Chapter 278 Four Strategies for Warming and Replenishing Mutton

The publication of these three articles of Zhen Dexiu in the "Jianghuai Guowen" immediately aroused fierce debates, and the physicists who had originally united around him were divided, and the stubborn conservatives denounced him as a "deviant", "Zhu Zi's rebel", "catching up with the top and losing the roots, kitsch and forgetting the truth", and the nickname of "real villain" added by Shi Miyuan's party to Zhen Dexiu was picked up again, but this time the person who scolded him as a "real villain" was his fellow practitioner at the beginning. However, most members of Lixue praised Zhen Dexiu's three essays as "exhaustively studying the way of heaven, earth and man, and the knowledge of later generations is all within its framework", and among them, "The Treatise on the Inner Sage and the Outer King" is the culmination of it, expounding Confucianism to the extreme.

In Zhen Dexiu's "Treatise on the Inner Sage and the Outer King", an essential problem is clearly raised: the Confucian saint and the king should be separated, although the disciples of Confucius and Xunzi both believed that the two of them could be called holy in terms of learning and morality, and they should also be emperors in political status. But in fact, since ancient times, no emperor has been so learned and virtuous, and these two have never achieved their aspirations in their lifetime, let alone become emperors. If the two become real emperors, then they will inevitably not have their historical status as "wise kings".

Therefore, as far as individuals are concerned, there is no contradiction between pursuing one's inner "holiness" internally and practicing the "royal way" externally by almost utilitarian means. As far as the state is concerned, there is no contradiction between emphasizing benevolence and propriety, which is the inner saint, and the outer king of promoting law and art, and only in this way can we achieve great harmony. As far as the outside world is concerned, it is not contradictory to emphasize the benevolence of the people of the country and the expansion of the outside world, which is the original intention of the inner sage and the outer king, and since the Han and Tang dynasties, the monarch has valued foreign countries more than domestic, regarded foreigners as respectful elders, and despised natives like dogs, which is a complete negation of the "inner sage and outer king", and the result is the chaos of Wuhu and Anshi.

Zhen Dexiu's "Treatise on the Inner Sage and the Outer King" caused the biggest controversy, that is, after Zhao Heju read it, he couldn't help but be stunned and speechless for a long time.

In the midst of four years of intense change, Jin Deok-so finally woke up and realized the limitations of science.

When he woke up from the shock, Cui He was busy eating and chewing, and the hot pot brought by Zhao Youju had been swept away by this old man, seeing that the Son of Heaven was relieved, Cui He smiled and said: "Your Majesty, thank you for your food." ”

"This mutton hot pot is the most warm, it's best to eat in winter, you can leave some for me!" Zhao and Ju shouted, and snatched a piece of mutton from Cui and his chopsticks.

"Your Majesty is rich all over the world, and the inner treasury has accumulated money like mountains and seas, and I am afraid that I will not be able to eat mutton, so I will rob my ministers!" Cui He put down his chopsticks, regardless of the hot pot was still hot, and directly brought the basin over: "This is the minister's, the minister's!" ”

"Okay, okay, don't do this, don't do this!"

He is not afraid, but Zhao Heju is a little worried, if he spills that pot of hot soup on Cui He, this old minister may become the first to be scalded to death by hot pot. He put down the jade chopstick, sat upright, and shook his head: "My inner library is empty, Cui Qing, just take pity on me, don't fight the inner library anymore." ”

He said that it was not a lie that the inner treasury was empty, and that the money spent on the construction of the Linhua Railway came out of his inner treasury, with a total amount of nearly 10 million yuan, and the construction cost of the first railway was always relatively high, and in the compensation for the relocation, he had no intention of competing with the people for profit, and the compensation was quite generous. In addition, he has invested an astonishing amount in scientific research, totaling millions of dollars a year. In addition, the millions of dollars invested in Jiankang Mansion are only input but no output for the time being, which occupies a large amount of his funds. Liuqiu is very profitable, and the industries he controls behind the scenes are also very profitable, but some of this money will be used to expand reproduction, and some will be used to support the construction of other aspects, so Zhao Youju, who was once the richest son of heaven, is now not one-tenth of his heyday.

