Kong Yinzhi was afraid of those changes, but he did not have much ability to prevent these changes. Although his status was respectful, his actual rights were not as good as ordinary ministers.^/Extraordinary literature/^

What he can do is influence, but influence depends on who is comparing with. Compared with others, Kong Yinzhi is naturally not afraid of him, but the problem is that he wants to compete with the emperor. This difficulty and topic are something that Kong Yinzhi dare not challenge.

The Kong family has always survived by relying on imperial power. Now they are playing stage dramas with the emperor. Kong Yinzhi still dares not think about this idea.

Kong Yinzhi also wanted to follow the path given to him by the emperor and also wanted to take a different path, but this path was really too difficult. Although the emperor had guaranteed and the emperor was extremely credible, Kong Yinzhi was still afraid and afraid when walking on this path. The kind of harm that existed at all times, but could not see the future had already made Kong Yinzhi extremely haggard.

"Where did the Qing family say this?" Yang Jingwei said lightly as he looked at Kong Yinzhi, worried, anxious and afraid.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid..." Kong Yinzhi finally couldn't help it, and said with a little crying voice. The Ming Dynasty is changing too fast now, and too many people." Following the emperor's footsteps, this change becomes an unstoppable existence. Kong Yinzhi felt that he was being torn apart bit by bit.

"What are the fears of the Qing family?" Yang Jie asked.

A silence...

Kong Yinzhi lowered his head, and Yang Jie couldn't see the specific changes in Kong Yinzhi's appearance. He just felt that Kong Yinzhi was trembling slightly.

Another silence...

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The sage has never said these things, nor has it explained them. In other words, there are things that the sages do not know, which means that if they continue to develop like this, the sages of his family are probably not worthy of staying in that position. Now these new things are not only tearing apart from Kong Yinzhi, but also tearing apart from Confucianism. The sages of Confucianism are also tearing apart. Although Kong Yinzhi also had some expectations for this situation, at this moment, the pain of being torn apart is not something that anyone can bear.

Looking at Kong Yinzhi who was crying, anxious and scared, Yang Jingang stuttered, but he didn't know what to say to him for a moment.

A silence...

"I know what the Qing family thinks, what they are afraid of, why are they anxious..." said Yang Jingwei.

Kong Yinzhi then raised his head slightly.

"…………But, the dust remains unchanged, and it is definitely not what I want to see. Your family must figure it out..." Yang Jie said with a solemn expression.

Kong Yinzhi's body shivered unknowingly.

"………………… Since you want to change, you can only change. Then you can only seek your own position in the change.… If the Qing family is still thinking that the dust remains unchanged and still lives in this, then I have to remind the Qing family that the consequences are unpredictable. Now the change is the general trend of the world. Whoever blocks the general trend will be broken, including the Qing family and the saints...…” Yang Jing said solemnly.

Kong Yinzhi was so scared that he said this domineering words from the emperor. He fell to the ground all of a sudden, almost crawling on the ground, and did not dare to say a word at all. His whole body trembled violently.

"……………… Of course, it also includes me..." Yang Jing added another sentence when he looked at Kong Yinzhi who was trembling violently. Yang Jing said this, but it was definitely not to comfort Kong Yinzhi. There was no drastic change in the late Ming Dynasty, and there was no major change, and it was only a dead end. He was the emperor, and he would definitely be crushed to pieces. Hanging the Coal Mountain was definitely his future. Now the Ming Dynasty has pulled itself away from its original historical track. Colonial, expansion, and industrialization have started. A large number of people are about to, or have benefited from, and have become supporters of this change. If they oppose the change, they must face their crushing.

With the comfort of the emperor's words, Kong Yinzhi finally got better, and his trembling body no longer trembled so much.

In the face of the emperor's words, Kong Yinzhi understood that there were countless families in the world, and many people following the emperor. No matter what the reason, for money, official positions, to realize life ambitions, and to realize his ideals, in short, this power was so great that he was afraid. Kong Yinzhi was afraid to think about it.

