"Is it funny?"

Seeing that everyone was laughing, Liu Xing didn't show half a smile.

After glancing at the crowd, Liu Xing first said coldly and then locked his eyes on the body of Zhou Tao, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

His eyes were fixed on Zhou Tao, and Liu Xing immediately asked, "Zhou Shangshu, do you feel funny?" What's so funny? Is mine funny, or is this coronation funny? ”

Hearing this question, Zhou Tao was stunned for a moment, and then replied tremblingly: "Hui, Hui Taifu, you naturally won't be funny, what's funny is the lyrics of Chen Shilang." ”

"Oh, tell me, what's so funny about the lyrics?" Still keeping his eyes on Zhou Tao, Liu Xing simply sat on the big chair under Zong Ze.

Listening to the question again, Zhou Tao knew that Liu Xing was a person who didn't like to twist and turn, so he immediately replied straightforwardly: "The words of the beginning of the crown are self-reliant, and there is no need to worry about food and clothing." Today, there are many people who rely on Taifu to have no worries about food and clothing, but there are no Taifu who rely on their own support. ”

After a slight pause in his words, Zhou Tao looked at Liu Xing, and then peeked at the people around him and continued: "Add martial arts, learn martial arts, such as today, martial arts can compete with Taifu, I am afraid that only Jin Nu Yanei, how difficult is it to have others to match?" Serving the country loyally is even more funny. If it weren't for the sudden rise of the Taifu Wutai Mountain, how could I have come to this good situation and the recovery of this large area of rivers and mountains in Jiangbei? ”

The addition of Su Guan is even more funny. Learn to succeed and apply what you have learned, who can compare with Taifu in today's world? If it weren't for your ingenuity, if it weren't for your talent and application of what you learned, how could I be in this thriving new situation today? I believe that all of you here will still remember the defeat of Yuan You's change of law, and I am afraid that if you don't have your talent to learn the new law, you will be defeated early. So it's ridiculous! ”

Zhou Tao finished saying what he felt and what everyone was ridiculous about. In the end, he set his sights on the leader of Rulin, Mr. Hu Anguo.

Hu Anguo saw Zhou Tao's eyes. He just smiled bitterly and lowered his beard, but was silent.

Zhou Tao's words are reasonable and conclusive. After listening to this, everyone present nodded their heads in deep agreement.

Just as everyone was nodding, Liu Xing suddenly raised his hand and tore off all the three crowns on his head.

Then after glancing at the crowd, Liu Xing said: "Since it is such a vain gift, what do I want it to do?" ”

As soon as the words stopped, Liu Xing also set his eyes on Hu Anguodao: "Mr. Hu." In the name of the Governor of the House of Councillors, please issue a decree to officially abolish the original Confucian rites. Not only should the adult crowning ceremony be abolished, but the five ceremonies of crowning, fainting, mourning, sacrifice, and township should all be simplified. ”

Hearing this, Hu Anguo was stunned, and then he understood: it turned out that he had not personally participated in the preparation of the coronation ceremony before, not because Liu Xingzhen didn't understand it at all, nor did he respect the division commander among the seed teachers.

It turns out that this is a new pit, a huge new pit. This new pit, Liu Xing is used to bury the five of the six rituals of Confucianism, that is, the crown, faint, mourning, sacrifice, and township five rites.

The Faint One. It will be good to combine the two surnames. On the temple of the Emperor of the Sect. And the next generation also. Therefore, the gentleman is important. It's a dusk prayer.

The first Qin dusk salute is held at dusk, and there is no joy. Don't celebrate, the ancients valued the righteousness of husband and wife and the grace of marriage. I don't think it's a noisy thing, the mourning at that time was very simple and clean, no fun, no offspring, a mess of hijabs and a hole in the house.

Husband and wife "eat together, and eat together", knot hair hand in hand into the cave room, and the clothes are not red and green. Wearing a true traditional Han dress, the groom wears a knight's dress, and the bottom is colored with black trim. The bride wears a hair ornament and a pure black dress with black trim.

But today's Great Song Dynasty's faint ceremony is far more complicated than these, and it is necessary to invite three times, three banquets and three worships. It is normal for a wedding to be noisy for three or four days, and at most for five or six days.

Cumbersome etiquette, if it's just a complicated etiquette, it's okay. The most important point is that the reason why the funeral is so complicated is that it has more often become a means for officials of all sizes to change their direction and ask for bribes.

Liu Xing once said before that weddings, funerals, and corruption should be abolished. Now that he has officially said it, Hu Anguo is unwilling, but he does not dare to speak out against it.

Compared with the faint ceremony, the village ceremony in the five rites is even more laborious and costly.

As a ritual that describes the villagers gathering and feasting at the right time, the village rite is also the title of the "Etiquette".

Township drinking is divided into four categories: first, in the three-year competition, the township doctor of the princes recommends virtuous people to his monarch, drinks with them in the township school, and treats them as guests. Second, the township doctor feasted and drank the sages of the country. Third, the governor met with the people in the spring and autumn to practice shooting, and drank alcohol before shooting. Fourth, the party is drinking at the Jidong wax festival.

After all those deeds are done, they often make the year-round savings of a township depleted, and even make many poor families turn from poor peasants into destitute tigers.

In the five rites, the Yan Rite of the Yan Banquet is righteous for leisure and rest. Yan Rite is a ritual for the ancient Han nobles to feast and drink in their spare time in order to contact their subordinates.

Compared with the first two etiquettes, that kind of Yantong banquet is even more extravagant and wasteful and breeds corruption.

Why? Because the Yan ceremony can be held for a specific object, such as the ministers who return from the mission, the subordinate officials who have newly created meritorious services, the hired dignitaries, etc., or they can be banquets for the ministers without special reasons.

It can be seen that Yan Li is the righteousness of the Ming monarch and the ministers.

The Son of Heaven, the princes, and the clansmen have their own Yan rites, but most of them have died, and the following is a gift for the princes to feast their subordinates.

The etiquette of Yanli is relatively simple, mainly drinking, there is a fold and no meal, only a gift is performed, which is intended to enjoy the pleasure of the guests and hosts.

But in fact, in the era of the Great Song Dynasty, the cost of drinking alcohol and a pot of wine in the Yantong banquet was enough for a family of five to eat for a year......

Weddings and funerals, there are naturally funerals when there is a faint ceremony. Like a wedding, it is different from the Yan ceremony, and the coronation ceremony is also different in nature from adults.

The funeral, in Liu Xing's thinking, is to follow the dead in the family, and let those corrupt officials take the opportunity to make a dead man's fortune at the end.

In short, there was corruption and extravagance in the Five Rites, and Hu Anguo knew very well that this was something that Liu Xing, who seemed to have collected a lot of money but had actually converted it to Tzu Chi, could not tolerate it.

So when Liu Xing finished asking, he just smiled slightly bitterly and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Okay! Tomorrow I will convene a council meeting and come up with one. It's just that the chapter is good and difficult to abolish the ceremony, and success or failure can only be seen in the court. Okay, don't be too me. (To be continued.) )