Dong Qichang was not brought here because Jin Yiwei found no evidence of his crime in the Xu family's library.
Dong Qichang just came here with other scholars and people to watch the fun.
Therefore, Dong Qichang can only surrender now.
However, the gentry who came with Dong Qichang did not expect that Dong Qichang would decisively stand up and surrender at this time.
Zhu Yijun was also shocked.
To know.
Dong Qichang's talent is indeed not low in the whole Jiangnan, and he is even more outstanding in painting.
Even if he is not at his personal peak yet, he has already been famous in Jiangnan for a long time.
Precisely because Dong Qichang was already quite talented and not very supportive of the New Deal, he was unwilling to participate in the reform, so he chose to resign and return to Jiangnan.
Therefore, Dong Qichang in this life has returned to his hometown.
However, after seeing Wang Shizhen choose to be castrated and being promised by Zhu Yijun that he would be the Supervisor of Ceremonies, Dong Qichang's ambition in pursuing power was also aroused, and it was at this time that he took the initiative to stand up.
It is obvious that Dong Qichang also prefers power to fame and beauty.
There is no way, he has tasted the first two.
It can be said that given his status, he has not only tasted the first two but is also tired of them.
Only power.
The opportunity to participate in the core level of imperial power is something he has not yet tasted, and it is something he cannot achieve no matter how good his paintings are.
"How did you discredit it?"
Zhu Yijun asked.
Dong Qichang replied: "I painted a picture to discredit the former Grand Master."
Zhu Yijun stood up suddenly.
Dong Qichang hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please calm down. I am confused for a moment."
"Then you take the Jin Yiwei to copy your paintings, and then come to Huang Xun. I will let you serve as a eunuch in the ceremonial department in the future. You are qualified to be supervised by me personally."
Zhu Yijun said.
Dong Qichang was very happy and said: "Your Majesty is as kind and virtuous as heaven, and I can't thank you enough!"
Zhu Yijun looked at Xu Jia at this moment, and then waved his hand:
"Execution!"
then.
The thing in Xu Jia's mouth was pulled out, and then the knife was cut on his body.
"ah!"
Soon, Xu Jia screamed.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life!"
"I know I was wrong! I dare not say that I am a Han Chinese and a barbarian!"
Zhu Yijun left here amidst the screams and returned to Shen's house.
As soon as Zhu Yijun returned to Shen's house, he told Jiao Hong, the official in charge of the decree:
"A decree is made to the Jin Yiwei, the ministers of various towns, and the magistrates of prefectures and counties. Anyone who wears the clothes of the Hu Yi and practices the customs of the Hu Yi will be punished as a crime of Tong Yi and sentenced to death."
"Today is a unified civilization. Why should there be differences in culture so that there will be cultural disputes in the future and people in the world will kill each other?"
Jiao Hong raised his hands and said yes.
After Jiao Hong made such an edict, he found Ye Xianggao and started drinking with him. He couldn't help feeling drunk and said angrily:
"Wang Danzhou and Dong Huating are in vain! Dong Huating, in particular, did not hesitate to surrender in order to be admitted to the Bureau of Ceremonies. This will undoubtedly make Your Majesty despise me, the Jiangnan literati, even more!"
"Before these two people did this, His Majesty also despised Jiangnan literati."
"But it is contempt, and His Majesty has no intention of destroying Jiangnan culture and education. It is also a good thing that Wang, Dong and others chose to accept reform in front of the emperor."
After Ye Xianggao answered with a smile, he asked Jiao Hong again: "Mr. Gong, aren't you really worried that they will become Wang Zhen and his ilk?"
Jiao Hong nodded: "That's exactly what I was worried about."
"Will not."
"Wang, Mr. Dong, how can you have such courage?"
"They mistakenly believe that high talent will lead to success in the power arena. This is tantamount to fantasy!"
"His Majesty allowed them to serve as the Chief of Ceremonies, perhaps just to let them be like auspicious birds in a cage, only responsible for chirping, and to achieve a pattern where eunuchs are no longer needed to assist the government."
"After all, His Majesty has turned us military children into people who carry the throne for him, so there is no need for eunuchs anymore."
Ye Xianggao said with a smile.
Jiao Hong said: "I really envy those of you who come from military families."
"You didn't envy me before."
Ye Xianggao replied with a smile.
Jiao Hong smiled helplessly.
While Jiao Hong and Ye Xianggao were drinking, Zhu Yijun's intention to strictly investigate those who worshiped the style of Hu Yi and acted in the style of Hu Yi was also conveyed to all levels of government.
Soon, the bureaucrats and soldiers in Suzhou took action first.
"What are you doing!"
"What's wrong with me wearing a kimono, what's wrong with my braided hair! Do you even care about this?"
"Let me go!"
…
For a time, many young people who pursued alternative pursuits were arrested.
Many were executed on the spot for resisting.
However, now that Zhu Yijun is a powerful monarch and has won the hearts of the people, the parents and elders of these children dare not say anything and only apologize with tears.
It was precisely because of Zhu Yijun's strict decree that this evil trend was completely eliminated.
No one dares to go against the grain.
Zhu Yijun was very satisfied with this.
He aims at the unification of civilization and will naturally not allow heterogeneous cultures to exist.
Although he could accept opinions that differed from his own in terms of ideas and theories of natural science and even social science, he could not tolerate anyone who undermined his ideal of cultural unification.
actually.
