Ming Zuo

Chapter 29 That's How It Was

Zuo Menggeng was determined to rebel.

The ruined ship of the Zhu Ming Dynasty seemed to be sinking, and he didn't want to be buried with him.

It is even more unacceptable to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, sit back and watch China return to ignorance, and miss the magnificent era.

After thinking about it, there is only the appearance of rebellion to maintain life.

But if you want to rebel and succeed, you must have your own team.

Where did his team come from?

Zuo Menggeng is not a bankrupt and exiled peasant. If you want to recruit the refugees and raise a banner to rebel, that is nonsense.

Why do ordinary people listen to you as a second-generation general?
It is even more unrealistic to absorb the great landlords and noble families as help.

In the eyes of these people, warriors are no more noble than servants and lackeys.

Don't give a spit, and then kick both feet, that is considered polite.

Unless Zuo Menggeng's appearance of hegemony has been revealed, then don't expect big landlords and noble families to come closer.

Debating and communicating with Xu Ruolin these days gave Zuo Menggeng a different idea.

The openness of Southeastern's mind made him ecstatic.

It turns out that in the southeast, the ideas of non-monarchs and noble people have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the efforts of businessmen, handicraftsmen and ordinary people to pursue their own rights have never stopped.

This is clearly a surging force that can be used well, but unfortunately the original history has been annihilated in the wind and clouds.

And the representative of these forces, the Donglin Party, can completely win over and use it for him.

Of course, not the entire Donglin party.

Through the words of Hou Xun and Liu Zongzhou today, Zuo Menggeng has already discovered that the Donglin Party is corrupting and deteriorating.

But why can't we get rid of the turnips and keep the essentials, and absorb the power that is still progressing?

He gave a suggestion and started a new one, but he scared Hou Xun and Liu Zongzhou very seriously, thinking that he was just imagining things.

"Hehe, young people are daring and have no scruples. Now that the new emperor is on the throne, it is the time when my generation is striving for progress. How can we be in chaos? What's more, how can a little filth affect the overall situation?"

Zuo Menggeng stopped talking when he saw it.

That's how people are, they won't turn back if they don't hit the southern wall.

At this time, the Donglin Party was full of flowers and cooking oil. No matter how much he said, it would not be recognized, but would be annoying.

It was only after the gang had their heads covered with blood that they realized how valuable his opinion was.

"For today's plan, I have to wait for Qian Muzhai to arrive in a few days and see if you and I can convince him to change his mind."

In the end, Liu Zongzhou was only able to come up with such an idea.

This also let Zuo Menggeng know that after Hou Xun and Liu Zongzhou arrived in Linqing, they were not in a hurry to go north, they were waiting for Qian Qianyi.

It is estimated that the three Donglin bosses are going to discuss in Linqing and unify their opinions.In this way, after reaching the capital, we can advance and retreat together and control the overall situation.

Unfortunately, Zuo Menggeng was not optimistic about their ideas.

It was late at night, Hou Xun retired, and Liu Zongzhou was also a little tired.

"Nian Taigong, but you want to rest? This junior will prepare a fragrant soup to bathe."

Liu Zongzhou waved his hand.

"No hurry, help me put the pen, ink, paper and inkstone."

Zuo Menggeng was busy preparing things, and personally served Momo.

Liu Zongzhou cleaned his hands, closed his eyes and thought with a rather solemn expression.

After a long time, I started to write on paper.

Zuo Menggeng had nothing to do, and fixed his eyes on it, all the contents were printed in his eyes.

[Your Majesty strives to seek medical treatment, and the night is quiet.However, Chengxiao was too hasty, and it was inevitable that he would see small profits and quickly approach the merits. Why did Tang and Yu Zhizhi happen?Husband, who is devoted to near-work today, is not military affairs?Sincerely take the garrison as the best policy, simplify the salaries of the dead, and establish the penal government to spread the prestige.In this autumn, when the three empties and the four are exhausted, the forces of the world will be exhausted to serve the hungry army and the army will become more arrogant.

Exuberant, more than a thousand words.

Liu Zongzhou wrote and stopped, frowning from time to time, obviously there were many difficulties.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw Zuo Menggeng's mood was waning, and his expression was rather disdainful.

"Boy, can you understand?"

Zuo Menggeng was actually a little sleepy. Hearing the words, he woke up immediately and hurriedly said: "The younger generation is ignorant of learning.

Liu Zongzhou actually knew what he wrote.

It was after Liu Zongzhou returned to Beijing that he gave the first memorial to Chongzhen, "Mian En foreshadowing the Righteousness of Reproach to Jun Yao Shun Shu".

Its core is: transcend the far-sighted view, follow the teachings of Yao and Shun, and practice the Tao of Yao and Shun.

And Zuo Menggeng was puzzled by this.

"My lord, if you follow the way of Yao and Shun, and govern by inaction, can you really make the country prosperous and the people safe, and the world govern?"

The Donglin Party was criticized a lot in later generations, and this memorial by Liu Zongzhou is also one of the evidences.

