Zhang Jingxiu looked at Zhao Nanxing: "The prison is a place where the perpetrators can confess their feelings to His Majesty."
"That's right, you, Zhao Mengbai, are really overbearing, and you still want to make a fuss in His Majesty's territory."
Luo Rufang said something.
Tang Xianzu, who was also here, also said, "Yes, you should stay in here for a while."
"It's best to be like us, to spin yarn and plow the fields, to know the meaning of 'what you see on paper will eventually become shallow, but you only know that you have to do it in practice', and also know that some truths will become clearer the more they are discerned. "
"In governing the country outside, it is necessary to unify the principles, but here, when everyone is still a criminal, naturally they should speak freely and reflect carefully on their sins."
"Since you are here, you should reflect on your own sins. Don't do what you did in court, only criticizing other people's sins."
Zhao Nanxing sneered: "What's my crime? The poisoning of Dukes An, Yue and others was not my fault. Even if the guards tortured me, I still say so!"
"But their poisoning had something to do with you, and it was also caused by your prejudices!"
Suddenly, Jiao Hong, who was also in the prison, also said something.
Zhao Nanxing was startled, and suddenly blushed and asked Zhang Jingxiu: "Is this imperial prison really a place for scholar-officials to interrogate scholar-officials? Are you, the Jinyi Guards, so lazy, and don't you torture me according to the intention of Shenwu County?!"
Zhang Jingxiu just sat aside and drank tea, noncommittal.
"Listening to what you mean, I hope that the Jin Yiwei will torture the scholar-bureaucrats severely. If I really want it, I should publish this in the Di Bao and let the world know about it."
Luo Rufang said at this time.
Zhao Nanxing was at a loss for words, and after a while he said, "When have I ever offended you, and you made things so difficult for me?"
"It's not to embarrass you, it's to help you discover your own mistakes."
"We all came here like this, and we even fell in love with it here. Whenever we feel confused and unable to understand, we will come here again and get scolded by everyone, and then we will understand."
Tang Xianzu then replied.
Zhao Nanxing sneered: "What mistake could I have made and said that Duke An, Yue and others died because of me."
"As I said just now, your sectarian prejudices are so strong that you don't distinguish between right and wrong, and you don't take the king, father, and the people into consideration!"
Luo Rufang said.
Zhao Nanxing asked unconvinced: "How do you say this?"
"You and Duke An, Yue and others are on good terms with each other. You can be said to be a party."
"But you never admit that some in your party are immoral and some are hypocritical. You just want to force the world to admit that all of your party are moral gentlemen and should be respected by the world."
"So, when Wu Yuexiu was not found to be harboring rebellious ministers and embezzling miscarriage, you did not admit it realistically. It is very likely that Wu Yuexiu really did such a thing, otherwise someone would not have dared to impeach him just after successfully suppressing the rebellion, because You did not seek truth from facts, and you did not prevent An, Yue and others from forcibly defending Wu Yuexiu, which in turn caused them to be suspected of being Wu Yuexiu's accomplices."
"besides!"
"When Your Majesty issued an order to imprison An, Yue and others to find out whether they were also traitors to the party, An, Yue and other Dukes and your other accomplices would naturally feel panicked and worried that Your Majesty would cause serious involvement and cause harm to the party. venting their anger at the expense of human life, but at this time, as a person who was with them every day, the Duke did not seek truth from facts and proceed from reality, making them believe that His Majesty would not kill others at will, which led to the decision-making of those in the Duke's party who were afraid of being implicated. An, Yue and other dukes were poisoned and killed."
"It is precisely because of your strong views on Mengbai's family that you have never thought about the fact that there are vicious and despicable people in your own party, nor have you ever thought that your Majesty and the ministers of the DPRK are not actually so sinister and despicable. That is, He failed to prevent this incident from happening, which led to An, Yue and other Dukes being poisoned to death!"
"So, how come you didn't do anything wrong? Why didn't Mr. An, Yue and others die because of you?"
"If you really consider yourself a gentleman, you should openly admit it and stop talking nonsense. Just like you said before that the biggest suspect in killing An, Yue and other Dukes was Shenwu County. You can lie to us, but don't lie to yourself. !”
"If you really continue to deceive yourself like this, you will only make it more difficult for your party to succeed, and even be despised by smart people!"
Luo Rufang said and then raised the teapot to quench her thirst.
Zhao Nanxing was silent for a long time, and then he sighed: "Okay, I admit that it has something to do with me, but I don't know why I am like this, so I would like to ask this friend to enlighten me."
"You are blinded by the benefits of your hometown. This is a common problem among us scholar-bureaucrats. We keep talking about serving the country and the people, but we habitually only regard our relatives and friends in our hometown as human beings, and forget to seek truth from facts."
"I came to know this truth only after I came here. Since I regard everyone in the world as an innocent, I can't just look at the gains and losses of my own country party, and I have to seek truth from facts."
"You are definitely not seeking truth from facts, because the imperial court has not shown any favor to the party in your hometown, so you blindly believe that His Majesty is foolish and cunning in governing. You only think that your party can control the government, so that the government can be upright and the world can be clear. "
"But if you think about it realistically, is His Majesty stupid and unkind?"
"Not to mention the permanent exemption of Yunnan's tribute payments, and the recent permanent exemption of Shaanxi and Shanxi's Dingyin. Isn't this an unprecedented good governance?"
"Just because the benefactor is not your hometown, we cannot deny that your majesty loves the people and that Yuan Fu has made meritorious achievements in governing."
"Even in Guizhou and Henan, there have been many construction projects in recent years, and many people have been allowed to go out of the province to mine, and they have not been eliminated by thieves. However, it has not directly benefited gentry like Gong, but we cannot turn a blind eye because of this!"
"Also, if His Majesty has not been implicated in the cases of Li Sancai and Li Zhi, doesn't it prove that His Majesty is not a foolish and violent king?"
"Couldn't you have used this example to advise your colleagues not to worry too much and do cruel and despicable things?"
"Since the public attaches great importance to the family, he should learn to preserve the private ethics of the family. However, he allows the family to mess with the party and still confuses right and wrong! In this way, the public is not only hypocritical, but also the entire family is hypocritical because of the public and cannot achieve anything."
Luo Rufang said: "Perhaps what the Duke has always wanted is to put the emperor's father and Yuan Fu under his own sect, so that his own sect can dominate the government, and he must demote the emperor's father who does not listen to his own sect as a coward, and put Yuan Fu under his own control." Only when Yuan Fu was demoted to a traitorous minister could he get his wish! Therefore, he deliberately did not proceed from reality and admitted that His Majesty did indeed have something worthy of praise, and Yuan Fu also had something worthy of recognition, and deceived himself and the world."
"However, a party that serves the private interests of one village will not be able to go far in the end. A party that serves the common interests of the world will be better in the long run. It will be more conducive to enabling the king and father to provide more benefits to the world. Even if it does not benefit the hometown now, it will benefit the country in the future. get!"
"Does the public think that after changing the king and the prime minister, our party can be superior to other rural parties in the world?"
After Luo Rufang finished speaking, there were endless echoes in the prison.
"Tishuai!"
"Please let me also write a letter of repentance and rewrite a confession!"
"I admit that I told you that An, Yue and other Dukes were harmed by Shenwu County's poisonous plan. It was my own nonsense and deceiving you. I am also sorry for An, Yue and other Dukes!"
Not long after Zhao Nanxing heard this, he also made a request to Zhang Jingxiu.
(End of chapter)
