Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was about to win the world, so he himself knew that he would be able to win the world immediately, and he had to rely on literati to govern the world.

And how to unify the thinking of the scholar in order to consolidate the foundation of his rule? Although Zhu Yuanzhang was born at the grassroots level, he has attached great importance to study since he came to power.

During the study process, I admired Confucius's Analects very much, but one day in the second year of Hongwu, I was furious when I read Mencius.

Ordered the deletion of the book of Mencius and listed it as a banned book. In the end, he even dismissed Mencius from eating and worshipping in the Temple of Literature for thousands of years, and ordered Mencius to be expelled from the Temple of Literature and not to be deserved.

And he ordered: The ministers who have admonished them will be disrespectful, and they will order Jin Wu to shoot them. This means that if the minister dared to admonish him on this matter, I would shoot him with a bow and arrow.

So what is the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang is so angry that he dares to argue with Yasheng, who has been circulating for more than a thousand years?

And what is the end result? I think this is directly related to Zhu Yuanzhang's own character. He himself was born as a peasant, and his politics were dark at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and his parents and brothers died under the repressive policies of the ruling class at that time.

He became a monk again, became a beggar, and finally the bandits rebelled, so to speak, it can be said that he died to become the emperor.

From his attitude towards capable people and celebrities, it can be seen that he is an extremely self-respecting person. He even ordered that all those who did not obey the order of the officials in the whole country should be killed, that is, those who dared to refuse to obey the call of the court would be put to death.

At that time, they all knew that those who were officials in Hongwu would die in the end, and those who did not become officials would die immediately. It can be said that in his heart, apart from God, he is heaven.

And he withdrew Mencius's tablet from the Temple of Literature and disqualified him. It is because when I read Mencius, I read that it was written in his book that the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light.

The king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as the heart. The monarch regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the monarch as a countryman.

The king regards the minister as a mustard, and the minister regards the king as an enemy. and many other chapters that made him extremely dissatisfied.

In his heart, this book actually ranked the common people in the first place, the Jiangshan Sheji in the second place, and Lao Tzu was only a little smaller than the sky but ranked last.

Let me, a ninety-five, respect the courtiers as brothers first, and only those who are courtiers will help me do things with their hearts. If my Ninety-Five Emperor treats your courtiers as a mustard, you will dare to treat me, who is a little smaller than the sky, as a passerby.

So today, I will drive you, Meng Ke, who has been worshiped for more than 1,000 years, out of the Temple of Literature, and list the book of Mencius as a banned book.

At this time, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were anxious, because everyone had read Confucius and Mencius since childhood, and they were all disciples of Confucius and Mencius.

At this time, there were also scholars who were not afraid of death, and a scholar named Qian Tang still resolutely went up and opposed the emperor's expulsion of Yasheng Mencius from the Temple of Literature.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was even more annoyed, so he really let the guards shoot several arrows in a row. Qian Tang was hit by an arrow in his left arm, right shoulder, and chest, and was shot to the court, but he still struggled to crawl in front of the emperor's seat.

He said: The minister died for Meng Ke, and there is more glory in his death. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang was also moved by his sincerity, and instead of killing him, he asked the imperial doctor to heal his wounds, but he could not change his determination to drive Mencius out of the Temple of Literature and ban Mencius from reading.

Until one day not long after, officials from the Qin Heavenly Prison came to report to the emperor. Qin Tianjian is now the National Astronomical and Meteorological Bureau.

They said that Ying's confusion was a harbinger of the heavens' wrath, and that His Majesty had some policy moves that made the heavens feel uneasy.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated, he is a farmer after all, and he is a destitute peasant who depends on the sky to eat under the small peasant economy and society, because he relies on the sky to eat, he has this kind of awe for the sky from the depths of his genes, just like he himself thinks that the sky is the boss and I am the second.

Others don't dare to lose their temper with him, but God wants to lose his temper, and he still can't care less.

Although he is the Son of Heaven, he also knows that no matter how great and wise he is, his life is in the hands of God.

The ancients said: The king of Hades wants you to die in the third watch, and he will never leave anyone until the fifth watch. So in the end, he revoked the holy decree and re-enthroned Mencius in the Temple of Literature to enjoy the worship of the world.

In the end, this absurd farce was not over, and Zhu Hongwu made another shocking decision.

Then there is another abridged and revised version of Mencius. In this new edition of Mencius's verses, as long as he doesn't like it, doesn't like to hear it, and dislikes it, and dislikes it, and detracts all the words and phrases that damage the majesty of the emperor.

Even he roared viciously at the compiler who presided over this important task of abridgement: If Meng Ke, an old boy, lives to this day and falls into my hands, it will be strange if I don't want his life.

In fact, I think Zhu Yuanzhang's character is very easy to understand, just like he didn't allow people at that time to criticize King Shang.

It was not that Zhu Yuanzhang liked or admired the king of Shang, but because he advocated that even if the emperor was as absurd and unscrupulous as the king of Shang, his subordinates should not criticize it, let alone overthrow it.

And for a man like him who started a dynasty with his bare hands, nothing is supreme and sacrosanct, and the real supremacy is himself.

Of course, except that God is older than him, hehe, but it's just a little bigger.