Chapter 362 Is there a person who sincerely thinks that he is a villain through and through?
Under Ruan Dacheng's care, Shi Yuwei sang a little tune. After listening to it, Zhu Youjian felt that it was very similar to "Exploring Qingshui River" that later generations heard.
In fact, the tunes of ancient ditties are not rich and are quite monotonous. From Beijing to Nanjing, there are only a few ditties sung in brothels and halls, but the lyrics have changed a lot.
After a few simple pretentious comments, Zhu Youjian asked the next person who was going to sing to take over. After the first person took the lead, the people below began to have a desire to express themselves, and they participated enthusiastically one by one.
Pretending to be very interested, Zhou Yanru from the cabinet chased him to the drama club in the evening.
"Grand Master, is there something urgent?" Zhu Youjian asked Zhou Yanru in a low voice after asking Zhou Yanru to sit next to him.
"Your Majesty, there are so many state affairs, how can you delay the state affairs and go to the drama club to listen to an opera for a day." When Lao Yiyi opened his mouth, he did not talk about business, but first complained about Zhu Youjian from the moral high ground.
"The Grand Master should know that Ouyang Yongshu wrote a "Biography of Actors" in the former Song Dynasty, right? However, as an important minister of the dynasty, I have seen all the political affairs he did, and it seems that none of them benefited the people or made the country rich and strong.
Even the party struggle in the Song Dynasty became clear, but it started from that. What is the party of gentlemen and the party of villains? Those who follow me are gentlemen, and those who go against me are villains. From Confucius onwards, no one in the world can be better than this. In this world, there is that
People sincerely think that they are complete villains? What do I mean by this? It means that you should not deliberately view anything as noble, nor should you look down upon anything. All ten fingers are indispensable in life.
Taoism teaches that all things are complementary to each other. Don't be arrogant about your own career, and don't despise other people's careers. Pay attention to everything and be knowledgeable, and be the best in everything you do. This is what I want to say to the self-righteous scholars in the world."
It was originally intended to persuade the emperor, but in the end Zhou Yanru himself was persuaded. I don’t know when the emperor started to become more and more eloquent. I feel that for five thousand years, he is always reasonable.
"Your Majesty, Jianlu has sent people to Shanhaiguan to discuss peace talks. How will the court deal with it?"
"Send people to negotiate as usual. The previous conditions remain unchanged, and another one is to investigate the war crimes of General Azig for expelling civilians into the battlefield during the Battle of Jinzhou last year! Jianlu wants to hand over this man who slaughtered the Han people's beasts
This is one of the foundations for the new peace talks, which will be rectified by this DPRK."
If you don’t want to talk about it, just say it, and the opinions you raise are becoming more and more exaggerated. Azig is a serious leader of the Manchu people, and he is also the direct brother of the current chieftain. How could they hand this man over for justice in this dynasty? Zhou Yan Ruyue
Lai Yue felt that the emperor was a shady person. During the negotiations, he did not mention the actual interests such as territory, but only raised the requirements to fight for the rights and interests of the Han people in Liaodong. Are you negotiating? Are you acting for the people of the world?
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No wonder he is very concerned about the development of the drama club. It turns out that it is for the purpose of learning skills.
"Grand Master, it just so happens that you came here today. I am going to abolish the status of humble and slave. All the people of the Ming Dynasty will treat it as one. All slave contracts will be invalid, including those of the government. The sale of people among the people is prohibited."
Zhu Youjian, who was offended by Shi Yuwei's remark that his slave family was an art practitioner of official prostitution, realized the problem of common people's identity. So he prepared to discuss this matter with Zhou Yanru. Anyway, he didn't like the ditty he performed very much.
"Abolish the lowly status? But the lowly status means that they do not pay taxes. Letting them get rid of the lowly status will not be beneficial to the country? They will only share the profits of the taxpayers."
It was Lao Zhu who did this by dividing the people into three, six or nine classes. The reason why he did this was not because of his strong class consciousness, but for the convenience of ruling and collecting taxes. The so-called low-income households are not easy to collect taxes.
, since you can't contribute to the country, don't even think about enjoying the corresponding rights. If you are divided into three, six or nine, you will have no idea how to contribute to the country. So when the emperor said that he wanted to take a lowly household, Zhou Yanru was the first one.
What comes to mind is the tax system and power.
He had no objection to the abolition of slave status. There were not actually many slaves in the Ming Dynasty, and the requirements were quite cumbersome. Most of the so-called slaves existed through adopted sons, adopted daughters, etc. who exploited loopholes in the system. Abolition of slave status
, that is to say, the existence of official prostitutes has been cancelled. Official prostitutes were originally a way for the court to make money, but with its development today, official prostitutes cannot make much money. In fact, it is also a money-losing industry. Folks are not allowed to open brothels.
Yes, but the Ming Dynasty has always had policies and countermeasures. Didn’t Chen Yuanyuan and the others exist because they were adopted as adopted daughters by the old madam?
"Not paying taxes does not mean that they have not contributed to the country. As long as they work for tax households, they have actually made a contribution. After this matter is over, the cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue will discuss a detailed charter. My idea is to issue it first
, and then slowly let the atmosphere form among the people, and eradicated the trend of slaves from the Ming Dynasty. Now there is a trend among the people to run factories, and the demand for manpower is quite large, which requires a large number of hired workers, and the proliferation of fake slaves is very detrimental to industry and commerce
Industrial development.”
The life dependence of fake slaves is too strong, which is not conducive to people becoming hired workers, and because of the high initial investment costs, it limits the flexibility of industrial and commercial owners. This trend is very detrimental to the development of society. So Zhu Youjian’s idea
It is to first abolish slavery in the system, and then gradually crack down on the soil for exploiting loopholes among the people, steadily and thoroughly eliminating the atmosphere of slavery.
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During the instrumental music performance that night, Zhu Youjian specially invited Zhou Yanru to stay and enjoy it together, so as to cultivate the old boy's heart that had been damaged by dirty politics.
Zhu Youjian's ability to appreciate instrumental music performances is much better than that of singing. Several performances by everyone clearly aroused his interest, and he started to comment with interest.
"The Erhu piece performed by Master Wu just now made me cry as much as complaining, and I was deeply moved by it. This kind of work is a moving piece. I feel that a piece like this can be performed alone without the need to combine it with other folk arts.
It can also be paired together. Chief Ruan, on New Year’s Eve this year, the drama club will specially organize a New Year’s Eve concert. We will gather a group of instrumentalists to arrange a good program. I will bring all the ministers to attend this concert and congratulate me on the New Year.”
The instrumental music performance changed Zhu Youjian's inherent perception. He originally thought that the music of the Ming Dynasty was not dynamic enough, but this was not the case. However, in the past, due to the lack of good venues, instrumentalists could only rely on performing artists. Many fresh music
Living music has no chance to be seen by the public. So Zhu Youjian thought of helping them, elevating concert listening to the national level, and using the influence of courtiers to improve the status of musicians.
"It's good to listen to elegant music on New Year's Eve!" Zhou Yanru tugged on his beard and praised the emperor's decision. What he was most afraid of was that the emperor would be deceived by some female actors and the like, and would be happy every day instead of thinking about Shu. Listening to some music or something, it doesn't matter.