A year or two ago, Tianqi had seen Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, and his impression of them was neither good nor bad, after all, he was now handing over all government affairs to King Xin, and he couldn't afford to worry about two petty officials. It was only because these two people were used by everyone in the Parliamentary Office that they sent someone to inquire a little, and after inquiring, they learned that Zhou Yanru was actually the champion of Wanli in the forty-first year of Wanli, and Wen Tiren had been an official for decades and had no money to spare, so he had a good impression of them.

In the impression of the apocalypse, the champions are all people whose thoughts have been educated to be stereotyped, and people who are restless cannot be champions, except for the champions who are bought by fraud. A person like Zhou Yanru who has both a deep theoretical foundation and a flexible knowledge and can be loved by many predecessors is very difficult to belong to an all-round talent who is powerful in theory and practice. Zhou Yanru is not easy, Wen Tiren is even more difficult, the ups and downs of the sea for decades have been in their fifties and they have not picked up much property, this is the real Qing official, it is easy for an official not to be greedy for a while, but it is difficult not to be greedy for money for a lifetime, which is an outlier in today's Ming Dynasty.

To say that Tianqi only had a good impression of Zhou and Wen before, then now after reading the manuscripts of the two, their favorability has greatly increased, because the central idea in the drafts of the two is to maintain the imperial power and demand reform under the premise that the imperial power is sacrosanct. Wen Tiren's title is called "The People Are Precious to the People", which divides the people called the people into many categories, and expounds the relationship between maintaining the existing order and obeying Mencius's words.

It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the year, saw this, so he hated Meng Shengren and only liked Confucius Shengren, if it were not for the scruples of the public anger, they wanted to set off a movement to criticize Mencius. The words of Confucius's kings and ministers were very popular with the emperors of the past dynasties, because they knew that as long as everyone followed Confucius's rules, no one would shake their rule. For this kind of person who can call on everyone to be loyal and patriotic when he dies, the emperors of the past dynasties have a good impression of him, of course, if Confucius survives, it is another matter, no emperor likes a living idol with great appeal.

Wen Tiren did not shy away from Mencius's positive elaboration of the idea of valuing the people over the king, and he said that Mencius's statement that the people are precious, but the people here do not refer to any common people, but to refer to other conditions and conditions. In a country, all the people can be called citizens, and those who obey the country's legal system, pay taxes and serve without procrastination, can be said to be obedient to the people, and those who spare no effort to safeguard the prosperity of the country and the safety of the society can be regarded as benevolent and righteous people.

All of the above are good and can be counted in the category of the people in Meng Shengren's words, of course, there are also bad ones, that is, those who are naturally dissatisfied with the existing system, no matter what the government does, will oppose it for the sake of opposition, such people can be called Diao Min. Those who have hatred for the Ming system and are afraid that the world will not be chaotic can be called chaotic people, and those who take risks to kill officials and rebel can be called mobs, these people are not only not expensive but very cheap, and do not belong to the category of the people in Meng Shengren's words.

Originally, Mencius's words were not taboo in the Ming Dynasty, and few people dared to shout it openly for more than two hundred years, but now Wen Tiren is head-on and head-on, and he has the courage of Zhao Zilong to break into Cao Ying alone in the Three Kingdoms, so that Tianqi can see it and nod again and again. Everyone in the world knows that Confucius and Mencius are one family, but because Mencius's words are focused on the people, the monarch does not like it, but he can't come up with any good way to oppose it. No matter how brutal the monarchs of the past generations are, they need the fig leaf of loving the people, they know that they have a weakness but there is no way, and now someone has patched a solid patch in the weakness, which immediately makes people feel confident.

Wen Tiren's manuscript gave Tianqi a big surprise at the beginning, and then looked down to make Tianqi feel even more relieved, because Wen Tiren carried forward the trichotomy of the world that Tianqi said below. He said that it was not comprehensive to say that the Son of Heaven acted in accordance with the virtues of heaven and earth, and that it should be in accordance with the heavens and the people, and of course this people did not specifically refer to the people who are alive now, but should also include the predecessors and descendants of the current people. A person will inherit the family property passed down from his predecessors and pass it on to future generations, rather than distributing it to passers-by on a whim, indicating that he wants to make the family property a continuation of the inheritance, and the idea that the property should be passed on should also be inherited.

The inheritance of ideas is not only to live a satisfactory life now, but also to take into account the will of the ancestors, for example, the ancestors did not hesitate to fight to the death in order to resist the invasion of foreign races, and their descendants need to inherit the will of their ancestors and not steal their lives for selfish thoughts. Those who sell themselves to other races, even though they can live in the world with good food and drink, are also cattle that betray their ancestors, and those who are inferior are not worthy of boasting. Such people are like Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, who wag their tails and beg for mercy at the Jurchens, and they will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history and spurned by future generations.

Inheriting the legacy of our ancestors is only one aspect, thinking about future generations is another aspect, and people today cannot lose long-term considerations for the sake of immediate interests, and those who do not have long-term considerations are not worthy of learning from those who do not care about future generations. For example, a person who sold the houses and fields left by his ancestors and could eat and drink until he died of old age, future generations will not have a good evaluation of him, Shi Jingtang, who betrayed the self-proclaimed emperor of Youyun Sixteen Prefectures in history, is an example, and few people in later generations will boast about him, except for people with ulterior motives, of course.

