The sun was setting in the west, and the warm sunshine was shining in the small courtyard. The shadows of the leaves under the loofah trellis were mottled, making the faces of the people at the table dim and dark, making it difficult to see their true faces.
The food and wine on the banquet have long been removed and replaced with tea and fruit plates. Zhao Hao wiped the lighter a few times before lighting the filter-less cigarette in his hand.
The secretary behind him did not give him a complete cigarette, because this is the habit of big bosses. Although activated carbon filters can filter out harmful gases in cigarettes, even the smell of cigarettes becomes dull. So when the brain needs nicotine, he will pinch off the filter.
In fact, the secretary still carries an ivory and sea willow cigarette holder, but he only uses it when Zhao Hao is in a good mood. He will definitely find her annoying now. A qualified secretary will not do anything to annoy the boss, but will only make the boss feel comfortable.
Zhao Hao smoked silently, with no expression on his face, but the aura all over his body was gloomy and terrifying.
The sound of needles dropping could be heard in the entire courtyard, and everyone was so nervous that they could hear their own heartbeats.
Both Yan Shannong and He Xinyin felt that their lives were hanging by a thread. Hu Shizhong was so frightened that his face turned pale, and when he was refilling the tea, tea spilled all over the table.
At that moment, Zhao Hao, who was always so kind, revealed his majesty as the boss of the Jiangnan Group, the commander-in-chief of the Coast Guard, and the overlord of the Seven Seas of the Ming Dynasty.
After smoking a cigarette, slowly put out the cigarette butt. He nodded and said slowly: "Go on."
Yan Shannong breathed a sigh of relief. He had read about all the great people in the world. But this oppressive feeling made him breathless. This was something that had never been seen in Mr. Yan Ge and Mr. Xu Ge back then.
¡°Perhaps only the Emperor Jiajing back then and Mr. Zhang today have such an aura that makes all the heroes subdued in their understatement, right?
He Xinyin also calmed down and continued:
"In the final analysis, you chose to have a tentative relationship in Jiangnan, and now you have to pay for the tentative relationship. Although you have been providing education for twenty years, there are still too few educated people, and most of the graduates have been You got it overseas. So the people are still easy to fool. When the court takes action, if the local gentry scholars say that you are a rebel, do you think they will be shaken?"
"Then why do you teach me, sir?" Zhao Hao asked sincerely.
"We need to open up the people's wisdom! It's too slow to rely on schools alone. We need to give lectures on a large scale and penetrate into the fields and streets! Let us go back and let the Taizhou School charge for you, so that the people can distinguish right from wrong and no longer follow what others say! By then You have hope!"
Zhao Hao asked: "What do I hope to do?"
"Self-protection, what else do you want to do?" He Xinyin rolled his eyes and said: "As long as you can protect yourself, more poor people will be able to study and understand reason. By then, everyone will be a saint, and the world will naturally be harmonious!"
"Is this the struggle line of the Taizhou School?" Zhao Hao raised his hand with a smile, and the secretary quickly handed over another cigarette. This time he lit it directly, took two puffs and said, "I thought you were going to persuade me to change the dynasty. "
"Absolutely not!" Yan Shannong said without hesitation: "The King of Ming Dynasty is prosperous and the emperor has not yet lost his virtue. How can a saint like Duke Zhao be a rebellious minister and traitor?"
"Even if the emperor loses his virtue, there can be no thought of replacing him!" He Xinyin also said with a serious expression: "Otherwise, what justice can be said for the eternal pioneering work of the emperor?"
"Zhou can be defeated, but the world cannot be defeated?" Zhao Hao said with a faint smile.
"Of course." Yan Shannong nodded and said: "The heaven and the earth are changing, changing the sky without changing the sky, changing the place without changing the earth, this is the best!"
"Ranzi said: 'The revolution of Tang and Wu followed heaven and responded to man.'" Zhao Shizhen said angrily.
"Confucius also said: 'Bo Yi and Shu Qi were hungry under Shou Yang, and the people now call them.' These are all spoken by Confucius. Why are they different and call them the same evil?" But the eldest nephew, who is good at inventing, started to talk about it. Gong was obviously no match for He Xinyin.
"Tang and Wu have the benevolence to save the world, and Yi and Qi have the righteousness of monarchs and ministers. Since they are both good, they are both beautiful!" Zhao Shizhen argued.
"How can the two of them be perfect?" He Xinyin said with a smile: "That's what Wang Xinzhai said: 'Zhou can be defeated, but the world cannot be conquered.' That's right! At that time, there was a villain, so he stood up to welcome it, retreated to Feng, and firmly maintained his official duties. , then the benevolence of saving the world and the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers will be achieved. Wu Geng will not rebel, and the Yi Qi will not die. This so-called Tao goes hand in hand without contradicting each other!'"
"This" Zhao Shizhen held it in for a long time, and then said four words: "A scholar's opinion!"
"Okay." Zhao Hao scolded, and the eldest nephew had to shut up.
Over there, Yan Shannong also tied up his disciple, smiled apologetically at Zhao Hao and said, "Since Mr. Zhao is familiar with "Wang Xinzhai Quotations", I wonder if he has read one of my master's proses, "Eel Fu"?"
"Ashamed,"??It's the support of these people. Yan Jun showed a hesitant expression and lowered his voice:
¡°When Emperor Wuzong returned from his southern tour, didn¡¯t he capsize his boat and fall into the water?¡±
"Huh?" Hu Shizhong's mouth opened wide. He had naturally heard that the civil servant group was responsible for the murder of Emperor Zhengde, but he always found it too strange and unbelievable.
¡°But the master was from that era, and the master¡¯s teacher at that time, Mr. Wang Gen, was serving under the Yangming Gongmen If even he said so, there might really be something hidden in the matter!
Thinking again of the successor Emperor Jiajing, he almost had his maid strangle him to death in his sleep. I was so frightened that I never dared to return to Qianqing Palace for the rest of my life. Later, although Emperor Longqing lived in Qianqing Palace, he installed twenty-seven dragon beds so that no one would know where he slept
" Moreover, Emperor Longqing ruled from the top and handed over all his power to civil servants. It is hard to say that he had no intention of avoiding disaster.
After all, no one dares to say whether there will be another emperor in the Ming Dynasty who capsizes his boat and drowns
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