“……”

"What?"

Emperor Hongzhi was completely shocked.

This Wu Shizhong, was he kidnapped and caught by someone and poured the soup?

What the hell is it?

Liu Jian sighed in his heart, he regretted it a little, Wu Shizhong has always been steady, and he is an upright person, although he is only a mere Ministry of Rites, but Liu Jian has talked to him, this person is a manufacturable material.

Unexpectedly, today's face saint would stab such a big basket.

The imperial court has never forbade scholars to learn anything, which is actually quite lenient.

However, it was determined that Cheng Zhu Lixue was the only annotation for the imperial examination.

What does this mean?

That is to say, no matter how good your eight-strand essay is, if you want to make eight-strands, you have to follow Zhu Fuzi's ideas, and if you want to have a whim, it won't work.

Therefore, although the Ming Dynasty reached the middle and late periods, some schools began to derive, but these schools were mostly regional, such as Luoxue, Zhejiang and so on.

For scholars, the most important thing is, after all, fame.

Since the Southern Song Dynasty, science has flourished, especially the Hu people began to invade the south, which made Confucianism, which was originally known for its boldness, begin to become more and more conservative.

In the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, Huang Lao's doctrine flourished, and Confucianism was suppressed, and Huang Lao's learning at that time paid attention to inaction, and should not start foreign wars, but should recuperate. They were resolute opponents of the Xiongnu war, but the Confucian scholars shouted to support Emperor Wu and the Xiongnu war, the Ram School is to exalt the concept of "great revenge", "great unification" and foreign expansion.

In fact, although they talk about reasoning and the like, more often than not, they cut you into meat sauce first, and then slowly reason with you.

The Ban Chao who went to the Western Regions, cut people everywhere, deterred Hexi, and made the countries of the Western Regions submit to him, is a Confucian student, who claims to be a ram Confucian.

Of course, it is not right to be so violent.

It's just that in the Southern Song Dynasty, the royal family was peaceful, and the prosperity of science was not so much that Zhu Xi and others rewrote the history of Confucianism, but that it was the social environment that was peaceful and reluctant, which caused Confucianism to begin to become conservative.

In the Ming Dynasty, the social ecology and social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty have long been different from those of the Southern Song Dynasty.

As a result, a group of scholars, deep in their hearts, began to question science.

Why is it that what is said in the book is completely different from what I have seen and heard?

Wu Shizhong is one of them, and deep in his heart, he has always had a great question hidden in his heart.

Why is it that after I embarked on a career in office, these truths are completely useless? Why do you say every day that there is heavenly reason and human desires are destroyed, but in the market, human desires are rampant, and the world is everywhere?

Why is it that in the past hundreds of years, relying on science, the world has not only not been greatly governed, but has faintly begun to decay?

How to know things?

He was in the Ministry of Rites, facing the vast sea of documents, looking at what was happening in the court, the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't figure it out.

Even he didn't expect that Xishan's trip shocked him.

It turns out that I haven't been able to figure it out, and after reading so many books, I still can't know the truth here.

If even those who are born as scholars cannot understand the truth of this, and cannot find the truth in the vastness of the sea, and find the key to the truth, then ...... What about the others?

Aren't all these thousands of people reading books in vain? In addition to the eight-strand article, what is the use of decades of cold windows?

In Xishan, he suddenly woke up, at this time Wang Shouren's level was still very limited, but he wanted to inherit what his teacher had learned, and the direction he pointed out was to give Wu Shizhong a feeling of empowerment.

I see.

Today, his gaffe in front of His Majesty is, to some extent, an instinctive rebellion.

After reading Cheng Zhu for decades, I realized that you were really teasing me, I couldn't figure out where Cheng Zhu was wrong before, but now I suddenly have a direction, so I started to overkill.

This is like the corrupt Confucians at the end of the Qing Dynasty in history, suddenly opened their eyes to see the world, those Confucian students who were sent to stay abroad, drifted across the ocean, only to know that the original world has been turned upside down, so they turned to Confucianism and bred countless resentments, and even some people angrily proposed that the Chinese culture is useless, not only to criticize Confucianism, but even the square words are an eyesore, for the sake of Westernization, I hate not to use the Roman alphabet to replace the square words.

This is not necessarily that those foreigners went crazy and began to forget their ancestors, but more importantly, they learned for more than ten years in their lives, only to find out that the set of eight shares is actually waste! In front of Mr. De and Mr. Sai, he was vulnerable, so he gave birth to a rebellious mentality, which was pure overkill.

Wu Shizhong, is overkill, the truth that Xishan has learned, is like a sword in his hand, even if these theories, there are still many imperfections, but with this sword, he can't wait to plunge it straight into Zhu Fuzi's heart, your uncle, tell you to fool me for more than ten years!

