Crown Prince Zhu Ruofeng is a studious person. Except for special circumstances, he will not delay a day of banquet lectures. Early in the morning, he quietly waited for Tang Zhen's arrival.
Forty-three-year-old Tang Zhen, dressed in a green shirt, came to Duanben Palace very smartly.
Zhu Ruofeng performed the disciple's ceremony, and Tang Zhen talked about "Zuo Zhuan", but found that the crown prince was a little absent-minded today.
"Your Highness, do you have any confusion?" Teacher Tang gently asked his students as they preach, teach, and resolve doubts.
"Master Tang, I have been studying your "Qian Shu" these days. I feel that every article is full of principles of governing the country. The more I read, the more I benefit from it. I really feel like I don't know the taste of meat for three months. It's just~"
Zhu Ruofeng's words stopped here.
Seeing the students praising her writing skills, Tang Zhen was scratched. Every pore in her body felt comfortable, and she asked happily: "Just what?"
"I just heard that there are ninety-seven chapters in the "Qianshu" written by you, but why are there only ninety chapters and seven more chapters for me to read? Could it be that you, sir, are hiding your secrets and are not willing to teach me everything?
"?" Zhu Ruofeng made a joke about the teacher.
"This~"
Hearing this, Tang Zhen broke into cold sweat on his back.
He indeed hid seven chapters of "Qianshu" from being dedicated to the crown prince, namely "Qianshu·Room Language", "Qianshu·Far Advice", "Qianshu·Stop Killing", "Qianshu·Benevolent Teacher"
However, it is not about hiding something, but about violating taboos. This is an era when capitalism is budding, and it is also an era of great ideological liberation. The ideological trend of freedom and equality affects every corner of society. Even conservatives like Tang Zhen are no exception.
There are seven articles in "Qian Shu" about restricting the monarch's power and opposing dictatorship. The current emperor is a cruel man, and he wants to put one surname above all others. All the great Confucian scholars who advocate the restriction of the monarch's power are severely punished.
In this high-pressure environment, Tang Zhen had no choice but to conceal the seven more radical chapters, and only submitted seventy less radical chapters for the prince to study. Unexpectedly, the prince actually learned that he had concealed the seven chapters
Chapter matter.
"I did hide the seven articles and did not present them to Your Highness, but~" This time it was Tang Zhen's turn to say it was just that.
"Just what?" Zhu Ruofeng asked curiously.
"It's just that those seven articles were written by me when I was young and ignorant. Some of them advocate limiting the monarch's power and changing the rule of rule to rule by the masses. It is really ridiculous and does not conform to the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty. I, the people of the Ming Dynasty, love the emperor and are loyal to the emperor. I am willing to
I have been the servant of His Majesty the Emperor for generations. Therefore, I deleted those seven chapters and did not submit them to His Highness," Tang Zhen said in fear.
"It's okay. If you want to see it, please ask Master Tang to show it to me." Zhu Ruofeng insisted on seeing it.
"Your Highness, I have committed an act of treason and deserved to die." The Tang University scholar, who had been so elegant just a moment ago, suddenly knelt down and apologized with tears streaming down his face.
There was no way around it. The old emperor's high-pressure policy was so terrifying and his thoughts were so restrictive that the great Confucians almost did not dare to speak. Even a proud man like him was afraid and did not dare to mention freedom and equality. This is also human.
It is natural that even if you are not afraid of death, you will always be tied down by your wife and relatives. In the entire Ming Dynasty, the only person who dared to risk everything and publicly scold the emperor was probably the scholar madman Li Yindu.
Seeing him like this, Zhu Ruofeng sighed thoughtfully and said softly: "Master Tang, don't worry, Gu is just watching secretly by himself, and will never tell his father or anyone else."
Seeing what he said, Tang Zhen had no choice but to respond and present the other seven hidden "Qian Shu".
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The sky gradually turned dark. After finishing his official duties, Crown Prince Zhu Ruofeng returned to the East Palace and studied the seven "Hidden Books".
You won’t know unless you look at it. You will be shocked when you look at it, and you can see that you are sweating all over.
