But after so many years, some of Emperor Taizu's sayings have long been destroyed by them, and the literati relied on Mencius's doctrine to encroach on the imperial power step by step.

If they really practiced Mencius's morality, that's it. Under the banner of Mencius, all they did was bullshit, and even monsters like the Donglin Party appeared later.

What looks like a progressive budding party of capital is actually a kind of partisan disagreement.

As for Xunzi, there is no one who likes him anymore.

In Zhu Houzhao's memory, when it came to Jiajing, Xunzi was even invited out of the Confucian Temple, and his thoughts were completely reprimanded as heretics.

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect Wang Shouren to go to Xunzi's side, which made him hesitate, and at the same time he was very interested.

You must know that Xunzi's thinking is different from the current mainstream thought, and even in many places it is the opposite.

So Zhu Houzhao asked curiously: "What do you think, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Hearing you say that, Hongu is even more interested. ”

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Wang Shouren's face also showed a smile, and then said: "The minister has traveled south and north over the years, and he feels more and more that the things in this world are just like what Xunzi said at the beginning:

"Heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for death. If it should be treated, it will be auspicious, and if it should be chaotic, it will be vicious. ”

This Zhu Houzhao knows that this is Xunzi's theory of heavenly practice, which means that the sky is not mysterious and unpredictable, but has its own unchanging laws.

This law is not a mysterious heavenly way, but a natural inevitability. It does not depend on human likes and dislikes to change, and man cannot violate this law, but can only strictly abide by it.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is the law of nature, the objective law of nature.

This point is different from many Confucian thoughts, especially from Dong Zhongshu's theory of heaven and man's induction.

Both in the past and now, civil officials will associate natural phenomena with the king, and as long as there is some ominous celestial phenomenon, it must be that the emperor has not done a good job. The civil servants used it to limit imperial power, but also to gain benefits.

Under such circumstances, Xunzi's idea is naturally unacceptable, and will even be rejected and rejected.

On this basis, Xunzi also derived the saying that heaven and man are separated.

Xunzi believes that nature and human beings have their own laws and duties, and that the way of heaven cannot interfere with humanity, and that heaven returns to heaven and man returns to man, so it is not uncommon to say that heaven and man are separated.

The control of chaos and evil is in the people, not in the sky. And heaven and man have different functions, "Heaven can be creatures, but cannot distinguish things, and the earth can carry people, but cannot govern people." (The Treatise on Etiquette)

"Heaven has its time, the earth has its talent, and man has its rule." (The Treatise on Heaven)

On the basis of these two statements, Xunzi derived his own policy strategy, which is to use it to control the mandate of heaven.

In Xunzi's view, instead of superstitious about the authority of heaven, to think about it, to praise it, and to wait for the gift of "heaven", it is better to use the laws of nature to serve people.

Xun Guo emphasized "those who respect themselves" rather than "those who admire heaven", and even took the attitude towards heaven as the standard for distinguishing between a gentleman and a villain.

Emphasizing man's subjective initiative in the face of nature, he advocated the ideas of "governing the mandate of heaven", "cutting all things", and "transforming it with energy".

To put it bluntly, don't be superstitious, roll up your sleeves and work hard.

Zhu Hou looked at Wang Shouren, and then asked with a smile: "Then do you think Xunzi's division of heaven and man and the use of the Mandate of Heaven make sense?" ”

In fact, the first one is not important, these two items are the top priority of Xunzi's thought, especially the last one.

If you believe in Xunzi, it will completely overturn the current Confucian system.

Wang Shouren thought about it, raised his head and looked at Zhu Houzhao and said, "The minister thinks it makes sense. ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then asked again: "Do you also think that human nature is evil?" ”

After saying this, Zhu Houzhao stared at Wang Shouren and waited for him to give him an answer.

In fact, this is also a very important thought of Xunzi, and it is contrary to Mencius and the current Confucian thought.

Xunzi proceeds from the standpoint of the separation of heaven and man, and denies the transcendental moral basis in human nature.

In his view, the so-called human nature is the natural nature of human beings, and it is the so-called "the reason why life is so".

