Chapter 112: On the Sense of Ritual
When Xu Yongzhi saw Zhao Kuangyin, he was worried about several cases.
"You're here, aren't you?" Zhao Kuangyin looked at Xu Yongzhi.
"I made the food." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Guangmei came to me and begged me to deal with Wang Yansheng strictly." Zhao Kuangyin pressed his temples.
Xu Yongzhi knows Zhao Guangmei's style, he must not "beg" Zhao Kuangyin to strictly handle Wang Yansheng, but to "order" Zhao Kuangyin to strictly handle Wang Yansheng, this young man has a strong sense of right and wrong, but he has not yet reached the age of understanding the complexity of the world.
Of course, there are many people in the world who will always stay at the level of awareness in their teens, and can say "good" and "bad" to people, and then they will never make progress.
"I want to know how bad the situation was at that time, did Wang Yansheng ask Wang Pu for money?" Zhao Kuangyin said.
"I didn't say it explicitly." Xu Yongzhi cherishes words like gold.
If you're going to paint a scene, don't add that kind of tendentious word.
"That doesn't condemn him, but it can rebuke him for his impropriety." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"Your Majesty." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Degraded?" Zhao Kuangyin said.
"It's best not to be demoted, demotion is too stimulating signal, Wang Yansheng will not be able to stand it, if he complains, or even rebels in words and deeds, then he has to continue to be strict with him." Xu Yongzhi's suggestion.
"Then send it to another place as an official." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"Your Majesty Shengming, in fact, for an official and a military general, not being able to face the king is a kind of snubbing." Xu Yongzhi said.
This is really not sycophancy.
In ancient times, there was a word that was more important than "Yulu" and "grade", which was "holy family", whether the emperor was willing to marry your daughter or sister, whether he was willing to let your son be a son-in-law, whether he was willing to go to your house to sit, whether he was willing to talk to you often.
If you can see the emperor often, then you have more power and more influence.
For example, the "Six Gentlemen of Wuxu" in the Qing Dynasty was just a military machine Zhang Jing (a small military machine), but he walked in front of the emperor and planned things with the emperor, that is, he was once a very powerful person, and he was also the object of Cixi's liquidation later.
As soon as Zhao Kuangyin wrote an edict, he sent Wang Yansheng to Tangzhou as a regimental training envoy, and the level of treatment did not change, but this kind of dispensable official position announced the return of his holy family to zero.
"I think this method is good," Zhao Kuangyin said, "You don't necessarily need a butcher's knife and a court staff, in fact, you can distinguish a set of reward and punishment mechanisms just by using the emperor's blue eyes and white eyes, as well as the quality of the official place." ”
"Compared with military generals, civilian officials and doctors may be more sensitive and aware of this change." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Great, I have decided to establish a family law, and future generations are not allowed to kill scholars and doctors, especially scholars and doctors who write and say things, as the ancestral family law of this dynasty." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"Congratulations, what a saint!" Xu Yongzhi knelt down and kowtowed.
"You are so polite," Zhao Kuangyin said, "When no one is around, you and I are brothers." ”
"Your Majesty, it's not that the minister is polite, the minister sometimes thinks that the sense of ceremony is still very important." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Ritual?" Zhao Kuangyin said.
"That's right, yesterday I consulted Lord Wang, and I mentioned the sentence in the Analects, which Confucius said: Is it tolerable or intolerable." Xu Yongzhi said.
"I think the doctor used the dance of the Son of Heaven." Although Zhao Kuangyin doesn't have much time to study, he has a very good memory.
"Yes, the two most angry sentences of Confucius, the first sentence is this, and the second sentence is that rotten wood cannot be carved." Xu Yongzhi said.
"This old gentleman defends two things: kingship and an attitude of learning." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"Yes, but why is his student so angry when he sleeps during the day, in fact, he can study at night with the light, right? Why did the doctor use the music of the Son of Heaven, he was so angry, the Son of Heaven could develop new music, which was different from the doctor. For the laity, this is not a matter, but Confucius thought that it was a matter, and he called it a ceremony. ”
"Go on, very good." Zhao Kuangyin nodded yes.
"Rite is a combination of a series of rituals, our forbidden army goes out, requires bright armor, silk robes, and no patches, is this because patched robes can't defeat the enemy? No, but we ask for such a face that will boost morale and deter the enemy. ”
"Wang Yansheng is a person who despises the sense of ceremony, he feels that politeness and respect are meaningless, so he will offend the prime minister like that, he thinks that the entire civil service system is a showmanship, he does not know, it is this bureaucratic structure that can ensure the longevity and well-being of a dynasty."
"There are still many foolish people like Wang Yansheng, and Your Majesty may have to rebuild their views on the court on various occasions."
"How can we rebuild it?"
"Your Majesty wants to be a member of the civilian bureaucracy, not a military general who rules the world."
"Any great ideas?"
"Three immature suggestions, if you say it wrong, Your Majesty can atone for your sins." Xu Yongzhi said.
"You are not guilty." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"Change the crown, fade the yellow robe, change the name." Xu Yongzhi settled down, and finally said his three proposals.
"Tell me more about it."
"Since the Qin and Han dynasties, what the emperor has worn is the Pingtian crown, which is the crown, what does Your Majesty think?" Xu Yongzhi asked.
"I wore it once on the day I ascended the throne, and it was so heavy that I really didn't want to wear it," Zhao Kuangyin said. "Why did the emperor wear such a terrible thing?"
