Chapter 596: Zeng Jing's buttocks

Although Zeng Jingren was in prison, his mind was still in the majestic Forbidden City.

Reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles, this is the real reader, his brain is buried in the book, he doesn't know how high the sky is, how wide the earth is, he is really a frog at the bottom of the well.

He didn't have the chance to see the emperor, so he was only led by the officials of the Criminal Department and walked down according to the predetermined itinerary. But the experience he wrote after his daily trip was able to be presented to the emperor's bookcase, and the emperor also used these comments to talk to him, a serious offender.

Or awe-inspiring to point out where his knowledge is inappropriate, or Chunchun teaches himself unknown things, in more than half a month, thousands of words, "Yongzheng" in his mind barbarian, violent, stupid pile of impressions, layer by layer, replaced by a well-informed, world-minded solemn face.

Recalling Yongzheng's rebuke of his Huayi distinction, Zeng Jing felt that his old face was red, and he couldn't wait to plunge into the ground.

The Analects...... In the Eight Monks, "Yi Di has a king, not as good as the death of Zhu Xia", which is the basis of his Huayi debate. The Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties all explained that even if there was no king in Huaxia, there was still etiquette and music, and it was stronger than Yidi who had a king.

But Yongzheng rebuked that this was a fool's solution for not learning the meaning of the scriptures. Kong Sheng lamented in this article the current situation of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, when the etiquette and music collapsed, and the most obvious one was that the strong ministers usurped and no longer respected the king. That's why Kong Sheng sighed like this, saying that Yidi also has a monarch, unlike Huaxia, who no longer even keeps this most basic ceremony.

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Yongzheng said, what does China rely on for China? What is the root of ritual music? Monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons.

If the rites and music collapse, Huaxia will no longer be Huaxia. And in the land of Yidi, as long as you keep the etiquette and music, and respect the system of monarchs and ministers, you will enter China. Therefore, the Taoist system of China is in the righteousness of this monarch and minister.

Speaking of the former Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu raised an army against the Yuan, won the righteousness of the world, and chased after the old Han. But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the faint king was unreasonable, the thief was unrighteous, and Huaxia was no longer Huaxia. I entered from outside the customs of the Qing Dynasty, responded to every call, exterminated the anti-thieves, won the world, respected Confucius and Confucianism, and kept the Taoism, why is it not Zhengshuo?

Back then, Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi and others didn't understand this truth, as soon as they first raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, they were loyal to the Ming Dynasty. But then the Ming Dynasty has lost its Taoism and lost the hearts of the people, they changed with the times, although they still kept the courtiers, and did not go out of the dynasty, but they cooperated with the dynasty in literary affairs, including sending apprentices to help revise the "History of the Ming Dynasty", and they were the ones who read the book thoroughly.

Zeng Jing sighed with great emotion, his knowledge is really too far behind the emperor and the former sages...... I didn't even understand the root of Huayi's distinction.

Even if Yongzheng didn't talk about shaving his hair and being easy to wear, Zeng Jing figured it out by himself. At the beginning, the regent Dolgon issued a shaving order, he only regarded it as a foreign race to force the people of Huaxia to change their faces, in order to show the violent intentions of Huaxia's decline, but now it seems that this shaving order is very justified.

The monarch and the ministers are the Tao, even if the monarch is this crown, then the subjects will naturally have to serve the king, otherwise they are disloyal, and disloyalty is not keeping the Tao, and those who die because of sticking to their clothes are just fools who are short-sighted and narrow-minded like themselves.

Then Zeng Jing thought about what he had learned in Lu Liuliang's writings, and after thinking about it carefully, he had to admit that as Yongzheng said, Lu Liuliang was at a loss in terms of courtiers.

Although Lu Liuliang was born in the former Ming Dynasty, but before the crown ceremony, the Qing Dynasty had already won the world, and he Lu Liuliang should be a subject of the Qing Dynasty.

In the next few decades, the Lu Liuliang family was able to be peaceful and revital, wasn't it given by the Qing Dynasty, and it wasn't the blessing of the Qing Dynasty's monarch and father, who raised the people of the world like a child? Lu Liuliang did not remember the grace of the Qing Dynasty, but he never forgot the Ming Dynasty that had been corrupted and unTaoist when he was alive, and slandered the Qing Dynasty in every possible way in his writings.

