The next day, Yunxi got up at Mao hour and came to Fengtian Hall before Chen hour came.
Today is June 26th. It is a Chinese court, so there are many people who can go to court, and none of the ministers on duty have asked for leave, so the main hall is full.
It was the first time that Yunxi came to the highest position. He looked at the dragon chair in front of him, turned around and sat on the dragon chair with a slight trembling.
Yunxi was still a little nervous at this time, but immediately, Fengyu, the governor who was standing aside, said loudly: "Hundred officials pay homage!"
The civil and military officials below immediately knelt down three times and kowtowed nine times, saying in unison: "I have seen your Majesty, long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!"
Yunxi suddenly became less nervous. On the contrary, he felt full of strength. He looked down at the backs of the civil and military officials kneeling on the ground, and suddenly felt like a god standing in the clouds, overlooking all living beings.
Yunxi couldn't help but steal Feng Yu's lines and said: "All the ministers are equal!"
The ministers heard the voice and stood up. Then someone felt something was wrong: This was not the voice of Feng Yu just now!
Many ministers had spoken to Yunxi, so everyone realized that Yunxi meant "all ministers are equal", but it was difficult to talk about it in the main hall at this time.
After Yunxi finished speaking, he realized that he had lost his composure, but he really couldn't help it. He coughed twice, calmed down, and said: "I first conquered the world, and I know that I am not as good as Taizu. I still need all my ministers to see it.
If I have something inappropriate, please give me advice. If I have it, I will correct it, if not, I will encourage you."
After a few words of humility, he changed his tone and said: "But I think that after six years of being the crown prince, I have gained a lot from talents. Taizu also had some instructions before his death." After saying this, he gestured to Wang Xi on the other side.
Wang Xi stepped forward, opened the imperial edict in his hand, and said: "By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: "Chen Xingshan, the former official of the East Palace, Zuo Shuzi, has excellent moral conduct and outstanding talents, and he is appointed as the judge in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army.
, and concurrently serving as Minister of War."
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: Zhang Shu, the former right concubine of the East Palace, possesses both political integrity and talent..., and he should be appointed as the commander of the Liaodong Tieling Guards, and also as the commander and commander of the capital of Liaodong."
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: "The former East Palace right-hand Yude Qin Song, who has both political integrity and talent..., made him the commander of the Jinyi Guards."
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: The former East Palace Zuo praised Yang Ren, who has both political integrity and talent... and made him Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Household Affairs."
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: Li Xuhu, the former right-hand man of the East Palace, has both political integrity and talent... and he should be appointed as the governor of the Zuo Army Governor's Mansion."
In this way, the imperial edict for the new official positions of the East Palace subordinate officials was promulgated. Of course, the courtiers knew that these subordinate officials under Yunxi had gained qualifications in the past few years, and Yunxi would definitely send them to the court for re-employment.
But everyone is also very confused about Chen Xingshan's appointment.
Then everyone noticed that Zhuo Jing had no new appointment, but this was precisely the most disturbing thing. No one knew where Yunxi would arrange Zhuo Jing, and it was very possible that he would be replaced. Even Zhuo Jing
My friends don’t know either. Zhuo Jing came out of Yunxi’s Qianqing Palace and went home directly last night without telling his friends.
Some thoughtful people noticed that Qin Song was the commander of the Jin Yiwei. In the last years of Hongwu, the Jin Yiwei was not reused, and many ministers did not feel that the Jin Yiwei was still active.
Now that the new emperor has appointed someone whom he trusts very much as the commander of the Jin Yiwei as soon as he takes office, is he going to reuse the Jin Yiwei again? This is not a good thing for officials.
After letting the ministers digest the information for a while, Wang Xi, who had a loud voice, took out a new imperial edict and read it aloud (actually memorized it): "By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: Yu Xin, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is transferred to the Ducha.
Qi Tai, the left minister of the household department, is the censor of the right capital of the courtyard. He has both political integrity and talent... and he is appointed as the minister of the household department."
"Du Ze, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was transferred to the right chief envoy of Bashu. The right minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Lian Zining, has both political integrity and talent... and he was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel."
"Zheng Yi, the Minister of Rites, was transferred to the Minister of Taichang Temple. Chen Di, the Minister of Guanglu Temple, was transferred to the Minister of Rites."
