"In short, it would be better to have an "unsatisfactory" emperor than to allow local divisions and separatism, which will inevitably lead to chaos!"
"Because China and I have always been one, not just one country, but also one civilization. Once someone has power, they will not want to settle in a corner, but will fight!"
"Therefore, our country's civilization has always been divided into chaos, and together into peace!"
"So, the common people also have a saying, it is better to be a peace dog than a rebel! This is not a word of helplessness, but a word of experience!"
"All the things you want to achieve are not suitable in this vast country. They are only suitable for small countries with few people. Maybe you can wait until everyone knows the book and understands the truth in the future. But then, even if there is no king, maybe you still won't be able to achieve it. As expected, just like now, you will not be able to mobilize many people who know the written language."
Gu Yanwu said.
"We are not dissatisfied with Your Majesty, but we are just dissatisfied with the king's exclusive power! Is it really not allowed to restore feudalism, remove prefectures and counties, and make the king like the emperor of Zhou?"
Huang Zongxi asked as he spoke.
"In the county system, the authority must come from above! In the feudal system, the authority must come from below! Both have their authority."
"Which one is better and which one is worse? History has proven that the former can be peaceful for hundreds or even hundreds of years, but the latter, if they cannot be unified, will continue to be in chaos! How can you be so ignorant! You actually want your Majesty to do this ridiculous method. "
Gu Yanwu replied again.
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Jiru, who had been exiled to guard the border and farmed for many years, and because the imperial court later allowed the elderly widower to return to his hometown to continue farming. Now he came to the emperor to listen to the lecture on behalf of the farmers, and asked: "Chen Jiru, What do you think of what they said?"
"Your Majesty, the farming people naturally don't understand this. It doesn't matter to them whether the emperor has exclusive power or not. What matters to them is whether they can survive. The common people only hope that the imperial court will no longer impose additional taxes. Agricultural taxes must not be levied again in the future. Even if the court only taxes one for thirty, it can become one for ten, or even one for five, and even the tax will be paid next year and the year after that. This is why the people are unwilling Saw it.”
Chen Jiru replied.
"Why don't farmers pay taxes, but businessmen do? It's obvious that businessmen support the court, but why are businessmen the most exploited by the court?!"
Wan Weishu spoke at this time.
"Because food prices have never been high, there is little profit from farming, or even a loss!"
Chen Jiru replied, and then said: "If agricultural taxes are levied again, who will still be willing to farm? The Ming Dynasty has too many people and there is no shortage of workers. There is no need to drive them into the city to steal the workers' jobs. It is better to Let them continue to be self-sufficient first.”
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "Agricultural taxes will naturally not be levied again. In the future, we will even have to subsidize those who are willing to work in agriculture. There are too many people in Ming Dynasty. If we want to develop industry, we don't need to drive farmers to cities and towns. The labor force is already there." There is enough for the large number of landless urban vagrants, and the rest of the land-owning farmers can only allow them to continue farming.”
Zhu Youxiao looked at Dai Aiguo as he spoke: "What about you workers, do you think it is necessary to limit the power of the monarchy or allow local autonomy?"
"In reply to Your Majesty, we only need our workers to have the final say in the factory! But now we find that even if our workers have the final say in the factory, there is a problem. Everyone has their own thoughts and no one can convince anyone. It is the same in the world. If The emperor can't have the final say, so it doesn't matter whoever says it, I'm afraid there will really be chaos."
Dai Aiguo replied.
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile knowingly: "That's because your Datong Machinery Factory is getting bigger and bigger now!"
With that said, Zhu Youxiao said: "Since there are huge differences, it is better to maintain the status quo and not make any tampering. Now it is more serious to focus on making everyone rich and knowledgeable!"
"Your Majesty! No! If you don't give the people freedom, but only make them rich and knowledgeable, how is this different from raising hogs? Your Majesty, don't you put all people first? How can you not give them no freedom!"
Wan Weishu couldn't help but be disappointed when he saw that his words were not successful, and he spoke hurriedly.
"Don't be so shameless!"
Zhu Youxiao turned cold.
Then, Zhu Youxiao ordered: "Hold on, the conference is over."
