Chongzhen is talking about a dry mouth.However, the group of scholars were really speechless by what he said, and they all stared at Chongzhen fiercely with big eyes.Too lazy to consume with them.Chongzhen threw down a piece of broken silver, "Boss, this is the food money, you don't need to look for it." ”After saying that, he walked away, but the one surnamed Sun remembered Chongzhen's appearance to death, and seemed to want to take revenge on him in the future?
A scholar next to him understood and whispered a few words to the little guy he brought, who nodded and quietly followed Chongzhen.Chongzhen just walked a few steps and found that he was being followed, but he didn't bother to care, so naturally he had the fans of the East Factory to deal with it.Leaving Suzaku Street, there are more and more homeless people.Shenjing is located in the northern region, which is most prone to drought, so a large number of displaced people flock to Shenjing at every turn to survive.It's a pity that most people in this era are indifferent and numb, and the homeless people are not human in the eyes of these people, and there are often people who starve to death on all roads.Most of the displaced people were self-cultivated farmers or tenant farmers, and it has to be said that the peasants have been the most miserable since ancient times.Especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the land annexation was serious, even if it was a good year, the grain harvested was just enough to fill the stomach, if there was a little famine, it would only be death.The people are bitter, and the people are suffering!
Looking at the poor homeless, Chongzhen's eyes moistened.Wrong?
I obviously allocated a large amount of money to the people of Shuntian Mansion, how could so many people starve to death?
Self-broadcast system, playback starts.Chongzhen soon knew why.The garbage officials embezzled the money, and one million taels of silver were deducted layer by layer, and there were only 10,000 taels?
Chongzhen is not the kind of emperor who can't tolerate corruption, but Nima's even the money that the displaced people saved their lives was embezzled, and his conscience was specially eaten by dogs.A wave of corrupt elements must be caught.The next day, the Great Pilgrimage Meeting.Chongzhen sat on the throne and accepted the kneeling of the ministers, and the slogan of long live the imperial historians shouted the loudest.If he hadn't known how these guys scolded him behind his back, Chongzhen might have been fooled by their slogans of loyalty and patriotism.In fact, Chongzhen has long wanted to abolish the speech and official system, but he is just a puppet of a group of big businessmen and big landlords, why keep it?
Chongzhen looked at Man Chaowu and said majestically, "Where is Shuntian Mansion Yin?"
Out of class!
”But when he saw an official with a righteous face walking out, he knelt down and said, "Chen Shun Tianfu Yin Liu Zongzhou See Your Majesty, long live!"
Banzai!
Hooray!
”Chongzhen's voice, "Liu Aiqing, now there are homeless people starving to death every day in Shenjing City, are you guilty?"
”Liu Zong was stunned and secretly worried.How did Your Majesty know that there were homeless people starving to death?
Isn't it the secret of the damned eunuch and the brocade guard?
These traitors deserve to die, if they don't admonish His Majesty to cultivate themselves, cultivate their personal virtues, and deny their own desires, they will know that informing all day long is really a scourge to the country.After thinking about it, Liu Zongzhou said."
Your Majesty, now there are disasters and famines, and the people are displaced, all because the people's private virtues are not enough, not enough to move heaven and earth, and the ministers implore Your Majesty to cultivate their private virtues and have a heart of benevolence and righteousness, and the displaced people will disappear."
Look at how many Qing officials like Liu Zongzhou can speak, the reason why these homeless people starved to death was not caused by our corruption from top to bottom in Shuntianfu, but because you didn't cultivate personal morality as an emperor.it!
Chongzhen just wants to scold his mother, look at this is the official of the Ming Dynasty, or intrigue and corruption every day.Either they advocate empty talk and are pedantic.Chongzhen knew that this Liu Zongzhou was really a clean official, one was not corrupt, and the other was not intrigued.However, sometimes clean officials are more hateful than corrupt officials, although some corrupt officials are greedy, they still do some practical things, but this Liu Zongzhou does not do practical things at all, and he is corrupt by his subordinates."
Huh!"
Chongzhen didn't want to bother with him on ideology and morality, but asked directly, "In order to appease the displaced people around Shenjing, I deliberately allocated one million taels of silver, Liu Qing, how much of this silver was used on the displaced people, do you know?"
”Liu Zongzhou stammered, "I don't know." ”"Of course you don't know."
Chongzhen was furious, "You cultivate yourself at home every day, and you eat all day long, I'm afraid that you don't even know how many homeless people there are in Shenjing, how much is the price of rice, and how much silver your subordinates are greedy for, right?"
Mediocrats. ”Chongzhen was angry and used swear words, he stood up and shouted, "Come on, Jinyiwei and the East and West No. 2 Factory will jointly investigate the case of Shuntianfu's embezzlement of ink and disaster relief silver, and spit out all the embezzled silver to the labor and management." ”The ministers were dumbfounded, who could tell them, what happened to their Emperor Majesty?
The efficiency of Jinyiwei and the two factories was high, and they quickly recovered the dirty silver, punished a wave of embezzlers by the way, and then reopened the porridge shack to resettle the displaced people.Early in the morning.The displaced people of Shenjing are spreading the good news that the imperial court has distributed relief food, and they only need to help strengthen the city wall, and they can exchange their labor for food.This method was conceived by Chongzhen.After years of Internet cultivation in modern society, he deeply understands the greed of human nature, if he does not use this method, he is afraid that a large number of ordinary people or splashes will pretend to be homeless.However, for the old, weak, sick and disabled who have no labor force, especially the children who have lost their families, Chongzhen has set up a special refugee camp to settle down, and provides large steamed buns and white rice porridge for free.this day.The homeless people, who had been hungry for a long time, finally ate a mouthful of hot food, and they burst into tears, kneeling on the ground and shouting Long live His Majesty the Emperor!
This is the true voice of the common people.It's just that these ordinary people can't write, and they don't know what to do in this and that, so public opinion is still firmly controlled by the Donglin Party.The common people in other places still think that it is the eunuch dictatorship that has blinded the emperor, which has caused them to live so hard!
We must think of ways to bring public opinion back.Chongzhen pondered for a long time, what method can be used to quickly open up the wisdom of the people, so that the policies of the imperial court can be known by the people at the bottom?
That's right, newspapers.In fact, there were newspapers in ancient times, and the ancient newspapers were called Di Bao, but this kind of newspaper has always been circulated in a small area.Chongzhen wants to make it bigger, as long as the newspaper circulates widely, the people will slowly have their own thoughts, and they will not be easily brainwashed by the Donglin Party.If you want a newspaper to circulate widely, there are three constraints.First, 99.9 of the people in this era are blind, and they don't know how to read.Second, silver, ink and paper in ancient times were very expensive, and since they had to be circulated on a large scale, they certainly could not collect money.Third, imitations, newspapers and other things have a very good effect on brainwashing, and the Donglin Party may not be able to copy them if they know it, and they have money and people, so it is estimated that it will be better than the imperial court.