Chapter 670 Relieving the Emperor’s Worries

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I wish you all the best, good luck, and prosperity!

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On the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month, it rained lightly in Nanjing. The cold winter rain extinguished the lively atmosphere in Nanjing that day.

The climate in the south of the Yangtze River is different, and the winter rain turns into spring cold. The ice and snow period is far away, and the banana leaves are beginning to wither.

This sudden rain really adds two pitiful things to Nanjing, which is approaching the festival...

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At Xiaguan Wharf, a royal ship surrounded by four inland warships docked at the wharf. A large number of Nanjing dignitaries appeared at the port, including the current queen and the uncle of the king in a wheelchair.

This royal ship will carry more than a hundred noble children of Nanjing, including Chen Ding, all of whom are dressed in scout uniforms. In the next month or so, they will take the ship directly into Sichuan and train for a month in the northwest of Sichuan, at the junction of Sichuan and Qinghai-Tibet.

There is no separation of life and death on the dock. This system has been in place for several years. The princes have suffered with it. What else can they say?

As for whether the children of the powerful who were added are willing to participate in this hard "retraining", do their opinions matter? Do they have a say in this matter?

However, there is an uninvited guest in the team this year-Chen Zifeng, who is already 19 years old, and the third son of Chen Wenyue, the right deputy counselor of the General Staff Department of the Grand Marshal's Office. This was suddenly added in the early stage of the team's departure.

Except for a limited number of people, no one knows why Chen Zifeng, who is already 19 years old, wants to go down to the Boy Camp. But everyone knows clearly that this guy must have done something to annoy the emperor.

And his mission is different from that of Chen Ding and others. After spending a month of Boy Scouting together, Chen Zifeng will not follow Chen Ding and others back to Nanjing, but continue to live in the Boy Camp in the western Sichuan border until he is qualified for training, and then he will be directly assigned to the outpost in Sichuan and Tibet.

There was no way, because this guy who was notorious in Nanjing was on the mind of the superiors.

This was not the credit of Huang Dingyou, the deputy editor-in-chief. After Liu Chengshan slapped Chen Zifeng unconscious that day, he went to the wedding scene to apologize to Huang Dingyou in person. That was really shocking to Chang Guqiu. Unfortunately, Huang Dingyou had already told Xiang Kexiang about the matter like a storytelling.

Xiang Kexiang's identity as the son-in-law of the King of Ryukyu was useless to Chen Han, but among the people he was dating was Chen Ding, the eldest son of the empire.

When Xiang Kexiang told the eldest son of the Chen Han Empire about Chen Zifeng without covering up or exaggerating, it was natural that the ruler of the Chen Han Empire also knew all about it. Then Chen Ming did not directly order the "disposal" of Chen Zifeng, and of course he did not send Huang Dingyou, whose performance in this matter was also quite eye-catching, but summoned all his sons over the age of six to let them say how to punish a guy like Chen Zifeng.

Yes, Chen Ming's most direct idea was to teach Chen Zifeng etiquette. Who made him a commoner in his previous life, and envy and hate those second-generation people the most? Some things are deeply rooted. Although Chen Ming has traveled for a long time and his identity has changed greatly, his mentality has not been greatly shaken.

Chen Ding, Chen Yu, Chen Yu, Chen Tiao, Chen Tong, etc. all regarded joining the army as the best education and transformation for Chen Zifeng.

This can only be blamed on Chen Ming who has been praising the army in front of them since he was a child, saying that the army is the best melting pot in the world and the best place to train people in the world. If you serve in the army, you will regret it for three years, and if you don't serve in the army, you will regret it for a lifetime. This is the result of subtle influence. Chen Ming often instilled this concept in his son, and now he has received a reward. This "reward" was quickly sent to Chen Wenyue's home in the form of an oral order. Then Chen Zifeng, who had just been beaten by Chen Wenyue at home, was dumbfounded, and Chen Wenyue was sweating profusely after he came to his senses.

No matter how much Chen Zifeng's mother was reluctant to let Chen Zifeng suffer, she could only bow her head in tears under the pressure of the emperor, an irresistible mountain.

Things in this world are so wonderful.

"Farewell, Madam."

After seeing off the queen with a group of people at the dock, Chen Wenyue did not go home or go to the General Staff Headquarters, but came to Liu Chengshan's office.

Liu Chengshan certainly knew how his old boss felt at the moment. He booked a table of wine outside at noon. Just him and Chen Wenyue had a good drink to calm Chen Wenyue down.

"That bastard actually brought trouble to the eldest prince. Why didn't he stab me in the chest?"

