Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Chapter 465 Li Shanchang’s final struggle (please subscribe!!)
After watching the fifteen great scholars being dragged down, Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that Ouyang Lun had disappeared.

"Back to Your Majesty, just when you were dealing with those great scholars, Ouyang Prince Consort slipped away quietly."

Wang Zhong whispered.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he was speechless: "."

"Father, brother-in-law Ouyang spent a lot of time debating with the fifteen great scholars. He is probably in a hurry to go home and take care of the children. Sister Anqing and the others are not at home." Zhu Biao said quickly.

"Don't you know if he wants to leave?" Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly: "Am I the kind of person who insists on staying in this Tai Chi Hall and not leaving?"

Upon hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Biao and Wang Zhong looked at each other. Although they did not speak, they still turned around secretly.

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally noticed the little actions of these two people, and was so angry that he was speechless again.

At this time, Li Shanchang and all the civil and military officials looked towards Zhu Yuanzhang, and met Zhu Yuanzhang's angry look.

"What are you looking at!"

"Ah! Day by day, you can't do anything well!"

"The imperial court spends a lot of money to support you, but what's the result? You and your group can't do as much as Ouyang Lun alone!"

Upon hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's angry curses, the civil and military officials were dumbfounded.

strangeness? Have we not offended His Majesty? Why is Your Majesty so angry?
The civil and military officials looked at Ouyang Lun's original position again, and saw that the other person had disappeared, and even the seats, tea, and other items had disappeared.

Now I understand.

Your Majesty is angry with them because Ouyang Lun slipped away!
"Your Majesty, calm down!"

"Consort Ouyang left early, perhaps because of other urgent matters!"

A Huaixi Party official stood up and said.

These words seemed to be explaining Ouyang Lun, but in fact they were making public the fact that Ouyang Lun had slipped away.

"who are you?"

"Chen Nai Dali Temple"

"Shut up, did I let you talk?" Zhu Yuanzhang roared: "Am I talking about you? But you blamed Ouyang Lun for me, what? I can't even talk to you now? Are you looking at me? I’m old, I’m not successful, let you make the decision?”

Hearing this, the Huaixi Party official was so frightened that he knelt on the ground. He didn't know whether he knelt down on his own initiative or because his legs were too weak to stand.

"Your Majesty, I have absolutely no intention of doing this!"

"You don't mean that? I said you did, and you did! How dare you refute? This is contradictory!" Zhu Yuanzhang was already angry, and this Huaixi Party official directly hit the muzzle of the gun, "Here comes someone!"

"The general is here!"

Ji Gang stood up.

"Drag this man down with forty sticks! Then expel him from the palace!"

"I don't want to see him again!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

"Yes!"

Ji Gang made a move with one hand, and two Jinyi guards immediately rushed out and dragged the Huaixi official down.

"Your Majesty is wrong. Your Majesty will never dare to do it again!"

"Old Prime Minister Li, please save me!"

When the Huaixi official was dragged down, he looked at Li Shanchang with horror on his face, taking him as his last life-saving straw.

Strong generals and soldiers may be able to withstand the forty strokes, but this Huaixi Party official is just a scholar. If he is lucky enough to be beaten with forty strokes, he will probably still be able to breathe. If he were that big, he would probably have to ascend to heaven!

Even if he is lucky enough to survive, the political future of this Huaixi Party official will be completely over.

That's why Huaixi Party officials asked Li Shanchang for help in such panic.

But it is a pity that Li Shanchang ignored the Huaixi Party official's cry for help. He kept his back to the entrance of the hall and did not even look at the Huaixi Party official.

Soon the Huaixi Party official was dragged down by the Jin Yiwei. After a while, the sound of punishment with a stick was heard outside the hall, and at the same time there was the scream of the Huaixi Party official. Finally, the sound became smaller and smaller. In the end, only the ruthless sound of the staff was heard.

Li Shushang can naturally hear these sounds.

The reason why he ignored this Huaixi Party official's cry for help was mainly because he knew very well that even if he begged Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, he would not be able to save this man, and would even harm himself and the entire Huaixi Party.

"Back to Your Majesty, the forty sticks have been punished and the person has been thrown out of the palace."

"Yes." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, then looked at Li Shanchang and said in a deep voice: "Li Shanchang?"

"Your Majesty." Li Shanchang said with cupped hands.

"I just heard the official call you Lao Xiangguo. Is he one of yours?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a half-smile.

