"It's raining!"
"It's really raining!"
"Your Majesty, it's really raining now!"
Shen Shixing looked at Zhu Yijun with joy.
Zhu Yijun also smiled slightly, and then glanced at the ministers around him. Seeing that most of these ministers looked more solemn, he asked:
"But why aren't many of them happy? Their faces are even uglier than before the rain?"
Zhu Yijun said: "Publish my decree and everyone will be happy for me. They will take a rest for half a day and go back to their families to have fun together! Then write a congratulatory form and submit it."
"In addition, the decree is passed that King Su has contributed to the rainfall, and the prince will be rewarded with double salary. He will also lead the officials of the Qin Tianjian to rush to implement the rainfall in the drought-stricken areas across the country."
After Zhu Yijun said this, he looked at Chen Younian, Shi Xing and others:
"In the morning, a few officials who thought it was not raining were related to political affairs came to me!"
Then, Chen Younian, Shi Xing, and Ban Jin all came over.
Zhu Yijun looked at the three of them: "You three, what can you say now about the artificial rain?"
"I am guilty!"
"I almost misled His Majesty into believing that the natural disaster was related to human affairs!"
Shi Xing first knelt down on the puddle-filled ground and replied.
When Zhu Yijun saw this, he didn't say anything else. He only said: "Go to jail to reflect and come up with a conclusion. No matter what your point of view is, I am not guilty, but it must be reasonable and well-founded. Otherwise, I will continue to punish you." Stay in jail!”
Zhu Yijun left here after saying that.
After the rain came down, the soldiers and the people also cheered and jumped.
Throughout the capital, everyone rushed to tell each other.
The grain merchant boss had no choice but to lower the price of grain, and it was a big drop.
"It's down! It's all down!"
Tu Sanmu had been waiting outside the grain store to check the price. When he saw the sharp drop in grain prices, he ran home happily. Then he didn't pay attention to his steps, so he knocked over the wooden basin for collecting water and fell into the basin. The rain is flying everywhere.
When Tu Ermu saw this, he picked up a feather duster and hit him: "You bastard, you made me receive Tianshui in vain!"
At this time, the entire neighborhood set up wooden basins and pottery pots under the eaves to collect jade and beads.
At this time, fellow Huan Fang Lishun leaned against the door with his stick and smiled, looking at the dense silver threads covering the entire neighborhood, and said: "Finally, it turns out that it is better to fight the Dragon King than to ask for it!"
As he said this, Fang Lishun saw his old friend Chen Younian and two officials being escorted over by the Jinyi Guards.
Fang Lishun then came over and asked, "Why was Mr. Gong taken away at this time?"
Chen Younian didn't answer, only murmured: "Why, why don't you do it sooner rather than later, but at this time."
Then, under Fang Lishun's attention, Chen Younian, Shi Xing and others were taken to prison.
As soon as they arrived at Zhao Prison, Luo Wanhuayin, who was still studying hard in Zhao Prison, was Chen Younian's teacher. When Chen Younian arrived, he was also surprised and asked, "Why are you here?"
"The disciple said that after the emperor prayed for rain, there was still no rain in the capital, which may be related to the lack of amnesty for the world, so he was sent to prison."
Chen Younian replied.
Luo Wanhua knew that Chen Younian mentioned this probably to ask His Majesty to let him out, so he couldn't help but beat his head and asked him: "Why are you saying this when you have nothing to do?!"
"Don't you want to be released from prison, sir?"
Chen Younian asked.
Luo Wanhua said: "I don't want to!"
Chen Younian couldn't help but be startled.
Then, Luo Wanhua added: "The reason why I am detained here is because I have incurred many crimes on myself, such as corrupting the national system when I was the magistrate of Huguang County, only giving lectures, etc., so I have the opportunity to continue to be detained here. If I really don’t go out, wouldn’t my confession be in vain?”
Chen Younian said "Oh": "I don't know."
"idiot!"
Luo Wanhua cursed and asked, "Is it raining outside?"
