Wang Shen's father, named Wang Yi, was a famous loyal official in the area.
In the fifth year of Hongwu, Wang Yi was ordered to go to Yunnan to persuade King Liang of the Yuan Dynasty to surrender the capital to the Ming Dynasty. Wang Yi did an outstanding job and convinced the capital. However, just when the capital was about to sign a surrender contract, other remaining troops of the Yuan Dynasty found He captured the capital and killed Wang Yi.
When Wang Yi died, Wang Shen was only thirteen years old. Later, his mother was too sad and left. However, before she died, she told Wang Shen to follow his father's expectations, study hard, and make progress every day.
Wang Shen promised his mother and survived with his tenacious perseverance and studied hard. Later, Wang Shen went to find Song Lian, his father's good friend, and worshiped Song Lian as his teacher.
Who is Song Lian?
That was a great scholar in the early Ming Dynasty, a Confucian master whom Zhu Yuanzhang respected very much, and the teacher of Prince Zhu Biao!
From this perspective, Wang Shen is still Zhu Biao's junior brother.
Song Lian valued Wang Shen very highly and taught him carefully. Wang Shen himself also worked extremely hard and became a great hero for a while. Later, Song Lian accepted another disciple named Fang Xiaoru.
That's right, Wang Shen is still Fang Xiaoru's senior brother.
Although Fang Xiaoru is three years older than Wang Shen, they are close friends with each other.
If development follows this route, Wang Shen is likely to become an important figure in the Jianwen court after Fang Xiaoru comes to power. It is very likely that Wang Shen went to Chengdu, Sichuan when he was in the 25th year of Hongwu.
The reason is a bit strange, because Zhu Chun, the scholar king of Shu in Chengdu, heard about Wang Shen's name, so he asked Wang Shen to bring money and letters to Wang Shen, and handed the documents to Zhu Yuanzhang, hoping to let Wang Shen go to Chengdu Mansion School to teach.
Zhu Yuanzhang had no objection, and Wang Shen readily agreed. One of the reasons was that Sichuan was very close to Yunnan, and his father Wang Yi died in Yunnan. When he thought of his mother's sadness and despair before her death, Wang Shen once swore, Be sure to bring your father's bones back and bury them with your mother.
After Zhu Chun learned about Wang Shen's affairs, he supported him and allowed him to go to Yunnan to fulfill his wish. It only took Wang Shen three months to get from Chengdu to Kunming, but twenty-three years have passed. How difficult it would be to find a person's remains.
Wang Shen searched for a long time and asked many people, but finally found only one mass grave with countless graves, and it was difficult to tell who was who. Wang Shen beat his chest and stamped his feet, wailed and mourned, and wrote the famous "Crying Notes of Southern Yunnan".
Wang Shen believed that it was a sin for him not to find his father's remains. He felt sorry for his father and his mother. Now the censor Zhou Changyan said that he was "unworthy to be a son of a man or a minister of a king", which was like a knife thrust straight into Wang Shen's heart.
Wang Shen died suddenly.
In Zhu Yunwen's plan, he originally wanted to use Wang Shen's hand to kick off the literacy education strategy, but now that this person is gone, it has cast a shadow on the unplanned "educational strategy."
Zhu Yunwen is naturally a little angry, but now he has to consider finding others to support the education strategy, pilot literacy, and promote education.
Wang Shen died, and the censor Zhou Changyan was frightened. He was really frightened to the extreme.
According to Zhou Changyan's plan, he just wanted to satisfy his craving and attack Wang Shen, that's all. Now Wang Shen is dead, but Wang Shen's friends are still alive, such as his junior brother Fang Xiaoru, the King of Shu Zhu Chun, the cabinet Xie Jin, the Imperial Academy Yang Shiqi, Li Zhigang, etc.
Fang Xiaoru took the lead in attacking. He went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and pointed at Zhou Changyan's nose and cursed him, saying that he was "a beast compared to you, and a beast is especially shameful." This meant he was worse than a beast...
