Gao Shishi said to Guo Pu that they lived in his university scholar's mansion before the examination, but in fact, it was just a rhetoric, mainly to use this gesture to show support for Guo Pu, so as to strengthen Guo Pu's authority in the Gao Party. Gao Pragmatic knows that Guo Pu must be able to see this.

Since it is just a gesture, then after following Zhu Yijun's "monarchy", Gao Dang's thunderous defeat of Ling Yunyi, Gao Pragmatic does not have to really live in Guo Ge's old mansion all the time.

The chief examiner of the examination was decided by the emperor before the exam, but Gao Pragmatic knew that even if Guo Pu was appointed by the emperor to preside over the examination, he would definitely refuse. The reason is very simple, it is because Gao Pragmatic will also take the exam this time, and Gao Pragmatic is his student.

For the same reason, Gao Pragmatic estimates that his uncle Zhang Siwei will not be the chief examiner of this examination.

This made Gao Pragmatic scratch his head a little, because there is a high probability that a cabinet elder will lead the exam, and now there are only three cabinet elders in the cabinet, if Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei are unwilling to serve as the chief examiner, then there is a high probability that the chief examiner this time will be Shen Shixing.

Shen Shixing was "the same prince of the same knowledge" when he was in the first emperor's dynasty, although he was not a Japanese lecturer, but because he was "responsible for the general responsibility", he actually gave a lecture to Zhu Yijun, that is, he gave a lecture to Gao Pragmatic.

Shen Shixing is the champion of Jiajing's forty-one gold list, and his academic level is naturally undoubted, but this champion has never liked the pragmatism of his class, not that he can't explain the truth, but Shen Shixing's lecture style is too steady, and his voice is also small, more than gentle and elegant, and not enough majestic and serious.

However, this is probably also Shen Shixing's personal style, he is a gentle and elegant person, and his scholarship even brings Confucianism to Taoism's non-action, to a certain extent, he represents a certain school of thought in the current school of mind, that is, too much attention to the so-called cultivation of the mind, and deliberately downplay many things in reality.

China has a 2,000-year feudal history, and the great unified dynasty in these 2,000 years has always respected Confucianism as an orthodox value since the Han Dynasty. However, the so-called Confucianism has also changed since Confucius and Mencius. Since the Song Dynasty, it has entered a new period. Neo-Confucianism initiated by the five sons of the Northern Song Dynasty was divided into two factions in the Southern Song Dynasty, and by the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Cheng Zhu Lixue gradually became the mainstream of ideological and cultural circles. By the time the Ming Dynasty was established, Cheng Zhu Lixue further became the official orthodox ideology, and through measures such as the Eight Shares of Scholars, it was fixed as the orthodox essence of the monarch's rule.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, various social contradictions intensified, capitalism sprouted in the south of the Yangtze River, and the growth of the burgher class. Wang Yangming's psychology appeared at this time.

His ideological achievements are more remarkable than his political experience. After the arduous tempering of reality, he has achieved a self-contained theory of mind. "To the conscience" is the core of Wang Yangming's philosophy. Therefore, later generations also called Wang Yangming's philosophy the study of conscience.

It is said that someone once asked Wang Yangming to give a lecture and asked him, "What else is there to talk about besides conscience?" The meaning of the questioner was to hope that he would not only talk about conscience and not stick to "to conscience." And Wang Shouren refuted him with exactly the same words, saying, "What else is there to talk about besides conscience?"

In fact, Gao Pragmatic has a personal opinion on this story, and it is a "different view".

Mencius, the Confucian "Taizong", said that conscience is a kind of nature that is close to instinct, which is to know without learning and to be able without learning, and that people embody the four ends of compassion, shame, resignation, and right and wrong through sexual goodness, which are all inherent in nature. However, Wang Yangming turned this instinctive moral sense into the core value concept of the three views.

Gao Pragmatism has always believed that Zen Buddhism is to sinicize and popularize Buddhism, and Wang Xue and Zen Buddhism are quite similar, it is to popularize and popularize Confucianism, there is no need to stick to the teachings of the Four Books and Five Classics, everyone can understand Confucianism as they like, and everyone can be a sage.

Yangming Xinxue has always been widely circulated among the people, but because there is no systematic and rigorous theory, it cannot achieve the status of orthodox thought, and it has even been attacked by officials at different stages. Even after Wang Yangming's death, Emperor Jiajing also commented on him, "Shouren is arrogant, slanders the ancestors, calls on disciples, attaches to hypocrisy, uses deceit, and bad hearts." In recent years, scholars have preached heresies and advocated them. If this theory is summed up in one word, it can be said that "the study of the mind is a fallacy and heresy."

However, the strange thing is that the study of mind is still popular half a century after Wang Yangming's death and has been officially recognized. In the twelfth year of the history of the Wan calendar, Zhang Juzheng was dead, and some disciples of Xinxue entered the center of power, and under their agitation, Emperor Wanli regarded Xinxue as a Confucian theory to show innovation, so that Wang Yangming worshiped the Confucian Temple.

Gao pragmatic point of view is that Wang Yangming may be qualified to enter the Confucian Temple, but the psychology at that time was already a mad psychology, and it was no longer a real "Yangming psychology".

Because at that time, the study of mind was practiced in Fushen, one of the representatives of the court, and the practice he insisted on was really not "to conscience".

In fact, "conscience" itself is the most difficult word to define, and the "theory of sexual goodness" and "sexual evil" have been debated for thousands of years, and there has not been an absolute victory, so how can "what is conscience" be so simple

Ask the two simplest questions: Is it right or wrong to kill an aggressor

It can be seen that conscience sometimes cannot solve all problems, and the root cause of many problems is not conscience at all, but only the pros and cons.

"Children only judge right and wrong, and adults only look at the pros and cons."

Of course, the psychology bigwigs are all adults, but they must use the guise of "conscience", which is troublesome. As a result, characters like Xu Jie and Shen Shixing were born. When talking about learning, it is one set, and when it comes to doing politics, it is another.

To conscience, finally reduced to selfish desire.

Xu Jie and Shen Shixing's "selfish desire" is manifested as a moderate and stoic, as long as they can keep their positions, other things can be ignored for the time being, if something happens, it is good to be with the mud, and pay attention to the ability to be with the mud, not the means to solve the problem.

Zhang Juzheng was sandwiched between them, although he studied physically and mentally, he was greatly influenced by the high arch, so he embarked on another path: when he was governing the country, he was inclined to learn from practice, and when he was seeking his own selfishness, he was inclined to study from the heart. In fact, this is the root cause of Zhang Juzheng's own corruption while opposing other people's corruption in history.

However, Gao Pragmatic is not worried that Shen Shixing will be unfavorable to himself if he really serves as the chief examiner, because Shen Shixing's governance and thinking of being a person make him dare not tear his face with Gao Dang, which Gao Pragmatic is fully sure of, especially after Gao Pragmatic just made a decisive move to pull Ling Yunyi off the horse.

With Shen Shi's cautious behavior, it is very likely that he will even carefully avoid conflicts with Gao Dangsheng during this time, after all, the Gao Party seems to have a tendency to reunite after Gao Pragmatic returns to Beijing.

Gao Dang has been in the style of the sky and the earth for more than ten years since Gao Gong first entered the cabinet, and how can he be willing to be this bird and fight with Gao Dang in the past ten years

Therefore, the question that Gao Shixing needs to consider now is that if Shen Shixing, who is ranked last in the cabinet, does the main exam, then who will be the deputy chief examiner will have an impact on his path to Jinshi