"You have to do it!"

Suddenly, Zhu Yijun said to Wang Shizhen with a hideous face.

"If you can't do it, you can't live!"

Zhu Yijun then added.

Wang Shizhen was dumbfounded and knelt in place.

After a long while, Wang Shizhen said with a dejected face:

"Yes, what Your Majesty said is that the minister has to do it, and the minister has to force himself not to hate Master Zhang!"

As she spoke, Wang Shizhen burst into tears again.

Happens.

At this time, a cadre of literati who had dealings with Xu Jia was also escorted, and they all heard Wang Shizhen's words, and they all looked at Wang Shizhen in amazement.

Zhu Yijun also looked at these literati at this time and said, "I know that you hate Mr., even more so than me, and you hate everyone who supports the reform. ”

"Although I have made you benefit now, in the end it is still difficult for you to like me in your hearts, after all, I have not allowed you to be a human being."

"Originally, I don't have to worry about these anymore, I can pretend to be confused and be generous, because at most you just hate in your hearts, or you can be yin and yang weird in the articles and poems, and win spiritually in your own circle, just like this Xu Jia, specially made a statue of the Duke of Ji Guo kneeling to make yourself comfortable and meet your spiritual needs."

"And you can't make any big waves, after all, there has never been a literati who has become a big deal without uniting other forces, not to mention, you have hatred in your heart because you can't be alone, where can you unite with other forces now?"

"But I just don't want to be generous!"

"There's no other reason!"

When Zhu Yijun said this, he looked at Wang Shizhen:

"Why do you literati make me magnanimous, and what qualifications do you have to make me pretend to be confused, just because the pen in your hand can ruin people's reputation and influence public opinion in the world?"

"Don't say I don't care about this, even if I do, but when did you literati and scholars work together, and when did you really really pose a real threat to the reputation of others?"

"Even the Dongyi such as the Japanese are liked by the literati, and the Mengyuan people, who regard the Han people in the south as fourth-class slaves, are also sought after by the literati, so even if I am ten times more brutal than them, there is no doubt that there will still be literati who like them."

"It's like no matter how kind I am, there will be literati who don't like me."

Zhu Yijun then looked at Wang Shizhen: "Wang Shizhen, you, the leader of the literary world, tell me, are you qualified to let me turn a blind eye and let me be lenient?" ”

"Nope!"

"Those who farm, pull boats, and weave cloth are all more qualified than ministers, and they are useless scholars."

Wang Shizhen replied truthfully at this time.

Zhu Yijun said at this time: "I don't want you to depreciate yourself, just state the facts, state a fact that you can't kill." ”

"However, it is precisely because you have no threat to me and the world, so it is not that you can't kill it, nor do you have to kill it, so I don't have to kill you, the bird in the cage, although it will make a noise, but people don't necessarily need to kill him, but to see if his voice is pleasant, if he can sensibly know when to call and when not to call, then there is no need to be killed."

"You are the same, as literati and scholars, but if you can call, who wants to come and deal with you?"

"Even if you can't sing the praises of virtue, you can criticize them completely! As a result, I don't criticize, but I can understand, after all, what I do is in line with the general righteousness, you yourself can't stand on the righteousness of the criticism, and the hypocrites can't tear off their masks, don't really put on your face, and deny the saint first, that will only make the situation worse. ”

"But you can just focus on literature itself! Like returning to the light, write some "Xiang Zhixuan Zhi" to record the true feelings, like Tang Yin, come to "Peach Blossom Anthem", describe the state of mind, or write a few books to remember the world. ”

"But you can't do it, you just want to use your literary talents to fight for power and profit."

"That's naturally not going to work, I won't condone you, you're not children, you have to pay for your actions!"

"What's more, you literati need to grow up, you need to mature, you need to go through the test of blood and fire, and then you know that this world is not what you want."

After Zhu Yijun said, Wang Shizhen said: "Your Majesty's words have made the ministers enlightened, and the ministers are willing to change their past mistakes and rewrite the first auxiliary biography!" ”

"It's your own business."

"You don't have to tell me!"

Zhu Yijun replied.

Wang Shizhen said excitedly: "The minister knows, but as Your Majesty said just now, a person like the minister who has no threat and can only feel sorry for himself, in fact, it is useless to kill him, it is better to give the minister a chance to live." ”

Speaking of which.

Wang Shizhen choked up and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, as long as Your Majesty gives the minister a chance to reform himself, the minister will be a conscientious literati, and will deny and repent of the black material he created before little by little, and will no longer ignore the facts and wantonly smear others; ”

"After the minister, anyone who wants to mention in the article that Zhang Taishi is equal to the meritorious person of the country, he will only praise and never criticize, or as long as the minister lives for one day, he will praise them for one day!"

"In this way, even if you can't make future generations believe in the praise of the minister, but you can also make future generations no longer believe in the minister's smear, after all, the minister's views are contradictory, and at first glance he is a hypocrite who is only for the left and right, and he is not credible!"

