Chapter 8 Big Article

Zhu Xiongying naturally knew who this chairman and deputy speaker was for. He said, "It's fine." Then he pulled away from the topic and said, "The rumors of this council have been going out for so many days. Isn't it time to convene?"

He Xi said, "There is one last thing left."

Zhu Xiongying said, "What's the matter?"

He Xi said, "An article." He Xi immediately took out an article from his arms and handed it to Zhu Xiongying respectfully.

Zhu Xiongying took it and took a look, but it was a theory of holiness.

This article can be said to be a presentation of He Xi's Confucian skills, and he has discussed it with many people in private. As a very important political article. Many people think that he can be compared to Dong Zhongshu's celestial and human induction.

Dong Zhongshu's celestial and human induction established the ideology of ancient Chinese dynasties since the Han Dynasty, and after that, although all dynasties and dynasties have added to it, it is all just tinkering with the celestial and human induction.

And He Xi's article is indeed discussing where the so-called holiness of the monarch is?

The first half of the article is actually a summary, which expounds many of the people's thoughts in Confucianism, and specifically describes the holy virtues of the three emperors and five emperors, and deduces that the three emperors and five emperors are because they have contributed to the people and solved problems for the people. And the so-called so-called king of the people is to harm the people.

That is, the emperor has no relatives, but virtue is supplementary.

A monarch who is virtuous and can reassure the people is a holy monarch. Otherwise not.

These are still spinning in traditional Confucianism, and He Xi did not propose anything new.

But here's a different story.

first talked about the deeds of many faint kings in later generations, such as the famous why not eat minced meat. This shows why these emperors are like this, because they are too far away from the below to hear the voices below.

Therefore, how important it is to get up and down the traffic and make the lower feelings go up.

It was only here that the council was set up.

Let the elders of the world come to Beijing to discuss the world's major affairs. Let the world know it, and the court chooses its good and follows it. Yunyun.

He Xi's article is written implicitly but not revealingly.

But for those who can understand, they understand, and those who can't understand don't have to understand.

He Xi's article is essentially the political voice of the He Xi School, and He Xi has been avoiding the political field before. Now we have to explain. It seems simple, but it actually says a problem.

Why is the emperor an emperor?

In traditional Confucianism, the emperor is the Son of Heaven, a star, and a demigod. So it's the emperor. He is the head of the clan. And the clans below them can also manage the people in their own clans in the same way that the emperor manages the people.

And He Xi's previous support for the equality of all people actually denied the sacredness of the emperor.

This is the reason why many Confucian scholars have opposed it one after another. The emperor is no longer sacred. Then anyone can be the emperor, so I don't know how many people in the world have their minds, and the world must be in chaos.

And He Xi did not say how the emperor was not holy in the article, he only said how the emperor was sacred. That is to work for the well-being of the people. Adhering to the attitude of the people and the king.

When the emperor was the Son of Heaven, the Confucian scholars used celestial and human induction to balance the emperor. Now when the sacredness of the emperor is placed on the people, it is the will of the people to check and balance the emperor.

There's so much to do here.

The importance of this parliament suddenly went up.

And there are some things that don't need to be said too clearly. A lot of people can understand it.

Naturally, Zhu Xiongying is included.

Zhu Xiongying looked at this article, and his breath was short.

At this moment, he really couldn't help it.

He knew that such an article would come sooner rather than later. The Middle Ages broke the religious sanctity before there was something later. And the Confucian scholars defended the sanctity of the Son of Heaven, in fact, they did not defend the Son of Heaven, but the country.

After all, a large unified state is too difficult to maintain. Without a unified mind, the imperial court would have fallen apart long ago.

But in general,

Using the will of heaven to balance the emperor, the emperor can still accept it, and some people understand that the so-called providence does not exist, but it is just a pretense. But there are a lot of people who really think there is some providence.

On the whole, the heavens don't really have a lot of opinions. Providence is also not easy to borrow.

But public opinion is too complicated.

