Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Huan Guo held the "Book of Rites" added by the prince and walked outside in a daze. When he looked up, he felt that the sun was too dazzling.

Meng Zhao smiled when he saw this: "Sir, why are you doing this? The prince only approved the "Internal Rules" and did not force the "Da Zhuan" to be approved. A little thing is innocuous."

Huan Guo breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Indeed."

The two chatted for a few more words and then went back to work.

"Book of Rites" is a summary of pre-Qin etiquette and law, which then guides and establishes the Chinese people's cosmology, worldview, outlook on life, educational thoughts, political thoughts, legal thoughts, aesthetic thoughts, etc. for two thousand years.

Among them, "Kingdom" talks about the concept of governance, school education, funeral and elderly care, etc.

"Da Zhuan" talks about the patriarchal system, which also has positive significance and can even be said to promote the development of Chinese civilization.

"Internal Rules" talks about the etiquette rules within the family, and also includes the dietary system. But it goes into too much detail, down to individual codes of conduct and cannibalistic ethics that were criticized in modern times. Many of them can be found in this article. Therefore, Ju Ming also disapproved of it and had to add more criticisms.

Ju Ming's approval of marriage is not a double standard from a male perspective. It has a specific social and moral background.

If the husband and wife are harmonious and the parents allow divorce, this kind of thing will not happen in the poor families at the bottom, because the son has to consider the financial cost when asking for a wife. It must happen in a family with a certain financial foundation, and the woman's natal family will also have a certain social status. Ju Ming's addition provides firepower to the woman's natal family.

To protect the marriage in this way, even if the parents-in-law make things difficult for them on a daily basis, they will not dare to do it too blatantly due to the pressure from the woman's natal family and public opinion. If she really can't live with the trouble anymore, the woman can also propose a divorce instead of being ordered to divorce her by her parents-in-law.

There is a difference between divorce and divorce.

However, if the couple is not harmonious, their parents will not allow them to divorce. Under tremendous family pressure and moral pressure, the husband who insists on divorce and goes to court is either a bastard who is unfaithful to his wife and unfilial to his parents, or the couple is really conflicted and unable to live together.

In this case, Ju Ming asked the court officials to decide the divorce at their own discretion. However, due to traditional morals, the officials would not divorce in most cases.

The two additional batches are adding weight to the weak side, and they may not be successful.

The book "The Book of Rites of the Kingdom of Justice", of which Huan Guo was only the editor-in-chief, was the product of a compromise between several schools of thought within the Hanlin Academy.

Huan Guo took it back to the Hanlin Academy and let scholars from various schools watch it slowly.

Most of the people were silent after watching the crown prince's approval. The few who were angry or happy did not dare to show it in public.

Alas, let's compile "Spring and Autumn Annals" slowly. Huan Guo returned to the office quietly.

The historical "Spring and Autumn Annals" was compiled by Huan Guo after being stimulated by Jingkang. As the "leader of the Qin Party", he was not a human being inside and outside at that time. When Qin Hui officially presided over the peace negotiation, Huan Guo had actually resigned and lived in seclusion, and wrote this book during his seclusion.

The whole article can be summarized in four words: respect the king and reject the barbarians!

The great unification was to respect the king. At that time, soldiers were everywhere and peasant uprisings were frequent. Huan Guo said that everyone should listen to the emperor's words.

Great revenge is to fight against the barbarians, oppose peace talks, and call for revenge.

Moreover, Huan Guo construed many sentences in "The Legend of Gongyang" that were not annotated as revenge and forcibly interpreted them as promoting revenge.

The overall view of revenge, to put it bluntly, is to promote the idea of ​​resisting gold:

First, the ministers have the obligation to avenge the king and father;

Second, we cannot restore diplomatic relations with the enemy, let alone negotiate peace;

Third, fighting against a hostile country will be glorious even if defeated;

Fourth, we oppose the revenge of the ninth generation, because if this generation does not take revenge, the next generation will probably forget the hatred, and even if it does not forget, it will lack the pain. If this generation cannot take revenge, the next generation should forget about it and don’t drag their descendants into the abyss of endless revenge.

