Wanli Youming

Chapter 13
Empress Dowager Li therefore called out at this moment: "Feng Bao!"

Feng Bao bowed and walked to the side of Empress Dowager Li: "The old slave is here."

Empress Dowager Li still stared at Sun Hai who taught Zhang Jing a lesson: "Who is beating someone in front?"

Feng Bao raised his eyebrows with difficulty hiding his smile and replied, "His name is Sun Hai, and he voted for Eunuch Sun."

Empress Dowager Li said with a sullen face: "Take such a frivolous person by the emperor's side, you can't pick him up just by saying that he is Sun Dexiu's!"

"My lady said that the old slave will talk to him today. This Sun Hai also saw that Zhang Jing came here for the first time, and he didn't understand some rules, so he had to discipline him strictly. He was also afraid that Zhang Jing would affect the emperor."

At this moment Feng Bao spoke for Sun Hai instead.

"No need!"

After hearing what Feng Bao said, Empress Dowager Li only responded with this sentence.

Zhu Yijun glanced at Feng Bao in astonishment, and immediately came to understand.

He knew that Feng Bao deliberately wanted to show his image of being fair and prudent in front of Queen Mother Li, and he didn't directly slander Sun Hai because he was his political enemy Sun Dexiu.

Zhu Yijun invited Mrs. Li to his bedroom today, in fact, he wanted Mrs. Li to see this scene of Sun Hai, and to prepare for helping Zhang Jing to enter the Supervisor of Ceremonies. The reason he borrowed was to let Mrs. Li watch his calligraphy practice.

Empress Dowager Li is naturally willing to see if her son's calligraphy has improved, not to mention that Zhu Yijun took the initiative to invite him, and since he needed to digest food after dinner, he happily came.

It's just that Queen Mother Li saw the scene of Sun Hai training people as soon as she came, and her face became gloomy for a while.

Not long after Sun Hai trained Zhang Jing, he saw the scene where Empress Dowager Li brought the emperor Zhu Yijun, Feng Bao, etc., and knelt down as soon as he saw it, trembling.

Zhang Jing then knelt down, twitched his red and swollen face, then raised his head slightly, and looked at Zhu Yijun.

"Emperor, where's your handwriting?"

As soon as Queen Mother Li arrived in Zhu Yijun's study, she asked.

Zhu Yijun personally went to open a golden wooden box, took out twelve dental plaques and a piece of imperial paper with 36 characters on it, and said to Empress Dowager Li: "Please look at it, Queen Mother, these are the characters written by the emperor!"

Empress Dowager Li looked over and saw that there were three characters engraved on each of the clear and clean twelve dental plaques, which were exactly the same as the 36 characters on the imperial paper. The 36 characters on the imperial paper were also a group of three characters. There are twelve groups in total.

"Careful to nature, respectful to the virtuous, close to gentlemen, far away from sycophants, clear about rewards and punishments, strict in and out, prudent in daily life, austere in food and beverages, rest assured, respectful, loyal, and economical."

Empress Dowager Li looked at these words and murmured, she was dumbfounded for a moment.

Zhu Yijun knew that the Empress Dowager Li and the Confucian bureaucrats in the outer dynasty all hoped that he could become a sage and benevolent monarch in line with Confucian standards.

And Zhu Yijun, who was determined to take care of him for the time being, deliberately did something according to Confucian standards to make Empress Dowager Li and the Confucian bureaucrats in the outer dynasty think that he could become a holy master and benevolent monarch in line with Confucian standards.

This is not difficult for Zhu Yijun.

Anyway, according to the standards of Confucianism, it is nothing more than governing with virtue, being close to virtuous officials, and being far away from villains, and using their own sages and sages to frame them as mottoes and mottos.

And at this time, Zhu Yijun continued to say: "The queen mother, when the emperor was practicing calligraphy, he thought of the virtue of the ancient sage lord and benevolent monarch, and most of the things he did can be summarized in twelve categories, so he simply wrote down these twelve things. And specially asked the inner court to make a dental plaque first, and engraved these twelve things on the dental plaque to show the emperor's ambition to follow the example of the ancient sage and benevolent monarch. Now I invite the mother to watch the calligraphy practiced by the emperor. I also want to invite The queen mother will be a witness to prove the emperor's ambition! In addition, the emperor also wants to distribute these twelve tooth cards to the ministers and ministers of the cabinet. Tooth card to admonish! I wonder what the mother thinks?"

