Wanli Youming

Chapter 398

Chapter 398

Under the pitch-black sky, the surroundings were silent, except for a few snorting sounds that clearly appeared in the stable.

Because he might have to leave overnight, Wang Liang's horse was taken out of the stable during his inspection of the Beijing camp, and was tied to the carriage, so he couldn't fall asleep because of it, and was slapped twice by his servants from time to time.

And when it was dawn, Wang Liang, who was already sitting in the carriage, glanced at the green and white street outside the door, and asked the soldier Ding Zheng Gu'an who had come at this time: "How is it?"

"Go back to the master, our people peeked, and no one came out of the mansion last night."

Zheng Gu'an replied.

Wang Liang heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, and said, "That's good, go back to sleep!"

"Yes!"

Wang Liang himself yawned and went back to his room.

But before that, in the middle of the night, when the moon was setting and the sky was about to brighten, the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the Forbidden City suddenly brightened up because of Shen Shixing's arrival.

After listening to Shen Shixing playing the reason why he came late at night, Zhu Yijun rubbed his eyes slightly, then glanced at Shen Shixing, and said, "If that's the case, arrest him immediately!"

After Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he walked back and continued to sleep.

Here, Shen Shixing handed over his hands and said yes, and went to serve the Yusi in person, and asked the clerk on duty to draw up the decree, and after using the seal, let the clerk on duty announce the decree.

Therefore, when Wang Liang was sleeping soundly here, he suddenly felt that he had fallen into an ice cellar, which made him open his eyes immediately.

And when he opened his eyes, Wang Liang saw many Jinyi guards surrounding him, and a Jinyi guard chief banner officer was holding a basin in his hand.

Wang Liang winked and asked, "What are you doing?"

"By order, I arrest you and send you to prison."

Yan He, the banner official of Jinyiwei, replied.

Wang Liang's expression turned pale immediately, and he asked, "Why?"

"Why do you say, don't you know what you did?!"

Yan He asked sharply, and then waved his hand: "Take it away!"

Wang Liang didn't wake up suddenly until he was forcibly pulled up from the bed by Jin Yiwei, and he couldn't help saying: "Why is this so, don't you Jin Yiwei arrest people randomly, I shouldn't have done anything?!"

"We won't arrest you randomly. Xing'an Bo personally reported you, and entrusted Yuan to assist the emperor."

"Think carefully about why you were denounced by him."

After Yan He said that, he walked out first.

And now Wang Liang was completely unable to deceive himself anymore, feeling lost and frustrated, he simply cursed:

"Okay, Xing'an Bo, why are you so insidious! You do this, how can you make the world believe in your nobles, I just made this deal with you to save you, but you sold me, you are despicable !You are shameless!"

Wang Liang seemed to have taken the moral high ground at this time, and began to criticize Xu Rucheng crazily.

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Xu Rucheng, who was ordering the generals Wang Jiying and Liu Dengtai to come to prison, was also asked by Wang Jiying at this time: "Why does Xing'an Bo do this? Didn't my second master say that you are afraid of being punished because of Ji Guogong's attack?" !"

Xu Rucheng smiled and said: "Because I'm afraid of being wise, do I have to take the path you chose for me? I only know how to disregard the facts and throw trouble at Zhang Jing, and then form a party with you? Why can't I openly and squarely treat you all to me?" The people who colluded with the eunuchs were exposed, so that they can make meritorious service and atone for their crimes in such a way that does not violate loyalty?"

"Then is the gentleman willing to see the ritual system broken?!"

"Your Majesty would like to see the treacherous party control the court, ruin the state affairs, and let a military man who can only flatter the powerful be in charge of the privy. Is he worthy of Yuan Jing?"

"Could Mr. Qi be willing to sit back and watch the treacherous party go all out to fight for the sake of the so-called new rituals, so that the people of the world can't live in peace?!"

Wang Jiying asked loudly at this time.

Xu Rucheng said: "Of course I am willing!"

"Etiquette has nothing to do with me!"

"Although Mr. Ji's personal morals are deficient, it's because of your outdated etiquette. Besides, he is loyal and courageous in his public morals, and he is also good at planning, so there is nothing wrong with him being in charge of the privy."

