Hu Yanzheng was dressed and said slowly to Zhu Di.

"Zi said: A gentleman has three fears, fear of the mandate of heaven, fear of adults, and fear of the words of saints."

Who in the room doesn't know what the next sentence is?

Hu Guang almost jumped up and grabbed Hu Yan's sleeve and told him not to talk nonsense in front of the emperor.

But Hu Guang didn't dare, he could only look at Hu Yan and continue.

"The villain does not know the destiny of heaven and is not afraid, the lord is insulting the words of the saint."

When these words came out of Hu Yan's mouth, the atmosphere in the entire cabinet room became as solemn as iron.

Beside Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi even persuaded Hu Yan to admit his mistake quickly with his eyes, but Hu Yan acted as if he didn't see it.

Hu Yan's face was as reverent as a martyr, and there was no panic in the slightest.

Zhu Gaochi gritted his teeth, got up and knelt on the ground and said, "Father, you are talking nonsense, and I ask my father not to punish him." ”

Zhu Di didn't hear it, but just snorted coldly.

Then he stood up, walked towards Hu Yan, and stood in front of him.

"Hu Yan."

Zhu Di's gaze was gloomy like water, as if he wanted to devour the bookish Confucian in front of him.

Hu Yan was not afraid at all, looking directly at the emperor, with a frank expression, and even with a fearless calmness.

"Wei Chen just retold the words of the saint, how did it become gibberish?"

Hearing this, Hu Guang, Yang Shiqi, Xie Jin and others sweated for Hu Yan.

According to this degree of hardness, I want to be the second Fang Xiaoru!

"Okay. What a saint's word, hahaha! Hahaha! ”

Listening to Zhu Di's laughter, everyone waited with bated breath, waiting for Zhu Di's reaction next.

Is it to go directly to the process and let the armor pull down? Or do you just get your hands dirty?

This kind of routine process of turning his face and killing people after laughing loudly has been staged many times in the past few months in the face of the old ministers of Jianwen who refused to surrender or disobeyed Zhu Di's will.

The old ministers of Jianwen are not without hard bones.

In the face of Zhu Di, Lian Zining refused to surrender, and reprimanded Zhu Di for plotting to usurp the throne and rebelling, Zhu Di was so angry that he was angry and ordered someone to cut off Lian Zining's tongue so as not to make noise again. Then Zhu Di said that he wanted to serve Zhou Gongfu to become the king, Lian Zining heard this, endured the severe pain, and dipped his hand in his mouth with his tongue blood, and wrote on the palace bricks, "Cheng Wang An?"

These four words directly broke Zhu Di's defense, and after laughing in the sky, he killed Lian Zining, and then killed the corpse, and killed one hundred and fifty-one people from the Lian clan and three hundred and seventy-one relatives on the border.

Facing the same problem as Lian Zining, Fang Xiaoru's bones are hard enough.

is still the sentence that wants to follow the example of Zhou Gong to become the king, Fang Xiaoru asked where King Zhou Cheng was, with Lian Zining's foreshadowing, this time Zhu Di did not break the defense, held back, and replied that he died of self-immolation, and then Fang Xiaoru asked why he did not become the son of the king, Zhu Di said that the country depends on Changjun; Fang Xiaoru asked why he didn't become the king's younger brother, and Zhu Di simply said that this is our Zhu family's business.

At this time, Zhu Di's anger value was already full, and he broke out patiently, asking Fang Xiaoru to draft the edict, Fang Xiaoru refused to draft, the two quarreled, and finally Fang Xiaoru stiffened his mouth, "What about punishing my ten clans?" ”。

I vaguely remember that Zhu Di at that time was also laughing like this.

Facing the emperor's self-evident laughter, Hu Yan's face was still fearless, and he looked at Zhu Di quietly.

But to the surprise of everyone in the cabinet, Zhu Di did not do it immediately.

Zhu Di glanced at Hu Yan deeply and asked, "Then according to what you said, what is the mandate of heaven, what is an adult, and what is the words of a saint?" ”

Hearing Zhu Di's question, Hu Yan replied: "According to what Weichen saw, the so-called mandate of heaven is the will of God. All of them are warnings from heaven to the king, and the meaning is to make the king wake up, reflect on his own virtues, and not become a godless and faint king who is rejected by God. ”

"The so-called adults are people who are respected and respected."

"The words of the so-called sages are naturally the words of Confucius, Yanzi, Zengzi, Zisizi, and Mencius."

After listening to Hu Yan's answer, Zhu Di smiled contemptuously: "Then according to what you mean, am I considered an 'adult'?" ”

At this moment, for the sake of the Taoism in his heart, Hu Yan has already opened up.

Hu Yan nodded and responded: "Yes, Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year Honor, and the Son of Heaven is also, of course, an adult is not only an adult, but also the biggest adult." ”

"Then according to your theory, I can't be 'afraid'?"

Zhu Di stared at Hu Yan and asked.

"Of course it's terrifying."

Hu Yan replied without hesitation, and raised his head to meet Zhu Di's gaze.

"Hahaha"

Zhu Di laughed, his laughter was full of sarcasm, but also full of murderous intentions.

"Is that Hu Yan more afraid of this adult, or more afraid of the words of the saint, or the destiny of heaven?"

Zhu Di was embarrassed again, and his tone had become cold.

Fine beads of sweat oozed from Hu Yan's forehead, but he remained calm all the time.

Hu Yan knew that he had angered the emperor, and if he was a little careless in his words, he was afraid that not only his own life, but the whole family would lose his life, although he was not afraid of the battle for Taoism, but this did not mean that he would easily throw away his own life and the lives of the people around him.

