Chapter 173 When you kill, you kill, and when you stay, you stay!
The killing of the clan is indeed a serious challenge to the morality of this era.
Because of the influence of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, the idea of family and family has become more and more serious, and the royal family members are naturally more expensive than others in terms of rank.
In order to maintain such a hierarchical order, the scholar-bureaucrats are also willing to regard the royal clan as their master and subclass.
It's not that they are cheap.
They do this for the stability of the entire "system of slavery".
After all, as long as the system is stable, although they are inferior in front of the royal family, they can always be superior in front of the common people with more peace of mind.
They cannot kill royal family members.
Naturally, common people cannot kill them.
To kill is treason.
And what Zhang Gui is doing now is challenging the stability of the system.
They actually didn't expect Zhang Gui to do this.
Because logically speaking, Zhang Gui, as a relative, is also a beneficiary of this system, so he should not challenge this system.
But Zhang Gui went to challenge, and killed the clans who were more noble than himself, bleeding into rivers.
Many scholar-bureaucrats thought Zhang Gui was crazy for doing this, and even felt that Zhang Gui would definitely feel scared after doing this.
After all, it is a betrayal of the level rules that everyone in the world has accepted.
Even if Zhang Gui, an honorary relative, came from a humble background and did not receive much education in Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism, he should know that the royal family is the master and subclass.
Therefore, many scholar-bureaucrats believe that even if Zhang Gui killed the clan out of a moment of anger, he should feel uneasy after regaining his senses.
It is precisely because of this that Huang Zunsu and others thought of trying to make Zhang Gui kneel down and die by falsely preaching the imperial decree.
Based on their understanding of the cognitive rules of normal people in Confucian society, they thought that even if Zhang Gui would not be willing to be executed like Yue Fei after receiving the imperial decree to kneel down and die, he should have been frightened and begged for mercy. Forcible killing is the way to go, just like Han Tuozhou.
But Zhang Gui is not a person of this era. His cognitive system does not have the set of monarch, minister, father, son and son.
Therefore, in his eyes, the Zhu family is no different from other powerful bureaucrats.
Kill when you kill.
Stay when you stay.
The education Zhang Gui received is to follow a higher-dimensional rule, which is already higher than the family model.
Therefore, Zhang Gui killed his clansmen whenever he wanted, because he knew that he had more cards than these royal clansmen.
And Zhang Gui also knows, and a wise emperor should also understand that the consequences of getting rid of Zhang Gui for the royal family members are more serious than the consequences of letting Zhang Gui get rid of some royal family members.
Turn back.
Because Zhang Gui is not from this era, the cognitive education he received did not come from this era.
So, he dared to kill the clan.
So, he dared not to be frightened when he encountered the imperial decree to kneel down and die.
But some scholar-officials who still want to maintain this rule of slavery, naturally cannot tolerate people like Zhang Gui to harm this rule.
Therefore, they want to overthrow Zhang Gui, defend their masters of the Zhu family, and demand that the emperor also recognize such rules.
But they still have to make a sound, even if they are just dying for the rules they abide by, they are willing.
After all, if this rule of slavery is broken, they will live a life that is unacceptable.
They cannot accept an era in which even the clan can be slaughtered by courtiers at will.
Even if this clan violated the national law.
"Your Majesty! The vassal kings are relatives of His Majesty, and they are the nobles of heaven, but Marquis Zhanggui of Suizhou kills them like dogs!"
"First Fu Wang's Mansion, then Tang Wang Mansion, the degree of cruelty is outrageous!"
"Your Majesty, it can be seen that this person has no heart of being a minister! He disregards the dignity of the court! Therefore, it aroused public outrage all over the world, so that the vassal princes raised troops and internal troubles resumed!"
So, at this time, Lin Yunkui, the Prime Minister of Taipu Temple, also stood up to respond to this matter.
"Your Majesty! Since ancient times, all virtuous kings have treated their clansmen with kindness and kindness, and all the people in the world have respected their clans and nobles!"
"But only Zhang Gui, a cruel and evil person, used the implementation of the New Deal to extort money from the vassal kings, and even slandered the vassal kings for rebellion, wantonly killing the clan."
"Your Majesty must punish him! Otherwise, the world will only think that His Majesty only kisses the relatives of the descendants and regards the clan as thieves! If this is the case, the country will be in chaos!"
Immediately afterwards, Jin Zhijun continued to add, and said excitedly: "Your Majesty! I have been in Ming Dynasty since the Taizu, and the emperors of all generations have been watching under Jiuquan, watching you uphold justice for the royal family and nobles! Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, please uphold justice for the royal nobles!"
"Your Majesty, please uphold justice for the royal nobles!"
"Your Majesty, please uphold justice for the royal nobles!"
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For a while, many civil servants stood up and complained for the clan that was killed by Zhang Gui.
Seeing this, Zhang Gui also came out to defend himself and said: "Your Majesty, the evidence of King Fu's usurpation of the imperial power is conclusive. He set up customs to collect taxes privately, and used the king's decree instead of the imperial decree to seize the people's wealth!"
"I have the autographed confession of Fu Wang Changshi Shen Xianyou and other evidence here! I didn't kill him in vain!"
"As for the minister, does he have the right to kill him? The minister has the right! The minister has the right to be given by His Majesty, because the minister is on behalf of the emperor to patrol the world, beheading first and then playing, which is also a royal license. Now if a courtier uses this to deny the minister, he is denying the imperial power! I want the principle of human relations and family affection to replace the principles of imperial power!"
Then, Zhang Gui said again: "As for the death of dozens of clan members in the Tang Palace, it was not my intention. It was their intention to assassinate me. I had to fight back at that time. If I didn't fight back, the dignity of the emperor's life would be lost!"
"On this point, His Royal Highness the King of Tang, who was ordered to go to Beijing, can explain the process to His Majesty on behalf of his ministers. Please see His Majesty the King of Tang!"
It stands to reason that the vassal king is not allowed to enter the capital unless it is an edict, but Zhang Gui has indeed urgently requested the emperor to issue an order in advance to allow the Tang king to enter the capital, in order to explain to the emperor what happened in the Tang palace today.
Tian Qi also said after hearing this: "King Xuan Tang!"
Not long after, Tang Wang Zhu Qiqi came to the main hall.
Tian Qi asked: "King Tang, what is the reason why dozens of clan children in your family were killed by the uncle Zhang Gui?"
"It's all because my younger brother Zhu Qisong was instigated by Confucian scholars and conspired to assassinate the uncle Zhang Gui at the banquet. Neither the minister nor the previous king knew about it at the time! Fortunately, the uncle Zhang Gui was brave and did not let the rebels succeed in their rebellion. "
Zhu Qichi replied.
"Your Majesty! Even if the descendants of the clan conspire to kill the Marquis of Suizhou, the Marquis of Suizhou cannot kill the disciples of the clan. This is already treason in essence!"
Jin Zhijun said at this time.
Zhang Gui asked after hearing this: "According to what you said, Benhou could only be killed by them?"
"That's right! They are nobles and members of the Tian family. Even if they kill you, they are not guilty! At most, it is just a name for inhumanity. And you are guilty of fighting back! What's more, you directly killed them! So, you, Uncle Zhang Guo It's treason!"
Jin Zhijun said to Zhang Gui righteously.
(end of this chapter)