When Zhao Huan heard such shameless words, not only did he not laugh at him, but he thought about it even more. Maybe he thought so in his heart.
He turned around silently and continued walking forward slowly, but after taking a few steps he stopped and turned around to ask, "But this has been the 'God-given power of kings' since ancient times. Your new teaching preaches the natural evolution of everything in the world, and everyone comes from animals. What should the people do if they feel unwilling to do so?"
"The king's power is granted by heaven...haha..."
Wang Zhi chuckled and asked, "Cousin, do you believe it?"
"I……"
Zhao Huan was at a loss for words. He originally believed it, but he himself was a king, so he really didn't feel that he had any "destiny", only misery.
"There has never been any 'God-given power of kings'; kingly power has always been 'man-given'."
Wang Zhi shook his head and continued: "Yao, Shun, and Yu were abdicated by others, the Emperor of Zhou was the support of the people, and the First Emperor created the world by himself. But once he loses the support of the people, even someone as powerful as Qin will perish. In the end, The world was taken over by Liu Bang, a man with mud-legged origins. Countless examples from ancient times have proved a truth: Those who are unpopular will not be able to secure the world."
"Even if Emperor Taizu was able to end the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and secure the throne, isn't it because he extended kindness and cultivated his people after he succeeded to the throne?"
"cousin."
Wang Zhi pulled Zhao Huan over and looked at him sincerely, "The one who wins the hearts of the people wins the world!"
"Those who win the hearts of the people win the world..." Zhao Huan muttered and repeated this sentence with a dazed expression.
"If you look at the Song Dynasty today, there are so many people who rebelled. There was Tian Hu in the past, Song Jiang in the later, Fangla Chuping in the present, and there are uprisings in Jingdong and Hebei. This is the new selfless school. Guess what you Zhao How long can the Song family’s empire last?”
After hearing this, Zhao Huan sat down on the stone platform behind him, with a look of horror in his eyes.
Wang Zhi did not let him go, and continued to ask, "So are you going to help the wealthy family continue to oppress the people, or are you going to help the people attack the wealthy family... It's time to make a decision!"
"Cousin, help me..." Zhao Huan held his hand as if holding a life-saving straw.
Wang Zhi patted his hand and comforted him: "You and I, brothers, will naturally help you."
"My cousin only needs to adhere to one principle: the emperor is the king and father of all people. He should be the spokesperson of the people and the defender of the people's interests, and should not be the accomplice of the nobles or the exploiter of the people."
"As long as this principle continues, no people will covet your throne. They are all kind-hearted and easy-to-satisfy people. As long as you give them food and a life, they will support you. Anyone who dares to confront you will They will help you eliminate the people behind you who are in an unfavorable position."
Wang Zhi said nothing more, and there was a sudden silence between the two of them.
Zhao Huan lowered his head, unable to see the expression on his face. After a while, he raised his head and looked at Wang Zhi. His expression had become extremely firm, "Cousin, what you said is right, so what should we do now."
"right now…"
Wang Zhi chuckled lightly, and then said: "Now tell the chef to prepare more good wine and food."
"If you want to deal with a wealthy family, we can't do it alone. The students in the room are all rare talents that I have scouted for you. You have to win over them."
"Um!"
Zhao Huan nodded heavily when he heard this and held his cousin's hand tightly.
After a while, there was a lot of fish and meat in the house, not to mention singing and dancing.
Let's just say that today's drama of "Wang Erlang fought against the former minister of the palace, and the crown prince stepped forward to save the student" quickly spread throughout Bianjing City as the melon-eating spectators on Yuqian Street dispersed today.
…
"Hey, Congee, why are you still practicing your sword? Have you eaten the melon on Yuqian Street today?"
In a wealthy mansion in the north of Bianjing City, a girl in a yellow shirt and skirt ran angrily into the back garden and shouted loudly at a woman dancing with a sword.
The sword-dancing woman stopped, took the sleeve handkerchief from the hand of a maid on one side, and wiped the sweat on her forehead. As she wiped the sleeve handkerchief down, she revealed a pair of bright and clear eyes like stars, a white and rosy face without any decoration, and red lips. She looks like a red plum in the snow, and her straight nose adds a bit of charisma to this beautiful face of sixteen or seventeen years old.
From a distance, the figure outlined by the black outfit is even more curvy, tall and straight, she looks like a dashing little lady.
If Chen Xiucai, who had dark circles under his eyes every day, would see this girl, he would definitely sigh: No wonder Aba has been rejected many times by the Cao family's young lady, and he still clings to others shamelessly, often talking about his wife after drinking. Aba sincerely doesn’t deceive me~
It turns out that this girl dressed in black and dancing with a sword is the young lady of the Cao Mansion, Wang Erlang's unmarried daughter-in-law, Cao Zhou.
"What's wrong? What kind of melon makes you so happy to eat it?" The young lady of the Cao family put down her sleeve handkerchief and turned to ask the girl in yellow.
"Ah, you haven't heard it yet, that's great." The girl in yellow clapped her hands, as if she was happy because she was the first to eat the melon.
