Zhao Ming walked into the pavilion, which was supported by vermilion-painted pillars, with raised eaves on top and low tables and carpets on the bottom.

Several people sat on the ground like ancient people. When Huang Zongxi saw Zhao Ming coming, he quickly moved Zhao Ming to sit down.

"What are you talking about?" Zhao Ming sat down and smiled.

Qian Qianyi said: "It is the beautiful scenery of Yangcheng Lake, the drizzling autumn rain!"

Zhao Ming exclaimed: "Mr. Muzhai is so interested! Mr. Zhao doesn't have this kind of elegant pleasure!"

Qian Qianyi smiled and said, "The Duke is still worried about the reaction from the court?"

Zhao Ming shook his head, "What I worry about is Junxin! If there are only a few ministers in the court who are incompatible with me and I am able to be neutral and fair, I will fight with them. But if Junxin is biased and the emperor is biased and the emperor is to deal with me and wants to deal with me, how can I fight?"

Qian Qianyi, Huang Zongxi and others heard Zhao Ming's words and couldn't help but put down their wine glasses.

Zhao Ming's words mean that as the emperor has the right to rule over the world. When dealing with people below, he should uphold fairness and justice, and even not have much emotion. In this way, he will have a chance to fight against He Tengjiao, but if the emperor turns to one side and trusts the other side unconditionally, then Zhao Ming will lose no matter what he does.

The Donglin Party members were quite touched by this. When Wei Zhongxian was in power, the emperor did not take on the responsibility of the emperor and had no public intention. Out of personal emotions and selfish desires, he favored Wei Zhongxian and believed in Wei Zhongxian in everything. No matter what the Donglin Party did or what purpose it was, it was because the emperor, as the referee, could not maintain justice, and ignored morality and right and wrong, favored Wei Zhongxian, which made Donglin have no chance of winning in the struggle, which made the Donglin Party members pay a heavy price.

Qian Qianyi said in a deep voice: "The emperor passes on his son, but his sons are not all virtuous! If the emperor is wise, the country will be politically clear. However, there are few wise and wise rulers in all dynasties, and many foolish and mediocre kings. As the emperor, he should be selfless, to punish the affairs of the world, and to be the lord of all people. However, people have their own selfishness, and the emperor also has their own selfishness. If there is selfishness, there will be no public. A virtuous king will restrain himself and serve the public. The foolish king favors villains for his own selfishness, so that the world will lose its public will suffer!"

After the Jiashen Kingdom changed and Nanjing fell, it was destined that the Donglin Party could not reappear on the political stage of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the emperors of the Ming Dynasty recalled the Chongzhen Dynasty and the Hongguang Dynasty, especially the Hongguang Dynasty, the Donglin Party created three cases of the Southern Transportation to crack down on the legitimacy of Emperor Hongguang, and colluded with Zuo Zhendong to rebel and subvert the Hongguang rule. This would make future Ming emperors be wary and would not tolerate the Donglin Party appearing in the court again.

Therefore, Qian Qianyi and the Donglin Party members both made some reflections. Of course, this reflection was not mainly about themselves, but about reflecting on the system of the Ming Dynasty emperor and the court.

Whenever society develops to a certain stage and many problems are exposed and society needs change, various ideas will inevitably arise to propose various social solutions to reform society and regulate contradictions.

For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, hundreds of schools of thought contend. The reason why various schools emerged was that the long-term wars made the people dissatisfied with society and the current situation. Therefore, Legalism, Mohism, Taoism, and Confucianism came out and proposed solutions.

In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, various ideas such as constitutionalism, reform, and revolution were also produced. The purpose of these ideas was to reform Chinese society and end the current situation.

The late Ming Dynasty was also in a special period. The commerce in Jiangnan was already highly developed and needed to break through and change. The north was still a traditional agricultural society, with serious land annexation and various contradictions highlighted.

The scholars in the late Ming Dynasty also began to become active in their thoughts, and new doctrines began to impact the traditional feudal principles of family and country, where the king was the leader of the minister, and the king wanted the minister to die, and the minister had to die.

