Chapter 168 Drama promotes new ideas!Zhu Yuanzhang’s amazing idea! The onlookers were too frightened to speak out after seeing more than 100 heads being chopped off in unison.
No one thought that His Majesty the Emperor would actually kill these people just to welcome Marquis Pinglu back.
Although everyone knows that these people should be killed.
Because they had killed Pingluhou's friends and the reform pioneer minister before, and they did so in front of Chen Han, so these people deserved death.
But thinking about their death and seeing these people's heads being chopped off with my own eyes are different sensory stimulations.
Even Chen Han felt his stomach churn after seeing this scene.
Fortunately, Princess Jiangdu's eyes had been covered by him.
But many people think that this is actually a common thing, especially those military generals.
As a modern person, Chen Han cannot use modern concepts to criticize this kind of disregard for human life. He can only say that as a person involved, he has a slight feeling of pleasure and hatred in his heart, but he cannot agree with it. this method.
It can only be said that His Majesty took great pains to call all the civil and military officials here for his own sake.
Then in front of them, these people who dared to carry out assassination plots were killed at full speed.
It means warning all officials.
You can take a look at what happened to these people.
Don’t you think that before, as an emperor, we could only tolerate it?
Then you can see if we are forbearing.
Our forbearance is only for the outsiders to see. Our heart is still the same, and our methods are still the same.
If you really dare to challenge our dignity in this situation.
Then take a look at what will happen to these people?
It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of this time to kill more than 100 people at once.
On the one hand, it is to avenge Chen Han.
On the other hand, it is even more important to deter these officials.
As mentioned before.
Just to let everyone in the world know.
After these people were killed, not only was there nothing to blame.
Even he could only clap his hands and applaud, he killed correctly.
Because Chen Han and other heroes have encountered unfair treatment.
If there is no one to redress their grievances and avenge them, who will dare to reform on that day?Who still has this motivation? Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to use this method to tell all the officials in the world who wanted to reform or wanted to participate in the reform team.
You can be confident and bold in reforming. The court will support you, the emperor will support you, and even the people will support you.
After a moment of silence, the people outside suddenly burst into cheers.
"Good cut!"
"Good kill!"
"These people should be killed!"
"These guys usually prey on the common people in the countryside, so they kill well!"
"Yes, they used the dirty money they had to lower our cotton purchasing prices and make a fortune for themselves."
"We all work so hard to weave, and they can easily get good clothes that we can't afford to wear. And in times of famine, they come to take over the land from us at very low prices. It's really hateful. It's really He deserves to be killed."
The people burst into cheers.
Chen Han looked at those people and still understood them a little bit.
Because what they hate is not only corrupt officials, but also those who are rich and unkind who rely on their own money and then use their money to bully the people in the countryside.
And these people clearly are.
They make use of the vast amounts of money they have.
Knowing that the people could not sell more cotton to distant places, he colluded with the local wealthy businessmen who were also rich and unkind, and defrauded the people of cotton at extremely low prices.
At the same time, during the famine years, all the land was annexed from the people at extremely low prices, which is disgraceful.
So there has been a lot of public resentment, and now they are pulled out and beheaded, how can the people not cheer? And the reason why those civil servants and generals turned pale at this time.
It's because they once wanted to obstruct reform.
But who would have thought that at first they felt that His Majesty the Emperor had nothing to do with them.
They all feel that even if we kill some reformers and make things difficult for them, His Majesty the Emperor can only focus on the overall situation and turn a blind eye.
But he didn't expect that he would give them such a thunderous means.
There was no killing at that time, but it was just too late. But now that the reform has been successful, officials and people all over the world can no longer talk about Chen Han behind his back. They have all these people pulled out and executed to give Chen Han an explanation, and at the same time, more It was a warning to myself and others.
What His Majesty the Emperor did was really ruthless, and he did it very wisely.
Let them have nothing to blame except that these people deserve to die.
Now all of them knew that the world in the future would be dominated by the reformists.
If under such circumstances, you still risk your life and death by hitting this knife, then you and others will be the next ones to fall under the knife.
It can be seen from this that His Majesty the Emperor went to great lengths to support the reformists.
When they thought of this, the civil and military officials were not only shocked, but also frightened to the extreme.
They thought that His Majesty the Emperor's murderous intentions had been restrained a lot as he got older, but His Majesty the Emperor used today's incident to tell all the delighted officials a very cold fact.
That is, His Majesty the Emperor is still the decisive and ruthless Emperor who can wield the butcher knife and behead tens of thousands of people.
No one can stop what he wants to do.
After killing these people, Zhu Yuanzhang turned back and looked at Chen Han, "How are you, monkey boy? Can the resentment in your heart be relieved?"
Chen Han's face was actually a little pale, but he still calmed down and laughed: "Your Majesty, thank you for avenging Brother Meng Li."
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed loudly, and then amid a burst of ritual music, Zhu Yuanzhang brought Chen Han into the palace.
Everyone celebrated for a while. During the banquet, Zhu Youdun suddenly came forward and said, "Grandpa Huang, can we perform the play we have arranged for you now?" Chen Han heard what Zhu Youdun said and thought about it. , it seems that Zhu Youdou is as talented as his father in the history books.
His father is a pharmacist and he is a playwright. Could it be that this boy actually wrote some scripts and rehearsed a few scenes during the six months he was away?
You must know that Zhu Youdou is only eleven or twelve years old now.
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed after hearing this, "Okay, okay, I originally wanted to show it to your husband."
When Zhu Youdou heard this, he happily went down to prepare.
