People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 113 The undercurrent hidden under the history books, I am a melon eater

Xu Cunren, a politician in the early Ming Dynasty.

After Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Jinhua, he took him under his command and asked him to teach the princes.

After the emperor laid down Jiqing Road, the predecessor of Nanjing, he became a doctor of Guozifu, and finally offered sacrifices.

Zhu Yuanzhang appointed the prince Zhu Biao, and chose Song Lian as the teacher for the prince, but also made Xu Cunren his teacher, which shows that Lao Zhu has great trust in his knowledge and character.

It's just that he did something later that made Lao Zhu want to kill him.

That is, Zhu Yuanzhang had just ascended the throne, and he was about to retire and return home.

His subordinate Si Ye once reminded him that if you leave as soon as the emperor ascends the throne, you may make the emperor unhappy.

He refused to listen and insisted on resigning with the emperor.

In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and found an excuse to kill him.

Zhang Yi read about his experience in his previous life and thought the old man was sick.

Firstly, if Xu Cunren did not resign, his official career should be promising.

The second is that since his subordinates have reminded him, it will not be the same if he works for another year before leaving. However, Lao Zhu ran away as soon as he took the throne. With Lao Zhu's stingy and sensitive character, it would be strange if he didn't cut you off. .

It was only at this time that he understood that a few words in history may be undercurrents.

Xu Cunren is not stupid, he left for a reason.

"Mr. is in charge of Guozixue, which has won the trust of the emperor. Although Guozixue does not have much authority, it also affects the formulation of the Ming Dynasty's talent selection system. Probably, sir has talked about this issue with His Majesty. Your Majesty has some ideas that you don't like, right?" ?”

Zhang Yi patted the things on Xu Cunren's desk, Xu Cunren's expression was complicated.

"Sir is a man with ideals and ambitions, and he has served His Majesty for another ten years, but you have known you since I was a child, and you have been talking about retirement all day long!
I heard you say last time that if it wasn't for some accidents, you would probably be old with His Majesty!

The kid thinks that my husband's body is obviously still strong, and it won't be a problem to work for another ten years...

Now I understand that the reason why Mr. left is because of different ways and not conspiring with each other! "

Xu Cunren: ...

This brat is a ghost, he just wrote a few strokes to relieve the depression in his heart.

Who knew that he just glanced at it, but he guessed his own thoughts almost exactly.

Zhu Yuanzhang did discuss with him about the selection of talents in the Ming Dynasty. Although the imperial examination was not implemented, according to the rules of the past dynasties, this matter will be held sooner or later.

It's just that the world is still uncertain, and there are still many things that the court needs to be busy with.

Therefore, the emperor himself did not have a mature idea about the education of Guozixue and the arrangement of imperial examinations.

However, as a veteran minister who served Zhu Yuanzhang for ten years, Xu Cunren clearly felt the changes after the emperor ascended the throne, and this change also vaguely made Xu Cunren uneasy.

"What do you know, a little Taoist, don't think about it!"

Xu Cunren wanted to reprimand Zhang Yi, but Zhang Yi ignored him:
"Your Majesty's education and cultivation of talents is likely to hope that they will be obedient, instead of having too many thoughts of their own like old officials like Mr. and others!

Mr. is an old-fashioned person, and he definitely does not agree with His Majesty's ideas!
Your Majesty knows that Mr. does not agree, and Mr. knows that His Majesty does not like your delay!

Therefore, sir, he has no choice but to silently confront His Majesty by walking away, but have you ever thought that this will bring you a fatal disaster? "

When Xu Cunren heard this, his face showed uncertainty.

"I've been with His Majesty for ten years, shouldn't it be enough?"

Zhang Yi said:
"Why not? It's not like you don't know how short our Ming Dynasty is now. The new dynasty was first established. It should have been a good day for people from all over the world to vote for it. However, His Majesty offended the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River earlier, and the scholars of the world are also concerned about Daming's situation. Waiting and watching!
Although the Northern Yuan Dynasty has been precarious, it is still orthodox in the hearts of many scholars.
Coupled with His Majesty's background, ways of doing things and other reasons, other people also hesitated to be loyal to Daming,

At this juncture of buying bones with a lot of money, if the husband resigns, it will have a great impact on Daming's talent recruitment, and there is a high probability that you will be liquidated! "

"Sir, you are angry, because you don't want His Majesty to treat scholars like pigs and dogs in captivity, am I right?"

Xu Cunren stared at Zhang Yi in horror, speechless for a long time.

He just wrote a few complaints in the study, and Zhang Yi saw so many things?

No, it is impossible for Zhang Yi to see so many things, this little guy has something!
Only then did Xu Cunren remember Zhang Yi's other identity, the direct descendant of Longhushan!
As a Confucian, he actually despised Taoist priests in his heart, but the aura that lingered on Longhu Mountain for hundreds of years still reminded Xu Cunren of his mind.

"Did you see something?"

"It's just that I saw that there is a dead breath in Mr.'s body!"

Zhang Yi hesitated for a moment, and finally reminded Xu Cunren that he had a good impression of this old man, but just because of his good impression, Xu Cunren was not worth Zhang Yi's trip to this muddy water.

But the meal tonight, and the way he taught himself earnestly, made Zhang Yi feel a little sincerity.

It happened that the things on the desk could trigger this topic, so Zhang Yi simply asked himself to work hard.

If Xu Cunren's decision can be changed because of this, it will be regarded as a merit.

If you can't change it, forget it!

"It turns out I'm going to die!"

Xu Cunren smiled frankly, as if he never took this matter to himself.

He asked with great interest:

"Then what do you think His Majesty will do? And is it right or wrong for him to do this?"

