"Your Majesty, my Taoism is not so domineering! In fact, my Taoism only believes that both the ruler and the teacher should be virtuous people."
He Xinyin hurriedly explained.
Zhu Yijun continued to ask: "According to your knowledge, who will judge whether this is virtuous or not? Is it you fellow-minded people, or all the people in the world?"
"The small people, the small people, the small people believe that they are naturally the people of the world, and they are judged by the hearts of the people of the world."
He Xinyin replied somewhat incoherently.
"You just said that if I don't regard you as a friend, I will not be a virtuous emperor. It means that you think that I am unvirtuous."
As Zhu Yijun spoke, he looked at Zhang Juzheng and asked, "Sir, am I the emperor with no virtue?"
"Your Majesty is a virtuous emperor!"
Zhang Juzheng replied.
Zhu Yijun asked again: "But it comes from your heart?"
"Of course, how dare I not serve you with sincerity."
Zhang Juzheng replied.
Zhu Yijun asked the living commentator Shen Li again: "Am I a virtuous emperor?"
"Of course Your Majesty is, and it comes from his heart."
Shen Li also replied.
Then, Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Hong: "Am I a virtuous emperor?"
Zhang Hong also replied yes.
Zhu Yijun asked the Jin Yiwei outside the hall again, and the Jin Yiwei also answered yes.
Then, Zhu Yijun looked at He Xinyin: "He Xinyin, look, you are the only one who thinks that I am not a virtuous emperor; they all think that I am a virtuous emperor; whether they are civil servants, eunuchs, or military men, they all do it out of their own hearts. . It can be seen that the judgments of people in the world are inconsistent, don’t you think so?”
"The emperor said so."
He Xinyin hesitated for a while, but finally had to admit it frankly.
Zhu Yijun then asked He Xinyin: "Now do you understand why your Taoism cannot flourish?"
He Xinyin was stunned.
After Zhu Yijun asked He Xinyin, he answered for He Xinyin:
"For ordinary people who are lower than you, you do not actively practice your Taoism, but truly regard them as friends;"
"And therefore, you did not give up your fame and privileges, and took the initiative to share their sufferings, serve and pay taxes;"
"As a result, your Taoism has not received the support of a large number of ordinary people!"
"At most, it only mobilized a group of villagers who were dissatisfied with some corrupt officials and bully gentry to resist. However, these resisting villagers must not have much recognition of the knowledge of you people, so they did not listen to your arrangements. If you don’t resist in a way that violates the king’s law, it will directly turn the resistance into a riot, which will only make more ordinary people who are not dissatisfied with the government or big families uneasy and not support you;”
"Then, you ask the emperors, dignitaries and bureaucrats who are higher than you to regard you as friends and interact with you as equals;"
"This naturally makes the emperors and powerful bureaucrats unwilling to support you, and even hate you."
"So, the Taoism you insist on is still only the knowledge insisted on by a few people!"
"This is why it is so easy for my husband to kill you. He doesn't even have to do it himself. Officials will take the initiative to kill you for him!"
"Even if you want to live, you have to ask my husband for mercy to survive;"
“This is the reason for all this;”
"Do you understand it?"
After Zhu Yijun said that, He Xinyin was silent for a long time.
"I see."
"No wonder it's so difficult to develop Taoism!"
After a long while, He Xinyin muttered to himself, and then he kowtowed to Zhu Yijun and said, "Thank you, my dear, for your advice. It's my fault that you are wrong!"
"Small people should not only ask those above them to preach Taoism, but they themselves do not practice Taoism concepts!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for giving me the opportunity to strengthen my Taoism. Your Majesty can be my teacher!"
After He Xinyin finished speaking, he kowtowed to Zhu Yijun again.
Zhang Juzheng heard what He Xinyin said and was about to speak.
"That's the wrong thing to say again!"
But Zhu Yijun stared outside the hall and spoke first.
Then, Zhu Yijun looked at He Xinyin: "What qualifications do you have to recognize me as your teacher? Do you know who is qualified to be the emperor's disciple?"
"You have to be a Jinshi on the second list!"
"Only those who have been called out in the Imperial Palace are worthy of being disciples of the emperor!"
"What qualifications do you have?!"
After Zhu Yijun asked He Xinyin, he pointed at Shen Li: "Only people like him can be the emperor's disciples!"
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Shen Li couldn't help but straighten his chest and looked down at He Xinyin who was kneeling on the ground.
Zhang Juzheng was also relieved.
At first, he listened to Zhu Yijun explain to He Xinyin why only a few people supported his knowledge, and he was worried that Zhu Yijun was deliberately helping He Xinyin promote the knowledge he advocated.
