Li Zhi sat in the Qinzhengyuan of Prince Qi's Mansion and carefully reviewed the summary of the temples of Prince Qi in various places.
Zheng Hui, Gao Ligong and Han Jinxin stood in front of Li Zhi, not daring to express their anger.
Han Jinxin looked very embarrassed and stood in front of Li Zhi with a slight sweat on his forehead.
This time something big happened at the birth temple, and Han Jinxin, who concealed it and failed to report it, could not escape his guilt. Han Jinxin had been cautious and conscientious over the years, working hard for Li Zhi, and did not make any small moves. But he still failed to understand Li Zhi on the matter of the birth temple.
attitude and made a mistake.
After all, Han Jinxin was from the Ming Dynasty. He would never think it was a bad thing for others to build a shrine for Li Zhi. As a former minion of Wei Zhongxian, Han Jinxin witnessed the trend of officials across the country setting up shrines for the Wei family when Jiu Qian was in power.
Those splendid and magnificent ancestral halls indeed increased Wei Zhongxian's prestige in a short period of time and made Wei Zhongxian more powerful.
What happened after the fall of Wei Zhongxian is another matter.
In Han Jinxin's heart, it was a great thing that the people voluntarily built a shrine for King Qi. Internally it could increase the cohesion of the town and nine provinces, and externally it could increase Li Zhi's prestige.
However, Li Zhi doesn't think so. In Li Zhi's eyes, although this shrine built for him is harmless, it is regarded as a kind of personal worship. Li Zhi feels that this kind of absolute worship is not good for him and may make him paralyzed and proud.
Be complacent and lose the motivation to move forward.
Moreover, when personality worship reaches the level of deification, it can be said to be a kind of superstition, which may affect the spirit of science and the culture of public morality in one town or nine provinces.
Therefore, Li Zhi's attitude towards living temples was not very good in the past few years, and he even ordered them to be demolished after learning that several living temples cost a lot of money. This made Han Jinxin very surprised and felt that Li Zhi was really a bit rigid.
However, Li Zhi's indifferent attitude could not stop the people's enthusiasm to support Li Zhi, and shrines sprung up all over the country. However, in order to prevent Li Zhi from demolishing his own shrines, local officials and Han Jinxin simply did not report it to Li Zhi.
Planted.
Folk shrines do not affect the local economy, nor do they affect financial statements. Since they are not reported to the local government, Li Zhi really does not know that shrines in various places have grown to this scale.
However, now that such a big thing happened in the shrines in Jinghai County, Han Jinxin and the local officials could no longer conceal it. Now Han Jinxin had to report all the situations of the shrines in various places to Li Zhi.
For Han Jinxin, who has experienced downturn in life and suddenly met Li Zhi in middle age, who was reused by a wise master, he has always believed in being loyal to the master. The current situation makes him feel very embarrassed. He doesn't know whether Li Zhi will be able to do it from now on.
It will change your view of yourself.
Of course Li Zhi noticed Han Jinxin's thoughts.
Li Zhi looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said, "I didn't expect that the local situation has developed to this extent."
Zheng Hui and Gao Ligong glanced at each other secretly, with a little panic on their faces.
Han Jinxin concealed it and did not report it. As governors, the two of them also did not report the matter of the Sheng Temple.
After a long time, Zheng Hui finally plucked up the courage to say: "Your Majesty, there are bad things about this shrine, but it also has advantages. Although something happened to the shrine in Jinghai County, there was nothing wrong with the shrines in other places. Overall, this shrine is good.
It can still increase the cohesion of the people in one town and nine provinces."
Li Zhi threw away the information on the table and looked at Zheng Hui.
Zheng Hui did not dare to say anything anymore and bowed his head.
Li Zhi asked: "These temples are out of date!"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, Gao Ligong was dumbfounded and asked in surprise: "Your Highness...are they all going to be demolished?"
Li Zhi walked a few steps in the room.
"Need to transform!"
The three men stared at Li Zhi, wondering how he planned to transform this temple.
Li Zhi said: "In the final analysis, this shrine is a religious facility. The religious facilities that our nine provinces need are not personal worship of few people, but the spirit of science, the norms of the legal system, and the idea of public morality."
"We must transform these ancestral halls that worship individuals into places that promote science, the rule of law and public morality."
Gao Ligong asked in surprise: "How to reform it?"
Li Zhi frowned and said, "Do you still need me to think about this?"
Gao Ligong lowered his head and turned his head rapidly. After a while, he raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, I think that the people support the Prince and enter the Shengsheng Temple to worship the Prince, so the statue of the Prince must still be preserved.
."
Li Zhi was noncommittal.
Gao Ligong continued: "But we can work on the appearance of the statue. I think we can write the word "Gongde" in large gold characters on the chest of the statue in the main hall. Then let the statue hold a big card in its left hand with the word "法法" on the right hand.
Hold another big card and write the word science."
Li Zhi thought for a while and nodded.
Seeing Li Zhi nodding, Gao Ligong was overjoyed and said: "We can also force local ancestral halls to remove the gate towers and statues of gods in the front hall, and replace them with three major names: public morality, legality and science. If the people want to offer incense, they can only give
These three brands are very fragrant."
Li Zhi nodded again.
Not to be outdone, Zheng Hui also handed over his hand and said: "Your Majesty, you can organize Taoist priests in the Sheng Temple to conduct training. Let the Taoist priests explain clearly to the people who come to worship in the Sheng Temple, why the Prince became a prince, and why one town and nine provinces became one town
The Nine Provinces rely on the spirit of science, the norms of the legal system, and the ideas of public morality."
"Let the common people be influenced by the Taoist priests when they worship."
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Okay!"
Zheng Hui's face was overjoyed, and he secretly thought that he had now redeemed his sins.
Li Zhi was silent for a while and glanced at the three important ministers under his command.
"I am very disappointed in concealing the news about the shrine this time. I originally trusted the three of you, but what you have done is not worthy of my trust in you."
The three of them were so frightened that they all knelt on the ground.
"I am guilty!"
"I will be punished by death!"
Li Zhi knocked on the table and said: "I will give you one more chance and trust you again. If there are any things that are concealed and not reported in the future, I will send you to be the governor of an overseas island at least, or file a case for investigation and deal with it seriously."
Already."
"The magistrate of Jinghai County has been investigated and dealt with. Have you seen this example?"
This case in Jinghai County has now been basically investigated. The Yang brothers were sentenced to thirty canes for destroying statues, and Qiu Kedu was sentenced to sixty for organizing resistance. Those who participated in armed fights and injured others were each sentenced to cane or even death. And the police were led by
The magistrate of Jinghai County who stormed Shanxi Street, threatened to kill the Yang brothers, and provoked a fight was beheaded.
The three important ministers were all sweating heavily, and they were lying on the ground without daring to speak.
Li Zhi sighed, waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's do it!"
The three of them were relieved, climbed up from the ground, and exited the Qinzhengyuan in small steps.
