The two ministers were frustrated, so the two husbands had no choice but to take action in person. However, it was not enough to show one's identity to suppress the pragmatic Gao in person. They had to come up with some rhetoric. However, the problem lies here. Although it is true that the two ministers are frustrated, they have actually used all the commonly used rhetoric. They have actually talked about what is harmful to the people and useless.
In this case, what trump card do the two husbands have?
Wang Xijue, who had just been replaced as the Grand Scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, was sitting at the table, but his upper body was turned around. He smiled pragmatically at Gao Xijue on the minister's table and said: "Xi Jue has heard for a long time that Grand Situ is eloquent, so he coughed. Pearl, unexpectedly I am lucky enough to see it today, it turns out that it has the legacy of Zhuge Wuhou.
However, Da Situ must have known that Lao Tzu once said in the Tao Te Ching: 'Trustful words are not beautiful, and beautiful words are not believed. A good person does not argue, and a person who debates is not good. A person who knows is not knowledgeable, and a person who is knowledgeable does not know.' Confucius also said in "The Analects of Confucius: Li Ren": "The gentleman wants to be slow in speech but quick in deeds." He also said in "The Analects of Confucius: Learning": "The gentleman has no food to eat and no need to live in peace. He is quick to do things." Be careful what you say'. "
Gao Pragmatic smiled faintly, slightly cupped his hands towards Wang Xijue, and said: "That's what Duke Jing Shi taught you. However, the matter just discussed is related to the great politics of the court. Although Pragmatic has little virtue and talent, he dare not use his personal name to lord it over the world." Political strategy.
I am a pragmatist, and I have always emphasized that what I do must be beneficial to the world, and I must not be corrupted by ants, rats, and foxes. Therefore, when discussing politics, I have never dared to be pragmatic. Furthermore, as the saying goes, if the lamp is not turned on, it will not turn on, and if the principle is not discerned, it will not be clear. If argumentation is useless, we have studied for ten years and written thousands of articles. Why do we come here? "
Wang Xijue's heart trembled, and he thought to himself: Gao Qizhu is really good at eloquence! I deceived him in the way of a gentleman, but he refused to be fooled at all. What I said was nothing more than that because he was loyal to the court and the great politics of the world, he would not hesitate to give up the way of a gentleman.
Gao Pragmatic's answer is indeed a bit telling, because for the average scholar, the primary concern is not whether he is a "competent minister", but whether he is a "gentleman". In the minds of most literati in the world at this time, a person should first be a gentleman, and secondly, he should strive to be a capable minister.
Wang Xijue and others belong to the Xin School of thought. Even the traditional Neo-Confucian school, which is generally the neutral school, most people also hold this attitude. Only some people in the Practical School have objections to this - for example, Gao Pragmatism has now clearly expressed this idea.
Of course, the expression of high pragmatism is not actually "Even if I am not a gentleman, I can at least be a capable minister." What he expressed was, "If I had to make a choice, in order to become a capable minister, I would rather not be a gentleman."
These two meanings seem to be similar, but in fact there is a sequence, cause and effect, and trade-offs involved, and the meanings are actually quite different.
Wang Xijue chuckled and said: "The Great Situ was established in the early 19th century. He is very knowledgeable and quick in thinking. With this knowledge, he can think and debate, which is naturally unmatched. However, governing a big country is like cooking a small dish, and politicians have always been afraid of worrying about it. .
There are many things in the world that may originally be good things, and many policies may be good governance. However, once it is done too hastily and all major policies are implemented together, it may be counterproductive.
Just like this, the imperial court was eager to save money and food in preparation for the attack on Chahar, which resulted in the rebellion in the northwest. Last year, Grand Situ collected all the financial power in the household department and established two new departments and thirteen divisions. This was a major undertaking. Whether this major policy is effective and whether there are any unexpected variables all require time and long-term observation. We cannot just say that last year’s revenue and expenditure exceeded the past and we can definitely say that it must be good governance..."
"Whether governance is beneficial and whether there are disadvantages in its benefits, it does take time to prove. On this point, Jing Shigong completely agrees with Jing Shigong's theory." Gao Jingshi nodded and said: "But Mencius said: 'If you love someone, you will not be close to them. It is contrary to benevolence; to treat others without curing them is to be contrary to their wisdom; to be courteous to others is not to respond, but to be respectful - those who do not do well will seek others from themselves, and if they are upright, the world will return to them.
Last year's move by the Ministry of Revenue to seize the world's wealth and power was just to cause the chaos in the northwest, "but to seek help from others." When you see a rabbit and look after a dog, you can make up for the loss of a sheep. Although the disaster in the past has already happened, it can also make up for the disaster in the future.
As for what Jing Shigong said about today's political concerns, although pragmatism should be self-reflective, these "big policies" are originally interlocking and interdependent. The previous policy is about to come out, and the subsequent policy should follow suit. Otherwise, if you look forward and backward, you may miss the opportunity. If you want to do it in the future, the conditions are no longer there, wouldn't it be too late to regret it? "
Regardless of whether they were sitting at the cabinet table or at the minister's table, they couldn't help but be secretly excited when they saw Wang Xijue and Gao Pangshi, the two university tycoons, starting to fight with each other citing classics. Speaking of which, everyone is a top student. Above these two seats, Zhou Yong, who had the worst test scores that year, was also a top student.
