It was the first time that King Shin had attended the court meeting, and he was full of confidence at that time. As a result, after kneeling down to the emperor and the court meeting began, he really appreciated his brother's pain, yes, pain. is also really a high-ranking emperor, in fact, he is not even a puppet. You really understand that this emperor is not a word, he can't keep going, it's not what he imagined, as long as his words come out, the whole world will obey his words. also really understands that in this era, under the auspices of Donglin, what the emperor said is not even as good as a fart. This is diametrically opposed to the kind of emperor who he saw in the history books, and the emperor is full of words. In the end, the whole court meeting was held very normally until the evening, and there was still no result, even if it was a trivial matter, there was no result. In the end, the two brothers, who were exhausted, walked out of the main hall with a depressed look and returned to the harem.

In fact, when they said they were depressed, they all praised them, and it should be said that they were depressed.

Seeing that his brother didn't have the slightest interest in talking, the Emperor of the Apocalypse gently patted his brother's shoulder: "You are tired, go back and rest, but also think about it, and carefully summarize the feelings you gained from really participating in the court meeting today, I hope it will be good for you." ”

Zhu Youzhen just nodded numbly, and then returned to his palace, closed the door, and there was no more news.

Mao Yulong and the little fat man finished their day's schoolwork and went home absentmindedly.

As Mao Yulong knew, Zhu Youzhen took his brother Wang Chengen and sat under the big locust tree in a daze with a depressed face. Seeing Mao Yulong and the little fat man coming back, he just looked up and smiled at the two of them, which was regarded as a greeting, but that kind of smile was more ugly than crying.

The collapse of the ideal world does make people doubt life, and the collapse of faith is the most painful.

Mao Yulong walked in front of him and gently rubbed his head, but this time Zhu Youzhen did not object. With a little face: "Am I really wrong?" After saying this, he was aggrieved and shed tears.

"There's nothing wrong with your beliefs, what's wrong is that the group of people in front of you are different from what you imagined." With a long sigh, Mao Yulong sat opposite Zhu Youzhen with pity: "Of course there is a difference between loyal ministers and traitorous ministers. There is also a difference between a loyal minister and a loyal minister, and a gentleman and a gentleman are actually even more different. Mao Yulong found a book in his book bag, which was a famous exposition, the old and new party struggles in the Northern Song Dynasty, it doesn't matter who wrote it, but in this discourse, Mao Yulong wrote dense comments.

This book records in detail the reforms at that time, at that time, it was a real gentleman ruling the country, and the house was full of true gentlemen, but what was the result?

The reform of Shenzong, worshipping Wang Anshi as the prime minister, and opening a new policy is to change the law for Wang Anshi. Although the new policy hit the nail on the head, it was quite problematic in its implementation, and was strongly opposed by the Conservative Party ministers of the DPRK and China, and it was the old party.

There were many influential figures in the old party, such as Han Qi, Sima Guang, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, etc., and Wang Anshi could only use newcomers such as Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, Zhang Dian and Han Jiang to contend with them. The struggle between the old and new parties lasted for more than 50 years, which had a great impact on the politics of the Northern Song Dynasty. Sometimes the controversy is just a dispute over the morale of the scholars, and one of the reasons why Sima Guang criticized Wang Anshi's change of law was that the southerners could not be in power, Sima Guang said: "The Fujian people are cunning, the Chu people are easy, now the two are both Fujian people, and the two are Chu people, and the two are Chu people, which will inevitably lead the people of the township party and the customs of the world, why be more honest!" Due to the change of power between the old and new parties, Wang Anshi retired twice, and the new policy was implemented and scrapped, and the subjects were at a loss.

With the rise of the party struggle, the party struggle initially because of different political views, but then it changed the taste, evolved into the struggle for power to exclude dissidents, Yuanfeng eight years of Shenzong died of illness, Zhezong ascended the throne, Sima Guang was in power, almost the new law, the history of Yuan You changed, under the leadership of the Empress Dowager Xuanren, committed to restoring the old system of the ancestors, before and after nine years, during this period of reformers almost all recruited and demoted. Cai Qu, Zhang Dian and others were demoted to Lingnan (Guangdong), opening a precedent for the Northern Song Dynasty to demote officials to Lingnan.

Party struggle was an important part of the political culture of the Song Dynasty. Before Xining's reform, the emperor was above the party struggle; However, after Shenzong and Wang Anshi 'jointly established the country', the emperor had in fact formed a party with the ruling faction headed by the prime minister, and no longer had a transcendent status. In the Huizong period, Zhang Dian was expelled as a crime, and Han Zhongyan and Zeng Bu were used as ministers in an attempt to resolve the new party dispute, but the party dispute was irresolvable. Huizong had no choice but to use Cai Jing. When Cai Jing was in power, he colluded with the eunuch Tong Guan and others to set up a "Yuanyou Party Membership Monument", and Sima Guang and others must be traitors. In this way, the party struggle has changed from a struggle over the concept of a gentleman governing the country to a real struggle for the right to bring harm to the country, and the party struggle has really changed its flavor.

This is completely different from the party struggle in the Northern Song Dynasty and the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of the party struggle in the Northern Song Dynasty, he was a true gentleman, but the party struggle of the Ming Dynasty was a real villain at the beginning.

In fact, this is not that Mao Yulong is knowledgeable, but that he stands on the shoulders of the old man in history and stands on the experience of countless scholars in later generations. He is just reading from the book, but for people in this era, Mao Yulong's comments are absolutely shocking.

Knowing that this guy is the emperor in the future, although he knows the Ming Dynasty, it will be because he firmly believes that Donglin is a gentleman, although because of his character flaws, in this superimposed atmosphere, finally let the Ming Empire go to the abyss and finally collapse. But Mao Yulong still thinks that through his coincidence with him, he can have this period of contact, slowly change his thoughts, change his personality, and make this old empire survive.

Watching Zhu Youzhen take the book over and begin to study it sentence by sentence, in fact, Mao Yulong is also contradictory now, even if he changes his character, even if he changes his perception of the Donglin Party, what will be the final outcome? Maybe it's just a little longer for a declining empire.

After looking at it for a while, Zhu Youzhen raised his head: "Is it true that relying on the Donglin Party can't save the country, can it really be saved by relying on the eunuch party?" ”

Such a question was asked to Mao Yulong at that time, and he didn't know which party to use and which party's concept of governing the country could save the country and survive. Mao Yulong is just a traverser, but not a saint. In fact, even if the saint is reincarnated, it will not be able to change this empire that has been completely decayed.

was asked, Mao Yulong stood up, silently put his hands behind his back, and silently began to think about the truth.

In the end, I could only say: "I don't know if it is right or wrong to govern the country with the eunuch party when Donglin falls in the future, and I don't know what kind of disaster awaits our boss empire when it governs the country with Donglin." So, all of this needs to be explored, and you need to explore, and I'm also confused. ”

But he turned to an impassioned saying: "All truths need to be explored, and only by exploring can we get closer to the truth." ”

Zhu Youzhen stared blankly at the book in front of him for a long time: "I won't come again for a while, I will think about it behind closed doors until you say that when you are close to the truth, we will meet again." Then he looked at Wang Chengen: "Let's go, the five hundred taels of silver that my brother gave me just now will be left for Mao to read." ”。

Looking at his soothing back, Mao Yulong could only sigh: "Let a child shoulder such a big burden, to be honest, I don't envy him, I really pity him." ”

The little fat man thought so.