Lu Liuliang's tall and glorious image in Zeng Jing's heart was clouded with a layer of haze, but Zeng Jing still felt that even if there was a deviation in Huayi's discrimination, Lu Liuliang's knowledge of governance was still the right way.

was writing his words of repentance on the paper, and the official of the Criminal Department came again, "Zeng Jing, today's Taihe Hall is sprinkled and swept, just to take you to take a look." ”

Zeng Jing was stunned, the brush also stopped in mid-air, half a sound, tears fell on the paper with the ink droplets, Zeng Jing kowtowed, and said silently: "The emperor's grace is vast, Zeng Jing is broken bones, and there is no trace of complaints." ”…,

When Zeng Jing was arrested in Jingzhou, he already had the heart of death, and when the soldiers came to the door, he also shouted "Hunan defender Zeng Jing is here", ready to commit suicide with scissors.

It seemed that the shout had exhausted his heart, and then he went limp in the room, and was tied up by the soldiers.

After surviving a prison sentence, Zeng Jing was already numb, and was waiting to be executed by Ling Chi, but he didn't want the emperor to pass on the edict himself, thinking that he was just short-sighted, and he was bewitched by Lu Liuliang, and his crime was not to death, and he wanted to give him a chance to reform himself.

When he was first escorted to the capital, his mind was still extremely complicated, on the one hand, he lamented that his understanding of Emperor Yongzheng was too one-sided, this was actually a benevolent and more true emperor, on the other hand, he was still resisting in his heart, he was unwilling to pretend to be submissive, in exchange for life. After all, in the hearts of a scholar like him, reputation and integrity are more important than life and death.

But the first time he entered the capital, the first time he walked around the periphery of the Forbidden City, the atrium that Zeng Jing was still guarding collapsed. The world is so big and the things are so wide that his arrogance that the world can read from books suddenly dissipates. In particular, the grandeur of the Forbidden City swept away his self-esteem as a scholar.

Zeng Jing, who was ashamed of himself, felt that he must be wrong, but he still didn't know exactly what was wrong. can only be like a marionette, picked up by the emperor, groping everywhere.

The official of the Criminal Department said disdainfully: "I don't know what to think, not only to save your life as a rebellious and poor, but also to let you see the foundation of my Qing Dynasty's government affairs...... Zeng Jing knocked his head and kowtowed: "Since he is a man of ten thousand years, he is lenient and wise, and he repents and repents of his mistakes." ”

The official of the Criminal Department said in his heart What do you know, Li Wei cut off more than 1,000 heads in the south of the Yangtze River, but he left you alone for most of the reason that you are a poor family in Nanban, if you can make you repent wholeheartedly, Nanban is afraid that you will lose face. What everyone doesn't understand is why Wan Yi changed his tacit understanding with Nanban and started to trick up Nanban.

Then the official secretly said that in the past, Wan Jian Sui Ye and Nanban secretly kept a tacit understanding, so that everyone was stable for several years, and the government and the opposition were muttering, saying small words, saying that Wan Yi Sui Ye was a lackey of Nanban. Now that the big literary prison is being made, and the face of the Nanban is still being swept away, everyone is against it again, and they want to kill 1 Er immediately, but they also have the intention of not letting this poor acid become the handle of the Nanban.

Wan Jian Sui Ye and Nanban are friendly, everyone has to talk, Wan Jian Sui Ye wants to have a bad relationship with Nanban, everyone also has to chatter, Wan Jian Sui Ye

…… It's not easy.

Entering the Forbidden City and seeing the busy scene of the Inner Court, the official's sigh came out of Zeng Jing's mouth. "Wan Yi is really old, it's really hard work."

The officials of the General Administration Department and the eunuchs of the concert office came and went in the concert room, and there was an endless stream. Looking at such a scene, Zeng Jing sighed with emotion.

"Of course, hundreds of books and recitals come and go every day, things as close as Beijing City, as far as Mobei, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, hundreds of millions of people, everything must be decided in front of the emperor, what money, grain, fields, and acres of money, what punishment and prison decisions, the stakes are very important, and some delays cannot be tolerated."

