Shen Yichen stood proudly in front of the gate of the political secretary, turned his head and glanced indifferently at the political envoy Qian Fanjiang, and then turned his head to look at the dense Henan literati in front of the yamen with a look of "looking up to all beings".

A simple glance back, let the political envoy Qian Fanjiang stand in place in a daze, and then the beads of sweat the size of soybeans flowed down from his forehead. The reason is that what he saw was not only Shen Yichen, but also the dense literati periphery, but also a circle of soldiers and horses of the Shenji Battalion, raising the muzzle of the black hole!

Qian Fanjiang thought that Shen Yichen would be tough, but he couldn't imagine that Shen Yichen could be so tough that he put on a posture of killing people in front of the scholars, this kind of action in all dynasties and dynasties may not even dare to do this.

You must know that the pen in the history book is in the hands of the literati, as strong as the Qin Emperor and the Han Wu, an emperor through the ages, who has been criticized for thousands of years, until he entered the modern society, his reputation has improved, and his merits have been universally recognized.

But any king who dares to make a move on the literati will basically be defined as a tyrant, a faint king, and a tyrant. On the contrary, the literati who bravely and unyieldingly resisted the imperial power, regardless of whether his motives were righteous or not, often won the reputation of being a direct minister and a minister, and it was Wei Zheng who was alive.

Shen Yichen's actions today are made, no matter what the final result is, his reputation will fall to the bottom, and he will sit on the titles of Huo Guang, Wang Mang, Cao Cao and others, which will be spurned by scholars.

Could it be that in order to implement the new policy, Shen Yichen really fell into madness?

Shen Yichen naturally didn't know what Qian Fanjiang was thinking, but he could probably guess what mainstream literati said about him.

But for these, Shen Yichen doesn't care, all he wants is the result. Just like the sentence that once entered the Hanlin Academy and said to Ni Qian, who was in charge of the Academy, right and wrong are left to future generations to comment, history books cannot discredit a person's merits, and history will eventually give a fair evaluation, even if it takes a thousand years!

At this time, Shen Yichen's gaze slowly swept over the literati under the steps, and the power of Zai Fu and the threat to his life made them temporarily put away the literati style and bones, and they didn't dare to use the heavenly spirit cover to stiffen the mace.

It's just that Shen Yichen also knows very well that the essence of quietness lies in his sudden means, so that many people have not yet come to their senses. Daming has not yet reached the point where everyone who reads is soft, and as time goes by, someone will eventually stand up and become a defender.

You must seize this short opportunity to explain the reason and show your attitude!

"Ladies and gentlemen, you must be shocked in your hearts at this time, why the Cabinet Department is here, and how dare you lead the troops to surround the literati and do such a deviant and insulting thing."

"Right?"

Shen Yichen asked indifferently, and then his eyes swept around, but no one dared to look him directly.

Seeing that no one responded, Shen Yichen continued with his hands behind his back and in a condescending manner: "Okay, it's up to the cabinet to tell you why you are here." ”

"Because you and the others are a group of sanctimonious people, who say that they are worried about the country and the people, and take the world as their own responsibility. In fact, he sells his reputation and enjoys the privileges and preferential treatment brought by the imperial court, but he ignores the danger of the country and the suffering of the people for his own selfishness, and allows the country to be weak and the people poor! ”

"The devotees of this world have never waited for you, and there is no need for a group of hypocrites to grieve the country. The people are the cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty, and it is they who support the entire family and the country and resist the invasion of foreign enemies. ”

"Why should you bear the burden of taxes and miscellaneous taxes to feed you moths!"

Shen Yichen's words can be said to have nakedly unveiled the fig leaf of the gentry grassroots, and trampled on the gentry's proud family and country feelings to the ground.

Shen Yichen has never denied the existence of literati who follow the trend, let alone doubt that many of them have their families and countries in their hearts and are willing to sacrifice everything for them. For example, Wen Tianxiang, such as Yu Qian, and those Zheng Zheng literati who sacrificed their lives to defend the country and martyrdom when the country was in danger!

Even if Shen Yichen was in the central officialdom, he came into contact with many political enemies who did not agree with his ideas, such as Hu Hu, Bi He Wenyuan, Ni Qian, Yang Hongze and others. They may have their own shortcomings and selfishness, but in essence, they still stick to the bottom line of their family and country, and understand what is the real policy for the benefit of the country and the people.

But the vast majority of the gentry in the world, they enjoy the aura of glory brought by real literati, and claim to be one of them, but in fact they have not made the slightest contribution to their family and country.

