Sure enough, more than a month later, Li Xiao received the news that Napoleon had defeated Russia. His officers and soldiers were rendered ineffective by the severe cold in Moscow, and were finally defeated by Kutuzov.

A massive rout of 600,000 men, and the entirety of Murat's once mighty 1st Cavalry Army was wiped out.

After this battle, France could no longer display its majesty as a hegemon. From being the most powerful country in Europe, it was reduced to a travesty. Even a small country like Belgium dared to pick up the tiger's beard.

It is conceivable that the Sixth Anti-French Alliance will be quickly formed under the instigation of the British. Then, the army will quickly defeat the severely weakened French army.

Among the nobles in Europe, no one has ever considered Napoleon and his family nobles. To this day, people in Britain still despise Napoleon as the Corsican dwarf, or the Corsican monster.

Li Xiao has no time to worry about distant Europe. Now he has a headache to deal with!

Li Hao beat up someone, and old man Sun Chengzong personally came to trouble Li Xiao and wanted to find Li Hao and apologize in person.

Beating Sun Zhijie wouldn't have such serious consequences, but this person is really qualified to let Lao Sun take action.

"Although the King of Song is disorderly, he is truly the biological flesh and blood of Emperor Sizong. Your fourth brother broke both of King Song's legs. Don't you mean that you won't give an explanation to all the officials in the world?"

Lao Sun twirled his beard with his hand and asked Li Xiao angrily.

Isn't he just a broken prince? Although Zhu Youjian's son is more noble, he can still be regarded as a broken prince. There are not many other princes in Ming Dynasty.

There are twenty-seven single-character kings and double-character kings in total. Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants are all over the world, numbering in the millions.

During the Chongzhen period, these guys only received food and did not work, and they had become complete worms. Zhu Youjian's treasury was so empty that he finally collected some money through exorbitant levies, and had to raise a large amount of silver to give to his relatives.

It can be said that these princes of the Zhu family are a major cancer of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Xiao understands Sun Chengzong as a loyal younger brother of the Zhu family. Mr. Sun has served the Zhu family for decades and still has feelings for the Zhu family.

Now the son of the former boss had his legs broken. Based on morality, he would naturally come forward to cause trouble for the Li family. But the problem is... Li Xiao thinks that bastard Zhu Cixiang deserves to be beaten. If he were here, this guy would only It will hurt more seriously.

"Mr. Sun, you know that Li Hao has been walking with a limp since his leg was broken. Don't speak short words in front of a cripple. This guy called the Fourth Li Laizi in front of so many people in Quanjude.

Mr. Sun, if I were there, his bones would be cold right now. How could he run to your house crying and complain?" Others may care about the vassal king, but Li Xiao doesn't care at all.

There are twenty-seven vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty, but there can be no more. One or two less princes are still welcome. What the people are most concerned about is whether wages have been increased and how much bonuses are paid. Who cares whether the prince will be less? One or two!

"But he is the son of Emperor Aizong after all. According to etiquette, he is qualified to inherit the throne. In the eyes of scholars, his status is very high."

"Inherit the unification? Mr. Sun, what you say is a bit unreasonable. Let him inherit the unification. Ask the soldiers who have fought many battles if they will agree. Ask the workers in the factory if they will agree. You can ask again. Ask the farmers in Zhili, Shanxi, Liaodong, Shandong and Henan whether they will agree?

He dared to say that he would inherit the throne and become the emperor, and tonight countless people would go and demolish his Song Dynasty palace. A teenage boy who doesn't know anything, just said that he should be the emperor. He thought it was really the old Zhu family who said that

Calculate?"

Li Xiao mentioned the Zhu family with extreme contempt!

This is due to the fact that Li Xiao recently looked through some secret files in the imperial court, which are completely different from what those sycophantic historians in the outer court recorded.

Take out the official history and compare it with the secret files, and you will understand what it means to be innocent on the outside but violent on the inside. Li Xiao knows very well what the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were like.

Emperor Shenzong, Zhu Yijun, was superstitious about alchemy all day long. He actually collected virgin blood and asked Taoist priests to refine it, which made a group of palace ladies want to strangle the emperor to death at night.

There are also Jiajing who is more superstitious about metaphysics, Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao who built the top private club in the capital, Zhu Jianshen, who married his own nanny despite taking drugs, and Zhu Zhanji who is passionate about cricket fighting, just compare with the previous ones.

There is a wise king above.

Just such a group of bastards brought disaster to the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years. The Ming Dynasty, which was supposed to be prosperous, turned directly into a place where starvation and death were everywhere, the people had no food and clothing, no warmth, and were constantly exploited by officials.

By the time of Tianqi, the two dynasties of Chongzhen were even more miserable.

After all, Zhu Yijun also launched three major conquests and defeated the vicious Japanese people. He defeated the insidious Yang Yinglong and the rebellious Kuai Bai.

