A few months later, he was imprisoned.
"In my opinion, the sages should be the masters of scholars, the scholars should be the masters of merchants, the merchants should be the masters of farmers and workers, and those who are officials are not diligent in all aspects and do not distinguish between grains. They should be at the bottom and be the leaders of all people in the world. servant!"
He Xinyin is sitting in his cell here, explaining his latest views to a group of Confucian scholars who were tricked by him.
"That's complete nonsense!"
Although Luo Rufang was also a great Confucian of the Taizhou School, she obviously disagreed with He Xinyin's idea of elevating the status of merchants, so she replied loudly, and then asked:
"Why should farmers and workers be driven by merchants?"
"Merchants are only responsible for transactions. The real producers are workers and peasants! There must be a difference in status, and this is not how we divide the difference!"
"You think I'm talking nonsense?"
He Xinyin was furious and was about to explain when he saw the cell door opened and Li Zhi was brought in by the Jin Yiwei.
However, as soon as Li Zhi was unchained, he rushed towards He Xinyin. After knocking down He Xinyin, he rode on He Xinyin and swung his bastard fist:
"You despicable guy! It's all in vain that I respect you so much, yet you've harmed me like this!"
Not long after, He Xinyin was beaten until his nose was bleeding.
At the same time, Li Zhi turned back to Wang Shizhen and Tan Yangzi, who were also brought in at this time, and said, "Why are you standing there? If you don't beat this villain to death, are you going to let him continue to harm others?!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Shizhen hurriedly took out a piece of silver, then held it in her hand, intending to hit He Xinyin, and said with a smile: "I've been preparing it for a long time!"
Jin Yiwei, who was standing at the door, was too shocked to react at first, but then he also reacted and hurriedly pulled away from Li Zhi:
"Stop! Prison is not a place for you to mess around! If someone is killed, be careful you will never get out of here!"
After Li Zhi was pulled away by a guard in Jinyi, He Xinyin stood up with a bruised nose and face: "Let's start fighting as soon as we come, Li Zhuowu, you are still not a scholar!"
"It's just from my heart, I just want to hit you!"
Li Zhi replied.
"Hefushan!"
"You despicable and shameless person, look at it!"
Wang Shizhen also shouted at this time, and when He Xinyin followed the sound and looked over, he smashed the silver ingot he had been hiding on him at He Xinyin.
As a result, it was not hit accurately.
The silver ingot flew out through the gap in the cell and hit Zhang Jing on the forehead.
"Ouch!"
Zhang Jing, who was ordered to observe these great scholars, couldn't help but cover his forehead and shouted: "You are rebelling, you are really rebelling!"
All the great Confucian scholars couldn't help but froze on the spot, and then they all looked at Wang Shizhen.
Wang Shizhen was also stunned on the spot, looking at Zhang Jing whose forehead was bruised and bruised by her own beating. She was at a loss for a moment and couldn't speak.
"Wang Fengzhou, if you use money to throw money at the eunuch of the East Factory, you will leave your name in history again!"
Xu Kun said with a smile on the side.
At this time, Zhai Rujing, the official of Jinyi Guards who was following Zhang Jing, couldn't help but support Zhang Jing and asked: "Mr. Factory, are you okay?"
Zhang Jing pushed Zhai Rujing away without saying anything. He just walked towards the cell where He Xinyin and other famous Confucian scholars were imprisoned. Then he turned around and walked away, ordering: "Let them move to the new cell immediately! Let them work quickly, and give them the order." Our family is exhausting them to death!”
Zhai Rujing raised his hands and said yes.
After Zhang Jingze finished speaking, he quickly left the prison and spat: "What a bunch of lunatics!"
As a result, He Xinyin, Li Zhi and other famous Confucian scholars were then arranged into the newly built cells.
Each person has a single cell, and each cell is separated by brick walls and placed next to each other to form a circle. In the middle is a light-leak and drainage patio, used as a place for lectures.
This has indeed greatly prevented these celebrities from different ideological schools from fighting with each other due to conflicting views.
However, when famous Confucian scholars take turns to give lectures in the middle of the courtyard, it is still inevitable that other famous Confucian scholars will personally attack them, even curse them, slap them with bad words, and even kidnap Jin Yiwei morally on the pretext of killing those who confuse the public with evil words. Ask Jin Yiwei to kill the lecturer.
