Emperor Chongzhen has been very worried recently. In the past few years, the Ming Dynasty was so poor that he could not even send out side payments. He was so poor that when he first came to the throne, he had to think about making new clothes for himself for half a year. So when Zhu Youcong jumped out and gave him
After he grabbed a large sum of silver, the emperor, who was frightened by poverty, couldn't help but show off and spent 40 million taels of silver in one year. But he didn't expect that this matter would get him into trouble again.
A special group.
The reason why I say special is because many people in this group come from the Donglin Party, which has been suppressed to the point of losing their temper. Even if they are not inextricably linked to each other, this group of people has resigned from office.
Unlike Zhou Yanru and others who went to the Japanese island to make a fortune, the department they were responsible for did not have much power and could not save enough property, so they did not suffer too much in the storm of cheating Confucianism caused by Tao Qianzhi.
Big impact.
Another characteristic of this group of people is that they like to scold people, especially the emperor. In their opinion, everything the emperor said is wrong and stupid, and if they stand up and speak out, they will not only lose their lives while they are alive.
If Chongzhen can't bear it anymore, he will leave a reputation of being loyal and upright, and if he is lucky, he can go down in history forever and become a model for future generations. So this group of people not only like to scold, but also like to make the emperor angry. Once Chongzhen can't stand it and wants to punish them, these guys will be happy
They jumped up and down like monkeys, fearing that the emperor's plan would not fall on them. If the emperor's plan did fall on them, it would only prove that they are my loyal ministers with my blood.
They are not very afraid of death. If they can gain a good reputation that will last forever and earn a glorious future for their family among the scholar-bureaucrats, they will not mind being beheaded by the emperor. But this is only limited to the emperor, not
That general who always takes the blame in front of us has a bad reputation.
This group of people has a unified name called Yanguan. Their power is not great, but it is more powerful than the Crown King in another time and space, because they are an unfettered group and they cannot take any responsibility for what they say.
But when Zhu Youcong was still in the country, no one would be stupid enough to seek death, so they could only choose to endure it and remain silent. But now that fat man has gone to Japan, Ming Dynasty has them free to play
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Of course. The group that pops up now is not all of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. I think there were thousands of people in the thirteen censors plus the six subjects. But now all the younger ones who have some skills are gone, right?
To go out and rob with the important ministers who have resigned is to become a traitor to the royal party, and they have no time to do such nonsense. Those who remain are old and stubborn who cannot let go of their arrogance and are unwilling to withdraw from the stage of history.
Although the Ming Dynasty still has three major corps under formation and the Central Group Army under Lu Xiangsheng, they are not afraid, because apart from that damn fat man, the only one who can mobilize these ruffians is the emperor. And angering the emperor is exactly what they want
needs.
A few days ago, the emperor was assisted by Han Xu, Yan Shenggong and others. He issued imperial edicts in the name of the cabinet for everything. It was not easy to find fault with those old cunning ones. But who made this young man Chongzhen lose his determination?
Everything would be fine once the ministers of the court were dealt with, but they foolishly issued a series of handwritten edicts. This was considered an opportunity for them.
The officials were very smart this time. They didn't know how much money the emperor spent and couldn't control it, because it was stolen by the general. If it was too involved, it might lead to the fat man who was fooling around on the Japanese island.
Come out. If he returns to the country and takes the blame, what will the officials do?
They didn't know, let alone care about, the possible consequences of inflation by investing such a large amount of money. If it weren't for the fact that after more than two years of hard work, the Liaodong region had begun to become the new granary of the Ming Dynasty. The food it could provide was enough to balance food prices.
Even if there are such serious consequences, they will not give up this opportunity to make a fortune. After all, the nationalization of land in the Jiangnan area has not yet been completed, and they still have fertile land of varying sizes in their hands. What they really care about is
It is a free education policy for all. This choice of Chongzhen has completely hit their lowest limit, even more serious than asking them to go to Hanlin Academy for retirement.
Although the scholars say that they must respect Confucius and Mencius, promote Confucianism and benevolent government, and establish a prosperous age when the country is rich and the people are strong and the culture is prosperous, but the rotten Confucianists are afraid of the coming of that prosperous age. Once ordinary people start to jehu the classics, they begin to understand
If you read the classics, you will gradually lose your respect for the scholars, and you will feel that the so-called scholars are nothing more than that. They can no longer fool the world by tampering with the words of the saints.
But by the time they knew the whole thing, it was already too late. Secret preparations in various places had been completed. There were even ministers in the Jiangnan region who took the initiative to transform the academy into an official school. So they could not stop the implementation of this policy openly. After all,
This time the emperor used the name of Confucius and promoted religious teachings, and they did not dare to slap him in the mouth.
