Chapter 63 Section 2 Zhu Yuanzhang's Most Worried Things

In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, there were too many social phenomena that made Zhu Yuanzhang dissatisfied. Zhu Yuanzhang deeply felt the destructive effect of more than ten years of troubled times on people's moral integrity.He said: "The people are in turmoil, want to survive the famine, practice cunning, and it is extremely difficult to get together." When the world is in chaos, violence has become the reason for survival. Selfishness, cunning, and cruelty have survived life and death disasters again and again. Zhu Yuanzhang himself is the best example of the essential qualities of a good person, but most of the kind and cowardly obedient people suffer misery.

After more than ten years of war, the common people were "seduced by the treacherous people", "the customs of the world have changed", the long-lost wildness in the Han people has initially awakened, the folk customs have gradually become stronger, and the quality of obedience to the people has seriously deteriorated. What Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about. Zhu Yuanzhang knew that taming a person's spirit is far more difficult than controlling his body.Therefore, the most serious problem is to educate the people.Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang once pointed out to Liu Ji the importance of "righteous people's hearts":

"After the chaos in the world, the laws and regulations have been relaxed. Of course, they must be revised to make the rules and regulations correct. But more important than this is to clarify etiquette and righteousness, correct people's hearts, and respect customs. This is the foundation of governing the world." He used an ingenious metaphor to confidently explain the feasibility of transforming the character of the people: "Arrogance and arrogance, not obeying the laws of the king, are not the nature of people in the world, but bad habits developed in troubled times. If people can be effectively transformed into If we unify the thoughts of the people, the aggressive can become kind and gentle, and the arrogant can become obedient. This is like a raging bad horse, if it is harnessed properly, it will become tame after a long time."

Therefore, at the beginning of the founding of the country, where all kinds of things were waiting to be done and all kinds of wastes were waiting to be rejuvenated, Zhu Yuanzhang put "turning the people into customs" in a crucial position, and mobilized a lot of administrative resources for this, and spent a lot of effort.