Cong Lan, who was a Jinshi, was also a knowledgeable person. He was sure that these three words had not appeared in ancient classics.

Cong Lan wanted to stand up and ask what the three words Zhang Cong, the Left Minister of Personnel, meant, but he still restrained this impulse.

Because the official rules of the Ming Dynasty told him that this was the capital, he went to Beijing to learn how to govern the country by orders. The first thing he had to do was to abide by the rules and abide by the class rules explained in advance by Zhang Cong, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel. That is, he had to raise his hand to sign with the lecturer's consent before he could speak.

Cong Lan raised her hand. To be honest, he was also shocked by this way of teaching. He also attended a private school when he was a child, but basically there were several desks in a room. The gentleman shook his head and read it on it, the student shook his head and followed it down, and the portrait of the Supreme Master hung in the middle.

But it is not like now. There are stairs classrooms on one side, one side is high and the other side is low. Each step is a long row of wooden tables and benches. You can make dozens or even hundreds of students at a time. Because the teacher is at the lowest point of the stairs, he always gives Cong Lan a feeling that his students look down at the teacher instead, which makes Cong Lan very uncomfortable.

But no matter what, this was the arrangement of the court, and Cong Lan could only listen carefully to the lecture.

When Zhang Cong Lan saw Cong Lan raise his hand, he also signaled Cong Lan to stand up and speak.

Cong Lan stood up and bowed to Zhang Cong first: "I wonder if you don't know what the three words "human rights, state, and decentralization" come from, and what does it mean?"

Zhang Cong is now responsible for teaching political science as a further study official of the National School of Administration, so Cong Lan naturally calls it Mr.

However, Zhang Cong did not entrust himself because he was a teacher at the National Administrative Academy. After all, Cong Lan is still one-rate higher than herself in the official rank, so she smiled:

"Please sit down. These three words come from the mouth of the emperor and there is no script to check. As for what meaning is, Zhang will explain it in detail later. I hope you can listen carefully. However, you can raise your hand to speak after listening to Zhang's speech, otherwise you will not be able to finish speaking. After Zhang's speech, you will leave time for you to ask and discuss."

Zhang Cong said and began to explain.

Cong Lan had already begun to doubt in her heart: "There is no scripture to check, it comes from Your Majesty's mouth? Can Your Majesty's words be taught as the words of a saint?"

Not only Cong Lan was shocked, but other officials from the National Administrative Academy were also shocked. They had never known that they were studying and learning the words of the saints, but they never knew that the saints were His Majesty the Emperor, and they had to learn the words of His Majesty the Emperor.

However, due to the authority of the imperial power and the ethics, they did not dare to underestimate it and had to listen carefully.

But the civil servants such as Cong Lan became more and more shocked. What shocked them was that His Majesty actually made these remarks, and they couldn't help but wonder, Why did Your Majesty emphasize human rights? Is Your Majesty trying to make us ministers realize that we have rights? How can the saints who are ministers, fathers, sons, husbands, and wifes? If the lord wants his ministers to die, the ministers have to die. If we really want to pay attention to this human rights, wouldn't we want us to resist the order and die? Is Your Majesty trying to make us rebellious?

Cong Lan thought this theory was ridiculous, but she also felt that it was some truth. But this was the capital, and in front of him was Zhang Cong, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel. He did not dare to say and disobey, and could only continue to study patiently.

In fact, it is not surprising that Cong Lan and other civil servants were surprised.

After all, this enlightenment idea that opened up modern civilization has been established and matured in history after a long period of time from the 17th to the 18th centuries.

In this era when we believe in the divine empowerment of the monarchy, no one would have thought that the monarchy was granted by the people, nor even the concept of the state, or even the concept of the state composed of the people.

Cong Lan and other civil servants had many questions and seemed to have gained a lot at once. For the first time, they discovered that there was a concept of a country outside the dynasty.

"The dynasty belongs to the royal family, but the country belongs to everyone! The affairs of the dynasty are planned by the monarch and ministers, and other meat eaters; while the affairs of the country are planned by the people of the world, and every man has the responsibility!"

Zhang Cong Lan and other civil servants who were studying were shocked. Since their education, they have been cultivating themselves, managing their families, governing the country and pacifying the world, but to be honest, they have never thought about the relationship between the dynasty and the country.

In their opinion, the loyalty to the Zhu Ming Dynasty was because he was a minister of Zhu Ming and was doing his duty. However, if he was a minister of the former Yuan Dynasty, it was also a duty to serve the former Yuan emperor. But they did not expect that today they realized that there was a country above the dynasty, and this country was called China!

Zhu Houzhao was standing outside the window and watching the shocked appearance of these civil servants. Instilling national consciousness and national consciousness into the people of this era was the fundamental purpose of his establishment of the National Administrative Academy, and even the fundamental purpose of his opening of the Capital University. He did not hope that if China encounters invasion of foreign races hundreds of years later, the Han people still believed that it was just a change of dynasty, and even regarded being a traitor as obeying the destiny, which made the national heroes who fought against the invasion become sinners who hindered unification.

