Wanli Youming

Chapter 141

Chapter 141

A few months later, he was ordered to prison.

"In my humble opinion, sages should be the masters of scholars, scholars should be the masters of merchants, merchants should be the masters of farmers and workers, and officials who are not diligent in all fours and don't know the five grains should be at the bottom and be the masters of all people in the world. servant!"

He Xinyin is sitting in his cell here, expounding his latest views to a group of Confucian scholars who were recruited by him.

"It's just nonsense!"

Although Luo Rufang is also a great Confucian of the Taizhou School, she obviously disagreed with He Xinyin's idea of ​​elevating the status of merchants, so she replied loudly, and then asked:

"Why should farmers be driven by merchants?"

"Merchants are only responsible for transactions, and the real farmers and producers are workers and peasants! There must be differences in status, and this is not how the distinction is made!"

"You call me nonsense?"

He Xinyin was furious, and was about to explain, when the cell door opened and Li Zhi was brought in by Jin Yiwei.

However, as soon as Li Zhi was released from the shackles, he rushed towards He Xinyin, and after throwing He Xinyin down, he rode on He Xinyin and swung his eight punches:

"You despicable bastard! It's in vain for me to respect you so much, but you hurt me like this!"

Not long after, He Xinyin was beaten until his nose bleeds.

At the same time, Li Zhi turned his head and said to Wang Shizhen and Tan Yangzi who were also brought here at this time: "Why are you standing still, don't kill this villain, do you want to keep him to continue to harm others?!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Shizhen quickly took out an ingot of silver, and held it in her hand, intending to smash it against He Xinyin, and said with a smile, "I've already prepared it!"

Jin Yiwei, who was standing at the door, was so shocked that he didn't react at first, but now he also reacted, and hurriedly pulled Li Zhi away:

"Stop! Prison is not a place for you to mess around! If you lose your life, be careful that you will never get out of here!"

After Li Zhi was pulled away by Yi Jinyi Wei Xiaowei, He Xinyin also stood up with a bruised nose and a swollen face: "Start fighting as soon as you come, Li Zhuowu, you are still a scholar!"

"From the bottom of my heart, I just want to hit you!"

Li Zhi replied.

"Hof Mountain!"

"You despicable and shameless person, look at it!"

Wang Shizhen also yelled at this time, and when He Xinyin followed the sound, he threw the silver ingot that had been hidden on his body at He Xinyin.

As a result, it was not accurate.

The silver ingot flew out through the gap in the cell, and hit Zhang Jing's forehead.

"Ouch!"

Zhang Jing, who was here to observe these great scholars, couldn't help covering his forehead, and shouted: "It's the opposite, it's the opposite!"

All the great Confucian scholars couldn't help being stunned, and then all looked at Wang Shizhen.

Wang Shizhen was also stunned in place, watching Zhang Jing whose forehead was bruised and purple by himself, and was at a loss for a while, unable to speak.

"Wang Fengzhou, you are throwing money at the admiral and eunuch of the East Factory. Now, you will be famous in history again!"

Xu Kun laughed at the side and started talking.

At this time, Zhai Rujing, the official of Jinyiwei Hall who was with Zhang Jing, couldn't help supporting Zhang Jing, and asked, "Mr. Chang, are you alright?"

Zhang Jing pushed Zhai Rujing away, didn't say anything, just walked towards the cell where He Xinyin and other famous Confucian scholars were imprisoned, then turned around and walked away, and ordered: "Let them move to the new cell immediately! Let them work quickly. Our family is exhausting them!"

Zhai Rujing bowed his hands and said yes.

After Zhang Jing finished speaking, he hurriedly left the prison, and spat: "What a bunch of lunatics!"

Therefore, He Xinyin, Li Zhi and other great Confucian scholars were then arranged in the newly built prison cells.

Each person has a single room, and each cell is separated by a brick wall, next to each other, forming a circle, and in the middle is a patio with light leakage and drainage, which is used as a place for lectures.

This has indeed greatly avoided the occurrence of fights between these great Confucian scholars of different schools of thought because of conflicting views.

However, when great Confucian scholars take turns giving lectures in the courtyard, it is unavoidable that other famous Confucian scholars will attack him personally, even swear words, label him big, and even kidnap Jin Yiwei morally on the grounds of killing those who confuse people with evil words. Ask Jin Yiwei to end and kill the person who gave the lecture.

