Alliance of the Heavens and Ming Dynasty

Chapter 46
"Power is poison, and it is the most debilitating thing. When I sit on that chair and decide to change Daming's blood, no one can stop me!"

Zhu Houzhao said the most ruthless words in a calm tone.

He also didn't want to find any high-sounding reasons for himself. Everything he did was for his own imperial power. If the various power groups touched his interests, they would be suppressed or even wiped out. It was extremely simple and rude.

As he himself said, power is poison, and it is the most poisonous poison in the world. Once it is contaminated, it is impossible to get rid of it.

In order to keep their own rights, the various power groups want to sing against him. For the sake of imperial power, he wants to overthrow the various power groups. It is all because of the imbalance of power, and no one is willing to take a step back. The result is that only one side survives One party is destroyed.

"Your Majesty's future is limitless, it's just that it will be so difficult for scholars all over the world!
Li Dongyang said sadly that Zhu Houzhao's reform will allow Zhu Houzhao to achieve the supremacy of the imperial power, and it will also benefit countless people, but it will be difficult for scholars. But daydreaming.

Drinking flowers and wine in brothels, earning money for fame and fame, nonsense for nothing, and temples for affairs, romantic and romantic, chic and unrestrained, all kinds of superior life in the past will no longer exist.

"The teacher is wrong again. The era of scholars who talk about harming the country has passed. In the future, scholars should focus on being pragmatic."

"Since the Song Dynasty, the way of scholars has gone astray. They are full of wind and snow, talk nonsense, and make money from encroaching on land. They are all proficient, but few are willing to be pragmatic. Looking at the countless books in the world, they can really do things for the people and the court. How many people are there?"

"What I want to do is to guide them back to the right path. Being an official is not to provide them with opportunities to make money, but to let them show what they have learned and do more practical things for the country and the court. "

Zhu Houzhao has no prejudice against scholars. After all, governing the country depends on scholars, but he doesn't like the Neo Confucianism disciples who have been handed down from the Song Dynasty and don't know how to do personnel affairs.

And this is also the biggest reason why he wants to support Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind. According to the theory of Neo Confucianism, Daming will only become more and more chaotic.Most of the Confucianism is used to fool the people at the bottom, and it is used to govern the country, which is digging its own grave.

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Li Dongyang was speechless, correcting the scholar's crooked path, not because he didn't have confidence in Zhu Houzhao, but because it was too difficult to operate, and it was simply unrealistic.

Since Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism flourished, countless scholars have been pursuing Neo-Confucianism, and the ideas expounded by Neo-Confucianism are very in line with the interests of the superiors, so the spread of Neo-Confucianism has become more and more outrageous. Today, the studies of Confucius and Mencius are firmly suppressed by Neo-Confucianism. Scholars who were born as disciples of Neo-Confucianism abound.

If you want to straighten out the crooked path of scholars, unless you destroy Neo Confucianism, the stink of scholars will always exist. But does Zhu Houzhao have the courage to destroy a school that has been around for hundreds of years and has been sought after by countless scholars?That will be infamous forever.

Unfortunately, Li Dongyang himself is also a disciple of Neo-Confucianism, but compared to those Neo-Confucianism officials who like to make money and enclose land, he has a better reputation and attaches great importance to his own reputation, so he is deeply trapped in the quagmire of the civil official group.

He was afraid that after a hundred years, his reputation would become notorious under the influence of the civil society. After all, Zhu Houzhao, the tyrant in the eyes of the civil society, was his student.

For the sake of his own feathers, he had to speak for the civil society group many times, only to ask the civil society group to leave him a clear name after his death.

"The teacher is here to speak for the scholars!"

Although Li Dongyang didn't say the purpose of meeting him, Zhu Houzhao guessed it, and he was extremely disappointed.

Restricted by the civil official group, Liu Jian and Xie Qian were like this, and Li Dongyang was the same. He couldn't understand why they even feared some officials whose official positions were far lower than them!

"The minister is getting old!"

This is Li Dongyang's answer, which is very simple, but it also explains many problems.

Although the civil official group includes all civil officials in name, it does not actually have a real leader. The group is confused, what magic power does the civil official group have that allows him to spare no effort to contribute to the civil official group?
There are three reasons. First, for the sake of fame, he does not want to be slandered and retaliated by the civil society after his death. Li Dongyang has devoted his whole life to Daming, but he also had an unbearable past when he was young, and he was held by the civil society.

Second, fearing the huge power of the civil official group, the civil official group alone is nothing, but when they are all added up, it is absolutely not a big deal to kill Li Dongyang.

Thirdly, for the sake of his family, after all, he is old and has few years to live. If he dies, what if the civil servants turn around and take revenge on his family? He is not sure whether Zhu Houzhao, a student with a cold nature, will protect his descendants .

The combination of various reasons is the reason why Li Dongyang is deeply trapped in the civil service group and can't extricate himself, and there are many people like him, all of whom have the ambition to serve the country, but are afraid of the deterrent power of the civil service group.

"I understand!"

Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath and let go of his grievances towards Li Dongyang. No matter whether Li Dongyang stood with the civil official group or not, the outcome would not change, so why should he fall out with his teacher.

Li Dongyang used to be kind to him, and helped him a lot when he came to power. Although it has been a long time, he still remembers the kindness. For that kindness, he has no reason to treat Li Dongyang like Liu Jian and Xie Qian.

"The old minister is old and can't help His Majesty anymore. Keeping it will only add to the chaos for His Majesty. I implore His Majesty to allow the old minister to return home."

Sandwiched between Zhu Houzhao and the civil official group, Li Dongyang is also tired, and it might not be a good ending for him to resign and return to his hometown.

It is also the last thing he can do for Zhu Houzhao, a student. Liu Jianxie moved away, and he returned to his hometown to retire. The civil official group has the highest status and the three most influential giants have left the court. Resist Zhu Houzhao's suppression.

It is true that the civil official group represents the overall interests of most civil officials, but without a qualified leader, although the civil official group cannot be said to be a mess, it can't make much trouble.

In today's court, Yang Yiqing, Yang Tinghe, Yan Song, Wang Jia, Fei Hong and others all have the potential to become the leaders of the civil official group. High-ranking officials just want to make waves, and the civil official group doesn't have that ability.

"Teacher, why are you doing this!"

Zhu Houzhao sighed slightly.

"The veteran did not make much contribution to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty in his life, but the veteran has cultivated a hero for the Ming Dynasty, an emperor who can bring the Ming Dynasty to its peak. The veteran has no regrets in his life."

With a smug smile on Li Dongyang's face, he and Zhu Houzhao said the most heart-to-heart words in his life.

He didn't like Zhu Houzhao's coldness and ruthlessness, but he admired Zhu Houzhao's great talent. He didn't like this student, but he was very satisfied.

(End of this chapter)