The establishment of the Advisory Bureau once touched the hearts of Chen Cong and others, and even Chen Cong wanted to return to politics for a while, but his thoughts didn't even get a response from Chen Ming, and Chen Cong retracted again. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It can be said that many people are optimistic about the future of the Advisory Council.

And now it is only a short term - the expansion of the power of the Advisory Council is not immediate, immediate, but waiting for the next term. The term of office of the Advisory Council is synchronized with that of the Cabinet, and the expansion of the powers of the Advisory Council has attracted the attention of many people.

The interval is a little too short.

Among those who feel this way is the Neo-Confucianism.

Well, the current 'new Confucianism' has completely replaced the position of the 'old Confucian' in the academic school, and it can be called the 'party' all over the world.

This is the case with this political school, which, without the support of the regime, is far less viable than a purely academic school. Chinese scholarship, on the other hand, is often associated with politics.

Yue Wenhai was originally blessed in Jinan, but after the four Confucian masters of Shandong fell to the Shentai, they suffered heavy losses. But fortunately, they still have some family backgrounds, especially the Kong family, and the Kong family did not abandon the Meng family, the Zeng family, and the Yan family for the sake of 'reputation', and the Four Holy Families are still more powerful together. They first relied on the canal to recuperate, and then earned a lot of wealth in the real estate industry in Jinan and Tianjin. The Four Great Masters set up the Zhengru Institute in Shandong with the aim of 'inheriting ancient Chinese culture', and also built one library after another in Shandong, especially the large library in Jinan, the spring city, which stored many copies of ancient books and ancient books that had been privately collected by the Four Great Masters for thousands of years.

Yue Wenhai is still very literati, and he will not leave as soon as he stays in Quancheng, but now he personally came to Yanjing from Quancheng to find Chen Cong, and said that the power of the Advisory Bureau will be expanded again, and the opposition in his words means that there is no need to express it.

"Lord Wang, you don't want to look down on that public bureau! I have been retired to the forest for many years, and I have also learned about the politics of Western powers, such as the great power of England, the government is also subject to the parliament, and the parliament has also developed from weak to strong, little by little to the current point. Today's parliament even has the right to elect and impeach the prime minister! The overthrow of the French dynasty was due to the convening of the Estates-General.

With such an obscure authority, how can it govern the country without distinguishing between the high and the low? ”

Yue Wenhai seems to be worried that the 'growth of the Advisory Bureau' will eventually threaten the authority of the government.

After all, if the power of the Advisory Council is extended once, it can be expanded a second time. Who would dare to say that they will not one day become China's parliament?

And Yue Wenhai also knew that Chen Cong's thinking was different from his own, or that Chen Cong didn't have any thoughts, he was a shadow of the current emperor. When he was in power, he did whatever the emperor wanted. But he didn't believe that Chen Congzhen would like to see China one day like that England.

The regime is all about rhetoric.

However, Chen Cong's reflection was very bland. Because he knew what the more important reason was why Yue Wenhai strongly opposed it.

Yue Wenhai has had a friendship with him for decades. Yue Wenhai's mouth was open, Chen Cong didn't dare to say that he could immediately guess what his idea was, but he could also estimate it.

The real reason for Yue Wenhai's opposition to the further expansion of the power of the Advisory Council is definitely not as above board as he said on the surface.

As for the news from Nanjing, the emperor 'tested' the princes to have a dual constitutional monarchy, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, or something, which made a considerable part of the Chen clan in Nanjing panic. Even his two sons wrote to Xiao Tangshan one after another, and the implication was that he did not mean to let him go out to find out Chen Ming's style. Guy because of these two one reference, that's too scary is.

What kind of thing is that 'Hypocrite'?

For a long time, the king is not a king, the minister is not a minister, and the country is not a country.

Many people from the Chen clan didn't understand what Chen Ming was thinking, and they were afraid of this happening. But Chen Ming didn't spit out the 'Hypocrisy Constitution' in a serious way, such a big matter, the ministers discussed it in private, but few people were qualified to say it in front of Chen Ming. Chen Cong is one of the few people!

