"The emperor thinks about it carefully, if the people are too smart, how will the emperor control the people in the future? Emperors throughout the ages believed that foolish people were the best to control, and wise people were easy to breed trouble. ”

"In addition, we must not let the people of the world be too rich."

"When the people are rich, they will want more advanced things, such as power, wealth and freedom, which will threaten the stability of the emperor." Yan Shenggong continued to talk eloquently, "So it's not a good thing for Qin Yu to let the people of the world be fed and clothed. Not only is it not a good thing, but it will make the people of the world breed arrogance, and bury huge hidden dangers for His Majesty's country. ”

"The correct way to control the people is to let the people of the world have to run around for food and clothing all their lives. There is no time to covet those things that do not belong to them in the first place. ”

"If the people can get ten taels of silver a year to keep them from worrying about food and clothing, then the imperial court must try their best to use all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes to make them only earn seven taels a year."

"The people of the world are as cheap as ants and livestock. Is power, wealth, and freedom something they can hope for? ”

Hearing what Yan Shenggong said was the Tao, and the sages of the Spring and Autumn Period also said that they wanted to fool the people, Zhu Yuanzhang's mind finally wavered a little.

It is a person who will be selfish, and he also wants to let the Daming Jiangshan that he has created through a lot of difficulties be passed on for thousands of generations. He also did not want the people of the world to unite against his rule.

Seeing that the emperor seemed to be a little shaken, Yan Shenggong struck while the iron was hot: "So the minister thinks that although that Qin Yu is not a great harm to the people, it is a great harm to the emperor, and he must be killed as soon as possible to get rid of future troubles." ”

And the evil books he wrote that opened the minds of the people must also be completely banned. The people who dare to pass it on privately, behead! At this time, the emperor learned that he had lost his way and returned, and it was not too late to learn from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to once again respect Confucianism and let the people's minds return to the right path. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression froze when he heard this, and he couldn't believe his ears. I never thought that Yan Shenggong, a model in the minds of the world's scholars, and the descendants of the saint, would say such cold words:

The people pass it on privately!?

Let the Ming Dynasty be strong and make the people of the world rich Qin Yu also want to kill him as soon as possible?

Such words make people feel chills when they hear it.

Suddenly I felt that there was something scary about this person.

I feel that those who read the books of the sages are terrible.

Because in their eyes, the people are the dogs that sacrifice to the nobles!

Those who kill dogs use them as sacrifices, and when they are done, they abandon them and practice them.

I'm afraid you don't know, we are not from a noble background, and before we became emperors, we were also dogs in your eyes. I thought coldly in my heart.

seemed to feel that Zhu Yuanzhang's mood was wrong, and Yan Shenggong said: "Your Majesty, as the king of the world, you must not have the kindness of a woman." The five techniques of controlling the people must be implemented, if the five techniques do not work, kill! ”

"Qin Yu, although he has made the people of the world a little rich, and made Daming a little stronger. But his harm to the emperor is far greater than his credit. ”

"He's not a sage!"

Yan Shenggong's tone was as cold as ice: "Sages, take the people as dogs!" ”

Talking about this, Zhu Yuanzhang also understood the reason why he came to see him.

After the Renaissance, under the influence of its ideology and culture, the common people gradually became self-conscious, and their concept of Confucianism gradually became thinner. The people of the world have gradually become less concerned about Confucianism as the holy text of the world.

Confucianism is no longer regarded as a sacrosanct orthodoxy.

Before that, Confucianism was a sacred hadith in the hearts of the people.

The world does not respect Confucianism so much, so he, the Holy Prince, will have no status, and even gradually lose the value of existence.

The entire Yan Shenggong clan will decline because of this.

Therefore, he came today to redeem the ideological dominance of the Yan Shenggong clan in the land of China.

"Your Majesty, do you want to learn the five arts of controlling the people?" Yan Sheng said, "If Your Majesty is willing to learn, the old man will teach you without hesitation." Let His Majesty's country be passed on from generation to generation. ”

"The core of the five techniques of controlling the people is to make the people of the world poorer, more ignorant, and weaker."

"Let them be ignorant and unable to access the things that open their minds."

"Let them lose the self-confidence and dignity they deserve."

"Let them be tired all their lives in order to live, so that they will not have the heart to care about anything else."

"Let them live for a lifetime, and there will never be any surplus wealth at home, and people will be poor and short-sighted."

"Only when the world is full of people who are as humble as ants can it be more conducive to the emperor's domination and governance."

"And Qin Yu recently asked the emperor to plant potatoes on a large scale across the country. After planting, the people will covet better things when they have surplus wealth at home, and the emperor's Daming country will be in danger at that time! ”

"Therefore, potatoes cannot be planted by the people, they must be banned."

"Your Majesty, the ministers who came to teach Your Majesty in Tianfu are not only the ministers, but also Mr. Zhu Yuandian, the descendant of Zhu Xi, and Mr. Cheng Leshan, the descendant of Cheng Yi, they are all great Confucians in the world."

"The three of us are here to instruct the emperor on how to properly control the people as kings."

"I also hope that the other two gentlemen of the emperor will also come over and humbly ask for advice."

"The three of us will work together on how to control the people of the world. How to let the emperor's country be passed on forever. ”

"So be it." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't express any opinion when he heard this, but just said in a surging voice, "Let's take the three of you to Lujia Village today to meet Mr. Qin." ”

"Let a few of you have a face-to-face with him."

"It couldn't be better." Yan Shenggong was full of ambition and looked like he was going to win, "The old man will definitely refute him to the point of incompleteness, so that he knows what a real sage is." ”

"A person who can only make the people live a good life is not a saint at all. It's just garbage, it's the scourge of the imperial court, and it can't be put on the table! ”

"The saints of all ages used the people as dogs."

"The saints are unkind, and they use the people as dogs."

"Your Majesty, if your subordinates win him in the rebuttal, please be sure to kill him, and kill him immediately. The people in Lujia Village who are affected by his thoughts must also be killed cleanly. ”

"The villagers of Lujia Village have been bewitched by it, and they have long been disrespectful to the king."

They all wore short sleeves and shaved their hair short, abolished the thousand-year-old custom of sinking unobservant women into the pond, and talked about free love, and regarded the thousand-year-old rite of giving and receiving kisses between men and women as a mustard. Where do they still have the docile appearance of the Chinese people? ”

"Let's go, take us to meet the descendants of Cheng Zhu first." Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted him.

"Yes!" Yan Shenggong's face showed joy.

Soon, Zhu Yuanzhang was in the Hanlin Academy and met the other two Confucians.