After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 306
"The emperor thinks about it carefully. If the people are too smart, how will the emperor control the people in the future? Emperors throughout the ages have believed that foolish people are the best to control, and smart people are prone to trouble."

"Also, don't make the people of the world too rich."

"When the people live well, they will want more advanced things, such as power, wealth and freedom, which will threaten the stability of the emperor." Yan Shenggong continued to talk, "So Qin Yu made the people of the world have enough to eat. Dressing warmly is not a good thing. Not only is it not a good thing, but it will make the people of the world breed arrogance and bury a huge hidden danger for His Majesty's country."

"The correct way to control the people is to let the people of the world spend their whole lives running around for food and clothing. They have no time to covet things that don't belong to them."

"If the people earn ten taels of silver every year so that they can live comfortably, then the imperial court must do everything possible to make them only earn seven taels a year with all kinds of exorbitant taxes."

"The people in the world are as cheap as ants and livestock. Power, wealth, and freedom, are they what they can expect?"

Hearing that what Yan Shenggong said was clear and logical, and that all the sages in the Spring and Autumn Period also said that they wanted to fool the people, Zhu Yuanzhang's mind was finally shaken.

Everyone is selfish, and he also wants to pass on the great Ming Dynasty that he created through all kinds of difficulties and difficulties for generations to come.He also does not want the people of the world to unite against his rule.

Seeing that the emperor seemed to be wavering, Yan Shenggong struck while the iron was hot: "So I feel that although that Qin Yu is not a great harm to the people, he is a great harm to the emperor. He must be killed as soon as possible to avoid future troubles."

"And the evil books he wrote that enlightened the people's minds must also be completely banned. Anyone who dares to circulate privately among the people will be beheaded! The emperor has lost his way at this time, and learned from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to respect Confucianism again, so that the people's minds can return to the right way. It's not too late."

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression froze when he heard the words, and he couldn't believe his ears.Never expected that Yan Shenggong, the model in the eyes of scholars in the world, and the descendants of saints, would say such cold words:
People who circulate it privately will be beheaded! ?
Qin Yu, who made Daming strong and the people of the world rich, also wanted to kill him as soon as possible?
Such words make people feel chills all over.

Suddenly this person felt a little scary.

I feel that those who read sage books are terrible.

Because in their eyes, the common people are the humble dogs who sacrifice to the nobles!
Those who are humble dogs use them for sacrifices, and when they are done, they abandon them and practice them.

I'm afraid you don't know, we are not from aristocratic background, and before we became emperor, we were also straw dogs in your eyes.I thought coldly in my heart.

Seemingly feeling that Zhu Yuanzhang's mood was wrong, Yan Sheng said: "Your Majesty, as the king of the world, you must not have the benevolence of women. The five techniques of controlling the people must be practiced. If the five techniques do not work, kill them!"

"Qin Yu, although he made the people of the world a little richer and made Ming Dynasty stronger. But his harm to the emperor's country is far greater than his contribution."

"He's not a sage!"

Yan Shenggong's tone was as cold as ice: "Sages and sages, treat the common people as straw dogs!"

After talking about this, Zhu Yuanzhang also understood why he came to see him.

After the Renaissance, under the influence of its ideology and culture, the common people gradually developed self-awareness, and their concept of Confucianism gradually weakened.People all over the world are gradually not so respecting Confucianism as the holy scriptures of the world.

No longer regard Confucianism as a sacred and inviolable orthodoxy.

Before that, Confucianism was a sacred hadith in the hearts of the people.

If the world doesn't respect Confucianism that much, then he, Yan Shenggong, will have no status, and will gradually lose the value of existence.

The entire Yanshenggong family will decline because of this.

So he came today to restore the ideological dominance of the Yanshenggong clan on the land of China.

"Does Your Majesty want to learn the Five Arts of Controlling the People?" Yansheng said fairly, "If Your Majesty is willing to learn, I will teach you without hesitation. Let Your Majesty's world be passed on for generations to come."

"The core of the Five Arts of Controlling the People is to make the people of the world poorer, more ignorant and weaker."

"Keep them ignorant and deprived of those things that would open their minds."

"Let them lose their self-confidence and dignity."

"Let them spend their entire lives exhausted in order to live, so that they have no mind to worry about other things."

"Let them live their whole lives, and the family will never have any surplus money, and people are poor and short-sighted."

"Only when the world is filled with such humble people as ants, will it be more conducive to the emperor's rule and governance."

"And Qin Yu recently asked the emperor to plant potatoes on a large scale across the country. After planting, the people's families will covet better things when they have surplus money. When the time comes, the emperor's Daming country will be in danger!"

"So potatoes cannot be grown by the common people, they must be banned."

"My Majesty, besides my ministers, there are Mr. Zhu Yuandian, a descendant of Zhu Xi, and Mr. Cheng Leshan, a descendant of Cheng Yi. They are all great Confucian scholars in this world."

"The three of us are here to teach the emperor how to control the people correctly as a king."

"I also hope that the other two gentlemen of the emperor will also invite you to come over and ask for advice humbly."

"The three of us will go to the Pope together, how to control the people of the world. How to let the emperor's country be passed down forever."

"How about it." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't express any opinion when he heard the words, but said indifferently, "Today, we will take the three of you to Lujia Village to meet Mr. Qin."

"Let you guys have a face-to-face confrontation with him."

"It couldn't be better like this." Yan Shenggong was full of ambition, and he looked like he was going to win. "This old man will definitely refute him to the ground, and let him know what a real sage is."

"A person who only makes people live a better life is not a sage at all. He is just rubbish, a disaster for the court, and cannot be on the stage!"

"The saints of all ages have always regarded the common people as straw dogs."

"The sage is not benevolent, and treats the common people as straw dogs."

"Your Majesty, if you wait for your subordinates to win him in the debate, please be sure to kill him immediately. Kill all the people in Lujia Village who are influenced by his thoughts."

"The villagers in Lujia Village have been bewitched by him, and they have long since disrespected the king."

"They all wear short sleeves, shave their hair short, abolish the thousand-year-old custom of sinking unruly women into ponds, talk about free love, and regard the thousand-year-old ritual of incompatibility between men and women as worthless. How can they have Chinese people? , the docile look you should have?"

"Let's go, first take us to meet the descendants of Cheng and Zhu." Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted him.

"Observe the order!" Yan Shenggong showed joy on his face.

Soon, Zhu Yuanzhang met two other great Confucians in the Imperial Academy.

(End of this chapter)