People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 155 The Power of Stories, This is Dragon Slaying

Zhu Yuanzhang listened patiently, he was already powerless to complain.

"The appearance that makes people remember, and then the story that the audience likes to hear and see. Emotion is essential. A love-hate relationship is the necessary condiment of the story...

Exaggerated characters, coupled with a well-paced story..."

Zhang Yi himself was also fascinated by the words, he had long forgotten Zhu Yuanzhang and his son, and wrote the outline of the novel by himself.

Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were dumbfounded, watching Zhang Yi write a novel based on himself.

Old Zhu couldn't tell what it felt like, he felt that if there was a crack in the ground, he would probably get in.

It's so embarrassing.

Is he still the person in the story?

But his attention was inevitably attracted by Zhang Yi's story.

This little guy is really good at writing stories.

Zhang Yi finished compiling the outline of the book "Zhenwu Great Emperor Descends to Earth to Save the World" that he wrote casually, and Zhu Biao couldn't help but say:

"This story is beautiful, Zhang family brother, how about you write him out, as long as you write it out, I am willing to buy it..."

In exchange for his words, Lao Zhu glared at him.

This villain, is he sure he wants to fool Zhang Yi into writing a novel that makes him look like a shoehorn?
If this boy dares to write, he dares to execute everyone on and off Longhu Mountain Ling Chi.

Openly spreading rumors, he can't catch Zhang Han or Zhang Yi?
Lao Zhu was a little worried, for fear that Zhang Yi would agree, but Zhang Yi changed his pen and began to write the second story outline.

In this story, it is also the story of Zhu Yuanzhang's struggle to become the emperor, but the character design has changed a lot...

He has become insidious, scheming... an unpleasant character who plots against everyone.

Deng Zhongxiu sent roast goose, wine and vegetables, and did not delay Zhang Yi from continuing to write the outline.

Finally he finished the second story, put it in front of Lao Zhu, and said with a smile:
"Uncle, what's the difference?"

These two stories are actually pretty much the same.

The only difference is that the persona about Lao Zhu has changed.

One is pleasing, and the other gives a bad impression.

He thought about it, this is probably the way Zhang Yi said to use the subconscious to change and guide public opinion.

In fact, if he didn't mind, the whole story about the shoehorn face would have been mentioned.

But Zhu Yuanzhang asked himself, if he liked the story itself, would he still remember the appearance of the emperor.

The same as the emperor's appearance, there is also a portrayal of Zhu Yuanzhang!

One is stalwart and upright, emphasizing love and righteousness, and the other...

This is the power of words!

It is also the reason why he is afraid of scholars.

"The unreliable unofficial history of the past dynasties probably came about like this!

Do you still think that the platform of booksellers or what the kid is doing is irrelevant?
In fact, don’t talk about changing a person’s impression, as long as you do it well, many things that are black can be explained to you, and history can also be changed..."

"Is it too exaggerated?"

Zhang Yi wrote a few words on the paper.
"Three Kingdoms"!
"When the boy writes this book later, you can see the effect!"

"Okay, let me publish this book!"

Zhang Yi was taken aback by Zhu Yuanzhang's sudden request. Didn't the Huang family not set foot in the bookseller industry?

It should be noted that the bookseller industry is not so easy to work in. It does not mean that you rent a shop and sell books to become a bookseller, but at most you open a bookstore.

It is basic to have your own printing workshop, and the most important thing is to have your own channels.

In this era without copyright, it is a test of contacts and channels to quickly promote a book and then sell it.

The Huang family's father and son came to Yingtian for the first time, and it is already very remarkable to be able to gain a firm foothold in Yingtian Mansion.

If he can still open a bookstore, Zhang Yi will have to re-examine Huang He's connections.

"Uncle, do you want to open a bookstore?"

"Ok!"

"It's not easy being a bookseller. Uncle didn't like this business just now!"

Zhang Yi's mouth was dedicated to picking which pot was not open, but given Lao Zhu's city, he naturally ignored his words.

"I learned a lot from you, and I found that it can actually be used in shopping malls... Since you said that being a bookseller can provide a [platform], then I have no reason not to do it!
By the way, is there a book for the "Communication" you mentioned? You can copy it, and I will ask for it! "

After Zhu Yuanzhang had been brewing for so long, he pretended to be nonchalant and made this request with Zhang Yi.

But Zhang Yi didn't even think about it, he smiled and shook his head, saying:
"I don't want to hurt uncle!"

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were stunned. This was the first time Zhang Yi would refuse his request.

Seeing that the father and son were surprised, Zhang Yi smiled and said:

"It's okay for Pindao to brag to you, but if this knowledge falls into words, it will be a disaster of killing lives!
When this kind of content is written, it is no longer a banned book, but an outright anti-book!
So, uncle, don't think about it, it's best not to record what I told you!
It is one thing to apply what you have learned, but be careful to record it in a book and cause a catastrophe! "

Zhang Yi's bragging is just bragging, but he himself is a bit of a braggart.

Some theories are placed in this world, and they are properly dancing on the emperor's scales.

