Chapter 0777 Principles that will not change for thousands of years
Kou Ji returned to the Kou mansion and rested for half a day.
In the evening, Chen Lin led a team of people and arrived at the Kou Mansion Courtyard carrying a large amount of imperial edicts.
Kou Ji led the people in the house to the door to greet him.
Chen Lin announced the decree loudly after everyone from the Kou Mansion's other courtyard had gathered.
Kou Ji presided over the compilation of the "Tian Sheng Dictionary" for his merits, and was awarded a python robe, a jade belt, and a purple gold crown.
With Kou Ji's contribution, Kou Tianci was promoted to the third level.
Xiang Yan was also promoted to the first rank through Kou Ji's contribution.
Kou Ji's current official title has reached the point where it is difficult to obtain it.
If the official position is further advanced, it will be a false position such as Taibao, Shaobao, and Attendant.
If the title goes further, it would be first-class duke, county prince, or king.
At Kou Ji's age, it is not appropriate to be given a position such as Taibao or Shaobao.
It is not appropriate to upgrade the title to a first-class public position.
Lu Yijian and the others would rather see the Kou family with three sons than a young eunuch or a young prince.
Therefore, most of the credit for Kou Ji's presiding over the compilation of the "Tian Sheng Dictionary" falls on Kou Tianci.
Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Zhang Zhibai were all very generous to Kou Tianci.
Because they knew that Kou Tianci would become a prince-in-law when he grew older, they did not need to worry about Kou Tianci becoming a high-ranking official at a young age and reaching the point where he would become incompetent in the future.
When Kou Tianci was young, no matter how big an official he was awarded based on Kou Ji's merits.
Once you marry Princess Baoqing, you will have to hand over your actual job.
Become an idle prince-in-law.
Although Zhao Zhen has made adjustments to some of the royal family's rules.
However, Zhao Zhen did not ban or change the rule that the emperor's relatives were not allowed to interfere in politics.
Therefore, once Kou Tianci marries Princess Baoqing, he will lose the opportunity to hold power.
Lu Yijian and the others knew that Kou Tianci would eventually become an idle prince-in-law, so they were very generous to Kou Tianci and promoted him to the third level in one go.
Kou Tianci was still a young boy, and he had already entered the sixth rank.
If Kou Ji builds up some meritorious deeds in the future, Kou Tianci will probably start at the fourth or fifth rank when he becomes an official.
Kou Ji took the imperial edict from Chen Lin's hand, looked down at Kou Tianci, who was standing there, staring at him with a wary expression, and muttered dissatisfiedly.
"How do I feel? I am working for you..."
He was running around hard outside, but Kou Tianci, a brat, could stay in the house and dare not do anything, so he could be promoted quickly.
All the benefits he gained from his achievements were taken by Kou Tianci. Wasn't he working for Kou Tianci?
When Kou Ji looked at Kou Tianci, Kou Tianci also stared at him silently. Kou Tianci didn't quite hear what he said, but Kou Tianci felt the unkind look in his eyes.
Kou Tianci almost subconsciously distanced himself from him and made a gesture of preparing to escape.
Kou Ji glared at Kou Tianci and was too lazy to talk to him.
After instructing Xiang Yan to take Kou Tianci down.
Kou Ji accompanied Chen Lin and rushed to Ruisheng Garden with the remaining imperial edict.
Arriving at Ruishengyuan, I went to the place where the great Confucians wrote their books.
Kou Ji and Chen Lin saw Jia Changchao leading other officials who compiled books, standing upright at the gate of the garden, waiting for them.
Kou Ji and Chen Lin looked at each other with confusion on their faces.
After the two came forward.
Jia Changchao immediately led other officials who compiled the book to salute the two.
After giving the gift, Kou Ji couldn't help but ask: "Where are those great scholars?"
Jia Changchao smiled awkwardly and said: "After they learned that the government allowed them to sign the Tiansheng Dictionary, they stopped paying attention to this matter. Now they are busy compiling the dictionary."
Chen Lin said dissatisfied: "The official decree has arrived, but they dare not come out to greet it."