"Ru Qi, the Minister of the Ministry of War, was transferred to be the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments."
"Jing Qing, the Secretary-General of the Wutang Hall (fifth grade), has both political integrity and talent..., and he is appointed as the right minister of the Ministry of War."
"Fan Shurun, the commander of Jin Yiwei, was transferred to the commander of Fengyang Right Guards. Geng Xuan, the governor of the Zuo Army Dudu Mansion, was promoted to the governor of the Zuo Army Dudu Mansion."
The ministers still knelt down and said: "I accept the order." No matter whether it involves him or not.
Different from the previous appointments of subordinate officials of the East Palace, these appointments had been rumored before, and they were all normal changes. There were no appointments that made everyone feel incredible, so everyone did not react much.
Everyone thought that today would be about the appointment and dismissal of new official positions, and there would be no other major events. Some civil servants had already planned to mention the issue of reign names again.
However, Yunxi added: "Since I came to the throne last month, I have been extremely afraid that I will not be able to inherit the legacy of Taizu."
"I originally didn't want to go to war early in my succession to the throne, but I had to abide by Taizu's will when he asked me to do something before his death."
Then Wang Xi took out a stack of imperial edicts and prepared to recite the edicts.
Although Yunxi said it was "Taizu's Will", everyone knew that it must have been Yunxi's own intention. Anyway, when Lao Zhu was dying, he was alone with Yunxi for a period of time. No one knows what he said.
It’s not what Yunxi said!
The ministers listened attentively. Wang Xi said loudly: "By the fate of heaven, the emperor issued an edict: In the second and third years of Hongwu, the "Yuan History" was revised. At that time, the world was not settled, and the Mongolian classics were incomplete, so the compilation was rough. Therefore, I am specially ordered to be a scholar.
Scholars re-edited "History of the Yuan Dynasty"."
Since the "History of the Yuan Dynasty" came out, many literati criticized the "History of the Yuan Dynasty". Later, Lao Zhu himself knew that the "History of the Yuan Dynasty" was poorly revised, but Lao Zhu did not attach great importance to such things, so he did not re-edit it.
Of course, Yunxi could not allow this to happen. He attached great importance to history. Unlike other civilizations that have regarded myths as history for a long time, the Chinese civilization is the civilization with the most abundant historical data. It has had a history since the Zhou Dynasty. This is the Chinese civilization.
The greatest thing about civilization is also part of Chinese culture.
The authenticity of the Greek "Homer's Epic" cannot even be compared to "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Watching the gods floating in the sky is almost the same as "The Romance of the Gods".
And when rewriting the "History of the Yuan Dynasty", Yunxi could also include his own private goods. Although Yunxi still has the moral integrity now and will not make up stories, he can highlight what should be highlighted and abbreviate what should be abbreviated.
Wang Xi began to say again: "By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: Because the Meng Yuan Dynasty took over the Central Plains and killed too much, and did not take good care of the classics in the library, many classics were lost."
"In order to clarify the true meaning of the classics, I compiled the words of hundreds of classics and historians into the "Great Ming Dadian". Since then, all the books of classics and history have been collected from hundreds of schools of thought. As for astronomy, geographies, yin and yang, medical divination, monks and Taoism, and technical skills, they have been compiled.
For a book, don’t be tired of the verbosity!”
After Wang Xi's edict was read out, all the civil servants present were excited! China has had a tradition of "book-repairing in the prosperous times" since ancient times, and all those who participated in the book-repairing will be remembered in history. Even if the Ming Dynasty does not exist in a thousand years, it will not be wiped out.
The glory of the book editor!
The civil servants below were talking a lot, and the Han generals scolded them repeatedly. It took a long time before order was restored.
Yunxi looked at the excited civil servants below and smiled with satisfaction. Yunxi originally wanted to wait until a few years after taking the throne and after the "Yuan History" was rewritten before mentioning the "Ming Dynasty Dadian".
However, Qi Tai, Lian Zining and others all told Yunxi that in the eyes of civil servants he was biased towards military generals and the royal family and was not in line with the traditional ideas of civil servants, and asked him to introduce some policies suitable for Confucianism.
After Yunxi thought about it, he didn't want to reduce taxes, and it was impossible to implement a policy like Jianwen in history, so he had to announce the book repair in advance. Anyway, announcing it only meant that it would be repaired, not that it would be repaired immediately.
