Qiming 1158

Chapter 606 Only Compromise
Confucian political thought not only brought important political claims to the emperor, giving the emperor absolute power, but also brought the important existence of a super-stable social structure to ancient China.

With the existence of this ultra-stable social structure, the vested interests can enjoy absolute privileges and preferential treatment within the dynastic cycle law, live in luxury, do whatever they want, and fish the common people at will, until the land annexation reaches the extreme, and a new round of reshuffle occurs. Start.

In the big shuffle, the vested interests will reshuffle the cards, the old will die, and the new will take over, starting a new cycle of the historical cyclical law, continuing to do what they have done before, and so on.

Only stability can bring about a breeding ground for those with vested interests to develop and expand their personal interests.

Only stability can allow them to have powerful privileges and inexhaustible glory and wealth, and pass it on to future generations.

The emperor wants to inherit, the vested interests also need to inherit, everyone needs to inherit, inheritance is the common demand of everyone, and stability is the cornerstone.

The stable inheritance of imperial power will lay the foundation for the stable inheritance of vested interests. If the supreme power cannot be passed on stably, neither can the vested interests.

Therefore, the entire ruling class needs the concept of divine empowerment to add an inheritance buff to itself.

However, at this moment, Su Yonglin wanted to sing the opposite.

He wants to be the emperor, not the emperor, and he doesn't want the ultimate buff granted by the emperor's power. He wants to tear off the sacred label of imperial power with his own hands.

Kong Zheng could not accept this decision.

This is obviously a decision that goes against everyone's interests, and he cannot accept this decision anyway.

So he decided to go hard and raise objections to Su Yonglin.

"General... No, Your Majesty, this minister, you can't follow orders!"

At that time, Su Yonglin was immersed in writing and writing, approving the financial allocation for the restoration of water conservancy in the central capital. Hearing that Kong Zheng said that he could not follow the edict, Su Yonglin was not surprised and did not raise his head.

"Okay, since you can't serve the edict, then I'll change someone who can serve the edict to be the Minister of Rites. Don't do this Minister of Rites, that's all."

Kong Zheng's pupils shrank, and suddenly he looked up at Su Yonglin who didn't look up, his face was full of surprise.

This……

Don't you just pull it back and forth?
Go directly to the king to fry?Just kill me?

Kong Zheng was in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, I...I didn't mean that."

"Then what do you mean?"

Su Yonglin completed the approval of the playlist, put the playlist aside, took a sip of tea, and looked at Kong Zheng calmly, as if what he said was just a chat after dinner.

"Chen...I don't have any thoughts of being disrespectful to Your Majesty. I just want to say that this matter is really involved too much. I really don't dare to take orders rashly, otherwise I might be accused by thousands of people..."

"It's my business to get involved. Thousands of husbands come to me directly if they have any opinions. What do you want to do? It's up to you to do it or I do it? Or, are you the one who has an opinion? You refer to yourself?"

Su Yonglin's strange words really made Kong Zheng very unhappy.

But he didn't dare to say anything else that would make Su Yonglin unhappy.

He's pretending to be stupid.

Kong Zheng thought about it, he really didn't know what to do, but considering the future, he decided to explain a little bit more clearly.

Don't play stupid.

"Your Majesty, the emperor is the Son of Heaven. This has always been the case since ancient times. I know that Your Majesty dominates the world, and your army is powerful and unparalleled in the world. However, Your Majesty, the Ming Kingdom, needs to be passed on all the time. Your Majesty must hope that the Ming Kingdom will be in long-term peace."

"So what? If I'm not a prince, if I become the emperor, will the Ming Kingdom not be able to stay in peace for a long time?"

Su Yonglin put down the tea bowl and said with a smile, "Kong Qing, you think this is very strange, what the emperor can do, the emperor can't do? Or, do you think that without the title of emperor, Daming will not last long, just like the pre-Qin Dynasty. like that?"

"Your Majesty, I dare not, this is not what I said, this..."

Kong Zheng felt that he could no longer go around in circles with Su Yonglin, and sooner or later he would be surrounded by Su Yonglin.

