As the chamberlain sang, the doors of the Wenhua Palace opened wide, and the officials slowly walked northward and entered the palace through two doors.
When you enter the hall, you will find that there is a four-clawed dragon screen in the hall, facing south. In front of the screen was where Zhu Houzhao was sitting. Others were watching a group of officials walk in in an orderly manner with their heads lowered.
On both sides of him stood a gilded bronze crane, facing east and west. In its mouth was ambergris as thick as a candle, a tribute from foreign countries. Before the prince entered the palace, the incense had been burning for half an hour, and now it was filled with light smoke and fragrance.
There is a book eucalyptus in front of Zhu Houzhao, and there are lecture eucalyptus on both sides of the front.
The officials of the Supervisor of Ceremonies will place the books to be used in advance. According to the rules, the "Four Books" are placed on the east side, and the Classics and History are placed on the west side. The sermons written by the lecturers are also placed in it.
This does not mean that officials are lazy, write it first and read it accordingly.
But the court has regulations that what you want to tell the crown prince must be decided first and submitted to the emperor and cabinet for preview. Otherwise, who knows what you will tell the prince?
In order to prevent this, when the East Palace summoned the officials after the lecture, they would either summon them together or not summon them at all. It is not allowed to be alone, this is the earliest taboo Yang Tinghe committed.
It is easy to have a lucky minister when you are alone, even if you don't teach the prince some evil ways, it won't work. Because if the prince often calls a certain person, it means that the prince prefers him. From now on, the prince will only listen to what he says. What if this is a female official?
In addition to these, the Jin Yiwei will also have ceremonial guards and personnel. They will also stand in two rows, representing the royal style.
The officials of Honglu Temple are responsible for the teaching process. For example, the praising officer will shout:
Get up!
Come on!
Exhibition of books!
The actual process looks natural and majestic,
But in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, it was unavoidably complicated, and he was reading dozens of people just looking at it. Fortunately, he also knew that this was the first day, and the subsequent daily reading routines would be much simpler.
With his cooperation and the eunuch's supervision, everything in Wenhua Palace went smoothly.
Because it was the first day, old and important ministers like Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian were all here. Cheng Minzheng also had the reputation of being the Prince's Attendant in the East Palace, so he was also there.
In fact, all the great scholars who could be called by name in the court can basically be regarded as Zhu Houzhao's teachers, so they are really gathered together today.
It must be a happy event,
After all, this group of civil servants have been fighting for this matter since the seventh year of Hongzhi, and now they have finally reached this moment.
No matter what happened in the past, the Middle East Palace is regarded as a filial and benevolent master in the hearts of the people. Now that he is officially out of the cabinet to give lectures...it is a great blessing!
When the etiquette was completed, Liu Jian immediately came out of the queue.
"Your Majesty Liu Jian talks about the first chapter of "The Great Learning"!"
Although Zhu Houzhao has already learned it, the attitude of a true scholar is to lay a solid foundation. What he learned before was informal and unsystematic, so now he naturally has to start from scratch. And if we don’t start from the beginning, where should we start?
As for the ministers' lectures, they must first recognize the words, secondly explain the meaning of the words, and finally explain the content.
"The way of a university lies in Mingmingmingde and being close to the people... The 'university' here is opposite to the 'elementary school', and 'Tao' means principles and laws... When it comes to 'being close to the people', here, a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty said this 'closeness to the people' , the word is written wrong, it should be written as '新,', the word, people refers to the people of the world. If you use the word 'kin,', it means people who are close to the world. If you change it to 'xin,', it means that the people of the world can renew themselves."... .
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Zhu Houzhao didn't want future generations to read history books and read an unofficial history that the emperor didn't even understand "The University". So I listened carefully, and there was nothing wrong with me anyway.
When he heard this, he even interjected, "From what I see, the word "personal" is also very good. It is close to the people. What's wrong with it?"
As soon as he said this,
Many people raised their heads to look at him.
Liu Jian did not expect that at this time, the prince would suddenly interrupt. After thinking for a while, he explained: "Back to your highness, judging from the previous sentence, although people can understand their virtues, they can also be contaminated by 'turbidity'.
, material desires are harmful, so we need the process of enlightenment, and therefore. Xin Min is used here, and the upper and lower meanings are smoother. "
"It's not a good place here. The way of a monarch is to be close to the people. But Mr. Liu, please continue..."
Zhu Houzhao is not the kind of person who mingles with words. You can explain whatever you like.
It's just that his soul five hundred years later can't help but play with it sometimes.
