Wanli Youming

Chapter 90
"When did this happen?"

After Zhu Yijun knew about this, he asked in a deep voice.

"What happened on September [-]!"

Zhang Jing replied.

"It's still here!"

"Didn't you let the people from the East Factory watch?"

Zhu Yijun asked after speaking.

Zhang Jing replied: "The people in Dongchang have been watching, but this old man is really too old. He has been critically ill several times a year, and now he just can't survive this time!"

"Go back!"

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun waved his hands.

Zhang Jing left Zhu Yijun's place.

And all of a sudden, Zhu Yijun was the only one left in the entire warm pavilion.

Zhu Yijun stared blankly at the screen in front of him, full of thoughts.

Zhang's father's sudden death, in this era of filial piety, is a big blow to the New Deal.

Because once Zhang Juzheng returns home because of Ding You, it means that the Qingzhang affairs will be interrupted. After all, all the people who execute the Qingzhang are Zhang Juzheng's people.

Once Zhang Juzheng leaves, the new Chief Assistant will have to change people if he wants to do something. Once he changes people, many things will be put on hold.

Therefore, for the sake of the New Deal, Zhu Yijun had to win Zhang Juzheng's love, and he didn't want Qingzhang's affairs to be abandoned halfway.

And he believed that Zhang Juzheng himself also wanted to be captured by his own emperor.

According to the etiquette system, when an official's parents die, the official himself needs to take the initiative to return to his hometown Ding You, and all official positions will be removed.

But this system is not without inoperability.

According to the system, the emperor has the power to seize love.

After all, etiquette must also obey political needs.

It's just that in many cases, the scholar-bureaucrats did not want the ritual system to be subordinate to the imperial power, but hoped that the imperial power would be subordinate to the ritual system.

That is to say, the emperor should also obey the etiquette system and allow the officials who should observe the festival to return to their hometown Ding You.

And officials should also take the initiative to abide by the etiquette system, and should not disobey the etiquette system because of the emperor's arrogance.

In short, Zhu Yijun knew that he had encountered a challenge of whether the imperial power should obey the etiquette system.

And Zhu Yijun didn't intend to obey the etiquette.

It's not just that he doesn't want his imperial power to be constrained by rituals.

What's more, he doesn't want this backward moral system to continue to restrict the internal improvement of the entire Chinese society.

If the imperial power still needs to be restricted in the future, Zhu Yijun also does not want to restrict the imperial power to be rites.

What's more, due to the contradictory nature of the need to be loyal to the imperial power, ethics itself is doomed to be unable to restrain the imperial power.

Therefore, no matter what, the current Zhu Yijun is not suitable to let Zhang Juzheng leave.

If he wants to let Zhang Juzheng go, he can only let Zhang Juzheng go when the New Deal is completely completed and he can find someone who can really replace Zhang Juzheng, not because he compromised with the Confucian ritual system.

"how so!"

After Zhang Juzheng received this news, he found it harder to accept than Wanli, and after muttering such a sentence, he couldn't help but raised his head to the sky and roared: "Father!"

Then, Zhang Juzheng fainted and became unconscious.

And Zhang Jingxiu didn't wake up his father immediately, but stayed in place for a while, and just said blankly: "What should I do?"

Zhang Jingxiu seemed to have foreseen what kind of storm his father would face next.

Unlike Zhang Juzheng fainting and Zhang Jingxiu sluggish, Hanlin editor Wu Zhongxing was already like a jackal smelling of meat. He found and criticized Zhao Yongxian and said excitedly: "The father of Jiangling is gone! Now I am waiting for Qingliu to help the ritual system. It's time!"

"What if Ding You returns home from Jiangling?"

Zhao Yongxian replied.

Wu Zhongxing said: "If this is the case, it will be even better. The New Deal can be broken, and the ritual system can be complete!"

"You're right!"

"Now Zhang Juzheng has just unified his party members, and there is no one who can inherit his mantle. It is the right time for him to leave at this time!"

Zhao Yongxian nodded and said, "In short, if we go to Jiangling now, the Zhang party will have no leader and fall into internal strife, and then fall apart!"

"But it's almost impossible. How could Jiangling let his new policy be interrupted, and even his party members fall apart!"

Wu Zhongxing said.

