After Lu Xuanyuan learned of Zhu Youxiao's edict, he was so depressed that he started to speak to his son Lu Zesi.

"My son didn't expect that today, I would change the law to protect Liu Hongxun! Didn't he always hate evil and would be implicated when encountering a major case? Aren't he a tyrant?"

Lu Zesi asked.

"This one man! Always so unexpected!"

Lu Xuanyuan said angrily and said:

"Liu Changshan is the same. He dares to betray his clan directly. Didn't he always pay attention to the integrity of the scholars and officials? Why did he betray his clan first?!"

"It seems that even if the Liu clan is killed by the whole family, it will not be threatened by Liu Hongxun."

Lu Zesi said.

"This is all caused by the ruler's power alone! The king violated the concept of governing the country with faith and was the first to break the trust of the people of the world. We did not expect that Your Majesty would dare to do this!"

"But now think about it, with the temper of our Majesty, he dared not do anything, let alone trampling on the rules he set, or threatening to overturn the table and create a rebellion of his own court!"

Lu Xuanyuan said.

"What my father said is, now I think that as the gentlemen who advocated limiting the monarch's power said, we should not let the monarch have the power to violate the rules and make changes to the laws without any reason!"

Lu Zesi said.

...

"Now that we think about it, we have overlooked one thing, that is, our Majesty, who is in the mouth of the Constitution of Heaven. He can change the law as he wants. Only Your Majesty has the right to interpret the law! Therefore, when you don't want Your Majesty to be implicated, he can be implicated; when Your Majesty to be implicated, he will not be implicated!"

Chen Wei also started to speak in front of the seventh prince Zhu Cixuan in anger.

"So, the root of everything is caused by the unlimited monarchy!"

"But I don't understand that in a clan, the clan leader must abide by the clan's contract and still be supported by the clan's people, why is the whole world without the charter of restraining the king? Just let His Majesty do whatever he wants, and then the ministers he favored will do whatever he wants!"

Liang Qingkuan, a scholar who also came to pay homage to Zhu Cihui, also spoke excitedly.

"Because the father, the leader, has the force that you cannot fight against, and if you want the king to abide by the rules, is this the king's world still the king's world?"

Zhu Cixuan asked with a smile at this time.

"The people are the most important, the king is the least important, and the country is the next. This is the words of the saint!"

"This world is not just a king, but a king, but a whole nation. A scholar is the leader of the four people and should be the leader of the world. The king must obey the rules established by the scholars and officials, and keep the charter established by the scholars and officials for the people! You cannot do anything nonsense."

Liang Qingkuan was a scholar with relatively radical thoughts, and suddenly said this at this moment.

In this era in history, the Ming Dynasty had the idea of ​​restricting the power of the monarch, represented by Huang Zongxi. In this world, the capital of the Ming Dynasty developed more rapidly, the bourgeoisie grew stronger, and there were naturally more people who wanted to restrict the power of the monarch.

"Great rebellion!"

Zhu Cifeng stood up at this time and scolded Liang Qingkuan angrily.

Liang Qingkuan replied resolutely: "Your Highness, do you also hope that the monarch will dominate everything?! Although you are a prince, the society dominated by the monarch will give you freedom? Aren't you also forced to stay in this small county town, and you have to work diligently to complete various exams. In order to satisfy Your Majesty, you cannot make any mistakes and are not free? It is better to restrict the monarch's power, and the people will be free! With Your Highness's noble bloodline, you will not worry about not being able to live freely and happily!"

"Shut up!"

Zhu Ciluo slapped the table and shouted timidly.

Chen Weize said at this time: "Your Highness calms down. In fact, I think this is the right way. The king should obey the constitution established by the people!"

"Everything is good in the Ming Dynasty now, but it's too unfree. Especially those who eat profits live more atrocities than ordinary people. This is naturally due to Your Majesty's personal attitude, but it is also due to the excessive power of the monarch! Military, finance, and justice are all controlled by Your Majesty. You can start the war as you want, get tax exemption as you want, and get lenient punishment as you want, but the result of all this is that everyone is not free, and even Your Highness, you are not free!"

