Xiao Letian's intention was completely exposed at this moment. He did not hesitate to go to war and even brought out his killer hot air balloon. The subtext was obvious. He was determined to take away the little emperor. Even if he could not take away the Tongzhi Emperor today, he would still take away the little emperor. The heart of the emperor.
This is a conspiracy, an upright conspiracy. After the hot air balloon began to slow down and fall slowly over the Forbidden City, the sense of oppression brought by the new technology to the ministers became more and more intense.
At this moment, the Qingliu people had completely shut up. Weng Tonghe looked at a group of Qingliu Hanlin people kneeling on the ground, and his mouth was filled with bitterness. At this moment, no one dared to say that Western learning was lies and lies. The living reality showed In front of them, all their pride was crushed.
It turns out that people can really fly in the sky, so what Xiao Letian said about people swimming in the sea may also be true. This is the power of Western learning. Can it really change the world?
Weng Tonghe had never experienced such a defeat in his life. He was so defeated that he even had a chance to make a comeback. Xiao Letian looked at them and sighed secretly. In fact, Xiao Letian had no objection to Confucianism at all. On the contrary, Xiao Letian still admired Confucianism very much. Yes, after all, Confucianism has formulated a set of very practical social ethics and moral standards.
Confucianism is good at stabilizing the hearts of society. They stipulated in detail the relationship between father and son, the relationship between brothers and sisters, including the relationship between fellow villagers and the same clan. In the medieval world, Chinese society was the most stable, and the relationship between people was The relationship is also the most harmonious, which is an undeniable achievement.
Let me ask each of us, who doesn’t want fathers to be kind and sons to be filial, and who doesn’t want neighbors to love each other? Benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom, and trust are virtues worth admiring in any society.
However, Confucianism has slowly changed since the Ming Dynasty. Maybe it is because Confucianism has become old. Maybe it is because the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and the Eight-Part Essay advocated by the Zhu Ming Dynasty have changed Confucianism. Confucianism has gradually lost its past pioneering and inclusive spirit. The atmosphere, on the contrary, adds a bit of my stinky habit of being the best in the world.
Xiao Letian never wanted to oppose Confucianism from the beginning to the end. He just couldn't stand the Confucianism's self-centered attitude. They were obviously lagging behind and being beaten, but for the sake of their academic dominance, they would rather drag China into the abyss than accept new ideas. Thought.
From ancient times to the present, academic disputes have been bloody. Confucianism has embarked on a path of no return for its own dominance. They would rather watch the nation sink than give up their inherent rights.
"You should be lucky, lucky to have met me, Xiao Letian. If it still runs according to the original historical trajectory, the New Culture Movement will completely tear you apart, tear up all the essence and dross and throw it into the sewer. When that day comes Do you know how the word death is written?"
"Haha, but you, Weng Tonghe, don't care. All you care about is the power of your group. Even if there is a flood after your death, you don't care."
Xiao Letian has completely despaired of this group of self-centered, rotten scholars who think that they are absolutely right and that other academics are nonsense. In comparison, the ten-year-old Emperor Tongzhi is the most lovable. Look at him With the searching look in his eyes, Xiao Letian knew that Xiao Jinlong had completely taken the bait.
The hot air balloon got lower and lower, and finally stopped at an altitude of thirty meters. A few cables were thrown out of the basket. The new soldiers on the ground quickly used ten sandbags to weigh them down. The hot air balloon stopped at the sky. Right above the Harmony Hall.
Banners wishing His Majesty the Emperor long live were floating above people's heads. From a distance of thirty meters, people on the ground could see clearly. Officials with nefarious intentions stretched their necks and shouted into the sky.
"Hey... you were flying above the clouds just now. Did you see the gods... did you see the heavenly palace..."
"Yes... is there any fairy? Have you seen Chang'e?"
Ye Qiu and the others hate the cold. Two layers of fur can't stop her. If you ask me to look for Chang'e in broad daylight, why not look for her at night?
Ye Qiu and the others couldn't answer such a stupid question, so they could only shrug and apologize. At this time, Xiao Letian struck while the iron was hot and bowed to the little emperor.
"Your Majesty, I have shown you foreign guns and cannons, and I have shown you radios, and now you have seen hot air balloons... All of these are forces, very pure forces. When combined with these forces, you can naturally control the power of the empire. ,"
"Your Majesty, don't be confused. Power cannot be obtained by a Confucian scholar's words of saints. If the words of saints are useful, why should there be a change of dynasty?"
"It's time for you to make your choice. Your Majesty, why don't you give it a try and touch the taste of power yourself. If you want to know the taste of pears, you have to taste it yourself."
Just when the little emperor was hesitating, Cixi screamed, "No... Your Majesty, don't listen to his tricks. Don't speak. Don't say anything."
The mother-in-law knew very well how curious Emperor Tongzhi was. She had already seen the determination in her child's eyes, and she had already smelled the danger.
