After Gu Yuncheng said this, he sat on the sliding rod and went home in despair.

He originally planned to go to Donglin Academy by the way, but he was too lazy to go now.

As a traditional scholar, Gu Yuncheng is still naturally a little repulsive to this new thing.

It's just that.

On the way back, Gu Yuncheng saw several tenants of his family sitting idly on the big bluestone by the stream, and they were still comparing their children to how many points they scored.

Among them, there is a tenant who was originally a small servant of the original Gu family that he grew up with, called Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan even mentioned at this time that his daughter had scored double hundred points in the girls' school, and he showed a look of pride.

This made Gu Yuncheng, who was a traditional scholar, even more unacceptable, especially since he was still his former servant and Fa Xiao Fangyuan mentioning this matter, and he was proud of his daughter's good reading.

"Shameless!"

"Back then, Bai studied with me for so many years, and Cheng Zhu only learned."

Gu Yuncheng scolded a few words, and then asked Fang Yuan and these people:

"What are you doing here when you are not in the field at this time?"

"Why do you ask?"

"We are no longer servants of your family, we have all changed to hire, and we only need to pay enough rent every year, do we still have to listen to your orders?"

At this time, Fang Yuan replied with a smile first, and asked Gu Yuncheng rhetorically.

Gu Yuncheng felt a little lost after hearing this, and then said:

"You really don't call me 'master' anymore."

Fang Yuan still smiled and said, "It's all out of the house, it's not appropriate to call the master again!" ”

In order to retain some tenant slaves, the Gu family continued to farm for their own family, especially some tenants with farming skills and rich experience, and indeed changed many domestic tenant slaves to a hired system.

In other words, these tenants are no longer tenants of the Gu family, but the Ming people with serious household registration, which means that they do not have much personal dependence with the Gu family, and they only need to pay enough land rent every year according to the deed.

In addition to collecting rent, the landlord and the family could not ask the tenants who had changed to a wage system to do things for him.

Gu Yuncheng naturally had to admit such a result.

It's just that he is inexplicably a little lost now, and he can only watch these tenants idle by the stream after finishing their farm work, doing nothing.

"That's right!"

"I have to tell you, next month, the emperor will return to Beijing and end his southern tour, so I and a few brothers agreed to send the emperor together, and by the way, we will play in the southern capital."

"It's just that, if you want to call someone, you won't be able to call me, if you still have errands, remember to find someone else."

Fang Yuan suddenly said something else at this time.

Gu Yuncheng was surprised when he heard this: "What are you talking about, you want to go to Nandu?" ”

Gu Yuncheng said and asked: "You are a tenant slave who went out of my house, what are you going to play in Nandu, and Your Majesty still uses you to send it?" ”

"Am I not out of the house?"

"As long as I pay enough rent, where do you care where I go?!"

"Besides, if you can run, the monk can't run the temple, I have a small family here, and you are still afraid that I will not be able to rely on the rent, I am just kind enough to tell you, so that you can get used to calling me!"

"It stands to reason that you called me, I shouldn't run errands for you, it's not for the sake of growing up together, thinking that being idle is idle, I'll run an errand for you, but this doesn't mean that I should run an errand for you now."

"You can't be unreasonable."

Fang Yuan spoke.

Gu Yuncheng couldn't help but say: "Can you not go, I will be used to calling you, I don't worry about others, I will give you money." ”

"It's not okay to give money, I have to go when I collect all the grain."

Fang Yuan replied.

"You!"

Gu Yuncheng pointed at Fang Yuan, and he couldn't do anything with Fang Yuan for a while, so he had to say:

"Go early and return early, the road is safe, and there are many tricks to deceive people in that place in Nandu, be careful!"

Fang Yuan let out an "um".

Gu Yuncheng went home even more depressed.

As an upper-class character who has been accustomed to calling Fang Yuan like calling his arm fingers since he was a child, he is really not used to the feeling that he can no longer call casually even the little guy he used to be able to do casually.

For a while, he was angry in his heart, but he had nowhere to vent.

And as soon as Gu Yuncheng came back, his brother Gu Xingcheng came over:

"What I just learned, the third child of your family signed up to be an official companion on the railway, saying that he didn't want to learn from Confucius, Mengcheng and Zhu, and just wanted to see what the railway was like, you discipline it yourself, and I, as an uncle, will not interfere."

"Is this the case?"

Gu Yuncheng asked in amazement, and then slapped the table hard:

"This rebel!"

