The Tang Dynasty was so glorious back then, where is it now?
Is the Tang Dynasty, whose territory has expanded to an unprecedented level, still around?
The Western Regions, Beihai, Liaodong, and Lingnan are all the territory of the Tang Dynasty. But now, who is the owner of those lands?
Do they still remember the Tang Dynasty that once ruled them?
Everything is just passing by.
So Tian Guizi remained speechless.
Xin Qiji frowned, feeling that this was certainly a difficult problem to solve, but no matter how he thought about it, he felt that the path Su Yonglin had chosen was too difficult.
"Shuai Su, this is the general trend of the world. The general trends of the world will divide and merge after a long time. This is something that countless people with lofty ideals have been unable to change since ancient times. Can we succeed with just one revival meeting?"
"Of course you can, but the prerequisite is that the Revival Association can compete with the disciples of Confucius and Mencius and win."
"What are you fighting for?"
"People, and human hearts."
Su Yonglin held Xin Qiji's hand tightly: "You'an, you are the person I fought for from the disciples of Confucius and Mencius. You are mine, which means I can fight with them.
Someone will believe in me like you, follow me, and fight bravely for what I want to do. I believe that there will definitely be more than one passionate man like Xin Qiji in the entire land of China. "
A hot-blooded man?
Xin Qiji felt warm in his heart, smiled a little, and then his face became full of worry.
"Nevertheless, this is too difficult. Scholars, the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, imperial examinations, and courts are a chain of interlocking links. They are extremely subtle. If Su Shuai wants to change, he must create another chain of links. The dunks are more subtle than his."
"Common people, my Su Yonglin's way, the Renaissance Association, and then our country, this is my chain link."
Su Yonglin smiled and said: "You'an, you praise the Tao of Confucius and Mencius too much. Didn't the Tao of Confucius and Mencius also come up with by people? Aren't Confucius and Mencius human beings? They can be passed down to this day because they meet the ruling needs of the superior people. But if the superior people all Without it, can the teachings of Confucius and Mencius still prevail?"
"this……"
"Yes, Alang is right. Aren't Confucius and Mencius human beings? They can create the Tao, but Alang can't create the Tao of Suzi? You'an, don't let other people's ambitions destroy your own prestige! Alang is the underwear of the Southern Song Dynasty They were all ripped off by the people.”
Tian Guizi used "exquisite" metaphors to describe Su Yonglin, which made Su Yonglin a little depressed.
"Geizi, what you are saying about me seems a bit vulgar."
Tian Qizi blinked.
"Huh? No, Alang's manuscript just stripped off the underwear of those upper-class people in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was Alang who made me see how ugly and hypocritical those bastards really are."
"Say so..."
Su Yonglin scratched his face and gave up: "That's it, there's nothing wrong with it, as long as it's true."
Xin Qiji thought for a while and suddenly thought of a key point.
"Shuai Su, are you planning to use the Fuxing Meeting and the Imperial Examination to compete with your chain of deductions?"
"Roughly speaking, people who follow Confucianism have become the only source of officials because they have knowledge of learning and governance. This is also the reason why they jump around unscrupulously, and why the emperor has to rely on them.
They believed that without Confucianism and them, the emperor could not rule and the empire could not last, so they must be special and should be superior. They used Confucianism to whitewash themselves, but what they really wanted was interests.
If I want to fight with them, or even replace them, I must make their biggest support ineffective, so that they have no capital to fight with me. This support is the talents who can govern local and national affairs. "
Su Yonglin sighed and slowly said: "Actually, whether or not to learn Confucianism is not the most fundamental thing. The development of Confucianism has deviated from its original intention. The so-called Confucianism today, if it were Old Master Confucius himself, it would be useless. It took me a long time to figure it out.
