Wanli Youming

Chapter 442

Chapter 442

As soon as Zhu Yijun's words fell, there was only the midwinter wind howling outside, and none of the ministers in power dared to speak easily, and remained silent.

The eunuch Zhang Hong, the supervisor of ceremonies, only caught the robe that Zhu Yijun had suddenly taken off, and waved his hand to signal the servants to add some charcoal.

At this time, Zhu Yijun continued to stare at the ruling ministers, and asked, "I have never dared to regard the subjects of the world as worthless, but why do some people regard me as an enemy? So much so that I spend the money I just got, in the In his eyes, he is doing evil and fooling the emperor!"

Zhu Yijun suddenly smiled wryly to himself: "I originally thought that they just didn't treat the common people as human beings, and didn't treat Mr. and Mr.'s heirs and other scholars who didn't belong to their party as human beings. For me, the king, they I still know how to respect them; dare to say, they don’t even treat me as a gentleman! Even my father, who has no right to control his own legitimate income, is also a slave under the old rituals they demanded, worse than a slave, but They are cows and horses that can be sacrificed for their ritual at any time!"

"What's the point of such an emperor in front of him?"

"Such a Ming should perish!"

For a moment, Zhu Yijun yelled out these two sentences again, and these words made Shen Shixing and other ministers in power tremble.

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

"Your Majesty, please take back this statement!"

Shen Shixing knelt down in a hurry, and shouted with tears streaming down his face, then kowtowed to the ground and said something.

Apart from Hai Rui, Wang Xijue and other ministers in power also knelt down.

Because they were also shocked by the emperor's words.

Like a thunderbolt, they were all confused.

It's just that Hai Rui couldn't help asking at this moment: "Does Your Majesty really want to be Yao and Shun?"

Zhu Yijun looked at Hai Rui with a cold gaze.

Shen Shihang and others also looked at Hai Rui.

At this moment, Hai Rui cupped his hands and said, "If your Majesty wants to be Yao and Shun, he should be the dog and horse of the world. Naturally, he should be selfless, and this is the purpose of the Neo-Confucianism!"

"I am what I am, I don't want to be Yao and Shun!"

Zhu Yijun replied with a sullen face.

Hai Rui couldn't help taking a step back, closed his eyes slightly, and said, "No wonder Your Majesty saluted again, it's because he doesn't want to be a bully for the world!"

"Although I don't want to be the sage king of Yao and Shun, I dare to point my eyebrows coldly at thousands of people, and I am willing to be a ox when I bow my head."

"But this is all because of what I want to do, not because I really want to become Yao and Shun."

"I am I!"

Zhu Yijun stared at Hai Ruiyan and said.

"The minister is willing to die!"

Hai Rui suddenly knelt on the ground and sobbed.

Instead Zhu Yijun asked, "Why are you crying?"

"Your Majesty treats ministers with sincerity and benevolence, and also treats the people of the world with sincerity and benevolence, and even treats foreigners with the intention of practicing the true way of benevolence, forgiveness and salvation! It can be said that the most benevolent Lord is the closest to Yao and Shun!"

"It is in the heart of the minister that the emperor who can get close to Yao and Shun is the emperor Gao!"

"But now I think that the one who is closer to being Yao and Shun than Emperor Taizu Gao is Your Majesty!"

Hai Rui is indeed a loyal fan of Zhu Yuanzhang, and he has been practicing himself according to Zhu Yuanzhang's requirements for scholar-bureaucrats, so he will say that Zhu Yuanzhang is closest to Yao and Shun at this time.

But Zhu Yijun did not expect that Hai Rui would think that he was closer to Yao and Shun than Zhu Yuanzhang, which was the most ideal image of a monarch in the hearts of literati.

That's right, the scholar-bureaucrats of this era have their own ideal image of a monarch, and that image is Yao and Shun.

Zhang Juzheng's lifelong ambition is to make the emperor Yao and Shun, so in history, in order to make Zhu Yijun become Yao and Shun, he was so strict that he overcorrected, making Zhu Yijun completely unable to appreciate the joy of being an emperor, and it was very serious in the end. I want to blew myself up.