Zhu Chun and Wang Shen were old friends. During this time, they often drank and reminisced together. But when a good person suddenly disappeared, could Zhu Chun not feel uncomfortable? Although Zhu Chun is now an idle vassal king, he still has energy. He directly announced to the outside world that he wanted to investigate Zhou Changyan's eighteenth generation. The money was ready. As long as it was his handle, one hundred taels for each handle.
I heard that many people were hanging around Zhou Changyan's door. I didn't know who had the supernatural power. Within two days, they went to the Prince of Shu's Mansion and took away more than a thousand taels of money in a donkey cart. It is said that the donkey cart went to Yangshi Bridge. .
After Yang Shiqi and Li Zhigang got the news, they held memorials for three days in a row. They impeached Zhou Changyan for the ten major crimes. The most deadly one was corruption. Zhou Changyan did not corrupt much, sixty-two taels, in the Hongwu period. Enough to behead, but now it is the Jianwen Dynasty.
Zhu Yunwen did not kill Zhou Changyan in pain. Although he was a little vicious in his intentions, in the final analysis, it was Wang Shen's mental quality that was not up to par, and his body may have had a heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage, so he left in a short time. .
But people like Zhou Changyan don't want to stay in the capital. Before he could see the scenery of the Great Hajj, he was sent to Longchangyi in Guizhou by Zhu Yunwen. It is estimated that he would not live to the era of Wang Shouren. He went to fight first It would be good to lay a foundation and build some houses.
Wang Shen died and Zhou Changyan left. However, the controversy surrounding the Capital Junior College was not over yet. This matter needed a conclusion.
Zhu Yunwen's method of solving this problem is still a bit rogue.
Let me first ask the officials, who thinks that the girl’s family cannot read and write?
Okay, quite a lot, over forty.
Then let's all watch a show. In the name of the Queen, Zhu Yunwen summoned the female relatives of more than 40 officials into the harem for a banquet. The mother, wife and daughter were all invited. The Queen took out a pen and paper at the banquet. , let all the female relatives leave auspicious words and pray for prosperity in the coming year.
After that, Zhu Yunwen received a thick stack of paper and threw it to the officials who objected. He asked a question. Everyone opened their mouths and shut up. It was that women cannot read and write. Being untalented is a virtue. Why is it that your family members are literate and can write well? Yes, some of them also use couplets, which is quite clever.
Have all people become hypocritical to this extent?
In fact, a woman's lack of talent is a virtue. This idea was also very popular in the Ming Dynasty. But everyone, this sentence does not mean that a woman's illiteracy is a virtue.
There is an essential difference between being untalented and illiterate.
Daughters of noble officials' families are usually not illiterate. Daughters' families also need to be literate. Otherwise, who will read "The Female Ring", men?
The male leads the outside and the female leads the inside. How can you lead the inside if you are illiterate?
If you can't even read an account book and can't even write a name, how can you be a master?
In fact, not to mention officials, even some businessmen and gentry did not shy away from having their daughters educated and literate. As for the female officials in the harem, many of them were knowledgeable. They wrote down their merits and demerits, recorded their wealth, and were in charge of seals and books. How could they do these things without any education?
If my daughter’s family cannot read or write, that is pure nonsense.
After solving the problem of whether the daughter's family can be literate and read, we must solve the problem of whether the girl can enter the school and study with the boys. This problem was a bit troublesome, but Zhu Yunwen still solved it with just one sentence:
Who taught your mother, your wife, and your daughter to read and write?
gentlemen.
Yes, that's right, sir.
For the education of their children, many people usually ask their husbands to come and teach at home. Although the daughter cannot go out to meet people, she can see her husband and listen to classes and study with her brothers.
For example, the famous and talented Li Qingzhao came from a scholarly family and was able to read and write since she was a child. Her teacher was Chao Buzhi, one of the four bachelors of the Su family.
Zhu Yunwen asked, if you have money to invite your husband to study at home and meet your daughters, that's no problem. So what's the problem with the queen inviting her husband to the school to teach girls?
