"Natural University Hall?" Gu Yanwu frowned slightly when he heard the name, "His Royal Highness, you are talking about the... University Hall that teaches magic?"
Confucian scholars have a natural aversion to things like "magic"!
Of course, they are also disgusted by strange techniques and obscene tricks. Moreover, magic skills are not of a high standard compared to magic... Whose child goes to college in Guangzhou to learn magic skills? It sounds like he will become a bad person. If you go to Guangzhou to go to college to learn magic, it sounds like you will become an immortal.
Therefore, Zhu Heji chose the more deterrent spell between the two concepts of magic and magic.
"Mr. Tinglin," Zhu Heji said after thinking about it for a moment, he said to Gu Yanwu, a great Confucian who "doesn't believe in magic." "The Great University Hall is a school where the law of nature is studied and taught, and the law of nature is the method of studying things to gain knowledge. If we If you want to "explore the principles of things and go to the extreme", you must find the method. And the method is the law of nature, a real magic, not a trick to fool people.
And if we want to change destiny and restore rituals, we must have real magic. This true magic can be used to kill demons and protect the road; secondly, it can also be used to unite people's hearts and lead all the clans in the world through the school of preaching and teaching, so that many clans can unite and work together.
And the Natural University Hall is the main hall of original Confucianism in the world! "
"Original Confucianism Hall..."
Gu Yanwu was stunned again, his brows furrowed tightly, as if he was thinking hard.
Although the Natural University Hall on Haizhu Island is just a university under preparation, its significance is extraordinary.
Guangfu No. 123 Academy, Chaoyang Academy, and Rongjiang Academy can only be considered high schools at best. The Military Law School on Huangpu Island is currently just a crash-level military preparation school.
The above six academies and schools are all centered around the Natural Academy...because the "magic" studied and taught by the Natural Academy is Zhu Heji's "first combat power"!
Therefore, this natural university is the core and the seed of the original Confucian education and organizational system built by Zhu Heji.
According to Zhu Heji's vision, the grassroots organization of the original Confucianism could only be clans, and what united these clans could only be schools that functioned as a pathway for advancement.
The reason for relying on clan is that the modern social organization system cannot be used in ancient societies with underdeveloped productivity.
If we insist on applying it and at the same time smash the original, still very tenacious old system, it can only be an outright tragedy, and there is no possibility of success at all.
Therefore, Zhu Heji did not intend to, and it was impossible to smash the clan that was somewhat demonized in later generations - and he was a Chaozhou native in his previous life, and he originally lived in a society where the clan's influence was still very strong, so for the clan, the grassroots Confucian Not disgusted.
And what else can you ask for if you don’t have a clan?
Imperial power goes to the countryside?
Not to mention the cost and management issues associated with the transfer of imperial power to the countryside, but how to curb the expansion of the family-based landlord class after the clan system was smashed is also a huge problem.
In fact, during the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, when the state did not suppress mergers, and later during the Republic of China era, Yimen-style clans have been playing a role in suppressing mergers, and to a certain extent, alleviating social conflicts. In Guangdong and Fujian, there are many clans that can be traced back to the Song Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, or even further back.
The fact that these clans can exist for hundreds of years or even longer, and spread their descendants all over the world, already illustrates the problem.
If the strong within a clan can bully and exploit the weak at will, and plunder the weak's means of production and even the materials needed for survival, it is impossible for this clan to reproduce so many descendants.
Moreover, if you look through the genealogy of each family, you will find that those who stand out are rarely concentrated in one "house", which shows that the distribution of resources within most clans that can be passed down is relatively fair.
What allows this level of fairness to be maintained for a long time is actually the Confucian thought of respecting heaven and the ancestors - it is rare to do well to benefit the world, but to do well to benefit the clan is common and is right and proper. of.
This shows that the basic level of clan is still applicable in ancient times when productivity was underdeveloped. Since it still works, there is no need to replace it.
But as the clan goes up, the Confucian organization becomes a bit scattered!