Who are the people? Whose mind?

And public opinion is a thing that can be indulged, if you use public opinion to check and balance the monarchy, you only need to create a public opinion. Too bad for the emperor. The underlying logic weakened the power of the emperor.

It's just that Zhu Xiongying can't agree?

Zhu Xiongying knows very well that He Xi can compromise on many things. For example, it was stated very early that he would serve as the first assistant for two terms at most, and he would retire and be willing to hand over power to Zhu Xiongying.

But all this is premised on how to complete his own reforms. The power that Zhu Xiongying took over was not the power of a feudal king, but the power of a capitalist royal family.

The difference in power between the two is too great.

Zhu Xiongying has expectations for today, but even if he has expectations, he almost can't help it in the face of such a situation. Zhu Xiongying said, "Shoufu will look at it."

He Xi naturally heard that Zhu Xiong was dissatisfied in his English.

He Xi also thought about using a way to ease up, but after thinking about it, it was impossible.

The emperor can take the world and seize it, which in itself is not in line with social development.

The so-called social development is a process of continuous emancipation of the productive forces, and the so-called emancipation of the productive forces is the emancipation of human nature. Make people live like a person.

How to make people live like a person. That is, the most basic right of human beings to survive is guaranteed.

People cannot be infringed upon by privilege. So everyone should be equal.

But the existence of the emperor is in itself the greatest inequality.

The emperor's so-called power is power that is not restricted in any way. This is the greatest characteristic of imperial power, the punishment is unknowable, and the power is unpredictable. The emperor could not let people guess his own thoughts, and it was for this purpose.

But this power is unlimited, and all the reforms before He Xi are useless.

This is not a question of an emperor, the emperor himself may be good. But what was the crowd like that was attached to the emperor?

As long as the emperor exists, there are relatives and eunuchs. A group was formed around the emperor, and with the help of imperial power, he acted without scruples.

The mining tax in the Ming Dynasty is the most typical thing, and Emperor Wanli wanted to make money because of the financial crisis, and this starting point cannot be wrong. But what happened to the eunuchs he released?

It's just doing all kinds of evil, making the world boil, and it doesn't get much money. Gain's imperial power does not need to be reasonable, but times have changed, and reasoning can get more money, not the other way around.

He Xi also doesn't know what the so-called democracy will look like in the future. But He Xi knew that the emperor's power must be limited, and if something goes wrong in the future, it will be enough to correct the deviation. ap.

Moreover, He Xi feels that now is also the best time.

Without him, Beijing survived the attack on Nanjing, and it was the key point to turn defense into offense.

He Xi's own power has also reached the maximum. Even to the apex.

Once the offensive against Nanjing was launched, it was inevitable to surrender and rebel. After all, the north and the south are fighting a civil war, even if there is a change of dynasty, and it is impossible not to make people surrender. Once a large number of surrendered troops enter the Northern Army, Zhu Xiongying will definitely use the surrender to balance He Xi.

And He Xi can't stop such a situation.

In the future, there will be a lot of scruples.

It's better to set the principles now. As for the future, we will talk about it later.

Anyway, He Xi just wanted to save some trouble, not think that there would be any problems in the future.

And this is still the first step, in the future, there will be a series of articles, a comprehensive discussion of the political aspect, in the framework of Confucianism, to establish a set of public opinion system corresponding to the theory of Dong Zhongshu's mandate of heaven, so as to open up the new system of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

So there are still many things to do in the future, and Zhu Xiongying must slowly adapt.

As Zhu Xiongying knows, many things can be compromised at any time. But this is one thing that must not be compromised. Although he thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's care, he didn't want to tear his face with Zhu Xiongying. But I'm not afraid to tear my face.

Zhu Xiongying is not the only one with the surname Zhu in the world. Several vassal kings in Japan are all surnamed Zhu, and He Xi doesn't think that only Zhu Yingying can be the emperor.

Just doing this, there are many problems, and He Xi is not willing to come to this point.