Chapter 10 8 The emperor is also taken advantage of

The situation of the common people is not well understood by the counties and counties; the situation of the counties and counties is not well understood by the court;What started with a little tolerance and concealment turned out to be total deception. 【The story of fooling the emperor】 There were also some official jokes circulating in the Ming Dynasty, "Wanli Yehuo Compilation.In the Addendum, there are two items about money energy. Qian Neng was a famous eunuch in Chenghua and Hongzhi years (1465︱1505), who was ordered by Emperor Chenghua to guard Yunnan.The post of guarding eunuch was established by Emperor Hongxi in the early Ming Dynasty.The emperor was worried about the officials below, so he sent those eunuchs who often worked beside him to watch.It should be admitted that it is necessary to do so.Officials of the Ming Dynasty often fooled the emperor, and the emperor also established some supervision systems, such as sending supervisory censors to inspect, but these censors may also be bribed, or even force others to pay for them, and then fool the emperor with the supervised .Therefore, sending the servants down to watch for the emperor, this is already the third round of the game of policy and countermeasures.The emperor was forced to have no choice but to show his last weapon.Just think, if you don't send him, who else can you send?And if you think about it carefully, eunuchs are not lustful, they don't have wives and children, and the whole family is not hungry when they are full, so they should have less selfish desires than ordinary officials.Putting ourselves in the emperor's shoes, we cannot help admiring the emperor's hard work in selecting talents and appointments.

The problem is that the final reserve team like Qian Neng is also willing to be bought.What's more terrible is that the guarding eunuchs are very powerful and have the ability to legally harm everyone, so the subordinates dare not not come to buy them. At that time, there was a rich man in Yunnan who unfortunately developed leprosy.The rich man's son happened to be a well-known dutiful son, and he was very worried about his father's illness.So Qian Neng summoned the filial son and announced: Your father's leprosy is contagious, and it will be bad if it infects the army.Besides, he was old again.Now, after research, it is decided to sink him into Dianchi Lake.The filial son was frightened, and immediately thought of buying him.He spent a lot of thought, spent a lot of money, pleaded repeatedly, and finally got the understanding of the leader and revoked the decision.

At that time, there was a man surnamed Wang in Yunnan who made a fortune by reselling betel nuts. The locals called him the King of Betel Nuts.When Qian Neng heard about it, he arrested the man surnamed Wang and said, "You are a common man, how dare you confuse the people and pretend to be king!"The reaction of the betel nut king is not described in detail in the book, but I am sure that no matter what the season, he must have been sweating when he heard the crime.Claiming to be king without authorization is declaring war on the emperor.Whoever captures the king will have done so much to become a marquis.The King of Betel Nut was well aware of the seriousness of this crime, and he spared no expense to avoid disasters. According to history books, he escaped this disaster by giving everything he had.

The author of "Wanli Yehuobian" said that Qian Neng's greed and abuse have never existed since ancient times.Later, among the officials guarding Yunnan, there were many greedy people, but they couldn't help laughing when they heard that money could do these two things. "Wanli wild was compiled.The Addendum was completed in the forty-seventh year of Wanli (1618). The author Shen Defu was from Jiaxing, Zhejiang. There was a gap of more than 150 years and about 2,000 kilometers away from Qian Neng's brilliant performance.It can be seen that this matter has been passed down for a long time.

Unemployment also existed in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.There are too many people and too little land, overpopulation, people who fail in the competition for survival resources, and finally become refugees.After investigation, the Ming Dynasty fell to a large extent in the hands of refugees.There are no refugees, the common people live and work in peace and contentment, King Chuang may only be the leader of a small gang.Even Chuang Wang Li Zicheng himself would not go to Chuang Wang. He had no land and was laid off by the post station (post and telecommunications office and guest house).Qian Neng gnawed away the betel nut king, and its function was to create Li Chuang king.Originally, the betel nut king could bring business to many farmers and small traders, but now some of them are going to lose their jobs or even become refugees. From this perspective, what money can eat is the lifeblood of the emperor.Considering that many people would be willing to learn from Betel Nut King and create more business and employment opportunities, but the experience of Betel Nut King and others has scared them back, the influence of Qian Neng is even more fatal.

