"There is a country called Yineria. During the Jiading period of the Southern Song Dynasty, his king was unrighteous. In order to restrain his power, the princes, gentry, and monks of the country jointly forced him to sign a contract. The content of the contract includes not levying new taxes without the consent of this meeting, not arbitrarily depriving the private land and property of the subjects, and protecting the freedom of merchants to do business. This contract is called the Magna Carta.

The king and the kings of their descendants must abide by it.”

Yang Feng said.

The scholars immediately discussed it.

"I don't think that the barbarian land will have such a feat!"

The head of the Dongchang Township Sage Association, who was attending the audience, was angry with Wanli because of the matter of becoming a crown prince, and had to resign from his post and live in seclusion at home. One of the imperial teachers, Yu Shenxing, sighed.

He was actually elected as the head of the Shandong Council, but because he knew that his family's strength was too far apart from Wang Zhiyuan, he did not accept it, and he did not go to the Council. After his identity was gone, Wang Zhiyuan became embarrassed, so he only acted as the head of the hometown genius association in Dongchang, but he really had the final say in Dongchang Prefecture.

"Donald Wugui, there are wise men in the barbarian lands, but there is another country called the Netherlands. The natives in the South China Sea called it the Red-haired Kingdom. It was originally a territory of the Folangji Kingdom. It was divided into seven provinces, but it was alone. The Folangji king enslaved it, and its people could not bear it. The seven provinces jointly protect each other. Each province respects the Provincial Council. The seven provincial Councils also elected the talents and established a Federation of Provincial Councils in their largest cities. They followed the example of the Republic's administration and claimed that they were the Union Republic, with the military in their shared responsibility and the provinces were autonomous."

Yang Feng said.

"No king?"

Yu Shenxing said in surprise.

"No, there was a prince of the Folangji Kingdom, but its territory was only one city in seven provinces and its prestige was not enough to be a king, so it retreated and called it ruling, and its power was restricted by the Federation of Provincial Councils."

Yang Feng said.

“So feasible?”

Yu Shenxing said.

This is undoubtedly an exaggeration for a traditional Confucian scholar like him.

"It has been thirty years since its founding. In the past thirty years, the Folangji Kingdom tried to wipe out many times, but it has never been successful. Even the Dutch navy can counterattack the Folangji Kingdom. According to those missionaries, the Folangji Kingdom exhausted its financial resources to wipe out the Dutchland and could no longer maintain the war and was trying to negotiate a ceasefire. The Dutch merchants have even arrived in the Nanyang for many years and continue to attack the Folangji Kingdom's stronghold in the Nanyang. The Folangji Kingdom was almost powerless to fight back. Previously, the Folangji people in the Haojing repeatedly violated orders to build a city wall privately in order to resist the possible attacks of the Dutch people."

Yang Feng said.

Of course, half true and half false.

And the scholars were already stunned, as if they had opened the door to a new world.

Magna Carta, isn’t this the ancient covenant?

If there is such a covenant, you will not be afraid of the emperor doing something wrong. If you dare to do something wrong, you will directly slap the covenant in the face and then chase it all over the world.

Wang Zheng is retro!

And the Union Republic...

Isn't this what the gentry dreams of?

Of course, it is wrong to have no king. Barbarians are barbarians after all. The Confucian disciples of the Ming Dynasty still cannot live without the emperor. However, this way of governing the country is really perfect. This is also what young scholars are currently dissatisfied with the old people. They can use the council and the local sage association to govern the place, so why do they have to get permission from the capital?

Even barbarians are inferior to those.

"So, our ideal country should be like this.

First, we need the Magna Carta. Of course, the name does not matter. What is important is that we must sign a covenant for generations and never violate it. Violating the covenant means betraying the world. All the people in the world no longer recognize him as the king. Even if he is killed at that time, it is not a monarch.

I heard that I was punished by Zhou, but I never heard of killing the monarch!”

Second, we need local autonomy.

The council and the local sage association must be retained, and even a national council must be established in the capital. All the emperor's government orders must be approved by the council, and all the local officials' government orders must also be approved by the local sage association. However, the selection of the local sage association and the council must be redesigned, that is, the scholars who pass the examination from various academies, namely the county and township association, and the local sage association elects the provincial council.

Those who pass the imperial examination will directly enter the prefecture and hometown sage association.

Those who pass the imperial examination will directly enter the provincial council.

Officials in the capital, provincial and government shall be appointed by the Ministry of Personnel of the court, but shall be approved by the national and provincial councils. Officials of various prefectures and counties shall be elected by the provincial councils from local cadastral Jinshi Juren.

Third, those who have good fortune will not pay taxes.

fourth……"

Yang Feng looked wise and sat on the high platform like a great scholar, and was talking nonsense there.

But the scholars in front of him were all fascinated by him and could not say he was nonsense. In fact, this kind of thought was originally the trend of the late Ming Dynasty, and the final result was Huang Zongxi's political vision of local autonomy and the academy's political conception. As the last great scholar in the dynasty, he originally represented the trend of the thoughts of the late Ming scholars.

