Chapter 44 Response
It's not that there is a problem with the process of answering the question, but that the answer is not right in this realm. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The sentence I asked before, "Gao Wenxing Tang, there is Dou Sun's help", this is actually no problem, it is talking about Tang Gaozu Empress Dou, Taizong Changsun Empress, Kuang Praise Erjun, in order to become the emperor. Zhang Zhaohua believes that the concubine who asked this sentence is definitely a die-hard fan of Queen Ma, because the queen of this dynasty is the queen of the eldest grandson, and even the emperor compares the two queens, and Queen Ma plays the role of "Kuangzan and help" for the emperor's career, so this sentence is not wrong in essence.
The fault is the next sentence that Zhang Zhaohua had to answer, the so-called "Xuanren of the Song Dynasty, can be described as a female Zhongyao Shun", who is this talking about, it is a famous empress dowager in the history of the Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Xuanren Gao.
This person is the queen of Song Yingzong, the biological mother of Song Shenzong, the grandmother of Song Zhezong, when she was the empress dowager, she listened to the government for eight years, and it was considered a practical sense of the country's governance, diligent and thrifty, and hard work, so the Song Zhezong period was the last period of economic prosperity in the Northern Song Dynasty, the world's well-off, politically clear, and powerful country.
Among the women, there are also characters like Yao Shun, of course, Zhang Zhaohua, who has studied a little history, knows that when the Empress Dowager Gao was in power, it was a new law that overthrew Wang Anshi, so the old ministers of the old party must sing praises to her, "Female Yao Shun" is the old party leader Sima Guang's praise for her, the book is written by people, for people who are good at writing, there is no fixed criterion for what to write.
But this should be placed under the dynasty ruled by Zhu Yuanzhang - the emperor was selected from the people, in order to prevent the palace concubines and relatives from interfering in the government, what did the Empress Dowager Gao in this textbook do, in the name of changing the mother to the son, and overthrowing the new law of the son.
You must know that in order to prevent female disasters, the emperor not only selected concubines from the people, but also set so many systems and brought in so many female officials, just to let these female officials govern the palace concubines and prevent them from driving out of the rules. And there is one thing that can best see the emperor's heart, that is, the imperial palace in Nanjing, which was not built for the queen mother to live in at all!
There is no palace for the queen mother, is it really that the emperor forgot - is it because his mother died early, so there is no queen mother to support, so it was not built?
It's too naΓ―ve to think like this, I don't have a mother, will the next generation of emperors have it, so where does the emperor's mother live?
Zhang Zhaohua has reason to believe that the emperor has thought of letting all the palace concubines be buried, even the queen.
It is said that the emperor once asked the petty officials of Wenyuan Pavilion privately in difficulty, and he didn't know what he asked, but when the eunuch took away the history of the book, he found that there was a crease in the book, which was the biography of the concubine of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
What is the custom of the Northern Wei Dynasty, killing the mother and setting up the child.
In the process of succession to the throne of autocratic dynasties in Chinese history, there were many cases where mothers were more expensive than children, and the phenomenon of killing mothers and children also existed. This kind of practice was abused by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it was the Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty that formed the system. In order to prevent relatives from interfering in politics and the queen mother's arbitrary power, the Wei court has been implementing the cruel system of the death of the son and the mother for about 100 years. When the concubine gives birth to a prince, the prince will be made a prince or a prince, and they will be given death and the prince will be placed in the care of a nurse.
Therefore, the emperor is so suspicious of people, and he selects weak show girls from the people, and stipulates that the queen can only intervene in internal affairs, and the edict cannot be used outside the court, just to avoid the mistake of excessive women's power in the Han and Tang dynasties.
At this time, if you mention a "female Zhongyao Shun", what will the emperor think? What are you kidding, Zhang Zhaohua feels that he is about to finish, okay?
