Sun Xiangfu himself actually agrees with some aspects of Confucianism, which can establish moral and behavioral norms in people's hearts, which is necessary for society to maintain harmony and stability.

However, he did not feel that he could use Confucianism to govern the country, and even more disagreed with only one Confucian thought to govern the country, so he also had to find a way to prevent future generations from using the distorted Confucianism to govern the country.

It's just that he hasn't thought of a way to prevent it yet, and he just wants to find some inspiration from Yu Shinan.

"It's not suitable, and there's nothing else more suitable, isn't it?"

After being stunned for a moment by Sun Xiangfu's question, Yu Shinan finally gave Sun Xiangfu this answer.

Indeed!

For the time being, Confucianism is the most suitable set for governing the country, at least its core values, than Legalism, Taoism, and other schools should be systematic, harmonious, perfect, even if there are all kinds of bad aspects, in the feudal dynasty, it is also the only choice for monarchs.

Unless, you can break the feudal system.

This idea just passed through Sun Xiangfu's mind and never appeared again.

He was sure that he couldn't do the rebellion himself.

Moreover, it is basically impossible for him to succeed, so since the Tang Dynasty is destined to focus on Confucianism, then, let yourself change its characteristics, if the mountain does not come, I will go to the mountain!

After the salute to Yu Shinan, when Sun Xiangfu returned to the front hall again, the wine and food had been served, and the Yu Mansion was now considered wealthy, and even the cauliflower had a lot to greet the guests.

After Sun Xiangfu sat down, the old man Yu Chang took the initiative to invite wine, after a glass, he began to sing and dance, this is a must for large-scale banquets in this period, generally, when the song and dance are over, there are games such as wine orders, and when the wine order is finished, the guests generally have five or six points of drunkenness, and it is time to chat and talk about things.

Sun Xiangfu's identity is not ordinary, many people who have been supported by him, and people who want to be supported by him, have the heart to climb and maintain relationships, singing and dancing have not ended, there are many old acquaintances who have entered the scholar, and they have toasted him more than a dozen times, but every time they are tasted, at this moment, he is thinking about how to change the attributes of Confucianism, and he needs to keep his mind clear.

After everyone was drunk for five or six minutes, Yu Chang began to call those Confucian scholars who were sitting at the lower seat and had not yet entered the office to come forward to introduce themselves, not to mention, these people's births are not low, and there is a characteristic, except for being young, most of them are not the eldest sons of the family, and some are even concubines.

After thinking about it for a while, Sun Xiangfu knew in his heart that the eldest son of a noble official was basically destined to have a knighthood or an identity of grace after birth, why do you need to study so seriously and find a way to be an official, only use these young sons, young sons, or concubines, to have such a need, like Cheng Chumo, Wei Chi Baolin, the eldest son, in addition to studying in the royal academy for a few years, in the back, basically do not study.

"Student Zhou Wuxue, have you seen Sun Shangshu?"

Although Sun Xiangfu has been a secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture for more than a year, he has a higher-level position as the governor of Anbei, so everyone is used to calling him Sun Dudu, and Sun Xiangfu is also used to listening to it.

He looked at this young man who was about sixteen or seventeen years old, and saw that this young man was tall, dark-skinned, and had a positive five-official appearance, and he did not have the feeling of fine skin and tender flesh like a Confucian student, but had broad shoulders and a round waist, a thick back and thick arms, like a martial artist wearing a scribe's robe, so he asked with interest, "Everyone else calls me Sun Dudu, why do you call me Sun Shangshu?" ”

Zhou Wuxue saw Sun Xiangfu asking, and seemed to be prepared to answer, "The student thinks that our Datang should not have the position of Metropolitan Governor of Anbei. ”

"Why?"

"The weight is on the side, and there will be trouble for a long time."

Hearing these eight words of Zhou Wuxue, Sun Xiangfu was suddenly happy in his heart, this young man doesn't look old, but has a long-term vision, he and Feng Zhidai saw this problem a few years ago, and now he actually saw it, so he asked again, "Are you the son of that family?" ”

"The student is a child of the Zhou family in Runan, because of the early death of his father, he was raised by his uncle, and he was recommended to enter the Hongwen Hall two years earlier."

Runan Zhou's family, the fourth and fourth dukes, is a great family, and it is a general, which is a head higher than the background of the Hou Junji family, and now the head of the family is the general of Zuotunwei, Zhou Shaofan, the prince of the country.

"It turned out to be after the gate, no wonder he was born so strong, usually, it should be that he didn't fall into martial arts!"

"It made Sun Shangshu smile."

"It is a good thing to be able to write and be able to martial arts, what is ridiculous, but what you just said, 'weight is on the side, and there will be trouble for a long time', there is some truth, today I have taken this as the topic, and I will take the examination of many students in the Hongwen Hall of the school, and see if you have real talent and real learning."

When Sun Xiangfu said this, he raised his voice a little more and said to everyone, "The weight is on the side, and there will be trouble for a long time, how can you solve it?" ”

As soon as he asked this question, it was tantamount to announcing that today's entertainment activities had ended, and the next thing was to get down to business.