"………………Your Majesty, I am afraid, please help me..." Kong Yinzhi suddenly cried and kowtowed, with fear in his voice.

"………………………………………………” Yang Jing sighed. He wanted to say a lot to Kong Yinzhi, but Yang Jing didn't know whether he should say it.

Another silence...

"………The Qing family still needs the courage to face reality!" Yang Jie sighed and said.

Kong Yinzhi looked up at the emperor.

"The sage said, 'Therefore, when God is about to give a great responsibility to this man, he must first suffer his mind and will, tired his muscles and bones, hungry his body, and empty his body... If you want to achieve great things, you must first suffer his mind and mind, then tired his muscles and bones, hungry his body, and empty his body... These are also the only way to achieve great things. ····· I see the current appearance of your family, and it seems that you can't even endure the pain of your mind and mind.

Where? How about big things? How about becoming a saint?" Yang Jing said lightly. Thinking about the way he came through, the torment he had at the beginning was something that ordinary people could not imagine. You, Kong Yinzhi, became a saint easily without doing anything. Do you think you are Zhang Xianyong? That guy was holding his golden fingers and was not too troubled or too tired of his mind. But even so, he had to come out from time to time to take the blame.

"…………It hurts his mind and will...………” Kong Yinzhi said to himself with confusion in his eyes.

"Yes, now it's a stage of suffering from his mind. If the Qing family wants to become a saint, this is the first step. If the Qing family can't even stand this, there is no need to say that the Qing family can go back to Shandong and still be free and easy in the Confucius Mansion..." Yang Jing said lightly. In the words of the sages and saints to make rules for Kong Yinzhi, Yang Jing was not afraid of Kong Yinzhi "breaking away".

"..." Kong Yinzhi's eyes became confused.

"……………Sage Kong also traveled around the world and worked hard for decades to teach, and only had 3,000 children and honored the future generations. Could it be that the Qing family thought that Confucius was so easy to become a saint? If the Qing family wanted to imitate his ancestors, they should have to suffer more suffering than him before they could succeed. Otherwise, this saint would be too cheap... Yang Jing criticized Kong Yinzhi mercilessly. With Yang Jing's current prestige and power, it is reasonable to say these things, and they don't have to care about what Kong Yinzhi thinks or what he thinks.

Kong Yinzhi raised his head, and there seemed to be some light in his eyes...

"………………I can point out the road to your family. I can tell you no matter how you do it. But the family itself cannot endure this hardship, and I can't do anything about it. This is a critical moment for Confucianism to inherit the past and the future, and it is also a critical moment for me to inherit the past and the future. The responsibilities and hardships I have to bear must be heavier than thousands of years ago. If the family is afraid and cannot endure this hardship, I will not blame the family..." Yang Jinge said.

"……………I am willing to endure hardship……” Kong Yinzhi said with tears in his eyes. If he was unwilling to endure hardship, the emperor would naturally find others to do these things. Although it might not be appropriate for him, Kong Yinzhi, but if that was true, his Kong family would be decoupled from the mainstream of this society. What will happen to the Confucius Mansion in the future? What will happen to the Confucius Mansion in the future? Who knows? Being marginalized by this society is unacceptable to Kong Yinzhi. He is in the situation and cannot be out of the matter. The Confucius Mansion in the past did not need to consider these things, and he did not need to consider these things in the past, but now, in the Chongzhen Dynasty, he had to face these things. The emperor was a unique emperor and could do many unimaginable things.

"…………………The more you can endure, the more you make contributions and achievement you will achieve. This is what I said to the Qing family, and it is also my advice to the Qing family, and it is my commitment to the Qing family,..." Yang Jingwei said.

"…………I understand………………” Kong Yinzhi kowtowed again.

