Chapter 324

Zhang Fangping entered the central government again and accepted the imperial decree as a bachelor of Duanming Palace.

Han Qi was wary of Wang Anshi. Since Wang Anshi wrote thousands of words in the third year of Jiayou, the differences between the two in terms of ideas, styles, scholarship, governance, and government have been revealed.

It is said that Wang Anshi once discussed something with Han Qi, and when they disagreed, he said: "This is what the common officials did."

Han Qi was unmoved and replied: "I don't know, I, Han Qi, am really a common official."

When the prime minister advances or retreats, all his proposals and drafts will come from Hanlin bachelors. In the old system, if there was a shortage of bachelors, the first hall would be filled with people.

If you want to use this old system, it should be Wang Anshi.

Six years later, Wang Anshi's political views became increasingly apparent, so now Han Qi did not want Wang Anshi to enter the Forbidden Forest to prevent excessive influence on the emperor.

So Zhang Fangping was brought in to block the way. Lao Zhang had been doing this job since his second reform. He was a former bachelor and his qualifications were flawless for this job.

In fact, Wang Anshi is currently mourning his mother in Jiangning, and he is giving lectures and writings. He has recruited a large group of disciples, including Lu Dian, Gong Yuan, Li Ding, Cai Bian, Hou Shuxian, Jia Qiao and others.

Speaking of which, it's a terrible thing. During Wang Anshi's funeral, he was so slovenly that he couldn't even look at it. A friend of his who was a high-ranking official nearby wrote a letter to express his condolences and asked him to send it to Urgent Foot.

He rushed to Wang Anshi's house and saw a slovenly old soldier sitting on the straw. He handed the letter to him: "Old soldier, give this letter to your family."

Wang Anshi opened the letter and asked in a hurry: "Hey, what's the matter with you old man? How dare you open your family's letter privately?!"

The old man then raised his head: "I am Wang Anshi."

The talkative cousin and Lao Wang were naturally at odds with each other. After various incidents, they are now almost inseparable. They didn't even bother to pay homage to Wang Anshi's mother at her funeral.

Then after learning about this, "On Distinguishing Adultery" came out.

Even Su Che and Su Shi couldn't stand it, and their brothers warned him, "It's so serious."

However, Su You did not persuade them. They were all stubborn. If I had the energy to hope for them to change their temper, I might as well get more citrus saplings.

The current situation in the DPRK makes Han Qi really scared.

If you don't have enough people, you are qualified to submit a letter. A year later, you are just a fish in the pond again.

The court can no longer tolerate too many fish in the pond, because the fighting has begun again.

Sima Guang has been extremely active recently.

As the former Minister of Rites and the current position of Zhijianyuan, it is simply perfect.

Because the death of Emperor Renzong involved a lot of professional knowledge about etiquette, Sima Guang said that this was his home court.

The first is the issue of matching sacrifices.

This is an academic issue, but when it comes to the emperor, it becomes a political issue.

The great affairs of the country lie in sacrifice and military affairs.

Originally in the Song Dynasty, the winter solstice and summer solstice were worshiped in the suburbs like this. God Haotian, the emperor and the emperor were worshiped together with Taizu;

In the first month of the first month, people pray to Xin for the Valley, Meng Xia offers sacrifices, Meng Dong offers sacrifices to the gods of China, and the Taizong is paired with them;

On the first month of the lunar month, Xin sacrifices were held to Emperor Gansheng and to be paired with Xuanzu;

In the autumn of Ji Qiu, there was a great feast in the Mingtang, where God Haotian was worshiped and accompanied by the Zhen clan.

Now the question comes, what should Renzong do?

Wang Gui, a Hanlin scholar, and others cited history: "After Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty came to the throne, Ji Qiu had a great time, and his father, Suzong, was paired with God Haotian; when Dezong came to the throne, he was also paired with his father, Suzong, and God Haotian."

"So based on this precedent, I think we should follow the strict father's way of Zhou Gong and let Renzong deserve to enjoy the Mingtang."

Someone seconded: "Xueshi Wang is right. Strictly according to the "Book of Filial Piety", Houji is worshiped in the suburbs of Duke Zhou to match the sky, and King Wen is worshiped in the Mingtang to match God. This is the so-called 'filial piety is greater than a strict father, and there is nothing greater than a strict father.

Yu Peitian.’ Agree!”

Then someone objected: "That's not right. The Duke of Zhou was just a minister in power. It was King Cheng who actually performed the sacrifice, and King Wen was the grandfather of King Cheng! This is called 'Government leads to Duke Zhou, and sacrifice leads to King Cheng.'"

Someone immediately extended the idea: "So now my dynasty to Zhenzong is like King Wen of Zhou; Renzong is like King Wu of Zhou. Although King Wu has the karma of matching heaven, he has no sacrifice to match heaven. I haven't heard that King Cheng became his father King Wu.

The sacrifice of grandfather Wen Wang was abolished. Therefore, grandfather Zhenzong occupies the position, and father Renzong cannot match Mingtang."

Immediately, someone raised objections: "If you use Confucius' heart to promote the sacrifice of Zhou Gong, you are the father of Yan; if you use the heart of Zhou Gong to accept the sacrifice of the king, you are Grandpa Yan. So whether it is Grandpa Yan or Father Yan, it should actually be OK."