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Wu Shizhong, crying and laughing, he couldn't understand Wu Shizhong's feelings.

Liu Jian said bitterly: "Stand down!" ”

Wu Shizhong looked a little confused, he knew that he had made a mistake.

So he glanced at Liu Jian apologetically, but he didn't feel ashamed of his behavior.

He was confident that although he was a courtier, as a scholar, he said what he should say.

He saluted and walked away.

The warm pavilion fell silent for a moment.

Emperor Hongzhi frowned slightly, and he said confusedly: "This Wu Shizhong, what did he say?" ”

No one answered him, because what Wu Shizhong said was just a few words, more like crazy words.

Emperor Hongzhi sighed: "I'm confused. He shook his head, his eyes revealing incomprehension.

But Wu Shizhong's 'nonsense' made Liu Jian feel uneasy in his heart.

On the one hand, it is out of concern for Wu Shizhong, a young man, after all, there are not many people who can be favored by Liu Jian, if he is lost because of something, and thus mistakes his life, it is a pity.

On the other hand, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, isn't it running to the West Mountain every day?

So...... Naxi Mountain...... What's going on?

But no matter what happens, time still passes little by little, and the Mid-Autumn Festival has arrived!

The court, as usual, began to rest.

Liu Jian rarely began to be idle.

He thought about it again and again, and decided to go to Xishan to see it in person, no matter what, he wanted to find out, and wanted to know what the reputation of this Xishan was.

The first assistant scholar of the cabinet, if he visited, the battle would be too big, Liu Jian did not want to make extraneous branches, thought about it, and found his son.

Liu Jian has three sons, but unfortunately, both sons died early, and the third son, Liu Jie, has no prospects, and he can't study, but he is still peaceful, and he is studying at home with the fame of a showman......

Of course, reading is an external statement, after all, it can't be said to be eating dry meals at home, although this book has been read for thirty-three years, and now Liu Jie is forty years old.

Let Liu Jie go and arrange it, only a few sedan chair drivers, an attaché, and Liu Jie followed, and the group hurried out of the city to Xishan!

This West Mountain almost has the scale of a small market town, although it is the Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow, it stands to reason that many people have now returned home for reunion, but in this West Mountain, it is still very lively, there are many people who come to read, there are sixty or seventy.

When everyone got together, there were two young jinshi, who were incumbent officials, and there were more than a dozen lifters, and there were also a lot of talents.

There are a lot of people who come here to read now, some of them are ecstatic after listening to Wang Shouren's professor, and some are angry that Wang Shouren criticized Zhu Fuzi and came to find fault.

Today, because of Mu Xiu, I heard that Mr. Wang didn't have to go to duty, so he would come early in the morning, so many people were looking forward to it.

Liu Jian is the first assistant of the cabinet, he is high, not many people know him, he is wearing an ordinary scarf hat and Confucian shirt, if you don't pay attention, it is really difficult for anyone to pay attention to him.

Looking at the excitement here, Liu Jian smiled, and couldn't help but say to Liu Jie on the side: "I really can't imagine it, my father also came to Xishan a few years ago, and it was a matter of checking the emperor's measure, at that time, this place should have been a wasteland, and it was later given to Shouning Hou, I didn't expect it at that time...... One day, this will become the Jiangnan suburb of Beijing. ”

He was about to go ahead and look at the crowd, but he stopped at once, for in the distance he saw an old acquaintance.

That...... It was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also here today......

Liu Jian didn't continue to get closer.

sighed in his heart, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince always runs here, it is indeed unseemly.

But Zhu Houzhao looked very energetic, he was also dressed as a scholar, shuttling through the crowd, and on the periphery, there was a group of guards in disguise who were vigilant, for fear that there would be a bad guy.

When a scholar saw that Zhu Houzhao was young, he asked: "Brother Tai, dare to ask the surname Gao." ”

Readers, they love to greet each other.

"Ben...... My name is Zhu Shou. ”

Zhu Shou...... Haven't heard of it......

"It turned out to be Brother Zhu Xian, disrespectful, disrespectful."

Zhu Houzhao has also learned to salute now, and smiled at the scholar and said, "Ashamed, ashamed." ”

followed by greetings, Zhu Houzhao began to talk about his life experience, his family provided him with education, his father was strict, and he finally won the show, and so on.

He seemed to be very proud, with a sincere expression on his face, when he told these emotional stories, he could infect these nerds, and his heart was secretly happy, very happy.

"I don't know what kind of classic Zhu Xiandi treated when he took the test?"

"What!" Zhu Houzhao was stunned.

What is the rule of classics...... He had heard of the hospital exam.

"It's the Five Classics, which one of the ...... of governance?"

"......" Zhu Houzhao began to scold in his heart, which son of a bitch tossed out the imperial examination, it is so complicated, what is the Five Classics?