Zhu Yijun asked in a deep voice: "Do you have any evidence?"
Li Che said: "No!"
Zhu Yijun glanced at him: "That's a false accusation!"
"Your Majesty holds the Constitution of Heaven in his mouth and takes life and death in a single thought. Why do you have to ask for evidence?"
"The guilty minister is a disciple of Shen Shixing. His personal future and destiny are all controlled by him, and everything he does naturally follows his intention."
"Therefore, since the guilty minister is a very treacherous and evil person, how can your majesty trust the guilty minister's teacher again? Is he a useless person in this dynasty? He must be the one who can do it at the right time?"
Li Che sneered and asked about Zhu Yijun.
After hearing what Li Che said, Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment, and then directly ordered: "Drag it down and chop it down immediately!"
He didn't want to say much.
Li Che immediately looked at Zhu Yijun with a puzzled expression.
"Your Majesty! I would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go!"
"Just because there is no evidence, can't we implicate Shen Shixing, who has a teacher-student relationship with me?!"
Li Che was really puzzled as to why the emperor only killed him, so he asked Zhu Yijun loudly after being dragged off by the Jinyi guards.
Zhu Yijun glanced at him: "Change it to a car break!"
Li Che immediately shut up.
It was not until Li Che was dragged off that Zhu Yijun looked at the officials and said, "In the future, whether it is impeachment or remonstrance, if you have solid evidence, please remember it clearly to me!"
"yes!"
All the ministers bowed their hands and said yes.
Zhu Yijun then looked at Jiang Zhongxiao: "Are you convinced?"
Jiang Zhongxiao smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, why do you need to ask again? God is so majestic, how dare I disobey?"
"However, just because your Majesty is not afraid of divine punishment does not mean that the people of the world are not afraid of it! It is a fact that disasters occur frequently, and it is also a fact that people's hearts are uneasy because of them. If your Majesty kills his ministers and can bring peace to the world, then he will be considered worthy of his death. However, if he kills his ministers and cannot bring peace to the world, What’s the point of killing a minister?”
Zhu Yijun didn't say much, he just said: "The decree was made and he was given the death penalty, and he was told clearly to the world. This is the case for anyone who talks nonsense about the way of heaven!"
Zhu Yijun was still too lazy to say anything more at this time. Since ministers like Shen Shixing believed that everything he did was correct, and most ministers did not object, there was no need for him to say anything more.
Shen Shixing raised his hands and said yes.
At this time, Jiang Zhongxiao looked at Shen Shixing: "You use the theory of destiny to let the emperor not be afraid of divine punishment. Don't you worry that the future emperor will not know it and will take the evil way as the right way and overthrow the country?!"
Shen Shixing did not answer.
As a result, Jiang Zhongxiao was also dragged down.
Zhu Yijun glanced at Jiang Zhongxiao who was dragged down: "The disaster is not a punishment from heaven, but a test for me and the ministers. God is neither benevolent nor merciless, but his behavior has its own rules. All we have to do is find the rules. Treat it based on reality.”
Zhu Yijun said: "Pan Jixun, Minister of the Ministry of Industry!"
"I'm here!"
Pan Jixun walked out.
"I order you to supervise the affairs of rivers and water control in the world as an imperial envoy. You will go to major arid areas to survey the geography and open canals to control water in order to alleviate the drought!"
"At the same time, according to the decision of the Cabinet Policy Department, you should return farmland to forest and farmland to lakes in various places where water and soil erosion are serious, and when the people affected by the disaster have moved away in large numbers and the land is vacant."
Zhu Yijun ordered.
"I accept the decree."
Pan Jixun replied, and then he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and said to himself: "Your Majesty is indeed pragmatic. He finally did not get too entangled with the Qingliu people on whether it was a natural punishment or not. He knew that the first priority to control the drought was to quickly control the water, open channels, and improve the geography. !”
Shortly after Shu Hua and Jiang Zhongxiao were escorted away, the eunuch brought poisoned wine: "You two, drink quickly."
Shu Hua and Jiang Zhongxiao looked at each other, then almost simultaneously picked up the poisonous wine, drank it down, and then fell to the ground.
Li Che was tied to five carriages that afternoon after being taken away. At this time, he smiled helplessly:
"I thought that only the gangsters and Shen Shixing would die, but I didn't expect that I would be the only one to be executed. The real agency was too clever and failed in the end!"
"Is there really a god who upholds justice in heaven?"
Li Che couldn't help but look up to the sky and ask.
"ah!"
Not long after he asked, he was killed by a car in the city.
…
"It is true that Li Che, my disciple, is shameless and despicable, but I believe that the interpretation of heavenly principles should be attributed to the mouth of the emperor. Is this really conducive to the long-term peace and stability of the country?"
Li Che was torn apart by a car, and Shu Hua and Jiang Zhongxiao were sentenced to death, which made many ministers feel sorry for them in their hearts.
After all, they were all members of the scholar-bureaucrat class. They did not find Li Che, who wanted to undermine the imperial government, so abominable, nor did they find Jiang Zhongxiao, who spoke nonsense about the way of heaven, and Shu Hua, who deceived the emperor with crooked reasoning, so abhorrent.
But what many ministers could not accept was Shen Shixing's assertion that the right to interpret heavenly principles belonged to the emperor.
You must know that the greatest power of scholarly authority is the right to speak, the right to interpret the teachings of the saints, that is, the principles of heaven and Taoism, that is, to decide what to do is politically correct.
However, now Shen Shixing, the head of the civil service, has chosen to self-destruct. He no longer wants this power and wants to give this power directly to the emperor.
Originally, because Western missionaries have come to the Ming Dynasty and spread the Western model of separation of politics and religion to China, many scholar-officials such as Gu Xiancheng have begun to feel that the Ming Dynasty should further separate politics and religion. There should be a secular king, but ideologically it should There is another leader who ensures that the king and rulers can govern the country according to correct ideas.
But now, in the eyes of many scholar-bureaucrats, Shen Shixing is simply going backwards!
Therefore, Wang Jiaping, a cabinet bachelor, couldn't help but ask about Shen Shixing first after going to court.
Shen Shixing glanced at him and said with an indifferent smile: "Who else can it belong to if it doesn't belong to the emperor?"
After saying that, Shen Shixing asked: "Does it belong to the servant, the public, or Gu Shushi, who is highly praised by the scholars for his lectures and establishment of societies in the south?"
"But in the future, what should we do if the rulers of later generations also believe in Taoism, and are so absurd that even some evil doctrines are regarded as the right way, and they make people in the world study and abandon Confucian classics?"
Wang Jiaping asked.
"If it flourishes because of this, it is not a heresy; if it perishes because of this, a sage will correct it."
Shen Shixing said.
Wang Jiaping stood up suddenly and asked Shen Shixing: "What about the ancestors' country and country?"
Shen Shixing said: "Your Majesty's responsibility is not ours!"
Wang Jiaping was silent for a long time, then sat back and asked, "Is this really the only way?"
"What else can we do?"
"You should understand that the foundation of the country does come from the common people, because the majority of the world is indeed common people; and most of the common people do not study, and they do not care about what kind of emperor the emperor is, so there are only a small number of people who care about what kind of emperor the emperor is. People, these small groups of people hold different opinions, so if they each hold their own opinions, the world will be in chaos."
"It is better to listen to the emperor in everything and be willing to be a follow-up official. At least in official studies, everything is based on the emperor's opinions."
Shen Shixing said.
"Would it be better if the crown prince was established early and the prince was taught strictly?"
Wang Jiaping asked.
(End of chapter)
