Tang Emperor Li Hongsi walked in, followed by the imperial eunuchs Zheng Anmin and An Ningri.

Everyone must be secretly screaming in their hearts: "Damn! There are moles! ”

People were about to kneel, and Li Hongsi said, "It's all free." ”

The Emperor continued: "What is this for? If you don't go home, you will gather in a hut outside the inner court. ”

Yang Mingyang said to the emperor: "Discuss today's holy decree." ”

Emperor: "Did you come up with anything?" ”

Yang Mingyang: "We all agree that this holy decree cannot be carried out. ”

The Emperor frowned.

More than a dozen people in the room looked at the prime minister.

Yang Mingyang: "I have always felt that as long as I do something, I will say it and then do it; If you can't do it, don't talk about it. Your Majesty's holy decree is completely inoperable and cannot be carried out at all. ”

The Emperor frowned.

More than a dozen people in the room looked at the prime minister.

The emperor said to Zhao Yuyang and Zhang Qiangsheng next to him: "Can the inner court do it?" ”

Zhao Yuyang stared at the emperor.

Zhang Qiangsheng lowered his head and thought about things.

Zhao Yuyang: "Didn't Your Majesty just read the Book of the Patriarchs?" ”

The Book of the Senators is a book that is only available to fourteen members of the Senate. In addition, the crown prince after the establishment of the crown prince can also be read - and must be seen, and the president of the senate personally urges the crown prince to study the book. Li Hongsi is not from the crown prince, so he hasn't seen it before. When Zhu Zhaoding was killed, all the members of the Senate were executed again, but the Book of the Senate was preserved, and Zhao Yuyang and Zhang Qiangsheng currently control the book. After Li Hongsi became the emperor, the inner court showed the book to the emperor.

The Emperor's eyes were a little dazed, and he glanced around at the people in the room.

The eyes of the people in the room looking at the emperor were also very strange.

Emperor: "I just watched it the other day, but I don't like those things very much. ”

Zhao Yuyang: "Your Majesty also knows that those things are completely contrary to Your Majesty's holy decree. The Book of the Elders is something that has been handed down for I don't know how many thousands of years ago, but it is all the truth. If the court does what it does, it will surely last forever......"

Emperor: "I think Da Ming is doing it, and it's not over." ”

Zhao Yuyang: "I haven't finished talking about it yet—if the court doesn't do it, it'll be over." Daming did so, but he didn't do it well; It was because he didn't do a good job that he was messed up in the world by a mere Zhao County Zhao clan......"

Someone in the crowd glared at Zhao Yuyang angrily. Obviously, that person was the representative of Hebei, a member of the Zhao clan of Zhao County.

Emperor: "I don't like the Senate, and I don't like the Book of the Senate." We don't use their laws. ”

Zhao Yuyang did not speak.

The Emperor looked around again and whispered, "We don't need to, there won't be any problems, right?" I mean, will Sichuan and the Holy Land be in charge? ”

Zhao Yuyang said: "This ...... Sichuan has been here a few times, and the Holy Land has also been here, and they won't care about us...... Right? The Holy Land is just worried about some 'Son of God' or something. More than a year ago, the Sichuan Senate came to Chang'an, and they only accused Qian Zhaoding of changing weights and measures indiscriminately, and did not care about anything else. ”

The emperor said, "Then there is no need. What "Patriarchal Law", don't use it! ”

Zhao Yuyang sighed.

Emperor: "What are you sighing for?" ”

Zhao Yuyang: "Everything in the inner court is for the execution of the "Book of the Senators", what is the forbidden army, the secret office, the intelligence department, the royal prison, the survival department, the royal arsenal, the printing house, the royal psychiatric hospital...... And so on and so forth, all of this is based on the Book of the Patriarchs. The reason why the imperial power is strong is because there is an inner court; The reason why the inner court is strong is because of the Book of the Senators. ”

Frankly, he was right, and I thought the same way, but the emperor was not happy to hear it!

The emperor's face was full of displeasure.

