"Freedom? I'm not interested in this. I just want there to be no hunger and no more poor people in the world. If this can be achieved, even if there is no freedom, it doesn't matter."
Tang Aiming replied at this time.
As a refugee, he still clearly remembers what it was like to go hungry.
In addition, the education he received was a new type of education aimed at making everyone in the world prosperous.
Therefore, he was indeed not interested in the freedom rights proposed by Zeng Jingyun and other Jiangnan scholars.
"The people are the most precious, the king is the most important, and the country is the second most important thing! Everyone in the world knows that a dynasty that governs the world is based on the people. However, in this world, the king is still the first, and all the people are still subject to the orders of the king. Even the scholar-bureaucrats cannot have any freedom under the control! In fact, the king is still the most noble and the people are despised. Is such a court really what the public wants? "
As Zeng Jingyun spoke, he questioned Tang Aiming.
"What, you are trying to overthrow the imperial court and want to rebel?"
Tang Aiming asked directly.
"No! We just want the court to reform the law and ask Taiwan to convey the public opinion of Jiangnan on our behalf. In addition, please return to Beijing and stop going south to disturb the people of Jiangnan!"
Zeng Jingyun replied.
"How dare you represent the public opinion of Jiangnan?"
Tang Aiming asked with a sneer, and then ordered: "Come here! These scholars have evil intentions. Take them down and temporarily imprison them. When Your Majesty arrives, I will directly ask Your Majesty to make a decision!"
Zeng Jingyun was shocked after hearing this: "Zai Tai! Why are you so ignorant? Or do you only know how to flatter your father, but you can't even listen to the slightest truth, and you even want to punish us!"
Tang Aiming was too lazy to listen to their nonsense and left here directly.
For the scholar-bureaucrat class in the Ming Dynasty, two relatively opposing ideas have indeed emerged.
One group probably began to put forward people-oriented liberal ideas due to the impact of sea opening and industrial development, and was dissatisfied with the current patriarchal system of the Ming Dynasty.
Because the imperial court always issued various decrees to suppress the freedom of private commercial activities.
The other group advocates restricting freedom. Even the current decrees issued by Zhu Youxiao to restrict various commercial activities and even cultural aspects were all led by them.
Because these people feel that through surveys and personal experiences, they have discovered that excessively free business activities are actually widening the gap between the rich and the poor!
The rich smell of wine and meat, and the freezing of bones on the road have always been phenomena that many conscientious scholar-officials in China did not want to see, otherwise there would be no such poems.
Therefore, these people took the initiative to ask the court to intervene and intervene forcefully in the name of the king.
Tang Aiming naturally belongs to the latter.
Otherwise, Zhu Youxiao would not have placed him in the position of Governor of Jiangnan.
"This Tang Aiming, it's okay for him to do this, but I'm afraid there will be a good show to watch next."
Zhu Youxiao said this after receiving Tang Aiming's report.
"What your Majesty is saying is that these scholars who have been influenced by Huang Zongxi and other ideas will probably never give up, but there are probably a mixture of good and bad, good and bad, and they really feel that it is not good to serve the world under one king, and there are also some who use limitations. In your name, I want to break the current situation of being bound by the imperial court and unable to annex freely."
Lu Xiangsheng replied.
"In recent years, with the great development of education, many scholars have increased. Some are actively seeking new ideas for the sake of the world, and some are selfish because they cannot freely merge. Both of them are increasing with the increase of scholars, so there are also differences. It is becoming more and more obvious! I believe that the court should deal with it properly and not allow it to develop and gradually turn into a party dispute. In the last years of Shenzong, the morale of the world was ruined because of this."
Wen Tiren replied.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "This is very true. Nothing in the world is new. We must try our best to ask them to deal with it in a civilized way, not with force. They cannot coerce the people into participating, or even coerce officials." , to attract the army to participate, and lead to war, which will harm the national affairs."
When Zhu Youxiao was about to arrive in Nanjing, the Nanjing train station was already filled with scholars and common people from all over the south of the Yangtze River.
However, those standing in front were mainly scholars.
Many of these scholars raised the flag with the word "injustice" and waited for the emperor to appear to avenge them.
Naturally, they complained about Zeng Jingyun and others being imprisoned by Governor Tang Aiming.
Of course, there were also scholars who raised the banner of "reform".
There are even slogans and flags saying "Please, Your Majesty, give freedom to the people."
These scholars were naturally a group of liberal scholars who advocated freedom, restrictions on monarchy and the right to local autonomy.
But soon after these liberal scholars raised these flags, there were also many scholars who came from the families of common people or small landowners and small businessmen.
These were the ecumenical scholars who supported the imperial court in enacting more strict orders to control the expansion of capital, that is, they believed in the ecumenical rule of the world.
Therefore, after the slogans of these liberal scholars appeared, some ecumenical scholars said angrily: "These disciples of Huanglizhou are really annoying. They want to promote their paradoxes in front of the Holy Spirit. What do they mean? Freedom, I obviously want to be able to annex at will! If the imperial court had not banned land transactions, the few acres of my family’s land would have been taken away by people like them!"
A man named Gong Tingxiang couldn't help but go up and tear off the flag of a liberal scholar named Wan Weishu, and said: "Can you please save some face! In the name of all the people seeking freedom, in fact they just want the world to become a In this world of people like you, do you think you can fool the emperor by fooling a few selfish people?!"
"Who do you think is selfish and shameless? We are dedicating our words to His Majesty, so do you need to interfere?!"
Wan Weishu became furious and started pushing and shoving Gong Tingxiang.
"Who doesn't know that your Wan family is a wealthy family in Shangyuan County, and it relies on rent collection from more than 100,000 acres of land. In recent years, the rent has been getting higher and higher year by year. But now the court strictly prohibits private increases in land rent, and has organized farmers' associations to fight against you. , forcing your family to lay off their slaves, and not dare to live too arrogantly and extravagantly! Now that you are asking His Majesty for freedom, you are probably asking His Majesty to let you continue to exploit the tenant farmers without restrictions, right?"
Gong Tingxiang also started pushing and talking.
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But at this time, a liberal scholar named Dong Run punched Gong Tingxiang: "You are talking nonsense! I have tolerated you for a long time. You are the organizer of my peasant association. You used to be just a tenant farmer of my family. You relied on the imperial court to prosper." With free education, we have the opportunity to study, and we even organized tenant farmers to refuse to pay their winter sacrifices! Let me see if I don’t beat you to death today!”
"Beat him, beat him to death, beat to death these bastards who are involved in the peasant association. Do these guys from humble backgrounds deserve to be called scholars? Do they deserve to be called scholars?!"
A group of liberal scholars shouted.
Dong Run became more and more energetic because of this, and he, Wan Weishu and others really beat up Gong Tingxiang.
"Damn it, you dare to bully us, the people of Yingtian Normal School, the students of Yingtian Normal School, why are you just standing there, do it!"
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has established a series of new schools in local areas, and Yingtian Normal School is a higher school built by the imperial court in Nanjing.
Gong Tingxiang is a scholar of this school.
As his classmate, Xu Qian yelled when he saw this, and rushed over to participate in the beating to help Gong Tingxiang.
After hearing this, other scholars from Yingtian Normal School also joined in.
Before long, there were more and more people on both sides.
Accompanied by a group of Nanjing officials, Zhu Youxiao saw this scene as soon as he left the train station: "What happened?"
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