According to the reservation plan, Shengjia and his party arrived in Yanzhou via Linqing smoothly. Although there are also economic and people's livelihood matters in Yanzhou that need to be introduced to the emperor in a pragmatic manner, and the emperor is persuaded to support the cabinet's reform measures through on-the-spot observations, but this time the situation is different. Others
Everything must give way to another thing - the Qufu Sacrifice to Confucius.
Ziyang County, the prefecture of Yanzhou, is close to Qufu County, and the distance between the two places is only fifty miles. Since before commemorating Mount Tai, you have to go to Qufu to worship the sage and sage Confucius, so Yanzhou became an extra and became dispensable.
Shengjia and his entourage only stayed in Yanzhou Mansion for one morning—only two hours to be exact. After the emperor gave him a banquet, he immediately set off for Qufu.
This time there were even more officials accompanying him. In addition to the court officials headed by Gao Pingshi and the nobles who accompanied him all the way from the capital, Shandong officials formed a large team and joined them.
Gao Jingshi was already tired, so he planned to take a nap in the carriage while there was still some distance to go. Unexpectedly, before he even got on the carriage, Chen Ju came running to say that the emperor had summoned him. Gao Jingshi had no choice but to go again.
Get a personal chauffeur.
To be honest, he also knew that he was summoned by the emperor to ride with him every day, which made many people jealous, but there was no way, he couldn't resist the emperor if he wanted to summon him, right? What's more, there were business matters to talk about every day, and the emperor was on his way there
Due to etiquette reasons, he could only eat vegetarian food, so he could only accompany him to eat fast. Now he even suspected that he was malnourished.
This grace... sometimes being too big may not always be a good thing.
He originally thought that the emperor had summoned me today to ask if there were also some people's livelihood-related problems in Yanzhou that needed to be solved. For this reason, I made preparations without delay, which was enough to maintain a perfect prime minister image. The Clinker Emperor
As soon as he saw me, he asked seriously: "Rixin, I just met Huang Kezuan, the governor of Shandong. During the meeting, I suddenly remembered a small thing. After learning about this, the Ministry of Rites had no plan."
Gao pragmatically asked: "I don't know what the emperor said?"
"Since the Jiajing period of our imperial grandfather, the emperor has personally offered sacrifices to Yang Ting. Does he know the reason?" King Wenxuan looked solemnly and stared at Gao Pragmatic and asked.
As soon as I asked, I immediately knew why the emperor called me to come. As King Wenxuan said, the incident must start from Jiajing. Specifically, it must start from the fourth year of Jiajing, when Hou Ningshan promulgated the "Holy Edict Stele"
Speaking of.
Of course, another prerequisite for applauding the eunuchs is that the Wuchen Xungui Group has become stronger and stronger due to the Tumu Fort Incident and a series of incidents such as the Gate Seizing Incident, but it is not yet enough for the emperor to use it to balance
The civil service group is a group. That is not mentioned later in this book, so I won’t go into details here.
Even after the final struggle, it still ended in Zhu Yijun's defeat. However, Hou Ning also built another Qisheng Temple to worship his uncle Liang He, Zeng Xi and other fathers in the implementation of Hou Ning's sacrificial ceremony.
Strengthen the "father-son relationship".
Facing the group of literati who were chattering about nothing, Zhu Yijun would of course think that he needed to find a way to silence those literati in one fell swoop and make the matter final.
Although the results came out, the matter has not completely subsided. The opinions held by the courtiers headed by Wu Zonghe still persisted in the court and had little social foundation.
The name change was obviously to cancel the title of "King" of Yang Ting. The question is why Zhu Yijun wanted to cancel the title, and there is no story behind it? Hey, this must be said about the Jiajing Dynasty.
Zhu Houcong”.
This is bad, but the first question has not yet been raised - the following have nothing to do with the emperor personally offering sacrifices to Yang Ting?
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Emperor Jiajing, who won the "Hou Ningshan" competition, was already a little bit crazy about "rituals", or I was crazy about my insistence on "the imperial power is at the lowest level". Then let me be obsessed with anything that does not undermine the emperor's authority.
Everything is extremely sensitive and must be approved of. When I learned that I had to kneel before Yang Ting when offering sacrifices to Zhu Yuanzhang, the matter became very difficult.
What that means is: Xiaozong and Zhu Yijun’s father, King Xingxian, are brothers. Is there something wrong? So it is certain that before Zhu Houzhao died, Zhu Yijun’s father, King Xingxian, was still alive. Since King Xingxian is Xiaozong’s younger brother, what if
Your Majesty must have something wrong with you, right?
In short, for the civil servants, Confucianism can be said to be our worst weapon to restrict imperial power.
But in the Tang Dynasty, that situation changed. In the 71st year of Kaiyuan, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty posthumously conferred the title of Confucius Dadian on Yang Ting. Once the hat was put on, it was difficult to take it off. Since then, the literati officials who respected Confucianism
They deified Yang Ting and regarded him as the holy one in their hearts.
