I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 655: The New Era of the Wanli Dynasty Must Be Matched with a New Civilization
Pan Yinglong immediately responded, "Your Majesty, there was no problem with the South City renovation project. It was my personal moral flaws that affected public affairs. I have come to apologize to Your Majesty."

"Your personal morality is bad?" Zhu Yijun stared at Pan Yinglong for a while, "Then tell me yourself, how do you think your personal morality is bad?"

"Your Majesty, Lord Meilin was appointed as the envoy to the South China Sea. When he went south to govern the South China Sea and pacify the South, I served as a military officer in Hong Kong. During this time, Lord Meilin was entrusted by Lord Feng to find the brother of Lady Luan of the Feng Mansion.

Lord Meilin entrusted the matter to me. After a search, I found Luan Yongfang in Zengcheng, Guangzhou Prefecture. Later, Lord Meilin was summoned back to Beijing to report on his work, and I also brought Luan Yongfang back to Beijing.

I talked with him a lot on the way and became very familiar with him. After returning to the capital, I sent Luan Yongfang to Feng's house and was fortunate enough to meet Mrs. Feng, who thanked me for looking for her brother.

Later, Luan Yongfang entered Chongyi Public School and was admitted to the Imperial College. He often interacted with me and would bring some of his sister's poems and manuscripts. At first, I regarded Mrs. Feng as a literary friend, a friend through literature and a spiritual connection.

I didn’t expect that two days ago, Luan Yongfang took a stack of his sister’s daily essays and stuffed them into Chen Chen’s hands in public. Later, when Chen Chen questioned him in person, he actually said that he hoped Chen could run away with his sister at night.

"Night escape!" Zhu Yijun smiled, his smile was meaningful.

"Mr. Feng Wu, it's a rare winter day today. Let's go out for a walk, bask in the sun and warm ourselves up. Don't be in a hurry, we can talk while we walk."

"It's the Emperor."

The two men walked out of the Ziguang Pavilion one after the other. Qi Yan and Fang Liang followed not far away with a dozen guards, and there were also a dozen Jing soldiers in front.

Zhu Yijun stood by the Zhonghai Lake with his hands in his sleeves.

“The natural world has its own unique scenery in each season.

In spring, the lake seems to have just woken up, green willows by the lake are sprouting, ducklings who know spring is coming are playing on the water, and early swallows are flying over the water.

In summer, the lotus in the lake stands gracefully and the trees beside the lake are lush and green. I love the summer evening the most, when the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the lake, and the waves are like burning flames, which is beautiful beyond words.

In autumn, the leaves on the lake float and the water plants wither, which adds to the bleak beauty of autumn. The lakeside is full of golden and fiery red leaves, colorful. You can see bleakness and splendor at the same time.

It's winter now, Fengwu, look at this lake, where is the beauty?"

Pan Yinglong's mind raced, but unfortunately he couldn't figure out what Zhu Yijun meant for a while, so he could only answer subconsciously: "Your Majesty, I feel the beauty of tranquility."

"That's right, Fengwu can also feel the beauty of the cold and bleak scenery of winter.

Everyone has a love for beauty. I am no exception, Feng Bao is no exception, and you are no exception."

Zhu Yijun stood by the lake, his back straight and resolute, like a stone tablet.

"Mrs. Feng's poems are well written. I like two lines the most: 'Spring clouds are blue over Qi'ao, and night rain is cold over Xiaoxiang. Listen quietly at the empty window, and hear the rustling sound of the jade instruments.'"

The sound penetrated Pan Yinglong's ears. The winter sky was bright and warm, but cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back.

How come the news spread so quickly, becoming so widespread in the city that even the emperor knew about it?
Impossible, this matter has always been private.
Pan Yinglong's body suddenly stiffened, as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and his underwear, chest and back were soaked with cold sweat.

Fortunately, I came to Xiyuan today, otherwise I would have died without a burial place.

Pan Yinglong looked at Zhu Yijun's back in front of him. It was no longer a stone tablet, but a mountain, Mount Tai, which overlooked all other mountains.

