Chen Tuan couldn't help but ask: "Prince, these old doctrines are not very clear, how did you know about them?" ”

Zhao Dezhao smiled and shook his head. "Daoist, I want to ask you to go to Xiangyang with me, I compiled some Taoist materials and just shipped them to Xiangyang. At that time, when you finish reading, we will discuss it again. ”

"Naturally, I'm going to see it." Chen Tuan nodded, and asked again, "How should Taoism be changed?" ”

Chen Tuan can be said to be a representative figure of Taoism in this era, and his fame is second only to Lu Dongbin, who has been immortalized, so he naturally knows why Zhao Dezhao told him this.

Zhao Dezhao just wants to borrow his hand to reorganize Taoism and make Taoism more cohesive.

Will Chen Shu refuse? Of course not. This is a blessing that will last forever.

Zhao Dezhao pondered for a while and said: "The return of thought to the heart, and the return of academics to the manifestation." Divide Taoist academic thought into categories, and attribute the patriarch to one person to educate the world. ”

Chen Jian pondered for a while and asked, "Confucianism treats it the same way?" ”

Zhao Dezhao turned his head and glanced at Zhao Kuangyin, he was also listening attentively at this time, very solemn.

Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the three religions were unified, you have me, I have you.

But before the Yuan Dynasty, in addition to Confucianism, Confucianism and Taoism came out, and it can be said that they were incompatible.

After the Han Dynasty exalted Confucianism, Confucianism, as a prominent science, became an academic discipline that governed the country.

Confucianism at the beginning was actually not perfect, but they played with doctrine.

Whether it is Taoist scholarship or Legalist scholarship, as long as it is beneficial to them, they will take it and say that it is Confucianism.

Let's take a simple example, let's say Zhou Li.

The Zhou rite was originally a national etiquette formulated during the Zhou Dynasty, which regulated the etiquette between people of different ranks.

But the Confucians of the Han Dynasty wrote a book of "Zhou Li", which turned this into the credit of Confucianism.

The entire history of the development of Confucianism is a history of forcibly plundering and enriching itself.

Except for the rival Mo family.

But the essence of this world is actually to return to the material, and the use of Mohist tools is actually the basis for the development of the whole society.

Confucianism, which has a monopoly on academics, actually has many merits, such as the unification theory of China, which unites a multi-ethnic country and allows everyone to have the same emotions and identity.

However, their self-contained, foolish policies, and lack of change have made them receive a lot of reproach in later generations.

Zhao Dezhao pondered for a while and said: "Confucianism, as a prominent study, needs to be classified in more detail. We need to separate thought from academics, but this is not enough, we must also separate academics from application, and more importantly, we must separate literature from Confucianism. ”

This time, Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Jian were a little incomprehensible.

Zhao Dezhao went on to explain: "Confucianism is worthy of affirmation, but it is necessary to remove its dross and retain its essence. The essence of ideas such as the theory of great unification needs to be preserved, but the ideas of strange tricks and tricks cannot be preserved.

The role of Confucianism in personal cultivation and ideological purification should be retained, but it should be removed through its application of collusion with the rulers to the exclusion of dissidents.

The Ministry of Rites needs Confucianism, but the Ministry of Household needs arithmetic, and the Ministry of Punishment needs Legalism, all of which are managed in a Confucian way, and it will only be a mess.

The imperial court should be more cautious, and only some of the four books and five classics can be an official, isn't this a joke?

Do Confucian students know how to farm? Do they know how to build aqueducts? Do they know how to decide a case? Do you know how to make a good life for the people? No!

Therefore, the academic belongs to the academic, and the application must be meticulous. When the court employs people, it must be used! ”

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but ask again: "Why do you take a scholar?" What does it mean to separate literature from Confucianism? ”

It is said that Zhao Kuangyin emphasizes literature and light martial arts, but in fact, the real Zhao Kuangyin neither emphasizes literature nor martial arts.

On the one hand, the development of emphasizing literature over military force is related to the social environment of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and on the other hand, it is really carried forward by Zhao Guangyi.

Donghuamen is a good man, and this sentence can be said to be the grievances of the military generals of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty for more than 300 years.

Zhao Dezhao said: "Cangjie makes words, is Cangjie Confucian?" Does the one who learns literacy have to be Confucianism? The main reason why Confucianism became popular was because they allowed their students to learn only Confucian scriptures.

However, even so, people who are literate are not necessarily Confucians. However, Confucianism domineeringly believes that all scholars must be Confucians, otherwise they will be overthrown and ostracized.

Therefore, the imperial court wanted to separate reading and literacy from Confucianism, which broke their foundation. Moreover, it is a necessary step for the imperial court to achieve specialization after having a foundation.

If you can only read four books and five classics, and if you don't understand agriculture, you can't be a chief official, a magistrate, you can't be a household official, you can't be a household official, you can't be a criminal department, and an official of Dali Temple if you don't understand the law. If you don't know how to be a skill, you can't be an official of the Ministry of Industry.

It is the biggest mistake to let those Confucian scholars who can only sing music and chant poetry, and who can only read four books and five classics, become officials.

Of course, there are too few literate people nowadays, and they can't even read the official documents of the imperial court, which is a practical difficulty.

However, it is possible to increase the standard for the selection of officers in the Jinshi Branch and lower the standard for the selection of the Enke Officer, so that everyone will not squeeze into the single-plank bridge of the Shike. ”

Chen Tuan and Zhao Kuangyin were dumbfounded when they heard it, and they didn't know what to say.

