Wanli Youming

Chapter 140 Disposing of Great Confucian Scholars

Chapter 140 Disposing of Great Confucian Scholars

Zhang Juzheng was only slightly taken aback when he heard this, but he didn't show any surprise on his face because Qi Jiguang directly gave the emperor secret military advice.

Because it is obvious that Zhang Juzheng has long known that people like Qi Jiguang are really loyal to the emperor.

Otherwise, he wouldn't blow himself up that Xu Jie wanted to make peace with him.

The reason was just as he himself said to Zhu Yijun, that he did not want the emperor who wanted to govern to be forced to use eunuchs, and he was too disappointed with the civil and military ministers, especially the civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats, and even instigated He Xinyin and other deviant people to engage in radical struggles.

Undoubtedly, Zhang Juzheng still chooses to stick to his belief, that is, "it is advisable to be honest in everything", so he told Zhu Yijun what he thinks in his heart, which can be regarded as indirectly letting Zhu Yijun correctly understand the entire bureaucratic group.

And Zhang Juzheng looked at it after receiving the secret memorial, and then didn't say much, just replied: "I obey the order!"

Zhu Yijun was not too surprised that Zhang Juzheng took the lead in confessing that Xu Jie had asked him for peace.

After all, Zhang Juzheng, as the minister who knew him best, would definitely guess that if Zhang Juzheng betrayed him, the emperor, then Zhu Yijun would also betray his earnest teachings.

Either the strike is bad, let alone continue to be the Holy Master Renjun who meets Zhang Juzheng's requirements, I am afraid that he will become the most selfish and lazy emperor.

Either don't play with civil servants, only use eunuchs or military officials, or even directly overturn the table, mobilize some deviant people to rebel against themselves together.

Therefore, if Zhang Juzheng doesn't want the emperor he carefully cultivated to fail or go to another extreme, he has to continue to work hard for the emperor.

Although Zhu Yijun was not surprised, he admired Zhang Juzheng's choice.

After all, if Zhang Juzheng continues to be loyal to him now and take the blame for him in front of him, he will lose his last chance to be forgiven by big bureaucrats and big landlords.

anyway.

Next, Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng continued the harmonious relationship between the monarch and his ministers, as well as between teachers and students.

It's just that Zhang Juzheng has never made a clear statement to Xu Jie, even Xu Jie's nine girls are only temporarily raised in Zhang's mansion, and Xu Ying has been stranded in the capital because of no reply.

And Xu Ying didn't dare to ask, fearing that Zhang Juzheng would be really angered, and the chance of suing for peace would be completely cut off, so that she would also be taken into prison.

Xu Ying could only ask Zhang Jingxiu, but Zhang Jingxiu's reply was to wait until Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing returned to Beijing.

Only then did Xu Ying understand that Zhang Juzheng should listen to the suggestions of his fellow party members before making a decision, and also wrote to Xu Jie, telling him Zhang Juzheng's attitude.

After Xu Jie received the letter, he instinctively thought that Zhang Juzheng would still care about family and personal interests just like him, and believed that Zhang Juzheng was just still worried about whether the entire Zhang Party branch would support him to stop in time, so he ordered someone to give Ma Ziqiang, Shen Shixing and others wrote letters.

Especially for Shen Shixing, who is also from Nanzhi, Xu Jie felt that Shen Shixing should care about the overall interests of Nanzhi scholar-bureaucrats just like him, so he spoke to him most sincerely in the letter, hoping that Shen Shixing would not only do it for his own sake. Teacher Zhang Juzheng's future considerations should also take into account the overall interests of the entire Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats, and should persuade Zhang Juzheng to stop in time when he starts to worry.

Shen Shihang replied to Xu Jie in time, and promised to say these words to Zhang Juzheng.

It's just that Shen Shixing also wrote a letter to Zhang Juzheng after changing hands, and told Zhang Juzheng about Xu Jie's letter to him.

Moreover, Shen Shixing also advised Zhang Juzheng to consider the emperor's feelings before deciding to marry the Xu family!

"The teacher must use the way of the teacher to bully the superior, which violates the way of sharing worries for the king."

"Students have always kept in mind what the teacher said in the past, 'you should be honest'. Today, I also ask the teacher whether to retreat or not, it is best to follow the holy will first."

Therefore, Zhu Yijun was able to know through Zhang Juzheng what Xu Jie was still persuading Shen Shixing, what Shen Shixing said to persuade Zhang Juzheng, and Shen Shixing's method of selling the two chief assistants based on secret melodies and private letters. .

Seeing that all these civil servants were not in agreement, Zhu Yijun was relieved a lot, and he was even less worried about not being able to defeat these people.

Especially after Zhang Juzheng mentioned that what he was most worried about was the fall of the monarchy, and the emperor really let He Xinyin and other deviant people wantonly challenge Gangchang's words, Zhu Yijun became more certain that people who are often loyal to him are not because they are stupid and don't know how to resist, but because they don't know how to resist. Will be the smartest person, and realize that the best situation is to be loyal to the king and centralize power so that the country has only one leader.

