Under the dark sky, there was silence all around, except for a few loud noises that were evident in the stables.

Because he might have to leave overnight, Wang Liang's horse was taken out of the stable during the inspection of the Beijing camp and put on the carriage, so that he could not fall asleep, and was slapped twice by his servants from time to time.

And when it was dawn, Wang Liang, who was already sitting in the carriage, glanced at the white street outside the door, and asked Zheng Gu'an, a soldier of the soldiers and horses who had come at this time, "How is it?"

"Back to the master, our people peeked at it, and no one came out of the mansion compound last night."

Zheng Gu'an replied.

After hearing this, Wang Liang took a long breath and said, "That's fine, go back to sleep!"

"Yes!"

Wang Liang himself yawned and went back to his room.

Before that, in the second half of the night, when the moon was about to set, the Forbidden City's Heart Cultivation Hall suddenly brightened up because of the arrival of Shen Shixing.

After listening to Shen Shixing's performance of the reason for coming late at night, Zhu Yijun rubbed his eyes slightly, then glanced at Shen Shixing, and said, "Since this is the case, take someone immediately!"

After Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he walked back and continued to sleep.

And Shen Shixing said yes here, personally went to serve the imperial secretary, let the housekeeper on duty at night draw up the decree, used the seal, and let the clerk on duty announce the decree.

Therefore, when Wang Liang was sleeping here, he suddenly felt that he had fallen into an ice cellar, which made him open his eyes immediately.

And when he opened his eyes, Wang Liang saw a number of brocade guards surrounding him, and the chief flag officer of a brocade guard was holding a basin in his hand.

Wang Liang squeezed his eyes and asked, "What are you doing?"

"By order, arrest you and send you to prison."

Yan He, the chief flag officer of Jinyiwei, replied.

Wang Liang's face suddenly pale, and said, "Why?"

"Why do you say you don't know what you're doing?!"

Yan He asked sharply, and then waved his hand: "Take it away!"

Wang Liang didn't come to his senses until he was forcibly pulled up from the bed by Jinyiwei, and he couldn't help but say for a while: "Why is this so, you Jinyiwei don't want to arrest people indiscriminately, I shouldn't have done anything?!"

"We won't arrest you indiscriminately, Xing'anbo personally denounced you, and Tuo Yuan will assist the Son of Heaven."

"Think for yourself why you were denounced by him."

Yan He said and walked out first.

And Wang Liang couldn't deceive himself at all now, and when he was frustrated, he simply scolded:

"Okay, you Xinganbo, why are you so insidious! You do this, how can the people of the world still believe in you noble, I just made this deal with you to save you, but you sold me, you despicable! Shame on you!"

Wang Liang seemed to have occupied the moral high ground at this time, and began to criticize Xu Rucheng wildly.

……

Xu Rucheng, who was ordered to take the generals Wang Jiying and Liu Dengtai to the prison, was also asked by Wang Jiying at this time: "Why is Xing'an Bo like this, didn't my second master say that you are afraid of being punished because of the attack on Ji Guogong!"

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"What does etiquette have to do with me!"

"Although the Duke of Ji Guogong has a loss of personal morality, it is also caused by the inappropriateness of your old etiquette, not to mention, he is loyal and daring in public morality, and he also knows how to strategize, so there is nothing wrong with him being in charge of the privy council."

"As for the army and the invasion of the country, it is a matter of our martial arts generals and soldiers, and they are supported by the imperial court, so they should shed their blood for the imperial court."

"How can you not even have responsibility and conscience because you want to be comfortable?!"

"As for whether the people can live a peaceful life, doesn't it depend on whether we dare to serve the country?!"

"You, like some literati, became high-ranking officials and read books, but you lost your conscience, and you only thought that it was not easy for you to climb to this point, so you blindly asked for it, and forgot what you should pay for the society."

After Xu Rucheng said, Wang Jiying's face was full of vermilion, and he only defended for a while:

"If it is to suppress thieves and quell the rebellion, I Wang Jiying can say that I am absolutely willing to die on the battlefield for the imperial court!"

"But, what's the matter now, just because the female cadres control the government and bad government, we have to go to the battlefield for it, who wants to do this?!"

Xu Rucheng knew that he was not convinced by Wang Jiying, a disciple of a general who was loyal to the old rites.

Because in this era of alternating between the old and the new, it is very difficult to convince yourself to accept the concept of a new rite that treats the Han compatriots more personally.

For example, accepting one's own daughter's foot wrapping, which has been considered a propriety for hundreds of years, is now unprocedural.

Accepting that you should respect your children and not discard them and kill them is in line with the benevolence advocated by the New Rite.

Accept that all Han people in the world are of the same blood and race as yourself, so you must respect it, even if this Han person is a lowly slave, tenant, soldier, peddler, and hired laborer.

These concepts are not so easy to accept, and even more difficult to practice.

Wang Xijue went to practice, and Shen Shixing also practiced, and in the end, although they all accepted the new ceremony, they only accepted it ideologically.

action.

They are still using more money to maintain some of the old ritual order that cannot be separated.

They only began to give their tenants more financial care, and began to give some rituals, in exchange for the peace of mind of enjoying a sense of superiority before them, and they could say that they had paid for it, respected their wishes, and that they were willing, and that they were very happy and willing to be inferior to themselves.

Xu Rucheng, as a member of the landlord class, also tried to respond to the call of the new rites, and it can even be said that he carried out the holy decree, and he, like Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, etc., only accepted the new rites ideologically, and felt that for the sake of the country and the society, he should indeed talk about the feelings of his compatriots to the Han people, treat them more as individuals, at least respect the fruits of their labor, do not cut their military salaries, do not arbitrarily levy rents, do not wantonly beat and abuse, and do not despise.

But he had to admit that it was too difficult to be completely friends with them in action, to greet them with a smile and to treat them with courtesy, mainly because it involved suppressing the sense of decency that he had when he was a superior person, and it involved the suppression of desires.

Therefore, Xu Rucheng is still taking out more money to maintain his peace of mind that he can continue to be a master.

But he knows it's going to be hard for everyone to be willing to spend money to maintain the status quo.

After all, not everyone is so generous and doesn't value material losses so much, not to mention that many people have long regarded the concept in the old rites that a virtuous person should be a superior person, and they don't feel that they are wrong.

Therefore, Xu Rucheng didn't say anything more, he knew that to deal with this kind of contradiction, he could only "follow me and prosper, and go against me or die".

He chose to conform to the situation of the new rites, and became the defender of the new rites, and all he could do was to physically eliminate these people who did not conform to the new rites, and also deny the morality of these people in the evaluation system of the new rites.

"You are not qualified to die on the battlefield for the imperial court!"

"Ji Guogong can at least be the cardinal minister because of his merits, and you, you ask yourself, eat empty salaries and falsely report your merits, form a party for personal gain, that thing didn't happen, Yu De, you are not qualified to say Ji Guogong

If you don't deserve it, what about the merit? Are you worthy to say that the Duke of Ji is not worthy?!"

"What's more, since Your Majesty issued an edict, after the immorality and illegality before the pro-government were not investigated except for Tongyi's sale abroad, the people of Ji Guogong really haven't done anything bad anymore, what about you, have you taken Your Majesty's edict to heart?!"

"So, you don't deserve to say that the Duke of the Thistle Kingdom is unworthy!"

Xu Rucheng reprimanded.