Gao Panlong listened to the words of the Apocalypse and was very disapproving, he said: "Your Majesty, the ministers have heard those Taixi people say that they are free and equal, and their words are completely from the standpoint of their country, which is harmful to the Ming Dynasty and is not feasible." ”

Apocalypse asked, "What do you think is the harm?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "The sage said that kings and ministers will keep their duties, so that they will do their duties and be safe and sound, if everyone is equal, then who will do those things that are tiring and have little income?" Now the emperor is the respect of all the people, officials at all levels follow the left and right according to the quality, and the governance of the world can be handy, if everyone is the same, who commands whom? In that case, isn't Daming a complete mess? Therefore, it is absolutely not feasible for the minister to say that freedom and equality are not feasible. ”

Tianqi nodded and said: "Lord Gao is too worried, I don't mean that everyone should be equal now, it is unrealistic to really do this, as Lord Gao said, we really want to be equal, who will do those dangerous, tiring, boring things?" What I mean by this is that this is a trend, and we can do it in this direction, and we will do it step by step when we can do it. For example, if you cross a river by boat, should you get off the boat when you get to the river? But in the middle of the river, you can't get off the boat, because we haven't docked yet, and when we do get to the shore, we can't get off the boat even if we don't want to. ”

Gao Panlong thought for a while and asked: "The emperor said that it is a trend, so how does the emperor judge this trend?" A while ago, Liu Zongzhou and Lord Liu said that the election of officials is a trend, and he analyzed the process of appointing officials in previous dynasties. ”

Tianqi said: "I also came to the insight through the analysis of the past and the present, how the Ming Dynasty should develop seems to be a thousand things, but in fact, it is only necessary to figure out two issues, one is how the court should settle everyone, and the second is how the court should position the relationship between people. Through the comparison of ancient and modern times, and through the understanding of the Ming Dynasty and other countries outside the Ming Dynasty, such as Taixi, I finally came to a conclusion. It is to make everyone in the Ming Dynasty more and more free, and the relationship between people is more and more equal, which is the principle that the development of the Ming Dynasty should really follow, because this is the trend of development from ancient times to the present. ”

Gao Panlong asked: "Is the trend really that important?" ”

Apocalypse nodded and said: "Yes, you see the water in the big river, from west to east with thousands of troops and horses, this is not something that people can easily stop, the trend of history is the same, he gathered the will of the ancient sages and also represents the needs of future generations, our contemporary people only play a role in inheriting the past and opening up the future." Whether it is the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty and Song Zu, these fierce people cannot change this trend, and my cultural and martial arts are not as good as those of the previous monarchs, and I dare not go against the historical trend with my mantis arm. ”

Gao Panlong nodded and said: "The emperor is right, it is true that you can't move against the current, but the minister still doesn't know how the emperor analyzed this trend of equality and freedom." ”

Tianqi said: "Okay, I will try to say that Master Gao can analyze it correctly, does Lord Gao know that someone calls people outside the territory a gang?" This gang can be divided into raw and ripe.,It's said that the familiar fan is just a guard against my Ming, but it's also reasonable.,Even if there's a conflict, kill each other.。 And Shengfan is different.,Shengfan doesn't have a natural hostility to my Daming.,But once you kill someone, you'll cook and eat someone.,I don't know if Master Gao has heard of it? ”

Gao Panlong thought for a while and said: "Shufan because he is close to me and has been influenced by the holy virtue for a long time, so he can be more sensible and sensible, and Shengfan is a wild man who lives like a beast in the deep mountains and old forests, and they only want to have a full stomach and will naturally do the things of the beast." ”

Tianqi shook his head and said: "Master Gao should have read the "Thousand Character Text" since he was a child, and there is such a passage in it called 'Dragon Master Fire Emperor, Bird Official Emperor. The original writing is the clothing. It is said that it was only from the Fire Emperor that people began to learn writing and wear clothes. In ancient times, there was also the saying of the Suiren clan, saying that the Suiren clan began to teach people to cook food with fire to eat, so before the Suiren clan, were people drinking blood? Through these words, can we say that in ancient times, our ancestors were people who could not understand writing, did not wear clothes, drank blood, ate raw food, and lived? So what's the difference between them and the current ones? ”

Seeing that Gao Panlong was silent when he heard this, Tianqi continued: "If this is the case, our ancestors also ate people, and at that time, the natural conditions were poor, and we don't blame them for not being rude, don't say that even if people are in a hurry now, they will eat people." Zhang patrolled the city in the Tang Dynasty and Guiyang was besieged by rebels a few years ago, and it is said that they have all eaten people, and they can't be blamed for being in a hurry. We can analyze what was the state of the individual in ancient times? What is the relationship between people? ”

Gao Panlong thought for a while and said: "According to what the emperor said, the people at that time must have been very busy, busy hunting and picking wild fruits to eat all day long, and the relationship between people was also very tense. After Gao Panlong finished speaking, he also felt a little funny, and couldn't help but smile.