Li Shanchang's face suddenly changed, and he quickly explained: "Your Majesty, this person just worked as a clerk under the minister for a period of time in the early years, but he has left long ago. The minister has not said a few words to him for so many years. It cannot be "

"Your Majesty, please take a closer look!"

Facing Zhu Yuanzhang's doubts, Li Shanchang became visibly panicked.

"Observe clearly, I will definitely observe clearly!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, his attitude softened a little, and continued: "Do you have anything else to say about the lineage of Confucianism?"

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, the new model can be implemented, but Confucianism does not need to be completely abolished!"

"The Confucianism lineage is deeply rooted. It is simply unrealistic to eliminate them all. Although the Confucianism lineage lost this debate, I believe that many of their views are reasonable, and I would like to ask your Majesty to clarify!"

After Li Shanchang finished speaking, he took the lead in kneeling down.

With Li Shanchang taking the lead, the Huaixi Party and other officials who agreed with Confucianism also knelt down.

With a crash, most of the civil and military officials who were still standing suddenly knelt down. Li Shanchang knew very well that the fifteen great scholars failed in the debate. His plan to crush Ouyang Lun today would not work. However, Ouyang Lun slipped away directly from the Tai Chi Hall. This was completely giving him another chance!

As long as Ouyang Lun is no longer around, it will become much easier for him to do things behind his back!

Even if the new education model promoted by Ouyang Lun cannot be overthrown, we must find ways to give Ouyang Lun some eye drops and make it more difficult.

It is true that the policies proposed by Ouyang Lun over the years have achieved extremely good results after implementation. Especially the so-called "plan" has simply become a model of governance, and many officials have studied it word for word.

However, these policies have changed tremendously, and there are many contents that they cannot understand. In the past, in the face of huge benefits and effects, everyone chose to actively ignore these, but Li Shanchang is smart in this, he is not He criticized Ouyang Lun very directly, but instead threw out this doubt and planted the seeds of doubt in everyone's minds. Now this seed has completely sprouted!
Although the fifteen great scholars were beaten to pieces by Ouyang Lun, some people listened to some of what they said.

At this moment, the ministers couldn't help but have a thought in their minds, that is, is Ouyang Lun's new education model really okay? After all, the education model is different from other policies. It is a policy that requires continuous investment and has no effect at all in the short term.

Compared with the Confucian education that has been passed down for hundreds of years, this new education model is really confusing. If it is wrong, it can bring the Ming Dynasty into the abyss!
There are also officials who are able to stand in the court today, who have not passed the imperial examination through Confucian education and stepped up step by step. They themselves have opinions on Ouyang Lun's new education model.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang was no exception. He had already weighed the pros and cons of Confucianism and the new model countless times in his heart. The reason why he chose to support Ouyang Lun's new education model was entirely because he hated Confucianism. It was not because he thought the new education model was so good. Another reason was that he was attracted by Ouyang Lun's beautiful vision of "making every citizen of the Ming Dynasty able to read and write". If this could really be accomplished, Zhu Yuanzhang's political achievements would not be inferior to Qin Shihuang's standardization of wheels and writing! !
I would like to ask which emperor could achieve such a feat so that everyone in the world could read and write?
So Zhu Yuanzhang still supports Ouyang Lun, but he can't support Ouyang Lun too obviously now, otherwise Li Shanchang and all the civil and military officials will know that it is not Ouyang Lun who is really opposed to Confucianism, but Zhu Yuanzhang. Of course, there must have been officials People like Li Shanchang guessed this, and because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't give Li Shanchang an excuse to say it.

Zhu Yuanzhang's purpose at this moment is very clear.

First, using Li Shanchang to check and balance Ouyang Lun, although the effect does not seem obvious, this has been achieved.

Second, suppress Confucianism and make Confucianism lose its dominance over Ming education. As long as Ouyang Lun's new education model is promoted normally, there will be no problem.

Third, prevent the Huaixi Party from getting bigger and use Ouyang Lun to check and balance Li Shanchang.

Since it is a check and balance, the most important thing is to keep it in check and not to make the situation one-sided.

"Li Shanchang, what you said does make some sense, but now that Ouyang Lun is no longer here, the matter will not be discussed for the time being." Zhu Yuanzhang did not agree, but he did not object either.

Hearing this, Li Shan became anxious.

