Since ancient times, once a prosperous age begins, it is bound to be prosperous.
It is said that the country is great and the people are proud, the country is strong and the people are proud, but the literati are even more crazy.
This is true even in modern times. For example, in the 1980s, during their glorious years, the Japanese suddenly wrote a book called "Japan Can Say No."
In fact, he can say no, the whole country is someone else's military base.
But as soon as the country becomes stronger, the literati become more confident.
This is the rule.
Zhu Houzhao's achievements since he ascended the throne have been very remarkable. The Tatar border troubles that persisted throughout the Hongzhi period were eliminated in one fell swoop, and the Ming cavalry reappeared in the world. The national treasury began to have silver deposits, and the annual income began to increase.
Although from a micro perspective, Ming Dynasty still has many problems, from a macro perspective, some people have begun to call it ZTE.
In the past few years, all kinds of literati and country wise men have increasingly praised the prosperous age that is so close that they can already be touched.
In the capital, low-level officials like the Taichang Temple Prime Minister rarely get Zhu Houzhao's attention because they are in charge of sacrificial rituals. Today's Zhengde Emperor is completely "bad" about sacrificial rituals. What to do, check the records of the previous dynasty, If there is no established example to refer to, then the Ministry of Rites will come up with an opinion, and all he has to do is agree.
Emperor Jiajing's fight for rites started from the Great Ritual Discussing Incident and used this method to fight for imperial power.
Zhu Houzhao had already occupied the commanding heights, and he was the legitimate son and only son of Emperor Hongzhi. If he wanted to work on etiquette to challenge the legitimacy of his power, he would have to lift the coffin of Confucius.
But the Taichang Temple Prime Minister didn't have much to do. He was just over thirty and in his prime, and Bian Gong was not willing to do nothing all day long. He was one of the "former seven sons". He couldn't stand out as an official, so naturally he had to work in the literary world where he was good at. Go on a adventure.
Among the first seven sons, except Li Mengyang and Wang Tingxiang. There are four more people. They are:
He Jingming, he is currently a member of Zhongshushe. The status of this official position has been greatly reduced in the Ming Dynasty. The rank is Cong Qipin. He can be considered as the Cabinet Secretariat, the transcriber of official documents such as imperial edicts, volumes, systems, and imperial edicts. However, He Jingming's status in the literary world is not low, and he and Li Mengyang are called the leaders of the literary world. The reason why his literary talent is high but his official position is not high is the old problem of literary people: being upright by nature.
Xu Zhenqing, he is the one with the greatest literary achievements among the "First Seven Sons" except Li and He. However, because of his ugly appearance, he was not admitted to the Hanlin Academy and was awarded the title of Deputy of Zuosi Temple in Dali. He is a person who assists the temple master in handling cases, from the sixth grade.
Kang Hai, the number one scholar in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi's reign, is currently the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and he is holding on.
Wang Jiusi, this person is interesting, he is Liu Jin's fellow villager in Shaanxi. Liu Jin later recruited him, but he refused. Now he is a doctor of the Imperial College and is in charge of the Imperial College teaching.
Except for Wang Tingxiang, the other six of the first seven sons are all in the capital and are very famous. Similarly, when they become officials, they are really "suffering brothers".
In this case, we can only comfort each other. Now that the leader Li Mengyang has returned to Beijing, and Bian Gong has personally arranged to host it, a literary meeting of "Ji Si Liu Zi Shu" has begun with great fanfare.
The so-called Ji Si corresponds to the fourth year of Zhengde among the heavenly stems and earthly branches.
Six sons, naturally the six of them.
The original seventh son became the sixth son - it was still a matter of scholarly thinking. After all, Wang Tingxiang was no longer the same. The six of them gathered together not to rectify the name of the "first seven sons" and to have a relationship with Wang Tingxiang.
As a result, at the end of autumn in the fourth year of Zhengde's reign, the capital suddenly became lively.
After all, these six people gathered together. Although they were not prominent court officials, they all had official status.
