Woo hoo......
Someone is crying!
Qian Qianyi followed the sound and looked over, and found that it was the great scholar Huang Daozhou who was crying loudly. While crying, he was nagging: "Saint, sage! How come such good principles are buried underground? Who buried this?" ? This burial will delay the big event..."
Then Zhu Zhiyu also cried, "Ugh... How many years, how many years have I known that I have to study things to learn, but how? There is no way... Sage! How can you do it? Did you just bring the method of studying things into the coffin?"
"It was not a saint who brought the method of investigating things into the coffin," Wang Fuzhi began to use his imagination. "It must have been when the First Emperor burned books and harassed Confucian scholars, and burned all the bamboo slips that recorded the "Zi Lun" on the Investigation of Things... "
Ji Kun, who was recognized as a cruel official, gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, yes, it must be the First Emperor who burned all these bamboo slips! It's so hateful!"
Qin Shihuang was wronged! I don’t know how many years and months this blame will be carried for?
Kong Yinzheng also held a piece of paper in his hand, with five large seal characters written on it, "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian", but there was no content. So he doesn't know what this posthumous chapter is about? So he asked: "Everyone, we haven't seen the real thing yet!"
Yes, I haven’t seen the real thing, why are you crying like this? What if it’s Xibei goods?
"What Mr. Yan Shenggong said is wrong!" Mr. Huang Daozhou held the piece of paper in his hand, "The treasure is here!"
What? Isn't this just a piece of paper... Confucius didn't have paper at that time!
Kong Yinzheng was a little confused: "Mr. Shi Zhai, is this a copy?"
“Copies are also treasures!”
"This is the ultimate treasure!"
"It is as precious a treasure as The Analects of Confucius!"
"When the treasure comes out, the great road will flourish..."
Same as "The Analects of Confucius"? When the most precious treasure comes out, will the great road prosper?
Kong Yinzheng now understood that the principles in "Zi Lun Ge Wu Chapter" are treasures! With this treasure, Confucianism has opened up a new development path. In the past, because they did not know how to investigate things, Confucianism was unable to achieve knowledge and could only engage in morality and politics. Although these two things can bring a lot of benefits to Confucian students and make Confucianism become a prominent school.
But no matter how prominent Confucianism is, it cannot conceal the truth of stagnant development!
Neo-Confucianism is stuck on the investigation of things, and the study of mind falls into chaos after bypassing the investigation of things... The heart is theory, and it can be used to cultivate the mind. It makes people mentally strong and can withstand various setbacks and pressures. But is it possible to use it to study things and gain knowledge? Where do you think of? Isn’t this going into metaphysics and Zen? So in the end, the study of mind will either become Western learning, or it will become the knowledge of "cultivating the mind to become a saint", which is too nihilistic.
If we ignore studying things and cultivating the mind, what will be left of Confucianism? Doing official studies for exams? Moreover, if the quality of things is not good, it will be difficult to be an official. If there is no way to check things, it will not promote the development of productivity. If the productivity cannot increase, being an official means being a stock. To be a stock, of course, you need a moral saint. On the one hand, you can deceive the lower class; Constrain the upper level. If everyone eats less and fishes less, the world will be more peaceful for a few more years.
Therefore, the real way out for Confucianism is to study things to gain knowledge, and to find this way out, it seems that we have to rely on "Zi Lun's Investigation of Things"!
"The posthumous chapter must be true!" Huang Daozhou had read all the transcripts and came to the conclusion, "No matter whether the things are true or not, the truth is indeed true!"
"Yes!" Zhu Zhiyu also said, "Things can be faked, but this principle cannot be faked!"
"That's right!" Wang Fuzhi also said, "The principles in "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian" are the ladder to explore the great road. Whoever can come up with it will be a great scholar of the generation!"
It is no longer a "Great Confucian", but a "Shuo Confucian" or a "Giant Confucian"!
Shi Kefa said: "We must get the entire "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian", no matter how much money we spend! Accept, how much money did you bring this time?"
"One hundred thousand taels!" Qian Qianyi said, "The bank notes of Yan Merchant Bank can be paid immediately at Lushunkou."
"Is one hundred thousand taels...enough?" Shi Kefa glanced at Kong Yinxi worriedly.
