritime trade. If the Sun family wasn't willing to take the lead, it proved that this decree was absolutely unpopular.

But Sun Sun Kehong expressed his cooperation and would complete it within three months.

And Zhou Zhou Jianren, who had killed the retainers, was also escorted to the capital. It was just that Yuan Shen went in a prison cart, while Zhou Zhou Jianren didn't even wear shackles. This was something the Emperor had specifically instructed. Compared to Zhao Zhao Laoqi Zhao Ji killing people in anger, the case of Zhou Zhou Jianren killing the four retainers of Yuan Shen was considered self-defense by the Emperor himself.

Yuan Shen first refused to pay wages and also beat the apprentice who saw him entering the brothel. When they fought, Yuan Shen, as the workshop owner, brought retainers to continue beating the craftsmen, which led to this tragedy.

This characterization by the Emperor was a personal characterization, and it still hadn't passed through the judicial department. But this characterization made Zhou Zhou Jianren's journey to the capital much easier. After all, he didn't need to sit in a prison cart. As long as Zhou Zhou Jianren didn't run away himself, after entering the capital, he would at most be sentenced to exile by referring to the Zhao Zhao Laoqi murder case.

The Minister of Justice, Wang Wang Chonggu, was a typical believer in authority. Since the Emperor intended to show leniency, Wang Wang Chonggu had to consider the Emperor's opinion.

"Stop arguing, my ears are getting calluses from your arguing. Sit down, sit down and talk!" Zhu Zhu Yijun looked at the two ministers arguing until their faces were red and their ears were red, and he also had a look of hopelessness. Wan Wan Shihe and Zhang Zhang Juzheng were arguing because of the "Great Ming Collected Statutes."

"I'll say it again: if a doctor in the Imperial Hospital fails to treat the Emperor properly and causes the sky to collapse, he shall be executed without pardon!" Zhang Zhang Juzheng flicked his sleeves and finally stated his point of view. If the Emperor dies, the doctor who treated him must die.

Wan Wan Shihe spread his hands and said very helplessly, "Then who will treat the Emperor? And who will dare to be a doctor in the Imperial Hospital? The Senior Grand Secretary's idea is to prevent the Imperial Hospital from colluding with ambitious people, which is reasonable. But people will always get sick. Once the Great Ming Collected Statutes are explicitly written, the Imperial Hospital will be full of quacks."

"Stop! Drink some tea!" Zhu Zhu Yijun said loudly, "You two, moisten your throats. You've been arguing for almost half an hour. Aren't you thirsty?"

The cause of the argument was Liu Liu Wentai. This person was the head of the Imperial Hospital during the During Chenghua and Hongzhi eras, that is, the reigns of Xianzong and Xiaozong. His greatest achievement was that both Xianzong and Xiaozong were treated by him, and as a result, Xianzong didn't survive, and Xiaozong didn't survive either.

In the end, Liu Liu Wentai was only exiled.

The events of that year had already passed and could not be investigated. Zhang Zhang Juzheng didn't mean to reopen old cases, and he didn't say whether there was any conspiracy back then. The matter had already passed; what was important was the present.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng's meaning was very clear: connect the lives of the entire Imperial Hospital to the life of the Emperor. If they don't treat the illness with care, they will all be punished together and all be buried with him. Write it into the Great Ming Collected Statutes and make it explicit.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng was the Chief Editor of the "Great Ming Collected Statutes," and Wan Wan Shihe was one of the Deputy Editors. Wan Wan Shihe had already finished the regulations on the use of medicine in the Imperial Hospital, but Zhang Zhang Juzheng insisted on adding this clause. Wan Wan Shihe disagreed, and they argued in front of the Emperor.

If they weren't punished together, the doctors in the Imperial Hospital might indeed collude with ambitious people to do something.

The Emperor Jiajing Emperor, after Xu Shen, who had cured his illness, died, spent his whole day with the "Blue Immortal," practicing alchemy and treating his own illness.

"In this world, there has never been a way to have the best of both worlds. Master, Grand Secretary Wan, let's do this: take a step back and maintain the status quo." Zhu Zhu Yijun stated his handling opinion after seeing the two ministers finally sit down to drink tea. Sometimes, doing nothing is also a kind of wisdom.

