Of course, Zhu Yijun could also see that Shen Shixing's main purpose in this memorial was to flatter the Great Ming Dynasty, to flatter himself. What resurgence of the Holy Lord, the beginning of a golden age? In any case, he was trying his best to flatter him.
There was only one attitude that he wanted to express. Although he didn't say what he said, he was on the same side as him.
He raised his hands high and shouted, "Your Majesty, don't fire, we're on the same side!"
The theory he put forward was deeply in the emperor's heart. Zhu Yijun didn't know what to say.
Although it sounded a little familiar, wasn't this the same method those Confucians used to flatter the Qing Dynasty?
What revering the ancients, what abolishing the Song Confucians, learning from the Han Confucians, to put it bluntly, "Your Majesty, what do you want me to do?"
Zhu Yijun looked at it for a long time and once again refreshed Zhu Yijun's bottom line. He was simply too shameless.
However, he had no choice but to accept it. The official had good intentions, and what he said was reasonable.
He was still thinking about how to study diligently and how to change Confucianism. It was simply too superficial.
As a later generation, he actually didn't raise the banner of the Renaissance. It was simply a disgrace to transmigrators.
Look at Daming's bureaucrats, holding high the banner of reviving ancient Confucianism, playing their own tricks.
"Ginger is still spicier, and the officials are still as cunning as ever!"
Zhu Yijun sighed and reached out to put Shen Shixing's memorial aside, "This emperor can't compare to this shameless person!"
Zhu Yijun was not a fool. How could he not see that Shen Shixing was clearly doing this to kick Li Zhi away?
To put it bluntly, it was to seize the right to speak. This kind of operation was simply a stroke of genius.
If the New Confucianism really rose, Shen Shixing and the others would be swept into the trash sooner or later.
But now, they directly played with the ancients, directly seizing the right to speak.
Compared to Li Zhi, Shen Shixing and the others had too great an advantage. They had a high status and power, and their disciples and old friends were all over the world.
Whether it was to curry favor with their superiors or to respect their teachers, they had to pinch their noses and accept it.
Compared to Li Zhi's Neo-Confucianism, Zhu Yijun believed that as long as he nodded his head, this ancient school of thought would instantly become the mainstream ideology of Daming.
What Neo-Confucianism? Everything would be swept into the garbage.
When Emperor Wu of Han put the Confucians in an important position, where was the powerful Huang Lao School?
He was beaten into a necromancer.
It was a good Daoist school of thought, but he went to set up a stall to do divination and cultivate to become an immortal.
Where is the Mo family now?
They were all done for. The Confucian school was unbelievably strong when it came to internal strife and attacking dissidents.
Of course, this was also directly related to the Confucian Family's shamelessness and endless fawning.
Since ancient times, how many times had the Confucian school made adjustments?
All kinds of theories, all kinds of adjustments, whatever the ruler likes, we will come up with.
Zhu Yijun finally understood. Even if you don't want to use it, you have to pinch your nose and use it.
What Neo-Confucianism? Go play with your balls. Our Ancient Reverence Faction is the true path.
He reached out and picked up the second memorial. This memorial was from the Vice Minister of the Cabinet, Yu Youding.
This memorial was also very good. It was written about Mencius, and was wantonly discussing Mencius' theory. It was directly talking about the importance of the people. As for Jun Qing's argument, was there any?
He didn't see it!
The Confucian school could even misinterpret the principle of returning good for evil, let alone a mere Jun Qing.
From Mencius' theory of the importance of the people, it was directly derived that the four people are the origin. The common people are the common people of His Majesty. His Majesty is the Son of Heaven, acting on behalf of the heavens, so how can the common people be divided into high and low?
The common people are the common people of His Majesty, so they naturally have to be treated equally. People shouldn't be divided according to their status, but according to their thoughts and actions. This was Mencius' theory of the importance of the people.
Zhu Yijun looked at Yu Youding's lengthy theory and directly destroyed Li Zhi's theory of the importance of the four people.
How is this your idea? This is clearly Mencius' theory.
As for whether it was reasonable or not, Zhu Yijun didn't know. In any case, Yu Youding's argument was long, reasonable, and well-grounded.
Putting down Yu Youding's memorial, Zhu Yijun picked up Fang Fengshi's memorial.
After opening it and taking a look, Fang Fengshi changed the direction and praised Xunzi's theory.
From the idea that human nature is inherently evil, the Heaven's Desire Theory was extended.
To put it bluntly, human desires are innate. When hungry, they want to eat; when thirsty, they want to drink; when they grow up, they want to marry. This is the right path of reincarnation, the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, human desires are the Heaven's Desire Theory.
What is the Heaven's justice to extinguish human desires? This is simply heresy.
Of course, Fang Fengshi also raised the issue of self-cultivation. As a human, it's okay to have desires, but one shouldn't hurt others to satisfy one's own desires. This is an evil desire.
