Episode 139 Donglin and other students

Zhu Yourong didn't speak for a long time, but after a while, he smiled and persuaded his uncle:

"Uncle, let me tell you, it's not just you, hehe, you have to get used to it, this is a constitutional monarchy. Uncle, let me tell you, this is very advanced. ”

Zheng Gongyin was stunned, but he didn't expect that his niece still didn't eat oil and salt for a long time. He licked his lips and said with a wry smile:

"A group of ministers fought and splashed water, and I didn't see where the advance was. The British ministers did not dare to put their noses on the face of the king, and the Japanese ministers did not dare to put their noses on the faces of the emperor, but our Ming ministers dared. It's really ......"

Zhu Yourong raised his head and smiled:

"Uncle, this is the characteristic of our Daming! Don't you know, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty are all scholars. Ha ha. ”

Jung Kyung-in was completely speechless. But he still caught Zhu Yourong's dissatisfaction and ridicule of the minister in this sentence. He struck while the iron was hot and said:

"Rong Rong, my uncle is a rough man, unlike you who have stayed in the ocean, drunk foreign ink, and seen the world. Uncle Can't Say Foreign Truths, but What Uncle Says is the old truth of our country for thousands of years. The way of the emperor is that the authority must not be lost. Your third aunt, Princess Danyang, married Augustus, the fourth son of the German emperor, why is she still living in exile in the Netherlands? Isn't it that the German emperor didn't hold the power firmly in his hands back then, and felt that he was no longer the emperor, why couldn't the courtiers let him be the king of Prussia? What happened in the end? Not to mention the king, if he hadn't run fast, those courtiers would have treated him like a war criminal! He's still good, and now he's still a duke. Your fourth aunt, Princess Quang Ninh, is even more pitiful, she has been married to Russia for a few years, holding a one-year-old child, and accompanying the Tsar's family to let Lenin's Bolsheviks be shot...... What sin do you say she has, what sin does the child have? Your little cousin didn't even see each other, so he left together. ”

Zheng Yuxuan looked at Zhu Yourong's ugly face, dragged his father, and called softly:

"Daddy!"

Zheng Gongyin doesn't care, he observes his niece's face, and this is what he wants. He licked his lips and continued:

"What happened? Those courtiers said, 'To recognize the Soviet Union,' we have to recognize the Soviet Union." If we say, 'We want to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union,' and we have to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The cabinet said nicely, saying that 'we must recognize the Soviet Union before the puppet Qing Dynasty' and that 'there are no eternal friends and no permanent enemies'. Hmph, their own family members didn't shoot the Bolsheviks, it didn't hurt or itch. When your grandfather was the emperor, he snapped, and he was pushed back with a word. When your grandfather was the emperor, this kind of person would have already been pulled out to beat the court staff...... Alas, it was your grandfather who started to engage in constitutionalism later and made you so embarrassed now......"

Zhu Yourong raised his eyes and said lightly:

"I'm not embarrassed."

After a moment of silence, she added:

"Uncle, do you miss the past? Do you want to go back to the era of the cane? ”

Zheng Gongyin was stunned for a moment, and his eyes rolled:

"I don't miss it. Rong Rong, do you know, uncle is your own uncle, our own family breaks bones and tendons, no matter how it will hurt you. Uncle is talking to you now, it's his own family chatting together, talking privately. In the past, this was called a foreign relative interfering in politics and wanted to kill the head. What do you say I'm missing? Rong Rong, you have to know that your uncle is missing you for you. ”

"Uncle, what are you talking about," Zhu Yourong couldn't help but say, "What is it that interferes in politics, it's so ugly, there is no such thing now." ”

She sighed and silently continued:

"Actually...... I just want Daming to go the British way...... I hope that Daming can be like the UK...... But you don't understand. Grandpa said before his death that if you want the Ming Dynasty to be strong, you must learn from Britain and the United States, and you must not learn from the Manchu Dynasty. Grandpa and Father have devoted their lives to the constitutional reform of the Ming Dynasty, and now more than 50 years after the constitution, Grandpa has taken the first step, Father has taken the second step, and it is up to me to take the third step. If it goes well, universal suffrage will be implemented within 10 years, and the people will elect the cabinet. That's when we really don't get involved. ”

Zheng Gongyin couldn't help but say:

"Rong Rong, were we still there at that time?"