"The son of the emperor is not all wise! What if the emperor is not wise?" Zhao Ming asked.

Huang Zongxi, who was standing beside him, said: "I think that there is no good governance in the Ming Dynasty, which starts from the emperor's dismissal of the prime minister. In ancient times, when the king treated his ministers and worshipped the ministers, the king would answer the emperor's prayer, and they would be equal to each other, and the king and his ministers ruled together, but without the prime minister's order, the king's will be difficult to find. Now, no one will compete with the emperor anymore, so that the monarch will be slaves to the ministers, act arbitrarily, and do whatever he wants. Just now, Muzhai said that the emperor passed on his son, but the emperor's son was not all virtuous, and a son was not virtuous, which would be a disaster for the people of the world. I think this system is incomplete, and the affairs of the world cannot be entrusted to the king's wise. When the king is not virtuous, there will be virtuous. When the emperor is not virtuous, there will be virtuous. The emperor's son is a fixed number and cannot change, nor can he protect his virtuous. However, if the prime minister does not pass on his son, he can choose virtuous. When the emperor cannot complete the emperor, he can maintain the movement of the court and restrict the emperor from doing whatever he wants."

Zhao Ming looked at Huang Zongxi. One of the three major thinkers in the late Ming Dynasty had already come up with the idea of ​​checking and counterbalancing the imperial power, but obviously, his thoughts were not yet mature.

He had such an idea probably related to his early encounters, because he was the one who appeared to be Wei Zhongxian cholera, and his father Huang Zunsu, who was wrongly killed by his father, and many Donglin Party members, were essentially the emperor's indulgence, so he gradually came up with these ideas.

After hearing his words, Zhao Ming smiled on his face, and Huang Zongxi couldn't help but frown and said, "Duke thinks my words are inappropriate!"

Zhao Ming waved his hand, stood up, turned to face the lake where the autumn rain was pouring, and said in a deep voice: "I agree with Mr. Huang's words, but I think it is not thorough enough. Since ancient times, there have been seven reasons for the destruction of the country. One of the women favors, the second of the eunuch, the third of the strong vassal, the fourth of the strong vassal, the fifth of the outer relatives, the sixth of the clan, and the seventh of the treacherous. Among the seven reasons, the female favors, the outer relatives, and the eunuch, directly arises because of the unfavorable governance of the country, and the monarch is mediocre and incompetent. From this point of view, the general believes that the lord is a harm to the world!"

Huang Zongxi and Qian Qianyi were both stunned. They did not completely get rid of the shackles of the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor. They thought that the king was not virtuous and supported each other with virtuous people. In essence, the king was the main and ministers were the auxiliary. They believed that the world belonged to the emperor and the ministers were the help.

Zhao Ming said that the king was a harm to the world, which was equivalent to completely denying the king. Although this idea began to sprout decades ago, it was only spread on a small scale. After all, they were still shocked when Zhao Ming said it. Even Liu Rushi, who was steaming crabs in the distance, turned his attention.

Zhao Ming glanced at a few people and continued to explain: "The original intention of establishing a king was to make the world benefit. The king mainly suppressed personal gain and promoted public benefits. However, later the king did the opposite way, restricted the people's private property, regarded the world as its own, regarded the world as its own property, passed on its descendants, enjoyed endlessly, and took all the benefits of the world to oneself, and returned all the harm of the world to others, and used my own great private self to be the great prince of the world. The original intention of establishing a king in the world was to govern the world, but now the king was established, but the world could not be governed. Therefore, even though there have been capable ministers and assisted the king, the world could not be governed forever, and eventually died after the king. Thinking about the fundamental reason is that the king who assisted the king has already violated his original intention and escaped from the strange circle of the virtuous king, and the minister who assisted the ministers who did not recognize that the ministers are not the servants of the king, nor the guest of the world, but the ruler of the world is also the ruler of the world!"

I am also the lord of the world. This sentence shocked Qian Qianyi, Huang Zongxi's head buzzed, and he sat still and said nothing for a moment.

At this time, Liu Rushi saw this, brought the steamed crabs over and placed them on the table, smiling and said, "Eat the crabs first!"
Chapter completed!