Wang Yin twisted his eyebrows, his face was weird, almost spurting three liters of blood, and he died of depression.

Mao Kun kept shaking his head and sighing, looked at Shen Mingchen, and grinned again, clearly saying that you stupid, don't say you know us, shame!

Shen Mingchen was so angry that his cheeks bulged, what do you all mean? I think Lao Tzu has a rice bucket, his brain can't turn around, he can't play happily, Lao Tzu is going back to Gao Laozhuang!

Mao Kun glanced at Tang Yi and said with a smile: "My lord, shouldn't you solve the dumb riddle so that all of us can understand your plan?" ”

Wang Yin added: "My lord, we are willing to follow your lordship, build a great cause, and share life and death, please don't doubt it." ”

"You don't know if you dare to love, what else are you pretending." Shen Mingchen also hurriedly said: "My lord, as the saying goes, three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang, you have great ambitions, we all know that we are more willing to serve the work of dogs and horses for adults, please make it clear to your lords!" ”

Facing the ardent hopes of the three strategists, Tang Yi nodded, indeed, it is true that it is too difficult to carry a huge pressure on his own alone, and sometimes, someone must share it. The three in front of him, Mao Kun and Wang Yin are all top sages, Shen Mingchen's poetry knowledge is rare in the world, if they can't accept their own concepts, they just wash and sleep.

"Three gentlemen, I didn't mean to hide it from you, but there are some things I haven't thought about, but since the three of you asked, let's go into detail together."

……

Since ancient times, there has been no prosperous era for three hundred years, if you actually explore, whether it is a strong Han or a prosperous Tang Dynasty, the time of prosperity is very short, such as the Han Dynasty from Gaozu Liu Bang, Emperor Wen, Emperor Jing, until the early days of Emperor Wu, were pressed and beaten by the Huns, and later Emperor Wu appointed Wei Qing and Huo Qubing as generals, and counterattacked in a big way, only to sweep the Quartet, and played the prestige of the Han Dynasty, but in the later period of the Emperor Wu Dynasty, the Han Dynasty showed signs of prosperity and decline.

The same is true of the Tang Dynasty, after the accumulation and efforts in the early stage, it was strong for a while, after the Anshi Rebellion, the national situation was declining, the local festivals made chaos, the party struggled continuously, and the national situation was becoming worse.

As for the Song Dynasty, the foreign war was not good, but the country was still stable, I have to say that it was the credit of the great prosperity of Wenzhi, but he was bullied by the countries in the north all the way, from the Khitan to the Jin State, and then to Mongolia, and he was still very aggrieved.

The Ming Dynasty was between the Han and Tang dynasties and the two Song dynasties, and in terms of martial arts, it was not as strong as the Han and Tang dynasties, and the rule of the Han and Tang dynasties was slightly worse than that of the two Song dynasties.

Tang Yi and the three gentlemen sorted out the situation of the past dynasties, no matter which dynasty, the problems encountered may be different, some were destroyed by foreigners, and some were overthrown by peasant uprisings.

On the whole, it is around 300 years, and it is necessary to carry out a reincarnation, and the general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time, and it will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

What is the root of the cycle of chaos?

Is it the number of days?

Tang Yi believes that the common cause of the collapse of various dynasties is the collapse of finances, and the root of financial problems lies in the Qin system and Confucianism!

As a standard scholar, it is a little uncomfortable to attribute the responsibility for the rise and fall of the rebellion to himself, but fortunately, Wang Yin and the three are very generous, and they listen patiently to Tang Yi's narration.

The Qin system has a good side, such as the abolition of sub-feudalism and the implementation of the county system, such as the unification of writing, weights and measures...... But the Qin system has a fatal problem, that is, the divine right of the monarchy.

Gong covers the three emperors, and the five emperors of virtue.

Starting from Qin Shi Huang, the emperor, as the Son of Heaven, has supreme power, and all subjects in the world must obey the will of the emperor alone, and all of them are slaves of the emperor and can be driven by the emperor.

It was under the guidance of this idea that Qin Shi Huang abused the people's power to build the Great Wall, dig spiritual canals, and build straight roads...... The heavy conscription and the harsh Qin law made the people unable to bear it anymore, and rose up against Qin, and the Great Qin Dynasty ended in the second.

After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, although he made minor repairs and minor repairs, he basically adhered to the Qin system.

Especially when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, it constituted the outer Confucianism and the inner law, one yin and one yang, complementing each other, cooperating with each other, and becoming the emperor's left and right hands.

The peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty brutally told the rulers that blind violence would only make the people react strongly and would not last long.

Therefore, after the Han Dynasty, he put on the cloak of Confucian hypocrisy, and used the general ethics and patriarchal rules to imprison the people of the world and achieve the goal of consolidating imperial power.

Although scholars throughout the ages had the idea of kings and scholars ruling the world together, in the face of kings, the scholars were often weak and incompetent. Even the weakest Emperor Zhao and Song were reluctant to let the scholars snatch the power in their hands.

As for the Ming Dynasty, the problem is even more serious, if the scholars want to divide power, the emperor will release eunuchs to deal with it, but it really can't be done, and he goes into battle shirtless, a Zuoshunmen incident, Jiajing discounted the bones of the civil official group, although their bones were not very hard before.

A small emperor who succeeded to the great unification of a foreign domain, a veteran of the two dynasties, and a meritorious man, but the result was a fiasco for Yang Tinghe, not that he was not powerful enough, but that the imperial power was high and no one could contend with it.

