Ye Xianggao nodded after listening to Gao Panlong's analysis and said: "My brother is right to think so, the emperor can make a decision in a short period of time and issue it immediately, unlike what he has always done." The emperor may be doing this as a hint, indicating that he already has everything planned, and let Brother Gao discuss with others to come up with a plan just because he has concerns and doesn't want to tell the truth. Brother Gao can say that because the opinions of the Holy Academy and the Bo Academy have not yet been seen, and Lord Yang Lianyang, who went to Nanjing, has not returned, it is inconvenient to come up with suggestions without examination, and he wants to listen to the emperor's will and the opinions of other people. ”

Liu Zongzhou asked at this time: "Then do I also need to wait?" What should the Holy Academy say, will the emperor also have an idea? ”

Ye Xianggao shook his head and said: "The Holy Academy is all people who don't care about things, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, unlike Brother Gao, who represents all of us who can't express our stance easily, otherwise it is likely to go against the emperor's opinion, and besides, we all believe that Brother Liu, you won't say anything bad." ”

Gao Panlong sighed and said: "We used to say whatever we wanted, but after a lesson, we became timid, and we didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. Lord Ye began to say that the emperor had concerns and didn't want to tell the truth, what did Lord Ye think the emperor was worried about? ”

Ye Xianggao said: "If you want to do it, you have to save yourself in advance, and many of the emperor's views in the past few years are also meritorious." The emperor may be worried that if it is too direct, it will cause the scholars to have opinions about him. There is such a saying that the emperors of the world do not want to offend readers easily, because readers can write history, and if they can't write the official history, they have to write some wild history to evaluate people. Thinking that Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries to build the Great Wall, then the wise Shenwu offended the scholars because of the 'burning of books and the pit of Confucianism', and as a result, he was written as the most brutal tyrant, and when it comes to the Qin Dynasty, he is called a tyrant. ”

Gao Panlong nodded and said: "Qin Shi Huang spent a lot of effort to build the Great Wall and build a mausoleum, these are his soft points, which can indeed be criticized by words, but those people say that his bloodline is not the descendant of Lü Buwei, and that his mother had an affair with a fake eunuch in the palace, and also said that his body stinks after his death and no one is buried, these can be seen as venting anger." A gentleman doesn't expose people**, even if it really happens, it shouldn't be rendered like this, these readers of history books are indeed not like gentlemen, but like shrews who viciously curse people on the street. On the whole, Qin Shi Huang still has merit, because he offended the scholar and was so discredited after his death. ”

Liu Zongzhou also nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, after Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he also unified the writing and weights and measures, and this contribution is very great. I heard that Taixi was also a big country back then, and then when it was divided, they said their own things, and after a long time, it was difficult for the people to talk to each other, and the scales and rulers taken out of the business were different, how could they be integrated in this case? So now there are many countries in Taixi, and you don't obey me, I don't obey you, and in the end, the countries are controlled by the head of the foreign monk, which is unbelievable. ”

Gao Panlong said: "Then I won't write it for the time being, and I'll see what the emperor wills." ”

Liu Zongzhou frowned and said: "I have already written it, but I don't know how Lord Xu Guangqi Xu wrote it, it would not be great if there was a contradiction between the two of us." ”

Liu Zongzhou's worries were really not wrong, and when the two people took out what they had written and discussed it two days later, everyone found that there were some differences in the views of the two, although it would not cause too much conflict, but it gave people a view that the opinions in the Prison Yuan were not unified.

After Tianqi received Xu Guangqi and Liu Zongzhou's recital, he immediately came to the Supervision Yuan to discuss with everyone, and at this time it was still the last few people who were seated, but everyone's mood was different from that day. The last time I talked about the direct election of officials by the people, King Xin and Gao Panlong were blindly optimistic, while Liu Zongzhou and Xu Guangqi did not express their position. Today, several people have their own thoughts, and they don't know what other people's opinions are, and they don't know whether their own opinions are in line with the apocalypse.

Tianqi glanced at everyone and first asked Gao Panlong: "Lord Gao, Lord Xu, the opinions of the two of them have been presented, I think it is very good after reading it, what about your pilot plan?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "Your Majesty, this matter is very important and imperative, the minister has thought about it for a long time and feels that it is not good to rashly make up his mind, first, he did not see the suggestions of Xu and Liu, and secondly, Lord Yang Lian Yang has not returned, and I don't know how the matter of Nan Zhili was caused, so it is not sure how to start." However, these are secondary, and the minister thinks that the most important thing is that he does not know the emperor's thoughts, so he asks the emperor to make it clear to the minister before he can discuss the pilot plan with people based on the holy will. ”

Tianqi was very satisfied with Gao Panlong's words, and said in his heart that you are smart and have no self-assertions, if you don't ask your superiors or colleagues' opinions, you will immediately write a comprehensive plan, either you were pretending to be stupid before or you were premeditated, and you would have been waiting for this day a long time ago.