How did the emperor deal with such a fatal disaster with such a long-lasting influence? The emperor relied on his eyes and ears to understand the situation. The censor and guarding eunuchs were the emperor's institutional eyes and ears, and they also had the obligation to supervise each other.In the sixth year of Chenghua (1470), Guo Rui, the censor of Yunnan Province, wrote a report to the emperor, specifically reporting the situation of Qian Neng, the guarding eunuch.Guo Rui said: Qian Neng is strong and resolute, has made a lot of achievements, and has realized unified leadership.Now that Qian Neng is ill, he may have to be called back to the capital to recuperate.I beg the emperor's grace, have mercy on the people of Yunnan, and let him guard Yunnan forever.The emperor replied, yes.

The eyes and ears fooled the emperor. Shen Defu, the author of "Wanli Ye Huo Bian", gritted his teeth and said: Qian Neng, a big villain, is hated by the people all over the world, but Guo Rui actually used his identity as a supervisor to protect him, so he chopped Guo Rui inch by inch. Not enough to atone for his sins.But this is just angry talk.Almost nothing happened to Guo Rui and no one pursued him.So what if you deceived the emperor?If you are blinded, you are not blinded.From this point of view, the emperor is a fool who is easy to take advantage of. Money can fool the emperor again and again, but it is a bit ignorant.He started to discuss the idea of ​​cross-country (namely Vietnam) and ethnic minorities in Yunnan.This is a dangerous and sensitive area in any dynasty. It is related to the stability of the frontier. There is a lot of movement, and the foreign people are not under your rule. If there is a problem, it will not be easy to suppress it.Sure enough, the cronies sent by Qian Neng caused trouble.The imperial court was worried, so it sent a well-known upright official, Youdu Yushi (Executive Deputy Minister of Supervision) Wang Shu to Yunnan to investigate.Wang Shu is upright and upright, and a few years later there will be two folk songs in the country: There are twelve parts in the two capitals, and there is only one Wang Shu.The two capitals refer to the capital Beijing and the remaining capital Nanjing. Each capital has six departments of officials, households, rituals, soldiers, criminals, and workers. This is the full set of high-level cadres in the Ming Dynasty.It can be seen that Wang Shu's reputation is high.

Wang Shu quickly found out about Qian Neng's problem and played a book to the emperor.Among the most important words are: On the Vietnam issue, one side fell because the eunuch who guarded the country chose the wrong person.Things are more serious today than they were back then.In order to stabilize the frontier, can His Majesty still begrudge a little money?Wang Shu's account of the interests of the emperor is very thorough, and Qian Neng is afraid.He immediately entrusted his eunuch buddies beside the emperor to act and recall Wang Shu.Wang Shu was soon transferred to be the leader of the Nanjing Supervision Department, and Qian Nengzhi was completely relieved, and nothing happened.

Not only was he fine, but Qian Neng continued to be lucky. He went back to Beijing and spoke ill of Wang Shu to the emperor, and urged the emperor to send him a hard job.Qian Neng himself became the Nanjing garrison, guarding the Nanjing Military Region.In terms of position, the defense of Nanjing is more prominent than the guarding eunuch.Nanjing is a big city, and it is also a capital city. The living conditions are much better than those in Yunnan.The famous eunuch Zheng He, when he returned from his voyage to the West, served as a Nanjing garrison②. This story is like a house slave fooling a rich man.The house slave steals his master's chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs every day, and the master even increases his wages and gives him bonuses.The house slave secretly sold the master's fields and houses, and the master promoted him to be a housekeeper.Some people saw injustice and exposed the house slaves. Instead of punishing the house slaves, the master slapped the whistleblower.Such a master, what is it if he is not taken advantage of?

