I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 162
The first year of Jianwu of the Ming Dynasty and the 61st year of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (changed to Yuan Dynasty next year).

Next April.

The Holy Duke Yan of this generation was named Kong Yuqi. Like Kong Chuanjin of the Southern Sect, he had just sent his son Kong Chuanduo to Beijing to pay homage to Yongzheng.

Historically, next year Yongzheng will postulate the fifth generation of Confucian saints as kings to win over scholars (he will be cut off later). As Yanshenggong, Kong Yuqi went to Beijing to pay homage to him as usual, and then died of illness in Beijing after a long journey. Yongzheng buried him and After the posthumous title Gongci.

Speaking of Beikong, there is another interesting thing. The last generation of Yanshenggong in the former Ming Dynasty, whose real name was Kong Yinzhi, died in the fourth year of Shunzhi.

Then, as we all know, Yongzheng's name was Yinzhen. After he ascended the throne, not only other elder brothers had to avoid changing his name to "Yun*", but the late Kong Yinzhi also had to avoid changing his name. In later generations, the official record was called Kong Yanzhi.

Originally, Nanzong also wanted to avoid the taboo.

But now, the Ming Dynasty canonized Nanzong as Yan Shenggong, which also means that Nanzong has nothing to do with the pseudo-Qing Dynasty.

In other words, starting from this year, there is no longer the so-called Nanzong, only Mingyan Shenggong.

Just like during the confrontation between the Jin and Song Dynasties in the past, Yan Shenggong from the north and the south stood side by side, but Zhu Yijiong would not imitate the undefeated Wan Yangou from the south.

On that day, Kong Yuyuan of the Southern Sect was orally canonized as Duke Yanshenggong in front of all the officials in the court. On the next day, the official decree of canonization came down.

In the official imperial edict, in addition to canonizing Kong Yuyuan as Duke Yan and moving to Nanjing immediately to worship him, Zhu Yijiong also requested that the statue of Confucius in the Confucius Temple be demolished and not be erected again in the future.

Although Kong Chuanjin was a little surprised by this, he had no objection. No matter how much he paid, it didn't matter if Quzhou's property was given to the emperor. As long as he could get back the hereditary title of Duke Yansheng, everything would be worth it.

Of course, Zhu Yijiong's demolition of the Confucius statue was not just for fun. He was gradually trying to reduce Yan Shenggong's influence among scholars.

It just so happened that the order itself had basis. It was an order issued by the former Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty. He was just following the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Even those scholars could not find an excuse to scold him.

Moreover, the Southern Sect demolished the statue of Confucius, but the Northern Sect still kept it. The Propaganda Department had another reason to criticize the unorthodoxy of Northern Confucius.

Kill two birds with one stone!
The second day after the imperial edict was issued.

Kong Chuanjin, the newly appointed legitimate son of Duke Yansheng, came forward and contributed a key piece of information to Zhu Yijiong.

The tombstone of Confucius in the Northern Sect reads "Dacheng, the Most Holy King Wenxuan".

This is fun.

"Dacheng Most Holy King Wenxuan" was the title given to Confucius by the Yuan Dynasty. The title given to him by Lao Zhu of the Ming Dynasty was "Dacheng Most Holy Master". Even when Kangxi worshiped Confucius in the temple in order to win people's hearts, he actually discovered that solved the problem of Confucius’ tomb.

This caused some minor embarrassment, but it was cleverly resolved by the previous generation, the Holy Duke Kong Yan of the North. Later, Kangxi also specially added the title of "Dacheng Supreme Saint Wenxuan Master".

The king's title is really inappropriate.

Unexpectedly, according to Kong Chuanjin’s intention, Beikong hasn’t been changed yet?

Ok!

In fact, he was still King Wenxuan in later generations.

Audacious, indeed audacious!

It is estimated that Kangxi himself knew about this, but it was only because of the popular sentiment among scholars that he did not have an attack.

The news itself is not important. What is important is that Nanzong endorses it. The Propaganda Department can use the topic to make use of it and write a close-up. This is not only disrespectful to Zhu Ming, but also looks down on Kangxi.

The canonization imperial decree went all the way to Quzhou by boat, but Kong Chuanjin did not go back. He then had to work overtime with the Propaganda Department to write an article to criticize the Holy Duke Kong Yan of the North. As the saying goes, it was a public opinion war.

……

Nanjing Imperial Palace.

Royal study.

"The humble minister Wu Wai is here to greet my emperor. Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Wu Wai knelt three times and kowtowed to Zhu Yijiong, who was reviewing memorials.