"So the matching method in the Tang Dynasty was the result of Du Hongjian and Wang Jing, the ceremonial officials at that time, who did not know the scriptures and read poetry and books, and their nonsense has been extended to this day, leading everyone to regard the use of father to match heaven as a final conclusion.

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Then someone deduced and found something wrong: "Wait a minute, another problem is discovered. If we stick to the saying in "The Classic of Filial Piety" that 'No filial piety is greater than a strict father, and no strict father is greater than Pei Tian.' At the beginning of Zhenzong's succession,

, Taizong's father should be the one to marry him! But Taizong's wife is the emperor of China! This is the system of our dynasty."

There are different opinions, some say that Renzong is not worthy, and some say that Zhenzong is not worthy.

There are even more exaggerations, saying that Xuanzu, Zhenzong, and Renzong are all unworthy of each other. This is too iron-clad. The reason is very simple, you know.

The censor Zhongcheng Wang Chou offered his opinion: "The Book of Changes says: 'The kings of the past made music and admired virtue, and recommended the gods to match the ancestors.' So the ancestors, the emperors, have always been there. How about we adjust it and look like this

Ok"

"Emperor Renzong deserves to enjoy the Mingtang, which is in line with the theory of matching the test in the "Dayi" and the strict father's etiquette in the "Book of Filial Piety";

"Moving Zhenzong to accompany Meng Xia's sacrifices, eh, this is in line with the Tang Zhenguan and Xianqing stories;"

"Then Emperor Taizong still went to Xinqi Valley in the first month of the year, and Mengdong offered sacrifices to the gods of China. This is in line with the story of this dynasty! Perfect!"

Sima Guang resolutely resisted: "The heart of a filial son is to respect his father first! The saints set the etiquette and dare not exceed it."

"We must pay attention to analyze the context of Confucius' words."

"The Duke of Zhou has the virtues of a saint, accomplished the cause of peace, made rituals and made music, and King Wen is his father."

"That's why Confucius quoted this story to prove that the virtue of a saint is greater than filial piety, and to answer Zengzi's question."

"Confucius did not say that anyone who has a world must match his father to heaven, and only then can he be considered filial."

"In modern times, those who worship Mingtang always match their father to God. This is a random interpretation of the "Book of Filial Piety" and violates the etiquette of the ancestors!"

"Taizu is the ancestor of emperors, compared to Zhou and Houji;"

"Taizong, Zhenzong is the emperor's sect, and is comparable to Zhou's in literature and martial arts;"

"After Zhenzong's death, he went to Mingtang to be worthy of God, which still has the meaning of ancient etiquette."

"Although Renzong's merits and virtues are universal, he should not be in the second position."

"Those who suggest abandoning Zhenzong and joining Renzong are afraid that the sacrificial method will not be consistent. If you don't talk about theory and only talk about human feelings, this is deposing the ancestor and replacing the father! Where is filial piety?"

"If we do this, it will not only violate the etiquette, but also Renzong will not be willing to do it, right? So we insist that we should abide by the old etiquette, and we should use Zhenzong to match the Five Emperors in Mingtang. Just leave it alone..."

Sun Pin, a bachelor of Guanwen Palace and a bachelor of Imperial Academy, said: "Wait a minute, who was that just now? What did the censor Zhongcheng say?"

"The Book of Changes says, 'The kings of the past made music and respected virtue, and recommended gods to match their ancestors.' This means that even grandfather and father can match gods!"

"Then what's there to argue about? Zu, Kao can be matched with Jiao and Mingtang. Isn't it enough to stagger the two places?"

"Thousands of years have passed since the Zhou Dynasty. In the end, whether it was Yan's father, Yan's ancestor, or Yan together, we dare not say that our understanding is necessarily correct."

"Although it is true that in the Zhou Dynasty, there was no such thing as abolishing literary matching and moving it to martial arts, or abolishing military matching and moving it to Cheng, but the textual research on matching in the "Yi" and the Yanfu theory in the "Book of Filial Piety" have been followed through the generations, and others do not necessarily have it. Isn’t that right?”

"Renzong's succession was preserved, and the world was established in Da'an for forty-two years. His merits can be said to be extremely great. At the beginning of the present temple, he was restrained and unworthy, for fear of damaging the new emperor's strict father's filial piety."

"So I think we should follow the earliest plan and let Zhenzong and Renzong support Mingtang together..."

In the end, everyone happily decided to maintain the original plan after a lot of arguing.

It's all in vain to argue all this time.

Su You read the newspaper and said with a cold smile: "Come on, this is just a warm-up, there will be a lot of excitement in the future!"

Putting aside the boring Di newspaper and taking the report from Kuizhou, the statistics of the autumn harvest are undoubtedly gratifying.

Su You fulfilled his promise to the Han barbarians in Kuizhou that every household would have food and chickens and ducks.

People are harvesting hard in the terraced fields, and children are running and playing on the ridges of the fields, singing the latest popular children's song in Kuizhou: "If you want to eat cakes, look for flowers! If you want food, look for virtuous people! Kill the fat pigs and stuff them with sausages! Eat them!" Let’s go down the mountain and bask in the sun!”

Then the fathers who were threshing rice at the fields grabbed him and hung them on the mixing bucket, and slapped him on the buttocks until he screamed: "Puppies don't learn well in their daily lives. They obviously have to eat well and go down the mountain to go to school! I'm so exhausted." Damn, Tanhua Lang called you down the mountain to make you uneducated? He told you to bask in the sun and fish every day?!"
Chapter completed!