The eighth day of the first month.

This itself is an extremely ordinary day, according to the Ming system, in addition to New Year's Day, winter solstice and other festivals officials can take vacation, there are also sick leave, leave, etc., but every year from December 20 to the 20th of the first month, this month belongs to the semi-vacation.

What is called semi-vacation, to put it bluntly, officials can not go to the yamen to work, but the government affairs that should be handled still have to be handled, which is almost equivalent to working from home, and it is also to prepare for the arrival of the new year.

However, in the second year of Jiajing, this system was changed, and this half-vacation system was canceled, and it was changed to the 28th day of the lunar month to the 7th day of the first lunar month, which was a normal vacation for 10 days, and the rest of the time was normal to work.

This change did not cause dissatisfaction, for the ministers, they control the world is to control the power, and it does not matter to them whether they take a vacation or not, which is the same reason that later generations of civil servants or leaders are unwilling to retire when they reach their old age.

As for the grassroots officials, their yamen is their temporary residence, and they don't take any vacation, they are all the same, and at best they don't sit in court and ask about cases.

On the eighth day of the first month of the second year of Jiajing, officials all over the world ended their vacations and went to work normally, but it was obvious that for the people of the capital, whether officials went to work or not was none of their business, and what they liked to see and hear were some things they liked to see.

For example, what is the biggest thing today?

As long as you read the notice some time ago or care a little bit about current affairs, you know that today is the opening day of Yenching University.

Today, a grand opening ceremony will be held at Yenching University.

At that time, Emperor Jiajing, the elders of the cabinet and the important ministers of the court will go to Yenching University to watch the ceremony!

The common people just watched the excitement, but those with a slightly more sensitive political sense knew that this was a compromise between the court or the entire Confucian emperor and the emperor.

Because Yenching University is a combination of Confucianism and miscellaneous studies, of course, this miscellaneous study is not the miscellaneous study of the Spring and Autumn Period, but the real miscellaneous, a mess of miscellaneous.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism because Confucianism adapted its program to the ruling ideology of the emperor in order to cater to the emperor, which was also a visible change in Confucianism since the Spring and Autumn Period.

But when it comes to Confucianism in later generations, its core point is that Confucianism is too changeable and inclusive, and Confucianism will inadvertently adjust itself when encountering emperors with different personalities in different periods, as if it were a piece of plasticine, and the hand that pinched the plasticine is royal.

Confucianism in the Spring and Autumn Period belonged to a pure academic school, and it entered various countries to practice the concept of Confucianism and improve the academic system.

So change is needed, and how?

Confucianism is the skin, Legalism is the bone!

When it came to Zhu Xi, he carried forward the science of science, although it was still Confucianism, but it really had to be said that Confucianism after Zhu Xi and Confucianism in the previous dynasty were completely two concepts.

Waiting for Zhu Hongwu to expel Meng Yuan to dominate the world, he once planned to get a glamorous background for himself, so he wanted to recognize Zhu Xi as his ancestor, it doesn't matter whether this is true or false.

The important thing is that since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination has been based on Zhu Xi's science, and the Four Books and Five Classics must also be tested Zhu Xi has made annotations, no matter how well you study the Four Books and Five Classics, no matter how you have your own unique opinions, it is useless, at least if you don't write according to Zhu Xi's meaning during the imperial examination, then the name of Sun Shan is not negotiable.

In the Ming Dynasty, only Wang Shouren questioned Zhu Xi's theory, and it was not the carriage and horses that were questioned by the Ming Dynasty.

Now in the Jiajing Dynasty, the Jiajing Emperor did not do his job, he liked to tinker with craftsmen, and liked to develop all walks of life, such as medicine, business, and so on.

Emperor Jiajing did not express his intention to depose Confucianism, and the development of miscellaneous studies in his words was to promote the prosperity and development of all walks of life, to promote social progress, to ensure that the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty would not lose to the former Song Dynasty, in order to let tens of thousands of people have enough food and clothing, and for the sake of national peace and security......

Look at how high-sounding it is, what do you let the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty oppose, the emperor pry the corner of your Confucianism, or let the miscellaneous scholars embark on a career in office?

Nothing!

What's more, who is the sacrificial sake of Yenching University?

It is the son of the Shoufu family and the famous genius of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Shen accepted this position, and Yang Tinghe did not raise any objections, so the officials standing behind Yang Tinghe in the Manchu Dynasty naturally would not object, and those officials who did not deal with Yang Tinghe very well also had their own bigwigs on their heads, and their own bigwigs did not come forward, so they would naturally not charge into battle.

It can be said that the officials of the Jiajing Dynasty were unprecedentedly united, there were no major partisan disputes, and there was no court full of gunsmoke all the time, because they were facing an extremely powerful monarch who was full of strange things.

In the face of such a gentleman, you can only twist into a rope to fight against the monarchy!

One of the core of politics is compromise, and the opening of Yenching University is a compromise between the courtiers and the emperor, and what Confucianism needs to do at this time is not to desperately oppose it, or even play the death reprimand.

What they need to do is to adapt, adapt to the temperament of the lord on the throne, cooperate with the realization of the king's political ideals, and then let Confucianism hold the right to speak in the Jiajing Dynasty and stand tall in the court.

In fact, this is what Confucianism has been doing for thousands of years, but the strategy is different in different eras.

Yenching University has been listed for a while, and the plaque was smashed on the day of the listing is a small episode, although Zhu Houwei's imperial prestige has been provoked, but it also happened to give him a pretext to play and give Guozijian a warning.

Of course, his imperial pen plaque was smashed, so if Ma Shen was really just deprived of his fame, then the outside world might say that he was too merciful as an emperor.

Of course, benevolent monarchs, officials like the people, but liking does not mean that they can do it.

Ask yourself, if you were the emperor, could you do it?

Since he can't, why ask others to be able to be too benevolent and inconsistent with Zhu Houwei's character as a strong monarch who positions himself, so he must let the world know that he Zhu Houwei is not so easy to talk to.

It's just that the matter of investigating Jin Shang is not over yet, and when it is over, Zhu Houwei will let everyone in the world know a fact.

Don't offend me, the end of offending me is to kill your whole family with righteous and bright means!

Since you have done something wrong, you must have the consciousness of paying a painful price, and karma is not a failure to repay, but the means have not yet arrived.

Zhu Houwei wants to use this incident to kill a group of businessmen who are in touch with foreign countries to deter lawlessness, and use Ma Shen's head to teach a lesson to scholars all over the world, so that they can know what is the inviolability of imperial power!

Kill two birds with one stone, the emperor's mind!

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