Empress Dowager Li saw that Zhu Yijun was so sensible and intentionally exhorted herself to be a sage master and benevolent monarch in line with Confucian standards, so she was shocked and laughed: "Emperor, it is very good for you to do so, I am very comforted!"

Not long after, Feng Bao arranged for the eunuch to deliver the dental plaque to Zhang Juzheng and other cabinet ministers Jiuqing.

Zhang Juzheng and other cabinet ministers and nine ministers all praised him very much, saying that the emperor can abide by these twelve things for life, and expressed his willingness to act in accordance with the orders.

Of course, the final interpretation of whether to listen or not is in Zhu Yijun's hands.

However, Zhu Yijun's move caused a great shock among the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty.

Lu Tiaoyang even whispered to Zhang Juzheng again: "Uncle, the emperor is so self-disciplined, and he is willing to be remonstrated by the courtiers. It is obvious that he attaches great importance to civil servants Confucianism, and he is a holy emperor! Feng Baoyi gets rid of it!"

Zhang Juzheng remained silent.

Lu Tiaoyang, who had never seen anger, couldn't help but shake his hands heavily: "Yuanfu!"

Zhang Juzheng glanced at Lu Tiaoyang: "Leaving aside the matter of Feng Bao, do you really think that if the emperor has the heart to rule and the thirst for talents and words, he can be a holy emperor?"

"What does Uncle mean?"

Lu Tiaoyang asked a question.

Zhang Juzheng said: "It is a small wisdom to show the heart of learning and governing so that all the officials in the high hall think that they have the quality of a sage, so as to protect themselves and secretly store up their edge, and hide the heart of power officials! It can only explain your majesty's smallness. Mingrui, but if you really want to become a great weapon, you should know that you can rule the world unless you get rid of one power. The ministers and ministers of the cabinet are the servants of your majesty, not your majesty's servants. Is the father, the country, the common people alive?"

Lu Tiaoyang opened his mouth to argue, but in the end he just bowed and said, "What uncle said is very true!"

Zhang Juzheng smiled slightly, turned around and wrote a congratulatory form for Zhu Yijun's writing twelve things to exhort himself.

"My lord, forgive me for talking too much. With Yuan Fu Mr. Zhang, it is difficult for the civil servants of the foreign court to completely turn against Feng Bao, and then help your majesty go down this big pen!"

That night, Zhang Jing took advantage of Sun Hai's absence and slipped up in front of Zhu Yijun to chat.

Standing on a chair, Zhu Yijun, who wanted to get a history book on the top of the bookshelf partition for night reading, stretched out his hands, but did not respond to Zhang Jing, because he could hardly get the history book he wanted, so he turned back to Zhang Jing. Jing ordered: "Bring me the set of Annotations to the Four Books on my case!"

Zhang Jing hurriedly carried the "Four Books Annotations": "Why don't the slaves take it for the emperor?"

"That's fine, you stand directly on it."

Zhu Yijun got off the chair first, then put the "Four Books Collection" on the chair, and gave Zhang Jing instructions.

Zhang Jing responded, stepped on the "Four Books Collection" and the chair with both feet, and took down the history book Zhu Yijun wanted to read for him.

After Zhu Yijun took it, he asked Zhang Jing: "How is your face?"

"It's also a little swollen."

Zhang Jing replied with a smile.

Zhu Yijun said: "Go down and rest, Sun Hai is on duty tonight."

"Yes!"

Zhang Jing also retreated.

Zhu Yijun, on the other hand, is looking at history books.

There is no way, there are too few entertainment methods at night in this era, and because of his strict mother's discipline, he can't even experience many entertainment methods in this era, so he can only read books to pass the time, compared to Confucian classic books , Among the books he can read, only history books are more interesting.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun could only choose to pass the time by reading history books.

It's just that after Zhu Yijun read the history books about a stick of incense, he discovered that Sun Hai has always been in the future.

Zhu Yijun was puzzled loudly and called out, "Come here!"

After a while, an eunuch came in from outside the palace: "My lord, please give me instructions."

"Where's Sun Hai?"

The eunuch replied: "Eunuch Sun has gone to the Supervisor of Rites!"

(End of this chapter)