A great person who truly dares to contribute to the destiny of his country and nation must have the courage to do things that no one in the world dares to do.
For example, when the country needs to change its emperor, it must dare to change.
When the country needs you to sacrifice your life, you must have the courage to sacrifice it.
And now Liu Hongxun has to be such a character, betray his clan, and completely sever ties with his clan.
"The Liu family is going to be finished! The chief assistant is going to die!"
"Sure enough, it is really difficult to defeat a powerful person like the Chief Assistant. He still has to rely on his own people to do evil!"
"You deserve it! This man named Liu has a grudge against us meat-eaters. As long as he is around, the world's dignitaries and scholar-bureaucrats will no longer be able to live a peaceful life."
"Without such a great helper, the eldest son of the Emperor will not be able to obtain the Holy Favor so easily."
"This is a good thing. There are not many lunatics like Liu Hongxun who demand that the world's nobles live like saints. In the future, the chief minister will know the importance of not having his family's evils widely publicized."
At this time, the whole capital, and even the whole world, began to spread the news about the Liu family.
People who were dissatisfied with the current situation also began to become agitated, thinking that according to the emperor's temper in the past to kill the powerful nobles and nobles who did evil, the chief assistant Liu Hongxun could not be freed from it anyway.
Some people have even begun to show their favor to Zhu Xieyuan.
Zhu Xieyuan's home is already bustling with people.
Only Zhu Xieyuan himself has been keeping his door closed and not seeing guests. He knows that at this time, he must be calmer.
"I have written to you many times, telling you to be self-restraint, to be friendly to your neighbors, to run your home well, and not to do evil to your hometown...but you have turned a deaf ear. As the elders of the clan, you have failed to set an example and indulged your children and grandchildren. The servant oppresses the good, resists the rules and laws, and even goes to the point of not being above the king! The servant is very sad! My Liu family deserves to be severely punished in order to make a warning to the world! And I have such a clan, and the servant is deeply ashamed! My old servant has decided not to be a member of the Liu family from now on, and to exterminate the clan. From now on, Your Majesty will kill everyone in the Liu family..."
However, the news that Liu Hongxun denounced his clan as a bad village and informed the world that he wanted to sever ties with him and eliminate his clan had gradually spread through various newspapers.
All people in the world were naturally shocked by this.
Especially the dignitaries and scholar-bureaucrats who were looking forward to Liu Hongxun's resignation.
They did not expect that Liu Hongxun would take the initiative to sever ties with his clan.
"Since ancient times, I have only heard of individuals being expelled from the clan, but I have never heard of anyone being expelled from the clan!"
At this time, Wang Zhen, the left minister of the Ministry of official affairs, complained to his friend Liang Qingkuan in a depressed manner.
"Clan, home! The place where parents are! To betray the clan is to betray your parents, which is a great act of unfilial piety. Didn't Liu Changshan always ask the scholar-bureaucrats to abide by the ways of saints? Why did he violate his filial piety first!"
Liang Qingkuan also said excitedly.
"This, this, this is truly unheard of! How can the clan rebel?!"
Fu Yijian, a great scholar in the Imperial Academy, also cried out in pain.
After the Seventh Prince Zhu Cikai also learned the news, he angrily slapped the newspaper in his hand on the table: "How shameless! How could Liu Changshan do this!"
"The question now is, I wonder if His Majesty will admit that his betrayal of his clan is valid and allow him to continue to be in charge of the center."
Chen Wei, the counselor who returned to Zhu Cikai, said.
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"Admit it, why don't you admit it? I wish everyone in the world would betray their clan for the benefit of the country and nation!"
"What a great Liu Hongxun. I never thought that he, a moral gentleman, would do such a thing. This is one of the things he has done that satisfies me the most."
After Zhu Youxiao learned that Liu Hongxun had taken the initiative to sever ties with the Liu family, he was in a good mood and immediately told Wen Tiren and Lu Xiangsheng.
"I didn't expect that Yuan Fu would kill his relatives for justice! It's admirable."
Wen Tiren replied with a smile.
Lu Xiangsheng said: "Maybe this wasn't Yuan Fu's own idea, maybe it was the emperor's eldest son who asked him to do it!
I remember that when the eldest son of the emperor was serving as the county magistrate in Haining, he once wrote in a book that in the Jiangnan area, clans with the same surname were very powerful. This caused the imperial court to rely on these powerful clans to rule the place, and also made it difficult for individuals in the clan to escape the fate of being controlled by the clan. Choose your own career and marriage!
Therefore, the eldest son of the emperor proposed to divide the Jiangnan clans, force the Jiangnan clans to separate and move to different places, and encourage individuals to get rid of the shackles of the clan and decide their own destiny. The reason is that the Ming Dynasty now needs more young people to create new careers. Being bound by the clan and continuing to only engage in the imperial examination career, Yuan Fu must have been influenced by the emperor's eldest son. "
Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Well, I remember he went to this book. The separation of large families with the same surname into different places is beneficial to the country and the country. The industrialized Ming Dynasty also needs to disintegrate clan power to allow individuals more freedom. In order to meet the development needs of civilization, clans only have meaning in traditional farming societies. For the Ming Dynasty, an industrial society, if we really want to promote employee-owned factories on a large scale in the future, we must avoid conflicts due to clan relationships. Let the factory turn into a place of nepotism! As my son, I can still make progress after going somewhere to experience it."
"Your Majesty, according to what I say, the court should allow an individual to leave his clan, and the court should not implicate this person for the crimes committed by other clan members. This will definitely help the disintegration of the great clans in the world."
Wen Tiren replied.
"That's right! Send an edict to the eldest son of the emperor, and ask him to order his ministers to prepare an edict for the world. Anyone who declares his separation from the clan will have his crime reduced or no longer be implicated according to the review situation."
Zhu Youxiao said.
At this point, the judiciary of Ming Dynasty entered a new era.
That is to say, if a member of the clan commits a serious crime, he will not be implicated.
But the prerequisite is that you have to sever ties with the clan.
This can be regarded as a judicial change made by Zhu Youxiao in response to the development needs of the times.
In the past, as long as serious crimes were involved, they would be implicated, but the number of implicated clans was different.
There is nothing we can do about this. Who made ancient farming society live in a clan manner as its basic unit?
But now, with the development of industry in Ming Dynasty, the basic units of society have changed.
In other words, people no longer need to live in a clan manner as the basic unit of society.
Workers and other urban citizens have even been able to live as a basic unit in a small family or even as an individual.
In rural areas, due to the increase in government functions, such as water conservancy construction and highway construction, and the distinguished gentry in the clan no longer have tax-free privileges, there is no need for donations, and the road guide system has also been abolished, and farmers' mobility has increased. Therefore, The existence of clan is not as important as before.
In this context, Zhu Youxiao changed the judiciary, no longer strictly enforced implicated matters, and allowed individuals to separate from the clan, which was a move in line with the times.
It can also be regarded as a betrayal of Confucian ethics based on agricultural civilization.
Before this, no one allowed individuals to betray their clan, and the court would not allow it, because it would be regarded as an act of treason.
But now, based on practical needs, the emperor as the ruler, his Yuan Fu and his eldest son took the lead in carrying out such a betrayal.
However, China’s farming civilization has been around for thousands of years.
Naturally, even if it is changed due to practical needs, it will still cause an uproar.
Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao's edict was announced to the world, the world was in an uproar.
"Those who sever ties with the clan will not be implicated?! Your Majesty doesn't want to destroy the nine clans?! How can you do this!"
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