I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 29: Why be an emperor? Be a Tianlong!

"Assist, assist the farmers' association?"

Zhu Chongba looked at Tianyu with a puzzled look.

Tianyu did not explain directly, but slowly picked up the teacup and said:

"Chongba, it is not enough to rely on science to benefit the people. Science is a means. To truly let the people live a good life, we need something else."

Zhu Chongba swallowed and asked:

"Yes, what is it?"

And Tianyu's next words struck him like lightning:

"The throne!"

With a thud, Zhu Chongba and Zhu Chongliu collapsed to their knees on the ground.

"Lord, we don't want to rebel! We don't dare to rebel."

Tianyu shook his head, hating him for not fighting back:
"Look at your lack of ability. What is rebellion? What is the essence of rebellion? It is nothing more than one regime overthrowing another regime."

"70 years ago, your ancestors were still Song people, and the Tartars were also called rebellion, but what about now?"

Zhu Chongba's eyes lit up. Although he felt something was wrong, he thought what Tianyu said made sense.

Tianyu saw Zhu Chongba's intention and immediately struck while the iron was hot:
"The reason you are afraid of rebellion is nothing more than fear of death. Secondly, it is because Confucianism has brainwashed you into thinking that rebellion is a heinous crime."

"But you look at those Confucian officials. The emperors come and go, but the ministers remain the same. When one country is destroyed, they immediately move to the next country."

"They are not called rebellion, but they are more disgusting than rebellion. They clamor for others to follow the order of ruler-rule, subject-subject, father-father, son-son, but in fact they are more successful than anyone else."

Zhu Chongba nodded repeatedly, his face showing a look of gritting his teeth:

"Those damned Confucians and damned officials!"

Tianyu looked at the excited Zhu Chongba and his eyelids twitched twice.
Shit, I didn’t expect that I actually have the potential to fool people.

So he continued:
"So you have to understand one thing: this world has always been a world of natural selection and survival of the fittest."

"The only constant in this world is change. If a dynasty does not change and keep pace with the times, it is doomed to be eliminated by the world."

"I once told you that science is a practical method of understanding the world, a summary of the laws governing the operation of all things in the world."

"All things in this world naturally include humans, and naturally include the emperor. So-called history is also a kind of science. It is a record of past human behavior. You can summarize the laws from it and study the corresponding solutions."

"The Tang Dynasty was corrupt, so the Song Dynasty rose. The Song Dynasty was corrupt, so the Yuan Dynasty rose. Now the Yuan Dynasty is also no longer suitable for the present. Therefore, in the next period of time, the princes will inevitably rise up and the people will suffer until the birth of the next dynasty."

"When the great way is practiced, the world will be shared by all!
This is what Confucius, the sage of Confucianism, said, and it is also the development trend of future society. "

"So the throne will be eliminated by the times sooner or later, and what I want you to do is to accelerate this process."

"It's just that Confucianism is very powerful now. They misinterpreted the will of Confucius and used Confucianism as a channel for their own promotion and a weapon to maintain the rule of the landlord class. The people are now deeply brainwashed by them and dare not resist at all."

"So you need to liberate the people's minds."

"And for this, you need a position where your words carry a lot of weight to correct the people's distorted thoughts, and this position is naturally the throne above all others!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang felt his blood boiling, and he wanted to stand up and shout, "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers born with different races?" It turned out that rebellion was such a just and glorious act.

Seeing that he had almost finished fooling people, Tianyu immediately changed the subject.

"But the throne is just a transition. It is the dregs of feudalism. If we want a country to be stable and secure for a long time, we must reorganize the national structure and let our country survive forever!"

Zhu Chongba opened his mouth wide, "You, you mean, become the emperor and then abdicate?"

Rebelling and becoming an emperor is exciting enough. After finally becoming the emperor, giving up the throne again, this is simply crazy.

Tianyu waved his hand and looked at Zhu Chongba with disdain and said:
"Abdicate? Who told you to abdicate?"

Zhu Chongba looked at Tianyu blankly and said:

"Didn't you say that the throne is just a transition and a dregs?"

Tianyu said with a smile:

"The throne is, but the emperor is not necessarily."

Zhu Chongba looked confused, he felt that his CPU was not enough.

“What does this mean?”

Tianyu picked up the slightly cold tea, moistened his throat and said with a smile:

"After working hard all your life, it's only natural for you to leave something good for yourself and your children and grandchildren."

"In everyone's eyes, the throne is the most tempting throne in the world, but what is the reality?"

"Being an emperor not only requires getting up early and going to bed late to handle government affairs, but also needs to be monitored by the imperial censors and historians, not to mention the constraints of the three provinces and six ministries. Once the country is in chaos, the emperor will be blamed for his poor governance."

Zhu Chongba opened his mouth and asked in confusion:

"Is being an emperor so miserable? This is not right. If being an emperor is so miserable, why would anyone still like to be an emperor?"

Tianyu stood up, patted Zhu Chongba on the shoulder and said with a smile:

"That's how it is. You can do your job and eat, drink and have fun all day long, ignoring the affairs of state. You can refer to the consequences of the reign of Qin II."

“People’s energy is limited, and their talents vary.”

"Some people are fit to be emperors, but some people are not."

"Why is it that every time the founding emperor of a kingdom is so glorious, but as the throne is gradually inherited, the kingdom gradually declines?"

"Because not everyone is qualified to fulfill the duties of an emperor."

The more Zhu Chongba listened, the more confused he felt.

In this case, even if we work hard to build a vast empire, it will be gone within a few generations.

"So, what should we do about what you said?"

From what the God of Land said, rebellion will never have a good ending regardless of success or failure, so why not just rebel?

Tianyu drank the herbal tea in one gulp and spoke slowly in a quiet voice:

"What I'm going to say next is naturally related to the Farmers' Assistance Association that you asked about at the beginning. As the saying goes, those who are in the right will have many supporters, while those who are in the wrong will have few. He who wins the hearts of the people will win the world."

"Put aside those frivolous powers and duties, and elevate the emperor from the throne."

"Let you, Zhu Chongba, become the savior, and the Zhu family will be the descendants of the savior..."

"From now on you can call yourselves Celestial Dragons!"

Zhu Chongba: “???”

(End of this chapter)