The emperor mentioned above is Zhu Jianshen, the emperor of Chenghua.The emperor was stout, he stuttered a bit, and his reaction was a little slow, but his mind was not bad.However, in the more than ten years before his death, the emperor in his thirties became obsessed with aphrodisiacs and sexual intercourse. He was addicted to them and could not extricate himself from them.The ministers who assisted the emperor were also ineffective. At that time, inside and outside the capital, there were three elders who were pasted with paper and six ministers who made clay sculptures.It doesn't matter if such an emperor doesn't say anything.

Emperor Chenghua's son, Emperor Hongzhi, is an extremely rare good emperor.He is thin and thin, and is said to have bright eyes and a thin, flowing beard.Imbued with Confucian idealism, the young man was interested in questions such as the meaning of life and tried to be strict with himself according to the teachings of the sages.It's a pity that he came to the throne at the age of seventeen and died at the age of thirty-five. He only served as emperor for eighteen years.Under the rule of such a good emperor, what will be the fate of Qian Neng? On September 17, 1487, Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne.At the end of the second year, Zhou Shi, a member of the household department (deputy director of the Ministry of Finance), asked to punish Wang Zhi, Qian Neng and other traitors of the previous dynasty according to law, and to assess the guarding eunuchs in the two capitals and various places.Facing the common threat, the eunuch group quickly counterattacked.They carefully studied Zhou Shicong's playbook and picked out an error in the writing format.Originally, when referring to noble words such as the emperor, ancestors, society, and clan, one must start a new line, the more extraordinary, and write against the sky, just like the highest instructions quoted in newspapers during the Cultural Revolution must be printed in bold Same.However, the Zongshe in Zhou Shi Congzuo did not go beyond the standard.Isn't this contempt for Zongshe?So Zhou Shi was arrested and handed over to the judicial department for punishment.Qian Neng is safe and sound again③. In the end, nothing happened to Qian Neng. After talking about his experience in "History of Ming Dynasty", he finally explained a long death.Seems to have died well. "Wanli Ye Huo Bian" said that he died of old age in the capital at the end of Hongzhi, and Hongzhi's son, Emperor Zhengde, ascended the throne, and he was buried in the Zuisheng Temple. Ai Rong is not bad.Didn't it mean that the Skynet is restored, and it is sparse but not missing?Isn't it said that good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil?How can money leak again and again, and do evil and still have good rewards?Shen Defu said that this makes people doubt whether there is any way of heaven. People at that time obviously refused to accept this reality, so they made up a story that Qian Neng's adopted son, Qian Ning, was in charge of his keys. In order to get his inheritance, he poisoned Qian Neng when he was sick, and poisoned Qian Neng to death. up.Shen Defu said that if this was the case, Qian Neng would not have slipped through the net.Everyone's mood is understandable, but this story is obviously unreasonable.Except for an adopted son like Qian Ning, Qian Neng doesn't know any other relatives in China.Even the key is in the hand, and there is no need to carry the excrement and urine personally, why bother to poison a dying old man?By the way, Channing is indeed not a good bird.Later, he became the godson of Emperor Zhengde, and the emperor gave him the surname Zhu, and his business card read: Zhu Ning, the concubine of the emperor.Zhu Ning is in charge of the secret service agency, and his actual status in the political circle ranks among the top three or five, and he is more promising than his adoptive father. 【Information checkpoint and information war】 It is not an isolated exception that money can get away with it again and again.Even Emperor Hongzhi, who worked hard to govern, was often confused by others. One day in June of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi (1504), Emperor Hongzhi summoned the Minister of War (Minister of Defense) Liu Daxia.At that time, the emperor was thirty-four years old and had been on the throne for seventeen years; Liu Daxia was nearly seventy years old and was born as a Jinshi.The emperor summoned Liu Daxia to ask a question. At first, the emperor appointed Liu Daxia as Minister of the Ministry of War. Liu Daxia refused many times because of his poor health.But the emperor insisted on letting him do it, so Liu Daxia had no choice but to take office.Seeing Liu Daxia, the emperor asked sincerely: I appointed you several times, but you excused yourself several times because of illness. Why?Liu Daxia also replied very sincerely, saying: I am old and sick.In my opinion, the world has reached the point where the people are running out of