Outside the Imperial City of Nanjing, inside the gated building of the Academy of Sciences on the edge of Qianbu Long Street, a very important meeting was being held at the moment.
Not only were all the eleven former Confucian academicians present, but the thirty-six academicians from the Hanlin Academy next door were also invited to the conference hall inside the Academy of Academicians - this was a meeting between the academicians and the Imperial Academy. A joint meeting of academicians!
The Hanlin Academy of the new Ming Dynasty was not a yamen for literary servants, but an academy of science. Moreover, there are no Hanlin bachelors, ministers, ministers, or editors in the Hanlin Academy. There are only academicians of the Hanlin Academy. Their task was to provide advice on natural law and educational policy to the Great Scholars Council and the Ming Dynasty.
The total number of academicians of the Hanlin Academy is 108, of whom 36 are resident in Nanjing and the rest are scattered throughout the country. At present, there are only fifty-five people gathered. Except for the thirty-six people in Nanjing, the rest are all in Guangzhou.
So who can be an academician?
Of course they are experts in arithmetic, natural magic, physics, medicine, engineering, etc. Zhu Heji's Imperial Academy would not recognize the good writing of eight-legged essays.
However, natural science is a matter of reaching the sky in one step. It must be developed step by step and slowly.
Therefore, among the academicians who are now elected to the Hanlin Academy, except for Zhu Heji and Leibniz, who have real materials, the others are just fake... Most of these people are from Jinling University, Army Corps, etc. Professors from the Military Academy, the Naval Academy, the Nanjing Public Medical College, the Guangzhou Haizhu University College, the Guangzhou Public Medical College, and the chief engineers of the "black technology" factories run by Zhu Heji.
Some of these professors and chief engineers were professors from Haizhu University who were selected by the Guangzhou imperial examination. They took the teaching materials given by Zhu Heji and studied by themselves for three years under the leadership of Gu Yanwu and Zhu Shunshui. The successful ones are now academicians. . Those who were not very talented were sent to the lower middle schools and elementary schools to become teachers.
There are also some young men brought out by Zhu Heji himself...the young soldiers who followed him down to Danan Mountain, as well as students from the Tianwang Palace Youth Hall, and some who followed him to learn how to cook Tang medicine and make gunpowder. , a boy who refines fire and saltpeter and makes rocket bombs.
Some of these people were smart and motivated. Zhu Heji also sent them textbooks on natural magic, physics, and arithmetic that he had compiled. He also took the time to tutor them for some days, and then let them study on their own. Those who have learned well are now either chief engineers or managers, and the best among them have become academicians of the Hanlin Academy.
Even though the knowledge of most of these academicians is a bit lacking, their appearance also means that science, or natural law, has now become the prominent science of the original Confucianism!
This is the general line of the original Confucian school after the restoration of China... Confucianism is ultimately a school, and it cannot always regard killing people as its general line. Schools still have to learn.
As for what kind of knowledge to pursue, it must be guided by the meeting of bachelors.
Therefore, the Great Scholars Conference, which was responsible for leading the entire original Confucian school, endorsed the rise of natural law and passed formal resolutions and sage decrees, declaring that the study of natural law is the study of things to gain knowledge, which is the pursuit of the way of nature, and the pursuit of the way of nature is The great road of original Confucianism!
Although what is determined by resolutions and fatwas can also be pushed forward by resolutions and fatwas in the future.
But considering Zhu Heji's current age, when he retires from the stage of history, the Confucian scholars who are likely to be elected as bachelors must be top students from Jinling University, Haizhu University, and Army and Navy University. It is impossible for them to go back. Those who write stereotyped articles.
But right now, the original Confucian school founded by Zhu Heji seems to have encountered a real challenge!
Although the original Confucian school that originated in Guangdong was not established for a long time, it did achieve a miraculous success in a short period of time with the vigorous development of the anti-Qing and restoration movements and the emergence of sugar and drug weapons.
Of course, this success is actually related to the loss of traditional Confucian martial ethics. The original Confucian scholars were the original Confucian scholars who held swords and grenades and hammers to spread the truth. Of course, those rotten Confucian scholars who only know how to talk can't resist.