Kou Ji glanced at Chen Lin, "Then you take people in, drag them out and beat them up as punishment?"
The corner of Chen Lin's mouth twitched, she glared at Kou Ji, and said: "The officials have said that they are our national scholars in the Song Dynasty and should be treated kindly. If our family punishes them, the officials will definitely ask questions after they return to the palace. Responsible."
Kou Ji curled his lips and said, "Then why were you shouting just now?"
Chen Lin snorted coldly: "As eunuchs around the official family, we naturally have to maintain the dignity of the official family."
Hearing this, Kou Ji did not continue to argue with Chen Lin. He said seriously: "Those great scholars probably don't want the imperial court. For them, writing books should be the most important thing now, so we won't bother them."
Kou Ji looked at Chen Lin and said, "Read the official's decree. I'll go back and ask those great scholars what they want. As long as it's not too much, I'll tell the official and let the official reward him as appropriate."
Chen Lin nodded slowly and agreed with Kou Ji's statement.
After nodding, Chen Lin took a volume of imperial edict and read it out.
Since the imperial edict was to be taken home and enshrined, every official had a corresponding volume of edict.
It took Chen Lin more than an hour to read out dozens of official decrees.
Kou Ji listened briefly and found out that most of them were promoted to the third level and got some money.
Jia Changchao's contribution was quite great, so his reward was more generous than others. In addition to being promoted to the third level in his actual job, he was also awarded the title of direct bachelor of Baowen Pavilion.
From then on, Jia Changchao could be regarded as one of the important ministers.
If you take one step further, you will be eligible to compete for the position.
Jia Changchao was very excited. He put his hand into his sleeve and took out the money for a long time. He took out the money that he had prepared and took out the money.
But after seeing Kou Ji and Chen Lin's half-smiling expressions, he immediately gave up this idea.
Officials hate corrupt people very much. Corrupt officials caught in recent years almost never end well.
Chen Lin is a person close to the official family, so naturally she has the same preferences as the official family.
Bribing Chen Lin is equivalent to giving a bribe under Zhao Zhen's nose.
It will definitely not end well.
As for Kou Ji, he has never been corrupt since he became an official. Everyone in the government and the public knows that Kou Ji is not greedy for money and has never accepted any bribes.
Therefore, bribing Kou Ji will not end well.
Moreover, as Kou Ji, if he really wanted to accept bribes, the money in Jia Changchao's sleeves would be somewhat difficult to get rid of.
If you don't have a base of 70,000 to 80,000 yuan, that would be an insult to Kou Ji.
When Chen Lin saw Jia Changchao put his hand into his sleeve and then took it out empty, she stared at Jia Changchao and said, "Xueshi Jia, what are you going to take?"
Jia Changchao hurriedly said: "I wrote a note to thank my father-in-law and asked my father-in-law to help bring it back to the official family, but when I just looked for it, I found that it was left in the dormitory..."
Chen Lin nodded slowly and asked about the matter without getting to the bottom of it.
He said a few words to Kou Ji and left Ruisheng Garden.
After Chen Lin left, Kou Ji told Jia Changchao: "Take me to see those great scholars..."
Jia Changchao hurriedly agreed and took Kou Ji to the place where the dictionary was compiled, where he met the great Confucians who were busy compiling the dictionary.
Kou Ji walked around among the great scholars, and after understanding the rewards and needs of the great scholars, he drove into the palace.
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Inside the palace.
Zishido.
Zhao Zhen stared at Kou Ji in astonishment, "You mean, they don't want money or titles, but they just want me to keep them compiling books in Ruisheng Garden?"
Kou Ji said dumbfounded: "Yes... they also said that it would be better if the officials could send people to build some houses or gardens for them to live in in Ruisheng Garden..."
In the past, the great Confucian scholars were separated from each other, rarely got together, and rarely compiled books together.
Even if he compiles books, he also compiles some collections of his own poems, as well as translations or annotations of some ancient books.
Few of them have participated in such a large-scale book compilation work.
Now, in order to compile phonological books, the imperial court brought them together and gave them many resources to compile books.
