Chapter 384: True Confucianism, Pseudo-Confucianism and Cynicism (2 in 1)
The entrance of Uishin University, which was originally the heavily guarded north gate of Thang Long Imperial Fortress, is now the gate of Uishin University.
Students walked briskly from the school gate, and those who can study here are all amazing people, and if they are not scholars, they will definitely not be able to pass the exams of Yixin University and Fuxing University.
These two universities, together with Nanyang University in Nanyang Beifu, are the three most important new universities in the entire kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.
Among them, Nanyang University emphasizes business and mechanical KitKat, mainly to cultivate talents in foreign trade, colonialism and mechanical design for Nanyang.
Fuxing University is actually a semi-military university, which consists of the Fuxing Army Academy, the Fuxing Naval Academy, the Military Chemistry College, and the Natural Science College.
Uishin University, located in Thang Long Imperial City, is a comprehensive university of literature and history, although it also has faculties such as mathematics, chemistry, and gewu.
But the Faculty of Letters and the Department of History are the most important, and Confucian disciples and great Confucians from all over the world studied and taught here.
The Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts is the most famous, and it is also the most concerned by His Royal Highness King Ming.
Every year the Department of Philosophy receives large grants, and one of the most important awards among these grants is the Confucian Revival Award.
King Ming once said that Confucianism has embarked on a crooked path since the beginning of the Two Song Dynasty, and he hopes that someone will put Confucianism in order, so he set up this award.
The awards are awarded once a year, with a bronze award of 30 gold dollars, a silver award of 300 gold dollars, and a gold award of 1,000 gold yuan.
Money is secondary, although the gold medal can get a heavy reward equivalent to 11,000 taels of silver, but more importantly, the appreciation of King Ming, with the appreciation of King Ming, is it not immediately a high-ranking official riding a horse?
However, although this award has been set for two years, no one has even won the silver award so far, and the bronze award has been awarded three or four.
Fan Guishi, who walked by with a book and a book, shook his head, he had just heard the students discussing King Ming's Confucian Revival Award.
This great Confucian of Tiannan knows what King Ming wants to do, and any Confucianism that has gone astray is an illusion.
This Ming king just wanted to use some of Taixi's doctrines to make up for the shortcomings of Confucianism itself, create a new Confucianism, and then use Neo-Confucianism to attack Confucianism in the north.
By destroying the old Confucian doctrine system in the north, he achieved the goal of messing up the hearts of the people in the north and selecting new talents for his use.
And what are the flaws of Confucianism? In Ye Kai's view, any conflict between benevolence and courtesy is all an appearance.
The real flaw of Confucianism is its flaw in exploring the world and understanding the world, that is, what later generations said, where do we come from? Where are you going? Why are people human? Why is there a sunrise and sunset and so on.
For these questions related to the origin of human beings, Confucianism adopts an attitude of respecting ghosts and gods and staying away.
I can't explain it clearly, then I won't explain it, I'm afraid of you, then I'll stay away from you, regardless of you, when you don't exist.
Under the domination of this kind of thinking, coupled with the academic monopoly after Dong Zhongshu deposed the Confucianism of the hundred schools, the way for Chinese to explore the world was gradually distorted.
As a result, later Confucian scholars did not follow the path of explaining and exploring the world through the methods of natural science.
And this road is basically blocked, so you can only desperately study the moral cultivation of people, and you can only keep figuring out the classics of the sages.
This kind of dojo method in a snail shell, the narrower the way it gets, and what is a good university question has been made into a thing limited to philosophy.
Therefore, the backwardness of Confucianism and the profound disasters it has brought about are not because it is conservative.
In fact, Confucianism is not conservative, in history from 1840, in just 67 years, Confucianism that existed in China for thousands of years was immediately knocked down in the mud.
Therefore, the Confucian doctrine is not a conservative problem, but it is flawed from the root, but this flaw, Ye Kai only vaguely felt, he can't describe it specifically, it's not very clear, and it can't be improved.
He also thought about bringing in the Western system directly, but now France is in the midst of a great revolution!
Everywhere is criticizing feudal rule, engaging in civil rights and public opinion, etc., he is now involved in these things before the foundation is stable, do you want to mix it up? And how can things in the West be adapted to the local without localization?
Therefore, on the basis of selecting some Western philosophical books, Ye Kai set up such a Confucian Revival Award.
