"You have to do it!"
Suddenly, Zhu Yijun shouted at Wang Shizhen with a ferocious expression.
"If you can't do it, you can't live!"
Zhu Yijun then added another sentence.
Wang Shizhen immediately became speechless and knelt on the spot.
After a while, Wang Shizhen said with a dejected face:
"Yes, your Majesty is right, I must do it, I must force myself not to hate Taishi Zhang!"
As he said this, Wang Shizhen burst into tears again.
It just so happened.
At this time, a group of literati who had contact with Xu Jia were also escorted. They all heard Wang Shizhen's words and looked at Wang Shizhen in astonishment.
Zhu Yijun also looked at these literati and elegant people at this time and said: "I know that you hate sir, you even hate me, and everyone who supports the restructuring."
"Although I have allowed you to benefit now, it still makes it difficult for you to like me in your heart. After all, I did not allow you to be a master."
"Originally, I don't have to care about these anymore. I can just pretend to be confused and be more generous, because at most you just hate in your heart, or you can be weird in your articles and poems, and you have a spiritual victory in your own circle, just like this Xu Jia, I specially asked someone to make a statue of Ji Guo Gong kneeling against the Japanese pirates to make myself feel comfortable and satisfy my spiritual needs."
"And you can't make any big waves anymore. After all, no scholar has ever become a big deal without uniting with other forces. What's more, you have hatred in your heart just because you can't be alone. How can you unite with other forces now? power?"
"But I just don't want to be generous!"
"There is no other reason!"
When Zhu Yijun said this, he looked at Wang Shizhen:
"Why do you intellectuals allow me to be magnanimous? What qualifications do you have to allow me to pretend to be ignorant? You can ruin people's reputations and influence the world's public opinion just by relying on the pen in your hand?"
"Don't say I don't care about this. Even if I do, when will you, the literati, work together, and when will you really pose a real threat to the reputation of others?"
"Even the Japanese pirates and other Eastern barbarians are liked by literati, and the Mongolians, who regard the Han people in the south as fourth-class slaves, are also sought after by literati. Therefore, even if I am ten or a hundred times more brutal than them, I will undoubtedly still be liked by literati."
"It's just like no matter how kind I am, there will still be literati who don't like me."
Zhu Yijun then looked at Wang Shizhen: "Wang Shizhen, you, the leader of the literary world, tell me, do you have the qualifications to let me turn a blind eye and show mercy to you?"
"No!"
"Farmers, boat pullers, and weavers are all more qualified than ministers, but they are useless as scholars."
Wang Shizhen replied truthfully at this time.
Zhu Yijun said at this time: "I don't want you to belittle yourself. I just state the facts and state the fact that you are not incapable of killing."
"However, it is precisely because you are not a threat to me or to the world, so it is neither impossible nor necessary to kill you, so I do not have to kill you. Although a bird in a cage will disturb people, it is not necessary for people to kill it. It’s not necessarily necessary to torture him to death, but it depends on whether his voice is pleasant to the ears. If he can know wisely when to bark and when not to bark, then there will be no need to execute him.”
"The same goes for you. As literati, as long as you know how to bark, who is willing to argue with you?"
"Even if you can't sing praises, you can still criticize! In the end, you won't criticize, but I can understand it. After all, what I did was in line with the righteousness. You yourself can't criticize from the righteousness, and hypocrites can't You may tear off your own mask and deny the saint first, which will only make the situation worse."
"But you can still just focus on literature itself! Like Gui Youguang, write some "Xiang Jixuan Zhi" to record true feelings, and like Tang Yin, write "Peach Blossom Temple Song" to describe the mood, or write a few books This is a storybook to record the emotions of the world."
"But you can't do that. You just want to use your literary talents to fight for power."
"Of course that's not possible. I will not condone you. You are not children. You have to pay the price for your actions!"
"Besides, you literati need to grow up, mature, and go through the test of blood and fire, so that you know that this world is not what you want to be."
After Zhu Yijun said that, Wang Shizhen said: "Your Majesty's words have inspired me. I am willing to change my past mistakes and rewrite the biography of the first assistant!"
"This is your own business."
"No need to tell me!"
Zhu Yijun replied.
Wang Shizhen said excitedly: "I know, but as your Majesty just said, for a person like me who poses no threat but can only feel sorry for himself, there is actually no use in killing him. It is better to give him a chance to live."
Speaking of which.
Wang Shizhen choked up and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry. As long as your Majesty gives me a chance to change my ways, I will become a conscientious scholar, and I will deny and repent bit by bit for the black materials I made before. I will not Continue to ignore the facts and wantonly smear others;"
"From now on, if I want to mention in articles those who have made great contributions to the country, such as Master Zhang, I will only praise them and never criticize them. Or, as long as I live, I will praise them!"
"In this case, even if future generations cannot believe my praise, it will make future generations no longer believe in my slander. After all, I have contradictory views. At first glance, I am a hypocrite who only wants to play both sides. He cannot be trusted!"