Because there have been many separations and reunions on this continent, and every time the separation is chaos, human life is cheap, and the reunion is peace in the world. Although people are like cattle and horses, at least they will not worry about not being able to survive tomorrow.

Therefore, many people who were originally smart enough and resourceful enough chose the Neo-Confucian thought of treating the emperor as their father, and chose to be absolutely loyal to the emperor.

Even if they have the strength to rebel, even if the emperor has wronged themselves thousands of times, they will not lose to the emperor, because they know that if they don't abide by this rule, everyone will rule the roost, and everyone will have no peace.

This is also the special feature of Huaxia.

Because of the unification of civilization, once the local government is separated and self-governing, there will be some outstanding people who think about unification, even if they take refuge in foreign races, they also want to instigate foreign races to unify China.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun realized that he should choose to continue to centralize power and be a truly independent emperor of China.

Because this is the choice of most elites in this era.

For example, Qi Jiguang, Zhang Juzheng, and perhaps Shen Shihang.

Whether they made such a choice just to consolidate their own power, or think it is the foundation of maintaining the long-term peace and stability of the world.

At least, they all chose to be absolutely loyal to the emperor.

Of course, they didn't have no demands on the emperor. They naturally hoped that their father would treat them leniently and be diligent in governing the country.

In addition, Zhu Yijun felt that it would be better for him to keep imprisoning He Xinyin and other people who were too forward-thinking in Jinyiwei Prison.

Doing this is not only to prevent these people from going out and messing up the world, but also to preserve the new ideas that are not tolerated by Neo Confucianism in this era.

After all, although Confucianism is still dominant today, it is indeed an obstacle for Chinese civilization to enter modern civilization.

The new ideas of people like He Xinyin seem deviant now, but they are the hope that the Chinese civilization will avoid being bullied by foreign captives and the Han people will become stronger in the future.

You must know that although Neo Confucianism emphasizes obedience, it also obliterates individuality, making the country conservative and introverted, and even the people are conservative and introverted, so cowardly that they do not know how to make progress.

Therefore, in history, the Han nationality could be enslaved by a Jianzhou Jurchen whose number was originally only [-], and could not be bullied by a short Japanese slave who was only good at village warfare.

Therefore, China still needs new ideas.

Zhu Yijun also needs to let these new ideas continue to exist and evolve, and staying in a controllable area around him to watch can also facilitate the timely correction of the development direction of new ideas and avoid excessive evolution to the point of uncontrollable outside.

"Which famous Confucian scholars have been arrested and sent to prison?"

On this day, Zhu Yijun also asked Zhang Jing about arresting someone and sending him to prison according to He Xinyin's confession.

"Returning to the emperor, Wang Shizhen and Wang Taozhen, the former head of the Imperial Academy Wang Xijue's Wang Taozhen, are arrested recently. Li Zhi from Yunnan has also been escorted to Beijing."

Zhang Jing replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and asked, "Can those great Confucian scholars in the imperial prison be safe?"

Zhang Jing replied: "Very restless, like a lunatic! For a while, he was polite, sitting and talking about the knowledge of various scholars; for some reason, he began to scold each other again, and ordered the Jin Yiwei in the prison to kill whoever he said he would not kill." The world is in trouble for this person, and he even wants to do it himself."

"Since that's the case, let Beizhen Fusi expand the imperial prison, and each great Confucian scholar will have a cell, so as not to fight."

"They have no right to take anyone's life. Only I have the right to take life or death, but each cell must be next to each other, and it is built in the form of an enclosed house in Fujian. The atrium is set as an open space, and each of them is allowed to go to the atrium in turn. Lecture."

"There is no limit to lectures, but there must be kingly rules in what you do and what you say. Therefore, during the lecture period, whoever insults or even throws public property to beat others will be ordered to clean up the prisons for three days."

"In addition, we can't let them just stay in the cell to eat and drink for nothing, it's easy to get sick, and it's not conducive to correcting knowledge."

"Send them out to work on a regular basis."

"Let them go weaving and spinning!"

"In this way, let Beizhen Fusi open a weaving workshop and equip them with looms and spinning machines. The cloth and yarn spun will be sold for money to fill the company's funds."

"However, in order to encourage them to work actively and understand people's livelihood, they are given wages, and the amount of wages should be paid according to the amount of work, so that those who work harder will get more."

"In addition to letting them participate in weaving, we can also let them get familiar with farming."

"Isn't there a large area of ​​wasteland in Nanhaizi, as well as muddy puddles and ditches?"

"Let them go to cultivate or grow vegetables regularly!"

"This is called correcting one's knowledge through discussion, and at the same time correcting one's knowledge through labor to understand the daily life of the people;"

"It can be regarded as a method of academic study that allows them to practice the "people's daily use is the way" in their minds."

Zhu Yijun ordered at this time.

Zhang Jing bowed his hands and said yes.

(End of this chapter)