Chapter 714： Old things

Chapter 714 Old things

It turns out that the historical allusion of "Xu Jie, a villain, never to be used" is real, and it is engraved on this pillar of Wuyi.

When Xu Jie comes to work in Wuyixun every day, he will see these eight characters on the pillar.

In other words, Xu Jie has a lot of experience.

According to Zhu Pingan's history in modern times, these eight characters were inscribed by Emperor Jiajing in the ninth year of Jiajing. In this year, Emperor Jiajing was 23 years old and had been enthroned for nine years; .

When it comes to these eight characters, one has to explain a famous event in the history of the dynasty—"The Great Etiquette Dispute".

The "Great Etiquette Controversy" happened when Emperor Jiajing first ascended the throne.

Actually speaking, Emperor Jiajing had no chance to be emperor. Before Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, it was his cousin Zhu Houzhao, the famous Zhengde emperor in history.

Emperor Zhengde is a wonderful flower in the history of Ming Dynasty.

On the one hand, Emperor Zhengde was wise and mighty, resolutely and decisively dealt with state affairs, and was wise and decisive in reviewing memorials. With a snap of his fingers, he eliminated the rebellion of the great **** Liu Jin, the rebellion of King Anhua, and King Ning, and he often gave relief to disasters and waived gifts. Yes, during the Battle of Yingzhou, as the emperor, Emperor Zhengde ate and lived with the soldiers in a down-to-earth manner, and even rode his horse into battle to chop melons and vegetables, rushed into the enemy's line and killed an enemy. The morale was boosted and the enemy army was defeated.

But on the other hand, Emperor Zhengde was licentious, grotesque, shameless, playful, and a famous faint emperor. Building a leopard house, there are countless Tibetan girls, playing day and night; playing wars, I like to designate myself an official, a mighty general, I don’t know if Emperor Jiajing likes to give himself a Taoist title, whether he learned it from his cousin. Moreover, it is said that Emperor Zhengde often ignored state affairs, and took Jin Yiwei out of the palace to look for flowers and ask Liu, no matter whether the other party had a husband or not, as long as he liked it, he would be robbed to the palace, causing complaints from the people around the capital.

Such a wonderful flower, the emperor, played himself to death in the end.

However, you, Emperor Zhengde, closed your eyes and left, but left a mess for the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty. The key is that he has no heirs yet.

How to do?

A country cannot be without a king for a day, who will inherit the throne.

So, Emperor Jiajing's chance came.

At that time, Minister Gu Ming Yang Tinghe and others checked the emperor's genealogy, and discussed letting Xianzong's grandson, Xiaozong's nephew, Wuzong's cousin, and the second son of Xingxian King Zhu Youzhu's second son Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong to inherit the Datong. The second son, because the eldest son died a long time ago.

Originally, things were very simple, but it was not so simple once it fell into the royal family.

This is a feudal society, a feudal society ruled by Confucianism, the way of Confucius and Mencius, especially the royal family. According to Confucius’ theory, Confucius respected the rituals of Zhou. Since you, Emperor Jiajing, are going to be the emperor, you have to have a direct blood relationship with the previous emperor. Moreover, Confucianism stipulates that: when the Xiaozong succeeds the Dazong, the Dazong should be the main one.

Thus, Yang Tinghe and others believed that Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houcong had to be adopted first to Emperor Zhengde's biological father, Emperor Jiajing's cousin, as his son, so that there would be a direct blood relationship, so that Emperor Jiajing would inherit the throne.

So, when Yang Ting and the others welcomed Emperor Jiajing to enter Beijing to inherit the throne, they held a grand ceremony of adoption and conferring the prince outside the capital, allowing Emperor Jiajing to enter the capital as the son of Xiaozong and the prince of the current dynasty, and inherit the throne.

but

Emperor Jiajing quit.

Even though Emperor Jiajing was only fifteen years old, he was a genius, and a proud genius at that.

You want me to adopt to my uncle?