At this moment, Cixi is like a drowning person grasping for the last straw. She wants to bind her son with affection. "If you dare to leave the Forbidden City, I will leave and kill you here..." Cixi pointed at the white marble like a crazy woman. railing.
The little emperor's tears suddenly flowed down. "It's the same thing again, it's the same thing again... Mother, you just want to lock me up in this Sifangtian. What's the difference between this place and a prison?"
"I want to go out of the Forbidden City, I want to see the country of the Qing Dynasty with my own eyes, I want to climb Mount Tai, I want to visit the Five Mountains, I want to see what our Qing Dynasty was like, and I also want to see what is in this world... Woohoo."
The little emperor was already crying and his face was full of tears. "Why, why can you all leave here and travel all over the world... Why can't I? If being an emperor means going to jail, I would rather not have this throne." …”
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."
The reason for this sentence stunned all the courtiers. The emperor's cry shocked everyone. This cry was not the one of Emperor Tongzhi himself. His pain also represented the voice of countless emperors who were held hostage.
Yes, since China was unified by the Qin Dynasty, countless emperors have led the way, but except for a few famous iron-fisted monarchs, the rest of the emperors are all subject to others and in a state of personal freedom.
The powerful officials, warlords, and of course Confucian officials who locked up the emperor, especially after the Ming Dynasty, the Confucian officials tried their best to lock the emperor in the Forbidden City. As long as the emperor wanted to leave the palace, someone would naturally jump out to stop him, not to waste people and money. That is to say, the son of a rich man cannot sit down in the hall.
But what's even more strange is that this group of Confucian officials often scolded the emperor for not knowing the sufferings of the people and making sarcastic remarks like why he didn't eat minced meat all day long.
How can the emperor be reasonable? You obviously forced me to live in the palace and prevented me from entering the people. But when something happened, you turned around and scolded me for not knowing the sufferings of the people. You even forced the emperor to issue an edict to punish himself.
It's not easy to be an emperor, especially an emperor kidnapped by Confucian officials.
The heart-wrenching cries of the little emperor made all the ministers feel unbearable. Yes, a ten-year-old child, who was innocent and eager to play and eager to see the world, was imprisoned alive in the sky. Who knows the grievance in his heart.
Ask yourself, how do your children and grandchildren live, carrying money in their pockets, spending time and drinking, or traveling around the mountains and rivers? Those are locked up. Now the hair has calmed down, and Jiangnan has entered the recovery period. In less than a year and a half, Suzhou and Hangzhou can be visited again, but none of this belongs to Emperor Tongzhi, and his fate has been locked in the palace.
Ci'an was affected by Zai Chun's cries. She knew the pain of being trapped in the palace. Empress Dowager Dong wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "Don't worry, your majesty. With your mother here, your mother-in-law will not be harmed in the slightest... Come on." People, please protect the Queen Mother of the West."
"Hey..." Zhou Daoying waved his hand, and a group of eunuchs rushed over and formed a circle to 'protect' Cixi. The front, back, left and right are sealed for you. If you want to commit suicide, just hit the eunuchs.
Ci'an looked at Emperor Tongzhi with encouraging eyes, "Your Majesty, since you want to know what power feels like, then be bold and learn from your holy ancestors. Don't let your ancestors look down on you."
Zai Chun was now full of fighting spirit, and the Aixinjueluo family's small universe suddenly exploded.
"Yes, I am a descendant of Aixinjueluo. Although I am not personally in charge, I am also the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Here, today in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, I, Aixinjueluo. Zai Chun is willing to worship Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea as his disciple. , to study Western learning, I will leave the Forbidden City from now on to travel around the world."
"This is the first decree that I, Emperor Tongzhi, have made since I ascended the throne. I want to see if the ministers of the Qing Dynasty are still my ministers..."
The little emperor's face turned red. At that moment, he finally found the feeling of being an emperor, and the fire of power was burning in him.
An incredible scene appeared. Zeng Guofan was the first to stand up. He pushed the golden mountain and fell the jade pillar and knelt down in front of the emperor. "I obey the decree."
Next came the Ninth Commander Zeng Guoquan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, Fu Qing, Shi Shan Shi Shui... followed by Prince Gong, Prince Chun, Prince Qing... In the end, all the courtiers knelt down on the jade steps of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
"I obey your decree...I obey your decree...I obey your decree..."
In the end, even Weng Tonghe couldn't resist. His knees softened and he knelt on the ground and said with tears on his face, "I... obey the order." Then he fell to the ground with black eyes.
Emperor Tongzhi looked at everything in front of him in disbelief. His first decree in life actually gained the unanimous consent of all the officials of the Great Court. He actually smashed this square cell.
Xiao Letian looked up to the sky and smiled, "Hahaha... Your Majesty, now you understand, this is right. If you want to get rights just because you expect to be righteous, that's just a dream."
"Come, come, come... Your Majesty, come with me. I will take you to the top of the sky. I will let you see the endless mountains and rivers in the sky. I will open a door for you, a door to the new world. "
At this point, Xiao Letian's power in the capital was perfect, and the empire was completely shaken by him.
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