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Chapter 550 Killing and Punishing the Heart

Although there was no overwhelming anger or intense emotions, everyone present felt the heavy pressure and lowered their eyelids one after another, not daring to look into those unwavering and cold eyes. The admonished Gao Panlong also had his heart pounding and sweating profusely.

He and some officials are indeed willing to pay the price for their beliefs, even their lives, but the problem is that the emperor they are facing does not give them a chance to become famous throughout the ages. He not only wants to destroy all opponents physically, but also ravages and destroys their spirits. .

Now he suddenly discovered something. The "Half Moon Talk", which was originally not able to influence the court at all, but was just as annoying as flies, turned out to be the emperor's trump card against political opponents.

Oftentimes, officials are dismissed from office, have their homes raided, exiled or even beheaded. The true situation can only be spread in the court, which is not comprehensive. The vast majority of people, including many officials from other places, did not know and could only follow what others said.

At this time, the voice controlled by the scholars can play a big role. Whoever they want to be a loyal minister will be a loyal minister. Even if the family has thousands of acres of fertile land, it is called honest and honest.

Anyone who harms the interests of the scholar class is a traitor. Even if he has done a hundred good deeds as an official, if he does one wrong thing, he will be labeled as harming the country and the people.

Not only officials, but also the emperor. If you act in accordance with the wishes of the scholar class, you will be a wise king whether it is done well or not. As long as there are a few years when the wind is smooth and the people are not hungry, it must be that a prosperous age has come.

On the other hand, he is a foolish king. Even if the people of the country are well fed and clothed, as long as he harms the interests of the scholar class, even if he does not make any serious mistakes during his rule and cannot be labeled, he still has to make up a lot of stories to discredit his reputation among the people. Smelly.

However, this ultimate killing move that had been tried and tested for thousands of years was suddenly defeated by the emperor's seemingly unintentional small move. At present, the scholar class not only cannot use its right to speak to intimidate the emperor, but the emperor has turned against the emperor and used the "Half Moon Talk" and "Business Daily" to violently attack them.

Newspapers, a seemingly unpopular thing that had always been spurned by the scholar class, were so destructive that they conveyed the emperor's will directly to the people, bypassing the scholar class.

No wonder Gu Xiancheng, Shen Li and others insisted on founding "Donglin Xun Lecture" and "Ban Yue Tan" to compete. After the emperor uncovered the Yangxin Palace rebellion case, he also immediately sealed up this newspaper. It turned out that To gag.

It's a pity that no one could see this step back then, and they didn't bother to write or criticize in a newspaper that was only meant for ordinary people to read. So now that I want to use it, write about it, and talk about it, I find that my hands are empty and aimless.

Play the drums again and start a new business all over again? I'm afraid it will be difficult to reach the sky. Even if the emperor did not block it, the new newspaper would not be able to compete with the "Half Moon Talk" and "Business Daily" that had been operating for many years. Without it, it has become a climate.

As long as the word "newspaper" is mentioned, the world in the Yangtze River Basin and its north only knows and believes in "Ban Yue Tan". However, in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, "Business News" stands out and is very popular. I'm afraid it won't be possible to defeat these two newspapers overnight. If you add the factor of an emperor, it will be basically impossible.

The imperial meeting broke up, and all the courtiers walked away with their heads drooping like eggplants beaten by frost. This blow was the most painful, and it can even be said that from then on, there was no second voice in the court except the emperor.

The various ministers and cabinet bachelors no longer have the ability to influence the emperor's will. At best, they are called assistants, at worst, they are puppets. If the emperor says to go east, everyone must go east. The only change that can be made is the speed of walking, but as long as you don't want to be hanged on the city wall, criticized verbally and written by newspapers, and become a traitor who will be infamous for thousands of years, you can't deliberately drag your feet.

The transition from holding power to having power given away by others is still very uncomfortable. Some people already regretted that they should not have opposed the New Deal and should have taken refuge with the emperor earlier. Some people are silently calculating whether there is still a chance to join them. There are also some people who are frustrated and plan to find a suitable reason to resign.

"Your Majesty, what Gao Shang Shu said is not completely unreasonable. Since ancient times, kings have respected responsibility, filial piety, and love, and should not be too sharp."

But there was one man who was neither disappointed nor discouraged, but rather complacent. Because he stood by the emperor from beginning to end, the greater the imperial power, the higher the benefits. However, the more this happens, the more direct remonstrances must be made, reminding the emperor to be careful at all times and not to make a good situation out of control.

"Come on, many emperors and ministers have carried out reforms in the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, including the Ming Dynasty, but none of them succeeded. Do you know why?"

In the face of this person's advice, the emperor really listened, but it seemed that he didn't intend to adopt it, and he pretended to take a class. He stretched out two fingers towards Wang Chengen, who immediately pulled out a small dark brown stick from the silver box hanging on his belt and lit the lighter.

"Uh...I think they all have their own characteristics and cannot be generalized."

If you want to discuss the general direction of the New Deal, Yuan Yingtai must be humble and consider every word. But if you want to discuss the past and the present, let alone this emperor who is not even a child, he will not be afraid even if he calls Yuan Keli and Li Zhi.

“They are indeed in different times, with different internal and external conditions, but the same thing has the same consequences. After many times, you can always find the same point, and this similarity is the key point.

The reforms and changes in the past dynasties have neglected an important question: why reform and changes? If you don't understand this problem clearly, you will go out without a destination. Walking for a long time was all in vain. Maybe it would get further and further away. It would be better to sit at home and not go anywhere. "

He took the cigar, lit it with a lighter, and took two puffs, and Professor Hong's history class officially began. Despite the fact that there are so many ministers in the court, there are almost no people who would like Professor Hong to give lectures.

As the saying goes, people with different moral principles cannot work together. Professor Hong spends all day thinking about how to kill people. He will definitely not explain why he wants to kill him or how to kill him. But Wang Chengen, Wang An and others couldn't understand it even if they talked about it. On the contrary, it would confuse the existing cognitive system. It would be better not to talk about it.

But there are a few people who can understand it, and they must understand it. For example, Yuan Keli, Yuan Yingtai, Ma Jinglun, and in the future may be added Jin Shijun, Zuo Guangdou, Zhuang Yuanchen, Sun Chengzong and other younger generation officials who are groping forward in the New Deal career.

As the successors of the New Deal, they have a heavier task than the older generation's forerunners. Not only must they implement the emperor's ideas one by one, but they must also learn from experience and lessons, and continue to explore forward while looking back to make up for the loopholes. repair.

(End of this chapter)