I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With

Mu Yangling’s article caused a huge uproar among all the different classes.

Every dynasty’s end was marked by a tyrannical or incompetent ruler. Xia Youjie, Shang, Zhou, and Qin. However, no matter who it was, although they were scolded as tyrants and incompetent rulers, the world would always find all kinds of treacherous officials or disasters to share the responsibility.

For example, Xia Jie’s kingdom was destroyed because of Mo Xi¹, the Shang dynasty’s ruler’s tyranny and incompetence was blamed on Daji², and the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty was led astray by Zhao Gao³. In any case, if the Emperor was bad, people made up excuses for that. He was either bewitched by a beautiful woman or slowly turned bad by the deception of treacherous officials.

Mu Yangling was the first person to directly point out that the Emperor’s fault was greater than that of a treacherous official.

Great Qi practiced freedom of speech. Although the aristocrats felt that Mu Yangling’s words were bold, they endured it when they saw that the Emperor in the palace did not react at all.

The commoners who didn’t understand what was going on felt that Queen Consort Rong was right.

Everyone summarized three main points from her article.

Firstly, if the Emperor was muddle-headed, the government would be in chaos.

Secondly, if the prime minister’s authority was too great, it would easily breed corruption and allow him to control the government.

Thirdly, if the responsibilities of the civil and military officials were unclear, and if the officials weren’t supervised well, malfeasance and corruption could easily happen.