Chapter 100 Discussion of the Hundred Schools of Thought in the Ming Dynasty
At the end of the morning court, the officials were both exhausted and excited.
You are really tired when you are tired. Your brain must move in unison. If you are not careful, your head will no longer belong to you.
But it’s really exciting. For everyone, it’s a real blessing that they don’t need to be dealt with strictly according to the ancestral system. And the confidence and magnanimity shown by the Prince Supervisor makes every official look forward to it.
Many officials didn't even bother to drink water and quickly gathered in twos and threes to discuss.
"Looks like Emperor Jiajing, he started talking about etiquette."
"Would it hurt the hearts of the scholars to supervise the country by using Mohist remarks?"
"Don't worry about it... Look at the great writer Qian Qianyi who didn't say anything."
"Qian Qianyi didn't say anything. He patted his chest and said that Yang Lian was from the Mohist family. He himself accepted the Mohist family~"
"Yes, those censorship officials who love to criticize the most, don't they all express their acceptance of Mohism and study Mohism's theory to avoid becoming a forbidden knight~"
Many officials were very happy that the imperial censor was defeated. This time they accepted Mohism, and all civil and military officials accepted it. However, the censor was chosen first, and the representative figure was identified as a Mohist. According to the Mohist theory, a giant supervisor was set up.
them.
Cool~
This time, as a direct descendant of the non-prince and a member of the Donglin Party, the bachelor Han Xu was not included in the rebellion, which of course attracted the attention of some smart officials.
Sun Chengzong, a descendant of Zuo Shu of Hanlin Academy, noticed this and paid a special visit.
"Mr. Han Ge, today's morning meeting can be regarded as the beginning of a new chapter in the Ming Dynasty."
"Hahaha, what Brother Zhisheng said is true."
Although Han Xu is a bachelor, he is 56 years old and is one year younger than Sun Chengzong, who has a lower position, so he calls his cousin by adding the elder honorific, "Brother Zhisheng".
Sun Chengzong had a neat beard. He picked up the teacup, pulled his beard and sipped tea: "Mr. Han Ge, fortunately today we did not specifically target Donglin. Instead, we first caught Yao Zongwen of the Zhejiang Party and poisoned your majesty. The move of the prince to supervise the country is indeed true."
It’s more in line with filial etiquette.”
"Yes, we are just afraid that Wang An will directly clean up Donglin. The Prince Supervisor does not seem to have this intention."
"It's just that Liu Yijing, the second assistant, was listed as one of the first rebels. He himself was brought up without complaining at all. I still feel it is a bit unreal."
"Brother Zhisheng." Han Xu leaned his head slightly closer to Sun Chengzong and said with serious eyes:
"When the second assistant Liu Yijing was arrested, I was beside him. There was no doubt about the matter. He admitted it at the time and kept saying that Wang An had mistaken him... He and some colleagues really believed in Wang An too much.
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Sun Chengzong was slightly surprised. Telling him this kind of thing showed that Han Xu had great trust in him.
"Oh, there's nothing we can do about it. Since he really did it, we won't consider asking for mercy."
Han Xu and Sun Chengzong were both from the outskirts of Donglin. One was from Puzhou, Shanxi, and the other was from Baoding, North Zhili. They had always had a good relationship.
The two exchanged views this morning, and they actually admired the arrangement of the crown prince's supervision of the country.
My good friend Liu Yijing has some thoughts on Confucianism and Mohism.
Now that Liu Yijing is so anxious that she really does such a thing, no one can save her. If the two of them are not in a hurry to draw a clear line, instead of adding insult to injury, they are already kind-hearted civil servants. p>
"By the way, what does Mr. Ge think about the Mo family?"
"On the fundamental issue of the Ming Dynasty and the scholars co-ruling the world, the prince supervising the country did not express any objection. He also respected the scholars. This is something that I, the chief minister, and the Ministry of Revenue all know well."