Although Confucianism is also called "Confucianism" and "famous religion", it does not have an organizational system like Christianity, Tianfang Sect, Buddhism or even Taoism... Later generations said that Confucianism restricted thoughts and was the sinner of the decline of Chinese civilization.
But in fact, Confucianism has no organizational means to imprison thoughts. Confucianism has no organization above the clan level, and of course there is no legal discipline that can imprison thoughts. Confucianism has no religious inquisition, so what can be used to imprison it?
What? Literary prison?
When were the literary prisons in the Qing Dynasty initiated by Confucians? That was all done by the emperor.
Therefore, imprisoning thoughts is not the original sin of Confucianism at all. The real original sin of Confucianism is the lack of middle and upper-level organizations...it is weak!
Because it is weak, Confucianism is considered to be the main culprit in restricting thoughts... If Tianfang Sect is so powerful, who dares to say so? Don't want to die?
Even people under the rule of Buddhism and Brahmanism would not dare to say this!
Zhu Heji was silent for a while, and saw that Gu Yanwu's brows were frowning more and more, as if he was lost in his own thoughts, so he smiled and said to him: "Mr. Tinglin, only when we have a main hall and separate altars can we be united." Get up. Only by uniting can we become stronger. Only by becoming stronger can we protect the world and the country!
The biggest fault of us Confucians is that we are too weak! Because he was too weak, he could not bear the responsibility of protecting China's clothes, and the world was destroyed... Mr. Tinglin, you once said in "Rizhilu": The rise and fall of the country are the responsibility of the scholar-bureaucrats; the rise and fall of the world, Everyone is responsible! But if these scholar-bureaucrats and common men are in disarray, how can they assume the responsibility of protecting the country and the world? "
Zhu Heji's words completely shocked Gu Yanwu - his "Rizhilu" had just been printed in a single copy and had not been circulated at all. How did Prince Zhu know the content above?
But what this prince said makes sense!
This one is responsible and that one is responsible, it’s all empty talk. The truth is that the scholar-bureaucrats and ordinary people cannot bear the responsibility at all... and the main reason why they cannot bear the responsibility is that they are scattered.
And when they were occasionally organized, such as during the Battle of Jiangyin, didn't they last for eighty-one days under siege by an army led by three Manchu princes?
If all the scholar-officials and ordinary people in the world were the same as those in Jiangyin, would the world still perish?
Thinking of this, Gu Yanwu finally nodded, "What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is absolutely true...but how real is this real spell? Will it be exposed by others?"
After listening to Gu Yanwu's words, Zhu Heji laughed loudly, "How can you expose it? Mr. Tinglin thought Qingyao was driven out of Guangdong by something? If this spell is not true, Shang Kexi and Tuhai's 100,000-strong army Will it fail so miserably?"
"What? Is there really a magic?"
Gu Yanwu was a little shocked. The reason he didn't believe in magic was that he had never seen "real magic" and had only seen some deceptive tricks.
And the biggest difference between real law and false law... one is a trick to deceive people, and the other is a means of killing people!
"Hearing is false, seeing is believing!" Zhu Heji smiled and said to the "little witch" beside him, "Saiwu, you and Jiaxin make a thunder arrow!"
"Got the order!"
The "little witch" made a blessing, then turned around and went to the "magic room" to prepare sugar pills and make rockets with Bei Jiaxin.
Watching Aoi leave, Zhu Heji said to Gu Yanwu again: "Mr. Tinglin, this true magic is not an immortal magic that has no connection with mortals, but a natural law that mortals can also explore and master. All things between heaven and earth , each has its own method, and we mortals can also use some of them, but we still know very little, so it is difficult to follow the path of investigating things. But how can we, the original Confucians, retreat when we see difficulties? We advance when we see difficulties. , to explore the mysteries of the laws of nature from generation to generation, and one day we will be able to fully understand the principles of nature. This is the way to sainthood for us, the original Confucians!"