"Lord Wang, the mainland of Britain and France is the largest province of China, and the land is narrow and the country is small, so it is a controllable place. And I am in China, the earth is thousands of miles away, and the saying "the emperor is far away" has been around for a long time. If the rights and interests of the Advisory Council are expanded, the rise of local forces is inevitable, and there may be a danger of secession. "If China wants to be strong, it needs to learn some Western techniques, and Yue Wenhai does not object. As a former government official, he was well aware of the benefits that machinery and heavy mercantilism could bring to the government. But as a neo-Confucian, he is no matter how 'neo-Confucian' he is, and some ideas and ideas of the Confucian tradition have also deeply influenced him.

-- It's not for him to devote all his heart to opposing the 'hypocrite'.

Those who are familiar with Chinese culture and history know that Confucianism has not only engaged in the essence of 'hypocrisy', but also put forward political ideas.

"The Son of Heaven rules the world with the arch", "The Son of Heaven and the scholars share the world, not with the people", these are the 'righteous principles' that Confucianism extremely recognizes.

Kicking the nose and face has always been the strength of the literati, if you are soft, they will be hard, and if you retreat, they will enter.

The political officialdom of the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty is the best interpretation of this scene.

Therefore, what some people represented by Yue Wenhai are opposing is not the 'hypocrisy', but the emperor's 'ingredients' for the advisory board.

Yue Wenhai can 'look up' at the craftsmen, and he can also 'look up' at the merchants, soldiers, and mud legs, but this does not mean that he can put up with these 'lowly' craftsmen, businessmen, and mud legs, and at some point in the future, he will be truly equal to 'himself'. He has already faced up to the status of soldiers, will he still have to 'face' craftsmen, merchants, farmers, and actors one after another in the days to come?

Of course, as long as there are enough interests, Yue Wenhai can continue to 'face up'. But the problem is that he/they don't get enough benefits.

Therefore, don't look at Yue Wenhai's vow to oppose the expansion of the rights and interests of the Advisory Council, in fact, they are opposing the 'division of components' of the Advisory Council.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Advisory Council and the Information Yuan, Chen Ming had already designated the identities of its members, who were aristocrats, veterans, farmers, merchants, teachers, doctors, journalists, literati, entertainers, and so on, involving many professions in society. But Chen Ming didn't stipulate the ratio of personnel.

Now, there must be 30 soldiers, peasants, journalists, etc., among the 100 members of the Senate, and there was no such rule before. Now there is.

This made the Neo-Confucian Party very uncomfortable.

When the Information Council and the Advisory Bureau were first established, some officials and Confucian scholars said righteously that they disdained to be in the company of small people. They dare not look down on veterans, but they dare to look down on peasants -- mud legs, businessmen -- a copper smell, doctors and journalists -- Sven scum, and even more so the ninth-rate 'showbiz' of the past.

But now they can afford it.

In the past few years since the establishment of the Advisory Bureau, the influence has become greater and greater, and the rights and interests of the emperor will continue to expand, how can they not look at it?

However, in the five-year elections of the Advisory Council and the Senate, the Neo-Confucian Party, which had missed the opportunity before, has not yet been able to take deep roots.

Whether it is the Neo-Confucian Party, other political groups or academic schools, they all value the Advisory Council. If the Federation of Industry and Commerce still has a strong smell of copper, the Advisory Bureau will be much fresher and, more importantly, more promising. But now it's not so easy for them to get into the advisory board, and they face a lot of competition, not just businessmen.

The Emperor's decree forced the ceiling above their heads down to the boss.

As soon as their own family members were about to grab land in the next local advisory bureau and the State Information Council, the emperor came to this hand, which made the Neo-Confucian Party very hurt. At this time, the emperor was expanding the power of the Advisory Bureau and the Information Council, which was to let more people plunge into this pool of water, so that more people's 'eyes' could see this big fat meat, which was very bad for the Neo-Confucian Party.