Today's Confucianism is not Confucianism. It is a political technique used to govern officials and maintain stability. It establishes the Three Cardinal Principles and the Five Constant Principles, and is inspired by heaven and man. It assigns people three, six or nine grades, involves the theory of gods and ghosts, and thinks that it is superior. When he is shaken, he starts to behave wildly with joy! What kind of Confucianism is this? It’s clearly a power play! "
Tian Qizi didn't have much feeling about Su Yonglin's criticism.
He didn't study Confucianism and had no feelings about it. He only believed in Su Yonglin and his doctrine. No matter how much Su Yonglin criticized it, it didn't matter to him.
Xin Qiji had a profound understanding.
For him, who had studied both traditional Confucianism and the teachings of Su Yonglin and others, Su Yonglin's criticism directly tore off the disguise of the ruler, directly tore through its gorgeous outer skin, went straight to the core, and turned the so-called Confucianism into a political power. Reality is peeled off completely, allowing people to see clearly.
Killing people is also heartbreaking.
But isn’t that what it is?
Since the purpose of studying Confucianism is to become an official and to gain power, then for rulers, Confucianism is not an academic discipline, but a political technique used to control people's hearts.
The rulers and Confucian scholars used each other, needed each other, and fought against each other. They turned Confucianism from academic to the power of the ruling class, mixed it with messy things, and finally created such a magical world.
"He can use Confucian power to cultivate superior people, and I can also use my academic skills to cultivate people who will bury them!"
Su Yonglin said: "Confucian power is the power used by the emperor to control the spiritual thoughts of scholars. Then I will use my academics to break this control and take a new path. I will use the Renaissance to fight against Confucianism and cultivate people who can govern local and national governments but not the other way around." Talents controlled by Confucianism.
However, it is more than that. Just cultivating them is not enough. I want them to have real power. I want people who support my ideas to join the revival meeting, then walk out of the revival meeting, take power, and eventually replace them. "
"I see."
Tian Guizi instantly understood what Su Yonglin meant: "Alang's intention is to make all those in power become members of the Renaissance Society and reject Confucianism!"
"That's right."
Su Yonglin nodded.
"But if this is the case, the Guidance Department is enough. There is no need to use river control as an excuse to set up another revival meeting, right?"
Xin Qiji looked at Su Yonglin doubtfully.
"The Guidance Department is a department within the military, but the Renaissance Association is not. I hope that the Renaissance Association will assume more functions, become independent, and have its own place, instead of hiding in the military and being protected by the military."
Su Yonglin said: "If I could dominate the world now, then the Guidance Department would be enough, but now I can't dominate the world. What I have the final say is the army and our new countryside.
The entire official system was still controlled by the disciples of Confucius and Mencius, and our power was still too small, so I used river management as an excuse to bring out the Renaissance organization, using river management as a cover to accumulate strength secretly.
When the Guidance Department expands, it can only expand instructors. Instructors have clear responsibilities, but the Renaissance Association is different. People from any department and any position can join the Renaissance Association, and they can also go out on behalf of the Renaissance Association, as long as they accept our ideas.
My idea is to let the Fuxing Association take the lead to form a system similar to the Imperial Academy and the Imperial College that can cultivate enough talents, and to continuously assign outstanding members of the Fuxing Association to important positions and hold authority.
When the time comes, the power will be controlled by the members of the Renaissance Society. Even if the Confucian disciples realize something, it is actually too late. I do not need a court controlled by them to govern the world through the Renaissance Society. The Renaissance Society is the second court. They can't touch me. "
At this point, Xin Qiji and Tian Guizi generally understood Su Yonglin's intention.
In order to tear a hole in the administrative realm of the world controlled by Confucian disciples and blaze a new path, he needed to bring together all those who believed in his ideas.
Study hard, refine your theory, become a fighter who buries Confucian power, and then go out to control power and fight against the disciples of Confucius and Mencius.
This group of people is organized, has an action plan, has action goals and plans, fights in a unified manner, rather than being scattered, and will have strong action and execution capabilities.
When they seize power, the world will naturally undergo unprecedented changes.
But Su Yonglin wanted to do more than that.