However, when Zhu Houzhao saw Cong Lan and other civil servants showing that he was as shocked as he preached ideas about human rights and state to Zhang Cong, Xia Yan and others, he was not as excited as before.

Because, now Zhu Houzhao has understood that simply changing the thoughts of several civil servants has no significant effect on the overall environment.

For example, after accepting their thoughts, Zhang Cong and Xia Yan still have to follow the rules of this era, become magistrates and governors, and deal with problems according to the ethical rules of this society. If they do not deal with problems according to the ethical rules of this society, they will be boycotted by the entire society.

For example, if parents kill their children, there is no need to be sentenced to death, and the people can accept it.

However, if the descendants kill their parents, they need to be executed by lingchi. If they do not deal with this, the people will not accept it, because the idea that filial piety is greater than heaven is deeply rooted in this era, and parents can be forgiven for killing their children.

Zhang Cong was not very happy to see the civil servants who were studying in front of him so shocked. He could understand that it was normal for these people to be shocked at this moment, but what he had to admit was that, as His Majesty said, even if they knew this truth, they would not change anything, because the people do not have this consciousness and do not need to have this consciousness at present.

Zhang Cong still clearly remembers that in the seventh year of Zhengde, there was a snow disaster in Dongsheng City, Hetao. After he transferred 30,000 stones of grain to provide relief to the military and civilians, the military and civilians were just grateful to themselves and felt that he was a good official. Although Zhang Cong himself said that this was what he should do, the people were still grateful to themselves as if they were grateful to Bodhisattvas. Without the consciousness that they were also the master of this country, he had the awareness of accepting national services.

But in fact, only Zhang Cong himself knew that he only bought grain to help them with a small portion of the taxes collected from these military and civilians.

Zhu Houzhao also knew that enlightening people's wisdom is a long process. It takes time to let the people understand that it is to give power to this country and let the country manage itself, to let the country serve itself, safeguard the public interests of the nation, safeguard the safety of their own property and life, and to protect their freedom.

But Zhu Houzhao had to let the rulers of this country know where their power came from, and let them know that after they had state power, they would serve the entire nation and the people.

Because in essence, it is the nation of this nation that accepts your rule and gives you the power to manage the people through tax payments. If you have the power of the state and take the money of the people, you have to do things for the people and do things for the nation.

Zhu Houzhao admitted that it was a very long process to let the people understand this truth. Judging from the historical experience they know, it is impossible to have a hundred years. In other words, within a hundred years, no matter how hard they make, they cannot change the fact that they will still be a dictator.

There is nothing we can do about it. The people of the Ming Dynasty can only accept the rule of a dictatorial king. They are now only used to having a good emperor and a good official. You ask them to elect and decide who rule themselves. They do not have this consciousness or even think it is unnecessary. Moreover, the empire is so huge that they do not have the energy to choose a ruler who is satisfied with from tens of millions of people.

The same is true for civil officials such as Zhang Cong. Although they have now accepted the so-called monarchy and authority, and have begun to believe that the people of China chose the Zhu family as emperors at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and became the kings of themselves and countless Chinese people, he still had no reason not to obey the rule of Emperor Zhengde. He also knew that if he did not obey, he would be regarded as a traitor by people all over the world!

Therefore, although Zhu Houzhao killed civil servants, Zhang Cong and other civil servants had even understood this truth after accepting the idea of ​​giving the monarch power to the monarch power, and even the civil servants all over the world did not really believe in the divine right of the monarch power, but they still would not rebel because they knew that the people of the Ming Dynasty were still there. Now that they accepted Zhu Houzhao's thoughts, they became more aware that the people of the empire were still willing to transfer the power to the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao's Emperor. This power was granted by the people, and these civil servants could not deny it at all.

Zhang Cong and other civil officials knew that the only time he could deny that the emperor ruled illegally was when the emperor abandoned the people, when the emperor did not care about the interests of the people and enjoyed himself, or when the emperor did not use the power granted by the people to serve the people and nations of this country.

But His Majesty the current emperor did not ignore the interests of the people, and even kept seeking benefits for the people. Naturally, these civil servants could not deny the emperor.

Because of this, Zhu Houzhao was not worried that spreading these so-called advanced ideas would affect his rule, because he knew that even if the people of the Ming Dynasty had this idea, they would not overthrow themselves because he had been fulfilling his duties as an emperor.

Of course, if you want to enslave the people of the world and fail to fulfill your duties as the emperor as the supreme ruler, you will be abandoned by the people. The kings of the fallen country in all dynasties have proved this truth.

On the contrary, if there are ambitious people who want to become emperor and enslave the world through violent overthrow, they will be more strongly opposed by more people.

At this time, Liu Jin from the Sili Supervisor hurriedly ran over: "Your Majesty, King Ning is back!"
Chapter completed!