516 Future of Ming Dynasty (2 in 1)
When King Guangtong was planning a rebellion, Chen Yichen vaguely heard some rumors that it was related to King Xiang Zhu Zhanji. However, after investigation, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu only demoted the two kings to common people and imprisoned them in Fengyang, and did not involve anyone, which means that the emperor did not want to attack King Xiang on this matter.
Now that the old thing is mentioned again, I don’t know if it should be said that King Xiang Zhu Zhanji hit the gun himself, or that Zhu Qiyu has been waiting for this moment to come. But these are irrelevant. From the moment the emperor makes the decision, King Xiang’s fate is already destined!
"I will live up to your Majesty's entrustedness."
Chen Yichen bowed to take the order. The emperor had already arranged the charge for King Xiang in advance. He only needed to handle the case based on his position, and everything would become extremely simple.
"Chen Qing, it seems that you are not surprised by King Xiang's plot to rebel."
Faced with Chen Yichen's calmness, Zhu Qiyu asked back, "How come this is a matter of prince-level affairs. Can this boy not show his emotions?
"I just need to follow the form of a sage, and the rest are not important."
Hearing Chen Yichen's loyal words, Zhu Qiyu suddenly laughed out loud.
"If it is really as unimportant as you said, then there would be no introduction of the "Sectarian Ordinance" today."
"Chen Qing, sometimes I don't know what you really want."
Zhu Qiyu said this meaningfully, but he never understood Chen Yichen. "The great treacherous is like a loyalty" and "The great treacherous is like a traitor" have almost been shown in this son, and he wants to trust but dare not trust it.
"What I want is actually very simple. It's nothing more than just trying to resolve the affairs of the king and win the reputation of his life and his life."
Chen Yichen's expression was filled with a sense of righteousness at this moment. In fact, in a sense, what he wanted to do was that, but not exactly.
Faced with Chen Yichen's answer, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu agreed or opposed it, but only looked at the other person's face and remained silent for a long time.
Only then did Dandan change the topic: "Chen Qing, there is one more thing I want to talk to you."
"I, listen carefully."
"In two days, the great dynasty will be held in the Sunshine. I am going to officially announce the Yi Crown in front of all civil and military officials. The crown prince Zhu Jianshen will be appointed as King of Yi. What do you think about this?"
In recent years, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu has been preparing for Yi Chu. Now that the empress has been deposed, the cabinet, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War and other important parts have occurred, and there have been two or even three.
Among the honorary families, there are upstarts such as Shi Heng to control the troops. Now even the most difficult vassal will be attracted by Chen Yichen's "Sections and Vast Regulations", which can be said to be the level of a lasting shot.
However, as an important official in the court, Chen Yichen has been ordered to conquer the three guards of Urianha over the years, and has never expressed his attitude towards Yi Chu directly.
Of course, the current Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu has control over the overall situation, and whether Chen Yichen agrees is not so critical. The reason why he asked this question was more because he wanted to know how much Chen Yichen supported the eldest son Zhu Jianji.
After all, Chen Yichen is the "lonely minister" chosen by Zhu Qiyu, and the assistant minister of the future crown prince!
"Your Majesty's decision is my opinion."
Chen Yichen has a historical perspective of God. Especially when all forces in the palace were eyeing each other, he was really unable to be sure that the eldest son Zhu Jianji could survive until the day he ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne. He could only take one step at a time.
Only when you reach that critical point in history is the time to make a real choice.
"Chen Qing, you still prefer not to support Yi Chu, right?"
A faint disappointment appeared on Zhu Qiyu's face. For the emperor, such a sleek and smooth answer often expresses irresistible meaning behind it. If he sincerely supports it, he will speak out.
"Your Majesty misunderstood, I have no intention."
Realizing that Zhu Qiyu's words became cold, Chen Yichen quickly explained. Whether it was Zhu Jianshen or Zhu Jianji's inheritance of the throne, he actually didn't feel much. After all, instead of placing the country on the wise of the king, it was better to entrust it to the system and the rule of law.
This is what Chen Yichen has always wanted to change.
"I hope I'm thinking too much, Chen Qing, please step down."
Zhu Qiyu waved his hand. Yi Chu's matter was a foregone conclusion and there was no need to seek too much support.