Its natural manifestation is "hunger and desire, cold and warmth, and labor and rest".

Its essence is the abstract natural biological instinct and psychological instinct that people naturally have, and it is believed that this natural desire for material life is in conflict with the norms of morality and etiquette.

Xunzi believes that human nature is "born with good profits", "born with diseases and evils", "born with the desire of ears and eyes, and lustful".

Therefore, human nature is "evil", not "good".

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's question, Wang Shouren's face was a little sweaty. It's a terrible question.

Because once Xunzi's doctrine is approved, then Mencius will be overthrown, and then the science will also be overthrown, which means that all the ways that all the scholars in the world believe in are wrong.

This is not a problem of the intellectual world itself, there are too many things represented behind this, and it is too big.

However, Wang Shouren still put his heart on the side and said categorically: "The minister thinks that's exactly the case. Human nature is evil, hungry and hungry, cold and warm, hard and resting, this is human nature,"

Zhu Houzhao nodded.

When many people in later generations heard that human nature is inherently evil, they arbitrarily judged that it was evil, referring to evil and evil. Actually, no, this evil here refers to human desires.

It's like being hungry to eat, wanting to reproduce and finding the opposite sex, and naturally wanting to live a better life and needing more money.

This is the core of Xunzi's proposition, so after this, there is Xunzi's governance proposition.

He advocated the edification of people, and used indoctrination to change people's hearts and make people restrain their desires; Let people understand reason, let people know what is benevolence and righteousness.

And on this basis, Xunzi feels that this kind of thing can't all rely on education, some people are born stubborn, he doesn't know how to educate, so what should I do?

Then it is time to adopt the law, to limit them with draconian legislation.

To put it bluntly, education is the upper limit, and legislation is the lower limit.

Indoctrination is to teach people in a more positive and better direction, and legislation is to make people unable to cross the bottom line, so Xunzi's doctrine is here, which is his core idea.

It's just after Xunzi. Many of his apprentices went directly to the path of the Legalists.

For example, his three famous students, Li Si, Han Fei and Zhang Cang, are all masters of law, and all of them are legalists.

Therefore, many people are disgusted with Xunzi's doctrine, do not regard him as a Confucian disciple, and reject his students very much.

Especially for his idea of the rule of law, Confucianism disliked it even more.

After all, kissing and hiding, hello, hello, hello, hello everyone. If I commit a crime, I will not be cut down and the whole family will be killed, the emperor should be merciful, how good is that?

Why use Xunzi's thoughts to kill the whole family as soon as you get it?

Therefore, Xunzi's thought was defeated, but Mencius's thought was admired by everyone.

We are all good people, we are born kind, we are all gentlemen, how can we call stealing when we read or something?

Under the dominance of this kind of thinking, Confucianism has become what it is now, and the people of heaven have become what they are now.

They kidnap the emperor upward, and use their thoughts to make the emperor feel that you are a good emperor if you do what they say; brainwash the whole people downward, so that the people of the world feel that what they say is right.

They sit on the upper, middle and lower floors, constantly reaping the benefits for themselves.

So in the end, there will be the Donglin Party, full of benevolence and morality, behind the male thieves and prostitutes, they do not pay taxes, they embezzle the profits of the country's mountains and rivers, and they even smuggle.

To overseas and to the grasslands, as long as they give money, they will sell everything, and it has nothing to do with the shame they shout.

By exploiting the common people, embezzling the land, and not paying taxes, they completed the primitive accumulation of capital, and then formed the germ of capitalism.

Because it is a capital formed without paying attention to the law, it ignores the law even more after it grows up. They can't see the Ming Dynasty, they can't see the country, and they can't see the people living in hardship.

They only have themselves in their eyes, and the troubled people are only the objects of their exploitation.

After holding the soldiers and horses and power in his hands, Zhu Houzhao was about to take action against the ideological circles.

If the Ming Dynasty still operates according to the current idea, even if these things are made by themselves, sooner or later they will decay after they die, because people's thinking is not right.

