After Liu Haojia finished speaking, the courtiers were uncharacteristically silent because they were all weighing how to deal with this matter! Many people have even made up their minds. They would rather let Song Chengwei and others admit that they were falsely accused than to keep the ancestral magic weapon!
But Song Chengwei and the others standing in the center of the hall were unwilling to bear this other charge! They studied hard for more than ten years, were finally nominated for the gold list, and then struggled step by step in the officialdom, and finally reached their current position! They have put in so much effort, how could they be willing to give up? But now they have responsibilities regardless of whether they choose the two paths. It's just a question of the size of the responsibility, which makes them extremely hesitant!
The civil servants were unlucky here, but the nobles were much more excited! They all started talking in low voices, and someone said: "This kid has a future! I set a trap to trap all these civil servants!"
"These civil servants usually talk about their ancestors when it is useful to them, and throw them aside when they are of no use to them. It is really shameless!"
"This person can enter the Jinyi Guards, which shows that he comes from a distinguished family! Who knows which family he is from?"
"How about we go out and impeach the civil servants too! These people standing in the middle are all very difficult for us to deal with. Let's work together and send them all to beheading, okay?"
Just when the civil servants on the left side of the hall were silent and the nobles on the right became more and more chaotic, someone coughed heavily!
Everyone looked up subconsciously and saw Zhang Juzheng getting up and walking slowly towards the middle of the hall. As soon as he stood up, the civil servants immediately had a backbone, while the generals stopped whispering. Both parties stared at Zhang Juzheng, wanting to hear what he had to say!
In fact, when Zhang Juzheng stood up, everyone in the civil and military dynasty, including Emperor Wanli, was surprised! As the leader of the cabinet elders, Zhang Juzheng had never walked to the center of the hall when speaking in the morning. He just sat on the civil servants' side with the cabinet elders and said what he had to say directly.
But today, he suddenly stood up and walked towards the center of the hall, which made people quite confused. They didn't know whether he wanted to comfort the emperor or have an attack!
Zhang Juzheng walked to the center of the hall and bowed his hands to Emperor Wanli first. Emperor Wanli was so panicked that he hurriedly stood up from the dragon throne and stood up to return the favor. Then he said: "Mr. Zhang, if you want to give advice to me and the courtiers, just say so directly. Why bother to go to work!"
Zhang Juzheng smiled and said: "Today's things were very interesting, so I really couldn't help it, so I walked out!"
Emperor Wanli said: "Then please ask Mr. Zhang to give me some advice!"
Zhang Juzheng said: "It's not about giving advice. The truth is that I just express my feelings and want to share some of my thoughts."
At this point, he paused, turned to face all the courtiers, and said slowly: "When discussing government affairs in the past, many people mentioned the ancestral system, and even the truth was quite agreed upon! After all, I The imperial court advocates loyalty and filial piety as the first priority, so we can’t deny the great achievements of our ancestors!”
Those who can stand in this hall are not only thousand-year-old foxes, but at least eight-hundred-year-old monsters! How could they immediately agree with Zhang Juzheng's statement! And they knew that there must be something else behind Zhang Juzheng's words, so the whole hall was still eerily quiet!
Zhang Juzheng seemed to have expected this situation. He gently flicked his sleeves, put his hands behind his back and continued to speak slowly: "But if we don't forget the great achievements of our ancestors, it doesn't mean that we have to be completely consistent with our ancestors. Otherwise, How can we talk about progress? What’s more, if we really talk about the ancestral system, I’m afraid it’s slash-and-burn cultivation, and eating raw hair and drinking blood is our ancestral system, right?”
After he finished speaking here, the civil servants were quiet! Because many civil servants seemed to have guessed what Zhang Juzheng wanted to say, and they were thinking about whether to interrupt Zhang Juzheng! and assess the risks of such behavior.
As for Xungui, there was a lot of laughter! They wished that these literati would slap their own people in the face, so they laughed very happily! But when Zhang Juzheng turned his attention, the troops immediately stopped!
Zhang Juzheng then withdrew his gaze and said: "It is because each generation of us has made progress that our ancestors got rid of the days of roughing the hair and drinking blood, put on gorgeous clothes, and wrote articles that have been passed down through the ages. This is how we got the name of China." , that’s why we have the great Ming Dynasty today! So I feel that blindly emphasizing the ancestral system is not advisable, and certain changes need to be made!”
Before Zhang Juzheng finished speaking, many people among the civil servants had already started talking to each other. In their view, Zhang Juzheng's words were tantamount to betraying the civil service group, and he also voluntarily gave up the best weapon to control the emperor, completely for his own benefit!
The civil servants started to make a noise, but the Honorable Honorable's place became quiet. Many people even looked at Zhang Juzheng with their mouths agape, thinking, could it be that this guy wants to join our Honorable Honorable? But if he takes refuge here, what kind of title should he be given?
Facing the commotion of the officials, Zhang Juzheng remained calm. He just flicked his sleeves, and the noisy courtiers immediately fell silent! It can be seen that in the past few years, Zhang Juzheng has built an unattainable image in the minds of the officials!
Seeing this scene, Emperor Wanli's eyes jumped twice involuntarily, and then returned to normal.
Just listen to Zhang Juzheng continue to say slowly: "Change does not mean that we have to completely abandon the ancestral system! I believe that when the ancestors make any decision, they make it after weighing it again and again! So this decision is It must have had a good effect at the time. But as time has passed and things have changed, it would be inappropriate for us to continue following the path of our ancestors! Let me give you the simplest example. Just now Eunuch Zhang read: "Firearms" "Can also be used" means that Jin Yiwei can use firearms in the city. And this firearm refers to a fire gun! But the fire gun was just an iron pipe at the time, and it was not very powerful! But to this day, I The firearms of the imperial court have undergone great changes! Now there are not only different types of firecrackers, large and small, but also powerful artillery! However, if the rules of the Taizu Dynasty are still followed, the Jin Yiwei can still use them in the city As for firearms, if they fire artillery randomly without any problem, wouldn’t it be chaos in the world! That’s why our army strictly stipulates that firearms are not allowed to be used by anyone for private purposes except for drills and operations! This is the reason for the change!”
