Chapter 739 Descendants of Semu (End) - Confucianism
On the second day, all the courtiers noticed the decree issued by the emperor yesterday related to the Semu people. Yunxi issued seven decrees in a row, and it was impossible not to be noticed. Everyone was very surprised: everyone in the court was thinking about it.
When preparing for the war with Annan, why is your emperor so concerned about the Semu people? Especially these regulations restrict the Semu people. The Semu people in the north will even be moved to Yiwu. This will lower the morale of the Semu army. Why?
Want to do this?
However, the decree has been issued. Moreover, although the Semu army participating this time is tens of thousands, it is only a small number among the 600,000 Ming troops mobilized this time. It is not worth committing a crime for this small number.
Moreover, immigration was a very correct thing in the Ming Dynasty, so most officials did not say anything.
But there is a minister who will never remain silent.
"Your Majesty, Tiexuan, pays homage to you. Long live your Majesty!" Tiexuan knelt down and said after seeing Yunxi.
"Tie Qing is excused." Yunxi raised his head and said a word, then lowered his head to finish answering the papers in hand, then stood up and said, "Tie Qing came to see me today, what do you want to report?"
He was very surprised as to why Tie Xuan came to see him: He did not summon Tie Xuan today, and Tie Xuan was in charge of military discipline. He usually had nothing to report to him, so why did he suddenly ask for a meeting?
'Could it be that a general in the Imperial Guard violated military discipline and came to report to me? That's not right. If that's the case, he should be punished.' Yunxi thought.
Tie Xuan knelt on the ground, kowtowed respectfully for a few times, and then stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I came here for your Majesty's imperial edict yesterday. The so-called semu refers to the people of the Ming Dynasty. Your majesty's edict yesterday also said: Although semu is not
Although the Chinese race is born in the same space between heaven and earth, those who know etiquette and justice and are willing to be subjects are no different from those raised by Chinese people."
"So why does Your Majesty want to move all the Semu people in the north to Yiwu?"
Hearing Tie Xuan's words, Yunxi finally remembered what he had forgotten yesterday: there was a senior official of Semuren beside him, and he was an official whom he trusted very much: Tie Xuan.
Yunxi lowered his head and looked at Tiexuan's face. Although Tiexuan is a descendant of the Semu people, his mother is Han. His appearance is not much different from that of ordinary Han people, and his hair is black. Yunxi forgot for a moment that he is a Han by birthplace.
Colorful person.
"I have forgotten that Tie Qing is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, knows etiquette and justice, and should be raised by Chinese people." Yunxi said to Jin Shan beside him: "Immediately draft a decree and send it to Tie Qing's hometown, granting him a yellow household registration."
Certificate, the whole family moved to the capital."
"Your Majesty, minister,..."
Before Tie Xuan finished speaking, Yun Xi interrupted: "Yes, not only Tie Qing, but also other civil servants in the Ming Dynasty. Wang Xi, go to the Ministry of Personnel immediately and ask Li Ren to convert all the Ming Dynasty officials into Liuliu."
The civilian officials' list of semu people was presented to me, and I also issued a decree. All the families of these semu officials were given yellow household registration certificates, and the whole family moved to the capital."
After giving these instructions, Yunxi said to Tie Xuan, "Does Qing Tie have anything else to do?"
"This," Tie Xuan said this word, paused, and then said: "Your Majesty, the border ministers also fully agree with the migration of the people to the northwest, but why must your Majesty move the Semu people there?"
"The reason is very simple, because it is convenient for Semu people to move." Yunxi said: "Semu are mostly military households, and military households have very detailed household registration records in the court. The number of people in each family is clearly written down.
They don't need to do anything else to move to the northwest, so I decided to move the Semu people. I remember that Tie Qing's family is also a military household, so he should know a lot about this."
"Your Majesty, if that's the case, it's enough to relocate the military households with color eyes. Why do we need to relocate the few civilian households with color eyes?" Tie Xuan still asked.
"Hey, let me tell you the truth. Because during the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the Semu people worked as tigers to oppress the Han people, which made the Han people everywhere hate them. Therefore, I have known a lot of fights between the Han people and the Semu people over the years, especially the Semu people.
A place with a lot of people. Tie Qing should also have heard of it."
"Such things are justified by public opinion, and mother-in-law is justified. What do you think the local government should do? We can only negotiate with Xini. But neither side is satisfied with Xini, and the problem is getting more and more serious. I can only move one party away.
, to make the place stable. No matter where it is, there are more Han people than Semu people, so we can only migrate the Semu people."
"That's why I want to move the families of you Semu people who are now officials to the capital." Yunxi said with a sincere face.
What Yunxi said was very straightforward and reasonable. Tiexuan could not refute it, but he still asked: "But what if some of these semen who are to be moved away also know etiquette and justice?"
"Then I will issue another imperial edict, ordering all Semu people in various places who have the title of Ming Dynasty Juren to stay where they are, and there is no need to move."
"As for the people who come after them, they can also learn the classics and meanings and know the etiquette and justice in Yiwu, and they don't have to be in the Central Plains. Since last year, the Qin Fan in the northwest has also opened the imperial examination. If they are successful in the Qin Fan's examination, they can also
As an official, Tie Qing doesn't need to worry." Yunxi said.
Tie Xuan was completely speechless this time and could only say: "Then please issue these imperial edicts as soon as possible to prevent the local authorities from moving them all to the northwest."
"I'll write it right away."
"What I just said was inappropriate. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
"I can understand your thoughts, so I won't blame you. Just go down." Yunxi said with a smile.
Tie Xuan bowed again and stepped back.