"Come, bring him at once, and tie him with rope! Then open the ancestral hall, Lao Tzu will personally kill him, tell him to see what railway, do not learn the principles of the sage, and betray the family motto! ”

"Yes!"

Gu Yuncheng, who was originally angry, suddenly seemed to have found an outlet to vent his anger.

In his opinion, Lao Tzu beating his son is a natural thing, and he doesn't have to care about Xinli, after all, his son can't really dare to sue Lao Tzu, right?

As a result, Gu Yuncheng's son Gu Jie was severely beaten.

But Gu Yuncheng didn't kill Gu Jie in the end, but only broke Gu Jie's legs.

It's not that Gu Yuncheng is unwilling to kill in the end, but that his family and elders have come to persuade him, and he can only stop in the end.

Otherwise, Gu Jie would not have broken his legs.

Although Gu Yuncheng did not beat Gu Jie to death in the end, Gu Jie did not plan to give up.

When he was younger, he was more exposed to many new ideas and new rituals than Gu Yuncheng.

Therefore, on the eve of Zhu Yijun's southern tour, Gu Jie specially asked people to quietly carry him to the southern capital, and sued Zhu Yijun for the royal complaint, accusing his father of being unkind, violating the new rites, beating his legs off, and began to really challenge his father's authority.

After Zhu Yijun received Gu Jie's complaint, he did not hesitate, but immediately ordered: "Give an order to arrest Gu Yuncheng!" This person is not worthy of being a father, so he should be dealt with strictly! ”

"Obviously, when the new rites were made, I had already issued an edict to explain that the bad thing about the old rites was that the people who formulated the old rites misinterpreted the three outlines and five constants, and only emphasized the power of the father, and did not emphasize the righteousness of the father, so that the father killed the son like a slave and a maid, so that the father and the son were like masters and servants, so that the Han people in the world were like slaves, and the servility spread in this way, so that the country declined and the people were weak!"

"Now that Gu Yuncheng is a scholar, he is still so unconscious, and he uses the dross of the old rites to discipline his son, which is simply hateful!"

"Therefore, once it is found that he has a motive to kill his son, he will be exiled to Luzon or Burma, and he will never be pardoned!"

Zhu Yijun, as an emperor who intends to make the country strong and the people rich and develop capitalism, naturally will not allow Gu Yuncheng to exist in this way of disciplining his son.

Even, because of this, Zhu Yijun is still very willing to see this kind of situation of a son suing his father, and regards this as a good performance of rebellion against the old rites.

Moreover, Zhu Yijun also issued an order to show this Gu Jie, leave him in the inner court medical hall for treatment, and reward him with silver.

As for Gu Yuncheng here, it didn't take long for him to meet the brocade guards who came to get him, and he also knew that his son had sued him.

This made Gu Yuncheng feel very sad, and he burst into tears on the spot, saying:

"It's a pity that I didn't raise a good son in my life, and I was so disobedient and unfilial, and sued my father!"

Gu Yuncheng couldn't help but look up to the sky and shout as he spoke: "Your Majesty, if you connive at that rebellious son so much, aren't you afraid that he will dare to sue his father today and kill the king tomorrow?!" ”

The old rites have been respected by many emperors in history, especially by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, because it is indeed convenient for the emperor to rule alone and enslave the people of the world.

But the old rites, like other ideas, also have a lifespan, and they will also die out when they reach a certain level of civilization.

Because any thought will match the relations of production of the whole society.

If it was in the early Ming Dynasty, the degree of land annexation in the world was not high, there were few people and many lands, all kinds of waste were waiting to be revived, and commerce was not developed, Zhu Yijun promised to maintain the old rites, and it was convenient for him to be the lord of the world.

But now that the Ming Dynasty has developed for more than 200 years, the land has been highly concentrated in the hands of big bureaucrats and big landlords, and commerce is very developed to the point that there are a large number of businessmen who are rich enough to rival the country, and most of the rich businessmen and magnates have the background of big bureaucrats and big landlords behind them.

Therefore, at this time, if Zhu Yijun emphasizes the old rites again, it will only further weaken the country and weaken the people, and only the big bureaucrats and big landlords will continue to expand, and until the people are further weakened, the country will be further weakened, and the whole country will be completely occupied by a foreign race whose number is far less than the population of his own race.

Because the old rites are essentially cultivating people's servility and facilitating cannibalism, in the end, if the old rites want to continue to exist, it can only be that the entire nation is enslaved in order for the old rites to continue to survive.