Chen Wei continued to speak and expressed his opinions on restricting the monarchy.

But because Zhu Youxiao's current government orders that violated their interests and needs is exemption from agricultural taxes and reduction of implicated punishments, Chen Wei's reason for supporting restriction of the monarchy has become the emperor's arbitrary act of exempting taxes and lenient punishments.

Back then, the literati opposed Zhu Youzai's tax increase and harsh punishment. Now he is dissatisfied with Zhu Youzai's tax exemption and lenient punishment.

It can be seen that the important thing is not tax exemption or severance of punishment. What is important is whether the policy meets their wishes.

"That's right! If you can be your king in the future, would you also want to be such an emperor? But your highness knows that even if you monopolize such a king, you will not be free!"

"Because your highness must be like His Majesty. In order to protect his power, he has to do his best to plot and bury everywhere. He even has to be wronged for the interests of the clan and society. He dare not indulge in pleasure or patrol the world at will, and he does not even have the joy of family life. Your Highness, do you want to be such an emperor? That is, Your Majesty has always been as cruel as Taizu and as a Emperor Shizong, and has used overseas interests to buy a lot of loyalists to live to this day. If it were Your Highness, would you really dare to always be against the people of the world?"

Liang Qingkuan asked.

Zhu Cihui did not agree with his father's mean and ruthless side to those who benefited the world, and also restrained his behavior in order to maintain his prestige and power.

But he still wanted to be the emperor who held great power.

So, Zhu Cixuan still said excitedly: "You are so crazy!"

"Your Highness, we are not crazy!"

Liang Qingkuan suddenly replied loudly and said, "Many scholars in the world, especially in the Jiangnan area, have long hoped to limit the power of the king, so that all the people in the world can be the masters of the Ming Dynasty, and the scholars and officials are the heads of the people. They should establish constitutions for the people and make the king comply with constitutional power. This is the general trend and no one can stop him!"

After hearing this, Zhu Ciluo couldn't help but think: "Although I can't admit that their idea of ​​restricting the monarchy is correct, since so many people believe in this thing, I must use it for my own use. Anyway, if I rely on other qualifications, I will find it difficult to become an emperor. If I use their power, I may have a chance."

After thinking so, Zhu Cihui asked, "Let's talk about how unstoppable you guys?"

"When you come back to Your Highness, today there are more and more scholars, and more and more wealthy people. Therefore, freedom has become what the people in the world need the most! The greatest freedom comes from the freedom of rights, and the fundamental reason for the restriction of rights comes from the monarch's autonomy! This is what people want!"

Chen Wei replied at this time.

"It is indeed not a move that goes against the people's hearts. It is indeed a charter that shows the will of the people. And the king should also act according to this charter, so that it can conform to the hearts of the people and implement the doctrine of the saints who are the most noble of the people."

Zhu Ciluo replied against his will.

"Your Highness's Holy Spirit!"

Chen Wei was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed to Zhu Cihui.

Liang Qingkuan also bowed.

Zhu Cilang smiled faintly and was secretly proud.

...

"Old Master, these are the notes and quotations of the Lu father and son discovered by the Dongchang through the bribery of the servants of the Lu family. They are all very ruthless words!"

Because Zhu Youxiao asked the East Factory to closely investigate the Lu Xuanyuan clan, Han Zanzhou took the corresponding evidence to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao laughed after seeing it: "Looking at this, they are indeed the manipulators behind all this. My arbitrary change of laws also disappoints them. The idea of ​​limiting the power of the monarch is getting stronger and stronger!"

"Your Majesty, this idea must be guarded against. His name is to limit the power of the monarch, but in fact he wants to be excessively free and then freely exploit the people!"

Lu Xiangsheng said at this time.

"That's right, as far as I know, the Jiangnan literati have the most popular sayings about limiting the power of the monarch, and they often mention the freedom of the people while discussing restricting the power of the monarch! It means that the court now makes the people not free enough, and the people are the most important!"
Chapter completed!