Chongzhen easily agreed to his suggestion, and also came up with a 10-year period of abolition, which made Yuan Keli a little confused. He didn't understand why the emperor would let Qian Shisheng and others go so easily.

According to his ideas, the abolition of slavery would have a great impact. But for Chongzhen himself, there are no obvious benefits. If Chongzhen grabbed Qian Shisheng and didn't let go, he could obviously force the Donglin party to make greater concessions.

Let's say let them subscribe to a tenth of the amount of the Treasury bond or something. Although the Donglin Party members were not willing to show their wealth in front of the emperor, in this situation, it was worth it to use a loan of 3.5 million yuan to exempt the eunuch party from the liquidation of Jiangnan officials in the central government.

After all, this is a loan and not a donation, and even if the emperor is shameless, it is impossible to swallow it all. He didn't think that many people would subscribe to the 35 million yuan treasury bonds, but those who dared to subscribe for such treasury bonds must be real loyal and patriotic people. After swallowing up these people's property, I am afraid that Chongzhen's throne will really be shaken.

When Yuan Keli was still groaning, Zhu Youzhen didn't seem to have much interest in continuing the meeting. He ignored Wu Chunfu's resentful eyes, and just turned his head sideways and said to Huang Liji: "I think today's court meeting will end here, Mr. Huang, you will go out to end the court meeting on behalf of me." As for Qian Shisheng and the others, they will be handed over to Yuan Shangshu to deal with according to the law..."

Although Huang Liji unfortunately missed the opportunity today, he did not purge the Donglin Party. However, to be able to take this opportunity to launch the abolition plan without him having to come forward to be this wicked person, he felt a little happy in his heart.

After some tugging, these officials at the top level of the Daming civil official system finally left the apse slowly. When only Chongzhen and a few attendants were left in the apse, Chongzhen, who had been rubbing his temples, finally put down his hand and slowly sat up straight.

He just sat and listened carefully to the voice from the front hall, and after listening for a while, he said to one of the attendants beside him: "You go to the front hall to inform the king's companions, after the court meeting is over, let the officials Xu Shangshu and the cabinet Mr. Qian come to see me, don't let them come in together..."

Just after a long meeting that was exhausting, after Huang Liji announced the end of the meeting, Xu Guangqi frowned slightly and walked towards the palace gate with his protégé and friends.

Although the attacks on Xinxue and Catholicism by Qingliu officials such as Qian Shisheng and Lu Chengyuan had to be stopped because of an accident, in Xu Guangqi's view, this academic struggle had just begun.

Xu Guangqi was not surprised by the attacks of these Qingliu officials. After all, in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, Shen Yu, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites at that time, set off a Nanjing lesson plan.

Shen Yu wrote several letters to the Wanli Emperor at that time, in which he strongly criticized the teachings of the Catholic Church and its followers, believing that their teachings were disrespectful to the emperor and Chinese culture.

As a physicist and Buddhist, he cited a series of evidences that completely denied Catholicism, and even said that the Catholic calendar undermined the moral order in China. It was also said that the Catholic missionaries had an affair with the White Lotus and wanted to plot against them, and Xu Guangqi personally defended this, but it had no effect.

The Nanking case forced a group of Jesuit missionaries to return to Macao, and the missionaries' efforts to spread the natural sciences to the southern scholars were interrupted. However, this lesson plan still has some advantages, that is, some missionaries who want to completely reform the Chinese ancestor worship and Confucius worship habits have to temporarily abandon this missionary method.

The current situation is different from that of the past, when the main purpose of these Jesuit missionaries was to spread Catholic teachings and develop Catholic believers in China. The exchange of knowledge with the scholars of the south was only to knock on the door of these enlightened Chinese scholars.

Because of this, this East-West exchange of natural sciences has become very personal and narrow. It can be said that the influence is confined to a few enlightened scholars, and cannot exert a chemically reactive change on the entire Chinese society. In the eyes of many great doctors, these natural science knowledge are just a kind of banquet talk like an overseas curiosity.

However, the situation is very different now. From various schools to the establishment of the Academy of Sciences, a relatively complete natural science research system has taken shape for the summary and mutual verification of the natural sciences of the East and the West. The spread of Catholicism became a dispensable affair.

Although Xu Guangqi did not believe that the new knowledge constructed by these natural sciences could be compared with the Confucian doctrine established by Confucius and Mencius. However, he believed that this doctrine should be like the Mohists and soldiers among the hundreds of princes, and it should be a practical tool for maintaining Confucian governance.

He was very disgusted with the pedantic and old-fashioned Taoist gentlemen like Shen Yu, who had devoted their lives to the classics written by the sages, but they did not dare to revise even a single word, for fear that they would violate the way of the sages. But throughout their lives, they did not find out what the path of the saint was.