Most of them are already immersed in the fun of compiling books and are still willing to leave.
The "Tian Sheng Dictionary" has been compiled and the dictionary is still being compiled.
But they already have plans for the next book to be compiled, which is the History of the Tang Dynasty.
There are enough of them, they have many ideas, and they want to write many books.
Therefore, unless the imperial court takes the initiative to dismiss them, they will almost never leave.
Zhao Zhen had already felt the benefits of compiling books and knew that together, so many great scholars could compile many useful books for the Song Dynasty.
So when the great scholars offered to stay, Zhao Zhen had to admit that he was a little tempted.
Zhao Zhen suppressed the throbbing in his heart and said to Kou Ji: "Fourth brother, do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Of course it's a good thing, and it's a huge good thing."
Before this, the books compiled by the past dynasties were basically based on historical materials, and other books were rarely involved.
So all kinds of books are very complicated and messy.
Even in the imperial scientific research scriptures, there are many private items carried by predecessors.
Therefore, it is necessary for the imperial court to sort out all the books in the world.
Re-edit and strive to eliminate the false and preserve the true.
How much this move contributed to the inheritance and development of Chinese culture can be seen by looking at the reputation of the "Yongle Dadian" written in the Ming Dynasty and the "Sikuquanshu" written in the Qing Dynasty.
Zhao Zhen stared at Kou Ji and said, "Fourth brother thinks this is a good thing?"
Kou Ji nodded decisively: "Of course..."
Zhao Zhen pondered: "Then how do you think Fourth Brother should respond to the demands of the great Confucians?"
Kou Ji thought for a while and said: "If the great Confucian scholars are interested in leaving books, then the government should naturally provide some conveniences. The great Confucian scholars have already achieved some results in writing books, and more and more people will definitely join in the process in the future.
Books shipped from Dashi were also translated.
In the future, Ruishengyuan is likely to become a holy place for writing, compiling, and translating books.
The Longtuge under my jurisdiction may not be as good as Ruishengyuan in the future."
Zhao Zhen nodded solemnly and said: "I think so too."
Kou Ji continued: "The great Confucians do not seek power or profit, they only seek some fame. Later, when the cultural system is reformed, we can ban the academic positions of the courtiers and transfer them to them.
Bachelor, a learned person.
It should be awarded to the great Confucians, not to the officials in the court.
From now on, the position of bachelor will be a false position that shows one's identity and glory.
Not mixed with anything else.
A bachelor is only responsible for intensive study of knowledge.
There is no need to participate in government affairs.
In order to reward their contributions to the imperial court, a certain amount of salary can be distributed to them appropriately.
When the children and grandchildren of the family move to Bianjing City, they can also be given houses to live in.
In this way, their worries are solved.
Some changes can be made appropriately in Ruisheng Garden.
Ruishengyuan, a royal northern garden, can be completely transformed into a place for writing, compiling and translating books.
If we exchange a royal Beiyuan for the great scholars in the world to work for the official family, the official family can make a lot of money."
"Hahaha……"
Zhao Zhen laughed loudly when he heard this.
Whether it is the comprehensive implementation of Mongolian studies or the transformation of the Royal Beiyuan into a place specifically for Confucian scholars to write books and establish their theories, these are feats that have never been done before.
Now he has done it and has seen the benefits.
How could he not be happy.
What he wanted all his life was to bring about the rise of the Song Dynasty.
Nowadays, the Song Dynasty is rapidly rising in all aspects.
How could he be unhappy.
"According to what Fourth Brother said, I will then pass a decree to the Ministry of Industry and ask the Ministry of Industry to transform the Royal Beiyuan. After the transformation is completed, I will remove the eunuchs and concubines in the Royal Beiyuan, leaving only some officials and soldiers. .”
"After the renovation of Royal Beiyuan is completed, it will be a place specially used for writing and compiling books. It is somewhat inappropriate to call it Ruishengyuan."
"Then it's called... Tiansheng Literature Museum... What do you think, Fourth Brother?"
"Now it's not far away from Tiansheng's tenth year. Are you sure the official family will still be named after Tiansheng?"