Zhang Yi also bullied and bullied that there was no Jin Yiwei at this time, or that the Jin Yiwei of old Zhu Yichao was not as inflated as Zhu Di's time.

Otherwise, he wouldn't even dare to brag to Huang He and his son.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was full of unwillingness, but Zhang Yi refused, and in his capacity, he would naturally not force it.

He took a deep breath:

"Finally you still know the seriousness, I thought you were not afraid of anything?

If this communication theory spreads, the emperor may indeed kill you! "

Zhang Yi smiled and said:

"Not only the emperor, but even those scholar-bureaucrats will kill me, the kind where the monarch and his ministers are united!"

He said something funny, and Zhu Biao couldn't help laughing out loud.

Immediately, he asked curiously:

"If it's the emperor, I still understand, why do the scholar-bureaucrats also hate you?"

Zhang Yi said:
"Brother, you are also a person who seeks fame and fame, and you also know that scholars, farmers, businessmen, and scholars have the highest social status...

But have you ever wondered why this is so?

Why can the scholar-official class, who are not engaged in production, be superior to industrial, commercial and peasants?

It's not because they monopolize the right to spread culture!

And to monopolize this kind of power, the emperor has to rely on them to govern the world. They become the emperor's brothers and share power with the emperor!
It is precisely because of the monopoly on culture that even if the Mongols came to the Central Plains, they would no longer look down on Confucianism,
Make good use of these people too! "

"So, regarding cultural monopoly itself, it is the root of the scholar-bureaucrat class!

And what is the monopoly of culture divided into?
One is the monopoly of enlightenment, using Confucianism as the national school, the official school, unifying the thoughts of all people, so that the moral standards of this country must be implemented according to their ideas! .

Enlightenment is obvious learning, but to the extreme, people subconsciously follow their rules of conduct to act!

They define what is good and evil, what is etiquette, and what is morality. Even the emperor can't get rid of these!
All of this is done in the name of Confucius as the most holy teacher, but it may not be the true meaning of Confucius. Anyway, after the formation of Confucianism, the right to interpret good and evil in the world also falls into the hands of Confucianists.

Every aspect of this world has been arranged to die by them, how can it be not strong to have such authority? "

Zhang Yi's words were straightforward, but Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were uncomfortable hearing them.

The two of them are the same unresistible emperor and future emperor that Zhang Yi said.

Especially Zhu Biao, the education he received since he was a child is also the most orthodox Confucianism, and he is also the future emperor.

When Zhang Yi opposed Confucianism and the emperor, it was the most difficult for him to accept.

"The teachings of the sages are above all else... It is natural for the king to observe the rituals!"

Zhang Yi waited for Zhu Biao's words, and he asked Zhu Biao:
"Uncle Huang, if Big Brother Huang tells you in the future that he wants to find you a widow as a wife, do you agree?"

Before Zhu Yuanzhang could speak, Zhu Biao couldn't bear it first, and said directly:
"Brother Zhang, I have no complaints with you. What do you mean by that?"

"Hello widow, caring, witty..."

Zhu Biao jumped up, blushing:

"How could I marry such an unfaithful woman?"

Zhang Yi was surprised: "When did Confucius say that widows are not chaste?"

"It's Zhu Zi..."

As soon as Zhu Biao finished speaking, Zhang Yi asked, "Is it Zhu Zi or Confucius?"

He was dumbfounded and couldn't speak for a long time.

Zhang Yi asked again:

"Emperor Jing's wife, Emperor Wu's mother, but an unfaithful person...?
Why can't you marry the Emperor Jing? "

Under Zhang Yi's tricky question, Zhu Biao was at a loss for what to do, and he was still far behind when he quarreled with Zhang Yi.

"Sit down. In fact, your Zhang family brother is not targeting chastity itself, but wants to tell you one thing. Your concept of good and evil is defined by others..."

Zhu Yuanzhang has experienced the vicissitudes of life, and he can grasp the key points of Zhang Yi's words better than Zhu Biao.

He helped Zhang Yi explain:

"What Zhang Yixiang said was about chastity, not a sage's teaching, but in the name of a sage, a great Confucianist can derive many things by explaining the meaning of the scriptures!
These people can frame all kinds of rules for the people of the world, and even the emperor must act within the rules and not move!

For example, they also respect Confucianism, so why didn't there be any theory of chastity in the Han Dynasty, or they didn't take this kind of thing seriously!

But by this time, it has become a matter of course, a concept that is taken for granted? "

Zhang Yi used the theory of chastity as a metaphor, but Lao Zhu didn't like it.

However, he was still patient and said what Zhang Yi wanted to express.

"The emphasis on chastity is a theory that emerged after Cheng Zhu's Confucianism. If you regard Cheng Zhu as a saint, you must abide by their concept of good and evil!
But is Cheng Zhu's study a sacred study, and can it be compared with the most holy teacher? "

Zhang Yi's words had a great impact on Zhu Biao himself, and even Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

No matter how rebellious Zhu Yuanzhang is, he is also a native born and bred person living in this era.

