After hearing this, Yu Shenxing pondered for a long time, then nodded and said: "Listening to your words is better than ten years of reading! No wonder they in Yuyin County want to establish a new ceremony."
Li Sancai sneered at this time: "In any case, what is certain is that the scholar-bureaucrats really want to be humble and disrespectful, and the era of treating the scholar-bureaucrats with courtesy is gone forever."
"What are you talking about, sir?!"
Yu Shenxing looked at Li Sancai and asked with a glare.
Then, Yu Shenxing asked Li Sancai again: "Don't your Majesty respect soldiers enough?!"
"Previously, Ye Hanlin spoke to the poor officials in the world about the disadvantages of paying poor people for food, so the emperor issued an edict that all living beings in the world should be fed and given crowns and belts;"
"Today, I have been given the opportunity to advise you that Your Majesty is so pleased with his great achievements that he has been summoned by the platform. How many monarchs in ancient and modern times have accepted such advice?"
"What you said is unbecoming of a minister!"
"That's right! There is no one who treats scholars better than the emperor."
Yu Maoxue also agreed, and looked at Li Sancai and said: "The public's words are biased, and may even slander the emperor and deceive the emperor."
Li Sancai blushed. He found that since the court was purged after several political struggles, most of the remaining people had nothing to do with him. This made him miss Gu Xiancheng who resigned and returned to his hometown even more.
But because the court nowadays is different from before, in order not to be excluded, he had to hurriedly bow his hands and say: "What you said is true, but I expressed it inappropriately."
"But what I really mean is that after listening to Zou's advice, His Majesty did not condone the crime of bribing the gentry to disrupt the government. It is obvious that because there are more and more scholars in the world, and they have always been inconsistent, even the emperor no longer does it. The gentry who commit crimes all over the world cover up their guilt and pursue their crimes as harshly as the common people. Doesn't this mean that the gentry should be treated like a piece of grass?"
"According to etiquette, everyone in the world is a king and father. If the king treats us like nothing, shouldn't we treat ourselves like nothing?"
Zou Yuanbiao then asked Li Sancai with a smile.
Li Sancai: "This..."
Yu Shenxing sighed: "Obviously there is something wrong with etiquette! We are loyal to His Majesty's country, and we do not really want to despise ourselves as domestic slaves;"
"In addition, His Majesty no longer covers the gentry who committed crimes. This does not mean that he does not respect the gentry. On the contrary, it shows that His Majesty is upright."
"The king's heart should be like a mirror, and he can distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, so that he can be upright and wise! What your Majesty is doing now is an expression of a gentleman's uprightness, which is in line with the teachings of ancient sages!"
Yu Maoxue and other civil servants all nodded.
Li Sancai frowned slightly, and then he had to hand over Shen Xing and said, "Gong's views are extraordinary! Xiu is not as good as me!"
Yu Shenxing returned the gift.
Here, Zou Yuanbiao looked at Luo Yuren: "Yizhong!"
"Enfu!"
Luo Yuren hurriedly handed over his hand.
Zou Yuanbiao said: "If you don't save my teacher, I won't blame you. I'm even happy to be my teacher."
Luo Yuren couldn't help but blush after hearing this.
"You can't say that, sir. Yi Zhong has been running for the father these days, and sheds tears for him every day."
At this time, Yu Shenxing had to speak justice for Luo Yuren.
Zou Yuanbiao chuckled and did not explain much. He only said to Luo Yuren: "Yizhong, your Majesty has decreed that he will be promoted to the head of the Ministry of Rites."
"Congratulations to Enfu, for being highly regarded by the Holy Master!"
Luo Yuren was stunned and quickly expressed his joy.
Yu Shenxing and others were also startled.
Li Sancai even couldn't help but think that he could still be promoted to the Qingliu Yamen of the Ministry of Rites? This is much faster than my career advancement!
Zou Yuanbiao continued: "But the mission is to serve as a Confucian envoy to Burma, to promote the benevolence of the emperor, to preach Confucian imperial style, and to educate the barbarians."
"ah!"
Luo Yuren was greatly surprised.
Li Sancai couldn't help but blurt out: "So that's the case."
Yu Shenxing couldn't help showing sympathy for Zou Yuanbiao, and said to Zou Yuanbiao: "Although I am serving the country as a missionary, Burma is remote. Please be careful. I hope Ping Ping comes back safely, and maybe he can be appointed minister by then and be respected by the emperor." Minister."
"yes!"
Yu Maoxue followed suit.
Zou Yuanbiao saluted Shen Xing and Yu Maoxue, and then looked at Luo Yuren: "You go with my teacher."
"ah?!"
Luo Yuren was shocked, and then bowed to Zou Yuanbiao and said: "Thank you for your kindness, the student still needs to stay in the capital to prepare for the exam, and my father is also in the capital, so the student needs to be filial!"
"The imperial edict has been issued. You can go with Bo Guan, the master of Honglu Temple, as your teacher. Now that His Majesty has already issued the edict, you can take the exam again to be promoted to an official. So you don't have to worry. Work for the country first. Go to Burma to give lectures in the future. Finally, it can be regarded as a political achievement that can be surpassed."
