"Zou Yuanbiao, according to your rhetoric, can I do whatever I want?" Zhu Yijun suddenly asked Zou Yuanbiao again.
Zou Yuanbiao pursed his lips and said, "Yes!" Zhu Yijun couldn't help but close his eyes and sigh. Zhu Yijun said: "Then I am very happy about my success! I just want to benefit countless people, and I want everyone to abide by my rules, even if I have to abide by some rules."
"Of course your Majesty can do this!"
"Because your Majesty is the one who has received the destiny, everything your Majesty does is right. If I do not understand the holy will and feel that your Majesty is wrong, it must be because I am ignorant and do not understand your majesty." Zou Yuanbiao himself closed his eyes at this time. Eyes replied.
"Then if I do nothing, ignore the court, the menstruation is delayed, the ancestors of heaven and earth are not sacrificed, the ministers are missing, the big and small memorials are not bothered to approve, the promotion and dismissal of officials can be postponed, and there are even officials who need to fill the vacancies, I am not too lazy to fill them. , you don’t even bother to pay your military salary, so you just have banquets and fun in the harem?”
"Is this right?"
"Can you still get the name of a holy king?" Zhu Yijun asked. After a long while, Zou Yuanbiao uttered one word: "Yes!"
"Your Majesty! Don't listen to Zou Yuanbiao's monstrous words. This is a typical traitorous and loyal statement of 'returning blessings to the Lord, repaying rewards and punishments'!" Shen Shixing heard Zhu Yijun say whether it was okay for the emperor to mess up like this. After being accused of the assumption, thinking about it, I felt that it would be very terrible if the emperor failed, so he knelt down and said something immediately.
then. Shen Shixing cried and complained: "Your Majesty, as Mr. Yu Ge said in the past, the old etiquette has really entered a dead end. If we continue to govern the country according to this etiquette, the country will perish! Therefore, please do not believe his lies. He is trying to confuse your Majesty!" Fang Fengshi also said: "Your Majesty, Yuan Fu is right! In this case, even if there are capable ministers and famous generals, it will not help to strengthen the country and save the country! Like old dead trees, no matter it is driven by wind or rain, Even if the sun shines on it, it will be hard to see spring! It will even perish from a small country and a foreign race, just like a tree that has been rotting for a hundred years can be destroyed by just one insect!"
"Your Majesty, I second the proposal!"
"What Zou Yuanbiao said is the way of old rites." Hai Rui also stood up at this time and said: "Although it is inevitable for the king and father to rule alone in today's world, it is not without responsibility!"
"As a minister, you should take part in the traitors, and the emperor should also remonstrate with you. This is the way to be a minister!"
"It is not really like a domestic slave or a utensil. After all, the emperor's salary comes from the people's fatness and anointment, including the emperor, who is also supported by the people of the world. Therefore, the emperor and the father are responsible for the prosperity of the world, and the ministers and gentry also have the responsibility of peace and prosperity for the emperor and father. The common people have the responsibility to farm and increase profits;”
"Therefore, if you, your father, fail to do your duty, you should rebuke him!"
"If officials and gentry fail to fulfill their responsibilities, they will be punished!"
"If the common people fail to do their duty, they should be taught a lesson!"
"Therefore, the gentry who committed the crime must be punished, and your majesty must forgive the remonstrance!"...
"Do you really want to see more stupid people being bloodbathed because Your Majesty failed to show favor to the gentry?"
"Especially you!"
"Mr. Gangfeng!" Zou Yuanbiao asked at this time, and looked at Hai Rui: "Do you want to bloodbath the southeast again?"
"The lives of the common people who are coerced by the gentry into rebellion are theirs. Because of the old etiquette, because the court does not strictly control the gentry, and because I do not work hard to govern, a large number of refugees still die every year due to cold and hunger, or because of the oppression of the evil gentry. , or were killed by foreign barbarians because the country was not strong, aren't the lives of these people who are waiting to die because of internal thieves and foreign invaders not their lives?!" Zhu Yijun couldn't help but ask Zou Yuanbiao.
Zou Yuanbiao stopped answering.
"Answer me!" Zhu Yijun had no choice but to shout sharply. Zou Yuanbiao closed his eyes, and then said: "It seems that I cannot convince your Majesty."
"Serve you with sincerity! Well, your majesty, I will confess to you again. Your Majesty accuses you of being too happy with your achievements. You are just trying to gain fame and reputation, because I can see from Ye Hanlin's incident that your majesty is very concerned about true outspokenness. It can also be accommodated.”
"I also thought that His Majesty would kill me, but the possibility of that is very small!"
"Besides, I have also prepared an apology letter."