And if the alien invasion becomes the master of the whole Han people, in order to make only the emperor not a slave, and the old rites continue to exist, it can only turn most of the invading alien races into slaves, and then merge into a new servile nation, and then continue to weaken the whole country, continue to be wantonly plundered by new foreign forces, and then continue to become the slaves of foreign forces, and be proud to be the slaves of foreign forces.

Zhu Yijun naturally can't choose this way anymore.

Because he knew that if he chose to do this again, he would only end up being treated like a slave by a foreign invader, or even wanting to be a slave.

For example, in history, after Hongguang Zhu Yousong fell into the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he begged to be a mausoleum keeper guarding the edge of the filial piety tomb, but he was still not allowed and was killed.

Moreover, with industrialization it is inevitable that it will appear in human society.

The decline of the old rites is inevitable.

Not only the old rites, but also the decline of the status of Confucianism as a whole is also difficult to stop.

Even the social sciences as a whole will be relatively weakened by the rapid rise in the status of the natural sciences that has accompanied the advent of industrialization.

Zhu Yijun can not choose to start industrialization in order to maintain the old rites.

But in this case, it will be other countries that will start industrialization.

Then the future of the whole nation will pay for the selfishness of him, the emperor.

Let alone.

Now even if Zhu Yijun wants to be so selfish that he only treats himself as a human being, and does not treat the rest of his clan as human beings, there is a high probability that he will end up either hanging himself or being strangled to death by the bowstring.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun can only take the initiative to abandon the old rites, adapt to the times, and let the Ming Dynasty take the lead in opening industrialization and be an emperor who advocates new rites in the new era.

Although the centralization of power was inevitable due to geography and other factors, the monarch would still continue to be autocratic because of the state's monopoly capital.

But in order to keep the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty from being lost in the bud and the initial stage, the emperor must insist on advocating the new rites, that is, to have the consciousness of treating his own people as human beings, to give more respect and freedom to his children at home, to give more respect and freedom to ministers in the court, and to give more respect and freedom to the people in the country.

This is the consciousness that the emperor must have if he wants not to be led into the abyss by the social rules of the old era!

For this reason, Zhu Yijun asked Wang Xijue, Shen Li and other officials to jointly agree on the "Emperor Ming Declaration on Human Rights" before his southern tour, and promulgated it in the world, so that the people of the world know the outline of the new rites.

In other words, power comes from one source.

In some societies, it is said that power comes from the people.

There are also societies that say that power comes from heaven, and even more say that power comes from God.

There are many gods in the Ming Dynasty, but in essence there are no gods, and all the power sources of the Ming society are kings.

The King James of Human Rights is nothing more than the meaning of the power granted by the emperor to all the citizens of the Ming Dynasty.

This is a new initiative in the history of China.

You must know that only the Son of Heaven authorizes the officials, but there is no authorization to the people.

In the past, even if the right to life and financial rights of the people were guaranteed, it did not mean that the people were granted such rights, but that they were ordered not to be arbitrarily deprived of their lives and property.

This only makes an ordinary person have no sense of rights, only a sense of obedience.

Now Zhu Yijun conforms to the changes of the times and issued such an edict, which is nothing more than to let the people have a sense of rights, which is conducive to the people of the Ming Dynasty to have the consciousness of taking the initiative to change the status quo and take the initiative to innovate, rather than being submissive, so as to facilitate the further industrialization of the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, sooner or later the old rites will be revived, the development of science and technology will sooner or later, and industrialization will sooner or later stop and regress in the initial stage.

Zhu Yijun took advantage of the fact that he came from later generations and was not affected by the old rites, and some elites in this era who were extraordinary in their ideological comprehension were dominated by the Ming Dynasty, and the whole country began to innovate ideologically because of economic reform and political reform.

Now, Zhu Yijun punishes his father Gu Yuncheng for Gu Jie, and he also practices this spirit, encouraging the people of the Ming Dynasty to treat themselves as human beings and dare to protect their own rights and interests.

But Gu Yuncheng himself couldn't understand it, he didn't understand why the emperor was not afraid of a person who dared to resist authority, but encouraged him.

It's not just Gu Yuncheng who can't understand it, but many old-fashioned people can't understand it, but they don't dare to oppose the emperor, after all, the old rites are more protective of the emperor, and they only dare to ask Gu Jie.

Therefore, not long after Gu Jie sued his father, an official Gao Panlong and others found Gu Jie, and Gao Panlong said to Gu Jie:

"You have sued your father for receiving the rod, it is already unfilial! Now you should intercede for your father's exile in order to redeem your filial piety, otherwise, the people of the world will not be sorry for you! ”

(End of chapter)