Zeng Dieu Quang Tieu persuaded Zhu Di but Zhu Di refused to listen, Ming Dynasty

Yongle Emperor
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To paraphrase Zweig’s famous saying
Every choice of the historical protagonist
The price has all been determined.
Mention the direction as this name
What is the first thing that comes to everyone’s mind?
For most people in future generations
Fang Xiaoru
It's just an annotation of the term "Zhu Shi Clan" invented by Zhu Di
But when Zhu Di killed Fang Xiaoru,
Wouldn't have thought
Go down with this knife
Will cut off the Ming Dynasty's national works after more than 200 years
About Fang Xiaoru’s death
Centuries of controversy have just begun
Jianwen four years
key years in history
The city of Nanjing in June was in chaos
Fang Xiaoru sits quietly at home
Waiting for the moment of arrest
Three years ago Zhu Di raised troops in Beijing
Resist Emperor Jianwen's policy of reducing vassal vassals
Before sending troops
Yao Guangxiao, his most trusted military advisor, knelt down and asked:
The day Nanjing was destroyed
Fang Xiaoru will definitely refuse to surrender
Hope not to kill him
Yao Guangxiao said meaningfully about killing Fang Xiaoru
The seeds of reading in the world are gone
After Zhu Di captured the city of Nanjing
As expected, Fang Xiaoru neither escaped nor surrendered.
After being imprisoned, Zhu Di repeatedly asked people to persuade him to surrender.
Fang Xiaoru never obeyed
In the end, Zhu Di was angered by his fierce words.
sentenced to death
However, there is no mention of the Zhu family in Ming history.
The Zhu clan was first seen in the wild notes of Zhuzhi Mountain
It is also mentioned in the Ming Dynasty Chronicles
But there is no record in the official history
But regardless of whether the incident involving the Zhu clan really happened or not,
What's important
Everyone in the world believes that Fang Xiaoru was killed as the ancestor
And they all put this account on the Zhu family.
The Pandora's box of history has been opened.
After Fang Xiaoru's death
His reputation for unyielding overshadows his reputation for knowledge
But actually
Knowledge is the basis of his fame
When Zhu Yuanzhang was alive
He summoned Fang Xiaoru twice
Praise him as a talented artist
But he was never appointed
Lao Zhu’s public statement is that
Leave the empire’s talents to future generations
The actual reason to use it is
Fang Xiaoru’s philosophy of political reform
It is diametrically opposed to the political system established by Lao Zhu
This is what Fang Xiaoru did during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang
The fundamental reason why civilization is useless if it is empty
Fang Xiaoru’s teacher Song Lian
It was basically idle after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Later, he was implicated in the Hu Weiyong case.
If it weren't for Prince Zhu Biao's intercession,
Can't escape death
But don't get me wrong
Song Lianzhen is related to the Hu Weiyong case
It's just an excuse for Lao Zhu to kill someone.
In Zhu Yuanzhang’s view
The concept of people governing the country advocated by the Song and Yuan Dynasties has become outdated.
Since it's useless
It is better to kill the provinces and cities
To him, living human lives are just props.
Fang Xiaoru’s political views
Similar to his teacher Song Lian
Advocate for benevolent people with lofty ideals
He proposed the idea of removing the king
Want to make people king
Be trained to become a sage with equal emphasis on morality and wisdom
Scholars have read several books of Mencius
I thought he could tame the monarch
In Lao Zhu's opinion, it's a joke
The result of political differences is
Fang Xiaoru has been on the bench for more than ten years
When Zhu Yuanzhang died in 1398
42-year-old Fang Xiaoru
Has been working as a professor of Hanzhong Fu Xue for 6 years
My heart is full of depression
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang's successor Zhu Yunwen came to the throne.
Era Jianwen
Zhu Yuanzhang's reign title is Hongwu
Zhu Yunwen's reign title Jianwen
Contradiction between era names
Already revealed
new monarch
Want to take a completely different route from Zhu Yuanzhang
So Fang Xiaoru, an underappreciated scholar,
Finally waited for his great responsibility
So people also
Emperor Jianwen summoned and appointed Empress Fang Xiaoru
Because the monarch and his ministers have the same three views, they are in the same mood.
Almost all important documents between North Korea and China
All drafted by Fang Xiaoru
to some extent
Fang Xiaoru became the spokesperson of the new emperor
Driven by Fang Xiaoru
Zhu Yunwen is determined to carry out political reform through routine witnessing
At this time, the shortcomings of literati in politics were completely exposed
Politicians come out to engage in politics
All reforms must be realistic
And literati engaged in politics
It’s easiest to fall into the trap of idealism
Confucian intellectuals’ expectations for an ideal world
not in the future
But in the past
this ideal world
Named after Confucius under the guise of Zhou Dynasty
Many scholars naively think that
Just restore ancient records
The ideal will come true
Raising troops in Zhu Di
During the four years since the Jingnan campaign was launched,
Fang Xiaoru and his loyal follower Zhu Yunwen
To reform the government according to Zhou Zhi
show great enthusiasm
They spend all day studying how to retro
Build provincial palace
Change the name of the city gate
There are also plans to restore the well-field system
Where did Zhu Di's army hit?
It was never their first concern
Until Zhu Di's army came to Nanjing,
Only then did Zhu Yunwen wake up from his sleepwalking state.
At that time, Zhu Di's lone army escaped from the cracks of the imperial army.
Rushed to the gates of Nanjing
The territory actually controlled is actually very small.
Most of China is still under the orders of the imperial court
If Zhu Yunwen abandons the city,
Implement strategic shift
It is absolutely possible to order the armies of the world to counterattack Zhu Di
So his ministers persuaded him to leave.
Plotting for a comeback
But Fang Xiaoru actually persuaded Zhu Yunwen to die in Sheji
This is so pedantic.
