Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 412 Public opinion is raging
But this time, Chongzhen really judged the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

Zhang Shenyan complained that Chongzhen did not hold the ceremony of presenting the prisoners, and it was really not to satisfy the formalism of the civil official group, but entirely for the sake of Chongzhen.

Zhang Shenyan is nearly seventy years old, how can he not see that Chongzhen is slandering him?

However, this gentleman is a real gentleman, and he is also an enlightened gentleman, and he didn't grab Chongzhen's pigtails and make a big fuss like those rotten scholars who are trying to gain fame.

At that moment Zhang Shenyan sighed: "Your Majesty, this old minister did not sincerely find fault with you to embarrass you. In fact, this old minister agrees with many of your measures, Your Majesty. It is limited to Cheng Wen, and the veterans agree very much that stereotyped Cheng Wen should have been removed from the imperial examination long ago."

"Another example is what you said, Confucian etiquette should keep pace with the times, and the veteran also deeply agrees."

"Now is not the period of the Warring States period, when the etiquette collapsed and music was broken. My Confucian etiquette has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so the formal things such as respecting the virtuous and the virtuous should have been abolished long ago, especially for the venerable."

"Because I have the same name as the emperor, I have to change the names of the ancients. How can there be such a reason in the world?"

"For another example, Holy Majesty, you ordered King Jingjiang, Duke Qian, Duke Wei and other clan dignitaries to donate all the farmland under their names to relieve the country's difficulties and overcome difficulties together. The veterans even raised their hands to agree."

"There is also reforming the land and returning to the country, and the veterans also agree with it."

Zhang Shenyan's words stunned Chongzhen, he couldn't see it, you respected Zhang Shenyan, you are so good at flattering, I am embarrassed to say it.

But Chongzhen was also first-class smart, and quickly realized that something was wrong.

"What?" Chongzhen's face collapsed, and he said coldly, "Looking at the implication of Mr. Zhang Ge, is it possible that there is another censor in Beijing who is insulting me? And the scolding is quite ugly?"

"Your Majesty is the wisest." Zhang Shen said, "My Majesty, the public opinion in Beijing is already raging."

"The public opinion is raging?" Chongzhen snorted, "So it's not just one or two censors who insulted me, but a lot of censors, oh?"

Zhang Shenyan said: "Your Majesty, as of yesterday, most of the censors in Beijing have already entered the memorial, and many affairs officials have also entered the memorial, and they all scold you."

"Really?" Chongzhen said with a smile, "Where is the playbook? Bring it here for me to see."

"Your Majesty, you don't need to read the playbook, so as not to piss off your dragon body." At this time Lu Zhenfei said, "You just need to know that there is such a thing, and then we will hold a new ceremony of presenting the prisoners, and take Pingding The chaos in Sha Dingzhou has greatly created public opinion, and it should be able to suppress the criticism of the ministers and reunite the hearts of the people."

"That won't work." Chongzhen laughed and said, "I just want to see it."

Having said this, Chongzhen said again: "Did you give it to me, or did I let someone take it?"

"Your Majesty, I have left the most outrageous copy here." Qian Qianyi suddenly took out a copy from his sleeve.

Gao Qiqian, who was standing beside him, immediately took the playbook from Qian Qianyi's hand, and walked quickly to Chongzhen to present it.

Chongzhen opened the memorial book, and saw a line of beautiful lowercase script written on the title page: Li Huie, the editor of the Imperial Academy, would like to play it.

"Li Huie? Why does this name look familiar to me?" Chongzhen thought thoughtfully, "Where did I see it?"

Qian Qianyi looked embarrassed when he heard this, Lu Zhenfei, Zhang Shenyan and Meng Zhaoxiang rolled their eyes when they heard this, and said to themselves, can you treat one more favorably than another?

Lu Zhenfei said: "Your Majesty, Li Hui'e is the number one scholar in the Yi family!"

"Ah? Oh, I remember now." Chongzhen suddenly said, "Last year Enke champion."

Lu Zhenfei and the other four were even more speechless, "Your Majesty, you don't care much about Yi Enke, you can't even remember the champion.

Scrolling down, the first sentence is a famous quote from Hai Rui: In order to speak out the most important thing in the world, to upright the way of the monarch, to clarify the position of ministers, and to seek peace for all generations, is this to learn from Hai Rui?

The king is the lord of all things in the world.

One must not be careless, one must observe, one must cultivate virtue.

Seeing this sentence, Chongzhen's face immediately collapsed. Is this scolding me for not cultivating virtue?
The next step is citing scriptures, eloquently and eloquently discussing virtue, which Chongzhen skipped directly. These are all nonsense and have no real content at all.

After a few thousand words, I finally had substantive content.

Your Majesty has committed many misconducts since the imperial court, and there are eight crimes.

The first crime is to abandon the tomb of the ancestors without authorization, which is unfilial...

The second crime is to abandon the land without reason, causing the land north of the Yellow River to sink...

The third crime is to misinterpret Confucian etiquette, leading to the loss of morality...

The fourth crime is being mean and ungrateful, depriving the family property of the ministers without reason...

The fifth crime is excessive rewards, making troublers and criminals get their fields without merit...

The sixth crime is to be greedy for money and good goods, to set up exchanges and bank accounts to maliciously collect people's wealth...

The seventh crime is licentiousness and immorality, accepting prostitutes and savage women as concubines, without knowing what shame is...

The eighth crime is that he is obsessed with the bottom line of miscellaneous learning, loves strange skills and obscene skills, and regards the imperial examination avenue as nothing.