In this era on the eve of change, Confucian scholars are thinking about change.

Yang Feng just summarized the ideological changes from this time to the next half century, and then formed a so-called ideal country, and used this prosperous era that people yearned for, to induce these scholars to resist firmly...

It must be understood that these guys are useless now.

Then you will surrender without hesitation.

But that would be boring and I couldn't let go of my hand.

So give them an ideal and let them learn to fight for their ideals. People with ideals have different levels of resistance than those without ideals. First design a perfect American degree for them, so that they can truly strive for this.

Then he was trampled to death in the struggle.

Somewhat cruel.

Some are too bad.

But Yang Dashui likes this!

In fact, it was not just scholars, but even Yu Shenxing was very devoted to listening.

These old people were also thinking at this time. Now it can be said that there is a change that has not been seen in three thousand years. They are also looking for a way out. Even if Yang Feng dies, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to return to the past. The northern vassal states have become bigger and the local gentry has tasted the taste of power. The unruly people in the land reform area are strong, and the Ming Dynasty will never be able to return to the past.

Even if Yang Feng dies, he will eventually establish a new system that can be accepted by all forces.

What Yang Feng or Yang Xin is talking about now, whether it is right or wrong, is at least a real system thing.

This is also the first to propose a future system at present.

Although many places are too naive, some things are really worth considering.

Especially the Magna Carta.

After all, no matter what the future will eventually become, restricting imperial power should be the unanimous goal of all parties.

He was listening attentively, suddenly there was someone next to him. He raised his head unexpectedly. It was Lu Zhongli, the prefect of Dongchang...

"Quzhai, listen together, Shoucheng has some ideas."

He said.

"Mr. Wugui, don't listen first. Cangzhou sent someone to report the news. The second town of the Beijing cavalry stationed in Dacheng suddenly went south to Shandong. We asked us to find a solution quickly. They were delaying in Qingxian, but it couldn't be long. If nothing unexpected happened, they would get Cangzhou tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Lu Zhongli said anxiously.

Yu Shenxing's expression changed immediately.

"Li Hualong didn't send anyone to tell me how he was going to deal with it?"

He said.

At this time, the governor of Baoding was Li Hualong, the military affairs governor during the Battle of Bozhou. In fact, he was appointed as the governor to replace Xing Jie before, but was forced back by Mu Changzuo. The latter has become bigger in the past two years and is actually the leader of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. Many of the officials sent by the court were forced to leave by him, so it was not necessary to do it too ugly. The yamen caught fire and his subordinates were stolen and killed. These officials themselves understood. Anyway, there was no civil servant power behind them at this time. Will they stay there and wait for some day to be killed?

However, the expansion of the Mu family also led to another accident, which was that Yang Yinglong did not rebel.

Not only did he not rebel, he became much more honest.

After all, he knew that he could not beat Mu Changzuo, so don't arouse Mu Changzuo's vigilance. At that time, kill the chicken to warn the monkey and kill him to intimidate the chieftains first.

The latter owns the entire Yunnan garrison, and has also received support from Sichuan and Guizhou military households. It can mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan at any time, and also has the financial support of Sichuan gentry. The chieftains in the southwest are all trash in front of such a military group.

Mu Changzuo himself is not the kind of waste who has been hereditary for several generations. On the contrary, this guy is not inferior in his literary talent and martial arts.

Lu Zhongli shook his head.

Yang Feng immediately stopped his speech.

"Mr. Quezhai, are you talking about going south against the party?"

He said.

"Shoucheng, it is true. The magistrate of Cangzhou sent people to report the news. The second town of the cavalry in Jingying went south from the city and tried to invade Shandong."

Lu Zhongli said.

Yang Feng was instantly like he was injected with chicken blood...

"Students, now that the party is going south, Cangzhou is in danger. If Cangzhou is not protected, Shandong will inevitably be poisoned. What should we do now in Shandong in times of crisis?"

He yelled.

There was an awkward silence below.

"Go north and defend the enemy outside the provincial gate!"

Zhang Zhifa was so sensible that he shouted heartbrokenly.

"Yes, we are the knights of the sect outside the province, and now we are the knights of the sect, and this is the time to protect the sect with blood!"

Song Jideng shouted.

Then some apology knights and local scholars joined.

"What are you waiting for? The knights of the Confucius-Mencius Knights, go kill the enemy with me!"

Yang Feng seemed not to see most of the knights looking at each other, but instead drew his sword and roared.

"Prevent the teachings with blood!"

"Prevent the teachings with blood!"

...

Zhang Zhifa quickly took the lead in echoing.

After all, everyone is a scholar and is shameless. The remaining knights and scholars of the priests, whether sincere or not, had to draw out their swords and shout.

Yu Shenxing looked at this scene and showed a gratifying smile...

"Gather the Dongchang militia, follow the Confucius and Mencius Knights to rescue Cangzhou, and send people to send a letter to Li Hualong immediately. If you don't want to be killed by a fake route, you will let Cangzhou stay. The returning groups under his command should also be dispatched."

He said to Lu Zhongli.
Chapter completed!