Zhu Yijun asked without turning his head: "Then how do you deal with this matter?"

Pan Yinglong answered cautiously: "In reply to the emperor, I found the pacification envoy Su Feng and asked him to help investigate Luan Yongfang. First, to find out who is behind him, and second, to find out if he has violated any rules."

"What are the violations?"

"Your Majesty, I have learned that this boy likes to drink and visit prostitutes. He has a bad drinking habit. He gets drunk and crazy when he drinks too much. He beats people and smashes things. He has been reported to the police department by taverns and brothels several times. Later, someone told the taverns and brothels about his background, so they quietly withdrew the lawsuit."

"This boy has bad behavior. I remember that the Imperial College is not allowed to stay outside without reason, let alone visit prostitutes."

"Your Majesty is wise."

"What will you do if you find out that this guy has violated the rules?"

"Recently, the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice have issued a new law, which stipulates that the punishment for three years of exile and hard labor can be compensated by five years of teaching in public schools in border areas such as Jinghai. Now Jinghai is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the sea vessels travel quickly. There are also many magical medicines developed by the Medicine King Institute, so diseases such as malaria are nothing to be afraid of.

I have read the new Criminal Law. Luan Yongfang was drunk and smashed furniture and beat others. He is a repeat offender and should be sentenced to three to five years of exile and hard labor.

"He is the root of the trouble, but Feng Bao's reputation is involved, so you have to be careful. You have put a lot of effort into coming up with this comprehensive plan.

Well, it's better to go far away, so that the source of trouble can stay away from the capital, and everyone can live their lives and work, and everyone can be at peace. "

Zhu Yijun turned around and looked at Pan Yinglong. "What do those people behind the scenes think, Mr. Fengwu?"

Pan Yinglong swallowed.

To be fair, he really wanted to bury all those people who watched the funeral without thinking of making a fuss.

Zhang Siwei and Shen Yikuan, these bastards, just keep finding their way into the cracks of eggs, wishing to immediately turn the eggs into rotten eggs, the kind that would stink enough to knock out dozens of people when they opened them.

If the emperor had not recited Luan Feng'er's two lines of poetry just now, I would have answered without hesitation that these bastards who were sowing discord must be brought to justice.

not now.

The fact that the emperor recited those two lines of poetry showed that he actually knew what was going on, but why didn't he stop it?
If this matter were to be exposed, it would very likely trigger a fierce fight between the Southeastern faction and the Chu faction. The court would be in chaos because of the factional struggle.

What the emperor hates most is factional strife that harms the country.

But why didn't he stop it?
What is the deep meaning behind this?
Pan Yinglong told himself that he must think carefully in his mind and not blurt out what he said easily.

His intuition told him that this might be an opportunity.

After struggling for more than ten seconds, Pan Yinglong replied: "The emperor often taught me that a garden must have hundreds of flowers blooming and hundreds of birds singing, so that it can be full of vitality and prosperity."

Zhu Yijun turned around suddenly, stared at Pan Yinglong's face for a while, nodded with satisfaction, and turned back to look at the sparkling lake in the winter.

"Feng Wu, you are magnanimous and have the demeanor of a prime minister."

Pan Yinglong breathed a sigh of relief and felt extremely grateful.

It’s really hard to guess what the emperor is thinking.

"Feng Wu, let's go back. Although there is warm sunshine outside, there is also cold wind. It is still warm inside the house."

"Yes."

The two of them returned to the Ziguang Pavilion one after the other. As soon as they sat down, Zhu Yijun said, "Qi Yan, bring Zhang Siwei's memorial to Mr. Fengwu."

Pan Yinglong's heart skipped a beat.

Qi Yan held a test book in both hands and handed it over, and Pan Yinglong quickly took it with both hands.

I opened it and took a closer look, and was amazed.

This old man Fengpan has a very good eye and acts very quickly.

