Ju Ming took the royal family members and went to the royal garden to escape the summer heat. He also brought a radio station and a radio operator with him.
It is said to be a place to escape the heat, but actually it is also necessary to work.
Li Hanzhang was ordered to come to Dongxi Garden for an audience. He sat in the pavilion in the middle of the lake and waited. What he saw was the green lotus swaying in the wind and the flower bones that had just revealed their sharp corners.
He already knew what happened in his hometown, but he didn't know the details.
Li Hanzhang has had no contact with his family since he asked his brother to go back and separate the family and change his household registration.
Many Chinese words have their origins and have become accustomed to them because they have been used for a long time.
Just like Ju Ming's first era title "Fuxing China", people at this time did not think it was vulgar, and it was omitted as "Fuxing", and "Xinghua" had other meanings.
The same goes for "sun". People hundreds of years later will definitely think it is a common name.
Then why is the colloquial word for the moon not "taiyin"?
And it became more and more popular. In the Ming Dynasty, it was called "Yue Ming", and in the Qing Dynasty, it was called "Yue Ming".
The derivation of the noun from moonlight to moon is the normal trend of popularization and colloquialism.
The evolution of the colloquial name for the sun has actually changed from popular to elegant, which goes against the law of language development.
Because the three words "ri", "ru" and "zhi" have the same pronunciation, the vulgar words "zhiniangthief" and "runiang's" can be directly replaced by the word "ri".
Even when you curse someone, it can be simplified to just one word: day!
Therefore, the colloquial "日" and "日头" in the Song and Yuan Dynasties were gradually replaced by the more elegant "sun" in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
In the Song Dynasty, if you pointed to the sky and called the sun, it was no different from pointing to the night sky and calling out the moon. It was an elegant and ungrounded behavior. Because everyone usually called the sun, even the sun was often used in poetry.
We are accustomed to "separating families", but this word also has its origin.
The emperor established the country, and the princes established their families, and together they became the country.
"Jia" specifically refers to the fiefdom of the scholar-bureaucrats, which can also be called a fief.
The descendants of the princes multiplied too much, and the former fiefdoms could not support themselves, so they had to find another way out.
Those who stayed in the same place were called Zongzi, and those who separated were called Zhizi.
According to Zhou rites, "branch children are not sacrificed", that is, the branch children who have separated from the family have no right to sacrifice to their ancestors.
After the rites and music collapsed, some members began to take over the guests.
Later, branch children could also worship their ancestors, but they still adhered to the Zhou rites: families were divided into separate halls, and the person who opened the hall was the ancestor of the branch, and future generations would no longer worship the distant ancestors of the main lineage.
Li Hanzhang's "family separation" behavior is a real "family separation", rather than simply changing the household registration book - the family division in the common saying should be called "property analysis and household analysis", and the sacrifices remain unchanged.
Generally speaking, when one migrates, the family will not be separated directly, because this is an "unfilial" act of forgetting one's ancestors. It is usually only three or four generations after the migration that the family is formally separated and another ancestor is worshipped.
Among the large families in Jiangxi who were forcibly moved to Hunan by Wei Liangchen, currently none of them are divided into separate families. They all belong to normal separated households, and they have the right to worship their ancestors from a distance.
Li Hanzhang was more ruthless and cut him off directly because he expected something would happen in his hometown.
Modern people naturally think it is nothing, and even think that he is taking advantage of loopholes.
But from the perspective of the ancients, Li Hanzhang turned his back on his ancestors, and he is currently in a state of "having no ancestors to sacrifice".
He could not worship his ancestors remotely with formal etiquette. He could only return to his hometown as a branch son to participate in the ancestor worship activities of the main clan.
Moreover, the descendants he gave birth to after the family split were not eligible to enter the Li family ancestral hall in Chuzhou. At most, they could only be appended to the genealogy.
If such behavior were carried out in the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties, he would be impeached by the imperial censor to the point of immediate dismissal from office, and he would never be hired again!
Do you still expect a person who has no ancestors or father to be loyal to the emperor?
No one believed this kind of thing when he told it. Li Hanzhang did not deliberately publicize it, he just reported it to the emperor and informed the officials. Of course, the Chuzhou Li family also hid it, and they wanted to take advantage of the Prime Minister.
So, what does Li Hanzhang have to be afraid of?
"Meet the official, meet the prince!" Li Hanzhang suddenly stood up and bowed.
"Sit down."