After all, Han Xu was in the cabinet and had more contact with the emperor and the prince. He had no reservations about this to his good friend Sun Chengzong and truthfully told what he had seen and heard.
He then added: "It's just that there were rumors that the current prince overseeing the country does not like Confucianism, but likes carpenters and Mohists. This rumor is very harmful."
"Indeed..." Sun Chengzong, who served in the Hanlin Academy, already knew that many Hanlin Academy bachelors and scholars in Beijing were bewitched and followed the rebels into the palace and died in vain.
Sun Chengzong pondered for a while, took a sip of tea and said: "In fact, the Ming Dynasty royal family does not need to believe in Confucianism, but must respect the scholars and implement the rule of law with the scholar-bureaucrats to create a prosperous age."
"Oh? Brother Zhisheng thinks so too?"
"Exactly."
Since Han Xu and him did not retain the important information, Sun Chengzong also expressed his thoughts.
The most glorious Ming Dynasty must be Taizu and Chengzu for two dynasties.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, grew up eating food from hundreds of families. His ability and style must have been from military strategists, legalists, and farmers.
Liu Bowen really embraced all schools of thought and knew everything. His achievements in astronomy, geography, institutions, hexagrams, military art, and laws far exceeded those of classics and history.
Who was the representative of Confucianism in the early Ming Dynasty? The great Confucian Song Lian, but within the team of Ming Taizu, Song Lian was an outsider and was recruited later.
There is no need to ask more about Chengzu Zhu Di.
At first, he led soldiers and generals to attack the Confucian scholars around Zhu Yunwen.
And can Yao Guangxiao be considered a Confucian? The military strategist, Zongheng, and Yin Yang are similar, but later he became a Confucian scholar who controlled the world and looked like a Confucian.
As for the later use of Zhuangyuanlang Jie Jin and San Yang to assist the government and compile the "Yongle Dadian", they also used scholar-bureaucrats instead of Cheng Zu to study and become Confucianism himself.
"But during the reign of Renxuan and the Zhongxing of Hongzhi, it was indeed the emperor who respected our Confucian scholars at that time and boldly allowed us Confucian scholars to rule the country, achieving a situation where the Ming Dynasty and the scholar-bureaucrats shared the world, and that was the grand occasion at that time?"
Han Xu certainly had no objection to Sun Chengzong citing Taizu and Chengzu as examples, but the rule of Renxuan and Hongzhi Zhongxing are examples of Confucianism doing very well...
"A grand occasion? Mr. Han Ge also thought it was a grand occasion?"
Sun Chengzong suddenly asked back, and Han Xu quickly thought about it seriously.
"Haha, Brother Zhisheng has more profound ideas than I do. Calling those two periods prosperous may not necessarily convince the public."
This means that the two of them trust each other very much and can talk about it in private.
Sun Chengzong continued: "There is also Yang Tinghe. Yang Shen and his son were both great Confucians, but they gave the Jiajing Dynasty a very bad start. On the other hand, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng were born in Confucianism, but they did what Guan Zhong and Shang Yang did.
Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng launched the Longwan New Deal, which allowed Ming Dynasty to stabilize its frontiers, revitalize all industries, and have more money in the treasury. The three major conquests allowed Ming Dynasty to stabilize its position at home and abroad. To this day, we are still enjoying the afterglow of the Longwan New Deal.”<
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Han Xu also nodded. The Donglin Party considered it politically correct to oppose Zhang Juzheng.
However, both Han Xu and Sun Chengzong were born close to the border. Before the Longwan New Deal was implemented, the Mongols were able to attack near their hometowns.
They have personally experienced the contribution Zhang Juzheng's reforms made to the Ming Dynasty.
If a capable emperor emerges and can boost national power while balancing imperial power and scholar-bureaucrats, then the Ming Dynasty will indeed be revitalized.
The Crown Prince has such courage, but will he act excessively and hastily?