In those seven articles, Tang Zhen boldly exposed and criticized the monarchy system. He believed that the emperor was also a human being and had no mystery, and pointed out that the emperor was the source of all evil.
Opening "Qianshu·Shiyu", it is clearly written: "Since the Qin Dynasty, all emperors and kings are thieves", "Killing a person and taking his piece of cloth and grain, especially a thief, kills everyone in the world, and
Even though he is not rich enough, he is not called a thief?", "A murderer has many hands, but the emperor has a big hand", "A man kills for no reason, and his body is worth the death of another person. This is enough; there is a world in the world.
A person kills someone without any reason, but his body is not enough to offset the crime of killing one person."
As soon as I opened a chapter, Zhu Ruofeng was so frightened that he couldn't read it. No wonder Master Tang didn't dare to read it to Yu Gu! The content inside is really amazing!
Turning to "Qianshu·Yuanjian" again, "When a stream breaks down, the people who are on guard must be asked. If the house is burned, the owner of the fire must be blamed. As for the destruction of the country and the destruction of the family, the poison will be endless..., who else but the emperor".
This is the reason why it is difficult to govern the world and is attributed to the autocratic monarchy.
Tang Zhen clearly and pointedly pointed out that the feudal monarch's acquisition of supreme power and autocratic and totalitarian rule were based on the brutal and barbaric behavior of killing everyone in the world and plundering the world's wealth. The history of China since ancient times is actually a "
The tragic history of "killing people like hemp" and "flowing with blood". He wrote in "Qian Shu·Stop Killing": "After Zhou and Qin Dynasties, the kings, generals and heroes all slaughtered people with swords."
"Qianshu Quanxue" further elaborates, "Since the Qin Dynasty, the massacre has lasted for more than two thousand years, and it cannot be stopped. Sigh! How can the poison of emperors and thieves be so extreme!"
After reading these four articles, Zhu Ruofeng was so shocked that his back was wet with sweat, as if he had seen the terrible scene of rebels rising up everywhere to overthrow the autocratic monarchy. He clicked his tongue and said to himself: "Master Tang is a little extreme, I am Chinese
Although there are tyrants like Jie, Zhou, Sui and Yang, there are also benevolent monarchs like Yao, Shun, and Yutang. Autocratic monarchy is not necessarily bad."
As if guessing that he would think so, "Qianshu·Benevolent Master" also exposed the hypocrisy of the so-called "benevolent monarchs" and believed that tyrannical monarchs were the main culprits who harmed the people of the world.
"A benevolent saint, but a hypocrite who "cartes little kindness and is deceitful and untrue".
It is further revealed in "Qianshu Xianjun" that the cruel and unjust feudal monarchs who stole the country and massacred the people were the root cause of the country's turmoil and the people's misery. Since the Qin Dynasty, "there have been many unjust kings, and the people have been
If you are not happy with your life, it will last a long time." The people are not happy with their life because of the king's lack of justice. "The only one who rules the world is the king. It is not what others can do to control chaos, and the king is also a king." "Villain", "Woman"
"Eunuchs" and "treacherous thieves" brought chaos to the world, all caused by the king's incompetence. The autocratic monarchy led to the people's deprivation of life. "The cowardly king cultivates chaos, the unruly king creates chaos, the secret king stirs up chaos, and the tyrant stirs up chaos."
How to change this situation? The only way is to limit the power of the monarch.
"Qian Shu·Yi Zun" writes: "The emperor's respect is not the great god of heaven and earth, but all human beings." This article proposes "Yi Zun", that is, restricting the monarch's power and asking to improve the status of ministers so that they have the same status as the emperor.
The power to fight against other dignitaries made the emperor scruple by "attacking the emperor's faults", "attacking the faults of the palace", "attacking the emperor's clan, attacking the descendants' clan, and attacking the favored nobles". Emphasizing that the people are the property of the country
Fundamentally, without the people, there is no country's politics. He pointed out that the national defense depends on the people to consolidate, the treasury depends on the people to enrich, the court depends on the people to respect, and the officials rely on the people to support. Only by caring for the people can the monarch maintain long-term peace and stability. p>
