strictlysupreme Chapter 282: Destiny With Heaven Or Destiny With The People? ! ! [Please Subscribe, Please Order In
Chapter 282: Destiny With Heaven Or Destiny With The People? ! ! [Please Subscribe, Please Order In
In the Imperial Study Room in the Wenhua Hall of the Imperial Palace, the night was getting late, but Zhu Yuanzhang still had not rested, but quietly looked at the three pieces of rice paper in front of him that were suppressed by Zhenshi.
A piece of rice paper on the left reads: "Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict says."
It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang drew a horizontal line in the middle of these eight characters.
The rice paper in the middle reads: "Public Opinion".
Looking at these four words, Zhu Yuanzhang recalled that during the day today, the more than 100,000 people in Yingtianfu were stirred up public opinion and public opinion by Yan Changqing.
In the end, the Kong Sheng family, which had been passed down for nearly two thousand years, was brought to dust, and even plunged into eternal destruction.
Even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel lingering fears.
Yes, I have lingering fears.
Because at that time, it was not only the more than 100,000 people of Yingtian Mansion who were swayed by public opinion, but even he, the current emperor, was also swayed by public opinion!!!
When the more than 100,000 people in Yingtianfu who were inspired by Yan Changqing to empathize with each other, they shouted fanatically and demanded that Saint beheaded, the children of the Kong family be punished, and the people of Qufu be given justice.
Even though he was the emperor of the day, he had to obey the surging public opinion at that time, cut off the Kong family's Saint status, and condemn the Kong family's children [returning ten justice to the Miao surname in Qufu.
Once he refused at that time, or made other actions that made more than 100,000 people in Yingtian Mansion dissatisfied.
Then maybe the more than 100,000 people in Yingtian Mansion will trigger a civil uprising on the spot!
Once he really reaches that point, he will retreat to the palace under the protection of a group of royal guards.
Then there is no other better way than mobilizing the left and right government troops, Jin Yiwei, and even the capital army outside Yingtian Mansion to suppress it bloodyly!
In addition, the enthusiastic appearance of the more than 100,000 Yingtian Mansion people at that time also made Zhu Yuanzhang dream back to decades ago, as if he saw the Red Scarf Army sweeping through the buildings at the end of the period.
At that time, the phrase "The one eye of the stone man could incite rebellion in the Yellow River world" aroused and formed a huge public opinion among the people all over the world. Then, with the help of the leaders of the Red Turban Army, the Yuan Dynasty was ignited. At the end of the world, there were rebellions all over the world.
Countless people joined the Red Scarf Army uprising and jointly resisted the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty. In the end, the huge Mongolian and Yuan Empire collapsed and was destroyed. The remaining Mongolian Yuan forces could only survive far outside the northern border.
This shows the terrifying power of public opinion!!!
At the same time, it also strengthened Zhu Yuanzhang's idea that he must firmly hold the right to speak of public opinion in his hands.
Because the right to speak public opinion is a real threat to the power of the emperor.
Even once the power of public opinion is out of control, to a certain extent, it will be even more terrifying than the power of the prime minister and the cabinet that also threaten the emperor's imperial power!
Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes fell on the rice paper on the right, which read: "Serve the people to carry the emperor, the edict says."
But when he saw these eight words, a look of hesitation flashed across Zhu Yuanzhang's face.
Before the abolition of "The Theory of Influence between Heaven and Man", he, as the emperor "Son of Heaven", obeyed the will of Heaven and inherited the new dynasty Qi Luck, so his imperial edict began with "Emperor Fengtian Chengyun", indicating the legitimacy of his status as emperor. sexual origin.
But now that the "Theory of Induction between Heaven and Man" has been abolished, and the "God" in the underworld has been denied that it does not exist, it is not appropriate for him to continue to use the title "Emperor Fengtian Chengyun".
So he wanted to give him a new name to define the legitimacy of his origin as emperor.
It's just that he thought for a long time and came up with many names that were not suitable.
Because his situation is different from that of the founding emperors of the past.
First of all, after the abolition of the "Theory of Influence between Heaven and Man", all methods of relying on "God" to confirm the legitimacy of one's origin as the emperor are no longer appropriate.
For example, Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, rebelled against the White Snake and claimed to be the reincarnation of the Red Emperor, but this routine obviously no longer suited him.
Secondly, although his ancestors have been poor for generations, he does not think it is a shameful thing, and he is even less willing to blindly identify some ancestors in order to legitimize his origin as the emperor.
For example, Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan and Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin, who regarded Lao'zi as their ancestors, claimed to be descendants of Lao'zi.
Although he admired the achievements of Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin, he was still quite disdainful of this kind of misidentification of ancestors.
In his opinion, his ancestors were just like that, frank and honest, and there was nothing shameful about them.
If you really feel that your ancestors are shameful, then it is not the ancestors who should be ashamed, but the descendants who have such thoughts!
Therefore, he never concealed the fact that his ancestors had been poor for generations, including himself as a beggar and a refugee.
He, Lao Zhu, is just a beggar and a grassroots emperor born as a refugee. Others like him as he pleases.
But if he neither chooses to rely on heaven nor his ancestors, then for him, there will be no method that he can use to refer to the legitimacy of his origin as emperor.
Because the emperors in the past basically had two ways of defining the legitimacy of their origins as emperors.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang reviewed everything that happened today [even considering his past experiences that had caused the uprising for decades.
In the end, he discovered that the fundamental reason why he could become the emperor was because of the "people"!!!
In other words, it was precisely because of the countless 380 revolting people who supported him and joined him that he was finally able to defeat the other princes of the late Yuan Dynasty, overthrow the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty, and establish the Ming Dynasty!!!
It can be said that all his foundations lie in the "people"!!!
If one had to define the legitimacy of his status as emperor, then the most appropriate thing he could think of was "to serve the people"!!!
He just obeyed the wishes of thousands of people who were exploited and oppressed by the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty, and finally got to where he is today step by step.
But if he chooses to "serve the people and carry the fortune" to define the legitimacy of his origin as the emperor.
Then it is equivalent to a disguised official recognition that the people can choose the emperor!!!
In the future, if someone stirs up huge public opinion and coerces public opinion to rebel like Yan Changqing did today, then the "serving the people" that he now uses to legitimize his origin as emperor will be the other party's best excuse for rebellion! !!
It was precisely because of this thought that he hesitated.
"well......"
A faint sigh came from the royal study.
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