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Chapter 126 4 Master's Backyard is involved in the daily life 51

The opposition was too loud, so Yinzhen compromised on the surface, which made him very unhappy. However, although it was a compromise, he was directly in charge of the two departments. However, privately, Le Shu almost lived in the Yangxin Palace and spent little time in the Yongshou Palace. It was self-evident who was actually in charge.

Those who are interested can naturally notice the emperor's actions, but there is a fig leaf after all. The emperor has military power, so they pretend not to see it.

Resist again?

The emperor's sword is not afraid of being stained with blood.

Just when everyone thought that the emperor had compromised, a newspaper quietly emerged in the capital.

At the beginning, it reported some interesting stories and fun events in the capital, people's livelihood, farming, the latest research results of the Academy of Gewu, as well as some court policies and the impact of policies on the people.

There are many literate people at the foot of the imperial city. In addition, Le Shu has set up many workshops in recent years and trained many literate women.

The appearance of the newspaper is both abrupt and very natural, which is very contradictory.

This gave the people of the capital a lot more topics to talk about in their spare time, and at the foot of the imperial city, more and more ordinary people began to discuss state affairs and policies.

Yinzhen and Le Shu are not afraid of discussing the starting points of their policies.

People in the court finally realized the importance of newspapers, but they could not stop it because newspapers accepted submissions from people all over the world, and everyone wanted to be famous.

The scholars accepted the emergence of newspapers well, but the Kong family gradually became panicked.

At the beginning of the seventh year of Yongzheng's reign, a major event occurred in the capital. After being reported in the newspapers, the whole country was shocked.

At this time, newspapers were spread all over the country and allowed advertising. Although they could not make money, they were already able to break even.

This incident happened when hundreds of people came from Shandong. They had different identities, including scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, but their purpose was to file a complaint with the emperor. And the people they were suing were not others, but the Kong family.

The Kong family has grown to a large number of people. They are used to being high and mighty and they disdain the imperial power. Naturally, they are not afraid of anything. They appear to be gentlemen on the surface, but they dare to do anything on the inside.

Their status is too high. As human beings, their material desires are satisfied, so they crave for greater happiness and can do anything disgusting.

The charges against the Kong family included many crimes, including violating laws of all sizes, and not taking human life seriously. The key is that there are many ethical and moral issues involved. This is the Kong family! The foundation of the Kong family's existence lies in virtue.

Because there were too many people filing complaints, and it happened so suddenly, all the people in the capital knew about it, and the newspapers also cooperated in reporting it. It can be said that the Kong family was caught off guard, and they had both witnesses and evidence.

If an ordinary noble family had such evidence of a crime, their property would be confiscated and their entire clan would be exterminated. But that was the Kong family, and they were Han officials in the court. Who would dare to say that he was not a student of Confucius?

The idea of ​​governing the country with Confucianism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

This matter happened too suddenly, and it was obvious that someone was behind it. The most likely person behind it was the emperor sitting at the top.

After knowing the virtues of the Kong family, they might feel disgusted, but they were afraid that the emperor would change the Confucian philosophy of governing the country.

The life and death of the Kong family is not important, but the survival of Confucianism represented by the Kong family is very important.

This matter caused a big stir, and they were afraid that the emperor would destroy Confucianism.

Yinzhen had no intention of destroying Confucianism. There was nothing wrong with Confucianism, but Confucianism was wrong. This was his experience, and he needed to make the scholars in the court more fearful for a while.

In the Yangxin Palace, Yinzhen was drinking tea with Le Shu calmly, and Su Peisheng came in.

"Your Majesty, Eunuch Liang is here and said that the Grand Emperor wants to see Your Majesty."

Kangxi's health remained the same over the years.

Yinzhen frowned: "I see, you go out first and tell Liang Jiugong that I will go to see the emperor."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After Su Peisheng left, Yinzhen said, "They couldn't sit still anymore. I didn't expect that they would even make a scene in front of the Emperor."

Le Shu said: "You are pushing them too hard, they are scared, go to Changchun Garden and bring more people."

A cornered dog will do something desperate. Some people will wait and see, while others may become impatient and unable to sit still.

"I know."

Le Shu was still a little worried and suggested: "If not, I'll put the article I prepared up there. It's almost done. A gentleman doesn't stand under a dangerous wall."

Although they are not afraid, who knows what means the other party will use? What if it is too extreme and they fail?

Yinzhen also knew this truth: "Listen to Shushu."

Yinzhen sent someone to convey the news to Kangxi. Although Kangxi was angry, he could hardly understand him.

The emotion is complicated.

He knew everything that Yinzhen had done over the years. Although he was unwilling, he was still relieved. Yinzhen lived up to trust and was indeed a good emperor. He did many things that many emperors wanted to do but could not do.

Which emperor does not know the harm of land annexation? The policy of equalizing the land tax can curb land annexation to a certain extent and enable the people to live better. It is not that no one has proposed it before. Similar policies have appeared before, but it is too difficult to maintain them.

Feudal society relied on land, and the land issue was a national affair. It is easy to start reforms, but if you are not careful, the country will be finished.

But Yinzhen succeeded, and Kangxi could see that this policy would not die with him.

Yinzhen's good performance, to some extent, also showed that he was not as good as Kangxi. Kangxi was arrogant and felt somewhat frustrated inside.

The son is stronger than the father, which brings joy but also frustration.

A new issue of the newspaper came out, and it contained an article about the attitude towards the Confucius family and Confucianism. The title was "Down with the Confucius shop, save Confucius."

As soon as the article came out, it sparked a huge discussion.

The content is that the country has its own laws, and the Kong family, as descendants of Confucius, are unfilial to their ancestors and are sorry for their ancestors. The Kong family's morality is not worthy of the blood of Confucius, and it has brought discredit to their ancestors. Then it affirms Confucianism and denies the Kong family. The article criticizes the traditional cognition that the Kong family is equivalent to Confucianism...

As soon as this article came out, scholars all over the world also saw the emperor's attitude. He disliked the Kong family, but had no objection to Confucianism.

Confucianism advocates "benevolence", which is indispensable for educating the people.

In Yinzhen and Le Shu's future plans, Confucianism is used for education, but the content of Confucianism cannot be used entirely to govern the country.

At present, no one can see what the couple is planning. The scholars also think that the dirty deeds of the Kong family are too disgusting, and it would be fine if they had not been made public. But now it has been made public, with witnesses and evidence, and the Kong family's reputation has been broken.

After some discussion, the Kong family should be punished as they should be. No one would test the power of the emperor's artillery with flesh and blood. The emperor intended to separate the Kong family and Confucianism, so let's do it.

The emperor is strong and powerful, so the court officials will appear weaker. However, they probably don't know that if they take a step back, they will only be able to take steps back in the future.

Yinzhen had been keeping an eye on the Kong family for a long time. Sending officials to punish them was useless, so he sent troops to suppress them.

There wasn't a river of blood, but many people died in this incident.

It’s not that there were no scholars who criticized Yinzhen, but he had newspapers, and the newspaper review was in the hands of him and Le Shu. The content of the newspapers was mainly in vernacular and easy to understand.

Newspapers became a medium for direct communication between the emperor and ordinary people, and then scholars discovered that their right to guide public opinion, which they were proud of, was gone!

Only later did they realize how terrible the methods of the current emperor were.

He used the people's hearts to build a golden body for himself, and this golden body is unbreakable.