"How not. As long as the country is strong, wouldn't it be nice for us to be like the British royal family? …… I know that you don't want to, and you all want to go back to the old life of being dressed and angry. Maybe you all think I'm stupid, other countries are revolutions that have removed the imperial power, but I take the initiative to send them out here...... Don't I want to be like the Manchu emperors and do whatever I want? I like gardens, don't I want to be like them, but I still have to go to the small garden of my uncle's marquis's mansion to enjoy it? But uncle, no. If before 1644, when our Ming Dynasty was still the Heavenly Empire and the four seas were subjugated, we could do anything. It doesn't matter if the people are poor, ignorant, or ignorant. But now we have the Manchus in the north, Japan in the east, and a ring of Western powers in the south. We have such a long land border, but the army is not as good as the Manchus; We have such a long coastline, but the navy is not as good as Japan. You say, what else can we do if we don't follow the British path? …… The example of the tsar is there. ”

Zheng Gongyin was stunned for a long time, and there was really nothing he could do about this niece who lacked a desire for power, was full of romantic ideas, and was very eloquent. He hesitated for a moment and said:

"Rong Rong, you studied in the UK, and it is normal for you to want to learn from the UK. But my uncle said something like that, Rong Rong, although you are sitting in this seat, you are still young, and some things are too simple to think. If your uncle were you, he would have thought about whether the British set of things was suitable for us and whether they could be copied. ”

Zhu Yourong didn't speak, took a copy of "Xinming Daily" on the desk, opened it and handed it to Zheng Yuxuan:

"Xuanxuan, let's read the article we read this morning...... Well, just read the sentence circled by my pen. ”

Zheng Yuxuan's face changed slightly, glanced at the two of them, lowered his head and whispered:

"If a country and a nation do not have the sunshine of democracy and the rule of law, then even if you walk on the road in broad daylight, it is no different from walking in the night."

"If not...... It's no different from walking in the dark......" Zhu Yourong repeated softly.

……

Zheng Gongyin looked at the newspaper headline in his daughter's hand: "The little prince is drunk on the cruise ship and uses his fists and feet, and the entertainer girl cries blood and complains about evil in the hospital bed", and his chest is beating wildly. The "little prince" and "evil youth" in the newspaper are not his only baby son, who is Zheng Yujiao?

He already knew about it, but he never expected it to reach his niece so soon.

His baby son has always liked to be vassal, learn from literati and ink writers, and sit on the painting boat and drink flower wine on the Qinhuai River with a class of noble children. Last night, I drank too much and fought with others for Miss, not to mention the other party, the unlucky Miss was also pushed into the water, couldn't swim and was even scared, and when she caught it, her life was saved, but she was still lying in the hospital. By this morning, several influential and major newspapers had featured prominently in high-profile reports. The rhetoric of the tabloids is still relatively objective, but what is infuriating is that those irresponsible tabloids vigorously exaggerate and do their best to add oil and vinegar, and force out some romantic affairs.

Otherwise, how could Marquis Zheng be so unhappy with the current "constitutionalism", in the past, let alone hurting people, making a human life would be similar to crushing an ant to death. Although the "constitutionalism" has only been around for several decades and has not yet been elected by universal suffrage like in Britain and the United States, and there are still many parties and chaos in the political arena, public opinion is very powerful. Since the 19th century, the people of the Southern Ming Dynasty began to learn from the West to run newspapers. In addition, the Ming Dynasty did not have the Manchu tradition of literary prison, and never criminalized words, and the former "Qingliu" became the chief writer of major newspapers. By now, private newspapers and radio stations have been extremely developed, and Daming newspapers, like French newspapers, have become a very important political force.

These royal children have been much more honest over the years, and they don't cause trouble easily. To be honest, the other party made the first move in the incident last night, but the other party's family is in business, they are ordinary people, and they are relatives of the emperor and the country, so once it is in the newspaper, it becomes unreasonable.

For thousands of years, royal secrets have always been the most interesting thing for the small people, but in the past, they didn't dare to talk about it casually, but now it's okay, there are both radio and newspapers, and it's really enjoyable to report it openly. And the current Daming newspaper is not like a Japanese newspaper, involving the imperial family, some can write and some can't write, Daming is here as long as what you write is not unconstitutional, no one can care. Nanjing's major newspapers generally have a "royal section", and if anyone digs up any inside information about the royal family, especially romantic affairs, the sales volume of the day will be doubled. If it is a relatively popular member of the royal family, there will be paparazzi carrying camera tripods, ambushing around the mansion and frequently frequented places, waiting for opportunities**.

Zheng Yujiao is the only son of the current King of Yanping, and he is the cousin of the current saint, and a reporter followed him in the crowd last night. Shili Qinhuai is a famous red light district in Daming, and it is not illegal to go there, at most it is inappropriate, and Zheng Yujiao, the son of a gentleman, doesn't care. Originally, a few paparazzi behind the ass were very boring, but they didn't expect that they would be able to break such a big story later.

Now Zheng Gongyin's baby son is still with the other party, in the police station. If it were ordinary people, looking for someone, trusting the relationship, and then paying the other party some money privately, maybe they would get people out. But now that the identity of his family is here, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has sent Yushi to the police station to supervise the handling of the case, and reporters from major newspapers are also blocking the entrance of the police station and the court, waiting happily with a magnesium lamp tripod...... In this case, no one will dare to accept even if you have a mountain of gold.

