Listening to the words of the old Confucian student, Weng Zifang smiled, and turned his head to look at Li Hongzao, Sun Jianai and Xu Gengshen, who had been touted as the three gentlemen of Shilin.

"Mr. Shisun, Mr. Yusheng, Mr. Ji Shan, if my Shilin really has a chance to take charge of the Ming Dynasty, I wonder how the three gentlemen are going to assist the Son of Heaven in governing the world?"

His words made the three gentlemen stunned, and now in this situation, there is no problem for them to be the leaders of Shilin. Jiangnan Shilin has been boiling, there are tens of thousands of scholars gathered in Nanjing, if the emperor does not want to tear his face and kill, he can only veto the "Election Law", and now the emperor has not approved the "Election Law" shows that there is still room for maneuver in this matter. As for the "Council of Scholars", the "repulsion of traitorous officials", the "cutting of the navy and army", and the emperor "not saying anything about profit and not striving for profit", they did not dare to think of it. Not to mention coming to power and becoming the Daming Zaisuke. This kind of thing is no different from rebellion, everyone has a family and a mouth, and they haven't gone crazy enough to do this.

Weng Zifang slapped a copy of "Ta Kung Pao" and said: "Look at the people, although there are only 10,000 people, they have also put forward their own propositions - one is that everyone has equal rights before the law and the emperor, one is to protect the property and personal freedom of every citizen, and the other is to promote the prosperity of industry and commerce to realize the common market of Greater China, and the last is to realize compulsory education for all and vote in the national parliament...... No matter how deviant, they always shouted out. But we don't even have a party, we don't even mention a single proposition, and we all end up in the end. ”

Li Hongzao frowned and said, "Ovary, do you think our situation is still possible?" ”

This sounds a little unconfident. In fact, these Shilin leaders are quite powerful. There are also a lot of articles in the newspapers. But I haven't really gone to the Imperial City Square to ring the bell and read the book! It seems that as long as this bell does not ring for a day, there is still room for redemption.

Weng Zifang said lightly: "Why can't you be bigger?" Today's saint is the founding king, but there is no shortage of decisiveness, if he wanted to attack Jiangnan Shilin, he would have started a bloodbath a long time ago, why wait until today? Since the saint doesn't do it, I don't think there will be a day when he will start killing. Even if we don't succeed this time, only the Donglin Party's brand can stand up. There may not be no chance of dominating the world in the future. ”

"Ruling the world......" Li Hongzao touched his mustache, he surrendered from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although his knowledge is not small, but Emperor Zhu has never looked at him seriously, and his official position is only a bachelor of a university scholar - not a university scholar, or a post that arranges idlers. If there is no other special official luck, on the day of Zhishi, he will not be promoted by half a level. Otherwise, he would not have resigned from his official position and come to fight this Shilin leader.

Weng Zifang glanced at the other two gentlemen, and said with a smile: "Whether there is a chance or not." We must always strive for it and first set up a party. It would be good to put forward our own ideas and sing against them against the Youth Party. ”

"What do you two think?" Li Hongzao nodded and looked at Sun Jianai and Xu Geng. The two men thought for a moment and nodded.

"It's not bad to call it the Donglin Party, it's all the old-timers of our Jiangnan Shilin." Xu Gengshen nodded, he is from Zhejiang, and he still has some good feelings for the Donglin Party. "As for the proposition, I think ...... He should regard himself as the spokesman of the world's scholars, and he can propose to abolish the upper age limit for the imperial examination, cancel the non-Confucian content of the imperial examination, and give the world's scholars the right to vote in public elections...... All men who can recite the Analects in its entirety and who have reached the age of eighteen should have the right to vote. ”

Sun Jianai on the side also nodded and added: "The officials' fields should also be exempted, so that officials all over the world will support us Donglin." It could also propose the disarmament of the Ministry of War Suppression, the cessation of subsidies for the cost of colonization to public and private schools in various localities, and the provision of compulsory education free of charge...... In this way, those who are struggling with conquest and compulsory education tuition will also support us. ”

When these few mentions came out, the Confucian scholars present all nodded in agreement. Regardless of whether their Donglin Party is in charge of the dynasty one day, these beautiful buildings can be mentioned, at least they can be respected by the world, and the higher the reputation of these people, the more difficult it should be for Emperor Zhu to move them.

