Just after the New Year, the officials of the Beijing Division had not yet adjusted their work status, but they were suddenly disturbed by a letter from Guangxi.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, because the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was a workaholic, and because the country was founded, he did not dare to slack off, and worked day and night, and the ministers had to work hard. So there were very few holidays at that time, and there were only 18 days of holidays a year, 5 days on New Year's Day, 3 days on the winter solstice, and 10 days on the Lantern Festival. Later, 3 days of monthly leave were added, and the original 18 days were added, bringing the annual leave to 50 days.

According to the record of the 80th volume of the "Daming Huidian" compiled last year, that is, the eighth year of Wanli, the official statutory holidays mainly include the winter solstice, New Year's Day, and Lantern Festival.

And yesterday, the Ming version of the "Spring Festival Gala" - Aoshan Lantern Festival has just passed!

This Aoshan Lantern Festival is a giant lantern fireworks landscape set up by the Ming Dynasty in the palace city during the Lantern Festival every year. Because of its shape like an Ao, it is called "Aoshan Lantern Festival". Since the Lantern Festival in the seventh year of Yongle, this grand lantern festival has been opened in a high-profile manner - "listening to the subjects go to the noon gate to watch Ao Mountain for three days", the significance of the monarch and the ministers to enjoy together is very significant, and it can be called the Ming Dynasty version of the "Spring Festival Gala".

Preparations usually begin in December of the previous year, and various uniquely designed "strange flowers" and "artillery" are piled up in layers, usually piling up thirteen stories and several feet high. On the day of the Lantern Festival, the lanterns of various shapes on the huge "Ao Mountain" flickered, the gorgeous fireworks kept burning, and the beautiful music of the bells and drums was danced, which was a wonderful audio-visual enjoyment in this era.

When a great celebrity named Tang Yin traveled to the capital, he saw the grand occasion of the Aoshan Lantern Festival and wrote a poem excitedly: "The immortal palace deep rock is Taixia, and the treasure lantern is high and decorated with Lingcha." Shen Xiang is connected with three bead trees, and the color knots are divided into four flowers. The water is excited to turn the dragon into a staff, and the moon is bright and the mountain phoenix follows the car. ”

After three consecutive nights of carnival, who can get into the work state so quickly? Not to mention that on the border of this year, the Beijing officials still have to collect charcoal......

However, there is a guy named Gao Pragmatic who refuses to live in peace, and the yamen have just resumed work, and his song Shu has entered the General Administration Department, which is a big news at the beginning of the year - this letter is actually called "For the Discipline of Obeying the Master to Directly Report Grievances, Please Lead the Guangxi Tusi to Crusade against Annan Mo Shishu".

What? Do you crusade against Annan Mo or follow the instructions of your master?

After all, Confucius did say that "repay grievances with straightforwardness, repay virtue with virtue", the key is that Gao Pragmatic explained that after he was assassinated with Zhong Tusi, he put forward an incomparably fresh proposal: he and Zhong Tusi should send troops to avenge this personal vendetta, and ask the emperor for approval.

This is going to be a bit controversial.

Although, "The Legend of the Ram: The Four Years of Zhuang Gong" once said: "The ninth generation can still take revenge? Although it can be a hundred generations. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty launched a war of revenge against the Xiongnu on the grounds of "the revenge of the ninth emperor of Qi Xianggong, the great of the Spring and Autumn Period", and finally sealed the wolf Juxu and raised the power of the Han Dynasty in Hanhai, it seems that the Han people have advocated revenge since ancient times.

But the problem is that these feuds are not personal feuds, but national feuds.

How can a national feud be compared to a personal feud?

For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty lost face because of the siege of Han Gaozu Baideng, so he wanted to conquer the Huns, and everyone thought that there was no problem, but the second Wang next door ran to kill Zhang Laosan because his son was beaten by Zhang Laosan in the neighborhood, isn't this also a problem?

You are a high-level and pragmatic champion of the six heads, and you just edited the "Daming Huidian" last year, don't you even understand this common sense?

However, Gao Pragmatic also has his reasons, what he said is: "The other is Annam, the southern Xinjiang is far away, and it is a fence of the Celestial Empire. In addition, the army is on an expedition and the people's livelihood is harmed, and the Holy Son of Heaven will not bear to see it. However, the Mo clan bullied the ministers too much, and even sent assassins to try for their lives, and even affected the Tusi, and now dozens of Tusi in Guixi and Guinan, the crowd was excited and furious.