After talking about political affairs for so long, a feeling of fatigue surged in his heart. He closed his eyes and made a state of restlessness.
"I, take your leave."
Chen Yichen bowed his hand and slowly retreated from Wenhua Hall. Cao Jixiang kept waiting by the door. When he saw him coming out, he immediately met him and said, "George Chen is really Jian Zai's heart. Recently, Master Long Sui rarely talked to the ministers like this."
"With His Majesty's love, our cabinet will only devote itself to its dedication to the death."
Chen Yichen has always been very sarcastic. He didn't know whether Cao Jixiang was an ordinary compliment or whether there was a temptation instructed by the emperor behind it. Anyway, when he could show his loyalty in the palace, he should never be "stingy and searching".
"Gei Chen is truly loyal and loyal, and all officials should take it as an example!"
In terms of the skill of being a singer, Cao Jixiang will definitely not be inferior to Chen Yichen, especially when he wants to cooperate with him, he will try his best to say it.
Even though Chen Yichen had been accustomed to this hypocritical flattery over the years, he still felt an inexplicable disgust after saying it.
"Eunuch Cao praised me. Our cabinet department still has official duties, so I'll leave this time."
"Okay, then we won't bother you much, Mr. Chen will walk slowly."
After bowing his hands and saying goodbye, Chen Yichen turned around and walked towards the Wenyuan Pavilion office. Looking at his departure back, a trace of disdain appeared on Cao Jixiang's face and replied contemptuously: "Literati just like fake aloofness."
In fact, after the historical change of the Sect, Xu Youzhen, Cao Jixiang, Shi Heng, the civil servants, eunuchs, and Xun Qi's iron triangle ruptures really lies in the fact that they don't like each other.
Although Xu Youzhen's character is not very good, after serving as the chief minister of the cabinet, his inexplicable sense of superiority made him look down on eunuchs like Cao Jixiang and big-name men like Shi Heng. They can share the joys and sorrows but not the wealth and honor, and soon turned against each other.
It really verifies the old saying that gentlemen are harmonious but different, villains are the same but not harmonious.
After the "Regulations on the Clan of the Clan" were approved by the emperor, it passed the review of the Clan Office on the same day and was released by the Tongzheng Department, which caused a huge response between the government and the government.
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However, Chen Yichen did not care too much about these public outcrys. On the contrary, on the second day after the promulgation of the "Sections and Vast Regulations", he even skipped the duty of the cabinet. He took Bian He to Daxinglong Temple with him, standing in the attic where Jin Lian and Li Xian were leaving, listening to the discussion on the court's policies in the dojo.
He Wendao and Yue Zheng were standing beside Chen Yichen at this time, with an unhidden excitement on their faces and a full of admiration in their eyes. They had never expected that Chen Yichen would quietly come to Daxinglong Temple and stare at everything with the posture of a bystander.
Peng Shi was in the presidency in the dojo. His fame and honor in the first year of Jingtai can be convinced by the literati present. Now not far from the autumn examination in Jingtai in the third year of Jingtai, the number of students who came to Daxinglong Temple to give lectures and debates has increased sharply. Looking at the darkness, there are probably hundreds of people.
In the middle, there was a young student who Chen Yichen didn't know. Zheng Kang excitedly told the benefits of the promulgation of the "Sectarian Regulations". He could feel from his words that he was deeply influenced by "Shenxue". He was no longer the empty talk of etiquette and law in the past, but combined with practical things to achieve specific analysis of specific affairs.
"Wen Dao, Ji Fang (Yue Zheng), I didn't expect that the lectures in Daxinglong Temple you created had reached such a hot situation. I feel quite pleased for the teacher."
Chen Yichen praised him with great emotion. He thought that the lectures of Daxinglong Temple would be at most a spark, but today he saw that it was already in a prairie fire. At the same time, compared to the hypocrisy and turbidity of the officialdom, the literati here are full of passion and passion.
This is the literati that the Ming Dynasty needs in the future, not a group of corrupt Neo-Confucianists!
"The teacher praised him so much, but the students were ashamed of him."
After hearing Chen Yichen's praise, the two bowed and became humble.