"It's hard to say...Jiabus from Jiale City is secretive!" Kong Yinxi said, "If he knew that we wanted to get the treasure at any cost, he would definitely be furious!"
"Then I will dispatch troops to rob!" Shi Kefa said with a dark face, "The model right division will go to Liaodong next month to replace the model left division. At that time, I can temporarily detain the left division, so that there will be 30,000 troops available. !”
Qian Qianyi, Zhu Zhiyu, Huang Daozhou, and Wang Fuzhi were all shocked by Shi Kefa's proposal - why did this Shi Kefa become so belligerent?
"Isn't this bad?" He looked at Kong Yin, who was stroking his beard, looking like a fierce man, "We should still convince others with virtue!"
After all, it’s Duke Yansheng!
Qian Qianyi, Zhu Zhiyu, Huang Daozhou, and Wang Fuzhi all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mr. Yansheng, how do you think we can convince people with virtue?" Shi Kefa asked.
There are many "Des" here in Lushunkou, the smallest is 3 pounds and the largest is 24 pounds. I don't know which size is suitable for Jabs.
Kong Yinzheng smiled honestly and said: "Jabs, the profiteer, thinks that what we want is the bamboo slips, but in fact what we want is the writing on the bamboo slips. We might as well send someone pretending to be an eye-catcher to appraise the treasures, one by one. Look, write down all the words on the bamboo slips... won't you get this treasure?"
It turns out that this is called convincing people with virtue!
Qian Qianyi, Zhu Zhiyu, Huang Daozhou, and Wang Fuzhi all nodded in agreement.
"Who is suitable to go?" Kong Yinxi asked.
"I'll go!" Ji Kun volunteered, "I have a good memory and a photographic memory."
Wang Fuzhi also said: "Ji Chunfan and I will go together...it's safer to record two people together than one person."
This room is filled with top academics and good memories. However, Qian Qianyi, Zhu Zhiyu, and Huang Daozhou are all old. Kong Yinzheng thought he looked too much like a robber, so the most suitable ones were Ji Kun and Wang Fuzhi. They were both in their thirties and their memory hadn't faded yet!
But it doesn't matter if their memory is not good, because boss Jiabusjia is a loyal businessman and will let them copy the entire content of "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian" and study it slowly!
"Copy it, just copy it, copy it back and let some great scholars take a good look at it," Jiabus pointed to the bamboo slips covering a whole table in the Ming and Qing Mutual Trade Market, and said with a smile, "If this principle Really, the bamboo slips can’t be fake!”
"Yes, yes..." Wang Euzhi carefully picked up one of the bamboo slips and looked at the words "Zigong asked: How can we reason by induction?" Then he picked up the bamboo slips with Confucius's answer written on it and looked at it. He looked again and again, murmuring, "It can't be fake, it can't be fake... How could this be fake? Who could make such a fake?"
Ji Kun frowned tightly, he had already seen that the bamboo slips were forged!
He likes to collect antiques, and has dabbled in bamboo slips, jades, and bronzes from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. He has seen a lot of real things over the years, but he has never seen a table of bamboo slips. They looked tattered, but he could understand every word. Bamboo slips that are all recognized - two thousand years old, insect-eaten and water-soaked, not a single word can be erased? It seems that there are no missing ones... Isn't Dorgon's level of reverse fighting too high? The job of digging tombs and robbing tombs is not easy. If you are not careful, you will damage the ancient objects. It is so complete that it is difficult for even those who have been doing this for generations to do it!
"How to sell this...?" Of course Ji Kun couldn't point it out. Emperor Zhu had already greeted him...
"What are you selling?" Jabs sighed, "I won't sell it, I won't sell it... I just received a letter from the prince, saying that Gege from Penglai wants these bamboo slips and asked him to send them by ship. Go. Look, this thing that can obviously be sold for tens of thousands of taels of silver is being taken away. It’s such a pity.”
"Penglai Princess?" Ji Kun asked, "Is it Dongguo Princess?"
"That's right!" Jabs sighed, "Xu Shigege heard that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty wanted these bamboo slips, so he wrote a letter to Emperor Ama and sent away the bamboo slips. It's really a shame for a woman to stay! You guys! Copy it now, copy it however you want!"