When Kou Ji asked this question, Zhao Zhen was slightly stunned.
According to the rules set by Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, each reign name of the Song Dynasty should generally be used for no more than ten years.
In other words, the year name must be changed every ten years.
Under special circumstances, it can be changed in three to five years.
It depends on the emperor's preference.
Zhao Zhen lamented: "Unknowingly, it has been almost ten years since I took the throne?"
Kou Ji nodded slowly.
Zhao Zhen lowered his head, looked at Kou Ji and said: "You and I, the monarch and my ministers, have spent almost ten years together. I still remember your appearance when you first entered the palace."
Kou Ji sighed: "Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle."
Zhao Zhen nodded slowly, "Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and the moon fly by... You, I, the emperor and my ministers still have a lot to do, and we cannot waste a moment. Time is not forgiving."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "We are still young..."
Zhao Zhen stared at Kou Ji and said, "Compared to Tianci'er, are we still young?"
The smile on Kou Ji's face slowly froze.
Zhao Zhen sighed: "In a few years, fourth brother, you will be in your thirties..."
Kou Ji suddenly didn't want to talk.
For most people with mature minds, growing older is definitely a problem they are unwilling to face.
Kou Ji felt that he had traveled to the Song Dynasty and hadn't done much. He was already almost thirty, so naturally he didn't want to face this problem.
But there is nothing you can do if you don't face it, time is not forgiving.
Kou Ji smiled stiffly and said: "Guan family, what we are talking about now is the issue of the reign name."
Zhao Zhen laughed and said: "Fourth brother doesn't seem to like growing old?"
Kou Ji said calmly: "Not many people like to grow old."
Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "But no one can escape."
Kou Ji suddenly didn't want to talk.
Seeing this, Zhao Zhen quickly changed the subject, "What does fourth brother think about the reign name?"
Kou Ji pondered and said: "The official family may consider using Tiansheng's reign name."
Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment and said in a deep voice: "The rules of our ancestors..."
Kou Ji stared at Zhao Zhen and said: "The rules of our ancestors are not static. Many of the rules set by Taizu and Taizong have never changed. When officials came to the throne, they became bad governance.
The government spent a lot of money to reform these bad policies.
It can be seen that the rules set by our ancestors may have been suitable for the era when our ancestors were alive, but they are not suitable for today.
So when it’s time to change, you have to change and don’t hesitate.”
Zhao Zhen sighed and said: "I am afraid that my rules will become too many and future generations will not abide by the rules and turn the many good governance I left behind into bad governance."
Kou Jidao: "So we must first find a way to distinguish what can be changed from what cannot be changed."
Zhao Zhen said dumbfounded: "Didn't Fourth Brother just say that the rules left by our ancestors were suitable for our ancestors or that era, but they are not suitable for today. The good governance we left behind may not be suitable for the future Song Dynasty.
We also have no way to distinguish which part of the rules can be changed and which part of the rules cannot be changed.
Because no one can tell what the Song Dynasty will be like in the future."
Kou Ji fell into deep thought.
Kou Ji doesn't know what the Song Dynasty will be like in the future.
Because the current Song Dynasty is no longer the Song Dynasty he is familiar with, but a Song Dynasty that has been changed by him.
After the Song Dynasty, we will no longer follow history and go on unchanged.
After the Song Dynasty, there will be countless variables.
Therefore, what rules the Song Dynasty must abide in the future will be formulated by future emperors based on actual conditions.
But this does not mean that there are no immutable rules for future generations to follow.
Some principled issues will never change even after tens of millions of years.
Such as territorial disputes.
Kou Ji thought about this and said: "The issue of territorial disputes will not change even if tens of millions of years pass."
When Zhao Zhen heard this, his face straightened.
"Our country, the Song Dynasty, was built with the lives of our soldiers. It cannot be ceded or lost. This problem will indeed not change in tens of millions of years.
After I reform the cultural system, I will formulate corresponding ancestral laws to warn future generations."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "It's best to tell the world and let everyone in the world remember."