Confucianism, which has only been able to rotate ideologically and morally since the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, is called a crooked path, and it is hoped that later generations can get inspiration from Western books and complete Confucianism.
Ye Kai originally liked Fan Guishi to try it, he was originally a Tiannan Confucian, maybe he could do it.
But how smart is Fan Guishi? If this kind of thing is done well, if it is not done, it will be ruined!
And he is already a great Confucian, but he is only a great Confucian who drills the old papers, counting on him to create innovation, denying his research in the first half of his life, and making this kind of strong man's great determination to break his wrist, it is too much to look up to him, so this Ye Kai's abacus is temporarily frustrated.
However, Fan Guishi did not accept the recruitment, but the following group of Confucian scholars who were admitted to Yixin University were riveted!
Everyone wants to be a great Confucian and a big official, and with the support of Ye Kai, all kinds of strange arguments have been made by them.
"Look at the newspaper! Newspaper! Houguan Lin Fengji has a shocking theory, it is really sweeping the floor, and it is crazy! ”
Not far from the gate of Uishin University, it would be lunch time, and a student wearing a coarse cloth robe with braids on the back of his head was holding a few pieces of paper and shouting wildly as he ran!
"What? What is this Sven scum doing? Bring it to me! ”
A middle-aged scholar who was talking about a few students who were also dragging pigtails raised his eyebrows and shouted angrily.
These students with braids are all students from the north of my Daqing Dynasty, and over the years, Wang Zhenyi's brother has flickered more and more students, almost more than 300 people.
Most of these people are the children of the famous families in the south of the Yangtze River, most of them are said to be scholars, but in fact, they are even reluctant to be children, only a small number of them have the fame of showing talents, and there is no one above them.
They all listened to Wang Zhenyi's brother's flicker, what Jiaozhi Song State Xinli, King Song longed for the talents of the Celestial Dynasty to come here to educate the Yue people, and what to Thang Long for a year of free food and lodging can also be taken on a monthly basis, no less than three taels a month.
As long as you are willing to leave, there are still twenty taels of settlement fees to get, and when you arrive in Shenglong, you live in the imperial city, and there are beautiful Annan Palace people with red sleeves and fragrant clouds.
It really fooled a lot of Confucian students to go south, especially those who had no hope of taking the exam, and there were some poor scholars at home, most of them regarded coming to Jiaozhi as a study tour.
However, as soon as these people arrived, they found that most of the conditions were actually there, but the so-called living in the imperial city was indeed an imperial city, but it had already been converted into Yixin University.
Although the scale of the real imperial city has been reduced, the guards are more stringent, and the few palaces occupied by this Yixin University can only be touched by the imperial city at all.
There are also beautiful Jiaozhi Palace people, and there are indeed them, but they are all studying at the Yixin Women's College next door.
The palace people inside are all homeless and young people left behind after Ye Kai cut off the scale of the palace people.
They were brought here by Ye Kai to study, and after teaching them some new knowledge such as literature, arithmetic, and gewu, they were ready to give them to the middle and lower-ranking officers in the revival army as wives.
And these students from the north can only look at the drooling from afar, if you want to add fragrance to the red sleeves, unless you make a great contribution to King Ming!
And these guys, although many of them are a little poor, but the shelf of the scholar is not lost, and it is okay to find a cross-toe woman with red sleeves and fragrance, if you marry, they are unwilling.
What shocked them even more was that the academic atmosphere of Jiaozhi was a little strange, and many things that seemed to be rebellious in the Central Plains were commonplace and grandiose in Jiaozhi.
There are also the costumes of the Jiaozhi people, which also caused a lot of psychological impact on these Central Plains students who dragged their braids.
Everyone has a love for beauty, and if you insist on saying that the money rat tail and yin and yang head are better looking than Han'er's bundle of hair, then it is probably an eye disease.
In fact, many of these readers know that this bundle of hair is the real attire of the Han people, and in contrast, many people have begun to feel more and more uncomfortable with braids.
Of course, there are also loyal Manchu people, when they came to Jiaozhi to study, they signed a contract, generally for a period of two years, but last year, a few people felt that Jiaozhi was rebellious, and even suspected that the real Song King was still in Shenglong and did not go north, and several of them went through hardships and risked their lives to go to Lianzhou and other places in my Qing Dynasty to denounce.