Fang Fengshi divided desires into two types: good desire and evil desire. He believed that good desire should be promoted, while evil desire should be restrained through learning.
As for what is good desire and what is evil desire, Your Majesty, what do you think of this matter?
Reading this memorial, Zhu Yijun was speechless. Are you trying to trample Li Zhi to death?!
Shen Shixing unrestrainedly attacked the Song Confucianism and praised the Han Confucianism.
Yu Youding directly flattered Mencius under the banner of restoring the Mencius Doctrine, but he played the card of equality of the four people and flattered himself, the Emperor. The Emperor acted on behalf of the heavens, how could he not treat the people equally?
In the name of reviving the Xunzi Theory, Fang Fengshi directly pointed to the Heaven's Desire Theory, which is the Heaven's justice to extinguish human desires.
He divided desires into two. Good desire should be promoted, and evil desire should be abandoned through self-cultivation.
As for what is good desire and what is evil desire, it depends on which desire is beneficial to Daming's rule.
Zhu Yijun put the three memorials aside and sighed in his heart. These three shameless people.
Picking up Ceng Shengwu's memorial, Zhu Yijun was curious to see what this person had to say at the end.
Opening Ceng Shengwu's memorial, Zhu Yijun glanced at it and sighed helplessly.
You're not giving Li Zhi a chance to live!
In Ceng Shengwu's memorial, the content written was also very shameless. He directly took the Mohists' ideas. The first point was to attach importance to the hundred crafts.
Anyway, Zhu Yijun didn't know how Ceng Shengwu sorted it out. Anyway, he sorted out the Han Confucianism's hundred crafts.
After the hundred crafts, Ceng Shengwu proposed the idea of ruling the country according to law. He believed that it was right to have laws to abide by. Since the laws were made, they must be enforced. If the laws were not suitable, they could be amended, but they could not be twisted.
This was really impossible to verify. No matter what you said about the Legalists' ideas, they couldn't become the Confucians'.
However, Ceng Shengwu still had a way. Ruling the country with propriety was advocated by the Confucians, so being disrespectful was a great crime. This was a universal value.
Ceng Shengwu advocated to fix the conduct of propriety using the law and promulgate it to the world.
Although it was a bit unreasonable, Zhu Yijun didn't care about this. He wanted Ceng Shengwu to really come up with an explanation.
Of the four Grand Scholars, Shen Shixing raised the banner of the Revered the Ancients, abandoning the Song Confucians and learning from the Han Confucians. Then, the other three Grand Scholars each elaborated on a different aspect, giving the Revered the Ancients a source and evidence.
Of course, these thoughts were all added by Zhu Yijun and summarized by Li Zhi. Now, they had been taken by these shameless fellows. Moreover, they even made it seem as though they were carrying it forward.
From the Confucians needing reform to saying that the Confucians had always been like this, it was just that the Song Confucians had gone astray.
Everything was the Song Confucians' fault. If it weren't for the Song Confucians' decadence and weakness, would the Song Dynasty have fallen to such a state?
The Northern Lands had fallen to the Shan Xing, and the Central Plains had been shaken. This was the Central Plains' greatest humiliation after the Eastern Jin Dynasty's invasion of the Five Barbarians.
As for the Song Dynasty's poetry, culture, and economy, did they exist?
They didn't.
In any case, the Song Dynasty was weak and had no backbone. Look at our Daming Emperor. Look at our Founding Father. Look at our Daming Son of Heaven. He didn't make peace, cede territory, or pay reparations.
If the Son of Heaven is like this, how can we learn from the decadent and weak Song Confucians? We have to learn from the Han Confucians. Only then can we be worthy of the wise Son of Heaven. Only then can we be worthy of the flourishing Golden Age. Come to my Revered the Ancients and learn from the Han Confucians!
Putting the four memorials to the side, Zhu Yijun sighed helplessly.
"The affairs of the world are inconstant!"
After sighing, Zhu Yijun stood up and stretched. He then said, "Zhang Jing, set off for the Kunning Palace. We want to see the Empress."
"Yes, Imperial Majesty!" Zhang Jing respectfully replied. He turned around and led the way.
The Tax Department.
Although the outside world was in a mess, the Tax Department was one of the few stable yamens in the capital.
Firstly, most of the people in the Tax Department came from the inner factory. They had confidence.
Secondly, Wang Yongji was a close official of the Son of Heaven. Recently, there had been rumors that he would be made a scholar, so everyone felt much more at ease.
Thirdly, the Tax Department had been very busy recently. Everyone was busy with the tasks given to them by their superiors. They didn't have the mind to care about other things.
In the Tax Department's office, Wang Yongji flipped through the account books in his hands. Below him was the commander of the Imperial Bodyguard, Li Biao.
Although he had waited for a long time, Li Biao didn't seem to be in a hurry.
He sat there quietly drinking tea and didn't make a sound.
