On the tenth day of the tenth month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the new calendar was finally completed under the leadership of Xu Guangqi and with the help of missionaries. On this day, Zhu Youxiao issued a holy decree to implement a new calendar throughout the country. It is stipulated that the sixth year of the Apocalypse is 2,177 A.D., which is the 2,177th anniversary of the birth of Confucius, which is also 1,626 A.D. And the implementation of the week as a unit of time throughout the country, stipulating that the sixth day of the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse is a Monday, a week of seven days, and a week can also be called a week.

October 21 (September 28 in the Western calendar) is designated as Teacher's Day to commemorate the birth of Confucius. On this day, all schools should organize teachers and students to worship the spiritual seat of Confucius and reflect on whether they are serious about teaching and educating people or studying seriously.

On this day, the weekly newspaper published a special quarterly issue, which described Confucius's life deeds in detail, and highly praised Confucius's glorious achievements in educating the world. He called on the people of the whole country to remember the great achievements of Confucius. It is education that has freed China from barbarism, and made Chinese culture spread faster and better to the land of China, and is about to go to the world.

In the first year of Hongwu, he was named the king of Xuansheng Wenxuan, and in the eighth year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, he was renamed the holy master. Zhu Youxiao issued an edict: "Those who were born before Confucius are not Confucius. Those who were born after Confucius have no way to do it without Confucius. The so-called ancestors Shu Yao, Shun, charter text, martial arts, etiquette and a hundred kings, teachers and all generations. I inherit Pixu and admire Mu Feng. Follow the good rules of the ancients, hold the grand ceremony of posthumous sealing, and add the sign of Dacheng to the holy teacher. Send an envoy to Que Li and worship the ether prison. Yu play! The relationship between father and son, the righteousness of kings and ministers, and the respect of eternal saints. The vastness of heaven and earth, the brightness of the sun and the moon, and the wonder of Xi Qi's famous words. ”

October 21, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, is the first Teacher's Day, which is the festival of all Confucian children and the people of the whole country. The Emperor announced that all schools would be rewarded with a new almanac, with each teacher rewarding 10 yuan (public schools) and each student receiving a dime coin (equivalent to 50 yuan).

Corresponding to such a bustle, the emperor did not have any reward for the Yansheng Mansion, and the emperor only worshiped the spiritual seat of Confucius in the Temple of Literature on this day, and did not send people to the Confucian Mansion to worship. and named Confucius as the most holy teacher of Dacheng, but he did not seal the Holy Duke of Yan at all.

In fact, Fang Congzhe and Ye Xianggao had proposed it, but Zhu Youxiao set the tone in one sentence: "We respect Confucius, we respect his spirit, what do we have to do with the Yansheng family?" ”

What is even more interesting is that after this special issue, in the following issue of the weekly newspaper, there was a news that in the Shandong Cultivators' Movement to Own Their Fields, some people obstructed the imperial court's millennium plan, and the family occupied an area of tens of thousands of hectares, but was unwilling to cooperate with the imperial court's actions, and was insatiable and viciously attacked the new secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yang Lian.

In Shandong, covering an area of tens of thousands of hectares, there is only the current Yan Shenggong, the sixty-fifth grandson of Confucius, Kong Yinzhi. As soon as the weekly report came out, the whole country was shocked. It was not that he was shocked that the Confucian family had too many fields, but that the emperor was so unkind to Confucius's descendants after he had just used Confucius's birthday as the first year of the Common Era.

At this time, the ministers couldn't sit still, and the ministers came to the emperor together, wanting to dispel the emperor's idea of doing something to the Kong family.

Ye Xianggao said: "Your Majesty, it's not a good time to punish the Kong family at this time." ”

Fang Congzhe also said: "The new era law has just been promulgated, which has pushed the status of the master to an unprecedented height, but at this time, it is not good for the descendants of the master, and the minister thinks it is inappropriate. ”

Zhu Youxiao has always been opposed to the title of Yan Shenggong. Yan Sheng Gong was sealed from the Song Dynasty, in history, the Yuan Dynasty hit his pro-Mongols, the Ming Dynasty appeared he hugged Zhu Yuanzhang's thigh, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, he immediately turned to the Jurchens, took the initiative to shave his hair and change clothes, and even asked for the implementation of the shaving order. Especially during the Anti-Japanese War, he also stood up for Wang's puppet government and advocated Sino-Japanese friendship, and such a Yan Shenggong really lost the face of Confucius.

He smiled and said, "Master's bloodline should indeed be taken care of, but I feel that since the ancestors are like this, the descendants are too unscrupulous. The Kong family now occupies more than 20,000 hectares of land, and Qufu is the private property of the Kong family, and Yang Lian wants them to sell part of the land to the imperial court or landless peasants. Is this the property that Confucius bought back then? If I don't punish him for not knowing the times, and disgrace the master like this, the people of Qufu will not agree. ”

Xu Guangqi said: "Your Majesty, if he doesn't sell his ancestral property, he can't actually cure his crimes, because there is no such article in the Daming Law, and we can only condemn him and despise him at most." ”

Zhu Youxiao smiled: "That's nature. I have said that everything must be done according to the law, and he has not broken the law, and of course I cannot punish him. But I can remove his title, and there is no law that says that the Holy Father of Yan must be renewed from generation to generation. ”

Ye Xianggao said: "In this way, will it hinder the image of the master?" ”

Sun Chuanting said: "The descendants are virtuous and foolish, what do they have to do with the master!" ”

Ye Xianggao thought about it, it was indeed the case, it was more than sixty generations. As long as the master's image is not damaged, he will kill Kong Yinzhi. So he said: "Everything is up to Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Youxiao shook his head and said, "First get out the land in his hand, and then formulate a law to deal with this matter." Master Ye was responsible for drafting this law, and the Holy Duke of Yan was changed to the official of the Dacheng Most Holy Ancestor, and this official position was hereditary. After every Dacheng Supreme Holy Ancestor has enshrined an official immortal, it is up to the imperial court to choose a successor. The principle of selecting a successor is to establish meritocracy as the main one, and the elders as a supplement. ”

Ye Xianggao said: "Your Majesty, the inheritance of the Holy Father of Yan has always been the eldest son and eldest grandson, and if this happens, I am afraid that there will be criticism." ”

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "What can you criticize?" Since he is the enshrined official of the Holy Master of Dacheng, of course, he must have requirements for his own talents and virtues, and as for whether he is a successor or not, it doesn't really matter. Because they can become the enshrined officials of the Holy Ancestor of Dacheng, they rely on bloodline, and there is no difference in bloodline between the elder and the concubine. ”

Ye Xianggao and Fang Congzhe exchanged glances, and Fang Congzhe shook his head. He looked at Xu Guangqi again and looked at Sun Chuanting, but saw that all three of them shook their heads. He was relieved, so he said: "Your Majesty, this primogeniture inheritance system has lasted in China for thousands of years, and this dynasty has even established a law. If the inheritance method of the Confucian family is changed this time, I am afraid that it will make everyone feel uneasy. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "What is uneasy in my heart, but it is just a Dacheng Holy Ancestor Worship Officer." ”

All the ministers bowed their heads and were silent, Zhu Youxiao looked at it and suddenly said, "I understand, you are worried about the imperial system." ”