The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 159 Announcing scientific research news

The sentence about the fact that Confucius deserved to enjoy the Taimiao ended in this way. After all, Confucius was not able to enter the Taimiao of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

This has to be said to be an exception, and even Zhao Kuangyin did not expect to exclude him from the Taimiao.

Originally, the two of them made good arrangements. After this matter, it was announced that the imperial examination will be held next autumn. Now everything has changed.

Not only Zhao Kuangyin, but even the instigator Zhao did not expect that he would play on the spot.

After the court, a large group of civil servants surrounded Zhao Guangyi and invited him to the banquet. In fact, they thanked Zhao Guangyi for his help in the court today in disguise.

When Zhao Guangyi thought about it, there was nothing wrong with it. In this way, he could not only establish a good relationship with the ministers, but also establish his own reputation, so why not do it?

"What's going on with Xu'er today? It wasn't agreed to say yes to invite Confucius into the Taimiao. Why did you change your mind temporarily?"

After going to court, Zhao Kuangyin didn't rush to deal with the official documents. Now he wanted to figure out why Zhao Xu changed his mind today.

"It's very simple. Our purpose of inviting him into the Taimiao is to win over scholars from all over the world. Now we can achieve this goal by not letting him into the Taimiao. Why do we still do this?"

"Furthermore, I don't want to worship a person who is not our ancestor, even if it is a symbolic one. Why should he be treated the same as the ancestors of our Zhao family."

As I said before, if you invite him into the Taimiao, you will regard him as one of your ancestors.

Every time you go to the Ancestral Temple to worship, you can't miss Kong Er Er. This makes Zhao Xu very uncomfortable. You have died for more than 1000 years. What does it have to do with me?

"But this Confucius is really famous in history, and the emperors of all dynasties also respected him very much. His status has been respected since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed all schools of thought to respect Confucianism. Isn't it a bit... ..."

In the past, a hundred schools of thought were contending, and various ideas were very prosperous, and a very splendid culture was created. This was a very prosperous period for Chinese culture.

But later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed all schools of thought and only respected Confucianism. Other ideas began to decline gradually, or were integrated into Confucianism.

The advantage of doing this is that the thinking is truly unified, which is conducive to centralized rule, which was very necessary at that time.

But gradually Confucianism changed. Under the banner of Confucius, they gradually changed the orthodox Confucianism.

It makes Confucianism an idea that hinders people's progress, and people's thoughts are greatly imprisoned.

Zhao Xu knew this and made it clear, especially in the song dynasty, in order to restrict those generals, they vigorously supported civil servants.

In this way, the status of generals is getting lower and lower, and the status of literati is getting higher and higher, and the style of writing prevails throughout the Song Dynasty.

Confucianism is also very popular, and things like Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism that imprison human nature appeared during this period.

The popularity of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty made giving away people into gentle little sheep without the slightest backbone.

The bones gradually softened, and the sturdy style of the Qin and Han Dynasties could no longer be found or disappeared, and the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty was completely ruined under this kind of atmosphere.

Although this is not the fault of Confucianism, to a certain extent it is a big factor.

Zhao Xu knew that with his arrival, there would be no such thing as Song Suibi asking for peace, let alone the shame of Jingkang.

But as long as every Chinese in later generations will never forget this history, it is a shameful history.

So Zhao Xu didn't have a cold for Kong Lao Er, although it wasn't his fault, I just didn't have a cold for you, what can you do?
"Look, you also said that those are the emperors of all ages. This does not include you. Didn't you say that you want to become an unprecedented emperor? Then why should you be like them?" Besides, the environment we are in with them now is not the same. Same."

During the Han Dynasty, the country had already been unified, and only the Xiongnu was a foreign aggressor. The promotion of Confucianism was conducive to maintaining their rule.

The Tang Dynasty also implemented it when it was strong and prosperous. As for our Song Dynasty, there were both internal and external troubles, and we did not have the conditions to do so.

If we want to walk a path that no one has gone before, we don't have to learn from them, we have to make our own way.

This is determined by our current environment. Maybe when we unify the world, we can learn from our predecessors, but not now.

We don't need to get entangled in this right now, what is important for us is to focus on our great cause of reunification.

Besides, Confucius' disciples and grandchildren can only help us govern the world, can they help us conquer the world? Isn't it up to us?

In this way, Zhao Kuangyin was confused by Zhao Xu's nonsense.

But he clearly remembered a sentence, those literati can only help him govern the world of the Song Dynasty, but they cannot rule the world for him.

So he let this matter go, and said that this matter would be left to Zhao Xu to handle the rest, and he didn't ask about the rest.

After finishing speaking, he went to deal with the memorial. Zhao Xu was alone here, and he was not idle. He ate something first, and then went to see the queen mother and queen.

