my days with tyrants

Chapter 154 The Great Ming Contract Theory

Yang Feng's evil deeds successfully detonated the anger of Confucian scholars.

Of course, what ignited their anger was His Majesty's inaction.

For this fight, His Majesty the Emperor chose to make peace with each other. First, those righteous girls have extraterritorial rights, so they cannot be punished. Second, a group of Confucian scholars who have read poetry and books fought in the street with a group of underage girls. If it spreads with great fanfare, do you think they are ashamed or you are ashamed?So in the end, when the Tianfu played, the censor criticized, and the civil servants unanimously remonstrated, the final result was to ask Yang Feng to restrain his adopted daughter. In addition, both Confucian scholars and adopted daughters who were injured were given ten guan notes as medical expenses.

As for those Hanlin Dengwen drum performances, it is fine if they are not published in the middle, and they are not dealt with.

Moreover, His Majesty the Emperor also decreed that those officials should go through regular channels for their performances. The Dengwen Drum is for the common people to complain about their grievances.
Do you guys need to tap that?
Wouldn't it be enough to send the memorial directly to the Secretary of Transportation?
In short, His Majesty's handling is completely out of line with his style.

This also encouraged Confucian scholars.

This is encouragement.

His Majesty the Emperor has expressed his attitude, he will not interfere with Yang Feng's attacks, at most he will not respond to such attacks, so you can do whatever you like, as long as he can't see it.

In this case, there is nothing to say.

The next day, a large number of posters appeared on the streets of the capital, and there were even Confucian scholars standing beside the posters, explaining their contents to the people.Although when facing him, even if they hold a crossbow, they dare not pull the crossbow, but as long as they are not standing in front of him, the Confucian scholars are still very brave, and it is not that the Confucian scholar is cowardly...

What is cowardice?
That's obviously taking care of the overall situation!

Obviously, it is to maintain the image of the Ming Dynasty as a state of etiquette.

After all, he is an envoy of a friendly country.

Those scholars are all well-read poems and books, and they attach great importance to etiquette. Even if they face an arrogant and domineering envoy from a friendly country, they can only treat each other with courtesy. shoot over.But this has nothing to do with cowardice, definitely not cowardice. In fact, when this incident spread to Yangzhou, the scholar has already become a scrupulous scholar, so he would rather give in to take care of the overall situation.

Isn't it the right to speak!
There are indeed countless pairs of eyes watching in the capital, but if you leave the capital, isn't it the mouths of the literati?
As for the rumors in the market...

Of course it's just a rumor.

In short, what happened that day was that several editors of the Hanlin Academy brought some scholars from the Imperial Academy and the capital to the Dengwen Drum Academy to beat drums, and reported to His Majesty the two demon books and their publishers, the envoy of the Great Xia Kingdom. Yang Feng.

Yang Feng, who heard the news, ordered his adoptive daughter to beat the scholars in the street. After being reprimanded by the scholars, he became angry and drew his gun at each other.

The scholars took the overall situation into account and did not have the same knowledge as him.

But this kind of evil behavior is heinous, and he also slanders, saying that the ancestors of the current Confucian scholars are all the same as Liu Mengyan, and that the sages teach are all Qin Hui and Du Chong...

Frustrated!
Who can bear this?

Not bad for the family!
You don't even let your ancestors go!
Dig the ancestral grave!

Why do we all kneel to Hu Yuan?Is there any ancestor in this world who didn't kneel down to Hu Yuan to survive?

"This is really different. Rights and obligations are equal. As rentiers enjoying rights, they have to bear obligations. Confucian scholars in the Song Dynasty enjoyed all kinds of preferential treatment, so they have the obligation to be loyal to the Zhao family. What did the common people get? Not only did they get nothing, but they had to pay heavy taxes every year to support the Zhao family and civil servants and generals. They had no obligation to defend the Zhao family, because the Zhao family was supported by them. On the contrary, the Zhao family and rent The civil servants and military generals in the country are obliged to protect their safety, but instead of protecting them, they were slaughtered by aliens, so the Zhao family is no longer eligible to enjoy their support.

They don't need to be loyal to the Zhao family either.

Like a contract.

The people signed a contract with the monarch, and the people paid taxes to support the monarch, the clan, the civil and military officials of the monarch, and the army of the monarch, and the monarch wanted to protect their safety.

Paying taxes is the duty of the people.

It is the duty of the monarch to protect the people.