Now it seems that the effect is very good. Yunxi looked at Chen Xingshan, Zhuo Jing, Yang Ren and others, and they were also very confused. Yesterday Yunxi only said that he wanted to compile a book, but Chen Xingshan and the others thought they were just compiling it casually.
, I didn’t expect to compile a canon that will carry forward the past and open up the future.
Then Wang Xi continued to announce the decree: "By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: the founder of the country is often promoted, he is cautious,..., he was renamed Zheng Guogong, and he was awarded five hundred stones."
"The eldest son Xue Xiran, the eldest son of Xue Ning, the commander of Jinwu's rearguard,..., the second son Xue Xiyang,..., were all given the title of hereditary commander Qianshi."
This matter had nothing to do with anyone else. It was just a normal matter of favoring a relative, and there was no excessive reward, so no one said anything.
Wang Xi continued to declare: "By God's will, the emperor issued an edict: In the early years of Hongwu, four auxiliary officers were established to monitor Yayan and correct mistakes. Now the four auxiliary officers are reinstated."
"Zhang Wen, Marquis of Huining, is the auxiliary officer in spring, Bao Zhao, the former censor of Zuodu, is the auxiliary officer in summer, Guo Zhen, the former governor of the former military governor's office, is the auxiliary officer in autumn, and Chen Xingshan, the judge in charge of the governor's office of the Chinese army, is also the auxiliary officer in winter.
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The Fourth Auxiliary Officer was an official position that Yunxi came up with to help him handle government affairs. In the early days of Zhu Yuanzhang's accession to the throne, he established the official position of the Fourth Auxiliary Officer. At that time, he invited some famous local Confucians to consult at any time, which also showed that he valued Confucianism.
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Later, after all these people became officials, Lao Zhu stopped appointing people to this official position, which was equivalent to dismissing this official position. Now Yunxi pulled this official position out of the Ming Dynasty's classics.
Yunxi was really afraid that what would happen in future generations would happen again: using the cabinet to assist in handling political affairs, and eventually non-Hanlin officials would not be allowed to join the cabinet. Therefore, Yunxi would rather pull out an official position, and then let the cabinet help the fourth auxiliary officers.
From the beginning, he was the prime minister without a name.
Although Lao Zhu hired great Confucians at that time, there was no explicit provision that a great Confucian should be hired to hold this official position, so Yunxi also hired a military general. In addition, in order to balance civil and military affairs, Yunxi adopted a two-civilian and two-military setup.
However, now that this position has just been reinstated, no one realizes what the fourth auxiliary officer represents. They think it is just another advisory body, like the Hanlin Academy and the cabinet, but with military commanders. So everyone
Nothing was said.
Finally, Wang Xi said: "By God, the emperor has issued an edict: It is forbidden for women in the world to bind their feet. Any daughter of an official whose feet are bound will not be allowed to be promoted; any daughter of a distinguished noble who has her feet bound will be demoted; and any daughter of a commoner who has her feet bound will be given a double reward."
"Nowadays, all unmarried women will be put on hold, and those who violate the rules will be dealt with in the same way as above. Married women, if they are under twenty years old, will be put on hold, and those who violate the rules will be dealt with in the same way as above."
Yes, Yunxi's last imperial edict today is about foot binding. Foot binding is one of the most despicable behaviors Chinese men perform against women. It is also an external manifestation of the increasing imperial power and the emasculation of the common people's blood.
The form of expression is that if a man becomes less like a man and submits to others, the woman will only become a cripple.
Yunxi will never allow this to happen. Fortunately, it is still the early Ming Dynasty. There are very few people binding their feet in the south, and slightly more in the north, but they are not the majority. The ones who are bound into "three-inch golden lotus" are even more rare. They are not like those in the late Ming Dynasty.
There are some bullshit books that have a taste for women's feet. As long as we work hard to ban them, they can be banned.
In the future, as the country becomes more open again, the blood of the people will slowly recover, and behaviors like foot binding will no longer happen again.
At this moment, a censor said: "Your Majesty, the matter of foot binding is a spontaneous matter for the people and has nothing to do with state affairs. Please think twice."