"Your Majesty, education is the foundation of the country and the most important thing. If such an important matter is not handled in time, unimaginable disasters will occur. Prince Consort Ouyang left halfway, which is a contempt for the court system and a disrespect for Your Majesty. It is even a manifestation of his guilty conscience!"

"Your Majesty, please make your decision!"

Li Shan said loudly.

"Your Majesty, please order more!"

With Li Shanchang taking the lead, other officials also shouted loudly.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned. Li Shanchang obviously wanted to trick Ouyang Lun while Ouyang Lun stopped.

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about how to defend Ouyang Lun, someone suddenly shouted in the court.

"Hey, whose stuff is this?"

"This book seems to belong to Prince Consort Ouyang. I once saw him using it to record things."

"Ouyang Prince Consort must have left in a hurry, so this booklet fell."

"Hurry up and put this book away and return it to Ouyang Prince Consort when the time comes."

While all the officials were discussing, Li Shanchang quietly winked at a Huaixi Party official, who nodded, and then immediately said:

"Hey, there shouldn't be any shameful things about Prince Consort Ouyang recorded in this book, right?"

"Asshole, what are you talking about? If you dare to slander Ouyang's consort, do you want to be like those fifteen great scholars?!" The officials from the Consort's Party immediately fired back.

"Don't be so anxious to protect the Lord. I'm just curious. If there are any ulterior secrets recorded on it, you can find out after you open it!" the Huaixi Party official said in a strange tone.

"My lord, this book is the personal property of Ouyang Consort. We have no right to open it. If you insist on opening it and taking a look, you can do it, but if there is nothing wrong with the record on it, you will not be able to escape the charge of slandering the royal family!" Guo Zi stood up and said in a deep voice.

"Hmph! If there is really nothing wrong with the content, I will accept the punishment!" the Huaixi Party official said bravely.

"Okay, let him open it!" Guo Zi nodded immediately.

The Huaixi official immediately grabbed the book, opened it and started reading. Just at the first glance, he was stunned.

"What is recorded in this booklet? You can tell me!"

Li Shanchang said angrily.

"I order you to read the contents of the fold out loud!" Zhu Yuanzhang also said.

"It's Your Majesty." The Huaixi official grimaced and began to mutter, "Today in court, Your Majesty will definitely ask about the implementation of the new education model. This matter involves the interests of many people, and most people will jump out for various reasons. be opposed to"

After talking about this, the Huaixi officials couldn't help but look at Li Shanchang.

"Look what I'm doing! His Majesty asked you to read the content, read it quickly!" Li Shanchang said with some embarrassment.

"The new education model is related to people's livelihood, and nothing can happen. Moreover, in order to implement the new education model, the court has invested a lot of money. If it is abandoned halfway, it will inevitably cause a lot of financial losses."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang and the civil and military officials didn't think there was any problem. They couldn't help but wonder why this official would be so rude, but what he said next made everyone dumbfounded.

"If the new education model is forced to stop, not only will the money previously invested not be recovered, but tens of millions of debts will also have to be incurred, mainly to relocate students, teachers, etc. Once this point is reached, as the Minister of Household Affairs , I will propose to suspend the payment of all official salaries to ensure that there will be no financial problems in the Ming Dynasty. It is expected that no salaries will be paid within two years, and no loans will be accepted.”

"If necessary, we can raise donations from officials, and officials who do not raise funds will be demoted or even dismissed from office."

"If the money is not enough in the end, the Ministry of Revenue will suspend injecting new funds into the emperor's internal funds."

hiss--

After hearing this, all the civil and military officials present and Zhu Yuanzhang were stunned.

Depend on!
This is Ouyang Lun's vicious plan!
Li Shanchang's face also turned dark. He never expected that these things were written in the brochure. If he had known the content earlier, he would not have let him read it even if he was beaten to death.

This kid Ouyang Lun is really insidious.

I tried so hard to play tricks with you, but you just flipped the table? ?
On the surface, this strategy is to deal with the development of things later, but in fact, everyone can see that it is a naked threat.

Don’t you want to stop the new education model?
Then I, Ouyang Lun, will make you deprived of food!

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty are not very high, and normal officials have a very tight life. Why don't you go without salary for two years? You will definitely starve to death!
Li Shanchang turned his head and looked around. At this moment, the expressions on the faces of the civil and military officials were more exciting than the last, and the thoughts in his mind were also quietly changing.
(End of this chapter)