After he retired, Yunxi first asked Jin Shan to draft a few imperial edicts, seal them and issue them, and then said to Huang Fu: "You will remind me in a few days to adjust Tiexuan's official position."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Huang Fu said.
Tie Xuan's current official position is the Chief of the Zhenfuyuan, which was established by Yunxi to be in charge of the military discipline of the Shangzhi Guards. Yunxi decided to change it to the left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
This is not because Yunxi distrusts Tiexuan. In fact, not only judging from the deeds of later generations but also from Tiexuan's performance in this life, he is very trustworthy and very loyal to him and the Ming Dynasty.
But his loyalty does not mean that he will not make mistakes. Just like the famous Zhu Dadian in history, when the Manchus invaded, he resolutely resisted the Manchus and his family was martyred, but he was corrupt and corrupt when he was an official in the Ming Dynasty. Tiexuan was, after all,
If the Semu people are faced with something of great right and wrong, such as if the Semu people want to rebel, they will definitely stand on the side of the court, but usually the Semu people may not resolutely implement the emperor's will in some matters.
Therefore, Yunxi decided to transfer him to the imperial office of the Metropolitan Procuratorate as an official. In the future, he could also be made a minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites.
As for allowing se-eyed people who have the title of civil servants and officials to stay in the Central Plains, it is also appropriate. First, it can show that his policy is really not discriminatory against se-eyed people. Second, these se-eyed people who can obtain the title of civil servants and serve as civil servants are also allowed to stay in the Central Plains.
Don't believe in religion.
Compared with its predecessor, the imperial examination system, the modern civil service examination system originated in England is of course much better in terms of selecting suitable officials, but it has a huge flaw in that it cannot detect whether a person truly believes in the ideas promoted by the imperial court.
Confucianism is essentially a philosophy. It has a philosophical theoretical system that started from the "Li" of Zhou, was perfected by Confucius, and was later distorted by the great Confucians of the past dynasties. Reading through the Confucian classics is the process of accepting Confucian philosophy. As you learn more and more
As he went deeper, Confucian philosophy became more and more important in his mind, until he finally accepted Confucian philosophy completely.
And it is impossible for people who truly and thoroughly believe in a certain religion to accept Confucian philosophy.
All theology is fundamentally a philosophy. Since they have accepted the philosophy of religion, they will reject Confucian philosophy from the bottom of their hearts, and they cannot truly understand the connotation of Confucianism. They can only memorize the imperial examination. Perhaps the three exams for scholars
One can pass the provincial-level imperial examination by rote memorization, but the provincial examination will very much test the candidate's understanding of Confucianism. A person who rejects Confucianism from the bottom of his heart will not be able to pass. There is a proverb in a certain ethnic group: when an official reaches the fifth rank, he must rebel against the religion, which means
This is why Yunxi can rest assured of all those who can obtain the title of civil servant and become a civil servant.
As for whether their descendants will relapse, Yunxi thinks that all other Semu people have been moved away and all temples have been demolished. There is no such environment around them, so it is unlikely that they will relapse.
After meeting Tie Xuan, Yunxi suddenly became interested. He read over the understanding of religion and Confucianism that he had written before, and added many new insights, and then continued to deal with government affairs.
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"Your Highness, should these people be sent to Yiwu as semu people?" Cao Xing, the commander-in-chief of Henan Dusi, and Zuobu, the chief envoy of Henan, came to the Zhou palace together and asked Zhou Wang Zhu Ju this question
one question.
Faced with these nonsense words, Zhu Zhu understood what they meant and twirled his beard and lowered his head in thought.
The ‘these people’ Cao Xing refers to refer to a people living in Kaifeng who are called Blue Hats by the Han people and call themselves Yishi Leye People. They have a unified name in later generations: Jews.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, the Yici Leye people came to the Central Plains together with the Great Eaters and Persians, and were distributed in Shaanxi, Henan and other places. During the Song Dynasty, the Yici Leye people from other places either integrated into the local Han people or moved to other places.
Kaifeng Prefecture, so far only Kaifeng Prefecture has a person named Ji Leye.
During the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, some Yishi Leye people also became Semu people, working as tigers and doing evil with the Mongols; but there were also some Yishi Leye people who were considered third-class Han people. And although they believed in foreign religions, they did not
The idea of proselytizing the Han people was only played within his own small circle.
Therefore, when the chief envoy and the capital commander who received the imperial edict thought of granting Leye people, they were not sure whether they should be regarded as Semu people and moved to Yiwu, so they came to ask Zhou Wang Zhu Ju for instructions.
Zhu Ting was also in a dilemma. Let's say they are Semu people, but there are still many people who were third-class Han people in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, and most of them look the same as Han people. If we say they are Han people, they also believe in foreign languages.
According to the teachings, there are also some people who had second-class color eyes during the Meng Yuan Dynasty. He has been hesitating and unable to make a decision these days.
"How about treating those who were identified as Semu people during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty as Semu people, and those who were Han Chinese at that time as Han people?" Cao Xing said.
"No! Either move them all to the northwest, or move none of them. You can't move half and leave the other half." Zhu Ru said flatly.
"In this case, we should treat them all as Semu people and move them to the northwest. The indicators of Semu people in Henan are more than the actual number. If we don't move them, we will have to move Han people. It is easier to move them." The chief envoy said. These indicators
But the pressure on him is that if one person is missing, his evaluation will be unqualified, so he would rather unjustly accuse a few people who have a happy career, but he still has to complete the target. Besides, it cannot be regarded as unjust.
Zhu Tong understood what Chief Ambassador Zhang meant and the heavy pressure of targets he was carrying, so he could only say: "Just do what Chief Ambassador Zhang said."