When he saw the emperor successively promulgating "Collection of Model Official Documents of the Ming Dynasty", "Regulations for Standardizing Military and Political Offices of the Ming Dynasty" and "List of Simplified Chinese Characters in the First Year of Wanli", he immediately sensed something unusual.

In the petition, Zhang Siwei expressed his warm support for "changing customs and habits" and his firm support for using daily norms and official document grammar to lead the way and completely change the century-old bad habits in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

He praised the "great significance" of this move, and also wrote several sample essays from the perspective of official document grammar and attached them to the back of the question book. A quick glance showed that he had indeed put in a lot of effort, and it fully met the emperor's requirements for new official documents: "easy to understand, concise and accurate, complete in meaning, and clear in structure."

In his memorial, Zhang Siwei also focused on "changing customs and habits" and launched a fierce criticism of old customs such as foot binding, pawning wives, widowhood, infanticide, and cutting one's own flesh to serve one's parents.

These are all dregs and bad customs that are incompatible with the new era created by the Holy Emperor Wanli and must be completely eradicated.

Zhang Siwei wrote enthusiastically at the back of the inscription: "Some sour scholars often use today to point to the past, how the Tang, Yu and Three Dynasties were so prosperous, how the Qin Emperor and Han Wu were so heroic, how the literature of the Han, Tang and Song dynasties flourished, how the military exploits of the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties were so glorious,
To put it in this way, the reason why the well turtle cannot talk about the sea is that it is confined to the void; the reason why the summer insect cannot talk about ice is that it is bound by the season.

If you only think about the past, everything is what you have already experienced, so you will always be conservative; if you only think about the future, everything is what you have not experienced, so you will make progress every day.

Those who always think about the past prefer peace and dislike movement, so they always feel that nothing can be done; those who look forward to the future are ambitious and ambitious, so they always feel that everything is possible.

The Holy Emperor Wanli was a man of both literary and military virtues. At a young age, he established the Ming Dynasty as a young country, dominating the world and looking down on the past and present. It was a new era that created a new world.

The new era should have new trends and new customs, and changing customs is imminent. Therefore, I suggest that we should first educate people with new characters, new literature, and new art, and reform the old and establish the new.

Zhang Siwei's suggestion was very straightforward. It was to lead a "new culture" movement by promoting the "Collection of Official Document Models", "Regulations on Institutional Standards" and "Table of Simplified Chinese Characters in the First Year of Wanli" as an opportunity.

What is the New Culture Movement?
Culture, through literature and education.

Write new literary styles, tell new stories, and sing new operas to change customs and create a new spirit and new vision that match the new era of Wanli.

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Talent!
He added punctuation marks throughout the entire book and tried his best to use the new writing style that was easy to understand as emphasized by the emperor.

This old man!

Why was Zhang Siwei so perceptive that he could smell this scent right away?

The Chu Party headed by Zhang Juzheng and the New Party with the Southeast faction as its core were both working hard and focusing on pragmatic political achievements.

Only Zhang Siwei, who was hiding in the Hanlin Academy and was marginalized, pondered all day long and finally figured out a new way for him in terms of theoretical work.

Spirit and courage?

What is spirit?

Sima Gong of the Western Han Dynasty wrote in "Records of the Grand Historian: The Autobiography of Grand Historian" that "Taoism makes people's spirits single-minded, their actions in harmony with the formless, and they provide for all things."

Wang Chong of the Former Han Dynasty wrote in Lun Heng Ding Gui Pian that "ghosts between heaven and earth are not caused by the spirits of dead people, but are caused by people's thoughts and imaginations."

That is what people think.

To establish the new spirit of the Wanli Dynasty was to "renew" the thinking of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

It was called changing customs and habits, promoting new culture, and establishing the new spirit and new vision of the Wanli Dynasty, but in reality it was to transform the thinking of hundreds of millions of people!
What a magnificent feat that hits the mark!

This hits the very important key point that we have always overlooked.

The first departments that the emperor reformed were the Taichang Temple, which was responsible for preaching.

What is mission?

