Chapter 615: The direction of improvement of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism

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Bribery is a science, and it is difficult to master without a thorough understanding of it. For example, here is a math problem:

It takes one hundred taels to win the county magistrate, one thousand taels to win the state magistrate, five thousand taels to win the magistrate, and ten thousand taels to win the chief envoy.

Ask, who will pay for these ten thousand taels?

First of all, the magistrate will definitely not be able to pay for it himself. He will ask the magistrate for it, and the magistrate will not pay for it himself. He will ask the magistrate for it. When the magistrate opens the money bag, he sheds bitter tears, but there is no one there. You can't ask for money from the bookkeeper or yamen servants. You have to expect them to work with you in the coming year.

Who to look for?

A wealthy gentry?

Common people?

No, it's the gentry and the common people, plus overdraft of the finances.

It said that this matter is difficult to handle and more money will be needed.

The county magistrate's office still keeps some money to maintain normal operations, but it can't be cared about now. Official career is important, and all funds for maintaining public security, disaster relief funds, and food funds for next year will be allocated.

It's really not enough. Let the big families go out and not go out. After you try it next year, there will be many reasons to cause trouble for you. The people will also come to the conclusion that ten cents per family is enough...

Behind the great pilgrimage, there is often a lot of filth.

However, as the Security Bureau gradually sinks to the state and county level, these news will naturally be sent to the capital. Who collected the money, how much, when it was sent, and which hand took it, hidden in the pig Whether in the pen or under the bed, everything is recorded clearly.

Zhu Yunwen did not show this account book to the officials. The reason was not simply to keep it confidential, but because this account book only has the first volume, and the second volume has not yet been written. The second volume will not be started until these officials enter Beijing...

Now, whether it is the Security Bureau or the Second Security Bureau, Gujin, Gongzi, and Bailian are no longer the main forces. Although Gujin has not yet been caught, Tang Saier, the Buddhist disciple of the White Lotus Sect, has not been found, but this is no longer the main issue. The conflict point is that the issue of officials is an issue with wider relevance and heavier weight.

Zhu Yunwen's order to the Security Bureau was to keep an eye on the officials entering the capital to see who they had dinner with after arriving in the capital. It doesn't matter whether you give gifts or not. Promising a meal is just for the benefit...

Of course, there are many places to eat in the capital. Although there are many people in the Security Bureau, they cannot all focus on what people eat. The focus is still on mid-to-high-end restaurants, brothels, and guild halls set up in various places in the capital. As for the streets There are barbecue stalls, food stalls and the like, and they don’t get in the way if you don’t stare at them. There are only a few officials who would invite guests to the snack street...

Since December 4th, foreign envoys have come to Beijing one after another. The first one to come was the Champa Kingdom. The envoy was an old acquaintance, Yejia Sengyuan. However, Yejia Sengyuan was changed from the chief envoy to the deputy envoy. Served as an envoy for Sun Tzu Bu's guy.

This name is a bit awkward, but no matter what, it is my real name.

Sun Tzu Bu brought a "bad news" about the Champa Kingdom. Luo Ai passed away, and his replacement was Jaya Sanghavarman V. He mumbled a lot, and the people in the hall translated it and called him "Champa's" rely".

Zhu Yunwen was a little pity. Luo Ai was a very strong person, otherwise he would not have been the king. While he was alive, the Annan Hu family still had some concerns about Champa. Now that he is dead, another Lai from Champa has come out. Look at the name. He's a bit lazy, and I don't know how capable he is.

Sun Tzu Bu wiped his tears and began to complain. The target of the complaint was the Annan Hu family and his son. He said that the two of them were recruiting troops to attack Champa City and had already occupied Zhandong Prefecture. If this continued, Champa City would lose its northern barrier. He requested The eldest brother of the Celestial Dynasty upholds justice and saves the younger brother from the fire and water.

Zhu Yunwen comforted them and asked them to go back to the Huitong Hall to rest.

Whether Champa will be eaten is actually not a big deal. If the Annan Hu clan really captures Champa, the Ming Dynasty can also capture it. If it cannot capture it, it can also use up some strength.

However, according to the historical process, it will take several decades for Champa to be completely wiped out. Once the Ming Dynasty uses troops against Annan, Zhancheng will probably not be destroyed...

On this day, Zhu Yunwen was racking his brains to write "Physics", no, "New Study of Things".

During the Yuan Dynasty, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was regarded as an official school and became a tool of the ruling class. In addition, some Neo-Confucianists were really spineless and defected to the Yuan Dynasty. They promoted "the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers" as the core idea for nearly a hundred years. As a result, this set of ideas was deeply rooted in People's hearts have gone beyond the "Hua-Yi debate" that originally existed among the people. As a result, many Han people became supporters of the Yuan Dynasty. Many landlords and intellectuals also had ideological basis for throwing bricks at Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, another set of "Zhu Xi only" theory was adopted, and ideological control was very strict. If he wanted to express his thoughts independently and hold public debates, he would end up with the following:

Beat to death.

However, after Zhu Yunwen came to power, he continued to promote the lifting of the ban on ideas in the Imperial College, gave them the conditions for academic discussion, and even introduced a number of miscellaneous scholars into the Imperial College, making the Imperial College a melting pot of coexisting ideas.

But there is something wrong with this melting pot now. According to Yang Shiqi’s report, there are more and more debates on Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. Some people are already questioning whether the universe is composed of "reason" and "qi", and directly attack Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. foundation.

