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Chapter 6 A Thousand Scholars, A Thousand Confucians

Zhang Juzheng has bright eyebrows, quite handsome, a little thin, with only one pair of eyes, with a faint glimmer of light, standing there, not obvious, but giving people a sharp feeling.

In the first year of Wanli, Daming had entered old age, and it was the time when the sun was declining.

The government is weak, the country is weak, the discipline is weak, the military equipment is slack, and the capital camp is only [-] to [-], all of whom are old, weak, sick and disabled; the country's financial resources have suffered greatly, and the tax base has been completely sluggish; The decay is also unprecedented; the people are struggling to earn a living, and the Ming Dynasty is already on the verge of collapse.

At such a time, only someone who can help the world is born, can we clear up the evils and continue the life of Ming Dynasty.

Yan Song couldn't do it, Xu Jie couldn't do it, Gao Gong couldn't do it.

In front of Zhu Yijun is Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty. He has means, determination, ability, and talent. Can he do it?

In fact, he didn't do it. Ten years is too short, and Da Ming's illness is too serious. Ten years after Wanli, after Zhang Juzheng's death, Da Ming's last chance to correct his mistakes disappeared in the wave of counterattack and recklessness. without a trace.

The chief assistant in front of him who worked hard for the country and was clumsy about his life was the greatest confidence that the Wanli Emperor could not go to court for 30 years, and most of the officials in the court were still negligent and misbehaving!
As long as what Zhang Juzheng is doing is beneficial to Daming, Zhu Yijun will never stop him in the slightest.

It is Zhu Yijun's unswerving wish to make Daming great again.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng was also looking at the little emperor.

Yesterday, when the king was assassinated, the assassin broke into the Qianqing Palace and stabbed the bed with his knife. Such a catastrophe happened suddenly, how would this young king react?Was he scared out of his wits and became submissive?Or are you worried that you will be killed?Or is it the sadness that the late emperor passed away and he couldn't even guarantee his safety?
Zhang Juzheng didn't see it at all, he only saw the calmness of mind and a hint of playfulness.

Eyes cannot deceive people. In Emperor Ming's eyes, there is no fear, no panic, no sadness, no worry.

"Yuanfu, can we start the feast?" Zhu Yijun asked, according to his past memory, he was going to say a long paragraph of polite words.

The general idea is: I am still young, and I am deeply worried that my virtue will not be able to be supported by the people. According to the expectations of the late emperor, today, according to the law of the ancestors, I hope that the ministers of the court can recite the scriptures, teach me the principles, and govern this country well.

This long passage is like chanting scriptures, and the memory of other things learned has long been weak, but this passage alone has a particularly deep memory.

Zhu Yijun was trying to test himself, whether he would be able to hold the sutra banquet if he refused to say so.

"I would like to obey the holy order!" Zhang Juzheng was taken aback, bowed his head and said yes.

In fact, the sutra feast can start without chanting sutras.

The powerful 27 ministers of the Ming Dynasty served Zhu Yijun to read alone. The emperor did not even need to turn the pages of the book when he read. The words and deeds of the lecturers.

You don't even need to take notes when reading, you just need to listen.

When the lecturer entered the hall, Zhu Yijun had to stand up and return the salute before he could start the lecture. The content of the lecture was the Four Books and Five Classics. mouth to go.

Zhang Juzheng was not idle, nor was he wandering off into the sky, but was watching Zhu Yijun study very seriously.

Zhang Juzheng, if there is no political heir, he can't have one either. He Chao Gang asserted that if there is a political heir, the Empress Dowager Li would have trouble sleeping and eating.

For Empress Dowager Li, it is the duty of Empress Dowager Li to maintain the emperor's exclusive management.

There is and can only be one successor to Zhang Juzheng, and that is the emperor on the platform, so he is teaching the emperor to learn from him very carefully.

Zhu Yijun really wanted to study hard and make progress every day, but as he listened, he gradually figured out something was wrong, and he suddenly said, "Stop."

"Yuanfu, I have doubts." Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Juzheng: "These lecturers, all of them are speaking in one sentence, but they each have their own opinions. Who should I listen to?"