The current state of Huan is more focused on elaborating on grand unification.

Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan were once his fathers, but Ju Ming did not commit regicide. These two former emperors were still alive, so Huan did not need to avenge his fathers.

Huan Guo even took the initiative to find reasons for Ju Ming's rebellion, such as "the reason why a country is a country is its virtue" and criticized Zhao Huan and Zhao Ji as "the king lost his virtue and therefore lost his country."

He also said that the Ming Dynasty was the new dynasty, and the domestic separatist forces should give up resistance, including Song Huizong and Zhong Xiang, and submit to the imperial court to complete the unification. He also said that Yanyun, Hetao, Xiyu, Dali, and Jiaozhi are all the homeland of China, and the unification of the country must be completed. At the same time, this is also revenge against the barbarians.

Huan Guo sat at his desk, closed his eyes and recalled today's conversation, and then thought of the various decrees of the emperor and prince.

Suddenly, Huan Guo seemed to see Dong Zhongshu standing in front of him.

He knows what he should write!

In addition to advocating respecting the king and fighting off the barbarians, pursuing great unification and great revenge, "Spring and Autumn" can also be a book about reforming the system.

When Dong Zhongshu used "Spring and Autumn" back then, he gave it a reforming significance. Later, when Kang Youwei was engaged in reform and reform, he followed Dong Zhongshu's ideas and declared that "Spring and Autumn" was specially written for reform.

With a smile on Huan Guo's face, he picked up his pen and wrote: "The Spring and Autumn Annals speak of great righteousness in a small way. Those who have great righteousness respect the king and fight against the barbarians. Those who speak in a small way also change the legal system."

As long as it does not conflict with his core beliefs, Huan Guo is willing to become a prince academically.

After this guy finished writing an article, he went to see the prince the next day.

After reading this, Zhu Ming immediately smiled and nodded in approval: "Mr. Hu is indeed a great scholar in the world!"

In Huan Guo's article, Zhu Guoxiang and Zhu Ming's restructuring and innovation were completely different from Wang Anshi's reforms.

Wang Anshi's reform was the law of the ancestors of the Song Dynasty.

Zhu Guoxiang and Zhu Ming belong to the new king's reform, which is reasonable, legal and in line with the spirit of Confucianism. "Three unifications" are the words of the sages, and the new king's creation of a new legal system is the fulfillment of the sages' teachings.

Because the systems of the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties all had their shortcomings, they would perish.

At the same time, they each have their own advantages, so they can replace the previous dynasty.

The significance of unifying the three unifications is to adopt the advantages of the previous dynasties, abandon the shortcomings of those dynasties, and integrate them according to the existing situation, so as to create the most suitable laws for the new dynasty.

Therefore, no matter how Zhu and his son change the system, it is a matter of course. If they make mistakes in some places, they can still change them back.

The Ming Dynasty's version of Huan's "Spring and Autumn Annals" formally established its ideological tone, namely: Tong Santong (reforming the system), Great Unification (the emperor's centralization of power), and Great Revenge (territorial expansion).

Huan Guo said: "Yesterday, I was inspired by His Highness the Prince's words and gained insights from the Spring and Autumn Annals, so I wrote this humble article."

Ju Ming painted a big cake and said: "When Mr. Chun Qiu Zhuan is finished, I will recommend him to be a bachelor of Guanwen Palace."

"I don't dare to have this honor. I am really scared." Huan Guo smiled, looking so calm and relaxed.

The name of the main hall in the Northern Song Dynasty palace has not been changed for the time being.

The bachelor's degree in Guanwendian is an official title, just an honorary title. In the Song Dynasty, it was generally awarded to the prime minister.

But there are exceptions. For example, Xu Churen was awarded the title of bachelor of Guanwen Palace as a daimyo prefect.

