Chapter 728: Establish Taoism as the state religion
As a strong and dictatorial emperor, Ye Yu acted very well in this regard.
This just confirms Yu Yunwen's prophecy back then, the young man they supported was not a benevolent monarch of Chanayayan!
At the court meeting, because of a trivial matter, several officials who were ranked in the court class were cut to the ground and the people were never hired, and this kind of practice of giving full play to the monarchy's arbitrariness was also extremely rare since the opening of the Great Song Dynasty.
Jiang Fu and Yue Lin also collectively chose to remain silent, because any of them could see that this was a deliberate excuse to play today!
Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, they have been adhering to the ancestral teachings and implementing the national policy of emphasizing literature over military force.
However, since Ye Yu ascended the throne, although this national policy has not been explicitly abandoned, from the perspective of constantly replacing civilian officials with military attachés, civilian officials have also clearly seen the original intention of His Majesty today.
Even if it is not possible to talk about advocating military force and suppressing literature now, there is still a tendency to suppress civilian officials.
Before the Northern Expedition, Jiang Fu, Yue Lin and others could still advise and advise, but now although the Northern Expedition has not been thorough, it has achieved unprecedented success.
Once a son of heaven and a courtier, now Ye Yu intends to suppress the civil official group with a strong sense of superiority, although these people have complaints, they can only silently accept it.
Because Ye Yu is not as indecisive and benevolent as Zhao Yan, nor is he as weak and timid as Zhao Gou was restrained by his courtiers back then, he just has a rare bloody wrist and decisiveness in killing!
In addition to discussing the continuation of the Northern Expedition, regarding the appropriation of funds for the repair of the imperial tomb, Ye Yu was also arbitrarily and arbitrarily carried out his original decision after the advice of the ministers.
Even if Zhao Yan, who is the emperor, came forward to persuade him, Ye Yu did not give face at all!
For this reason, Ye Yu also personally issued an edict to explain his good intentions to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the people of the world.
“…… The country is not prosperous, the mountains and rivers are broken, the Central Plains has been trampled by the iron hooves of the golden people, and the people of my Han family are worried about extinction all day long, but whose fault is it at the root? …… Because the Zhao family's official family has been deaf and unwilling to forge ahead, it has become a national shame for Jingkang! The fault of the Zhao clan has affected tens of thousands of people in the world, so the Zhao family has failed the people of the world......"
Ye Yuyang freely outlined the reasons for tens of thousands of words, and the central idea of it mainly lies in two points.
One is that the emperors of the Zhao family are all sinners and failed to protect this piece of Han people, so that the shame of Jingkang almost destroyed the country. Therefore, the Zhao family is a sinner, they have done evil themselves, but they let their people suffer the disaster of destroying the country, so they are very ashamed!
Now although the Central Plains has been recovered, it has also been exchanged for the lives of tens of thousands of Han family children.
These heroic soldiers fought bloodily to bury their bones in the barren hills, and so far they have not been able to find a tomb to replace, and the Zhao royal family, who is already a sinner, has the face to repair the shameful imperial mausoleum!?
The second is to leave the abandoned imperial tomb without repairing it, which is to let future generations remember this historical lesson, and it is also to warn the world not to forget the national shame!
It is incomplete, easy for people to remember and remember, and it is more intuitive to express what is more intuitive than the text in the book: the lesson of the past and the teacher of the future!
Ye Yu's expositions are similar to the edict of sinful self-inflicted, but they are obviously higher than the edict of sinful self-edict, and let the people of the world feel the courage of this young emperor.
It is the first time since ancient times that he can publicly admit his mistakes in front of the people, and it is extremely rare for an emperor to issue an edict since ancient times.
What's more, Ye Yu not only humbled himself for his guilt this time, but also ridiculed and refuted the ancestors of the Zhao family.
This is a bit of a rebellion in the current environment!
Since ancient times, the son does not say anything about the father, and as the emperor, it is even more so, so the rules and judgments made by the ancestors, even if the children and grandchildren are emperors, they dare not change them lightly, even if this rule and judgment prove to be wrong!
This is the filial piety that led by example in ancient times, although this kind of filial piety can be regarded as formalistic foolishness, but now it is really a shackle equivalent to the law.