The common people who are not officials envy their status; those who are officials but are not high officials admire their talents and names, and there are even some disciples of famous people who want to join in the fun and make their presence felt.
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"One Li Mengyang can make many talented scholars in the capital flock to him. It seems like I have underestimated them in the past?"
Zhu Houzhao learned about Jisi Liuzi Shu from Wang Zhi's mouth.
Wang Zhi was invited to the imperial garden in heaven and earth.
From time to time, the emperor could listen to the major events happening in Beijing, which was actually a kind of entertainment.
Although Wang Zhi is a woman, she is also talented. She is good at calligraphy on weekdays, and she is also more welcome to this kind of literary skills.
"Your Majesty must be looking down upon you. Compared with the Emperor, the six of them together are not as good as your Majesty."
"That's different." Zhu Houzhao walked leisurely in the garden with his hands behind his back, "I have a specialization in my art, but I can't write a poem like "Autumn Look"."
"Your Majesty also knows Li Mengyang's poetry?"
"I heard that Shuo Shuo had many brave strategies, but now who is Guo Fenyang? His battlefield poem is still acceptable."
During the Hongzhi period, due to the Tatar invasion, Li Mengyang was sent to the front line as an envoy and wrote this poem on the way. The so-called Guo Fenyang refers to Guo Ziyi, a famous general in the Tang Dynasty. He once served as Shuofang's military governor and was granted the title of Fenyang County Prince for his merits.
So this poem is calling Guo Ziyi of the Ming Dynasty.
No matter how ignorant Zhu Houzhao was, he still read it.
Wang Zhi's eyes flashed with color, "I heard that this incident was caused by His Majesty's angry rebuke of Liu Jin. As soon as Li Mengyang entered the capital, he was inspired by His Majesty's resolute refusal to be tempted by the servants. This is why he said: There is such a virtuous king in the world. And the rebellion of King An of Ningxia is indeed an eternal joke."
Zhu Houzhao was also thick-skinned and was not red-faced at all. "Literati like to exaggerate when speaking. Judging from the perspective of thousands of years, King An's rebellion is nothing more than a trivial matter. It cannot be worthy of being an eternal joke."
Wang Zhi said more seriously, "The people of the world are complaining about your majesty. Zhi'er felt that a monarch in his righteous years was like this, but if there is no great talent in the literary world to match him, then it would be a disgrace for scholars. "
Zhu Houzhao laughed loudly, "That's all, that's all. Let them talk about it and see what eternal articles will be passed down to future generations."
"There must be some. When the army escorts An Ni to the capital, Your Majesty will use this article to deal with all the people in the world."
This is somewhat political.
Specifically speaking, it is public opinion.
Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly, it was a coincidence that this happened.
The history of the two thousand years of feudal dynasty has always been written by scholars, and ordinary people cannot get a few words. If Li Mengyang, a literary leader, really wanted to stir up such a thing, he could actually make good use of it.
The purpose is for the vassal affairs.
The reason why vassal affairs are difficult for the emperor to handle is because they are state affairs, but they are also family matters. The family and the country are not divided, and it is difficult to violate the ancestral system. This has made all the emperors of the past dynasties unable to do anything but scratching the itch. Emperor Jiajing, who had a little bit of means, happened to be the one. He was born as a vassal king, so he couldn't kill him.
After all, the dragon sons and grandsons are different, which in itself is part of Zhu Houzhao's legitimacy as emperor. Selecting these people to kill at will shows that the emperor is cruel and loves relatives and does not recognize his relatives.
Not to mention anything else, if you can attack people with blood ties so severely, then the other people who work for you will also be afraid. They are afraid that one day they will offend the emperor and die.
But Zhu Houzhao also knew that literati in the past dynasties also had a deep understanding of the dangers of vassalage. In the Ming Dynasty, countless people pointed out that vassalage and vassalage accounted for half of the harm.
"What Zhi'er said today is indeed somewhat interesting."
The emperor had an idea in his mind and gradually came up with the prototype of the method. In fact... it would be better to have a righteous version of the ceremony.