Many scholar-bureaucrats are also very traditional and conservative, and they also support Zhu Yijun's actions.
So no one protested.
In this era, no country dares to blame Zhu Yijun for doing something wrong.
"I have no intention of destroying the colorful culture and education in Jiangnan. As long as it is within the general framework of Chinese civilization and does not treat deer as horses, I can show my value however you want."
"Whether it's retro or new, the kings of Lu, Cheng and Zhu can all coexist!"
"Why coexistence is possible, Master Shen has already written it clearly in his memorial in the past advocating the coexistence of King Zhu and King Zhu. You can go and read it."
On this day, Zhu Yijun officially changed into the official uniform of his superior, eunuch Bingbi, the supervisor of etiquette, at Wang Shizhen. After putting on his three-mountain hat, he told Wang Shizhen his views on Jiangnan culture and education.
Zhu Yijun cleared away some of the dregs that were not to his liking and showed his imperial authority. Next, he would naturally show his kindness to encourage more people to participate in cultural undertakings.
After all, the steam industrial revolution has begun, and the cultural industry and service industry will be the main channels to absorb the employment of a large number of surplus people.
Naturally, Zhu Yijun will not really suppress the cultural industry at this time.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun said this to Wang Shizhen and asked: "I heard that a retired official named Fan Qin built a library in his hometown in Zhejiang, called Tianyi Pavilion, with a rich collection of books. Does he have such a rich collection of books?" What's going on?"
At this time, Grand Scholar Shen Yiguan said from the side: "Your Majesty, Fan Laozheng is from the same hometown as me. He does have a library named Tianyi Pavilion, and the collection of books is indeed quite rich."
"I encourage people all over the world to collect more books and make the book industry more developed."
"After all, this is conducive to opening up people's wisdom."
"Books are very important if the people want to be enlightened. To convey my will, in order to show the contribution of the Fan family in collecting books, the head of the Fan family is appointed as the scribe of the Hanlin Academy."
Because Zhu Yijun granted the Fan family an official position because of their rich collection of books, it was considered a show of favor. It also allowed the Fan family to better protect and collect books because of the official status.
After all, in the Ming Dynasty, which was an official position and had no official body, many things were actually not that easy to do.
Of course, the main reason why Zhu Yijun did this was to promote culture and education.
Because of this, Zhu Yijun was not satisfied with just giving the owner of Tianyi Pavilion an idle official in the ninth rank Hanlin Academy. He also planned to do more.
"I also heard that people are not allowed to enter and read the books in Tianyi Pavilion, but is this true?"
Because Shen Yiguan said that Fan Qin was from his hometown, Zhu Yijun then asked about Shen Yiguan.
Shen Yiguan replied: "Your Majesty, this is exactly what happened. Tianyi Pavilion is strictly managed and even members of the clan are not allowed to enter at will."
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "Although this is his family rule, if the books are not shown to others, the value of enlightening people's wisdom will be lost. What is the point of collecting books like that?"
"I will then give an order to the Fan family, asking them to submit rare books that are not available outside to the imperial court, and the imperial court organizers will compile and copy them to increase the stock of such books. In order to avoid errors during the transfer of rare books, you can submit the manuscripts and keep the originals in Pavilion."
Zhu Yijun continued: "In addition, I want to inform the world that in order to encourage scholars and people from all over the world to donate books, regardless of the content, even if there is any inappropriateness, those who donate books will not be punished. Anyone who donates a generous book will be treated as the example of Tianyi Pavilion. They can be given official positions and have them wear crowns and collect books."
"According to the order!"
Seeing this, Shen Guanyi knew that the emperor really wanted to promote culture and education, not to suppress the development of the industry, so he said: "Your Majesty, I think that since I have ordered all the book collectors in the world to donate books to the country, it is better to take this opportunity to compile a grand ceremony." ! Because the "Yongle Dadian" and the sequel "Yongle Dadian" prepared by His Majesty's decree in the past are not convenient for comprehensive research, it is better to compile another type of book and call it "Wanli Dadian", not to mention this is the time when this country is great and the people are proud. , it was the time when books were compiled to highlight the rule of literature.”
"rational!"
"Then we will decree to prepare this project and recruit talented people to participate in the compilation."
"It also saves the world's literati from being too idle. In addition to being sad for the spring and autumn, they can't do anything for the common people of the country."
Zhu Yijun agreed to Shen Yiguan's request.
Today's Ming Dynasty is indeed not short of money, not to mention literati, and there is no shortage of new books of all kinds, so it is suitable for such a project.
Investing in infrastructure construction, promoting employment, and conducive to the long-term stability of the country, not only transportation and water conservancy projects are considered infrastructure.
Culturally, organizing a large number of literati to continue to compile and organize Chinese civilization in order to preserve and promote the genes of relevant civilizations can also be regarded as an infrastructure project.
But Zhu Yijun was not satisfied with this.
He also promoted culture and education with the intention of enlightening people's wisdom.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun continued:
“After ordering people all over the world to donate books, it is not enough to use them to compile the Wanli Dadian. We also need to set up public libraries in all provinces, prefectures and counties, and also set up national libraries in the two capitals to copy and engrave all kinds of books from all over the world. Many sets were produced and stored in major public libraries for reference by scholars and people all over the world; all good tax-paying households of the same clan can enter such libraries with their household registration cards, so that the people can see more books." (End of this chapter)