"Mr. was distracted. When he was scribbling on the paper, he mentioned that Wang Anshi's abolished poems and prose in the Song Dynasty were taken from the scriptures, so I boldly guessed that your majesty should have a draft in mind for the future imperial examinations, and combined with the previous dynasty to use the "classics" "Jingsu" is the tradition of title essays, and it is not difficult for me to guess that His Majesty is going a step further than this,
If I were Your Majesty, how should I complete my own design and make my husband feel uneasy?And can it block the mouths of scholars all over the world? "

Zhang Yi paused at this point, Xu Cunren's curiosity had been completely aroused by him.

"If you want to speculate on this matter, you have to guess what His Majesty wants to do?
Your Majesty was born in the humble beginnings, even if he became the emperor, many aristocratic families don’t think highly of him. Even if I am a Ming Dynasty, many people are still betting that it is just a flash in the pan and cannot last long. An emperor like His Majesty!
These big families are often heirs of poetry and books, and there have been people who have played a role in the court in all dynasties.Their malice will intensify His Majesty's sense of crisis, because he knows that whether he likes it or not, as long as the imperial examinations are made public...

There is a high probability that these people still hold power!

His Majesty's vigilance against scholars gave him the motivation to further reform Daming's talent selection system, so I guess,

In the future imperial examinations, Your Majesty will further restrict the selection of the classics, but the previous dynasty has limited the topic selection to the four books of "University", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "The Analects" and "Mencius", and it is impossible to restrict the topic selection any more.

So His Majesty should start with the format, but this is not the key,

The most important thing is to imprison the thoughts of scholars!

And being able to do this openly is nothing more than the word [Chonggu]! "

Zhang Yi's so-called guess is actually knowing the answer a long time ago, and then using the answer to deduce the process.

But what he said made Xu Cunren's face change again and again.

Seeing Mr. Xu's changes, Zhang Yi already had the answer in his mind, and he had already guessed it right.

In the third year of Hongwu, after the peace of the world, the Ming Dynasty had the spare energy to focus on selecting talents and hold the imperial examination!

Zhu Yuanzhang made new regulations on the imperial examination.

The topic selection is taken from the Four Books and Five Classics, and the format consists of eight parts: breaking the topic, inheriting the topic, starting the lecture, entering the topic, starting the section, middle section, back section, and binding section, and must speak in the tone of Confucius and Mencius. In the battle, you can't use romantic allusions to blaspheme the saints. Each article includes four parts from the beginning to the end.

This set of reforms does not actually have much resistance to most scholars.

But the deep meaning behind the emperor will gradually be revealed in later generations.

Zhu Yuanzhang's approach seems to be harmless, but in fact, after all the rules are fixed, it also imprisoned the minds of scholars.

This is beneficial to the centralization of the monarchy, but whether it is beneficial to the governance of the world is another matter.

A person's background has a huge impact on his personality. Throughout Emperor Hongwu's life, he was always wary of his courtiers. As a great emperor, his thoughts and decisions were not just patting his head. come up with.

It is only the first year of Hongwu, but Xu Cunren knew a little about the publication of the stereotyped essay two years later, so he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang had already thought about this matter, and even, maybe even the Prime Minister Abolishing Li after a long time later might have already I'm planning.

Zhang Yi knew from Xu Cunren's reaction that at least Zhu Yuanzhang had revealed his thoughts to him.

But Xu Cunren resisted this idea in his heart.

Although he didn't have much contact with Mr. Xu, he could feel the unrestrained spirit of this old man. His understanding of preaching and teaching must have greatly deviated from Zhu Yuanzhang's.

Things that others might not mind, but Xu Cunren does.

This made him and Zhu Yuanzhang's understanding of "Tao" contradictory.

"Are you really just a seven-year-old?"

After Zhang Yi finished speaking, Xu Cunren took a long time to say this sentence.

He brought Zhang Yi back today, and his original purpose was not to play tricks with Zhang Yi, but the topic was brought up, and the shock Zhang Yi brought to him was far beyond imagination.

This ignorant child with poor grammar and writing skills,

Looking at him at this time, there is a feeling of sitting and talking.

In a trance, he thought he was talking about state affairs with great scholars like Liu Ji and Song Lian!
"Do you have a granddaughter to betroth to me?"

Zhang Yi returned to his hippie smiling face, and Xu Cunren couldn't help but laugh.

However, he was even more sure of his evaluation in front of the emperor, this little guy is a seed for reading.

"The old man's opinion is very simple. Your Majesty's selection method will only select some mediocre talents. If so, the old man might as well recommend an interesting little guy like you...

It's a pity, you are too young, otherwise the old man would recommend you to the emperor while Enke is still open! "

"You should spare me!"

Zhang Yi hurriedly waved his hand and started working under Boss Zhu, even if he was beaten to death, he would not do it.

"Then do you think His Majesty's decision is right or wrong?"

Xu Cunren started chatting, so naturally he would not let Zhang Yi go easily. He asked his wife to make a pot of tea, which meant that he wanted to have a night chat with Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi thought for a moment and said:

"Whether it's right or wrong depends on where you stand?
In fact, the logic behind the reform of the imperial examinations is still the struggle between monarchy and power!
Mr. represents Xiangquan and represents the scholar group, so he is naturally worried that the emperor will affect the interests of the scholar group, or the long-term interests.

And from the emperor's point of view, he is also right, the monarch wants to centralize power, that is the nature of the monarch,
You scholars hope that the monarch will not meddle and try not to meddle, it is also your instinct!

It's a struggle in essence, so don't put gold on your face! "

I'm a little worried!

Xu Cunren frowned slightly, and Zhang Yi accidentally sharpened him again.

He asked back:
"What about standing on your side?"

"I eat melon!"

Zhang Yi's face was full of indifference!
(End of this chapter)