"Besides, although I am still a bit greedy for life, I still feel that it doesn't matter if I am really killed by His Majesty! Anyway, I will either be promoted quickly during my lifetime because of my reputation and will probably be a minister in the future, or I will be a minister after my death because of my reputation. If you are remembered by scholars, then all my descendants will be under the shadow of my loyal and upright ministers."
"Your Majesty, I really want to make progress!"
"But if a top three-level Jinshi wants to be ranked in the ministry, or even become a minister in the future, he must be like Haigong, who was born in Juren, and dare to make a name for himself. Otherwise, like most of his fellow Jinshi, he will only be ranked below the fourth rank."
"Because there are too many scholars in the world, not to mention all the scholars, there are many Jinshi, and even most of the Hanlin will not reach the third rank in their lifetime. Therefore, although Jinshi all hold official positions, how many of them are promoted to the rank of public minister?"
"Studying is either for power or profit, and I naturally do it for the former."
"So, what I said was not really for the lives of a few common people. In fact, I hoped that Your Majesty would not change the etiquette system. I also found that I was wrong. I only cared about naming names, and forgot that doing so was also breaking etiquette. system;"
"But your Majesty should feel that I am hypocritical now, right?"
"So, if your Majesty wants to avoid being disgusted by hypocrites in the future, you should kill your ministers! And then observe the etiquette system. Even if your Majesty has no achievements, as long as your Majesty observes the etiquette system and follows the etiquette system, people in the world will only call you the benevolent and filial emperor! "Zou Yuanbiao directly chose to self-destruct in order to persuade Zhu Yijun not to change the old etiquette.
"enough!"
"Zou Yuanbiao, you are shameless, but I still want shame!"
"In order to allow the scholar-bureaucrats to always be free to use the common people of your tribe like cattle and horses, you do not hesitate to continue to praise the old rituals that have hindered the prosperity of the country and the country as a standard, and you do not hesitate to accept that I, the king and father, can use you ministers like cattle and horses. "
"Are you that bitchy?!"
"It's a shame that you are still accusing me of treating the minister like a domestic slave!"
"However, it can also be seen that you are a human being after all, and you are not an object without emotions. I haven't done anything to you personally. I just cleaned up the gentry who bribed Li Zhi. If you can't stand it, you must take this opportunity to remonstrate. "Although you have the intention of asking me by name, you can really make the decision to gamble with your life. Do you dare to say that it is not because you are dissatisfied with me?" Zhu Yijun asked.
Snapped! Zou Yuanbiao suddenly slapped himself: "I didn't kill people's desires so cleanly that I acted too politically naive!" Bang!
Zou Yuanbiao slapped him again and said, "I am guilty!"
"Stop fanning!"
"According to the etiquette, the body, hair and skin are received by the parents. According to the etiquette, loyalty comes before filial piety, so you are not qualified to slap yourself. Only I and your parents are qualified." Zhu Yijun said in a deep voice.
Zou Yuanbiao stopped and looked aggrieved.
"You are a human being, not an object. It is normal for you to want to be comfortable and make progress. Although I have been given a destiny by heaven, I am still a human being. I also want to be comfortable and want to make progress. But if I continue to keep the old etiquette, will I be able to be absolutely comfortable and free? Really? Can you treat the common people of the world as human beings?!"
"I don't treat you scholar-bureaucrats as human beings. The most I do is let you think of yourself as a person in front of the common people. But in front of me, you can spank your butts if you want, give you the death penalty if you want, and scold you if you want." Zhu Yijun said this. He asked Zhang Hong, Shen Shixing and others: "Are you really willing to let yourself be so humble?" Shen Shixing and others did not answer.
"Even if we are willing, the common people in the world are not willing!"
"If this continues, there will be big problems sooner or later!"
"At least His Majesty cannot be a true and promising emperor, and then face the powerful gentry causing harm to the country, and can only endure it! Faced with the invasion of foreign invaders and killing the people, he can only endure it!"
"Because as long as you observe this kind of etiquette, the people will not be strong, and the country will not be strong. Your Majesty is not a puppet, but he is better than a puppet. He can only work hard every day to suppress the ministers and the people and act like cows and horses."
"If you encounter an extreme person, you might rather kill yourself than kill your king!"
"Although in today's world, it is inevitable for the king and father to rule alone, we cannot abide by this etiquette! The real etiquette should be that with the great power, the greater the responsibility to strengthen the country and benefit the people. The more noble the status, the more strict the requirements! Your Majesty Because one can avoid committing crimes by mouthing the Constitution of Heaven, one must not refrain from remonstrance; and as for the bureaucrats and gentry, since they are the leaders of the four peoples and know the etiquette and laws, once they commit a crime, they should be given a more severe punishment!" Hai Rui said in a deep voice at this time He got up and told Zhu Yijun about the ideas he had summed up after many years of exposure to the sufferings of the people and the various situations in the world.
