From the news from Nanjing that the election of elected officials was to be started until now, the Supervisory Yuan, as the central organ of the Ming Dynasty, can be regarded as having a unified understanding, that is, agreeing to the elected officials on the premise of safeguarding imperial power, and for the sake of safety, it has first carried out experiments in Nanjing and Beijing. The meaning of the apocalypse is to let Xinwang, Liu Zongzhou, and Xu Guangqi enlighten and persuade the three kinds of people respectively, and the purpose is to make everyone realize that the matter of elected officials is imperative, but the idea of not being able to achieve it overnight must be done slowly, and of course there must be no opportunity to oppose it, according to Liu Zongzhou's words, the elected officials are in line with the trend of social development.

At the beginning, it was to let every official talk about acquaintance, and those who say good words first will not punish anyone, because the apocalypse has been talking about everything in recent years, so many people are willing to say their true thoughts. The opinions of the officials in Beijing are divided into three types, as estimated: one is that the elected officials are not in line with the ancestral system, and where do they really want to put the majesty of the imperial court? Where is the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which appoints and administers officials? The second is the people who enthusiastically support it and think that it should have been done a long time ago, and the third type is the people who pee in the Yellow River and follow the flow, and they can't do it without any opinions, because the emperor agreed to them anyway.

Liu Zongzhou's statement is that the trend of social development is unstoppable, and not conforming to the times and holding on to outdated ideas is not loyalty, but drags the emperor back. These opponents are very few, almost all of them are old ministers, knowing that the emperor agrees that it is difficult to stop the ministers if they do not oppose it, and even King Xin said that as long as the successful pilot is successful, the position of prime minister of the government Council can be elected, and their opposition is probably just an attitude.

Xu Guangqi persuaded those who were eager to carry out direct elections tomorrow, telling them that they had to take the road step by step, and that they should not be in a hurry to eat one bite at a time, and told them that the election of an official was to ask him to do things, neither to choose saints nor beauty pageants, but to choose capable people. There were not many of these early democrats who were influenced by the Donglin Party and the Taixi people, but a few were very radical, and according to them, they were eager to elect everything, and inevitably would not ask for the emperor in the end. Xu Guangqi told them that the people elected are not necessarily suitable, just as the gods and Buddhas such as the Jade Emperor are not elected, parents, monarchs, teachers, etc. cannot be elected, and the sanctity of imperial power is the premise of election.

For the vast majority of people who sat on the wall, King Shin told them that it was inevitable that the elected officials would take a long time to explore the pros and cons, and everyone should have an understanding of this, that is, everything should be based on the premise of loyalty to the emperor and the country, and those who are not loyal are not qualified to talk about elections, and those who are not loyal are people with ill intentions. For the words of King Xin, everyone suddenly understood the true intention of the apocalypse, that is, not only to stimulate people's enthusiasm and take the initiative to do things through elections, but also to have no ambition to be a man with their tails between their legs, but this is very easy to understand, so that the subordinates are capable and unambitious people is the lifelong pursuit of the monarchs of the past dynasties.

One afternoon in early May, a large group of young and old people sat in a water pavilion in the Holy Academy, all of whom were the elders and backbones of Donglin Academy, the old ones were Cao Yubian, Han Yi, Gao Panlong, and others, and the younger ones were Liu Zongzhou, Huang Zunsu, Qian Qianyi, and others. The weather in May was originally very hot, which should make people sweat and shiny, but now everyone's mood is very calm and hot, and the faces are as heavy as the old monks. Not because of the cool breeze in the water pavilion, nor because of the tea on the table to cool off, but because of some things that made everyone very unhappy.

First of all, Ye Xianggao's condition, after lying in bed for two months, he had just improved a while ago, and when Liu Zongzhou and Gao Panlong went to see him, he was able to sit on a chair to meet guests, but his condition worsened within two days and he was bedridden. Fu Shan from the medical school went to see Ye Xianggao a few times but was helpless, and the doctor from Taixi also tried it but couldn't help shaking his head, it seems that Ye Xianggao is more than lucky this time.

The Donglin Party members have to get together every once in a while, talk about learning, talk about their hearts, increase friendship, and often see scenes of laughing out loud when they are happy, but this time they are not happy. Ye Xianggao's illness is a big reason why everyone can't be happy, but what really makes everyone unhappy is the current form of the imperial court, and from the current form of the imperial court, it can be seen that the future of the Donglin Party is not very optimistic. Now the Apocalypse requires that all actions and all organizations must be based on the premise of maintaining the existing order, emphasizing the sanctity of imperial power, but everyone in the Donglin Party knows that the core idea of the Donglin Party is to weaken the imperial power.