Wen Tiren finally said that now people should consider both their ancestors and future generations, but the ancestors and future generations cannot speak and need someone to represent them, so who is qualified to represent the ancestors and future generations? Today, of course. Now the people are demanding that the elected officials be elected, and the emperor and the hundred officials have agreed to do so, and when the Son of Today even says that the conditions are ripe, the prime minister of the Government Council can be elected, and this is exactly the pattern of the Son of Heaven supervising the work of the prime minister on behalf of the ancestors and future generations. The Prime Minister and other elected officials at all levels represent the will of the people in their work, and with the supervision of the Son of Heaven, they can ensure that they carry forward the past and forge ahead in their work.

Wen Tiren's remarks made the revelation very happy, thinking that Wen Tiren was 57 years old this year, and if he did as well as he did in the next three years, he could be directly appointed as an associate minister in the legislative office. Of course, the future is a matter of the future, and now it should be given an explanation, timely recognition is still needed, otherwise there will be no one to earn performance, many superiors like to deliberately cold up before promoting a person, and the result is a cold person's heart, missing talents, and missing fate, it is a pity, since you are satisfied, you must immediately show that even if you want to investigate, you should not be suppressed by cold reception.

Tianqi remembered that Cao Yubian, the secretary of the Criminal Department, had retired to the Holy Academy at the age of seventy last year, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate had not yet had a suitable candidate to report to him, and his affairs had always been handled by the squire. Tianqi decided to urge Gao Panlong and them, asking them to give an opinion as soon as possible on whether to be promoted directly within the Criminal Department or transferred to another person, and at the same time suggested that Gu Dazhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, be included in the Political Affairs Department, and send Wen Tiren to the Ministry of Rites to serve as the secretary. Of course, the Apocalypse did not directly issue a decree to ask for this, only that this was an idea for the Government Council and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to consider, and if it was really not possible, it could be elected openly, and whether Wen Tiren was elected or not, he could know that the Apocalypse affirmed him.

adjusted his mood a little, and Tianqi opened Zhou Yanru's manuscript again, Zhou Yanru did not start with a specific sentence like Wen Tiren, but looked at the problem from an overall perspective, indicating that Zhou Yanru, the champion, was slightly more atmospheric than Wen Tiren, who was not the champion. Zhou Yanru said that Daming is a big ship, and today is the captain of the ship, managing the safety of the big ship and deciding the destination. In order to make the boat go faster and safer, you can choose to row with people or choose a safe and risk-free route, but the authority of the captain is unquestionable because the boat is the captain of the boat.

The example of the captain given by Zhou Yanru is based on the saying that the whole world is not the king's land, and the whole world belongs to the emperor, so no one can have contempt for the imperial power, otherwise there is a heart of disobedience. Zhou Yanru said that there must be many positions on the big ship of the Ming Dynasty, and in order to sail safely and safely, the most suitable person can be selected through election to the most suitable position, but no matter how you toss it, the premise is that the ship cannot be scuttled, even if there are any thoughts and practices that harm the hull. Because the emperor is the captain of the big ship of the Ming Dynasty, only by being loyal to the emperor and maintaining the imperial power can the big ship of the Ming Dynasty be maintained.

Zhou Yanru finally said that maybe some people feel unfair, or you find that the current system has problems, then the most important thing you should do is not to hate the existing system, let alone the idea of trying to overthrow the existing system, but to think about how to maintain and improve the existing system, and what you can say can not be bad behind your back. Only by closely uniting around the emperor can all the people of the Ming Dynasty unite as one and make the Ming Dynasty prosperous and strong.

After reading Zhou Yanru's manuscript, Tianqi suddenly remembered something, that is, this time the manuscript recommended by Gao Panlong, except for Wen Zhenmeng and Yuan Huazhong, who are members of the Donglin Party, others such as Xu Guangqi, Wen Tiren, and Zhou Yanru are not members of the Donglin Party. Since Gao Panlong has such a mind, he should also make some gestures, and after thinking about it, he asked Tan Jing to go to the Government Council to spread the word, so he said that the emperor gave ink and asked the former champion Zhou Yanru to write a few words for Donglin Newspaper.

Tianqi thinks that although the person who is the champion is not a calligrapher, his handwriting is definitely not bad, and no matter how well the article is written, if it is a bad word, he will not be the champion. Tianqi asked Zhou Yanru to write the words "Donglin Newspaper" first to name the newspaper, and then wrote the words "Donglin Monthly" as the title of the newspaper, and finally asked Gao Panlong to ask for the newspaper guidelines, Tianqi thought about it and asked Zhou Yanru to write "To unite, not to split, to be upright, not to engage in conspiracy." A few words.

Let Zhou Yanru express his importance on behalf of himself, and directly title the newspaper Donglin Newspaper and Donglin Monthly Newspaper as an open affirmation of the Donglin Party, "We must unite and not split, be above board, and not engage in conspiracy." These words are not only their own attitude, but also a warning to their ministers. ^-^^-^