After marking the first point in his mind, Zhu Ping'an continued to read down, and then came to the core issue in Senior Brother Yang's memorial:
"I hope that the emperor will listen to the words of his ministers and investigate Song's treachery. The ministers are afraid of Song's majesty and are grateful, so there is no need to ask. The emperor may ask the two kings and ask them to tell them about Song's evil; or he may ask the cabinet ministers and tell them not to
Afraid of Song's power. If it is true, the most important thing is to impose a dictatorship and serious crimes to rectify the country's laws, and the most important thing is to order officials to return home to restore the national system. Then the internal thieves are gone and the government can be clean."
This paragraph is the direct cause of Brother Yang's tragedy. Brother Yang's sentence "maybe ask the two kings" violated Emperor Jiajing's taboo, which led to Brother Yang's failure to impeach Yan Song, and he himself was imprisoned for questioning, and finally abandoned the market.
Zhu Ping'an read it very carefully. After studying Brother Yang's memorial, the morning light filled the eastern sky.
"Brother, peace..."
After Zhu Ping'an finished reading the memorial, he called him "Senior Brother" and then paused, thinking about how to make a suggestion.
"Zihou, between you and me, is there anything we shouldn't talk about? Zihou has any advice, but please speak up, Sheng, and I'm all ears." When Yang Jisheng saw this, he couldn't help but smile, and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of invitation.
"Senior brother has something to say, so Ping An will say it directly. After Ping An read it, he has two rough opinions to discuss with senior brother." Zhu Ping'an nodded when he heard the words, opened the memorial and spread it out on the dining table, stretched out his hand to point out the first
The paragraph where the suggestion is located, he slowly said, "First point: Senior brother said in this paragraph that the Holy Lord "has always tolerated Song's evil deeds", and later said "It cannot cover up the dignity of the minister who wants to protect me, so I can't tolerate him."
"Waiting for the other's self-destruction"... inevitably implies that the Holy One is protecting Yan Song. After the Holy One reads the memorial, he may not be happy, so for the sake of peace, it is better to delete the relevant sentences about the Holy One's graceful grace.
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Yang Jisheng listened to Zhu Ping'an's first opinion and shook his head with a smile, "Zi Hou is overly concerned about this point. Sheng, this paragraph is not actually to blame the Holy One, but to remind the Holy One not to give good treatment to severe thieves again."
Because of your kindness, severe thieves are like weeds to seedlings and tigers to cities. As long as they are in power, they will cause harm to them. If they are not eliminated, millions of people will suffer from their poison."
"Senior brother, even though this is the case, reading it will still make people feel that they are being shielded by the Holy One. If the Holy One feels the same way when reading the memorial, it will be detrimental to the matter of the memorial." Zhu Pingan shook his head and reminded again.
road.
"Zi Hou, I understand what you mean, but if you give up eating because of choking, wouldn't it be unwise? Today's prosperity is all due to the grace of the Holy One. I bluntly remind the Holy One that it is to repay the emperor's favor and to be loyal to the ministers' duty.
." Yang Jisheng shook his head when he heard this, and did not adopt Zhu Pingan's suggestion. His attitude was very firm.
Well.
A bad start.
Zhu Ping'an sighed in his heart. In fact, he understood in his heart that there was nothing wrong with what Yang Jisheng said, because it is indeed the duty of ministers to speak out and give advice. Historically, Wei Zheng, the prime minister in the early Tang Dynasty, was famous for his courage to speak out and give advice to the emperor.
A role model for ministers in the past dynasties to follow. No one is perfect, and the emperor is also a human being. Sometimes he makes mistakes. As a minister, when he discovers that the emperor has made a mistake, shouldn't he remind the emperor because he is worried that the emperor will blame him? If so, it is still a mistake.
Is this what a qualified minister did?!
Besides, he is the famous Yang Jisheng.
In addition, this problem is related to ringworm and scabies compared to "You may ask the two kings", while "You may ask the two kings" is the real terminal disease.
"Let's not talk about this point for now. Please consider this second point, senior brother."
Zhu Ping'an weighed it again and again in his mind, gave up his plan to continue persuading on this point, and focused on "maybe asking the two kings".
"Zi Hou, please speak." Seeing Zhu Pingan being so serious and formal, Yang Jisheng also sat upright and asked Zhu Pingan to talk about the second point.
"The second point is here - "The emperor may ask the two kings to ask him to face Chen Song." Zhu Pingan pointed out this sentence on the memorial, raised his head and looked at Yang Jisheng, and said seriously.
As soon as Zhu Pingan finished speaking, he heard the sound of a cup knocking over from the bedroom in the back room. In addition, he also heard a vague exclamation.
who?
Is there anyone else?
Zhu Ping'an was startled when he heard the sound coming from the back room, and turned to look in the direction of the back room.
"Oh, Zihou, don't worry, there is a dog in the house." Yang Jisheng smiled slightly and explained softly.
It turned out to be Senior Brother Yang's second son. Zhu Pingan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
Senior Brother Yang had two sons, the eldest son Yang Yingwei and the second son Yang Yingji. According to historical records, Senior Brother Yang failed to impeach Yan Song and was thrown into prison. Knowing that he would die, he wrote two wills and one "Foolish Man's Edict" in prison.
"The Good Wife Zhang Zhen" was written to his wife, and a copy of "Father Jiaoshan Yu Yingwei, Ying Ji Er Er" was written to his two sons.
"Ying Ji, what's wrong?" After Yang Jisheng explained to Zhu Ping'an, he asked loudly toward the room.
"I would like to ask father to punish me. The child was thirsty and poured a cup of tea. I didn't realize that the tea was too hot and accidentally knocked over the tea cup." As soon as Yang Jisheng finished speaking, an explanation from a boy about ten years old came from the back room.
"Great things in the world must be done in small details. How many times have I told you as a father that I will punish you to copy the Analects of Confucius ten times this time. Do you have any objections?" Yang Jisheng shook his head slightly after hearing this, and faced the back room and raised his voice to educate.
"I have no objection, kid." Yang Yingji's voice acknowledging his punishment came from the back room.
"Senior brother, Ji Ji just accidentally knocked over the cup, and he was punished by copying the Analects ten times. Isn't it a bit much?" Zhu Pingan persuaded softly after hearing this.
"The Analects" has twenty chapters, totaling 15,900 words. If you copy it ten times, it will be nearly 160,000 words. The calligraphy is not like modern fountain pens and gel pens. How long will it take to copy 160,000 words with calligraphy?
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"Ten times is actually not too much. Firstly, copying the Analects can cultivate one's moral character, and secondly, it can deepen Ying Ji's understanding. However, since Zihou has already spoken, it should be copied five times." Yang Jisheng explained the punishment with a slight smile.
Although he had good intentions in copying "The Analects of Confucius", he listened to Zhu Pingan's persuasion and changed the penalty of copying from ten times to five times.
"Thank you father, thank you Brother Zhu for your kindness, but the man has made a promise. Ying Ji has promised to copy it ten times before. How can he break his promise and ask his father to take back his promise? I am willing to copy the Analects of Confucius ten times." Although Yang Yingji in the back room is young,
But he was very principled in doing things and insisted on copying "The Analects of Confucius" ten times.
"Well, he is indeed my son, Yang Jisheng." Hearing this, Yang Jisheng was full of praise for Yang Yingji's decision, with a look of pride on his face.
"Ping'an is ashamed." Zhu Ping'an bowed his hands in shame after hearing this, admiring Yang Jisheng's family tradition. Integrity comes first when dealing with people. From this small thing, you can see a corner of the Yang family's family tradition.