Zhu Yuanzhang said to Chen Han from the side: "You have been gone for more than half a year, and your students have not stopped, especially the small experiments you have done, physical experiments, chemical experiments and machinery.
And those inventions you left behind, they are all studying.
They use their ingenuity to transform and, most importantly, your transformational thinking.
What you call your new ideas has spread throughout the world.
Everyone in the world has been affected, especially after the status of traders has been improved, the impact will be even greater.
Your student is our grandson, Zhu Youdun. This little guy took advantage of this opportunity and staged a play called - Earthshaking.
He has performed several performances and caused quite a stir in the capital. Now he wants to show it off in front of you. "
After hearing this, Chen Han asked before the performance started on the stage below: "Old man, are you really not afraid that when the reform trend sweeps the entire Ming Dynasty, they will think that they must overthrow you as the emperor in order to build a better society?" order?"
In fact, Chen Han told Zhu Yuanzhang that in modern times, especially in recent Europe, the kind of ideological reform overturned the rights of monarchs.
Louis XVI even sent him to the guillotine, and he told Zhu Yuanzhang about this.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was frightened when he heard this, he was quite confident.
He didn't answer Chen Han before, probably because he had been thinking about it for more than half a year.
Now when Chen Han asked this question, he immediately replied: "Monkey, what you call the situation in Europe is fundamentally different from what we have here."
"Oh?" Chen Han was stunned for a moment, "The minister wants to listen attentively."
Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The monarchs in Europe are first of all small countries with few people. They have no experience and foundation in governing such a large territory, and they do not understand that in such a large territory, the people are different from the people.
The Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and its people have different needs. Unlike small city-states, after new ideas spread, all the people will realize that they are completely oppressed, and they will rise up to resist.
That's because their monarchy did not share the benefits with the people below at all. Instead, it firmly hindered reform and used the power in their hands to deepen the enslavement of the people. "
Chen Han felt fresh after hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, but he was thinking in his heart, isn't the imperial power in the East even worse? He didn't agree with Zhu Yuanzhang's logic, but he still wanted to listen.
"The second reason is that the monarchs in Europe do not have many armies around them that can obey his command. In other words, he does not have such a strong power, but he wants to do such a big thing. This does not exist in our Ming Dynasty.
Third, from our understanding, the reason why the people in Europe want to overthrow their monarchs is nothing more than the change of dynasties like ours. It is because the dynasties have no way to seek more benefits for the people. This is their real reason of failure.
What we have to do now is to follow your suggestions, increase commercial circulation, increase external colonization, and increase our internal development, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and the world can be prosperous.
In fact, the common people don't care at all whether they overthrow or not, it doesn't matter at all, democracy or not. What they want is to live and work in peace and contentment. What they want is three meals a day, food and drink.
What they want is their children and grandchildren in front of them. As for who sits in the world and what kind of ideas rule, who among them cares?
So the new trends of thought and reforms you mentioned are not actually inconsistent with imperial power.
The paradox is whether the imperial power can help the people obtain more well-being.
If the Ming Dynasty can ensure that the people live a better life and live and work in peace and contentment, the court can be open and tolerant, accept various new trends of thought, accept various new reforms, and constantly change its management methods according to the new world situation.
Continuously allow the people to obtain the benefits they deserve, and continue to allow officials to obtain honors and stable incomes when serving as officials. Who is willing to overthrow it? It will only become more and more innovative, and the imperial power will also follow the innovation. .
So why should we be afraid? When the world changes, the imperial power that cannot follow the changes is the one that should really be overthrown.
This is the lesson we learned from the lessons you told me. I don’t know if I am right or not? "
After hearing what Zhu Yuanzhang said, Chen Han didn't even know how to refute.
But one thing was that he felt that what Zhu Yuanzhang said was right.
The people don’t care what your so-called new ideas and new revolutions are.
In fact, they only want one thing. From ancient times to the present, there is only one thing - that is, I want to survive.
Whether it is the common people in Europe or the common people in the East.
In fact, they only have this thought in their hearts - you make it difficult for me to live, how can I support you? If you make it difficult for those scholars to survive, of course they will incite rebellion.
If you make it difficult for the common people to live, of course they will rebel.
But you enable these scholars to become officials, have a sense of honor, and obtain a stable income.
You allow the common people to earn income from farming, and you enable the common people to have a peaceful family life and have children and grandchildren around their knees. Why do they still rebel?
Thinking of this, Chen Han immediately admired Zhu Yuanzhang.
Even he understood that the new trend of thought would have a certain impact on the imperial power.
But he still dared to accommodate these with an open-minded mentality.
This may be the biggest change for the old man when Chen Han comes here.
He thought that the ancients became angry when they heard about reforms, but this was not the case.
An emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, who was open to all kinds of things, would not find anything new when he saw it, and would only think about how to tolerate him.
Thinking of this, Chen Han's mentality of reform became more determined, and his mentality of making the Ming Dynasty better became even more determined.
At this moment, with the sound of gongs and drums, the play choreographed by Zhu Youdun began to be sung on the stage.
At first glance, Chen Han immediately realized that he was really talented.
This guy really got into it and vividly integrated the reforms of the past year or so into this little drama, showing it vividly.
Moreover, it is lively and lively, truly worthy of being a generation of playwright.
He is already so talented at a young age. It seems that as many people have said, reform is not just technology, but also art, and art is deeply rooted in people's hearts.
No wonder that in modern times, new cultural thought must start with new culture.
Because the spread of ideas and culture can always make a difference...
(End of this chapter)