I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Lu Weiqi thought that Cheng Shijie only entertained the three of them, father and son, but when they came to the bank of Xuanwu Lake and boarded a boat, they found that there were actually many people on board, and many of them were acquaintances.

There are Ma Jianshun (representative figure Li Zhi) of the Taizhou School, Sun Yuanhua, Chen Zilong, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, Wang Fuzhi of the Western French Party, as well as Hedong Jun Liu Rushi, Li Xiangjun, Chen Yuanyuan, Bian Yujing and other singers. Four of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai came, and also There are more than a dozen oirans who serve as members of the angry group.

However, these dozen oirans and Liu Rushi were all dressed in men's clothing and chatting with acquaintances. What puzzled Lu Weiqi the most was that Sun Yuanhua, as Cheng Shijie's former benefactor, also had some support for Cheng Shijie. Well, as of now, Sun Yuanhua has not yet become an official of the Dingxin Dynasty. Instead, Sun Yuanhua's younger brother Chen Zilong has become a cabinet member of the Dingxin Dynasty.

Although the cabinet of the Dingxin Dynasty was different from the cabinet of the previous Ming Dynasty. The cabinet of the Dingxin Dynasty had a total of 30 people, but despite this, he was still a very popular minister when he joined the cabinet.

This is an unusual banquet. The host, Cheng Shijie, is not here, but the banquet has already begun. It is located in the main hall on the second floor of Huafang. In the center of the huge hall, there are various fruits, dishes, fine wines, and a variety of dishes. There are also chefs While busy, various ingredients such as frying, frying, steaming, boiling, cooking and cooking are constantly being served.

This is actually a buffet. At the beginning, everyone may not be used to it, or it may be because Cheng Shijie is not here, which makes them lose face.But with Catherine's introduction, they discovered that this way of dining came from Europe and was the palace banquet style of the Roman royal family.

After comparison, they found that this kind of banquet method was very affordable for them. Many of the people present had participated in the banquets of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the imperial dining room only appeared in the Qing Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, it was called a meal supervisor, and some Shang Food Prison is one of the 24 prisons.

This is the official canteen of the Ming Dynasty. If you think about the canteen, you will know that the emperor's banquet is actually not good to eat at all, and it is not full. The meat boiled in plain water is smelly, fishy, ​​and half-cooked. This is actually just a kind of banquet. Just a line.

With the arrival of Catherine, a new lady, although Cheng Shijie did not say it clearly, the problem is that most of the people who come here to attend the banquet are famous bigwigs in the officialdom. Just one of them will be empty in other places. There are countless People are chasing after her, but what does it mean for the mother-in-law to come here?
But after a while of chatting, they discovered that Catherine was really not that simple. She knew astronomy, geography, and was knowledgeable about the past and the present. Even for someone as knowledgeable as Lu Weiqi, she could easily solve the big problems raised by her.

The most admirable thing is that this lady is also a noble, a noble with a count. She also has profound attainments in mathematics, geometry, physics and other subjects that have only gradually emerged in the Liaodong region in recent years.

Catherine was very satisfied with the attitude of the people around her towards her. After all, she now had the ability to show off. However, as Liu Rushi and others ended up comparing their strengths as women to Catherine, Catherine lost her temper.

Although Catherine was knowledgeable and talented, she knew a little about music. As for art, calligraphy, and poetry, she knew almost nothing. In this secretive game between China and the West, Hedong Jun finally won.

Catherine showed no sign of weakness and asked the Ming Dynasty people present for advice on some big problems that gave European mathematicians a headache. Sun Yuanhua dipped his fingers in wine and calculated on the table for a quarter of an hour, but still couldn't figure out the answer. At this moment, an unknown figure A middle-aged man wearing simple clothes and looking like an old farmer appeared here.

He just thought for a moment and quickly gave the answer, which amazed Catherine and personally toasted the old farmer: "Old sir, you are the most knowledgeable person I have ever met!"

This is the Mohist giant Mo Hua who just came from Liaodong. Mo Hua initially went by the pseudonym Guo Xin. Later, he inspected Liaodong for two years before he decided to reveal his identity to Cheng Shijie.

