Chapter 20: Climbing Dragon Scales with Phoenix Wings (6)
The so-called worship is by no means simply asking the prince to come out and show his face, everyone sings a promise to salute, and then goes back to their respective homes.
When to march and when to stop, there is Yale as a command. The order and content of the gale determine the rules of action of the ministers. The Zhou metric system of etiquette is for fun, with courtesy to bid farewell to the monarch and ministers, and to be friendly and benevolent, and the ultimate goal is to respect virtue and protect the people.
Therefore, in "The Book of Rites and Music": "The musicians are the same, and the etiquette is different." The same is a blind date, and the difference is respectful. If you win, you will flow, and if you win, you will leave. Those who are glorified are also courteous and happy. Etiquette and righteousness are noble and low, and music and literature are the same as up and down. ……”
Joy is made from the middle, and the etiquette is made from the outside. Now that there is no fun, how can the minister be a courtesy?
Zhu Cihong's understanding of traditional culture is not as deep in the bone marrow as those Confucian scholars. He can fluently recite the passages in the Book of Rites, but he still has the habit of accumulating years when he acts, and he is not bound by Confucianism. This is why the teachers unanimously recognized the prince's talent, but did not admit that he was psychologically mature.
For Confucianism: those who cannot integrate etiquette into their blood, cannot use etiquette as the highest criterion to guide their thinking, and cannot show etiquette in their gestures are villains and immature children.
Therefore, children who do not know etiquette and music can be taught, but the villain who deliberately embarrasses the ministers must be knocked to the ground and set one foot on one foot.
"Why don't you play music yet?" The officer at the front asks the guide.
The eunuch opened his mouth and did not make a sound. Although he doesn't know very well, he has never eaten pork and often runs pigs. Music is played in the palace from time to time, but usually the pavilion assistant does not need to play music to meet the emperor Bixia. Weishenme: What are these civil officials who have specifically asked to play music today?
"Don't be impatient!" The eunuch pulled his throat and suppressed these East Palace officials who were about to move. He secretly made a gesture and asked the little eunuch behind him to go to Tian Cunshan to ask for advice.
The prince is also a king, and if he wants his subordinate officials to stand outside and bask in the sun, who dares to say a word?
Although the civil officials were angry, at most they only expressed their dissatisfaction with dry coughs and shaking their bodies.
But the prince is not used to waiting for people.
No matter in his past or present life, the prince did not have this habit.
Now, however, the crown prince was sitting in the newly arranged shogunate, surrounded by the guards of the Eastern Palace, and the high ground was full of people. Zhou Jing stood left and right, and diligently asked the prince if he was okay at noon.
"Weishenme hasn't walked in yet?" The prince couldn't help but ask.
"The minister will send someone to ask." Zhou Jing hurriedly sent a clever guard to inquire outside.
After a while, the guard hadn't come back, and Tian Cunshan had already run back sweaty. He received two errands before, one was to ask for the Ming Decree to be distributed, and the other was to go to the East Palace to pack up the books and bring them out. As long as the former is explicitly delivered to the prince, he will be considered a bad seller. The latter took some time, because the prince often read too many books.
finally packed up the books that the prince had turned over more than five times this year, and packed them all out of boxes. As soon as Tian Cunshan came out of the Forbidden City, he ran into a eunuch who ran out of the palace. After listening to the little eunuch's explanation, Tian Cunshan's head was big, and he hurriedly detoured from the side gate to An Yuanyuan, and ran all the way to see the prince.
"Your Highness," Tian Cunshan tried to calm his breath, "Your Highness, we came out in a hurry, and we didn't prepare for dance music!" ”
"It doesn't matter." The prince said: "Hurry up and let them come in to visit, and then we will organize a disaster relief and epidemic prevention." ”
"His Royal Highness the Prince," Tian Cunshan almost cried, "Isn't dance music important? Without dance music, where would they worship? Now these sour cuoes are picking on His Highness, saying that His Highness is insulting ministers. This method of grafting flowers and trees is the usual trick of the eunuchs to provoke the Son of Heaven and the ministers, and even if they really confront each other in the future, the eunuchs can also play the name of the servants of the heavenly family with confidence.
"I insult them......" Zhu Cihong was speechless for a long time, and said: "A little thing, what's there to make trouble!" Who summoned them just now? ”
"Your Highness," Zhou Jing said stiffly, "Just now you only said that you would summon your subordinate officials when you fell asleep, but you didn't say who to let ......"
"Well, no one summoned them, they came on their own?" Zhu Cihong straightened his body and said to Tian Cunshan: "Did you see Master Wu just now?" ”
"Back to Your Highness, the slave and maid came from the side door." Tian Cunshan lowered his head and said.