In the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty, Jinshi only had the qualifications to be an official, and he had to go through the selection of the officials, that is, the professional examination before he could become an official.

Moreover, even if he is the champion, after passing the professional examination, he is only a nine-rank official.

Moreover, in the three hundred years of the Tang Dynasty, there were only more than 7,000 people selected for the Jinshi Branch, with an average of thirty or six people a Chinese New Year's Eve.

However, after the war of five dynasties and ten countries, the number of scholars has decreased sharply, and there is a shortage of officials everywhere.

Since the period of Zhao Kuangyin, as long as the Jinshi is above the top five, you can directly become an official.

However, Zhao Kuangyin believed that officials would rather be lacking than excessive, and only 19 people were selected for the first imperial examination.

Since then, there have only been about 10 people in the Jinshi Department every year.

He was emperor for seventeen years, and a total of two hundred officials were elected. In 975, he counted 106 scholars who had not been selected for the imperial examination for fifteen years, and they were given the same Jinshi background.

According to statistics, during the Zhao Kuangyin period, there were less than 350 officials from Jinshi, an average of 20 per year.

But after the Zhao Guangyi period, in order to win the hearts of the people, he continued to expand his enrollment, recruiting more than 500 people every year, so that Jinshi was rotten on the street.

Some people did not meet the standards, and they were also given the same Jinshi background by him. And the speed of promotion and the high position are staggering.

Anyway, it depends on his mind, and the promotion of officials is entirely based on preference, not system assessment.

Therefore, once the title of the gold list is named, then he will take office and marry Bai Fumei, and he will be able to reach the peak of his life in a short time.

After ten years of hard study, after gaining fame, all scholars will have a bumper harvest of wealth and status, and the return can be described as extremely high.

In contrast, the status of the warriors became lower and lower, reaching almost the same level as the prisoners......

Of course, in this time and space, it is impossible for him to be an emperor in the future.

Chen Jian couldn't help clapping his hands at this time, and said with a smile: "The prince's words woke up the dreamer." Studying literature is not the same as learning Confucianism, and in one sentence it is all about the benefits and disadvantages. Prince, can you talk about the relationship between Taoism and Taoism, and then talk about it in detail with Lao Dao. ”

"Don't worry, the Taoist chief will go to Xiangyang in a few days, and it's not too late to discuss."

When Chen Tuan didn't see the doctrine of Shinrikyo, Zhao Dezhao wouldn't discuss it too much with him, because he didn't have that kind of knowledge at all.

It's like telling a blind man what is red and what is yellow, and he can't explain it at all.

Only by letting him see with his own eyes and know that in addition to religion and thought, there is science, and there are various different research directions that can study the world, can he turn his mind around.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Second brother, it's better not to go to Xiangyang and stay in Kaifeng Mansion." ”

Zhao Dezhao knew that Zhao Kuangyin saw his importance, although the father and son would have conflicts together, but he wanted to keep Zhao Dezhao by his side and listen to him analyze the overall situation at all times.

However, Zhao Dezhao is unwilling to be a strategist and military advisor, he prefers to be happy and revengeful.

"Daddy, at most three years, I can let the Great Song Dynasty have the most powerful weapons in the world, and I can let the infantry of the Great Song Dynasty easily deal with a team of cavalry, and the whole world will belong to my Great Song. At that time, it will not be too late for the child to come back......"

Chen Jian couldn't help but ask, "Can an infantry deal with a team of cavalry?" Is there such a sharp weapon in the world? ”

This is the obstacle of knowledge, because I don't know at all, I haven't seen it, so I can't think of any weapon so powerful.

In the era of cold weapons, nomads have always been the nemesis of the Chinese farming people.

Only when China is strong and its overall national strength far exceeds that of the nomads, can it rely on its huge population and financial resources to suppress the nomads.

But except for the Han and Tang dynasties, no other dynasty could do this.

Until after entering the era of hot weapons, hot weapons were the natural nemesis of nomads.

In the face of thermal weapons, they are fierce, the advantages of rapid transfer are lost, the disadvantages of a small population and no basis for sustainable development are expanded, and all the nomadic peoples of the world are in decline.

After listening to Chen Kuangyin's question, Zhao Dezhao glanced at Zhao Kuangyin, and he nodded with a smile.

They will not suspect that Chen Tuan will be a traitor, a ninety-five-year-old master of Taoism, who is not even afraid of life and death, how can he be a traitor!

However, Zhao Dezhao still said: "Dao Chief, I hope you won't spread the following words." ”

Chen Jun nodded. Zhao Dezhao said: "A weapon that can shoot lead bullets out of 500 steps, and can also penetrate the wood for three points. If everyone is equipped with such weapons, is they still afraid of the enemy attacking on horseback? ”

Chen was stunned, looked at Zhao Dezhao, and then turned his head to look at Zhao Kuangyin. "Your Majesty, the prince went to Xiangyang just to create this kind of sharp weapon?"

Zhao Kuangyin nodded and said: "Xiangyang has Han water, and this kind of weapon can be produced with the help of water power." ”

Chen Tuan immediately said with great interest: "Lao Dao also wants to see it, if the Great Song Dynasty has this kind of sharp weapon, it will be easy to calm the world." The people will be able to live and work in peace and contentment......"

Zhao Dezhao continued to bait: "Dao Chief, in fact, there are many techniques, all of which originate from Taoist learning!" ”