Ying Imperial Castle, Cabinet Office.

In the study, the two bigwigs of the Xianghu faction in Beijing were sitting and talking face-to-face, and the chessboard was already densely covered with black and white chess pieces. There are also two exhibitions of tea, which are exuding a fragrant and fragrant fragrance. The scene looked elegant and leisurely, but Zuo Zongtang and Luo Zenan's brows were tightly twisted, and it seemed that they were haunted by preoccupations.

The day when the world will be unified in the Ming Dynasty seems to be not far away, but what will follow may not be the peaceful scene of Wen Tian and Wu Huan, but a great change that has not been seen in three thousand years - this time the Ming Dynasty was restored with the help of Western military and science.

And the Qing Dynasty, to some extent, died of change! Rejuvenating foreign affairs, running a new army, expanding the Eight Banners, and staking piles are all determined to change. However, it got worse and worse, the scholars were centrifuged by the weight of the Eight Banners, and the Han people were resentful because of foreign affairs and the apportionment of the new army. The Manchu Qing Dynasty also pinned all their hopes on the Eight Banners New Army, and as a result, in the first battle of Huaxian County, more than 100,000 heroes of the Eight Banners died on the battlefield, and the Manchu Qing foundation was completely destroyed and the world was lost. If the Manchu Qing Dynasty had blindly remained unchanged and relied on scholars to fight against Zhu Ming and the Taiping Army, they might still be holding their breath now.

It can be seen that in the face of changes unseen in the past 3,000 years, it is not a word "change" that can deal with the past, and there are still problems of how to change and how to change.

Before Zhu Ming's revival, Zhu Jishi's proposal of "middle school as the foundation, Western learning as the application" did attract a large number of scholars who studied and criticized the application of the world, and Zhu Ming's revival was of course inseparable from the help of these scholars. But what is the foundation, what is the use. Zhu Jishi never said it. Before the revival of the Ming Dynasty, this problem was covered up, but now it is about to be put on the table.

Anyone who really knows the inside story knows that behind the unpleasant quarrel between Emperor Zhu and Empress Luo Xiangmei before, it is obviously a "dispute over use". What is the root of secondary school? Of course, it is the teaching of the Three Principles and Five Constants, and the most basic enlightenment education book of Confucianism, the "Three Character Classic", clearly reads: "The Three Guidelines, the monarch and the minister, the father and the son, and the husband and wife." And "the king is the minister, and the father is the son." "Husband as wife" is an extension of the three outlines. The Five Constants refer to "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faithfulness". It is a code of conduct used to regulate and regulate the human relations between monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, brothers, husbands and wives, friends, etc. Together, the Three Principles and the Five Constants constitute the core of the famous religion, and since the Southern Song Dynasty, they have become the "Heavenly Principles". So these three outlines and five constants. It should be a secondary school-based "book".

This time the queen struck. Unite with foreign dynasties to rectify the order of the harem. Although to a certain extent, it violated the emperor's intentions and broke the "husband for wife". However, the wife's right to rule over the concubine is also an extension of the "husband is the wife", and the wife must obey the husband. And the concubine is just the property of the husband, and the famous religion emphasizes the most respectful and lowly, how can the "property" be allowed to disobey the wife? Moreover, the queen's rectification of the harem is not out of "jealousy", but out of maintaining the dignity and humility in the palace, and out of maintaining the status of herself and the crown prince, which are in line with the three outlines and five constants. Therefore, once Zhu Jishi reveals the intention of abolishing the queen, he will definitely be desperately persuaded by the courtiers.

"There is a word in the palace that the emperor has no intention of cultivating the prince into a generation of heroes......" Luo Zenan played with a black chess piece and said lightly. Brother Ji, what do you think? Does the emperor want to abolish his heirs and establish love? The ocean horse is already pregnant with ......"

"What does the queen mean?" Zuo Zongtang frowned. "This ocean horse is in her hands!"

"The queen is virtuous after all." Luo Zenan frowned and said, "No matter how bad the reputation of this big Yanma is, it is also the emperor's mount, and there is nothing wrong with it, what can the queen do to her?" ”

Zuo Zongtang snorted: "No matter how bad the reputation is, she is not a dusty woman, she is a dignified French duchess...... The ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, there are not a few people who accept Fengchen women as concubines, Luo Shan, the sixth child of your family is from Qinhuai River, right? ”

Luo Zenan's old face turned red, and he lowered his head and said nothing. Wife and Virtue, concubine Nasé, Maria. Of course, Clementina is not virtuous, but she is not a wife, so what's not to do? How many of the Manchu civil and military forces stood right on this issue? I am a big pervert, and I am embarrassed to persuade the emperor? Moreover, "marrying a wife and marrying virtue, taking a concubine and taking a concubine" is also an extension of the Three Platforms and Five Constants, if this rule is changed, the disciples and grandchildren of Confucius will have a lot less fun.

