Zhou Lang's reform of the Ministry of Industry has alerted officials, who are worried that their status will not be guaranteed, but there are also people who are really brainless and unwilling to reform.

Zhou Lang felt that after the way of purging the diehards back then, his bureaucratic class should be mostly slippery, but he did not expect that under the influence of the collective atmosphere, most people would dare to oppose the emperor.

All the officials of the six ministries rushed to the que, this is something that has never been done in history, the power of this kind of soft resistance is huge, Zhou Lang cannot clean his entire bureaucracy, so he can only compromise, but this compromise, his authority is suppressed, the imperial power of the founding emperor is suppressed, and he is reformed.

So there was a stalemate, Zhou Lang didn't open the palace door for ten days, but let the palace send food to these people every day, don't starve to death, it will be even more troublesome.

The reason why they are so strongly opposed is mainly because of Zhou Lang's two reform measures against the Ministry of Rites.

China's traditional foreign institutions are the Ministry of Rites, the four major divisions of the Ministry of Rites, which are the canonical system, the ancestral sacrifice, the host and guest, and the fine meal, which are all formulated according to the concept of Confucius. Sacrifice is a whole set of religious norms, from what is spoken to what is used; Jingshan is mainly to manage the emperor's diet, because Confucius said that you don't get tired of eating, you don't get tired of eating, this is a little nobleman who can enjoy it, and what extent does it respect the eating etiquette of the Zhou Dynasty? When Confucius saw that the officials who originally played music during Zhou Tianzi's dinner were lost to foreign countries, Confucius would sigh that the Son of Heaven had lost his official position; The subject and guest of it is a set of foreign policies based on the ideas of Confucius, which is not a fair exchange, but a set of respect and order, and China has always maintained the system of suzerainty and vassals, which is actually imitated the feudal model of Zhou Tianzi and the vassal states.

But this set is obviously impossible to communicate with all foreign countries, so the Qing Dynasty also set up the Li Fan Yuan, which earlier belonged to the Ministry of Rites, and later listed separately; In addition, there are four translation halls, which are responsible for translation work. Every time I encounter communication with outsiders, the Ministry of Rites always deals with it together with the Four Translation Pavilions and the Lifan Yuan.

This kind of efficiency is naturally very low, Zhou Lang assigned all these departments to the Li Fan Yuan, and it was not built according to the concept of order, respect and inferiority, and proposed to communicate with any foreign country, no matter how big or small, on an equal footing, which made many old masters very dissatisfied and threatened to resign.

This was just the beginning, and when Zhou Lang wanted to reform the imperial examination system, everyone was dissatisfied.

Not only these Beijing officials, but also civil officials all over the country are watching, most civil officials, especially middle and lower-level civil officials, they are all beneficiaries of the imperial examination system, and the reform of the imperial examination system not only affects them, but also affects their families.

If one is not done well, Fuque will not be a demonstration by the Beijing officials, but will develop into a turmoil in the whole world.

The purpose of Zhou Lang's change of the imperial examination is to change education, why do Chinese scholars study hard, the purpose is not to be interested in reading, the purpose is to become officials, and to pass the imperial examination, what they take in the imperial examination, they will learn.

However, the imperial examination was for the Four Books and Five Classics, and he did not take the natural sciences.

This interfered with Zhou Lang's purpose of introducing natural science. He has run a number of schools and is already gradually reforming the education system, but it is still too slow to rely on official power alone. Unable to penetrate into the vast rural areas, he hoped that through the imperial examination, all scholars would begin to learn natural science knowledge spontaneously.

He communicated his thoughts with Wang Fuqian many times, telling the other party his purpose, but it didn't make sense at all. Wang Fuqian refused to add natural science to the imperial examination. His philosophy was that the imperial examination was about merit and ability, and the emphasis was on virtue rather than skill. This is the avenue, not the small technique.

He did not object to the emperor appointing a large number of scholars who had graduated from schools in the customs and commercial taxation institutions administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but he strongly opposed the emperor's inclusion of these academic contents in the imperial examinations.

If the whole people cannot accept the natural sciences and completely rely on the emperor's personal promotion, then only a small group of elite education can be formed, and a system like Russia will lag behind others for a long time, which Zhou Lang is unwilling to accept.

But he just couldn't convince Wang Fuqian, so he decided to use the imperial power to force it, anyway, the last level of the imperial examination was in the hands of the emperor, and he still had to take the palace test.

As a result, in the content of this year's imperial examination, Zhou Lang came up with the topic of Newtonian mechanics, which detonated the entire officialdom.

Zhou Lang was also very angry, Lao Tzu didn't touch your power, you don't want to change, I changed it within my own power, you still take care of me, I am the emperor, how can there be a reason for a courtier to control the emperor. So the other party knelt, he didn't care, and he kept stalemate.

This stalemate lasted for a month, which was too much to see, so Zhou Lang sent someone to pass the decree and summon Wang Fuqian into the palace.

It was impossible to make Zhou Lang apologize, he didn't say anything, and directly threw Wang Fuqian a copy of the content of the palace exam questions, called "The dangerous state is not entered, and the chaotic state is not lived".

This is a sentence from the Analects, Confucius said, there is no die-hard thought in this sentence, Zhou Lang's intention is to satirize Confucius for not being single-minded enough.

But Wang Fuqian understood wrongly, the sentence that followed this sentence is called "If there is a way in the world, you will see, and if there is no way, you will hide", Wang Fuqian thought that this was the emperor hinting that he should get out, since you think that the Son of Heaven has no way, just retreat.

He resigned on the spot.

"Are you crazy!"

Zhou Lang began to scold.

Wang Fuqian knelt on the ground and did not move like a mountain.

Zhou Lang continued to scold: "You took a bunch of bastards to block the door of Lao Tzu's house for a month. Aren't you just going to let me listen to you, I'll take the exam in the Analects, and you'll have to resign. Think about it, can you afford the crime of coercing the Son of Heaven? ”

After speaking, he brushed his sleeves and left.

When Wang Fuqian walked out of the palace, his steps were light, and the reputation of coercing the Son of Heaven was of course not good, but the history books were not written by the emperor, if he was asked to write them, this was not coercing the Son of Heaven.

And the feeling of suppressing the royal power is really enjoyable. He can be regarded as experiencing the pleasure of the Song Dynasty scholars. What is this called, this is called the style of scholars.

Just can't let the emperor do whatever he wants, as for the emperor's abuse, it is not a criticism of him, it is a praise, just like the court staff of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty dared to scold the emperor and beat their butts for the emperor, but they didn't dare to go to the Manchu Dynasty, and the Manchu Emperor used a knife.

So the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a dynasty of gentlemen and virtuous ministers, and the more people who killed scholars, the more virtuous they became, such as Kangxi.

Wang Fuqian thought that he and all the civil servants had defeated the imperial power with the style of the scholars, but he didn't know that the emperor in the deep palace had already begun to hold back his big moves.