After Yuan Ting heard this, she suddenly panicked: "Dongchang, what is Dongchang doing here? What are we doing to hinder Dongchang?"
Yuan Keqing was also stunned for a moment, then looked at Yuan Ting and said, "Let's go take a look first."
Yuan Ting nodded and said, "Then go and have a look."
So, Yuan Ting brought a group of elders of the Yuan clan to the outer hall, and met people from Dongchang here. He couldn't help shouting: "Why are you all here, can you tell us? We also So that you know what sin you have committed.”
"That's right, I don't know if it has something to do with Duke Xingguo, but Duke Xingguo's family has been expelled from the family tree of our Yuan family. If their family disobeys the Holy One, it will naturally have nothing to do with our Yuan family. Please give me a warning!"
Yuan Keqing also said something, he thought that now the only person in his Yuan family who could have anything to do with the imperial court was Yuan Keli, and when people from Dongchang came to his Yuan family, they were probably related to him, so he was eager to clear up the relationship. .
Li Ruolian, who was in charge of this operation, laughed because of this: "I know! If the Xingguo Gong family has not been expelled from the family tree by you, maybe our Dongchang will not come, and we dare not come, but now because of Xingguo If the public is expelled by you, then only our people from the East Factory dare to come!"
Yuan Ting opened his mouth to speak. He now wanted to say that Xingguo Gong was not expelled from his Yuan family's genealogy, but he knew that if he said this now, Dongchang would definitely not believe it, and would also make his own clansmen laugh, which would make him in the family tree. The majesty of the clan was gone.
"Get someone!"
Li Ruolian shouted loudly at this time.
Dongchang's fan immediately took Yuan Ting into custody first.
Yuan Keqing was also arrested.
Yuan Dong was also taken into custody, and he shouted: "Uncle, I have advised you a long time ago, don't let the sixth uncle (Yuan Keli) fail to take care of the interests of our gentry, so that you can share the land with the gentry. If you want to pay for food, you will listen to the instigation of those friendly nobles to persecute his family. But it would be better for you. In order to get the inheritance of the sixth uncle, you should expel them from the family tree, but do not expel their property. Now, no, you still can’t get it. The favor given to our Yuan family by the imperial court is for Uncle Six's sake, not because they really think highly of our Yuan family!"
"Yuan Dong! Shut up! You are following the example of Yuan Shu from the sixth room, right? You still dare to talk about your uncle. Yuan Shu will complain to you, but nothing will happen if you don't complain. He is disrespectful of human ethics and is unethical. The etiquette system has always been about clans dealing with clansmen. There is no reason for clansmen to slander clansmen! This is simply outrageous!"
Yuan shouted loudly.
Seeing this, Li Ruolian went up and slapped Yuan Keqing: "Old immortal, shut up! According to your wishes, if the clan wants to rebel, the clan members can't sue, right?"
"What's wrong with hiding from each other?"
A young scholar from the Yuan family replied loudly.
"What a big mistake!"
Li Ruolian replied and ordered: "Take them all away!"
In this way, all members of the Yuan family were taken into the prison car.
Li Ruolian came to Yuan Shu next and was very polite. He said with a smile: "My lord, please come to Beijing with us. The emperor said that although you have been expelled from the Yuan family. Clan, but the court does not recognize it, so if the court wants to take the whole Yuan family, your whole family will also have to be taken to the capital."
"What are you talking about? The clan has expelled our family, why do we still have to be implicated by them and suffer!"
Yuan Shu's son Yuan Fucheng said rather unconvinced.
Yuan Shu stopped him: "Fucheng, don't be rude!"
After saying that, Yuan Shu stretched out his hand and said to Li Ruolian: "Please!"
As a result, Duke Xingguo's family was also escorted to Beijing.
…
"It is against etiquette for Minister-Counsellor Xingguo to impeach an elder of his own clan! This move is treasonous!"
"The family rights are not recognized by the imperial laws and the national law, so why do they expel the new kings from the family tree? Are the capable ministers who have made great achievements for our Ming Dynasty not even qualified to be included in their own family tree?!"
"Whether Prince Xinbin is worthy of joining the Yuan family or not, only the Yuan family knows, and the court has no right to interfere!"
"His Majesty has already decreed that the new King Bin should be able to enjoy the Imperial Ancestral Temple. He is even qualified to enjoy the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Why is he not worthy of being offered sacrifices by the Yuan clan?"
"Whether King Xinbin can enter the Yuan family's ancestral hall or be buried in the ancestral land is a matter of etiquette, not imperial laws and regulations. Royal etiquette is determined by the court, and family etiquette is naturally determined by the clan!"
Because Zhu Youxiao asked Yuan Shu to impeach his own clan to be published to the world through "Di Bao", and let the civil servants and scholars all over the world discuss and engage in verbal and literary battles. Therefore, the civil servants and scholars really started arguing about this matter. , the fight was in full swing.
Arguments raged on in the streets and on podiums.
Articles are constantly updated in private newspapers and periodicals everywhere.
Some radicals even went directly to the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites to petition to uphold the ritual system, and some petitioned to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to uphold the imperial guidelines and national laws.
Of course there were fights.
"Although there are still many scholar-officials who support ruling the country by etiquette, there are still many scholars who have changed their minds and began to support ruling the country by law for various reasons. The next step for the Ming Dynasty is to get rid of the disadvantages caused by governing the country by etiquette. Therefore, we can now try to carry out reforms to rule the country by law."
"Although the statement is nothing more than human feelings, that is, the legal principles are based on morality, morality cannot replace the law after all! No one can set up a private court in the name of morality and etiquette! The representative family power here must be eliminated until it is Parents cannot control all the rights and interests of their children because of filial piety, because children are children, not slaves!"
Zhu Youxiao said.
"Yes! But Your Majesty, in my opinion, this must come step by step. Independence and freedom are not things that can be changed overnight. Although the Ming Dynasty now needs more people who can step out of their clans and families to consume, work, and even run businesses. People, but if you want to change traditional concepts, you have to go with the flow and impose regulations, which will not help."
Bi Ziyan reminded at this time.
"Of course I know, but we have to make a good start. The Yuan clan is the leader. The court must stand on Yuan Shu's side and make a statement so that those who dare to resist their clan in the future can stand up more bravely. Thereby disintegrating the power of the clan, I believe that as the number of scholars increases, the chance of being able to live independently without the clan becomes higher and higher, and more such people will appear."
Zhu Youxiao said.
…
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided to personally try the case of Yuan Shu's impeachment of his ancestral clan, and asked someone to bring the Yuan clan's rules and regulations and read them carefully.
"Dip pig cages? Who gave him the power of the Yuan clan to dip people into pig cages? In that case, let me soak the clan leader Yuan Ting in pig cages too! Let him suffer for himself!"
Zhu Youxiao shouted.
When Yuan Ting heard Zhu Youxiao's decision, she couldn't help but shout: "Your Majesty, that is to deal with the immoral clan members. The common people also want to keep their families clean!"
"No matter how immoral you are, you have to hand it over to the government. No need to say more, just carry it down and soak it in the pig cage!"
Zhu Youxiao ordered.
Therefore, Yuan Ting was really carried to a river outside the city, and under the supervision of the Dongchang, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Jinyiwei, he was put into a pig cage and then immersed in the river.
While being carried away, Yuan Ting shouted desperately: "No! No!"
Yuan Zha, a member of the Yuan clan who was exterminated by other members of the Yuan clan and whose widowed mother was falsely accused of seducing the clan members and imprisoned in a pig cage, couldn't help but sneer while watching the execution with other Yuan clan members: "Yuan Ting, you are here too!"
7017k