It was Concubine Yu who asked the last sentence just now, and after she asked this sentence, she panicked, shivering behind her curtain, the emperor couldn't see it, but Concubine Guo Ning could see it clearly, and her heart trembled. Now that the emperor is tall in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the grandson is still young, what the emperor said to Prince Yiwen is now alive and well, he wants to pave the way for the next generation of emperors, whoever dares to stand in the way will die, and those heroes who have made outstanding contributions to the outer court and have been with them for a long time cannot be saved, so what about these concubines in the inner court, if the emperor thinks that they may hinder the imperial grandson, is it also ruthless to pull out these "thorns" that he thinks?
"Female Zhong Yao Shun," Emperor Hongwu's tone is very interesting: "Tell me, why is Empress Xuanren called Female Zhong Yao Shun?"
"The people's daughter thinks," Zhang Zhaohua replied slowly: "The Empress Dowager Xuanren Gao put an end to internal luck, took the restoration of the ancestral law as the first priority, and eliminated the maladministration, which is the daughter of Zhongyao Shun, who can be called." β
Zhang Zhaohua racked his brains to come up with this sentence, and there is a great mystery.
Empress Dowager Gao's merits, there are many credits, for example, Ren Xian is enabled, and there is no doubt about slander, she recalled the old minister Sima Guang, who was excluded by the law change faction, and recalled the old ministers who were degraded and degraded because they did not support the new law, and reused them separately, including Su Shi, who has been degraded outside. Although there are certainly political considerations to this, it cannot but be said that these people are indeed the pillars of the country.
But this is not the most important thing, because Empress Dowager Gao abolished the new law implemented by Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi, and this new law was generally regarded as a policy decree that brought disaster to the country and the people at that time, and it was not until this era that it was also considered a traitorous law, and it was not until later generations that Wang Anshi's change was completely recognised - so Empress Dowager Gao abolished the new law and restored the policy since Song Renzong, which is the meaning of restoring the ancestral law, in fact, what Zhang Zhaohua wanted to say is this, put the chaos in order, and everything follows the ancestral law.
Song Shenzong did "wrong things", after the Empress Dowager Gao took power, she corrected her mistakes back, and returned to the rules set by her ancestors, Zhang Zhaohua intended to allude to today, as the first emperor of the dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, set a lot of rules and regulations, just look at an ancestral precept, so many rules are stipulated, in order to let future generations take it as a treasure book and do everything.
There will always be unscrupulous descendants, this descendant became the emperor, he changed the rules set by Emperor Hongwu, and when he wanted to make the world in chaos, if there was a person like Empress Dowager Gao who came out to restore the law of the ancestors and save the country, wouldn't it be what Emperor Hongwu wanted to see?
Another point, Zhang Zhaohua did not say how the Empress Dowager Gao handled the affairs of the court and politics in a holy manner, that is, she concealed the talent expressed by women in government affairs, and only said that she put an end to internal luck - what does it mean, that is, the Empress Dowager Gao tried her best to prevent the emperor from giving her family the title of official knight, and Song Shenzong repeatedly tried to improve the treatment of her mother's family, and planned to build a luxurious mansion for the Gao family, but the Empress Dowager Gao never agreed. In the end, a vacant land was rewarded by the imperial court, and the Gao family built a house at their own expense, without using a penny from the state treasury.
This is a model for putting an end to the luck of relatives.
What is the emperor afraid of, isn't he afraid that his relatives will control the power of the imperial court? Isn't he afraid that the son will be young and the mother will be strong, and the woman will cause trouble in the government? In Zhang Zhaohua's mouth, the Empress Dowager Gao could not touch either of them, but abided by the etiquette and law, was loyal to the country, did not seek personal gain, and did everything for the sake of the peace and security of the country and the people.
Sure enough, the emperor was very happy, and even asked people to roll up the curtain and let Zhang Zhaohua come closer.
"You say it very well," said the Emperor, "a man of reason." β
Zhang Zhaohua's eyes drooped, she wanted to take a look at the emperor, but she still held back.
"What does Concubine Ning think?" the emperor asked, "What do the Yu, Yang, and Zhou families think?"
"Emperor," Concubine Guo Ning said with a smile: "It's rare that this kid is smart, but there are still talents that haven't been shown." β