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Qufu, Confucius.
Nie Bao sat in the waiting room for half a day. The tea was cooled and replaced with heat. He replaced six pots, but he still couldn't see Yan Shenggong, not even the housekeeper of Kong Mansion.
Seeing that it was getting dark, the steward in charge of welcoming guests said with a smile: "Prefect Nie, you are really neglecting me. Duke Yansheng is busy preparing for the Spring Festival, and all the officials in the house are also preparing for sacrifices, so we really don't have time to receive distinguished guests.
How about you come back after the Spring Festival?"
"Okay, I'll come back after the Spring Festival." Nie Bao was left alone for a long time. He didn't show any anger at all. Instead, he said goodbye with a smile on his face.
Nie Bao was the prefect of Jinan and went to Qufu to ask for tax stamps?
Sorry, you crossed the line!
For example, if the mayor of city A goes to work in county C, which is under the jurisdiction of city B, he does not have to cooperate with the work.
Nie Bao left Yan Shenggong's Mansion, looked at the towering high wall, then turned back to look at the magnificent Confucius Temple, then looked at the beggar huddled on the street corner, and sneered: "Go back to Jinan!"
Disciple Chen Changji asked: "Sir, do we really have to wait until after the Spring Festival?"
Nie Bao said: "You should not delay your work for an official. There are still two months before the Spring Festival. If you wait so long to check the tax stamps, I am afraid that the Licheng County government office will be burned several times, and the Kong family will also use the old fake ones."
The tickets have been obtained. By then, we won’t have to be officials anymore, and it will be easier to go back to our hometown to grow sweet potatoes together.”
Chen Changji stopped talking, knowing that the teacher had a complete plan.
In history, Nie Bao was one of the great masters of Xinxue who founded the sect. In his later years, he had more than a thousand direct disciples. Now he is also recruiting disciples, but only more than a dozen, and Xu Jie counts him as half.
The student was accepted by Nie Bao when he was the county magistrate.
Returning to Jinan, Nie Bao went straight to the residence of the Ancha Si and found Zhang Cong, the envoy of the Ancha Bureau: "Zhang Yintai, I just came back from Qufu."
"How is Duke Yansheng's mansion?" Zhang Cong asked.
Nie Bao replied: "It's magnificent, not inferior to the palace."
Zhang Cong said in a strange tone: "The people of Yanzhou are so lucky. In one place, there is both King Lu and Confucius. They are both transformed into kings and bathed in the holy religion. With such grace and honor, it means that the clothes cannot cover the body. I guess
I’m not afraid of the severe cold in winter either.”
Nie Bao said: "As the magistrate of Jinan, I have no authority to investigate the case in Qufu. Please send someone to go there according to the inspection department."
"I'll go there myself!" Zhang Cong said.
The Confucius family was so prosperous that they unexpectedly met Zhang Cong as the inspector of Shandong.
In history, Zhang Cong once went to Shu Jiajing to weaken the Confucius family and proposed a set of reform plans. That is, Confucius was no longer called the king, but was changed to the most holy teacher; the place where Confucius was worshiped was no longer called a palace, but was called a temple.
; Worshiping the statue of Confucius was changed to worshiping the tablet of Confucius; the sacrificial etiquette was simplified, and all sacrifices and ritual music were downgraded; the title of Confucius' disciples was abolished and the title of Gonghoubo was abolished and changed to the title of Sage and Confucianism.
It is precisely because of Zhang Cong’s reforms that King Kong became Kong Sheng, and the Confucius Hall became Confucius Temple!
This move greatly weakened the secular power of the Confucian family, but the deeper goal was to reform Confucian institutions across the country.
Simply because the scale of Confucius's sacrifices continued to expand through the dynasties, and at its peak, more than fifty sacrifices could be performed a year. Sacrifice not only wasted property, but also seriously disturbed the people, requiring the recruitment of a large number of households, including trumpet households, cannon lighting households, and slaughterhouses.
Households that burn water, transport salt, cattle households, pig households, sheep households, vegetable households, bean sprout households...etc.
By the Ming Dynasty, the only sacrifices stipulated by the imperial court for Confucius were the Spring and Autumn Festival. However, local officials, especially the religious officials who were short of oil and water, often made clever names to worship Confucius. They could ask Confucius to protect them from floods, droughts, and locust disasters. It was nothing more than through sacrifices, corruption and exploitation.
The people, many people who were serving in the army were ruined and their families were destroyed.
Zhang Cong looked at the overall situation of the country before reforming the content of Confucius sacrifices and curbing the evil practices of officials from various places under the banner of Confucius!