"In this way, it will be beneficial to future generations, Grand Master Zhang and others, and it is better than killing the minister."
"Your Majesty, please give me a clear warning!"
Zhu Yijun nodded at this time: "You, Wang Shizhen, have convinced me. As long as you, Wang Shizhen, are not suspected of colluding with the barbarians, I can spare you the death penalty, but you will not be able to escape the crime of living. After all, you, Wang Shizhen, are suspected of slandering loyal ministers and good generals."
"I thank Your Majesty for not killing me!"
Wang Shizhen was overjoyed and kowtowed as if pounding garlic.
Zhu Yijun smiled again at this time and said: "However, I found that the way you smear people is basically related to the things in bed. Why do you use the magic of the house to gain power by Xian Hu Ji? Tell me. , why do you only like to use this method to smear me?"
"Return to Your Majesty, because people in the world pay more attention to such things and are more willing to believe that these things are true. Especially among people in the world, the more upright gentlemen they look like, the easier it is for them to believe in such things involving men and women, and He would imagine something even more perverted. In addition, I am a lustful person myself, so I think that if I have not yet become powerful ministers, but they are very romantic, then the powerful ministers will naturally sing and sing every night, and they will be even more obsessed with the way of the house. "
Wang Shizhen replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded: "I understand, this is just like the farmers who always think that the emperor also eats big cakes every day, but he can eat more big cakes."
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
"In this case, I give you two choices."
"The first is to undergo palace punishment to cut off the worms in your mind and correct your heart. Then you will stay with me and be supervised by me personally. You will also continue to use your literary talent to write the articles I want you to write for me and rectify the world for me. people’s hearts;”
"The second is to go overseas and be imprisoned for life. Although you are constantly having sex, you are not given a chance to see your sex, and you are required to write articles of repentance and praise every day until you die."
"Which method of disposal do you choose?"
Wang Shizhen replied without hesitation: "I am willing to be castrated!"
"It seems that you are still more willing to abandon your roots than leave Middle-earth."
Zhu Yijun nodded, and then ordered the eunuch Huang Xun:
"Take him down and ask him to write a letter asking him to enter the palace. Then he will approve it. Then let the medical officer punish him according to his wishes, and choose a secluded place to use good medicine to keep him. Take good care of him, he is the leader of the literary world after all, so we have to prevent anyone from wanting him to enter the palace and plotting against him."
Huang Xun raised his hand and said yes.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Wang Shizhen immediately kowtowed and replied.
There are many literati in history who chose to be eunuchs for the sake of fame and wealth.
Although they despise eunuchs the most, many of them are willing to become people they hate for the sake of power.
Zhu Yijun raised his hand to Wang Shizhen and said: "Get up. After you recover from your injury, I will promote you to the post of eunuch Bingbi, the eunuch of the ceremony, and you will be in charge of the study hall!"
Wang Shizhen was even more joyful for a moment and hurriedly bowed her hands: "Thank you, Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please rest assured that I will live up to your Majesty's expectations!"
At this time, Zhu Yijun looked at the literati who had been arrested for Xu Jia's case, and asked: "You were arrested because of your association with Xu Jia, a traitor to the barbarians. I ask you, do you know about his ties to the Japanese?" , is there any possibility of communicating with the Japanese?"
"Your Majesty, I don't have one!"
"Your Majesty clearly knows this, but I don't know!"
These literati quickly denied it.
Zhu Yijun said: "I believe you for the time being, but you also made a lot of remarks that slandered the loyal and good people in your singing and letters with Xu Jia. There are also many works that you made up and slandered the good and loyal people and hid them in his The library, so to speak, has solid evidence.”
Zhu Yijun then said: "And since I spared the life of Wang Shizhen, who committed the same crime as you, I naturally have to spare you the death penalty."
"I also give you two choices!"
Zhu Yijun suddenly said: "Either be castrated into the inner court and supervised by me personally, or go overseas and be supervised by the military."
"I am willing to enter the palace and serve my father to pay for my sins!"
"I am also willing to enter the palace, teach you and your father, and change your past mistakes."
"The same goes for me, I would rather suffer the pain of being cut by a knife or go to the pleasure of the house than leave your father!"
These literati hurriedly returned, and most of them actually chose to be castrated and enter the inner court.
Zhu Yijun laughed: "It seems that the Secretary of Ceremonies is very tempting."
Then, Zhu Yijun said: "But my Chief of Ceremonies is not someone who can get in if he wants to! Wang Shizhen is the leader of the literary world, and his father is a famous anti-Japanese minister. That's why I gave him this favor! You'd better go overseas to accept the favor. It’s better to ban it!”
"yes!"
These literati asked with some disappointment.
At this time, a scribe suddenly came forward and worshiped in front of Zhu Yijun:
"Your Majesty! I, Dong Qichang, was the first Jinshi of the Second Class in the 17th year of Wanli. He also made some efforts to discredit the former Grand Master. He is willing to be castrated and sent to the inner court. I wonder if I am qualified to be personally supervised by Your Majesty?"
(End of chapter)