Ju Ming himself sat down with the prince and said casually: "Your nephew committed suicide."
"He brought it upon himself," Li Hanzhang said.
He was very disgusted with Li Xiaojian.
Although they are separated by generations, they are not much different in age and they often played together when they were teenagers.
At that time, although Li Xiaojian was not very knowledgeable, his character was not bad, and he was passionate about scolding traitorous officials.
It was not until a few years ago that an elder from the clan wrote to Li Hanzhang to complain, scolding Li Xiaojian for ruining the Li family tradition, that he discovered that his clan nephew and young friend had changed.
Unknown to others, Li Hanzhang actually sent people back to his hometown secretly many times to warn Li Xiaojian to stop, and also summoned the clan elders to discuss the matter.
However, Li Xiaojian's lineage is the direct line of the eldest son of the Li family in Chuzhou, while Li Hanzhang belongs to the collateral line of the eldest son of the Li family.
Li Xiaojian promised outwardly every time and swore that he would live a good life.
This guy kept donating money and land as family property, hired famous teachers to teach the Li family's descendants, and also supported those Li family members who were in financial difficulties.
Gradually, most of the Li clan members in Chuzhou actually felt that Li Xiaojian was a good person, and even elected him as the leader of the Li clan!
But what Li Hanzhang did was to only care about himself and not the family.
Faced with complaints from many tribesmen, Li Hanzhang finally made up his mind to cut off from his family.
Ju Ming said: "Your nephew is quite capable of doing things. The Chasi Yamen of Huainan Province is rotten from top to bottom. I'm afraid there won't be many good people. Even if there are some officials who are not greedy, they will definitely be squeezed out and unable to do anything."
.The capital commanders and envoys are almost in ruins. At least from the Salt Canal to the Cao Canal, the garrison and Cao troops there are engaged in smuggling. At least half of the officials at the prefecture and county levels are rotten. All the officials are probably corrupt.
Those who violated the law. Officials from the Third Division of Huainan Province, it is difficult to determine how many crimes they committed."
Li Hanzhang was stunned when he heard this.
When he asked his brother to go back and separate the family, Li Xiaojian was far less arrogant than he is now. The officialdom of Huainan Province at that time was much cleaner than it is now, otherwise the severe crackdowns would have exposed it long ago.
How many years has it just passed?
It actually corrupted the officialdom of Huainan Province to the extreme!
The rate of corruption is not "1+2", but develops geometrically. Especially in the past two or three years, as the Shahe Society continues to grow, many subordinates have joined the gang. Even Li Xiaojian cannot stop the "fusion of black and white."
According to Li Xiaojian's original intention, subordinate officials are subordinate officials, gangs are gangs, and the black and white groups cooperate with each other.
What's the result?
There are constantly gang members being hired as civil servants, and there are constantly officials who are also gang members.
There is no longer any distinction between black and white, and it is easy for newly appointed officials to be dragged into the trap in a daze.
There was such a big commotion in his hometown that Li Hanzhang would not be able to escape the blame even if the family was divided. He stood up and bowed solemnly: "I ask you to retire and recuperate."
Ju Ming said: "Prime Minister, please continue to do what you are doing. All the promotion offices will be stripped away, and the official title will be reduced by three levels."
This punishment made Li Hanzhang feel happy but also disappointed.
In addition to the official position of prime minister, all his honorary titles were wiped out, and his official rank became the lowest in the cabinet.
A layman might think this is a self-punishment of three cups.
But those who have truly entered the officialdom know that every position, whether virtual or real, represents glory and power.
For Li Hanzhang himself, this was also a danger signal.
If something goes wrong next time, I may have to give up!
Fortunately, he cut off his relationship with the family early, otherwise the punishment result this time would be the same as Zhai Ruwen's direct retirement.
Accompanying the emperor and the prince, he toured Dongxi Garden for a while, before Li Hanzhang bowed and resigned.
Looking at the prince who was still a little confused, Ju Ming asked: "Don't you understand?"
Zhu Yang bowed and said, "Father, please make it clear."
Ju Ming explained in detail:
"Li Hanzhang used to control the Ministry of Personnel, and he joined the cabinet at a young age and served as Prime Minister for many years. His disciples and former officials were all over the world, but I replaced several Ministers of the Ministry of Personnel. In addition, the several severe corruption investigations
, there were great changes in officials, and the newly emerging officials had serious conflicts with Li Hanzhang’s disciples and old officials.”