Zhao Yongxian said after hearing this: "I hope he can go to Jiangling, so that we don't have to turn against each other in the future! For him, this is actually a chance to retreat bravely."

"That's right, it's time for the New Deal to come to an end! The scholar-bureaucrats in the world have suffered from the New Deal for a long time! Instead of waiting for His Majesty to end him in the future, it's better for Jiang Ling to end him himself, and maybe he can still preserve his reputation!"

Wu Zhongxing said.

"In public opinion, should the New Deal end because of this?"

Zhang Han, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, also asked Ma Ziqiang, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, the next day.

Because of the death of Zhang Juzheng's father, the entire Reformist Party was in panic.

Zhang Han didn't dare to face the pressure of the New Deal in front of the etiquette system, so he asked Ma Ziqiang in this way.

Ma Ziqiang said: "Although His Majesty also intends to forge ahead, this is indeed the most suitable time to end the restructuring. Qingzhang Tianmu has been implemented throughout the country for nearly a year, and it is almost ready."

Zhang Han nodded: "You can't really let His Majesty think that the ritual system can be an exception. If so, what rules can restrain the emperor in the future?"

"It's better to discuss this matter with uncle!"

"As long as the uncle insists on Ding You, the emperor will not be able to force others to make things difficult."

Ma Ziqiang said.

Zhang Han nodded after listening.

"Seize love!"

"This time we must use an example to seize the situation!"

"He, Zhang Taiyue, must first be loyal before he can fulfill his filial piety. Now that he has retired because of this, what is he like! No one can preside over the current New Deal except him. I can't, and none of you can!"

At this time, Zhao Zhenji spoke loudly to Lu Tiaoyang and Zhang Siwei in the cabinet.

"Of course Meng Jing is right, but it depends on Yuanfu's own opinion."

Lu Tiaoyang said.

Zhang Siwei also echoed, "Yes, if Yuan Fu wants Ding You himself, what can we do?"

"It's up to him!"

"He has to stay if he wants Ding You, and he has to stay if he doesn't want Ding You. Zhang Taiyue wants to retreat bravely, but there is no way!"

"If he wants to retreat bravely, then take back his words of 'I am not a phase, but a photograph'!"

"Zhang Taiyue dared to use power to change the world system, but now he dares to use power to violate the world's etiquette?"

"He has to dare if he doesn't dare!"

Snapped!
Zhao Zhenji slapped the table as he spoke, and said: "Let's go to the meeting together, and first persuade Your Majesty to seize the love! He said that if His Majesty does not seize the love, we will not be able to stay in this cabinet. Zhang Juzheng is about to put down the pick, so we all simply put down the pick together." !"

"This……"

Lu Tiaoyang hesitated.

Zhao Zhenji got up immediately and said: "Why are you still hesitating, now this pressure cannot be let His Majesty and Zhang Taiyue bear it, we have to share some of it!"

Zhang Siwei nodded at this moment and said: "What Meng Jing said is, let's go to Shushu, so as not to make people feel that we want Yuanfu to leave."

"Hey! That's the reason!"

Zhao Zhenji said to Zhang Siwei: "It's still Zhang Ziwei who has scheming!"

Zhang Siwei: "..."

Therefore, before Zhu Yijun received Zhang Juzheng's "Begging for Grace and Shouzhi", he first received Zhao Zhenji, Lu Tiaoyang, and Zhang Siwei who asked him to help Jin Youzi, Li Xian, and Yang Puli to Zhang Juzheng's seduction of love.

Zhu Yijun was naturally very satisfied with this, and hurriedly approved the performance of the three, and asked the cabinet to issue an order to Zhang Juzheng, saying: "The patriarchal system should be respected, and the father of the monarch is especially important. After July [-]th, he will enter the cabinet to handle affairs as usual." , attend lectures and study at the end of the day with the court."

And as for Zhang Juzheng's next work, "Begging for Grace and Shou Zhishu", Zhu Yijun naturally did not approve of it being popular.

"Next, Mr. Zhang will not allow you to beg for mercy no matter how many times you ask!"

"All the memorials of officials who oppose Duoqing will be kept and ignored!"

Zhu Yijun, on the other hand, ordered the Supervisor of Rituals to disapprove Zhang Juzheng's first "Request for Grace and Shouzhi", and then continued to order in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)