After two glasses of wine, Chen Wenyue's suppressed anger for the past two days broke out. Because Chen Zifeng was going to western Sichuan, Chen Wenyue didn't dare to hit Chen Zifeng again no matter how angry he was. Otherwise, if he hurt him, people all over the world would not think that he was teaching his son a lesson, but would only think that he was playing a trick. At the cost of injuring his own son, he was exempted from the emperor's punishment. Chen Wenyue was definitely not that brave.

"Chengshan, I want to thank you, brother." Liu Chengshan slapped Huang Dingyou well, and took the initiative to apologize to him. He also notified him in time, otherwise Chen Zifeng's trouble would have been really big. Who would have known that the young man was the deputy editor-in-chief of the Ta Kung Pao? And the son-in-law of the King of Ryukyu was present at the wedding of a small seventh-rank official, and the latter even reported the matter to the eldest prince the next day.

Now the whole officialdom of Nanjing is spreading jokes about Chen Wenyue's poor parenting. Before, Chen Zifeng was just a scoundrel in the market, but now he is really famous.

However, what Chen Wenyue could not have imagined was that, at the end of the year, his emperor suddenly became busy because of Chen Zifeng's affairs.

Chen Ming finally made up his mind to formulate a law on the responsibility of officials and their children for breaking the law.

In his previous life, it was not uncommon for officials' children to engage in business, immigrate, or break the law, and it has even become a social norm. Such things have a very negative impact on the government, and for a small grass-roots person like Chen Ming in his previous life, it is even more envy, jealousy and hatred that cannot be expressed in words.

If we want to say why the credibility of the New Century Rabbit is so low, the various behaviors of officials' relatives and children that make ordinary people feel unfair are definitely one of the reasons.

Chen Han's responsibility system has a strong restraining force on officials. In addition, Chen Ming's own son is still young. To a certain extent, he has ignored the children of high-level officials and dignitaries in Chen Han, but the appearance of Chen Zifeng reminded him.

Although many of the second-generations in his eyes have performed well, there will always be bad birds in the forest, and he cannot take it lightly.

With this impetus, the emotions of the loser in the previous life quickly rebounded. The more Chen Ming thought about it, the more he felt that he should formulate a set of laws to link some behaviors of the relatives and children of officials with the officials themselves, and equate some special interests between the two.

This is by no means Chen Ming's impulse, but he knows too much about the influence of the second generation of officials. In his previous life, as a **, Chen Ming had seen too many such things on the Internet.

This situation is definitely not unique to the 21st century. Looking through the history of China, many great figures who have left their names in history have opened their gorgeous costumes and found that there are dirty and disgusting bugs everywhere.

For example, Xu Jie was a famous official. He accumulated strength under the tyranny of Yan Song and endured humiliation. Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng had inextricable connections with him, and he must not be underestimated. But what about Xu Jie's relatives and children in his hometown? He ran rampant in the village, sheltered people who hid their land and their mouths, accepted donations and land loans, and purchased a large amount of land. The Xu family occupied as much as 240,000 acres of land. In addition, his children and servants committed crimes, resulting in a mountain of complaints against him. Hai Rui, the governor of Yingtian, and Cai Guoxi, the military censor, handled the case impartially and punished his family. Xu Jie bribed Dai Fengxiang with 30,000 taels of gold, and ordered Chen Sanmo, the censor, to dismiss Hai Rui and Cai Guoxi through Zhang Juzheng. So people at that time called him: "The dismissed prime minister at home can drive away the wind and law of the court", and some people called him a "powerful traitor".

His late integrity was lost, and his reputation was completely lost.

And Dong Qichang, when Chen Ming first knew his name, Dong Qichang existed in his memory as a great calligrapher. But later, this great calligrapher suddenly became a dirty gentry with a belly full of thieves and prostitutes, and there was also the so-called legend of the people copying Dong Huan. When Chen Ming came of age, there was a wave of comments on the Internet to overturn Dong Qichang's verdict: saying that the reason why the "people raided Dong Huan" happened was entirely because Dong Qichang, when supervising the education of Huguang, did not follow the instructions, which made him resented by the powerful, and instigated hundreds of Confucian scholars to make a fuss and destroy his office.

The "final conclusion" in "Ming History" is based on historical facts, not false.