But these supervisors are still a little too young. They have a spirit of doubt and a spirit of questioning, but they don't have the mental state to give answers. People just ask, if it’s not “reason” or “qi”, then what do you think it is?

Can't answer.

They really can't agree. In addition to the cosmology and worldview constructed by Neo-Confucianism, they have no other concepts. They can't stand by just relying on questions without giving answers.

Zhu Yunwen couldn't help with this. Now we can't throw away Xiao Ma's materialism. Those views can only be mentioned occasionally as a joke. As an academic issue, it will cause ideological confusion and cause more serious cognitive problems.

Zhu Yunwen did not study philosophy in his later generations, but was a revolutionary. Although he had read the Marxist-Leninist textbooks, it was two different things to read them and use them. If he really wanted to mess with this, it would be the induction of heaven and man, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, the divine right of kings, the ethics of monarchs and ministers, and etiquette. Etiquette and law will all collapse. When the time comes, Daming will be beaten to death by himself without being beaten by others.

Ideological issues are a huge problem, and the mixing of multiple ideas is absolutely not allowed. One main theme and one backbone must be adhered to, and that is Confucianism, which is the current representative of Confucianism, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. Even if Wang Shouren came out later and achieved great success in spiritual learning, he did not overthrow Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but instead improved and finally formed his own theory based on it.

Zhu Yunwen couldn't handle Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and he didn't intend to come up with Wang Yangming's theory, but decided to find another way.

In fact, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism has positive value. This set of theories can exist and influence for hundreds of years, and is accepted by countless smart people. It is by no means rubbish or dross.

Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism believes that the world is the universe and everything is composed of two aspects: "reason" and "qi". "Li" is the essence and law of things, and "Qi" is the material that makes up all things. It emphasizes that "Li comes first, Qi comes later", that is, there are laws and rules first, and then everything else. It can be seen from this , this is typical psychological logic.

Zhu Xi also has a clear discussion on the mind-matter category of the opposition between subject and object, and gives the method of "distinguishing subject and object", which is to "understand the principles of things with the knowledge of my heart", and the method of cognition is Investigate things to know them!

Investigate things to know them!

These six words are the common core of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and Wang Yangming's Psychology. In fact, they are also the core of Confucian culture. They are a tool to guide all intellectuals to understand the world, understand the world, and influence the world.

Zhu Yunwen did not study Zhu Xi's theories such as "the moon seals thousands of rivers", "all water appears in one month, and all water is captured in one month", "ten thousand are one, one is ten thousand", etc., but focused on A tool for "investigating things to gain knowledge".

In Zhu Yunwen's view, there is stubbornness in thinking, and it is not easy to change. However, with his own influence and control, he can still guide these people to hold tools with their left hand or right hand, where to grid, and how to grid. of.

Therefore, after laying a little foundation in mathematics, it is time for physics to follow. Of course, it is impossible to write about joules, electric current, etc. Let’s study some issues of light, force, and matter, step by step...

Let Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism focus on ideological issues and transform them into tool issues. This is Zhu Yunwen's preliminary calculation. Only after a certain foundation in physics has been established, these people can answer the question of the origin of the world, but this will take time.

Just when Zhu Yunwen was preparing "New Learning of Things" and planning the educational picture of Jianwen's three years, a piece of bad news came to the palace.

Wang Shen, the dean of the Capital Junior College, died of a sudden illness.

When Zhu Yunwen heard the news, his heart felt a little heavy. Wang Shen was a very important teaching talent in his hands. He had participated in the restructuring of the Imperial College and was also the organizer of the Capital Junior College. He implemented the method of arranging children in disasters in a grand and shocking way. Equal access to school.

Although the name of Jingshi Junior College was attached to the harem as Ma Enhui's measure to take care of the children of the disaster victims, after all, there were classes for boys and girls at Jingshi Junior College.

When girls and boys were allowed to enter the school together, the court officials initially thought they were disaster victims and didn't care because the children were young. But looking back now, the temporary resettlement measures seemed a bit permanent. Many officials reacted and started Impeach.

Naturally, the object of impeachment cannot be the Queen. She is a mother who cares for the children of disaster victims and has won the hearts of the people. Whoever impeaches the Queen will be morally untenable and destined to fail. Therefore, the target of impeachment can only be Wang Shen, the dean of Capital Junior College.

Wang Shen immersed himself in his work and cooperated with Yang Shiqi to transform the upper three halls and the lower three halls of the Imperial College, and built the Jingshi Junior College into the junior hall. The schooling period was five years. After graduation, he directly competed with the lower three halls of the Imperial College.

These reforms were only part of Wang Shen's restructuring. He was still quietly recruiting the children of locals in the capital to enroll. Some censors were busy with important matters all day long, staring at big shots. Suddenly one day they discovered that the capital's junior college had more than 5,000 students. The children go to school, and three branches are even opened...

Impeachments are flying all over the place just to illustrate one point: women are not qualified to enter the school.

Girl?

Neither can girls.

Resisting the pressure, Wang Shen persisted on his own. Until some time ago, censor Zhou Changyan wrote an impeachment document. The content was very simple, roughly:

Wang Shen, you are wrong to allow girls to enter the academy. If your father finds out, he will definitely jump out and scold you for not observing etiquette, not respecting the teachings, and not worthy of being a son of a man or a subject of a king.

This memorial seemed simple, but its intention was extremely vicious. It can be said that Wang Shen was tortured to death by this memorial.

If it were someone else, he would have let go of such a scolding document, but Wang Shen couldn't do it because his father was his weakness, a fatal weakness.

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