Of course, Chen Ying's passage also has loopholes, and what he refuted was Han Yong's 'etiquette requires that a widowed woman cannot remarry', not 'a widowed woman cannot remarry'. Of course, there is a difference between the two. In fact, he could not provide clear evidence to prove that Confucius had the intention of allowing widowed women to remarry.

However, Chen Ying took the lead and questioned first, and Song Lin, Han Yong and others could not immediately question it in turn, and in the eyes of traditional literati, it was a very unliterary behavior. Those who dare to admonish in front of Yun Xi are people with excellent character, so naturally they will not do such a thing.

Taking advantage of the fact that Song Lin and the others had nothing to refute, Yun Xi ordered the second holy decree to be read: "Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and says, the first emperor determines the system of martyrdom, and Ranzi said: 'Gong Kuan Xin Min Hui, Gong is not insulting, Lenient is to win the public, faith is Ren Ren, Min is meritorious, and Hui is enough to make people.' ...... is to abolish the funeral system in the capital from now on, and from the date of arrival in other places. ”

"Your Majesty." All the ministers present knelt down and said. The funeral system has been abolished as early as the Qin Dynasty, otherwise Qin Shi Huang would not have built a bunch of terracotta warriors and horses to accompany his own mausoleum, and the previous dynasties had never been officially restored before Zhu Yuanzhang (Meng Yuan did not count). Confucianism has always believed that this is a very inhumane act, and some people objected to it when Zhu Yuanzhang first proposed the funeral, but Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pay attention to it.

The decree was read, and the attendant announced his retirement.

After Yun Xi left the Fengtian Temple and everyone dispersed, on the way out of the palace, Song Lin said to Han Yong, Huang Kui and others: "Although Your Majesty appointed Chen Ying to refute our intentions, it is indeed difficult for us to find words to refute for a while, but this is not that the science we believe in is wrong, but that we still do not study science deeply. After everyone went back, they found the books that recorded the words of the Confucian sages, such as the Book of Rites and the Analects, as well as the works of the three sages of Cheng Zhu, and studied them carefully, so that they must refute Chen Ying's words and let His Majesty take back his fate. ”

"When I go back, I will definitely study science carefully, understand the deep meaning of the three sages, and persuade Your Majesty to retract your destiny." Han Yong and others also said. They discussed and decided to disperse back to the yamen to study Confucianism. Most of these people are located in the Qingshui Yamen, and they don't have much to do on weekdays, and some of them have their own job to study the etiquette system of the past dynasties, so they can do private things during their working hours.

And Yun Xi didn't stop there. After retiring from the dynasty, he said to Chen Ying, Yuan Zhen, Li Shilu and others who came to the Qianqing Palace: "In the past few days, I expect that Song Lin and others will not give up, and will carefully study the books of the sages such as "The Book of Rites" and "The Analects", so as to refute Chen Aiqing's words and let me take back my fate. ”

"And I also want to take this opportunity to refute the fallacies in science, so that the majority of scholars will not be blinded by the omissions in science, and restore the original intention of Confucius."

Yes, the reason why Yun Xi wants to publicly abolish the decree encouraging widows to observe festivals in the court is that one is so that Yun Lan can marry without provoking criticism, and the other is to crack down on Cheng Zhu Lixue. Otherwise, there would be no need for him to publicly repeal the decree. After all, the royal family has privileges, even if he does not issue this holy decree and forcibly marries Yunlan, there will not be a few civil and military officials who do not have a long eye; Even if someone admonishes him, he can pretend that he didn't see it.

Yun Xi continued: "In Cheng Zhu's theory, there is still some truth in Tianli's statement, although there are flaws, but the flaws are not hidden. ”

Although the theory of the Three Platforms originated from Dong Zi, but Confucius Yunjun, Junjun, Ministers, Father, Son, and Son, the Three Platforms just said Confucius's original words in more understandable words, and naturally there is no mistake. However, Cheng Zhu and others' interpretation of the Three Principles is fallacious. ”

Cheng Zhu et al.'s interpretation of the father as the son is quite that no matter what the parents do, the children cannot refute it, and they must be obedient and must not disobey in the slightest. But is this in line with Confucius's original intention? ”

"The Analects" has clouds: Meng Yizi asked about filial piety. Zi said, "No violation." "Fan Chiyu, Zi informed: "Meng Sun asked me about filial piety, and I said, 'No violation'." Fan Chi said: "What do you mean?" Zi said: "Life, things are courteous; Die, bury it with a ceremony. From the following text, it can be concluded that what Confucius said is not to violate the words of his parents, but not to violate etiquette, and to be filial to his parents according to Zhou etiquette. However, Cheng Zhu and others took the words out of context and only said to the students: Confucius's meaning is not violated. ”

"Besides, the husband is the wife. There is a cloud in the middle chapter of "The Book of Rites": the five ways of the world, so the three people who do it are also monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, husbands and wives, Kundi, and friends. The five worlds are also the way; The three of wisdom, benevolence and courage are also the virtues of the world. ”

"Whether it is in the way of a ruler, a father and a son, a husband and wife, a brother, or a friend, it requires wisdom, love, and courage. The so-called starvation is a small matter of festivity, and a big matter, is it the principle of benevolence? Or is it the work of a wise man? ”

"As for 'preserving the principles of heaven and destroying human desires'. I would also like to say a few words. ”

"What is Heavenly Justice? What is human desire? Zhu Xi once said: "Those who eat and drink, Tianli also, demand deliciousness, and people want it." "If everything is so clear and clear, it is easy to say. But how can everything in the world be so clearly separated from food and drink? Since it is not clear to distinguish between 'preserving the principles of heaven and destroying people's desires' in places where Confucianism is not flourishing and there are few scholars, it will inevitably become the words of the local gentry to arbitrarily dispose of the people, which will be very harmful. What's more, although Confucius also said self-denial and revenge, he did not use the law of law to suppress the people. "Yun Xi did not completely deny the 'preservation of heavenly principles and the destruction of human desires', because it is not easy to completely deny this within Confucianism.