Confucianism and law are like two masks on the emperor's face, usually the Confucianism of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and when it comes to interests and power, it is the ruthless law.

In the face of the emperor, the scholar group had very few means to contain it, except for the changes in the sky.

The emperor has unlimited power, and it is a family inheritance, father and son successively, although there is no shortage of good emperors, but if you want a family, all generations will produce good people, and this good person can still fight his way out of the encirclement and inherit the throne, it is too difficult.

In fact, in all dynasties, only a few monarchs at the beginning may have self-knowledge and can restrain their power, and in the later years, the emperor became more and more unscrupulous.

For example, Zhengde and Jiajing are the best representatives, one is ridiculous and nonsense, the other is stubborn and self-serving, and he is bent on cultivating the treasury, making the treasury empty and smoky.

"If the imperial power is not restricted, sooner or later one day the emperor, as well as his minions and relatives, will destroy the finances, and the finances cannot be maintained, and they will inevitably be expropriated and expropriated, provoking the people's uprising, and the people's uprising will rise, and it will be vigorously suppressed, and the expenditure will skyrocket, and the exploitation of the people will be intensified, and the result will be to force more people to pull the flag and rebel, and the wolf smoke will be everywhere, until the situation can no longer be controlled, the dynasty collapses, and starts again!"

Tang Yi sighed: "In this process, the Confucian scholar group also played a very ugly role, they took advantage of the privileges granted by the emperor to annex land and oppress the people. And after the chaos in the world, they switched to the new master, even if the new master is a barbarian foreigner, he does not hesitate to grovel, and the shameless traitors who leave Mengyan and others are the greatest shame of Confucianism! ”

Tang Yi said again: "Simple anger and scolding are worthless, why traitors emerge in endlessly, in fact, the truth is not difficult to understand, the world is the emperor alone, the self-determination of the Confucian scholars is to be a herdsman for the emperor, to put it bluntly, it is a shepherd boy who herds sheep for the landlord's family, the people are just cattle and sheep, they are just outsiders who take money to do things, the old landlord is dead, or lost, change to a new landlord, continue to work, what is worth wondering." ”

……

Wang Yin and Mao Kun listened to Tang Yi's story, while looking at each other, their eyes showed a strong shock, especially Mao Kun, he had followed Tang Yi for so long, and saw some clues, Tang Yi's various actions, obviously unwilling to be an ordinary minister, but it didn't look like he wanted to expose the uprising and replace it.

They were vaguely able to guess some of Tang Yi's thoughts, but when Tang Yi really said it, they were still shocked, and after thinking about it carefully, they had to admit that although it was very cruel, it was like that!

"My lord, do you have a solution?"

"Yes!" Tang Yi's mouth was dry, he drank a cup of tea, moistened his throat, and continued: "The biggest trouble with the divine right of the monarch is that the emperor has the right to be responsible, and the minister has no responsibility. Take this dynasty as an example, in order to control the ministers, in order to maintain his supreme authority, the emperor did not hesitate to give the power of the official of Kedao to hear and say things, so it was not enough, and set up Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory, just to tame the courtiers and tame the people of the world. The dignified ministers of the Emperor do not have the slightest majesty, such as Yan Song and the like, if they want to be like pugs, they wag their tails in front of the emperor and beg for mercy, wear incense crowns, insert herbs, and dance with the emperor! Where is this Shoufu, it is clearly the emperor's servant! With such an undignified civil official, how can the people respect and obey him, and how can they expect him to shoulder the heavy responsibility of helping the world and the people? The key to establishing a heart for heaven and earth and a life for the people lies in four words: equal responsibilities and rights! ”

Mao Kun and Wang Yin said in unison: "What is the explanation? ”

"The emperor is responsible for what he has done, and if he makes a mistake, he has to punish himself."

Shen Mingchen was quick and said, "My lord, do you mean to make an edict against yourself?" ”

Wang Yin scolded with a smile: "Who is responsible, isn't it just a piece of waste paper?" If you want me to say, as long as you do things, you will inevitably make mistakes, could it be that the emperor wants to abdicate voluntarily after making mistakes? ”

Tang Yi smiled and shook his head, he glanced at Mao Kun.

Mao Kun blessed his soul and said with a smile: "Outside his body and his body, he gets up and takes the lead." The Emperor wants to never make a mistake unless he does nothing! ”

"That's right, the emperor is just a symbol of the country, and the responsibility for doing things really falls on the cabinet, on the scholars, who have the power and responsibility to build the country according to their talents and ideas, and if something goes wrong, they will step down and be responsible. The same is true for the officials of science and technology, who have become lackeys and thugs of the powerful by relying on the power of rumors and rumors, but if they want to abolish the officials and supervise the officials, I am afraid that there will be a darker situation, and there is only one way, that is, to give the officials the right to investigate, they no longer rely on hearing about them, but they have a detailed investigation, there is real evidence, and they do things according to the law, only in this way can they really open up their voices and supervise the officials......"

Tang Yi talked eloquently and brought out all the thoughts in his stomach.

The three strategists listened carefully, asking questions from time to time, perhaps Tang Yi answered, or admonished each other, they started talking in the afternoon, and they didn't even eat dinner, and talked until noon the next day.

Although everyone was tired, they could not hide their excitement, and the road ahead was finally clear...... (To be continued.) )