There are also several younger brothers and sisters of his own. In the past year or so, Zhao Kuangyin has had several children, but they are still very young.

According to the arrangement of the imperial court, a new Confucian temple was to be built, but Zhao Xu discovered that there were empty noodles and Guozijian already in place.

He was solely responsible for this matter, so he asked the people from the Ministry of Industry to renovate it, and that was enough.

Some civil servants were very dissatisfied with this, saying that it was disrespectful to the saint, and all the complaints went to Zhao Kuangyin.

How could Zhao Kuangyin have the time to ask about this matter now? He had already asked Zhao Xu to handle the matter with full authority, so the only words he could cry to the ministers were: "Go to the prince."

But Zhao Xu was more difficult than Zhao Kuangyin. When he saw some masters of Confucianism coming, he didn't say much.

"The country is now in troubled times. If you can save, you can save. This is what Confucius told me in a dream. I am doing things according to his old man's wishes. Do you have any opinions?"

Zhao Xu was full of nonsense, some people said why Confucius didn't dream of me, why did he dream of you, the prince.

It's not easy. I am the crown prince, the future heir to the throne. It is God's will. You are just an ordinary person. Are you as noble as me?

Yes, he is the future emperor, he is not an ordinary person, he must be someone from the world, you are just an ordinary person, why should he find you.

Now that these people are dumb, and the saints don't dislike them anymore, what else do they say?

In this way, it took about ten days to finally repair the Confucian Temple. Now it is almost the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month, and I plan to put the throne of Confucius in the Confucian Temple today.

This tablet of Confucius must be carried in by the descendants of the Confucius family. This is not the No. 40 fourth-generation grandson of Confucius, who has already come to Kaifeng City.

Kong Yi was gifted to inherit the title of Duke Wenxuan from his ancestor some time ago. At that time, he didn't believe it until someone who delivered the decree came. He still remembers the content of the decree.

Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said:
"There is Kong Yuqiu, the most holy teacher, who created Confucianism and educated the world. He can be regarded as a model for scholars in the world. He has been praised by the world for thousands of years, and he has been awarded in all ages."

"Today I set the world on a tripod and establish a new country. Special learning first mourns the memory of the saint Kong. Today, the fourth generation grandson of the special decree saint No. 40, Kong Yi inherits Wen Xuangong, hereby."

It was such an imperial decree that helped him, the head of a small Qufu County, to the position of Duke.

The whole Confucian mansion was decorated with lanterns and festoons, full of joy. They hurriedly went to the ancestral hall of the Confucian family to worship their ancestors. An ancestor had protected them for thousands of years.

At the same time, the imperial envoy who announced the decree told him that on the one hand, letting him go back to Beijing together is to thank him, and on the other hand, there are still things to do.

Only when he came here did he find out that the imperial court planned to build a Confucian temple for the ancestors in the capital, and asked him to enter the Confucian temple with the ancestor's tablet.

This is a good thing, how can he disagree. , This is the imperial court's greatest favor to their Kong family!

The Confucian Temple is connected with the Guozijian, and the Guozijian is on the right. Although there are many Confucian temples at this time, there may be ones in every place, but the most orthodox one is in Qufu, Shandong.

This one in Kaifeng City is just for political needs, and everyone knows this situation. '

But this also shows that the imperial court respects Confucianism and the sage Confucius, so everyone attaches great importance to such a ceremony.

Amidst a burst of ceremony and music, Zhao Xu walked in the forefront on the left, with Fan Zhi and other senior court officials behind him.

On the right are the direct relatives of the Kong family. Kong Yi, the contemporary head of the family, walked in the front, holding the god of the most holy teacher Confucius.

Walking slowly towards the Confucian Temple, Zhao Kuangyin didn't need to be present at this kind of scene. The arrival of the prince showed that the court attached great importance to this matter.

It took a long time to finally put the second god of Confucius on the shrine of the Confucian Temple, and there is a statue of Confucius in the center, looking like a benevolent old man.

"The crown prince of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Xu, paid homage to the sage Confucius. When I go to the Great Song Dynasty, I will uphold the legacy of the sage and continue to educate people. At the same time, I have decided to hold my first imperial examination in the Great Song Dynasty in the autumn of next year to select talents for the court."

When Zhao Xu offered incense to Confucius, he said such a sentence, which made the ministers ecstatic.

They didn't know this news at all. They didn't expect that the imperial court had already prepared the imperial examination, and the imperial examination had not been held for a long time after years of war.

Now that the Great Song Dynasty is actually planning to reopen the imperial examination, this is something to be happy about, and no one is unhappy about it.

The imperial examination is the dream of scholars, and now the imperial court intends to open the imperial examination, which is regarded as a major event.

These ministers are also happy for a reason. They can't participate, but their children and younger generations can. The opportunity for young people has come.

(End of this chapter)