Chapter 41 Our Ming Dynasty is not Song Dynasty!
Huang Zicheng and the others disappeared.
With twenty days left until the imperial examination, they disappeared without a trace, as if they had evaporated from the world. However, everyone familiar with the matter knew why the three of them were so low-key, because of Xia Zhibai's matter. , making them lose face.
Even ranking first is not enough.
But before that, Huang Zicheng and the others still approached Xie Min and asked about Xia Zhibai's residence. However, when the three of them arrived, Xia Zhibai had already left and did not see anyone at all. silhouette.
This also made the three of them even more furious.
Because there are various signs that Xia Zhibai is a liar.
Tricked them.
They used to pride themselves on their knowledge and sound knowledge of various classics, but they were met with such a slap in the face. This humiliation could not be increased, and it made the three of them lose face.
After searching to no avail, the three of them hid directly to avoid the limelight.
It's just that the fact that the three of them were teased by Xia Zhibai has long been known throughout the city, and it's hotly discussed in the streets and alleys.
Yi Jia and three people have become a complete joke.
At the same time.
Zhu Biao went to Fengtian Hall.
Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting on the dragon chair, looking at Zhu Biao who was walking rapidly. He knew why Zhu Biao was looking for him. His face was as usual and he did not take the initiative to speak.
Zhu Biao cupped his hands and said seriously: "Father, Xia Zhibai is not the order given by your father."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.
Zhu Biao was a little anxious and asked in confusion: "Father, why are you doing this?"
"Although Xia Zhibai's words were a little fierce, he did do it for the good of Ming Dynasty, but Father, by making the decision, Xia Zhibai not only failed to get a ranking, but also made many scholars who participated in the imperial examination become a joke."
"This is too much!"
Zhu Biao could not tolerate being so eager, because Zhu Yuanzhang really went too far.
Xia Zhibai’s actual performance, even if he is not ranked in the first-class, is at least in the forefront of the second-class. As long as the court treats him fairly and justly, Huang Zicheng and others will not suffer such a big humiliation, let alone suddenly It became a joke.
These are the top three in the Ming Dynasty test.
How can it be so humiliating?
Isn’t this just a slap in the face and a blow to the morale of our own officials?
If Huang Zicheng and others are unable to recover after this blow, it will also be a loss for Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes slightly, a cold look flashed in his eyes, and said indifferently: "You think we did something wrong? But we don't think we did something wrong."
"We still think we did something wrong. That's right."
"We have seen the other two exam papers of Xia Zhibai."
"It's enough to rank second."
"If we don't have emotions, there is even a certain possibility that he will be selected into the first class. But we also said that if we don't have emotions, he will take the third test. Just what he wrote, We are all taking advantage of him."
"You still want to go to high school?"
"We are not that generous."
"Why should we give it? Is he so big-hearted?"
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, looked at Zhu Biao coldly, and continued: "We know about Xia Zhibai's bet with Huang Zicheng and others."
"We did it on purpose."
"We know you are caring and always have good thoughts, but we are experienced people and know what can be believed and what cannot be believed. I will tell you this time, don't These scholars take it too seriously. None of them are worthy of trust. "
"And we are also trying to preserve the reputation of the royal family."
"If Xia Zhibai is really ranked second, or even higher, but do you think he can come back? Does he still dare to come back?"
Zhu Biao was silent.
Will Xia Zhibai come back?
Zhu Biao shook his head in his heart, it was impossible to come back. Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and said: "Xia Zhibai will not come back, but his name is on the list of the second class. When the time comes, he will definitely not participate in the palace examination, and there will be no others in the future. It will be detrimental to him by then. Our own face.”
“We will not allow this to happen.”
"And after this farce, the world only remembers the embarrassment and misery of these scholars, but does not know the specific situation."
"We also saved your face."
"This time I want you to take a good look at how sanctimonious and duplicitous our Ming scholars are. Do you think that if we do this, Huang Zicheng and others will be filled with grief and anger, and then leave resolutely?"
“I’ll tell you.”
“No!”
"Twenty days later, these people will stand in front of you without any influence, and they can even talk and laugh at you. We have already seen through the virtues of these scholars."
"What kind of integrity? , What integrity, what loftiness, are all fake.”
“What they care about is power.”
“For the sake of official power, let alone suffer these humiliations. No matter how extreme it is, they can do it.”
“We just want to destroy the dignity of these scholars.”
"Let the literati completely lose their heads."
"We must tell them clearly that since they choose to be officials of our Zhu family, they must have the consciousness to be officials of the Zhu family. We are not the Song Dynasty. I have no idea of sharing the world with the scholar-bureaucrats.”
“It’s even more impossible.”
“We just want them to be honest and obedient.”
“If anyone tries to do it. Let them share the world with us, and we will let them know why we have secured this world.”
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were full of evil spirits.
He has always hated scholars, and he also hates these people making irresponsible remarks, and even more hates these people dictating himself.
He just wanted to demote the scholars into worthlessness.
He is from a lower class background, but he has never put it down over the years. He has dabbled in many books in the world. In his opinion, major events in the world, whether it is rebellion or revolution, have a lot of harm to these literati. .
Of course they are defeated ten times out of ten.
But the harm to the world is extremely serious.
Get to the root of it.
The reason is that these scholars not only regarded themselves as ministers, but also regarded themselves as 'kings'. They believed that they should rule the world together with the emperor, so they provoked troubles in various ways to force the emperor to make decisions. Give in and then achieve your political ambitions.
This is something Zhu Yuanzhang will never tolerate.
A minister should have the consciousness of a minister.
He should not think about overshadowing the guests, let alone try to be superior to the emperor, so he has been trying to suppress the scholars all these years in order to completely destroy the dignity of the scholars.
Let them be completely honest.
Also completely cut off the scholars' unreasonable thoughts, let them understand their identity and status, and then act honestly as ministers.
Listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Biao looked horrified.
He knew that Zhu Yuanzhang did not like scholars, but he did not expect that his father would be so hostile to scholar-bureaucrats.
It is not enough to treat scholar-bureaucrats with harsh punishments.
It is also necessary to completely interrupt the integrity and aloofness of the scholar-bureaucrats, so that they can only obey and be respectful from now on. But can the scholars selected in this way really be of great use?
Can you really protect the country for Ming Dynasty?
At this moment, he finally knew why his father had such strong murderous intention towards Xia Zhibai and why he targeted him so repeatedly, because Xia Zhibai revealed his father's true thoughts.
Regard officials as long-term workers and all people as slaves.
Can such a great Ming Dynasty really last?
He doesn’t know.
(End of this chapter)