The official said proudly, Zeng Jing's heart vibrate, and the article of Taoism and virtue is really not able to be used to govern the country, these practices really have to be judged by the emperor. Thinking back to the former Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wanli actually neglected his government for decades, and he didn't know what the chaos in the world was like.

The official was ordered to let Zeng Jing see a specific state affair, which is also what Zeng Jing mentioned when he instigated Yue Zhongqi to rebel before, he said that this dynasty indiscriminately minted bad money, which was quite harmful, Yongzheng refuted it in the previous booklet, but the discussion was not deep, this is to let Zeng Jing see with his own eyes the things related to this.

The inscription played by Ortai, the governor of Henan, said that the matter of Henan folk melting money to make bronze utensils was very serious, and he petitioned the imperial court to drum up new coins as soon as possible, and more than half of the copper and lead.

After Yongzheng ascended the throne, the deficit of money and grain was too big, and he tried to find ways to fill the holes everywhere, and at the same time, Yunnan and other copper-producing lands were occupied by Yinghua, and the source of copper materials decreased sharply, so the newly cast Yongzheng Tongbao was half of copper and lead, which was obviously inferior to Kangxi Tongbao of copper six lead four. 【2】

This matter is being talked about all over the world, and Zeng Jing naturally wants to use it as a material to criticize Yongzheng. Yongzheng's defense is very simple, that is, the fact that the folk molten copper and woven bronze utensils are moved. This matter is the root defect of the copper money currency system, and it cannot be avoided, so it is convenient to expand this reason and use it to cover up the bad money minted by the imperial court. …,

Seeing Ortai's report on the local facts, as well as Yongzheng's deep concern about this matter endangering the circulation of the imperial court's goods, the discussion process of the monarch and ministers on this matter also fell into Zeng Jing's eyes, and his body trembled slightly, this is national politics

…… A penny of small money is actually involved in this grand political situation, he is so poor and sour, with the tip of the iceberg, he came to attack the Qing Dynasty and the emperor, it is really ignorant!

Then I went to the imperial dining room, and happened to meet a eunuch who retreated with a bowl of porridge, and shook his head at the head of the imperial dining room with a regretful face: "After more than an hour, the master didn't stop writing for a moment, and it was cold again." ”

The manager hummed habitually, and then said, "Go back to the pot and heat it, the master still has to drink." "I didn't see a house full of gold and silver, I didn't see rare and exotic foods, and I didn't even see many people, and the imagination of the backyard of the Heavenly Palace was too big, Zeng Jing thought that this was an ordinary dining room, but when I heard such a conversation from afar, I knew that this was really the imperial dining room.

"The frugality of the old man, you poor sours can't imagine it."

Seeing Zeng Jing, who was almost stunned, the official shook his head with pity.

Then there is the Taihe Palace, which is the first hall in the Forbidden City, the place of great ceremonies. Because of the prayers in the suburbs, the eunuchs were sprinkling and sweeping, so Zeng Jing could have a chance to take a look outside the hall.

Leaning on the knee-high threshold, the terrazzo-like stone floor stretches out, the copper turtles and cranes stand on both sides, and the hall is surrounded by ceremonial drawings such as dragons and phoenixes, the sun and the moon and the stars, all of which are soaked in an awe-inspiring majesty that cannot be offended, making Zeng Jing subconsciously stand up.

In this breath, in front of the main hall, the Ming Yellow Dragon collapsed.

The ministers gathered, and the scene of the mountains calling for ten thousand years suddenly hit Zeng Jing's mind, and gathered the sage books he read and the rituals and music he learned. And the bright yellow color, like the divine light coming down from the sky, choked his whole mind.

The vast China, the land of the four seas, the hundreds of millions of people, life and death, blessings and misfortunes, are all decided by the emperor who sits on this piece of bright and yellow colors, isn't this the true meaning of the sages he learned?

Zeng had an epiphany, he took two steps back, reverently arranged his clothes, and then knelt on the ground with a puff, bowed respectfully to the bright yellow...... ）

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