Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 700
Just after the new year, the officials of the capital had not yet adjusted their work status, but they were suddenly disturbed by a memorial from Guangxi to disturb the aftertaste of the holiday.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, because the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was a workaholic and because the country was founded, he did not dare to slack off and worked day and night, and the ministers had no choice but to follow suit.So there were very few holidays at that time, and there were only 18 holidays per year, with New Year's Day on the 5th, Winter Solstice on the 3rd, and Lantern Festival on the 10th.Later, 3 days of monthly leave were added, and with the original 18 days, there are 50 days of annual leave.

According to the records of "Daming Huidian" volume [-] "Festivals" compiled last year, that is, the eighth year of Wanli, officials' statutory holidays mainly include the winter solstice, New Year's Day, and Lantern Festival.

And yesterday, the Ming version of the "Spring Festival Gala" - the Aoshan Lantern Festival just passed!
This Aoshan Lantern Festival is a giant lantern firework landscape built by the royal family of the Ming Dynasty in the palace city every year during the Lantern Festival.It is named "Aoshan Lantern Festival" because of its shape resembling a turtle.Since the Lantern Festival in the seventh year of Yongle, this grand lantern festival has been opened with a high profile-"Listen to the subjects going to the Meridian Gate to watch Aoshan Mountain for three days".

Usually, the preparation starts in December of the previous year, and various uniquely designed "exotic flowers" and "cannons" are piled up layer by layer, usually thirteen layers high.On the day of the Lantern Festival, colorful lights of various shapes flicker on the huge "Aoshan Mountain", gorgeous fireworks are constantly set off, and palace ladies dance to the beautiful music of bell and drum divisions. Fantastic audio-visual enjoyment.

A famous later generation named Tang Yin saw the grand occasion of the Aoshan Lantern Festival when he was studying in the capital. He wrote a poem excitedly: "Xiandian Shenyan is Taixia, and the treasure lantern is decorated with Lingcha. Agarwood connects three bead trees, The colorful knots and branches illuminate the flowers in four directions. The water stimulates the Gepi dragon to transform into a staff, and the moonlight goes out to the mountains and the phoenix follows the cart."

After three consecutive nights of carnival, who among you can get into work so quickly?Not to mention that near the end of this year, the officials in the capital still have to collect charcoal to pay homage...

However, there was a guy named Gao Yushi who refused to live in peace. As soon as the yamen resumed work, his memorial was entered into the Secretary of General Administration. It was a big news at the beginning of the new year—this memorial was actually called "Complaints for Complying with the Master" Please lead the chieftains of Guangxi to crusade against Annan Mo's Shu."

What?You still follow the instructions of your master when you crusade against the Annan Mo family?

However, the most amazing thing about this memoir is that it is not a matter of obeying the Master’s instruction. After all, Confucius did say, “Repay grievances with honesty, and repay virtue with kindness.” The key is that Gao Wu actually explained the assassination of him and the chieftains. After that, he put forward a very fresh proposal: he and all the chieftains would send troops to avenge this personal revenge, and asked the emperor for approval.

This is going to be a bit controversial.

Although, "Gongyang Zhuan Zhuang Gong Four Years" once said: "Is it possible to avenge the ninth generation? Even if it is a hundred generations." He launched a war of revenge against the Xiongnu for the reason, and finally sealed the wolves to live in Xu, and raised the might of the Han Dynasty in the vast sea. It seems that the Han people have advocated revenge since ancient times.

But the problem is that these enmities are not personal enmity, but national enmity.

How can national enmity be compared with private enmity?
For example, Emperor Wu of the Han wanted to levy the Xiongnu because he lost face in the siege of Bai Deng, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty. The third child was beaten to death, isn't that all right?

You are highly pragmatic and dignified as the champion of the six poems, and you just edited "Da Ming Hui Dian" last year. Don't you even understand this bit of common sense?

However, Gao Yushi also has his reasons. What he said is: "Annan, the southern border is far away, and it is also a barrier of the Celestial Dynasty. If you use a national war to conquer, this reason is not enough. What's more, the army is on an expedition, the people's livelihood is destroyed, and the Holy Son of Heaven I can't bear to see it. However, the Mo family deceived his ministers so much that he sent assassins to kill him, and even spread to the chieftains. Today, there are dozens of chieftains in western and southern Guangxi.