Jung Kyung-in noticed that his daughter was looking at him with resentment, and glanced at the two newspapers on the table. Zheng Gongyin looked at his daughter, then at the newspaper on the table, and slowly understood. The two articles in these two newspapers should have a causal relationship. His son made trouble on the Qinhuai River and entered the police station, which almost became the headlines in China, and the limelight was close to the Spanish Civil War, which stimulated those Qingliu who wrote articles and asked them to write articles like "Please hand over power to Your Majesty". In their opinion, it is precisely because the royal family has held power for a long time that the royal relatives have become more and more emboldened and lawless.

Thinking of this, Zheng Gongyin screamed bitterly in his heart. Your Majesty already knows the good things that Yujiao has done, and he may be angry, so he stupidly took the article "Please Your Majesty to hand over power" to her, isn't this adding fuel to the fire? To make matters worse, fire and oil were poured on themselves. …… Fortunately, my niece was quite benevolent and didn't lose her temper with herself.

"Uncle......" Zhu Yourong stared at the newspaper and suddenly spoke.

"Ah...... Yes? Zheng Gongyin accosted with some trepidation.

"Uncle," Zhu Yourong stood up, paced lightly, and said thoughtfully, "You better help me go and talk to Shen Ge Lao......

"Oh?" Zheng Gongyin was secretly happy in his heart, did his niece think that the article was concocted by Shen Rongxuan? He hurriedly asked, "Talk...... What to talk about? ”

Zhu Yourong sighed:

"Anyway, I need to know if he meant it...... Whether I hand over the power or not, when I face him again, I can know in my heart. …… Uncle, you can find an excuse to visit him, have a meal with him or something, and find out what he has to say. Uncle used to be good friends with him, and there was nothing wrong with talking to him. Well, except for my uncle, there is no one else more suitable for this matter. ”

……

That night, Zheng Gongyin really went to visit Shen Rongxuan. Now that the king of Yanping is a guest, Shen Rongxuan really dare not slack off. In addition, he also read the article, and probably guessed what Zheng Gongyin came for. Although the first assistant minister has a lot of opportunities, this kind of thing will never dare to be taken lightly. He set up a table of wine in the small dining room of his official residence, and it was just the two of them, drinking and talking.

Zheng Gongyin chatted with a smile, and after a few edge balls, Shen Rongxuan was sweating. Although Shen Rongxuan's political experience and personal scheming are above Zheng Gongyin, he knows the importance of this kind of thing. Although this article was not written by myself, there is no essay style and sentences, or the way of thinking about problems, all of which have an obvious Donglin flavor. And in terms of stakes, as long as you have brains, you will suspect that your own cabinet concocted this article.

Now the situation is that His Majesty doubts himself. Otherwise, without His Majesty's instructions, Zheng Gongyin would not dare to come to drink alone now.

Since ancient times, the most terrible thing about being a courtier is that the Son of Heaven doubts himself. This is the most frightening thing. Although the current Ming Dynasty is different from the past, after all, the constitution has only been a few decades, and now the military power is still in the hands of His Majesty, so if you don't know it, the Ming Dynasty will go back.

Although His Majesty is not that kind of person, even if he thinks that the article is made by himself, he will not do anything to himself, but His Majesty still has a series of people around him, such as the Zheng family, such as Xiang Xiaoqiang. They can all influence His Majesty to their detriment. If Your Majesty is under their influence,

Although Shen Rongxuan's heart was pounding, he was still silent on the surface, and his smile was cute. After three rounds of drinking, Shen Rongxuan pretended to be a little drunk, holding a wine glass, patting his old friend's back, his tongue was hard, his eyes were red, and he said something to show his loyalty, implying that he Shen Rongxuan was a staunch "imperial party" member when he was in Fang Hongru's cabinet, and he also contributed to His Majesty's New Year's coup d'état. What's more, in terms of talent and qualifications, he Shen Rongxuan is not qualified to be the first minister. If it weren't for His Majesty's grace, how could he Shen Rongxuan be where he is today?

Therefore, Shen Rongxuan hinted that he didn't dare and wouldn't think anything wrong. As long as His Majesty still makes him the First Auxiliary Minister, he and the Cabinet will always stand with His Majesty. Your Majesty can rest assured of this.

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It's already late July, and Daming's schools have already had their summer vacation. Xiuxiu's mother, Shang Xiaojun, had also sold Tongli Academy during this time, and was taken to Nanjing by her son and daughter. Now I live with my children and son-in-law in my son-in-law's official residence for the time being. It's been a few days since I've been here.

When the family was having dinner, Shang Xiaojun looked at the maids and servants around him, and ate a mouthful of food, while saying:

"Son-in-law, I have just written an article and published it in the newspaper. Hehe, Xiu'er, show it to everyone. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang saw the headline in the newspaper and the signature of Donglin Mosheng and other students......

"Poof-", he squirted out a mouthful of soup.