"Your Majesty! Please return freedom to the people, so that the people can choose their own parents and officials, so that the people can run any industry, so that the people can trade freely!"
Even when Wan Weishu was dragged out, he still yelled crazily.
Zhu Youxiao pretended not to hear. Naturally, he would not really adopt Wan Weishu's advice just because he shouted loudly.
Zhu Youxiao is now very pleased that his Daxing education is correct after all. Once there are more scholars among the common people, people with ulterior motives who want to freely exploit the people as before will not be able to fool the world so easily.
"His Majesty decrees: Since there are huge differences, it is better to maintain the status quo and not make any changes. Now it is more serious to focus on making the people rich and knowledgeable!"
But after Zhu Youxiao's words came out, the liberal scholars were disappointed.
"how so!"
"Mr. Lizhou didn't win the argument?!"
"The differences are huge! What unreasonable things did those who did not agree with limiting the power of the king say?"
The liberal scholars who expected that Huang Zongxi would be able to quarrel with the Confucian scholars in front of the imperial court and make His Majesty relent and start carrying out reforms did not expect this outcome.
"In the end, Mr. Tinglin won. Sure enough, those people who advocate freedom cannot convince His Majesty!"
"Your Majesty is not that stupid. Besides, what we agree on is correct."
The scholars who supported Gu Yanwu's views were very happy.
Most of these scholars were poor scholars or scholars from small landowners or small merchant families.
Because of the strong intervention of the imperial court, the growth of wealth has poured into a small number of the richest classes, causing their wealth to increase rapidly, so they are very willing to maintain the status quo.
"My Holy Emperor!"
"My Holy Emperor!"
"My Holy Emperor!"
The scholars therefore cheered happily.
"We have many people, so why should we care whether you agree or not? Why doesn't Your Majesty just obey the majority?"
Gao Dangui, a scholar who supported Huang Zongxi's views, said something to Xu Qian, a scholar beside him who supported Gu Yanwu's views.
Xu Qian then replied: "What do you know? The truth does not depend on whether there are more people or fewer people. Besides, where do you have more people? If you count all the people in the world, including the traders, lackeys, fishermen and woodcutters, we are obviously the most numerous. "
"Among the scholars, we are the most numerous!"
Gao Dangui replied.
"There are quite a few of us too! Besides, this world is not just for scholars. Besides, what the majority of people insist on may not be correct. It may also be tyranny, the tyranny of the majority!"
Xu Qian replied.
"You are so messed up, I will kill you! The world cannot change the law, just because there are too many bastards like you!"
Seeing that Gao Dangui couldn't convince Xu Wei, and because Huang Zongxi and the others didn't win, he felt depressed and lost his mind. He immediately punched Xu Wei, hitting Xu Wei on the spot until stars appeared in his eyes, and took advantage of Xu Wei's fall When he was on the ground, he rode up directly and grabbed Xu Qian's neck. He bared his teeth and said, "Go to hell!"
Xu Qian struggled hard.
"You dare to hit someone! Go to hell!"
Seeing this, Xu Gan's friend He Yan picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at Gao Dangui, shouting: "The people in Huanglizhou are plotting to kill us!"
Wang Wujiu, a scholar who supported Huang Zongxi, ran over to help Gao Dangui: "Gu Tinglin's people want to kill us, let's fight them!"
People who supported Huang Zongxi wanted to find a place in the armed struggle because the civil struggle failed to achieve their goals.
Naturally, the scholars who supported Gu Yanwu were not willing to be beaten passively.
For a while, the two sides were fighting together, and more and more people were fighting.
The entire Xiaoling Mausoleum was full of scholars fighting with each other.
The fists flew like waves, one after another.
Moreover, the fight spread quickly like spilled ink spreading in water, directly spreading to Nanjing City outside Xiaoling.
The scholars on both sides of Nanjing City started fighting each other after hearing that the scholars in front were fighting and even killing people on their own side.
The scholars in Xiaoling Guard were okay, because they were not allowed to carry scribes' swords and had to fight with bare hands.