Of course, like the Linhua Railway, it has now begun to make money for him, and a large number of foreign goods and goods sent to Lin'an every day, as well as the passenger and traveling merchants between Lin'an Huating Mansion, will earn him more than 10,000 yuan of profits every day, and this profit is still increasing. But Zhao Youju considered the front-line war, so he had to save expenses and no longer dared to throw money around.

"Cui Qing, as soon as the three articles of Zhen Dexiu come out, what does Shi Lin think?" Zhao Youju turned the topic to Zhen Dexiu again, Zhen Dexiu's change really surprised him, although he was ready to change Zhen Dexiu's view, but he was able to change so completely that Zhao Youju couldn't help but have some doubts.

"Shilin? That's naturally a boil. Cui He held down his beard, so as not to stain his gray beard with oil, and took another piece of mutton, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, now that "Jianghuai Guowen" has been completely divided, some people have left Chuzhou, and it is said that they are going to Chengdu, saying that they are going to run another newspaper in Chengdu, and the name is ready, what is it called "Sage Justice"...... Killing the world with academics is like this, haha. ”

From Cui He's words, Zhao Heju heard that he was very dissatisfied with those who left Chuzhou, and even people with a good temper like Cui He were dissatisfied, so these people who left Chuzhou and went to Chengdu must be the most inferior. Zhao Youju shook his head and said with a smile: "Let such a Zixiu do some practical things, knowing that firewood, rice, oil and salt are not easy to come by." Without the support of Zhen Dexiu, I want to see how many issues of their "Sage Justice" can come out. ”

"Your Majesty is right, let him fend for himself." Cui said the same.

The two monarchs and ministers once again turned the topic to the Central Plains: "Your Majesty, now that the Central Plains is at your fingertips, even Zhen Dexiu has also changed, Your Majesty's implementation of innovative policies in the Central Plains will be helped by the Tao, and the ministers in the court and the central government will naturally turn around for Your Majesty." ”

"Your Majesty wants to be worried, how to appease the people, now in the Jin Kingdom, there are still millions of remnants of my Great Song Dynasty, these people want to eat, drink, and make a living, if you appease the law, Your Majesty's benevolence is spread throughout history, if there are one or two mistakes, I am afraid that there will be shortcomings in the United States."

Speaking of this, Cui He finally became serious, he pointed his finger at Zhao Heju and said: "The minister is also thinking about the containment and pacification of these millions of people these days, the country has never had it, how can it be done beautifully." The minister is not talented, only one or two, just for His Majesty's reference. ”

"One is to set up a number of tuntian envoys, Guanzhong Central is a place of ointment, after war, the land is deserted, tuntian can not only ensure that the people have a business to hold, food to eat, but also conducive to the management of our Great Song Dynasty."

"The second is to run factories in Guangzhou, Jin, Shaanxi and other places, the land is poor, and the tuntian is twice the work and half the result, if it is a wide range of factories, mines, mining coal, iron, oil, etc., processing on the spot, in order to fill the country."

"The third is to build roads and ditches for water conservancy, the Central Plains has suffered from war, the Jin country is not in good power, and there are many roads and ditches that are in disrepair, after the victory of our army, there will be a large number of Jin soldiers to subdue, Your Majesty can be supplemented by the scattered exiles, build roads and dig ditches, especially railways, at this time the roadbed should be reserved."

"The fourth is to consolidate the border defense, after the war, even if Meng Yuan is not destroyed by me, it will suffer a heavy setback, and Wo Kotai was driven out of the Guanzhong, will not be willing, think that it will be harassed from time to time, my Great Song Dynasty is not weak gold, and the thief who committed me will be punished with the police. His Majesty was elected to send elite soldiers and strong generals to enrich the border passes, push the Great Song Dynasty borders back to the Great Wall. ”

Among Cui He's four strategies for stability, the first three are all about solving the urgent needs of people's livelihood, and the last one is to mention the border defense, Zhao and Ju nodded, Cui He emphasized that he pushed the border to the line of the Great Wall, I am afraid that he was worried that he would be carried away by the victory and would fight to the grassland and Liaodong.