Zou Yuanbiao said.
Luo Yuren's eyes were like fire, and he suddenly straightened up: "Isn't it just because I didn't submit your confession? Why do you want to retaliate against me like this? Your Majesty wants to exile you to a smoky land, but you want me to go too." , is the male’s capacity so small?!”
Yu Maoxue and the others couldn't help being startled, and looked at Zou Yuanbiao, thinking that Zou Yuanbiao had already planned to apologize, and he wasn't that tough.
"Luo Yizhong!"
At this time, Yu Shenxing couldn't help but shouted at Luo Yizhong, looked at Luo Yuren, and asked: "Is this the etiquette of respecting teachers and teaching?! As the son of Luo Qianxian, he came from a family that worships etiquette. , and you don’t even behave politely?!”
"Besides, why not let you perform meritorious service? You can also accompany your master, which is in line with etiquette! Military officials can go to sea and perform meritorious services, but civil servants can't?"
Only then did Luo Yizhong realize that he had lost his composure. He clenched his fists, swallowed, and seemed to suppress the fire in his heart. He bowed his hands to Zou Yuanbiao and said, "Disciple, I'm disrespectful. Please forgive me."
Zou Yuanbiao smiled, and then ordered Luo Yuren: "Kneel down!"
Luo Yuren was slightly startled.
Yu Shenxing and others also looked at Luo Yuren.
"Yes! Kneeling down to receive the training from the benefactors is also regarded as respecting etiquette and teaching. The students are willing to be punished."
Luo Yuren knelt down.
Zou Yuanbiao said at this time: "Your Majesty has an oral message that he wants to convey to you as a teacher, so he asked you to kneel down."
"I tell you Luo Yuren, the culture of the Holy Dynasty should be a strong culture, and the people of the Holy Dynasty should be strong people. If you want to have a prominent official career, you should strive for it yourself and overcome the thorns, instead of stepping on the corpse of your mentor and waiting for him to die. Yes! Like Hou Bowang back then, he would rather abandon his pen and join the army to make fun of his achievements in the world than sit in the sutra room and wait for others to recommend him."
After Zou Yuanbiao said it in Zhu Yijun's tone, he said to Luo Yuren again: "If you don't believe it, you can go to Shu and ask if your teacher is falsely preaching the imperial edict."
"Students dare not believe it."
"Students who receive the decree must remember the Hadith."
Luo Yuren answered with a lonely look.
At this time, Yu Shenxing asked Zou Yuanbiao: "Erzhan, did you really prepare an apology and hand it over to Yizhong?"
Zou Yuanbiao nodded, then smiled and cupped his hands and said: "I thought I could cover it up to make everyone laugh, but I didn't expect that Yi Zhong lost his composure and actually said it. But if it is according to etiquette, it is only right for me to apologize. Before It is wrong for Shangshu to accuse Junfu."
Yu Shenxing, Yu Maoxue and other civil servants all sighed.
"Those who are good at wandering will be drowned, and those who are good at riding will be ruined. Everyone is doing what they like, but it is their own disaster. The person who respects etiquette and law the most turns out to be the most hypocritical person."
Yu Shenxing even laughed, and after saying that, he cupped his hands to Zou Yuanbiao and said, "Well, maybe it is really the Grand Master who knows better about the shortcomings of our scholarly community, and His Majesty, who was taught by him, knows us better than we do ourselves, so he is more He who is good at correcting the shortcomings of the scholarly community today is the emperor, but our ministers are ignorant and do not know it. I hope that the Duke and Yizhong will come back smoothly and change their minds!"
Zou Yuanbiao blushed, bowed his hand to Yu Shenxing in return, and then left.
Luo Yizhong also followed.
The two went to Myanmar five days later, with their family members shedding tears to bid them farewell.
…
It is now the twelfth lunar month of the eleventh year of Wanli.
For the Ming Dynasty, it was the coldest time of the year, when few people went out and water transportation was slow.
This is also the coldest season in Myanmar.
However, the temperature in the coldest season in Myanmar is above 20 degrees, which is the most suitable time for people to travel. It is also the most suitable period for the Ming cavalry from the north of the Ming Dynasty to fight in Myanmar.
After the heat of the eleventh year of Wanli had passed, the soldiers and horses led by Li Rusong took a naval warship and passed through Annan and Siam. After taking a short rest in Bangkok, Siam as planned, under the guidance of the Siamese and Burmese traitors, they officially The raid entered the delta plain area in Mon State, Myanmar.
“I am commanding you to keep women but not men, keep young but not old, keep civilians but not officials!”
At this time, Li Rusong also went to the banks of the Nu River and issued his order in accordance with the instructions given to him by the Privy Council.
Because his troops came to the rear of Myanmar, the strategic purpose was to effectively destroy Myanmar's effective forces before March, so he had no intention of seizing land, but only meant to reduce the number of young people in Myanmar, especially the number of nobles.
