Yang Feng's evil deeds successfully detonated the anger of the Confucian scholars.

Of course, what ignited their anger was the inaction of His Majesty the Emperor.

For this brawl, His Majesty the Emperor chose to make peace with the mud, first, those righteous women have extraterritoriality, so they can't be punished, and second, a group of Confucian scholars who are full of poetry and books fight in the street with a group of underage girls, if this spreads with great fanfare, do you think they are ashamed or you are ashamed? So in the end, when Tianfu played, Yushi criticized, and Wenchen unanimously admonished, the final result was to let Yang Feng restrain his righteous daughter, and the injured Confucianism or righteous daughter were given ten yuan as medical expenses.

As for those Hanlin drums, this one is left in the middle and not dealt with.

Moreover, His Majesty the Emperor also issued an edict to ask those officials to go through the formal channels for their performances, and the Dengwen drum is to voice grievances to the people.

Do you guys need to knock that?

Isn't it okay to fold the music directly to the Secretary of Justice?

In short, His Majesty's disposition of the Emperor is completely out of line with his style.

This also encouraged the Confucian scholars.

That's encouragement.

His Majesty the Emperor has made it clear that he will not interfere with the criticism of Yang Feng, and at most he will not respond to this criticism, so you can do whatever you like, when he can't see it.

In that case, there is not much to say.

The next day, a large number of posters appeared on the streets of the capital, and even Confucian scholars stood next to the posters to explain their contents to the people, which was nothing more than Yang Feng's various evil deeds, as well as the evil intentions hidden by his behaviors. Although when facing him, even if he held a crossbow, he didn't dare to pull the crossbow machine, but as long as he didn't stand in front of him, the Confucian students were still very heroic, and besides, it wasn't the cowardice of the Confucian students......

How is cowardice?

That's obviously taking the overall situation into account!

Obviously, it is to maintain the image of the state of etiquette in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, he is an emissary of friends.

Like those scholars, they are full of poetry and books, and they attach great importance to etiquette, even in the face of an arrogant and domineering friendly envoy, they can only treat each other with courtesy, so even if they have a crossbow in their hands, they can't really shoot at him. But this has nothing to do with cowardice, it is definitely not cowardice, in fact, when this matter reached Yangzhou, it had already become that scholar who abided by etiquette, so he would rather back down to take care of the overall situation.

Isn't it the right to speak!

In the capital, there are indeed countless pairs of eyes watching, and it is not the mouth of the literati when they leave the capital?

As for the rumors......

That, of course, is a rumor.

In short, what happened that day was that several editors of the Hanlin Academy, who took the Guozijian and some scholars from the capital to the Dengwen Drum Courtyard to beat the drums and report the two demon books and their publishers, Yang Feng, the envoy of the Great Xia Kingdom, to His Majesty.

Yang Feng, who learned the news, instructed his righteous daughter to beat the scholar on the street, and after being reprimanded by the scholars, he was so angry that he pulled out a gun and faced each other.

The scholars did not have the same knowledge as him when they took care of the overall situation.

But this kind of evil behavior is outrageous, and he also believes that the current Confucian ancestors are all in the same way as Liumengyan, and also said that the sages and sages are taught by Qin Hui and Du Chong......

Crazy!

Who can bear this?

Woe to your family!

You don't even let go of your ancestors!

Dig the ancestral grave!

Why are we all kneeling Hu Yuan? Is there any ancestor in this world who did not kneel Hu Yuan to survive?

"This is really different, rights and obligations are equal, as a rentier enjoys the rights, then you have to bear the obligations, the Confucian scholars of the Song Dynasty can be said to have enjoyed all kinds of preferential treatment, then they have the obligation to be loyal to the Zhao family. What the common people get, not only do they get nothing, but they have to pay heavy taxes every year to support the Zhao family and the military generals, and they have no obligation to defend the Zhao family, because the Zhao family depends on them for support. On the contrary, the Zhao family and the rentier generals were obliged to protect their safety, but instead of protecting them, they were slaughtered by foreign races, so the Zhao family was no longer eligible to enjoy their offerings.

They don't need to be loyal to the Zhao family.

It's like a contract.

The people signed a contract with the monarch, and the people paid taxes to support the monarch, the clan, the monarch's civil and military officials, and the monarch's army, and the monarch mainly protected their safety.

It is the duty of the people to pay taxes.

It is the duty of the monarch to protect the people.