After a while, Wang Yongji put down the account book in his hands and glanced at Li Biao. A trace of admiration flashed through his eyes. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly. The people in His Majesty's inner factory were really extraordinary!
Not to mention other things, just this self-restraint alone made Li Biao much stronger than Xing Shangzhi.
"I've made Official Li wait for a long time!"
Wang Yongji said with a smile. "But it has already been sorted out. In the entire western suburbs, there are a total of 46 houses, and the owners of the houses have all been verified."
"There are a total of 124 monasteries, but there are no Taoist temples!"
Li Biao heard Wang Yongji say this and said with a smile, "Official Wang doesn't need to feel surprised."
"Please enlighten me, Official Li." Wang Yongji paused and asked with a smile.
"I'm sure Official Wang has heard of the banishment of the alchemists and Taoists during the Longqing era?"
Seeing Wang Yongji nod, Li Biao continued. "In the past, there were many Taoist temples in the western suburbs."
"But they were all banished later, and there aren't many Taoist temples in the capital."
Wang Yongji nodded. There was no need to mention the past events of the Jiajing era. It was fine as long as he knew what had happened. "We've already sent out the notice, but not many people have come!"
"These people dare to disregard the Tax Department?" Li Biao said with some surprise.
Who didn't know what kind of government the Tax Department was, and who didn't know Wang Yongji of the Tax Department?
In the capital, who dared to disrespect the Tax Department?
This made Li Biao curious.
"They are fearless!" Wang Yongji said with a sigh.
In fact, anyone who built a house in the western suburbs was not to be trifled with. As for those monks and monasteries, they were even more difficult to deal with.
But since they had done this, they naturally had to do it.
Li Biao raised his head, looked at Wang Yongji, and asked, "Has anyone been sent to Wu Qingbo's house?"
Since the death of Wu Qingbo Li Wei, the status of Wu Qingbo's mansion could be said to have plummeted.
The family's business was greatly taken over by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but a starving camel was still bigger than a horse.
The Empress Dowager was still there, and Wu Qingbo's mansion wouldn't have fallen much.
But Li Biao clearly knew that the Emperor had instructed Wang Yongji to start with Wu Qingbo's mansion.
Since things had reached a stalemate, then it was natural to pull Wu Qingbo's mansion out for a walk.
"No!" Wang Yongji shook his head and said, "No one came."
"Then let's start with Wu Qingbo's mansion!"
Li Biao stood up and said, "I will go back and gather people. The Imperial Bodyguard has been very weak these years. The people in the capital have almost forgotten how to write the three words Imperial Bodyguard."
Wang Yongji looked at Li Biao. He didn't expect the gentle and elegant Li Biao to have such a side.
"Then I will trouble Sir Li!" Wang Yongji nodded and said.
After gathering the people, they went straight to the western suburbs. Along the way, Wang Yongji looked at Li Biao with a strange expression.
Li Biao's actions were really out of line. Three hundred Imperial Bodyguards. Are you going to suppress bandits?
Although they were going to find trouble with Wu Qingbo's mansion, there was no need to gather so many people!
The Tsinghua Garden of Wu Qingbo's mansion was very famous in the western suburbs. Outside was a ten-mile long embankment. Willow trees were planted on the embankment, and the ground was all bluestone slabs. The cool breeze was blowing gently. Walking on it, the summer heat dissipated a lot.
A group of people came to the entrance of Tsinghua Garden. Tsinghua Garden had already received the news. After all, the movements of the Tax Department and the Imperial Bodyguard were really not small.
Just when Wang Yongji wanted to ask someone to go up and negotiate, Li Biao spoke on the side.
"Everyone in the garden gather together. Find a courtyard for the men and a courtyard for the women." Li Biao's tone was very calm, but his words were so cold that it sent chills down people's spines.
"After entering the garden, you are not allowed to take anything. If anyone dares to take anything from the garden, even if it is a stone, you can forget about your head.
"Enter the garden now. Anyone who doesn't cooperate with us will be killed without exception."
When he said this, Wang Yongji jumped in fright. We are here to negotiate, not to confiscate the property of others.
No, confiscating a property is not like this. We are obviously here to catch a traitor.
Li Biao was very calm. He waved his hand lightly and said, "Do it!"
"Inspectorate, follow up. If anyone disobeys my order, kill without exception!"
Hearing Li Biao's words, the Imperial Bodyguards rushed in like wolves and tigers. The servants of Wu Qingbo's mansion who were blocking the door were directly pushed to the side.
The housekeeper who had just walked out didn't wait for him to speak. He was directly pressed to the side with a knife on his neck.
At this time, Wang Yongji also noticed something different. Behind the Imperial Bodyguards, there was a group of people in black with cold faces.
Although these people were also wearing flying suits, they were black.
More importantly, the Imperial Bodyguards were very afraid of them. Were these people the Inspectorate?