"Berwyn, we want to add this to the Emperor's ancestral training, what do you think?" In the imperial study, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Liu Bowen and then said to him.

Liu Bowen stepped forward to take a look, only to see the emperor writing on the paper:

All the kings of the later generations of the Ming Dynasty are not allowed to govern the country with 'benevolence and filial piety'.

"Your Majesty, isn't it very good to govern the country with benevolence and filial piety, I don't know how many kings are practicing it in the past dynasties, why not?" Liu Bowen said, "Although my Ming Dynasty is implementing the rule of Taoism, filial piety to parents is also the way of heaven. ”

"We don't let the kings of later generations practice governing the country with benevolence and filial piety, not to completely overthrow filial piety and advocate people to be unfilial, but not to raise it to the height of the country." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "And what did the dynasties do?" ”

"The monarch advocates governing the country with benevolence and filial piety, selecting talents, and even promoting filial piety and honesty into the WTO."

"This has risen to the level of the state."

"It's not advisable."

"May I ask the emperor, why is it not advisable?" Liu Bowen asked.

"No matter how good things are, as long as they rise to the level of the country, they will become shackles that bind people, and they will become tasteless." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The words loyalty and filial piety, after thousands of years of Confucian admiration, have now become a thousand-year-old shackle that binds the thinking of Chinese people." Whatever you say is related to loyalty and patriotism, so that people will not think about themselves at all. ”

"That's what Mr. Qin said."

"Most importantly,"

"Raising loyalty and filial piety too high is not good for the royal family. There have been many things in the past dynasties, the prince was young and the queen mother was regent, and the queen mother was a foreign surname. ”

"The reason why the Queen Mother can be a legitimate regent is because of the existence of the word filial piety."

The idea in Emperor Zhu's heart is very simple: the Daming Jiangshan created by our old Zhu, even if the princess is regent in the future, at least her surname is Zhu, it is better than letting a queen mother with a foreign surname be regent.

Besides, as long as those feudal nobles are cleared, so that they can't harm people,

The king of the Ming Dynasty, still worried about not being able to find a son to inherit the throne?

There are thousands of concubines in the emperor's harem, and he can't even give birth to a son?

"The Emperor Shengming!" Liu Bowen trembled in his heart when he heard this, and said. I thought that the rule of benevolence and filial piety was not good for the royal family, and this was probably the biggest reason why the emperor wanted to denounce the rule of benevolence and filial piety.

The emperor did not allow the monarchs of later generations to rule the country with benevolence and filial piety, that is, to completely govern the country with benevolence and filial piety and lay down the altar.

This is also a timeless feat in history.

"Berwyn, is there such a thing in history, the Queen Mother confuses the dynasty and threatens the imperial power." Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"That's too much." Liu Bowen said, "For example, the rebellion of Empress Lu in the early Han Dynasty, and the chaos of the Queen Mother of the former Han Dynasty. After Wang Zhengjun replaced the young monarch as regent, he wantonly reused the family surnamed Wang, and the great Sima general was all from their royal family, which directly led to Wang Mang's rebellion and seized the Han Dynasty. ”

"And Wu Zetian too."

"If there is no set of emperors who can let the queen mother regent at a young age, Wu Zetian will not be able to be the emperor."

"Wu Zetian can become the emperor, which can be said to be the benefit of the word filial piety."

"In addition to the above-mentioned queen mothers, in all dynasties, the queen mother's regent has caused national turmoil, which can be said to abound, and there are not only one or two examples."

"So in all dynasties, the royal family has a harem that is not allowed to interfere in politics."

"The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, but the queen mother can be a regent in the name of justice." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, "So for those concubines, once the daughter-in-law becomes a mother-in-law, it will soar to the sky?" ”

"They can be regents?"

"And the root cause of their regency is completely the four words of benevolence and filial piety."

"Your Majesty, that's exactly the case." Liu Bowen said.

"Since the queen mother's regent is not good for the imperial court, the royal family, and the people of the world, and the biggest root cause is the rule ......of benevolence and filial piety," Zhu Yuanzhang looked at one end and asked, "Why do you still suggest that the emperor should rule the country with benevolence and filial piety?" Aren't you encouraging the Queen Mother to mess with the government? Aren't you confusing the country? ”

"What is your intention?"

Liu Bowen's body trembled when he heard this, and he stayed speechless.

Sweat trickled down his body.

I want to say in my heart, Your Majesty, you have such a big hat buttoned down, and the minister can't catch it!

Prior to this, he and Song Lian Gaoqi and other great Confucians had also advised Emperor Zhu to govern the country with benevolence and filial piety. And Emperor Zhu had also been promoting benevolence and filial piety before he met Qin Yu.

"Your Majesty, the ministers don't dare, the ministers don't dare!" Liu Bowen was frightened, so he had to say again and again.

"You don't dare to say it, but you actually do it." Zhu Yuanzhang sneered.

"Back to the emperor." Liu Bowen said, "The ministers and Song Lian, Gao Qi and other great Confucians, the reason why they suggested that the emperor govern the country with benevolence and filial piety is entirely because of what is said in the Confucian classics. ”

"The ministers will never help the queen mother's regent, confuse the hearts of the country, and hope that the emperor will be clear!"

"How did the ministers know that there is such a big disaster hidden in the rule of benevolence and filial piety?"

"Such a simple truth, you smart people can't see it?" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, "And you just listed to us the historical events of the Empress Dowager's chaos and the dictatorship of her relatives." ”

In other words, those historical facts, those lessons from the past, you people are all aware. But you are still giving us advice to govern the country with benevolence and filial piety. ”

"Do you not see the disadvantages of benevolence and filial piety, or do you already see it, but still suggest that we do it?"

"Are you stupid or bad?"

"Your Majesty, the ministers are stupid......" Liu Bowen was speechless and said for a long time.

Liu Bowen is not a feudal nobleman, he is just a simple scholar, and advocating benevolence and filial piety does not do him much good. Those who advocate governing the country with benevolence and filial piety are basically feudal aristocrats, because they can engage in the regency of the queen mother. They married their daughters to the emperor, and the imperial concubine had the opportunity to become the queen mother in the future.

Then their family took control of the government.

It can be said that the implementation of benevolence and filial piety is the most beneficial to the feudal aristocracy.

However, scholars such as Liu Bowen and Song Lian are the main force advocating benevolence and filial piety...... In other words, they, the scholars, were used by the feudal aristocracy and did not know it.

"The three great Confucians of the early Ming Dynasty actually admit that they are stupid?" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "In this case, if we want to abolish the rule of benevolence and filial piety, will you stop it?" ”

"Minister, don't dare to stop it." Liu Bowen said.

"To be honest, Mr. Qin's casual opinion can crush these people for several streets." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "For example, the rule of benevolence and filial piety is not good for the country, the royal family, and the people of the world. It is not an exaggeration to say that benevolence and filial piety are not good for the world, and any turmoil in the imperial court will always hurt the people the most. ”

(End of chapter)