Mrs. Cao frowned slightly, grabbed her by the corner of her clothes and urged, "What the hell, tell me quickly."
"Come on, let's go over there and talk."
The girl in yellow took Lady Cao and walked towards the pavilion. As she walked, she said, "Bring up all your fruits and pastries. These melons are amazing. Let me sit down and talk to you." .”
Miss Cao had no choice but to turn around and motion to the maid behind her.
The maid understood, turned and left.
The two women walked to the pavilion and sat down. The woman in yellow blinked and asked her, "Then you have heard of Xin Xue?"
"But the new learning coming from the Taiyuan Academy?"
"Yeah!" The girl in yellow nodded.
"I've heard a little bit, and I think some of the statements are quite reasonable, but they may be resented by some high-level officials and cause trouble."
The girl in yellow slapped the stone table and nodded with some praise: "You really hit the mark. Today, this melon, this new student caused trouble, and it was the fault of the noble!"
Madam Cao grabbed her hand and urged: "Hurry up and tell me, what trouble did you cause? Which noble person took action?"
Eating melons seems to be the natural instinct of women, regardless of dynasty, they still enjoy it after thousands of years.
The girl in yellow cleared her throat and said seriously: "Speaking of which, at three o'clock this morning, when the sun had just risen from the east..."
The woman in yellow talked like a restaurant storyteller and talked a lot of irrelevant things, but Mrs. Cao was not impatient at all. On the contrary, she listened with great interest. It seemed that this melon had to be said in such a dramatic and emotional way. Eat it. It's more interesting.
"Just when a group of students were about to be beheaded, a loud shout suddenly came: Stop! Stop hurting my students!!"
"Then..."
"Then what?"
"Wait a minute, let me take a sip of water."
The girl in yellow picked up the tea that had been brought by the maid, took a sip, picked up a bunch of grapes from the plate, picked a few grapes and put them in her mouth. She was extremely satisfied when she saw her best friend's anxious look.
Miss Cao didn't keep Miss Cao waiting, the woman in yellow spit out the grape skin and spoke again, "Then she saw a stalwart man flying out from the crowd. This man was more than eight feet tall, holding a silver spear with a dragon pattern in his hand, and his eyes were Like electricity, he is domineering and domineering. It was only after the students prostrated themselves that he was their teacher and the founder of the new school!"
"What a magnificent and wonderful man he is."
As the girl in yellow elaborated without sparing any effort, the image of this stalwart man was already reflected in Mrs. Cao's mind, and she couldn't help but admire him, her eyes shining.
"When the commander of the imperial army saw this man blocking the road, he immediately sent people to surround him, pointed at him and asked him loudly: Give in or not!"
"This man yelled 'No!'"
At this time, only half a day had passed since the morning's arrest. The version circulated by the girl in yellow was slightly different, but it was still roughly the same.
"Then this man started a battle with dozens of forbidden troops with a single gun. Just when everyone thought that this man died here and couldn't bear to watch anymore, they only heard a dragon roar in the field, and when they looked at the field, they were already dead. Not a single forbidden soldier stood, they all fell to the ground, leaving only one great man standing in the long street."
"Dozens of forbidden troops are no match for this person..."
He was afraid that Mrs. Cao wouldn't believe it, so he quickly added: "I'm not exaggerating. Everyone on Yuqian Street this morning saw it with their own eyes."
Mrs. Cao nodded repeatedly to express her belief.
I'm afraid the tall and strange man would scratch his head if he heard this. Dozens of forbidden troops... plus those who maintain order, plus those who guard the prisoners, plus those who set up bows and crossbows in the back... It's about the same, no It's an exaggeration, not an exaggeration...
"Just like that, the student captured by the imperial army was saved by him alone..."
"Do you think this is the end?"
"Did something happen again?"
The woman in yellow gave up for a while, and after getting the response she wanted, she nodded slightly and said: "Yes, it turns out that the forbidden army has already laid a dragnet around the area, and hundreds of crossbow-wielding forbidden troops have unknowingly taken over the whole place. The entire Gozen Street is surrounded, and not even a mosquito can escape."
"ah!"
Miss Cao was so frightened that she covered her mouth and screamed, "Then what happened to him?"
This 'him' naturally refers to the stalwart man in her mind. As for the other people... it doesn't matter.
"With his strong martial arts skills, he can naturally escape from trouble, but if he escapes from trouble, what will happen to his students?"
"Yeah, what should I do?"
"well!"
The girl in yellow sighed and said: "He chose to put down his spear, and was locked up with his students and taken to the prison."
Miss Cao covered her mouth, she was so moved that she could not speak, and there were still tears in her eyes.
"Is there no other way?" she asked unwillingly.
"have!"
The girl in yellow slapped the stone table, looked at her with stern eyes and said, "At this moment, there were sounds of soldiers clashing and soldiers treading on the ground. Everyone looked in the direction of the government office and saw dozens of people. Soldiers from the team's inspection department appeared in layers on Yuqian Street."
"The leader is none other than our current Lord of Kaifeng, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Zhao Huan!"