If these Taoist gentlemen just closed their doors and entertained themselves in front of the saints' texts, then there would be nothing to say. But what is hateful is that these people not only imprisoned themselves in the books of the saints, but also wanted to imprison everyone in the world, but anyone who wanted to see other scenery would be exterminated as heretics by these Taoist gentlemen.

At present, the natural science research in Beijing has achieved far more than Xu Guangqi imagined before he came to Beijing. In the past year, every new thing, new theory, and new knowledge has appeared, making him feel that his time is too insufficient. He always felt that behind this fragmented knowledge, there was a complete and incomparably beautiful real world.

Xu Guangqi felt that he was in a race against time, and he desperately wanted to see the beautiful world he had guessed before his life ended.

But what happened in the court today made him feel a little ominous. He was really a little worried about whether the emperor would be able to maintain his stance of defending the new school under the attack of those old-fashioned scholars. He now wants more than anyone else to let Xinxue also encounter a Nanjing lesson plan-style turmoil.

Xu Guangqi was about to leave the palace and discuss with his protégé and friend how to deal with this tricky situation, when a young chamberlain blocked the way of several of them.

After a few words, Xu Guangqi instructed the others to go back first and invited them to gather in his mansion in the evening. With a stomach full of doubts, he followed the chamberlain back to the original path again.

When Xu Guangqi stepped into the apse of the Imperial Palace again, he looked up and found that except for Chongzhen, who was still sitting on the throne in the palace, the other chamberlains were standing at the entrance of the palace from afar.

After hearing Xu Guangqi's footsteps, Zhu Youzhen raised his head and looked at him. After raising his hand to dispense with Xu Guangqi's etiquette, and asking the attendant in the distance to bring a brocade stool to invite him to sit down, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to let the attendant leave.

Only then did Xu Guangqi have the opportunity to ask, "Your Majesty summoned the ministers back, but do you have anything to say?" ”

Zhu Youzhen hesitated for a while, and then said: "Yes, I asked Mr. Xu to come back, there is really something difficult for you, I want to ask you to do it, I don't know if Mr. Xu is willing to do it?" ”

Xu Guangqi replied very straightforwardly: "Please Your Majesty say it directly, if it is something that the minister can do, the minister will definitely not refuse." ”

Zhu Youzhen subconsciously touched his chin with his hand, and then said, "I just want Mr. to form a party." ”

"Huh?!" Xu Guangqi felt as if he was hallucinating, and he looked at Chongzhen uncertainly, wanting the emperor to say it again.

Zhu Youzhen cleared his throat and said seriously: "I want to ask Mr. to form a party, of course, it is not a non-binding group of scholars like the Donglin Party, but a political group composed of people with real political ideas. ”

Xu Guangqi's face was a little stiff, he stared at Chongzhen for a while, and felt that the other party was not joking, so he frowned and said: "Your Majesty's request is a bit embarrassing for the old ministers, since ancient times, the most worrying thing about the lord is that the courtiers form a party, and now Your Majesty takes the initiative to ask the ministers to form a party, what is the purpose?" ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Xu Guangqi a little helplessly and said, "Mr. Xu, it's not that I want to embarrass you. But just now you saw in the court, the Donglin Party people are converging with Qingliu, and they are now targeting Xinxue.

Although today they failed, it was only a small setback. Within the capital, perhaps with my care, students who study new studies will not encounter much of a problem.

But outside the capital, the scholars who like Xinxue are still a minority after all, and the gentry who favor Qian Shisheng are the majority. If the scholars who like new learning do not unite, the fate of He Xinyin and Li Zhen is not a lesson for studying the new bachelors? ”

Xu Guangqi was silent for a moment, and only replied after a long time: "But if those of us who study new learning also form a party, will it make the scholars who originally started to study new learning just because of their simple preferences change their taste?"

If someone joins the party organized by the ministers not for the sake of maintaining new learning, but only for their own selfishness, and wants to fight for power and profit in the name of the party, wouldn't that be counterproductive? ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, agreeing with Xu Guangqi's guess, but he still insisted on saying: "Therefore, I hope that the party you formed must have an organizational form and a certain degree of discipline. Any party member who violates the party's purpose shall be punished in accordance with discipline or even expelled from the party.

In my opinion, a political party is an organization in which a group of people with a common political position and common political goals are united. Establish a political goal, then affirm your partisan views on national and social issues, gather around you a group of people who share your beliefs, and then seek ways to achieve those claims.

Only when you are united, those Donglin Party members and Qingliu will be able to gauge the situation and not make wrong judgments. And those who support the new scholars will not be suppressed and retaliated against..."