Belch... As a result, the officials in Manchurian and Qinglian Prefecture and other places were scared half to death!
How do you want him to report this? The King of Song is celebrating my Qianlong's birthday in the capital, and everyone is happy and kind to regard me as Qianlong's virtue, so that Jiaozhi has invited himself to attach!
As a result, you have a small county magistrate, and at this moment you reported that the Jiaozhi people were rebellious, and the king of Jiaozhi Song in the capital was fake.
Belch....!
Do you want to die? I really thought that if I broke this, I Qianlong would be grateful to you?
Or what if you provoke the Jiaozhi people and cause some disputes?
Even if the matter is bigger, the imperial court is going to send a large army to levy, and you will provide a guide and military supplies? You go into battle to kill the enemy?
After receiving the accusation from the Manchu Governor of Xialongzhou, he privately asked Shangfeng, and immediately beat up these Jiaozhi rebels who 'pretended' to be from Shangguo, and then notified the Jiaozhi officials to take them back, as for returning to Jiaozhi, where did these people go? No one asked, no one knew.
After two or three times of this incident, the Confucian students who went south from the Central Plains became honest and bold in Annam, and even dared to delve into the new study of Jiaozhi.
If you are timid, you can mess around, anyway, two silver dollars a month and fifty copper dollars will arrive on time and there will be no arrears, and life is much more nourishing than in the Northland!
And the bold students of the middle courtyard are the most daring of the marquis Lin Fengji, who they call a madman, and the leader of the old school is this middle-aged scholar Suzhou Pan Yizhen, who is the master of the two who will be pinched when they meet.
Here, Pan Yizhen took Lin Fengji's manuscript from where he didn't know where it came from and read it carefully, but he didn't read a few lines, and he couldn't help but be angry!
Lin Fengji divided Confucianism from ancient times to the present in his article, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were called Zu Confucian, the Han and Tang dynasties were called Zheng Confucianism, the Song and Ming Dynasty were called pseudo-Confucianism in the snail shell, and the Confucianism under the Manchu Qing Dynasty was called cynicism by him!
"This thief, rebellious, slanderous, gentlemen! Follow me to him! ”
Pan Yizhen's eyes breathed fire, their Suzhou Pan family is a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River, and they have raised a lot of people to get into the business, and they are called Guipan.
Especially the son of the third child of the Pan family, who won the promotion at the age of nineteen, everyone said that the Pan family was going to be the champion.
Although he Pan Yizhen is still a talent in his twenties, he is deeply proud of the Pan family, how can Lin Fengji scold him for being cynical in the Confucianism of the Pan family?
At the moment, a group of more than a dozen Confucian students went to the outside of the school to look for it, not far from Yixin University, there is a street dedicated to buying food, all kinds of local delicacies are available, it is the favorite place for students of Yixin University, it is noon, Lin Fengji may be eating lunch somewhere.
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"Why is this strong man Sheng Tang so strong? That was because the Confucian students at that time were strong, and the Confucian students at that time could practice the art of riding and archery, swordsmanship, and even military formation!
For example, Li Taibai, then known as the sword immortal, the standard of Confucianism at that time was to enter the phase, if you only have eight shares, even if you can enter the phase, how can you be a general?
Wait until the Two Song Dynasty, this Confucian student will not work, Confucian students specialize in literature, and going into battle to kill the enemy is regarded as a matter of martial arts, and everyone is ashamed of being a martial artist.
That's a big deal! A great deviation from the way of the saints!
This world belongs to our Confucian scholars, even if those martial artists are high-grade officials, they are not as majestic as a county order, why do they have to sacrifice their lives regardless of life and death?
So after this Confucian student couldn't hold a sword, as soon as the Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols came, the world collapsed!
At that time, there were millions of Confucian students in the two Song Dynasty, even if 12 of them were true Confucians of the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were hundreds of thousands.
And the Jurchen Mongolian people share geometric people? Even if one of the five kills them, how can there be two emperors captured, and the tragedy of Li Zong's head being a wine vessel?
Thinking of the shame of Jingkang, the emperor and the princess are the playthings of the Jurchens, and millions of people in Bianliang are either killed or enslaved, how miserable! ”
When Lin Fengji said this, he actually cried, and the three or four Central Plains Confucian students with pigtails and a large number of Ming Township Confucian students around him also had red eyes.
