The puppet joked about Zhu Xi

Strike the emperor's ministers and advise

This day is a three-day holiday every month, and Guan Li arranges for the emperor and the queen and the imperial concubine to watch the play, first a "Pipa Story", and then a puppet show. After watching this puppet show, the emperor was unhappy.

Let's say that it was useless for Old Master Zhu to admonish the emperor, so he returned to the banquet and saw Peng Zishou. Because the two have a teacher-student friendship, they said the matter, Peng was also indignant, although this emperor is different from ordinary students, it is not good to talk to him about the dignity of the teacher, but at a great age, he is talking about official affairs, so he should always express his attitude and comfort him.

The two teachers and students discussed, folded, impeached Han Yanxuan, and advised Zhao Kuo. As he was talking, the ministry came to inform that, with the approval of the emperor, he asked Peng Zishou, the secretary of the criminal department, to send the golden envoy back to China.

Now, let's talk about the puppet show.

A puppet wears a high hat and a robe, and under the manipulation of Youling, he is dignified, pretentious, and full of mouth, pointing fingers at the gains and losses of the country's major policies, the form of civil and military officials, and even the daily life in the palace, in order to allude to Zhu Xi's pedantic. The emperor first thought it was funny, and gradually said nothing.

In his opinion, this is not a play, it is the real life he has experienced, since Zhu Xi became his teacher, he has indeed managed everything, interfered in everything, and talked about those Taoist theories that he didn't understand at every turn, which was ridiculous. Make the monarch and the minister upside down, only he is the only one, in the long run, who is the emperor and who is the master of the world?

Guan Li came over and reported to the official family, Zhu Xi's recital was received, he impeached Han Ye and the minions, Zhao Kuo opened it and took a look, and it was written: Soon after His Majesty ascended the throne, he dismissed the ministers and replaced the Taiwan admonitions. I am afraid that in the future, your prestige will decline and cause chaos.

After reading it, thinking of the play just now, the emperor couldn't help but be angry:

What did the old master say, could it be that I am an ignorant child at the mercy of others?

Han Yanxuan took the book and read it, and took the opportunity to give Zhu Xi eye medicine: The old man surnamed Zhu is also not like words, and he always lets the official family do this and that, which is really unreasonable. It's so big that it can't be used anymore.

Guan Li also said: The former emperor Xiaozong once said that Zhu Xi's words are not available.

Zhao Kuo hurriedly asked: Guan Duzhi, is there really such a thing?

The official family, the slave does not dare to talk nonsense. When the emperor met with Zhu Xi, this Zhu Xi talked a lot of scriptures and meanings, and there was no practical means to govern the country and secure the country. After that, the emperor said this. This can be found in the History Museum.

Zhao Kuoxin: Since the imperial grandfather said that it was useless, what else did I use him for.

So the old trick was repeated, and the emperor Zhao Kuo personally wrote the imperial pen, dismissed Zhu Xi as a waiter, and awarded it to the palace official. The reason is warm: the weather is cold, you are old, and standing up to lecture is not good for your health.

In this dynasty, the normal work process is as follows: if the imperial court wants to issue a certain instruction or implement a certain system, the government hall will first take the plan, submit it to the emperor for review, and then draft it by the talents of the Hanlin Academy and the Zhishe Academy.

The imperial pen, also known as the internal approval, was the emperor's exclusive instruction when dealing with the government. It was an autocratic means for the emperor to circumvent the government without going through the proposal of the political affairs hall, bypassing the sealing procedure, avoiding the opinions of the officials, and directly issuing it from Ouchi to a certain yamen, and doing things alone.

After Uncle Huang Wen received the emperor's imperial pen, he tore up the prepared but unissued fold and folded it again. This time, he directly aimed the spearhead at the emperor Zhao Kuo. He said that Han Yanxuan's practice of expelling auxiliary ministers under the pretense of the imperial pen was the same as Cai Jing's abuse of power back then, and it would be chaotic for a long time; And the imperial pen, the emperor should use it sparingly, or even not use, because it does not conform to the system of Taizu's monarch and ministers ruling the world together, and a wise monarch should fully trust the government, and then ban the imperial pen.

After the news of Zhu Xi's resignation spread, public opinion was in an uproar and the government and the opposition were shaken. Taoism, at that time, was a prominent science, was a major mainstream of the academic world, although it did not become an official science, but the audience was large, Zhu Xi's disciples and admirers were all over the government and the opposition, and the removal of him was completely a hornet's nest.

First, the officials of Zhongshu Province went into battle, and Xu Pingyang and Chen Junliang were retained; In the matter, Deng Ze used the right of refusal to stop it; Then Sun Fengji, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, Liu Guangzu of the Ministry of Works, and Wu Lie, the Imperial History, handed over the recitals one after another, indicating that Zhu Xi was a great Confucian and virtuous minister and could not be dismissed, and the emperor should withdraw his order.

