Hu Jiguan listed the charges

Zhu Shengren self-reflected

On that day, in order to facilitate Hu Yingyuan's performance, Han Yanxuan entered the palace to face the saint, and after that, the edict of Emperor Zhao Kuo came:

Taiwan admonition and others do not have to deal with Taoist affairs.

The ban was lifted, and Hu Yingyuan's impeachment of Zhu Xi was quickly drafted, and nearly 10,000 words were sprinkled with enthusiasm, making a comprehensive criticism of Zhu Xi's Taoism theoretically, and then, the main spearhead was against this saint, listing Zhu Xi's many crimes in personal words and deeds and family affairs.

Hu Jiang wrote it again and handed it over to the imperial court.

After Emperor Zhao Kuan received the impeachment of Zhu Xi, he asked the Hanlin Academy to transcribe it, send it to officials above the Shangshu level in Beijing for discussion, and then send a copy to Zhu Xi himself.

The excerpt played by Hu Yingyuan is called "Playing Zhu Xi's Crimes". In the excerpt, Zhu Xi was accused of ten counts.

The first major sin is unfilial piety. Jianning rice is the best, but Zhu Xi didn't let his mother eat it, and only let her eat the old rice in the granary, which was unfilial.

The second major sin is disrespecting the king. Several times he resigned, either because he was sick or because he was doing something else.

The third major sin is disloyalty to the country. When Xiaozong died, some people said that he should be buried in Huiji, but Zhu Zi said that he should be buried elsewhere.

The fourth major sin is to insult the imperial court. According to the grace regulations, they can be given to their parents and recommended their children, and when the court implements them, they will be dismissed from the previous chapter. This is tolerable, but it is unbearable.

The fifth great sin is the sin of resentment. There is a sentence in Zhu Zi's poem, "There is no heaven except in the world", and Yun is still a dead party, not afraid of people's words.

The sixth major sin is harmful to the Wind Sect. Jianyang County scholars made statues for Zhuzi, which collapsed and fell during transportation, and the audience was amazed.

The seventh greatest sin is the greed for money and profit. He used lectures to teach apprentices, charged more apprentices, and privately accepted money from court officials.

The eighth cardinal sin is to promote pompous claims. Therefore, it is useless to use a set of incomprehensible theories to confuse scholars and win the false name of saints.

The ninth cardinal sin is disrespect for the elderly. The management of children is not strict, and the daughter-in-law did not remarry after the death of her son, but became pregnant.

The tenth greatest sin is lust and lust. once lured two nuns to be favored concubines, and when they went out to be officials, they also took them with them to show off in the market.

Based on the above crimes, Hu Zhengyan suggested: deprive Zhu Xi of all his titles, strip off his official status, send him to Lingnan for management, expel his apprentices, prohibit him from lecturing in the academy, and destroy all the books he wrote.

Although these ten crimes do not have the major crimes of rebellion, rebellion, murder and arson, they involve loyalty to the monarch and government affairs, teaching human ethics, etc., and if they are true, it is enough to make this high saint fall from the altar and then change his face beyond recognition.

The transcripts of the imperial court, the official newspapers, and the tabloids circulated among the people quickly spread the above content to all directions.

With regard to this kind of impeachment, the DPRK generally does not set up any special task force to investigate and verify, and most of them adopt the method of making it public for everyone to discuss. Those who disagree give evidence to refute, this is the argument, agree, and also express their own opinions, which is also called seconding.

In the more than two months since the excerpt was announced, more and more people have seconded it, but there have been very few rescues.

First of all, it was Liu Lan who came out to second, and he proved that Zhu Xi was indeed a greedy person for money and profit. Taking himself as an example, he listed the amount of fees paid by the academy's apprentices, and also proved that he impeached Tang Zhongyou out of morality, but because he accepted bribes from people who had resentment from Tang Zhongyou.

Then, an official in Fujian seconded the proposal, proving that Zhu Xi did accept nuns as concubines.

After that, Liu Jianxiu, Li Shizhang and other officials seconded the proposal one after another.

Only Cai Jitong was rescued. This person was Zhu Xi's most proud disciple, who had followed Zhu Xi for nearly 40 years, helping to handle many chores in the college. belongs to Zhu Xi's family and lacks convincing.

Zhu Xi, who is close to old age, personally felt the taste of the trees falling down and scattering and the walls falling down and everyone pushing them, and he had mixed tastes for a while. Let a few students who have followed him for many years go their separate ways and no longer go to the college to give lectures. Jianyang Academy was suddenly swept away, without the noise of the past, leaving only loneliness and melancholy.

After all, saints are different from mortals, and for decades, while being enthusiastic about education and diligent in learning, they have devoted themselves to the perfection of their own cultivation. There are two possible reactions to the impeachment that ordinary people are currently facing: one is to defend themselves and clear their own charges, and the other is to remain silent and ignore him, and I will still follow my path as others like to say.