At this time, there was a student named Wang Tong from Jiangnan who stepped forward and replied, "Even if you know that it is easy to get into trouble, you should take precautions as soon as possible, and the imperial court moves the border people to Guanzhong, which is a very good method, there is not enough population, and the officials in the border towns, no matter how much weight they have, will not affect the center of the imperial court, however, the land in Guanzhong is narrow, and for a long time, it will not be enough, and the imperial court should gradually divert the population to the surrounding areas to avoid the situation that there are few people and many people, and the people who are engaged in industry and commerce have no private property, and the competition pressure of the people engaged in industry and commerce is too great, and it is difficult to find employment." ”

It's just that as soon as these two people spoke, Sun Xiangfu knew the level of these students taught by Yu Shinan, although they were all Confucians, they were not necessarily corrupt Confucians, at least, there were still some political insights.

In fact, the reason for the proliferation of Confucianism is mainly because the later Cheng Zhu Lixue imprisoned people's thoughts, and when this kind of somewhat deformed thinking that evolved the characteristics of Confucianism into the mainstream of Confucianism, the situation was completely different.

Confucianism in the early Tang Dynasty, the overall situation was quite good, after reading some of Yu Shinan's commentaries, it changed some of Sun Xiangfu's views on Confucianism in this period, and Sun Xiangfu also had some new grasps of promoting it to change its attributes.

However, what Wang Tong said just now is just what the imperial court is already doing, so that being able to tell it can only prove that he has some understanding of the imperial court's governing thoughts, which can be regarded as entering the doorway, and whether he is really talented or not depends on what he has in his head.

I saw that he did not pause when he walked to the field, and continued, "What is a side? Today's side, can you call tomorrow's side? Where is the boundary between heaven and earth? No one knows.

Therefore, the students thought that in the case of not knowing where the border was, the first thing the imperial court should do was to improve the power of the center, and when the border ministers were in charge of one million people and 100,000 troops, the center of the imperial court should control 10 million people and one million troops, ten times more, so that there would be no situation where the weight was over the border and the threat to the center would not appear. ”

Wang Tong said this, many students nodded in agreement, centralization of power, can prevent the rebellion of local forces in border towns, this is almost a Confucian master, must do a thing, Song and Ming dynasties, this is the case, hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops, all in the Beijing division, let the emperor, maintain the absolute military superiority over the local border towns.

However, these Confucian scholars were not from later generations, so they did not know the possible consequences of lax military equipment in local border towns. I don't know the truth that the combat effectiveness of the Anyi soldiers will decline very quickly, it won't take long, as long as one or two generations later, the entire country's armament will become vulnerable.

Because, in ancient times, warfare was based on cold weapons and face-to-face fighting, and those soldiers who had grown up in a comfortable life did not even have the experience of fighting, let alone the experience of fighting for life and death with others.

Moreover, a comfortable life will also make those soldiers more and more afraid of death, more and more unwilling to work for the country, which is like the middle and late Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of troops, can not do tens of thousands of Liao, Jurchen, and even poorly equipped Japanese Kou, that is not the economic strength is not enough, the weapons and equipment are not advanced enough, or the population base is not enough, purely because the common people, lack of courage and spirit to fight with others.

In the words of some historians in later generations, if the Chinese nation in the Song and Ming dynasties had not lost the martial spirit of the Han and Tang dynasties, where would it be the turn of those ethnic minorities to come out and shout, let alone the emergence of foreign powers.

When Confucianism is in power, he will be heavy on power and abandonment of military equipment, this is the problem that Sun Xiangfu saw.

Wang Tong's speech did not end here, obviously, he made a lot of effort to study the country's politics, and said, "Now my Tang Dynasty has a strong army, and has successively eliminated the surrounding evil neighbors, even if it is not far from the previous heyday of the Han Dynasty, however, the Han Dynasty is strong and harsh on politics, and the result is that it will not last long, I Tang Dynasty, can not repeat the mistakes of the former Han Dynasty, and should widely educate and implement benevolent government ······"

What Confucianism must say, Sun Xiangfu didn't have much heart to listen, here, he already knew the depth of Wang Tong, people in this period, limited by the amount of knowledge precipitated by history is not enough, can only use some lessons from the Qin and Han dynasties to analyze the current things, to be able to reach Wang Tong's situation, it is already rare, his eyes are looking at Zhou Wuxue, who first raised this question.

Seeing his indifferent expression, as if he was patiently waiting for Wang Tong to finish speaking, Sun Xiangfu knew that in his heart, I am afraid that he has different opinions, widely indoctrination, and the implementation of benevolent government, which is said lightly, Datang, and now the indoctrination of the Han group has not been completely pushed away! To really do what Wang Tong said, it is still very long-term and a little unrealistic.

After Wang Tong's tirade was finished, Sun Xiangfu praised a few words politely, and said to everyone with a smile, "Others, do you have any other opinions?" You can come out and talk freely. ”

Seeing that Wang Tong was affirmed by Sun Xiangfu, the others were not reserved, and began to make various additions in the aspects that Wang Tong did not mention.

It is said that the people of foreign nationalities in the border towns should not be excessively involved in the military.

It is said that it is necessary to quickly promote the border people to change their customs and keep up with the Han people.

It is also said that the people of the Han people moved to enrich the border towns, and the ethnic minorities and Hu tribes in the border towns were moved to enrich the Guannei.

There is almost nothing new, it is some methods that the princes of the imperial court have thought of a long time ago, until everyone said almost that, Zhou Wuxue bowed to Sun Xiangfu again and said, "If I am in the Tang Dynasty, the border town, is the center, and the center is in the border town, then there will be no situation in the border town." ”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu looked at Zhou Wuxue with a little surprise, the meaning of his words, in later generations, but there is a famous saying to summarize it, that is, "The Son of Heaven guards the country." ”