Before Zhu Su finished speaking, beside him, Zhu Di had already stood up and whistled, and a group of wolf-like and tiger-like Jin Yiwei emerged from the crowd outside.
They rushed onto the stage and directly challenged the three elders of Pingyang.
All the Confucian scholars were shocked!
Although the word "please" is used, in the past and present, when has this kind of request been seen? Besides, inviting people to go to heaven... isn't this the same as inviting people to return to heaven?
Could it be that when His Highness the Fifth Prince saw that he was unable to argue, he would imitate Ximen Bao's story of asking the goddess to meet He Bo, and directly kill the three elders with an excuse?
"Your Highness, Your Highness, think twice!" Zhan Tong, the Minister of Civil Affairs, did not dare to face the wolf-like Jin Yiwei directly, so he could only pull Zhu Su's clothes and persuade him. After all, Hu Weiyong and Prime Minister Hu, who once dominated the government and the public, fell into the hands of Jin Yiwei. Today's Jinyiwei is synonymous with family ruin among civil servants. Countless civil servants of the Hu Party are still imprisoned in Jinyiwei Prison!
Why did I forget that the Fourth Highness is now the governor of Jin Yiwei...
"Your Highness, the three elders of Pingyang are well-known Confucian scholars, and even Your Majesty respects them. They have the hope of the world's scholars. If there is any good or bad thing, I, the Ming Dynasty, will lose the heart of the world's scholars, Your Highness!"
Zhan Tong was full of emotion and tears. Zhu Su sneered in his heart, these civil servants would be alarmist. You have also lost the heart of the world's scholars... The Tatars and Qing Dynasties have shaved you into pigtails, and you have not seen any literati boycotting the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty or refusing to serve as officials in the Qing Dynasty.
But after all, this person is still a high-ranking official in the court and represents the dignity of the court, so he still has to give him face. Zhu Su patted his hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhan. I am just worried that the three old men are unwilling to cooperate, so I borrowed some Jinyiwei men from my fourth brother."
"It's their chance to send them to heaven! If they see any laws of heaven in the sky, they will take a step further and become virtuous and holy like Zhu Zi!"
"This...this..." Zhan Tong's face was confused, and big beads of sweat were already dripping down. The Jinyi guards acted as if there was no one around, tied up the three elders of Pingyang and left. Zhu Su also threw Zhan Tong away, and he and Zhu Di and other companions got on the war horses brought by the guards.
"The three elders went to heaven to witness Zhu Xi's way. This is the golden age of our Confucian school. Anyone who wants to witness it should come with us!" After Zhu Su left a sentence, he turned his horse and left. The Confucian scholars in the field had already exploded. After a cultural meeting, the three elders of Pingyang, who were as big as Mount Taishan and Beidou, were actually kidnapped in full view of the public. They might even encounter poisonous hands. What is this?
"This is unreasonable, this is unreasonable! I will definitely impeach this crazy and rebellious person!" Many officials attending the meeting were furious, and the surrounding people were also in a collective uproar. However, the actions taken by everyone were the same: they all chose to follow Zhu Su and surge down the mountain.
Whether you want to protect the three elders of Pingyang or dissuade the fifth prince from doing something, in short, you can't miss it if there is fun to watch.
Although Zhu Su and his party were riding horses, what was prepared for the three elders of Pingyang was a carriage. Moreover, everyone deliberately suppressed the horse's speed and had no intention of getting rid of everyone.
Soon a dark group of people came to a grassland at the foot of Qixia Mountain. They saw that this grassland was already guarded by many royal guards at some time. All the personal guards gathered together to block out the crowd and protect a strange-looking big guy lying on the grass.
"What is that...?"
"Uh... it's a ball? Why is it tied to a basket?"
Both Confucian scholars, officials and common people were shocked by what they saw in front of them. I saw a big ball sewn with fine silk on the grass, slowly swelling. A huge basket is tied to the ball, and it is unknown what its purpose is.
"Your Highness." Seeing Zhu Su coming, Zhu Su's personal guard Zheng Dimeng hurried over and said, "We are ready."
"Okay." Zhu Su nodded, and then told the Jin Yiwei behind him: "Come on, please put the three old men into the basket!"
The three elders of Pingyang who were stuffed into the carriage were taken out by the Jinyi guards. After pulling out the gag, they put it directly into the big basket. The great scholar Zhou Rugui scolded: "You are a bastard! You are so insulting to the gentlemen and do such nonsense. Aren't you afraid of the public opinion in the world?"
The other two great scholars also shouted angrily, their voices sonorous and righteous.
"Don't be angry, Zhou Daru. You should be grateful to me for sending you to heaven to realize the way of heaven!" Zhu Su said with a smile, not taking it seriously at all. Seeing him like this, the Confucian scholars and common people who were chasing after him also understood: Could it be that His Highness the Fifth Highness wanted to use this basket to send three great Confucians to heaven?
But... how to deliver it? Tie on a firecracker and fire it off? Or form a cannon and throw it out?
Isn’t this still sending someone to death?
"Wait and listen." Zhu Su turned his head and faced the many Confucian scholars who were blocked by the guards. “The saying that true knowledge comes from practice is just a matter of imagination and cannot be trusted!”
"Zhu Zi said that the principles of heaven should be used to destroy human desires, and that all things have only one principle. But what exactly are the ways of heaven and principles of heaven? No one in the world has seen it, and no one can know it!"
"The three elders believe deeply in the theory of heaven's laws and principles. Although they have written thousands of words, they are all based on conjecture and have never seen it with their own eyes! I will send these three elders to heaven today to see if there is any so-called heaven's laws and principles in heaven!"
"Anyone else who wants to believe in the principles of heaven and earth can come forward and accompany the three elders to the sky to have a look!"
After asking three times in a row, none of the scholars who usually talked about the principles of nature and the desire to destroy people dared to come forward. This is obviously to martyr the three elders. It is not easy for us to study, how can we take death lightly?
Everyone's eyes were wandering and they were speechless.
Zhu Su sneered. Everyone thought he was going to execute the three elders, but they didn't believe that he really wanted them to go to heaven to see. These scholars are like this. After reading two books, they think they know everything about the world. They are unwilling to believe or explore new things they have never seen before. Work behind closed doors and feel complacent.
Today, I want to break this evil trend for the Ming Dynasty!
"Come on, raise the balloon! Send the three elders to heaven!" Zhu Su ordered loudly. Di Meng responded loudly. He climbed into the frame and increased the firepower of the kerosene and wind lantern. In an instant, hot air surged in the big ball. After a while, a huge ball of cloth slowly rose in the eyes of everyone.
"Look! Look! The ball is actually floating!" someone exclaimed.
"This...such a huge thing can actually fly in the air? What's the reason for this? Could...could it be that this is an artifact of the Immortal family?" someone exclaimed.
"Oh my god! It's an immortal who has appeared! Your Highness, the fifth prince, is indeed a descendant of the immortal family!" Someone knelt down and said.
The people originally just wanted to watch the excitement, but after seeing such miracles with their own eyes, many people immediately knelt down to worship. Although Confucian scholars are not like this, they are generally in chaos.
His Highness the Fifth Prince can actually make people fly into the sky? How can this be said to be uneducated?
Zhu Zi has been deified by their Confucian scholars for nearly a hundred years, but it has never been heard that Sage Zhu can have such a method of reaching the sky and making people fly directly into the sky?
(End of chapter)