"The leaders of several major civil servant factions actually don't want to cause more trouble, at least they don't want to take the initiative to stir up trouble. But the officials of their respective factions will push them away in order to get promoted. They have to fight without fighting, otherwise how can they be leaders of factions? This
This incident has nothing more than turned a secret fight into an open fight on the table."
"The person who planned the plan is Zhang Su, the right chief minister of Huainan. He is your grandfather's man..."
"Grandfather?" Zhu Yang was shocked.
Zhu Ming nodded: "Your grandfather abdicated and became the Supreme Emperor. Many people cried to dissuade him, some of them sincerely. Zhang Su is the grandnephew of the former Song Dynasty Prime Minister Zhang Shangying. He used to be the chief registrar of Xixiang County. He was the first to discover that there was a problem in Daming Township.
.But because he was constrained from everywhere, he did not cause any damage to Daming Township, and instead developed a friendship with your grandfather."
"If your grandfather was still in power, Zhang Su would have been promoted to the central government long ago, and would have been at least a left minister, just one step away from the minister. But your grandfather abdicated, and his promotion was very slow. He planned to break out of Huainan.
In this case, the first is to drive away the Chief Envoy Zuo, and take the opportunity to temporarily take over the position and be responsible for Huainan immigration to gain political achievements; the second is to help Liang Yi attack Li Hanzhang."
Zhu Yang nodded and said: "Sao Liang is the direct disciple of my grandfather. I heard that he almost became my grandfather's adopted son. He is indeed the leader of this faction. But even if Prime Minister Li is dismissed from his post, there are still others ahead of him in the cabinet.
You two, why can't it be his turn?"
Zhu Ming smiled and said: "The cabinet ministers in front of Liang Yi are Zhang Bor and Chen Dong. Although Zhang Bor is a scholar, he was born in the military and has led troops to fight. Now the Ministry of War and the Privy Council are both
It is impossible for Zhang Bor to become prime minister if he is controlled by military generals. Similarly, Chen Dong came from the Inspectorate, and another cabinet minister Wei Liangchen also came from the Inspectorate. The Inspectorate was too powerful, and even the censor of Zuodu was under my control.
Change it. If two censors join the cabinet, can one of them be made prime minister?"
"If my father personally appoints or removes the prime minister, anyone can hold this position," Zhu Yang said.
Ju Ming shook his head slightly: "Of course it is possible to forcefully appoint the prime minister. This is the power of the emperor. But the military power must not be too strong, otherwise it will be difficult for the army to suppress it. As for Chen Dong and Wei Liangchen, who were born as censors, they have offended too many people.
, once he becomes prime minister, it will intensify the conflicts between civil servant factions."
Zhu Yang said: "Then they will never be prime minister in this life?"
"Of course not," Ju Ming said. "If one of the positions of the Minister of War or the Privy Council is held by a civilian official, it is okay for Zhang Bor to be the prime minister. If one of Chen Dong and Wei Liangchen dies or retires, the other will be the prime minister."
The Prime Minister can do it too."
Zhu Yang thought about it carefully and bowed: "Thank you father for your teaching."
Ju Ming didn't say a word. He suspected that Zhang Bor was also involved!
Zhang Bor is the deputy prime minister. Wouldn't he have thought about going further?
Zhang Bor and Li Bao could barely be considered fellow villagers, and they had a very good personal relationship. Li Jiang, the commander-in-chief of Huainan, was also Li Bao's confidant.
Is it possible for Zhang Boring and Li Bao to go along with the current and demolish the power of Li Hanzhang and Zhang Guangdao together?
After all, Huainan Capital Commander Guo Xiong is Zhang Guangdao's man. If Li Hanzhang and Zhang Guangdao are brought together, Zhang Boring will be qualified to be prime minister!
Although Zhang Bor entered the cabinet as a representative of the military, Zhang Guangdao, who was in charge of the Ministry of War, was a drag on Zhang Bor's promotion to prime minister.
Ju Ming was not particularly angry about these messy fights.
There are overt and covert fights among primary school students running for class president, let alone the power of the prime minister of such a huge country!
This Huainan corruption case is just a tentative attack.
Regardless of whether Zhang Boring personally participated in the incident or not, he and Zhang Guangdao would definitely become enemies.
No matter how hard you fight, just follow the rules.
Who dares to extend the conflicts in the court to the battlefield? Ju Ming doesn't mind killing chickens to scare monkeys. He will kill even the founding ministers!