Emperor Hongzhi had a calm face, and his eyes were wandering on everyone.

Emperor Hongzhi said: "Over the years, I have felt that the country is ruined and I am a little tired of scholars. The atmosphere in the court has changed a lot. However, it is not a day since the ice is frozen. Many people have become accustomed to this conversation, but they do not know that your salary and salary are all for the people, and they offer them to the people and other people. They do not expect to take money and food to let you talk here."

These words are inexplicably explained.

But the tone is extremely stern.

No one knows whether Your Majesty is referring to him, but he is a little nervous and panic.

So he simply fell into trouble: "I will die if I wait for ten thousand times."

Emperor Hongzhi immediately said, "You know you have died, so you still dare to talk about it here? You can learn from Fang Qing's family!"

When the ministers heard this, they were confused again and looked at Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan was a little confused. Although he had often done some good things recently, he seemed to have never done anything great. Oh, yes, it should be counted to send two or three thousand households of the Kong family out of the sea of ​​suffering and send them to the Golden Continent. Unexpectedly, His Majesty had known it long ago, His Majesty's wiseness.

Emperor Hongzhi sneered: "The Fang Qing family never had any verbal disputes with others. They worked hard and made great contributions to our Ming Dynasty. However, some of my ministers, some of them were sharp-tongued and sharp-tongued, but they were actually a group of incompetent people!"

When the ministers heard this, some people began to recall the taste.

Your Majesty’s implication is that he thinks someone is saying something wrong behind his back.

And this is not...it is mostly for Fang Jifan.

Your Majesty specifically mentioned that Fang Jifan worked hard and made many contributions. This means that Fang Jifan didn't care about these love names and only cared about serving the Ming Dynasty. So these days, although Fang Jifan published a... vulgar book, so what? You guys are tied together and still can't match him. You are also qualified to laugh at Fang Jifan. Are you worthy?

These words... clearly set the tone for the book "Ming Song". If there are still people who dare to talk nonsense, they are those who are innocent and lose their country. If you have the courage to take this opportunity to ridicule, you will never be careless.

Now, those who secretly ridiculed them suddenly became uneasy.

Especially those ministers who were summoned from Nanjing were even more nervous.

Your Majesty suddenly ordered him to come here, was it...just to beat him?

You know, today is different from the past.

Over the years, Qingliu has suffered repeated blows and has been severely damaged. In front of the palace, there is almost no power to fight back. All scholars have been dug up, and even the economic foundation is in the hands of His Majesty and Duke of Qi. If you want to live, you will die. With the backhand, you will be ruined and broken into pieces.

At this time, who dares to confront you in person?

So... some people were trembling and blamed themselves for being too mean and kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said, "I will die."

Emperor Hongzhi snorted coldly, and he said lightly: "Zhou Qing's family, is it okay for you to be in the Ministry of Rites?"

Emperor Hongzhi mentioned it casually.

Someone suddenly shuddered.

He was both the Ministry of Rites and the surname Zhou. He was Zhou Tanzhi, the Minister of Rites in Nanjing. Zhou Tanzhi was very worried. Although he was named a minister of the court, in fact, in Nanjing, he was almost like a idle job, but just a retirement. Because he was marginalized, Zhou Tanzhi would not complain, and always hoped that he would have the opportunity to enter Beijing and become a serious minister of the Ministry of Rites.

But he complained a lot, but he didn't know that he was saying what he shouldn't say now.

Zhou Tanzhi immediately kowtowed: "I... I am still okay."

Emperor Hongzhi said, "I heard a saying that the Duke of Qi is best at raising pigs. Who said this...?"

Zhou Tanzhi was like a bolt from the blue, and his face turned pale in an instant.

He trembled and said, "My...My..."

This is what he said, but he never expected that his words and deeds would be stared at by the Jinyiwei.

He said with difficulty: "My... I don't have these words?"

All the officials were silent, but they all breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed... His Majesty did not send his anger to him.

They began to savor this sentence carefully, and most of them thought that if this sentence had no other meaning, it would be a hell. To be honest, this sentence is quite innovative.

Originally, the monarch and ministers reported the matter, and everyone was polite to each other. They rarely said such words as raising pigs.

But since Your Majesty said it, it naturally means that Your Majesty's anger has reached its extreme.

Zhou Tanzhi has no choice now, and said, "This... is written in the book "Ming Song". In other books, pigs are called pigs, but this book, or "Gang Li", but "Ming Song" is called pigs. I... Seeing this book, I am so... so vulgar, so I used the word "Pig" in his book to evaluate one or two. The old minister has no other meaning, so I would like to ask Your Majesty to be clear."

After all, he was the Minister of Rites, and his level was still enough. In a blink of an eye, he poured the dirty water back.