But he didn't. This twist and turn was like a wake-up call for him to stop, sober up from years of self-indulgence, and once again seriously reflect on his words and deeds. No one is perfect. A saint is not a god, and under the glossy appearance, there will be flaws or deficiencies, just like a gorgeous robe, after a long time, there will be lice and fleas in it.

Speaking of the first article, Zhu Xi admitted that when his mother was alive, she did let her eat old rice, and of course she also ate new Jianning rice, although it was not intentional, but at least it was not to maximize the amount of new rice for her mother.

Let's talk about the second one, repeatedly resigned. It is true, no exaggeration. Zhu Xi has been an official for 40 years now, except for the first ten years, he can obey the call and dispatch of the court in time, and the rest almost every call and resignation, sometimes the emperor calls the right, but also finds a reason to resign, resign, resign, really can't resign, so he has to take office and obey the arrangement. The reason is that he is not used to officialdom and does not want to live in the turbid officialdom.

You see, in today's officialdom, many people do not read the books of sages, do not learn and have no skills, and are content to welcome and send off, drink and have fun, get drunk and dream of death, like walking with the dead; When chasing personal fame and fortune, intrigue is like a wolf and a tiger; There are a few people who think about life, and how many people have worked hard for the long-term peace and stability of the country and the rejuvenation and rise of the nation, even if it is only theoretical.

It's not that he Zhu Xi doesn't melt into the officialdom, but he feels that in the officialdom, he can't let go of his hands and feet, rather than this, it is better to spend more time to pass on his thinking and research to students, or form words and pass them on, and only on the podium and in the study, his knowledge can be displayed, and his thoughts can wander, and he firmly believes that as long as he continues to do so, he will definitely have some positive impact on society.

Sometimes, he also thinks that if he encounters a king who has done something, he will obey the call and fight wherever he is directed. However, can this reason be said to outsiders, obviously not, no matter how close to them is.

said that he was greedy for money and profit, Zhu Xi felt that he was not doing too much. He was an official in the court, sometimes he had an official position and a bad position, and at this time, he was quite generous, enough to support his family, but for a long time, there was only one palace official, and when he had less, his life was more erratic. As for the establishment of a college, the government gives very little subsidy, and it costs money to repair the school building, purchase items, students' food and housing, and teaching expenses, so it is natural to collect it from the students. In addition, I printed the books I wrote and sold them in the academy, and I took back some money, which I thought was the income of my labor, and I never minded. Touching his conscience, he said that he loved money and was not greedy for money, just because many things are connected with money, and it is inevitable that some people will make irresponsible remarks.

The last two relate to his private life. Zhu Xi has something unspeakable.

Speaking of which, Zhu Xi's family life is also unfortunate. At the age of 47, his wife, Zhu, was named a man by the imperial court and died of illness. After that, it was not renewed for several years, and there was no concubine. When he was fifty-two years old, when he was an official in Fujian, there were two nuns in the nunnery who were still vulgar and came to his house to be maidservants. Of course, there is a time limit for this maid. Since he had neither a wife nor a concubine, and the housework and his personal life were taken care of by them, the line between men and women crossed over time, apparently as slaves and maids were actually concubines. This is extremely common in the homes of wealthy officials or merchants. At the end of the three-year period, Zhu Xi saw that the two were still young, so he rewarded them with some money and let them go back to their parents' home. After that, he never married. At the age of 62, Zhu Xi's family suffered another misfortune, and his eldest son Zhu Shu drowned at the age of 38. Losing his wife in middle age and losing his son in old age, the two great sorrows of life have befallen him, and he is in pain, but to no avail.

The daughter-in-law was widowed at home with her children, and at first she adhered to the woman's morals. The old master has always admired the way of Confucius and Mencius, paid attention to the beginning to the end, and resolutely opposed the remarriage of widows. He never married, and it was also out of this philosophy.

More than a year ago, he learned from the housekeeper's mother-in-law that his eldest daughter-in-law suddenly became pregnant. For this reason, he was furious, thinking that it was a great shame in his life, and his eldest daughter-in-law committed suicide in shame.

Thinking of this, he regretted a lot, at the beginning, why did he lose his brain, since his daughter-in-law thought of spring and let her remarry, it was better than now, it was not only embarrassing, but also people went to the empty building, and the chickens flew and the eggs were beaten.

As for the crimes of disloyalty to the country, insulting the imperial court, and harming the morality and resentment, it is purely an exaggeration and fabricated charges, and it is not worth being angry. Saying that his science was pompous and useless, he didn't want to say anything more. Believing that justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, how much of a role it can play, history will give the answer.