Since the founding of Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong, the Donglin Party has regarded itself as the leader of Shilin, and has put forward many ideas that it is proud of, because it is a bystander, Qing Jia's thinking is relatively advanced, and the discretion of the figures in the DPRK and China also has its own uniqueness, and it is proud of this to care about national affairs as its own responsibility. From the third year of the Apocalypse, the Donglin Party was slowly suppressed by Wei Zhongxian by the hand of the Apocalypse, and later returned to the court to control the court.

For more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the idea of ruling the world together has always been pursued by the monarch and scholars, except for a few emperors such as Taizu and Chengzu who can crush civil officials to death, and the emperor is like that at other times. This is the way things are in this world, power and responsibility are often linked, Taizu and Chengzu can stand up to the entire civil official group alone not only because they are ready to turn their faces and kill people at any time, but because they have extraordinary energy to deal with national affairs. Most of the other time, the emperor was not only eating, drinking, and having fun, but also as a stallion to breed, and the heavy work of governing the country was to be grateful and insensitive, so the civil officials have always been the real masters of the Ming Dynasty.

Tianqi is an easy-going person, he knows that civil officials like to fight for power, so he simply completely delegated power and threw away government affairs and only seized military power. Compared with the government affairs of the government, the administrative court is the base camp of the Donglin Party, Gao Panlong, Yang Lian, the deputy head of the Yuan, are the cadres of the Donglin Party, it can be said that the apocalypse has contracted all the government affairs of the Ming Dynasty to the Donglin Party, which means that you don't have to fight for everything, give you more than you want, just do things well.

Of course, it is happy to gain the trust of the emperor, but now they find that they have suddenly lost the direction of progress, the so-called party is to realize itself through struggle, and it is endless fun to fight with the sky and the earth, and to fight with people. In this incident of elected officials, the Donglin Party originally thought that they could take the opportunity to show their strength and realize the idea that they had put forward before that they would gradually realize the election of the first assistant, but they achieved their goal without encountering any resistance forces, and Tianqi also handed him the task of conducting a pilot project, which made people feel that they were accumulating strength but empty.

The bottom line of the apocalypse decentralization is to ensure that the imperial power is sacrosanct, and he has the theoretical basis and strength guarantee for such a requirement, and now the Ming Dynasty is in a short period of peace, and the external battle is difficult to occur for a while, which can just solve the internal problem. The field armies of the seven major military regions have strong combat strength, and the garrison units of the garrison troops in all parts of the country are well-trained, and they have a common characteristic that they have been dispatched by the generals and regulated by the supervising troops, that is, loyalty. The internal guards composed of eunuchs and the military intelligence offices and civil intelligence offices composed of brocade guards are all over the country, and they have a common characteristic that they are suspicious of everyone and always look at you with cold eyes before you know it.

Not only that, Apocalypse also used the Great Iron Company to unite a large number of merchant groups, including the North and South Chamber of Commerce, to prohibit the annexation of land, closely integrate farmers with the land, and prevent them from making trouble. As far as the officials themselves are concerned, the economic inspection system and the system of selling titles have made the living standards of officials relatively high, but they have not been able to get rich quickly, which has fundamentally avoided the large-scale emergence of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and has made the relationship between the people and officials no longer the same as water and fire.

The core proposition of the Donglin Party is to oppose the dictatorship of the monarchy, to decentralize the monarchy, and to put the people first. On the issue of power, the apocalypse seems to be retreating step by step, but in fact it is voluntarily giving up, and now the army, intelligence agencies, economic forces, and the vast majority of officials are under effective control, and the peasants are having fun on it because they have their own land, and it is impossible for the Donglin Party to disperse the monarchy. They seem to have no choice but to do things honestly, which is a dangerous signal for a group that likes to fight, and they know that without fighting, there is no appeal.

Gao Panlong first talked about running a newspaper, and he said to everyone: "The emperor asked our academy to undertake the newspaper, that is, to print and distribute some opinions of the imperial court and new news everywhere like a newspaper in the palace. Yesterday, I discussed with Liu Zongzhou and Lord Liu, what Lord Liu means is not too fast at the beginning, one or two issues will be released in a month, and when it is normal in the future, some more content will be added every month, what do you all think? ”

Qian Qianyi is the master of King Xin, and the relationship between the two is also very good, he has a high appeal among the younger generation, and since the death of **Xing and some other old people in Donglin the year before last, the young people have slowly come up. He first asked, "May I ask Master Gao, is the academy sponsor only written by people from our academy or is everyone eligible to submit manuscripts?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "Everyone can, it is precisely because of this that the Holy Academy is needed, the emperor and Lord Liu had a dialogue four years ago to avoid heresy poisoning the people, according to the emperor's words, any opinion that is not recognized by the majority of people must not be disseminated, even if this view is correct, it is also out of place, you must pay more attention to avoid mistakes." ”^-^^-^