Chapter 608: History is forbidden to scrutinize
All seemingly unbreakable rules often become history because of the emperor's words.
The status of Confucianism for so many years is only because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed Confucianism alone, and the powerful emperors in the past were not unable to change, but did not want to change.
Now there is an alternative, Hou Xuanyan hopes to change the style of the daughter of the Han family, which is a matter of slogans.
"Women can hold up half the sky!"
The slogan, which is simple to the point of being cheesy, is very thick because of the identity of the person who shouted it.
In the Hua Dynasty, there were as many as one million people in the border area, and the factories rose too quickly, resulting in a shortage of labor. Because of this, many women have slowly become a trend in Guangdong, Fujian and other places.
Now that the emperor has made it clear that he supports it, there are still yamen in various places who do not cooperate, and soon began to encourage women to start school.
Fengtian Palace, a great court meeting once on the 15th, brought together all the officials of Yingtianfu who were above the fifth grade.
Hou Xuanyan wore a black gold-rimmed dragon robe, a dragon crown on his head, a jade belt around his waist, and phoenix boots, sitting on the dragon chair in the main hall.
He glanced at the ministers in the hall, and the expressions on everyone's faces were a little different from usual, it seemed that everyone knew that this early dynasty was not simple.
The collision of old and new ideas will inevitably have the pain of tearing, and this time will be endured for the dawn of civilization and progress. Hou Xuanyan is not afraid to act as a pioneer in the fight against bad science, Cheng Zhu's rotten science that exudes the stench of decay, even if it has been developed for hundreds of years, it is vulnerable in his opinion.
Gu Yanwu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was the first to come out of the class, and asked: "Your Majesty, recently published an article by Your Majesty in the Di Daily, bluntly saying that women should not hide their heads and tails, and the minister thinks so. The minister thought that the literacy classes in various places should open girls' schools, and select a woman who can read and hyphenate to teach and study articles. ”
As soon as these words came out, the palace chirped and made a noise. In this era, it is important to pay attention to women's lack of talent is virtue, Gu Yanwu has never been a person who welcomes the emperor, and I don't know why he put forward such a ridiculous opinion.
Hou Xuanyan coughed lightly, his eyebrows moved slightly, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was almost impossible to hide.
In this relatively backward era, every advanced thought is precious, Gu Yanwu is worthy of being a person he values, and those who have been influenced by himself have begun to get rid of the shackles of science.
Gu Yanwu talked eloquently, not paying attention to the whispers around him, even though he knew that these people were pointing at him.
Qiu Zhaojin, who has a hot temper and is rigid and conservative, was the governor of the left army as early as when King Lu was in charge of the country, and he didn't dare to vent his anger these days, and when he saw Gu Yanwu standing up, he couldn't help but say in a strange voice: "Hmph, I heard that Liu Ru, the widow of the big traitor Qian Qianyi, opened a girls' school in Jinling, and Gu Shangshu often patronizes it, it seems that this absurd idea is inseparable from Liu Ru." My Lord Shangshu, this is a temple! It is the place where the world is the most public, please do not talk about the affairs of the world. ”
"Dog thief, Ann dares to insult my innocence!"
Gu Yanwu is different from other literati, he does not pretend to be romantic, and he never sets foot in the Qinglou.
The reason why he stood up in favor of the emperor's policy was purely because his own ideas coincided with the emperor's. Gu Yanwu pursued the academic idea of using economics to learn from the poor. He criticized Cheng Zhu Lixue, and also hated Wang Yangming's psychology, because these are ethereal things.
In Gu Yanwu's view, not only is Lu Wang's mind an introverted Zen science, but Cheng Zhu Lixue, who takes "sex and the way of heaven" as the object of study, is also inevitably in Zen interpretation. He felt that only by applying what he had learned and integrating the study of the law was the right way. That is to say, what you learn must be useful before you can learn it, otherwise it is empty talk.
Gu Yanwu is very knowledgeable, and has studied the national system, the history of the county, the astronomical instruments, the river Cao, the soldiers and peasants, the hundred schools of scripture and history, and the study of phonological exegesis.
Hearing Qiu Zhaojin's bloody mouth, Gu Yanwu couldn't help but be angry no matter how well he cultivated, and the golden melon that had won the guards in the palace was to follow the example of Li Dongyang's palace when he smashed the country's uncle.
The guards hurriedly stepped forward and separated the two, and Hou Xuanyan said lightly: "Qiu Zhaojin, what you said in the main hall today has entered my ears, and I will immediately send the hidden elephant battalion to investigate, if it is false, it is the crime of bullying the king." ”
When Qiu Zhaojin heard this, his face turned blue and red for a while, and he immediately knelt down and said: "The minister was angry for a while, and said nonsense, please punish Your Majesty." ”
Hou Xuanyan snorted coldly, and was not polite, and said: "Come on, take off his official uniform and drive him out of the imperial city, whoever dares to frame the minister without evidence in the future will be guilty of three degrees." ”
Qiu Zhaojin never expected that he would lose his official position for a while. He thinks he is an old minister of the Three Dynasties, when Hou Xuanyan took over all the forces under King Lu, Qiu Zhaojin was the first to surrender, and now he has fallen into this fate and left the court in disgrace.
Where do you still know Your Majesty's determination, even if you are against it, you have to shut up, Gu Yanwu has the support of the emperor, and he is angry for him, and his face slowly turns.
His friend Wang Fuzhi, who had been fighting with Confucian ministers in the newspaper for ten years, finally had the opportunity to raise his eyebrows, and of course he would not be silent, and jumped out to praise the emperor and his friends loudly.
The first to oppose it is the officials of the Imperial Historical Tower, although their official positions are small, they are not illegal to say anything.
They didn't dare to say that the emperor was wrong, so they had to say that they were immoral, and they had to carefully observe Hou Xuanyan's face.
As their head, Zeng Hengying's face is not good-looking, these former ministers of the previous dynasty are all orthodox scholars, and it is definitely not a simple matter for them to change the morality they have believed in all their lives.
To Hou Xuanyan's surprise, the old stubborn Gu Shouzheng in his impression was very open-minded and supported himself clearly, which surprised many people.
After Gu Shouzheng came out of the ranks, his words were quite sincere, bluntly saying that when he was in Suzhou, Changzhou, and Beiping, there was a shortage of local labor, and the women who were idle at home came out to work, which greatly alleviated the shortage of materials and manpower during the Northern Expedition.
Hou Xuanyan listened quietly, admiring this upright gentleman who is often foul-mouthed by himself, there is no ambiguity in this person's life, either support or opposition.
As the opposition between the DPRK and China became smaller and smaller, this matter had become a certainty, and Hou Xuanyan was in a happy mood.
It's not that the old stuff can't be broken, and the resistance is much lighter than expected, which is what makes him happiest.
Sure enough, what Taizu said was right, all reactionaries were paper tigers, and he, the landlord leader with the largest backward feudal forces, was invincible in his actions with the thoughts of those who opposed the landlords. History is such an interesting thing...