"Han did not have the imperial examination, but promoted filial piety, all the scholars, both scribes and military generals, once in charge of the county, they have the capital to compete for the deer, and regard themselves as princes, so they need a strong sense of ceremony to separate the monarch and the ministers."
"But after the Sui Dynasty, civil officials began to be hired through examinations, and the scholars obtained from the examinations were Wenchen, these people had to rely on the imperial power to gain power, and they hindered each other, Wenchen could mess with the government, but if you want to usurp the throne, it is almost impossible."
Zhao Kuangyin thought about the affairs of the Tang Dynasty and felt that it made sense.
"The minister has the courage to suggest that unless Your Majesty sacrifices to the heavens and other major ceremonies, in addition, abandon the use of the crown, and wear iron wings and heads like hundreds of officials every day."
"What's the meaning of that?" Zhao Kuangyin asked.
"Let the hundred officials understand that His Majesty is also a member of the official group, his own person, and the person chosen by God to carry out the will of heaven." Xu Yongzhi said.
"That's right." Zhao Kuangyin agreed.
"The second is to abandon the yellow robe." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Is that the same as wearing a veil?" Zhao Kuangyin asked.
"Some, but not all." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Where is it? Where not? Zhao Kuangyin asked.
"I don't use bright yellow in my daily life, at most I use ochre yellow, and I mostly use red robes and other civilian official uniforms, which is still the pursuit of civil official recognition, but another meaning is to cut off the idea of military generals." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Thoughts?"
"Wearing a bright yellow crown and giving orders in the court will make many generals covet the throne, but when they find out that the Son of Heaven is actually a trembling, hard-working, and heartbroken official in the court, they may miss the idle days of raising maids and singers and producing land."
"That's a good point," Zhao Kuangyin said, "I have been the emperor in the past few months, and I have worked too hard and too hard. ”
"What's the matter with the name change?"
"What does Your Majesty think, what is the title of Your Majesty?"
"Cold, weird." Zhao Kuangyin said.
"Your Majesty Shengming, this title is not kind." Xu Yongzhi said.
"The word "Majesty" originally referred to His Majesty, that is, the steps at the entrance of the palace, and the courtiers in the past did not dare to offend the majesty of the emperor, but only dared to look at the bottom of the steps and reply, so they used Your Majesty to refer to the emperor." Xu Yongzhi said.
"I see." Zhao Kuangyin is also the first time I have heard of it.
"Majesty is there, but kindness, no. The king calls himself lonely and widowed because he is indeed alone. Xu Yongzhi said.
"How can this name be changed?" Zhao Kuangyin said.
"Your Majesty, what do sixteen or seventeen-year-old girls call themselves?" Xu Yongzhi asked.
"Hahaha, how can you take this to test me? Should we call ourselves slaves? ”
"That's right, there are similar people, girls use it for coquettishness. The man's self-proclaim, there is also a certain family, the military camp fights with the Han family, and the waiters like to call themselves our (miscellaneous) family...... But with a title, with the word home, it seems to have a human taste. ”
"Interesting, should the people call me royal? But that sounds like a nightclub name, right? Zhao Kuangyin was worried.
"Come to think of it, the emperor also has a title, called county official. As the saying goes, county officials are not as good as the current management, that is, the emperor is not directly in charge. Xu Yongzhi said.
"The word official has a taste." Zhao Kuangyin smacked and touched.
"Your Majesty is the lord of all officials." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Officials, families, officials, families, it's better to call them officials!" Zhao Kuangyin took a few cases, and it was decided.
"Congratulations to the official!"
"You're the inventor of the word, Yongzhi." Zhao Kuangyin said with a smile.
"Don't dare, official, in fact, in the early years, some people had already privately used this as a respectful title for the Son of Heaven." Xu Yongzhi said.
"I quite like this title," Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand, "Zhang Dejun!" ”
The chamberlain Zhang Dejun hurriedly waited.
"Decree, in the future, in the inner court, I will be called an official, not Your Majesty."
"Obey the official's orders!"
Zhao Guanjia looked at Xu Yongzhi and was satisfied.
"You learn things so fast, which Wenchen military general is like you......" Zhao Kuangyin said.
"The official, the minister only hopes to be a pawn in front of the official family forever." Xu Yongzhi's words are true.
"You take the book and go to the front, I should let you see how the battle is fought."
"Don't you need a review?"
"Based on the question just now, I have to ask you to be the champion, the problem now is that Li Yun has raised troops in the party, and I sent Murong Yanzhao to deal with him, you go to the front of the battle to listen to it, and at the same time, if possible, don't let his little son Li Shoujie burn the city, I give you the right to act secretly, and you can go directly to talk to Li Shoujie secretly."
"Yes!"
"The less the dead, the better!"
"Yes, official!"
After receiving the will, Xu Yongzhi went out of the palace and went straight to the house of Shanzitang, at this time, the chirping ash flew from a distance, and it looked like it had flown a long way.
Giant parrots are actually not good at flying, and their main life is to climb in the woods.
The chirping ash fell on Xu Yongzhi's shoulder, so he didn't bother to move, Xu Yongzhi hurriedly took the melon seeds and fed it, and then untied his feet.
A text message inside the foot.
"Meimei is here. - Cocole. ”
Xu Yongzhi breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately there were many, many question marks.
What did Duan Meimei do when she went to Yuzhou to find Tian Kokou?
Do you still want to learn witchcraft?