The ministers secretly thought that the chieftains secured our country, and the native officials secured our courtiers, but the land is governed by the world, and the officials are hereditary, which is different from the usual.If the enemy is in our interior, it should be dealt with according to the law of the country; if the enemy is outside our country, it can be treated according to the national enmity.Therefore, although Annan's assassin Tuchen and the chieftains were not the national enmity of the court, it was actually the national enmity between the ministers and the chieftains.

However, since the ministers and chieftains are enmity with the Mo family, the soldiers, equipment, food, grass, salaries and silver required for the conquest should not be paid by the court, but should be raised by the ministers themselves... If you can sweep the land, how can you do it? To avenge the old grievances of Li Li in the past? "

Li Li was the founder of the Li Dynasty who launched the Lanshan Uprising and fought so many battles that Ming Xuanzong felt that it was a loss-making business to keep Annan, so he finally gave up.

The meaning of Gao Wushi's mention of this point is very clear-although Li Li still wanted to ask Daming for title later, Daming agreed, and asked him to pay a tribute every three years, and prepared two "surrogate golden men" every time he thought that Daming died in battle The two generals of the army died.

But in any case, the dignified Ming Dynasty had to give up the land that had been annexed. This made the courtiers very upset in the Ming Dynasty, when the court officials were full of self-confidence.

Gao Pragmatism is to use this mentality to let them lead the thinking of this matter to the side of "beating Annan and avenging the old revenge".

Therefore, this memorial is divided into three levels:
First, let’s talk about righteousness. Highly pragmatic, it is to follow the teachings of Confucius, and to report grievances directly——Mo Maoqia, a street boy, dares to provoke me, so I can’t call back?Beat him up!

To be reasonable again, although the chieftain is our courtier, they are Zhili officials, and Mo Maoqia is a foreign official. The enmity between chieftain and Mo Maoqia can obviously be applied to national enmity.

Finally, let’s talk about the advantages, neither a single soldier from the imperial court, nor a silver or a copper from the imperial court, I, someone Gao, and the chieftain of Guangxi will pack it up!And after the fight, you can still report to us Daming the old grievances of the year, isn't that good?

Courtiers like Gao Wushi are obviously the emperor's favorite, because as long as he raises a problem, he will definitely not just report the problem to the emperor and let the emperor worry about what to do.

Instead, along with the problem, the solution is put forward together, and the solution is very easy. As the emperor, Zhu only needs to approve a word such as "ke" or "allow" or "permit".

For such a major event, the emperor actually found that he only needed one word to completely solve the problem, leaving nothing to worry about, and handing it all over to the subordinates, so how could he not feel refreshed?If they were all courtiers like this, wouldn't the emperor be a hundred times more worry-free?

Therefore, when some people in the outer court were still arguing about the validity of Gao Yushi's statement that "the enmity between the chieftain and Annan can be compared to the national enmity", the inspector of ceremonies in the inner court has already made it clear that it does not cost the court a penny You can report the old grievances from a hundred years ago, whoever opposes has ulterior motives!

This time, the foreign court lost its voice for a moment.

No way, Daming has this kind of tradition. It doesn’t matter if you quarrel with each other about internal affairs. When speaking externally, the caliber must be unified, and the unified caliber must be tough—just like Chongzhen really had no choice. Jin Yihe, in the end, only had this intention. After the incident was leaked, he had to throw away the car to protect the handsome man.

Even the emperor did not dare to bear the charge of being weak to the outside world. It can be seen that "Gangming" is not just a joke, it is a 200-year tradition.

Therefore, the dispute in the outer court can only stop here.

The next day, the cabinet's proposal was submitted to the emperor's desk, and the opinion was of course agreed.

The emperor's reply was also very timely, and the words were very interesting: the situation is excusable, and the next one is not an example.

In fact, Zhu Yijun really wanted to give a direct approval of "accurate", or even "wonderful", but there are some things that can be thought about but not directly said. The tonality of the emperor of the celestial dynasty must be maintained...

(End of this chapter)