""The Analects of Confucius Weizheng" says: If you attack heresy, you will do harm."

"Scholar Wang Xilie Wang said: If you delve into heresy, it will do great harm; Scholar Chen Jin said: Criticize incorrect speech, and the scourge will be eliminated; Editor Wang Tingsun of the Imperial Academy said: attack speech that is inconsistent with your own point of view, It's dangerous."

"Yuanfu, what is the meaning of this sentence? The three scholars have three meanings in one sentence."

The question asked by the little emperor stumped Zhang Juzheng for a while.

It is easy to win or lose in a martial arts competition, but it is difficult to distinguish between friends with literature. There is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. This is the reason.

Literati have always looked down on each other. For a word of Confucius, there are a thousand scholars, and there are a thousand Confucius. Various annotations and versions emerge in endlessly, and each school, school, and even each person has a different opinion.

Who is right?Who is wrong?Who do you listen to?
No matter who Zhang Juzheng is listening to at the moment, he has offended the other bachelors. Zhang Juzheng is not afraid of offending people. If he was afraid of offending people, he would not want to promote the examination method.

The test method is to put a halter on the officials, flick the whip, and set a performance appraisal for the officials, which offends people the most.

Zhang Ju was thinking about how to teach the emperor well.

Zhang Juzheng was silent for a moment and said: "I think, attacking, studying specialization; heresy, not the way of a saint, but not one end."

"Song Huizong Xiangdao, claiming to be the leader of Taoism, Emperor Wu of Liang superstitious in Buddhism, and claiming to be Bodhidharma, will inevitably die and perish, and will be laughed at by future generations. The harm caused by heresy should not be a deep warning for all generations!"

Zhu Yijun picked up a pen and wrote down the six characters Song Huizong and Liang Wudi, and asked, "What does Zhang Yuanfu mean by these religious theories, are they heresies?"

"Of course." Zhang Juzheng was not stingy about his distaste for Buddhism and Taoism. The most important thing was the shrinking tax base. The land under the jurisdiction of these temples did not pay money and food, and the gentry mostly depended on them.

Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, they kept filth and filth and did not pay taxes. This is one of the silverfish that the Ming Dynasty is declining.

The learning of a hundred schools of thought is not heresy, that is learning, but the evil spirits that confuse people's hearts are the real heresy.

Zhang Juzheng is a Confucian scholar, but he is not completely a pure Confucian scholar. How can a pure Confucian scholar come up with such things as the examination method?

Zhu Yijun couldn't help nodding and said: "I understand, what Zhang Yuanfu talks about is governing the country, and what the great scholars talk about is truth."

"I'm ashamed and dare not do it." Zhang Juzheng heard this, and hurriedly said something self-effacing. Although he was self-effacing, he didn't have any gesture of modesty. He stood up straight and was a little arrogant, and several senior scholars didn't dare to refute.

Gao Yi died, Gao Gong was expelled from the cabinet, Zhang Juzheng's methods were overbearing, what if he refuted, what if he was deposed tomorrow because he stepped into the Chengtian Gate with his left foot?
Zhu Yijun was a little impatient with this sutra banquet. The speeches of these great scholars were just like the speeches of the leaders of various conferences in the previous life. They were all reasonable nonsense, and all were correct.

But it has nothing to do with governing the country.

It's all nonsense!

Looking at Zhang Juzheng, he suddenly thought of an idea, and asked with a smile, "Yuanfu is also a scholar."

Zhang Juzheng didn't know why the emperor asked the question, he was not a scholar, so he could stand here?He replied with some doubts: "I was born in the military household of Ningsuo, the governor of Jingzhou. I am not talented. In the 26th year of Jiajing, I was a No. 9 scholar."

Zhang Juzheng was born in a military family in Changning, No. 9 in the second class.

Zhu Yijun continued: "Yuan Fu is a very good reader, and he has annotated the Four Books and Five Classics."

Zhang Juzheng somewhat understood the meaning of the emperor, and replied: "It has been annotated."

