Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 1260 Postscript 116·The awards in literature and history are of high value

The little emperor has changed a lot. After not seeing him for a while, he seems to be much calmer.

Of course, it may be pretended.

After all, he is thirteen and a half years old, which is half an adult. In the countryside, he can plant rice instead of just doing some auxiliary farm work.

Empress Dowager Ye always has a smile on her face and is kind to scholars.

Who can guess that she just approved the use of troops against Tian Shi of Sizhou yesterday?

Today, there are still many tributary regimes similar to Tusi in the southwest region. The big ones are set up as states, the middle ones are set up as counties, and the small ones are set up as dong.

Over the past hundred years, some tributary regimes have been completely changed to local officials, while some have become jointly governed by officials and local officials, and there are still a few remote areas with only local officials.

Sizhou is governed by officials and local officials, and its degree of sinicization can be changed to local officials.

But Tian Shi of Sizhou has always been cautious and never gave the court a chance to take action.

Just this year, the native official of the Tian family died of illness.

His eldest son first sent a telegram, and then sent people to Beijing to ask for a title, intending to inherit the position of the native official of Sizhou.

At the same time, the concubine of the former native official fled to the residence of the governor of Sizhou (official) for refuge. And claimed that this eldest son killed his father and brother, and asked the court to punish him severely!

It was probably such a story: the native official favored his concubine and wanted to pass the throne to his youngest son. The eldest son took the initiative and poisoned the native official to death and killed his brother.

After the incident was exposed, the guy who killed his father and brother knew that he could not escape the punishment of the court, so he directly rebelled in Sizhou and killed the governor appointed by the court.

He was so bold, but he was helpless, because patricide was an unforgivable crime.

Whether he rebelled or not, he was dead.

The local court garrison was prepared and reacted quickly, killing the rebel soldiers and fleeing into the mountains.

At this point, the matter has basically come to an end.

But the officials sent by the court to govern Sizhou were not good people either. They usually exploited people of all ethnic groups crazily. The defeated rebels spread the word that the court was unjust everywhere, deliberately provoking ethnic hatred and causing riots in various villages in Sizhou.

Within a few months, the number of rebels increased to 50,000 to 60,000, and even many Han people joined them.

Yesterday, Empress Dowager Ye officially approved the request to send troops: 3,000 field troops, 10,000 garrison troops, and 40,000 grain transporters. After the rebels were wiped out, Sizhou will be completely converted to a state of local administration. Among them, 20,000 civilians will stay in the local area to settle down and farm, enriching the Han population there.

There are quite a few similar chieftains, especially in southern Sichuan, northern Yunnan, and western Guizhou. The court is looking forward to someone messing around, and then taking the opportunity to send troops to convert the chieftains to a state of local administration.

The proportion of Han people is not enough? The conditions for converting the chieftains to a state of local administration are not mature?

Haha, the last thing the Ming Dynasty lacks now is people, and it can easily attract hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

Queen Mother Ye took her son to sit down, smiling all the time, looking amiable.

Power can corrode people's minds, and Queen Mother Ye is no exception.

However, she was very smart and always behaved very restrained. She was familiar with history books, knew the deeds of Lü Zhi, Deng Sui, Wu Zhao, and Liu E, and knew what she should do to avoid crossing the line.

But within this boundary, Queen Mother Ye still wanted to do something. Not only to pave the way for her son, but also to leave a name for herself in history.

Destroying the Tian family of Sizhou is one of them, and she will definitely be recorded in history books.

Next is the Yang family of Bozhou.

Next is the Luo family in Qianxi.

Finally, the Shimen tribes in southern Sichuan and northern Yunnan.

She wanted to destroy all these vassal regimes and turn them into officials.

After her son took power, she could deal with southern Yunnan with peace of mind. Especially those newly occupied territories (in Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos in later generations), which were consolidated by immigration bit by bit.

On the podium of the auditorium, officials from the Ministry of Rites and leaders of the Royal Society spoke one after another.

