I'm playing IN, no mods. Note that my computer isn't in particularly good shape, so chances this AAR getting FUBARED are quite high. You are warned.
It was only the second year of the reign of the Jianwen Emperor, what the christians would call the year one thousand, three hundred and ninety-nine, that the high ministers of the Imperial Court decided to pass a twofold decree: For one thing, while as a whole the "Song Learning" of the Lixue school was denounced in favour of the school of "Han learning", this denounciation was not complete: The idea of gewu, or "investigation of things" was considered a proper way of approaching the search for virtue, and the Jianwen Emperor himself especially praised those investigations which could have practical applications.
As a part of the denounciation of lixue the Imperial officials set out on a massive re-education campaign, seeking to foster greater respect for the classics, and to ensure that the interporetations championed by the imperial bureaucracy was in line with classical views and not tainted by buddhist or daoist ways of thinking. Especially in the south-west, where examinations had been lax the officials had remained largely ignorant of the moral virtues of confucius, preferring the views of the Buddha. This was not something that the Imperial Bureaucracy could stand for, and officials were sent out to ensure that proper orthodoxy was maintained.
This was the result of the work of two important imperial advisors, Chongzhen Menglin and Shaowu Mingtai, it is said that Menglin's reasons for supporting the measure was less a concern about the virtue of the officials as much as it was for the proper collection of the imperial taxes.
To the south of the empire lay the tributary state of Dai Vet, which currently against all custom and proper etiquette, refused to pay tribute. Concerns had been raised by Imperial Officials about this tiny stat,e and it had been considered wise to fully incorporate it into the Empire. The imperial emissaries sent to the Dai Vet court however, were harshly rebuffed, something which damaged imperial prestige considerably.
Where imperial emissaries could not venture, imperial armies could, the forces of Dai Vet proved to be no match for imperial arms, althoguh the empire was frustrated by the greedy neighbours of the tributary who swept in and approporiated parts of it for themselves.
It was only the second year of the reign of the Jianwen Emperor, what the christians would call the year one thousand, three hundred and ninety-nine, that the high ministers of the Imperial Court decided to pass a twofold decree: For one thing, while as a whole the "Song Learning" of the Lixue school was denounced in favour of the school of "Han learning", this denounciation was not complete: The idea of gewu, or "investigation of things" was considered a proper way of approaching the search for virtue, and the Jianwen Emperor himself especially praised those investigations which could have practical applications.
As a part of the denounciation of lixue the Imperial officials set out on a massive re-education campaign, seeking to foster greater respect for the classics, and to ensure that the interporetations championed by the imperial bureaucracy was in line with classical views and not tainted by buddhist or daoist ways of thinking. Especially in the south-west, where examinations had been lax the officials had remained largely ignorant of the moral virtues of confucius, preferring the views of the Buddha. This was not something that the Imperial Bureaucracy could stand for, and officials were sent out to ensure that proper orthodoxy was maintained.
This was the result of the work of two important imperial advisors, Chongzhen Menglin and Shaowu Mingtai, it is said that Menglin's reasons for supporting the measure was less a concern about the virtue of the officials as much as it was for the proper collection of the imperial taxes.
To the south of the empire lay the tributary state of Dai Vet, which currently against all custom and proper etiquette, refused to pay tribute. Concerns had been raised by Imperial Officials about this tiny stat,e and it had been considered wise to fully incorporate it into the Empire. The imperial emissaries sent to the Dai Vet court however, were harshly rebuffed, something which damaged imperial prestige considerably.
Where imperial emissaries could not venture, imperial armies could, the forces of Dai Vet proved to be no match for imperial arms, althoguh the empire was frustrated by the greedy neighbours of the tributary who swept in and approporiated parts of it for themselves.