Only then did Zhu Yijun express his purpose: "I thought that now that Yuanfu is the chief assistant of the Wenyuan Pavilion in the Ming Dynasty, he is naturally the most powerful scholar, so I use the Four Books and Five Classics annotated by Yuanfu to read."

"There are 27 courtiers in the Ming Dynasty, and they are extremely busy with official duties. They are all waiting outside the hall for ministerial discussions, ministerial promotions, and ministerial affairs. They are waiting for me to study alone. This reading lasts for several hours. Don't you need to discuss internal and external matters?"

"Yuanfu gave me the Four Books and Five Classics that he annotated, and set aside one day every month to let Hanlin and the great scholars come to take the exam. If they fail, it won't be too late if so many people stare at them, right?"

"You are discussing with the court on the platform, and I am studying on the platform by myself, we will not delay."

Twenty-seven courtiers were waiting outside the door, and the correcting officer held his embroidered spring knife and stared at them. They even stood upright, let alone discussing state affairs with each other.

Zhu Yijun's idea saved each other's time and increased efficiency, and at the same time, it could avoid the conflicts and confusion caused by many great scholars.

Isn't the core of the examination method to save time, improve efficiency, and reduce rigidity in the Ming system?

Zhang Juzheng pondered for a moment, rolled up his sleeves, took out a copy of "Four Books Direct Explanation" and handed it to Zhang Hong who was waiting beside him, and said loudly: "Your Majesty is wise."

accepted?
Zhu Yijun thought that his little emperor's opinion was not important, but seeing Zhang Juzheng's willingness to agree, and looking at the "Four Books Straight Explanation" that had been prepared a long time ago, he knew that Zhang Juzheng was well prepared.

The two monarchs and ministers actually pissed into a pot.

Zhang Juzheng said quite solemnly: "After the court meeting, I will stay alone for an hour to clear up your majesty's doubts."

Since Emperor Longqing's grand trip, the Jingyan has been going on for six months. How is the emperor's learning?

The result is zero.

Zhang Juzheng passed the school exam, but the little emperor didn't read it at all, he didn't read a single word, he just faltered when asked.

With such a big battle, it is strange for a ten-year-old child to be able to read it.

On the other hand, for the sake of word by word, the great scholars talked upside down, each with their own opinions, and these opinions were mixed together, not to mention the ten-year-old emperor, even Zhang Juzheng was a little confused , The public says that the public is right and the woman says that the woman is reasonable.

Commenting on Confucius, who is right?
He has been thinking about how to teach the emperor well.

First of all, the courtiers cannot be allowed to see the emperor. The high arch is vividly remembered. The Wenhua Palace court meeting is a place to discuss state affairs. This involves the four words that the emperor is in charge of. The little emperor must be there, and secondly, the little emperor must be allowed to study successful.

The most important thing is not to let Empress Dowager Li misunderstand that Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant, is going to usurp the throne!

You are teaching well, but suddenly you are not allowed to teach with a bachelor, what is your intention, Zhang Juzheng?

After thinking about it, Zhang Juzheng came up with a solution, which was almost the same as what the emperor said, except for one more item. After the court meeting, he stayed for an hour to preach and resolve doubts.

"It's so good, very good!" Zhu Yijun flipped through Zhang Juzheng's "Four Books Direct Explanation", which was just a commentary on the Analects.

The most important thing is that all the annotations are written in vernacular, and the words of those great scholars are too polite to understand.

"Sishu Zhijie" can be regarded as a popular reading of the Four Books and Five Classics, but popular does not mean simple.

Taking the Analects of Confucius as an example, Confucius said a certain sentence, in what context, to whom, why did he say it, what does it mean for governing the country, and what is the reference for the current Ming Dynasty? It explains the profound things in a simple way, penetrating into the inside.

"I'm waiting to leave." Several senior scholars looked at me and I looked at you, so they could only bow their heads and leave.

Zhang Ju is usurping the imperial power, the emperor is not only unprepared, but also surrenders, what can the scholars do?
One day the emperor on the Dragon Throne will not have the surname Zhu, His Majesty will know how to repent!
The 27 courtiers began to go to the hall, sat on both sides of the long table, and began to discuss state affairs.

And the first thing is the assassination of the king.

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