Chongzhen glanced at the officials below again, and said again: "... However, I feel that saying one thing in front of others and doing another after others is obviously not suitable as an example for the corporal of the world. Therefore, in this matter, we must first distinguish whether Mr. Hui'an has done these things, and then we will discuss whether it is in line with the way of the Holy Teacher. ”

Zhu Youzhen turned his gaze around, then stopped at Huang Liji and said: "Starting from the first assistant, the cabinet and the officials of the six ministries will be listed one by one." ”

Huang Liji was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that Chongzhen would push the problem to himself so quickly. He glanced sideways at his colleagues slightly, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke: "Mr. Hui'an's impeachment of Tang Zhongyou's prostitution case has a lot of inside information, and the language is vague in various books, and the minister does not dare to assert whether there is anything wrong in it.

However, there is an evaluation of Tang Zhongyou in "Jinhua Old Supplement": It is said that Zhongyou is good at scriptures, and he understands the principles of life, down to astronomy and geography, soldiers and farmers, etiquette and criminal politics, yin and yang degrees, suburban schools, and wells and fields. When the Kang Mansion was judged, there were thousands of words in the book, and the current politics were very serious. Promote the good and eliminate the disadvantages, and the political voice is impressive.

There may be truth in Mr. Hui'an's six impeachment chapters, but it may not be absent, and the evil is too strict, which leads to a prejudiced view of Tang Zhongyou. ”

After Huang Liji finished these few words, he returned to the class order, and did not expose Zhu Xi's shortcomings too much. After Xu Guangqi and Guo Yunhou, who came down from the cabinet in turn, they only said a few words around this case, not sure that this was an unjust case created by Zhu Xi, but they also said a few good words for Tang Zhongyou.

Only Zhang Ruitu was silent for a long time after he came out of the list, and then he opened his mouth to defend Zhu Xi, believing that this case was not Zhu Xi's mistake, but Tang Zhongyou's treachery and hypocrisy, deceiving the world.

After Zhang Ruitu, Shi Fenglai, Qian Qianyi and other ministers all adopted a neutral attitude, and only retold the records that were handed down at the time, and were unwilling to add their own opinions on this matter.

When it was the turn of Wu Chunfu, the last minister of the Ministry of Works, he first observed Xia Chongzhen's face, and then said unhurriedly: "The previous scholars have said enough about Tang Zhongyou's prostitution case, and the minister has nothing to add. However, there is another matter about Mr. Han'an, and the minister would like to mention it.

The minister remembered that the "History of the Song Dynasty" contained: At that time, there was a supervision of the imperial history Shen Jizu impeached the obscure hermitage, and the Song Emperor issued an edict to Luo Xi Secret Pavilion to revise and dismiss the palace. Among the ten major crimes of impeachment of the nunnery, there are: seducing two nuns to think that they are favored concubines, and each official will accompany them; The housewife became pregnant without a husband. Two.

The minister did not dare to slander Mr. Xuan, but he did not dare to deceive the saint, so he recorded the history books to His Majesty, so that His Majesty could make a holy judgment..."

Wu Chunfu's words immediately angered Liu Zongzhou, as a figure in the palace of science, he naturally could not tolerate Wu Chunfu attacking a generation of science masters in front of the emperor.

“… You villain, Shen Jizu's impeachment of Mr. Xuan, is just a shameless trick by Han Yanxuan and his party to create the Qingyuan Party case to attack the righteous people of the DPRK, how dare you use this matter to slander Xuanweng..."

Although he knew that he would be attacked by the science disciples of the court, Wu Chunfu had never thought that someone would directly scold the villain at him without any scruples, which suddenly made him a little red-faced.

He hadn't figured out how to fight back, and Ni Wenhuan, the Taichang Qing who had always been good friends with him, suddenly stood up to help him and said: "Mr. Qishan's words are not right, Your Majesty just said that you want people to speak, Mr. Yousan just wants His Majesty to know more about Zhu Wengong's life, why did he become a villain?"

Could it be that the things recorded in the speckled history books can also be erased by Mr. Qishan? When Zhu Wengong first confessed his guilt, he admitted that he had "private fortune" and "Naqini women", and also said that "deeply reflect on yesterday's wrongs and carefully find what is today". Feelings: Mr. Qishan, do you still want to refute Zhu Wengong's book to slander himself? ”

Fan Weicheng, Wang Shoulu, Lu Chengyuan and other officials immediately stood on Liu Zongzhou's side and attacked Wu Chunfu, Ni Wenhuan and other eunuch villains. Soon, because of the dispute of words provoked by Wu Chunfu, dozens of officials were involved, and when he saw that even Qian Qianyi was indignant and wanted to speak for Liu Zongzhou, Zhu Youzhen felt that this dispute could be stopped.

On the one hand, this controversy has a tendency to deviate from the topic, and it is very likely to turn into a dispute between the positions of the Donglin Party and the remnants of the Eunuch Party; On the other hand, the scolding between the two sides is not exciting at all.

Maybe both sides know that this is in the Emperor's Palace, and they want to give him a little face, and they can't turn the debate in the palace into a shrew scolding the street at the entrance of the vegetable market, so the two sides have only fried the gentleman and villain back and forth dozens of times.

This scene is similar to Su Changqing's quarrel with his classmates when he was a child, and the two sides discussed the question of who is the puppy for an afternoon.

