GBP Chapter 315: There are so many talented people under your rule
Chapter 315: There are so many talented people under your rule
[Song Renzong Zhao Zhen: Is there any problem with developing business?]
[Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che: Too out of control]
[Tang Taizong Li Shimin: Humph! Officials and businessmen collude and accept bribes! I don't care about that. Anyone who falls into my hands will be sentenced to death!]
[Tang Kaiyuan 25th year Zhang Jiuling: Alas, this problem cannot be completely solved. It is completely difficult to rely on self-awareness and self-discipline!]
[Xu Wei, 27th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty: This description is quite interesting.]
[Li Zhi, 27th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty: Well, I know I am right! Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism misleads people and imprisons their thoughts... Is personality liberation possible?]
[Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao: Tsk, there were so many powerful people in Zhu Houcong's dynasty]
[Emperor Jiajing of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houcong: Haha, you are envious, right? It’s a pity that my cousin died early [sigh]]
[Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty: Zhu Houzhao: ...[rolling eyes]]
[Princess Taiping of Wu Zhou: It is normal to have desires, so face them?! Uh, what kind of life did women in the Ming and Qing dynasties lead...]
[Empress Lü of the Han Dynasty: Useless men only oppress women]
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Seeing that the future era on the screen could not solve these problems, everyone felt disappointed, but they were more thinking about the topic of "desire".
Is it true that human desires are uncontrollable?
If we want to improve the atmosphere in official circles, can we only rely on the morality of each individual?
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Many people also have stereotypes about the Ming and Qing dynasties.
"Decadent", "Dry", "Gray"
The noble ladies of the Wu Zhou period sat together and complained: "What's the matter with not leaving the front door and not stepping out of the back door..."
"If they dare not let me go out, I will beat them up one by one!"
"It's such a boring life to stay in that world all my life."
"It probably says that only rich people would raise their children this way."
"Of course. Only they have so much free time and money."
"I still don't understand how my status became like that." The noble lady who said this, supporting her face with her hands, looked at the comments made by Princess Taiping and Empress Lu on the screen, and couldn't help but express her thoughts on it.
...
Li Guoer stood up and cursed the dynasties that came after him, saying, "It's useless! It's useless! It's useless!"
“Life is so frustrating.”
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"Dad, you definitely can't imagine that."
"..."
Zhu Yuanzhang glared at the person who was talking, "What nonsense!"
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Ming Dynasty, Zhengde 2nd year
Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao was so furious. Zhu Houcong was such a disgusting person!
Just hitting people's pain points!
"Let King Xingxian send his son to me!"
Regardless of whether this is in accordance with the rules or not, and regardless of the fact that Zhu Houcong was just a baby at that time...
Anyway, he just couldn't stand Zhu Houcong, the cousin who got the throne for nothing. He had to make his life more interesting in this life...
Don't you like practicing Taoism? Do you like making elixirs? Humph, I'll satisfy you completely.
Zhu Houzhao had a lot of thoughts in his mind and felt anxious at the same time.
He might have a son...
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Ming Dynasty, the 27th year of Jiajing
Xu Wei in Hu Zongxian's court couldn't help but think that his reputation would be quite famous in the future. Guangmu had mentioned him so many times.
Other colleagues who had worked with Xu Wei recalled Xu Wei's daily behavior and felt puzzled. Is that the liberation of human personality?
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The 21-year-old Li Zhi, who was smart since childhood, made rapid progress in academics, was good at independent thinking, and did not like traditional Confucian concepts, stared at the screen without blinking.
Guangmu really spoke his true thoughts!
When he was twelve years old, he wrote an article entitled "On the Old Farmer and Old Gardener", in which he severely mocked Confucius's statement that farmers were villains. After that, he was criticized by everyone in the village. They thought that his ideas were rebellious and that he had wasted his years of reading the books of sages.
But Li Zhi understood that he was not wrong, it was they who were wrong, it was Neo-Confucianism that was wrong!
Finally, after years of thinking, after hearing Guangmu's words, Li Zhi no longer fell into a dead end, but instead more actively criticized Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and opposed the empty talk of Neo-Confucianism.
"In today's world, empty talk will ruin the country. The country should promote practical talents!"
As his ideas grew more and more, Li Zhi wrote like a god.
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Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houzhao did not expect that the two important thinkers of the mid-Ming Dynasty mentioned on the light curtain were both from his own dynasty.
Somewhat surprised, he pulled out the current information from his mind.
Xu Wei is currently helping Hu Zongxian deal with the Japanese pirates. Once the Japanese pirates are dealt with, it will be time for Xu Wei to enter the court.
He tapped the table with his fingers, thinking about the other person mentioned on the screen. Did Li Zhi take the exam? Could it be that he was like Hai Rui mentioned earlier and had not passed the exam yet?
Judging from his speech, he should be reading as well. It won't be long after that.
This time, he looked at the comments on the screen from his cousin Zhu Houzhao, who was at odds with him.
Finally, he sighed: "Alas, there are so many talented people under my rule."
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Although the novel "Jin Ping Mei" is set during the Zhenghe period of Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the society it describes and the ideas it expresses are clearly Ming Dynasty characteristics. The social and historical reality it reflects is from the Zhengde period to the middle of the Wanli period, especially during the Jiajing period.
This stage was a period of rapid decline of the Ming Dynasty and an increasingly corrupt social atmosphere. It was also a period when the powerful and wealthy used all means to seize wealth and extended their inflated desires to every corner of society.
Political corruption and moral depravity had become a reality in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
In "Jin Ping Mei", women's chastity is not taken very seriously, and they often act without moral limits. Some of Ximen Qing's concubines remarried, some maids became his wife, and some prostitutes became good women. Ximen Qing did not care about women's chastity, and women did not seem to value this aspect either. This can be seen as the gradual opening of social customs, or as a social phenomenon of the collapse of etiquette and the indulgence of human desires.
On the one hand, Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng wanted to express that the pursuit of desire is an irrepressible force in human nature. On the other hand, he also said that excessive pursuit of lust and desire will make people lose themselves and become greedy. It directly illustrates the common weaknesses and ugliness of human nature in that era. The book's bold description of lust and the awakening of human nature, the debauchery of lust are all nakedly displayed before us.
Through the book, we can see the tragedy of that era. 】