Yun Xi finally said: "On the whole, the science of science is not useless, and I do not mean to completely overthrow the science, but there are so many errors in the science of science, if it is allowed to spread wantonly and distort the original intention of Confucius, it will be very harmful. You Aiqing are all people who truly respect the orthodoxy of Confucianism in our dynasty, and you must refute the fallacies in the science of science, absorb the original meaning of Confucius in the science of science, and some of the very appropriate words of Confucius that are obscure and unclear and explained by Cheng Zhu, so as to correct Confucianism. I'll leave it to you. As he spoke, Yun Xi shook their group.

Yuan Zhen and the others hurriedly avoided their bodies, but their hearts were secretly refreshed. The emperor respected them so much and gave them such important things, so that their vanity was greatly satisfied, and they were all red.

And except for one of them, they are all people who believe in Zhou Li or Dong Zhongshu, and they are originally very disgusted with science. How can you not be happy to be able to criticize science with the support of the emperor, which is a beautiful thing that I could not have imagined?

Yun Xi said a few more words to them, emphasizing that we should not defeat all the science of science with one stroke, but should absorb the essence of science and remove the dross. Although he had already said this, he was afraid that they would lose it as a deaf ear, so he wanted to emphasize it again.

After listening to Yun Xi's last instructions, no matter what they thought in their hearts, everyone nodded in agreement, and then except for one person, the rest of the people bowed down and retreated.

But Yun Xi looked at their backs, still thinking about Confucianism in his heart.

Three years ago, before the examination of the second year of the establishment of the industry, Yun Xi decided to start promoting the true Chinese tradition of the Five Classics of "Poetry", "Shu", "Li", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn", in the hope of breaking the absolute monopoly of Confucianism on views other than loyalty to the monarch and patriotism; However, in just three years, it was far from enough to train a group of scholars who were proficient in the Five Classics, so he could only retreat to the next best thing and temporarily deal with the most conservative branch of Confucianism-Lixue.

In fact, objectively speaking, science is not useless. First of all, Rigaku put forward the theory of "heavenly principles", believing that "reason is in advance" and that "reason" is not subject to human will, that is, the objective idealist view, which is a big step forward from the subjective idealism of ancient times.

And the idea of 'reason in advance' was also a major constraint on the local gentry. Locally, especially in the countryside, there is no government to limit the power of the gentry, so that theoretically the gentry in the countryside have unlimited power, which is obviously very unfavorable to local rule, and there are many examples of the gentry persecuting the people too much in history to make the people rebel, and the government can only wipe their butts. There is a principle that everything in the world must obey, just like the morality of knights in the West, which can restrain them a little.

Second, Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi successively excavated the term 'knowledge of things' from the Book of Rites, and proposed that it means to study the essence of things and obtain knowledge and truth. In fact, this has facilitated China's scientific research.

Third, the dialectic method was first proposed in science, and the writings of Zhu Xi and others were also very logical, which was very beneficial to the cultivation of the logic of scholars; And being logical is also a necessary condition for conducting scientific research, and even a necessary condition for doing things well.

Therefore, Yunxi does not intend to completely overturn the science of science. However, because there are still many problems in the science of science, especially in the later period, the suppression of human nature is too powerful in the phrase "preserving the principles of heaven and destroying human desires", and it is becoming more and more detached from reality, becoming a dogma that binds people's hands and feet and even a tool of "killing people with reason", so Yunxi must also eliminate all the problems in science. So there was what he is doing today.

Yun Xi stood and thought for a while, then came back to his senses and said to Chen Ying: "Chen Aiqing, it's really hard Chen Aiqing. ”

Chen Ying immediately bowed down and said, "The minister just did his duty, how dare he say that he is hard?" ”

Yun Xi stared at his back, and didn't let him calm down for a while. Chen Ying is a person he can figure out, in short, at least not a bad person now, but he has a very heavy sense of fame, and he is almost unscrupulous in order to climb up. Although Yun Xi doesn't like such a person, it is also useful, such as publicly supporting Yun Xi's will in the court today, if there is a minister who insists on it, it will never be possible. Therefore, for Chen Ying, Yun Xi must not only be guarded against, but also appointed.

"Chen Aiqing, get up. In any case, you are doing well today, and I am very relieved. Yun Xi said to him: "I have always admired people who do things honestly, as long as you do things honestly, I will not treat them badly." ”

"The minister must do things with sincerity and live up to His Majesty's expectations." Chen Ying said.

Yun Xi said a few more words to him and told him to go down; Chen Ying's face changed slightly, but she still bowed respectfully and retreated.

Looking at his back, Yun Xi said to himself: "This is what you want to promote?" It's too easy to see promotion. ”