Zhu Youxiao laughed and said, "Everyone, please sit down."
Then, Zhu Youxiao sighed: "They are all famous figures at home and abroad!"
"I don't dare to take it seriously. Your Majesty is exaggerating."
Gu Yanwu and others hurriedly replied.
"There is nothing I dare not take seriously. I have read all your works. It is an honor for this era to have you."
Zhu Youxiao said, "Serve tea!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Zhu Youxiao then said: "Although you have many views that are contrary to the concentration of imperial power, I have to admit that what you say has its own truth. And I have also said long ago that there are rules and regulations in missionary work, but There are no restrictions on scholarship, so as long as you explain the theory of social thought from a scientific perspective, I will not embarrass you and will support you."
"We admire His Majesty's broad-mindedness, and it is our honor to be born in His Majesty's era to study and speak out."
Gu Yanwu replied.
"That's right, if I hadn't flattered you, if it hadn't been for Your Majesty, I'm afraid that Neo-Confucianism would still be the only one now, and we would only be regarded as weirdos, just like Li Zhuowu! Even some of my views would have been killed long ago for being too extreme. Head."
Tang Zhen also followed suit.
And these two people are obviously understanding people, and what they said is indeed the truth.
Because these people in history were not very famous when they were alive. Even if they were famous, it was not a good reputation because their views or actions were not liked by people at the time.
For example, the book written by Tang Zhen directly exposed the true side of Kangxi's prosperous era. The whole family was lucky enough not to be killed.
Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "If today's emperor were not the emperor of the Han family, it would be like this. But after all, I am not. I called you here. Do you know why?"
"Your Majesty, as long as you don't let your ministers become officials, that's fine."
Lu Liuliang replied at this time.
Wang Fuzhi on the side smiled awkwardly because of this. He is now the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites. He was promoted back to China because he went to Europe to spread Confucianism. However, what he consciously did was not something that went against his own heart. After all, it was In order to educate the barbarians, how can we say that it is for fame and fortune?
Zhu Youxiao continued: "Of course I don't want you to be an official. Besides, apart from preaching, I don't trust you to be an official. However, I do assign tasks and requirements to you before I announce to you. of."
The great scholars were a little stunned by this.
Zhu Youxiao said: “As you know, the Ming Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, and the society dominated by farming has turned into a society dominated by industrial production;
If we say, a set of ethics established by Confucianism. It is the standard by which farming civilization judges good and evil;
What about business civilization? What kind of thinking should be used as the mainstream of business civilization? Make the law have something to rely on, so that the people can have new beliefs. "
"You must have seen what has happened recently. There are wealthy businessmen who want to manipulate the national funds for their own use. They even plunder people's wealth and engage in fraud to make profits for themselves. They are not afraid of the king's law and do not care about the feelings of their compatriots. He only seeks profit, engages in fraud, and even reaches out to the army!"
"Moreover, the perpetrators are no longer ordinary people, but mostly educated people. Some scholars have even begun to make addictive poisons in order to make huge profits. There are even scholars who are willing to be mouthpieces for others, and so on. The world is deteriorating, and people’s hearts are not as old as they used to be!”
"It's time for you great Confucians to construct new ideas after abandoning the old ethics and morals, so that the people of the world will not become complete egoists."
After Zhu Youxiao said this, Gu Saowu and others fell into deep thought.
They also noticed what Zhu Youxiao mentioned, but to be honest, in the past few decades, Ming Dynasty had developed too fast, and they themselves were very confused.
However, in the end, Gu Yanwu and others still stated that they would follow Zhu Youxiao's will and seriously seek an ideological path that adapts to the new civilization for all people in the world.
After Zhu Youxiao met with these great scholars and asked them to create a new set of ethics and values for the Ming Dynasty, which had entered the stage of commercial civilization, he soon received a report from the Yinwei Kingdom of Dongchang, saying that Du Rizhang After they had confessed, they planned the strike, which was only reported in newspapers. Among them, Han Suo, a famous scholar, expressed his support for the strike and was also instigated by them.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao ordered: "Order Dongchang to arrest Han Shu for accepting bribes and make his crime known to the world."
After receiving Zhu Youxiao's order, Dongchang Yinwei State immediately rushed to Han Shu's garden.
"Where's Han Shu?"
However, Dongchang Yinweiguo and others were in vain. They only saw Han Dacong, Han Shuo's son, and asked about it.
Han Dacong replied: "My father traveled away three months ago."
"This old thing can run away very fast!"
Yinweiguo was quite disappointed and could only say: "Report to His Majesty."
"Then go to the sea to catch the documents! I don't believe it. There is really a vassal country that dares to take Han Chan in because he is a great scholar!"
