After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 564 Liu Bowen: Am I Stupid or Bad?
"Bowen, we want to add this to the emperor's ancestral training, what do you think?" In the imperial study, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Liu Bowen and said to him.

Liu Bowen walked up to take a closer look, and saw the emperor wrote on the paper:

All the kings of later generations of the Ming Dynasty are not allowed to govern the country with benevolence and filial piety.

"Your Majesty, isn't it good to govern the country with benevolence and filial piety? I don't know how many kings in the past dynasties have practiced it. Why not?" Liu Bowen said, "Although my Ming Dynasty was promoting the rule of law, filial piety is also the way of heaven."

"We don't let the kings of later generations practice benevolence and filial piety to govern the country, not to completely overthrow filial piety and advocate people's unfilial piety, but to prevent it from being elevated to the height of the country." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "How did the past dynasties do it?"

"The monarch advocates governing the country with benevolence and filial piety, selects talents and even promotes filial piety and honesty to enter the world."

"That has risen to the heights of the country."

"It's not advisable."

"May I ask the emperor, why is it not advisable?" Liu Bowen asked.

"No matter how good a thing is, as long as it rises to the height of the country, it will become a shackle that binds people, and it will change its taste." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The word loyalty and filial piety, after thousands of years of Confucianism, has now become a shackle that binds the Chinese people. The thousand-year shackles of thought. Whatever you say must be linked to loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, so that people will not think about themselves at all."

"That's what Mr. Qin said."

"the most important is,"

"Elevating loyalty and filial piety too high is not good for the royal family. In the past dynasties, there have been many incidents where the prince was young and the queen mother was regent, and the queen mothers were all people with foreign surnames."

"The reason why the Empress Dowager is able to be a legitimate regent is because of the existence of the word filial piety."

The idea in Emperor Zhu's heart is very simple: the Great Ming Dynasty created by our old Zhu, even if a princess is regent at least her surname is Zhu, it is better than letting a queen mother with a foreign surname regent.

Besides, as long as those feudal nobles are eliminated so that they cannot harm others,
The king of the Ming Dynasty, still worried about not finding a son to inherit the throne?
There are thousands of concubines in the emperor's harem, and they can't even give birth to a son?

"Your majesty is wise!" Liu Bowen said with a tremor in his heart when he heard the words.Thinking that ruling the country with benevolence and filial piety is not good for the royal family, this is probably the biggest reason why the emperor wants to criticize the rule of benevolence and filial piety.

The emperor forbids the rulers of later generations to rule the country with benevolence and filial piety, just to completely destroy the rule of benevolence and filial piety and bring down the altar.

In history, this can also be called a pioneering work through the ages.

"Bowen, is there such a thing in history, the queen mother confused the court and threatened the imperial power." Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"That's too much." Liu Bowen said, "For example, the Queen Lu in the early Han Dynasty was in chaos, and the Queen Mother in the former Han Dynasty was in chaos. All the generals belonged to their royal family, and they directly led to Wang Mang's chaos and seized the power of the Han Dynasty."

"And Wu Zetian too."

"Wu Zetian would not have been able to be emperor if the emperor hadn't been able to let the queen mother be regent when he was young."

"Wu Zetian's ability to become emperor can be said to be the benefit of the word filial piety."

"Except for the empress dowagers mentioned above, in all dynasties, it can be said that the regents of the empress dowagers caused national turmoil everywhere, not just one or two cases."

"So in all dynasties, the royal family has a rule that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics."

"The harem is not allowed to be involved in politics, but the queen mother can justifiably regent." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, "So for those concubines, once the daughter-in-law becomes a mother-in-law, they will soar into the sky?"

"They can be regency?"

"And the root cause of their ability to be a regency is entirely the four words of governing the country with benevolence and filial piety."

"That's right, Your Majesty," Liu Bowen said.

"Since the Empress Dowager's regency is not good for the court, not good for the royal family, not good for the people of the world, and its biggest root is the rule of benevolence and filial piety..." Zhu Yuanzhang looked concentrating, and asked, "Why do you still suggest that the emperor should rule the country with benevolence and filial piety? Aren’t you encouraging the Empress Dowager’s chaos? Aren’t you messing up the country and society?”

"What is your intention?"

Liu Bowen's body trembled when he heard the words, and he stayed where he was, unable to speak.

Sweat dripped down his body.

I wanted to say in my heart, Your Majesty, I can't hold back such a big hat like you!
Prior to this, he, Song Lian, Gao Qi and other great Confucians had also suggested to Emperor Zhu that he should govern the country with benevolence and filial piety.Before Emperor Zhu met Qin Yu, he had been promoting the rule of benevolence and filial piety.

"My Majesty, I don't dare, and I absolutely dare not!" Liu Bowen was in a panic, so he had to say again and again.

"You said you dare not, but you did it." Zhu Yuanzhang sneered.

"Go back to the emperor." Liu Bowen said, "The reason why the ministers, Song Lian, Gao Qi and other great Confucians suggested that the emperor should govern the country with benevolence and filial piety is entirely because of what is said in the Confucian classics."

"The ministers will definitely not help the Empress Dowager to be regent, and confuse the hearts of the country and the country. I hope the emperor will learn from me!"

"How do you know that there is such a great disaster hidden in the rule of benevolence and filial piety?"

"Such a simple truth, you smart people can't see it?" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, "And you just listed for us the historical events of the empress dowager's chaos and the dictatorship of foreign relatives."

"That is to say, those historical facts, those lessons learned from the past, you people all know. But you are still giving us advice to govern the country with benevolence and filial piety."

"Have you not seen the disadvantages of governing the country with benevolence and filial piety, or have you already seen it, but still suggest that we do this?"

"Are you stupid, or are you bad?"

"Your Majesty, the ministers are stupid..." Liu Bowen was speechless and took a long time to speak.

Liu Bowen is not a feudal aristocrat, he is just a simple scholar, and praising benevolence and filial piety does not do him much good.Those who advocate benevolence and filial piety are basically feudal aristocrats, because they can do the queen mother's regent.They married their daughters to the emperor, and the concubine would have the opportunity to be the queen mother in the future.

Then their family controlled the government.

It can be said that the promotion of benevolence and filial piety is the most beneficial to the feudal aristocracy.

However, scholars like Liu Bowen and Song Lian are the main force advocating the rule of benevolence and filial piety... That is to say, these scholars are being used by the feudal aristocracy without knowing it.

"The three famous Confucian scholars in the early Ming Dynasty actually admitted that they were stupid?" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Since this is the case, if we want to abolish the rule of benevolence and filial piety, will you stop it?"

"I dare not stop you, minister," Liu Bowen said.

"To be honest, Mr. Qin's random opinion can crush you and others by several blocks." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "For example, ruling the country with benevolence and filial piety is not good for the country, not good for the royal family, not good for the people of the world. It is not an exaggeration to say that governing the country with benevolence and filial piety is not good for the world, any turmoil in the court will always hurt the people the most."

(End of this chapter)