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Chapter 764 Chapter 783: Wu Meiniang enters the palace

Li Hao is really smart, Changsun Wuji's strategy was basically guessed by him, Changsun Wuji knew that this time he couldn't bypass these Confucian officials, so he could only perfunctory first, and then he would kill Wu Meiniang first and play later. into the palace.

At that time, these Confucian ministers will definitely make a big fuss again. It doesn't matter. If you make one mistake, you will end up committing your own edict and thinking about your mistakes. If you make two mistakes, you will still sin against your own edict. Can't you become the emperor?As long as their anger is appeased, that's fine, even if they can't be appeased, so what, admonish them with death?Resignation and Mingzhi?This requires a large number of important ministers to work together to be effective. If there are only a few people, it will be useless. Changsun Wuji also believes that as long as Li Zhi admits his mistakes sincerely, most people's anger can still be resolved.

Finally, the discussion was over, and the court was over. Li Hao was sitting in the RV, thoughtful. Lu Yun is now Li Hao's exclusive driver. Ever since he learned how to drive, he has fallen in love with the job of being a driver. He thinks driving is very interesting. , step on the foot, push the gear, fiddle with the steering wheel a few times, and drive such a huge thing away, and run fast, how amazing!
Although Zhuque Avenue is very wide, there are many pedestrians and vendors on the road. Lu Yun didn't dare to drive too fast, so he drove slowly. Seeing Li Hao sitting aside thinking, he asked casually: " What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking..." Li Hao hesitated to speak. There were some things that Lu Yun couldn't understand, so he finally chose not to say them.

Lu Yun even knew Li Hao's identity as a future man, and he even knew how to drive a car. However, what Li Hao was thinking this time, Lu Yun really didn't understand, was about breaking feudal ethics.

What happened in the courtroom today can actually be regarded as a provocation against the ethics. Of course, this provocation is very serious, and it is already accompanied by moral issues. But in fact, morality is also derived from the etiquette. In some barbarian tribes Here, they have no etiquette, all the tribal chiefs are dead, the son not only inherits his father's chieftainship, but also inherits all his father's property, including women, except of course, except the biological mother.Because these barbarians don't understand etiquette, they don't have any moral burdens. This is their custom and inheritance.

The reason why Li Hao wants to get rid of the feudal ethics is because the feudal etiquette system has too many fucking places. For example, the ancient times blindly emphasized respect for the ancestors and inheritance, thinking that what the ancestors left behind is good , but this is not the case. Respecting ancestors is a good thing, but it should be treated rationally. The good things left by the ancestors should continue to be carried forward, but the ancestors also left some bad things, such as thoughts. With the progress of the times and constant changes, thinking must adapt to the times, and if even the thinking blindly follows the predecessors, without thinking about creating, and if the things left by the ancestors are not good, or if they are not suitable for this time, then we should Corresponding measures should be taken, and the biggest measure is to give up.

Conservation is the biggest obstacle in the way of social progress, which must be removed, otherwise it will seriously hinder the pace of scientific development.

Li Hao intends to abolish the old ritual system and establish a new ritual system. Basically, it is to extract the essence and discard the dross, so that people in this world can have correct moral values ​​without being fettered in thought. This is what he did. Ideal social etiquette.

Everything in the Liangyi Hall today, he has seen the difficulty of overthrowing the old ritual system. Those Confucian officials are the most loyal guardians of the old ritual system. If you want to say that they are guilty, what crime are they guilty of? Can you kill them? Obviously impossible, you have to reason with them, everyone's thoughts are not on the same level, chickens talk to ducks, cows play the piano to cows, they will never agree, and today's fifteen Confucian officials are just the tip of the iceberg. Both civil and military are the guardians of the old ritual system, but driven by interests, some people sided with Changsun Wuji, and furthermore, the common people have been brainwashed by the old ritual system since childhood, and they also think that these ritual systems are Yes, that's right, they are also supporters of the old ritual system, no matter how powerful Li Hao is, can he be an enemy of the people of the world?This is exactly why he wanted to use Wu Meiniang.

Wu Meiniang is ruthless and unscrupulous, and she is a woman. If she wants to reach the top, she must first deal a violent blow to the old ritual system. Her violent blow will cause blood to flow into rivers. To die under her butcher's knife, no matter how hard-hearted Li Hao was, he couldn't do it.

It is precisely because of today's incident that he thought of the difficulty of fighting against feudal ethics, Li Hao became more determined to use Wu Meiniang, at best, he just waited a little longer, there is a lot of time, anyway, his life span is very long.

The news spread quickly. In the afternoon, almost half of the people in Chang'an knew that Li Zhi had fornicated his concubine and gave birth to a man and a woman. They were shocked by such a mediocre thing, and it was used as an after-dinner conversation. If there were any complaints and scoldings from the common people, there would naturally be, but not many. Cursing the emperor is self-inflicted, but some speech officials and Confucian officials who have not gone to the court today are all angry when they hear about this incident, thinking that Li Zhi has done too much shit, if Li Zhi agreed to the next If the guilty edict admits their mistakes, they will definitely go to the Taiji Palace for admonition.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Changsun Wuji went to the Tai Chi Palace to ask for a face-to-face saint. After seeing Li Zhi, Li Zhi asked impatiently, "What does uncle mean by being in the palace today?"

