392. Impeachment (I)
The feast soon ended, and everyone went back satisfied. And Jingwen was also very happy to go home, because he successfully proposed marriage and was ready to marry Cheng Lin home. However, Cheng Lin was obviously not very happy, because Jingwen actually hooked up with two women again in Turkic. As for these two women, Jing Wen certainly knew who they were. One is the Turkic princess Ashinayun, and the other is her beautiful bodyguard Duguxin. These two women are afraid that they will enter Jingwen's house in the future, and Cheng Lin is of course a little angry. I just went out to fight once, and I brought back two women, and then I got it? Therefore, Cheng Lin must give Jingwen some face, otherwise he will go to the house to uncover the tiles in the future. Because even ancient women knew that they couldn't always get used to their husbands, otherwise he would continue to bring home all kinds of women in the future.
Soon, when the time came for another pilgrimage, Jingwen also had to participate in this pilgrimage as a member of the Ministry of Rites. Although what Jingwen is doing now has nothing to do with the Ministry of Rites, whoever made him famous, he has to go. Jingwen didn't even know his colleagues in the Ministry of Rites, but he was also a member of the Ministry of Rites. As for Jingwen's status as the envoy of the Snow Shame Army, it is just a temporary "dispatch", not an official position. Theoretically, he is just the emperor who asks you to do a certain project, which is similar to the status of a project manager in later generations, just the leader of a temporary team.
"The ministers are left to pick up the relics of Fang Yuan, impeachment of the Ministry of Rites, Wailang Jingwen!" Someone came out right away.
Jing Wen scolded in his heart, do you have a grudge against this guy? And this gleaning is just an idle position in the province of Menxia, and it doesn't actually have much power. And this guy actually dares to impeach himself, a celebrity in front of the emperor, is this looking for death? However, when Jingwen looked over, he found that this gleaning was actually looking at a little boy. This little boy is Li Ke, the third prince who was canonized as the king of Shu, and he is now eleven years old. Jingwen immediately knew that this was instructed by this Li Ke. However, Jingwen really couldn't understand the idea of this relict source. This guy wants to be promoted, and he wants to go crazy. actually sold himself to Li Ke? It is possible for any prince to inherit the throne, but it is impossible for Li Ke, the prince born to the princess of the previous dynasty. So, isn't this gleaning crazy?
"Say it!" Li Shimin took the initiative to say, anyway, Jingwen was not impeached once or twice.
"Your Majesty, the minister wants to impeach Jingwen for overstepping the system. When Jingwen went on the expedition, he abused the cart to transport soldiers, which had violated the rules of using chariots and horses in my Tang Dynasty. I have a Tang Dynasty ritual system, and only the emperor's funeral can use such a big car, but Jingwen actually dares to use it, and asks the emperor to punish the crime. Please ask the emperor to cut off Jingwen's head. to set the record straight. Fang Yuan said.
The so-called overstepping the system is to violate the etiquette system of the imperial court. The etiquette system of the imperial court is what status can be used for what treatment. For example, if a quality control can live in a house of what size, officials below the first grade cannot use it. At this time, it is not like the afterlife, as long as you have money, even if you can build a palace. And in this era, the overstepping system can be big or small, and it all depends on the mind of the ruler. If you casually overstep the system, it is too much. That's the suspicion of rebellion.
Jingwen snorted secretly: "You want my head again, if my head falls off so easily, I won't be alive now." Li Shimin couldn't have asked for my head for this little thing. What's more, if there is no such big car. Then I won't be able to win a big battle, and I won't be able to pacify the Turks! ”
"May I ask this Lord Fang Yuan, since you said that I exceeded the system, then your etiquette system must be observed by everyone in the world? I use a cart. It's also to be able to win against the Turks, first, helpless! Jingwen asked.
"Yes, everyone in the world must obey it. My Tang ritual system comes from the three rites. And the three rites come from the Confucian classics and from the Confucian sage. Therefore, the three rites are to be observed by anyone. And as for the defeat of the Turks, how can it be compared with etiquette? How can the victory or defeat of the war be compared with the teachings of the saints? Therefore, please ask the emperor to behead Jingwen to set the record straight. Fang Yuan said.
Jingwen really obeyed this, and actually said that the victory or defeat of the war could not be compared with the teachings of the sage. In other words, even if the war is about to be lost, it cannot violate the etiquette system. And etiquette is the basis of national rule, so it is better to die countless people than to violate etiquette. This is the thinking of the ancients, which is very absurd.
In this case, the etiquette system comes from the three rites, and everyone must abide by it. Chen Jingwen wanted to ask the emperor to behead all the military attaches in the court. Because the rule in the Three Rites is that war needs to be fought in a dignified manner, and it must be a gentleman's war. And countless generals of our Datang Dynasty have all had sneak attacks and plotted against the enemy, all of which were not done by a gentleman. And these are against the rules of the saint about war, so please behead everyone by the emperor! Jingwen said.
"Hahahaha......" the military attachés in the court laughed.
Because Jingwen is playing the bottom of the kettle, he directly removed the strict zhòng loophole in the etiquette system. Because the ritual system comes from the etiquette before the Qin Dynasty, and the etiquette comes from the teachings of the sages. However, the era in which Sage Confucius was born was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. And the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, strictly speaking, are still divided into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During the Spring and Autumn Period, because the war was fought using chariots, it was not easy to sneak attack. Moreover, many of these vassal states were related by marriage, much like those in the European Middle Ages. Therefore, those princes are only to bring the other princes to their knees, not to destroy the other party. Therefore, the battle is to adopt dignified and upright means to defeat the opponent and deter the opponent. And the war at that time was to hit the chariots back and forth with each other, and then rush to the other side, then turn around and impact again, and finally until one side could not stand it anymore.
This mode of war is the mode of war in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Confucius was also in that era, so he advocated that war should be upright. However, the situation has changed, and the mode of war has changed a lot, and the purpose of war is no longer to deter the enemy, but to completely destroy the enemy, which has caused a change in the means of warfare. Therefore, Confucius's war thinking is no longer suitable for the present. But since that Fang Yuan used the position of Sage Kong to say that Jingwen was overstepping the system, and Jingwen simply used Sage Kong's war thinking to kidnap all the military attachés. Because of the generals of this period, who has not attacked the enemy and who has not calculated others? However, these theories were not tolerated by Confucius, and Jingwen used this method to kidnap all the military attachés.
As a result, now all the military attaches have to help Jingwen. And even the civil officials were speechless at this Fang Yuan. Even the most pedantic civil officials would not demand war as it did during the Confucian period. However, Jingwen secretly changed the concept, making Fang Yuan's reason untenable. Jingwen's meaning is very simple, that is, since the etiquette system must be observed, the qiē etiquette system must be observed, then it is necessary to cut down all the generals in the court who do not abide by Confucius's war mode. But is this reality? Will the mode of war return to the Spring and Autumn period in the future? This is obviously impossible, so Fang Yuan's reason is very absurd, Jingwen directly attacked the etiquette system and reality, and directly destroyed the legitimacy of the etiquette system that is being implemented now. This method is not ruthless, because your etiquette is not legal, how can you use this reason to ask for Jingwen's head? (To be continued......)