If the people do not pay taxes, it is the people who break the contract, and the monarch can punish them with the law, and if he can't protect the people, the monarch breaks the contract, and the people are no longer obliged to support the monarch. This is a very simple truth, so the people of the Song Dynasty do not need to be loyal to the Zhao family, they paid taxes, but the Zhao family could not protect them, so why should they be loyal to the Zhao family.

But the minister is different.

The minister is rentier, and the Zhao family takes the taxes paid by the people and hires them to do things, and of course they have to bear obligations when they take the money.

This obligation includes faithfulness and observance.

Any emperor requires his ministers to be loyal to themselves, and they have already put their fingerprints on this contract the moment they become officials, but if they fail to do so, then they are traitors and traitors of the Song Dynasty.

They are not comparable to the people.

When the Zhao family can't protect the people, the people can even choose a new master.

Of course, Hu Yuan is certainly not.

This is a forcible conquest, Hu Yuan himself is a country, forcibly conquering another country and enslaving its people.

But your majesty the emperor can be regarded as this new lord, after all, he started from a humble beginning, and expelled the Tartars to rebuild rivers and mountains with the enslaved people who had no land, and the people can recognize him as the new prince of the contract, as long as the Zhu family can protect the people, the people will also accept the rule of the Zhu family. If the Zhu family can't do this, then the people also have the right to change it, and if the Zhu family starves to death, the people also have the right to overthrow the Zhu family and replace it with a new king. ”

Yang Feng continued to advocate his fallacies and heresies.

Now this question is the focus of the Confucian scholars' attack on him, after all, it is easy to resonate, the whole world was once ruled by Hu Yuan, which can also be interpreted as everyone kneeling, since everyone is kneeling, why blame us?

"Nonsense, my father is obviously destined for heaven!"

The little princess said angrily.

"Look, even Zhang Hanlin is laughing!"

Yang Feng pointed at Zhang Xianzong and said very viciously.

The little princess instantly turned her gaze to Zhang Xianzong, who quickly looked serious......

"Are you smiling?"

The little princess said with a tiger's eye.

"Princess, the Son of Heaven is naturally the destiny of heaven, Song Zuo's end is also the destiny of heaven, Your Majesty Longxing is also the destiny of heaven, God is His Majesty to the people, the whole world is to serve Your Majesty as the supreme, the monarch and the minister are the destiny of heaven, Ambassador Yang is just clever words, trying to cover up the destiny of heaven with the contract theory."

Zhang Xianzong said.

Don't dare to laugh, in case His Majesty the Emperor knows that he will raid the house.

"You can talk!"

The little princess said with satisfaction.

Yang Feng just smiled and watched their performance.

"Then Huangchao, Zhu Wen is also chosen by the people, and the five dynasties and ten countries are also chosen by the people?"

Zhang Xianzong said.

Apparently he also likes to discuss this issue in depth.

Just a little princess in the lake.

"Can you guarantee that every choice you make is the right one? If you choose the wrong person, of course, you will have to bear the consequences, not to mention that there must be only one person who is chosen by the people? Will the people choose to succeed? Any choice is risky, failure and being used are the vast majority of the results, the world is real and cruel.

The people's choice is not necessarily successful, or even right.

But.

They have the power to choose.

They have the right to choose not to be An An's starvation, even if they are just praying mantises, but at least they are doing it rightly.

Don't be an An An starvation, but still be a praying mantis.

This is what an official who suppressed the rebellion of the hungry people in the Ming Dynasty said, so I would like to ask your emperor, did he choose to be An An starvation or a praying mantis? ”

Yang Feng said.

Zhang Xianzong was silent.

He had indeed realized that Yang Feng's theory was more reasonable than the Mandate of Heaven theory.

Mandate of Heaven......

Confucian scholars all know that the Mandate of Heaven is a lie, but they use the Mandate of Heaven to cater to the emperor, and the emperor also knows that the Mandate of Heaven is a lie, but they use the Mandate of Heaven to deceive the people and explain for their own family and the world, and even the vast majority of the people know that the Mandate of Heaven is a lie, after all, this is an era that dares to shout out that the emperor takes turns to do it, and this year will come to my house.

But this is an indispensable explanation after all.

Hollow, false, but essential.

It provides the basis for the existence of the State.

The Ming Emperor returned to the mandate of heaven, the king of the world, the people knelt down to the imperial power, and the four Yi bowed their heads to the ministers, this is the empire.

This is Da Ming.

If there is no destiny......

Then why is your Zhu family the emperor? Why does Daming continue?

Therefore, there must be a basis for the survival of the country, and before the emergence of the nation-state consciousness, the destiny of heaven or the divine right of the monarch is the unanimous choice of all localities.

But Yang Feng proposes a completely new interpretation.