This Ming Dynasty is not that Ming Dynasty. As soon as it comes, the official grades of ministers will be determined, and there is no need to rely on the reputation of a bachelor to do things. Therefore, the great scholars of the Ming Dynasty were related to the ministers and prime ministers, but the two were not bound.

Ju Ming read this article over and over again and shouted: "Bring the colorful coins!"

The original meaning of colorful coins is not money. It is a general term for the wealth and silk given by the emperor to ministers. It can be swords, horses and cloth.

But by the Ming Dynasty, it really became money.

Huan Guo held the lottery coins he had just received and couldn't help but look at them carefully.

Five gold coins and five silver coins are not the traditional round outer and square inner coins, but thick round coins. The front is a sun and moon pattern, the back is printed with the words "One Liang", and there are serrations on the sides to prevent intentional wear and tear.

Zhu Ming smiled and said: "These are the gold and silver coins of the New Dynasty, which are divided into two types: royal gifts and civilian coins. The sun and moon patterns on the royal gift coins are slightly different. One gold and silver coin is the legal one tael, and there are some impurities in it to avoid Gold and silver are too soft and easily deformed.”

Huan Guo asked: "Will the people also use it in the future?"

Ju Ming nodded and said: "Copper coins are too heavy, and gold and silver are inconvenient to use, so we minted gold and silver coins to facilitate large-scale private transactions."

Currently, there are only two money-making institutions for minting gold and silver coins, one in Hanzhong and the other in Luoyang.

After Shandong is completely stabilized, one will be set up in Shandong because it is rich in gold and silver.

It is said that it is a coin, but it is actually forged by water power.

A gold and silver coin contains only 85% gold and silver. It can not only prevent the coin from deforming, but also make money by minting it.

Ju Ming said: "The gold, silver and copper coins cast in the old Song Dynasty can still be used, but they will not be minted again. The old coins received by the government will gradually be melted down and new coins cast."

Huan Guo quickly said: "Unifying the currency is also the new king's unification of the three unifications."

During the Huizong period of the Song Dynasty, many large copper coins and copper coins with tin were produced, which were not recognized by the Ming Dynasty and the New Dynasty.

Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even the old Song Dynasty itself did not recognize it. It was obviously a coin minted by the imperial court, but the government did not want it when collecting taxes because the actual currency value of that thing was too low.

However, starting from the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the sharp increase in currency demand and the serious shortage of copper production, the country was experiencing a money shortage.

The Ming Dynasty also had insufficient copper reserves, so when collecting taxes, people were allowed to use large amounts of copper coins to pay taxes at a discount. The collected old copper coins are gradually smelted and recast, and many coinage raw materials can be recovered.

The specific method of discounting is calculated based on the actual local currency value. This method has a lot of room for maneuver. There must be officials who deceive the superiors and conceal the profits from it.

But in the long run, short-term losses are acceptable.

Of course, we will not accept tin money or lead money!

Huan Guo took the gold and silver coins and returned to the Hanlin Academy with a spring breeze on his face. He was the first person to be awarded the new colored coins.

He was only rewarded with five taels of gold coins and five taels of silver coins. This was not because Ju Ming was stingy, but rather it was the norm for rewards in ancient times. It is abnormal to reward people with thousands of gold and silver at every turn.

After Huan Guo left, Ju Ming read this article again.

He liked this article very much. Although it distorted the original meaning of "Spring and Autumn", isn't the classic meant to be distorted?

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty re-employed Dong Zhongshu in order to unify his thinking and provide a theoretical basis for his northward attack on the grasslands.

At that time, it was actually very far-fetched to use "Great Revenge" to wage foreign wars, so we also added the sentence "The world is one, the meaning of the Spring and Autumn Period, and there is no king."

There is no king but a new definition of unification and revenge in the Spring and Autumn Period during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

With the support of this kind of thinking, it is estimated that future envoys of the Ming Dynasty will go abroad to deliberately stir up trouble and provide an excuse for "great revenge" for the expansion of the Ming Dynasty.