After hearing this, Gu Jie pondered for a while, then looked at these people with confusion and asked: "He is going to beat me to death, why should I plead for him?"
"As a son of man, you should be filial!"
Gao Panlong frowned at this time, and with a stern face, he replied sternly.
Gu Jie was slightly startled and said, "But His Majesty has already issued an order."
"Then you should ask His Majesty to change his mind out of filial piety!"
Xue Fujiao, who came with Gao Panlong, also said something imperative at this time.
Gu Jie said: "But I can't be foolish and filial?!"
"My father violated etiquette and wanted to kill his own son. It would be unfilial for me to allow my father's mistake to remain uncorrected."
"And if I want to go to court for this, I don't know why! It feels like I don't take the emperor's life seriously, and only know how to be filial but not loyal."
"What do uncles think?"
Gao Panlong: "..."
"How can you think like that?"
Xue Fujiao couldn't help blurting out something for a moment.
Then, he didn't know how to continue, so he only looked at Gao Panlong.
Gao Panlong suddenly snorted, lowered his face, and continued to say sternly:
"Why did Mr. Jingfan give birth to such a cunning and rebellious son like you!"
"If I were the head of the Gu family, I should expel you from the family tree and drive you out of the family!"
"You can think so, but please don't really suggest this to the elders of my Gu family."
"After all, doing this is simply pitting my Gu family against His Majesty. It is an act of disloyalty and injustice, because His Majesty said that what I did was right and he also showed me mercy!"
"So, if our Gu family really does what you suggested, it would be deceiving the emperor, and our family would be confiscated, and our family might even be exterminated."
"Uncle Gao, if you do this, you are trying to harm my Gu family. You have evil intentions and will bring shame to the whole world!"
"In fact, if you really thought that we were family friends, you should have dissuaded me immediately when you met my uncles from the Gu family and heard that they had the idea of expelling me from the family tree."
"After all, we are family friends. You have to be loyal and can't patrol my Gu family and do stupid things!"
Gu Jie started talking at this time and taught Gao Panlong how to do things.
Gao Panlong's face turned red on the spot. He didn't expect that he was "taught" by Gu Jie!
"Gu Sanshe!"
"Is this your attitude when talking to elders?!"
At this time, Gu Lingcheng, an official from the same clan as Gu Jie, couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but scolded Gu Jie loudly.
Gu Jie looked stunned and said, "Didn't I say anything?"
"you!"
Gu Lingcheng pointed at Gu Jie and was speechless for a long time.
"That's it!"
Gao Panlong sighed at this time, pressed down Gu Lingcheng's hand, and then said to Gu Jie:
"Do whatever you want!"
"Anyway, our words are getting harder and harder to use, right?"
"Yes! It's hard to control the tenants, it's hard to control the clan members, and now it's even hard to control the children."
Xue Fujiao couldn't help but sigh.
Gu Lingcheng also followed: "That's true, one generation is really worse than the other! If the father wants the son to die, the son has to die, and then there should be a king who wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die! But now, everything is in complete chaos. If the son dares to sue his father, I'm afraid In the future, there will be ministers who dare to sue you!"
Gu Jie looked at the dejected looks of Gao Panlong, Xue Fujiao and others, and was a little puzzled:
"Is it so bad? Isn't the world becoming more and more prosperous?"
"Besides, isn't it a long time ago that ministers sued the emperor? There is even a saying that the one with strong soldiers and horses is the son of the emperor. So, is it strange for a son to sue his father?"
…
"very good!"
"The effect of opening up people's wisdom has finally appeared."
"The younger generation like Gu Jie is not so easily fooled by a group of selfish and hypocritical old guys."
"I'm so relieved!"
Zhu Yijun soon learned through the factory guard that Gao Panlong, Xue Fujiao and other former friends of Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng were looking for Gu Jie, so he smiled and talked to Li Chengliang, Wang Xijue and others.
After Li Chengliang learned about this, he also smiled and said: "This is all your Majesty's virtue, and it has made people like the Gu family begin to change."
"It's not just the Gu family. Judging from my observation, the Jinshi who were ranked 20 years ago in Wanli are still more or less pedantic or hypocritical;"
"There are relatively many Jinshi scholars after twenty years of Wanli who are much more enlightened and wise."
"This is because most of the Jinshi before Wanli 20 years ago grew up before the new rites were popularized. They are accustomed to the concept of the old rites in their bones. In the temple, they require your majesty to accept good words and restrain powerful ministers, but at home they say nothing. , are only willing to govern independently; and most of the Jinshi after the 20th year of Wanli have been influenced by many new rituals and began to know how to seek truth from facts."
Wang Xijue also smiled and started talking at this time.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "In this way, if you want the old era to be completely over, you have to wait until the bureaucrats in the middle rank 20 years ago in Wanli have basically passed away or are no longer in power."
"But now, those who serve as officials are basically Jinshi scholars from 20 years ago, so if we want to completely bid farewell to the old era, there are still many difficulties waiting for us."
Zhu Yijun then said something else.
Shen Li echoed at this time: "What your Majesty said is that we still cannot take it lightly. If we want to fully open up the people's wisdom, we must continue to work hard to cultivate the younger generation."
"We not only strive to cultivate the younger generation, but also strive to transform the older generation. We cannot say that we completely abandon them."
"The exile of people like Gu Yuncheng is to allow them to undergo reform."
After Zhu Yijun said this, these people all said yes.
Soon after handling Gu Jie's complaint against his father, Zhu Yijun officially ended his southern tour and returned north to the capital.
Gu Jie then got his wish and became an official trainee in the post office, learning railway knowledge and working hard for his dream of becoming a railway technocrat.
Strengthening railway construction and changing the main public and private transportation arteries between the north and the south, especially between the two Beijings, from water transportation to railway and land transportation, and thus preparing for the subsequent major project of diversion of the Yellow River, is what Zhu Yijun decided after his southern tour in the next few years. important national policy.
However, Zhu Yijun's national policy will undoubtedly affect the interests of the landowners where the railway passes, especially the change of the course of the Yellow River after the railway. It will also cause many landowners to face the re-dredging of the land on the bed of the old Yellow River that they previously occupied. It has become a problem for rivers and lakes.
therefore.
Sun Lusheng, the imperial censor of Zuoqiandu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, wrote in a memorial: "Building a large-scale railway will damage the dragon's veins and destroy the king's spirit. Therefore, I ask the emperor to follow nature and still use water as the road to preserve the destiny of the country."
Then, Chen Yuwen from the Engineering Department also said that tampering with the land without permission was unlucky and might cause major earthquakes and turmoil. Taking the large-scale turmoil caused by the construction of the Yellow River in the late Yuan Dynasty as an example, he asked Zhu Yijun to stop the matter.
(End of chapter)