Contract Theory.

And this explanation is clearly more true than Manifest Destiny.

It's also more reasonable.

But......

It's scary!

Because it effectively gave the people the power to rebel against the imperial power.

If you don't do An'an starvation, you can still be shouted out like a praying mantis, which did not shock Zhang Hanlin at all, after all, this is very reasonable for an official who suppresses the rebellion of the hungry people, he suppresses the rebellion of the hungry people, and for him, the rebel in front of him is the rebel first and then the hungry people, and he cannot rebel in any case. Only when the rebels are suppressed, the rest are the hungry, and even if you starve to death, you cannot rebel, and the nature of the rebellion changes.

Why don't you wait?

Why don't you believe in the imperial court and not in the emperor?

You have to believe that the court believes in the emperor, and the relief will definitely be available, you just have to wait, even if you starve to death in the meantime......

But you starved to death as a good citizen.

And not a traitor.

Under the Manifest Destiny system, rebellion is a traitor.

But under the contract system, rebellion is reasonable, the reason why the common people rebel is that the emperor has not fulfilled his duty to protect, and the common people pay taxes, you have to protect us, including when we are on the verge of starvation, you have to give us relief, if you can't do it, then you are not qualified to ask us to accept your rule.

We have the right to elect new ones.

It's scary!

However, it makes sense.

Yes, it makes sense.

But it's scary because it's reasonable!

Zhang Hanlin didn't even dare to discuss it anymore, he quickly got up and said goodbye.

"Maybe it's time for me to publish a book."

Ambassador Yang said in a deep voice.

"Humph!"

The little princess snorted angrily.

"It's useless if you're unhappy, I'm actually helping your family choose a longer ruling theory, and you don't want to spend two hundred years and your Zhu family will be killed, right? If you want to stay long, you have to jump out of this old thing, build a new, more reasonable system, and then continue it. ”

Yang Feng said.

Of course, it could end sooner.

But, as he said earlier, there is no guarantee that every option will be right, and since it is brand new, it is reasonable to take a bit of risk.

Anyway, the risk is also borne by the Zhu family, and for him, it is enough to let new ideas spread.

Of course, it will take some time to write a book, but it is not that he writes it, this kind of thing involving theory is beyond his ability, this is handed over to Sister Liu, she has a bunch of scientists there, and then find a social scientist to make up a set of pamphlets that imitate the social contract theory, and then pass it on directly.

But this contract theory needs to be released quickly in response to the criticism of Confucianism everywhere.

So......

Just uncover it.

Since Confucianism can post a sticker for him, then of course he can also post a sticker for Confucianism, simply summarize this set of theories into the shortest short paragraph, and then post it in the capital.

In the official name of the embassy of the Great Xia Kingdom.

And like Confucianism, let his righteous daughters be responsible for watching and explaining, and choose those most beautiful dresses to show up, to see who the people like to see, and when posting, they also choose not far from Confucianism's unveiling and posting. This is posted in the official name of the embassy of the Great Xia Kingdom, to explain Ambassador Yang's previous words, to avoid misunderstandings among the people of the Ming Dynasty, so whoever dares to tear it up is to insult the embassy of the Great Xia Kingdom and insult the Great Xia Kingdom, then Ambassador Yang will personally come to the door to theorize and complain to the Ministry of Rites.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

However, for the military households in the capital, as well as those military generals, they don't need to care about this kind of thing, because it also helps them explain the moral problems of their ancestors.

The ancestors of the vast majority of them were not officials, let alone officials in the Song Dynasty.

Their ancestors were common people.

So when the Zhao family can't protect their ancestors, then of course their ancestors don't need to be loyal to the Zhao family.

Even their ancestors rebelled against Hu Yuan and participated in the war.

In this way, there is no moral burden.

The real spearhead is actually those families who descended to the Yuan Dynasty during the Southern Song Dynasty, and then to other forces at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and finally all knelt down to Zhu Yuanzhang, especially the Confucian family, which is the most in line with Yang Feng's point. Even some Confucian students from civilian backgrounds were distinguished, such as Zhang Xianzong, whose family was a common people, who grew up by his mother's straw shoes and Zhu Yuanzhang's popular education.

He also did not have an eligible ancestor.

Although he is a Confucian student, he will definitely blame Yang Feng, including other Confucian scholars who do not have this burden, they will also blame Yang Feng, but they can already stay out of the matter.

In this way, the opposing forces are divided.

Therefore, under the tacit cooperation of all parties and even the ulterior motives of some Confucian scholars, Yang Feng's exposé was quickly spread to various places.