Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Ke did not wait for Wei Zheng to continue asking, but continued to speak calmly: "Under such a situation, how easy is it for the royal family to win the hearts of the people? There is no need for a sage or a wise king. What big things do the people know? As long as the person they kill has a higher status and wealth than them, they will secretly rejoice, and their innate thoughts will lead to countless conspiracy theories."
"The emperor unjustly accused a wealthy family to death, but to the common people, they could make up 10,000 crimes for this wealthy family to behead in their minds."
"Looking at China for more than three thousand years, you haven't seen it clearly? The poor are the most patriotic. Why? Because they all know the truth. If the country is gone, the family will be gone, and their families, future generations will be gone. The good days are gone. And are rich people patriotic? Maybe, but too few, because they have an escape route."
"The country is in ruins, but the rich and powerful, powerful families, always have a way out, because they are the first to know the news. Even if it is extreme, they can escape the danger of the country by fleeing overseas, so they always have a way out, even if they are The part of patriotism is also patriotism when one's own safety is not threatened. How many people are there who donate their wealth, abandon everything, and devote themselves to the great cause of saving the country and the nation from danger? It would be good to have one in a few hundred years. "
"So, the royal family and the people naturally stand together. Once these methods are used to lock up the wisdom of the people, will it be beneficial to our royal family? It will be beneficial!"
"But what is this? What is locked is not the wisdom of the people, nor the millennium inheritance of the royal family, but the dragon veins of our country for thousands of years! What is locked is the national destiny of our country for thousands of years!"
"Because the world is developing! Everyone! It is not that there are no other countries in this world except the Tang Dynasty! Although the Tang Dynasty is now a powerful country in the world, we stick to our own self-proclaimed and closed-door country. We have locked up the people's wisdom. The Tang Dynasty The royal family has sat on the throne forever, and your family has been passed down for thousands of years, but what about outside the Tang Dynasty?!"
"Decades or hundreds of years later, in the Great Era, Arabia, and even Byzantium in the west, and even some other barbarian countries that emerged from nowhere, people did not lock the people's wisdom, so technological innovation and technological progress were made. Others used hard work to When the torrent of ships, cannons, steel swords, steel armor, and iron cavalry knocks on the door of my country, the Tang Dynasty, how can you behave yourself?!"
"The Five Huns disrupted China, and our Central Plains people suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and many powerful families were destroyed. But that was only caused by the civil strife in the country. Those barbarians outside the Great Wall were not ahead of us in terms of weapons and equipment. We should treat them as their weapons and equipment. When we are ahead of the Tang Dynasty, may I ask, after the nest is overturned, are the eggs intact?"
"Don't let the day come when you, the majority of scholars, will be scolded by warriors like Su Guogong: Everything in the world will be bad only because of you scholars."
Cheng Yaojin: "..."
After a pause, Cheng Yaojin said weakly: "Your Highness, in fact, I am also a scholar. Of course, if you need it, Your Highness, I don't need to be. I can also scold you for this."
Li Ke glanced sideways at Cheng Yaojin and was too lazy to pay attention to him. He could tell that this old guy followed a principle: as long as I praise him well, I am not afraid of anyone.
Chu Suiliang and several historians recorded all Li Ke's remarks with excited expressions. His Highness's words were shocking and enlightening! And it started directly in front of many important ministers.
"What His Highness said makes this old man extremely ashamed." Wei Zheng simply acted as a suitable flatterer. He was not the one who was embarrassed anyway, so that's what he said, who knew who was embarrassed.
But it doesn't matter to those present, each of these people is thicker-skinned than the next.
"What His Highness said, I agree with, is that it is not advisable to only respect Confucianism. Although I am a descendant of the first sages and later generations, the first sages traveled around the world and created Confucianism for the purpose of educating all people and enlightening the people's wisdom. It is not that they only respect Confucianism." A tool of the royal family. We, the Kong family, are willing to send out all the family members to cooperate with His Highness's educational work." Among the crowd, an old man with gray hair stood up and said with a serious face.
The speaker was Kong Yingda, and he spoke very seriously. Li Ke glanced at him and had to say that although the sixty-four-year-old Kong Yingda did not have a high official position, his status was definitely not low.
The great Confucians of this period can really be called great Confucians.
"Actually, I can understand your concerns. Your families have been inherited for hundreds or thousands of years. You are not convinced. You all think that some people from poor families who have studied hard for ten years can be as good as you. The efforts of generations or even more than ten generations." Li Ke smiled and continued.
"But I believe that the strength and prosperity of a family is not that it has nipped its competitors in the bud, but that it has won a head-on confrontation with its competitors. Only in this way can a family become more prosperous."
"Do the children of the family have more potential in an environment full of motivation and competition, or do they have more potential when they look up and have no enemies? I believe I don't need to say more, right?"
"What's more, the children of your family have a better starting line than everyone else. They have a better family background. They don't lack food, clothing, housing and transportation. They don't have to worry about life. They can concentrate on studying. Moreover, whether it is the education they receive or the broadening of their horizons, Much more than the average person.”
"If you still lose like this, there's nothing to regret, right?"
"Of course, there are always some geniuses in this world, even among the poor. When these geniuses appear, the whole world has to bow to these people. It doesn't matter if you lose."
"What's more, don't tell me that there is nothing you can do about this situation. What about wooing concubines, what about financial support after studying in a poor family, you don't even want to use these methods, you don't need to say more, right?"
"To put it bluntly, if you rely solely on the foundation of your family, when will you be able to keep up with the expansion of the Tang Dynasty? Not to mention overseas island ports, just the current potential islands such as Luzon, even if we The Tang Dynasty court sold the development rights to your powerful family, do you have enough manpower? Do you have enough management personnel?"
Everyone took a deep breath. His Highness's words... were too arrogant, but thinking about the previous twelfth edition of the Tang Territory Map, they seemed... as if they really couldn't keep up.
Chu Suiliang and other historians were laughing happily in the back. His Highness was still the familiar His Highness. It was clear that His Highness only needed to say the last part to achieve his goal, but he insisted on saying all the previous words.