But outside Xiaoling Guard, some of the scholars in Nanjing City carried scribe swords, and some radicals actually started killing people, cutting and killing indiscriminately, and blood flowed everywhere.
In short, they originally only came to attend the Jinling Conference on the emperor's order, but hundreds of thousands of scholars ended up fighting and killing each other.
Seeing this chaotic scene, Zhu Youxiao's face became even more ugly for a moment, and he ordered: "It is hereby announced that the Guards and the 1st, 2nd, and 3,000 headquarters of the Guards Battalion stationed in Nanjing are all under the control of Governor Tang Aiming. Immediately Stop the fight between the scholars! Use extraordinary methods in emergency situations. Those who do it will be shot first! They have their own opinions, which is understandable, but they cannot be without the king's law. This world is still my world, and they cannot allow them to do whatever they want!"
"yes!"
Tang Aiming responded and went to the balcony first.
Luo Zhijie, the commander of the Imperial Guard Battalion, also followed him down the stairs and ordered: "According to the order! Under the control of the Governor of Jiangnan, fights between scholars are prevented, and extraordinary methods are used in emergencies. Those who do it will be shot directly! First, second, Headquarters 3000, follow me out!"
"yes!"
The officers and soldiers of the three Imperial Guard Battalion Thousand Headquarters who were on standby in the temporary military camp near the tower immediately shouted back, and then began to move out, like three dispatched iron-clad dragons, and began to rush towards the soldiers who were surrounding them.
When some scholars saw the officers and soldiers coming, they immediately became honest.
"You scholars who advocate for universal justice are simply a bunch of stubborn bastards. It is you who have prevented us from being free, and it has made it impossible for me to live a good life like before! I have no dignity as a master after studying. No, go to hell you bitches!"
But there were also some soldiers who did not realize that the officers and soldiers had arrived and were still fighting selflessly.
At this time, Wang Wujiu was squeezing Shen Yuan, a poor scholar who was relatively thin and supportive of the Great Duke of the World, and was rolling on the ground while cursing.
boom!
But not long after, Wang Wujiu was shot in the head on the spot. His head exploded on the spot, his brains flowed out, and he lay on the ground with a look of shock in his eyes.
Shen Yuan took a few deep breaths, then blinked again, then looked over following the sound, and saw an officer holding a gun, and the gun was still smoking.
The other scholars around also saw this scene, and they immediately became honest and stared blankly at everything in front of them.
"Do you still know what the King's Law is?!"
At this time, Tang Aiming came over and asked loudly, and then said: "If you really want to destroy other people's bodies, why don't you destroy your own! How dare you deprive your own compatriots of their lives? Do you have the qualifications?!"
"By decree, anyone who starts a fight now will be shot on the spot!"
Luo Zhijie also came over at this time, gave instructions, and then fired a shot at the soldiers in front who were still fighting each other.
When the scholar also fell to the ground, he screamed.
boom!
Then, another gunshot rang out.
Another soldier who was still fighting was shot to death.
The iron fist of the imperial court comes as soon as it comes.
These scholars were quite surprised.
But because of this, the scholars near Tang Aiming and Luo Zhijie soon became honest, stood aside in a polite manner, and returned to their gentle scholar appearance, even a little anxious.
"Don't fight! Don't fight! The army is here. Your Majesty has an order. Anyone who takes action will be killed without mercy!"
"Don't violate the king's laws!"
Some scholars also took the initiative to shout and began to take the initiative to straighten the order.
At this time, Xu Qian had to put aside his ideological prejudices and began to persuade the scholars who had different ideas from his own: "Do you want your life? Stop! The officers and soldiers are coming soon!"
But there are also scholars who are stubborn and still turn a blind eye to the iron fist of the imperial court and only want to solve the problem violently.
At this time, Gao Dangui punched Xu Qian in the abdomen and said viciously: "I don't care, I must kill your surname Xu today. Han and thieves cannot stand together! You despicable people deserve to die!"
boom!
A bullet flies.
Gao Dangui was shot in the temple on the spot, and blood spurted out.
As a result, Xu Qian had the opportunity to sit on the ground, holding his stomach, with a painful expression on his face: "Damn, you are really a fucking lunatic!"