"Teacher, in fact, the students did not do much. On the contrary, the teacher has used his own practice over the years and set an example to tell the literati all over the world what is called practical use and what is about practicing words."
When He Wendao said this, his eyes were even filled with tears.
I remember that at the West Lake Elegant Collection, hundreds of schools of thought contend in various schools of thought, but I yearn for the practical use of "shenxue" and was regarded as a deviant theory. He Wendao, who was ridiculed and ridiculed at that time, fell into a dark trough in his life. It was Chen Yichen's sudden appearance with the "saint's way" to ignite the light of hope in his heart.
But this only affected He Wendao, and now the scene of responding people gathering in Daxinglong Temple is that Chen Yichen has always been united in knowledge and action over the years. He used Shandong to control the waters, Fujian to suppress rebellions, capital to serve the kings, Liaodong to defend enemies, and Monan to open Xinjiang and other achievements, which told the world what it is to truly apply to the world and put what he has learned throughout his life on the country and the world!
Looking at He Wendao with red eyes, Chen Yichen also recalled his innocent heart back then, so he patted his shoulder and replied: "I have only done a little bit of the duty of a literati and an official."
"What the mentor does is not only a matter of duty, but also sets a goal for the literati and students of the Ming Dynasty, which is why today's grand occasion!"
Yue Zheng also responded to Chen Yichen with enthusiasm. When he came into contact with "Chen Xue", Chen Yichen had become a member of the country, so his feelings were completely different from He Wendao.
It is precisely because he regards Chen Yichen as his idol and goal that he wants to enter the officialdom to change the world, no longer talk about the decadent principles, and use his knowledge and words to support the people of the world.
If there were no Chen Yichen's lamp, there would not be Yue Zheng today, and there would not be the scene where students who worked hard to accumulate in Daxinglong Temple today.
Listening to the words of his two disciples, Chen Yichen didn't know whether to be proud or sigh. He remembered the gift given by the other party when he said goodbye to the high valley in the Forbidden City. The three immortals of literati should make meritorious, make words, and establish virtue!
It is not difficult for Chen Yichen to make contributions or make words. He has done it early in his career as an official. However, if everyone follows him, Chen Yichen never had enough confidence, or he was not sure that he could change the concept of this world.
Over the years, Chen Yichen was very clear in his heart that he could indeed implement reforms with the power of the court and the opposition and a group of like-minded people in the court. However, the examples of all dynasties also told Chen Yichen that if the thinking of the world cannot be changed essentially, even if the reform continues to be carried out in the end, it will be the end of the personal destruction.
This scene now finally made Chen Yichen see the hope of the future of the Ming Dynasty. As long as he persisted in doing it consistently, the "Chenxue" would be spread more and more widely, thus changing the decadent thinking and concepts of traditional literati.
And today I saw that almost all the literati who participated in the lectures of Daxinglong Temple were young talents, and the court would eventually belong to them.
"If you continue to be humble, will it be a bit hypocritical? You can see the vigorous vitality of you and others today, and you will be proud of it!"
When he said this, Chen Yichen also felt a surge of passion, as if he had the first time to see Mr. Liang Qichao's "Theory of Young China". The giant wheel of history finally turned to another direction under his own push, hoping that the future would go further and further.
"Mr., why don't you go down and give a lecture too. I believe that all the students present will be very encouraged!"
He Wendao persuaded him at this time, I wonder how many of the scholars in the capital would expect to see their mentors with their own eyes, let alone listen to their lectures.
Faced with He Wendao's "instigation", Chen Yichen waved his hand and smiled: "I have been focusing on the officialdom for many years. I don't know how much knowledge has gone back. If I go up rashly without any preparation, I'm afraid I will break the fantasies of many young talents."
This sentence is half true and half joked. Chen Yichen came here today and took a break from his busy schedule. He wanted to alleviate the fatigue and pressure brought about by compiling the "Sectarian Regulations" for two consecutive months, and to experience the ideological trend of young literati in the capital, so as not to become the "old antique" they despise.
"By the way, Wen Dao, Ji Fang, I'm actually here today, and I really want to discuss something with you."
"Please speak with your mentor, and the students will do their best."
He Wendao and Yue Zheng immediately made a statement that as long as it was something Chen Yichen entrusted, they would definitely do it.
Chapter completed!