>The feast of the Ming Dynasty was held in the Wenhua Hall in the southeast corner of the Forbidden City, although the Wenhua Hall was not as large as the Fengtian Hall and the Huagai Palace, which were located on the central axis of the palace, but it was the most frequented hall of the Hongzhi Emperor, which was the closest to the cabinet hall, and the scholars could be summoned at any time to consult government affairs.

Shen Xi came to the front of the Wenhua Hall with his colleagues from the Hanlin Academy and the Zhan Mansion.

From the outside, the Wenhua Hall is not conspicuous in the palace, but it is quite exquisite and elegant, and it is unique among many red palaces.

Before Shen Xi and the others arrived, the eunuch had already set up a copy of each of the four books of scriptures and histories on the imperial case in front of the throne of Jinluan, and later after the Hongzhi Emperor attended, if he had any questions, he could consult them by himself.

At the same time, on the left and right sides of the hall, there is a volume on each page for the speaker to compare...... Of course, the Japanese lecturers had to write their own lecture notes in order to make them vivid and attract the attention of the audience, including Emperor Koji.

At the feast, there is someone who is specifically responsible for speaking, and naturally there will be an audience.

In addition to the emperor and the crown prince who left the cabinet, the audience of the weekday banquet will also be attended, and at the same time, officials from the six ministries and various temples will also be invited, and there will be special people to record and study...... This is a cadre of officials from the Zhan Mansion and the Hanlin Academy.

Because this sutra feast was the first sutra feast in the spring of the twelfth year of Hongzhi, and it may be the last one before the beginning of summer, there were many Hanlin officials and officials from the Zhan Shifu who were invited to come, and they sat on the ground at the back of the main hall and pressed a piece of black press.

The lecture of the scripture banquet is divided into the knowledge of the scriptures, the same knowledge of the scriptures, generally by the Hanlin attendant, the bachelor to fill the position, in addition to the day of the lecture, the exhibition officer, the attendant personnel are uncertain, divided into two classes, the number of people all depends on the scale of the feast and the arrangement in advance.

Even if Shen Xi is a historian of the Hanlin Academy from the sixth grade, he is not qualified to serve as a banquet official. At most, he is a small Hanlin official who sits at the end of the seat, holds a pen to record, and studies and figures out with his heart. But in terms of rules. The future banquet officials will inevitably come from among the Hanlin who are listening today, so Shen Xiquan should be doing his homework for the emperor to lecture on the scriptures in the future.

When the Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youjiao's luan arrived. Shen Xi has been waiting for about half an hour, with the arrival of Emperor Hongzhi, the first ascension ceremony, Shen Xi and other civil and military ministers, lecturers, auditors, etc. who participated in the feast, together with his majesty Dan five bows and three kowtows, returned to the seat, and the feast finally began.

As expected, the chief speaker of this banquet was Xie Qian. The master of ceremonies was presided over by Honglu Temple.

At the beginning of the ceremony, Honglu Siqing announced "entering the lecture", one lecturer came out from the east class, and another lecturer came out from the west class, and stood in the north direction before the lecture, bowed to the first teacher, and then bowed to the Son of Heaven. Subsequently, the exhibition officer stepped forward to unfold the scripture history and the lecturer's handout, and the scripture feast officially began.

The order of the lecturer's lecture on the scriptures is the first four books and then the scriptures. The lecturer of the four books is in the east, and the lecturer of the scriptures and history is in the west, and the officials of the scriptures and feasts are divided into two classes, east and west, and the columns are on one side. Wait for the previous person to finish explaining, and follow up to talk.

It's like a speaking event, where all the people who want to speak are sorted out, two at a time, and then two of them are finished speaking one after another, and then they are replaced by two people.

The sutra lecturer wears a big red robe, and the attendants below the exhibition officer are dressed in blue-green brocade clothes, and a total of six people, including the middle of the service, the imperial history and the ceremonial officer, are listed on the east and west sides of the lecture case, and are responsible for supervising the etiquette and style of the sutra banquet speaker. If there is an inopportune person, he will be impeached.