Zuo Zongtang saw that Luo Zenan was silent, and said lightly: "Yanma is not a problem, and it is not a matter of abolishing love...... The question now is whether the future king of the Ming Dynasty is a mediocre or a good talent, a faint monarch or a holy monarch! Also, what kind of people are good and what kind of people are mediocre! The ruler in the emperor's heart is probably different from ours! ”

The chess pieces in Luo Zenan's hand snapped and landed on the chessboard: "The emperor wants to use Western learning as the foundation?" ”

Zuo Zongtang sat there, his voice unmoving: "Another question now is, who has the final say in whether it is based on Western learning or middle school!" ”

"The Constituent Assembly!" Luo Zenan's brains are all understood by Zuo Zongtang after a little mention.

The real conflict between Zhu Jishi and Luo Xiangmei is not the harem politics, nor the big ocean horse, but the ethical outline in the minds of both parties is often not right at all. Luo Xiangmei thinks it's right, but Zhu Jishi thinks it's wrong......

But Luo Xiangmei's ethics are often in line with the concept of famous teaching! Therefore, Zhu Jishi's ethical concept must be contrary to the famous religion! And the reason why Zhu Jishi likes to ride a Yanma is not because of her beauty, among the Western female slaves bought back by Liu Peng, there are a few people whose appearance is not under the Yanma, but Zhu Jishi did not leave them in the palace. This Emperor Zhu regarded Yanma as a confidant, and perhaps as a "bed military advisor", and worked together to find a way to change the foundation of the famous religion!

However, it is not easy to achieve this goal, because the famous religion has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in China, and it is not something that can be changed overnight by issuing an edict and saying a few big words. We must first take out the two magic weapons of the famous religion to maintain its fundamentals, one is the right to speak; The second is the right to education.

The so-called right to education is naturally the right to teach and educate people, and the ethical concept of famous education in the hearts of Chinese is instilled through education from generation to generation. And those who teach and educate people are naturally scholars who believe in famous religions. Zhu Jishi's establishment of new-style universities and academies was naturally to seize the right to teach and educate people.

The right to speak is the most powerful weapon in the hands of famous religions, and all kings and ministers who do not conform to the concept of famous religions will be smeared and scolded by the people of the world. That's the right to speak! It is also the power of the clergy and the doctor to restrain the monarch. However, Zhu Jishi is using the parliament and the public bureau to compete for the right to speak. This parliament and the public bureau all claim to be the representatives of the people's will, and they are elected by the subjects who pay taxes more than a certain amount in the country, so they can naturally represent the gentry of the world, and they are more upright and bold than the scholars of the world on the issue of asking for the people's lives.

Aren't the world's scholars in control of the right to speak in the name of asking for the people's lives? If Zhu Jishi uses public opinion institutions such as the Constituent Assembly and the Public Bureau to control the right to speak for the people's lives, will the famous religion still have the ability to resist in front of Zhu Jishi?

"Brother Ji, let's Xianghu...... We have to fight for the Constituent Assembly! Luo Zenan made the most correct decision at the first time. The Constituent Assembly has become a climate, and it has the support of the emperor, and it is impossible for the cabinet to close the Constituent Assembly, which will only cause the collapse of the Xianghu Party.

And after the fall of Xianghu, other factions that believe in famous religions will still come out to form a cabinet, and famous priests are the most favorite officials, even the officials of Mengyuan and Qing Tartar have people to do it, not to mention the officials of the Ming Dynasty? Therefore, if the Xianghu party wants to maintain its political power, it must contend for the Constituent Assembly.

Zuo Zongtang smiled faintly and bitterly: "Fight for ...... fell into the hands of the emperor, and he used the Constituent Assembly as a trap to trap our Xianghu, and no matter how much we fight, I am afraid that we will not be able to compete for the position of thirty percent of the members of the Constituent Assembly. If it is not disputed, there will be no way to maintain the status of Xianghu. ”

"That's a fight!" Luo Zenan suddenly lowered his voice, "For the sake of the famous religion, for the sake of Xianghu, and for the people of the world, we must fight!" Brother Ji, if my expectations are correct, after the emperor returns from sweeping the north, it is very likely that the local public bureaus and the Constituent Assembly will be re-elected...... I can't miss this opportunity! (To be continued......)