What Zhang Shi said was not a polite statement.
The reason why his plan could be successfully launched was not only the excessive pressure from the Ming army outside Lin'an City, but also the rapid spread of rumors in the city. Those Skynet Army spies hidden in all walks of life in Lin'an City were responsible for this. This coup d'état made great contributions.
Of course, the most important thing is Zhang Shi. His role is irreplaceable and the first credit belongs to him. This is undisputed.
Then the two sat down together and had a conversation about what happened this time.
For Su Changsheng, Zhang Shi's joining was really a surprise to him, because with Zhang Shi's status and his status in the academic circles of the Southern Song Dynasty, he could not imagine that Zhang Shi would be willing to join at first. Organized by the Revival.
But the fact is that Zhang Shi not only joined, but also took the initiative to join.
As the seat of Yuelu Academy, Changsha has been one of the important ideological and cultural centers of the entire Song Dynasty since the middle and early Northern Song Dynasty. Many literati and Confucian scholars are inextricably related to Yuelu Academy.
Although Zhang Shi is the son of the famous minister Zhang Jun, the reason why he can preside over the work at Yuelu Academy is indeed his own ability.
In fact, Zhang Shi's foundation in Neo-Confucianism is quite profound. He opposed the imperial examination and cultivated talents who preached and benefited the people as the guiding ideology of running the school. He achieved great results and laid the foundation for the revitalization of Yuelu Academy after its reconstruction. Great contribution.
But his most well-known achievement is not the achievement of running the school, but the teachers and students of Yuelu Academy who "bravely" stood up after "Hongwu Political Treatise" entered the Southern Song Dynasty on a large scale and had a huge ideological impact. He strongly criticized "Hongwu Political Treatise".
At that time, with the strong national power of the Ming Dynasty and the pressure it exerted on the Southern Song Dynasty, the ideological and cultural circles of the Southern Song Dynasty were violently impacted. A considerable number of scholars had doubts about what they had learned under the cruel reality.
Why could Su Yonglin's wild words make the Ming Dynasty prosper, while the Southern Song Dynasty, which insisted on Confucian orthodoxy, repeatedly lost in the competition between the two countries?
This huge contrast greatly impacted the thoughts of some Confucian scholars, causing them to begin to study "Hongwu Political Treatise" in depth and to doubt the official thoughts of the Southern Song Dynasty.
When this suspicion gradually expanded, Zhang Shi and Yuelu Academy stepped forward.
They launched a fierce attack on the "Hongwu Political Treatise" and argued and criticized the "wild and irrational statements" in it point by point. They also held several discussion meetings and insisted on criticizing the "wild and irrational statements" in the "Hongwu Political Treatise". .
As a result, Zhang Shi was deeply admired by conservative Neo-Confucianists who were extremely anti-Ming Dynasty ideology, and they were also representatives of those who held power in the political arena of the Southern Song Dynasty. Therefore, Zhang Shi also received strong praise from the officials, and even received praise from the Lin'an Central Committee. of praise.
So much so that later when Zhang Shi took the students from Yuelu Academy to run Lin'an, he received special preferential treatment from Zhao Hao, who gave him a good position and a generous salary.
However, what no one expected was that Zhang Shi was a member of Fuxing.
Zhang Shi was not the first person to read "Hongwu Political Treatise". When "Hongwu Political Treatise" spread into the Southern Song Dynasty, he didn't care about it.
Later, when some of his students secretly read the book and had some private discussions in the academy, he learned of the existence of this book and started reading it secretly himself.
The more he studied Neo-Confucianism, the more he understood the officialdom of the Southern Song Dynasty through his father's and his own experiences. After reading "Hongwu Political Treatise", the greater the ideological impact it had on him.
Zhang Shi is one of the people who has a very deep understanding of the contrast between the true, good and beautiful principles of Confucianism in actual practice.