money. If something goes wrong, the Ministry of War will take responsibility.I estimate that my ability is not enough to solve the problem, so I declined.The emperor was silent after hearing this. Liu Daxia's judgment on the situation shocked the emperor deeply.Now, the emperor specially summoned Liu Daxia to the side hall, and asked: You said a word before, saying that the people in the world are exhausted.But since the founding of the country by our ancestors, we have been expropriating regularly. How could it be this situation today? Liu Daxia said: The problem lies in the impermanence of expropriation.For example, Guangxi takes timber every year, and Guangdong takes fragrant medicine every year, which cost tens of thousands of silver.If this kind of trivial matter is the case, others can be imagined. The emperor asked about the situation of the army, and Liu Daxia said: "It's as poor as the common people." The emperor couldn't figure it out again, and said: The army is stationed and given monthly rations.Why are you poor when you go out to levy subsidies? Liu Daxia said: Those generals withheld more than half of their military rations, so how could they not be poor? The emperor sighed and said: I have been emperor for a long time, but I don't know that the army and the people in the world are poor, so why should I be the lord of the people!So an edict was strictly prohibited ④.However, judging from the later situation, it was still unbearable. Now we know to what extent the seventeen-year-old emperor has been fooled: it turns out that the world in his eyes is only a world composed of ancestors' common laws and official regulations.Indeed, according to official regulations, neither the military nor the civilians should be so poor.The problem is that the world under his rule is largely governed by some shady unspoken rules.Cases where money can be blackmailed and lucky have proved this point, and the reality of large-scale poverty and military impoverishment also shows that this kind of rule has prevailed all over the world.And the emperor was almost completely ignorant of the unspoken rules that such saints did not teach or write in books.He is so naive. I have to make a statement: most of the cadres working beside the emperor are good or relatively good.The well-known upright official Wang Shu served as Minister of the Ministry of Officials (Minister of the Central Committee), and selected and recommended a large number of upright and capable people like Liu Daxia.This is a very rare good time in the Ming Dynasty.So, how could the emperor be fooled to such an extent that he didn't understand the basic situation?How much do the good cadres around him know about the situation? Also in the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, Li Dongyang, Minister of Rites and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion (similar to the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Premier of the State Council), was ordered to go to Qufu, Shandong Province to worship Confucius.Along the way, he saw many unexpected phenomena and felt a lot of emotion.After returning to Beijing, Li Dongyang wrote a report to the emperor, describing the situation he saw with his own eyes, and analyzing several reasons.Li Dongyang was a big writer at that time, and this Shangshu was written bluntly, and it was widely recited for a while. The general idea of ​​Li Dongyang’s Shang Shu is as follows: The minister was ordered to hurry along, just in time for the severe drought.All the way in Tianjin, the summer wheat has withered, and the autumn grass has not been planted.The people who pull the boats and pull the fibers don't have complete clothes to wear, and the farmers with the hoe have disheveled faces.Thieves are rampant, and the security problem in Qingzhou is particularly serious.People from the south said that the roads in the south of the Yangtze River and the east of Zhejiang Province were full of refugees fleeing their households, the number of taxpayer households decreased, the army was empty, the grain reserves in the warehouses were not enough for ten days, and the salaries of officials were in arrears for several years.The southeast is a rich place, and it bears the bulk of the tax burden. The hunger for a year has reached this point.People in the north are lazy and have no savings. How can they bear the poor harvest this autumn?I am afraid that unpredictable events will happen. If I hadn't passed through these places in person, even though I have been working in the government department for a long time, I still have access to documents, reports and various materials every day, but I still can't understand the details, let alone His Majesty is above Jiuzhong. The minister made some investigations on the road, and everyone said that there are too many idlers, government expenditures are not organized, there are frequent servants, and taxes and fees overlap.There was a lot of construction work in Beijing, and the soldiers who were ordered to do the construction