"If you look at people with morals, they will be mistaken because of their morals. The so-called virtuous people in the world are rich and noble, but they think they don't want to be pretentious, but they actually want to use this as a ladder to honor themselves, and they also adopt morality, benevolence, and righteousness. Things build on themselves, so instead of looking at people in terms of morality, it is better to look at people in terms of utility..."
On this day, Li Zhi was talking about his own views and directly criticized the Neo-Confucianism of governing the country with morality, which immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of many great Confucian scholars who were also imprisoned here.
"This is simply more ridiculous nonsense!"
Jiao Hong, who was also tricked by He Xinyin, could not stand Li Zhi's contempt for morality and believed that all Taoists were hypocrites.
Because he studied under the Neo-Confucianist Geng Dingxiang and was a representative of the ideological source of the Donglin Party in later generations. He advocated that everyone can be called a saint and a moral benchmark, so he loudly rebuked Li Zhi at this time.
Li Zhi ignored it. He now felt that giving lectures in prison was a very interesting thing, because he might go to Datian to listen, so he said after talking:
"No one is more moral than anyone else, and no one must be more noble than the one who was immoral just because he was moral before..."
"Kingo King! Tishuai! As a close minister of the emperor, how can you sit back and watch such evil words appear, which will damage the foundation of our Ming Dynasty and the foundation of the emperor? Don't kill this monster quickly!"
Jiao Hong was so angry that he directly mobilized the Jinyi Guards.
Zhai Rujing, the officer in charge of guarding these people, just sat silently and read the popular words in the market. When his mouth was dry, he took a sip of tea and ignored how these people scolded each other and tried to persuade him. Deal with the monster as a result.
Because he had already obtained the will, Jin Yiwei could not go down personally.
Of course, Zhai Rujing was not interested in what these people mentioned about "conscience," "morality," "sages," "people's principles," or "etiquette." He also didn't understand why these people could be so excited. Sometimes he would get excited and talk to his father. It's like my mother was killed.
But he felt that what these people said was not as interesting as what was written in this street talk book.
According to Zhu Yijun's intention, these great Confucian scholars also had to participate in labor.
Therefore, while letting them lecture and criticize each other, Zhai Rujing was responsible for taking these people to the yarn workshop newly established by Fusi in Jinyiweibei Town and under his direct control to let them spin yarn.
"The common people use it every day."
"Your Majesty asked us to come and see Sha Fang. Does this mean that Your Majesty also recognizes my Taoism?"
After these famous scholars were escorted to Shafang, He Xinyin smiled and talked to Hu Xiaowen. He couldn't help but start to think about what the emperor said about helping He Xinyin transform other people. However, Hu Shiwen still ignored him and just turned his head. Talk to the only lady Tan Yangzi.
Tanyangzi was annoyed by Wang Shizhen at this time. When she saw Hu Xiaowen talking to her, she ignored Wang Shizhen and started talking to Hu Shiwen.
"According to the decree, you need to spin for four hours today to understand the hardships of hard work and understand that knowledge lies in practice."
"In addition, I will give you wages, and the deed will be given to you later. Rest and other breaks will be arranged in the middle. If you need to relieve yourself temporarily, you need to raise your hands as if you were in prison."
Zhai Rujing started talking at this time.
"What, let us spin the yarn ourselves? This is simply degrading to politeness!"
He Xinyin became furious on the spot and said: "Although the common people use the Tao every day, scholars are the leaders of the four peoples. How can they do what a white man does? It is what women and children should do."
"Is what Bai Ding did so shameful? Where did the clothes you wear come from, and where does the food you eat come from?"
Li Zhi retorted and sat behind a spinning wheel:
"Spinning is spinning. When it comes to labor, there are no distinctions between men and women. Can't women eat grains and grains? Can't men wear cloth, silk and satin?"
As he spoke, Li Zhi looked blankly at the spinning wheel in front of him.
Tan Yangzi couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"
Li Zhi replied: "Although I am willing, I don't know how to do it! I don't even know what kind of spinning wheel this is."
Many great Confucian scholars shook their heads and said they didn't know.
"This is a spinning wheel!"
Only Liu Quexian said something at this time.
All the great Confucian scholars looked at Liu Quexian with reverence.
Tan Yangzi couldn't help but laugh and said: "I didn't expect that this friend is the one who has truly experienced the way of the common people."
Wang Shizhen and He Xinyin were not happy when Tan Yangzi, who was in his twenties and came from a well-known family with excellent talent and appearance, said this.
(End of chapter)
