Daming: My brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 291 This old sour scholar, do you really think I won't kill him? !
Tian Qi was also very speechless. He asked Wei Zhongxian to check Liu Zongzhou, so he knew very well that Liu Zongzhou was indeed a clean and honest official. His disciples and old officials are merciless, and he can be regarded as a rare lonely minister.

There is indeed no flaw in the official product.

Therefore, Tianqi never turned his back on him.

In history, Liu Zongzhou was indeed worthy of Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty fell, he chose to die on a hunger strike, but as a great Confucian, he has always advocated strengthening the moral construction of the Ming Dynasty to save the crisis.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was eager to save the Ming Dynasty, did not listen to Liu Zongzhou's so-called "ruling the country by virtue" after he used Liu Zongzhou in history. Advice.

Therefore, Liu Zongzhou can be regarded as unfulfilled in history.

And in this life, because of Tianqi's accession to the throne, the court has been in great turmoil in the past few years, and many courtiers have been imprisoned or even killed. In addition, although Liu Zongzhou is not good at general affairs, his examination results when he was an official censor were indeed considered excellent. , That is to say, the censor of the left capital and the procuratorate of the capital.

Because the Metropolitan Procuratorate has the function of admonishing Taiwan in the previous dynasty, it is often called admonishing Taiwan.

At this moment, after Tian Qi knew that Liu Zongzhou had sued the cabinet and had to meet himself, he felt very speechless and also quite annoyed, so he couldn't help saying to the trusted ministers of the policy making department: "This old sour Confucian, really Do you think I won’t kill him? It’s really a stone in a latrine! The North Korean envoys have no objections, and he is still entangled in this matter! Your cabinet also has good intentions, and they don’t appreciate it.”

"Your Majesty! Please order me to talk to him. The chief constitution is a master of learning, and the contemporary great Confucianism is inevitably somewhat pedantic, so he mistakenly thinks that the great uncle is making trouble out of nothing, which is against the principles of sages. In fact, asking for Xianzhou now is precisely to follow The principles of sages and sages have continued the livelihood of millions of people in the Industrial Division. Maybe if you tell him these principles, he will understand."

Yuan Keli had always been close to Liu Zongzhou, so he asked to persuade Liu Zongzhou.

As a member of the civil service class, Yuan Keli didn't want Liu Zongzhou to end up decapitated because he could not accept the change of Ming's foreign policy. At the same time, it also led to more intense political disputes within the court.

"Send someone to follow Yuan Qing with an umbrella!"

Tianqi nodded, he still had to give Yuan Keli face, after all, Liaonan was able to recover, Yuan Keli made great contributions, and was the first civil servant to support his reform.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Yuan Keli also left Xiyuan to see Liu Zongzhou.

At this time, Liu Zongzhou was still under the scorching sun, kneeling under the palace, shouting to impeach the cabinet scholars for dereliction of duty and power, but he did not vote to draft his memorial, and therefore demanded to be interviewed.

Even though he was sweating profusely, he still persisted.

Yuan Keli came over, and when he saw Liu Zongzhou, he said: "Why do you do this, the elders are kind, don't you really understand?"

"Don't vote to draft a remonstrance memorandum, it's dereliction of duty and arrogance of power, and it's an act of immorality! If I accept this kindness, I will also be immoral!"

Liu Zongzhou refuted Yuan Keli loudly.

Yuan Keli: "..."

"It's immoral again. Do you really want everyone to be like you and be a gentleman of morality?"

Yuan Keli asked.

Liu Zongzhou: "How can a person without virtue deserve a high position?!"

Yuan Keli: "..."

Then, Yuan Keli had to take a deep breath, and said: "There are some things you don't know. Do you know why Jisheng (Chen Zizhuang) suddenly brought up the fact that Xianzhou has not returned to Daming? That's because Daming needs iron from there now. Mine! And this batch of iron ore is related to the millions of people living in the Industrial Division! Also, once the Industrial Division fails to operate, it will still be related to the entire ZTE cause!"