Just such a group of moths, also worthy of being called literati?

When the words fell, there was still silence in response to Shen Yichen, and no one dared to stand up and refute it.

This is the weak nature of the vast majority of readers, who are not as noble and unyielding as they imagined. In the face of power and force, fear and cowardice are instinctive reactions, and heroes are very few after all.

However, after a moment of silence, Guo Cheng, a great Confucian in Huozhou, who was standing behind Shen Yichen, finally couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and stood up and scolded angrily: "What nonsense! ”

"It is the literati who open up the wisdom of the people, it is the literati who spread the teachings of the sages, and it is the literati who teach etiquette, righteousness, and shame."

"Even if it's you Shen Yichen, you're a literati!"

Others are afraid of Shen Yichen, but Guo Cheng is not afraid of being a great Confucian of the current dynasty.

If he has the ability, Shen Yichen killed himself, and used his martyrdom to warn the world and win a thousand years of fame.

Hearing the angry voice from behind, Shen Yichen looked back and found that it was an old man with white hair. From the information obtained from Zhao Hongjie, Shen Yichen knew that the main force of the Northern Shilin series this time was Guo Cheng, the mountain chief of the Huozhou School, and Xue Chun, the successor of the Hedong School.

Judging by the age and appearance of the other party, it is not surprising that the old man is Guo Cheng.

As the old man's words fell, soon the fierce response from the crowd verified Shen Yichen's guess.

"Guo Daru is really a brilliant voice, what qualifications does Shen Yichen have to blaspheme literati?"

"We literati shoulder morality with iron shoulders, and we have articles in our hands, how can we say that moths are moths!"

"Shen Yichen propagated heresy in his early years, and his exploits slandered the science of Cheng and Zhu Liangsheng, and now he is even more unabashedly humiliating scholars, which can be called a shame for literati!"

"Please also ask Guo Daru to support justice and give justice to our literati!"

Facing the indignant appearance of the literati present, Li Da rode on a tall horse with a cold face, and at the same time, the guards and horses brought from Liaodong by his side had a fierce look in his eyes.

You must know that in the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army, Shen Yichen led his troops to fight two bloody battles in Liaodong, one of which was rushed to the aid at a time of great crisis. It can be said that tens of thousands of soldiers in the entire Liaodong can be called a life owed to Shen Yichen.

It's okay to insult others, but it's okay to insult Shen Yichen, they didn't come to surround the political secretary yamen today, as long as they gave an order, there would be a merciless killing!

"If nothing else, this senior should be Guo Shanchang of Huozhou Academy, who has admired his name for a long time."

Shen Yichen gave up his hand and said politely, but in Guo Cheng's eyes, this action was simply a coy gesture, and he snorted coldly in response.

Shen Yichen was not annoyed by the other party's attitude, but on the contrary, a mocking smile appeared on his face and said: "What Guo Shanchang said is very good, literati have indeed played a role in spreading morality and enlightening people's wisdom. ”

"But the question is, are you literati?"

"What did you say?"

When Guo Cheng heard Shen Yichen's words, he asked in disbelief, he was a great Confucian in the dynasty, and the other party dared to deny the identity of a literati?

"I said you don't deserve to be called literati!"

Shen Yichen suddenly raised his voice, and then stretched out his finger and swept around, pointing at everyone present.

"Since ancient times, the literati were worried about the worries of the world first, and happy after the world, so that they could see all beings, see the world, and see themselves."

"In addition to writing all the peaceful things in the article, how can you ever bow down to see the common people?"

"This cabinet department rebelled against the level of internal governance and expelled the Tartars externally, and there will be people in the history books to record and circulate, why are you afraid of infamy?"

"You might as well talk about it today, in addition to the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who surrounded the Yamen of the Political Secretary of Henan, you and other prefecture capitals that were surrounded by literati protests, all of them had Beijing soldiers and horses and Jinyi guards to blockade them, which can be called a net!"

In addition, the editors and storytellers of "Wenbao", as well as the expatriate Yanguan Qingliu, and the disciples of the Shen Party. We are taking advantage of the opportunity to protest and make trouble, and we are going into the fields to explain to the people at the bottom what the new deal is and what kind of benefits it can bring to them. ”

"You can't play with people's hearts, let alone reverse black and white, the dawn will eventually break through the darkness, and the people can also distinguish between right and wrong!"