After all, this is when the emperor and the crown prince are talking about literature, etiquette, and scripture and history. No one should make any mistakes or omissions in the number of etiquette, otherwise it will be disrespectful. This time it was a feast. Emperor Hongzhi was worried that the crown prince Zhu Houzhao had just recovered from his illness, so he simply did not let the prince attend, and Emperor Hongzhi himself had the intention of mentioning the old matter of Jianwen at the banquet, and it was a bit inappropriate to let the prince accept the new point of view before the matter was publicly discussed.

In addition to Emperor Hongzhi, no one attended the royal family, but there were two brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling among the relatives, one was the Marquis of Shouning and the other was Jianchangbo, but the British Duke Zhang Mao was more respected than their status, and as for other nobles, they were not included in the invitation to this feast.

All civil and military ministers who participate in the scripture banquet, regardless of martial arts, must enter the palace to listen to the lectures in the robes of scribes and Confucians, and they must be taught with an open mind, and there can be no noise at the scripture banquet.

This is like an exam, the emperor does not allow you to have the opportunity to avoid, so you must listen carefully, if you answer the question of the Son of Heaven during the feast, there is a situation where the answer is not the question asked, it will make people feel that you are not serious, you will be reprimanded, and you may be demoted and punished.

Shen Xi, as an observer, is responsible for recording in the Hanlin officials, and he has Zhu Xizhou and Wang Zan in front of him to block the sight of Emperor Hongzhi, it stands to reason that no one will find out even if he is lazy, but this is the first time he has participated in the scripture banquet, and it is more to accumulate experience, not to be in his position.

What's more, Shen Xi knew very well in his heart that Emperor Hongzhi held the sutra banquet mainly to put forward the "Jianwen Year" in the history of the scriptures, and the "cause" of this incident was the manuscript that Xie Qian coerced him to write because of the many problems found in the revision of the "Daming Huidian", and it can be said that he himself can be regarded as the protagonist of this sutra feast.

At this time, even Zhu Xizhou and others didn't know anything about this matter, Shen Xi speculated, and knew that there were only a few people such as Emperor Hongzhi, Xie Qian, and Wang Wei, and Emperor Hongzhi only vaguely stated this matter, and did not exactly show the determination and attitude to restore the Jianwen era.

The feast officially began, and the lecturer, who had previously performed a series of cumbersome rituals, respectfully retreated, and the scribe and attendant retreated behind the hall.

Li Zhuo, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, came to talk about the "University" in the four books, and then the university scholar Xie Qian lectured on the history of the scriptures, but this time he talked about the "New Tang Book", which focused on the allusion of Tang Taizong's struggle for the throne.

For others, there will not be too many surprises, there are so many scriptures and histories, since it is said that the "New Tang Book" and Tang Taizong are talked about, it is inevitable that the changes in Xuanwumen will be mentioned.

Shen Xi knew that this was laying the groundwork for Emperor Hongzhi to propose the matter of competing for the throne.

After Xie Qian, it was Jiao Fang who came out to talk about "The Mean", I have to say that among so many bachelors and bachelors in the Hanlin Academy, Jiao Fang, who is sixty-five years old this year, belongs to the kind of person who is outstanding in learning, if it weren't for him, he would ******** sharpen his head and drill up. At the same time, he slandered the south and the north, which was disliked by many officials, and his prestige would at least be above Wang Wei and Li Jie.

But the problem is that Jiao Fang knows how to cater too much. Even Emperor Hongzhi felt that this person was not very reliable, and he did not even inform Jiao Fang, the young secretary of Taichang Temple and the attendant of Hanlin Academy, in the old matter of Jianwen. He was stunned to talk about the golden mean, thinking that he was wonderful and could be appreciated by the Son of Heaven.

In fact, according to historical development, Jiao Fang did rely on his good management to enter the cabinet, but it was the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao and the great eunuch Liu Jin who catered to it, and Shen Xi would not be prejudiced against Jiao Fang because of this, because many things in the power field cannot be evaluated by right or wrong. It cannot be said that Jiao Fang catered to Liu Jin and denied his academic and official attainments, but he had scruples about his reputation as "mean to southerners", and it was best to stay away from it.

