Zhang Siwei stood up, put his hands behind his back, and looked out of the court.
"If I don't do this, I won't be able to become the first assistant. Someone will try to become the first assistant, and they will be more shameless than my brother to please the emperor!"
Then, Zhang Siwei spoke meaningfully to Zhang Sijiao.
Zhang Sijiao naturally understood what Zhang Siwei meant, so he nodded and sighed: "What brother said is certainly reasonable, but when I think that the situation is getting worse than when Jiang Ling was around, I feel very uncomfortable!"
At this point, Zhang Sijiao almost wanted to cry and said: "The world longs for the abolition of harsh government, just like long drought longs for sweet rain!"
“Who doesn’t?!”
Zhang Siwei replied with a smile.
Then, Zhang Siwei turned to look at Zhang Sijiao: "Do you think that as a brother, you are willing to do such a shameless thing and let the world's scholars look down on you?!"
Zhang Siwei pointed to his heart as he spoke: "How many people understand the helplessness of being a brother and the pain in their hearts?"
"The emperor is unwilling to abolish Jiangling's government, and he still believes in his ideas as a program that is more important than the ancestral system."
"What can we do? Are we really disloyal to the Lord and abandon the human ethics and ethics taught by the Lord of Heaven and Earth?"
"There are also people like Shenwu County and Xu Huating. One is for his own path to power and the other is for self-protection. They don't even care about their integrity and keep stabbing my brother in the back! And that Wang Yuncheng!"
"It can be said that Shilin has never been of the same mind. From ancient times to the present, if your father is really of the same mind, no one can stop him!"
"But for my brother's sake, I want to stop it!"
When Zhang Siwei said this, he beat his chest, burst into tears, and said:
"If we don't stop it, the chief minister and other civil servants will look more powerful on the surface!"
"But in fact, the entire scholar's power will completely give way to the monarch's power, and the king's father will act arbitrarily because the scholar is completely unable to curb his power. Isn't such a bad thing the peace of the world?!"
"Therefore, Brother Wei had to defile himself and take the initiative to cater to His Majesty, even proposing that Jiangling be entitled to enjoy the Imperial Ancestral Temple. In this way, Your Majesty would definitely let Brother Wei be the first assistant, which would cut off the opportunity of Shen Shixing to suddenly become the first assistant, and would not be able to make the king Father will never hear harsh words of advice again!"
After Zhang Siwei finished speaking, he sat back and clenched his fists, seemingly suppressing the inner impulse to roar.
Zhang Sijiao nodded after hearing this: "It's just my brother's own reputation."
"Is it because my brother, Yuan Fu, is a shameless villain in their eyes who only wants to please the king's father, so they won't help His Majesty to be a truly benevolent Holy Lord?!"
"Is it because my brother is a villain that the gentlemen in the court dare not report the scandalous crimes of Jiangling Party to His Majesty?!"
Zhang Siwei suddenly shouted at Zhang Sijiao.
Zhang Sijiao suddenly realized, nodded and said: "What my brother is saying is that since Your Majesty wants to be the true Holy Master, he should see with his own eyes whether the people used by Jiangling are really that clean!"
Zhang Siwei sneered and said nothing.
…
"Your Majesty, do you really want to be the Holy Master who only serves the world?"
After Zhu Yijun let Xu Jie continue to come to his palace, Xu Jie suddenly asked Zhu Yijun this question.
As a person who can use up all his value as much as possible, Zhu Yijun will naturally not let Xu Jie not bring more value to him when he must tell the truth.
Xu Jie also knew his intention, so when he saw no one around him, he took the initiative to ask.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun sneered and said, "Isn't what I did obvious enough?"
"Your Majesty it's obvious!"
"But the criminal doesn't know whether His Majesty is pretending to be so obvious or if it is really so obvious."
"If Your Majesty wants to be a true Holy Lord, then you must do what the criminals said in the Imperial College, and you must be loyal to the world only for the sake of the world! Then you will be scolded by the stupid men and women in the world as the king of Jie and Zhou!"
Xu Jie started talking at this time.
Zhu Yijun gradually darkened his face: "Go on!"
"yes!"
"Actually, what Mr. Shen Ge said is wrong. The ministers in the world do not start with virtuous ministers and then villains, so they can only use them when they are not virtuous and depose them if they are not virtuous."
"All the ministers in the world are just like your Majesty. They are all human beings. As long as they are human, they are complicated. They may do a virtuous thing while also doing an evil thing, or they may do evil first and then do good. .”
“For example, some ministers are greedy and make decisions for the people, and some ministers have made enough money and suddenly want to make decisions for the people to earn some reputation. Even after they were promoted to ministers in the capital, they even advocated promoting policies that benefit the small people but not the powerful. national policy."