"If you look at people with morality, you will be mistaken because of morality. The so-called virtuous people in the world are mostly sheltered for wealth and honor, but they are pretending to be unwilling. They really want to rely on this as a ladder of honor, and they also adopt the principles of morality, benevolence and righteousness. Things are self-defeating, so instead of judging people with morality, it is better to judge people with utilitarianism..."

On this day, Li Zhi was talking about his views, and directly criticized the Confucianism thought of governing the country with morality, which immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of many great Confucianists who were also imprisoned here.

"It's even more absurd gossip!"

Jiao Hong, who was also deceived by He Xinyin, couldn't stand Li Zhi's contempt for morality, thinking that Taoists were all hypocrites.

Because he, as a teacher of Confucianist Geng Dingxiang, is also a representative of the ideological source of the Donglin Party in later generations. He advocated that everyone can be called a sage and a moral benchmark, so he loudly reprimanded Li Zhi at this time.

Li Zhi ignored it, now he thought it would be very interesting to give lectures in the imperial prison, because he might be able to listen to it in Datian, so he said afterward:

"No one is more moral than anyone else, and no one is more noble than someone who has no morals because he was moral before..."

"Great King Wu! Ti Shuai! As a close minister of the emperor, how can you just sit back and watch such demonic words come out, and damage my Ming foundation and the emperor's foundation? Don't hurry up and kill this monster!"

At this moment, Jiao Hong was so angry that he directly instigated Jin Yiwei.

Zhai Rujing, the official of Jinyiwei who was in charge of guarding these people, just sat silently and read the popular words and phrases in the market. When his mouth was dry, he just drank a sip of tea, ignoring how these people scolded each other and tried to persuade him. The next step is to deal with the demon.

Because he had already obtained the will, Jin Yiwei could not end himself.

Of course, Zhai Rujing is not interested in the "conscience", "morality", "sages", "people-oriented", and "ethics" mentioned by these people, and he doesn't understand why these people are so excited, sometimes excitedly talking to his father It's like my mother was killed.

But he felt that what these people said was not as interesting as what was written in this market story book.

According to Zhu Yijun's intention, these great Confucian scholars still have to participate in labor.

Therefore, while letting them lecture and criticize each other, Zhai Rujing was in charge of taking these people to the yarn workshop newly established by Fusi in Jinyiwei North Town and under his direct management, and let them spin.

"The common people know how to use it every day."

"Your Majesty asked us to visit the yarn workshop, does that mean that His Majesty also recognizes my Taoism?"

And after these great Confucian scholars were escorted to the yarn workshop, He Xinyin first smiled and said to Hu Xiaowen, and couldn't help thinking about what the emperor said that he would help He Xinyin transform other people together, but Hu Shiwen still ignored him and just turned his head Talk to the only lady, Tan Yangzi.

Tan Yangzi was being annoyed by Wang Shizhen at this time, seeing Hu Xiaowen talking to her, she took advantage of this to ignore Wang Shizhen and started talking to Hu Shiwen.

"According to the decree, you need to spin for four hours today, to understand the hardships of hard work, and to know that knowledge lies in practice."

"In addition, I will give you my wages, and I will give you the contract later. I will arrange a break and other time in the middle. If you need to relieve yourself temporarily, you need to raise your hand like in a prison."

Zhai Rujing spoke at this moment.

"What, let us spin the yarn ourselves? This is simply degrading!"

He Xinyin became distraught on the spot, and said: "Although the common people use the Tao for daily use, but a scholar is the head of the four peoples, how can he do what the common people do, and what women and children should do."

"Is the matter of Bai Ding shameful? Where do you get the clothes you wear, and where do you get the food you eat?"

Li Zhi retorted, and sat behind a spinning wheel first:

"Spinning is spinning, and labor is divided into men and women. Women can't eat whole grains, and men can't wear silk and satin?"

As he spoke, Li Zhi looked at the spinning wheel in front of him and became sluggish.

Tan Yangzi couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Li Zhi replied: "Although I would like to, I won't! I don't even know what kind of spinning wheel this is."

Many great Confucian scholars shook their heads, saying they didn't know.

"It's a spinning wheel!"

Only Liu Quexian said something at this time.

All the famous Confucian scholars looked at Liu Quexian with reverence.

Tan Yangzi couldn't help laughing and said: "I didn't expect this friend to really experience the way of the common people."

Wang Shizhen, He Xinyin and others were not happy when Tan Yangzi, who was in his twenties, came from a famous family, and had excellent talent and appearance, said this.

(End of this chapter)