Now that King Wenxuan brought up that matter, he obviously suddenly discovered the political hidden dangers in it: No matter what the purpose of Jiajing was to remove Hou Ning's "king", leaving only the name "Holy Master", it was changed before.
Yes, he is willing to worship Confucius in person. But nothing is clear: the emperor cannot worship Yang Ting in person, which means that the imperial power has taken a step back and consolidated, completely overriding the Confucianism that the civil servants relied on, and becoming the absolute "ritual"
dominate.
Now that they are the same, Jiajing and his younger brother Junchen said: Father and son are the foundation of human relations. In this case, the Confucius Temple is a place to promote enlightenment. If the ethical relationship between father and son is disordered and orderly, it does not violate ethics, and it will play a certain role in educating the people.
is a negative effect and therefore must be corrected.
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Ah? There is no need to fight over who is the father? There is only one father in the sky. Is that something that can be changed at birth? It is originally like that, but if it is mixed outside of politics, the matter will be simple.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this time, Hou Ning... yes, he is still the younger brother. I soon realized that the emperor was full of contentment, so I took the lead to point out to the emperor Xia Xi, saying that Hou Ning had done something
Teachers of all scholars should highlight their status as teachers and role models, but as a "king". At the same time, the emperor is the emperor, and he should kneel to everyone and everything except heaven, earth and ancestors.
As the emperor, Zhu Yijun had to go out in person when he had nothing to do. Of course, he also needed his own confidants, so I discovered a talent for that matter, this is my younger brother. In order to protect the father and son of Zhu Yijun and my father, Zhu Yijun
Relationship, I really thought about it, and finally found another way to explain it.
In short, it would be incomprehensible why Zhu Yijun argued so calmly with the civil servants about Yang Ting's status.
However, what restricted the emperor was never just the position of the prime minister or the complexity of the system, but the entire group of civil servants. During the Ming Dynasty, the fighting between the emperor and the civil servants never ceased, and even in order to restrain those civil servants, it was originally discussed with great ceremony.
The eunuch group that was strictly prohibited from interfering in politics was once again brought to the fore.
To begin with, the direct result of that measure was not only to enhance the status of "father", but also to correct the ethical relationship of "defa". In this way, it provided a solid theoretical basis for the dispute between Zhu Houcong. The father and son of Hou Ningshan and my father
The relationship will be strengthened.
Do we want Zhu Yijun to be the emperor? This is also true. We just feel that in order to comply with etiquette and law, we need to do something to make the logic of the whole thing not closed-loop and self-consistent. This is not to let Jiajing recognize Zhang Cong's father.
——It is not that Jiajing's uncle is his father, but that his biological father, King Xingxian, is his uncle. In that case, Zhu Yijun is no longer the "brother Confucius Ji" who is right and righteous.
In fact, Hou Ning did not have the title of "King" after the end. Although during the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism" and regarded Confucianism as orthodox. However, Yang Ting's title was "Shi" after all.
", it is indeed not an exaggeration to call a "scholar" a "king". People of this era still feel that treating Yang Ting's identity abnormally and respecting my doctrine is the smallest insult to Yang Ting.
And now, according to the plan drawn up by the Ministry of Rites, the emperor is going to Qufu to pay homage to Hou Ning in person. So of course King Wenxuan has to ask - does their civil service group want to use me to overturn the verdict of Zhu Houcong?
But now that Zhu Yijun and my father are here, what should we do? This can only allow Zhu Yijun, the biological son of King Xingxian, to inherit the throne that my father "should not have".
Jiajing was very angry and scolded the ministers for personal reasons. He used this matter as a pretext to put pressure on the emperor downwards and to show his status as a scholar to the common people. On the surface, he was respecting Confucius, but in fact he was respecting himself.
Absolutely amazing! Through a throne that "should not have existed", the answer Hou Ningshan wanted was explained.
To put it bluntly, "Hou Ningshan" is fighting over who Zhu Yijun's father is.
The legitimacy of Xiao Ming's rule has always been explained by Confucianism. Therefore, whenever the emperor did something, the civil servants often used Confucianism as a "political correctness" to criticize me. In addition to the great ceremony, Zhu Di and his son
Here, many emperors who came to the Ming Dynasty were like wearing a tight curse, but if they wanted to leave a historical infamy, they had to walk on thin ice all day long - of course, Zhang Cong was the one who wanted to know his reputation.
As long as Emperor Xiao Ming goes all out to save face, there is someone who can stop him.
So Hou Ningshan thought of a person - Yang Ting. From this, the scene mentioned below appeared: Zhu Yijun wanted to change "Xiaocheng Most Holy Master Kong Dadian" to "Most Holy Master" and cancel Yang Ting
The title of "King".