Yunxi recognized this censor. He was the Northern Examination Scholar who was personally supplemented by Zhu Zhu in the 30th year of Hongwu. He was the Tanhualang of that subject. However, Yunxi could not remember his name.
Yunxi said calmly: "What's your name?"
The censor said: "My name is Jiao Sheng."
Yunxi said: "Jiao Sheng, you have been appointed as the governor of Tixing Envoy. Tomorrow you will go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to report yourself."
The censor was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to do. Han Yike, the left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, said: "Your Majesty, although Jiao Sheng's words are not in line with your Majesty's thoughts, the speaker is not guilty. This is Taizu
The rules set by the emperor, I hope your majesty will forgive Jiao Sheng's crime."
Yunxi was angry this time. What did Han Yike mean by this? Did he mean that he couldn't tolerate others and didn't listen to them? Did he think he was easy to bully just after he came to the throne? 'You can't give such a stupid scholar a good face!'
Yunxi thought.
Then he said: "Han Yike, deputy censor of the capital, does your daughter have her feet bound?"
Han Yike said: "Your Majesty, my daughter does not have her feet bound."
Yunxi said: "Then you agree with foot binding?"
Han Yike said: "I do not agree with foot binding."
Yunxi said: "Since your daughter does not have her feet bound, and you do not agree with foot binding, why do you support those who agree with foot binding?"
Han Yike just said: "Chen,..."
Yunxi interrupted him and said, "Are you trying to say that I can't tolerate others because of my words?"
Han Yike lowered his head and said, "I don't dare."
Yunxi said: "The "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions" says: Anyone who dares to speak against the royal family will be beheaded. Do you mean to say that Taizu is also an emperor who cannot tolerate words?"
Han Yike lowered his head and said in fear: "I don't dare."
Yunxi said: "Then what do you mean!"
Han Yi didn't know what to say.
Yunxi said: "Han Yike, I regard you as the magistrate of Lingao County, Qiongzhou Prefecture. You should take office immediately."
Han Yike was stunned immediately. He really didn't expect Yunxi to be so determined and decisive. He and Jiao Sheng didn't know what to do for a long time. Yunxi stopped talking to them.
The officials all saw Yunxi's attitude and would never tolerate civil servants who dared to make innuendo. Although Jiao Sheng was considered to be demoted from the central to the local government, he was still a seventh-rank official after all, and he was still nominally equal. Han
Yi Ke could be directly demoted from the deputy capital censor of the fourth rank to the county magistrate of the seventh rank, and the punishment would be very severe.
At the same time, the ministers also saw that Yunxi attached great importance to the prohibition of foot binding. Poor Han Yike became the guinea pig for everyone to test the behavior of the new emperor.
The emperor in the early Ming Dynasty had great power, and Yunxi had been the crown prince for six years. He had cronies in every yamen, and no one could stop Yunxi's order from being passed. Other civil servants would not go against the emperor because of such a thing.
After Jiao Sheng and Han Yike were dealt with, no other minister came forward to raise objections. After all, although these five things seemed like a lot, they did not violate the interests of any department, let alone the collective interests of the civil service. Yun Xi
The selection of these matters on the day of the first court meeting was carefully considered to ensure that no one's interests would be offended. Therefore, the ministers could not object.
Yunxi has finished everything he wants to say today. He looks at the time and plans to ask Fengyu to announce the next court.
But at this moment, a man came out and said, "I have something to report."
Yunxi took a closer look and saw that it was Song Lin. Yunxi knew most of the officials who were qualified to go to the Central Dynasty, and even all the officials who went to the small dynasty. Yunxi said, "What do you want, sir?"
Song Lin said: "Your Majesty, I heard yesterday that your Majesty wants to actually grant the prince a kingdom. Is there anything wrong?"
Yunxi said: "That's true."
Song Lin said: "Your Majesty, six years ago, my ministers said that enfeoffment was not feasible, so why does Your Majesty still want to enfeoff."
Song Lin's father was a great Confucian, and he himself was also a Confucian minister who was deeply influenced by Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. Six years ago, he participated in the discussion with no clear results. Now that group of great Confucians are no longer in the court, Song Lin
So he stood up to represent Confucianism, the Neo-Confucian school.
Yunxi attached great importance to his words. It is best not to deal with true Confucian ministers through strong methods. Such people have the ideal of martyrs. Killing them physically is not only useless, but even counterproductive.
