Chapter 203 The Civilian Requires Manlajia to Establish a Country with Confucianism
Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly. He had to admit that these civil servants still took themselves seriously, but he did not intend to continue to refute. In fact, he could not destroy the pride in these people now, because this civilization and the people under this civilization gave them this kind of pride. Only when this civilization was destroyed by foreign civilizations will they realize how arrogant and blind they were.
But compared to later literati who lost cultural confidence, Zhu Houzhao now feels that the arrogance of these civil servants in front of him is valuable, but in order to make these literati realize a problem he is facing, he had to raise it to avoid future literati saying that "we need to be colonized for three hundred years."
"According to what the Bianqing said, if a foreign clan respects the literati and officials, even if he raises troops to occupy our Middle Land and kills our Han people, you will regard him as the decree of heaven? Even the literati and officials will regard him as the decree of heaven?"
When Zhu Houzhao asked this, Bian Gong was speechless for a while and speechless for a while. He wanted to say that, but subconsciously felt that this seemed wrong. He couldn't help but think of the hot theory that has recently emerged, namely, whether Zhang Hongfan of the Song Dynasty was a thief and whether the loyal minister of Yuan was a loyal minister.
"I think this theory is necessary. What is the destiny of heaven? Those who respect scholars and officials are the destiny of heaven, or those who respect the people of the world are the destiny of heaven. You should make a good argument and write a memorial to submit it. If there is reasonable and evidence, I will accept it and use it for public discussion and supplement it into the constitutional outline!"
Zhu Houzhao knew that Confucianism did not have a clear explanation of many concepts, such as the difference between a country and a dynasty, the difference between a nation and a country, whether loyalty is loyal to the country or his own king, and human rights. Although the scholars and officials instinctively used Confucian words to safeguard the rights of their scholars and officials, they did not put forward the idea of human rights, nor even the difference between sovereignty and human rights.
Thoughts need development, thinking and discussion.
Zhu Houzhao hopes that his emperor can give more thoughts to these proud scholars and officials of this era.
"I will obey the order!"
The cabinet chief Wang Hua knew that His Majesty the Emperor was asking questions for his scholars and officials again. Sometimes he didn't know how to evaluate the questions raised by His Majesty the Emperor, and he couldn't even guess the real purpose of His Majesty the Emperor's problems, because he discovered that since His Majesty the Emperor raised these shocking but thought-provoking questions, the Ming Dynasty and the opposition began to change.
Some Neo-Confucian officials also began to rebel, burning the contracts of their servants and maids, saying that they should respect everyone's rights, and at the same time, they also wrote memorials to the emperor that they should respect the rights of themselves and that they should not kill those who are disrespectful for their words for no reason. Even many court officials felt that this person was crazy, but the emperor really did not punish him.
Some scholars even wanted to break with their families, thinking that the clan was the biggest obstacle to the court's judicial justice and the root cause of limiting the freedom of thought of scholars. For example, although his rebellious son was already a governor, he never refused to listen to his father, saying that he was a minister of the Ming Dynasty and not a minister of the royal family! But he could not refute.
Wang Hua had to admit that some narrow-minded officials and scholars directly said that Confucianism breeds traitors, and based on the fact that their hearts are different from our race, they believe that maintaining the dignity of the Ming Dynasty is not to maintain the dignity of the king and the father, but also to maintain the dignity of the Chinese.
But no matter how many outrageous words were, Wang Hua knew that as the chief minister of the cabinet, his most important job was to fulfill his rights and responsibilities according to the constitutional outline. Therefore, he still responded now, saying that he would think about this issue carefully according to Zhu Houzhao's request and write a memorial.
In Zhu Houzhao's opinion, it would be better for the scholars and officials to think in advance how to face the invasion of foreign races than to wait until the invasion of foreign races really invaded before thinking. Therefore, after expressing this question, he said to Wang Hua again:
"Sinceremony, you said that the surrounding countries have no intention of being a minister to the Ming Dynasty and have admired our heavenly dynasty! But do you know that it is this Manraka who despises the Confucian sages' studies. They do not establish a country with Confucianism, but establish a country with Persian methods! They want to deviate from our Ming Dynasty and deviate from the famous religion for a long time."
As Zhu Houzhao said, he looked at the Malaga envoy Mu Hanmode and asked, "Mu Hanmode, what I said is wrong. Since your country has no longer followed China, why did you come to ask for help from China at this time? Why didn't you go to Ottoman to ask for reinforcements?!"
"Report to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty! Although the Maharaja uses the method of great food as the basis for establishing a country, he also pays tribute to the Ming Dynasty! He is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Maharaja dared to ask His Maharaja to send troops to help Prince Bintang restore the country!" said Han Mode in this scene.
"I can help you restore the country, but I have a requirement. You must abide by the Confucian Chinese Confucianism to restore the country for the law, establish a principle, be loyal and filial, open a statutory and filial piety, enroll in statutory and recruit scholars, implement benevolent governments, light taxes and taxes to love the people! Do not believe in cults, talk about ghosts and gods!"
After Zhu Houzhao said this, the chief minister of the cabinet, Wang Hua and other civil officials agreed repeatedly.
"Your Majesty's words are very reasonable. The disaster in Malaya is now, which shows that it is because it has not been kingly transformed. Otherwise, if the king and the people are united, how can a small little Folang take advantage of it!"
Fu Gui, the Minister of Rites, could not agree with Zhu Houzhao's remarks, and even thought that the reason why His Majesty could ask the Malaya to establish a country and govern the world in this way shows that he still understands the way of being a king, but why did he ask the foreign vassal states to be a regular ethics but did not strictly require the Ming Dynasty to take the lead in the regular ethics.