But even so, Ye Yu really did it, not only did it but also did it very thoroughly, not only did he execute several crimes of the Second Emperor Huiqin in front of the people of the world, but also used the ruined imperial mausoleum as a permanent memorial place not to forget the national shame!
Great disrespect! It's ridiculous!
This is the same voice of all the Zhao clansmen, Zongzheng Temple has played more than once, but in exchange for all rejections!
Even because of this matter, many patriarchs of the Zhao family went to the palace to petition, wanting to let Ye Yu take back his life.
However, the more they coerced and pressurized, the more they would be dissatisfied with the emperor, not to mention a person like Ye Yu who was dictatorial. So not only did he fail to persuade Ye Yu to take back his fate, but many of the Zhao clansmen were imprisoned in the Criminal Department because of this!
The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty had a lot of complaints about Ye Yu's move, but for the people and literati in the world, it directly raised Ye Yu to the height of Yao Shun.
Because under the ideological imprisonment of feudal etiquette, the emperor is the son of the Mandate of Heaven, even if the Son of Heaven makes a mistake, the first thing that the people think of is that the traitorous ministers have entered the slander, which has nothing to do with the Son of Heaven himself.
And since ancient times, emperors have been good at covering up their ugliness, and this hobby is not avoidable even by Tang Taizong Li Shimin, otherwise he would not have altered history and flipped through the daily life records!
It is precisely because of this that Ye Yu's alternative words and deeds will make them moved!
Ye Yu not only suppressed some people who should have been suppressed this time, but also earned enough hearts from the people of the world in one fell swoop, which can be described as gaining fame and fortune in one fell swoop!
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Not long after moving the capital to Bianjing, Ye Yu deliberately promulgated a decree to confer the title of the Quanzhen Sect as the national teacher, and assigned Zhongnan Mountain to the Quanzhen Sect as a dojo!
This move is not only to fulfill the last wish of his mentor Wang Chongyang, but also to thank the Quanzhen Sect for its many times in the Northwest Battlefield and the Northern Expedition!
In the past few years, the Quanzhen Sect has helped a lot, either openly or secretly, but it is far less than the help that Jigong gave to Ye Yu, but even so, Ye Yu did not think about supporting Buddhism in the past.
Because in a sense, Ye Yu's heart is very repulsive to Buddhism.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Buddhism is prosperous, then the country will be destroyed", Buddhism does not produce, occupy land and sit on the mountain, if Buddhism rises, the bad situation of the enclosure, and the so-called detachment of thought, will give rise to countless people's livelihood problems!
Buddhism is flourishing, not only will people become two-legged sheep to wear out their will, men will break through the red dust to become monks, women menstrual irregularities become nuns in the mountains, plus there are so many Buddhist precepts, if the whole country is to explore the red dust without desire, wouldn't it be to destroy the country and extinct the species?
Historically, countries that believed in Buddhism were either weak and perished or impoverished, and Ye Yu didn't want the country he had worked so hard to build to become a non-offensive 'saint' country!
The theory of gods and Buddhas, Ye Yu has always only regarded it as an academic and an ideological education for sentient beings, after all, no one has experienced those ethereal realms, and no one can tell whether they are true or not.
It is difficult to comment on the right and wrong between Buddhism and Taoism in terms of freedom of thought, but it is clear that Taoism implies the way of governing the country, which has a certain positive effect on the stability of the regime!
So Ye Yu decided to establish Taoism as the state religion, of course, the negative thoughts in Taoist teachings need to be changed in the future!
Reforming the doctrine of Taoism to make it more popular and popular! Its Taoist teachings are aggressive, just like the Crusades, those who do not believe in Taoism are heretics and will go to the eighteen layers of hell to suffer.
At the same time, the precepts of Taoism will be relaxed, and the commoners of Christianity will be completely absorbed, and they can marry a wife, have children, drink wine and eat meat, and can also run an industry and become an official!
In this case, why not worry!?
(Personal preference, friends who like Buddhism, can ignore my remarks, but I think Buddhism has become too bad over the years, too many rules and dogmas, which is a kind of imprisonment...... If there is a Tao and a Buddha in the heart, there is practice everywhere, shaving, deep mountains, robes, prayer beads, meditation...... It's just a formalism of bondage...... )