Hu Yan is not quite the same as Lian Zining and Fang Xiaoru.

Lian Zining and Fang Xiaoru were loyal to Emperor Jianwen, while Hu Yan was loyal to the sage's learning.

Therefore, Hu Yan can accept a change of emperor, as long as this emperor continues to rule the world with the sage's learning, but he will never accept that the sage's learning has also been shaken and tampered with.

"The Mandate of Heaven, the Lord, and the words of the Saints, all three are terrible majesty, and they cannot be confused, and there is no one more fearful."

Hu Yan replied resolutely: "The majesty of the Mandate of Heaven comes from the fact that 'the Mandate of Heaven is the law that all things need to follow', so the majesty of the Mandate of Heaven is not the same thing as the majesty of life from the words of adults and saints. ”

"And the words of the great man and the saint belong to the present world, the majesty of the adult lies in power, and the majesty of the word of the saint lies in morality."

"All three of these things need to be feared, but as the so-called sky is above, the villain does not know the majesty of the destiny of heaven, so he is not afraid. And the villain is not even afraid of the destiny of heaven, so it is not surprising that the adults who despise the virtues of the saints are not at all surprised. ”

"However, Your Majesty is an adult, not a villain."

Hu Yan said sincerely: "Your Majesty responds to the order of the heavens, and Jingping is in trouble; Loving to the people, magnanimous; The Gentlemen who are in the middle will also be able to see what is going on and deal with it fairly. ”

Zhu Di didn't eat this set at all, seeing the language trap of "which of the three is more frightening" just now, Hu Yan didn't step in, Zhu Di simply asked clearly.

"Since you said that the sky has changed and the ancestors have been afraid, the ancestors have been full of laws, and people are full of compassion, that means that the reform and change of the law will not work?"

After that, Zhu Di stared at Hu Yan deadly.

This time, Zhu Di is really murderous!

Either reform and change the law will work, or reform and change the law will not work, and there is no option for intermediate and muddy.

In fact, the changes in the past dynasties are nothing more than the two most important influencing factors.

The first is whether the ruler himself has enough power to carry out the reforms.

Second, whether the ruler himself can benefit from the change, and therefore has the will and determination to implement the change.

Zhu Di undoubtedly meets these two conditions.

Zhu Di is the only emperor of the Great Unification Dynasty who successfully rebelled as a vassal king, and his own ability and temperament are needless to mention, decisive and fearless.

And the reason why Zhu Di is so resolute today is that he wants to reform and change the law so much.

In the final analysis, it is inseparable from Jiang Xinghuo's lectures.

After listening to Zhu Di's lectures, he already fully understood what it means to be truly "not afraid of the changes of the sky, not enough of the ancestors, and not enough of compassion by the people".

exaggerated, disrespectful of predecessors, really said "three not enough to fear" Wang Anshi is just a happy picture, theory and practice double proof, you have to rely on Jiang Xinghuo.

You say that the sky has become terrifying, then you might as well take a look at the twisting scale experiment to understand what heliocentrism is, and immediately make your cosmology of "heaven and man induction" instantly shattered.

You said that the ancestors are full of laws, then you might as well take a look at the mess with holes left by the establishment of the system set up by Emperor Taizu Gao, the vassal king system, the treasure money system, and the small official system. Which one is not the hole that Jiang Xinghuo filled in the "ancestral law"? Which one doesn't really see the better results?

You said that people are full of compassion, and the people of Jiangnan are no longer nostalgic for Emperor Jianwen, and even the children's songs have spontaneously changed to praise the good governance of the new emperor, how to explain it?

If you have to be more serious, saying that the common people are not people, and the gentry class is people, then you stretch your neck over, and I will whisper to you.

Therefore, since Jiang Xinghuo has provided Zhu Di with sufficient theoretical basis for reforming and changing the law, and it can indeed enhance the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, strengthen the power of imperial power, and weaken the gentry class, what reason does Zhu Di have not to do it?

After all, if you don't use Jiang Xinghuo's set of things to reform and change the law, you will continue to follow the rules.

Zhu Di wants to achieve the great deeds of the first emperor of the ages of "governing the Tang and Song dynasties and the Han and Tang dynasties", I am afraid that the extra effort will be more than a little bit.

How to change the law to be strong, but if there is no change, how to try to be strong?

It's a long story, but in fact, it's just a moment when Zhu Di shook his head.

"Returning to Your Majesty."

Hu Yan on the other side had already sorted out his thoughts and replied.

"Wechen is not against the purging of adults' examination laws, nor is it against the apportionment of labor into the mu and the reform of the tax system, these are all things that benefit the country and the people, and Wechen is not corrupt."

"As for the Ming national debt and the clan system, compared with more important things, they are even more insignificant."

Hu Yan turned to a serious and said: "What Weichen opposes is the so-called expansion of the scale of the Qin Tianjian to monitor astronomical phenomena; restore the status of the five sages of Xunzi Confucianism and adjust the content of the imperial examination; Promote the doctrine of the Holy King and establish the concept of the nation-state. ”

"—because, it will shake the destiny of heaven!"

"To shake the Mandate of Heaven is to shake the Confucian Taoism; Shaking the Confucian Taoist system is the foundation of His Majesty! ”

Hu Yan looked directly at Zhu Di and said impassionedly.

"Your Majesty, you might as well think about it, if the people of the world become villains who no longer fear the destiny of heaven, who will fear patriarchy and authority? Who will fear saints and morals? ”

(End of chapter)