A hundred years have passed since Cheng Zhu's Confucianism flourished.

In the past hundred years, the influence of Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism on the people of the world has penetrated the bone marrow.

The mere mention of Zhang Yi's words made people feel that he was rebellious and deserved to be beaten to death.

Everyone has a position, and the position of the two is still the position of the king who conflicts with the power of the prime minister, which is so uncomfortable.

But Zhang Yi was afraid that they would not feel uncomfortable enough, so he continued:

"Actually, the so-called emphasis on chastity is nothing more than the fact that after the Jingkang disaster, the men of the Song Dynasty were incapable and furious, and they just spilled their anger on women!"

The irony in Zhang Yi's tone made both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao want to punch this guy in the face.

"Forget it, don't mention this...

Going back to the original question, it is the power of scholar-bureaucrats!

With the power of enlightenment, they have the power to define the good and evil in this world. This power is based on the teaching power obtained after deifying the most holy teacher!
So they supported the Confucian family and enjoyed incense for generations.
It is to endorse this kind of power!
After defining the concept of good and evil, the world is running according to their rules, so it is natural to obtain the power to share the world with the king, but the prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world is for profit.

Since the world is shared, there is also a struggle between the king and the scholar-bureaucrats...

But in this struggle, generally speaking, the king must not be able to fight against the scholar-bureaucrats...

This involves another kind of power that scholars can control, which is the monopoly of the right to spread culture!
Mastering the power of enlightenment and turning the people of the world into their own followers, the channel of preaching is naturally in their hands.

Most of the literate people are Confucian believers. Although the king sits on the throne, his voice needs to be spread by the scholar-official class.

Just as those people can distort and interpret the sage's words, they can also distort and interpret the emperor's will at will!

Words are passed on, in fact, to a large extent, they still have the final say!

If the king is strong, he can suppress the scholar-bureaucrat group and use their internal struggles to balance each other!
If the king is weak, these scholar-bureaucrats can treat them as mascots and put them in the palace as they did to the Kong family! "

"Do you think the current emperor is strong or weak?"

"Of course it is strong!"

Zhang Yi answered Lao Zhu's question: "Although Emperor Hongwu has just ascended the throne and has not even passed the novice stage, he has now shown the means of a strong emperor, and he is vaguely divided into two factions in the court...

Yong Ping knows very well that dividing up the scholar-bureaucrat class and allowing the king to reap the benefits of the fisherman can also suppress the scholar-bureaucrat group to death!

It's a pity that the emperor's future reputation will definitely not be good!

He doesn't abide by the unspoken rules between the king and the scholar-bureaucrats. Naturally, many people will use the second power I mentioned to slander him and assign him...

This kind of power, even the emperor can't interfere, there is nothing to do!
Just like I used the novel as an example just now, this is a routine operation for scholars to spread rumors about someone!
You said, if someone wrote these operations and turned them into "Communication Studies", would he be crushed to death by those scholar-bureaucrats? "

At this time, Zhu Biao suddenly realized.

To some extent, communication studies is to expose the unspoken rules that have been circulating for hundreds of years at once.

For the emperor, this is not just a deadly taboo.

For the scholar-official class, this is also something that can move their interests.

Master the dissemination of knowledge, and then educate those uneducated people.

This chain of interests cannot be touched by anyone.

"Actually, it is said that the true dragon of the emperor, boy, I think this China started with Dong Zhongshu's exclusive respect for Confucianism, and Confucianism is the real dragon who truly controls the destiny of China...

This great dragon hovering above the sky of China is the real sky!
The emperor of flowing water, the Confucianism of iron!
The so-called son of heaven is not the son of heaven, but..."

What he said was not intended, but the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not listen to it well.

Zhu Yuanzhang's chest seemed to be blocked by a stone. He was very afraid of Confucianism, or the power of the prime minister represented by Confucianism itself.

Once Zhang Yi's stinking mouth spoke, he became even more restless.

But he also understood that what Zhang Yi said was reasonable, so what if he knew it.

The concept of good and evil in this world, moral right and wrong, are all aspects. In fact, the framework has long been set by people.

Even he, a rebellious emperor, must not obey.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have suppressed his own heart to keep Kong Kejian...

Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath, as if he wanted to suppress the difficulty in his heart.

He couldn't help but sarcastically:

"If it is said that the great dragon of Confucianism is the sky hovering over China, then the so-called communication studies can't be accomplished by slaying the dragon?"

"How can it be so easy to slay a dragon?"

Zhang Yi smiled: "But you can't be wrong if you say it's a dragon-slaying technique!"

"If you want to kill this real dragon, it can be said to be very simple, or it can be said to be very difficult...

At least it's not something we ordinary people can think about! "

"What if the emperor wants to slay the dragon?"

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help it, and asked a rebellious question.

Prince Zhu Biao instantly turned pale, and looked at the emperor in horror.

Maybe, he never really understood what the emperor was thinking?
Maybe, in my father's heart, I really thought about slaying the dragon?

"Simple, but only the emperor can't afford it..."

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