Wanli Youming

Chapter 595 My prince can't be too dogmatic!

Chapter 595 My prince can't be too dogmatic!

One day in the winter of Wanli 18, it snowed heavily.

The Royal Inner Garden with colored glaze and snow has become a fairyland on earth again.

And this day happened to be the crown prince's birthday, so he didn't have to study and had a day off.

That morning, Zhu Yijun came back early from the Imperial Palace and went with the Crown Prince to where the girls' school in the palace was.

The Palace Girls' School was a place specifically for royal ladies to study and learn etiquette.

Since Zhu Yijun no longer ordered the maids in the palace to teach the princess etiquette, he let the princesses learn culture and etiquette here. At the same time, he also chose some clan and honorable women to study here, and the newly elected concubines would also come here. Study, presided over by the Queen.

As for the teachers, they are selected from educated concubines in the palace and educated women in the clan.

And Zhu Yijun and the Crown Prince came to the location of the palace women's school today just to pick up Queen Du.

Because the prince's birthday wish was to stay with the queen longer, Zhu Yijun brought him here to take his mother back to the palace.

On the way here, Zhu Yijun asked the prince Zhu Changzhen about his recent studies, and asked Zhu Changzhen to ask himself a few questions.

"Father, why did those powerful families lose in the end despite having created such a great momentum?"

Zhu Changzhen asked Zhu Yijun such a question at this time.

Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "This is because they are not the ones who decide how the Ming Dynasty will go. They all seem to be rich and invincible. In fact, they are not as threatening as a bandit on the run."

"Then is it the emperor who decides how Daming will go?"

Zhu Changxuan asked.

Zhu Yijun said, "It's not the emperor either."

"Who is that?!"

Zhu Changjun was a little unconvinced. He thought that the emperor would decide the trend of the world.

"It's the people of the world!"

"They are the ones who make history, and they are also the ones who influence history. You can't ignore the influence of the working people in history."

Zhu Yijun replied.

Zhu Changxun said: "The teacher who can teach me Confucian classics said that the common people in the world are a bunch of ignorant people. They only know how to eat, clothe and raise children, but they rarely have great ambitions. Therefore, although they are the foundation of the world, they cannot control the world. Let the new people For etiquette to be deeply rooted in people's hearts, it depends on whether the emperor and the world's scholars are willing to govern."

"There is a saying in the Taizhou school, which tells the common people to use it every day!"

"No matter how ignorant and simple the common people's thoughts are, they are the thoughts that have the greatest impact on the rise and fall of our Ming Dynasty, because the common people are always the majority of the people in this country. How far."

"So, they are the ones who decide how Daming will go."

Zhu Yijun said.

Zhu Changxun nodded and began to think deeply.

Not long after, Zhu Yijun and the prince arrived at the location of the women's school and met Queen Du.

As soon as Mrs. Du saw Zhu Yijun, she walked up to Zhu Yijun and bowed slightly: "Your Majesty!"

Zhu Yijun said "no courtesy" and patted the snow on Du's shoulder.

The crown prince also greeted Mrs. Du, then walked up to Mrs. Du and hugged Mrs. Du.

Mrs. Du also patted the crown prince's head lovingly, with a gentle smile, and asked, "Are you tired from studying?"

"Not tired!"

After a while, the prince took the initiative to lead Zhu Yijun and Mrs. Du back to the palace together.

After Zhu Yijun had a meal with the queen and the prince, he went to the imperial court again.

As soon as I arrived at the imperial court.

Zhu Yijun said to Shen Shixing, "Change the prince's Mr. Confucianism!"

After hearing this, Shen Shixing couldn't help asking: "Excuse me, Your Majesty, but what's wrong with him?"

Zhu Yijun said: "It's not that there is anything wrong, it's that he didn't inspire the prince to look at the problem dialectically, but only instilled his own inherent concepts in him, or he only understood the new ceremony according to the teaching of the sage." "As he does If I continue to teach, my son will become more and more stupid by him! The new rituals will be the same as the old ones, and he will only memorize them as dogmas, forgetting that the essence of today's learning is that rituals need to be constantly updated."

"But now, I suddenly feel that it's okay not to change, but I have to choose another Wang Xuemen to be his husband, preferably Taizhou School!"

"It's not enough just to have people from Wang's school. It's better that Luo Qinshun and Wang Tingxiang, who are related to the school, also choose someone to be his Confucian classics teacher."

