At the end of February of the sixth year, Zhu Youzhen and his entourage finally arrived in Luoyang City, from Lanzhou through Longxi, Tianshui, Guanzhong Plain into Henan in the past two months, Chongzhen saw the barrenness of the northwest mountainous area, but also saw the richness of the Guanzhong Plain, and the people of Shaanxi in recent years of water conservancy projects and transportation facilities construction results.

It should be said that although the reforms in the past five years have not made the people of Shaanxi rich, they have finally prevented the continued deterioration of the local economy and agricultural production. On the whole, the public security in the main passages of Shaanxi and the Guanzhong Plain is still very good, but other areas can only be said to be ordinary.

However, this situation is very relieved for Zhu Youzhen, after all, most of the people in Shaanxi can still survive now, and they have not risen up everywhere. In such an orderly social environment, the imperial court's investment in the construction and relief of Shaanxi was finally maintained at a tolerable amount, and it did not become a major wound that caused the entire country to continue to lose blood.

For the emperor's tour, the local people in Shaanxi still maintained a high level of respect, especially those who obtained the renamed field of the palace, and they were indeed full of gratitude to the emperor. Therefore, in the places where the emperor passed, there were always many people who came to pay tribute to Chongzhen with local specialties.

Chongzhen, who went around a large circle from Hetao, Ningxia and Gansu, realized that he had no property to give back, and he was naturally embarrassed to take these people's specialties in vain, so he borrowed a sum of money from the Shaanxi Merchant Association as a reward. It's just that after he entered the Guanzhong Plain, more and more people came to hear the news, causing Chongzhen to finally put away his banner and hurry overnight.

In Xi'an City, he summoned Yang He and other local officials, and also met Shi Kefa, who was the governor of Xi'an at the time. This is the second time that this historical celebrity has met at the Qionglin banquet in the first year of his accession to the throne. Although his official reputation is good, he still hasn't shown any talent to make a statement.

Along the way, although some local officials advised him that the emperor should not go out of Beijing easily, he did not let Chongzhen bother with the emperor's itinerary and material supply.

Only when he came to Luoyang City was disgusted as soon as he walked into the city gate. Thirty or forty members of the clan, most of them in their thirties and forties, knelt in the center of the street with a portrait of Taizu, stopped Chongzhen's procession, and repeatedly asked the emperor to look at Taizu's face and give them a bite to eat.

The guards around Chongzhen also encountered such a situation for the first time, and they didn't know what to do for a while, so they could only stop and look back at Chongzhen's expression, as if they were waiting for the emperor's order.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the people whispering on both sides of the street, and his heart was also extremely unhappy. He listened attentively to the words of these clansmen, and his heart was even more disapproving. These clans mean the same thing, their money is already pitiful, but the emperor also cut off their Shilu and abolished their privileges, which is undoubtedly forcing them to commit suicide.

Zhu Youzhen moved his horse's head, urged his mount to come out of the ranks, and stopped in front of these clansmen. The clansmen, who had been crying bitterly, suddenly fell silent, and secretly looked at the emperor's face, wondering if the young emperor would give in to them for fear of losing face.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at these clans immediately, and saw that they all lowered their heads, and then asked aloud: "I see that you have hands and feet, can speak well, and your ears seem to be fine, why don't you want to work to support yourself, is there someone who doesn't let you work?" If so, I can help you. ”

The clansmen kneeling in front of Chongzhen suddenly looked at the three people in front, and the eldest of the three had to stand up and answer Chongzhen: "We are also the blood of Taizu, how can we engage in the business of untouchables and make Taizu lose face." Your Majesty and I are from the same source, don't you even think about this bit of kinship? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the middle-aged clan who was talking to him, and couldn't help but say sarcastically: "Even after Emperor Taizu Gao pacified the world, he never forgot his origin. Even if he has to deal with state affairs every day, he does not forget to open up acres of land in the palace to grow vegetables in his spare time.

You keep saying that you have the blood of Taizu in your body, but you regard labor as a despicable thing, and you just want to get something for nothing, are you really the descendants of Taizu? ”

These clans were only quiet for a moment, and then they muttered again: "After all, the surname of this world is Zhu, Your Majesty is not to our relatives, is it not to those outsiders..."

Looking at these nonsense clans, Zhu Youzhen also lost the interest of reasoning with them, and now he can see that these people are not here to reason with him at all, but plan to make a scene in front of the people and give him the name of a mean relative.

In such an era, if a person is not willing to treat his relatives and the village party well, it is difficult for people to believe that he will be lenient to others. The behavior of these clans is to prove to the people of Luoyang that the emperor is not as benevolent as they imagined, and God knows if there is anyone behind them who is making waves.

Zhu Youzhen turned around and hooked his hand at a guard behind him, and a guard stepped forward. He didn't say much, but pulled out the embroidered spring knife from the guard's waist, and threw it in front of his horse.

The steel knife collided with the bluestone slab, making a "clang, dang" sound. The emperor's abnormal behavior suddenly quieted down the people on both sides of the street and the clans kneeling on the street, and many of the clans on the periphery quietly moved back, for fear that the emperor would be young and vigorous and make unreasonable actions.

Zhu Youzhen looked up at the people on both sides, but loudly scolded these clansmen: "Meng Yuan has no way, and the people in the world are trapped in fire and water. Although my Emperor Taizu Gao is a cloth cloth, he also has the world in his heart and is willing to fight against the tyranny for the people of the world.

I thought about the day when the heroes of the world rose together, Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, which is not the hero of the world, why did the mandate of heaven finally belong to my Taizu Gao. Without him, just because after others raised troops, they only thought about fighting for their own wealth, but my Taizu Emperor Gao was always the same, fighting for the common people in the world until the last moment.

