In the first year of Wude, Zhu Gaoxu issued an edict to cancel all banquets, weddings, and singing and dancing performances until the eve of the Shangyuan Festival in the following year; In the first month of the second year of Wude, the ceremony of joint sacrifice (four seasons of blessing, four sacrifices to heaven and earth, combined into one) is carried out in the southern suburbs.

He also resumed his daily morning activities, showing a posture of following the rules and catering to the heavens, so that he "actively responded to the wrath of heaven", so that the ministers of civil and military affairs were satisfied. In the early dynasties, this ritual was often canceled since Emperor Taizong; Zhu Gaoxu naturally fished for three days and dried nets for two days, and during the Northern Expedition, he was unable to hold it for several months.

Within a few days, a copy of the impeachment recital of Hu Guang, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, finally arrived.

Hu Guang wrote a letter to impeach and solve the crime of moral defects and great disrespect.

The reason is that Xie Jinping often talks with scholars, talks about playfulness when he comes out, and does things that are capable of forming a party and having personal relations; In the court, he attacked the saints, sold his reputation and reputation, and his remarks were amazing. Hu Guang enumerated the wrong words in all the previous performances and all the articles; He decided that Xie Jin, as a well-educated person, his taboo words were not omissions, but extraordinary, insinuating and ignoring the Holy Monarch.

Hu Guang took a lot of thought to collect Xie Jin's many negligence, and took advantage of Xie Jin's opportunity to offend the emperor and gave a powerful attack.

Zhu Gaoxu saw Hu Guang's article scolding Xie Jin, and couldn't help but feel refreshed for a while. It's no wonder that others are no one, Hu Guang and Xie Jin are both civil officials and fellow countrymen, who can say that this matter is the emperor's revenge on Xie Jin?

This piece of music was still sent to Wuying Hall for processing.

There is no good way for the cabinet and the treasure office to take such a recital. The ministers' approach, the same as the last time Xie Jin scolded the emperor, did not respond, and directly sent the six departments to the side of the matter for transcription and publicity.

The next day, Xie Jin sent his resignation to the Hanlin Academy, and the Hanlin Academy sent the resignation to the palace. After Xie Jin resigned, he left the seal letter and other things in the yamen, and consciously went home to wait for disposal.

Usually he and Hu Guang would quarrel from time to time, but this time Xie Jin did not scold Hu Guang and quietly went home; Otherwise, everyone will say that Xie Jin is not right, and there is no grace in being an official, which is the customary rule of Shilin.

The most important thing for civil officials is morality and conduct, which is the foundation of the Ming court's governance: human nature is good, so it is necessary to select those who are self-cultivation and morally noble to hold power. On the other hand, if an official is morally deficient, who believes that he can do good deeds for the benefit of the country and the people?

However, there will be some leeway between each other in officialdom, and there are few such things that attack each other's morality; Once it happens, it is almost offended to the end, and the relationship will enter the point of retribution.

Therefore, there is no other reason for officials who have been publicly attacked on moral aspects than to resign. Because his own arguments are not convincing, only when others come forward to correct his name, especially the emperor, can he clear his grievances.

However, Zhu Gaoxu pretended not to know, kept silent, and only let the ministers on duty in Wuyingdian deal with it. He decided to wait at least until the New Year......

The first person to raise the suspicion of this matter turned out to be Guifei Miaojin. Miaojin's father used to be the imperial history of the court, and she seems to know these things very well. Talking about Xie Jin in the Rouyi Hall today, Miao Jin asked softly: "Master Hu's recital, is it the meaning of the saint?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu looked surprised, and immediately shook his head and denied: "I haven't seen Hu Guang in private for a long time, and I haven't asked the eunuch to see him." Hu Guang and Xie Jin have personal grievances, Miaojin doesn't know? ”

Miaojin said: "I've heard of it, but I'm curious and ask casually." ”

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly remembered something. On the eve of the "Battle of Crime", Hu Guang ran to Yunnan to persuade Mu Sheng to surrender, but was first caught by Zhu Gaoxu; Then Zhu Gaoxu coerced and lured Hu Guang in private. When I did that, Miaojin was also there. No wonder she felt there was something inside this time.

"This matter is indeed done by civilian officials on their own initiative." Zhu Gaoxu said, "Even if Hu Guang doesn't do this, there are people in the DPRK and China." For the sake of public opinion on the legitimacy of the throne, the ministers of the court and the central government mostly used former officials of the royal palace and confidants and advisers, and these people would not be of the same mind as ordinary civil officials. ”

Miaojin nodded yes.

