The collusion between officials and businessmen and the corruption of the ranks of officials are problems that no dynasty or anyone can completely solve.Throughout history, corrupt officials have always killed one batch, and another batch, and they will never be killed.This is true in the East and the West, and in the entire human society, but some corruption has changed its name, or it operates more advanced.After the establishment of a dynasty and a political power, the general trend is to increase entropy, and in order to maintain the order and stability of the political power and society, it is necessary to go against the entropy.This is a very difficult thing, just like people who insist on fitness and can always be self-disciplined against entropy, which is very uncomfortable.What Zhao Ming can do at the moment is actually to clean up a batch after the problem is highlighted, but Zhao Ming also knows that it won't be long before the same problem will appear again.At the same time as Zhao Ming arranged and conducted an investigation, the time had come to the end of 1664.Since Zhao Ming's expedition back to the dynasty, in the Ming Dynasty tributary system, in addition to the daimyo in Japan, they are still fighting each other, Penglai and Dongcheng are at war with Xiyi, and the Ming and the vassals have entered a period of peace and economic development.Now that the New Year is getting closer and closer, the atmosphere of the New Year in Nanjing is gradually getting stronger, and every household is busy buying New Year's goods, busy cleaning houses, posting door charms, and preparing to welcome the New Year.The various ministries of the Ming Dynasty also paid close attention to cleaning up the accumulated affairs and preparing to seal the New Year.However, before the officials of the various ministries sealed the seal letter and prepared for the New Year, since Zhao Ming was in charge of the government, the Ming court still had a year-end summary meeting to be held.At first, this congress was mainly Zhao Ming convened the members of the Kuomintang and the cabinet to summarize the events of the past year, set development goals for the coming year, and make an advance estimate of the imperial court's expenses, but later the meeting gradually developed into a congress in which the Kuomintang and officials participated in the meeting.The congress became a cabinet to make an annual summary to the Kuomintang officials in Beijing, describing the achievements of the development of the Ming court under their rule, and proposing a work plan and development direction for the coming year.Last year, Zhao Ming was on an expedition, and the meeting was still held, and it has become a practice to hold it under the auspices of Chen Mingyu, Huang Zongxi and others.Because of the increasing number of participants, in order to provide a venue for the conference, the Ming Dynasty also built a huge stone building in the city of Nanjing, which was called the Guoshege Building by Zhao Ming.On this day, it was the day of the National Society Conference, and it was just dawn, Zhao Ming had breakfast, and under the escort of the cavalry, he left the palace in a carriage and went to the National Society Pavilion.When the carriage was halfway through, he met the carriage of the first assistant Chen Mingyu, Zhao Ming lifted the curtain and said to the guard: "Let Chen Ge come over and ride in the same car with the widow!"
”Originally, Zhao Ming was going to summon Chen Mingyu separately in the Guoshe Pavilion before the meeting, but since he met him on the road, he directly called him over.The carriage slowly stopped, and after a while, Chen Mingyu, who was wearing an official robe and a big hat, entered the carriage."
The regent came early!"
Chen Mingyu saluted and smiled, and seemed to be in a good mood.Zhao Ming motioned for him to sit down, handed him the hand stove again, and asked casually: "Chen Ge Lao has been with the widow for almost twenty years, and he is almost sixty this year!"
”Chen Mingyu's heart warmed, and he hurriedly said: "Fifty-six, it's not far from sixty!"
”Who knew that Zhao Ming smiled and said: "That's also old, as soon as people are old, they are cautious, and they don't have the courage of their youth!"
”Chen Mingyu's heart sank when he heard this, and the whole person was immediately tense and his heart was vibrating.The regent was dissatisfied with his inaction in recent years, thinking that he had lost the pure heart of serving the country and the people, and euphemistically said that he was old and could not solve the problems of the court, so he should retire early.At this time, how could he suddenly retreat, fine beads of sweat oozed from Chen Mingyu's forehead, he had worked for the imperial court for so many years, how could he be disgraced.Chen Mingyu was silent for a moment, and said implicitly: "Lao Ji is determined to be thousands of miles away!"
Lian Po is seventy and still thinks to serve the country, the minister is fifty-six, and he can work for the regent for the people for ten years!
”Zhao Ming glanced at Chen Mingyu and said in a deep voice: "It's a good thing that Chen Ge has this heart!"
But can the body keep up?
”"Don't worry, the regent, the spirit of the old minister~ the minister's current spirit can't be compared to the relatives in ordinary years!"
Chen Mingyu's ideal is to work until he is 60 years old, arrange and train his juniors, and then retire with honor.Although he thinks that he is not at fault in the imperial court, nor has he accepted bribes, and his butt is relatively clean, but in his position, his family, friends, and students will inevitably gain benefits because of his status.Therefore, if others really want to find faults, it is still easy to find some problems, so before retiring, Chen Mingyu must cultivate his political successor, as well as a protective umbrella, to avoid being liquidated after people leave the tea and cool.After 20 years as an official, Chen Mingyu has offended many people, and there are also many political enemies, especially when he helped Zhao Ming and get rid of many officials of the Zhejiang Party and Longwu family, what if the people who sympathize with them, or their descendants take power again?
Chen Mingyu didn't want to be like Xu Jie, after retreating, he would be liquidated, and he was obviously not ready for this now.Zhao Ming smiled when he heard this, and said: "Chen Ge Lao has followed the widow for many years, and the widow also hopes that Chen Ge Lao will always stay by the widow's side.However, it is not easy to start a business, and it is even more difficult to keep a business, and the widow hopes that Chen Ge Lao can cheer up and protect this hard-won country with the widow!
”Zhao Ming actually didn't really mean to let Chen Mingyu Zhishi, Chen Mingyu has followed him for many years, is the first assistant of the cabinet, and is also the No. 2 person in the National Socialist Party.In particular, now that he is ready to purge a group of corrupt officials and reshape the ranks of the bureaucracy, he is even more needed to stabilize people's minds.Therefore, Zhao Ming just knocked him to make him understand his intentions.Chen Mingyu's heart sank, and he had a premonition that a storm was coming, and he couldn't help but worry in his heart, but he still nodded hurriedly and said: "The minister must follow the regent and protect the Xinming country!"
”Chen Mingyu's loyalty to Zhao Ming, Zhao Ming does not doubt it, but Zhao Ming is not a feudal emperor, he just wants to sit firmly on his own, and he still has many pursuits, so his requirements for his subordinates, only loyalty, is far from enough.The two were chatting in the car, the carriage slowly stopped in front of the National Society Pavilion, and the officials who came to attend the meeting had arrived one after another, and hundreds of people had already gathered in front of the square.At this time, everyone was gathering outside the square to whisper, talking about interesting things about Nanjing, talking about plans for the New Year, Chen Mingyu got out of the car and immediately attracted the attention of the officials.At this time, a group of officials, when they saw Chen Mingyu coming, immediately surrounded him to salute, but Chen Mingyu's legs were weak and he almost fell, but fortunately the surrounding officials held him up."
Elder Chen Ge, pay attention to your body!"
Huang Zongxi said.Chen Mingyu pushed his hand away, but said, "You can do it yourself!"
”()