Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 4144 Min Guijun is light
Fang Jun and Li Xiaogong stood on the porch, watching the crowds wearing coir raincoats and hats and holding umbrellas bustling back and forth in the huge courtyard, the lanterns gave off a dim light, the rainwater fell on the ridge of the roof, gathered along the tiles, and then flowed down the tiles in strings Poured into the shallow ditch reserved at the base of the wall, the line of sight is a bit hazy.

"Great burial" is an extremely important ceremony. After the body is encoffined, it will never see the light of day, so relatives and friends have to see each other for the last time. It is necessary to attack and support the remains of the Emperor Daxing.

Even though the fierce battle outside Chengtian Gate is raging right now, and many people living in the city are unable to come, more than a hundred nobles of various identities who have been stranded in the palace before have come one after another. In the heavy rain, their clothes are completely wet, and they line up in dejection. stand up...

With rain splashing on his clothes, Fang Jun shook his sleeves and asked, "The 'big burial' is coming soon, and the King of Jiangxia hasn't arrived yet. I don't know why?"

Li Xiaogong folded his hands behind his back, his eyes were deep: "I don't know either."

Fang Jun rolled up his wet sleeves, and looked sideways: "You just came back from Xuanwumen, don't tell me that you haven't seen Jiangxia County King, if he avoids you, I should now Hurry up and tell His Highness the Crown Prince to escape from the secret path, otherwise the troops stationed at Xuanwu Gate will probably enter the palace in the next moment."

Xuanwu Gate is the lifeblood of Tai Chi Palace, so he naturally pays attention to it all the time. Li Xiaogong quietly went to meet Li Daozong and Li Daozong did not come to participate in the "big burial". He naturally sensed something and was worried...

Li Xiaogong sighed, still staring at the crowd in the courtyard, slowly said: "Everyone has his own ambition, how can we force it? Let him go. In any case, don't disturb the late emperor's 'big funeral'. We will talk about it after the coffin is buried and covered. It's a mundane thing in this world."

Whether it's the reason not to disturb His Majesty's dead souls, or the reason to complete the "big funeral" as soon as possible to determine the identity of the new crown prince, the "big funeral" cannot be delayed, and it must go smoothly after the sky falls.

Fang Jun's face was gloomy, and he watched strings of rainwater pouring down from the eaves and falling into the shallow bluestone canal at the base of the wall, splashing a mist, and there was a trace of fatigue, a trace of helplessness, and even a trace of anger in his voice: "You guys People have always been superior, only concerned about their own interests, or for fame, or for profit, but which of you has ever cared about the life and death of hundreds of millions of people in this land of China? Maybe they are just like ants in your eyes, they can be destroyed with a snap of your fingers, but don't Forgot that you were once a part of them, and you came to the top by chance and coincidence, and the successor generations worked hard to get to where they are today. Do princes and generals care about each other? In my eyes, I only know blindly plundering and oppressing, and one day they will rise up, enter this Chang'an city, burn down palaces and slaughter the royal family, and they will also sit on the ninety-five supreme seats, whether it is the new emperor or the previous emperor , even Gaozu, how is it different from those ants?"

Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it. This is the truth that everyone understands, but what I don’t understand is that when everyone is in a high position, everyone treats the people as slaves who can oppress and bully them at will, completely forgetting that dynasties come and go, imperial power Rise and fall change, which one is not destroyed by these ants?

The aristocratic family also comes from Li Shu, but they have accumulated a few generations more wealth than others, and they are ahead of others.

Without these billions of people, who would support you as emperor?
Who can you be the emperor for?

Li Xiaogong is a little dazed, he doesn't often hear this kind of argument, even an official from a poor family like Ma Zhou, once he enters the official career, he will regard himself as a superior class, hardworking and caring for the people is already the limit, but never He would not regard himself as a member of Li Shu, and it was his duty to protect Li Shu's interests.

Mencius said this kind of thing, and Confucius may have said it too, but who would remember it?
Fang Jun sighed lightly, and did not expect Li Xiaogong to give an answer. In fact, even after another 1000 or 2000 years, the term "public servant" will not really be implemented.

He sighed and said: "On the way of the great way, the world is for the public. This is the truth that the ancients all understood, but no one has ever practiced it to prove this truth. The people are water, and the king is a boat. The water is impermanent, and the boat is capsized. …Since the beginning of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the imperial power has changed from generation to generation, dynasties have risen and fallen one by one, and how many splendid civilizations have risen and collapsed. We have been struggling in such a whirlpool, but we have never seriously thought about the reason behind it. "

"Family under heaven" doesn't really matter. People don't care who is the emperor. They just want to live and work in peace and contentment. To have strengths", this is the noble and simple ideal of the Chinese people.

As long as this is achieved, this ethnic group will burst out with unparalleled vitality, and will always run wildly on the road of pioneering and enterprising, leaving behind all other lazy, greedy, and barbaric nations until they rule the planet and then march toward the vastness of the world. The boundless universe advances without end.

