"Guide?"
The Holy Emperor waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, I'll do as you say."
With that said, the Holy Emperor stood up, and the Tomb of Heroes beneath him disappeared, and the previous throne appeared instead.
And the clothes on his body also changed, returning to his original regular clothes.
Seeing this, all the officials breathed a sigh of relief.
Then they started communicating.
"Although such an official position is of no rank and rank, how can it be held by a humble official?"
"Yes! As far as I'm concerned, Mr. Lin Ke is actually still young, not sensible yet, and can't grasp it yet, so you might as well let me do it."
"It's impossible to give him a distinguished status, right? How can he get such a distinguished status if he's not a member of a noble family or took the imperial examination?"
"Although he can recite poetry, he has not yet passed the Tongsheng Examination."
All the officials and ministers were talking among themselves, whether they were from Lin Xuanji or not, they were all discussing an issue.
The gift cannot be discarded!
Although Lin Ke broke common sense and became a special official, this has become an established fact.
Now that it has been settled, the officials will not offend the Holy Emperor, but are considering solutions.
To be an official, Lin Ke must have a distinguished status, or at least a common status.
What needs to be solved now is to determine the origin of Lin Ke.
"I think it should be respected as a Confucian." Qi Tianxia was the first to speak: "You all know Lin Ke's talent."
As Minister of War, Qi Tianxia is one of the most powerful people in the world.
Behind him are not only his disciples, but also various strong men in the army.
All kinds of generals, marshals, commanders, etc. are all under his command. It can be said that he is a very human minister.
When he opened his mouth, he had the same final word effect as Lin Xuanji.
Unless Lin Xuanji also speaks.
"Pingji, Za." Lin Xuanji has gone through so much, but still remains calm, as if he was not the one who was scolded by the heroic spirit before: "Lin Ke learned Ping Za, and it happened to be this Za Ji."
A first-rate fortune teller, a second-rate craftsman, a third-rate warrior, a fourth-rate merchant, a fifth-rate doctor, a sixth-rate soldier, and the rest are all miscellaneous.
Go to the third level and respect the people.
Sixth-rate middle school, civilian.
Low-class, untouchable.
Qi Tianxia believes that Lin Ke should be the most distinguished Confucian scholar in the world.
Lin Xuanji believed that Lin Ke should be an ordinary mixed-race person.
As a result, the leaders on both sides spoke out, and the younger brothers naturally started to argue.
After all, the Holy Emperor at this time is not the "Hero Tomb Holy Emperor", but the "Ordinary Form Holy Emperor".
The Holy Emperor in this form would not prohibit them from communicating with each other.
"Taoist books and Buddhist books are not bad either." The Minister of Taoism and Buddhism smiled and said: "Lin Ke is a Taoist and a Buddhist, so he can be both."
"You can also register as a soldier. You just happened to join the army, just like this old guy Qi Tianxia." The Minister of Punishment said indifferently.
"Confucianism."
"A warrior can do it too."
Everyone communicated, and this time they were much less angry with each other. Perhaps it was because of the previous actions of the Holy Emperor and the curses of the heroic spirits, which made them less temperamental.
However, the Holy Emperor ignored them.
Instead, he looked at the Grand Master: "Grand Master, Xuan."
The grand master nodded, faced all the officials, and said, "The second discussion is about harsh etiquette."
The Grand Master's words silenced all the officials.
Even Lin Xuanji and Qi Tianxia lost their voices for a moment.
"Harsh etiquette?!"
"Changing etiquette?!"
It turns out that the Holy Emperor laid so much groundwork to change the etiquette system? !
The biggest trade-off between imperial power and scholar-bureaucrats is etiquette!
Ritual is the order that binds people.
If everyone yearns for the way of Lao and Zhuang, the world will be filled with selfishness and destruction.
You yearn for the mountains and forests and occupy a mountain.
He wants to be like a fairy and walk around the world.
Then there were more and more people, more and more.
If no one is farming, what will everyone eat?
If no one builds a house, where will everyone live?
If no one is acting, what are you watching?
What Confucius wanted was the Zhou rites hundreds of years ago, and what Laozi wanted was the primitive society thousands of years ago.
Society has stagnated and developed. There is nothing new or new technology. What I grab is mine. There are no restrictions or laws. The vegetables you grow are also mine.
I'm that extreme of freedom.
This is unrealistic.
But, push forward a few hundred years and use Legalism to govern the country?
Impersonal.
Some vendors struggle to survive, but are punished by various laws.
Some people have not committed a crime, but they have done something extremely unscrupulous and the law cannot punish them.
This is Dharma.
The core of Confucius' etiquette is not etiquette or law, but benevolence.
A courtesy without benevolence is a harsh courtesy.
Xunzi finally discovered this, so he advocated the combination of etiquette and law.
Develop detailed laws on what can and cannot be done.
At the same time, human behavior is also bound by etiquette.
Constraint is not restraint or control.
A car overturned, and the watermelon inside rolled down and fell to the ground.
Taoism tells everyone that there is no need to be restrained, you can do whatever you want and be free.
Legalists tell everyone that if the law stipulates it, they cannot be touched, but if there are loopholes in the law or there is a gray area, then you can take these watermelons.
And the law, after all, cannot stipulate everything.
So, ritual was born.
Etiquette is the restraint that people place on themselves.
It is the moral constraint on oneself.
When you encounter a cart of watermelons rolling down, you can choose to ignore it, or you can choose to help, help the owner of the watermelon, pick up the watermelon and return it to the owner of the watermelon.
If someone else's wallet falls on the ground, you can choose to be "like the animals in the mountains and forests, be casual and think of everything as a gift from nature", and then pick up the wallet and treat it as your own.
You can also check to see if there is a law against taking wallets off the ground. If not, just pick it up and leave. If you are caught, say, "I thought it was someone else's lost possession. How did I know it was?" Someone else dropped it.”
Of course, you can also use etiquette to restrain yourself.
The law doesn't prohibit it, but my morality prohibits me from doing such a thing.
I won’t take it whenever I want, nor will I do it without prohibition.
This is the restriction of etiquette.
Between absolute freedom and absolute restraint, I chose relative restraint and relative freedom.
Therefore, having the gift of benevolence is the best solution after the debate among various schools of thought.
The scholar-bureaucrat class also agreed with this point.
This is also something they often practice in their official ways.
As a minister, I can do my duty honestly and do things in a down-to-earth manner according to the rules.
However, with the restraint of etiquette, my requirements for myself have become higher, and I want to devote myself to doing things for the people.
This is the role of etiquette.
Scholar-bureaucrats and the like insist on equality.
The emperor can naturally override everything, but the scholar-bureaucrats who kill their ministers at will naturally do not need to respect etiquette.
This is also a right and obligation in a certain sense.
Therefore, when the Holy Emperor said that he wanted to change the etiquette at this time, it was equivalent to saying that he wanted to change the hearts of the people in the world.
For example, people in the world now think that Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are noble.
If the Holy Emperor changed "rituals", Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism might become inferior.
The most important thing is that now, the Holy Emperor calls this "ceremony" harsh ceremony! (End of chapter)