The country's prestige was raised externally and the ferocious enemy was defeated, and the country's territorial integrity was ensured by the internal security of the country.

Of the last two, one appointed eunuchs to engage in a power struggle, and as a result, even Nurhaci was unable to defeat tens of thousands of people in the Northeast. The other was even worse. The power struggle was in full swing, but the people's lives were even more dire.

Military force cannot bring peace to the country, and literature cannot govern the country. These bastards from the Zhu family should all be sent to fill their graves.

When Sun Chengzong heard what Li Xiao said, he was immediately shocked: "What are you going to do? Are you saying you want to be Zhu Wen?"

"Why should I be Zhu Wen? Ming Dynasty is very good now, and there is no need for major changes. A country's model has strong inertia. Once drastic changes occur, complex changes will occur.

We can predict some changes, but we cannot predict some. There is nothing we can do about this. This is a country with a population of more than 200 million, and management is definitely more difficult than you can imagine.

The Zhu family is highly respected in the eyes of scholars. It was okay for you to say this ten years ago. But ten years have passed, and the children who have come out of schools in various places have already entered the work force.

Those who read the teachings of Confucius and Mencius are gradually fading out of officialdom. Because the country no longer needs them, in many cases they are the force that blocks the country's progress.

Ten years ago, the scholars you mentioned still had some influence in the local area. But if you go to the countryside, you will find that the knowledge they have gained from reading the Four Books and Five Classics and studying eight-legged essays all their lives is no longer enough to manage

place.

Nowadays, many of the grassroots officials have already graduated from junior high school. The worst situation is that they have to graduate from elementary school.

Do you really think that the imperial court has spent a mountain of silver coins in vain in the past ten years? The birth of the school is fundamentally breaking the path of promotion monopolized by scholars."

"Our ancestors have used Confucianism to manage this country for thousands of years. Just now you said that the country's policies will have inertia. Let me ask you, how much inertia has there been over the past thousands of years? If you make rash changes, are you not afraid that the country will fall into turmoil?

"

Sun Chengzong stared at Li Xiao and questioned him word by word.

"I did not say that we should change Confucianism, but that we should make Confucianism change to adapt to the times. Confucianism is like a giant ship. I just want it to change its course, not to let it continue sailing and hit the rocks.

Confucianism has indeed governed our entire country for thousands of years, but like all thoughts, Confucianism also has shortcomings. We must gradually make up for these shortcomings and make our nation greater.

Thousands of years of Confucianism have armed our brains, and we also need to arm our hands with other things. Soldiers have sharper weapons, workers have more powerful machinery, and farmers have more handy farm tools.

Only by constantly strengthening ourselves can we always stand proudly among the nations of the world." Li Xiao's words are sonorous and powerful.

From Sun Chengzong's questions, Li Xiao understood that Zhu Cihong, that idiot He De, could serve as Sun Chengzong's master. The real purpose of the old guy's coming was that he was afraid that he would completely dethrone Confucianism and subvert the civilization of the Chinese nation in the most fundamental way.

When the Aisin Gioro people settled in the world, they even knew how to respect Confucius and Mencius. Of course, I, a standard Han Miao descendant, would not completely overturn thousands of years of cultural accumulation.

I am just trying to make some changes in Confucianism to adapt to this era.

Sun Chengzong was obviously relieved. In recent years, local officials at the grassroots level have gradually been replaced by students who graduated from modern schools. Although their political skills are less sophisticated than those of senior officials, their knowledge level is on par with those who have since

Those officials who have read the Four Books and Five Classics at a young age and passed the exam by relying on eight-part essay cannot compare.

Since last year, the army has undergone a massive disarmament. Many officers have transferred their jobs to local governments and served as officials at all levels. These people all came from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

These guys who reeked of blood were naturally those who were too old to confront them head-on. In addition, those who graduated from the school were naturally close to these people.

They naturally formed an alliance!

As a result, those grassroots officials were unlucky, and many had to resign and retire. Even those who could persevere would just hang around in a marginal position and wait to die.

If in the past, Li Xiao only controlled the power at the central level, now, Li Xiao has begun to seize local leadership. And the road is unstoppable!

The Liao army and the school were like two balls of yeast. They would send new talents to Li Xiao every moment to replace those Donglin scholars who once ruled the place.

Today's Shilin has actually completely sunk. They no longer have a say in politics, and they can only howl in a few academies with few students to brush up their sense of existence.

"Okay! If you say that, I'll feel relieved."

After getting an affirmative answer from Li Xiao, Sun Chengzong nodded, and did not even mention Zhu Cihong's matter. He was just a fool who couldn't see the situation clearly and only knew how to sit on the family tree and wait to die. He couldn't be considered himself.
Chapter completed!