Hearing that the teacher wanted to give up the position of Shangshu, Ni Yuanlu was in a trance, and when he saw the pamphlet that Yuan Keli sent to him, he couldn't help but subconsciously read it out: "Addendum to the Marriage Law of the General Principles of the Civil Law? ”

Ni Yuanlu looked up at the teacher puzzled, not understanding why he was handed this booklet. Yuan Keli's eyes kept staring at the booklet handed to the student, and he said for a long time: "I hope that this supplement to the Marriage Law can be published in your name." ”

Ni Yuanlu didn't say anything after hearing this, just lowered his head and looked at the booklet in his hand, and after a cursory flip through it, he asked Yuan Keli with some uncertainty: "Does the teacher want students to publish this addendum to the Marriage Law?" However, is the content of this too deviant? ”

Yuan Keli looked up at the student and said, "Yes, because the content in this is too deviant, I have always been very hesitant to follow His Majesty's orders and publish it." However, after watching today's court meeting, I think it's time to publish this addendum to the Marriage Law. ”

Ni Yuanlu heard the meaning of the teacher's words, and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "This addendum to the marriage law was formulated by His Majesty?" Does Your Majesty believe in Li Zhen's doctrine? ”

Yuan Keli shook his head and said: "Li Zhen has many criticisms of the "Six Classics", "Analects", and "Mencius", thinking that these books were recorded by ignorant disciples at that time, and most of them were not the words of saints, even if they were the words of saints, they were only medicine stones issued for a while, and could not become "the words of all things".

Youyun: With the passage of time, its Dao Bier; Proposition: The ruler of heaven thought that the people... It seems to be similar to the reform policy promoted by His Majesty.

But Li Zhen is a particular one: the Tao is inactive, the governance is silent, and the teaching is silent. people. His Majesty, on the other hand, has been strengthening the authority of the center and trying to control local affairs through greater power, and in this regard, the two men are at odds with each other.

Therefore, I thought that His Majesty should not believe in Li Zhen's doctrine. I do know that after His Majesty ascended the throne, many of Li Zhen's disciples entered Yenching University. I think that this pamphlet should have been written by those people and handed it to His Majesty. ”

Ni Yuanlu said a little strangely: "In that case, why don't they publicly submit a letter to His Majesty, but instead ask the teacher to come out with this?" ”

Yuan Keli smiled and said, "They had this idea, but they were suppressed by His Majesty. Your Majesty handed me this pamphlet to write because he didn't want to provoke any more fights between the physicists and Li Zhen's followers, and further complicate the situation in the Ming Dynasty. ”

Although Ni Yuanlu is not a pure physicist, he is not so interested in Li Zhen's theory. He flipped a few pages again, and then said to the teacher with some embarrassment: "But the content in this is too contrary to common sense, to ensure that women have the right to have and divorce, and the right to raise their children... Once this addendum is published, I am afraid it will cause an uproar. ”

Yuan Keli shook his head and said, "Maybe it was before, but now?" Do you think that after today's court meeting, will anyone pay attention to this addendum to the Marriage Law recently? What's more, the General Principles of the Civil Law were originally proposed by me, and now with an addendum, how many people will pay attention to it? By the time someone notices, it's already a done deal. ”

Ni Yuanlu was speechless for a moment, and after a while before he said, "However, since this is the content of His Majesty's request for the teacher to read the book, why does the teacher want students?" ”

Yuan Keli looked at him and said seriously: "I told you just now, I am old and frail, and I can't last long in this position.

But His Majesty is still very young, and what His Majesty wants to do is only the beginning. If I were to come to this booklet, I would not do it any good except to gain some favor from Your Majesty.

If you can gain His Majesty's approval, then in the next ten or even decades, you will be able to get to know His Majesty's thoughts and find a way to persuade him.

Yuan Ru's idea is still good, among several disciples, I think that only you may be able to win the approval of His Majesty, so as to change the current situation of the eunuch party dominance..."

In the study room of the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen was staring at the long case in front of him, which was laying the edict he wrote before the expedition. He propped his chin on his left hand and had been reading the edict for a long time.

Wang Chengen and Lu Qi, who were serving him in the study, both watched the emperor's behavior nervously, for fear of hearing some inappropriate orders.

However, looking at Chongzhen's gains and losses after reading the edict for so long, Lu Qi finally broke the silence and said, "Your Majesty, please think twice?" ”

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but glance up at Lu Qi and asked curiously, "Do you know what I'm thinking?" Do you want to think twice? ”

Now that he has spoken out, Lu Qi finally broke through his scruples and said: "Since Your Majesty has returned to the capital and has an heir under his knees, this edict should be destroyed as soon as possible." If the content of this edict is accidentally leaked, the ministers are afraid that they will be used in the future and mess up the public and the public. ”

Zhu Youzhen leaned back, looked at Lu Qi playfully for a long time, and then said to Wang Chengen on the side: "Wang Banban, what do you think?" ”

Wang Chengen finally couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, the minister's knowledge is not deep, but I have also heard of it: only names and instruments, not dummies." ”

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but smile, then stretched out his hand and pointed to the charcoal basin on the side and said, "Move here for me." ”

After hearing the emperor's words, the two of them suddenly heard the sound of the sky, and stepped forward together to move the charcoal basin made of white copper to the emperor. Zhu Youzhen picked up the edict, hesitated for a moment before slowly putting it into the charcoal basin, watching the originally extremely faint blue spark in the charcoal quickly jump onto the satin surface of the edict, and then like a cheerful fire dragon, devouring the entire edict.