"Your Majesty, the emperors of all dynasties are the Sons of Heaven, who govern on behalf of the Heavens, and all the people in the world believe in God, so as the Son of Heaven, the Emperor can naturally govern the world, but if the Emperor is not the Son of Heaven, all the people in the world will be suspicious. What about the world?"

"why?"

Su Yonglin sneered: "Because I destroyed the Jin Kingdom with force and took over the world, no one in the world knows, no one knows? What's the point of insisting that I am the Son of Heaven?
Or do you think the Son of Heaven is omnipotent?If there is no such military merit, I will say that I want to be the emperor. Do you think the Jinren handed over power to me, or slashed me with a knife? "

Kong Zheng looked bitter.

"What Your Majesty said is right, I all know it, but...but..."

"You can't say this on the bright side, right? And the successor doesn't have the military merits like me, and he can't successfully grasp the power like me, and he can't convince the people of the world. Is this the way to say it?"

Su Yonglin's words made Kong Zheng a little stunned.

You know how to make things difficult for me?
What do you mean?
"Your Majesty, you..."

"Okay, Kong Qing, you and I are well aware of some things, and you also know what you should say and what you shouldn't say, but I still say that, if you don't obey the edict, I will choose someone who is willing to obey the edict. Come to be the Minister of Rites, you say, do you want to be the Minister of Rites, or do you want to disobey?"

Su Yonglin looked at Kong Zheng coldly.

With just one glance, the feeling of coercion came upon his face, making Kong Zheng feel the terrifying power radiating from Su Yonglin's body.

Su Yonglin is real, not fake.

Kong Zheng understood in his heart.

but……

That is why ah?

We want you to be the emperor, of course, for our own interests, for the sake of our own being able to do whatever we want, but isn't this also for you?
Objectively, the one who benefits the most is your Su family!The descendants of your Su family!

To make it easier for you to fool those foolish people, for your family to have long-term stability in the world, for your family to continue to be the emperor, and for your Ming Kingdom to continue to pass on, it’s all for you!

Why don't you do this?

You just don't want to let your Ming Dynasty stay in peace for a long time?
You just want to die like Qin Dynasty II?

Qin Shihuang was dominating the world. He was alive, and the nobles of the six countries did not dare to act rashly, but when he died, Qin Ershi was not the son of the emperor, and he had no military merits, so he could not hold the world.

Is the Ming Kingdom going to follow the old path of the Qin Kingdom?
Kong Zheng's heart was full of fear and incomprehension.

He knew he had two options right now.

Is it against the decree and disrespect, not to be the minister of ritual?

Or do they obey Su Yonglin's orders and kick off a series of potentially controversial events after the founding of the People's Republic?

How to do?
Kong Zheng's body began to tremble involuntarily, he began to think about some long-term issues, and he began to understand that Su Yonglin would not hand over the power of the Ministry of Rites to him for no reason.

He needs to pay something in exchange for the power in Su Yonglin's hands.

It's not just in the name of the Kong family to complete the coronation of the ruler for Su Yonglin.

Su Yonglin had to do more things in the name of the Kong family, no matter whether it was good for the Kong family or not, and even sacrificed the fame of the Kong family to take the blame for him.

On the one hand, it is the meaning of the fame of the Confucius family.

On the one hand, it is his personal political interests, and it is also the political interests of the Confucius family.

The two were shaken on the scale in his heart, and finally, one side fell.

Kong Zheng decided to compromise.

Because Kong Zheng suddenly realized that Kong's family is no longer a monolith.

The Kong clan, there is also a Nanzong that exists within the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, and is helping the legitimacy of the power of the Southern Song Dynasty royal family.

The reason why the Northern Sect of the Kong clan can obtain its current position of power and honor, and the reason why it can be sought after by almost the entire group of scholars in Shandong, is not because of the orthodoxy of the northern sect itself, but because of Su Yonglin's support for the northern sect, making the northern sect of the Kong clan highly sought after. Zong received this honor.

The Confucius family has been separated. Without the support of a powerful ruler, a single family cannot politically overpower the other family to regain the orthodox name of the Confucius family.

It is not that the rulers need them unilaterally, they need the rulers too, and their relationship is mutual.

So what can Kong Zheng do?

Only compromise.

(End of this chapter)