In the boundaries of the Great Song Dynasty predetermined by Zhao and Ju, the steppe and even Siberia in later generations, Liaodong and even Kamchatka in later generations were all natural territories of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was also very interested in reaching Dongshengzhou through that short strait. It's just that now the manpower, material and financial resources of the Great Song Dynasty do not support his expansion too quickly, and after recovering the Central Plains, he will need two to three years to rebuild the Central Plains, and then consider the Great Wall.

"I see." He nodded: "Qing's strategies are all old Cheng's plans for the country, and I accept them all......"

This snowy night asked right, it was a beautiful conversation between Zhao and Ju and Cui and the young ministers during their cooperation, when Zhao and Ju were sent away, Cui and he couldn't fall asleep for a long time, although he said that he was old and had little sleep, but it was rare for him to not sleep so late. Thinking about it, he couldn't help but laugh at himself secretly, although he had always thought freely, but when facing this unprecedented king, he still couldn't help but feel famous.

If you can't create an unprecedented peaceful and prosperous world for the Holy Lord and Virtuous Monarch, you will really have a lifelong ambition...... It's a pity that time is running out, why did I meet such a master when I was nearly seventy years old?

After Zhao and Ju returned to the palace, they carefully read the text of Zhen Dexiu annotated by Cui He, "The Treatise on the Inner Sage and the Outer King", and the more he looked at it, the more happy he felt, until midnight, he never fell asleep. He didn't sleep, how could Zhou Shuniang dare to sleep, so she had to quietly send a palace maid to tell Yang Miaozhen and Han Yu that the two daughters had already fallen asleep, and they heard that they were still reading books in the middle of the night, so they all came over to persuade them, and after meeting in front of the Funing Palace, they looked at each other and smiled.

"Sister Ayu, if you come, then I'll go back, I want to make up for a sleep, Your Majesty said, go to bed early and get up early is good for beauty." Yang Miaozhen stretched a little and yawned.

"Why did the fourth lady say this, the slave went to persuade him, where is the fourth lady who said it usefully." Han Yu pursed her lips and smiled, stepped forward and pulled Yang Miaozhen's arm, and begged softly: "Fourth lady, let's go together, it was best to call Ah Wan and Daoqing too, but both of her have to raise a baby, so don't bother." ”

Xie Daoqing and Geng Wan are both pregnant with dragon seeds, which is good news for Zhao and Ju's harem, and it is even better news for the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, even more than the passage of the train. So far, Zhao Heju has a son and a daughter on the throne, and the children are all healthy, but the experience of the emperor's heirs in previous generations has frightened the ministers, and they only wish that there were dozens or hundreds of sons in Zhao Heju's harem.

"Okay, let's go together......" Yang Miaozhen yawned again, and said quite sleepily: "Sister Awan, what kind of book do you say can make the official family forget to sleep?" ”

During the conversation between the two of them, they had already entered the Funing Palace, and they saw Zhao and Ju holding a book under the horse lamp, and they admired it again and again while reading it. Yang Miaozhen originally wanted to go up and grab his book, but after thinking about it, she still sat next to him and stretched out her head curiously to see what was written on it.

Geng Wan sat on the other side of him, and Zhao and Ju were not surprised to see the two of them coming, pointing to the text on it and saying: "Look, Zhen Jingxi is enlightened, and now he can be my teacher." ”

For a long time, Zhao and Ju hated and loved traditional literati like Zhen Dexiu, hated their conservatism and stubbornness, and loved their uprightness and morality. He let Zhen Dexiu go to Chuzhou, hoping to change some of his ideas through the comparison between Chuzhou and Xuzhou, and now this moment has finally come, he not only changed Zhen Dexiu's thoughts, but also changed so thoroughly. In terms of how to establish Confucian values suitable for the industrial era, Zhen Dexiu went even further than him, and was more systematic.