After Zhu Youxiao received the report from Yinwei State, he did not choose to spare Han Sui.
Because he doesn't want those scholars who have no character to think that they are not responsible for being paid to be someone else's mouthpiece and mislead the world and cause trouble to the country and the nation.
"I had long expected that Du Rizhang's merchants were unreliable, and I also knew that the tyrant would not tolerate me, a great scholar who had served as a priest of the Imperial Academy, openly saying in the press: 'The Ming Dynasty's business environment is not free enough, and the imperial court is Taking the opportunity to rob businessmen of their hard-earned money, he bluntly stated that the world is a world of producers, not managers. However, the emperor and even the officials of the world are all managers, but as managers, they cannot protect their political integrity. The dignity of an operator is undoubtedly not that of being a slave to the people of the world!' and so on, so I escaped in advance before Du Rizhang and the others were arrested, and before my handle was caught."
Han Shu had indeed fled to the Gaotang Kingdom in Budapest in advance, where he met Fan Guangwen and Xu Zhijue and started talking to them.
After hearing this, Fan Guangwen said: "We have all heard about it! We admire Mr. Han's courage!"
"That's right!"
Xu Zhijue also nodded in agreement, and said: "But Mr. Han, the Gaotang Kingdom is not a place where you can live for a long time. Today, it can be said that he is like the first emperor of Qin, with great power all over the world. I believe that he will know soon." You're here."
"I know!"
"Don't worry, we won't stay here for long. I plan to escape to free England first. Xu Yuanchang, the eldest son of Xu Qianxue, sent me a secret letter, saying that I can join him!"
Han Shu said.
Xu Zhijue nodded after hearing this and said: "It's pitiful that a man like Mr. Han who dares to speak out is now on the run from all over the world, alas!"
"It's not the tyrant's fault!"
Fan Guangwen said angrily.
Han Shu smiled bitterly and said: "There is no way, this is a world that does not allow freedom to exist. There are only so-called human rights granted by the emperor. For the sake of so-called human rights, we will not hesitate to restrict the freedom of everyone in the world!"
"In this case, I will write you a letter. You will go to the Netherlands first and join Xu Bingyi, the current academic administrator of the Netherlands, and ask him to help you go to England."
Xu Zhijue said something at this time.
"Thank you!"
Han Shu thanked him and left for the Netherlands a few days later.
Xu Bingyi actually met Han Shu after he came to the Netherlands.
"You went to England to avoid being persecuted by the court's traitors. Who wants to persecute you?"
Xu Bingyi asked.
Han Shu replied: "Of course it's Wen Tiren who is a traitor."
Xu Bingyi therefore said: "Why don't you just say that His Majesty is persecuting you?"
Han Shu suddenly felt uneasy: "What do you mean?"
Xu Bingyi smiled and said: "You should know that no matter how fast you run, His Majesty's order cannot be transmitted as fast as His Majesty's order. Before you came, I, the Netherlands, received a telegram to arrest you at sea."
After hearing this, Han Shu said: "You can pretend not to know and let me go. After all, we are all scholars."
Xu Bingyi shook his head and said: "If you are an academic scum like you, if you are not punished, it will affect the atmosphere of our entire scholarly society. Therefore, you should stay here honestly and wait for the people from the court to come and take you."
"What's wrong with me? I just received gifts from a few big businessmen. What's the big deal! Why is it related to bribery? Don't you think this is persecution?!"
Han Suo spoke excitedly, and then asked Xu Bingyi.
"But you can't eat royal food, take gifts from merchants, speak for merchants, and criticize the emperor's decrees. Even if you have a dog, you know it can only bark at outsiders. But you are not a dog after all, but a human being. Even if you do If you are not trying to bite people for the imperial court, you should at least be impartial and impartial."
Xu Bingyi said.
thump!
Han Shu knelt down directly: "Please, let me go, I don't want to be skinned!"
Xu Bingyi said nothing.
Han Shu directly hit his head on the ground: "I kowtow to you, Mr. Xu!"
boom!
Xu Bingyi slapped the table with his fist: "You are also a famous scholar after all! How can you do this? Stand up for me quickly."
"If you don't agree to help me, I won't get up, Mr. Xu."
Han Shu started playing tricks.
Xu Bingyi pointed at Han Su: "You, you, why are you so shameless!"
With that said, Xu Bingyi shouted: "Someone, drag him down!"
…
"Your Majesty, Han Shu has been caught and is on his way back to the capital."
One day not long after this, Du Yinxi reported the situation to Zhu Youxiao.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said: "Very good! How did you find it?"
