"Your Majesty, in order to take away Mr. Lu, Mr. Wen Ge directly ordered Dongchang to kill the scholars of Weiluhui. These scholars are all talented people of our Ming Dynasty!"
After Li Ye came back, he sued Wen Tiren to Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "How can they be regarded as talented people? They travel to the gates of the rich and powerful, gather in the homes of wealthy families, seek fame and fortune, and support each other. They only want to learn and reach the world, but they have no real Neo-Confucianism. Those who seek it are nothing more than 'fame and fortune'."
Zhu Youxiao then added: "Go and see, in the countryside, those scholars who organized peasant associations at my call and went deep into the folk villages to teach the people how to read, read and know the king's laws, and even how to fight against the landlords, as well as those scholars overseas. Scholars who are serious about promoting Chinese culture, or scholars who are not interested in food and clothing, but only in learning. Compared with these people, who are the talents?! At least those who are interested in fame and fortune are not the talents I need. ! It’s not that I cannot accept those who dare to speak out, but I cannot tolerate those who feel that they should be above the king’s law because they dare to speak out.”
As Zhu Youxiao spoke, he ordered Li Ye: "According to the rules of the inner court, you will be killed with a stick, but since you have good intentions and finally sent the criminal to the imperial court, you just kill yourself." Bar."
With that said, Zhu Youxiao ordered: "Give him a knife."
"yes!"
So Han Zanzhou asked someone to give Li Ye a knife.
"As you command!"
Li Ye pulled out the knife, then glanced at Zhu Youxiao, then at Lu Xuanyuan, and finally held the knife with both hands, wiped it towards his neck, and fell to the ground.
Lu Xuanyuan couldn't help but tremble.
"ah!"
Lu Zesi even screamed.
Zhu Youxiao therefore asked the two of them: "Are you afraid of seeing blood?"
Lu Xuanyuan's teeth trembled and said: "Yes! Please spare your life, your majesty! I was so obsessed with it that I only thought about how to make your majesty lose his mind and wipe out the entire Liu family, and forgot to take into account the life and death of the people who complained about the injustice. But please tell me, your majesty." I didn’t expect that the Liu family would be so arrogant and dare to massacre people in front of the Holy Emperor!”
Zhu Youxiao said at this time: "You are talented, so talented that all my ministers admire you after listening to your lectures. It is a pity that you cannot join our Xingming Society to engage in ideological research!"
"Your Majesty, please give me this opportunity. I am willing. I am willing to only be with books from now on, no longer ask about political affairs, and devote myself to studying!"
Lu Xuanyuan hurriedly replied.
"You admit now that you are interfering in political affairs?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
Lu Xuanyuan was stunned for a while, and then replied: "Yes!"
"I don't dare to let you come to Xingming Society to do this, because you are the second best person in the list, and you are in charge of the cultural context of Shandong. If you come to Xingming Society, Xingming Society will become yours."
Zhu Youxiao replied.
"I don't dare!"
"But you can!"
After Zhu Youxiao said this, he stood up and said: "I am not opposed to academic leaders like you interfering in political affairs. After all, it is difficult for people to get rid of politics. However, although interfering is unlimited, there are restrictions on actions. , what should be done and what should not be done must be taken into account the imperial laws and national laws! Do you still need me to teach you about this? "
"yes!"
Lu Xuanyuan replied.
"You said you didn't expect that the Liu family would be so domineering that they would slaughter the people in front of the Holy Emperor. Since you didn't expect that, why did you bribe the servants around Liu Hongjie in advance and let them encourage Liu Hongjie to do something in front of the Holy Emperor? You're so stupid What’s your intention?”
Zhu Youxiao asked.
"I thought that this way I could hear your majesty see the abominations of the Liu family, but I really didn't think that they would directly kill people, your majesty!"
Lu Xuanyuan cried.
"You're still quibbling! I didn't expect you to know that you knew it very well. Otherwise, how could you have written the article that denounced the Liu family's murder before I came here?"
Zhu Youxiao said as he threw a newspaper with a clear date in front of him: "Look for yourself! Fortunately, not all people in our East Factory are your admirers, and they can also find clues. You tell me , did you ask the newspapers you control to print and distribute these newspapers in advance so that they can be distributed immediately in the future?"
Lu Xuanyuan looked at the date on it and was quite shocked. He couldn't help but glance at his son Lu Zesi, and then suddenly hit his head on the ground: "Your Majesty, spare your life!"
"If you report the Liu family in person in front of me, or report directly to this book, I might reward you or even reuse you! But unexpectedly, what you want to do is not to seek justice for the people, but to take advantage of them. Achieve your own goals!"
"I know that you don't dare to stand up in person because you are afraid of risks, so you only dare to hide behind the scenes. You people are like this. You obviously have the most malicious intentions, but you don't dare to show it openly, so you can only hide behind the scenes. , borrowing the blood of others to cover up your own cowardice."
Zhu Youxiao said and then ordered: "Since you are afraid of seeing blood, I will give you poisonous wine. No matter what, according to the laws I have set, those with evil intentions will be killed."
Lu Xuanyuan's breathing became rapid because of this: "Your Majesty, I would like to ask how you found me."
Zhu Youxiao laughed: "Because there are people around me who know you very well! Just like you know mediocre officials like Tang Zhixian very well."
After hearing this, Lu Xuanyuan glanced at Wen Tiren and suddenly cursed: "Wen Changqing, you must die a happy death!"
"Give him medicine!"
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao gave an order directly. He was too lazy to watch the fight between the scholar-bureaucrats.
After being emperor for decades, Zhu Youxiao had seen enough of the overt and covert fighting among scholar-bureaucrats.
He had to admit that the group of scholar-officials was complex.
Although they received the same education, and many even came from the same family, their personal choices were different.
Some are obsessed with fame and wealth, obsessed with fighting for power, and do selfish things in the name of being the great public of the world.
Some are obsessed with their ideals and beliefs, and use all kinds of vicious methods to seize power. They seem to be harsh in taking power, but they are doing it for the sake of the public.
And Zhu Youxiao never dares to employ people only based on what they say, but only on their purpose of doing so.
Therefore, he still used it for Wen Tiren, a famous traitor in history.
In fact, he now finds that it is quite useful.
"Your Majesty, the scholarly ethos in Shandong still resists the exclusive power of the imperial court and does not allow freedom. I am worried that the scholarly ethos in Jiangnan will become more serious in demanding freedom and decentralization of power."
Shortly after poisoning Lu and his son, Wen Tiren spoke to Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao said: "Even if it's a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, you have to go and see it. But in short, no matter how much they want to be free and unrestrained, they still have to understand one truth. This world is not what they want to be. If they want to achieve something, they have to pay something. Don't think that they can be sure of victory by hiding behind it like Lu Xuanyuan. Don't think that since they pay the most taxes and popularize culture the best, the court should respect them more and forget about them. I have forgotten who’s grace it is that they can eat low-priced grains from Huguang and India without planting a rice field, and I’ve forgotten that it’s the grace that gives them peace by not letting the iron heel go south!”
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