Your daughters can study and attend lectures with their brothers, but the daughters of Ming people cannot? What's more, they have specially set up classes for boys and girls. What else do you have to worry about?
The gentleman's teaching, don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you, doesn't just tell you that you must allow others to do what you want to do. If you are opposed to the Capital Elementary School, then fine, we will oppose it together. The daughters of the common people of the Ming Dynasty are not allowed to invite teachers, so you should not invite them either.
When things got to this point, Zhu Yunwen was too lazy to talk to these officials. Xie Jin and Yang Shiqi seized the opportunity to rectify the name of the Capital Junior College and believed that there was nothing wrong with girls and children entering the junior college.
Fang Xiaoru, who has always been traditional and conservative, also stood up at this time, believing that only when a woman is literate can she understand the righteousness and be virtuous, which can be regarded as a complete end to this chaos.
In order to express Wang Shen's contribution, Zhu Yunwen authorized a horse-drawn carriage to send his coffin back to Yiwu. When Wang Shen's coffin left the capital, countless people saw him off along the way. Even the Great Baoen Temple was temporarily suspended. Countless victims stood by the roadside with their children. Send him off all the way.
The hearts of the people are open. They will not express so many thoughts, but they will tell the world with their actions who is popular and who is unpopular.
Zhu Yunwen thought over and over again and thought that whoever held the Jingshi Junior College would be an easy target, and there might be a lot of impeachments in the future. If his mental quality was not up to par, or his status was not high enough, he would be easily bullied by officials.
Therefore, Zhu Yunwen once again reused Xie Jin and appointed Xie Jin to concurrently serve as the dean of the Capital Junior College. At the same time, he also provided that Yang Shiqi would be in charge of corresponding academic affairs.
In other words, Xie Jin is just a sign.
Xie Jin himself had no objection. The emperor needed a human shield that could withstand impeachment, so he had to stand up. He still had this awareness.
The controversy over Wang Shen's death and the Capital Junior College came to an end in mid-December.
At this time, officials from all over the country entered the capital one after another. After arriving in the capital, everyone was free to visit relatives and friends, meet officials, treat guests to dinner, and visit brothels. Anyway, the Hajj was scheduled for December 25th. , there is still some time.
The Security Bureau began to work day and night, and even the women in the Second Security Bureau began to collect intelligence.
As cabinet ministers, Xie Jin, Yu Xin, and Chen Di had a constant stream of visitors. There were also many people coming and going in front of the houses of the six ministers and ministers. However, these officials were very conscious and without exception thanked guests behind closed doors. No matter they were local prefects or chief envoys, they did not see anyone.
As the mainstay of the imperial court, Xie Jin and others knew very well what money should be taken and what money should not be taken. For example, the money earned from Southeast Asian trade could be given away, but the filial piety of pilgrim officials was absolutely unacceptable.
After the incidents involving the White Lotus Sect, Young Master Li Qi, and others, the strength of the security bureau in the capital has expanded to its peak. The Ministry of War cannot tell how many people there are in the security bureau, but it knows that the emperor has selected sergeants from the Beijing army several times to serve as guards.
The emperor's original guard sergeant did not resign and run away, but changed his job on the spot and joined the security bureau.
Although the current Security Bureau does not have the style and majesty of the Jinyiwei in the Hongwu period, its widespread coverage is not necessarily much worse than that of the Jinyiwei. In this case, as long as you have a little bit of brains, you will not accept black money.
But after all, there is a saying that money makes people blind. Officials in the capital are in the capital, and spending a lot of money makes it difficult to reduce expenditures. There is always a need to increase revenue...
Zhu Yunwen was reviewing the documents delivered by the Security Bureau. Song Sheng came to the door and asked for three million taels of silver. This really shocked Zhu Yunwen. Didn't he just ask you to raise horses? As for such a lion, he is not afraid of Xia. When Yuanji found out, he stabbed you?
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