The people in the room were also terrified.

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The emperor glared at Zhao Yuyang and turned to Yang Mingyang.

The emperor asked Yang Mingyang: "Can you do it?" ”

Yang Mingyang also sighed and said, "What you said, let's not talk about the consequences first, I'll talk about what to do first." If it was more than ten years ago, the Ming Dynasty was still very strong, and they could barely do it. The forbidden army drove planes and tanks, and whichever province dared to resist would be wiped out directly. But now? Ay! Don't look at the more than a dozen provincial representatives in this room, they are all minions sent by the provinces, and the real masters are staying in the provincial capital. Even if we force them to agree now, what's the use? Take the equal division of land as an example, I am obedient, I have divided my millions of acres of land, but will others divide it? If they don't score, we're going to beat them, can we beat them? You can't even do it with money! Now that his forbidden army is over, the court can't do it! If we don't do what we say, where is the authority of the court? ”

Li Hongsi looked at a room of people, his eyes swept over them one by one.

People dodged.

Yang Mingyang: "Your Majesty, there are too many people at the court meeting today, and there are many people. Now there are few people, and they are all high-ranking officials of the imperial court, so I will explain what I said. ”

Li Hongsi looked at him, his eyes a little dodgy.

Yang Mingyang: "What do you think is the legitimacy of the imperial court?" ”

As soon as he asked, the room was so nervous that it was about to wring out the water! Everyone was staring at him. What did he mean by that? Say that the emperor is not legitimate?

Li Hongsi frowned and said: "The subjects are free and happy, and the society lives and works in peace and contentment, which shows that the court is virtuous, and the court is legitimate!" ”

Yang Mingyang nodded and gave the emperor a thumbs up: "Not bad!" Sure enough, they are good students taught by Royal Roads University, similar to Confucianism - but this is not true. ”

But the emperor was not angry, and asked him: "What do you think?" ”

Yang Mingyang: "The legitimacy of virtue is useless. First of all, you can't let the people live and work in peace and contentment forever, can you? In a dynasty, there are always a few. When the people are happy, you say you have legitimacy; What about the people when they are unhappy? Isn't that going to be a rebellion? ”

The emperor said, "I will make the people happy." ”

Yang Mingyang stared at the emperor and said, "I'll assume that you have created a prosperous era, can you guarantee that your son will also create a prosperous era?" Can you guarantee that your grandson will also create a prosperous world? The Tang Dynasty is eternal, and every emperor creates a prosperous era? Can you guarantee it? If you say yes, I won't believe it. If you say you can't, doesn't that mean that the emperor below you has no legitimacy? Shouldn't the people rebel and overthrow the Tang Dynasty? ”

The emperor looked down at something.

Yang Mingyang continued: "This is one of them. Second, without comparison, there is no good or bad. You said that you created a prosperous era, and people who have experienced troubled times will thank you, such as us; But those who haven't experienced troubled times won't thank you, such as our descendants. They picked up the bowl and ate the meat, put down the chopsticks and scolded the mother! The more you spoil them, the less they respect you! It's getting harder and harder for you to be the emperor, and sooner or later they will rebel! ”

The emperor raised his head and looked at Yang Mingyang. The emperor seemed to nod slightly, and asked him, "Then what do you mean?" ”

Yang Mingyang said: "The legitimacy of the imperial court should be based on the rule of law. People make mistakes and they are punished; People are rewarded for their merits. The subjects pay taxes, and the court comes to serve the subjects. And what about the emperor? It is better for the emperor not to meddle in the affairs of the imperial court. ”

The Emperor stared at him.

And the people of the house looked at him.

Yang Mingyang continued: "If the minister of the court makes a mistake, the emperor will replace him; When the minister of the court did the right thing, the emperor rewarded him. But the emperor should not do things personally, because if the emperor does something wrong, the emperor's authority is gone! The emperor's authority came from the fact that he was the guardian of the rule of law. If the emperor and the court can do this, then there will be no resentment and dissatisfaction in the world, and the Tang Dynasty will naturally be able to spread for eternity! ”

Everyone's mouths were wide open.