More than 200 years have passed, but there are unscrupulous descendants like you, distorting the original intention of Emperor Taizu Gao's founding of the country, and treating his ancestors as a miser who fights for the wealth of future generations. With such a face, will you really be able to see your ancestors under the Yellow Spring in the future? ”

Most of the clan policies implemented by these clan members worship the Ming Dynasty are vulgar and unliterate people, not only lack knowledge, but even the history of the early years of the country is not very clear, at most they know some romance stories from the biography of the heroes and martyrs of the Ming Dynasty.

was smashed down by Chongzhen with such an awe-inspiring righteousness, and he was suddenly a little overwhelmed. They want to use the status of Emperor Taizu Gao to suppress Chongzhen, naturally no one will come out to refute the emperor without a long eye, saying that Emperor Taizu Gao is not so good, and give Chongzhen an excuse to rectify them.

Although these clan members usually act like hob meat, they are actually not so inappropriate to take their lives. In the past, it was okay for them to rely on their identities to bully and dominate the market in the market, but it was the first time in their lives to confront the imperial power so head-on.

Now that the emperor can't be suppressed in reason, and the affection of relatives seems to be unreliable, more than half of the clan suddenly kneeled to both sides of the road, leaving only more than ten of the most courageous among them, who died in the road.

Zhu Youzhen leaned down, looked at these clans who were trembling and still kneeling in place and refused to move, and couldn't help but continue to speak ruthlessly: "If you still have a little bit of blood left by Taizu on your body, you think that I am not good enough as an emperor." Just pick up the sword and remove me from the throne. As long as the people support you, you can't do whatever you want, and you can also come up and do what I want.

However, with that little bit of blood, I want to let the people of the world feed you in vain, let you drive like cattle and horses, as long as I am still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you will not think about it. Now you either pick up your sword or get out of the way of me, don't fucking twist and squirm like a wronged little daughter-in-law..."

No matter how fierce Chongzhen's scolding was, none of these clan members dared to approach the embroidered spring knife that was thrown on the ground by the emperor, and they all lowered their heads and stayed away from the emperor's mount and the embroidered spring knife, lest they be regarded as rebels by the guards behind the emperor who were already eager to try, and they would be taken down on the spot.

In fact, since the emperor put forward the original intention of Emperor Taizu Gao, the people on both sides of the street, who were originally sympathetic to the clan, have turned to support the emperor one-sidedly. Although the clans in Luoyang City have stopped a bit in the past two years, most of the people still remember what kind of virtue they had in the past few years.

The reason why they hesitate when they block the way is only the influence of Confucian morality that they accept on a daily basis, sympathy for the weak and family affection for the big idea. When Chongzhen transformed the contradiction between himself and the clan into a question of whether the clan was qualified to accept the support of the people, he immediately made the people wake up and know which side they should stand on.

After watching these clans get out of the way without a backbone, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but shake his head, and then unceremoniously urged the horses forward, and forcibly walked out of a path among these kneeling clans.

The guard behind Chongzhen immediately jumped off his horse, picked up his embroidered spring knife, and glanced at these clans viciously, before leading the horse to follow the emperor. As Chongzhen walked through this section of the street, the clans who were kneeling on the road quickly got up and avoided the large group of people behind.

Looking at these horsemen like dragons, most of the clans could only sigh, squeezed into the crowd and walked away, they knew very well in their hearts that today's actions not only failed to make the emperor regress, but even more angered the emperor, and in the future, they could obviously only make a living for themselves, and they didn't have to think about the beauty of pie in the sky.

While Chongzhen was reprimanding these Luoyang clans, Galileo was also lecturing at Jinling University. Since he arrived in Nanjing, he found that there was an observatory on the North Pole Pavilion Mountain, and there were a large number of ancient astronomical instruments such as armillary spheres, simple instruments, and gui watches, so he immediately refused to go north.

While studying the principles of these ancient astronomical instruments, he accepted the invitation of Jinling University to give lectures in a short period of time. While he preached heliocentrism, he opposed a common idea handed down from ancient times in China and the West, that is, immutability is a sign of nobility and perfection. He believed that movement was not a change, that it did not lead to growth or destruction, but that it was a simple movement between parts and parts, i.e., nothing was destroyed and nothing new was produced.

It's okay to say heliocentrism, because of the emperor's support, this is no longer a taboo academic concept. But Galileo's idea that things are always in motion aroused great opposition from the Jinlingshi. Because "the word does not change, and the heavens do not change."

Galileo and his disciples were a little flustered at first about the counterattack of these Jinling scholars, but he soon realized that these scholars just wanted to reason and did not take out the stake to reason with him, which suddenly emboldened him.

However, he also knew that he should go north as soon as possible to obtain the protection of the masters of this empire, so that he would not be suppressed as heretics by the scholars of this country, so he said in his last lesson to those who doubted him: "The truth of science should not be found in the dusty books of the ancient sages, but in experiments and theories based on experiments." True philosophy is written in the greatest book that is constantly open before our eyes. This book is the universe, it is nature itself, and one must read it..."

After that, Galileo continued north with his disciples. Compared with Yenching University, Jinling University is actually more like an old-style academy, but because of Galileo's lectures in the past few months, it has opened up a new world for these young scholars. Compared with the immutable Confucian classics, Galileo's idea of a never-ending cosmic motion appealed to these scholars even more.

When Galileo left Nanjing and went north, the Chinese version of "Dialogues on the Two World Systems of Ptolemy and Copernicus" suddenly became the best-selling book in Nanjing. Whether they liked his teachings or hated them, the scholars had to buy a copy so that they could use it as a daily conversation.