"As for raising troops and conquering the country, it's just a matter of us being the generals of martial arts. We are supported by the imperial court, so we should throw our heads and blood for the imperial court."

"How can you not even want responsibility and conscience just because you want to be comfortable?!"

"As for whether the people can live in peace, it depends on whether we dare to serve the country?!"

"You guys are like some literati. When you become a high official and read a book, you lose your conscience. You just think that it is not easy for you to get to this step, so you blindly ask for it, and forget what you should pay for the community. gone."

After Xu Rucheng said, Wang Jiying's face was full of vermilion, and for a while he just defended:

"If it's about suppressing thieves and suppressing rebellion, I, Wang Jiying, can say that I am absolutely willing to fight to the death for the imperial court!"

"However, what's going on now? Just because the traitorous party controls the government and corrupts the government, we have to go to the battlefield to fight for it. Who is willing to do this?!"

Xu Rucheng knew that he couldn't convince Wang Jiying, a general who was loyal to the old rituals.

Because in this era of transition from the old to the new, it is very difficult to just convince myself to accept the new concept of rituals that treat Han compatriots as individuals.

For example, accepting the footbinding of one's own family members, which has been regarded as polite for hundreds of years, is now not polite.

Accepting that one should respect one's children and not abandon them at will and kill them is in line with the benevolence advocated by the new rituals.

Accept that all Han people in the world are of the same blood and race as yourself, so you must respect it, even if this Han person is a low-status slave, tenant, soldier, trafficker, or hired worker.

These concepts are not so easy to accept, and even more difficult to practice.

Wang Xijue has practiced it, and Shen Shixing has also practiced it. Although they all accepted the new ceremony in the end, they only accepted it in thought.

action.

They are still using more money to maintain some old ritual orders that cannot be given up.

They just started to give tenants and servants more financial care, and started to give some gifts, and in exchange for the peace of mind when they enjoyed a sense of superiority in front of them, they could say that they paid for it. , respect their wishes, others are also willing, and very happy and willing to be inferior to themselves.

As a member of the landlord class, Xu Rucheng also tried to respond to the call of the new ceremony, and it could even be said that he carried out the imperial decree. Like Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, etc., he only accepted the new ceremony ideologically, thinking that it was for the sake of the country and the community. It is true that we should talk about our compatriots' feelings to our Han people, treat them more as individuals, at least respect their labor achievements, do not cut their military pay, do not levy rent at will, do not beat and insult wantonly, and do not despise them.

But he has to admit that it is too difficult to be completely friends with them in action, to greet them with a smile and treat them with courtesy, mainly because it involves suppressing his sense of decency when he is a superior person , involving the suppression of desire.

Therefore, Xu Rucheng is still spending more money to maintain the peace of mind that he can continue to be a master.

But he knows that it is still difficult for everyone to spend money to maintain the status quo.

After all, not everyone is so generous and doesn't value material losses that much. What's more, many people have long regarded the concept that a person with high morals and prestige should be a superior person in the old rituals as the most reasonable, and they don't feel that they are wrong.

Therefore, Xu Rucheng didn't say anything more, he knew that to deal with this kind of contradiction, he could only "follow me and we will prosper, and go against me and we will perish".

He chose to conform to the situation of the new rituals, and became a defender of the new rituals, and all he could do was physically eliminate those who did not conform to the new rituals, and also negated the morality of these people in the evaluation system of the new rituals. .

"A disloyal and unjust person like you is not qualified to fight to the death for the imperial court!"

"Ji Guogong can at least be worthy of being a prime minister because of his merit, but you, you ask yourself, you have falsely reported your merits and formed a party for personal gain. You didn't do that. Yu De, you have no right to say that Ji Guogong is unworthy. Yu Gong What? Are you worthy to say that Duke Ji is not worthy?!"

"What's more, ever since His Majesty issued an edict that the unethical and illegal acts before the pro-government should not be investigated except for the foreign trade with the barbarians, the Duke of Ji has never done anything that is virtuous or detrimental. How about you, have you read Your Majesty's edict Is the purpose in mind?!"

"So, you don't deserve to say that Lord Ji is worthy!"

Xu Rucheng reprimanded.

(End of this chapter)