According to the imperial examination, which is held every three years and takes about 300 people at a time, Jinshi only selects the top 100 talents in the country every year on average. How can their knowledge be so different? Not to mention the rest of you, most of them were born in the second class, and even Shen Shixing and Shen Yuanfu were simply the number one scholar.
When martial arts practitioners have the opportunity to fight against evenly matched opponents, almost all of them are excited and gearing up to have a good fight. Aren't those scholars the same? It's just a move or a word. As an expert, being able to observe high-level battles is something to be thankful for.
What's more, generally speaking, when you reach the level of Pavilion Elder and Ministry Hall, unless you are in front of the emperor, you will rarely "fight" in person, so naturally you can't miss it.
However, although the spectators were happy, the participants were not necessarily happy. For example, Wang Xijue was a little bothered by pragmatic coping methods at this time.
Don't think that they are both citing scriptures and that they are debating on the same channel. In fact, this is not the case. Both sides are actually setting up a trap for each other. Wang Xijue's quotation of scriptures is to draw Gao Pragmatic into his home court of Wang Ge Lao. On the contrary, Gao Pragmatic's quotation of scriptures is actually to pull Wang Xijue into his home court of Gao Bu Tang.
What home ground? Wang Xijue's home court is called "Gentleman's Morality", and Gao Xijue's home court is called "The World is for the Public".
For example, just now Gao pragmatically applied Mencius' "turn on others when you are not able to do something" to describe his move to serve as the Minister of Household Affairs and consolidate the world's financial power after the Northwest Rebellion. In fact, he made it clear that "I only have public morality in my eyes and no selfishness." Morality', any private morality that comes to me will serve public morality."
Why does it mean this? Let’s first look at the original meaning of the sentence he quoted from Mencius.
Mencius said: "If you love others but don't get closeness from others, then you should ask whether your kindness is enough; if you can't manage others well, then you should ask if there is something wrong with your management skills; if you treat others politely but don't get closeness, you should ask whether there is something wrong with your management skills. If others are polite to you, then you should ask yourself whether your own politeness is adequate - if your behavior does not achieve the expected results, you should check yourself in turn. If your behavior is correct, people in the world will naturally obey you."
In fact, Gao Pragmatic did not finish quoting, and there is a short sentence at the end, which is ""The Book of Songs" says: 'Always speak in accordance with your destiny, and ask for more blessings.'" The approximate meaning is: "The Book of Songs says: 'Always think about whether your actions are good or not. In line with the laws of nature, in order to pursue a beautiful and happy life'."
The original meaning of this passage actually refers to interpersonal communication, which Mencius often discussed. For example, in "Gongsun Chou", Mencius said: "A benevolent person is like an archer: the archer corrects himself and then shoots; if he misses the target, he will win without complaining." Those who seek others from themselves are just seeking others from themselves." The meaning is the same.
In essence, these words are based on personal qualities. Their main purpose is to advocate strict self-discipline, be lenient to others, and practice self-criticism in everything. This is what Confucius said in "The Analects of Confucius: Wei Linggong": "If you are generous to yourself and do not blame others, you will be far away from resentment."
But this sentence itself can also be sublimated. For example, from the perspective of governing national politics, the meaning of Mencius's words can be sublimated into rectifying oneself and rectifying others. As Confucius said in "The Analects of Confucius: Zilu", "If one's body is upright, he will not do what he is told; if his body is not right, he will not do what he is told."
Confucian politics has always emphasized starting from oneself and things around you, so it is often closely linked to personal quality, and self-criticism is one of its methods. The relevant discussion can be said in "The Analects" and "Mencius" There are too many to mention.
What is "Those who love others will always be loved by others; those who respect others will always be respected by others." It's the same principle as "A man will insult himself, and others will insult him; his family will destroy himself, and others will destroy it."
However, emphasizing personal integrity is the home field of the "moral practical science" of the Xinxue School, and high-pragmatic practical learning is the practical science of state governance. He must control the topic on state governance to be considered the home field.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic did not wait for Wang Xijue to make a move, but he turned his back on the guest. He first used a "sage's words" about personal ethics to sublimate state governance, and moved the battlefield in advance.
In this way, Wang Xijue would either have to directly compete with Gao Pragmatically on the details of state governance, or he would have to find a way to move the battlefield back again - but Gao Pragmatically's behavior of shifting the battlefield in advance already shows that Gao Pragmatically moved the battlefield in advance. Pragmatically, he knew that talking about personal ethics was Wangge Lao's predetermined method, so Gao Butang made it clear that he did not intend to accept this trick: If we have the ability, we will discuss the matter. Don't play this roundabout trick with me.