The reason why Shen Yichen fully mobilized the Jinyi Guard and the Beijing camp soldiers and horses with great fanfare was not to prevent the scholars from making any riots. As the old saying goes, Xiucai has not rebelled for ten years, and a group of refined and self-interested gentry are not even a rabble, where does they have the courage to fight with the elite soldiers on the frontier?

Shen Yichen's real goal was to take advantage of the opportunity when literati from all over the north formed a party and gathered in various government yamen to make trouble and protest, and sent troops to surround them and cut off their control over local public opinion.

You must know that before Shen Yichen decided to deal with this matter personally, Zhao Hongjie investigated the matter for more than half a month, and knew very well that the root cause of Yang Hongze's failure to implement the new policy was that he still maintained the traditional division of scholars and doctors, got rid of the closeness to the people at the bottom, and completely controlled the power of public opinion in the hands of the local gentry.

Whoever controls the right to speak is equivalent to controlling the general trend and becoming the uncrowned king. Even if you sit and shout about catching a thief, you can only watch the people being fooled, and you can't explain it with your own mouth.

Under normal circumstances, if you want to regain the deep-rooted power of public opinion of the local gentry class, you need an extremely powerful grassroots organization to publicize the ideas of the New Deal over and over again, so that the people can understand the truth.

But the problem is that this powerful grassroots organization, in a feudal society like the Ming Dynasty, is tantamount to a fool's dream, even if there is this layout and planning, it may be difficult to achieve without decades of development, and Shen Yichen cannot wait until decades later to slowly explain the reason.

The tandem connection between the Huozhou School and the Hedong School gave Shen Yichen a godsend. Since there is no way to simply regain the right of public opinion, as long as the other party cannot speak, it is equivalent to taking the right to speak!

There are hundreds of state capitals in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and it is unrealistic to gag them one by one, and the other party takes the initiative to gather together, which is equivalent to throwing themselves into the net. Shen Yichen only needs to trap this group of literati, and then mobilize his own propaganda power to seize this short period of public opinion.

It can let the people at the bottom of the state capitals understand who the New Deal is seeking welfare for, and understand that it is a good policy to reduce taxes!

When the gentry class can't fan the people at the bottom, then they become rootless trees, and no matter how much trouble they make, it is difficult to succeed, which is the origin of Xiucai's rebellion and ten years of non-allusion.

After listening to Shen Yichen's words, the faces of everyone present changed, they never thought that the sharp weapon used by literati and scholars to gather to protest for thousands of years could be used as a shackle to trap themselves.

"Shen Yuanfu, did you plan to override the Son of Heaven by mobilizing the Jinyi Guard and the Jingying to besiege the scholars?"

Standing next to Xue Chun for a long time, he finally couldn't help but question.

After all, he is the sister-in-law of Xue Xuan, the Qing of Dali Temple, and he has been familiar with the law since he was a child, and he understands the difficulty of mobilizing the Son of Heaven's army and the Beijing camp. He and the others didn't receive any news at all, and they still rushed to various state capitals so quickly to set up control, presumably Shen Yichen must have done the first thing to cut and then play.

It's just anything else, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing division can be easily mobilized, which is simply trampling on the authority of the Son of Heaven!

"Xue Chun, since you know the laws of the Jingshi, you should know the edict of the first emperor."

"I am a minister who cares for his life, and I have the right to praise all government affairs, how can I say that I am above the Son of Heaven. It is a serious crime to vainly suspect the ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, and this cabinet department will look at the face of Ling Zun Xue Tingwei, and bypass you this time for the time being, and you will be severely punished for talking nonsense! ”

Since the other party wanted to talk about the rules of the law, Shen Yichen convinced Xue Chun, it seemed that there were too many ministers in Tuogu, so that many people forgot the power and status brought by this identity.

Shen Yichen generally doesn't use it, it doesn't mean that Shen Yichen doesn't have it, the edict of the first emperor is the source of the legal principle for all his actions.

Just when Shen Yichen was sharp and unleashed his power to the extreme, on the streets that went to the Yamen of the Political Secretary, there was an overwhelming crowd of people, forming a larger encirclement around the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who blocked the literati.

It's just that compared with the well-dressed literati in long robes, most of the people who came behind were ragged and wore short shirts that were convenient for labor, and the two seemed to be people from different worlds.

But their steps were unusually firm, and they came with a resolute attitude. It was to let Shen Yuanfu see that the new policy he worked hard to implement was remembered by the people, and the protests and opposition of the gentry class did not represent everyone.

The silent majority, at this moment chooses not to be silent anymore!