"I also think this is the case. Since the Malaga was a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, it should follow Confucianism as orthodox. If not, how can we respect our China?" At this time, Wang Qiong, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, also added.
At this time, the envoy of the Malaga, Muhan Mude, was reluctant to ask, and had to ask: "The Ming Dynasty has never interfered with the law of the vassal state, and why is it hard to force each other now! The Malaga did not establish a country with Confucianism, which was naturally the request of the people of the Malaga. I also asked His Majesty the Emperor and all the great masters!"
"So, in your Malaga, can you govern the world without using Confucianism? Can you convince the people? Let me tell you, what is the wonderful thing about your method of great food? I can let the Ming Dynasty learn from it." Although Zhu Houzhao said this to the envoys of the Malaga, he was actually talking to the civil servants and officials in the court.
Zhu Houzhao's purpose is very simple. If you don't help me force the Malaga to promise to establish a country with Confucianism after restoring the country, you will not let the Ming Dynasty recognize the status of Confucianism.
How could these civil servants not understand what Zhu Houzhao meant?
Therefore, Fu Gui, the Minister of Rites, panicked first, and immediately spoke in front of the envoy of the Malaga, and directly rebuked the envoy of the Malaga, and loudly rebuked the envoy of the Malaga: "It's simply absurd! Since you don't follow Confucianism as orthodox, how can the Ming Dynasty recognize you as a vassal? You are deceiving the Ming Dynasty, and clearly respecting the Ming Dynasty as the sect leader, but in fact they are deviating from the Ming Dynasty!"
"That's right, Your Majesty! I think that the reason why the Malaya lost its country must be because it did not follow the teachings of Confucius and Mencius. The so-called "Maybean Confucianism" is just a deception of the words of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty! All the people know the saint Confucius, why do you know the so-called other saints? I think that what Your Majesty said is very true. If the Malaya wants the Ming Dynasty to help him restore his country, he must establish his country with Confucianism!"
Wang Sibindao, editor of Hanlin Academy.
"I think, what Your Majesty said is very good. If the Malaya wants the Ming Dynasty to restore the country, it must establish the country with Confucianism!" Wang Yin, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, also discussed.
For a time, these civil officials were afraid that Zhu Houzhao would be influenced by the Malaga envoys and no longer respected Confucianism and Confucius, so they all agreed to the conditions proposed by Zhu Houzhao. In their opinion, interference in the internal affairs of Malaga is not important. What is important is that to maintain the orthodox status of Confucianism, His Majesty the Emperor must know that Confucianism is orthodox!
Therefore, these civil servants all demanded that the Malacca must establish a country with Confucianism, and even demanded that it was stronger than Zhu Houzhao.
"Print an order! If the Prince of Manrakas, Gongbintang, does not agree to respect Confucianism and establish a country, the Ming Dynasty will not help him restore the country, and will also order the Manrakas who choose to respect Confucianism to rebuild a new dynasty! The Ming Dynasty granted his throne, and no one dared to covet it in the end!"
After Zhu Houzhao said that, Wang Hua and other cabinet members quickly claimed that it was, and the Malayan envoy Mu Hanmode was shocked. He had to admit that the move of Emperor Ming Emperor was very vicious. He could not threaten the Ming Dynasty to restore the country on the grounds that the Malayan was unable to be occupied by the Western barbarians. Because even if the Ming Dynasty restored the country for its own interests, it could not establish a prince who disrespects Confucianism to restore the country.
Finally, the Prince and Duke of Bintang had to express their willingness to change Confucianism as the orthodox government of the country, and were willing to study at the Imperial College of the Ming Dynasty, and only returned to power after the national reign was restored. Zhu Houzhao agreed to the request of Prince and Duke of Bintang of the Manlacca. At the same time, he appointed Fu Gui, the Minister of Rites, as the Prime Minister of the Manlacca, to be responsible for helping the Manlacca restore the country and rebuilding the Confucian order.
Fu Gui was the most stubborn Neo-Confucian minister in the empire at present. He was not good at fighting but was good at telling people the principles of Confucian Neo-Confucianism. Even if Zhu Houzhao asked him to write ten thousand articles of the sutra every day, he could write tirelessly. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Houzhao wanted to ask him to be responsible for helping the restoration of the country of Malacca.
The reason is no different. It is no problem to take back the Malaga from the hands of the Polangji with the military strength of the Ming Dynasty. But letting Fu Gui take charge of this matter undoubtedly establish a Confucian Neo-Confucian rule in Malaga.
At the same time, Zhu Houzhao's actions also meant to strengthen control over the Malacca. The Prime Minister was actually the real military and political leader of the Malacca. Later, even if the Prince of Bintang returned to Malacca and became the king, he was just a puppet of the Ming Dynasty.
While Zhu Houzhao appointed Fu Gui, the Minister of Rites, as prime minister, Wang Hong was promoted to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the left deputy chief censor, and was specifically responsible for the war to conquer the colonists of the Malacca Folangji.
At the same time, Pires, who had transformed into an envoy of the Ming Dynasty, took Zhu Houzhao's letter of state with the help of the Ming Hai Trade Company, officially embarked on the journey to Folangji.
"Although this Daming Sea Trade Company is called a company, it is actually doing some colonial and plundering. Otherwise, there would not be tens of thousands of naval officers and soldiers on it, but they are now employees of this company, and they are even higher than the status of the Flang Jimen such as Andra on the same boat. But it is undeniable that Andra, the hawk who accumulated wealth in the Ming Empire, is now embarking on a new chapter in his life!"
Chapter completed!