Frankly speaking, even I can't understand whether he is really for the emperor's country or for his own power. There seems to be some truth to what he said, and it doesn't seem to make sense.

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Zhang Qiangsheng, director of the Tang Imperial Secret Department, looked at Yang Mingyang and snorted at the corner of his mouth. His snort managed to grab everyone's attention.

Zhang Qiangsheng said to Emperor Li Hongsi: "Your Majesty, you listen to him talk so much. Why does the world listen to the emperor and the imperial court? Because we're the best. ”

Yang Mingyang glanced at Zhang Qiangsheng and said, "You know the power!" Strength! Strength leads to more power! ”

Zhang Qiangsheng didn't look at him, and continued to say to the emperor: "Your Majesty is the emperor in Chang'an, is there any difference between it and the puppet emperor outside?" The difference is that the inner court supports you. At present, there are still people in Mongolia who call themselves Emperor Dayuan, some people in Jinling call themselves Emperor Dahan, some people in Lingnan call themselves Emperor Damin, and some people in Jiangnan call themselves Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty...... Why are they false emperors? Because they have no inner court, no forbidden army, no "Book of the Senate". Your Majesty now has an inner court by his side, what else do you need? No, not at all. ”

Yang Mingyang said in disgust: "What is the difference between the emperor and the previous Ming emperor?" ”

Zhang Qiangsheng said to him: "There is no need to make a difference. ”

Zhang Qiangsheng continued to turn to the emperor and said, "Strength is the greatest legitimacy. As long as the emperor gives me a few years, I will build the inner court more powerful than the inner court of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor will have an invincible forbidden army, as well as an air force and navy, and instantly wipe out all the traitors. The emperor also had an army and a protective army to control all his subjects. The emperor will have an ideological department to control the minds of his subjects. The emperor would have a ministry of labor to control the bodies of his subjects. When the time comes, the emperor will do whatever he wants. The emperor wants to give the people freedom and happiness, and it is not a matter of saying a word when the time comes. ”

The emperor frowned, looked at him, turned to me and Zhao Yuyang and said, "Aren't you also from the inner court, but you can talk about it?" ”

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Ah, although I have been thinking about the question of "why is the emperor the emperor and why am I a shitman" since I was a child, but I still haven't figured it out!

Zhao Yuyang said to the emperor: "Eight years ago, when I came to the palace for the first time, I thought the same way, I felt that the inner court controlled everything - but what about the result? If the inner court is really so powerful, then why is it over after Da Ming finishes speaking? The power is great, but to say that the power belongs to you? ”

Zhang Qiangsheng also looked at Zhao Yuyang seriously.

Zhao Yuyang continued: "The Senate controls the Inner Court, Sichuan controls the Senate, and the Holy Land controls Sichuan - and we knew a few days ago that the Holy Land will also have a civil war!" And the saint of the Holy Land has never been seen! Frankly, after so many years, all authority has become authoritative. ”

People were looking at him.

Zhao Yuyang sighed and said, "I think it's better to rely on tradition, and the people can do whatever they like." ”

Li Hong thought for a while and turned to me: "Chen Ju, what do you say?" ”

I'm talking! I haven't figured it out yet!

I said, "I think that the legitimacy of power comes both from what the emperor did, from the justice of the law, from the great force, and from the divine power of the emperor." Therefore, Your Majesty should take a four-pronged approach, so that people can live and work in peace and contentment, and the imperial power will be consolidated forever! I think His Majesty's decree is good, but it is a bit radical, so it is better to take it slowly. After all, as the saying goes, you have to take one step at a time, and you have to eat one bite at a time. ”

The Emperor nodded: "Good! It's still good as Chen Ju said! That's what we're going to do. ”

What a fart!

The nonsense I said reminded me of what my dad said to me: "When you eat, eat well and don't waste it." ”

If a truth seems perfect, it is 100% wrong.