As the chamberlain sang, the doors of the Wenhua Palace opened wide, and the officials slowly walked northward and entered the palace through the two doors.

When you enter the hall, you will find that there is a four-clawed dragon screen in the hall, facing south. In front of the screen is where Zhu Houzhao is sitting. He is watching a group of officials walking in in an orderly manner with their heads lowered.

On both sides of him, stood a gilded bronze crane, facing east and west. In the mouth of the crane was a piece of ambergris as thick as a candle, a tribute from foreign countries. Before the prince entered the palace, the incense had been burning for half an hour.

Now there is light smoke and fragrant birds.

There is a book eucalyptus in front of Zhu Houzhao, and there are lecture eucalyptus on both sides of the front.

The officials of the Supervisor of Ceremonies will place the books to be used in advance. According to the rules, the "Four Books" are placed on the east side, and the Classics and History are placed on the west side. The sermons written by the lecturers are also placed inside.

This does not mean that officials are lazy. They should write it first and then read it accordingly.

But the court has regulations that what you will tell the crown prince must be decided first and submitted to the emperor and the cabinet for preview. Otherwise, who knows what you will tell the prince?

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In order to prevent this, when the East Palace summoned the officials after the lecture, they either summoned them all together or not summoned them at all. They did not allow "alone", which was the earliest taboo Yang Tinghe committed.

It is easy to have a "lucky minister" when you are alone. Even if you don't teach the prince some crooked ways, it won't work. Because if the prince often calls a certain person, it means that the prince prefers him. From now on, the prince will only listen to what he says. In case of this

Is he a traitor?

In addition to these, the Jin Yiwei will also have "ceremony guards" who also stand in two rows, representing the royal style.

The officials of Honglu Temple are responsible for the teaching process. For example, the praising officer will shout:

Get up!

Let’s talk!

Exhibition of books!

The actual process looks natural and majestic,

But in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, it was unavoidably complicated, and he was a man who was reading dozens of people just looking at it. Fortunately, he also knew that this was the first day, and that the subsequent "daily reading rituals" would be much simpler.

With his cooperation and the eunuch's supervision, everything in Wenhua Palace went smoothly.

Because it was the first day, old and important ministers like Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian were all here. Cheng Minzheng also had the reputation of serving as the Prince's Attendant in the East Palace, so he was also there.

In fact, all the great Confucian scholars who could be called by name in the court can basically be regarded as Zhu Houzhao's teachers, so they are all really gathered together today.

It must be considered a great joy,

After all, this group of civil servants have been fighting for this matter since the seventh year of Hongzhi, and now they have finally reached this moment.

Regardless of what happened in the past, the Middle East Palace is known as a filial and benevolent master in the hearts of the people. Now that he is officially out of the cabinet to give lectures...it is a great blessing!

When the etiquette was completed, Liu Jian immediately came out of the queue,

"Your Majesty Liu Jian talks about the first chapter of "The Great Learning"!"

Although Zhu Houzhao has already learned this, the attitude of a true scholar is to lay a solid foundation. What he learned before was informal and unsystematic, so now he naturally has to start from scratch. And if he doesn’t start from scratch, then where should he start?

As for the ministers' lectures, they must first recognize the words, secondly explain the meaning of the words, and finally explain the content.

"The way of a university is to be clear and virtuous, and to be close to the people... The 'university' here is opposite to the 'primary school', and 'Tao' means principles and laws... When it comes to 'being close to the people', a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty said this

The word '' is written incorrectly. It should be used as the word 'xin'. Min refers to the people of the world. If the word 'kin' is used, it means people who are close to the world. If it is changed to the word 'xin', it means that the people of the world can renew themselves."

Zhu Houzhao didn't want future generations to read history books and read an unofficial history that the emperor didn't even understand "The Great Learning". So he listened carefully, and there was nothing wrong with him anyway.

When he heard this, he even interjected, "From what I see, the word "personal" is also very good. It is close to the people. What's wrong with it?"

As soon as he said this,

Many people raised their heads to look at him.

Liu Jian did not expect that at this time, the prince would suddenly interrupt. After thinking for a while, he explained: "Back to your highness, judging from the previous sentence, although people can understand their virtues, they can also be contaminated by 'turbidity' and materialistic desires."

The drawbacks are that it requires the process of enlightening one’s virtues, and therefore. The new civil application is used here, and the upper and lower meanings are smoother.”

"It's not good here. The king's way is to be close to the people. But Mr. Liu, you can continue..."

Zhu Houzhao is not the kind of person who mingles with words. You can explain whatever you like.