Now that Zhu Yijun said this, he no longer had such worries and glanced at He Xinyin.
"There is no distinction between education and distinction. Why does the emperor have to be a Jinshi to regard him as his disciple?"
"Why can't ordinary people be born for the emperor? This is not the behavior of a virtuous person!"
He Xinyin argued unconvincedly.
Zhu Yijun sneered: "You don't have to constantly define me by virtue or non-virtue. I don't recognize your Taoism. In my eyes, this person's status is different. People just want to be superior to others, and that includes you, He Xinyin." .”
"So, my disciples can indeed only be Jinshi. If they are not Jinshi, they cannot be! At most, Jinshi can be divided into civil and military students!"
Zhang Juzheng was completely relieved after hearing what Zhu Yijun said, knowing that he, the emperor's student, really did not agree with He Xinyin's thoughts. Although he agreed that the people had desires and the king had desires, he ultimately did not advocate equality like He Xinyin.
"How come you have the same virtue as Yan Shannong?"
He Xinyin muttered.
"what are you saying?"
Zhu Yijun had a sharp ear and heard He Xinyin's beeping, but it was not clear, so he asked more questions.
He Xinyin did not dare to hide it: "Back to the emperor, the common people said that you and Yan Shannong have the same virtues. When Yan Shannong recruits disciples, he must beat the apprentice three times before he can become his disciple."
"He Xinyin! You are simply treasonous!"
At this time, Zhang Juzheng finally couldn't help scolding He Xinyin, and said to Zhu Yijun: "Your Majesty, please punish He Xinyin!"
Zhang Juzheng actually never asked Zhu Yijun to kill anyone.
Including the former Liu Tai, Fu Yingzhen and Yan Guan who were killed in Fugu, as well as the officials who were killed for cleaning up the family, they were all essentially ordered by Emperor Zhu Yijun.
Zhang Juzheng just cooperated passively.
It can also be said that he takes the initiative to take the blame.
This time, it was the first time that Zhang Juzheng took the initiative to ask the emperor to kill someone.
It can be seen that He Xinyin really angered Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng really couldn't tolerate it anymore.
"Sir, there is no need to be angry."
Zhu Yijun gave Zhang Juzheng some advice.
The main reason was that he came from a later generation and was not too surprised by people like He Xinyin who did not take the king too seriously, so he did not have much emotional fluctuations. He just sneered and continued to say to He Xinyin:
"Your metaphor is inappropriate. The reason why I set the threshold for people to become disciples of the Emperor is because I only accept talented people who can study hard, have good moral character, and have the ambition to serve the country. I do not want to damage their personal dignity and make them abandon their own personal dignity first. ;"
"If Yan Shannong wants to be his student, he will first receive three punches from him. This can be regarded as damaging his personality first, so that he can only be controlled by him, and he is willing to be controlled and enslaved by him;"
"So, you couldn't figure it out at the time, and you took the opportunity to punch Yan Shannong three times, but the scholars in the world didn't think about it and were unwilling to take the imperial examination just because I did this;"
"That's the difference!"
"It is everyone's natural need to have their personality respected. How can I take it away and humiliate it? The only reason is to abandon it myself."
"Therefore, I do not take away anyone's personality. However, people do have differences in status, and they also have the right to seek to be more noble than others. I cannot go against this favor and not make people in the world have the desire to be noble."
"So the outstanding ones will be given a higher status!"
"This is the mistake in your Taoism that He Xinyin made. You only paid attention to the need for equality in personality for all people in the world, but ignored that people have the right to seek honor."
"So, after being influenced by your Taoism, the people admit that they want to resist injustice, but they are more willing to use riots to trample under their feet the big families and corrupt officials and evil gentry who caused the injustice, humiliate them wantonly, seize their private property, and accuse them. Innocent family members, which resulted in the fact that I was placed on top of them.”
"You yourselves are the same. You only care about making friends with everyone, but you still enjoy the privileges brought by your fame with peace of mind, and enjoy the status above the common people with peace of mind;"
"Even when you first arrived at the imperial court, you still thought of taking advantage of my status being higher than my husband, using me as a king and my husband as a minister, and using my imperial power to get rid of my husband!"
"That's why when you saw me, you deliberately begged my husband for mercy first, and deliberately created a phenomenon for me that everyone in the world, including you, He Xinyin, a Confucian scholar, feared my husband more than me, so that I could see it. I have the intention to kill Mr.
Zhu Yijun said and asked He Xinyin: "Tell me, is this what you have in mind, rather than just thinking that your husband will not tolerate you?"