From this point on, we continue to talk about cultivating one’s body and bringing order to the family, bringing order to the family and then governing the country, and governing the country and then bringing peace to the world.
"These three sentences talk about the principle of cultivating one's moral character so as to manage the family and govern the country and bring peace to the world." After these sentences, Liu Jian ended, "Your Highness, I have finished my lecture on "The Great Learning"."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, sir."
In this way, he returned to his original position and Li Dongyang stepped forward.
"My minister Li Dongyang came to lecture on the Analects of Confucius."
"good."
…
"I thanked Qianjin for his lecture on the Doctrine of the Mean."
"good."
…
"My minister Wu Kuanjin lectures on the Book of Documents."
Zhu Houzhao raised his eyelids, curved the corners of his mouth and narrowed his eyes with a smile, ah, this is an old acquaintance.
"Okay. My lord, listen to Mr. Wu!"
Wu Kuan couldn't help but twitch his brows.
That day, he and Liu Jian had a few arguments with the Crown Prince in front of the imperial court, and it seemed that they had made the Crown Prince unhappy more than once. But when he finally left, the prince spoke to him with a smile. At that time, he felt that something was wrong.
Now why am I excited again...
This gave Mr. Wu a bad feeling.
In fact, "Shangshu" is more difficult to read, and it is more troublesome to explain it in a popular way. But it was the prince's first time studying, and as usual he was teaching scriptures but not history, so he had to do it reluctantly.
Let’s go on like this…
When explaining that "the world will be settled with a soldier's uniform," he said: King Wu's purpose in defeating Zhou is to save all people from fire and water, so all the people will support him. If he wears armor and does not wait for blood, the world will be settled.
Except for Liu Jian at the beginning, this is the first time the prince has spoken out.
"I'm here." Wu Kuan raised his hand and stopped talking.
"Mr. Liu just said that if you cultivate yourself, you can govern the country, and if you govern the country, you can bring peace to the world. This King Wu should have cultivated himself to be the best. In that case, why should he wear armor so that the world can be peaceful? Logically speaking, it shouldn't be him. Once you cultivate your body, will the world be at peace? Why do you need to wear armor?"
Wu Kuan: "..."
At this time, Cheng Minzheng also raised his head and took a look. He was still thinking about what kind of person Dong Gong was and why he was called the famous Mr. Gao'an (Wu Kuanhao). He was so cautious and cautious, and even paid too much attention to it.
Looking at it now, this question is really tricky.
With so many people, such an important occasion, and such difficult questions to answer, it would be really embarrassing if Wu Kuan' lost his hand. ….
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Wu Kuan didn't know where the crown prince would make things difficult for him, but he knew that this might happen, so he was mentally prepared.
He forcibly calmed down his increasingly accelerated heartbeat, thought for a moment and explained, "Return to Your Highness. One person's self-cultivation will affect the people of the family, and the self-cultivation of a family will affect the people of a country. The people of a country's self-cultivation will affect the people of the world." In this way, everyone in the world is willing to cultivate themselves, and naturally the world is settled. But there are also people in the world who are unwilling to cultivate themselves, and they can only fight each other. But in the end, why King Wu won instead of King Zhou? It was because King Wu's cultivation stopped at Perfection, if one does not cultivate oneself to perfection, the world will not be stable. Even if King Zhou wins this time, he will still lose in the end. The truth behind this is very profound and must be understood slowly. I wonder if Your Highness understands this explanation. ?」
Zhu Houzhao said: "Then it is not enough to cultivate one's moral character. Just like the Tatars, if our people in this room cultivate one's moral character to perfection, they will still attack us. If we cannot win in a military encounter, we will live without mercy. If not, where else can I go to cultivate myself?”
"What His Highness said is not unreasonable. Therefore, the far-sighted ministers in the court will also come to Shu and advise that the border defenses should be renovated to prepare for incoming enemies."
Zhu Houzhao diandian
The head said, "Well, Mr. Wu is right. Just cultivating yourself is indeed not enough. According to Mr. Wu, it seems that I will also need to add some military arts to what I will learn in the future."
Wu Kuan was shocked when he said this. What a joke! How can the prince change what he has learned at will? You also said in front of so many people that what I said made sense, so I changed it! Isn't this fatal?
Besides, even if these literati were allowed to change, they would definitely not add the art of war and military affairs! In the future, if you learn to be a martial emperor, you will have to chariot and conquer at every turn. Wouldn’t that be a torture to others?
"No, Your Highness!" Wu Kuan wailed, took two steps back and knelt down. .
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