"Who is a Han and who is a thief! A bunch of bastards who don't know the heights of heaven and earth. I'm here to tell you who is a thief. Anyone who violates the king's laws and disobeys orders is a thief!"
Historically, he was the king of the Jin Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, but in this life, because the refugees were incorporated and God would not bury incompetent people, he became Li Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of the imperial guard camp. At this time, he came over with his troops and shouted, " After that, he raised his gun and pointed it at the soldier who wanted to take action.
Seeing this, the scholar quickly retracted his fist and stepped back.
The other scholars present also became more honest.
It's just that Gao Dangui was in a worse situation. At this time, he could only lie on the ground and vomit blood, and gradually died.
"Come on, come and kill me! Let's see who dies first!"
In history, Xu Du, a scholar from a poor family who resolutely revolted against the excessive tax imposed by the officials, was holding a curled scribe's sword, standing on a pile of corpses, and roared at the people who tried to besiege him. His face was very ferocious. .
"Whoever kills Xu Du, I, Zuo, will share half of my family property with him!"
At this time, among a group of scholars who were surrounding him, a scholar named Zuo Guangxian gritted his teeth and said something.
Zuo Guangxian was a scholar from a noble family, and he deeply hated Xu Du and other poor scholars who did not agree with his ideas of freedom.
In addition, everyone is red-blooded at the moment, so they don't care about that much, and they just want to get rid of Xu Du so that they can avenge their classmates.
Therefore, after seeing that Xu Du was quite skilled in martial arts and that his people failed to succeed despite repeated attacks, he simply issued a heavy reward order.
As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward. Some local ruffians temporarily organized by Zuo Guangxian, so their morale was greatly boosted, and they walked towards Xudu one by one eager to try.
"This is a master! I want this man! Tell him to go down and use bayonets instead, and kill all those who besiege him!"
It happened that at this time, Li Dingguo had already rushed over with dozens of officers and soldiers from the Imperial Guard Battalion around him. When he saw this, he drew out his Xiuchun knife, ran over first, and stabbed Zuo Guangxian in the back.
"ah!"
Zuo Guangxian felt a sharp pain in his back, and he couldn't help being shocked. When he looked back, he saw many officers and soldiers coming behind him, and then he closed his eyes in confusion.
Xu Du also saw the officers and soldiers, and hurriedly threw away his scholar's sword and ran into a nearby private house.
"I saw it. You didn't participate in the fight. You were acting in self-defense. Come out and we won't do anything to you!"
Li Dingguo shouted loudly outside at this time.
Xu Du was quite surprised that he didn't participate in the fight? What's the body outside?
Naturally, the other people who besieged Xu Du were eliminated one after another.
Not only these people, as long as the officers and soldiers saw the soldiers fighting and slashing each other, they would be ruthlessly eliminated.
This was very effective. Basically, after witnessing the real violence of the officers and soldiers, the scholars became more honest. Some were even so frightened that they threw away their swords and hid in inns or private houses.
In the end, it didn't take long for a melee involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers to end.
However, hundreds of scholars were injured or killed.
After Zhu Youxiao came down from the balcony, he looked at the many scholars who were still bruised and swollen in the dragon chariot, and he couldn't help but said to himself: "I must be forced to use the iron fist! That is to say, in the Ming Dynasty, not the Qing Dynasty, otherwise , if I were Kang Mazi, I would kill you all directly! Don’t worry about it, just change your ears to be clean."
After thinking this way, Zhu Youxiao asked Wen Tiren and Lu Xiangsheng, two assistant ministers: "What do you two think about this?"
Lu Xiangsheng first said with a smile: "It's quite bloody! But from my perspective, the essence of the fight between them is still the battle between natural principles and human desires!"
Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Keep talking."
"yes!"
Lu Xiangsheng continued to reply: "Human desires are difficult to destroy, but natural principles cannot be destroyed. Between the two, some people choose to follow human desires, and some choose to follow natural principles. It is difficult to determine who will choose what, but what the court has to do is to control these two. The balance between the person and the person, the harmony of yin and yang; as your Majesty said before, try to avoid extreme situations. Whether it is following natural principles or following human desires, you cannot trample on the king's laws at will or take other people's lives at will! There are no restrictions on scholarship, but on actions There must be rules and regulations, otherwise it will be chaos!"