"History and literature have also been arranged in this way. One from both the Retrospective School and the Xingling School will be chosen to teach the prince."

"Your Majesty forgive me!"

"If we teach like this, I'm afraid that on the one hand, the prince will not know which gentleman's words to follow as the guideline, and on the other hand, I'm afraid that the lecturers in the East Palace will be in civil strife."

Shen Shixing said at this time.

Zhu Yijun said: "If you listen to both, you will be clear, and if you listen to one side, you will be dark. This is the sharp weapon of the emperor as the king of Yao and Shun, and the prince is the future emperor of Ming Dynasty. Naturally, it is not for him to listen to any gentleman, but for him to have his own judgment. Listen to the opinions of others and form your own opinions, so that you can better distinguish right from wrong;”

"As for the civil strife among the lecturers in the Eastern Palace, the master is worried, but this is actually a good thing. The Ming Dynasty that the crown prince will face in the future will definitely be an era when the opinions of different schools will be more intense. There may be old in the old and new in the new." It is better to let him face this kind of dispute in advance, and know how to deal with it in the future."

"Your Majesty said yes."

"A sage king should learn from the strengths of others and understand them all."

"And if His Royal Highness can know in advance that each school has its own advantages and disadvantages, and it will even be incompatible with each other, it will indeed help in the future to avoid partial belief in one family's opinion, and thus misleading the world."

"I didn't think carefully before, I only knew that the one who admired the new rituals was passed on to His Royal Highness to learn the new rituals."

"However, because of this, Yuchen is still worried that such words will make His Royal Highness advocate the old etiquette and old learning even more in the future?"

Shen Shixing asked at this time.

Zhu Yijun glanced at Shen Shixing with a serious face.

Shen Shixing bowed his hands in a hurry.

Zhu Yijun suddenly smiled again: "Does Qing have no confidence in the crown prince, or does he not have confidence in Xinli?"

Shen Shixing was stunned for a moment after hearing this.

And it seemed as if a thunderbolt exploded in his ears, and he had no choice but to bow his hands again and say:

"Your Majesty knows me better than I do. I dare not lie to Your Majesty. After His Majesty's questioning, I really found out that I don't want His Highness the Crown Prince to ask questions from other families. I am really worried that His Highness might be in contact with the old rituals." Later, I am more willing to support the old ceremony.”

"If you don't let him touch it now, will he not be able to touch it when he becomes the emperor in the future?"

"Instead of that, it's better to let him contact."

"We must have confidence in Xinli!"

Zhu Yijun just said here: "However, as a dignified Yuanfu, the master has no confidence in the new rituals he promotes. I am also very surprised."

Shen Shixing blushed even more as if his underpants had been stripped, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I dare not hide it. Although the battle against Luzon has been won and many wealthy families along the coast have been purged, the majority of the country The clan is still based on farming and studying, rather than business-oriented, and even a business family has many children who are engaged in farming and studying, so it is more advocating the old etiquette of the country rather than the nation, and it still has its own fertile ground!"

"And actually."

"The greater reason why we were able to achieve a great victory in this expedition against Luzon was not because the new rituals were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but because of His Majesty's Holy Power!"

"After all, most of the people in the world support the conquest of Luzon because His Majesty asked them to support it, not because they really have such determination. Even if the king disapproves, they will not continue to cause trouble or even start an uprising. They will only accept it. Reality."

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "What the master said is that if the future emperor forcibly assigns the sale of subscription tickets to the powerful and powerful, the common people in the world will not resist as long as they are still alive. Even if they are dissatisfied, they will only dare to be dissatisfied in their hearts. The land of China is too rich and prolific, as long as the desire is lowered, many people can survive, and only when there are so many people that they can't survive no matter how abstinent they are, they will resist."

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

"Because of this, the foolish minister still lacks confidence in the new ceremony."

Shen Shixing replied.

Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "I have to believe that the people of the world will change with the efforts of me and master."

"We don't let the prince face this kind of change now, and he will face this kind of change himself in the future, and what we have to do is to give him the ability to analyze and think, not just instill, just instill, even if he If you support the new ritual now, you will not support it in the future, and if you guide it, even if you have doubts about the new ritual now, you will also have doubts about the old ritual in the future."

(End of this chapter)