Zhao Zhen stared at Kou Ji and said: "It's like the plaque hanging behind Chui Gong Palace saying 'The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics'."
Kou Ji nodded again.
Zhao Zhen let out a sigh of relief, "I will discuss this matter with Fourth Brother in detail later. Fourth Brother won't let me change my reign name, but what can I say and what's the benefit?"
Kou Ji said frankly: "The frequent changes of era names are not a good thing. When it comes to the issue of era names, people still like to keep them unchanged. This makes it easier for them to remember things.
More importantly, if the official family follows the same reign name, then Tiansheng will be the official family, and the official family will be Tiansheng."
Zhao Zhen nodded thoughtfully.
"I will discuss this matter with Lu Yijian and the other three later. If it is appropriate, we will use the same reign name from now on."
"Here..."
After discussing the matter, Kou Ji left the palace without staying any longer.
The day after Kou Ji returned to Kou Mansion's other courtyard, Zhao Zhen's decree on transforming the Royal Beiyuan was sent to the Ministry of Industry.
After the Ministry of Industry received Zhao Zhen's decree, it immediately sent people to Ruisheng Garden to measure the Ruisheng Garden.
Then people were sent to draw the reconstruction drawings of Ruisheng Garden according to the needs of the great Confucian scholars and future book compilation and writing.
After the renovation drawings came out, the most eye-catching thing was a library covering an area of thousands of acres in Ruisheng Garden.
The library has three floors and is equipped with fire-proof water troughs and waterproof waterways, so the amount of work is very large.
The money required far exceeds the construction of some large palaces in the imperial palace.
Zhao Zhen, Kou Ji, and the three inner court chiefs, none of them felt sorry for this.
After reviewing the drawings, Zhao Zhen decisively ordered construction to begin.
After Zhao Zhen's decree was issued, a large number of craftsmen settled in Ruisheng Garden and transformed Ruisheng Garden.
Kou Ji stopped paying attention to this matter after the Ruishengyuan renovation project officially started.
He focused on the translation work of Fan Zhongyan and others.
After Fan Zhongyan and others learned Dashiwen, they decisively entered the translation work.
Books on medical literature and medical techniques were translated into Chinese under their translation.
In the middle of the journey, the guarantor who was far away in Luzhou sent a letter to Kou Ji, saying that he had roughly learned the art of food and asked Kou Ji to give him something to do.
Kou Ji ordered people to make copies of the translated Da Shiwen books and the original Da Shiwen books, and sent them to Luzhou to give them to Bao Zheng for proofreading.
See if there's a big source in it.
When translating books, there was a lot of stumbling in the early stage, but things went much smoother in the later stage.
There were many medical books sent by Da Shiren, and Kou Ji and others spent more than half a month to get nearly 60% of them.
The medical books that were completed were not translated into books, but were kicked out of the list of medical books.
Those books were called medical books in Dashi, but in Kou Ji's eyes, they were not medical books at all.
They are religious books disguised as medical books.
For example, there are hundreds of books that record in detail that through some kind of witchcraft or some kind of ritual, some kind of unknown existence can be summoned to come out to help people heal their illnesses.
Is this considered medical skill?
This is pretending to be a ghost.
There are also some methods of flogging and self-abuse to treat illnesses.
There are also some unimaginable home remedies.
Anyway, there are all kinds of weird and weird ways to treat diseases.
But these are not medical techniques that truly cure diseases.
Kou Ji and his men spent more than half a month clearing out all such things.
Only real medical books remain.
Then the real medical books are translated.
This translation means several months.
During this period, Kou Ji stayed in Ruisheng Garden most of the time.
Occasionally I would go back home or go to court.
Returning to the palace and going to court are mostly for the purpose of handling important matters of the court.
For example, the cannibals far away in Jiaozhi fell into Kou Ji's plan and planned to recruit believers as soldiers in Jiaozhi, requesting to buy armaments from the Song Dynasty.
Another example is when Jiaozhi asked Kou Ji for the second time to buy weapons and armor.
Zhong Shiheng and Zhu Neng also rushed to Dali and started a war against Dali.