"Yin and yang must be reconciled. We cannot pretend to be harmonious. We must not become conciliatory. We must be tough when we need to be tough. Shen Shixing was always willing to reconcile yin and yang when he was serving as an assistant in the government. However, his reconciliation could be said to be weak and weak, and he did not dare to disobey the emperor. , I dare not rebuke the officials, and venting my anger in both directions will not only facilitate my own protection, but will not benefit the king or the country. In addition, it will increase the arrogance of the officials below and make the king more self-righteous."
At this time, Zhu Youxiao commented on the politics of the Wanli period.
"Your Majesty is right! In my opinion, the reason for the current disputes is that many scholars from wealthy backgrounds cannot accept that knowledge is no longer their exclusive resource, and therefore cannot receive more preferential treatment from the imperial court. Caused;
If we spread knowledge into the hands of more common people, let more common people have wisdom, and let the common people know what medicine some people are selling in their gourds, then there will be more people who support the court's intervention in the commodity economy, and even It will become the consensus of the whole people!
In this way, those with ulterior motives who want to freely exploit the people of this country will naturally cease their efforts, and at most they will become angry;
Rather than dare to jump out like now, after all, the wisdom of the people has not been completely improved, workers and farmers have not yet participated, and it is difficult for His Majesty and the army controlled by His Majesty to intervene directly. After all, once it is necessary to move Weapons means no longer talking about national sentiments, no matter the reason, black and white, direct cleansing. "
Wen Tiren said.
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "That makes sense! The aristocratic families must have been unable to accept their own decline, but it was inevitable!
However, in order for more civilians to open up to wisdom, the culture needs to be changed. As it is now, most official documents, personal notes, and newspaper articles still pay attention to neat dialogues, allusions, and various strong structures, while ignoring the ease of understanding. The style of writing is not conducive to the common people grasping relevant information. It must be admitted that most people cannot understand the text at the first reading, so the style must be more vernacular. "
"This is what I mean! To completely enlighten the people's wisdom, we must practice vernacular. Only in this way can ideas be popularized in the market and the holy will can be reached in the ears of the people! And public opinion can be better known to the court."
Wen Tiren said with some excitement: "Promoting vernacular literature is imperative!"
"The imperial court has neglected cultural innovation in recent years, but in fact this is the focus of the current reform and reform of the imperial court!"
"There is no need to make major changes to the system after just 20 or 30 years. However, with the increase in literacy rate and the development of market culture, further advancement in culture is indeed needed. It must be taken into consideration that the people have become spiritually rich after becoming materially rich. The demand, and the enthusiasm to start caring about politics is rising.”
Zhu Youxiao spoke in agreement and then said: "It is not enough to promote the vernacular. In addition, Chinese characters must be simplified to make the fonts easier to write and read. Many Chinese characters currently have too many strokes, which is not conducive to the spread of culture. Efficiency means simplifying what can be simplified.”
"We can first promote the vernacular, and at the same time have the officials of the Hanlin Academy compile simplified Chinese characters and issue corresponding dictionaries, and then slowly promote them throughout the world."
Lu Xiangsheng said at this time.
"That's right! To promote vernacular writing and get the cooperation of writers all over the world, the court alone cannot do it. We are in Jiangnan now, and now there are many scholars gathered in Nanjing due to the Jinling Conference. We will find an opportunity when the time comes. You, Wen Aiqing, have given lectures to advocate the use of vernacular writing to writers all over the world, and to promote the popularization of literature, so that writing and learning should not remain the business of scholar-bureaucrats."
Colonel Zhu You gave instructions to Wen Tiren.
Wen Tiren was born in the Imperial Academy and was very talented in literature. Therefore, it was naturally not inappropriate for Zhu Youxiao to make him a pioneer in promoting vernacular literature.
"According to the order!"
Wen Tiren responded. He knew that the emperor liked ministers who dared to do great things. If he refused now, he would undoubtedly be abandoned by the emperor in the future.
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