"What do you want?"

In Longwu's view, if you don't have two ambitions, you should learn from the ancient virtuous ministers, you should not make the king feel uneasy, when the king has a little doubt, you should take the initiative to give up the right, talk about yourself out of the government and the opposition, and feel at ease with God, but Wang Yan's behavior is just the opposite, he is constantly trying to take power, and even forming gangs, trying to challenge the imperial power, Emperor Longwu really doesn't understand, and even hates Wang Yan a little, hating why he can't be an obedient courtier.

Wang Yan listened to Longwu's words and fell silent.

The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.

Ninety percent of the people in the world are like this, each of them is working hard for the same purpose, and they are willing to become slaves of gold and silver, beauty, and power, and pay desperately.

Utilitarianism and self-interest, this is the choice of most people, and for this reason, you can choose to break it, just like nowadays.

This is also a reality, but it would be terrible if everyone in the whole world was like this.

The characteristics of early capitalism are utilitarian and not profitable.

When explaining the germination of modern capitalism, it should also be thought that when the entire Jiangnan scholar class chases money, the original values of cultivating Qi and Zhiping will inevitably collapse.

After the collapse of Lile, how to ask a utilitarian official to resist the Manchus?

During the Hongguang period, the Ming Dynasty collapsed at the touch of a button, and there was a great reason for the confusion of the late Ming Dynasty.

Mencius said: "The reason why people are different from beasts is that the common people go to them, and the gentlemen remain." ”

Man and beast are both utilitarian in nature, and the difference is only a little bit, ordinary people abandon this point, but the gentleman keeps it.

The mediocre people can choose utilitarianism, but they should not ridicule and adhere to ideals and morality, because it is precisely with this small group of people that the whole society can continue to progress, morality can be continuously improved, and there is hope for civilization.

In ancient Chinese society, Confucianism has always assumed the responsibility of education, but under the intervention of successive rulers, it gradually lost its function of education and the ideal of governing the world, and gradually became a profit-seeking bureaucracy.

This kind of change was especially obvious in the Ming Dynasty, and the most important reason for the change was that the imperial power was too strong, the vassal power was too weak, and the emperor arbitrarily ruled the ministers, interrupting the backbone of the entire scholar class, and also made most of the scholars completely chill and give up the ideal of governing the country.

Taizu set up the court staff, at first to deter unscrupulous officials, that is, one or two, but in the future generations, it completely changed and became a tool for the emperor to vent his obscenity.

During the Zhengde period, Wuzong set a record of 107 people receiving canes at the same time, and soon after, this record was broken by Emperor Jiajing with a record of 134 people with a cane at the same time, of which 16 died on the spot.

In addition, the great eunuch Liu Jin also killed twenty-three ministers with a cane, and there were not a few people who were killed by Wei Zhongxian with a cane after that.

And the reasons why these officials were roded include the impeachment of Yan Song, the demon monks, the admonition of Wan Guifei to interfere in politics, and the admonition of Yuan Xi to watch the lantern, the admonition of Wuzong's southern tour, and the admonition of Jiajing not to obey Jindan, all of which were all roded by the court.

The most outrageous thing is that during the Zhengde period, the thirteen imperial histories impeached Liu Jin, and as a result, the last one was to be roded thirty, the last two were to be roded sixty, and each of the three books was sixty rods, and before the rod was finished, the person died.

There are many of these Confucian scholars and doctors, pedantic people, and there are many people who are sanctimonious, but there are no such old masters in the past dynasties, who are glaring and brow-raising, and use the Confucian standards for kings to demand the emperor, this can't be done, that can't be done, how many ridiculous things the emperors of the past dynasties have to do, and how many sins the people have to suffer.

The scholar should have spoken out about state affairs, but after speaking out, he was going to be killed. Just like Wu Zong, there was a disaster in the place, but he wanted to go south to play, the ministers advised, and more than a dozen were killed, and finally Wu Zong was moved by the courtiers and canceled the plan to tour the south, but the minister who advised him died.

If you are a minister, will you be cold? I am afraid that next time, I know that the emperor's actions will make the people's resentment boil, and I will not open my mouth to advise, which is a change in the thinking of the scholar class.

The most representative of these is the Donglin Party.

Donglin's reputation is very bad, but you must know that Donglin's party was not like this at the beginning of the association, and why they used to have a clear political proposition, demanding that "the court is honest and honest, revitalizes the rule of officials, opens up the way of speech, eliminates the accumulated evils of the government and the opposition, and opposes the corruption and perversion of the law by the powerful." In the end, the political group eventually became a profit-seeking bureaucracy, and a large part of the reason for this was because Donglin was chilled by the emperor's behavior in his early admonitions.

After experiencing the struggle between the Shenzong Dynasty and the Tianqi Dynasty, some scholars woke up like a dream, with the continuous concentration of imperial power, the world is not the world of scholars, but is regarded as private property by the Zhu family, and the imperial power does not want them to point fingers at the Zhu family, this kind of enlightenment led to the rebirth of the Donglin Party in two aspects.

First, the nature of the Donglin Party has changed, before that, whether it is the disciples of science or the believers of the Wangmen's mind, they all have the traditional Confucian ideal of governing the world, so in the process of governance, they will have moral restraint and a sense of responsibility for the scholars to take the world as their own responsibility, no matter what the specific content of this Confucian world view, this influence is very powerful.

But after that, the Donglin Party as a whole began to evolve into a bureaucratic group that soberly pursued self-interest, especially worldly wealth.

He abandoned the ideals of the original scholarly class, abandoned the Confucian constraints on them, and after the withering of morality, the pursuit of worldly interests has become the only impulse of this group.

From the changes in the Donglin Party, most of them can be seen that the ideological transformation of the scholar class in the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor was unwilling to share the world with the scholars, and the scholars did not want to contribute to the Zhu family.

Those who adhered to their original ideals withdrew from the imperial court, lived in seclusion in the countryside, and continued to remain as profit-seeking bureaucrats.

At this time, the entire bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty did not express the wishes of all strata of society, but became an interest group that only expressed the interests of the bureaucracy, so Donglin could not want the court to fight for their taxes even though he knew that the court had no money and the north was deteriorating.

When the entire bureaucratic system of the imperial court has lost the ideal of governing the world, it is useless for the emperor to be personally ambitious.

Before the Hongguang Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty collapsed, it was reasonable for the original bureaucracy to collapse at the touch of a button and surrender like a cloud.

This is the loss of morality and ideals of the entire class, and the consequences and ideological confusion brought about by the collapse of etiquette and morality cannot be solved by killing a few people.

The collapse of faith and the desire to re-establish the spirit of scholars and doctors who take the world as their own responsibility are by no means an overnight thing, which is very similar to today.

What Wang Yan wants to do is to revive the spirit of bureaucrats and doctors, and how to revive it, then this world cannot be the world of the Zhu family.

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