Furu, who have read poetry and books, know better that it is not scary to be a scholar, and it is not scary if everyone in the world is literate. What is scary is that people in the world have the ability to think independently. If the current situation continues to develop, Furu wants to continue the past.
Tradition and using the most old-fashioned methods to control the number of literate people as much as possible will not work. Fortunately, there are many ways to fool the people in this world, such as distorting history and confusing right and wrong, and using various means to make ordinary people who have just begun to receive education
Falling into the trap they set, they started reading those tampered books from an early age.
Although the plans of the corrupt Confucians were similar to those of the emperor in terms of methods, there was an essential difference between the two. Under Zhu Youcong's instigation, Chongzhen wanted to stimulate the creativity of the people and make the country more prosperous.
How to restore the contention of a hundred schools of thought and at the same time improve the people's sense of identity with the country, so that they can consciously contribute their own strength to the rise of this empire and the continuation of its glory.
What the rotten Confucians want to do is to control the minds of the people and make them live in lies forever, completely killing the independence of the entire nation and implanting ignorance and servility deeply into everyone's bones. Let this nation
It becomes lifeless and reaches the point where thousands of horses are silent. At that time, they can even let the emperor shoot himself in the foot, inciting the people to oust the emperor while re-creating another privileged class.
And this time Kong Yanzhi gave them this opportunity when approving the textbooks, because in Mongolian education not only the orthodox Confucian classics are required, but also the miscellaneous theory, the basic Legalist theory, the Taoist view of self-cultivation, and even the Mohist ingenious and obscene techniques.
...Compared with the education in another time and space, the trick that Old Man Kong put in place is no less impressive. Of course, because the Western allies who were tricked have been targeted by General Zhenguo of the Ming Dynasty, the harm from the Ministry of Education has not been
If they spend their free time to encourage all people to learn foreign languages, they will never be stupid enough to leave opportunities for cultural invasion.
But all this is enough. Confucianism has its own interpretation, and it is unclear which one is more authentic. The teachings and teachings of miscellaneous schools can still be explained, after all, scholars occasionally use the few remaining works as extracurricular readings.
Taoism's worship of "governing for one's own sake" also helps their plan. But how can other courses be taught? What is Legalism? That is what cultivates cruel officials through harsh governance! Mohism? Not to mention
If everyone loves each other equally and writes calculations and tinkers with weird things, who will have time to listen to their nonsense? How can they become the new privileged class?
The corrupt Confucians did not criticize the Legalist doctrine too much. Originally, the concept of rule of law, which was actually the rule of man, did not do much harm to them, and even helped them a little, so just talk about it and don’t take it too seriously. But the Mohists
Their sins are too great. They don’t understand those ingenious and obscene skills, and they don’t bother to understand them. But in order to save the people’s wealth and energy, they are opposed to generous burials and three years of mourning? How can they show the difference between honor and inferiority? If righteousness and justice are
If profit and profit are all combined, then how can they use the master's rare profit as an excuse to deceive others into sending themselves to death to reap the benefits? If fatalism is gone, then how can they still make the people lazy and obey their fate? What if...
After a series of assumptions, they even blatantly pointed out that Kong Yanzhi suddenly proposed to abandon the effective class division and ban the people of the Ming Dynasty from engaging in song and dance performances because he was influenced by heresy and completely betrayed his ancestors. To say this, it is still
It's really a bit terrible. Because music and etiquette in the six arts complement each other, they not only play an important role in maintaining the hierarchy, but also allow the people to have activities and enjoyment to express their emotions.
Therefore, in this desperate counterattack launched by the corrupt Confucians, Chongzhen was a foolish emperor who favored treacherous ministers and did not understand the right and wrong of rewards and punishments. And the guy with the name Yan Shenggong was even more treacherous among treacherous ministers, and a heinous villain.
If these two guys are allowed to continue to struggle, the entire country will be destroyed in their hands. And if you want to save the Ming Dynasty, you must hand over the right to speak and let the last righteous man shoulder this important task.
"My dear friends, please tell me! How to deal with these corrupt scholars?" It has become a tradition of the Chongzhen Dynasty that the emperor has a headache and the traitors suffer. In the huge Jinshen Hall in Nanjing's Forbidden City, preparations are being made for the reforms that are about to be fully launched in the Ming Dynasty.
The extremely busy imperial party members were summoned again.
"This..." Han Xu was very resentful. Didn't he always show off his reputation as a general and master of the country? How could he be accused of being a lazy teacher because of the student's negligence? You must know that he was a lazy teacher.
He was the one who suffered the most misfortune. If it weren't for that fat guy who joined forces with the Zhejiang Party to stab him in the back, would he still be suffering from this crime even if he went to the Japanese island to dig for money? "Yan Shenggong, you are the first victim to suffer.