were squeezed out of their money.When it came time for the troops to practice drills, they would rather die than go.And those powerful families, rich and powerful families, have so much land that they span counties and counties, and they are still asking for rewards from the emperor.The prince went to his own fiefdom, and the support actually cost two to three hundred thousand taels of silver.Those idlers, entrusted with the name of servants of the emperor's relatives, often collect commercial taxes in the market of the city of the ferry.The country's capital is in the north, and food and other supplies depend on the southeast. Now merchants are scared away. This is definitely not a small problem.Even those weaving internal officials, indulged the villains to search and extort, and the officials responsible for government taxation along the canal were also scared away.Small traders and poor people were disturbed and disturbed, all of which I saw with my own eyes. The situation of the common people is not well understood by the counties and counties; the situation of the counties and counties is not well understood by the court;What started with a little tolerance and concealment turned out to be total deception.Tolerance and concealment are small in the beginning, but the result of deception is very harmful. When I was in Shandong, I heard that His Majesty was abnormal due to natural disasters, and asked everyone to report the situation frankly.However, despite the frequent issuance of imperial edicts, the chapters below also fully reflect the situation. Once things involve the interests of the inner court and noble relatives, everything is hindered, delayed for years, and finally stopped and given up.I am afraid that these words today will become empty words.I ask the emperor to find out the previous suggestions, study the options carefully, and implement them decisively. The emperor read it, praised it once, sighed again, and forwarded it to the relevant parties. On the basis of the analysis of the above events, scenarios and parties involved, we can also make a summary. Li Dongyang said: the situation of the common people, the counties and counties do not know enough; the situation of the counties and counties, the court does not know enough;This effect is good.However, according to him, there are only two information barriers between the common people and the emperor, namely the counties and the imperial court.In fact, when fully deployed, there are seven information barriers between the common people and the emperor.Those who directly contact the people are the yamen servants, which is the first pass; the yamen servants have to report to the clerks, which is the second pass; This is the fourth pass; the government reports to provincial officials, which is the fifth pass; the provinces report to the central ministries, which is the sixth pass; the central ministries report to the cabinet (the emperor's secretary team), which is the seventh pass ; When the information reached the terminal station in front of the emperor, it was already the eighth station.This does not include the departments, divisions, bureaus, and secretaries of the government, provinces, and central ministries.Even under the best of circumstances, information cannot be expected to pass through these many layers without distortion. What's more, when information passes through various checkpoints, it must be processed.Among the countless information, what to pay attention to, what not to pay attention to, what to choose, what to ignore, what to say more than what to say, what to tell the truth, what to emphasize, what to hide, what is the mainstream, what is the tributary, clearly stated, It is not clear, but these are the choices that officials at all levels face every day. In terms of power, the emperor is at an advantage and the bureaucrats are at a disadvantage.But in terms of information, the bureaucratic group has an absolute advantage.Blocking and distorting information is their strategic weapon to make a living in officialdom.Your majesty is wise, law enforcement is like a mountain, but everything here is normal, even the situation is very good, so what can you do if you have great power?We report good news but not bad news.We looked at the faces of the leaders and spoke.Say what leaders want to hear.We say good things to our faces, but we do evil things behind our backs.Can anyone naively expect Qian to report to the emperor that I have successfully completed two extortions recently?If the rewards of doing bad things are high, and it is easy to conceal them; Defrauding the county, one level at a time, all the way to the State Council. Of course, there are supervisory officials, including eunuchs like Yushi, Gishizhong, and Qian Neng.This is an influential group that controls the information channel, and their duty is to directly report the real situation to the emperor.Reflecting the real situation will inevitably violate the interests of administrative officials at all levels, so