Zhu Gaoxu said again: "But I'm tired of such rules. ”

Miaojin asked, "What kind of rules?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and described: "Use things such as heaven and morality as the basis for discussing right and wrong. The earthquake a while ago and the morality of Xie Jin are all like this. As a result, I was forced to behave and strictly observe etiquette; Xie Jin was neither greedy nor illegal, but he could only resign. It's all nonsense. ”

Hearing this, Miao Jin laughed carelessly, she hurriedly covered her lips, suppressed her smile, and asked with interest: "The opinions of the Holy Lord are always different, so how can it not be a blind toss?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "In terms of earthquakes, it is more pragmatic to improve the plan of prevention and risk avoidance than to respect the heavens and ancestors. The large tanks of water in the palace and in the neighborhood are the plan for the fire; If it's just a ritual and a ritual, can Kyoshi avoid a fire? The punishment and appointment and dismissal of officials should be based on specific political achievements, and they should be held accountable for their administrative affairs; If we only talk about morality, people's hearts are separated from their bellies, who is nobler than whom, how to judge? A person with a good reputation should be responsible for a problem in his work? ”

Miao Jin nodded and said, "What the Holy Lord said makes sense, but why can't it be changed?" ”

"Worldview. I can't find a justifiable reason to convince everyone, these ideas don't make sense, and there are problems with implementation. I can't do everything alone, not with three heads and six arms. Zhu Gaoxu frowned and said, "The 'saints' who have formulated the rules and order of the human world in the past have thought about everything, and it is very difficult to move them at all. If I deny the will of God, then the royal authority that has been preached does not exist, where does the emperor's power come from, and does it still have authority? ”

Miao Jin pondered for a moment and whispered: "The concubine's ancestor was an official, and he was very moral and courteous, and he thought that Emperor Taizong had no righteousness when he ascended the throne, and he never really returned to obedience. But Taizong still became the emperor. ”

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and said, "It's different." The father said that the emperor was not in accordance with the etiquette law, but Jianwen died, and the father recognized himself as the son of Taizu, and the father was barely able to make sense as the emperor; However, this will more or less have sequelae, otherwise Yongle Chu would not have been bloody. ”

After a while, Miaojin muttered curiously, "World view? ”

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at her, and felt that Miaojin had been influenced by him and some concepts had been shaken, so he patiently recounted: "People are intelligent beings, and the difference between them and other creatures is that in addition to eating, drinking, and reproducing, they will also understand everything in the environment around them. What is heaven and earth, and is there a pot lid in the round earth? How did man come about, what is consciousness, is there hell or heaven? These views of people are the worldview. ”

Miao Jin said: "The 'world view' of the saint is afraid that it is completely different from ordinary people. ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "The truth is relative, and my worldview is not important, but I feel that the worldview of most people in the world today is no longer conducive to the development of the country." ”

Zhu Gaoxu's concept has also changed many times. Because of the indoctrination method of education, he could only believe in materialism when he was a teenager, but then he had a "miraculous experience" and did not believe it again.

He recalled the superficial expressions of quantum mechanics that he had dabbled in before, and he also felt that materialism may also have historical limitations; How can human observation determine the microscopic quantum world and expand to the macroscopic world? All materialist philosophies are inexplicable. It's like the wave-particle duality of his junior high school, who can tell him what kind of substance it is. Science is clearly not philosophy.

In the later generations of the great development of science, religion was still prevalent, and materialism was just a word. Perhaps human consciousness is self-deceptive, and many people do not want to believe that they are insignificant ants, and people prefer to believe that they have a soul and a very unique consciousness.

But no matter what, the science and mind of the Ming Dynasty are not conducive to development. These things have caused all the affairs of the government to be malfunctioning.

Miao Jin said thoughtfully: "Everyone says that there are gods and ghosts, but no one has seen them. ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Even if there is, I think that it must not be the low-level ghosts and gods that people understand, but a more magnificent law-maker." ”

But after thinking about it for a while, his expression gradually lightened a lot.

He said in his heart: Fortunately, Chinese people have a strength, which is very inclusive and not paranoid. The world believes everything, but it doesn't believe everything. If there are some novel theories that come out, from the scholars to the common people, they should not be condemned as hereticals; People will only find ways to incorporate existing ideas, otherwise they will ignore them, or only take part of them, which will affect people's perceptions intentionally or unintentionally.

Just like the Han Dynasty, the imperial court has respected Confucianism, but secretly still uses miscellaneous theories, especially Legalism.

The existing Confucian theories have brainwashed the world, and they have also played a positive role in maintaining order. After all, the Ming Dynasty, with an actual population of probably hundreds of millions, only had tens of thousands of officials in total, and the power of government was limited. If it weren't for those rules like the Five Rules, I am afraid it would not be maintained; And Zhu Gaoxu's imperial power will also be immediately unstable.

He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I should find a spokesperson now and let some other words that are beneficial to the country come out." ”

Miao Jin smiled and said, "Why don't you convince the concubine first?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "It's a long story. Every afternoon from now on, as long as I am in the Rouyi Palace, Miaojin will come here. I say, you write. Let's write it out first, and then find a source, such as the distant people encountered by the fleet going to the Western Ocean. ”

Miaojin said with a happy face: "The concubine obeys the order." ”

She is indeed a relatively unique person, not interested in the current battle for favor, but she has always been very interested in some "unrealistic" things, maybe because she has been a Taoist priest?

Zhu Gaoxu looked serious and said in a deep voice: "Remember, don't admit that it's the book that the two of us made up." Otherwise, the world will think that my emperor is very strange, and who knows what will happen? ”

Miao Jin also nodded seriously, and said softly: "This is a secret matter between the concubine and the saint. ”

.。 Writing Chinese Network M.