"In this way, it is beneficial to future generations, Zhang Taishi and others, and it is stronger than killing ministers."

"Please also ask Your Majesty to know clearly!"

Zhu Yijun nodded at this time: "Your Wang Shizhen persuaded me, as long as you Wang Shizhen is not suspected of Tongyi, I can spare you for the death penalty, but the living crime is inescapable, after all, you Wang Shizhen is suspected of smearing loyal ministers and good generals." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing!"

Wang Shizhen was overjoyed, and she was busy kowtowing like pounding garlic.

Zhu Yijun smiled again at this time: "However, I found that the way you smeared the black people is basically related to the little things in the bed, what is the luck of the room technique, and the right to sacrifice orchids, you tell me, why do you love to use this way to smear people?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, because people in the world love to pay more attention to this kind of thing, and they are more willing to believe that these things are true, especially among the people in the world, the more decent gentlemen look, the easier it is to believe in this kind of things involving men and women, and they will imagine more perverted, in addition, the ministers themselves are womanizers, and they think that the ministers have not yet become the ministers of power, and they are still very romantic, so the ministers are naturally singing every night, and they are more obsessed with the way of the house."

Wang Shizhen replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded: "I understand, this is the same as farming, always thinking that the emperor also eats flatbread every day, but the flatbread can be eaten more." ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

"In that case, I give you two choices."

"One is to be punished by the palace, cut off the lewd worm in your brain, correct his heart, and then accompany me around, supervised by me personally, and continue to give full play to your literary talents, write the articles I want you to write for me, and correct the hearts of the people in the world for me;"

"The second is to go overseas and be banned for life, although you keep getting down, you don't have a chance to see your voice, and you have to write articles of repentance and praise every day until you die."

"Which one do you choose?"

Wang Shizhen replied without hesitation: "The minister is willing to be punished by the palace!" ”

"It seems that you would rather give up your roots than leave Middle-earth."

Zhu Yijun nodded, and after speaking, he instructed the eunuch Huang Xun:

"Take him down, let him write a letter to invite him to the palace, and then approve Hong Enzhuo, and then let the medical officer punish him according to his wishes, and choose a secluded place to use good medicine to raise, to take good care of him, he is the leader of the literary world, and he has to prevent people from wanting him to enter the palace and assassinate him."

Huang Xun said yes.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Wang Shizhen immediately kowtowed here and replied.

In history, there was no shortage of literati who chose to be eunuchs for the sake of fame and wealth.

Don't look at them as the eunuchs who despise them the most, but many of them are willing to become people they hate for power.

Zhu Yijun raised his hand to Wang Shizhen here and said: "Get up, I will promote you to be the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the eunuch of Bingbi after you recover from your injuries, and hold the study hall in charge!" ”

Wang Shizhen was even more happy for a while, and hurriedly bowed his hand: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" Please rest assured that Your Majesty will live up to Your Majesty's expectations! ”

At this time, Zhu Yijun looked at the literati who had been arrested because of Xu Jia's case, and asked: "You were arrested for having dealings with Xu Jia, a traitor who betrayed the country. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister didn't!"

"Your Majesty Mingjian, the minister doesn't know!"

These literati hurriedly denied it.

Zhu Yijun said: "I believe you, but you also have a lot of remarks to discredit loyal people in your songs and letters with Xu Jia, and there are many works that you wantonly fabricate and slander loyal people and hide them in his library, so it can be said that the evidence is conclusive." ”

Zhu Yijun then said: "And since I have spared the life of Wang Shizhen, who has committed the same crime as you, I naturally can't help but spare you for the death penalty." ”

"I also give you two choices!"

Zhu Yijun suddenly said: "Either I will be punished by the palace and entered the inner court and supervised by me personally, or I will go overseas and be supervised by the army." ”

"The minister is willing to enter the palace to serve the monarch to pay for his crimes!"

"The minister is also willing to enter the palace to train his father, and change his past."

"The minister is the same, he would rather suffer the pain of the knife and go to the house for the pleasure of going to the house than leave the monarch's father!"

These literati and scholars hurriedly returned, and most of them chose to rather be punished by the palace and enter the inner court.

Zhu Yijun laughed: "It seems that the master of ceremonies is very tempting. ”

Then, Zhu Yijun said: "But my celebrant is not someone who wants to enter!" Wang Shizhen is the leader of the literary world, and his father is a famous minister who resists Japanese people, so I gave him this favor! It's better for you to go overseas and be confined! ”

"Yes!"

These literati asked a little disappointed.

At this time, a scribe suddenly came to the front and bowed in front of Zhu Yijun:

"Your Majesty! Minister Dong Qichang, who is the first Jinshi in the second class in the seventeenth year of Wanli, also has the work of discrediting the first master, and is willing to be punished by the palace to enter the inner court, I don't know if the minister is qualified to be personally supervised by His Majesty? ”

(End of chapter)