Tianqi said: "Let's not talk about him for the time being, let's talk about the Zhou Dynasty, when there was a minister named Baili Xi in the Yu State, who was the one who was finally redeemed by the Qin State with five sheepskins. When the Yu State was destroyed by the Jin State, Baili Xi and the monarchs of the Yu State both became prisoners of the Jin State and finally became slaves. Lord Gao, please see, at this time, after losing the battle and being caught, at most as a slave, instead of being boiled and eaten like in ancient times, is this a kind of progress? ”

Gao Panlong nodded and said, "That's true, it's always bad to eat people." ”

Tianqi said: "In ancient times, captives were slaughtered, boiled and eaten, and they were dragged to be slaves in the Zhou Dynasty. Not only that, the people of the Zhou Dynasty could not only be busy looking for food all day long, they could study, work, and do business, which shows that they were much more relaxed than the people of ancient times. In addition, in terms of employing people, as Liu Zongzhou and Lord Liu said, there are few people who are satisfied at the beginning, even if Cao Cao is like Cao Cao, who cherishes talents, he has to look at the door, and it is difficult for ordinary people to be officials and serve the country. ”

Gao Panlong said: "It is from these that the emperor derives that equality between people and freedom of people is the trend of national development? ”

Apocalypse said: "Yes, this is the trend of social development, which does not depend on the will of the individual, it was like this in the past, it is like this now, it will be like this in the future, and it will be like this. Anyone who tries to reverse this trend is bound to run into a head. We began to discuss the way of the king and the way of the minister, what is the Ming Jun and what is the loyal minister, at the beginning it was explained that the king is to accept advice and love the people without endowment, and loyal ministers need time to investigate, and now it seems that they are all wrong. Can we say that both the monarch and the courtiers must conform to the trend of historical development as the standard, and this standard is equality between people and personal freedom. ”

Gao Panlong finally understood the meaning of Tianqi calling him at this time, and Tianqi wanted to fundamentally deny Donglindang's concept, that is, not to measure whether the emperor's behavior was correct or not by whether he accepted advice and did not give him. The meaning of the apocalypse is to supervise each other based on equality and freedom, that is, to change the rules of courtiers and monarchs that have been practiced for hundreds of years to mutual supervision, if this is the case, the Donglin Party will not be able to stay out of the matter.

In the past, the task of the courtiers, especially the speech officials in the Imperial Court, was to supervise the words and deeds of the emperor, and they first stood on the moral high ground to speak casually, even if they were beaten by the emperor, they were not afraid that they could increase their popularity. Now it has become mutual supervision, that is, it is impossible to stand on the commanding heights, and everyone does not take a certain person's speech as a principle, but uses a certain truth as the standard to supervise each other.

It must be a good thing to put it in the past, because everyone is the same, no one has privileges, and the emperor is no exception, and the current situation is that the apocalypse doesn't matter what you do, you can't catch his handle, and the big and small officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have to talk and do things every day, and if they are not careful, they will make mistakes. In the past, it was the emperor who spoke and did things and was watched by many people who didn't do things, but now the emperor who doesn't do things stares at everyone who does things, which is the change of subject and object. Who knows that the more you do, the more you can make mistakes, and the most infallible is the person who doesn't do things, you can't walk on thin ice every moment and live every day with trepidation, right? What's the fun of being an official like that?

Gao Panlong thought for a while and said: "The emperor has this request, and there is no reason for the ministers to obey it, and it is not good for the courtiers to stare at the emperor all day long and prepare to advise, and it is also a good thing to follow a principle to supervise each other." However, what the emperor said is to take equality and freedom as the standard, and the ministers have to go back and think about it carefully, and they really get the consent of the majority, and the ministers will first make it public in the newspaper, so that everyone in the world can understand that the emperor is open-minded. ”

After Gao Panlong left, the apocalypse happily went to Kunning Palace, and the head of the Donglin Party was told by himself to go back and think carefully, and he didn't use the identity of the emperor to suppress it, this is indeed a happy thing, how can you not be proud of your own people when you have a happy thing?

When I arrived at Kunning Palace, I found that many people were playing mahjong together, and I was really a little carried away by yelling, and when I saw that the apocalypse was coming, someone hurriedly got up and let go, and the apocalypse sat down

Go up and start drawing cards. At this table, the queen and Feng Siqin sat down and sat down, and opposite sat Wei Xiaolan, who won the second place in the dragon boat meeting, Tianqi said: "No wonder you dare to play mahjong with Feng Siqin, it turns out that you have just made a stroke." ”

The queen said: "Look at the smile on the emperor's face, what's the good thing?" ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said: "I just exchanged opinions with the senior of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and decided that in the future, everyone will treat each other as equals and supervise each other, so that those officials will always stare at me in the future, and in the future, I will also stare at them, so that they will not feel comfortable." ”

Feng Siqin saw that the queen didn't ask again, so she said: "The emperor asked his concubines to assist the queen in managing the affairs of the palace, and in the morning I heard that the people who kept vigil in the Qianqing Palace could not sleep well. ”

Tianqi slapped his forehead and said, "Oh, I forgot about this when I was busy, and I must solve it when I am empty." ”^-^^-^