"Coward." Zhu Cihong knew that he didn't dare to face those Wenchen, pouted slightly, and said, "Go and see, if Master Wu is here, call in." Only one was called, and the others were told to sit in the foyer and drink tea. ”
"Slave and maid, go now." Tian Cunshan didn't dare to wait longer, and hurriedly ran out.
After a while, Tian Cunshan really took a handsome boy in his early thirties, wearing an official uniform and a white pheasant, which was exactly the color of the five-grade civil official uniform.
"Minister Wu Weiye, meet His Royal Highness the Prince. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chitose. Wu Weiye stepped forward to salute, bowed, and heard the prince calmly say "no courtesy" as usual, so he bowed down and waited, waiting for the inquiry.
"Sit down." Zhu Cihong waved his hand. When Wu Weiye sat down on the chair, the prince asked, "Who summoned you?" ”
Wu Weiye was stunned for a moment, took a closer look, and said secretly: Sure enough, he was faint from the heat! The crown prince has not yet ordered the summoning of the subordinate officials of the East Palace!
"The ministers have to hear the decree, so they naturally have to come to worship the prince." Wu Weiye immediately changed the topic: "The ministers think that the prince should not leave the palace. ”
"Should you leave the palace or not, should you put your beak?!" Zhu Cihong frowned slightly: "I originally just wanted to summon a few courtiers and ask about the etiquette of the East Palace to accept the worship of subordinate officials, since you are all here, weishenme will not come in?" ”
"This ......" Wu Weiye is good at poetry and writing, not good at change, being scolded by the prince, his mind is even more blank, and he said for a long time: "I don't hear dance music, I don't dare to be rude." ”
"You don't even wear court clothes, so you want to listen to Lonely's Yale?" The corners of Zhu Cihong's mouth were slightly raised.
Tian Cunshan's heart trembled, and he suddenly realized, and secretly screamed: Wonderful! The prince's upside-down rake is really wonderful!
Officials of the Ming Dynasty wore regular clothes decorated with complements on weekdays. The civil officials make up for the civilization of the birds, and the military attaches make up for the mighty beasts, which is the set called "well-dressed beasts".
If there is a big celebration, as well as the New Year's Day, the winter solstice, the holy festival, these three important festivals, or the issuance of the opening of the edict and pardon, the table, and the transmission of the system, you can only wear the solemn court clothes that originated from the Han Dynasty. Even if you are doing ordinary work, serving class, thanksgiving, and saying goodbye, you have to change into official clothes, and you must not wear regular clothes to enter and exit.
As a subordinate official of the East Palace, he came to visit him when he got the news of the Light Movement of the East Palace, which is commendable loyalty. It doesn't matter if you wear regular clothes, but since you wear regular clothes, you shouldn't bite the dance music!
Wu Weiye lowered his head, looked at the hem of his clothes, and couldn't help but tremble.
Zhu Cihong looked at Wu Weiye, who was speechless, chuckled, and said: "Master Wu's poems are extremely haode, but as a future minister, you should also put some effort into the etiquette system." ”
Wu Weiye was the second place in the first class of Chongzhen for four years, commonly known as the list eye, and was awarded the Hanlin Academy to edit it, and then he was awarded the East Palace to read it. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the prince went out of the pavilion to give a lecture, and the Son of Heaven listened, and he spoke of the "Book of Shang" so that the emperor Bixia was very impressed, and he appreciated the "dragon group moon piece, sweet melon crisp plum". In 12 years, he moved to Nanjing Guozijian Siye, in 13 years, he was promoted to Zuo Yude, and in 16 years, he was promoted to concubine. If the national fortune persists for another ten years, even if Wu Weiye can't enter the cabinet, at least he will be a secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
Such a proud eunuch was criticized by the prince and said that he should work more the etiquette system, what a big blow this is?
Wu Weiye's eyes were dark, he was dejected for a while, and his voice was negative: "After the minister goes back, he will reflect on himself and think about it behind closed doors." ”
"There's no need to be in such a hurry," the prince said, "the pilgrimage still has to be arranged." Master Wu is an old man in my East Palace, and I can rest assured that I will do things. He also had to work out Master Wu, and listed the minister's worship etiquette in detail and handed it over to the lieutenant for arrangement. I have only one request, now that the state is in trouble, if it can be saved, it will be saved. The money, time, and energy saved may save hundreds of lives. This is the way of benevolence, what does Master Wu think? ”
"What His Royal Highness said is deeply in line with the essence of love." Wu Weiye hurriedly bowed.
When he walked out of Anyuan, he was soaked with sweat all the time. Seeing the other colleagues who were still waiting outside, Fang Cai's head was shocked: I forgot to ask the prince just now if he wanted to summon other subordinate officials!
He didn't know that the reason why the prince selected him from a cadre of subordinate officials was not because he often had an impression of listening to his lectures, but because he knew that he had a cowardly personality and could easily bluff him. Come in with a different head, I'm afraid that a saliva lawsuit will have to be fought.