Lao Zhu was outspoken about his ambition, but at this moment, Zhu Su wanted to twist his eyebrows into a rope.
To be fair, Lao Zhu wanted to use him to rectify civil servants, and he was mentally prepared. Previously, Lao Zhu had not hesitated to help himself become famous by "copying poems" and gave him the aura of a "disciple of an eminent person" at court meetings.
As a hero of the generation, it is impossible for Lao Zhu to do this just to promote a great Confucian in Lao Zhu's family. At that time, I guessed that Lao Zhu was going to send himself, "the most knowledgeable kid in the Lao Zhu family", to add a grain of sand to the civil service team that would knock the literati's teeth.
But at first Zhu Su only thought that Lao Zhu just wanted to deal with the scholars a little. After all, since Dong Zhongshu presented "Confucian" beauties, power has been highly concentrated due to the two theories of "influence between heaven and man" and "three cardinal principles and five constant principles". But in fact, the right to interpret the "response between heaven and man" and the "three cardinal principles and five constant principles" has always been Confucianism.
In essence, Dong Zhongshu used Confucianism to deceive Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. While Confucianism became the dominant family from then on, it also put a layer of shackles on the imperial power of subsequent generations, maintaining the situation of "the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats share the world".
It is understandable to insert himself as a prince among the civil servants and regain some of the power delegated by the emperor to the civil servants.
But Zhu Su didn't expect that Lao Zhu didn't just want to make him sick and disgust the civil servants, but he wanted to directly knock off the Confucian guy who was eating!
The pot of Confucianism has been tinkered with for generations, and has been forged for thousands of years! How many people are guarding this pot? This pot weighs more than ten million kilograms? Doesn't this cost Zhu Laowu his life?
Besides... If you don’t learn Confucian knowledge, then what kind of knowledge should you learn? The sciences he knows are not used to govern people and govern governments. Nor can it fill in the core moral principles of Confucianism.
Is it possible that we should come up with Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto on our own to fill the gap vacated by Confucianism?
After taking a look at the dragon robe on Lao Zhu, Zhu Su said that he had no ability to make Lao Zhu rebel on his own.
"Dad, I can't do this." Zhu Su lay down directly. "You think too highly of me. I don't have the ability to be a saint."
"Besides, I still want to have a good death, but I don't dare to do such a thing. If I lift the coffin of Confucianism, won't the scholars in the world think about destroying me every day?"
"If you really do that, I'm afraid you will have no choice but to send me to Fengyang High Wall in a short time to appease the world's anger."
"Although it is indeed flattering to be assigned to the high wall of Fengyang, with the urine of scholars, they will definitely swarm into Fengyang and beat me to death. At this point, they still feel proud that they are upholding the right path and will shine in the annals of history. !”
"You..." Lao Zhu was furious. "How did we give birth to a timid and timid boy like you? They are all people who have been in battle, but they are just scholars who can't lift a knife. Are you afraid of it?"
"A scholar doesn't need a knife to kill someone!" Zhu Su stuck his neck and insisted on his own opinion. "If they want to kill people, they will only use weapons and weapons thousands of times more cruelly and viciously than the rough guys in the army!"
Lao Zhu hesitated. Although he was still angry, he had to admit that what Lao Wu said was reasonable. After learning about the many bad things that happened in the later generations of the Ming Dynasty, his fear of these Confucian scholars was now several times deeper than his fear of Yuanting.
Zhu Biao listened silently.
Seeing that his fifth brother was so afraid of scholars, he felt a little more enlightened. After thinking for a while, he said: "Fifth brother, do you think that dad and I want you to ban Confucianism?"
"Isn't it?" Zhu Su was stunned.
"Haha, fifth brother, you are confused." Zhu Biao laughed. "Confucianism is the foundation of Sinology. Without Confucianism, how would the world be in turmoil?"
"My father wants you to come up with an argument that is beneficial to our Ming Dynasty, just like Dong Zhongshu, who reshaped Confucianism and used chickens to lay eggs..." There was a rare cunning look in Zhu Biao's eyes. "As long as your words are meaningful and you have the imperial court to back you up, and you can make them popular in the world, isn't it a matter of course?"
"This..." Wasn't it meant to overthrow Confucianism? Zhu Su became a little loose. It has to be said that if we follow the path of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Dong Zhongshu, at this time of founding of the country, when everything is waiting for improvement, and the emperor stands behind him to promote the new learning, it will be really promising.
However, he knows his own affairs, and he is just a porter of knowledge for future generations... Can he draft Confucianism from scratch?
"If you refuse this matter, we can only continue to respect Neo-Confucianism." Lao Zhu also sighed. "These days, many officials have come to persuade us, saying that our family background is too low after all. Let our Zhu family establish a relationship with Zhu Xi, a great scholar of Neo-Confucianism..."
The literati couldn't wait to put a heavy shackles on Lao Zhu's family. I remember that this section was also included in the history books, but Lao Zhu quickly recognized the pros and cons and did not agree.
"Besides. Fifth brother, haven't you already done that?" Zhu Biao said. There was a hint of doubt in his voice. "Now you have already caused a huge uproar among the literati. Even if you don't want to offend them, they won't let you off lightly."
"Ah?" Zhu Su was completely stunned this time. I have always been a low-key person, and the few times I came out to do things, I was always chased by Lao Zhu.
And I haven’t done anything to disturb the foundation of the literati. Why won’t you let me go easily?
"Don't you know?" Zhu Biao was a little surprised. "These days, that disciple of yours..."
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Zhu Su, who came out of the imperial city, was furious and galloped all the way to the imperial village on the outskirts. Outside the palace, a group of military households, led by Xiang Deng, the chamberlain who stayed behind, lined up in two rows, preparing to welcome the prince who had returned in triumph.
Firecrackers for celebrations, fire pots for removing bad luck, and various mascots were placed along a long stretch of the cement road. They were eagerly looking forward to the prince's bicycle frame, but they saw the young prince riding alone and angry. , actually abandoned the carriage and honor guard, and came back alone.
"Ouch! Your Highness! Why are you..." Just as he was about to ask His Highness why he didn't even bring a bodyguard, he saw several personal guards behind Zhu Su riding on war horses with tongues hanging out, panting and catching up. He hurriedly swallowed back his worried words and bowed to Zhu Su: "I pay my respects to Your Highness! Although His Highness is taller, he is also a little thinner..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Zhu Su interrupted directly, "Tell me quickly, where is that idiot Fang Xiaoru? Is he in Zhuangzi?"
"This...Uncle Fang is in the academy on the mountain. It is said that he has encountered a problem in his studies and has not left the house for more than half a month..." Xiang Deng replied verbosely. Before he finished speaking, the Fifth Prince, who was full of murderous aura, waved his riding whip and drove his horse straight to the academy in the village.
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