Yang Jing saw Kong Yinzhi's appearance and knew that he would definitely not be able to understand. No one except himself could understand this problem. If Confucianism wants to continue to be glorious and continue to stand in the position of mainstream dominance such as thought, culture, and ideology, what else can it do besides adapting to the development laws of the times? For two thousand years, Confucianism has done a good job in maintaining feudal rule and is indeed very appropriate. This is the key to the prosperity of Confucianism for two thousand years. Now the era is about to enter the era of capital and industrialization, and various concepts, rhetoric, speech, and methods of maintaining traditional feudal rule must also be "updated". The era needs a "capital Confucian" and "industrial Confucian", and may even involve "communist Confucian". Those who cannot adapt to the changes of the times will inevitably be abandoned by the times. The feudal mind, the industrial body, and a big parasitic tumor attached to the feudal mind. How can such a freak survive in this world?

"Does the Qing family remember what I said to the Qing family before?" Yang Jing saw that although Kong Yinzhi was sincere, he might not have really understood much. After thinking about it, he decided to say something else. If he didn't say these things, the depth and height of Kong Yinzhi's thoughts were always insufficient. It was indeed a bit thin to ask him to be a key figure in Confucianism who has inherited the past and opened the future for two thousand years.

"Report to Your Majesty, I remember..." Kong Yinzhi calmed down his tears and answered the emperor's questions seriously.

"……………If I remember correctly, I have talked to Qing’s family and everyone has the problem of reading books..." Yang Jinge said.

"Report to Your Majesty, there is." Kong Yinzhi replied affirmatively.

"…………I remember telling the Qing family that how many people are needed to support a scholar..." Yang Jinge said.

"……………Report to Your Majesty, I have calculated carefully...………” Kong Yinzhi replied affirmatively.

"…………………… Then today, I will ask your family again. Everyone has books to read, can everyone become an official?" Yang Jingwei reiterated the old words.

"………………Report to Your Majesty, no." Kong Yinzhi answered affirmatively. This question is certain. Everyone can be an official, so can he still be called an official?

"……………Whoever is all a disciple of a saint?" Yang Jing asked again. This question has gradually deviated from the scope of Yang Jing's previous question to Kong Yinzhi.

"…………………Report to Your Majesty,…………” Kong Yinzhi replied again. This question is certain. For example, the books read by scholars today, the Four Books and Five Classics are at the minimum. If they came from a regular school, they can definitely be considered a disciple of a saint. This is not a problem, but Confucian self-confidence.

"………I heard that the Kong family owned a county in Shandong, and there were tens of thousands of people who had tens of them, and thousands of servants in the family...…” Yang Jie said as he looked at Kong Yinzhi.

Kong Yinzhi, whose body was a little straight, fell down again in fear. What was the emperor saying? How did he talk about his family's fields? How did he talk about his family's tenants? What would he talk about next...

The more Kong Yinzhi thought about it, he became more and more afraid. He crawled on the ground, and his body, which was already trembling, became more and more trembling. The emperor's words made his heart almost jump out.

"…………I am afraid,…I am guilty,…I deserve to die……I am damn……Kong Yinzhi crawled on the ground, kowtowed and apologized. In his opinion, the emperor told him that this was an objection to what his family did in Shandong. This was a sign of cleaning up his family. With the emperor's current energy and means, he wanted to change to the Yansheng Gong and clean up the Confucius Mansion. It was not easy to say that it was impossible, but he was definitely capable and means.

"………… I didn't say anything about this to the Qing family. I just wanted to ask the Qing family. If everyone has a book, how should the tenants and servants in the Qing family be treated?…” Yang Jing asked mercilessly. Yang Jing would not ask this question before, but he had a mercy with Kong Yinzhi. But now, seeing Kong Yinzhi's appearance, Yang Jing would not have experienced any major ups and downs or major hardships, he would probably not be able to bear the burden of great changes over the past few thousand years.

Kong Yinzhi was crawling on the ground, and he didn't know what else he could do. He was trembling all over.........

"…………Hahaha……………………………………………………………………… What does the Qing family think about this?” Yang Jing asked with a smile.