The implication is that it is not your fault, but the book Ming Song is wrong first. Your Majesty wants to punish the old minister. If you want to reason, then... you should punish the author of Ming Song first.

After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi showed disgust. What he disliked the most now was this pretentious quibbling.

But today, in front of the ministers, he could not be aimless, and his eyes fell on Fang Jifan.

He had seen the word "pig", but... he didn't have any other thoughts at that time. Anyway, the book was full of "vulgarity". It was not surprising that there was the word "pig". It was like Fang Jifan, full of flaws. If he suddenly cursed you, would you find it strange?

"Your Majesty..." Fang Jifan was anxious and immediately said, "My son wants to explain."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded.

Today's court discussion is that it is to kill the current trend and to protect Fang Jifan.

Just...thinking of that book...

Emperor Hongzhi said: "Your family says it."

"Your Majesty, my son has compiled the "Song of Ming" for...it is to be passed down through the ages, just like the Four Books and Five Classics, shining for generations."

As soon as these words were spoken, the ministers were immediately in an uproar...

When people look at each other, they all see a funny meaning in each other's eyes.

Of course, there are also people who think about it.

Emperor Hongzhi also felt strange. Although Fang Jifan was eccentric, he would never suffer any loss, could he...

Fang Jifan said with a slogan: "Your Majesty, this is my newly learned Four Books and Five Classics, like Confucius' "Spring and Autumn Annals."

"Spring and Autumn" and "Ode to Ming"...

Anyone who is not crazy thinks that the two books have no connection at all.

Some people even feel that their heartache is so painful that this dog is finally going to attack "Spring and Autumn".

After all, Zhou Tanzhi came from Nanjing. Although he knew that Fang Jifan could not mess with him, he was now on the string and his courage was a little stronger. "Duke of Qi, do you know that you are guilty? You actually compared this "Song of Ming" to "Spring and Autumn".

Fang Jifan smiled and looked at him with a meaningful look, as if he had recorded this goal, and then said frankly: "Your Majesty, I have created Xishan Academy and I have countless disciples. How dare I ask Your Majesty, what is your knowledge?"

“…”

Fang Jifan immediately said, "If the officials present do not believe it, then... I will just pick up a few unscrupulous disciples, such as Wang Shouren, Ouyang Zhi, Liu Wenshan, and Tang Yin. You are going to write poetry, if you want to write eight-part essays, or if you want to write articles, you have to compare the advantages and disadvantages of knowledge and to argue about the length and weakness. Even if you want to ride a horse and archery, you dare to ask the officials, who dares to compare with those bad disciples of me?"

“…”

This is just a trick.

After silence, no one responded.

Everyone knows the abilities of these disciples such as Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan immediately said, "This is the case for the disciple. Your Majesty, is the son-in-law a ignorant fool? If you want to write a beautiful article in front of your son, you must write a book like "Spring and Autumn", you dare not say that you can easily capture it, but it is definitely not worse than this Spring and Autumn. My son-in-law is here to boast. If anyone doesn't believe it, you can go forward and try it."

This sentence is so arrogant.

This is to play with Saint Confucius.

Before a group of saints and students stood up, they were angry and argued with Fang Jifan.

Fang Jifan changed his tone: "But Your Majesty, if the son minister writes such a book, then he will deviate from the son minister's original intention."

Emperor Hongzhi frowned: "What does this mean?"

Fang Jifan said: "Since the beginning of writing, there have been countless people in the world who write books for scholars. But how many people in the world who write books for the people?"

Emperor Hongzhi was stunned.

Silence in the hall.

Fang Jifan's words seemed to be questioning.

Now, are there anyone writing books for the people?

Zhou Tanzhi retorted: "The people are ignorant of the people. After writing the book, can they understand?"

Fang Jifan laughed: "If it is, the people who don't know what they say and do not know what they are, of course they cannot understand. Then... why is there no one in the countless literati and poets in the world who are willing to write a book that can make the people understand? This is not a question of whether it can be done. It is difficult to do it, and it is even as difficult as climbing to heaven. In my opinion, it is even more difficult than writing "Spring and Autumn". But there is nothing difficult in the world. As long as there is a person who is determined, it depends on whether anyone in the world is willing to really spend his time doing it."

"What a pity, what a pity..." Fang Jifan said solemnly: "It's a pity that the scholars in the world have only hollowed out their minds to find their confidants and their soulmates, but none of them have spent this thought on it. The foundation of Confucius and Mencius's learning lies in "benevolence". What is "benevolence"? Treating the people well is benevolence, so that they know it is benevolence. In this world, those who claim to be saints only know how to read, how many people have such a benevolent heart?"

"In my eyes, even if you can make many beautiful articles, these articles are used to admire themselves and have long deviated from the original intention of Confucius and Mencius, which really makes our Jiefan feel cold."

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Chapter completed!