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chapter 106
Zhu Xi tortured prostitutes
Zhu Xi, a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty, named Hui'an, was a famous philosopher, educator, and writer in the Southern Song Dynasty.He inherited Ercheng theory in philosophy and established the system of objective idealism. He is a master of Confucianism. His "Sishu Jizhu" was positioned as a must-read textbook for scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and had a profound influence on later generations.

As a fan of Confucius, he is very opposed to the "Confucius killing Shaozhengmao theory", thinking that this statement is a rumor released by later generations in the name of Confucius, and it is a lie deliberately slandering Confucius.On the basis of Confucius' remarks, Zhu Xi himself proposed many other theories, but they were all opposed by many people at that time, and one of them, Tang Zhongyou, opposed it most fiercely.

In terms of thought, Zhu Xi extended Confucius' ideas, but in action, Zhu Xi was not as straightforward as Confucius. He beat around the bush and wanted to attack Tang Zhongyou from the side. On the question, caught Tang Zhongyou's pigtails.

But it is a pity that Zhu Xi checked and checked, but found that Tang Zhongyou was really a clean and honest official, which made Zhu Xi very depressed.If one plan fails, he wants to make another plan.People who are officials are most afraid of two things: one is economic problems, and the other is life style problems.

Since there are no flaws in the economy, find faults in life.Tang Zhongyou's handle was really hard to grasp, so Zhu Xi directly found a prostitute and forced the prostitute to admit that he had an improper relationship with Tang Zhongyou.Zhu Xi wanted to use this trick to tarnish Tang Zhongyou's reputation so that Tang Zhongyou could be charged with a crime to get rid of this thorn in his side, but he didn't expect that the prostitute he was looking for would not obey his orders and refused to admit that he and Tang Zhongyou were dead or alive. There is adultery.

This made Zhu Xi lose his mind for a while. In the attitude of eliminating dissidents, Zhu Xi was the same as Confucius, that is, to eradicate them quickly, but in terms of methods, Zhu Xi was far less direct than Confucius.According to the law at that time, officials could order official prostitutes to "sing and dance with wine", but they could not "serve pillow seats privately". In other words, officials could only enjoy singing and dancing of prostitutes, but if they wanted to do other things, it would be illegal and punishable of.

The prostitute that Zhu Xi was looking for was a military prostitute named Yan Rui. Zhu Xi did not expect Yan Rui to be so upright. He took Yan Rui into the prison and held her for more than two months. He was tortured every day, but Yan Rui Just don't let go.Yan Rui was almost beaten to death a few times, but this prostitute said that if she had it, she had it, and if she didn't, she didn't, and she firmly refused to admit that she had an affair with Tang Zhongyou.

Later, this matter became more and more troublesome, and even the emperor knew about it. The emperor sent an imperial envoy to investigate. The imperial envoy admired Yan Rui's integrity very much. After investigating the matter clearly, he not only returned Yan Rui's innocence, but Allowing her to be good, Yan Rui wrote a poem to show her determination in the hall, expressing her determination:

It's not love Fengchen, it seems to be mistaken by the front.Flowers bloom from time to time, always the monarch of Lai Dong.

You must go, and how to live!If the mountain flowers are full of heads, don't ask where the slaves go.

The case is considered to be over now, Tang Zhongyou finally escaped, and the unjust prison was rehabilitated.And Zhu Xi, who caused the accident, was so famous that the emperor couldn't do anything to him.In the end, he had no choice but to transfer him away and let him be an official in another place.

Speaking of it, Zhu Xi can also be regarded as a sage. Although he and Confucius were not of the same age, they both have a "sacred" side in the eyes of future generations.But behind this sacredness, we can also see the innermost corners of the ancient literati, which are generally invisible.

Although Zhu Xi is praised as a sage, he is also a human being after all, and being a human being has the disadvantages of human nature.As an old intellectual, Zhu Xi was aloof and arrogant, read dead books, and accepted dead truths. He was a literati who went all the way to black.Otherwise, he would not act in accordance with the Neo-Confucianism concept of "there is no matter but there is reason", and he would not judge the authenticity of things based on "reason" in everything.

There is a story about Zhu Xi's case in "Pai An Jing Qi" in the early Ming Dynasty. It said that when Zhu Xi was a magistrate in Chong'an County, Fujian Province, a small man sued the county's big surname for taking away his ancestor's cemetery, but the big surname refused. admit.After Zhu Xi went to investigate on the spot, he unearthed a tombstone with "the tomb of a certain family" in the cemetery, which was exactly the surname of Xiaomin. In addition, Zhu Xi thought that taking such a thing could only be done by a big surname, so he took it The cemetery was given to Xiaomin.

Later, the big surname refused to accept it and continued to sue. This lawsuit was very noisy, and there was a lot of talk for a while. Zhu Xi thought it was because of the power of the big surname, which affected the direction of public opinion. retired.Zhu Xi refused to admit that he made a wrong case, which is related to his insistence on the objective idealism that "reason" is the origin of the world.

Zhu Xi had the headstrong mentality of a literati. He didn't check whether he was negligent in judging the case.

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