After seeing this, Zhu Yijiong quickly put down the pen in her hand, stood up with a smile, stepped forward to help her up with her empty hand, and said: "Quickly excuse me, fourth child! How many times have I said that in terms of relationship, your sister is my queen, but you are Uncle Guo, we are all members of our own family, why should we be so open to outsiders?"

Wu Wai quickly stood up in fear: "I don't dare, I would like to thank Your Majesty!"

After having been the commander of the Imperial Guard for such a long time, Wu Wai is no longer the stupid young man he was before.

Zhu Yijiong said it kindly, he is a relative of his own, but if the emperor calls you brother and brother, it means being close to you. If you take it seriously, it means you are ignorant.Especially when Zhu Yijiong talks about me, how should I answer? Do I still need to ask?
"You!"

When Zhu Yijiong heard this, he smiled and said, "How is it? How is the investigation going?"

"Your Majesty, please watch!"

Wu Wai quickly took out the memorial that had been prepared.

Zhu Yijiong took the memorial and flipped through it twice. Then, his calm expression suddenly turned livid.

After a moment, he smiled angrily: "Okay! Okay! What a Fayu Temple!"

Fayu Temple is the temple that Kangxi rebuilt after stealing building materials from the Forbidden City in Nanjing.

I have been short of money for a long time, and I saw that there were too many Taoist temples in my territory, so I thought of taking advantage of this opportunity, not to mention eradicating them, at least to reduce and control the temples and Taoist temples.

This Fayu Temple is exactly the chicken that Zhu Yijiong used for surgery.

Originally, Zhu Yijiong only asked Wu Wai to take Huang Ming and Jin Yiwei to check out the Fayu Temple during Enke.

There is no need to check too carefully. Anyway, Fayu Temple used a large number of imperial building materials from the Ming Palace, which itself is a crime of transgression.

Unexpectedly, Wu Wai just checked it casually.

A dirty place, really a dirty place.

Seizing people's land, oppressing people, taking bribes and bending the law...the various names are simply dazzling. If you mention any one of them, you can use it to raid the temple.

It is indeed a century-old temple!
Just have confidence.

This time, Zhu Yijiong was spared the trouble of making any more accusations.

"...You go down first!" Zhu Yijiong pondered for a moment and waved his hand.

"Yes!"

Wu Wai quickly backed away.

Two days later, Wen Zhesheng, the censor of Zuoqiandu of the Inspectorate, impeached the Jiulong Hall of Zhejiang Fayu Zen Temple for violating regulations.

The Supervisory Office was established on the day Zhu Yijiong became emperor, when he divided the officials into hundreds. It was also established together with the Dali Temple. These are institutions independent of the six cabinet ministries.

The six ministries of the cabinet are called the Center, while the Dali Temple and the Supervisory Office are called the Assistants. Both are indispensable.

There was originally an Imperial College, but Zhu Yijiong did not set it up, even though the cabinet had hinted at it many times.

The first thing the Inspectorate did when he took office was to serve as a sword for Emperor Zhu to suppress Buddhism and Taoism.

After Zhu Yijiong received the impeachment report, especially the evidence listed in it, Long Yan was furious.

On that day, an imperial edict was issued to conduct a thorough inspection of temples and Taoist temples across the country.

Anyone who is involved in illegal activities, infringing on the people, or seizing people's land will be punished according to the law and temple assets will be confiscated.

This law naturally follows Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty.

Although the overall official administration of the Ming Dynasty is difficult to describe, and corruption, perversion of the law, and disregard of human life are almost the norm, in fact, Lao Zhu Ding's imperial edict is essentially not a big problem, at least compared to the feudal court.

It even stipulates that officials are not allowed to take concubines. Of course, in fact, the people do not accept concubines, but if the concubine or the wife really doesn't want to live with it, she can report it to the government and ask the government to preside over the separation.

There is no such thing as a wife who cannot be separated and a concubine is like buying and selling (…).

And the most outrageous thing is that the imperial edict stipulates that if an official is corrupt, the people can pull the official down. If the official protects him, he can directly file a complaint.

Zhu Yijiong used the topic to carry out a thorough investigation across the country, which was equivalent to uprooting all the temples and Taoist temples in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, how many temples and Taoist temples are clean these days?
Even the famous Longhu Mountain Celestial Master's Mansion, the head of the Taoist sect, who is regarded as a Celestial Master, still disregards human life and oppresses the people, let alone these ordinary monks and Taoists.

Even how many true monks and Taoist priests there are here is still a question.

　I work overtime every day, so happy...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)