Moreover, some great Confucian scholars such as Zhu Shunshui, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, and Yan Yuan defected to Yuan Confucianism, and those rotten Confucian scholars were silenced.
However, the "corrupt Confucian" side was not completely devoid of martial virtue, because many people among the second and third generation Banners of the Qing Dynasty also practiced Confucianism. There are also people like Zhou Peigong and Fu Honglie, who are both Confucian scholars and can lead troops in war.
Therefore, this group of people brought out the Confucian family in Qufu to rectify Confucianism, and copied the method of "killing Confucians" to fight against the original Confucian school. That is simply normal.
"Everyone, I have just received news that Kang Mazi from the north is going to bring out Yan Shenggong from Qufu, Shandong to be some kind of Confucian saint... He is going to recruit a group of stick Confucians to compete with us original Confucians for Confucianism. Taoism! What do you think we should do?"
The one who was standing on the big podium asking questions was of course Zhu Heji! After receiving the "Huang Zhisheng report", he immediately flew back to Nanjing without saying a word. He didn't even take the two "young ladies" Yang Ziyun and Wu Tu with him... They were at the moment. Following the large group of people, they are rushing to Nanjing.
After returning to Nanjing, Zhu Heji immediately ordered the attendants to make a "Pseudo-Confucian Summary" and distributed it to the bachelors and Hanlin bachelors below. He also announced that the two academies (the bachelor's academy and the Hanlin academy) would convene on the seventh day of July. ) joint meeting to discuss further reform of the original Confucian school.
"Fight them! Beat them to death!"
"Traitors and hypocrites deserve to die..."
"Saint, please issue a decree to start war!"
The bachelors and academicians below didn't look like they were good people, so they immediately jumped up and shouted to kill him!
But it's no wonder that these people either experienced the "Death of the Ming Dynasty and the rise of the Qing Dynasty" or participated in the "Revolt against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty", and they are not good Confucianists.
Zhu Heji waved his hand, and the brothers below, no, the Confucians all fell silent and looked at him with their necks raised.
Zhu Heji nodded heavily and said loudly: "We must fight...but before we fight, we have one more thing to do, which is to strengthen our original Confucian group! This matter has happened since the Jieyang Uprising. , we have been working hard, but the progress is still a bit slow. There is no way, our heavenly soldiers are so powerful that they swept across the southeast in a blink of an eye and captured one third of the world.
We have some talents, why don’t we focus on the government, heavenly soldiers, schools, and factories as our top priorities? Our original Confucian Society can only develop more slowly. It's a pity that the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop... Since Kang Mazi wants to compete with us on Confucianism, then we will accept the challenge!
Now the Gu family has announced that the group’s original Confucian school will be renamed Confucianism! From now on, let us guard the gate of Taoism for Confucianism!
The composition of the Confucian sect will also change... In addition to the Grand Scholars Conference still being the head of the Confucian sect and the Hanlin Academy still serving as the think tank of the Confucian sect, there will also be a teaching and educating body under the Grand Scholars Conference. The Department of Education, the Department of Protection of Taoism, the Department of Education, the Department of Financial Affairs, the Department of Confucianism, the Department of Confucianism, the Department of Preaching, and the Department of Overseas Affairs responsible for spreading Confucianism overseas.
We will also establish a newspaper to promote our Confucian principles and inform about world events, called "Confucian Xun Newspaper", with an edition of ten days. Initially, it will only be distributed in the two capitals of Nanhai and Hainan, and will be promoted to all parts of the country in the future.
In addition, under the Six Confucian Divisions, Confucian Societies in various provinces and prefectures will be established one after another..."
Zhu Heji is going to use bigger tricks again this time!
Although the Confucian sect he is launching now bears the name of "sect", it is actually a quite modern political party, and it is also the kind of party that is relatively well-organized and has a relatively strong fighting spirit.
According to his plan, by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, when scholars from all over the country gather in Nanjing, the organization of the Six Divisions of Confucianism should have been completed, and a large number of new people will be absorbed by then, and then rely on these people to bring Confucianism into full swing. If we open sect societies all over the country, and at the same time use the new scholars to take over the power at the county level in the four provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, how can we manage the land equalization issue in the next two years? Posted.
