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   Chapter 328 326 [Three Principles]

  Zhao Han raised his hand, and a guard came carrying several large boxes.

"To be honest," Zhao Han glanced at the many scholars, "I am very disappointed with you. Many of you are Juren, and there are a few Ding You or dismissed Jinshi. Most of your family's land is also forcibly divided. Don’t you understand why this town divides the land? Mr. Huang (Xu Ying) spreads it everywhere, but you never watch "Datong Ji"?"

  No one speaks.

  Zhao Han asked by name: "Men, have you read "The Collection of Great Harmony"?"

   "I have seen it." Chen Zilong replied.

  Zhao Han asked again: "Do you know why I divided the fields?"

  Chen Zilong said: ""Datong Collection" has a lot of discussions, and it can be summed up in only 16 words about the politics of dividing land: restraining mergers, increasing taxes, cracking down on tyrants, and winning the hearts of the people."

  Zhao Han laughed and said, "Are you against adding mathematics and geometry to the imperial examination?"

   "I have no objection." Chen Zilong said.

   "Everyone objected just now, why didn't you speak?" Zhao Han asked.

  Chen Zilong sighed: "If you talk about it, you will offend many people. Mathematics and geometry seem to be trivial, but they are actually great. Mr. Xuan Hu's draft of "Elements of Geometry" is now in my study."

   No wonder Chen Zilong is not opposed to adding material to the imperial examination. It turns out that he has already mastered it, and even has a draft of Xu Guangqi's "Elements of Geometry".

   "What do you think of imperial power? Tell the truth." Zhao Han said.

Chen Zilong did not answer directly, but said: "For humans, snakes, insects, mice, and ants are indistinguishable from good and evil. To heaven, humans are like snakes, insects, mice, and ants. Misfortunes and blessings reward the good and punish the evil, but the good are not good, and the evil are not evil. Heaven has no reason to tell it, so it has not been realized until now. If you know what you can’t do, you should relax your power less.”

  As soon as this remark came out, some scholars were shocked, while others praised.

   These words are obviously satirizing Chongzhen, and at the same time remind Zhao Han not to be self-willed.

  People can't understand the situation of snakes, insects, rats and ants, just like the emperor can't understand the situation of the people. The emperor insisted on finding out, and then rewarded and punished indiscriminately, resulting in unclear rewards and punishments, and no one to do things. The rights of the emperor should be restricted.

  Many anti-Qing righteous men, including Chen Zilong, although they died for the Ming Dynasty, their works hated Chongzhen very much, and they all proposed the idea of ​​restricting imperial power.

  Chen Zilong's real proposition is to carry out "family politics", restore the ancient fifth-class titles, and restore the gentry ecology of the Han and Jin Dynasties—although it is restricting imperial power, it is actually turning back the wheel of history.

  Of course, after reading "The Collection of Datong", Chen Zilong's thoughts are changing, because he found that family politics will lead to worse negative effects.

  Zhao Han heard another meaning: "Do you want to form a party?"

Chen Zilong said: "Isolated and helpless, who can do things? People must have friends, and affairs must have parties. Since ancient times, parties have been difficult to ban. Ming Dynasty's fierce faction stems from the cabinet system. The imperial power and power, one fades and the other grows. The power is another For a few, everyone wants to be the head and assistant. The monarch and his ministers are jealous, and the cabinet ministers fight each other, and each invokes the six ministries in order to gain the power of the ministries. Combined with the science and way, the political struggle is even worse, and the party struggle intensifies."

   "Can cronies rule the world?" Zhao Han asked.

  Chen Zilong said: "The world should be ruled by the party of gentlemen, and the villain should not be allowed to form a party to occupy high positions."

   "This statement is different!" A scholar suddenly stood up.

  Zhao Han smiled and said, "Please report your name."

  The scholar cupped his hands and said, "Shanyin Zhang Dai, named Zongzi."

  Zhang Dai?

  Zhao Han smiled even more happily: "Please tell me, Zongzi Zhang."

Zhang Dai rolled up his sleeves and said: "There are no villains in the Donglin Party and the Fushe Party? There are no gentlemen in the Eunuch Party? How can there be a party of gentlemen and a party of villains. I agree with Hou Chaozong's (Hou Fangyu)'s "On the Clique" Cliques cannot be divided into gentlemen and villains, but should be divided into the party at the top and the party at the bottom.”

   "What is the party above and the party below?" Zhao Han asked.

Zhang Dai said: "The one who lives in the temple is the party at the top; the one who is in the rivers and lakes is the party at the bottom. The party at the top reports state affairs, and the party at the bottom is the assistant. However, in terms of party disputes, the party at the top is less likely to be a disaster." , The party below is the worst disaster. A party above is the combination of the advantages and disadvantages of countless parties below, and the things it does are also the aggregation of countless advantages and disadvantages.”

   "Wonderful!" Zhao Han clapped his hands in praise.

  This is to say that a party has people in power, and there are countless opposition parties behind it.

  Once a party member is in power, his words and deeds cannot represent himself, but represent the interests of countless party members behind him. Even if a gentleman becomes the leader of the party, he is still swayed by the interests of countless party members, and he cannot govern according to his own wishes.

  Zhang Dai cupped his hands and said: "Zongzhen, this is not my opinion, it's just citing Hou Chaozong's "Clique Theory"."

  Hou Fangyu sees it so thoroughly?

   Zhao Han didn't know that "Clique Theory" was an article written by Hou Fangyu when he was a teenager.

   "Where is Hou Chaozong?" Zhao Han asked.

  Chen Zilong replied: "Beijing."

  Chongzhen is promulgating the "Atonement Order", as long as the family members pay enough money, they can release the criminals in the imperial prison.