If the people do not pay taxes, it means that the people have broken the contract, and the monarch can use the law to punish them. If the people cannot protect the people, then the monarch has broken the contract, and the people have no obligation to support the monarch.This is a very simple reason, so the people of the Song Dynasty did not need to be loyal to the Zhao family. They paid taxes, but the Zhao family could not protect them, so why should they be loyal to the Zhao family.

But the minister is different.

Ministers are rentiers. The Zhao family took the taxes paid by the people and hired them to do things. Of course, they took the money and had to bear the obligations.

This obligation includes fidelity and chastity.

Any emperor requires his ministers to be loyal and obedient to themselves. They have already pressed their fingerprints on this contract as soon as they became officials and received their salaries, but if they failed to do so, then they are traitors and treacherous officials of the Song Dynasty.

They cannot be compared with the common people.

When the Zhao family cannot protect the people, the people can even choose another new master.

Of course, Hu Yuan is definitely not.

This is a strong conquest. Hu Yuan himself is a country, and he conquers another country by force and enslaves the people of his country.

But your Majesty the emperor can be regarded as this new lord. After all, he started in humble beginnings, expelled the Tartars with a penniless enslaved person and rebuilt the rivers and mountains. The people can recognize him as the new king of the contract. As long as the Zhu family can protect the people, the people will also Will accept the rule of the Zhu family.If the Zhu family can't do this, then the people have the right to change. If the Zhu family is starving and dying, the people also have the right to overthrow the Zhu family and replace it with a new monarch. "

Yang Feng continued to advocate his fallacies and heresies.

Now this issue is the focus of Confucian scholars attacking him. After all, it is easy to resonate. The whole world was once ruled by Hu Yuan. This can also be interpreted as everyone kneeling. Since everyone kneeled, why blame us?

"Nonsense, my father is clearly destined by fate!"

The little princess said angrily.

"Look, even Zhang Hanlin is laughing!"

Yang Feng pointed at Zhang Xianzong and said viciously.

The little princess turned her eyes to Zhang Xianzong in an instant, and the latter quickly looked serious...

"Did you laugh?"

The little princess said eagerly.

"Princess, the Son of Heaven is naturally the destiny. Song Zuo's end is also the destiny. Your Majesty Longxing is also the destiny. Heaven treats all people with His Majesty. The whole world regards Your Majesty as the Supreme. The division of monarchs and ministers is determined by God, Ambassador Yang It's nothing more than clever talk and sophistry, trying to cover up the destiny with the theory of contract."

Zhang Xianzong said.

Don't dare to joke anymore, if His Majesty finds out, he will ransack the house.

"You can talk!"

The little princess said with satisfaction.

Yang Feng just watched their performance with a smile.

"Then Huangchao, Zhu Wen was also chosen by the people, and the five dynasties and ten kingdoms were also chosen by the people?"

Zhang Xianzong said.

Apparently he also likes to discuss this in depth.

Just now I was just fooling the little princess.

"Can you guarantee that every choice you make is right? Of course you have to bear the consequences if you choose the wrong person, not to mention that there must be only one person chosen by the people? The person chosen by the people will definitely succeed? Any choice You have to take risks, failure and being used are the vast majority of results, this world is real and cruel.

The people's choices are not necessarily successful, or even right.

but.

They have the power to choose.

They have the right to choose not to be An An and starve to death, even if they are just praying mantises, but at least they are doing it upright.

If you don't do An'an and starve to death, you will be like a praying mantis.

This was said by an official who later suppressed the rebellion of the hungry people in Ming Dynasty, so I would like to ask your emperor, did he choose to be An'an starved to death or to be a praying mantis? "

Yang Feng said.

Zhang Xianzong was silent.

He has indeed realized that Yang Feng's theory is more reasonable than the theory of destiny.

Destiny...

The Confucian scholars all know that the Mandate of Heaven is a lie, but they use the Mandate of Heaven to cater to the emperor, and the emperor also knows that the Mandate of Heaven is a lie, but they just use the Mandate of Heaven to deceive the people, explaining their own world, and even the vast majority of the people do not like it. We all know that destiny is a lie, after all, this is an era that dares to call out that the emperor will take turns to do it, and this year will come to my house.

But this is an essential explanation after all.

Empty, false, but essential.

It provides the basis for the existence of the state.

The Ming Emperor was appointed by destiny, the king ruled the world, the people knelt down to the imperial power, and the barbarians bowed their heads and professed their ministers. This is the empire.

This is Daming.

If there is no destiny...

Then what makes your Zhu family the emperor?Why did Ming Dynasty continue?
Therefore, there must be a basis for the survival of the country. Before the emergence of national consciousness, the destiny or the divine right of the king is the unanimous choice of all regions.