"Is iron ore more important than the rule of virtue?"

Liu Zongzhou asked a question, and said again: "If I sit back and watch the court do such immoral actions today, the moral gentleman who has been a gentleman for decades will be in vain! I have no face to mention the word 'caution and independence' again, let alone mention it again." Dezhi!"

"Liu Jishan! After all, you still care about your own decency, rather than sharing the worries of your father! You are afraid of watching Ming Dynasty rejuvenate the Great Ruler because he did not govern according to the principles of sages, and let your decades of honest and honest gentleman do nothing! ! You are a hypocrite!"

After Yuan Keli scolded, he began to teach Liu Zongzhou a lesson.

Liu Zongzhou was punched hard, looked at Yuan Keli in shock, and denied it flatly: "You are talking nonsense!"

"I'm not talking nonsense, you just think that you can't be a moral gentleman for decades. Even if you force the emperor to kill you and get a reputation for being unkind, you must preserve your dignity as a moral gentleman and let the world think of you. Never wrong."

Yuan Keli asked again: "Let me ask you, if the imperial court does not open the Maoshan iron mine in Xianzhou, what will happen to the millions of people in the Industry Department? If you have other ways, I can report to His Majesty on your behalf." , and stand by your side."

"Death from starvation is a small matter, but loss of integrity is a major matter!"

Liu Zongzhou didn't propose any other solution, but replied directly.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Zongzhou said again: "What you said just now is not wrong. If the Great Ming ruled ZTE at the cost of not sages and sages, then such a ZTE is indeed as good as no ZTE!"

Yuan Keli: "..."

Then, Yuan Keli yelled directly: "Just because you can starve to death and still keep the chastity, it doesn't mean that others can do this too! You shouldn't ask others to do the same!"

Liu Zongzhou replied: "Anyone who is not a gentleman is a villain!"

"Why don't you die yourself!"

"I will die in defense of the Tao!"

Yuan Keli was taken aback when he heard this, and then he flung his sleeves and walked away.

Liu Zongzhou smiled lightly, and felt that Yuan Keli was not as steadfast as himself after all, in terms of abiding by the principles of sages and sages.

Then, Liu Zongzhou continued to shout for the impeachment of the cabinet for malfeasance and power, with the attitude of "the whole world is turbid and I am alone, and the whole world is drunk and I am alone".

Based on his own life experience, Liu Zongzhou believed that the poverty and weakness before the Ming Dynasty were due to the decline of the world and the low morale of the people.
There are literati who are undisciplined, arrogant and lustful, and even literati who are ignorant of etiquette, wearing red and green to show off in the market, and even women are dissolute, and start to disobey women's morals and show their heads in public. Living in the main hall, he favors the eunuchs and relatives.

This is also the view of many Confucian officials in this era. They believe that the root cause of the country's corruption lies in the immorality of the world.

In this regard, the Donglin Party especially supports this point of view.

It is true that with the development of the commodity economy, traditional ethics are being destroyed, and the phenomenon of moral degeneration does exist.

But the moral decline is not the root cause of the Ming Dynasty’s accumulation of difficulties. The root cause is political rigidity and corruption, the large economic gap between the rich and the poor, and financial collapse. It is because of the Confucian tradition that a gentleman should be ashamed of the habit of thinking that words are more important than words. , or because they are vested interests, they intentionally avoided economic and institutional issues, which made people like Liu Zongzhou care more about moral issues and insisted that the world's immorality was the root of the world's decline.

And Liu Zongzhou is indeed persisting in this way, and he is not willing to admit that his persistence is wrong.

After Yuan Keli came back, Tian Qi asked, "Did you persuade me?"

Yuan Keli replied: "He said starving to death is a small matter, but injustice is a major matter!"

"That doesn't make sense!"

(End of this chapter)