It's just that his soul five hundred years later can't help but touch it sometimes.

From this point on, we continue to talk about cultivating one’s body and bringing order to the family, bringing order to the family and then governing the country, and governing the country and then bringing peace to the world.

"These three sentences talk about the principle of cultivating one's moral character so as to manage the family and govern the country and bring peace to the world." After these sentences, Liu Jian ended, "Your Highness, I have finished my lecture on "The Great Learning"."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, sir."

In this way, he returned to his original position, and Li Dongyang stepped forward.

"My minister Li Dongyang came to lecture on The Analects of Confucius."

"good."

…

"Chen Xie Qianjin lectured on the Doctrine of the Mean."

"good."

…

"The minister Wu Kuanjin lectures on "Shangshu"."

Zhu Houzhao raised his eyelids, curved the corners of his mouth and narrowed his eyes with a smile, ah, this is an old acquaintance.

"Okay. I, please listen to Mr. Wu!"

Wu Kuan couldn't help but frown,

That day, he and Liu Jian had a few arguments with the Crown Prince in front of the emperor, and it seemed that they made the Crown Prince unhappy more than once. But when they finally left, the Crown Prince talked to him with a smile. At that time, he felt that something was not good.

.

Now why am I excited again...

This gave Mr. Wu a bad feeling.

In fact, "Shangshu" is more difficult to read, and it is more troublesome to explain it in a popular way. But it is the first time for the prince to read, and as a rule, he talks about classics and not history, so he has to do it reluctantly.

Let’s go on like this…

When explaining "the world will be settled with a soldier's uniform", he said: The purpose of King Wu's attack on Zhou was to save all the people from fire and water, so all the people supported him, and if he wore armor and did not wait for blood, the world would have been settled.

As soon as he spoke, he heard Zhu Houzhao call him, "Mr. Wu."

Except for Liu Jian at the beginning, this is the first time that the prince has spoken out.

"I'm here." Wu Kuan raised his hand and stopped speaking.

"Mr. Liu just said that if you cultivate yourself, you can govern the country, and if you govern the country, you can bring peace to the world. This King Wu should have cultivated himself to be perfect. In this case, why do you need him to wear armor so that the world can be peaceful? Logically speaking, it shouldn't be him.

If you cultivate your body, will the world be at peace? Why do you need to wear armor?"

Wu Kuan: "..."

At this time, Cheng Minzheng also raised his head and took a look. He was still thinking about what kind of person Dong Gong was and why he was called the famous Mr. Gao'an (Wu Kuanhao). He was so cautious and cautious, and even paid too much attention to it.

Looking at it now, this question is really tricky.

With so many people, such an important occasion, and such difficult questions to answer, it would be really embarrassing if Wu Kuan 'loses his hand'.

Wu Kuan didn't know where the crown prince would make things difficult for him, but he knew that this might happen, so he was mentally prepared.

He forcibly calmed down his increasingly accelerated heartbeat, thought for a moment and explained: "Return to Your Highness. A person's self-cultivation will affect the people of his family, a family's self-cultivation will affect the people of the country, and the people of a country's self-cultivation will affect the people of the world.

In this way, everyone in the world is willing to cultivate their moral character, and naturally the world is at peace. However, there are also those who are unwilling to cultivate their moral character, so they can only fight each other. But in the end, why King Wu won instead of King Zhou was because King Wu's self-cultivation stopped at

Perfection, if one does not cultivate oneself to perfection, the world will not be stable. Even if King Zhou wins this time, he will still lose in the end. The truth behind this is very profound and must be understood slowly. I wonder if Your Highness understands this explanation.

?”

Zhu Houzhao said: "Then it is not enough to cultivate one's moral character. Just like the Tatars, if our people in this room cultivate one's moral character to perfection, they will still attack us. If we cannot win in a military confrontation, we will live without mercy.

If not, where else can I go to cultivate myself?”

"What His Highness said is not unreasonable. Therefore, the far-sighted ministers in the court will also come to Shu and advise that the border defenses should be renovated to prepare for incoming enemies."

Zhu Houzhao nodded, "Well, Mr. Wu is right. Just cultivating yourself is not enough. According to Mr. Wu, it seems that I will also need to add some military arts to what I will learn in the future."

Wu Kuan was shocked when he said this. What a joke! How could the prince change what he learned at will? You still said in front of so many people that what I said made sense, so I changed it! Isn't this fatal!

Besides, even if these literati are allowed to change, they will definitely not add the art of war! After learning to become a martial emperor, he will have to go on personal expeditions at every turn. Wouldn’t that be a torture to others?
Chapter completed!