Gao Panlong is one of the founders of the Donglin Party, the core idea of the Donglin Party is to limit the imperial power, whether it is to restrict, oppose or overthrow, there is a meaning that the emperor can't get along with. In the past few years, Tianqi has been very open to power, and the appointed officials and inspection officials are all in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate controlled by Gao Panlong and Yang Lian, who are controlled by the Donglin Party.

The meaning of giving them an explanation is not to suppress them, but to convince them in the way that they can most approve of in accordance with their thoughts, because these Donglin Party members are some scholars. Chinese scholars are a very strange kind of people, and it's easy for you to want them to work for you, as long as you are an orthodox force in their minds, and you can show a very open-minded and respectful posture for talents, they will rush to do their best for you. Even if your reputation is a little worse, you can corrupt them with money, seduce them with women, etc., but you'd better not try to win their hearts by cracking down on them, because they are scholars.

Scholars pay attention to the fact that the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, the rich and the rich cannot be lewd and mighty, and what they advocate is the spirit that is rather bent than bent, which is also a spirit that has been inherited from China for thousands of years. It is difficult to say whether they will change their ideals when they are poor, and whether they will lose the direction of their lives when they become rich, but it is certain that they will not give in when they are hit. Tianqi didn't want to be rude to the Donglin Party like Wei Zhongxian, he just wanted to go head-to-head and start from their strongest place, shaking the idea that they wanted to go against him in their bones, Tianqi believed that the fortress of the Donglin Party was like a walnut with a hard appearance, once the shell was broken, everything else would be fine.

If a courtier wants to oppose the monarch, he will generally say that the monarch is immoral and unkind, and if he wants to overthrow the monarch's rule, he will say that the monarch practices tyranny, because the immoral person is not worthy of being the emperor, and it is reasonable to overthrow tyranny, and it is safe to do it without side effects. Apocalypse went straight to the point and directly asked Gao Panlong what tyranny is, which means that since you are defensive against me, I will accompany you to supervise each other and prevent each other, but before playing this trick, let's first explain the rules.

Gao Panlong secretly complained in his heart, regretting that he should have pulled Liu Zongzhou with him, firstly, Liu Zongzhou's mouth was sharper than his, and secondly, two people could bear more pressure than one person. But now it is a heads-up frame, only on the hard head, he thought about it and said: "History said that Tang fell, Xia Ji, Zhou Wu, and Shang were all about relieving the people and saving the people from fire and water, so it can be seen that everything is based on the people." For example, Shang Xuan did not listen to Bigan's advice, favored Daji, built Lutai, killed people like hemp, and treated the people like mustard, such a monarch can be called a tyrant who implements tyranny. ”

Tianqi asked: "I am not used to saying everything together, the words of the tall man have four meanings, one is that the tyrant does not listen to the advice, the second is that the tyrant spares no effort to the people, the third is that the tyrant favors women, and the fourth is that the tyrant likes to kill, I don't know if I understand it correctly?" ”

Chinese people who want to praise or demean a person like to try to sandwich good or bad words together, and some words have little to do with the theme of praise or depreciation itself, but as long as they are sandwiched together, they have a bonus effect. For example, when a person is looking for a wife, he generally looks at whether he is beautiful or not, and after the matchmaker praises him for his dignified beauty, gentleness and virtuousness, she often praises her for knowing books and answering gifts for two days, why? Because of the bonus effect of the impression of these talented women, who doesn't like talented women like Cai Wenji and Xie Daoyun? Isn't reading at night with red sleeves and fragrance exactly the good wishes of many literati?

The problem is that once you separate it, the taste will be different, for example, a Xiucai wants to find a wife, and the matchmaker gives him a sentence that she has read more books than you, and this Xiucai is afraid that she will turn his face on the spot, please figure out that I am looking for a wife and not a teacher.

On the other hand, it is the same, saying that a person is a traitor, you can say that he deceived his superiors and subordinates and ganged up to be corrupt, but many people also have to add some portrayal of the appearance of eagles and wolves, and add some words such as killing pigs and sheep when they were young without blinking, so that the image of a treacherous bad guy can be three-dimensional. The question is that it is not interesting to say separately, you can't always say that people with good looks and character and those who are bold from childhood should be put to death, right?

Of course, Gao Panlong heard this meaning, the king of Zhou is bad not because of anything else but because the history was written by King Wu of Zhou, how to prove the legitimacy of King Wu's rebellion if he doesn't write King Wu badly? What kind of nostalgia does a monarch have to build a platform and marry several wives? It is said that Lutai burned as soon as it caught fire, and it did not burn for a long time, which shows that it is far from the Afang Palace built by Qin Shi Huang. After the return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin, Emperor Wu of Jin collected 10,000 women, and did not see any rebellion on the spot, and it was not a sin for the king to favor a Daji who was said to be a fox spirit, and Uncle Qi would rather starve to death and martyr the old lord than accept the leadership of the king of Wu, indicating that the king of Zhou was not bad to the point that the whole people could be killed.