We were negligent!
In the past, we only cooperated sporadically in some missionary work, but Zhang Siwei figured it out, seized the opportunity, and proposed to establish a new culture and establish a new spirit.

This whole set of achievements is enough to make him famous in history, perhaps even more brilliant than Wang Yangming.

Li Zhi and Li Zhuowu spent a lot of effort to improve and promote the new learning, but it is possible that the names they left in history are not as famous as Zhang Siwei's new culture and new spirit.

Pan Yinglong understood everything and knew the emperor's intentions.

"Your Majesty, after reading Lord Feng Pan's essay, I was enlightened and felt as if I had broken through a stone."

"Feng Wu thinks it's good too?"

"In reply to the emperor's words, I think it is very well written. Lord Feng Pan is indeed a senior. The New Culture Movement was brought up very timely. I need to learn from him."

"Feng Wu is modest. But I still feel that it is a little lacking. Building a new spirit with a new culture is a point, but it is not fully explained.

I think we should go a step further, put new culture first, and build a new Wanli civilization."

Pan Yinglong was stunned.

What is civilization?

"The word 'wen' is the span of heaven and earth, and the word 'ming' is the light that shines on all directions."

The emperor's courage and spirit far exceeds that of us ministers!
Pan Yinglong quickly replied respectfully: "Your Majesty is wise, and the civilization of our Ming Dynasty should be like 'the saints have opened up the fortunes for millions of years, and the wisdom and civilization are bestowed by heaven.' To create the new civilization of Wanli!"

Zhu Yijun nodded with satisfaction, "Feng Wu really understands, then I am relieved. Okay, you deal with that troublemaker, and I will help you deal with Feng Bao."

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I will always remember your protection of me."

Zhu Yijun waved his hand, looked at Pan Yinglong and said meaningfully: "The peace in the court is hard-won, we must cherish it doubly. I hope everyone understands this truth."

Pan Yinglong's heart moved, and he clasped his hands and replied, "I understand."

At around four o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, a horse-drawn carriage drove out of Feng Mansion on Fengcheng Street in Xianyifang, with Feng Bao and Luan Feng'er sitting opposite each other inside.

Luan Feng'er was wearing a bright red wide-sleeved shirt, a shawl, and a golden peony pearl crown on her head.

Feng Bao was wearing a Feiyu suit and a steel fork hat. He squinted his eyes and looked at Luan Feng'er opposite him with a complicated expression.

Luan Feng'er sometimes pulled at her clothes, sometimes adjusted her crown, and looked at Feng Bao anxiously and said, "Master, I feel a little uncomfortable wearing this."

Feng Bao said softly, "This dress for a third-rank lady was bestowed by the Empress Dowager. It looks good when you wear it."

Luan Feng'er's eyes lingered on Feng Bao's face for a few seconds, her beautiful eyes smiled, and she said softly, "Master, if you say it looks good, then I will feel comfortable wearing it."

Feng Bao looked at Luan Feng'er with his old and cloudy eyes, and pursed his lips slightly, "When we enter the West Garden and meet the Emperor and the Empress, do you know what to say?"

Luan Feng'er's face was full of panic, and she shook her head anxiously, "I don't know what to say, how about I pretend to be mute?"

"The Emperor and Empress asked you a question, and you dared to pretend to be dumb? This is disrespectful to the Emperor."

"Then I will say what I should say, and I won't say what I shouldn't say."

"Then do you know what should be said and what should be said?"

Luan Feng'er was panicking, "Master, what should I do? How about I tell them that I'm seriously ill and I'm afraid that the bad smell of the disease will spread to the West Garden, so I won't go to the banquet?"

Feng Bao laughed, "Haha, can your clever little trick be hidden from the emperor's eyes?"

"Then what should I do? I'm afraid I'll say something wrong and bring disaster upon the master."

"If you have this heart, I will be satisfied. In fact, it is very simple. I will tell you that once you enter Xiyuan, you will..."

law--!
The carriage stopped and the attendant said at the door: "Master, we have arrived at Xi'an Gate."

(End of this chapter)