Changsun Wuji said: "Your Majesty, if the old minister doesn't do this today, I'm afraid this matter will not end well. If Your Majesty wants to take Wu Meiniang into the palace, he will have to make sacrifices. You must write an imperial edict and face the wall to think about your mistakes. To do it is to give them a step down."

Li Zhi asked worriedly: "I can issue an edict to sin against myself, or I can go to the former emperor's tomb to repent, but how can I make them let go and let me take Mei Niang and the child into the palace?"

Changsun Wuji said: "Your Majesty, the old minister has already thought about it. I will take Wu Meiniang into the palace tonight, but I need your Majesty's help."

Li Zhi was startled when he heard the words, and asked in surprise, "You...you mean, you don't need the consent of the ministers? Just take Meiniang into the palace like this?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Changsun Wuji said, "You might as well tell the truth, my Majesty wants them to agree, it is absolutely impossible, I have to cut Wu Meiniang into the palace first, can they still go to the palace?" Can Zhonglai drive Wu Meiniang away?"

"But..." Li Zhi suddenly frowned in embarrassment, "I'm afraid the ministers will be even more angry, and when the time comes, it will be even more difficult to end!"

"Whatever is gained is bound to be lost. There is nothing perfect in the world." Changsun Wuji said, "The old minister still said that if His Majesty wants to take Wu Meiniang into the palace, he will naturally have to sacrifice. Be more sincere, and just repent for a few more days in front of the former emperor's mausoleum."

"It's that simple?" Li Zhi was surprised when he heard this.

"Of course it can't be that simple." Changsun Wuji said, "Even if His Majesty does this, it can only win the understanding of the people and dispel the anger of most officials, but there will still be stubborn people who will not let go Kneeling in front of the door to remonstrate, it is also possible that someone will remonstrate with death, or force resignation, there are too many possibilities, it is difficult to speculate for the time being, and we can only take one step at a time."

Li Zhi sighed helplessly when he heard the words: "It seems... that's all there is to it."

Changsun Wuji said at this time: "Your Majesty, I have already sent someone to pick up Wu Meiniang. I expect to arrive in Chang'an in the middle of the night. I hope Your Majesty can make arrangements."

Li Zhi immediately understood his consciousness, nodded and said: "Okay, I will let Li Yuanzhong personally guard the Xuanwu Gate, and you let Wu Meiniang enter the palace directly from the Xuanwu Gate."

"Yes!" Changsun Wuji smiled calmly and bowed in salute.

The next morning, Li Hao received a secret report from Zhu Ruihuan and Chen Song that Wu Meiniang entered Taiji Palace from Xuanwu Gate at midnight last night, and is currently living in the queen's bedroom.

After Li Hao read the secret letter, he burned it. He knew that since Wu Meiniang had already entered the palace, it would be impossible for him to go out again. Next, Li Zhi might have a headache, because the verbal criticism from the officials was about to begin.

The ministers didn't know about Wu Meiniang's entry into the palace, but Li Zhi had to let them know, because Wu Meiniang was not a maidservant, she was to be canonized, and the canonization required a canonization edict, and the canonization edict of the harem had to go through two departments, Zhongshu Sheng And the province under the door.

Fortunately, the Zhongshu Province was controlled by Liu Xun. According to Li Zhi's intention, Liu Xun personally drafted an edict, canonizing Wu Meiniang as Zhaoyi, and after Li Zhi sealed it, he sent someone to the door for approval. The current servant in the province is called Mou Gao, and he has been a servant for some years. It stands to reason that the servant is the largest official in the province, but Mou Gao is not the person in power in the province. The highest authority in the province is still Wei Zheng, because Wei Zheng was named The official position is--knowing the affairs of the sect, this is a very special official position, that is to say, although Wei Zheng has retired, he can still intervene in the affairs of the subordinate province, and Wei Zheng's reputation and power in the subordinate province are too great. He was in awe, so Mou Gao would always ask Wei Zheng for instructions whenever there was an important matter. This was a kind of respect for Wei Zheng, and also a kind of responsibility for state affairs. After all, Wei Zheng never made mistakes in dealing with affairs.

When receiving this imperial edict, Master Mou trembled a little. Unexpectedly, the emperor had quietly brought Wu Meiniang into the palace, and now he would issue an edict to confer Wu Meiniang, but the officials were still kept in the dark, and things were not good Let's do it, his first thought was to ask Wei Zheng for instructions.

Wei Zheng recently asked for sick leave to recuperate at home. Mou Gao didn't want to bother him, but he really couldn't make up his mind about this matter, so he finally went to visit Wei Zheng.

Standing at the gate of Wei Zheng's mansion, Mou Gao felt apprehensive, and said to himself: "I don't know if my teacher knows about this, but with my teacher's temperament, if he knew about this kind of thing, he would definitely scold the emperor, alas..."

Mou Gao hesitated for a moment, stepped forward and knocked on the door knocker.

(End of this chapter)