When is it time, the world is in chaos, if you don't think hard to govern it, and do nothing to govern, the way of Yao and Shun, there is no such a pit.

Speaking of this, Liu Zongzhou's sadness was relieved a lot.

"The king's body is in the world, and he cannot be moved lightly. If the king regards the world as his own thing, taking and asking for anything, then the rules will not exist, and the rule of law will be destroyed. This is the way to perish. Only the king sits in the center, and the ministers and ministers are loyal, and each follows his own path. That's the way to go."

Zuo Menggeng was shocked.

"This rule by inaction is the inaction of the king, not the inaction of the court?"

Liu Zongzhou is full of black lines.

"Stinky boy, what do you think? The vast world, the imperial court, and the billions of people, if everyone doesn't do anything, isn't it finished?"

Zuo Menggeng blurted out.

"Isn't this a constitutional monarchy?"

Not at the time, I don't understand its meaning.

Zuo Menggeng originally thought that Liu Zongzhou's remarks was a replay of an old tune.

The way of Yao and Shun, the way of doing nothing, is simply pedantic.

But now after listening to the parties, he realized that it was not the case at all.

The bad is bad, the ancient prose is concise and general, any explanation will do, and the result will be misinterpreted by future generations.

Think about it, no one is a fool.

No matter how old it is, how could it still be like Yao and Shun, who did nothing to govern.

The reason why officials of the Ming Dynasty liked to say this, to persuade the emperor in this way, has only one core purpose.

That is to take power back from the emperor.

Throughout the [-]-year history of the Ming Dynasty, the disputes between rulers and ministers can be said to have been throughout.

Was Hu Weiyong's rebellion really a rebellion?
It's not that the prime minister threatened the imperial power and made Zhu Yuanzhang sacrifice the butcher's knife.

After that, Xie Jin, Yu Qian, Yang Tinghe, Zhang Juzheng and other famous officials from generation to generation were defeated by the emperor in various names.

Aside from the surface, there is only one core inside.

That is the battle of kings and ministers.

It is a pity that in these battles, the ministers and officials are the losers.

The reason is that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were cocooning themselves.

When Zhu Yuanzhang designated Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism as a prominent school, these literati cheered each other, thinking that the era of literati had come.

But in the years that followed, they suffered a lot.

After the ethic of the heaven and earth monarchs and masters became an unshakable rule, the emperor was invincible.

Because there are only two ethereal things on the emperor's head, the sky and the earth, other than that, the emperor is the biggest.

When the officials of the Ming Dynasty went to fight with the emperor, because they could not get rid of the rules of heaven and earth, they were like dancing in shackles. Can they win?

How to win?
When he was in a hurry, the emperor would lift the table, and he had the capital to lift the table.

The courtier did not have the capital to resist.

For example, in the battle of great etiquette, Yang Tinghe originally had the advantage in principle.

But how.

Jiajing stopped reasoning with you, Zuo Shun made a slap at the door, setting the tone for the matter.

Yang Tinghe was dismissed in despair, Yang Shen was exiled, and Jiajing was victorious.

This situation caused the Ming Dynasty officials to struggle with the emperor's methods to be greatly restricted.

After thinking hard, in desperation, and unable to escape the shackles of the times and knowledge, these officials had to find excuses and reasons from the pile of old papers.

Confucian ethics has become the emperor's talisman, so let's go forward and look for the wise and wise to make arguments.

Confucius is a god, but Confucius also learned from others.

Think about it again, come on, let's not turn the old man and Zhou Gong one by one, let's just do it in one step, just take Yao and Shun as an example.

Emperor, you see, in ancient times, Ming monarchs like Yao and Shun used the method of inaction to rule, and realized the great rule of the world.

You have to learn.

As long as you learn it, it will be a big deal in the future.

However, the emperor of the Zhu family did not have a good one.

Ha ha laugh, think I'm stupid?
I don't hold the good power in my hands, I'm at your mercy?
In this way, the monarch and his ministers saw back and forth, and each time the result was that the monarch was victorious.

It is a pity that in the end, the courtiers were desperate and began to stand up, so the emperor of the Zhu family lost.

Lost the whole country.

Liu Zongzhou talked about the way of Yao and Shun, and the rule of inaction. His real thought was actually to persuade Chongzhen to be a symbol and to hand over the power of the state to the ministers.

Chongzhen understood it, hehe smiled, and gave his evaluation: a round and broad statement.

It is impossible to hand over power.

The emperor is a Pixiu, who only eats and does not vomit.

You workers, you actually want to share the world with your boss.

wishful thinking!

Some people in later generations didn't understand it, and they clamored for it, scolding the Donglin Party for being stubborn and stubborn, and reversing history.

what?
A bourgeois revolution broke out in Britain at the same time, and a constitutional monarchy was implemented?
That is the progress of the times and the arrival of a new era.

Zuo Menggeng couldn't understand why those who grew up in the new era of later generations should cheer for a feudal emperor?
(End of this chapter)