But Yang Feng proposed a brand new explanation.

contract theory.

And this explanation is clearly more true than destiny.

Also more reasonable.

but……

It's terrible!

Because it actually gave the people the power to resist the imperial power.

Zhang Hanlin was not shocked in the slightest by the fact that words like An An’s starvation, like a mantis’s arms could be uttered. After all, it was reasonable for an official who suppressed the rebellion of the hungry people. He suppressed the rebellion of the hungry people. To him The people in front of us are the rebels first, and then the hungry people. In any case, we cannot rebel.Only when the rebels are suppressed, the rest will be the hungry people. Even if you starve to death, you will not be able to rebel, and the nature of the rebellion will change.

Why don't you wait?

Why don't you believe in the court and the emperor?
You have to believe that the court believes in the emperor, there will definitely be relief, you just need to wait, even if you starve to death during this period...

But you starved to death as a good citizen.

rather than a traitor.

Under the Mandate of Heaven system, rebellion is rebellion.

But under the contract theory system, it is reasonable to rebel. The reason why the common people rebelled is that the emperor did not fulfill his duty of protection. After the common people pay taxes, you have to protect us, including giving us relief when we are on the verge of starving to death. If you can't do it, then you have no right to ask us to accept your rule.

We have the right to choose new ones.

It's terrible!

However, it is very reasonable.

Yes, very reasonable.

But it’s scary just because it’s reasonable!

Zhang Hanlin didn't even dare to continue the discussion, so he hurriedly got up to leave.

"Maybe it's time for me to publish a book."

Ambassador Yang said deeply.

"Humph!"

The little princess snorted angrily.

"It's useless for you to be upset. I'm actually helping your family choose a longer-term ruling theory. You don't want to live in 200 years. The heads of your Zhu family will be killed? If you want to last long, you have to jump out of this old theory." things, establish a new, more reasonable system, and then continue.”

Yang Feng said.

Of course, it could also end faster.

However, as he said just now, there is no guarantee that every choice is right. Since it is brand new, it is reasonable to take some risks.

Anyway, the risk is also borne by the Zhu family. For him, it is enough to let new ideas spread.

Of course, it will take some time to write the book, but he is not the one who writes it. This kind of stuff involving theory is beyond his ability. I will leave it to Sister Liu. She has a bunch of scientists at her place, and she will find a social scientist to make up a set of imitation social contracts for the assault. The booklet on the theory, and then just pass it on.

However, this contract theory needs to be released quickly in order to deal with attacks from Confucian scholars everywhere.

and so……

Just expose it.

Since Confucian scholars can post Jiepai to him, of course he can also post Jiepai to Confucian scholars, simply summarizing this set of theories into the shortest paragraph, and then post Jiepai in the capital.

In the official name of the Great Xia embassy.

And like Confucian scholars, let his adopted daughters be in charge of watching the explanations, choose the most beautifully dressed ones, see who the common people like to look at, and choose not far from Confucian scholars' posts when posting.This is posted in the official name of the Daxia embassy, ​​to explain what Ambassador Yang said earlier, to avoid misunderstandings by the people of Ming Dynasty, so whoever dares to tear it up is an insult to the Daxia embassy and Daxia, and then Ambassador Yang will come to the door in person theory and complained to the Ministry of Rites.

But for the military households in the capital and those military generals, they don't need to care about this kind of thing, because it also helps them explain the morality of their ancestors.

The ancestors of most of them were not officials, let alone those in the Song Dynasty.

Their ancestors were all common people.

So when the Zhao family can't protect their ancestors, then of course their ancestors don't need to be loyal to the Zhao family.

Even their ancestors did not lack those who resisted Hu Yuan and participated in the war.

This way there is no moral burden.

The real point of attack is actually those aristocratic families who surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty in the Southern Song Dynasty, and then surrendered to other forces at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and finally all knelt down to Zhu Yuanzhang, especially the Confucianist families.Even some Confucian scholars who came from common people were distinguished, such as Zhang Xianzong, his family was common people, and he grew up only by his mother weaving straw sandals and Zhu Yuanzhang's universal education.

He also has no qualifying ancestors.

Although he is a Confucian scholar, he must criticize Yang Feng, and other Confucian scholars who do not have the burden of this will also criticize Yang Feng, but they can already stay out of the matter.

This divides the hostile forces.

Therefore, with the tacit cooperation of all parties and even the criticism of some Confucian scholars with ulterior motives, Yang Feng's debunking spread quickly to various places.

(End of this chapter)