After all, if it hadn’t been for self-explosion of the Ming Dynasty, it would not have been too lazy to appoint the important officials of the Six Metropolitan Procuratorates, and even the magistrates and county officials. As a result, the local gentry and subordinates became more lawless and land annexation became more serious.

Hai Rui is no exception. What they have received is actually a set of education, so naturally they all have an ideal.

"Therefore, I don't want to reproach Your Majesty for not wanting to be a servant of the world, but if even a king like Your Majesty who is closest to Yao and Shun still refuses to be Yao and Shun, then I really lose all hope!"

"The old minister couldn't help crying, sad because he couldn't achieve his lifelong ambition."

At this moment, Hai Rui choked up and replied.

Zhu Yijun didn't expect that he would make the stubborn Hai Rui cry.

"That's because there is something wrong with Yao and Shun, and it's not His Majesty's fault!"

"So why does Da Si Nong need to use glue pillars to play the harp?!"

Shen Shixing knew that this time was the time to step up its leadership and boldly take a step forward in the innovation of the way of governing the country, otherwise the current New Deal would not go on and would fail, so it stood up at this time and said , and then said to Zhu Yijun:

"Your Majesty, I request your Majesty to abolish the official school of Zhu Xue, restore the orthodoxy of Confucianism, and respect the various schools of Confucianism since the Song Dynasty. Next year, scholars will no longer completely follow Cheng Zhu's theory! Combine it with reality!"

Shen Shixing's words were like a flash of Jiao Lei, which exploded in the small room where the emperors and ministers gathered, making Chen Jingbang and other officials quite horrified for a while.

Then, Shen Shixing explained: "Cheng Zhu requires everyone to be holy and eliminate human desires. This is unrealistic and contrary to the virtues of Daren! slave!"

"Of course, if someone is willing to be a slave, or even a servant of the world, and get the name of a sage, it is also possible, and it is also conducive to the long-term stability of the country, so there is no need to abolish it, but it is not exclusive; the new ritual is based on the Han people, It’s not about asking the Han people what to do, but what rights they are allowed to have! First of all, what rights the emperor should have, needs to be clarified!”

"Just like what happened now, shouldn't it be clear whether father-in-law can dispose of his own money at will?"

Zhu Yijun looked at Hai Rui: "Haiqing, what do you think?"

Hai Rui said: "Your Majesty, please keep silent and don't comment on this."

"also."

Zhu Yijun nodded.

At this time, Shen Shixing said: "Your Majesty, I think that Da Sinong should agree, because Da Sinong was originally the most devout disciple of Neo Confucianism, but he failed to be a Jinshi. This shows that although Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism was recorded in the previous imperial examinations He is a respectable scholar, but in the actual examination, he did not admit a gentleman who truly practiced the way of Neo Confucianism and became a sage. Instead, he admitted that he wanted to eliminate human desires and uphold morality on the surface, but in fact the articles were not in the same line. A hypocrite who only misinterprets Cheng Zhu with Cheng Zhu's Confucianism in mind."

"Your words are justified, because there are more loyal ministers like Hai Qing and less hypocrisy and rotten Confucians like Zhou Honglun, Zhun Qing!"

"With this decree, next year's competitions will no longer take Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism as the keynote, and allow scholars to freely expound the theory of governing the country."

"If the examiner dismisses him based on non-Cheng Zhu's theory, the examiner will be punished for resisting the order!"

After Zhu Yijun said that, he said: "As for Zhou Honglun, take him directly to the execution ground to be executed! I don't intend to talk too much with him. Anyone who deceives me should kill himself!"

"Yes!"

Soon, Zhou Honglun was dragged out from the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion.

On the same day, Zhou Honglun's son, Zhou Peicheng, heard the news, beat the Dengwen Drum, and shouted: "My father was convicted for speaking out, and he will be executed soon. Please show your Majesty mercy, and the quasi-student will die in place of his father!"

Zhu Yijun soon found out about this situation, and then he sneered: "Death for the father? He only knows how to plead for the father to die on behalf of the father, but he doesn't know that he is not fair for my father. How dare he see only filial piety and no loyalty in his eyes? Such infidelity Seniors, put to death together!"

(End of this chapter)