There are many people in the Neo-Confucian Party who are government officials, and there are also many Zhishi officials, and these people have a good reputation in the local area. Chen Han had a strict judicial system and clear politics, and those who were in power did not dare to be corrupt, so naturally their reputation would not be bad. The previous Advisory Bureau had just been established, and some people didn't care if it was true or fake, in order to show that they were not proud of being with XX, they missed the opportunity to enter the Advisory Bureau. And now they want to rectify their situation and go all out to enter the Advisory Bureau, and the emperor will weigh the Advisory Bureau at this time, isn't this a troublemaker?

It just so happened that there was some specious news circulating in Nanjing, so it was not only the New Confucian Party that had an idea to take the opportunity to show off, but the Old Confucian Party and other political factions all chose to oppose this matter. We don't ask the emperor to remember our goodness, at least praise our eyes in front of the people, and at the same time let the emperor see our loyalty.

-- They were all loyal ministers who opposed the restriction of imperial power.

As for why he still participated in the election of the Advisory Council after the expansion of the power of the Advisory Bureau, it was to make better use of his power and prevent the emperor's love for the people from being buried by some bullshit guys.

Chen Cong saw all this very clearly.

He is one of the backers of the Neo-Confucian Party, and when he was in power, the Old Confucian Party was the real power. At that time, Neo-Confucianism could not be called a party. Therefore, Chen Cong, Shen Guozhen and others were specially pointed out by the emperor to give the new Confucian platform. Now more than 20 years have passed, and the old Confucian line has long been dying in the successive blows, but the new Confucianism has relied on the characteristics of culture to rapidly spread in the Chen and Han political circles.

A large number of founding fathers withdrew from the stage, causing the originally powerful factions to fall apart. The hill erected by Chen Cong is a clear example, but he still has a deep connection with the Neo-Confucian Party by nature.

Chen Cong withdrew from politics, but his two sons received great support from the Neo-Confucian family, and of course Chen Jigong's bigger backstage is still the current Emperor Chen. Although Chen Cong himself does not think much of the Neo-Confucian Party, the relationship between the two is continuous.

Yue Wenhai is a cadre of the Neo-Confucian party, and he is still serving in the Senior Affairs Yuan, although he spends most of the year in Quancheng, although he is over 70 years old.

Yue Wenhai came to the door, did he really want Chen Cong to talk about Chen Ming? Or do you just want to express your attitude to the emperor through Chen Cong in a roundabout way? That has to be the latter.

How many times have the decisions made by the emperor today been reversed? Everything is a matter of certainty.

Whether the emperor really intends to put a shackle on imperial power is too early to tell. Chen Cong thought that Yue Wenhai and they were not really against putting a shackle on the imperial power, Yue Wenhai and the 'scholars' who still had a certain influence in the whole of China really objected to Chen Ming while putting a shackle on the imperial power and the county king, and not only gave the vacated rights to the 'scholars', but also to the industrialists and industrialists who have been looked down upon in China's history, as well as the most ignorant peasants, the soldiers who made the scholars most vigilant, and the most lowly and lowly lower nine streamers. This is a shock to the traditional social classes and values of Confucianism for thousands of years.

In fact, if this 'hypocrisy of the monarchy' and the meaning behind it are really realized, it will be very beneficial to the people of the new Confucian Party and the old Confucian Party. As long as the emperor can abide by the 'rules', everyone will play games under the limits of the 'rules', and there is no need to worry about the emperor directly flipping the table when he is unhappy, which is a great thing.

However, the 'scholars' must pay the price for this, and must recognize the rights and interests of the 'others' represented by industry and commerce.

In the future, as long as this 'scholar' has no money, he will be no different from countless peddlers and pawns.

"The situation is turbulent and irreversible, and it is inevitable that the world's businessmen will prosper......"

Yue Wenhai's goal was not achieved, but he left with a calm face, he wanted to return to Jiangnan as soon as possible, but his own 'mission' to Yanjing had been completed.

He doesn't need to say that he will move King Song, he just needs to see King Song and do what he should 'do'.

Life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills!