The rise of the poor

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 Xun.

Every day when Xu Jie came to work in Wuyixun, he would 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, we have 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.

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

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

On the one hand, Emperor Zhengde was wise and martial, resolutely and resolutely dealt with state affairs, and read memorials wisely and decisively.With a snap of his fingers, he eliminated the rebellion of the great eunuch 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 emperor finally played himself to death.

However, you Emperor Zhengde closed his 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 the Confucianism of Confucius and Mencius, especially the royal family. According to the theory of Confucius, Confucius respected the Zhou rituals, and the core of the Zhou rituals is the primogeniture inheritance system, which means that the inheritance of the royal family pays attention to blood.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.

Therefore, Yang Tinghe and others believed that Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houcong had to be adopted first to Emperor Zhengde's own 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.

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

But
Emperor Jiajing quit.

Even though Emperor Jiajing was only 15 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, I can't even recognize my own parents.Am I that kind of unfilial person? !Wouldn't someone poke her back in the future!

Tolerable or unbearable!
"The edict is for me to be the emperor, not the prince. I will not obey." The 15-year-old Emperor Jiajing firmly disagreed at the gate of the city.

Emperor Jiajing refused, but the country cannot be without a king for a day.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.

Therefore, 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".

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 opposition is the way of Confucius and Mencius.

Of course, Emperor Jiajing's throne is stable, so he will not be polite. More than 100 people were arrested and imprisoned by Emperor Jiajing. Officials above the fourth rank were deprived of their salaries, and those below the fifth rank were beaten to the court. This time, 18 people were killed.

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

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 the title of Confucius, lower the standard of sacrifices for Confucius, destroy statues, use wooden tablets, and so on.

This is Confucius, the sage Confucius. In the minds of scholars, Confucius is like a god. In order to show their respect for Confucius, the emperors of all dynasties continued to posthumously posthumously posthumously posthumously posthumously posthumously posthumously posthumously Confucius.

Although the officials objected in their hearts, they were frightened by Emperor Jiajing's beating. Zuo Shunmen's officials who opposed Jiajing were killed 18 people, and they were afraid of Zhang Cong, the chief assistant of the cabinet, so they dared not speak out.

However, the 28-year-old Xu Jie, who was also young and energetic, stepped forward 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, 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 foolish king, get a bad reputation of not being able to accept advice from the people below, and put you in prison, right?

Don't think I can't do anything.

I can't put you in prison, so I'll put you in another way, I'll demote you to a place where you don't shit, and become a small prison official, so go with the prison as a companion.

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

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)