Chapter 53 The faint king! Traitor! Evil official! Tricky people!
Ancestral Temple.
"Sister, we were scolded again!" Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was a little low, and he was in a low mood, looking at the Ma Xiuying Spirit Tablet placed on it.
“Without you, no one will speak for us.”
“They all blame us.”
Zhu Yuanzhang walked to Ma Xiuying's spiritual tablet, sat down on the ground, and looked at Ma Xiuying's spiritual tablet blankly.
Zhu Biao stood aside respectfully, his eyes full of worry. He rarely saw his father like this.
Zhu Yuanzhang hunched over and complained: "This Xia Zhibai keeps saying that he is for the people and the world, but this is our world. Do we need him to speak for our people? He is not qualified!"< br>
“These literati, they think they have read a few books by sages, they talk about morality, benevolence and righteousness, but shut up about morality, benevolence, righteousness and morality. Do you really think that we have not read those books?”
“We have read more books than they have. Everyone has more, we read books every day.”
"They just look down on us."
"They think that we are just farmers who don't know these things at all. They want to teach us how to govern the country. They want us to listen to their mercy and then take away our world."
< br>“We know it very well in our hearts.”
“But I will tell them why this world belongs to us. We know much better and can see further than these literati!”
Zhu Yuanzhang buzzed accusingly.
a long time.
Zhu Yuanzhang finally came to his senses, his face showed blood of iron again, and there was only indifference in his eyes.
He placed the two books that Xia Zhibai gave him on the table, lit some candles, and sat down to read with a serious face.
He wanted to see what Xia Zhibai wanted to show him.
"Father." Zhu Biao said worriedly.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not raise his head and just said: "We're fine. Don't they think we don't study? Let's let them take a look."
"We not only read, we also see deeper than anyone else!"
< br>Zhu Biao was hesitant to speak, and finally did not speak. His father was obviously very angry now. It was not something he could persuade, but there were still some things in the court.
Zhu Biao hesitated for a while and then left. He needed to shoulder the burden of his father's absence.
For several days.
Zhu Yuanzhang stayed at the Ancestral Temple.
Zhu Biao came several times and tried to persuade him several times, but he was rejected by Zhu Yuanzhang. Now Zhu Yuanzhang is focused on reading.
Three days later.
Zhu Yuanzhang closed the book.
There were a lot of bloodshot eyes, and a stern look flashed in his eyes. After three days, he had finished reading these two books.
He even let Zhu Biao watch Water Margin.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up, his hair and beard were a little messy, and he looked very tired, but his eyes were bright, as if he was not affected at all.
Seeing that his father finally stood up, Zhu Biao quickly closed the book and stretched out his hand. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao and said, "Do you understand this Water Margin?"
Zhu Biao hesitated, no. He confirmed: "My son, I didn't look carefully. I can roughly tell that it is about the government forcing the people to rebel, and there are too many treacherous ministers and evil officials."
"Treacherous ministers and evil officials?" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and said coldly : "Then you think Shuibo Liangshan is really a hero?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao coldly, "There is no good person in this book, and there are no heroes, faint kings, traitorous ministers, or evil officials."
"There are also a group of unruly people!"
"Everyone deserves to die!"
Zhu Biao's face turned pale.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood with his hands behind his back and did not blame Zhu Biao for anything. He already knew the meaning of Xia Zhibai letting him read this book.
I want to make myself understand.
People will resist, when their anger and dissatisfaction exceed their limits, and even surviving like a dog becomes a luxury.
Resistance becomes the only reason.
Resistance is for survival.
He understood this truth very early, and he did the same thing back then.
It's just that this time is different from the past. Now that he is the emperor, he least sees this, least wants to see it, and even hates it the most.
Is rebellion justified?
Rebellion is never justified!
As for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he has also finished reading it.
However, he had no interest in what was said in it, nor did he see anything outstanding in it.
I only saw a group of rebellious officials and traitors.
Cause the world!
The only thing that really made him feel uncomfortable was the sentence at the beginning. The general trend of the world is that if we divide for a long time, we will unite, and if we unite for a long time, we will divide. This made him very unhappy. Then there is a sentence from Mencius quoted by Xia Zhibai.
People in ancient times succeeded in their ambitions.
Benefit to the people.
If you don’t have ambitions, cultivate yourself and show yourself to the world.
If you are poor, you can benefit yourself; if you are prosperous, you can help the world!
He can obviously tell that this is something Xia Zhibai has been reminding himself repeatedly.
And.
He was sure.
Xia Zhibai has a counter-intention.
But he already understood why Xia Zhibai didn't rebel. It wasn't that he didn't dare to rebel, or he didn't want to rebel, but that he didn't want to, because he had the people in his heart.
Once there is a rebellion, the world will inevitably be in turmoil and many people will be killed or injured.
The world has decided that the people have just escaped from the suffering of the war. It is undoubtedly very unwise to involve the people in the war and will also cause the people's resentment.
That's why Xia Zhibai gave himself advice again and again, asking him to change his ways.
He wasn't sure.
If you wipe out Bei Yuan yourself.
If he continues to go his own way, Xia Zhibai may rebel.
Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes and thought about what Xia Zhibai had sent this time, but his heart couldn't help but tremble.
Facing such a more threatening thing, can his Ming Dynasty really hold on?
And how many comrades does Xia Zhibai have in the world?
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes darkened and he asked: "Have those things been sent to the Ministry of Works? Have those people in the Ministry of Works done any good research?"
Zhu Biao nodded and said: "Go back to my father. Your Majesty, your minister has been sent to the Ministry of Industry that day. Officials from the Ministry of Industry are working overtime to study it. I believe that they will be able to study those things clearly."
"My minister also sent an order to me. Mao Xiang, let him thoroughly investigate anyone and anything related to Xia Zhibai, and make sure to find out everything about Xia Zhibai.”
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and shook his head.
He said coldly: "Do you think Xia Zhibai didn't know that the court would investigate?"
"He is very traitorous."
"The book he sent was written by a dead person. . ”
“It’s impossible to find out what’s on the surface. It probably won’t be exposed. He came here for the people this time, so he took it out. ”
"But he himself has selfish motives."
"As Xia Zhibai said, only when you reach a certain height will you have no reservations. I will have no self. He is obviously not there yet."
"Just trying to transform into a dragon!"
"So these things must have reservations."
Zhu Biao was silent.
He did think about it.
It’s just that this is the only thing he can do at the moment.
Zhu Yuanzhang patted Zhu Biao on the shoulder and said seriously: "In fact, we are not worried about Xia Zhibai."
"Because he is ambitious and benevolent."
"But we are really afraid of him."
"What we are more afraid of is that there is really only one person in Xia Zhibai."
"If one person can achieve such an astonishing situation, it means that we have no idea about the current situation of the Ming Dynasty and the current situation of the world. , I don’t understand it at all.”
As an emperor.
But they don’t understand the actual situation underneath.
That would be a big problem!
Zhu Yuanzhang felt very depressed and even a little irritable.
Because of Xia Zhibai's appearance, he felt extremely uncontrollable. If one person could achieve this, what about the next Xia Zhibai? Will he still be so honest?
Where is a group of Xia Zhibai?
He felt a sense of crisis about Ming's existence.
An unprecedented sense of crisis.
final.
He calmed down.
He stepped out of the Ancestral Temple and ordered: "Come here, prepare a set of coarse clothes and linen for us, folk attire. We want to go out of the palace for a walk."
"We are heartbroken. Gotta panic.”
“We want to see the people of Ming Dynasty in person.”
(End of this chapter)