If the problem of ideology is not solved, then the system will never be able to keep up, and the system set by itself will eventually be abolished.

At that time, everything will go back to the original path, so be sure to move your mind.

Zhu Houzhao called Wang Shouren and asked for this purpose.

If he thinks differently than he does, then he won't say anything.

In the future, he regarded him as a capable minister under his subordinates, and arranged a position for him in the military to prevent him from becoming a leader in the ideological world. In this way, it is more appropriate, and it can be regarded as the righteousness of the monarch and the minister.

If his thoughts are the same as his own, then let go of his own hands and let him do it.

Now he is touting Xunzi, which is exactly the same as what he thinks, and at the same time, he can also stuff a lot of his own ideas into it.

Many of the thoughts of later generations can be found in Xunzi's thoughts. As long as you can push this thing forward, then things will be much easier.

As for Wang Shouren, he now has a high reputation and is expected by many people. If he is really pushed to the front of this matter, it is estimated that his reputation will plummet, and he may be scolded.

From the court to the countryside, everyone will scold him.

The reputation is stinky, and it is not easy to reverse it, and it may have to wait until the next generation.

To some extent, this can be regarded as self-defilement, if you want to compare, it is with Wang Mang.

Wang Shouren is estimated to not have such a good reputation as Wang Mang, maybe everyone in the world wants him to die, even better than Zhang Juzheng.

Because Wang Shouren is not only moving actual power, but also moving their roots.

The reason why Zhang Juzheng's reform was able to gain the support of some people is that it does not touch the depths of the soul, but only floats on the surface, whether it is an inventory of fields or a whip law.

Inventory of the fields only allows those who hide the land to take it out.

As for a whip law, it will make the landlords and old wealth profitable, so that they can better oppress the people.

So the opposition that Zhang Juzheng encountered was not so strong, but this time it was different.

He has already used the money to realize the integrated taxation of the officials and gentry, which has made the people have deep grievances.

If it weren't for the fact that he mobilized a large army in Jiangnan and killed a large number of people, it is estimated that he would have made a fuss by now.

Even so, there is a lot of criticism of myself now, but no one dares to really say it blatantly.

For me now, these criticisms are no longer important.

Now I want people in my hands, money and money, and an army. Whoever is not convinced will kill whoever directly, he already has the strength to learn from Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

So in such a situation, Zhu Houzhao's view of himself is that he can do whatever I want, as long as he does not harm the interests of the people at the bottom and allows them to live, he can start to clean them up.

Why did Zhu Yuanzhang kill so many civil officials, but did not cause a popular uprising? Some people rebelled, but it wasn't because they killed civilian officials?

The reason is also very simple, not because of how many troops Zhu Yuanzhang has in his hands and how capable his army is, but because the people at the bottom do not support it, and the rebellion without the support of the people at the bottom is not even a civil unrest.

Wang Shouren looked at Zhu Houzhao with some apprehension, he didn't know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thought.

If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks differently from him, or feels that what he said is inappropriate, then it is estimated that he will be finished.

However, Wang Shouren felt that what he said should be in line with His Royal Highness the Prince's thoughts. has been with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for so long, and he also knows that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is well-read and has his own unique opinions on many things.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seems to disdain Kong Mengzhi's statement, and seems to be more in favor of Xunzi's statement.

He sat there quietly, waiting to give him an answer.

Glancing at Wang Shouren, Zhu Houzhao stood up and walked outside.

Wang Shouren didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly followed.

The two of them came to the railing outside the palace.

Zhu Houzhao held on to the railing, looked into the distance, and then said slowly: "Are you interested in opening a academy?" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao looked at Wang Shouren with a smile, with a look of expectation on his face.

"Running a college?" Wang Shouren was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince meant.

It is naturally impossible to run an academy to teach, and if it is ordinary, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not need to discuss it with himself. Is it to teach Xunzi?

Wang Shouren was suddenly a little excited.

"Is that okay?" Wang Shouren asked with some hesitation.

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Why not? ”

"We have money, and it's not easy to build a college? As for the students, Hongu will not be lacking. ”

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