Because the two major contributors to "Ming History" Wan Sitong and Wang Hongxu were both talented historians, who inherited Huang Zongxi's legacy and focused on historical facts. During the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, the political atmosphere was particularly tense, and the literary inquisition was particularly cruel. People would be executed for literary inquisition incidents. At this time, the editors of historical books did not need to go to extremes and make political mistakes for Dong Qichang of the previous dynasty. Moreover, Dong Qichang was also targeted by the Manchu rulers during the literary inquisition period of the Qing Dynasty. His remarks that "the chieftains of the slaves love to kill, and the resentment of the Liao Dynasty reaches the heavens" greatly angered the Qing emperors of all dynasties. The four volumes of "Biography of Yuan Gong, Jiehuan" written by him for Yuan Keli in the same year, which contained tens of thousands of words, were banned because of many so-called "slanderous Manchu sentences". Because Yuan Keli, Mao Wenlong and others were good at military affairs in Jianzhou in the late Ming Dynasty, they became the targets that the Qing Dynasty officials needed to deliberately avoid. It is unlikely that the Qing Dynasty whitewashed Dong Qichang, so the evaluation of Dong Qichang in "History of Ming Dynasty" is faithful to historical facts.

In addition, the highest position Dong Qichang held was the Minister of Rites in Nanjing. After Emperor Yongle moved the capital to Beijing, being the Minister of Rites in Nanjing and being the Minister of Rites in Beijing were completely different. Dong Qichang was not a particularly powerful official. It is untenable to prove that Dong Qichang was powerful based on this alone. His power of a nominal position could not reach the ability of Wang Zhen, Wang Zhi, and Wei Zhongxian to exploit officials and civilians. The statement in the poster that Dong Qichang was "as dangerous as Lu Qi, as rich as Yuan Zai, and as licentious as Dong Zhuo" was an exaggeration.

Hum, this statement directly and fundamentally confirmed the historical value of "History of Ming Dynasty". Intuitively, Chen Ming laughed.

But even if he laughed, these things had a great influence on Chen Ming. Because these things fully proved that the illegal and disorderly behavior of officials' relatives and children is a historical problem left over from thousands of years in China, and it is a key point that cannot be ignored.

Coupled with the ready-made example of Chen Zifeng, Chen Ming had to face this problem squarely.

Chen Cong was frowning, and Chen Erbao, Chen Quan, Wang Huizu, Pang Zhenkun, Xiong Bingzhang, Liu Wen and others also felt bitter in their mouths. This matter was really difficult to deal with. If this was made public, they would become the target of scolding by officials all over the world.

But look at what the emperor said just now?

"I have thought about it again and again. We cannot be negligent about this matter. You are all important ministers of the country, and my confidants and right-hand men..." Then of course we have to relieve the emperor's worries.

Therefore, it is suffering, great suffering.

Chen Erbao, Chen Quan, Wang Huizu, Pang Zhenkun, Xiong Bingzhang, Liu Wen and others looked at each other, but they could only bow their heads and obey orders. As for the bitterness on their faces, the emperor seemed not to notice and continued to talk about his reasons:

“Why should officials’ relatives be regulated?”

"This is a very important aspect in preventing violations of laws and disciplines and corruption. When relatives of officials run businesses within their jurisdiction, due to the asymmetry of information and the imbalance of resources they control, it is easy to interfere with and destroy the market economic order, leading to Market competition is unfair and can lead to the spread of corruption.

I have checked some economic corruption cases in the past few years, and there are many such cases. There are also some economic cases that only deal with the children of officials, but do not involve much involvement of the officials themselves. This is not right.

The occurrence of this kind of thing itself affects the image of the government and damages the interests of the country. Over time, the words and deeds of emperors and officials will no longer have credibility, and the people will no longer trust what you say. "

Chen Ming picked up a thick folder on his desk and spoke louder, "In recent years, many of the official corruption cases investigated and dealt with in various places were handled through business transactions between relatives, sons, and sons-in-law." Enterprises have led to problems such as collusion between officials and businessmen, money and power transactions, and improper transfer of interests, all of which have had a very bad impact on the local area. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to regulate the business operations of officials themselves and their relatives.”

Chen Ming still did not cut off the business path for officials, but he linked the officials themselves with the business activities of their relatives. Chen Ming felt that the points system could still appear in this regulation. Summarizing various crimes, subjective Passive, passive, etc., all have points set, some will be killed on contact, some can be suspended, and some will accumulate points. When the points are accumulated to a certain extent, what kind of punishment will there be...

Chen Ming didn't know how long it would take to establish the entire legal system, because the enactment of a law was never done overnight, but needed to be revised, supplemented, and continuously improved again and again.

This regulation on the conduct of officials themselves and their relatives and children is also a powerful system. It is only preliminary and will be continuously strengthened in the future as society changes.

But he is firmly determined to implement this legislation.