But when Yunxi was about to open his mouth to argue with Song Lin, Lin Jiayou stood up and said: "Song Scholar's words are wrong. The original intention of Kong Sage was to build a feudal state to protect the central government. How come the feudal system is not feasible?
But you still need to be careful about how to implement enfeoffment."
Song Lin was startled, and then said: "..." Then the two of them started fighting over each other.
Yunxi was startled at first, and then realized that although Lin Jiayou was also a true Confucian minister, he admired the Zhou rites and believed that it was the origin of Confucianism, so he supported enfeoffment.
Yunxi also remembered that in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there were still many Confucian officials who believed in Zhou Rites. Six years ago, Fang Xiaoru in Bashu heard about this incident and wrote a special note to support Yunxi's point of view.
This is actually inevitable. Because the Song Dynasty fell at the hands of the Mongols, the Confucian officials at that time did not know that the Mongols in Temujin's era were cheating, so they kept looking for the reasons for the country's collapse within themselves. In addition, they were officials in the Hongwu era.
Not necessarily from the imperial examination, so the ideas of the Song Dynasty were not very popular in the Hongwu era. Everyone looked for the correct Confucianism from the ancient times, so everyone believed in anything.
After a while, more civil servants got involved in the debate, all citing scriptures. The generals next to them didn't know what they were talking about, and they were distracted. Even Yunxi deserted.
Yunxi was also thinking about Confucianism. Regarding Confucianism, Yunxi's thoughts were complicated. Confucianism helped China become a unified country, but at the same time it became more and more closed in the later period, hindering the development of the country. Although Yunxi knew this
It was because the emperor's choice did not entirely depend on Confucianism, but it was still uncomfortable.
But Yunxi must adhere to Confucianism. Broadly speaking, Confucianism has been China's Juche ideology for more than a thousand years. Although it does not follow Confucianism in specific applications, it is still under the name of Confucianism. Its abolition will definitely create an elite class.
If the mind is confused, the country will be doomed.
Speaking of childhood, Yunxi is now a beneficiary of Confucianism. Why is Yunxi a higher-ranked heir than Yunwen? According to Zhu Yuanzhang's canonization, Concubine Chang and Concubine Lu are both Zhu Biao's wives, and Yunwen is better than Yunwen.
It needs to be big.
The main reason is that Confucianism does not recognize the existence of equal wives, believes that a person can only have one head wife, and opposes concubines as wives. Concubine Chang comes first, Concubine Lu comes last, so according to Confucian views, Concubine Chang is the head wife.
Concubine Lu can only be a concubine.
After Concubine Chang died, Concubine Lu could be regarded as the head wife, but Confucianism opposed concubines as wives. The status of the children of a wife who was supported by a concubine was lower than that of the children who were directly the head wife. Therefore, Yunxi was the first wife.
The first heir. Of course, if Zhu Biao marries another head wife from outside the palace after the death of Concubine Chang, then the status of the children of this new head wife will be the same as that of Yun Xi.
Moreover, Yunxi can actually choose his favorite Confucian sect now, and he still has room for choice.
However, Yunxi looked at the engraving he placed next to him. It was almost noon. These civil servants had been discussing this matter for an hour and a half and it was not over yet. Aren't they thirsty?
Yunxi hurriedly said loudly: "My ministers, my ministers, my ministers." He said this several times before everyone became quiet.
Then Yunxi said: "My lords, my decision has been made. The enfeoffment must be carried out. There is no need to discuss it further."
Then Yunxi looked at the faces of Lin Jiayou's group and said: "But how to divide the feudal clan? Yesterday I only discussed it for the first time with the two uncles, and it has not yet been decided. I will discuss with all the ministers and ministers how to divide the feudal clan and will not act arbitrarily."
The faces of Lin Jiayou's group became brighter. Yunhe struck while the iron was hot and said: "It's almost noon today. I'm afraid a lot of things have piled up in your yamen. I have to go back to review the memorial. That's it for today.
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Then Fengyu immediately shouted: "Retreat from the court!" Yunxi hurriedly left, fearing that some civil servants would stop him.
In fact, it's okay for him not to leave so quickly. After all, the reason he said for leaving the court was right. Many people really remembered that there were still many things in their yamen that they had to go back to deal with, so everyone said goodbye to each other.