The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 588 The only emperor in the Ming Dynasty who won the final right of interpretation

{It's fun to beat someone with a stick, but your descendants will end up in the crematorium.}
{You can say they asked for it, or you can say they insisted on their own ideas.}
{But no matter what, my face was completely torn apart.}
{No matter how his face is torn, the emperor is still the father! (dog head)}

……

Tang Dynasty and Gaozong period
"The Confucian tradition emphasizes loyalty to the emperor, requiring that the Dao is higher than the emperor and that the ministers should follow the Dao instead of the emperor as the standard of conduct."

Li Zhi flipped through the "Mencius" in his hand and talked to himself.

"They were fearless and took the risk of death to speak out and make remonstrances as the best option to correct the emperor's mistakes."

"As a special group of officials who are responsible for speaking out, censors are naturally tasked with serving the emperor with morality."

Queen Wang became impatient and interrupted directly:

"Sir, you are not releasing me just to say this nonsense, right?"

Li Zhi paused, twisted the paper in his hand, and murmured:

"nonsense?"

"You are so stupid that I hate you so much."

Queen Wang stood up suddenly.

"Li Zhi! I'm still the queen!"

Li Zhi did not even raise his head and continued:

"do you know."

“The group of civil servants who have a voice are not a monolithic group.”

"As the emperor's crackdown on censors intensified without explanation, and as upright censors fell one by one in the beatings and bloodshed, those censors who escaped the disaster would inevitably reduce their political enthusiasm and tend to be silent and fickle."

Li Zhi looked up at Queen Wang, whose expression changed a little, and continued:

"Many of them will change from being stubborn at first to being flatterers."

"The censors who spoke out were sentenced to death, while those who curry favor with the powerful were given candy."

“When comparing the two, most people will choose to seek the benefit and avoid the harm.”

"look……"

Li Zhi closed the book and said softly:
“Nothing is really set in stone.”

"Queen."

"You want to be the censor who speaks out but gets punished."

"Or is he just a sycophant who enjoys all the glory?"

Queen Wang looked at Li Zhi's gentle smile and couldn't help but take two steps back.

"you you……"

Li Zhi gradually stopped smiling and said calmly:

"Go back and think about it carefully."

"Send the queen back to the palace."

The eunuch came to Queen Wang and whispered:

"My queen, please return to the palace."

Queen Wang looked at Li Zhi deeply, then turned and left.

Li Zhi looked at her back with a calm expression.

……

[After the Zuo Shunmen Incident, Zhu Houcong moved his father's spirit tablet from Anlu Prefecture to the capital and placed it in the Guande Hall.]

[He gave his father Emperor Xingxian the title of "Huang Kao Gong Mu Xian Emperor", and the previous two words "Bensheng" had been quietly erased. ]

[In order to completely quell the opposition, Zhu Houcong ordered the dismissal and arrest of many civil officials. ]

【At the same time, Zhang Cong, Gui E, Xi Shu, Huo Tao, and Fang Xianfu were summoned to the capital to serve. 】

[Those veterans who had long since retired or even passed away could not escape the fate. Yang Tinghe and the three prime ministers who followed him, as well as their supporters at the time, were all stripped of their official positions and honors.]

[In the court, those who walk around are all obedient people who treat the emperor like a father. ]

……

Cao Wei.

"Do you know what the Zuo Shunmen Incident means?"

Cao Cao stroked his beard and asked the young Cao Rui beside him.

Little Cao Rui said directly:

"It means that Zhu Houcong won the final victory in the struggle for succession and established the imperial power second only to Taizu and Taizong in the Ming Dynasty."

Liu Bei and Sun Quan on the side looked the little thing up and down.

"It must be said that Meng De's descendants are indeed quite talented."

Liu Bei sighed sincerely as he looked at the child who could immediately analyze the essence of things.

Through the dispute over succession, Zhu Houcong forced almost all important officials to express their views and expelled all opponents from the court, leaving only those who supported him. Although there were many opportunists among them, this did not affect his use of the dispute over succession to show that his throne came from his unchangeable blood relationship, not adoption.

In this way, he established his unique control over the imperial power and completely idled the relatives of Emperor Xiaozong and Emperor Wuzong.

Zhuge Liang sighed slightly:
"If I had a son, I'd want him to be like Sun Zhongmou..."

Bored Sun Quan:?

I'm still here!
Cao Cao glanced at the three people around him out of the corner of his eye.

He suppressed the smile on his face.

There's no way of telling who's the best among the three of us, but when it comes to offspring, I'm the winner!
Big win!