"There is only a question of whether a person has more virtues or less evils, or whether he should ask about his previous evils when he is virtuous."
"If your Majesty wants to be a true Holy Lord, you have to face the question of whether to forgive the evil side of a person just because he is more virtuous than evil. Or maybe because he is a virtuous minister now and is doing virtuous things, you should forgive the evil in the past. .”
"But in this case, wouldn't His Majesty's imperial principles and national laws be trampled and destroyed by Your Majesty himself?"
"But if Your Majesty wants to be a true Holy Lord, you have to break your own imperial principles and national laws! Even if you want to shelve those sages and teachings that teach people to be good and selfless, you have to live in harmony with the light!"
"Otherwise, Your Majesty will have no talents to use!"
Xu Jie started talking at this time.
Zhu Yijun nodded solemnly: "I understand what you mean. You are talking about those people who are highly valued and recommended by Mr. I'm afraid they all have hidden things."
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
Xu Jie replied.
Then, Xu Jie said again: "Unless your Majesty really doesn't intend to be a Holy Lord, but is just pretending to let the courtiers see that you respect teachers and teach, and are inspiring to govern, but in fact, you are just taking this opportunity to cover up your plans for the future. heart of."
"Xu Jie!"
Zhu Yijun suddenly shouted and said: "I am very happy that you are willing to tell me the truth, but I don't like it when you test me like this!"
Xu Jie knelt down and said, "The criminal is not just a test, he really wants to know what kind of emperor His Majesty wants to be, and what else he can continue to do for His Majesty."
"snort!"
Zhu Yijun sat down: "You should know that if I just wanted to be an emperor just for myself, you wouldn't appear here."
"What your Majesty said is that I am confused."
Xu Jie replied.
Zhu Yijun said: "You are not confused, you are pretending to be confused."
"The criminal is guilty!"
Xu Jie kowtowed again.
"Okay, what do you want to say? Just say it in one go. Don't play tricks on me here."
Zhu Yijun suddenly waved his hand and said.
"yes!"
Xu Jie then said: "As the criminal said before, if a minister wants to be a loyal and virtuous minister, he must first be unkind, mean and ungrateful. The same goes for Your Majesty."
"But it's not that simple. If you want to be a good minister, in addition to being unkind, mean and ungrateful, you must also be accommodating, be able to tolerate the evil of those who are loyal to you, and be willing to protect them and be the leader of their private parties. "
"The same goes for Your Majesty. If Your Majesty wants to have his own people, as long as they are still useful for what you do to Your Majesty, Your Majesty must also protect your own people and allow them to trample on some imperial principles and national laws."
"Medium."
Zhu Yijun spit out two words.
Xu Jie nodded: "Your Majesty is wise!"
"In this way, Your Majesty originally wanted to be a Holy Lord, but in the end he could only be a benevolent Lord, and the Holy Ming took second place!"
"Because if Your Majesty wants to protect his own people, then on the surface he can use the excuse of governing the country with benevolence to give everyone lenient sentences and careful punishments."
"It's just that if you do this, Your Majesty will become the protector of all those in the world who can use their power to do evil, but those who cannot do evil themselves!"
"But His Majesty himself is the most powerful person!"
"Your Majesty may be able to tolerate this situation at first, but ten or twenty years from now, will your Majesty be able to endure it?!"
"Is Your Majesty really willing to only restrain yourself and allow others to have more freedom?! Your Majesty is still the most powerful person."
"This model is patently unfair!"
"Keep talking!"
Xu Jie then continued: "In the early days of the Shimiao Temple, it was not that they did not work hard to govern, and they also tried their best to protect Duke Zhang Wenzhong and others. In the early days of the Mu Temple, they were not only interested in Gao Le in the harem, but also wanted to make a difference, and make Gao Gong also in charge of the official department. However, After a long time, after discovering that I am the only one who is a saint but does not get the name of a saint and is even threatened and cursed, it is inevitable that I will start to slack off."
"And these, Grand Master Zhang Wenzhenggong must have not informed your majesty. He must have said that your majesty can protect the Ming Dynasty because he did not want to discourage your majesty. But can your majesty really insist on being a lamp that only burns itself to illuminate others, and protects the Ming Dynasty?" Ming Dynasty for a lifetime?!"
"Even if Your Majesty can protect the people of the Ming Dynasty for his whole life, will he be able to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty for the rest of his life?"
"Furthermore, if Your Majesty thinks that no matter how hard he persists, he will never be able to protect the Ming Dynasty for generations to come, will he not be slacking off?"
Xu Jie asked.
Zhu Yijun asked in a deep voice: "What exactly do you want to say?"
