Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 360 Shameless

"The Holy Sage has spoken, the star appears and disaster arises, this is the public opinion!"

The dead duck retorted, and Li Ye said: "What is a star? This is a statement with ulterior motives. The comet appears once in 76 years. Count the days. In four years, the comet will appear again. At that time, you still want me to ask you to come?" Are you guilty of the imperial edict?"

"This……"

Kong Wei was dumbfounded and said: "Your Majesty, be careful what you say. Confucius said: If a country suffers from drought, doesn't it mean that the monarch has lost his virtue? Gongyang said: There are two precepts in heaven, so they are great. Dong Zi said: In the relationship between heaven and man, the two become one. , these sages and saints said that the emperor is the son of heaven, and the words and deeds of the emperor are related to the way of heaven and all the people. This is the response of heaven and man!"

Du Rangneng, Pei Jian and others stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, be careful what you say!"

Li Ye shook his head. He naturally understood what they meant. The principle of communication between heaven and man is to maintain the legitimacy of the emperor's rule. The emperor obeys the way of heaven and obeys the people. Every word and deed must be in line with the way of heaven. Confucianism puts forward this point and conforms to it. In order to understand the emperor's desire to fool the people, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dismissed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism and Taoism.

If you deny the connection between heaven and man, you are denying the legitimacy of the emperor. The emperor is not the emperor, he is just an ordinary person. Anyone in the world can do it. The emperor, let me ask you if you are afraid!

Li Ye said quietly and looked around at the officials.

He is a bit powerless. If you reason with him, he will talk to you about the legal system, jump out of the Three Realms, and will not reason with you. He also ties the emperor's legitimacy to it, denying everything.

In fact, everyone can see clearly that the emperor is the one who gets the most power.

But Confucianism also introduced the theory of the Five Virtues. If the emperor's virtue is corrupted and the country's fortunes are not good, he must be replaced by a virtuous one.

This circle of truths is intertwined and self-justifying.

Can you, the emperor, openly object?
To oppose is to oppose yourself.

It is because Confucianism grasped the psychology of emperors that it became more and more popular.

Kong Wei's words changed Li Ye's mind. He originally felt that Confucianism was deeply rooted and it was impossible to change all of a sudden.

The emperor's face was calm and calm. Some words were really not suitable for him to say. He was about to shake people off and glanced at Xu Yanshi.

Xu Yanshi understood, stepped out and clasped his fists and said: "What Mr. Kong said is untrue. Your Majesty is ordered by heaven. This is the way of heaven. However, Master's theory about the star is just a coincidence. Your Majesty has just confirmed that the comet will happen once every 76 years." , this is the principle of the movement of heaven and earth. Master said that the four seasons are constant and everything has its own reason. That's it. Why should we make mistakes in a moment?"

Veins popped up on Kong Wei's face, and he shouted: "How can I allow you to misinterpret the words of the sage? If you are uneducated and skillless, don't talk to me!"

In front of hundreds of officials, Xu Yanshi was scolded and looked disgraced. Kong Wei, a veteran of three dynasties, had a deep foundation, which can be seen.

To Li Ye's surprise, Han Wo, a member of the Ministry of Revenue, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I also have doubts about Buxing's theory. During the Anshi Rebellion, not even one of the five people in the world had a household registration. No less than ten million people died due to the war. 20 years ago. The Huangchao Rebellion wreaked havoc in more than 100 prefectures in Jiangnan, Lingnan, Huainan, and the capital. Tens of millions of people died. These were disasters for the world, but I did not see any visions happening in heaven. It can be seen that the nature of this vision was It’s not very accurate to say!”

Han Wo did not deny it. He said it very tactfully, but the meaning was very clear. You have said that the saints said that heaven and humans can sense it. Now that the disaster has happened, where has your sense gone?

"Your Majesty, I have read historical records. There are droughts and floods in the world from time to time. Last year there was a severe drought in Guanzhong. During Dezong's time, the chaos between the two emperors and the four kings was not a phenomenon. Now the country is at peace and the world is stable, but there is such a thing as a toad eclipsing the moon. This is something I cannot understand. In the fourth year of Dazhong, the country was stable, but there was a vision of a toad swallowing the sun. What is the reason for this?"

Kong Wei said to Han Wo: "If the state has loyal ministers, it will not perish. If the state has sycophants, the world will be uneasy. You agree with the emperor and invite favors with sophistry in order to gain advancement. You are really not a human being."

Han Wo, like Xu Yanshi, was scolded into disgrace.

Li Ye finally understood that you can never wake up a person who is pretending to sleep.

"Go ahead!"

"Your Majesty, be close to virtuous people and stay away from villains, otherwise there will be disaster!"

"His Majesty!"

Treating himself as a wise man and treating others as villains, Li Ye finally got to know Kong Wei's shamelessness, Zhang Jun and Kong Wei.

In the original history, he advocated the use of troops against Hedong and lost all the remaining flesh and blood of the imperial court. It turns out that the demise of the Tang Dynasty was inextricably linked to this person.

Yan Chongben, on the other hand, was imprisoned in the prison of the Yushan Guards. Yan Chongben, a young prisoner of the Sitian Prison, could not be so bold. If he said such a thing to the emperor, there must be someone behind him.

As for Du Rangneng, Li Ye left Du Rangneng alone. "What happened yesterday?"

"..."

Du Rangneng said nothing.

Li Ye took a long sigh and said: "I just want the people to have something to eat, and I want to warn the scholar-bureaucrats not to be too greedy. You also witnessed the Huangchao disaster 20 years ago. Huangchao raised troops and responded to his call. Most of the people who followed him couldn't eat. This kind of world Aren’t the disasters going to wake people up?”

"Taizong said that the emperor is a boat and the people are water. Water can carry a boat but also capsize it. I am planning for the people. What's wrong with me!"

Du Rangneng let out a long sigh and said: "Your Majesty, I also think that the political theory is reasonable, but when I remember things, I read the words of the saints and practice the ways of the saints. I am stupid and I really don't know which is right or wrong!"

Li Ye paced back and forth, and then said to Du Rongneng: "Now there are only two of us, out of my mouth and into your ears."

Du Rang Neng nodded.

Li Ye said in a deep voice: "The emperor of the Han Dynasty killed the White Snake and named him the Red Emperor's son. His mother had intercourse with the Red Snake and became pregnant. Does Du Gong think it is true?"

"I thought I was exaggerating, but that's not true!"

"Then why do you write it like this!"

"This... Your Majesty, I dare not say such disrespectful words!"

"I forgive you for your innocence!"

"I dare not!"

Li Ye let out a long sigh and said, "Go back!"

Like a deep ditch lying in front of the emperor and his ministers at this time, Du Rangneng also felt that he and the emperor could no longer be as close as before.

Li Ye has never encountered such resistance before, and he needs to think carefully about what to do next.

"Your Majesty, I retire!"

Li Ye waved his hand!
Du Rangneng came out of the palace to wait, and his chamberlain Zhao Xi came in.

"Go and summon Hanlin scholar Xu Yanshi!"

"promise!"

Not long after, Xu Yanshi entered!
"His Majesty!"

Li Ye said: "What Wenzheng Dian said today was very good!"

"I am incompetent! I cannot solve your Majesty's worries!"

Li Ye said: "It's none of your business! I have something for you to do!"

"Please show your Majesty!"

"First, offer a reward to anyone in the world who can grind a one-foot piece of crystal into a mirror-flat surface.

Second, whoever can cast a copper pipe one inch thick with a half-inch hole, and a copper barrel one foot thick with a half-inch hole will also be rewarded with thousands of coins.

three……"

(End of this chapter)