Why was Zhu Laowu so angry?
As the saying goes, sow the cause and reap the result. Everything starts from the day when Fang Xiaoru, a "great talent", became a disciple of Zhu Su.
Let us say that this Fang Xiaoru was originally a talented scholar and a favorite disciple of the great Confucian Song Lian. Who is Song Lian? A few years ago, he received the emperor's order to teach the prince and other princes to study the classics. In terms of reputation, prestige, and knowledge, he was a top-notch scholar among the scholars.
If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascends the throne in the future, Song Lian will be the emperor's master in the Ming Dynasty and the first Wenzong-like existence in the Ming Dynasty.
As Song Lian's beloved disciple, Fang Xiaoru was naturally admired by many stars and was a figure that attracted the attention of many students. Such a person actually worshiped Zhu Su, the fifth son of the emperor, as his disciple, which caused an uproar among the Yingtian Scholars at that time.
However, the turmoil actually subsided after a few months. After all, His Majesty the Fifth Prince has a brilliant poetic talent, and his poems such as "Linjiang Immortal" are indeed unmatched. As the saying goes, when three people are walking together, there must be a teacher. It is a good story that a great talent came to learn poetry from Ruzi.
However, reciting poems and writing lyrics is just a way of entertainment. The real way is to write articles about classics and meanings. As for the fifth prince’s classical kung fu...
Those few lines of "Yu" were once considered a joke in the sky. No one thought that Fang Xiaoru could learn any real skills from Zhu Su.
They didn't know that although Fang Xiaoru was indeed studying poetry at first, Zhu Su soon diverted his attention away from it by using some small scientific experiments. If we say that originally, Fang Xiaoru still had some contempt for Zhu Su's ability in his heart. After seeing the power of science, he quickly regarded this young highness as a real talent.
However, he also had doubts. When Zhu Su was teaching science, he once said the four words "investigating things to gain knowledge": that is, through bold assumptions, careful verification, looking at the contradictions of things with a scientific perspective, and through continuous experiments to verify the truth of things.
Investigating things is a Confucian concept. Why is the so-called "investigating things to gain knowledge" so different from the sage Zhu Xi's "investigating things to learn principles"?
As he continued to learn about science, Fang Xiaoru had more and more doubts. The sages once said that "the sky is round and the earth is round", but Your Highness said that the earth under your feet is round, not square; the sages once said that "the principles of studying things are comprehensive", one method can be used to understand all methods. Starting from one thing, you can naturally understand the world. The principle of all things. Why did His Highness the Fifth Prince say that there are thousands of ways to science and that we must seek truth from facts and not simply use "philosophical" principles to speculate on scientific issues?
With this doubt about his ancestors, Fang Xiaoru continued to study with the intention of criticizing Zhu Su. However, he soon discovered that the scientific method of investigating things was almost irrefutable. Your Highness is right, but the sages were wrong!
Like a bolt from the blue, Fang Xiaoru's "Confucian heart" has not yet been solidified. Completely split open.
It would be fine if that was all. However, Fang Xiaoru was a disciple of Confucianism after all, and he was more of just curious about the practical knowledge of "science". On the contrary, Fang Xiaoru showed great interest in the "philosophy" mentioned by His Highness the Fifth Prince!
Confucianism is a science that studies the principles of human nature and human nature, and can also be called a "philosophy". If what the sages said is wrong, what should be the truly correct philosophy?
Facing Fang Xiaoru's entanglement, Zhu Su was very annoyed. Philosophy is a matter of opinion, and he couldn't explain why.
Moreover, the "philosophy" Fang Xiaoru wants to know is a kind of statecraft that is biased towards Confucianism. What is the statecraft of later generations? Is it possible to teach him communism?
However, even if Fang Xiaoru refused to listen, Zhu Su could only prevaricate all the inscrutable sentences he could remember about Yangming's philosophy of mind, Western philosophy, and even Chicken Soup for the Soul. Fang Xiaoru.
What about "nothing outside the heart", "everyone can be a sage", "material development is a process of constant struggle and development of contradictions"...
All kinds of things were thrown to him.
So, Fang Xiaoru was confused.
After Zhu Su left, Fang Xiaoru locked himself in the room and began to figure out these classic "classical articles" from later generations one by one. In fact, many of these things in philosophy are contradictory to each other. After all, some are materialistic and some are idealistic. In any case, they cannot be self-consistent.
But it seems that everything is so reasonable and can withstand in-depth study...
The more Fang Xiaoru studied, the more confused he became; the more confused he became, the more profound he felt; the more profound he felt, the more he studied...
The logic is closed and it belongs to yes.
Fang Xiaoru forgot to eat and sleep, only feeling that he was really confused before. Although he had touched the threshold of the avenue, he could not move forward one step. A few months later, a scholar he was friends with saw that he was unkempt and unkempt, so he took him to go boating on the Qinhuai River to relax. He unexpectedly met several students who loudly discussed Zhu Xi's studies in front of courtesans and courtesans on the boat.
When everyone listened to it, it was like drinking wine; when Fang Xiaoru listened to it, it was like chewing cow dung!
So the angry Fang Xiaoru immediately stood up and shouted loudly that what these students were learning was not the right way. At that time, most of the scholars in the world were those who studied Zhuzi's articles. How could anyone not be shocked and angry when they heard his rebellious and unethical words?
So Fang Xiaoru started a verbal battle with the Confucian scholars on the Qinhuai River. His theory is completely inconsistent with itself, but every sentence is very reasonable. For each sentence, the "sages" can find out the philosophical viewpoints that contradict it.
The two sides were at loggerheads, but neither could do anything to the other.
In the end, more and more Confucian scholars gathered together and stopped citing the teachings of the sages. They directly attacked Fang Xiaoru himself, saying that what he said was inconsistent and that he had entered the evil way. Others urged Fang Xiaoru, who was once the most talented scholar, to quickly admit his mistakes and apologize to the sages, and should not blaspheme the saints' articles.
Unexpectedly, Fang Xiaoru had already fallen into the cognitive barrier at this time. Seeing so many people talking about saints and keeping silent about sages, he was so blessed that he came up with a "reason".
"There is no holy way, how can there be a saint!"
Seeing so many vulgar people who only repeat the words of saints and sages but refuse to think for themselves, Fang Xiaoru shouted these eight words. It expresses disdain for the learning of so-called saints and the words of sages and contempt for all scholars today.
Qin Huai realized that Cixi was about to go to war with the world.
Seeing that Fang Xiaoru denied the entire Confucianism, all the Confucian scholars were shocked, and then Fang Xiaoru fell into the verbal and written criticism of all Confucian scholars.
Everyone said that Fang Xiaoru had been taught crazy, and even Zhu Su, the "culprit who ruined a good seedling", was criticized by Yingtian Shilin.
Fang Xiaoru was not afraid, and even went so far as to make a big show of it in Yingtian City, debated with Confucian scholars several times, and did not shy away from promoting "philosophy". He always insisted that the inconsistency in what he understood was because he had not learned enough. Profound.
When my master returns, he will definitely be able to completely refute all of you and other Zhu Xi’s yes-men to the ground!
"What the hell... it turns out that Jianwen is the third idiot, Shi Shucheng won't deceive me!"
Zhu Su, who learned about this from Zhu Biao, was stunned!
I was still worried about whether I would smash the porridge and rice in the Confucian bowl, but this guy had already blown away the entire Confucian pot in the name of his disciple!
what is this? You are cheating your master and rebelling against your disciple! This is it!
(End of chapter)