In fact, what Lin Fengji really wanted to say was the end of the Ming Dynasty, but it was inconvenient, just in the Song Dynasty, many of these concepts were actually wholesaled by him from King Ye.
After howling a few times, Lin Fengji wiped his tears and continued: "When it comes to this dynasty, it is not as good as the pseudo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties, and the backbones of the scholars have been broken!"
In the former Ming Dynasty, there were still five people whose tombstones recorded the feat, and Yang Sheng'an shouted by the Jinshui Bridge, 'The country has been raising soldiers for 150 years, and the righteousness of the war is today.' ’
This is the temperament!
And this dynasty is full of thousands of horses, writing books and biographies are afraid of causing the disaster of killing, a sentence of illiteracy will cost the life of the whole family, just like a dog stealing life, no integrity at all, isn't it cynicism? ”
In a noodle restaurant, Lin Fengji was roaring loudly, and Pan Yizhen also found him.
From the bottom of his heart, Pan Yizhen felt that although Lin Fengji was rebellious, some of his words were still reasonable, but the cynicism of that voice deeply pierced his heart, as if he was a little embarrassed!
"You rebellious thief, how dare you speak out against you?"
Pan Yizhen roared, and threw a clay bowl on the table next to him towards Lin Fengji.
This is a bowl of empty bowls that others haven't cleaned up after eating the shopkeeper, and was thrown by Pan Yizhen, and the soup and water suddenly spilled Lin Fengji's body, and the bowl also smashed on Lin Fengji's shoulder.
Lin Fengji, who was taken aback, turned around, and after seeing who it was, he didn't get angry, but pointed at Pan Yizhen and looked at everyone and laughed: "Everyone, please see, this is the representative of cynicism!" ”
"His mother! Dare to use foul language! Pan Yizhen was so angry that his head buzzed, and he howled and threw himself at Lin Fengji.
"I'm going to beat you up today!"
"I'm about to beat you up too!"
In the angry scolding, Pan Yizhen raised his fist and hammered it on Lin Fengji's cheek, and suddenly a big bag was raised.
Pan Yizhen smiled proudly, and was about to scold two more words, when Lin Fengji screamed, and slapped Pan Yizhen in the face.
Pan Yi Zhenzhi only felt that half of his face burned at once, he stretched out his hands and was about to grab Lin Fengji's face, who knew that Lin Fengji was one step ahead of him, bowed his head and bent over like a wild boar, hugged Pan Yizhen's legs, and directly overturned him.
Speaking of which, this Lin Fengji is by no means a fuel-efficient lamp, their family is also a family of Shili heirlooms, although the family is small, but several cousins and cousins in his clan are the worst.
But he went to the examination room at the age of eleven, and when he got to twenty-six, he was only a child.
But he felt that his moral essay was better than any of his brothers and brothers, and he had already been a little extreme if he failed to do so.
When he arrived at Jiaozhi, he only felt that he had come to the right place, and every word of King Ye seemed to be in his heart, and he had long wanted to beat Pan Yizhen, who made a poem every day.
The two suddenly scuffled on the ground, Lin Fengji was stronger and younger than Pan Yizhen, and the two beat each other with eight punches.
Lin Fengji saw an opportunity, and punched Pan Yizhen's eyes dark, but Pan Yizhen only punched Lin Fengji at the beginning, and all that left was to grab a few red marks on Lin Fengji's arms and forehead, and then he didn't hit anyone much.
After suffering a few more losses in a row, Pan Yizhen howled, and he suddenly hugged Lin Fengji's thigh pressed on his chest, and it was a bite!
"Oops! What a cynic! You're biting! Ouch! Yuexi, Zhenyi, come and help me! It hurts me to death, your mother's mouth is loose, ouch! ”
Pan Yizhen bit very hard, and he didn't let go of his mouth when he bit it, Lin Fengji, who was only in pain, screamed again and again, and quickly called the people next to him for help.
When he shouted, people on both sides rushed over, and at first they were just pulling the sidelines, and after a while, they directly started fighting, and for a while, there was a lot of fighting in the noodle restaurant, and they screamed everywhere.
As for the shopkeeper's shopkeeper, Xiao Er was already frightened, and ran to report to the official!