However, after thinking about it, Tianqi also felt that he was not very satisfied with Gao Panlong, and there was no place for the plan, so he should always think about it, right? Isn't it a little too lazy? Thinking of this, he said: "It is a safe idea to learn from the strengths of various families, I have long said that governing the country is to govern officials and affairs, and the government affairs of the king are the governors of your metropolitan procuratorate, and the Holy Academy and the Bo College are auxiliary institutions to assist you, and it is right to listen to their opinions before formulating a pilot plan, so have you discussed where to pilot it?" ”

Gao Panlong saw that the apocalypse had told everyone that he didn't say what his own will was, and he was even more puzzled in his heart, and then said: "The pilot site has been considered, and it is best to find two places around Nanjing and around Beijing. I chose Nanjing because it was an incident there, and I couldn't put a plaster on my chest with sores on my back, and I chose to go around Beijing because it was close to it, so I couldn't wait to observe and inquire at any time, I don't know what the emperor thinks? ”

Tianqi nodded, and asked someone to take out Liu Zongzhou and Xu Guangqi's recitals and read them, and after reading them, others had different opinions, and they could immediately ask questions for me to explain.

Inspired by the heavens, a little eunuch who looked very gentle walked up, first picked up Liu Zongzhou's recital and read it aloud, looking white and delicate, but his voice was very loud, his speech was clear and unobtrusive, everyone nodded again and again, and even Liu Zongzhou felt that this person could add a lot of color to reading the recital he wrote.

From the chant of the little eunuch, everyone knows the general meaning of Liu Zongzhou, Liu Zongzhou said in the recital that the appointment of officials varies from period to period, but the trend is to become more and more reasonable. From the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the unification of China by Qin Shi Huang, officials were generally selected only for closeness, fame, and meritocracy, and this kind of behavior of appointing officials by false names made many people unconvinced. In the end, even the monarch felt inappropriate about this, so he added a theory called strategy, that is, the monarch chooses his courtiers to govern the country, not to make everyone worship, can you help the monarch govern the country well to say a word.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, everyone was not convinced, and many people were very good at saying that it was a mess to do things, otherwise how could Zhuge Liang be able to fight the Confucianism? Because major matters such as governing the country need to be done rather than just talking, there is an additional consideration when selecting people based on criteria such as fame and virtue. That is to say, if you want to be an official, you must not only have someone to support you, but also be able to speak, not only so, but also be able to do things, but also to do beautifully, simply put, an official must be able to say and do, and also have a mass base.

By the time of the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was no longer enough to talk about fame, virtue, and talent, because this could not convince and satisfy most people, and you could say that some people could say that you were better than you, and others thought that you were better than you. So Emperor Wen of Sui began to implement the imperial examination, and for the time being, he said that if he couldn't do it, he would write it down, so that everyone could take a look at it, compare it, and accept the test of time. This trick is very good and has been continued until now, who has a deep understanding and whose thinking is unique, everyone can understand it at a glance, and it is really not comparable to the superior, and you will know that the imperial examination can convince and satisfy most people.

But now the situation is different, and the number of people who advise the country has expanded from a few rulers to some, and later to a large number of people and form a class, but even then there are still people who are not satisfied and convinced, because the imperial examination does not take into account the opinions of all.

In the past, ordinary people did not have any opinions because their own concepts were different from the requirements of the imperial court, and in the past, the common people lived a life of "sunrise and sunset", and the imperial court did not disturb the people much, just let people watch. The officials appointed by the imperial court are all too guarded by the county guard, and what are the names of Jingzhou Muyi, Yizhou Mu, etc., which means that the officials don't care too much, and they just stay there like shepherds for the common people, and this laissez-faire behavior is called inaction. Now that the requirements for the people have increased a lot, and taxes and labor are constantly increasing, the common people will naturally feel that it is unfair.

In such a situation, the appointment of officials should not only take into account the interests and disadvantages of certain strata of people, but also the needs of the local people. Liu Zongzhou thought that because the officials were appointed without taking into account the feelings of the people, they could not get the support and help of the people, and in the end, even the wild land of Taixi could make something better than the Ming Dynasty, which was really a shame. Now that the people are demanding the direct election of officials, it is reasonable and logical, and the imperial court should immediately agree to it and try to improve it and implement it slowly.

After listening to the little eunuch read Liu Zongzhou's recital, Tianqi thought for a while and said: "Lord Liu has written so much, I think that its main point is to convince people, at first a few people are not convinced, and later some people are not convinced, and later some people are not convinced, and later scholars are not hereditary, and every scholar has the opportunity to become a scholar who governs the world with the monarch, and there are still some people who are not convinced." According to Lord Liu's meaning, only when every citizen has the right to participate in the governance of the country, no one will be unconvinced, isn't it Lord Liu? ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "This is indeed the minister's main point of view, but this is only the minister's personal opinion, let's listen to Lord Xu's opinion." ”^-^^-^