This means that the conservatives who have restricted him from making a big difference have been completely divided, and there is no longer any problem in the general righteousness of his reform.

Zhao and Ju deeply understand how much power a belief will bring, it is precisely because of the Confucian idea of "self-cultivation and family governance and leveling the world" that generations of Confucian masters refused to sit in the study to do learning, but chose to become officials. It can even be said that the fanaticism of those Confucian scholars for the realization of their life's aspirations was no weaker than that of the missionaries in the West who had been bewitched by the Church. As long as we can grasp and guide the fanaticism of Confucian scholars, it is no longer a dream to take the initiative to export Chinese values and culture on a large scale, to establish a Chinese cultural circle with Greater China as the core, and to become the mainstream values of mankind in this era.

And these three articles of Zhen Dexiu, especially "The Treatise on the Inner Sage and the Outer King", are the theoretical guidance for opening this road. Although Zhao Youju also studied Confucianism and the rest of the hundred classics, he was much inferior to Zhen Dexiu, a real master of science, and Zhen Dexiu borrowed Confucian classics to promote this new theory of governance, which was really twice the result with half the effort.

"Your Majesty is still the same as when he was a child, just look at a good book." Looking at Zhao Youju's face stupidly, Han Yu's face suddenly turned slightly red, and she thought to herself.

It is not only Zhao Heju who is so excited that he can't sleep because of "The Theory of the Inner Sage and the Outer King", but Wei Liaoweng is the same. Compared with Zhen Dexiu, who was only in Chuzhou, Wei Liaoweng was in charge of the Great Song Dynasty treasury, and he was very clear about the changes in the financial situation and society of the Great Song Dynasty due to industrialization and the innovation of the Son of Heaven, but he had to manage more affairs than Zhen Dexiu, and what he had to worry about was not a state all the way, but the financial situation of the entire Great Song Dynasty, so although he felt something, he did not form a systematic text, when Zhen Dexiu wrote this article, he discussed it with him in a letter, and it can be said that although the signature of this article is Zhen Dexiu, In fact, it is the product of the joint efforts of two of today's science giants.

"If it weren't for the war ahead, as soon as this article came out, it would be like a winter thunder, and the sound would shake the four fields." When he went to court the next day, in front of the Daqing Palace, when he talked about this article with Ge Hong, he couldn't help but praise: "Ge participates in politics, what do you think?" ”

"At the time of the Goose Lake Meeting, although Zhu Zi was in the limelight, there were still sons to compete with him." Ge Hong is both envious and jealous, the theory of Zhendexiu's article is exactly what he thinks in his heart, but he can't write it out, so that Zhendexiu has taken the lead, as Guan Master Zhang Zai said, the person who reads the book originally wanted to "continue to learn for the saints and open peace for all generations", Zhendexiu's article can be said to be for the continuation of the saints, if the Son of Heaven uses the truth in this article to govern the country, it may not be impossible to open peace for all generations. This is the highest pursuit of a literati and a Confucian scholar, and if he has obtained this, he has no regrets in this life.

Thinking of this, Ge Hong said again: "After this article is published, the school of science will take the strengths of all the sons, and abandon the shortcomings of the obscure hermitage. ”

"Yes, the lower officials are shallow in their studies, and they really don't dare to be as famous as Zhenjingxi, but when they see the sages, they have to work hard." Wei Liaoweng said with a smile.

While he was talking, the whip of the court meeting sounded, and Wei Liaoweng Surong entered the ranks, and his mind also shifted from "The Treatise on the Inner Sage and the Outer King" to the current war, and I don't know if there is any news from the front line today.

Note 1: The Inner Sage and the Outer King are the essence of China's hundred schools, and Confucianism, Taoism, Mo, and Fa all have their own interpretations of this, which is not unique to Confucianism. Because of his shallow personal knowledge, he will inevitably make mistakes when explaining the way of the inner saint and the outer king through the mouth of Zhendexiu, please forgive me.