Chen Younian nodded: "How do you know, sir? He is able to predict God's will."
"Your clothes are wet and your hair is wet. If it hadn't rained outside, would Jin Yiwei be willing to give you a bath first?"
After Luo Wanhua asked, he cursed again: "How did you become an official!"
Then, Luo Wanhua asked him again: "Did your Majesty's prayer for rain succeed?"
"It's not that His Majesty succeeded in praying for rain, it was King Su and others who used their practical knowledge to make it rain successfully!"
"Sir, this is the scary part!"
"So this disciple is already focused on this, so he looks even more stupid."
Chen Younian replied.
Luo Wanhua also fell silent after hearing this.
After a while, Luo Wanhua said: "Obviously, the great road lies only in ourselves. If everyone wants to rain, the sky will rain on its own. The emperor's prayers for rain follow the people's desires and the great road, but now it does not rely on this to successfully rain. , Natural disasters cannot constrain the emperor to obey the will of the people, so what else can constrain the emperor to be people-oriented?"
After Luo Wanhua said this, he added: "Or are you saying that the great path is not within you? What I learned in the past is actually wrong?"
…
"If you hadn't confessed first and admitted that the natural disaster had nothing to do with human affairs, we might have been sentenced to death by His Majesty."
Ban Jin, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was imprisoned in the cell next to Shi Xing, also told Shi Xing what happened today.
Shi Xing smiled helplessly: "Although I say this just to save my life, if natural disasters really do not happen to human beings, and if the emperor's will represents the will of heaven, then I am afraid that it will be difficult for people in the world to speak through the sky anymore."
"Yes, the people's wisdom will be greatly expanded."
"In addition, once the morality of Confucian classics cannot be related to natural weather, Confucian scholars who study Confucian classics may no longer be respected by the world. In that case, there will be great changes that have not been seen in thousands of years."
Ban Jin said at this time.
Shi Xing then looked at Ban Jin: "How do you plan to write a reflection letter? Is it to persuade your majesty to continue to believe in the communication between heaven and man, and to be sincere and spiritual?"
Ban Jin smiled bitterly: "Of course Your Majesty won't believe it! It's better to just say that God's will is the Holy Will than to say that there is no God's will!"
Shi Xing nodded.
…
Wang Jiaping had been out of Beijing for many days, but when he was taking a break in the middle of the journey, one of his friends sent him on horseback to bring him the news that it had rained in the capital.
"Is it really raining in Gyeonggi?"
Wang Jiaping was overjoyed and asked Yang Ji, the student who came to tell him the news.
Yang Ji replied: "It's raining, but it's not raining because His Majesty prayed for rain. It's because Qin Tianjian used practical methods to successfully rain according to the order."
Wang Jiaping also fell silent after hearing this. After a long time, he sighed: "The holy will is God's will!"
…
"Because I have the Constitution of Heaven in my mouth and I represent the will of Heaven, so I intentionally let King Su and others use various practical knowledge to make the rain succeed, so that the rain can be successful!"
"So whether practical knowledge is correct is not because the truth itself exists and remains unchanged forever, but because I, the emperor, believe it, so it becomes the truth!"
"This is what they came up with after so long of reflection in prison!"
"Master, let's take a look and tell us what you think."
After Zhu Yijun received the reflection notes from Chen Younian, Shi Xing and other ministers, he asked about Shen Shixing.
Shen Shixing handed over his hands and said yes, and looked at these memorials. After a long while, he said to Zhu Yijun: "Your Majesty, let all civil and military officials, and even the people of the world, be willing to accept that there are people in this world who cannot control everything in the world through their own will. The natural order of things is still difficult.”
"Even if it is up to the emperor to decide whether this will is correct or not, that is better than admitting that human desires cannot resist the way of nature!"
"Because if they don't do this, it will mean that the world cannot be dominated by them, and there will be no basis for distinction between people. However, many people still want to be superior to others."
(End of chapter)