Mo Hua smiled kindly: "There are not many young and beautiful girls like you who are obsessed with learning... It is fate that we meet. I will give you a gift. I hope you like it."

As he spoke, Mo Hua put his hand into his sleeve, took out a small puppet and handed it to Catherine.

Catherine took it over and took a look. The puppet was about three inches tall, with thin eyebrows and big eyes, a high-pointed nose, a wide grin, an exaggerated smile, and a very cute and naive manner.She exclaimed in surprise: "It's so carved, it looks like it's alive!"

"It's not like it's alive, it's actually alive!"

Mo Hua didn't know where to push it, and the puppet actually stretched its limbs, jumped and even rolled on the table, making such funny moves with great flexibility.

Catherine asked excitedly: "Old... old gentleman, why does this puppet move? It looks like a real person, it's incredible!"

Mo Hua smiled freely: "It's just a little trick, not worth mentioning."

Yang Yuniang couldn't help but said: "I want it too!"

"Easy to handle, easy to handle."

Mo Hua put his hand into his sleeve again and took out a small puppet again.

What I took out this time was a graceful dancer wearing a pink dress with picturesque features. As usual, with a flick of the hand, the little dancer danced on the table. Her dancing posture was actually much more agile and graceful than that of a real person. Yang Yunniang was stunned.

When Lu Weiqi saw this scene, he subconsciously asked: "Your Excellency, are you from the Moh family?"

"Mo Hua, the No. 90 fourth tycoon of the Mohist family!"

Everyone subconsciously distanced themselves from Mo Hua. The feud between the Confucians and the Mohists could not be finished for three days and three nights. Of course, the Mohists were the poor ones who were almost exterminated by the Confucians.

This is actually not due to Confucianism, but to Mohist thought.

"Learning literary and martial arts will bring you goods to the emperor's family." This is the most traditional moral concept of Confucianism. You must be loyal to your superiors. "The king should treat his ministers with courtesy, and his ministers should be loyal to the king."

Treat parents and relatives with filial piety. "If your parents are around, don't travel far away. You must travel well." "Today's filial piety means being able to raise them. As for dogs and horses, they can be raised. If you don't respect them, why should you be different?"

People must be ambitious and perseverant. "A scholar must be ambitious and have a long way to go."

If you were the boss, should you use Confucianism or Mohism?

The Mohist family's requirements for themselves are too strict. From the Mohist family's great disciples to ordinary disciples, they almost all use the standards of saints to demand themselves and their companions. Looking at the world, how many people can do this?In contrast, Confucianism is not so strict. Even if you are a scumbag, as long as you can write good articles, you can get ahead, and even become a general.

If you want to do it, you must be a saint.

The founder of the Mohist School was the only one from the grassroots among all the scholars, the only one who came from a poor peasant family and climbed up step by step. It was precisely because he had witnessed too much suffering caused by wars to the common people at the bottom of society. This sage Strongly opposed to all forms of war.

The best way to oppose war is to end war with war, just like the hoopoe in later generations. If the hoopoe were really placed in the East Asian monster room, it would be better behaved than anyone else, because if you pick one out, you can hang it. Hit him.

Of course, it cannot be said that Mozi's thoughts were pedantic and he should not persuade others to be good without suffering others' suffering.In an era, there is an era of tragedy and helplessness.

Cheng Shijie was not a great writer, and he did not have the confidence to talk in front of scholars. However, Cheng Shijie's approach was to let them communicate together by themselves.

In fact, what Confucianism will become is not because of what Confucianism is like, but because of the rulers. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism. The Han Dynasty could dominate the world and create a prosperous Tang Dynasty.

After this mutual discussion without ideas, everyone present had to admit that they were very good in some areas of their own, but not good in others.

With the emergence of Mo Hua, Confucianism began to give up the sectarian disputes, and instead unanimously dealt with the outside world, Mo Hua, the Mohist giant, and his two or three kittens.Mohism and Confucianism were both prominent schools during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.Mohism even had the potential to overwhelm Confucianism.Just as Mencius said: "The words of Yang Zhu and Mo Zhai fill the world. If the words of the world do not belong to Yang, then they belong to Mo!"