they are likely to be surrounded by bribes, and if they cannot be bribed, they may be counterattacked.Generally speaking, the outcome of bribery is beneficial to both parties, and it is risky to confront both parties.Calculations and trade-offs in this area are at the heart of relational science.The issue of officialdom relations is a long story, and I will elaborate on it later.Anyway, the final result is logical, that is, the number of truth-tellers in the surveillance system tends to decrease.In the most serious period, such as "Wanli Ye Huo Bian."Addendum" mentioned that in the last years of Jiajing, the favor from above and the bribe from below promoted each other, and the upper and lower deceived each other. The author even said that he had never heard of exposing corrupt officials to the emperor.No one exposed those who were corrupt and perverted the law, which meant that the monitoring system failed completely, and the emperor was completely blind. What was finally presented to the emperor was already a seriously distorted situation.A little problem that leaked through this kind of small-eyed sieve may not be resolved decisively after being put in front of the emperor.The emperor's relatives and cronies will delay and weaken the emperor's punishment decision.This is also difficult for ordinary emperors.Even Chairman Mao Zedong was as talented and general, his secretary Tian Jiaying said that he can rule the world, but not the left and right, and Jiang Qing is making trouble by the side.How can we be so hard on young people who grew up in the palace? In short, it is said that the emperor is so majestic, but what we saw was clearly a big but deaf and blind man.He didn't understand the situation, was fooled into a fool, finally caught a person who violated the foundation of his family, and wanted to beat him up, but his cronies held hands and legs, saying that he had identified the wrong person.Maybe this person is really his relative.The emperor is already lonely and helpless enough, even if he doubts his cronies a bit, he can't take care of them all, right? [The outcome of the protracted war] In the 276-year history of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongzhi happened to be halfway through.His situation is not unique to him, it is just part of a long-lasting process.This is an endless, endless, endless game between monarchs and ministers that lasted from generation to generation.Not to mention other dynasties, in the Ming Dynasty, from the beginning of the conquest by the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang to the end of the hanging of the subjugated emperor Chongzhen, we can see this endless game of chess everywhere. Before Zhu Yuanzhang pacified China, the situation in China was very much like a Romance of the Four Kingdoms.Zhu Yuanzhang swallowed the one on the west first, and then thought about swallowing Zhang Shicheng on the east.He sent someone to inquire, and when he heard that Zhang Shicheng lived in a deep palace, he was pampered and was too lazy to take care of things, so he expressed his emotion. I am careful in everything, and the law does not forgive me lightly, yet someone hides it from me.Zhang Jiusi (Shicheng) does not go out all the year round and ignores political affairs, so he is not hiding it from others! After pacifying China, Zhu Yuanzhang established a spy network to supervise officials, trying to maintain the probability and intensity of punishing corrupt officials.Keep discovering, keep punishing, keep killing.But the game never seemed to end.Zhu Yuanzhang said: I want to get rid of corrupt officials, but I kill them in the morning and commit crimes in the evening.From now on, anyone who commits stolen goods will be killed regardless of the seriousness! ⑤ In this passage, I heard anxiety and exhaustion.This feeling of impatience will directly affect the player's will to fight.Once you slack off, failure will come. Zhu Yuanzhang is a person with a strong sense of responsibility and ability, as well as a strong-willed person who endures hardships and stands hard work.Even if he can't win a complete victory, can his descendants who grew up in the deep palace surpass their ancestors? Two centuries later, on April 24, 1644, Li Zicheng came to Beijing.Just after midnight on the 25th, Emperor Chongzhen came to a tree in Jingshan, and he was going to hang himself on this tree.Chongzhen wrote a suicide note on his lapel, but it seems that what he finally resented was not Li Zicheng, but the bureaucracy that kept fooling him.He wrote: I have my own deficiencies and lack of virtue, and I have provoked the blame from the heavens.But all of this is because the ministers misled me.I have no face to see my ancestors when I die, so I take off the crown and cover my face with my hair, let you thieves split my body, don’t hurt a commoner⑥. Chongzhen's resentment was justified.During his seventeen years in power, he was deceived by countless appalling tricks. Until a few months before he hanged himself, Zhou