However, the reality is that the descendants of China have risen and fallen generation after generation amid internal strife and perish in the abuse of foreign races. Countless people went on to open up that ray of light, but they always fell into the sand and fell into reincarnation.

In the distance, King Xu, King Huo and other princes filed into the courtyard and bowed their hands to Li Xiaogong from afar.

Li Xiaogong raised his hand in greeting, and asked casually: "Before he was alive, the late emperor once told me that you lack respect for the imperial power, especially when he saw you outside Luoyang City and personally ordered you to be excluded from the Guanlong mutiny, but you But he turned a deaf ear, disobeyed orders, and desperately assisted the crown prince to defeat Guan Long and keep the crown prince's crown prince position... Can you tell me what you really think?"

"Mencius said, 'The people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least'. What does the county king think?"

Li Xiaogong frowned: "This is indeed what Mencius said, but later generations misunderstood it and made it up. The 'jun' in this sentence is the monarch of the feudal world. If you can't cherish the people's livelihood, you should replace it, but it is not. Refers to the Son of Heaven."

In ancient times, the emperor established the feudal world, and every feudal country had a monarch, who obeyed the emperor's orders and acted according to the orders of the emperor. If he did not respect the orders of the world, he should be replaced.

The Son of Heaven is the son of Haotian, who is ordered by the sky, how can he be replaced?

Fang Jun smiled and said: "However, in the 800th year of the Zhou Dynasty, Guozuo has long since passed away. The so-called Son of Heaven in the mouth of the county king has changed so many times. The rise and fall of dynasties have changed. Only this Kyushu is always called Huaxia, and only this land Li Shu is still called the descendants of Yan and Huang. The people are the foundation of the country, and the sages have long agreed, but we are deeply involved in our own interests and refuse to admit it."

Of course Li Xiaogong had read books, and he was quite speechless when he heard that Fang Jun first used the words of Mencius and then used the words of "Shangshu" and other great works of pre-Qin philosophers.

But he already understood Fang Jun's attitude.

He is loyal to the Tang Dynasty, loyal to the world, and loyal to the hundreds of millions of people. As for whether he is loyal to the emperor, it depends on whether the emperor is wise and powerful, whether he loves the people like a son, and whether he can make the world live and work in peace and prosperity.

Just like what His Majesty Li Er said before his death, Fang Jun is rebellious and lacks awe of the imperial power, but he is full of compassion for the people of the world and full of enthusiasm for thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. Could it be that he is really a man of noble character like the ancient sages? ?

"The reason why you oppose King Jin is because the powerful family fully supports him. After ascending the throne, the power of the government will be controlled by the powerful, and you will vote idle and stay away from the center?"

"I have always thought that the prince and the county are friends who have forgotten the years. We are in love with each other. We have the same views on many things and we can cherish each other... But I don't want the prince to treat me as a person who loves power and position. If you really love power and power, why bother at the beginning Going against His Majesty's will to help the crown prince defeat the Guanlong rebels? Given His Majesty's great trust in me, as long as you do what you say, a high-ranking official with rich salary and power is in your hands, and the position of the head of the prime minister is only a few years more seniority. Others may not know about the calamity of the family, but how can you, the county king? The world is in turmoil, and the flames of war are raging, but where is there a beacon that was lit by ordinary people? You coerce the public opinion, under the guise of pleading for the people and rebuilding the world, you wanton. Unscrupulous burning, killing and looting to enrich one's own strength, once the matter fails, return to Wubao and change course, choose the strong to attach to, and if the matter succeeds, one will transform into one and sit on the world, treating all people as ants and oppressing them at will... Don't deny it, you Li The Tang royal family did the same."

Li Xiaogong was speechless.

This is indeed the case. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, dozens of rebels ravaged Kyushu. They all pleaded for the people under the banner, but the injured and dead were all common people. , the land of Hebei is ten rooms and nine empty, bones are covered in the wild, there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and the dilapidated city walls are almost obliterated by the weeds.

Even Guanzhong, known as the Land of Abundance, experienced more than ten years of recuperation and hard work during the Wude and Zhenguan dynasties before returning to its former prosperity.

This is still the land of Gyeonggi, what about those remote places?
Even today in the "golden age of Zhenguan", there is still no food to eat, no warm clothes to wear, no medical care for the sick, no care for the young, and even the slightest natural or man-made disaster, it will be the tragic situation of Yizi cannibalizing each other... a person who can be high above the temple Who cares about these high-ranking officials and dignitaries with sufficient warehouses?

The more natural disasters, the more man-made disasters, the more the people are destitute of food and food, the more opportunistic it is for the aristocratic family to grow and grow. They mix the old grain in the warehouse with sand ten times and twenty times and sell it to the folks they usually call affectionately. The elders, and then bought back the property, fields, wives, and children of these elders at extremely low prices as slaves and handmaidens, until the fields were criss-crossed, the mansions were tens of thousands, and the servants were like clouds...

The famous gate of the aristocratic family is painted with the blood of the common people.

But the world has been like this since ancient times, why did it become an unforgivable crime for the family when he came to Fang Jun?
(End of this chapter)