Chapter 10: Public Opinion

He Xi's efforts over the years have been affirmed.

Even if the reform fails, there will be problems in the future. He Xi's reform plan and academic ideas will also be taken over by later generations to think carefully, just like Wang Anshi's reform failed. However, many of Wang Anshi's methods, even some reforms of the old party of the Northern Song Dynasty, have been repeatedly considered by later generations.

So it was promoted or denied, but it was not promoted in the name of Wang Anshi.

No matter what the outcome of He Xi will be in the future, in Su Boheng's view, He Xi's historical status is no longer under Wang Anshi, Dong Zhongshu, and others. What He Xi did, whether it was praise or disapproval, needed to be carefully considered, kept well, and thought that he would learn from those who came.

Moreover, the celestial and human induction has been beaten by He Xi, and it is impossible to take it out again. Replacing the will of heaven with the will of the people, allowing the emperor to rule according to the will of heaven and the will of the people, this change is irreversible.

From then on, the narrative and dispatch of past history and the conclusion of some people's coffins need to be overturned and restarted.

Although Su Boheng didn't know that the so-called history is contemporary history, he understood this truth very well. So if he writes this history well. In the future, the evaluation system of history will always come from him.

What an achievement.

It is enough for him to be compared with the two Simas, that is, Sima Qian and Sima Guang.

This is also the reason why Su Boheng has to make up his mind first and start over.

Su Boheng sighed and said, "I really envy you, if only I could be born twenty years later."

You can use these 20 years to see what kind of changes the future will be, and what kind of magnificent waves it will be.

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On the whole, the reaction of He Xi's various actions in Beijing was not large, because He Xi almost dominated the Shilin in Beijing. Most of the scholars in Beijing are He Xi's disciples and grandchildren, and even if they are not, they have read He Xi's articles.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to get ahead.

Whether it's business or politics.

He Xi naturally didn't have the heart to distinguish and suppress these people. But such a thing doesn't need He Xi to do it at all, after all, He Xi and the people around He Xi automatically form a small circle. People who don't understand science, people who don't understand He Xixinxue. It is impossible to integrate into the circle, and naturally it is difficult to get opportunities.

That is, the so-called school valve is also.

But in Nanjing, it's different.

The first to get the news were Li Jinglong and others.

Xu Da's third son, Xu Zengshou is also in this group.

Xu Zengshou also got the support of his father and tried to find a way to get in touch with the north. But the problem is that in Nanjing, everyone has one kind of relationship with Beijing, but it is all business, and almost no one is willing to go to Beijing.

After all, even if Beijing won the First World War, the entire Ming Dynasty, especially Nanjing, felt that Nanjing was orthodox, and it was just negligence before.

It will certainly not happen in the future.

Historically, King Yan has fought for several years and has not changed this idea, and it is the same today.

Although Xu Zengshou wants to have a good relationship with Beijing, he can't be too out of line. And Li Jinglong, Guo Ying, and other people are the people who have the best relationship with Beijing. The reason is very simple, because they are essentially the same kind of people as He Xi.

They are all relatives, although they have made meritorious contributions, but they actually got important relatives in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Although Li Qi, the Korean duke, is also a relative, Li Qi's team was left by Li Shanchang. And Li Jinglong and others are different. They relied more on the emperor's trust. After Zhu Yunwen ascended to the throne, once a son of heaven and a courtier, these relatives naturally became estranged.

While they were not happy, they gloated a little more about the dispute between the north and the south. It is impossible for them to vote for Beijing. The net worth and life are in Nanjing, but it does not prevent them from laughing at Nanjing's failure, even if Zhu Xiongying enters Nanjing City, for them, it is just a change of emperor, it is not a big deal.

These people read the article. A lot of people are still studying the back of the article

Li Jinglong has already understood the meaning.

After all, Li Jinglong's father is a famous Confucian general, and Li Jinglong is also accomplished in Confucianism, not blind.

Li Jinglong sighed and said, "It would be nice if Taizu thought the same way."

"What do you think?" Guo Ying couldn't understand it. Asked.

Li Jinglong explained to them the difference between public opinion and providence, and the inconsistencies between Taoism and law.

Guo Ying frowned suddenly, and asked him to understand the new tactics of firearms, he could still understand it, after all, he had fought a war. Some things are connected. But understanding these ethereal things is not good.

He said, "You can tell me more clearly, what is Beijing going to do?"

Li Jinglong pondered for a while and said, "Probably if there is any major event in the imperial court in the future, we must first consult some public opinions, and then make a decision. If everyone disagrees, the Emperor will not be able to do it."

"You're right." Guo Ying sighed and said, "It's good that Taizu can think like this."

On the one hand, they feel nostalgic for the Hongwu period, after all, during the Hongwu period, although there are all kinds of problems, but if you really want to talk about it, the Hongwu period, especially before the Hongwu 20 years, it was simply the fiery years of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone worked together to make Daming prosperous, and there were not so many things between each other.

On the other hand, everyone Zhu Yuanzhang has instinctive fear. No matter what kind of success he has, in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, there is no difference between him and a mere pawn, as long as Zhu Yuanzhang wants to, he will kill him.

This makes these people very uncomfortable.

"However, there are a thousand people in the family, and there is only one person in charge." Xu Zengshou said: "There are so many things in the country, what is the unified public opinion and not the public opinion. How will the court decide then?"

As soon as these words came out, these people also talked about it, and some people looked at Li Jinglong.

Li Jinglong spread his hands and said, "What do you see me doing? I didn't do it. Let He Xi answer you in the future."

Between the words, some of these people are already heading towards Beijing.

Without him, the backlash against the strong imperial power has actually existed since Zhu Yuanzhang's death. Almost all the people, including He Xi, don't want another Zhu Yuanzhang to appear in the world. But at the same time, Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Xiongying instinctively emulated Zhu Yuanzhang to govern the country.

This contradiction is nothing more than an undercurrent hidden beneath the battlefield between the North and the South.

It's just that everyone theoretically denies that the emperor can do whatever he wants. After all, the emperor meant providence.

The Emperor's order is the Mandate of Heaven.

But now, He Xi's theory has given the ministers a lot of ammunition, so that the ministers can use public opinion to directly attack the emperor. Most of these nobles have experienced the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, and they have a good impression of this theory.

At the same time, public opinion is a thing that they do not think about on their behalf. After all, Nanjing's newspapers are already very mature. How to manipulate the Nanjing newspaper is also very mature.

Public opinion is something that can be forged and guided.

Can't they mean public opinion? It's just a bit of a trick.

He Xi's theory gave them too much room for manipulation.

At this point, they have a lot of good feelings.

It is estimated that He Xi naturally didn't know that his article still had a lot of united front value in Nanjing.

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The greatest united front value of He Xi's article is not in Xungui. After all, they have learned a lot from the manipulation of public opinion. The real public opinion has always been in the hands of scholars.

The substitution of public opinion for providence was very shocking to the scholars.

This simply gave the Confucians the opportunity to interpret the supreme power, which was still above the emperor, because the emperor ruled according to the will of the people. If one's own thoughts are determined to be the will of the people, then even the emperor must obey them.

Doesn't this make countless Confucian ministers feel numb in their scalps?

This is an opportunity that has never been done before. For a while

In the meantime, He Xi's evaluation in Nanjing's Confucian circle has a tendency to be confused.

On the one hand, many people criticize He Xi for deviating from the scriptures, and it is not Confucianism at all. On the other hand, some people privately sighed that He Xi was really a Confucian.