"Child Jiajing, you worship Xuan Dao and don't care about people's livelihood. You only use traitors to persecute virtuous ministers. You start wars and engage in militarism. You waste money on changing the ancestral system. You build large-scale construction projects without caring about the people's strength. You have countless crimes. Your stupidity and cruelty are far superior to those of the Qin and Sui Dynasties!"

"Since you have lost your virtue, you should be punished by heaven."

"Today, I will take your life as a dog! Save all the people from hanging upside down!"

White Snake was making trouble and speaking awe-inspiring words, but the people in Yangzhou didn't know who White Snake was. As for its words...

It does happen, but it's not that serious, right?

Although the literati have never stopped slandering Jiajing, the common people still have strong feelings in their hearts, and the news they usually hear is not what others say.

Oh, Your Majesty favored another Taoist priest and granted him a bunch of official positions. It is indeed ridiculous.

Is there a war in the north? Is Jianzhou considered a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty? The barbarians in the north are plundering every year, so just fight. If there is enough money in the treasury, as long as there is no additional tax, what does it matter?

Your Majesty is having a grand discussion again. If you want to add a name to King Xingxian, feel free to add it. What's wrong with people looking for a posthumous name for their biological father? This group of literati has many things to do.

What? Barefoot doctors practice medicine without a license? Their quality is uneven, and they prescribe the wrong prescription and kill people?

Barefoot doctors mainly practice medicine in the countryside. People in my hometown say that it has become more convenient to see a doctor in recent years. This is not a question of whether it is good or not, but a question of whether it is good or not. Because there are doctors who have cured people to death, why don't we need doctors?

This group of scholars can stand and talk without back pain!

The emperor reformed the currency system and took away the world's money?

The waste paper at the bottom of the box used to be fully redeemed for silver. This is not about collecting money. It is clearly His Majesty who is giving us money, okay? These civil servants just can't stand giving money to the people and regard the court's money as their own.

of silver!

And so on.

Although the common people don't understand, they know best how they live their lives.

If you insist on calling a deer a horse, are you really treating people as fools?

Although the vast majority of the people in Yangzhou City were frightened by monsters at this moment, they all sneered at such confusing remarks. They usually did not dare to say things to officials, but they had no scruples about monsters and cursed them one after another.

When White Snake heard this, he immediately became furious and blew a breath towards Yangzhou City. Suddenly, the wind was so strong that people and horses flipped over.

When Jiajing saw this, he laughed loudly and swung his sword to fight back.

"Fei Hong."

"Without that layer of human skin, who would listen to your monstrous words and confuse the public?"

"You people have always been vulnerable paper tigers. You are just relying on 'I am in you and you are in me'."

"Otherwise you will all be killed during the Hongwu period!"

Jiajing only felt that he had never been so happy. He was powerful in the imperial mind, but that did not mean that he liked to play with the emperor's mind. If he could really crush him, who likes to show off his skills?

The emperor's words work, so who wants to play balance?

In the past, in the capital, when facing Manchu officials, everyone had to be treated carefully, and even if they were re-employed, they had to be careful to avoid being stabbed in the back. How easy is it now?

There are only two words for this kind of emperor: aggrieved!

It's fine now.

He no longer has to distinguish whether this person is a neutralist, a Jiangnan person, or a true scholar who is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, he can just kill the demons!

Fei Hong saw that his old tricks were useless, so he just snorted and was not in a hurry.

It continued to make waves in the sky, and the water of the river flew across the sky, while it continued to patrol in the water. With the cover of the flood, whether it was Jiajing's sword energy, the artillery fire of the Shenji Battalion, or Zhang Zhixiang's side,

If it is not difficult to capture it, the attack will basically fail.

"Now you can only use your words."

"When you become the second Hongwu, when you stand against all the gentry, you are destined to be a dead person."

"You're not even the founder of the country, yet you dare to be so arrogant."

"Do you know that even Yongle didn't dare to lift the lid and make enemies of the entire gentry?"

"Do you know why Yongle wanted to move his capital to the capital?"

"Because, he is afraid! Hahaha..."

Arrogant laughter came from the sky, and the white snake's magic power seemed to be getting stronger. Although Fei Hong's consciousness was taking the lead now, this white snake was not just Fei Hong, but a Jiangnan cultural heritage!

In other words, it is the entire class of scholar-bureaucrats.

Since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the aristocratic families have completely declined, and the scholar-bureaucrat class has become the new ruling class. Scholars with the name of Confucianism began to alienate after they became the ruling class.

The thinking of Mingjiao, that is, the Rites, began to penetrate, and the "natural principles" of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism were changed into the so-called "benevolence, righteousness, and morality."

As the saying goes, "I annotate the Six Classics, and the Six Classics annotate me."

