The emperor's face gradually calmed down, but all of them had palpitations. In the eyes of the world, there is no doubt that the monarch of the Song dynasty is at the top of this power structure, has the most respectful position, and is also the source of power.

The monarch only exists as a symbol of sovereignty, a model of morality, and a representative of etiquette, and does not need to govern concretely; The power to govern the country is held by an accountable and replaceable imperial court, which in the words of the Song people themselves, is called "the power belongs to the master, and the government is written in the book". In this way, it can be said that the emperor's power is completely deprived, and when the bodhisattva is offered, this is exactly what the emperor cannot tolerate.

Therefore, several people accompanying the driver were silent, not daring to say a word, for fear of arousing the anger of the little emperor again. But what they think is still a little biased, of course Zhao Yu is unwilling to let go of the power, especially not worrying about handing it over to these scholars. On the other hand, in his previous life, after all, he lived in a modern democratic society, and he did not reject co-governance, but the problem is that the current can only be said to be a bud at most, but there is no basis for co-governance.

Then there is the great change in the scholars, and instead of reflecting on their mistakes, they put the blame on the emperor, thinking that it was the failure to implement the Confucian concept of governing the world that led to the collapse of the country. He still emphasizes the merits of the scholars in the past, misses the 'good' life of the past, does not touch the root of the matter at all, does not dare to face his own mistakes, and just blindly shirks responsibility.

Thinking about the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, choosing to rule the world with scholars and doctors is actually not without the meaning of the situation. At that time, Zhao Kuangyin played the trick of 'yellow robe and body' and robbed the young emperor of the Chai family from the world, and he also knew that he was not in the right position, and there was no way to confront the greedy civil officials and the military bureaucracy system that was eyeing power. In order to consolidate the throne, he vigorously suppressed the power of military generals, supported the so-called "monarchs, ministers, ministers" of Confucian civil officials who were in a weak position, and engaged in the system of civil and military affairs.

The true Confucian way of governing the country should be to govern the world with benevolence and righteousness, to appease the people with virtue, to soften China with virtue, and to form the law of the inner and outer kings. In other words, scholars should be the mediator between the royal family and the lower-class people, help the emperor understand the people's will, conform to the people's will, help the people strive for their interests, and finally achieve the political ideal of "the road is also the road and the world is for the public" mentioned in the "Rites and Fortunes".

However, Zhao Yu thought that this also laid the root of the repeated disasters of the Great Song Dynasty, and they chose the most dependent scholars and doctors to rule the world together, but in fact, they chose their own fate. In his opinion, the two values of "fame and wealth" and "governing the country and leveling the world" are not mutually exchanging in scholars, and should coexist, after all, no one is a sage, and in the deep layer of the psyche, there is still a latent **, which can be suppressed, but cannot be eliminated, and it will bubble up from time to time.

"Governing the country and leveling the world" is based on the moral norms produced by the core culture of Confucianism, which requires members of society to rationally suppress their personal instincts and instincts, obey the needs of the harmonious development of social groups, and dissolve any individual requirements with the rationality of "benevolence", and put the interests of the country and the monarch in the supreme position. After a long period of historical precipitation, it has become a kind of national collective unconscious, deeply rooted in the entire cultural education.

Zhao Hao thought that the fault was that both sides did not correct their positions. The monarchs of the Song Dynasty treated scholars with courtesy and gave them more generous than their predecessors, and finally formed a bureaucratic political system that only pursued the interests of the group, cultivating a kind of scholarly personality that lacked enterprising spirit, and the bureaucratic gentry system swelled to an unbelievable level. The final result was that Confucianism developed into Confucianism, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and bent on male thieves and female prostitutes.

Since the development of Confucianism to Confucianism, the hierarchical order has been unprecedentedly strengthened, the highest level of scholars, farmers and businessmen, and the highest level of scholars, and the imperial power to rule the world, the Song Dynasty minister Wen Yanbo once said: "In order to rule the world with scholars, not with the people to rule the world.", so far the scholars of the Song Dynasty completely abandoned the duty of establishing their hearts and minds for the people, and stood on the opposite side of the people.

In addition to studying to gain fame and become an official and a soldier, soldiers, craftsmen, slaves, prostitutes and the like are naturally of low status. Under this strict hierarchical order, the soldiers and the common people lived without dignity, and there was a class rift within the nation that was difficult to heal, and the hierarchical oppression made the Han nation no longer an invincible whole, but a scattered individual with hostility and hatred of each class.

The sage also said, "If you treat me as a countryman, I should repay you as a countryman!" You treat me as a passerby, and I repay you as a passerby! When a system allows the elite to treat the common people as slaves without the slightest mercy, when a court has never treated the people as human beings, the result is that 'the country does not know that there are people, and the people know that there is a country'......