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Emperor Daming was sitting in the palace at this time, Luo Zenan, the right prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Rong, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Chen Jijie, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Zhao Daheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ye Mingchen, the secretary of the Ministry of Communications, Shen Baozhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Colony, Miao Peilin, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Li Wenan, and other officials were lined up on both sides, waiting for the emperor to inquire about state affairs.

The news of the establishment of the Jishi Youth Party and the Donglin Party has spread all over the government and the opposition, but no one mentioned it at today's small court meeting, and as for the turmoil in Jiangnan Shilin, it also seems that it has not happened. In short, all the monarchs and ministers are deliberately avoiding it.

This is a tacit agreement in the court, the emperor does not use force to suppress it, and the Confucian ministers do not wave their flags and shout for these scholars in the court. As for what things will turn out of, Zhu Jishi already knows in his heart -- Jishi's classmates have not disappointed him, and they have already contributed money and efforts to organize the Jishi Youth Party, although there are less than 10,000 party members, but it is not something that millions of scholars in Jiangnan can deal with. Now wait for the first decisive battle between Jiangnan Shilin and the Jishi Youth Party to be staged...... The political stage of the Ming Empire will be completely different at this point!

Zhu Jishi suppressed the expectation in his heart, and began to ask about the situation of the disaster relief migrants in Shanxi, and did not ask Luo Zenan, but directly asked Ye Mingchen and Miao Peilin: "Ye Qing, Miao Qing, can a new report be sent from Shanxi?" ”

Ye Mingchen and Miao Peilin both went out of work, and Ye Mingchen replied first: "The disaster in Shanxi has been greatly alleviated, and Your Majesty doesn't have to worry too much." ”

Emperor Zhu was not worried about the disaster, with the basic end of the war against Russia, a large number of people returned to the northeast, in 1856 the grain sowing area in the northeast increased greatly, and a bumper harvest was obtained, which was enough to make up for the decrease in grain production in the Han land. Although the price of grain in Han has risen to a certain extent, it is generally enough to eat.

Miao Peilin then replied: "Under the strong supervision of Prime Minister Zuo, various prefectures and counties in Shanxi have organized a large number of poor people to move out, and now the number of people reported has exceeded 550,000. The plan of the colonial ministry was to move 100,000 to North Khing'an, 100,000 to East Heilongjiang, 100,000 to East Siberia, 100,000 to Xinjiang Province, 100,000 to Qihe Province, and 50,000 to the Kazakh Khanate, all of which would be completed within 10 years of liberation. It is estimated that 32 million yuan will be spent on immigration, of which 6 million will be borne by the Colonial Ministry, 6 million by the East Siberian Development Corporation, 12 million by the Northeast Development Corporation, 4 million by the Xinjiang Development Corporation, and 4 million by the Kazakh Development Corporation. ”

"That's a lot of money!" Zhu Jishi muttered softly, no wonder the Donglin Party wants to propose to stop expansion and immigration, these two things are in the long run, not necessarily conducive to the present. In particular, the cost of emigration to the Northeast, Eastern Siberia, Xinjiang and the Kazakh Khanate is really very expensive. If you let the people of Li all over the world choose, maybe these Donglin Party members will be allowed to come to power.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jishi waved his hand and asked Ye Mingchen and Miao Peilin to step back. After thinking for a while, he suddenly said to Luo Zenan: "Luo Qing, the "Election Law" has been sent to me for a while, and I have studied it again and again, and I feel that there is no problem and it can be signed and promulgated. I will sign the Election Law after the Spring Festival, and the matter can be made public. ”

This year is already 1857, and the Lunar New Year is on January 26, less than half a month away from today. Zhu Jishi suddenly proposed to approve the "Election Law" after the Spring Festival, just to make a decision before the Spring Festival.

"Your Majesty...... Do you really want to calm down the Shilin turmoil before the Spring Festival? Luo Zenan took a deep breath and asked.

"Just before the Chinese New Year!" Zhu Jishi nodded, "Let's announce the news...... It's time for the Donglin Party and the Jishi Youth Party to come out and compete, how about I be an audience with Zhuqing? (To be continued......)