Since the Southern Song Dynasty, they have consistently used the right to speak as the basis for continuous expansion and plunder from above and below. They have power, land, business, and the right to speak.

They have long since become more twisted and terrifying monsters than clan members.

In the name of "propriety", they put shackles on the emperor, set up many obstacles for those who care about the world, set up insurmountable thunder pools for the common people, and told them that this is what they should do.

They not only grab power and wealth.

They are even alienating society and ideas.

Take burial as an example.

The first case of burial in the Ming Dynasty royal family was that of Zhu Yuanzhang's second son, King of Qin Zhu Xi. In the 28th year of Hongwu, in the third year after the death of Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang's second son also died of poisoning.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the main concubine and the second concubine of King Qin to be buried.

Is this to restore the system of human sacrifice? No, let's look at his brother Zhu Biao and Zhu Fan's concubine. There was no incident of burial.

So, why did Zhu Yuanzhang allow Zhu Xi’s concubine to be buried alone?

Because Zhu Ping died of poisoning!

In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the prince Zhu Biao died. In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, the second son Zhu Xi died. In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, the third son Zhu Fan died! Zhu Yuanzhang no longer had a son!

It happened that in the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang died!

He was buried on the same day after his death, the emperor's grandson ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor the next day, and all his concubines were buried on the third day!

Is this Zhu Yuanzhang’s posthumous edict?

Zhu Yuanzhang's posthumous edict also said that his cruel punishments during his lifetime were wrong, and his descendants should not govern the country according to his style, but should be lenient to officials! Emperor Ming's ancestral precepts can be changed, let alone the posthumous edict!

Zhu Yuanzhang's generation is dead, and there is no mother-in-law above his head.

Zhu Biao's concubine, Zhu Yunzhen's mother, can control the harem. Zhu Yunwen does not have to be controlled by anyone. Without someone with a higher seniority to speak out, it will be useless for Zhu Yuanzhang even if he has a real edict to pass the throne to Zhu Di!

It’s nonsense that Zhu Yuanzhang inherited the Yuan Dynasty’s human sacrifice system. Everything started because of the coup!

If you tell a lie, you have to use 10,000 lies to cover it up. Since there is a history to be found, the latter will simply be done as a "routine"! Zhu Di took revenge on Zhu Yunzhen's biological mother and asked her to accompany her youngest son to be buried. He just wanted to give her a decent

That's all.

After the Battle of Jingnan is over, will she still be alive?

When Zhu Di died, Queen Xu had already passed away in the fifth year of Yongle. Did Zhu Gaochi, who succeeded him, hope to have an elder above his head? In other words, Zhu Gaochi's queen Zhang, and those behind Zhang, would never allow anyone else.

Interfering with their control of the harem!

otherwise.

Why did they want Zhu Gaochi to die, so Zhu Gaochi died without any resistance?

What?

Zhu Gaochi's death would be of no benefit to the Zhang family? That's weird! Does the queen have more power, or the queen mother? The queen mother can listen to politics from behind the curtain, which queen can? When a daughter-in-law becomes a mother-in-law, maternal power in China has never been less than father's power!

The famous San Yang, headed by Yang Shiqi, was promoted by Zhang! The cabinet also started at that time!

Zhu Zhanji's lifelong constraints were all because of Zhang!

Death young is even more so.

Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne at the age of eight, and the Zhang family directly listened to politics behind the curtain!

After understanding the power struggle in the Ming Dynasty, I realized that the burial thing was deliberately done by those people. After a few times, it became a routine, and then the shit basin was slammed on Zhu Yuanzhang's head!

However.

The laws of the Ming Dynasty never provided for human sacrifice! Even in the Yuan Dynasty, sacrifice and burial were only for the emperors and nobles. Who among the people advocates this?

Of course!

Those religious believers, those scholar-officials, began to encourage faithful women to bury their husbands and build memorial arches for them. They themselves also had a dark psychology and wanted to be buried with someone after death, so this trend spread to the people!

The scriptures and meanings have been tampered with, and numerous rules have been set up in the name of "rituals".

Everything is just to consolidate their interests.

This ethical code since the Song Dynasty has been distorted and deformed and has been eroding civilization. Today, it is shown in a concrete image in the world. It is a white snake.

Snakes are the next kind of dragons. They actually hold power. They are not dragons, but they have more powerful ability to make trouble than dragons. They are white, which means the terror of white...

It was the cold white terror under the oppression of feudal ethics.

The origin of its existence determines the strength of its power. As the incarnation of its representative will, Fei Hong is not afraid of Jiajing at all. Rather, Jiajing, who plans to follow Zhu Yuanzhang's old path, is their mortal enemy!
To be continued...