, why don’t you give me an idea first?”
"Your Majesty, I was wronged!" Kong Yanzhi was indeed wronged. He was the one who got scolded the most in the storm caused by the officials. If the main target of the attack was not the emperor, he believed that those corrupt scholars could really use it.
The saliva drowned him, a descendant of a saint. "I am an honest man who teaches and educates people..."
After yelling for a long time, he suddenly realized that no one seemed to believe him, so Kong Yanzhi could only give up and continue to perform, and asked for help: "Brother Jifu, you can help me come up with an idea!"
"Roaring? Are you going to keep shouting? Where's the crazy energy that you used to come to my criminal department to abduct people a few days ago? Now you are thinking of me after you have suffered a loss?" Qiao Yunsheng cursed in his heart, and gave Kong Yanzhi a roll of his eyes.
: "I am reporting to the Emperor that it is not difficult at all to keep you out of the matter, but is this Duke Yan..."[
"Lord Qiao! Brother Jifu?" Kong Yanzhi looked at Qiao Yunsheng pitifully. Wasn't it because he couldn't hold back after learning a trick from Gao Fengxiang, and he got a grudge for it? "You sir have a lot, so just help me."
Please relieve yourself!"
"Humph!" He raised his head and made a heavy nasal sound before Qiao Yunsheng said: "It's not impossible to help you, but..."
"Tell me! Confucius said that Cheng Ren and Meng said that for justice, what orders do you give to subordinates? They will go through fire and water without hesitation..." In the past, Kong Yanzhi would not have had to swear, but now everyone has a different division of labor, and he is a role model for others.
You also have to worry about your own image. So for trivial matters like teasing someone, you can only ask this cruel official.
"Qiao Aiqing! Just have fun, don't take too long!" Anyway, he would definitely not have to be scolded anymore. Chongzhen was happy to watch the joke, but kindly reminded Qiao Yunsheng: "But you have to remember, for those people
You can’t catch or kill the rotten scholar, and you can’t beat him either!”
Chongzhen was not deliberately causing problems, but those corrupt scholars were too good at timing. Since Chongzhen had decided to return the government to the people and share the world with the people, he could not deny it before the reform had officially begun.
Others say what is in their hearts. Even if the people who say these words are people with ulterior motives, and their purpose is to erode the achievements of the reform, they cannot act rashly. Otherwise, if you kill one or two hundred corrupt scholars, the people will be scared to speak.
It’s just too much of a loss.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I guarantee that the court will not be brought into disrepute this time!" Qiao Yunsheng made the promise, then turned to Kong Yanzhi and said: "Mr. Yansheng, if you want to share the Emperor's grace, then treat Gao Ziyu
return!"
In a sense, Gao Hongtu is also an official, and he is an outstanding representative among them. This old man scolded Chongzhen's grandfather, offended Chongzhen's father, and was praised by Chongzhen's brother, the Emperor Apocalypse who ran to Luoyang to seek refuge.
Wei Zhongxian, who came out to fight against the scholars, was punished. Not many people like this stubborn old man who scolded and caught anyone with Gu Xichou, but the Ming Dynasty was poor not only in terms of material but also in terms of talents. Although elementary schools have opened in various places
, but it will take at least ten years to really find talents, and during this period, the only choice is to continue to use veterans.
Although Gao Hongtu often gets into trouble, he is not stupid. Although he still cannot see clearly what changes will be brought about by the emperor's doing these things, he at least knows that no matter how much nonsense Chongzhen and that damn fat man do, they will not ruin the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty will not be ruined.
Those two young men no longer have to spend so much time improving people's livelihood and promoting education. More importantly, what are the traitors of the imperial party? They are the elite among a group of scholars. Before they joined the emperor, they were already in high positions and put others under their feet.
It's such a scourge that the Great Wall could be rebuilt even if the intestines in the stomach are pulled out. It can make Zhang Ruitu die for two months and force Zhou Yanru and others to resign. If you want to go against them, you are not asking for death.
What?
Therefore, Gao Hongtu wisely chose to become the last batch of court ministers to surrender to the emperor. As a pledge of surrender, he leaked the counterattack prepared by those corrupt scholars in advance, and that is why today's deception meeting took place.
Such a smooth and stubborn old man is of course the target of various ministries' efforts now.
"Okay!" Ya Shengdu said that a gentleman will not stand behind a dangerous wall, so Kong Yanzhi could only grit his teeth and make a compromise.
"You know the truth!" Qiao Yunsheng, who had achieved his goal, did not continue to toss, and said to Chongzhen: "If the Holy One can borrow those dancing Tatars for envoys, it won't take three days for the ministers to make those rotten scholars say a word.
I don’t even dare to say it! Just go home and cry!” (To be continued…)