Yang Shiyuan, the office director of the Sichuan Preparation Division, had just arrived in Beijing and served in the Dengwen Drum Institute for only two days, and immediately wrote to persuade him: "At the beginning of Your Majesty's tenure, during the national funeral, he counted the royal approvals without going through the Chinese letter. A few days ago, the dismissal of the prime minister was not in accordance with the normal process; degraded the official Huang Wenshu and did not follow the normal channels; There is no legitimate reason for the removal of Zhu Xi, a close minister. Since ancient times, it has never been heard that the emperor has abandoned the prime minister, the counselor, and the lecturer, but he can govern the country well by himself. I hope that Zhu Xi will be recalled immediately, so that the villain will not be successful, so as to cultivate chaos - as soon as Zhu Xi goes, who of the upright officials in the DPRK does not want to leave? The righteous people and gentlemen are gone, so who will govern the country, and how can it operate normally? ”

Prime Minister Zhao Ruyu was the first to get the imperial approval, he did not follow the procedure, but was anxious to save the emperor: persuade the emperor to retract his life.

In front of the emperor, Zhao Ru was foolish and talked about a lot of benefits for Zhu Xi, Zhao Kuo said lightly: Let Zhu Xi go out of the court, it is for him, he is over sixty years old, standing and lecturing, standing for more than an hour, I can't bear it, and the weather is cold, and his feet are not good.

Then he always kept a straight face and let Zhao Ruyu spit on the stars. It's been almost an hour, and Zhao Ruyu is still saying, the emperor is annoyed, and his face is cold:

Prime Minister Zhao, what do you mean, do you want to live with the king's life?

Zhao Ru was speechless and had to leave.

The folds of the court officials flew like snowflakes, and the waves of civil protests were also higher and higher, and the government and the opposition were boiling and dissatisfied, dissatisfied with the decision to remove Zhu Xi.

Han Yanxuan, who was on the cusp of the storm, was not only not afraid, but complacent. He said to Emperor Zhao Kuo: Your Majesty, you have just been in charge of the government, and you have just made two decrees, so many people have come to oppose it, what is your intention? If you change your tune, who will listen to you in the future?

Zhao Kuo, who was in his twenties, didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at all, and when he was in a state of strength, he couldn't help but be proud when he remembered Yang Shiyuan's words: I want to see what will happen to the Great Song Dynasty when it leaves Zhu Xi and Huang Wenshu?

The next day, Zhao Kuan asked Guan Li to send an order: Uncle Huang Wen and Zhu Xi should leave Beijing immediately and go to work without delay. In this way, the old master Zhu, who had only been in the court for 46 days, had to roll up and leave. Go to the Taoist temple to name and bask in the sun.

Zhao Ruyu's mood plummeted, the grand plan was not unfolded and sunk into the sand, I wanted to clean up the new but instead died alone, the emperor regarded the government as a child's play, listened to the relatives, pampered the inner servant, in just a few days, the imperial pen was stacked, and the prime minister, the emperor, and the official were degraded one by one. Now in this ruling power, the right minister Yang Wenduan has always had nothing to do with himself, hanging high, Chen Qida, the governor of the political affairs, is old and incompetent, and the governor of the political affairs, the affairs of the Privy Council, Jing Yutang, and Han Yanxuan have a very iron relationship, and it is impossible to gather them to collectively resist now. But in this way, is there still a reason for nostalgia in the phase?

So, he worked hard to write and resigned. After submitting it to the inner hall, the emperor's instructions came back, two words: not allowed.

The emperor's instructions also include: Chen Junliang and Liu Guangzu went out of Beijing to take up foreign posts. Several other commentators, including Yang Shiyuan, who was the most fierce, did not mention anything.

After calming down, Zhao Ruyu remembered a past incident in the Xiaozong Dynasty:

There is a person named Zhang Shuo, married another sister of the Empress Dowager as his wife, at first, the official position was the defense envoy of Hezhou, the governor of the cabinet, because he was in favor of the Northern Expedition, and gradually won the love of Xiaozong, and the official was the observer of Mingzhou, and the Privy Council undertook the decree, and the main road was seven years, and Xiaozong was appointed as the Privy Council. For a time, the discussion was boiling, Liu Heng resigned angrily in the imperial history, Zhang Jingfu, the servant of the ministry, even admonished three times, and Fan Chengda, a scholar in the middle school, used the right to refute and refused to draft the edict, Emperor Xiaozong was okay, and he did not come hard, and canceled the appointment.

A year later, Xiaozong again appointed Zhang Shuo as the Privy Councillor, and six ministers, such as Li Heng, Wang Xilu, and Zhou Bida, wrote to oppose this foreign relative entering the government. This time, Xiaozong came to the fire, and he didn't give in, and whoever opposed it would be dismissed. This person is Han Yanxuan's uncle, you see, the identity and official position are so similar.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Taizu said that he would rule the world with the talents. But they were all wise monarchs, wise and intelligent, abiding by the law, acting according to procedures, and listening to the advice of loyal ministers. It is said that the court is the country, the people's, in fact, it is the emperor, he is the king of a country, he wants to be his own master, give orders, the emperor has to do his own thing, the minister in addition to admonishment, resignation, is there any other way, the emperor is determined to do, what can the ministers do?

The lesser of two evils and the heavier of two benefits. Zhao Ruyu figured it out, Han Yanxuan wanted to be a festival envoy, let him do a good job, as long as he didn't make trouble. If you had listened to the words of Xu Pingyang, Ye Zhengze, and Zhu Han'an, why would you be here.