Li Zhi was indeed the most rebellious thinker in the late Ming Dynasty, but even the most rebellious, he did not surpass the monarch-subject system dominated by Confucianism.

There was no one who tried to think in the late Ming Dynasty.

Whether before him or after him, even after Gu Yanwu and others who were all after the fall of the Ming Dynasty were always limited to the system of monarch and ministers. What Gu Yanwu called out was only the responsibility of the rise and fall of the world, but in fact it was not what he called out, but Liang Qichao summarized it for him.

But its original intention was only because the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, and some conscientious scholars and officials believed that the world was destroyed, so resistance should be for the whole people.

Simply put, it is the awakening of national consciousness.

but……

What is the purpose of resistance?

It is still to rebuild the Han people's monarchy and minister system.

The Datong World that Huang Zongxi called out was just a fantasy of the gentry in Jiangnan, and then they ruled with a nearly European-style local autonomy.

What is the purpose of autonomy?

Of course, you can no longer pay taxes to the country!

To put it bluntly, it is the extension of Donglin Qunxian's thought. The root of Donglin Qunxian's popularity is that in the richest land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the gentry did not want to bear the responsibility for the entire empire. They believed that they should not support the poor people in the north. Huang Zongxi's father was a think tank in the late Donglin period and the real core figure. His thoughts only continued to develop in the thoughts of the previous generation. Then, after the Qing Dynasty was broken by a stick, he knew that there was no hope, so he lay there and daydreamed himself.

But it still has not surpassed the monarch and his subjects.

The top of the head of local autonomy is still the sage lord and wise monarch, and the world of Datong is just the Confucian sage lord and wise monarch who rule the world together with scholars and officials.

And the same is true for Li Zhi's generation.

Li Zhi's core idea is the standard Fujian Commercial Group, which emphasizes mercantilism. To put it simply, he is like those enlightenment thinkers in Europe. Because the budding of capitalism began to gradually think about the issues of imperial power and civil rights. To put it simply, the imperial power system has seriously restricted the development of industry and commerce. The pioneers of their thoughts began to realize that there was something wrong with this and began to think about this issue.

but……

They had never thought of a new system that transcended the monarch and ministerial system.

Moreover, the thoughts of these guys were essentially harmful to the empire at this time. The consequences of the development of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Group were well known. The result of the Fujian Group was the southern Fujian merchants who encouraged the Dutch to invade the Ming Dynasty in Peking University.

The real leader!

Li Zhi himself actually made the greatest contribution, but he was the pioneer of the women's liberation movement.

The first fundamentally denies the positioning of women in the Confucian ethical system.

Another is the idea of ​​equality.

But this is not rare in itself. The Ming Dynasty was not Europe, and there was no European aristocratic system. Two thousand years ago, some people had already shouted that the princes, princes, generals and ministers would be willing to do it. Now they are openly calling for the emperor to take turns. This year, they came to my house, and the idea of ​​equality he proposed was not that important. Even if he didn't propose it, the people actually had no fear of the nobles. At most, they were afraid of His Majesty the Emperor and the officials, but that was just because they were officials.

What is feared is power.

But he was not afraid of these officials himself.

Europe needed Enlightenment thinkers to dare to stuff the nobles into the guillotine. As long as someone took the lead, the people of the Ming Dynasty could make them now.

"I claim to be crazy, but I am not crazy enough. You are the real madman. Indeed, I am much worse than you. I am still standing in a cage. People standing in a cage cannot see the real world. Only by jumping out of the cage can you look at you fairly!"

Li Zhi sighed.

"You can go back and tell Your Majesty that I have no interest in being an emperor at all. He can be completely relieved, but he should not do stupid things. Although I am not interested in being an emperor, I am not interested in being an emperor. So if he cannot get the support of the people, it is possible for the people to completely throw the emperor.

It would be better for him to learn to be a good emperor from now on and let the people respect and support him.

As for what’s outside…”

Yang Feng smiled.

"Your Majesty is silent, I have a minister here!"

He said with a smile.

After saying that, he smiled so hard and walked out of the palace with high spirits.

Then the Emperor, His Majesty, Chang Yinxu, who had been hiding on the second floor, and even Matteo Ricci, walked out...

"It's simply a traitor!"

Husband Huaiyuan said angrily.

His Majesty the Emperor just stood there silently, looking very complicated.

"It's so scary. It's like the rebels in the Netherlands. I can't imagine that such people will appear in the Ming Dynasty."

Matteo Ricci said in shock.

"The Netherlands rebels?"

His Majesty the Emperor looked at him.

"Your Majesty, the Netherlands is the territory of the Spanish king, but because they betrayed their faith, converted to heresy, refused to recognize the king's authority, launched a rebellion and declared the dethronement of the king, and established a country called the Federal Republic without a monarch. However, the Spanish king is not only the Netherlands, the Netherlands is only a small piece of territory, so the Spanish army is suppressing these rebels in the Netherlands.

