Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 284 Zhu Yuanzhang’s great ambition is to make everyone in China a saint!
"It's a pity that you, Mr. Zhang, said that you are just a commoner in the world of future generations you mentioned, so we have to give up the idea of ​​respecting you, Mr. Zhang, like Confucianism respects Confucius."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhang Cheng, and then sighed: "Because you said that you were just a commoner in that world, it gave us a greater goal for the new country we want to build."

"A bigger goal?"

Zhang Cheng asked curiously.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Yes!"

"You, a commoner in that world with the same background as us, can learn so much powerful knowledge and obtain so much powerful information."

"For example, only important officials of the emperors of the past dynasties have access to historical materials like Shilu, but you can get them."

"In this world of ours, anyone can become a great saint because of this."

"It shows how powerful the person who established the concept of Datong is in your world? In addition, doesn't this mean that as long as we really intend to open up the people's wisdom, we can also enable the Chinese people in this world to be like you one day? Can you possess the qualifications of a sage just by taking care of yourself?"

"If you just send a commoner outside, wouldn't you be able to become a sage?"

After Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he looked at Zhang Cheng expectantly.

"But because they are so powerful, if they want to be eliminated, they cannot be eliminated overnight."

Zhang Cheng asked with a smile: "Aren't you afraid that those people will go out and lead the local natives to become bigger and stronger, and then counterattack your Chinese mainland?"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Yes, without looking at the actual records, we would not have thought that the road guide system would exist in name only not long after. We were obviously afraid that the people would move around, which would lead to more and more refugees. We were obviously afraid of the invasion of pirates, so we banned the sea." , As a result, the forbidden sea still existed in name only, and the pirates became more and more fierce. "

"This shows that they are not monolithic after all, so although they are reactionary, they are indeed far behind in the level of fighting for power."

Zhang Cheng deeply agreed with this and said with a smile: "No wonder you established the Ming Dynasty in that world and only respected Neo-Confucianism, banned the sea, and even set up a road guide system so that people could not travel hundreds of miles away at will. I think it was the same as After they compromised, they wanted to fool the people, but they were also afraid that because of this, the barbarians from outside would collude with the traitors to come in. "

Zhu Yuanzhang then said to Zhang Cheng: "Li Shanchang has confessed to us that two Confucian officials, Zhang Zhong and Tao An, forced him to stop us from killing Kong Kejian!"

"In fact, previous dynasties and generations have already learned lessons."

"Only when everyone in China is like a slave and everyone is ignorant, will they be willing to lure barbarians to China so that they can use the power of barbarians to enslave the Han people!"

"You're right!"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said: "Don't be afraid! If everyone in China could be a saint, there would be no need for these people to come back and fight to the death in a place where everyone is a saint. That would only make them lose more than they gain. It would be better to be a saint outside. Being worshiped!”

"Yes!"

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but be startled after hearing this.

"Just like in the Northern Song Dynasty, some scholars defected to Xixia, which made Xixia stronger, and even more scholars defected to Zhi, so that Jiaozhi was able to offend the Northern Song Dynasty and massacre the Song people?"

Afterwards, Zhang Cheng laughed: "Li Shanchang is Li Shanchang after all. He knows the difference between pros and cons. He would rather bear the name of a treacherous official than be the soul killed by your sword!"

"We have the confidence to continue fighting with them, and we even feel that fighting with them will be endless fun!"

Zhang Cheng then echoed.

Zhu Yuanzhang spoke energetically in front of Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's back and smiled slightly.

In his opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang is really different from the historical Zhu Yuanzhang. And as Zhang Cheng believed, Zhu Yuanzhang really began to go against the inertial path of the landlord-bureaucratic society.

He first summoned Li Shanchang and asked Li Shanchang to organize officials to begin to negotiate a nationwide imperial examination system and compile the examination syllabus. He no longer required that scholars participating in the imperial examination must rely on the words of a certain sage as their own opinions.

Li Shanchang also organized Song Lian, Liu Bowen, Yang Xian and other officials to discuss the matter.

Although civil servants like Song Lian had no moral problems and wanted to make progress, they were still loyal to Confucianism.

Therefore, after Li Shanchang informed them of this matter, Song Lian and others were naturally disappointed, because he did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang would eventually choose a path that did not only respect Confucianism.

But most of them dare not resist openly.

At most, they would commit suicide or ask to resign, or even secretly use the "Zhizheng" era name to express their resentment.

But for Yang Xian, he had to take action now.

Because Zhang Zhong and Tao An were imprisoned and interrogated, he is likely to be implicated.

Once he is implicated, Yang Xian doesn't know what Zhu Yuanzhang will do with him.

But what Yang Xian can be sure of is that even if Zhu Yuanzhang will tolerate him, Li Shanchang will not tolerate him anymore!

Because he instigated Zhang Zhong and Tao An to coerce Li Shanchang to intercede for the Kong family, just to make Zhu Yuanzhang hate Li Shanchang and force Li Shanchang to step down!
Therefore, on this day, Yang Xian gathered together a group of his officials who were deeply bound by political interests, and said to them: "Li Shanchang came to frame Zhang and Tao Ergong, causing them to be imprisoned. We We can’t just sit back and watch, or else Li Shanchang will kill us too in the future!”

Speaking of it.

Yang Xian said: "So, what I mean is that we should go to the superior to impeach Li Shanchang, and ask the superior to hold a court meeting to remove Li Shanchang and rescue Duke Zhang and Tao!"

"Very true!"

"Everyone knows that Li Shanchang favors nepotism and protects corrupt officials. His superiors will know it!"

"We all go to see the superiors. We should let the superiors know that the officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have kept Li Shan secret from him for a long time!"

Other officials echoed.

As an official, Li Shanchang was indeed lenient on the outside and taboo on the inside. He liked to appoint private individuals, especially the township party, and even protected the township party.

Of course, Li Shanchang's own explanation is that he had to do this because many officials were not very enlightened and chose to join the Datong Society just to follow the trend for the sake of progress. However, most officials, and even many military generals, were willing to cooperate with his cabinet. In many cases, the chief assistant's internal affairs work, such as land clearing and combating smuggling, is still willing to implement or cooperate seriously for the sake of the friendship between the township party and the township. In other words, many Datongshe officials still prefer to stick to tradition. Due to the rules of human relations in a farming society, he had to use private villagers as much as possible, because these talents were willing to not cheat for the sake of Li Shanchang's face.

However, Li Shanchang's actions did result in the promotion of many people who were not party members from other places, that is, officials from non-Huaixi areas.

Therefore, Yang Xian and other officials were indeed dissatisfied with Li Shanchang, and under Yang Xian's instigation, they found Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Your Majesty, we request the removal of Li Shanchang. Please reply to Mr. Zhang!"

"That's right, in the upper position, Li Shanchang can only pretend to be public for personal gain, and is not as fair as Mr. Zhang!"

……

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled after hearing what Yang Xian and other officials said: "We don't know where Mr. Zhang is either."

(End of this chapter)