  Hou Fangyu did not come to Jiangxi this time, but went to Beijing to pay money to redeem his father.

   Another Fushe scholar stood up: "Gentlemen can form associations, but not cliques!"

  Zhao Han smiled and said, "Please report your name."

  Fushe Shizi said: "Xia Yunyi, styled Yizhong."

   This is Xia Wanchun's biological father, who was previously in Dangzhi County, Fujian. Some time ago, the whole city surrendered. Because the official voice was excellent and countless people were saved, he could directly become the county magistrate. However, you must go to Bailuzhou Academy for advanced studies!

  Xia Yunyi and Chen Zilong are good friends, but they haven't seen each other for two or three years. Their opinions are very different.

  With the sunset of the Ming Dynasty, Donglin Party and Fushe are also reflecting internally, and a large number of people have become "mediationists".

   That is to mediate party disputes, let everyone abandon personal grievances, and work together on state affairs.

  Historically, with the death of Chongzhen, more and more "mediationists" did not want to engage in party disputes anymore. But those in power are unwilling to mediate, and the situation is endless. Both Xia Yunyi and Zhang Dai firmly advocate mediation.

  When the Hongguang small court was destroyed, the "mediation faction" became more thorough, believing that gentlemen should not form cliques, and cliques will inevitably bring disaster to the country and the people!

  Xia Yunyi continued: "If a gentleman does not belong to the party, the party will suffer disaster. Once party disputes form, everything will be black or white. What good will it do for the country and the people?"

   "A gentleman does not have a party, but a villain will form a party. If he is squeezed out and suppressed, the whole court will be a villain!" Chen Zilong retorted.

  Two former friends quarreled like that in front of Zhao Han.

  At the beginning, Zhao Han was still laughing, because Fushe was split, and it was a split at the root of thought.

  Suddenly, Zhao Han's smile disappeared, and he thought of his Datong Society.

  If after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, all the people in the world are members of the Datong Society, what is the difference between having no Datong Society?

   It will definitely become like that. Datong Society will occupy a high position in the future, and everyone will break their heads and drill in. In the end, everyone will be a member of Datong Society. At that time, Datong Society will be Confucianism, and Confucianism will be Datong Society, and it will be difficult to distinguish between the two.

  Since this is the case, why should the Datong Society do anything? Can't it directly change Confucianism?

   In other words, directly transform Confucianism into what you want!

  The dispute between Xia Yunyi and Chen Zilong became more and more intense, and the rest of the scholars joined in one after another, and it turned into a big debate among hundreds of scholars on the spot.

  Liu Rushi was terrified when he heard this, and looked at Zhao Han from time to time to see if he was provoked.

   The debate is so outrageous that some people even propose a virtual monarch, so that the emperor can sit firmly in a high position, and gentlemen form cliques to rule the world.

  Which emperor would not be angry?

   "Crack!"

  After a long dispute, Zhao Han clapped his hands to signal everyone to be quiet.

   "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa..." Unable to stop it, the guards started blowing copper whistles.

   Now it was finally quiet, the scholars calmed down, and many of them broke out in a cold sweat, realizing that they had said a lot of things they shouldn't have said.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Such big debates can also be held in the future. They can be called academic disputes and ideological disputes. However, disputes should not be brought to the officialdom, let alone the court. I cannot tolerate party disputes." .”

   "The general town is wise!"

   All the scholars shouted, already convinced.

  They quarreled like that just now, and they also said to limit the emperor's rights and turn the emperor into a statue of a Bodhisattva, but Zhao Han didn't get angry because of it.

  This Zongzhen Zhao is really open-minded!

   "Send the book!" Zhao Han ordered.

  The guard took out the latest edition of "Datong Collection" from the box, and added three chapters "Yuanjun", "Yuanchen" and "Yuanmin".

Zhao Han said: "I don't bother to go into details today as to why the Ming Dynasty will be overthrown. It is clearly written in "Da Tong Ji", and it is also clearly written about why your land is divided. This is the latest edition, and three articles have been added. You can read more about it." Read it carefully."

   After Chen Zilong got the book, he quickly opened three new articles and found that the signature was actually Huang Zongxi.

   Huang Zongxi did not complete it alone. When revising and supplementing details, Kuang Lu made some suggestions, and Zhao Han also made up some content.

  Chen Zilong finished reading quickly, combined with the words of Confucius and Mencius, and combined with his own thoughts, and suddenly became enlightened.

  Three articles discuss the relationship between the ruler and the people and the ministers, establish the responsibilities of the ruler and the people and the ministers, and build a complete national concept in this way.

  Put the people first, take the monarch as the head, and rule the country with ministers.

  The people of the world are the foundation of a country, and the monarch and his ministers must serve the people. Wanmin does not specifically refer to the gentry, but the head of Guizhou as the main body. From now on, he can no longer be called Junfu, nor can he be called Parent Officer.

  This kind of simple truth was very shocking in the late Ming Dynasty, even though Confucianism had already made similar remarks.

   To put it more solemnly, the three chapters on the monarch, the people and the ministers are the foundation of Zhao Han's country!

  Original, original, beginning.

  Yuanjun, Yuanchen, Yuanmin, that is, to explore the true colors of the monarch, minister, and people.

   Once this is clarified, the policy of governing the country will be clear, which can be called the "Three Principles". These three articles will be taken as compulsory courses in elementary schools in the future. With the popularization of elementary schools, all the people will know and let the "Three Principles" be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

  Officials may deteriorate, and "Datong Collection" may be shelved, but no one can erase the "Three Elements Principles" printed in the minds of the people!

   Regardless of the shock of the scholars, Zhao Han said with a smile: "Masters, have a feast at noon, and I will take you to see the Datong army in the afternoon!"

  (end of this chapter)