Then came the opening ceremony.

The opening song and dance was naturally the Ming Taizong Pozhen Dance.

Prince Laszlo sat in the last row and was soon shocked by this large-scale song and dance performance. He had never seen it in Europe!

There actually was one in the Eastern Roman Empire.

About four hundred years ago, there was a Renaissance in the Eastern Roman Empire, and a large number of religious satirical dramas were produced.

A few decades ago, the Eastern Roman Empire had its second Renaissance. At that time, the Eastern Roman Empire lost a lot of territory, which led to constant reflection by writers and artists, and reached a peak in the development of humanities and arts.

Then came the recovery of lost territory, and national sentiment was high, which was introduced into the art of the Ming Dynasty, and now a large number of "humanistic dramas" have been created.

It is not possible in the west, and it is still in the "religious drama" period.

Take France for example. Hundreds of years ago, it could only perform plays such as the Passion of Jesus, but now it has developed to mainly focus on the Virgin Mary and devout believers.

With the development of cities, some street comedies have finally emerged in France in the past two or three decades.

One is called "carnival", which is based on folk legends, but more or less related to religion. There are many dirty jokes in it, Jesus appears at the critical moment, and there is a happy ending at the end.

One is called "interlude", which is performed when the religious drama changes the scene. It is all humorous short plays, with two or three comedians making jokes. This is similar to the farce in the Tang and Song dynasties, which is also performed when the main drama changes the scene.

In addition, real farce, monologue, and fool play have also begun to appear in France.

But only "religious drama" is the largest in scale, and other types of drama are all foils.

If the Black Death had not ravaged Europe, it is unlikely that it would have fallen into the Dark Ages. The development of drama can show the clues. Only when the city is prosperous enough, a large number of street dramas will emerge.

"This is a dance that interprets the story of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, personally leading his army to defeat the powerful barbarians." The official of the Honglu Temple introduced.

Laszlo exclaimed: "I have never seen so many people dancing together, and they are dressed as an army."

"You are still not civilized enough over there." The official of the Honglu Temple said.

Laszlo was speechless and felt inferior again.

At this time, Hungary's system, etiquette, and living habits were all moving closer to the Holy Roman Empire.

And culture and art were more inclined to France, which was brought by the French princess when she married into Hungary.

While the two were talking, the second show came on stage.

Guqin solo.

The third show was a drama, which was about Emperor Taizu leading the villagers in Daming Village to resist the taxation of corrupt officials. When the scene changed, there was a comedy, and those funny actors were also dressed as corrupt officials.

If Zhu Guoxiang were sitting down there, he would probably be very confused. I have never done these things.

Laszlo watched the performances one by one with great interest.

Although he did not understand the lines.

Finally, a piano was brought out.

Yang Linzhi bowed to the audience, turned around and walked to the piano and sat down.

The sound of the piano, like the tinkling of spring water, flew out from his fingertips. Most scholars were intoxicated to listen, and only a few musicians frowned.

Zhu Tangxi's smile became more and more intense. This song is called "To Tangxi".

The couple planned to partner with Yang Linzhi to open a piano shop in Luoyang, specializing in making pianos for sale. By the way, they also teach piano.

At this stage, in addition to "To Tangxi", the main piano music is to change traditional music to piano performance.

No mistakes, one post, one content, one book, one bar!

Of course, Yang Linzhi is also creating his own piano music.

Around noon, the performance finally ended and everyone went to the Imperial College cafeteria for lunch.

After a short break in the afternoon, we returned to the auditorium for award presentation.

The awards were presented separately for arts and science. There was one gold award, three silver awards, and ten bronze awards.

Recalling the first award presentation ceremony of the Imperial Society of the Ming Dynasty, it was hosted by the retired emperor Zhu Guoxiang himself.

The process was also designed by Zhu Guoxiang.

The Minister of Rites opened a letter: "The winners of the bronze award in the category of literature and history are: Tang Shouyi. Three years ago, Tang Xueshi compiled the "Chronology of Pre-Qin Philosophers" alone. Although some of the contents of this book are questionable, it has great literary and historical value..."

