Chapter 22: Two Lou Dong
The eclipse of the eclipse fighting against all the heroes became a hot topic for the people in the capital.
This guy is so fierce. With the emperor's tacit approval, he almost spurted all the big bosses in the capital with just one mouth!
Even if the problem of the establishment of the Ministry of Education is almost done, all the work can be carried out once all officials are in place, and Zhu Cijing doesn’t have to worry about it anymore, but this Ministry of Commerce gives him a headache.
Why did he have a headache? Because Sun Quan refused to respond!
He had already sent a few telegrams to Sun Jiazhou, but Sun Quan didn't come, so he had no choice.
Why didn’t Sun Quan come? It’s not that he wanted to resist the order, he really couldn’t come because he was Dingyou.
Dingyou means filial piety, which generally refers to the system in which officials must suspend their posts after their parents or grandparents die.
In ancient times, after parents died, children must hold mourning for three years according to the etiquette, and they must not engage in marriage or marriage during this period. If they do not prepare for auspicious celebrations, those who serve as officials must leave their posts.
This system originated from the Han Dynasty and was often used for those who had an official status. During the period of Dingyou, people with Dingyou were not allowed to be officials. If there is no special reason, the country could not force people with Dingyou to be officials. For special reasons, the country would force people with Dingyou to be officials, which is called "taking love".
After being mourned for three years, it seems a bit too unreasonable, but it actually makes some sense.
What is the reason for Ding You? It is to repay the kindness of parents. Because children cannot live without their parents within three years of birth and need their care at all times, so children must do their best to their parents in their later years when they grow up. When parents die, children should always be grateful for their kindness and keep mourning for at least three years.
This is not only filial piety, but also a safeguard for the inherent goodness of human nature. Parents’ kindness is the most important and greatest. If you can even forget the kindness of your parents, how can you let them love others, society, and country?
As for seizing love, emperors rarely do it because this is against filial piety. Even if seizing love and keeping people, there may not be a good result.
Like Zhang Juzheng of the Wanli Dynasty, this is a good example. In the fifth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng's father passed away. At that time, Zhang Juzhenggang had power shortly after he was in charge, and all work had just begun. Of course, he was unwilling to go home to mourn. In addition, the young Wanli admired him very much, so the two sides hit it off and seized the love!
This victory directly captured Zhang Juzheng's self-inflation and began to transform from a virtuous prime minister to a powerful minister.
Later, when Wanli grew up, he found that he had been deceived by Zhang Juzheng. From then on, he almost no longer believed in any official, and even became disunited from the civil servant group, and even set a record of not neglecting the morning court for decades.
Those who study the history of the Ming Dynasty often say that "Ming is actually destroyed by Wanli". It is precisely because of Zhang Juzheng's confusion between power and filial piety that the character of Emperor Wanli was distorted, which led to the rapid changes in the government and consumed all the vitality of the Ming Dynasty little by little.
Zhu Cijing didn't dare to let Sun Quan take over the love casually. For this reason, he specially invited his mentor Xu Guangqi and senior brother Chen Zilong to ask for their opinions.
These two people also opposed Sun Quan's love. With Sun Chengzong's prestige, if Sun Quan seizes love, he doesn't know how much public opinion pressure he will face. With the criticism of the world, it is difficult for him to concentrate on his work, so it would be better to find someone to replace him.
Who are you looking for? Zhu Cijing really has no suitable candidates. If you want to talk about court affairs, no matter what it is, you can find so few suitable candidates. However, in business, it is really difficult to find suitable people, because in traditional ideas and concepts, business is a low-key business, so who would study this!
Xu Guangqi and Chen Zilong have some research on business. They can't go to both of these problems, so Xu Guangqi won't talk about it anymore. He no longer has the energy. Chen Zilong has the energy, but Zhu Cijiu trained him to take over as the prime minister of the cabinet and even the prime minister of the cabinet. He was still responsible for the training of the prince. Letting him take charge of the Ministry of Commerce is simply useless.
Fortunately, Chen Zilong happened to know more than one such person, and he directly recommended two to Zhu Cijiong.
These two are the famous Lou Dong Er Zhang, Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai.
Zhu Cijing had a little impression of Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai. Many years ago, when he went to Jinling to deal with the corrupt officials of the Donglin Party on a private visit, he met these two people by chance. He heard that they had organized some reunion, and they were quite powerful. He immediately sent all the reunion people to the northwest disaster area without hesitation.
It seems that Chen Zilong met these two people in the northwest, and he is quite familiar with them, otherwise he would not have recommended them to him.
Sure enough, Zhu Cijing asked casually: "Are you very familiar with them?"
Chen Zilong blurted out: "When I replied to the emperor, I am very familiar with them. When I first arrived in the northwest, they were just the prefect of Fenzhou and the county magistrate of Jiexiu. However, the entire Fenzhou was well-off and the prosperous people and wealth, and it was completely different from the same as a disaster area. Therefore, I transferred them to Taiyuan Prefecture, one of Ren Prefecture and the other of Ren Tongzhi. As a result, the Taiyuan Prefecture quickly improved under their governance, and almost all of them were about to catch up with Fengtian Prefecture. Therefore, I dared to directly promote them as the left-hand governors of the Shanxi Chengxuan Zhengzheng Department. Now the prosperity of the entire Shanxi Chengxuan Zhengzheng Department is almost as prosperous as that of Nanzhili! "
When Zhu Cijing heard this, his eyebrows jumped and asked seriously: "What about their resumption of society? They can't rely on cliques to collude with each other, tear down the east and west walls, improve their political achievements and push them up, right?"
Chen Zilong quickly shook his head and said, "No, no, I have talked to him specifically. They have long disbanded the Fushe. In their words, the Fushe was established because of the treacherous and the government's affairs are no longer bad, so they gathered everyone together to discuss strategies to save the country and the people. After the emperor's governance, the government was harmonious and the people were in trouble. They had no intention of criticizing the current problems. They simply disbanded the Fushe and made every effort to build local construction."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Cijing asked with great interest: "Oh, how did they make the people and wealthy people in the disaster area?"
Chen Zilong said with a clue: "This Wei minister also understood that Shanxi has a tradition of doing business. After they took office, they not only encouraged business, but also discussed ways to do business with merchants. At the beginning, they organized merchants to buy grain from Beizhili and other places nearby and sell local specialties such as sauce and vinegar. Later, the food in the disaster area was sufficient, so they organized merchants to go to the south of the Monan to exchange grain, cloth, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar for daily necessities, and took it back to process it into clothes, shoes and hats, and then sold it to various provinces. Now there are so many workshops and merchants in Shanxi. As long as the ordinary people are not lazy, they can make a living, and those who are more diligent have almost made a fortune."
It's so amazing, so what else to hesitate? Zhu Cijing slapped his face and said excitedly: "Okay, who is more familiar with business?"
Chen Zilong thought about it and objectively commented: "Zhang Pu has strong governance skills, and he is a good at governing the local area. If you want to talk about the research on business, Zhang Cai is stronger."
Zhu Cijing made a decision directly: "Okay, let's transfer Zhang Cai to the business department first. As for Zhang Pu, there will be a position in the future. I am not afraid of them being able to do their own abilities, but I am afraid of them forming cliques for personal gain and not doing their jobs."
Chapter completed!