He himself is a member of the scholar-bureaucrat group, so he knows the internal situation of this group very well. Valley Creek
So when he read "Hongwu Political Treatise" and learned about what really happened in the Ming Dynasty through some friends who had been to the Ming Dynasty, he was extremely surprised and desperate to find that the Southern Song Dynasty was lagging behind the Ming Dynasty in all aspects.
Corruption and backwardness in all senses, coupled with a group of hypocritical villains who controlled power and harmed the world, it is surprising that the Southern Song Dynasty could defeat the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Zhang Shi still held the idea of "learning from the barbarians and developing skills to control the barbarians". He wanted to find some ways to save the country from Hongwu's political treatises, and then summarize them, find a group of like-minded people to summarize a set of new policies, and then list them To Zhao Yu, requesting the implementation of new policies to counter the growing national power of the Ming Dynasty.
But when he discussed this idea with some of his friends in the officialdom, they all advised him not to do this, because "Hongwu Political Treatise" had been classified as fallacies and heresies by the Southern Song Dynasty officials. No matter what, the Southern Song Dynasty would firmly resist.
Zhang Shi was dissatisfied with this and believed that it was a blind eye. The reason why the Ming Dynasty was strong must be related to the content in "Hongwu Political Treatise". Why should we cover our ears and steal the bell?
Friends in the officialdom persuaded Zhang Shi to calm down. Everyone knew about this incident, but the superiors were very disgusted with it, so it was better for them to pretend that they didn't know anything.
Zhang Shi had no choice but to get sulky, and then he studied "Hongwu Political Treatise" on his own. He studied and studied it. One day, he suddenly realized that there were some similarities between "Hongwu Political Treatise" and Confucianism.
Both parties have the same pursuit of morality and the true, good, and beautiful qualities of human beings, and they also pursue a "Great Harmony Society" where everyone is equal.
A society of great harmony is the highest ideal pursuit of Confucian scholars from ancient times to the present. It is absolutely politically correct and there is no doubt about it.
However, in actual practice, Confucian scholars did not realize the actions and subjective intentions of the Datong society. Instead, they fell into luxury and corruption. They degenerated themselves, deviated from the morality of saints, threw everything they had learned behind them, and pursued money with all their strength. , power, women.
This social reality made Zhang Shi very sad and dissatisfied.
And when he read "Hongwu Political Treatise" and learned about what was happening in the Ming Dynasty, he realized that what the Ming Dynasty was pursuing and building was actually consistent with Confucianism's highest ideal of a harmonious society.
There is no oppression and exploitation, there is no huge gap between the rich and the poor, there is no conflict between the superiors and the cattle, everything is honest and honest.
The conflicts between the government and the people, and between the army and the people have almost been eliminated. Everyone is working hard to build a beautiful homeland and working hard in one place.
For those bastards who were corrupt and oppressed the people, the Ming Dynasty advocated revolution, liquidation, comprehensive elimination of their crimes, and distribution of everything they had to farmers according to certain standards, so that the cultivators would have their land, light corvee and low taxes, and abolish unreasonable We will impose harsh and miscellaneous taxes, reduce agricultural tax rates, and protect the interests of farmers.
These are things that the Confucian descendants of the Southern Song Dynasty pursued verbally but ignored in reality.
They claim to attach importance to agricultural production and farmers, but in fact they do everything they can to oppress and exploit.
However, these things were insisted on by the people of the Ming Dynasty who opposed and criticized Confucianism in political slogans and tried their best to realize them.
The historical mission abandoned by the successors of Confucianism was persisted in by a group of "heretics" who criticized Confucianism, and it showed its first signs of success.
What kind of ironic truth is this?
As Zhang Shi learned more and more about these truths, his thoughts wavered more and more violently, and he became more and more aware of the authenticity and correctness of some of the thoughts and principles expounded by Su Yonglin in "Hongwu Political Treatise" sex.
Without the challenge of heretical ideas, Confucianism itself underwent changes and became its own biggest enemy and final gravedigger. Confucian scholars gave up the real weapon that once allowed them to stand out in the contention of a hundred schools of thought - the grassroots line.
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