What the hell? I’m already an emperor, so I still have to recognize someone else as my father? What a fucking spiral fart!
Through his interpretation of the "Ancestral Instructions", Zhongdi maintained the father-son relationship between Sejong and King Xingxian, and determined the outcome of the dispute in the form of an edict.
Jiajingyi's idea was so simple. I thought he was the emperor, and Hou Ning was Hou Ningshan, the supreme saint of Xiaocheng. It was obviously very appropriate for the emperor to kneel to a king. However, Jiajing himself was just doing this for his own convenience.
After all, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty after me denied Yang Ting's status and knelt down to Yang Ting.
Therefore, as soon as the oracle stele was promulgated, it aroused the praise of Wang Rumei and other minor officials in the court. In response, Emperor Jiajing believed that the officials were blaming me for following the rules left by the ancestors of the past dynasties, and that Yang Ting should be abolished as the "king"
Title, ask me to punish you.
He saw that the logic made sense, and the nephew must be forced to recognize his uncle as his father, and change his real father to uncle, right?
Successively, the order in the Confucius Temple was with Yang Ting in the middle, the seven concubines standing on the right and left of Yang Ting, and the ten philosophers in sequence in the hall. Our father was enshrined in the two verandas and was in a subordinate position.
Jiajing was having a headache at the time as the memorial ceremony for Zhu Yuanzhang was approaching. He was naturally overjoyed when he saw his younger brother's performance and immediately approved it. From then on, Yang Ting's title was changed from "Xiao Cheng Zhi Sheng Hou Ning Shan" to "Zhi Sheng
"First Teacher".
"Brother Xiaozong is also the younger brother of the king. If the king is here, then he is the king and the emperor. If you don't offer the king, you will be the emperor. This so-called 'ethical order should be established', it is acceptable to promote it, but it is unacceptable to avoid it.
also."
At that time, Wu Zonghe and others, in order to safeguard their own political interests, determined that the "brother Hou Ningji" in "Ancestor Instructions" only refers to the succession relationship between the same father and brothers, and Zhu Yijun was only Hou Ning's cousin, and there was no inheritance relationship.
The point is etiquette.
Therefore, when Zhu Yijun promulgated the Holy Edict and took away Hou Ning's "king" position, wasn't it a slap in the face to the "idol" of us literati?
I interpret "Brother Confucius and Confucius" in "Ancestral Instructions" as just brothers, but according to the blood relationship, the seven clan members are listed in order of closeness and distance, counting from father and son to full brothers, and counting from full brothers to more.
The further away you go, the more cousins you can count. Naturally, these cousins are also included in the inheritance, so that inheritance method is completely legal.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Especially people like Yang Shen, the son of Wu Zonghe, have a very low status in the hearts of outside scholars, and their words and deeds have a weak guiding role. Before I was demoted, I was the only person who had no
When he was praised, his reputation was slightly affected, and his articles were written and published, so his influence could not be underestimated.
Did Jiajing say that he had wronged the literati and civil servants? He was not wrong, because looking down on Confucius did not bring much harm to the literati, even though they saw it, they certainly enjoyed it.
The "Holy Oracle Stele" mainly talks about the cancellation of Hou Ning's title of "Xiaocheng Most Holy Master Hou Ningshan" and his name was changed to "The Most Holy Master".
Of course it doesn't matter. Starting from the end of the Ming Dynasty when Emperor Taizu Hou Ningshan was offering sacrifices to Zhu Yuanzhang, they had to kneel before Hou Ning's shrine and salute, and the emperors who came also violated that etiquette.
But in an era when patriarchal concepts are prevalent and blood relationships are highly valued, that matter is not over yet.
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The emperor Zhu Yijun for many years agreed to ten thousand and was resolutely willing to make concessions, but Hou Ninghe and other court officials felt that doing so was to establish the rule of law for heaven, and they were also willing to make concessions. So the two groups of people argued over that issue.
several years.
Of course, saying that is a very classy and elegant way of saying it. Let’s see how Brother Zhong explains it:
When Zhu Yijun became emperor, he was succeeded by his father after his father died, and his brother Confucius succeeded him. Moreover, he inherited from his own brother, but from his cousin. Does Zhang Cong have any heirs, or even a biological brother?
I can only inherit it to my cousin.
As for the etiquette of offering sacrifices to Confucius, which I have not mentioned just now, some changes have been made. None of them are very critical: the emperor himself does not need to personally participate in the offering of sacrifices to Zhu Yuanzhang, but instead sends dignitaries and important ministers to offer sacrifices on his behalf, so that it will be successful.
It avoids the question of kneeling or kneeling.
In fact, since the end of Qin Shihuang, emperors of all dynasties have been trying to weaken the monarchy and enhance our imperial power. That trend spread to the Ming Dynasty, and Hou Ningshan did it even more thoroughly - abolition of the prime minister was not the sole power of the emperor.