"People cannot control their own affairs after death. No one can control it. Since you can't control it, why bother?" Zhu Zhu Yijun stated his reason. If he really died in the inflammation storm, what kind of fate Chen Chen Shigong would have would have to be decided by his successors. He was very open-minded about this matter. Maintaining the status quo was fine.

At least when the Dissection Institute was still there, the doctors who had sliced up the third-rank official Zhang Zhang Siwei had no possibility of colluding with the scholar-officials.

"Shen Shen Shixing has made some noise in Songjiang Prefecture." Zhu Zhu Yijun took out Shen Shen Shixing's memorial and said with a full face of smiles, "Our Governor Shen has finally learned to fight."

Shen Shen Shixing's biggest problem was that he wanted to satisfy everyone, and in the end, he satisfied no one. This was the biggest shortcoming of Shen Shen Shixing.

"I have told him many, many times, but he just won't listen. It was only after he was ridden on his head that he finally understood the two words 'give and take.' It's not easy." Zhang Zhang Juzheng said with great emotion.

The powerful clans in Jiangnan all had to give Zhang Zhang Juzheng some face and didn't dare to make things too difficult for Shen Shen Shixing. Shen Shen Shixing suffered a little grievance, and he had to make concessions and coax them. This also led to the fact that Shen Shen Shixing didn't really understand the way of giving and take. These few feng shui masters this time could be considered to have given Shen Shen Shixing a solid lesson.

Zhu Zhu Yijun took out two miscellaneous newspapers and handed them to Zhang Zhang Juzheng and Wan Wan Shihe, saying, "Our Master Lin and Master Li are discussing the alienation of people by money again."

The discussion on the alienation of people by money was unfolding in full swing. For the first time, Li Zhi discussed that impoverished laborers without means of production and production tools were destined to be enslaved by those in power in production activities. Those in power relied on means of production to establish a power similar to domination, while impoverished laborers had to sell their labor at an unfair price in the market.

This phenomenon of cheap labor was extremely common in the Great Ming at present.

Only fairness leads to freedom, not freedom leading to fairness. Li Zhi called the idea that freedom gives birth to fairness a lie.

And now, Lin Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi had started their second discussion, still on the alienation of people by money. However, the content of this part could no longer be described as rebellious; it was simply daring to defy heaven.

Based on the current situation of the Great Ming, starting from the case of Wang Wang Chonggu's assassination, the two reached a conclusion.

The deformed power born from the alienation of people by money has no home or country. Money has no home or country, and the owners of money—those in power—have no home or country either.

This logic was very simple. Profit equals surplus value, and those who create surplus value can be the impoverished laborers of the Han people, the bottom layer of the Tatars, or the black barbarians and Japanese slaves. Those in power don't have to care who provides them with surplus value.

"The dissatisfaction of those in power with the imperial court is spreading like weeds. This is something to be vigilant about, because the Great Ming imperial court is blocking them from unlimited exploitation of profits downwards. Facing the selection of elite troops from the capital, those in power who have no countermeasures will use all the power they can use to stir up public opinion and incite the impoverished laborers." Zhang Zhang Juzheng put down the miscellaneous newspaper and repeated a sentence from it.

Officials and hereditary officials can also have no home or country, as long as they can bear the cost of their class sliding downwards. Xu Fan ran to the West, and compared to his power in the Great Ming, being a minister of state in the West and dealing with a group of barbarians was also a kind of class slide.

If they had a choice, Xu Fan would definitely stay in the Great Ming, but Xu Xu Jie was stubborn.

When those in power didn't have enough wings to leave the Great Ming, they had a home and country, because they could only obtain enough profits in the Great Ming. The products they organized for production only had a market in the Great Ming. At this time, those in power had to have a home and country, because once they left this land, they would lose everything.

Li Zhi gave an example: the Great Ming had many shipyards, but only seven had the ability to produce three-masted clipper ships, while the rest of the shipyards only had the ability to build two-masted sampans. Western merchants would not buy three-masted clipper ships and two-masted small boats. The owners of these shipyards could not survive without the Great Ming.

When the Great Ming provided enough protection and allowed those in power to grow to the point where they could compete on the world stage, the Great Ming lost its value.

