"This ......" Zhu Yuanzhang's rhetorical question suddenly made the ministers speechless.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that all the last monarchs are born stupid and rotten wood that cannot be carved, and no Confucian can teach them well." Li Shanchang said, "There is a saying in "The Four Years of Zuo Chuan Xuangong": The ambition of the wolf is a wolf, and it can be a beast? Your Majesty, some people are born with wolf ambition and jackal nature. If such a person becomes the prince of the country, even if the great Confucian admonishes him with the words of the saint every day, he will not be able to change his nature. After they become emperors, they will kiss the villain Yuan Xianchen and treat the people like grass mustard. ”

"Such a monarch will definitely cause the wrath of the heavens and the resentment of the people, and the people will rise up one after another." After speaking, he added.

"Since the last monarchs were all rotten wood, why were they made princes in the first place, could it be that the monarchs who made them princes were blind?" Zhu Yuanzhang was obviously very dissatisfied with Li Shanchang's answer, and said, "The founding monarchs of the past dynasties are basically very wise and wise, and their bloodlines will not be bad. But three hundred years later, they all gave birth to a piece of rotten wood? ”

"If there is only one example, it is understandable, but it is the case with every dynasty, it is a little bit untrue."

A group of Wenchen suddenly fell silent when they heard this, and they felt dumbfounded.

Li Shanchang's answer just now is exactly the view generally recognized by the historians and Confucians of all dynasties, and it is also what they want to say. However, this point of view was not only not recognized by Zhu Yuanzhang, but was refuted incompletely.

Let these civil officials in front of him, who usually claim to be great Confucians and have high learning, have a feeling of being caught off guard.

I wanted to come forward to second, but now I have to retract my steps with interest.

It is strange that Emperor Zhu's knowledge today seems to have suddenly improved by several grades, and he can actually refute the views of historians and Confucianism in the past dynasties. Remembering that he was not very knowledgeable before, the ministers were secretly surprised.

"Because they are basically the fate of the emperor when the Demon Star descends into the world, and it has nothing to do with the vision of the previous monarch, they are specially here to confuse the court." Li Shanchang's forehead was sweating, "For example, Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, Han Gaozu beheaded the white snake to raise righteousness, and the white snake went to heaven to tell the grievances. and then reincarnated as Wang Mang, just to avenge the beheading in his previous life. ”

"The White Snake was originally cut into two sections by Han Gaozu, so the Han Dynasty was divided into the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty because of Wang Mang. The white snake is a snake, and Wang Mang's recklessness is a 'python', so everything is a certainty. ”

"Your Majesty, that's exactly the case." Liu Bowen said, "In his later years, Tang Taizong was worried that the Tang Dynasty he founded would perish, so he asked Yuan Tiangang, a famous physiognomy at the time, about this matter. Yuan Tiangang replied, the pig went up the tree, the Tang Dynasty died, and sure enough, within three hundred years, Zhu Wen destroyed the Tang Dynasty and established the Later Liang Dynasty known as the Later Liang Taizu. It turned out that the pig that Yuan Tiangang said was not another pig, but Zhu Wen. ”

"You mean, there is a certain number of dynasties that cannot be changed?" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, "From this point of view, I have the same fixed number in Daming?" ”

When Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen heard this, they immediately sweated like rain.

Li Shanchang hurriedly knelt down with a pout: "The minister doesn't dare!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister dares to guarantee that I will never have such a fixed number!" Liu Bowen also knelt down, almost roaring, "My Ming Dynasty will be passed down forever." ”

The question Your Majesty asked today seems to be a proposition! The crowd trembled at the sight of the court. Based on Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang's answer just now, Zhu Yuanzhang can behead them all for the crime of great disrespect.

Emperor Zhu is not a good stubble, and he is decisive in killing.

No matter what great achievements you have done before, you will be killed if you violate his taboo.

The civil officials who originally wanted to take the opportunity to show themselves never expected that the emperor's topic was not only not an opportunity for them to perform, but a bit like a pit, and it was easy to be in a different place if they were not careful.

"Your Majesty, the theory of ghosts and gods is really not enough to be believed, but the last monarch is definitely one of the reasons." At this time, Hu Weiyong stepped forward and said, which can be regarded as relieving Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen, "In addition, the subordinates believe that the reason why the dynasties of the past dynasties perished is that in addition to the last monarch himself, there are also demon concubines in troubled times, such as Daji, praise Yang Guifei......"

You're no better than him! Zhu Yuanzhang said secretly in his heart. Looking at a group of Wenchen in the court who could only play the same old tune, for the first time in his life, he felt that these scholars who had brought pressure to him before were so incompetent.

In comparison, they don't seem to be worthy of lifting shoes for Mr. Qin.

"Hu Weiyong is right, the demon concubine confuses the dynasty, and it also plays a role in contributing to the demise of the dynasty." Song Lian stood up on the train and said, "Don't you hear that in order to win a smile, King Zhou You actually played the princes with a beacon fire, which directly led to the demise of the Zhou Dynasty." ”

"What Lord Song said is reasonable!" Lu Chang stood up and said.

The rest of the ministers also nodded their heads when they heard this, expressing their secondment. Zhu Yuanzhang's question just now has an answer, the dynasty fell because the monarch was stupid, and the second was because the demon concubine was troubled.

As for whether it is a fixed number, they no longer dare to discuss it.

Once it is said that there is a definite number, Zhu Yuanzhang will ask if the Ming Dynasty also has the same definite number? It's a bomb that can't even be touched.

So the ministers all looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang's face still did not change.

This group of people pushed the sin of the fall of the dynasty on the past woman?

If women were the key factor in the demise of the dynasty, then they took the role of women too much. The imperial court was a huge, tightly knit and complex institution, and the concubine was only one of the insignificant minor characters with no real power.

If it had been changed before, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely think that the views of the ministers were correct. Because the books he had heard before, the commentaries, and the historical classics he had read all said so, and the cultural environment was like this.

But after that conversation with Qin Yu, his horizons became unprecedentedly broadened. As soon as my horizons were broadened, I immediately felt that some of my previous views were so shallow and ignorant.

"Then why do natural disasters occur in the last years of every dynasty?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

"That's a warning from heaven to the faint king's immorality." Liu Bowen said, "For example, when the Tang Dynasty fell, there was a century-old drought in the Central Plains, and the hungry people were starving everywhere. When the Song Dynasty fell, there was a century-old flood that displaced millions of people......"

"Therefore, the Ming monarchs of all dynasties have attached importance to self-cultivation and benevolence to the people, so as not to anger the heavens." Li Shan said.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard this.

These world-famous Confucians have been talking for a long time, but none of them can get to the point. They couldn't explain the reason why the last monarch was unconscious, so they deduced that it was the reincarnation of the Demon Star. Every natural disaster is said to be a warning from heaven......

Blame all the reasons on the ghosts and gods that can't be verified, and don't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods?

Compared with it, it is still reliable and correct what Mr. Qin said yesterday.