"Han Shu, with the help of Xu Zhijue from the Gaotang Kingdom, went to Xu Bingyi and said that he wanted to escape to Yingyi and join Xu Qianxue's descendants there."
Du Yinxi replied.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment and said: "Yingjili? It seems that these Yingyi have always been dishonest and are still causing mischief in secret. In addition, the one named Xu Zhijue must have some tricks up his sleeve. Please tell Jin Yiwei not to take him first." , I just want to secretly plant spies around him to see what secrets there are behind him. I always feel that the fact that some people in the central government office, including the Jinyiwei, were wiped out by the Baiyi bandits before, has something to do with these people. I, the Han nationality, It is nothing new for scholar-bureaucrats to use foreigners to do things for themselves."
"What your Majesty is saying is that these British barbarians are quite insidious. They secretly instigate and do some shady things. Fortunately, now that southern Europe has been unified, the Ottoman and Arab tribes are about to be annexed. When the time comes, the first thing to do to the outside world is The object of unification should be the island of Great Britain and Ireland."
Du Yinxi followed.
"It is my decree that Zhu Cizhuo be prepared to march into England while the army is resting."
Zhu Youxiao said for this reason.
"yes!"
Since the last time Zhu Cizhuo reminded Zhu Youxiao, and after discovering that moldy grains were used in the Seventh Town within the army he led, he became more thoughtful, strictly inspected a lot of military resources, and eliminated the army. The corrupter within.
Moreover, Zhu Cizhuo also creatively set up a soldier inspection team, a working group composed of soldiers to investigate all logistical support issues of each army.
This allowed the Ming army to avoid continued corruption due to the depravity of some people, and even the conflicts between officers and soldiers were alleviated a lot, and internal discord was avoided.
Against this background, Zhu Cizhuo led an army to quickly destroy the Kingdom of Two Sicilies and completely unify the entire southern Europe.
At the same time, Zhu Cikai also unified the Ottoman and Arab tribes.
The entire Eurasian continent was completely unified one month before Zhu Youxiao learned that Han Suo had been captured by Xu Bingyi of the Netherlands.
In the entire area to the west of the Ming Dynasty and east of the Atlantic Ocean, only many places in Africa and the islands of Great Britain and Ireland are left ununified.
After Zhu Cizhuo received Zhu Youxiao's edict, he became more active in preparing to unify Great Britain and Ireland.
As soon as the rest period ended, he personally led the army to Dunkirk. At the same time, almost all the Ming Dynasty's naval fleets in Europe also gathered towards England.
"The fleets of the Ming Dynasty are gathering towards the English Channel and the Northern Channel. They have completed the unification of the European continent. We will be their last enemy in this direction."
Duke Monmouth of England also told a group of English MPs in parliament that the Ming Dynasty wanted to destroy his England.
Moreover, Monmouth also put forward his proposal after saying: "The strength gap between us and the Ming Dynasty is too big! Therefore, my proposal is that we should move to America as soon as possible! Give up the mainland, otherwise, we There will not be enough land to fight against the entire Ming Dynasty."
"Abandon the homeland?"
Councilor Cavendish asked painfully, "I really don't want to leave my beloved homeland!"
"But there is no other way! We have a wider territory in America, not to mention, we can also unite with the Japanese and Korean countries there, as well as the French of Pros!"
Monmouth said.
However, many members of Parliament in England are still unwilling to give up their local industries.
As one of them, Cavendish said: "Can we continue to negotiate with the Ming army, and by meeting some of their conditions, promise us that England will continue to exist independently?"
Monmouth said: "Then their first condition must be for you and me to learn their Chinese!"
"If that's the case, it's really terrible. Their Chinese is really difficult to learn!"
Cavendish said: "Okay, I agree to go to America!"
Among other MPs who did not want to leave the island of Great Britain, many MPs gave up their obsession with staying in the mainland after Monmouth said this and agreed to go to America.
Therefore, in the end, most members of England agreed to Monmouth's proposal to move to America.
So, before the Ming army came to the island of Great Britain, the nobles of England began to take the initiative to move to the Americas.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty captured England without any blood.
Because England annexed Wales as early as the sixteenth century, the Ming Dynasty also unified Wales.
As for Scotland, Zhu Cizhuo did not directly send troops to Scotland after unifying England. Instead, he sent an envoy to ask the Scottish Parliament to accept surrender and dissolve the Parliament.
The Scottish Parliament finally sent representative Horrell after several days of discussion.
After meeting Zhu Cizhuo, Holler said: "We are willing to surrender, but the condition of surrender is that we are not allowed to learn Chinese. We really don't want to learn Chinese because it is too difficult!"