Before leaving for Qufu, Zhang Cong wrote a memorial overnight, discussing in detail the necessity of depriving Confucius of his title of king and student.
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Wenyuan Pavilion.
Before the winter solstice, Wang Yuan read this memorial.
"I believe that our ancestor Confucius has meritorious deeds throughout the world and will be worshiped throughout the ages. The world will worship him and worship him throughout the ages. If his sacrificial rituals are not yet established, he must not be improper."
At the beginning of the chapter, Confucius is held in high esteem and must be worshiped by all generations in the world. In such a sacred sacrificial activity, deficiencies must be corrected, otherwise it will be an insult to Confucius. This sets the tone for the memorial, and no one can directly object.
If you object without discussion, you must have ulterior motives and try to discredit Confucius!
"I would like to adopt the opinions of the Confucian officials of the past and present, and ask the saints to look at them. I will still hold the meeting of the Ministry of Rites and discuss them. This will wash away the bad habits of the previous generations, and it will always be a code that can be followed for hundreds of generations..."
Then he went on to say that reforming Confucius' sacrifices was not something I, Zhang Cong, mentioned casually, and I, Zhang Cong, am not that capable. I just listed the opinions of ancient and modern scholars and asked your majesty to read them and ask the Ministry of Rites to discuss them, hoping to wash away the bad habits of Confucius' sacrifices.
Establish a sacrificial system that can be observed for hundreds of generations. The subtext is that you don't need to refute me. Just refute the opinions of ancient and modern scholars. We are not making random reforms, but we are going to establish a law for hundreds of generations. Opponents should weigh it for themselves.
Zhang Cong first quoted Zhu Xi's words, saying that Confucius should not worship statues, nor should he worship frequently, but only worship tablets in spring and autumn.
He also said that when Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Nanjing Imperial Academy, he only offered memorial tablets to Confucius and did not erect statues of Confucius.
Nowadays, when the Imperial Academy builds a statue of Confucius, it violates the wishes of the great ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang and follows the old customs of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
He also quoted Cheng Yi's remarks, saying that if a person's portrait of their ancestors does not look like a single hair, they are not the ancestors themselves, let alone the statues of Confucius erected by later generations at will. Therefore, worshiping the statue of Confucius must be a mistake.
Which ghost thing you are worshiping must be replaced with a Confucius tablet.
He also said that worshiping statues was influenced by the foreign culture of Buddhism. Why do we Confucians want to learn this kind of thing? He also listed Song Lian, Qiu Jun and other famous officials since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, saying that these people all advocated worshiping Confucius' memorial tablets.
Wang Yuan handed the memorial to his second assistant, Mao Ji, and asked, "What does Mr. Mao Ge think of it?"
After Mao Ji read this memorial, he felt that the argument was so high-level and the argument was so detailed that there was no way to refute it. If he objected, he would be against Zhu Xi, Cheng Yi, Zhu Yuanzhang, Song Lian, Qiu Jun and other famous officials.
"Zhang Bingyong is a true Confucian scholar!" Mao Ji sighed.
When the memorial was passed to Liao Ji, Liao Ji stroked his beard and praised: "I can't do as well as I can with great talents and etiquette!"
Nonsense, the article written by Zhang Cong was historically the final hammer of the Jiajing Etiquette Conference.
At that time, Yang Tinghe had the upper hand in the Dali debate, but when Zhang Cong handed over a memorial, everyone in Yang's party found no loopholes to argue with. The imperial party also used Zhang Cong's memorial as a weapon to launch another round of attacks.
A political offensive.
The next day, there will be a court meeting.
With Zhu Zaiyi's permission, the Ministry of Rites initiated a court meeting and ordered all civil and military officials to discuss the issue of Confucius' sacrifice.
A single thought cannot be discussed or refuted.
Even if there are ignorant die-hards who oppose Confucius's sacrificial reform, the supporters only need to reply: "Is what Zhuzi said wrong? Is what Chengzi said wrong? Is Taizu wrong too? Could it be that you are better than
Zhu Zi, Cheng Zi, and Taizu are still awesome!"
The young emperor immediately issued an order: "Immediately remove the statues of Confucius across the country. From now on, only the memorial tablets of Confucius will be enshrined and sacrificed. Those who disobey the order will not follow Cheng Zhu's words and disobey the Taizu."
The Imperial College in Beijing first removed the statue of Confucius.
Just the day after the demolition was completed, and the imperial decree had not yet left the capital, Zhang Cong's second memorial came again, this time discussing the removal of the title of Confucius and changing it to Confucius as the most holy teacher.
Confucius should not be a prince, he should be a teacher!