Zhu Youzhen raised his hand, let Wang Chengen beside him stop the quarrel of the officials below, and after watching all the officials in the hall quiet down and look at him, he pressed his temple with his finger, and then said with a tired face: "I have heard the proposition of the secretaries, and some of you say that Mr. Han'an's things are true, because there are books that have recorded them; Some people also said that this was nothing more than a party dispute between the DPRK and China at that time, and it was a slander against Mr. Han'an. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen put down the hand that was pressing his temple, and seriously looked at the faces of the officials below, and after reading it, he suddenly raised his voice and said coldly: "Regardless of whether these things of Mr. Hao'an are true or not, is it appropriate to let the classics written by such a controversial person be compared with the articles of the Holy Master?" ”

"Your Majesty..."Liu Zongzhou wanted to defend himself to Chongzhen with some eagerness.

But Zhu Youzhen raised his right hand to refuse his interruption, and then said: "The two ancestors of Confucius and Mencius are both masters of eternity, how can they have been questioned because of these things for so many years?

The four books are the cultural classics left by the two ancestors to educate the world, not to mention whether Mr. Hui'an's personality is different from knowledge and action, but for the understanding of the four books, can he be more profound than Confucius and Mencius's personal disciples?

Since none of the disciples of Confucius and Mencius tried to annotate the path of the two ancestors, why did they regard Mr. Hui'an's "Commentary on the Four Books, Chapters and Sentences" as an inviolable correct answer? Could it be that before Mr. Hui'an, the scholars of all dynasties read the wrong book? ”

Chongzhen's words were like dropping a stone into the calm water, once again arousing the whispers of the officials in the court. Since the fifth year of Ningzong Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, the "Annotations on the Analects" and the "Annotations on the Collected Works of Mencius" were included in the scholars as the official textbooks of the law. The "Annotations on the Collection of Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" has always been the standard answer to the textbooks for scholars and officials in the Yuan and Ming dynasties and the imperial examinations.

For hundreds of years, although the science of science has declined because of solidification, it still has a great impact on scholars.

However, after the rise of self-psychology, the Da Mingshi people who were imprisoned by science finally set off a wave of anti-Taoism in their thoughts. The emergence of scholars such as He Xinyin and Li Zhen has had a great impact on the backwater of scientific thought. Whenever He Xinyin and Li Zhen gave lectures, thousands of people came to listen to the lectures.

And the scholars of the world have long been dissatisfied with the fact that the imperial examination must use the "Annotations on the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" as the standard answer, and the cumbersome eight-strand essay answering method. There are also many people who think that the imperial examination is a kind of prison that imprisons the mind and consumes the morale of the scholars.

Even among the officials in the court, some people complained in private, saying: Clever and talented people are all imprisoned by the art test, regard the article as a miscellaneous work of ancient literature, and regard learning as a miscellaneous foreign way, so they are not in the eight strands of the words of the sage, and the five words and eight rhymes of the tailoring work, and literature cannot be asked.

However, although the officials complained so much in private, none of them were willing to risk the great disregard of the world to propose the reform of the imperial examination, after all, this was something that might offend the people of the world.

However, Chongzhen wanted to remove the "Annotations on the Collection of Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" from the official textbook of the imperial examination by questioning Zhu Xi's character, but not many officials wanted to oppose it.

Even officials who wanted to protect Zhu Xi's personal reputation were not necessarily in favor of using the Commentary on the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences as the official interpretation of the Four Books. On the one hand, some scholars also do not think that Zhu Xi's interpretation is the original meaning of Confucius and Mencius; On the other hand, the existence of the Commentary on the Four Books and Chapters has begun to hinder the continued development of science. Because of Zhu Xi's apotheosis, later generations could not make any changes to this collection of notes, which also caused the rigidity and decline of science.

Therefore, when the emperor was quite interested in asking the "Annotations on the Collection of Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books" to give a formal answer to the imperial examination, the opponents did not refute Wu Chunfu and others as much as he had just refutated.

Liu Zongzhou naturally couldn't watch Chongzhen do this, although he also vaguely knew that the current imperial examination was full of drawbacks and became a way for some people to make profits.

However, as a disciple of the Faculty of Science, he could not stand idly by while the Emperor shook the position of the Faculty of Science, but his opposition was far less fierce than just now. However, Rao is like this, and there are still hundreds of officials kneeling in front of the palace, crying silently and begging Chongzhen not to violate the ancestral system.

At this time, the officials who supported Xinxue with Xu Guangqi as the core, and Wu Chunfu and other officials who followed Chongzhen closely, finally stood together and supported Chongzhen to move the "Notes on the Four Books, Chapters and Sentences" out of the scope of the imperial examination.

Zhu Youzhen assessed the number of people on both sides, and finally decided: "I think it's better than this. Before Mr. Zhu Wengong's doubts are clarified, the "Annotations on the Collection of Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books" will be suspended as the standard answer for the imperial examination.

Of course, I have been studying the "Annotations on the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" for many years, and I have no objection to the scholars using the "Annotations on the Four Books, Chapters and Sentences" as a reference answer in the examination.

However, from this day onwards, the Cabinet should issue a document to allow scholars not to take the opinions of the "Commentary on the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" as their own, starting with the children's examination. The test papers are simply divided into two categories, but the candidates apply voluntarily, and the first type is still taken according to the old rules. The other type excludes the answers to the "Commentary on the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" and only writes their own opinions on the Four Books and the Five Classics.

In the examinations at all levels, the number of places for admission to the two types of papers shall be equal..."