So Mr. Wangge was very annoyed. It was almost impossible to bring the battlefield back when the opponent already knew his methods. As Shen Yuanfu said before the Wanshou Festival, Gao Pragmatic is definitely not a fledgling in the officialdom. After all, this guy has been an official for twenty years, and he has already had "central experience". He is definitely the one who stands high and sees far. kind.
Therefore, if Wang Ge Lao continues to bring the battlefield back to personal ethics, Gao Butang will definitely return to state governance without hesitation. In this case, both sides will almost be able to talk to each other. It may seem like a fierce argument in the end, but in fact, after talking, you will find that the two people actually said nothing.
Not saying anything means that Wang Xijue failed, because Gao Pragmatic was actually the one who made the first move - "Innovation Station Shu" was his move. You, Mr. Wang Ge, didn't spray down "Innovation Station Shu", so of course you can't be considered the winner.
As an early academic master, Shen Yuanfu also had rich experience in officialdom. Naturally, he immediately saw the way to it. He knew that if he continued like this, he would definitely not be able to explain the reason, and he would have to change his mind.
The problem at hand is that Gao is pragmatic and does not talk about personal ethics. He only talks about running the country and is only willing to discuss the matter.
In fact, Shen Shixing had already experienced the ability of high and pragmatic governance - he had seen it countless times - and it was really difficult to fight with him about governance and discussing matters with him.
It's a pity that this battle can't be fought without fighting, because the Xin School cannot allow the practices mentioned in "Innovation Station Shu" to proceed smoothly under the promotion of high pragmatism.
Why? Is "Innovation Station Shu" a great harm to the Heart School?
Not really. In essence, some of the restructuring methods mentioned by Gao Jingshi in "Innovation Station Shu" are self-defeating, which is quite a bit like cutting meat to feed the tiger. On the other hand, the school of thought did not suffer much loss - after all, logistics is originally a The strength of the Jinghua School, the sponsors behind the Heart School have little involvement in this industry.
What do the donors of the Heart School mainly do? Fields, sericulture, textiles, Huai salt, sea trade, etc. Among them, the only aspect that has formed a strong confrontation with Jinghua is sea trade.
But theoretically speaking, the so-called confrontation with Jinghua in maritime trade is better said to be competition, and this competition is basically fair competition - because Jinghua does not bully the weak, relying on its strong armed strength at sea to prevent Jiangnan maritime merchants from going Do business wherever you go.
Jinghua only charges a protection fee, and the protection fee is not collected by force. You don’t have to pay it, but it’s just that there are no colleagues from Jinghua’s fleet in the outer sea, and Jinghua’s sword flag is not allowed to fly - that means that if you encounter You will be lucky if you become a pirate, so in fact, the vast majority of Jiangnan maritime merchants are willing to pay this money.
But why do Jiangnan maritime merchants still regard Jinghua as their enemy? Because it really can’t compete.
First of all, Jinghua has crushed Jiangnan maritime merchants in all aspects from shipbuilding level to trade scale; secondly, in terms of goods themselves, Jinghua owns a number of monopolized goods, not to mention its purchase of goods in Jiangnan for "foreign trade exports" Its capabilities are no worse than those of Jiangnan Shipping - because Jinghua has the upper hand in logistics and can transport the goods by itself, and secondly, the market is larger and sales are more guaranteed.
If you were a big silk merchant or cotton merchant, you would definitely be happy to give the goods to Jinghua. Not only would you save time and effort, but you would almost be able to reap the benefits of the profits.
In this case, why did Shen Shixing still oppose "Revolutionary Station Shu"? There are two reasons.
First, Jinghua abandoned its martial arts skills and took a dent in its own logistics capabilities. This must be a fraud in Shen Shixing's view. Or let alone fraud, at least there must be some other back-up plan.
What backhand? Shen Shixing thought about it and thought that Gao Jinghua would not really abolish his own logistics, because Jinghua's logistics was not done by Jinghua alone. There were many people who "helped" Jinghua, and these people's interests were Gao Jinghua's. It's impossible to ignore it.
So, after discarding the transactions in the "Innovation Station", how to use this power? It is nothing more than continuing to expand sea trade and strengthening this logistics power to purchase various goods in the Jiangnan region.
This is going to be fatal, which means that the local supply chains of the Jiangnan plutocrats will be strongly squeezed by the Jinghua Clan, and the two sides may have a decisive battle over the supply of Jiangnan goods.
How strong is Jinghua? In any case, Shen Shixing would never underestimate him. He would rather attack "Innovation Station Shu" from the imperial court level, rather than see Jinghua destroying his martial arts skills on the surface, but going to stir up trouble in the Jiangnan hometown of the Heart School. .
Therefore, Shen Shixing had to speak.
I saw Shen Yuanfu laughing, waving his hands and saying: "Da Situ said, 'The front affairs will come out immediately, and the back affairs should follow them. Otherwise, if you look forward and backward, you may miss the opportunity.' This is true. However, Da Situ has been busy with things recently, I'm afraid I still don’t know the news that Jinyiwei just came from Chahar a few days ago - I’m afraid I really have to miss this opportunity.”
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