It's just using my name to recruit talents, but actually using my "Five Classics of Justice" is unbearable. Lao Kong was so angry that his beard stood up and he wanted to kill someone!
This "Five Classics of Justice" was the focus of Kong Yingda's lifelong efforts, thinking that he would successfully compile this book in this lifetime, so that his fame would be remembered by future generations, and he would be admired by later generations of Confucian students. But if Fang Jun does this, students from all over the world will inevitably gather. By then, this book will become a major event in Confucianism. It is the crystallization of collective wisdom. What does it have to do with Lao Tzu?
But this is a bit hard to say. Could it be said that I compiled this book just to make my name famous for future generations? As for the "compatibility with Bai family, integration of North and South", it is simply a gimmick?
Kong Yingda does have the intention of borrowing books to become famous, but of course he is not completely philistine! Now that Fang Jun was interfering with it, the old man found that he had nothing to say!
So angry!
Seeing that Kong Yingda was so angry that he was about to have high blood pressure, Fang Jun quickly explained: "The scale of this book is huge and cannot be undertaken by one person alone. If we can preserve the achievements of classics since the Western Han Dynasty so that the teachings of our predecessors will not be lost, Isn't it a great merit of Confucianism that future generations of scholars will admire them? As the chief editor, aren't you a sage and sage who is highly respected by future generations? And the more people participate, the greater the influence of this book. Maybe the "Five Classics of Justice" can be proclaimed by the imperial court as the standard interpretation of Confucian classics. If this is really the case, it will be an unprecedented evolution process from disputes to unity in the history of classics. By then, you will be a person who has a summary of Confucian classics. and a great scholar of unification.”
Kong Yingda thought about it carefully and felt that Fang Jun's words were not completely unreasonable.
Since the Western Han Dynasty, Confucianism has had many schools and teachers have different opinions.
At that time, "Shi" was divided into three families: Qi, Lu and Han; "Book" was divided into Ouyang and Xiaoxiahou; "Li" included "Yili" and "Book of Rites", among which "Book of Rites" was divided into Xiaodai, and "Yi" was divided into Shi, Meng, Liang, Qiu and Jing, the "Spring and Autumn" is divided into Gong and Gu Erzhuan, Gongyang also has Yan and Yan studies.
In the history of Confucian classics, these differences are called "discipline".
Later, the Confucian classics came up with different theories under the banner of master's method, and then divided into "family method", and then various expert opinions were divided from family method. Just like a tree trunk branching out, branching out again, the branches and leaves are luxuriant, and the roots are gradually lost, making it difficult to understand the meaning of the scriptures. Therefore, there is a sigh that "apprentices work hard but have little success, and later generations have doubts and cannot correct themselves."
Later, ancient literature flourished and entanglements were reborn.
In "Shi", Mao Zhuan competes with Qi, Lu and Han for supremacy; in "Yi", Gao Fei competes with Shi Meng; in "Spring and Autumn", Zuo Zhuan emerges as a new force; in "Li", "Li" of Zhou appears and differentiates between superior and inferior; and in "Shu", there are ancient texts in the wall Sixteen articles...
The writings of ancient and modern times are divergent among teachers, and all kinds of disagreements have made the forum of Confucian classics full of confusion.
Prior to this, there had been three major discussions among the entire academic community.
One is that Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty held the Shiqu Pavilion Conference, the other was that Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty had a discussion about the White Tiger Temple, and the third was that Zheng Xuan at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty did not talk about family laws and read all the scriptures.
The Shiqu Pavilion meeting focused on the issue of the plethora of scholars’ theories within Jin Wen Jing. As a result of the discussion, not only did they fail to unify the differences among teachers, but more doctors were created, which aggravated the emergence of heterogeneous theories within Confucian classics. The White Tiger View discussion focused on the discussion of Jin Wen Jing’s ancient texts. Due to differences in issues, the final book was "White Tiger Tongyi", which used Dong Zhongshu's divine induction and the Western Han Dynasty's prophecy to unify the ideology. It failed to correct the excellent content of the ancient scriptures and failed to achieve the goal of academic unification.
This situation was tolerable when the political power was separated, but after the world was unified, especially since the Sui Dynasty established the prefecture-level schools to cultivate scholars, and established Ming Jing and Jinshi subjects to recruit talents, there was no unified scripture interpretation as a teaching material and class examination standards will inevitably bring a lot of trouble to education and election work.
Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty ordered an examination of the students of the Imperial Academy, and prepared to select the best for recruitment. However, "since Zhengshuo has been inconsistent for three hundred years, teachers' training has been inconsistent." The answers cannot be agreed, and the doctors cannot evaluate the examination papers...
This is embarrassing.
