The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1685

[1685.Chapter 1603 There is no mutual benefit and righteousness to succeed the vassal]

Emperor Hongzhi had a sullen face, his eyes wandering around everyone.

Emperor Hongzhi said: “Over the past few years, I have deeply felt that idle talk has harmed the country, and I have become somewhat tired of scholars. The atmosphere in the court has changed a lot. However, it is not possible to freeze three feet in one day. Many people , I take this talk for granted, but I don’t know that your salary and salary are all from the people, and the people who support you and others don’t expect to have money and food for you to talk here.”

These words are incomprehensible.

But the tone was extremely harsh.

No one knew whether His Majesty was referring to themselves, so they were a bit panicked and confused.

So the ministers simply said: “I am waiting for death.”

Emperor Hongzhi immediately said: “You know that you are going to die, how dare you talk here? You should learn from Fang Qing’s family!” When

the ministers heard this , confused again, looked at Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan was a little confused. Although he had often done some good things recently, but… it seemed that he had not done anything great. Oh, yes, let the two or three thousand members of the Kong family escape from the sea of suffering and send them to the Golden Continent. The pile should have been calculated, but I didn’t expect that Your Majesty already knew about it. Your Majesty is so wise.

Emperor Hongzhi sneered: “The Fang Qing family never engages in verbal disputes with others. They work hard and make great contributions to our Ming Dynasty. How can it be that some of my ministers are sharp-tongued all the time?” , They think they are capable, but in fact they are just a bunch of incompetent people!”

When the ministers heard this, some people began to come to their senses.

The implication of His Majesty’s words is that someone is saying something behind his back.

And this or that… is mostly directed at Fang Jifan.

Your Majesty specifically mentioned that Fang Jifan worked hard and made many achievements. This means that Fang Jifan did not care about these love names and only focused on serving the Ming Dynasty loyally. So these days, even though Fang Jifan has published a… vulgar book, so what, you people, tied together, are still not as good as him. You are also qualified to laugh at Fang Jifan. Are you worthy?

These words… are clearly intended to set the tone for the book “Ode to the Ming Dynasty”. If anyone dares to talk nonsense, they are the people who are ruining the country by talking nonsense. Anyone who dares to take this opportunity to ridicule will not be treated lightly. .

At this moment, those who were secretly mocking suddenly became uneasy.

Especially those ministers who were summoned from Nanjing at high speed were even more worried.

Your Majesty suddenly ordered me to come here, could it be… just for beating?

You know, things are different now.

Over the years, Qingliu has been hit again and again. It has already been severely damaged. In front of the palace, it has almost no power to fight back. The scholars have also been dug out. Even the economic foundation is in the hands of His Majesty and Qi Guogong. Here, if I want you to live, I will live, if I want you to die, you will die, and with a single backhand, you will be ruined and your body will be broken into pieces.

At this time, who dares to contradict anything in person?

So…someone was trembling, just because he was usually too mean-mouthed, kowtowing like pounding garlic, and said: “I will die.”

Emperor Hongzhi snorted coldly, and he said lightly: “Zhou Qing’s family, is it okay for you to be in the Ministry of Rites?”

Emperor Hongzhi mentioned it casually.

Suddenly someone trembled.

Since he is the Minister of Rites, and his surname is Zhou, he is Zhou Tanzhi, the Minister of Rites of Nanjing. Zhou Tanzhi is frightened. In fact, although he has the name of Minister, in fact, in Nanjing, it is almost a sinecure, just providing for the elderly. Because he is Because he was marginalized, Zhou Tanzhi rarely had any complaints. He always hoped that he would have the opportunity to enter Beijing and become a serious minister of the Ministry of Rites.

But he was complaining a lot, and who knew that he was now saying something he shouldn’t have said.

Zhou Tanzhi immediately kowtowed: “My… I am quite acceptable.”

Emperor Hongzhi said, “I heard a saying that the Duke of Qi is best at raising pigs. Who said this?”

Zhou Tanzhi said:

It was like a bolt from the blue, and his face turned pale in an instant.

He trembled and said: “Chen… Chen…”

These were what he said, but he never expected that his every word and action would be stared at by the Jin Yiwei.

He said with difficulty: “I… I don’t mean what you said?”

All the officials were silent, but they all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. It seems… His Majesty’s anger is not directed at himself.

They began to savor this sentence carefully, and most of them thought, if this sentence has no other meaning, then it would be damned. To be honest, this sentence is quite innovative.

Originally, the emperor and his ministers were in agreement, and everyone was polite to each other. It was rare for them to say such things as raising pigs directly.

But now that His Majesty has said it, it shows that His Majesty’s anger has reached the extreme.

Zhou Tanzhi now had no choice, and said: “This… this is written in the book “Song of the Ming Dynasty”. In other books, pigs are called pigs, but only in this book, or… ‘Gang hyena’, only in “Song of the Ming Dynasty”, it is called a pig, Chen… I saw this book, so… so vulgar, so I made some comments based on the word “pig” in his book, Lao Chen I definitely didn’t mean anything else, so please keep your Majesty in mind. “

After all, he is the Minister of Rites, and his skills are adequate. In the blink of an eye, he threw the dirty water back.