Kong Yinzhi can be said to have a broken heart. The emperor criticized him so rarely, criticizing him... Is this going to be a catastrophe? Kong Yinzhi was trembling all over, and the sweat on his face was already bursting out, and the sweat instantly drowned tears.

"I said this to the Qing family, not to say what the Qing family is, nor to ask the Kong family to do something, nor to dissatisfied with the Kong family, but to say... The reason why a saint is a saint is a very important thing, is to have a clear explanation of the ethics of this society. The saints or Confucianism's explanation of ethics is very consistent with the needs of governing the world. Therefore, only saints will be saints and Confucianism will prosper continuously.·················· I have also personally felt the great changes in the present. Under the great changes, there is a need for relevant ethics that meet the needs of governing the world. This is a very critical link in the saints of the Qing family...················································································································································································································································································································

Kong Yinzhi was trembling all over when he heard the emperor's words. Yang Jie didn't know if he had listened to it, nor did he know if he had understood it.

"………… What I just told the Qing family is to remind the Qing family to pay more attention to the changes in ethical relations. For example, if tens of thousands of tenants in the Qing family can really study in the future, they all become disciples of saints and readers who read and read, then should the Qing family continue to treat them as tenants of your family? Can they still raise thousands of saints and disciples to serve as servants..." Yang Jinguo said this to the most simplistic. This is indeed very hurtful, but Yang Jinguo still has to say that he has to bear the pressure brought by the change a few years ago. If he can't bear this pain and difficulty, there is no need to try more difficult things.

Kong Yinzhi's body had no other movement except for the shaking like a sieve, and the amplitude was getting bigger and bigger... Yang Jing looked at Kong Yinzhi, who seemed to be sieve, and thought about it, and said: "····· According to today's social ethics, the so-called monarch, minister, father, father, and son, so many tenants in the Qing family and so many servants did not exceed the ethics, but it was also ethical. At most, it was said that the Qing family was descended from a saint, which was a little special. This was actually nothing, and I didn't intend to interfere with anything... I used this to remind the Qing family that in a way that the Qing family could understand, how to deal with ethical relationships is a shortcut for the Qing family to analyze the essence of things. If the Qing family wants to become a saint, it is impossible to become a saint without making this thing thorough and handling this thing well... Yang Jing continued.

Yang Jing spent a lot of energy to distinguish these things one by one and explain them to Kong Yinzhi.

Kong Yinzhi was still sifting the bran. As for whether he understood it or not, no one knew.

Yang Jie looked at Kong Yinzhi, not knowing what to say, nor did he know or did not understand.

Another long silence.

"…··· Do you still remember the people's livelihood and civil rights that I told the Qing family before?" It was Yang Jing himself who took the lead in breaking the silence.

"Report to Your Majesty, remember." Kong Yinzhi's sieve chaff was finally getting better.

"Although people's livelihood and civil rights may not necessarily be the ethical relationship of the future society, the Keqing family might as well start from here to deduce and refer to the new ethical relationship. If the ethical relationship is clarified, it will be of great help to the Qing family. If you figure out this relationship, it can be said that the Qing family has become a saint, and it has become halfway..." Yang Jingwei said.

In fact, Yang Jing had just spoken twice to Kong Yinzhi, one for people's livelihood, one for civil rights, and the other for democracy. Now Yang Jing dares not say the word democracy. These three words are new political slogans and new political concepts proposed by politicians in the first half of the 20th century. Although he was just a political slogan and was not actually implemented very well, it has to be said that this is a huge change in social ethical relations, and what it represents can be described as a watershed. The status of someone in history,

From this perspective, it is huge and indeed worthy of his halo. In the subsequent history, although this new ethical relationship may not have much restraint ability on society, and may not have really been achieved, as a watershed of the ethical relationship of society, it is also in line with historical laws and trends, and it has also influenced and penetrated into people's lives from little by little... From the early 20th century to the early 21st century, a hundred years can be seen as a process of his gradual development and improvement.

Kong Yinzhi was still crawling there, listening to it, and even forgot to tremble.