Looking at the flames rising in the charcoal basin, Wang Chengen and Lu Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Zhu Youzhen looked at the burned edict, but felt a little regretful.

To be honest, even at the last moment, Zhu Youzhen was still a little hesitant, wanting to use this edict to lure King Fu and make him the driving force behind the reform of the clan. However, he finally gave up this idea, because Wang Chengen was right, only the name and the instrument, not the fake.

Although the Donglin Party and King Fu are now incompatible, the resentment formed because of the throne may not be resolved because of the throne.

As the reform continues, perhaps the gentry and bureaucracy will one day find it more unbearable for them to be the emperor than the blessed king.

And this edict may then become the best name for opposing oneself. Considering this, Zhu Youzhen still gave up trying to get a trick.

What's more, Wang Chengen and Lu Qi, who represent the forces in the palace, are both strongly opposed to the continued existence of this edict, and it is obviously not appropriate to damage the loyalty of their subordinates to themselves in this kind of matter.

After coming to Daming for so long, Zhu Youzhen finally understood a little bit about the social concept of the Ming people. In a society built on the basis of loyalty and filial piety, these courtiers who are loyal to themselves are not only loyal to themselves, but also loyal to their own bloodline. They associate themselves and their families with the object of their allegiance through this loyal relationship, and hope that this relationship will last forever.

In this environment, Zhu Youzhen passed the throne to an outsider, even if this person was his cousin, to the detriment of the interests of his courtiers who had always been loyal to him. After all, in this day and age, no one would use a courtier who had been loyal to someone else.

Once these courtiers find that there is no hope for their future, then they will also lose their loyalty to Chongzhen and find a way to live for themselves. For the current Chongzhen, it is obviously impossible to take this risk and make himself a real loner.

Seeing the edict turn into ashes little by little, Zhu Youzhen looked away and said, "Is there any special news coming from today?" ”

After Wang Chengen's mood relaxed, his tone suddenly said a little cheerfully: "There are a few pieces of news that Your Majesty needs to review, the first one is Li Chaoqin's recital, can Your Majesty want the ministers to read it?" ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded and said, "You read it and listen to it." ”

Wang Chengen immediately took the music in the box and read it, Li Chaoqin first greeted the emperor's health, and told him to find some medicinal materials from Sichuan, and ordered someone to bring them back for use in the palace.

Li Chaoqin then reported that due to the lack of timely salaries and large arrears in the amount of military salaries of the Huguang Liberation Movement, in order to ensure that the front army could successfully exterminate the Hao'an rebels, he had to use some captives as slaves in exchange for the support of local and Yunnan-Guizhou merchants.

And the emperor asked him to take over the assets and land of the king of Shu, and before he arrived in Chengdu, the king of Shu had already heard the rumors, and the various colors in the palace were transferred through the merchants of the palace. In the end, he only seized most of the granges in the name of the palace, and most of the other floating wealth was valuables that were difficult to move and realize, and could not be used to fill the gap in the military salary of the Southwest Rebellion Army.

However, due to the Lu'an Rebellion, the population of the people in eastern Sichuan suffered huge losses, so the distribution of fields to the families of the sergeants progressed quite quickly. The salt wells in Sichuan and the mines in Yunnan are in urgent need of a large number of laborers. At the request of these merchants, Li Chaoqin sold some of the captives to them for rebellion, and used the proceeds to fill the gap in military salaries.

Zhu Youzhen didn't feel that there was a problem after listening to it, so he asked casually: "Didn't Zhu Xieyuan and Zhongzhen Hou report it?" What happened to Shuixi? ”

Wang Chengen immediately replied: "Yes, the minister will read Governor Zhu's recital to Your Majesty again." Ao, Governor Zhu said in the report that the land of the six eyes outside the water is in my hands, and the luxury Chongming and An Bangyan have been lost, and the Shuixi family is now in the position of An.

The new head of the family intended to surrender to the imperial court, and Governor Zhu thought that he should accept the surrender of An, so that the land west of the water would return to the Ming Dynasty, end the war as soon as possible, and reduce the burden on the people of the southwestern provinces. ”

"Gone?" Hearing Wang Chengen's sudden pause, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but turn his head to look at him, and asked a question.

Wang Chengen hurriedly said: "No, there is another paragraph, the following is Governor Zhu's impeachment of Li Chaoqin, saying that he colluded with the official army of Sichuan and Yunnan, plundered the civilians of Shuixi and sold them to merchants as slaves, which is really outrageous..."