Missed the last chance to make a comeback
Zhu Yunwen even made himself disappear
Zhu Di directly announced the death of the young emperor
Take over the power of the empire
It can be said
It was Fang Xiaoru’s political naivety that caused Zhu Yunwen so much
After Zhu Di came to power
Change the era that Zhu Yunwen changed again
He restored the key torture methods of Zhu Yuanzhang's period
Worse than anything
Later commentators believed that Fang Xiaoru had a tough attitude.
angered Zhu Di
That would lead to death
The person who said this really doesn’t understand Zhu Di very well.
Thoughts on the late Ming and early Qing dynasties
Homesick Huang Zongxi said Zhu Di was mean by nature
Unless Fang Xiaoru surrenders
Otherwise there will be no way to survive
Here at Zhu Di
How can there be any neutral and moderate opposition?
They're all damn traitors.
Zhu Di is a politician
The characteristic of politicians is that the purpose is greater than the means
As long as the purpose can be achieved
It doesn’t matter whether the means are dirty or not.
After Zhu Di seized the throne with force,
He can only prove his legitimacy through cruel means
About the death of Fang Xiaoru
The earliest record comes from Fengtian Jingnan Ji
This is an official product of the Yongle court
Tools to clean yourself up
Not very reliable
In the book, Fang Xiaoru is ugly and turned into a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.
A coward begging for mercy
He begged Zhu Di for pardon but failed and was killed.
if that's really the case
Fang Xiaoru is not worthy either
It has been remembered by later generations of Confucian scholars for hundreds of years.
Zhu Di knew that killing people was not enough
Still need to punish
It’s not just about physically annihilating a person’s body
What’s more, we must destroy this person’s thoughts mentally.
then
The writings of Fang Xiaoru and his disciples were all banned
All will be burned
There was an official named Zhang Pu
If you have it at home, you will laugh as if you are sick.
After his colleague Yang Shan found out,
Go report it immediately
As a result, Yang Shan was promoted
Zhang Pu was directly executed
This already has the bloody atmosphere of literal prison
It was illegal to talk about Fang Xiaoru in the entire Yongle Dynasty.
Unless according to the official caliber
Treat Fang Xiaoru as a traitor who keeps wagging his tail
criticize
Until Zhu Di's death
Ming Renzong Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne
This situation has changed
Zhu Gaochi commented many times that
Fang Xiaoru, Qitai and others feared the power of loyal ministers
After this
Only the scholar-bureaucrats dared to fight for Fang Xiaoru’s vindication
The process of rehabilitation is long
To the thirteenth year of Wanli
The emperor rehabilitated Fang Xiaoru in an official way for the first time.
At this time, 183 years have passed since Fang Xiaoru was martyred.
And the Ming Dynasty also grew from a new powerful empire
Heading towards lifeless old age
People in the late Ming Dynasty recall Fang Xiaoru’s integrity
It was to express dissatisfaction with the political situation at that time.
Because in the late Ming Dynasty, officials generally only knew how to talk.
encounter changes
Run faster than anyone else
After Li Zicheng captured Beijing City
The last number one scholar in the Ming Dynasty
Open your mouth and shut up Yang Tingjian who would rather die than become a thief
Kneel down in the mud
Long live Li Zicheng three times
Then I dared to get up
Later Yang Tingjian had a fierce dispute with another Ming Dynasty official
To write an edict for Li Zicheng’s accession to the throne
Two people fighting together
My clothes were torn
Ji Liuqi, a historian in the late Ming Dynasty, wrote about this scene
Thinking of Fang Xiaoru, the ancestor of Ningzhu
Nor did he draft the history of the imperial edict for Zhu Di.
Comments on Dao Ming Dynasty's last days of people forgetting justice and forgetting their righteousness
All moral integrity is gone
This is Zhu Di's retribution for killing his loyal ministers.
Scholars all over the world
Really just burying your head in learning
Don't ask about right or wrong
But please stay alive
More than 200 years later
Just in time
What Yao Guangxiao specifically told Zhu Di
If you kill him, all the seeds of reading in the world will be wiped out.
When I read the history of Ming Dynasty, I often feel
A lot of chaos in the late Ming Dynasty
The roots can all be traced back to the time when Taizu became an ancestor.
Ming and Qing dynasties
It completely turned the world into the private property of the emperor.
It is private property
Just consider your own interests
Rather than worrying about the life and death of people in the world
then
Only an emperor who doesn’t understand management is extremely selfish
Treat human life as a worthless prop
Throw it away after use
Respect is mutual
The emperor does not cherish his subjects
people underneath
There is no sense of the coexistence of the family and the country.
Empress Wu of Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty
Yao and Shen changed
He became a minister of the Qing court again
Very few martyrs
As the saying goes, the way of heaven is reincarnation
Who will God spare?
Later generations respected Fang Xiaoru
It's also because of his moral integrity
rather than his political means
in actual political life
Fang Xiaoru’s ability, courage and practice
There are obvious shortcomings
Far inferior to Zhang Juzheng of later generations
We yearn for moral integrity
Because this is how our nation can be forged
Thousands of years of culture have been inherited between heaven and earth
The key to never interrupting
Later generations respect Fang Xiaoru’s death
In that case
He can only die
That is the real Fang Xiaoru
But I often feel sorry for his death
600 years have passed
the orthodoxy he defended
The succession order of the throne of the old Zhu family that he maintained
has long become worthless
What he clings to at the cost of the lives of his entire family
It turned out to be very ridiculous
throughout the bloody incident
Only the spirit of perseverance is meaningful
And there is no point in clinging to something
If Fang Xiaoru were like Bruno two hundred years later,
die for truth
Instead of dying for imperial authority and orthodoxy
that would be nice