Moreover, Mohism was separated from Confucianism, but it was only because it was dissatisfied with how Confucianism was used by later Confucians that it parted ways with Confucianism and started a new school.It is roughly equivalent to the dispute between the Protestant and the old religions in Europe. For hundreds of years, Europe has been fighting for the war between the old and the new.

Cheng Shijie found that Mo Hua was not only strong in hands-on ability, but also good in speaking. He actually had the attitude of fighting with the Confucian scholars. The Confucian scholars talked about principles, while Mo Hua said it was pragmatic. How many factories were there in Liaodong, how many products were manufactured, and how much food was produced? This debate seems like a joke on the Internet in later generations.

Jade Emperor: I dominate the way of heaven!

Tathagata: You have been beaten by a monkey.

Jade Emperor: I have experienced 17500 calamities!
Tathagata: You have been beaten by a monkey!

Jade Emperor: Can we not mention monkeys?
……

The current situation is actually similar to this joke. Behind Mo Hua is Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie used a small area to turn the tide, drive out all the Jiannu, and almost wipe out the gentry group that had been entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River for more than 200 years during the Ming Dynasty.No matter how they argue, they can't change the established facts.

It wasn't until Cheng Shijie felt that he was almost done that he appeared.

"The regent of Quang Binh has arrived!"

Usually, the emperor is away from home, and an important figure (usually the crown prince) stays at the palace to handle state affairs on his behalf.It also refers to the fact that the monarch is unable to personally govern the government, and others act on his behalf.

Cheng Shijie is not the emperor now, but he is exercising the emperor's authority.

Lu Weiqi and others immediately looked serious and bowed to salute.

"Greetings to His Royal Highness, the Regent of the Supervisory Country. May your Majesty be safe!"

"You are free!"

Cheng Shijie waved his hand and said: "I'm very sorry. I was handling state affairs and couldn't come as promised. I was rude and discourteous. I will punish myself with three cups of wine!"

If he were Emperor Chongzhen now, most of the people present would not sell his face or even show off, even Cheng Shijie. Of course, the premise is that after Cheng Shijie took Nanjing, he did not raid the homes of gentry officials or go to Zhanzhou in one go. More than [-] people were exiled.

In fact, this is only the first batch, and more people will be exiled to Zhanzhou in the future. Faced with this situation, who dares to show off in front of He Shijie.

Even if you are not afraid of death, you are still afraid that your whole family will be blamed for it.

The arrival of Cheng Shijie brought an end to the dispute between Mo Hua and other Confucianists. Cheng Shijie looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone, please don't get excited. Although I am not a descendant of the Mohist school, I have a very strong attitude toward the Mohist school of scholarship that places little emphasis on talk but emphasizes practice." I admire and admire the knowledge and personality of the Mohist sages of the past dynasties. Of course, I have no prejudice against Confucianism. I am just very disgusted with a group of fools who know what they are doing but don’t know why! Do you know what the problem is? "

Everyone was silent.

Mo Hua always thought that Cheng Shijie was a descendant of a branch of the Moh family. This could not be blamed on Mo Hua for misunderstanding Cheng Shijie, because Cheng Shijie looked too much like a descendant of the Moh family.

Ever since Cheng Shijie traveled east to southern Liaoning, he has vigorously encouraged people to farm in the past few years, vigorously attracted refugees, adopted a work-for-relief approach to relieve the people, vigorously invented and promoted geometry, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other subjects, and no matter what he did They all strive to use technology to solve problems. Not only does the Mohist school regard him as a descendant of the Mohist school, but in fact, the Confucian school also regards Cheng Shijie as a descendant of the Mohist school.

Mo Hua murmured to himself: "Oh, I am so confused that I mistakenly thought that the king was the descendant of which branch. Our Mo family can finally feel proud again. It turned out to be a misunderstanding..."

As early as when Cheng Shijie rewarded Guo Xin with 50 taels of silver in one go and supported him in establishing an engineering college, Mo Hua thought this was Cheng Shijie's tacit understanding and used this method to secretly develop the Mo family.