After Jiao Fang, there were several Japanese lecturers from the left and right Chunfang, and what they talked about was still the content of the subset of the scriptures and histories, and most of the things involved were often tested in the Ministry of Rites and the Palace Examination, and Emperor Hongzhi never asked questions, because whether it was the "Four Books" or "Five Classics". or historical articles, they are all clichés, and there is nothing to ask about at all.

Final Talk. It is Wang Wei, the young Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and the content he talks about is the historical materials of this dynasty derived from the revision of the "Ming Huidian".

When Wang Wei started to speak from Hongwu Nian, some people present noticed that something was wrong, especially those who received the news in advance, including the officials of the Hanlin Academy, who had recently been mentioned twice by Emperor Hongzhi and Marquis Shouning.

When Wang Wei mentioned that Taizong had promulgated the "Jiaomin Bangwen" after Taizu, Emperor Hongzhi's face changed slightly, but he did not interrupt Wang Wei's words, and waited for Wang Wei to roughly finish the rules and regulations promulgated by Taizong. Emperor Hongzhi only began to ask questions.

"Why is it between the thirty-second year of Hongwu and the thirty-fifth year of Hongwu. The imperial court did not promulgate a statute? Zhu Youzhu looked at Wang Wei, "Wang Aiqing." DID YOU KNOW? ”

At this time, Xie Qian walked out, knelt down to present a transcript, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, when the Hanlin Academy was the master of the "Huidian", there were many errors and omissions in the revision of historical materials. ”

Zhu Youzhu stretched out his hand and said to the celebrant, "Present it." ”

Although some of the ministers present did not know what was going on, they all felt that something was not quite right, today was the day of the feast, not the court meeting, and it was impossible for Emperor Hongzhi to "review" the book on such occasions on weekdays, even if Emperor Hongzhi himself was temporary, but Xie Qian, as a cabinet scholar, could not be unaware of this rule.

At the banquet that attaches great importance to etiquette, Xie Qian is so "arrogant", does this mean that he wants to be impeached by the middle of the matter and the imperial history?

At this time, he pretended to be deaf and dumb in the middle of the matter and the imperial history, as if he didn't notice anything wrong with Xie Qian's presentation at the scripture feast.

This can only show one problem, Xie Qian's performance was deliberately arranged by Emperor Hongzhi, and the matter discussed at today's banquet should also be related to the transcript presented by Xie Qian, and Wang Wei happened to talk about the old things of Hongwu and Yongle Dynasty, so needless to say, the key to the problem is the "four years that disappeared from historical records".

At this time, Shen Xi had mixed feelings in his heart, he originally hoped that Zhang Heling would come out to answer the questions and cover up his notebook for the time being, but who would have expected that Xie Qian's entry would be so direct, looking at the attitudes of Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, these two Hongzhi Emperors should have passed the qi in advance, otherwise it would be impossible to be so calm.

Shen Xi thought to himself: "The next step is not to say that I proposed it, right?" ”

Emperor Hongzhi pretended to be, carefully read the content of the recital, put down the recital, and sighed slightly: "My Emperor Taizu was ordered by the heavens to open the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for thousands of years, to Taizong, the four seas are peaceful, it is really the luck of all things in the world." However, the matter of the end of Hongwu is full of treachery, but I don't know which minister can solve the confusion in my heart? ”

After Emperor Hongzhi said this, his face was full of vicissitudes, and it seemed that someone was waiting for someone to come out to pick it up.

Because they did not ask specific people, the ministers present were worthy of being outstanding elite representatives of Confucianism, and all of them perfectly demonstrated the "golden mean" of Confucianism...... The stakes are high, as long as you don't ask me about it, don't want me to reply.

Just when Emperor Hongzhi's face changed slightly, Zhang Heling, Marquis of Shouning, got up from his seat, walked to the center of the main hall, knelt down to Emperor Hongzhi and saluted, and said respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister occasionally turned over the history books before the minister, and I have a little experience, or I can solve your Majesty's doubts." ”

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