The implication is that this is not my fault, it is the book Ming Song that was wrong first. Your Majesty wants to punish the veteran minister. If you want to be reasonable, then… I should punish the author of this Ming Song first.

After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi showed a look of disgust. What he dislikes most now is precisely such clever sophistry.

But today, in front of all the ministers, he couldn’t take it lightly, so his eyes fell on Fang Jifan.

He had also seen the word “pig” before, but… he had no other thoughts at the time. Anyway, the book was full of “vulgarity”, so it was not surprising at all that there was a word for “pig” in it. This is just like Fang Jifan, with flaws all over his body. If he suddenly cursed at you, would you feel weird?

“Your Majesty…” Fang Jifan became anxious and immediately said, “I want to explain.”

Emperor Hongzhi nodded.

Today’s court meeting is to kill the current trend and to protect Fang Jifan.

Just…thinking of that book…

Emperor Hongzhi said: “Speaking of the Qing family.”

“Your Majesty, my son compiled “Song of the Ming Dynasty” in order to… be passed down through the ages, just like the Four Books and Five Classics, and shine for all generations.

” As soon as the words came out, the officials were in an uproar…

People looked at each other and saw the funny meaning in each other’s eyes.

Of course, there are also people who are thoughtful.

Emperor Hongzhi also felt strange. Although Fang Jifan acted erratically, he would never suffer a loss. Could it be that…

Fang Jifan said plausibly: “Your Majesty, these are the Four Books and Five Classics I have newly learned, like Confucius’s “Spring and Autumn”. “

Spring and Autumn”, “Song of the Ming Dynasty”…

these two books, anyone who is not crazy will feel that they have no connection at all.

Some people even felt that their hearts ached badly, this piece of shit was finally going to attack “Spring and Autumn”.

After all, Zhou Tanzhi came from Nanjing. Although he also knew that Fang Jifan should not be offended, but now that he was on the string, he became a little more courageous: “Qi Guogong, you know your sin, you actually compared this “Ming Song” to “Spring and Autumn”.”

Fang Jifan smiled and glanced at him meaningfully, as if he had recorded this goal, and then said calmly: “Your Majesty, I founded Xishan Academy and have countless disciples. I dare to ask Your Majesty, how is my knowledge?”

“… “

Fang Jifan then said: “If everyone here doesn’t believe it, then… I will just pick up a few incompetent disciples, such as Wang Shouren, Ouyang Zhi, Liu Wenshan, and Tang Yin. If you want to write poems, if you want to write eight-part essay, what else? Or, if you want to write an article, you want to compare the merits of knowledge, to argue the merits, even if you want to mount a horse and shoot, I dare to ask you, who dares to compare with those bad guys of mine?” “

… “

This is purely MANG.

After the silence, no one responded.

Everyone knows the abilities of Fang Jifan’s disciples.

Fang Jifan immediately said: “My disciple is like this. Your Majesty, are you an ignorant idiot? In front of me, if you want to write a beautiful article or a book like “Spring and Autumn”, I dare not It’s easy to capture, but it’s no worse than this Spring and Autumn period. I’m going to boast about it. If you don’t believe it, you can come forward and give it a try. “

This sentence is really arrogant.

This is playing with Saint Kong.

Before waiting, a group of saint disciples stood up one after another and argued with Fang Jifan angrily.

Fang Jifan changed the topic: “But Your Majesty, if I write such a book, it will deviate from my original intention.”

Emperor Hongzhi frowned: “What does this mean?”

Fang Jifan said: “Since the beginning of writing, this world has “There are countless people who have written books for scholars, but I dare to ask Your Majesty, how many people in this world have written books for the common people?”

Emperor Hongzhi was suddenly startled.

There was silence in the palace.

Fang Jifan’s words seemed like torture.

Is there anyone writing books for the common people today?

Zhou Tanzhi retorted: “The people are illiterate, but if they read a book, can they understand it?”

Fang Jifan laughed: “If that’s the case, I don’t know what it means. Of course the people who are illiterate cannot read it. Then… why are there so many people in the world ?

Is there any literati in the Qing Dynasty who is willing to write a book that can be read by the common people? This is not a question of whether it can be done. It is difficult, even as difficult as climbing to the sky. In my case, It seems that it is more difficult than “Spring and Autumn”. But nothing is difficult in the world, as long as there is a person who is willing, it will be difficult. It depends on whether there is anyone in the world who is willing to put in the effort to do it. “

“It’s a pity, it’s a pity…” Fang Jifansu said. Rong said: “It’s a pity that the scholars in the world only spend their time looking for their confidants and friends, but no one spends this time on this. The foundation of Confucius and Mencius is As for “benevolence”, what is “benevolence”? Treating people well and letting them know it is benevolence. How many people in this world who claim to be

the

disciples of saints only know how to read, have such a heart of benevolence?

In my eyes, no matter how many splendid articles you can write, these articles are just for self-admiration and have already deviated from the original intention of Confucius and Mencius. They really make our successors feel cold. “

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(End of chapter)