"Don't be discouraged, you tycoon. Although I am not a descendant of the Mohist family, I can help the Mohist family recruit many disciples. Liaodong Institute of Technology will be renamed the Mohist Academy. You tycoon can act with integrity!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "When I return to Liaodong, I can let Quanzi worship Juzi as his teacher!"

Mo Hua was shocked: "Let...let His Highness the Crown Prince worship me as my master!?"

"I'm not afraid to tell you that Quanzi is very interested in these miscellaneous subjects. Old gentleman, if you show your hand at anything, he will become devoted to you as his teacher!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Think about it, if Quanzi worships you as his teacher and learns real skills from you, plus there are more and more factories in the Ming Dynasty and more and more workers, why worry about Mo not being interested in learning!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

For Mo Hua, this is already the best result.

However, this news is simply terrible news for Confucians.There is Cheng Shijie, who has caused Confucianism to fall from the altar to the mortal world, plus Cheng Jialong, when will this kind of life end?
Cheng Shijie's eyes asked: "Mr. Tinglin?"

"The students are here!"

Gu Yanwu bowed and said: "I am ashamed to be called sir!"

"I heard that you are in Fushe and advocate Xu Jun?"

Gu Yanwu broke into a cold sweat immediately.

The imperial power of the Ming Dynasty has always been real power. As the head of state, he also enjoys absolute political participation and decision-making rights. The cabinet and other institutions are given shared rights and can interfere in the country's political process. There is no lapse in power.The last words left by Emperor Chongzhen in history: "I am not the king who will subjugate the country, but all my ministers will be the ministers of the country's subjugation!"

This is actually a kind of behavior of passing the blame.The Ming Dynasty's cabinet was not a prime minister. It had voting power (i.e., the power to make suggestions) but no actual decision-making power. It was roughly a secretarial agency.

Although the power of the cabinet later increased, the problem was that Chongzhen could change cabinet members with just one sentence, and the chief minister could change them at his request. No queen could change the prime minister at will, unless the prime minister made a mistake in governing, otherwise she could not change him.

It is precisely because of this situation that Gu Yanwu believes that the emperor's power is too great. If an emperor is incompetent, the country will fall into an unprecedented crisis.

"Students are reckless, students are frivolous, and students deserve death!"

Gu Yanwu immediately thought of the hidden meaning of Cheng Shijie's words. Cheng Shijie was not the emperor now, and even the current Dingxin Dynasty cabinet was different from the Ming Dynasty cabinet, but he actually had the power to govern.

It happened that the Prime Minister of the Dingxin Dynasty, Sun Zhiman, first carried out land reform in the northern provinces, and then pursued taxes, causing the gentry all over the world to flee south. The Ming army captured Nanjing and began to ransack their homes. How many gentry officials have had their families broken up and died. If there are rumors in the future that Cheng Shijie is acting according to his opinion, Mr. Xu, even if he is just a mouthful, it is impossible to tell.

"Okay, what a scholar thinks is that empty talk will harm the country!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "I have always advocated that professional people should do professional things. Scholars should study in the school, doctors should work hard to cure diseases and save people, soldiers should kill the enemy and defend the country, and craftsmen should make products. merchandise, and strive to improve machinery and equipment.”

"Your Majesty, Shengming!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You all know that I established agriculturists in Liaodong to revive farmers, established a medical school, and revived doctors. Now it is Mo College. I hope that a hundred schools of thought can contend like in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. , let a hundred flowers bloom!”

Cheng Shijie not only needs to reform Confucianism, but also needs to reform the imperial examination system. No matter how the examination content is reformed in the future imperial examinations, it will not change the tendency of scholars to harm the country.

The only way is to make the imperial examination and official position no longer directly equated.

Why can you become an official just by passing the exam?

Without any management experience, wouldn’t this be a disservice to the country and the people?
Fortunately, Cheng Shijie has homework to copy. He can completely copy the civil service system. At the same time, he can adopt the system of Hansteel Group. In Hansteel Group, generally speaking, when there are vacancies in leadership positions, they are recruited through internal competition. As for the imperial examination system , is to give ordinary people a fair treatment.

Just as Cheng Shijie was finishing the banquet, Zhou Ning came over in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, something happened?" (End of Chapter)