The ministers thought that the Tusi would consolidate our land, and the local officials would solidify our courtiers, but their land would be hereditary, and their officials would be hereditary, which was different from the ordinary. If their enmity is in our hinterland, they should be dealt with according to the laws of the land; If its hatred is outside our country, it can be judged according to national hatred. Therefore, although the assassin Tuchen and Zhu Tusi sent by Annan are not the national enmity of the imperial court, they are actually the national enmity of the ministers and the Tusi, and they can not be recovered!

However, since the ministers and the Tusi are enemies with the Mo clan, the soldiers, equipment, grain, grass, and silver required for the expedition should not be paid by the imperial court, but can be raised by the ministers themselves...... If you can sweep away the land, how can you regain the old grievances of Li Li in the past? ”

Li Li is the founder of the Li Dynasty who launched the Blue Mountain Uprising and fought a hundred battles to make Ming Xuanzong feel that keeping Annan was a loss-making business, and finally gave up.

Gao Shishi's meaning of mentioning this point is very clear - although later Li Li still wanted to ask Daming for a seal, Daming also approved, and asked him to pay tribute every three years, and each time he prepared two "substitute gold people" to think that the two generals who died in the battle of Daming arrived at their fate.

But in any case, the dignified Ming Dynasty actually had to give up the annexed territory, which was still very unhappy for the courtiers in the Ming Dynasty, where the self-confidence of the court civil officials was bursting.

Gao Pragmatism is to take advantage of this mentality and let them lead the thinking of this matter to the side of "fighting Annan and avenging the old revenge".

Therefore, this note is divided into three levels:

First of all, on righteousness, Gao pragmatic said that he followed the teachings of Confucius, and he wanted to repay his grievances directly - Mo Maoqia, a street boy, dared to provoke me, so I must not fight back? Beat him up!

Again, to be reasonable, although Tusi is our courtier, they are direct officials, Mo Maoqia is a foreign official, and the enmity between Tusi and Mo Maoqia can obviously be applied to the national feud.

Finally, the benefits, it does not cost the court a soldier or a pawn, nor does it cost the court a silver or a bronze, I am Gao someone and Guangxi Tusi Bao fought! And after the fight, you can still report the old grievances to us Daming, isn't it good?

A courtier like Gao Pragmatic is obviously the emperor's favorite, because as long as he raises a question, he will definitely not just report the problem to the emperor and let the emperor figure out what to do by himself.

Instead, along with the problem, the solution was put forward together, and the solution was particularly easy, as the emperor only needed Zhu Pi to approve the words "may" or "allow" and "allow".

Such a big event, the emperor actually found that he only needed one word, and completely solved the problem, and didn't care about the rest, and left it all to the following to complete, so how could he not feel happy? If they were all such courtiers, wouldn't it be a hundred times easier for this emperor to be a hundred times easier?

Therefore, when some people in the outer court were still arguing about whether Gao Shishi's statement that "the enmity between Tusi and Annan can be compared to the national feud" was reasonable, the celebrant of the inner court had already clearly released the rumors - without spending a penny from the imperial court, he could repay the old grievances of a hundred years ago, and whoever opposed it had other intentions!

At this moment, the outer court lost its voice for a while.

There is no way, Daming has this kind of tradition, it doesn't matter if everyone quarrels about internal things, the caliber must be unified externally, and the unified caliber must be tough - just like Chongzhen really couldn't do it later, he wanted to negotiate peace with Houjin, but it just had this meaning, and he had to lose his car to protect the handsome after the matter was leaked.

Even the emperor did not dare to bear the charge of external weakness, which shows that "Gangming" is not a joke, it is a two-hundred-year-old tradition.

Therefore, the controversy of the outer court can only end there.

The next day, the vote of the cabinet was put on the emperor's desk, and of course the opinion was agreed.

The emperor's reply was also very timely, and the wording was very interesting: extenuating circumstances, not an example.

In fact, Zhu Yijun really wants to directly approve a "quasi", or even simply come to a "wonderful", but there are some things that can be thought about but cannot be said directly, the tone of the emperor of the Celestial Empire must always be maintained......