Zhao Yu felt that it was meaningless for him to stay, and left Qinglin Temple without waiting for the banquet to begin, seeing that he was displeased, he closed his eyes and took a nap in the car, Ma Duanlin and the others did not dare to speak, and the carriage drove towards the city in silence.

"How do you deal with this?" Zhao Yu pretended to sleep in the rickety car, but his brain was not idle, still thinking about the problem ahead, he understood that a nation that did not reflect on its mistakes is hopeless, the fall of a big country, the decline of a big nation must be the internal factors play a leading role, only calm down and seriously reflect on themselves, sum up lessons and lessons, take history as a mirror, and change the past, in order to avoid our nation sinking again, the loss of the country is terrible, but what is more terrible than the death of the country is to repeat the mistakes of the past again and again, and he does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

It has been more than 200 years since Taizu founded the country, and he has twice faced the danger of losing the country. Zhao Yu thought that he could have rearranged and opened up a new political space when the Song dynasty crossed to the south, but the scholars and bureaucrats still followed the collective laws of the Northern Song Dynasty and Liao, and stayed in the creed of suppressing the warriors for a while, and the death of Yue Fei in the eleventh year of Shaoxing not only symbolized the tragic fate of a hero in a historical predicament, but also marked that the politics of the Song Dynasty were once again permanently closed in the predicament of history.

What we see is that after the southern crossing, although many scholars and doctors got rid of the filth of the famous officialdom at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and showed their pure and noble souls from time to time, they were not all so crazy and enthusiastic about profit, chasing and fighting in the officialdom, and ignoring the interests of the country and the nation. Especially when the disaster of the country is approaching and the catastrophe falls from the sky, we do see the prototype of Confucian personality in many scholars.

But more often than not, it is "martyrdom" and "empathy", as well as another new utilitarian "empathy" with the goal of "applying it to the world". As far as the Confucian priests and doctors who were lucky enough to escape the country are concerned, as long as the Taoist system of Confucianism is still there, the status of the Confucian officials is still there, and other lowly classes such as soldiers are not turned over, it does not matter.

And the scholars who are servant to the foreign regime can still be high, what does it matter if the ruler is Han or foreign? What does it matter if the people of the Great Song Dynasty were killed in a river of blood? Maintaining Confucianism and Taoism is the most important thing. He also actively sought the rationality of ruling the Central Plains for the foreign rulers, fabricated the pseudo-theory of "entering the summer will be Xia, and entering the raze will be razed", and took the initiative to surrender to the foreign race.

This once again proves that the influence of the core culture of Confucianism on traditional Chinese scholars and doctors is deeply rooted in the bone marrow and has tenacious vitality. Even the science that emerged in the Southern Song Dynasty was only aimed at the "human desire" stimulated by the development of the commodity economy, and tried to rely on "introspection" to suppress the "**", trying to resolve the inherent contradiction contained in the "fame and fame" of traditional society.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, science also failed to solve the problems faced by the scholar group, and the officialdom became more and more popular, and there were many scholars who still maintained noble personalities and traditional ideals. However, due to the current situation, they were isolated from the imperial examination and officialdom, and once these people set foot in the officialdom and witnessed all kinds of shady and tragic situations, they quickly fell from fanaticism to pessimism and disappointment. As a result, we can see not only those who are cynical and regard politics as a tool for self-interest, but also those who regard wealth and nobility as floating clouds and officials as "clear streams", and even those who see through the red dust and enter the path of meditation to escape the world.

At the time of the invasion of the Mongol and Yuan dynasties and the end of the Great Song Dynasty, the scholars were faced with an unprecedented crisis of losing the country and the world. When they retreated to Qiongzhou, they also reflected, thinking hard about "why the trend of the world is so far", and they hope to find the realm of "willows and flowers" that "can be saved".

But from Zhao Yu's point of view, they mainly start from reviewing the gains and losses of the Song Dynasty's governance, but the history since Qin Shi Huang is traced to the end of their thinking. The various systems of traditional society, such as the county system, the system of officials, the system of well fields, the system of money and grain, the system of imperial examination schools, the system of election and employment, and so on, were all judged by historical speculation before them, but they did not address the root causes.

As for the narrowness of this, Zhao Yu also knew that they could not see that there was another world beyond this, and that there were no new social models or ideological resources to learn from and compare, so they could only seek help from earlier historical resources in ancient books. On the surface, it seems that they want to go back to the "three generations", but they are not regressive, and historical speculation makes them genius guess the many fatal shortcomings of the ancient monarchy ** system, and imagine the possibility of various school rescues. However, this kind of reflection is still only repeated in terms of concrete countermeasures......