There was a group of opposition factions in the Yuanxu Islands who opposed the decree of relocating wealthy households to enrich the capital. The reason they were able to relocate to the Yuanxu Islands was entirely because of the support of the Great Ming's maritime opening policy, and also because they had absorbed enough nutrients in the Great Ming.

"The views of these two pen-pushers, Lin Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi, are very sharp and incisive." Zhang Zhang Juzheng looked at the miscellaneous newspaper on the table and made a positive evaluation. It was truly appropriate for these two to be opinion leaders.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and said, "To prevent silver from flowing out, we must also prevent barbarians from entering the Ming to work."

"Those who are not of our race must have different hearts."

When the country is on the rise and controls enough resources, no matter who it is, they can get a relatively satisfactory share, and naturally, everyone is happy. But when the country's national strength declines and the controlled resources are not enough to go around, no one will be satisfied. Then these barbarians who have entered the Ming are the source of chaos.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng wasn't alarmist; this was a lesson that had happened in history—the Isfahan War.

In the 17th year of the Zhizheng era of the Yuan Dynasty, the Isfahan army, mainly composed of Persians, launched a rebellion in Quanzhou and established the Isfahan Khanate, which was not completely pacified until ten years later, in the 26th year of the Zhizheng era. Quanzhou Port, the most prosperous in China, was destroyed in the flames of war.

Thinking from the discussions of Lin Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi, it was easy to get the direction of these two decrees. The Great Ming was too free. Being able to absorb nutrients in the Great Ming and then take them out was simply incredible.

"How to do it specifically, the Ministry of Rites can draft a charter." Zhu Zhu Yijun handed this matter to Wan Wan Shihe. Wan Wan Shihe had been shouting from the beginning that barbarians were wolf-faced and beast-hearted, fearing power but not cherishing virtue. The Ministry of Rites had also been brewing this for a long time.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng said with a strange face, "This year, the Songjiang Prefecture originally planned for seven fast sailing shipyards. They were completed in July, and by the end of the year, they will reach ten shipyards. That is to say, starting next year, the production capacity of fast sailing ships will reach ten per year; the Military Equipment Bureau reported that by the end of this year, the production capacity of minting silver coins will be increased to 5 million pieces, and by the middle of next year, the predetermined goal of 6.5 million pieces will be completed."

"Your Majesty, the goals set by the imperial court are a bit conservative. This is because the ministers ignored the reasons for the expansion of scale and the change of quantity leading to a change in quality."

The "Theory of Contradictions" discusses the laws of development and change of things, among which it discusses that "three feet of ice is not formed in a single day," which is quantity leading to quality. The "Theory of Contradictions" had been out for twelve years, but when applying it, they would still involuntarily ignore some factors. The conservatism of the imperial court in setting goals was just like this.

"No, no, no, Master. I think it's better to be conservative." Zhu Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "If the goals are set too high, they will definitely be eager for quick success and instant benefits. Production is material and needs to follow the reality of practice. If the goals are set slightly higher, who knows what kind of moths will come out."

Zhu Zhu Yijun didn't ignore the scale effect. He deliberately set a goal that wasn't too high and could be completed, not for a sense of relaxation, but to prevent the "doubling and expansion" methods of the Great Ming bureaucrats.

The means for bureaucrats to destroy a government decree, the most overbearing of which is "doubling." Zhu Zhu Yijun, this kind of authoritarian Emperor, had no good way to deal with this kind of thing, only one word: kill.

"I respectfully follow the imperial instruction." Zhang Zhang Juzheng felt a bit of lingering fear after hearing the Emperor say this. Over the years, under the high pressure of the "Evaluation Law" and his own authority, the bureaucrats had all been honest, which almost made Zhang Zhang Juzheng ignore this overbearing method of "doubling."

Zhang Zhang Juzheng discovered that the Emperor's vigilance against civil officials had never relaxed for a moment.

"What's going on with the 'Great Ming Sect' popular in the West recently? The Governor of Luzon, Guo Cheng, submitted a memorial saying that many Dutch merchant ships want to come to the capital to make a pilgrimage?" Zhu Zhu Yijun said with an extremely ugly face.

He didn't even know when he had become the only true god of the Great Ming Sect! ===== CHAPTER 632 =====

He didn't even know when he had become the only true god of the Great Ming Sect!