An elderly scholar walked onto the stage.

"Xu Feiqing. Two years ago, Xu Xueshi wrote "A Brief Discussion on Food and Goods in Pre-Qin Countries, and a Discussion on the Economy of Guan and Xun"..."

Another elderly scholar walked onto the stage, but he didn't look very happy. He felt that his research, at the very least, was a silver award, but he only got a bronze award.

The inside story!

The selection of the Royal Society's awards is divided into a preliminary selection and a re-selection.

The preliminary selection is for all scholars to send letters of nomination, and each scholar can nominate 20 people. The Royal Society registers the nominations and selects the 100 people with the most nominations.

The re-election is a 19-member jury composed of Jade Bachelor and Rose Bachelor, who votes anonymously for the 100 preliminary selected people.

The members of the jury must be replaced every term and cannot be re-elected for more than two terms.

The winners of the bronze medal in literature and history came on stage one by one, collectively received the trophy, and gave their acceptance speeches one by one.

Then came the silver medal.

That Wen Li was one of the silver medal winners. The main reason for this award was that he deciphered all the inscriptions on the Jin Jiang Ding.

This has been a difficult problem in the epigraphy community since Ouyang Xiu, Lu Dalin and others in the Song Dynasty until now. About 90% of it has been deciphered in the past two hundred years, and Wen Li completed it to only one word, which is still controversial.

This is of great significance to the research of oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions.

"Shang Pei. Shang Xueshi's "Tears of an Orphan"..."

Many scholars were surprised when the silver medal winner was announced.

This is the first time that someone has won a society award by writing a novel in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. And it is a silver medal in literature and history!

You know, this novel was a banned book a few years ago, and no one even knew who the author was.

It was not until four years ago when "Tears of an Orphan" was lifted that Shang Pei's friend revealed it and signed the author's real name in the second printing.

The Minister of Rites said: "Shang Xueshi himself is a master of Confucian classics and a scholar of Furong. Now he is the governor of Guangxi. He really can't spare the time to accept the award, so he entrusted his friend to accept it on his behalf."

Even Xie Yan was surprised. The author of "Tears of an Orphan" was actually a governor of education?

The third silver medal winner in literature and history is a painter.

He visited architectural murals all over the country, searched for famous paintings from past dynasties, and even followed archaeologists to study murals and clothing patterns in tombs. It took thirty years to sort out the characteristics and development of paintings from past dynasties, and compiled a large painting monograph.

These are just silver awards.

What is the origin of the gold award?

The Minister of Rites said: "This time, the gold award in the literature and history category was approved by your majesty, the queen mother, and the cabinet, and no nomination and voting were adopted. Because the results came out a few days ago, there was no time for preliminary nominations. But this achievement is too great, and the gold award must be given now."

"Zhang Ye and Wen Mengyan, two bachelor, and their students found a big tomb in Yinxu. The owner of the tomb is the queen woman of Shangwang Wuding. The woman is currently the only business royal family in Yinxu that can determine the identity. Moreover, the woman Okay, it's still a unified general ... "

Many historical and archeologists present have long received news from a small circle. They look calm.

But the rest of the scholars, even scientists, were exclaimed at this moment.

Xie Yan is also exaggerated with expressions. This Nima woman's tomb is dug out!

The two of them were archeological at the Yin Ruins at this moment, and their sons came to the stage.

Xie Yan said to the princess: "Sister, one day, we will go to the tomb of women."

Zhu Tangxi laughed: "Okay. For such an important tomb, the court will definitely be sacrificed. At that time, I will ask for love and let Liulang go to Yinxu to host it."

Xie Yan intends to apply to the court to build an archeological museum in Yinxu.

I don't know if the ticket can be recovered.

Estimated difficulty.

After the award of the literature and history, the science award was evaluated.

Many scientists look at Xie Yan and basically guess who the gold award winner is.