The war has been going on for a long time.”

Matteo Ricci said.

"Rully traitor!"

Huo Huaiyuan said indignantly.

"Yes, traitor!"

Matteo Ricci deeply agrees with this word.

However……

What can they do when facing traitors?

"Your Majesty, it seems that he will not endanger Your Majesty. The matters that matters of the people have come to this point, but what he said is not unreasonable. As long as Your Majesty can be supported by the people, he will not dare to do anything. If he can get to this point, isn't he just wins the hearts of the people? As long as Your Majesty also wins the hearts of the people, he will not dare to touch Your Majesty. He said that Your Majesty should learn to be a good emperor from now on and let the people support Your Majesty. This makes a lot of sense."

Li Zhi said.

"Are your Majesty not a good emperor before?"

Chang Yinxu said angrily.

Li Zhi just smiled slightly.

"I did not do well before. I was wrong to Zhang Juzheng, I was wrong to abandon Qi Jiguang, and I was wrong to be deceived by those civil officials. I have been wrong to think about all kinds of things in the past. I have really made a lot of mistakes. I will first draw a self-criticism and rehabilitate Zhang Juzheng, and then posthumously grant Qi Jiguang a title. With his merits, he will be worthy of an earl. He will posthumously award him an earl and allow his descendants to inherit his descendants."

Wanli said slowly.

"Your Majesty, this may be useless.

The rehabilitation of Zhang Jiangling has nothing to do with the people. Qi Jiguang's pursuit of the title was just to win the hearts of those old subordinates, but it has nothing to do with the people. If you want to give some real experience to the people, your Majesty will not obey the orders, so you can do it more.

What the people really think of is nothing more than good days, and good days are actually easy.

The land rent will be limited to the world, regardless of the imperial village, the vassal kings, and the land of officials and people, and the land of local garrisons will be abolished. The land of military households will be granted, and the previous household registration restrictions will be abolished. The previous official specialized industries will be abolished, but the salt industry will continue to follow Yang Feng's wishes, but the restrictions on tea and silk will be lifted. Even if the emperor does not issue an order, no one will care about it now, so he will simply make a favor.

In addition, the salaries of the vassal kings in various places were simply abolished, and no one was given to them at this time. The vassals had land, which was enough to support themselves. They were all millions of acres of fertile land. What was the difficulty of supporting thousands of royal families? Your Majesty’s orders could also let the people of the world see Your Majesty’s good intentions.

There are also limited fire consumption in various places.

Previously, Hai Gangfeng had set a two-point fire consumption limit, so Your Majesty would use the imperial edict to limit the fire consumption in the world to two-point fire consumption in the world.

Your Majesty will do what the people think, and your Majesty will abolish what the people don’t like.

If no one listens to Your Majesty today, and there are no censors in the court to stop him, why don’t Your Majesty let go and do these favors?”

Li Zhi said.

"Will the world be in chaos?"

Chang Yinxu exclaimed.

If killing those officials is to inspire the officials and gentry to unite with righteous indignation, then these imperial edicts will leave officials and gentry all over the world with no choice in terms of interests.

The emperor limited 30% of the land rent?

Is this asking the landlord of the world to fight against him?

The emperor limited the two-part fire consumption?

Is this asking all officials in the world to fight against him?

Cancel the salary of the vassal kings?

It is okay to stop issuing these, but in fact, it was often owed in the past. The King of Korea owed a full six years of salary at the highest record, but is it another matter?

The princes would rebel.

It can be said that if these things are issued with imperial edicts, it means that the emperor has cut himself off from the world.

"Marquis Huaiyuan, everything about them originated from Emperor Taizu Gao. Emperor Taizu Gao conquered the country and found everything about them.

In other words, they don't have these.

And now the most important thing is to let the people of the world support His Majesty and recognize the Ming Emperor. If there is no Emperor of Ming, they will have nothing, and the vassal kings will become commoners. Do officials and gentry think that Yang Feng's subordinates will have their place to live? The land deeds of those landlords were issued by the Ming court. If there is no Emperor of Ming, do they think Yang Feng would recognize these things?

So the root problem is very simple, is it whether the Ming Dynasty country was recognized by the people, and do the people still recognize the Ming Emperor?

This is Yang Feng's theory.

The people still recognize the Ming Dynasty and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so Your Majesty is still the emperor.

The people do not recognize the Ming Dynasty or the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so just like the Dutch rebel brother Xitai said, he directly declared the dethronement of the emperor.

Your Majesty, we can no longer use the past ethical principles and moral rules. We have to break out of this cage and stand outside the cage to truly understand him and get along with him in a brand new rule he established?"

Li Zhi said.

"Why do you have to be in his rules?"

Chang Yinxu said angrily.

"Because, because he is right."

Li Zhi said slowly.

The next moment everyone was silent...

"Print an order!"

After a long time, His Majesty the Emperor said sadly.
Chapter completed!