After Zhang Juzheng finished playing Qi Jiguang's memorial, Zhu Yijun told Zhang Hong with a stern face: "Show the memorial of Fu Yingzhen, the imperial censor of Henan Province, to your husband!"
Zhang Hong said yes and handed Fu Yingzhen's memorial to Zhang Juzheng.
It turned out that on December 21st of the third year of Wanli, shortly after Wu Qingbo's case was handled, Fu Yingzhen made three remarks in harsh terms.
The main content is to keep Zhu Yijun in awe to purify his monarch's virtue, to pay taxes to relieve the hardship of the people, and to advocate the road to avoid loyalty and adversity.
"I heard that this year there were thunders and earthquakes in the capital and provinces, no less than several times...Although ministers of all sizes have neglected their duties, I have never seen His Majesty say a word about repairing the province to return to God's will, but everything is fine. How could it be so? Isn’t it true that the changes in the sky are not enough to scare you! If you still want to respect the sky, your heart is not pure!”
"To pass the six subjects in the cabinet examination, and to make the ministers leave the center and disturb the local area, this is not an old thing of our ancestors. Today, we cannot accept the advice of ministers, but we must implement it, but we are willing to carry out ineffective and unethical actions. How can we really say that our ancestors are not worthy of the law! It’s because the founder’s heart is not pure!”
"I have recently heard that the gentry will not be allowed to discuss politics, otherwise they will be deposed from the people. How can it be that people's words are not enough? It is not pure to accept good words!"
"Wang Anshi used these three shortcomings to mislead the Song Dynasty. Your Majesty must take a deep warning..."
Zhang Juzheng read Fu Yizhen's memorial and recited it silently in his heart, while his hands trembled.
Seeing this, Zhu Yijun said: "As soon as Fu Yizhen's initial version came up, I didn't send it to the cabinet. Instead, I asked the Secretary of Ceremony to keep him in custody. I came today to talk about the content with Mr. Fu Yizhen. It was obvious that Fu Yizhen had sent it to the cabinet. My husband and I both scolded him, and he scolded me openly, while implicitly calling him Wang Anshi."
Zhu Yijun knew that before modern times and after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi had always been a traitor in the eyes of the world.
Because starting from the Southern Song Dynasty, scholar-bureaucrats put the blame for the Jingkang disaster on Wang Anshi.
And this view still exists to this day.
Not even a few.
Because on the surface it does seem that Wang Anshi's reforms in the Northern Song Dynasty intensified party strife, and it was the New Party that controlled the court in the late Northern Song Dynasty. In addition, the scholar-bureaucrats were mainly conservative, especially after the rise of Neo-Confucianism, and they were very resistant to reform, so subjectively They gradually dismissed Wang Anshi as a traitor, but selectively ignored the responsibilities of the two emperors of Huiqin and who promoted Cai Jing, who was the prime minister in the late Northern Song Dynasty.
But no matter what, in today's Ming Dynasty, to say who is Wang Anshi is to scold him.
This also shows how difficult it was to dare to reform in ancient China.
If you are not careful, you will be infamy for thousands of years.
Therefore, reform in ancient times required a lot of courage.
Perhaps in the opinion of the vast majority of scholar-officials in this era, it is better to wait for the revolution of the lower class or the invasion of foreigners, and then change the dynasty. People like themselves will still be reused as elites, instead of choosing to treat the long-established dynasty.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun had to admit that it took a lot of courage for Zhang Juzheng to dare to stand up and reform the system.
It's just that the bureaucracy doesn't appreciate their support.
Although Zhang Juzheng is much more moderate than some of the more radical reformers, he still hopes that the entire bureaucracy will understand his painstaking efforts and be willing to join him in reforming the system.
Although some scholar-bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty still cared about the common people, were driven by the traditional Confucian sense of social responsibility, and were willing to shoulder this sense of responsibility, they would understand his sentiments.
But this does not mean that the entire bureaucracy will accept his favor.
This is the same as Wang Anshi's reforms in the Northern Song Dynasty. There were only a few people who were really willing to cooperate with his reforms, and most of them just followed the wind.
Back to the topic.
Because feudal landowners tend to be conservative by nature, the bureaucracy as a whole is unwilling to reform. That's why they criticized Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng with the idea of "three deficiencies" as an "incorrect idea".
It can be said that Fu Yizhen either believed this because of his own class attributes, or he was really bad and deliberately judged the Three Insufficiencies Thought as "incorrect thought" and used it as a weapon to attack the restructuring.