……

[1527 AD, the sixth year of Jiajing.]

[Zhu Houcong opened a library to compile the "Complete Book of Great Rites", which was later officially named "The Great Code of Minglun"]

[This sutra repairs the loopholes in the etiquette, sorts out the causes and consequences of the Great Ceremony Controversy, and gives a conclusion.]

[In June of the following year, the book was completed, and Zhu Houcong conferred titles on Zhang Cong, Huo Tao and others, and revoked the official titles of Yang Tinghe, Mao Cheng, Jiang Mian, Mao Ji, Lin Jun, Qiao Yu, Wang Jun, Xia Liangsheng and others.]

[In September, the emperor was ordered to be called Emperor Xiaozong Jing as Emperor Bokao and Empress Zhaosheng as Emperor Aunt Mu.]

【During the meeting, everyone agreed.】

……

{The imperial cane smashed the civil officials' buttocks, and also shattered their obsessions and the Confucian doctrines they held on to.}
{I feel that Jiajing initially provoked the "Great Ceremony Debate" only with a very practical purpose, to gain the status of emperor and empress for his biological parents and to maintain his own dignity.}
{But as things progressed, he began to go beyond this purpose.}
{Through the "Great Ritual Debate", he developed etiquette to a new stage, and thus he became an epoch-making figure in the history of etiquette development.}
{If the struggle between Jiajing and Yang Tinghe in the early days was a political struggle, then later on its nature completely changed and became a struggle in the field of ideology.}
{He no longer just fought for his parents' reputation and his own status, but challenged the unreasonable ethics and ancestral system and created a new ancestral system.}
{“Not only is it being created today, but it is also intended to be a law for all eternity, to clarify human relations and to rectify the rules and regulations.”}
{After the Great Ritual Controversy, the suburban sacrifices were revised. As soon as the revision of the suburban sacrifices was completed, the sacrificial rites of the Confucius Temple were rebuilt. After the sacrificial rites of the Confucius Temple were settled, he turned to rectify the temple system of the Imperial Ancestral Temple. He took over all the national rituals and rites and reformed them.}
{He wants to be the second Zhu Yuanzhang.}
……

The period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty
Liu Heng looked at the sky with deep eyes.

"A new era has begun."

Liu Qi was used to his father's vague way of speaking.

Liu Qi didn't ask, and Liu Heng didn't say.

He just looked at the sky quietly.

In the past, the struggle for power took place at the level of aristocratic families, local governors, and the imperial palace.

Solve it by means of force, killing, imprisonment, dethronement, etc.

However, in the Great Ceremony Debate, the power struggle took place at the level of consciousness.

It can be resolved through an abstract theory or even a dispute over a few words.

The emperor has been pulled by Confucianism into the field in which he is good at.

……

Tang Xuanzong Period
Li Longji was speechless as he watched the words coming from the sky.

“Is there such a possibility?”

"It's impossible for such a thing to happen in other dynasties?"

Li Mi stroked his beard and sighed:

"That's because the etiquette is unclear."

"In what dynasty would such a meaningless matter lead to a quarrel between the emperor and his subjects, and even to the point of life and death?"

"When Emperor Chengdi of Han Dynasty appointed Prince Dingtao as the Crown Prince, there was no disturbance and the transition was smooth."

"The story of Emperor Yingzong of Song is quite interesting, and the court officials and famous scholars are also divided into two factions."

"But if you compare it, it is quite different from the Great Ceremony Discussion."

"Although the former was lively and exciting, the emperor's situation was not difficult. Yingzong did not spend too much trouble to finalize the matter."

"Zhu Houcong is completely different."

Li Mi looked at the emperor and said solemnly:

"It took him three years from the time he set out from Anlu to take the throne to the time he achieved victory with King Xingxian as his father."

"It's hard to describe the ups and downs, the compromises, and the happy endings."

"This shows that the space for monarchical power has been greatly squeezed."

"He is actually facing the same force."

"Nominally, the monarchy is supreme, but the 'ritual system' is in the hands of the literati."

"They achieved a higher voice than the emperor through their control over ideology."

"Zhu Houcong had to fight."

……

[After the Great Ceremony Controversy, the ignorant young emperor quickly transformed into a seasoned politician, and eventually became one of the emperors who knew how to control power best in the Ming Dynasty.]

[Especially in terms of control over the civil service group, it has reached a level of perfection.]

【The young and powerful ruler who eliminated all obstacles and held great power also officially began to "eliminate all bad policies" in order to make "the world in peace and order"! 】

(End of this chapter)