Yanru, his chief assistant (prime minister), even fooled him once, and never fought him once. The battle was won, and then rewarded.This nonexistent victory was personally commanded by Zhou Yanru, and it happened in Tong County, which is only a few dozen miles away from Beijing, under the eyes of the emperor. Generally speaking, the emperor and the bureaucracy fight like this: the emperor said, you must follow my regulations, and those who obey will be promoted, and those who disobey will be severely punished.The officials also stated that the ministers and others have done their best and died only after death. In fact, someone must take advantage of some small opportunities to tentatively break the law and discipline.What was the result?Generally, nothing happens.The emperor is not an all-knowing and all-powerful god, and the threatening thunder wrath has not come.So the official who took advantage of it was encouraged to look for an opportunity to do it again.Betrayed once, no response; betrayed again, still no response.Even if you don't make these kinds of tests yourself, you can see the results of other people's tests.You will come to a conclusion: starve the timid and starve the bold to death.It didn't take long for everyone to recognize the true face of the emperor.It turns out that the emperor was taken advantage of.If you fooled him, took advantage of him, and took advantage of him, he will still pay you, seal your job, and promote you. The emperor's characteristic of being taken advantage of has a major and far-reaching impact on officialdom.The emperor is the director of the officialdom, the squad leader of the leadership team, and the legal defender of various official rules in the officialdom.The official rules are soft and lazy, and the unspoken rules will dominate the officialdom, and the unspoken rules, which are basically characterized by charging more fees and doing less work, will inevitably create a large number of corrupt officials, create a large amount of money, and at the same time reduce the integrity of officials. proportion.Of course, it can also be said the other way around, if the emperor is aware of the details and the retribution of heaven is not happy, he will inevitably create a large number of clean officials, and even transform corrupt officials into good people. For example, Qian Neng, everyone knows that he is full of bad water.Later he became the Nanjing garrison, similar to the political commissar of the Nanjing Military Region.Unfortunately, his opponent, the Twelve Ministries of the Two Capitals, and only one Wang Shu, Wang Shu, also went to Nanjing to become Minister of the Ministry of War (Minister of Defense), just in charge of Qian Neng.Wang Shu's talent is enough to deal with Qian Neng, and the strings of the struggle must be tense.Under Wang Shu's deterrence, Qian Neng behaved extremely cautiously. He even admired Wang Shu very much, and said to people: Princes are heaven and man.I just work for him honestly and respectfully. ⑦ From this point of view, Qian Neng has a good conscience and knows good and evil, right and wrong, but he lacks control and is spoiled by bullies.If the emperor hadn't been taken advantage of, Qian Neng might not have been a minister capable of governing the world. Finally, two corrections have to be made. First, saying that the emperor is being taken advantage of is just a generalization.Zhu Yuanzhang killed officials like hemp, for a question of opening a blank declaration form (known as the blank seal case in history), he killed hundreds of officials who stamped blank letters of introduction without asking indiscriminately.Such an overreaction is not only not being taken advantage of, but even the description of retribution seems too weak.However, among the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty, only one and a half like Zhu Yuanzhang must retaliate.Relaxed standards can be counted as two and a half, or more than ten percent.Therefore, we say that the emperor is a fool, and the accuracy is more than 80%. Second, when we say that the emperor is taken advantage of, we say that the emperor is the agent of the way of heaven.As an individual, he may be very greedy, very demanding, calculating, and even take the lead in fooling the heavens.For such an emperor who is willing to be a prodigal son, we can hardly say that he is being taken advantage of.Heaven is the one who has been taken advantage of. Notes: ① "Wanli Yehuo Compilation".The third volume of the Supplement is Guo Rui, the censor Anei, and the third volume of the "Ming History" is Guo Yang. ②See "History of the Ming Dynasty" Volume 182, Biography of Wang Shu. ③ See "Ming Tong Jian" Ji Thirty-six, Jiashen in November of the first year of Hongzhi. ④ See "Ming Tong Jian" Ji Forty, June of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi. ⑤Liu Chen's "Deeds of the Early Kingdom", quoted from pages 108 and 196 of Wu Han's "Biography of Zhu Yuanzhang". ⑥ "History of Ming Dynasty" Volume 24, Emperor Zhuang Lie II. ⑦ same note ②