The so-called three deficiencies are the lack of fear of changes in nature, the lack of laws for ancestors, and the lack of compassion for people's words.
This was the spiritual pillar of Wang Anshi’s reform and the spiritual pillar of some scholar-bureaucrats who insisted on reform after him. It was also one of the mainstream thoughts of Confucianism, that is, New Learning, which was once one of the three major thoughts of Confucianism along with Neo-Confucianism and Shuology.
You know, Wang Anshi once worshiped Confucius in the Temple because New Learning still had a relatively high status in the field of Confucian thought.
However, he was later withdrawn by Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty. The reason was: "Wang Anshi said that there is no fear of destiny, no law for ancestors, and no sympathy for people's words. As a sinner for all generations, how should it be appropriate to worship Confucius in the temple? Depose him!"
Precisely because of the later rise of Neo-Confucianism and the fact that monarchs consciously denied this kind of thinking since the Southern Song Dynasty, this kind of thinking has declined.
Only after Wang Yangming advocated that scholar-officials break away from the shackles of Neo-Confucianism, examine their hearts, and think independently, did a group of scholar-officials appear willing to follow Wang Anshi's new academic thought.
But in any case, up to now, this kind of thinking has been criticized as heretical and obscene words by the dominant Neo-Confucianism, and is regarded as incorrect thinking. Therefore, whoever has this idea and whoever teaches the emperor with this idea is a traitor!
Zhu Yijun naturally wanted to completely revive the new learning thought, at least not to be regarded as incorrect thought.
Otherwise, if Neo-Confucianism, which is essentially a conservative thought that imprisons everyone in the world, is allowed to continue, it will only make China's ideological civilization not progress but always in a backward stage compared to before.
Because this kind of thinking essentially originated from the pre-Qin slave society and was beneficial to feudal landlords, if we want to make the society dominated by this kind of thinking long-term and stable, we can only make the main ethnic groups in this society have slave thinking and become slaves. .
If China continues like this, the best result is to find a Hu Yi from the surrounding areas as its master with a foreign political foundation. Only in this way can the long-term stability of the society dominated by this kind of thinking be ensured.
Because people of the same ethnic group became masters, they also became monarchs, and because there was no foreign aristocratic group that could naturally check and balance the Han feudal landowners, it was difficult to stop the Han feudal landowners from destroying the foundation of the entire society.
In short, either invite the Manchus to join the customs like in history, or invite foreigners to be the masters of the Han people, or invite them all to be masters, otherwise there will be no other ending.
Unless we dig out the root of this idea of wanting to be someone else's slave master and wanting to be someone else's slave.
In addition, Zhu Yijun had to admit that Fu Yizhen would rather scold himself as the emperor than to scold Zhang Juzheng for misleading the emperor. He obviously also mistakenly thought that he, the emperor, was young and easy to bully.
Just scold yourself for being immoral!
After all, whether at the banquet or at the court, he behaved very tolerantly and respectfully, so that he mistakenly thought that he, the emperor, could indeed be bullied, but he scolded him casually like Ming Renzong and Ming Xiaozong, and Zhang Juzheng seemed to be even less forgiving. He didn't dare to scold Zhang Juzheng directly, but just scolded Zhang Juzheng in a roundabout way. He was imitating Wang Anshi in misleading Song Shenzong and misleading the emperor of today, so that the emperor of today was immoral.
It can be seen that the current slave society dominated by Neo-Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty is not perfect enough, so that he, the master, can still be scolded by the slaves below.
It is more suitable for such a society to ask foreigners to be masters.
After Zhu Yijun said this to Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Juzheng also pondered for a while and said: "This ignorant and pedantic person will be more than worthy of death if his crimes are judged. However, since your Majesty came to the throne, he has been a saint of generosity and has been admired by all the people in the world. This sum is enough to show the kindness of the saint." . Your Majesty only needs to be dismissed from his post and exiled to the army, with a little more severe punishment. People should be afraid and no one dares to speak falsely. Whether the state affairs are lenient or strict, benevolent and righteous, it is your Majesty's decision."
"Sir, you are still trying your best to persuade me to show kindness to them! But, sir, have you ever thought that even if Fu Yizhen is just ignorant and ignorant, are the entire party members behind him who oppose the restructuring just ignorant and ignorant, rather than sinister and evil?!"
Zhu Yijun sneered and asked Zhang Juzheng, "They are already using three shortcomings to completely deny the foundation of the entire restructuring. Why do you still have illusions about them?!"