Don't let me recognize my biological parents, let me bear my uncle as a father? !

What the hell, even my own parents can’t recognize me. Am I that kind of unfilial person? ! Wouldn't someone poke her back in the future!

Is it tolerable or unbearable!

"The edict is for me to be the emperor, not the prince. I will not obey." The fifteen-year-old Jiajing Emperor firmly disagreed at the gate of the city.

Emperor Jiajing refused, but the country cannot live without a king. Therefore, Yang Tinghe and others backed down and let Emperor Jiajing ascend the throne and inherit the throne first.

After ascending the throne, Emperor Jiajing wanted to worship his deceased father, Xingxian King Zhu Youhang. As a result, Yang Tinghe and others came up with the principles of Confucius and Mencius to oppose and resolutely opposed. Emperor Jiajing thought you wouldn't let me be my own father, so I went home with my mother, and the emperor didn't do it anymore.

So, Yang Tinghe and others backed down again. However, Yang Tinghe managed to do one thing. You can recognize your parents and make your parents empresses, but you can't call them "emperors". Your emperor test must be your uncle Xiaozong.

Emperor Jiajing reluctantly agreed to call his father "Xingxian Emperor" and his mother "Xingguo Empress Dowager" because he had just ascended the throne and his throne was unstable.

In the third year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing's throne was stable, and the title of "emperor" was given to his biological parents. Yang Tinghe was eventually dismissed from office. The reason for their opposition is the way of Confucius and Mencius.

Of course, Emperor Jiajing’s throne is stable, so he will not be polite. More than a hundred people were arrested and imprisoned by Emperor Jiajing. Officials above the fourth rank were deprived of their salaries, and all those below the fifth rank were beaten to the court. Eighteen people were killed this time.

Therefore, due to the event of the Great Ritual Discussion, Emperor Jiajing had a very strong opinion on Confucianism. What is the eldest son inheritance system? .

In the ninth year of Jiajing, the young and energetic 23-year-old Emperor Jiajing, under the proposal of Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet, wanted to remove Confucius' title of king, and lower the standard of sacrifices for Confucius, destroy statues, use wooden tablets, etc.

This is Confucius, the first sage Confucius, in the hearts of scholars, Confucius is like a god, and the emperors of all dynasties have continued to posthumously posthumously posthumously posthumously posthumously posthumously posthumously honor Confucius in order to show their respect for Confucius.

Even though the officials objected in their hearts, they were frightened by Emperor Jiajing. Eighteen officials from Zuo Shunmen who opposed Jiajing were beaten to death.

However, the 28-year-old Xu Jie, who was also young and energetic, stood up and went to Emperor Jiajing, resolutely opposed, and said NO to Emperor Jiajing.

Emperor Jiajing asked Zhang Cong to deal with it. Zhang Cong was angry and taught Xu Jie a lesson, and Xu Jie argued hard. Zhang Cong scolded Xu Jie angrily, saying, are you going to betray Lao Tzu? Xu Jie scoffed, betrayal is based on attachment, when did I, Xu Jie, ever attach to you? ! Then, Xu Jie wrote another letter, resolutely opposing it.

After seeing Xu Jie's Shangshu, the young and energetic Emperor Jiajing was furious, are you still in a good mood?

Okay, you think I can't be a faint king, get a bad reputation of not being able to accept advice from the people below, and put you in prison, don't you?

Don’t think I can’t do anything.

If I can’t put you in prison, then I’ll put you in another way. I’ll demote you to a place where you don’t want to shit, and become a small prison official. Go with the prison.

Therefore, Xu Jie was demoted to Yanping Prefecture, Fujian Province to be an official in charge of a prison.

In this way, Emperor Jiajing was still angry, and after throwing down the imperial decree, he ran to the Wuyi Hall angrily, and engraved the eight characters "Xu Jie villain, never use" on the pillar with his own anger, Remind yourself, Xu Jie is a villain, I can never reuse him.

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(end of this chapter)