The eloquent scolding made Chongzhen sweat profusely.

"Haha, okay, okay." Chongzhen closed the notebook and said with a sneer, "Here comes another Zuo Guangxian."

Lu Zhenfei said: "Your Majesty, Li Hui'e is different from Zuo Guangxian. Zuo Guangxian is a corrupt Confucian who seeks fame, but Li Hui'e's personal integrity can be called a model official."

"So, he was right to scold." Chongzhen laughed, "Is it my fault?"

"Your Majesty, I don't mean that." Lu Zhenfei said with a dark face, "It's definitely wrong for Li Huie to insult His Majesty like this, and his words are indeed a little too extreme."

"Isn't it my mistake that Lu Ge meant?" Chongzhen laughed, "Although Li Huie's words were a bit extreme, the general meaning is correct, isn't that what Ge Lao meant?"

Lu Zhenfei fell silent, apparently Chongzhen had hit the mark.

In fact, the cabinet has quarreled almost every day for the past few months.

Or to be more precise, it was the first assistant Lu Zhenfei and the second assistant Zhang Shenyan who quarreled every day.

The third assistant Meng Zhaoxiang and the fourth assistant Qian Qianyi stayed out of the matter and rarely participated in the debate.

Lu Zhenfei remained silent, but Zhang Shenyan said with emotion: "Anyone who achieves great things should not care about trivial matters. Your Majesty doesn't need to care about the nonsense of these little ministers."

Hearing this, Lu Zhenfei couldn't bear it.

"Miao Shan, Li Hui'e's words may not be all nonsense, right?" Lu Zhenfei frowned, "Ignore the others first, reforming Confucian etiquette, miscellaneous learning and unconventional skills are right. Also depriving all the farmland under the name of the honorable clan, the Holy Majesty is a bit too rough and too concerned."

Chongzhen frowned when he heard this.

This is really like water, how deep is it?
Therefore, it is the most difficult thing to control people's hearts.

It's only been less than a year, and the honeymoon period with the new chief assistant Lu Zhenfei is over?What is this called? After defeating the Donglin Party, did the Imperial Party begin to fight among themselves?
What the hell, is it uncomfortable if there is no party struggle?
"Shou Kui's words are absolutely hard to agree with." Zhang Shenyan retorted, "Could it be impossible to change Confucian etiquette? Confucius said that if you make mistakes, don't be afraid to change them. Zuo Zhuan also said that if you make mistakes, you can change them. There is nothing good..."

Lu Zhenfei argued: "The question is, have the Confucian etiquette really passed? Has it really reached the point where it must be changed?"

"Why not?" Zhang Shen said, "Not to mention respecting and respecting the virtuous and the virtuous, it would be a big mistake to preserve the principles of heaven and get rid of human desires. The reason why people desire is the law of heaven. How can we get it? If human desires are removed, is it still a human being?" ? Things too!"

"This is a fallacy." Lu Zhenfei said angrily when he heard the words, "You are sophistry, you are misinterpreting."

"Okay, stop arguing." Chongzhen could only forcibly interrupt the quarrel between the two, and asked with a dark face, "So, what is Li Huie's appeal? They just want to scold me, or Want to force me to change course?"

"Father!" Zhu Cijiong suddenly roared at this time, and he had already finished reading the playbook.

Zhu Cijiong drew out his waist knife with his backhand, and said with a dark face: "My son, I will go to find Li Huie, and chop him off with one blow!"

"Shut up! Why are you chopping?" Chongzhen reprimanded, "If you want people to talk, the sky won't fall down."

After a pause, Chongzhen asked Lu Zhenfei again: "Old Lu Ge, so what are the specific demands of Li Huie and the others?"

Seeing that Lu Zhenfei was hesitant to say anything, Zhang Shenyan immediately became impatient, and said instead: "My lord, Li Huie and the others request to restore the etiquette of honoring and respecting virtuous and virtuous relatives, and request that the emperor's eldest grandson change his name, and withdraw the edict to abolish footbinding. He also demanded that all the mansions, family assets, and land properties of the clan vassal kings and Xunchen be returned, oh, by the way, as well as Vice General Li and Shi Nan Xuan Fushi Ran Sanniang will also be expelled from Zhongwei immediately."

"It's simply unreasonable!" Chongzhen was furious when he heard this.

"You civil servants can have sex with prostitutes and concubines, and have fun. I just accept two concubines and you have to take care of it? I am a marionette in your hands. I will do whatever you ask me to do, and I will do whatever you don't want me to do." Can't do it at all? Is it the emperor of Ming Dynasty, or you are the emperor of Ming Dynasty? Oh?"

"Your Majesty, calm down!" Lu Zhenfei hurriedly turned over and knelt down on the ground, "Expelling Vice General Li and Envoy Ran Xuanfu from Zhongwei, this matter is indeed a matter of unreasonable trouble by those little ministers, and the ministers have already admonished him on behalf of His Majesty."

"It's not just this one." Chongzhen snorted, "I won't allow any other appeals! If they refuse to accept it, just go ahead and insult me ​​in the memorial, and see if they can scold me to death."

Lu Zhenfei persuaded: "Your Majesty, people's words are scary, but we still need to be cautious."

"People's words are scary?" Chongzhen snorted coldly, "Ge Lao is right, people's words are scary."

Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen went on to say: "I will let them know what is truly fearsome, Jionger, let's go, and go with my father to the East Palace to see the eldest grandson of our Daming Emperor, Zhu He."埅!"

After Chongzhen finished speaking, he turned around and left, leaving the four elders in a mess in the cold wind.

(End of this chapter)