Gao Panlong thought for a while and said: "The ancients explained that the monarch needs to do two things, one is to love the people, and the other is to accept advice, for example, the requirements left by Song Taizu to future generations are to never kill the official and never add endowment, and if you do this, you will be considered a Ming Jun." As for pampering women, it's not a big deal, as long as it's not like King Zhou You, who went to the Beacon Opera princes in order to win a smile from the beauties, it's not a big deal for the monarch to favor a few more women. ”

Tianqi asked: "We started talking about tyrant tyranny, but now Gao Da is talking about Mingjun, so can we think that it is a tyrant who does not accept loyalty and increases taxes arbitrarily?" ”

Gao Panlong was already sweating on his forehead at this time, and Emperor Wanli increased the tax on the acres of land when he was there, and later increased the mining tax and military expenses, and since the Jurchens in Liaodong raised troops, they have increased the salary of Liao. If it is true that the Ming Dynasty has been sitting on the dragon chair all these years and can be said to be all tyrants, should everyone join the Jurchen team to overthrow the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty? It's even more of a joke if you don't accept advice, which traitor has a word engraved on his head? Don't all bad ideas come out in the guise of loyal ministers? You can't let the emperor be like a little doll, and everyone listens to what he says, right?

Seeing that Gao Panlong didn't speak, Tianqi smiled and said: "A while ago, I read a poem by Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty, and I remember that there are two sentences that 'The jade test should be burned for three days, and it will take seven years to distinguish it.'" That is to say, is it a good talent and beautiful jade that needs to be verified through time, and the question is that I don't have that much time to observe everyone, so I can't use one person to investigate for seven or eight years, right? How can a courtier tell whether he is a loyal servant or not? I don't know if he is a loyal servant, how can I adopt the advice? Do you remember what the following lines of this poem are? ”

Gao Panlong said: "The following sentences are: 'Zhou Gong was afraid of rumors, Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp, Xiang Envoy died at the beginning, who knows the truth of his life? 'When it comes to closing a coffin on a person, no one knows whether there will be a reversal between a loyal minister and a traitor. ”

Tianqi smiled: "This sounds reasonable, I think Yan Song was also an iron-clad and upright person back then, and didn't he become a giant traitor of the Ming Dynasty later?" But Bai Juyi's words can be said to be correct nonsense, what I need is a loyal minister who is alive and kicking around, not a loyal minister lying in a coffin. Now many places in Daming need talents, I don't have that much time to measure whether a person is loyal or traitorous, according to Bai Juyi's method, I do know who is a loyal minister in the end, but is it useful to lie in a cold coffin? ”

When the two of them said this, Gao Panlong suddenly felt that something was wrong, and we started to seem to be talking about the way of being a monarch about the emperor's self-cultivation, right? Why did you suddenly get involved in the loyalty of your courtiers? I was talking about why you seem to be talking about me now? You're too good at, aren't you? But if you think about it carefully, it is not wrong to say that the final form of the Donglin Party to limit the imperial power is to oppose the emperor, so the final form of opposition is only to call on people to rise up and rebel and overthrow, but before that, you have to have an excuse, that is, the emperor is immoral and a tyrant who implements tyranny.

The so-called tyrant cannot be used indiscriminately, you must first have concrete evidence, such as how many people he has killed indiscriminately, what things he did not listen to, and where he did not care about the lives of the people. The reason why the apocalypse asked Gao Panlong to come is to set the standard of a tyrant, which means that you have to supervise me and welcome me, but we have to first say those things that I can do and what I can't do, this is the supervision and inspection of the monarch. On the other hand, as a courtier, of course you must be a loyal minister, what do you do and what you can't do?

Gao Panlong said: "After listening to the emperor's words, there is no fixed basis for the ministers to think that whether the monarch is virtuous and whether the subordinates are loyal. ”

Seeing that Gao Panlong said that the basis for measuring the monarch and his subordinates is not fixed, Tianqi knows that there is already a small crack in his inherent concept, not to mention how much he is shaken, at least he will not hold the old ideas unchanged, and he secretly likes it in his heart. He thought for a while and said: "A while ago, Lord Liu Zongzhou and Liu talked about elected officials, and they talked about the trend of the development of previous dynasties, that is, the process of appointing officials should convince more and more people. Don't talk about him if his words are right or not, anyway, you are going to set up a newspaper for the people to comment, and let time test it as Bai Juyi said, I just think his trend is very reasonable. ”

Gao Panlong asked, "I don't know where the emperor thinks Lord Liu's reasoning is?" ”

Apocalypse said, "There are many things we don't understand in this world, such as where do we come from? What is the purpose of living in this world? Where should Daming develop? These are all headaches when you think about it, but the trend theory can solve this problem. Like the water in a river, it doesn't know where it will end up, or whether it will be poured into the field or drunk in the stomach by people or livestock, but it will flow from high to low according to the trend. ”

Gao Panlong asked: "People go to high places and water flows to low places, the minister has heard of this, what does the emperor think is the trend of the development of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Tianqi said: "The development of the Ming Dynasty is related to many people, as far as a person is concerned, with the development of the country, he should have more and more freedom, in terms of the relationship between people, with the development of the country, people should be faster and more equal, freedom and equality is the trend of national development." ”^-^^-^