It turns out that the so-called people's livelihood and civil rights are here. He has also understood it for a long time, but he will never associate these two words with ethics with things like "ruler, minister, father, son and son". He uses the theory of "ruler, minister, minister" to explain everything in his family, just like the emperor said. Although it is a bit outrageous, it is also in line with social ethics. It is also possible to exist. But if "people's livelihood" and "civil rights" are used as social ethics to explain his family's affairs, Kong Yinzhi found that this is really unimaginable...

Faced with the dementia of Kong Yinzhi, Yang Jing did not make a sound, but just waited patiently for Kong Yinzhi to digest his words. Yang Jing did not intend to say these words at this time, and it seemed a bit early, but Yang Jing saw Kong Yinzhi's "stubborn" look, so he could only say this in advance.

Another silence.

"………………Report to Your Majesty, I understand..." Kong Yinzhi seemed to have finally figured out something, and the person became much weaker, no longer the shaking like a sieve before. Looking at it, he became much more peaceful.

"Oh, what does the Qing family understand?" Yang Jing asked lightly. Now that the great changes are coming, Yang Jing sincerely hopes that Kong Yinzhi can understand the truth and be a qualified "load bearer".

"You dare to ask Your Majesty, can this great change really be stopped?" Kong Yinzhi did not answer the emperor's words, but asked the question first.

"Yes, I can answer this question accurately. I can't stop it.···· More precisely, it's not that it can't stop it, but that it can't stop it.····· It should be noted that there are so many suns, moons and stars. A saint can manage the affairs of this starry sky, but may not be able to manage the affairs of another starry sky. How big is this world? The scope of the saints can take into account is only Middle Earth, but I am China. My Ming Dynasty remains unchanged, and I am China remains unchanged. Sooner or later, others will change. The barbarians travel across the ocean and come to China for tens of thousands of miles. However, it is not as simple as doing business. The meaning it contains must not be underestimated..." Yang Jing said.

"...I can understand..." Kong Yinzhi said.

"It's good that the Qing family can understand it. I'm telling you about this today, just because I want the Qing family to be active, or to lay the foundation for the future, and to "continue the past and open up the future," Yang Jing continued. Since the Qing family has decided to bear the pressure of thousands of years of change, then it should be prepared..... blindly evading and evading cannot solve the problem..." Yang Jing continued.

"Report to Your Majesty, I understand. Thank you for your advice and helping me. Thank you for your understanding..." Kong Yinzhi agreed lightly, as if the confusion in his body was flowing out with his sweat, and the rest was transparent.

"Okay, I have said a little too much today. When you go back to your family, you think about it carefully. Are you willing to take on the burden of great changes for thousands of years? Accept the training and tests of it, or want to go back to Shandong to live a stable life. I am waiting for the news from your family... Yang Jingjie said. In fact, it is at this level, unless Kong Yinzhi dies or there is a major change, Yang Jingjie will no longer be able to replace him.

"I will receive the order!" Kong Yinzhi agreed.

"By the way, I want to say that the promises I made before are still valid. As long as the Qing family can bear the burden and withstand hardships and tests, I will arrange other things." Yang Jingwei said.

"I received the order! Thank Your Majesty for your kindness, thank Your Majesty for answering your doubts." Kong Yinzhi agreed again. This time, he had obtained a clearer answer from the emperor, that is, the arrival of a great change, and the ethics of society is about to change. His task is to explain and extract new ethical relationships to adapt to the new situation. With this understanding, Kong Yinzhi really had some insights and really understood a lot of things.

Kong Yinzhi left, Yang Jie wiped his forehead. Today, he really said a little too much to Kong Yinzhi. These words should not be said at this time. At least they have to wait for industrialization to go further and the times to go further before they are safer.

Yang Jing sighed, sometimes, he had to take risks, and some things could not be buried in his heart all the time. This risk could be tried. With his current control of power, his current reputation, and his current ability, Yang Jing was not afraid of Kong Yinzhi causing trouble for him.
To be continued...