With the rise of the imperial examinations in this dynasty, many Confucian students were given promotion opportunities. However, the inconsistent answers to Confucian classics made the Confucian classics examination extremely difficult. Therefore, when Fang Jun led the reform of the imperial examinations, a large number of The examination questions on Confucian classics were deleted, but a large number of examination questions on Chinese studies and arithmetic were added. If the classics could have a unified answer, how could it be reduced to such a situation?
Well, whether Fang Jun’s original intention is to suppress Confucian classics or something else, that’s what Confucian disciples think...
As a Confucian leader, Kong Yingda's original intention of compiling "Five Classics of Justice" originated from this.
Fang Jun did not object to this.
Confucianism may not be as bad as some extremists in later generations said. It is even believed to be the main culprit that caused the Chinese nation to lag behind the world. It is even more nonsense to imprison ideas and hinder the development of natural science.
Since the fall of the Han Dynasty, Confucianism has been the only orthodoxy supported by the ruling class. Why did the technology of the Sui Dynasty not fall behind? Why did the technology of the Tang Dynasty not fall behind? Why are the technological levels of the two Song Dynasties so high in the world? Why was the Ming Dynasty still leading the world in the early period?
In the final analysis, everything is caused by the system and has no real relationship with the doctrine one believes in.
Confucianism is just a philosophy, and it talks about cultivating one's moral character. The imperial examinations before the mid-Song Dynasty were mostly based on policy theory, and rarely examined classics and meanings. However, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the classics and meanings were raised to infinite heights. If you want to pursue "half of the Analects to rule the world", if you don't subjugate the country, who will subjugate the country?
Moreover, the themes and thoughts of Confucian classics in the early period were positive and healthy. However, in the late Song Dynasty, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism made it go to extremes, and the eight-part essay in the Ming and Qing dynasties was the main culprit for imprisoning thoughts!
Confucian classics are extremely effective for a person's self-cultivation and moral cultivation, so Fang Jun has absolutely no objection to Confucianism.
Seeing Kong Yingda's anger gradually subsided, Fang Jun struck while the iron was hot and said: "You are the editor-in-chief and can take charge of everything. You are the soul of this "Five Classics of Justice"! You are the person who revived Confucianism! You are the sage teacher of future generations of Confucian students! "
The title "Holy Master" was probably only given to the descendants of Confucius in the Song Dynasty. Fang Jun was generous and gave it to Kong Yingda in advance. It was not too much. They are all Confucius' family members anyway...
Kong Yingda was moved this time.
The position of "chief editor" mentioned by Fang Jun is indeed the core of this book.
In the process of compiling the annotations, the formulation of meanings and examples, and the examination of right and wrong were all decided by Kong Yingda. As the editor-in-chief, Kong Yingda has the right to select an excellent annotation from among the numerous scriptures as the standard annotation, and then provide detailed explanations of the scripture annotations.
Kong Yingda is also a layman, and as a layman, he pursues fame and wealth. But it can not only reflect his own value, but also gather outstanding Confucian scholars from all over the world to compile this book. It can be regarded as a classic of Confucianism handed down from generation to generation. Why not do it?
However, Kong Yingda had experienced the world and was naturally calm. He still agreed with Fang Jun's proposal in his heart, but his face still had an expression of "I'm very unhappy, you owe me money." He said lightly: "You can really unite the world." How many books can be published by Confucian disciples from various schools? Even if it is printed, how many of the countless poor Confucian disciples can afford such a book?"
Fang Jun almost raised his middle finger at the old man!
Our second roommate has always been a person who extorts money from others, but today we are actually being raped by someone like you?
But Kong Yingda's name is really useful. Nowadays, most of the intellectuals in the world are Confucian disciples. With a great god like him sitting in charge, why can't heroes from all over the world compete to join him?
If you want to take it, you must first give it...
Fang Jun gritted his teeth and said as if bleeding: "Knowledge is the essence that distinguishes us from beasts. Promoting knowledge and disseminating knowledge is an important task for us. Therefore, in the near future, the juniors will set up a bookstore to publish the "Agricultural Science" that will be compiled soon. "Book". When the senior's book is successfully compiled and the junior prints 10,000 copies, and the price of each copy will definitely not exceed 20 yuan, what will the senior think?"
Kong Yingda suddenly beamed: "Fang Erlang is indeed a generous man. The more good things like spreading knowledge, the better. I will sell my name to you, and you can do whatever you want. In addition, I will repair books for some old people." Friends, invite them to come to Huating Town, and maybe they can teach a thing or two in the school in their spare time."
Lao Kong was overjoyed when he heard that Fang Jun would publish five thousand copies of "Five Classics of Justice" and the price was only twenty taels. In this way, more poor students will be able to receive the most orthodox Confucian education.
I just don’t know how Lao Kong would feel when he found out that Fang Junzheng was planning to use the name of Princess Jinyang to distribute the "Agricultural Book" to the world for free...
