There is a lot of snow in winter.

After a few heavy snowfalls, it was the middle of winter.

However, even if the cold wind outside the house is biting, the weather does not seem to have much impact on the Forbidden City. Thigh-thick hot water pipes carry boiling water to all corners of the Forbidden City through cast iron pipes, while copper radiators outside the iron pipes dissipate the heat from the hot water pipes into the rooms, dissipating the low temperature in the room. Compared with Dilong flue heating, this heating method is cleaner. However, only the Forbidden City and various yamen adopt this "expensive" heating method.

Under the effect of heating, although the cold wind outside the window is biting, the interior is warm like spring, and every time he sits on the so-called throne in the middle, Zhu Mingzhong's heart is still confused and chaotic. The so-called dragon chair is wide and high, the bright yellow soft surface is cold and soft, enough to sit three people, sit in the middle, and the armrests on both sides can be said to be completely useless.

For others, they may feel that the person sitting here is extraordinarily noble and solemn, but only when they sit on it can they truly appreciate the taste of being a lonely person on all sides.

Emperor!

Even though he has been on the throne for nearly two years, Zhu Mingzhong is still trying to adapt to the taste of being a "lonely person".

What does it mean to be an emperor?

Is it an arbitrary act of one-size-fits-all?

Is it the three thousand beauties of the palace?

Ruling Huaxia and raising all directions, the first person in the universe of heaven and earth?

Of course not, it's a responsibility!

As an emperor, there are too many responsibilities to bear, especially in this era, although in the mid-17th century, the Ming Dynasty did not seem to be behind the world, and even ahead of the world in many aspects, but what about the future?

Will Daming continue to lead the world as always?

In the world two hundred years from now, what will be the status of the Ming Dynasty?

Is it to replace Great Britain? Or did it become another Manchu, or an Ottoman in East Asia?

This is all a problem that Zhu Mingzhong must consider, he knows from later generations that these problems are inevitable, and he must take into account the world after 200 years, after all, it is a world of the jungle. Now, he may be able to rely on his knowledge and insight ahead of the times to make Daming ahead of the countries, but what about the future?

You're 27 years old, and since you're living another 60 years, what about 60 years from now?

After 60 years, what about the remaining 140 years, 240 years?

As the emperor, how to ensure that the future Ming Dynasty can always occupy the top of the world's national forests, instead of the prey and fat in the mouths of other peoples?

As an emperor, what is his responsibility? It is precisely to avoid all this from happening.

Again, Zhu Mingzhong walked to the hall, and he looked at the model on the case again, which was a hot model. The building on the model is a typical palace-style building, although this building seems to be no different from the traditional Ming-style palace architecture, but if you look closely, you can see that it borrows some of the characteristics of the Baroque architecture, of course, it is to sinicize some of its characteristics and hide them in the Chinese-style palace architecture.

"Temple!"

Staring at the words in front of the temple.

Zhu Mingzhong's eyebrows raised slightly, this "holy temple" will be built in the spring of the next year, once it is completed, it will be the largest "holy temple" in the country, and what is the so-called "holy temple"?

Of course, it is a place to worship Confucius!

For the Confucian family, after ascending the throne, although the Yan Shenggong Kong Xingxie, that is, the 65th grandson of Confucius, was loyal, but Zhu Mingzhong's still pursued his father Kong Yinzhi, that is, the sixty-fourth grandson of Confucius, who immediately went to the fold and showed his loyalty when he occupied Beijing in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and led a group of clansmen to take the lead in shaving his head and take away the title of Kong Xingxie's Yan Shenggong. With its "incident", the northern sect of the Confucian family was abolished, and the southern sect of the Confucian family was replaced by the southern sect of the Confucian family to inherit the "Yan Shenggong".

And this move is also telling the whole world - no matter who has been a traitor, he will definitely be held responsible, even if it is the "Yan Shenggong", he will not want to enjoy privileges.

Through the investigation of Kong Yinzhi's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the blow to the "Yan Shenggong" series is only a certain aspect. In fact, the responsibility of pursuing the dead Kong Yinzhi is just to warn the world. For Confucianism and even Confucianism, Zhu Mingzhong has his own plan.

It's just this plan, but I can't tell anyone.

Just like the "Holy Temple" in front of you, this "Holy Temple" is a place to worship Confucius, and in the future, all cities in China will build more than one "Holy Temple", and even now, the old "Confucian Temple" or "Confucian Temple" has been changed into a "Holy Temple" throughout the country. It seems to promote education, but in fact? It's just Zhu Mingzhong tying it up with a rope.

After the completion of this "holy temple", the world will surely know how much I respect "education" and how much I respect "holy religion" ......"

Again, in front of Zhu Mingzhong's eyes, the words that he said to Shi Lei when he was making this plan on the night in the Confucian Temple in the capital two years ago.

"Religious!"

Staring at the portrait of the saint, Zhu Mingzhong casually spat out three words.

"What we need is a religious Confucianism, Confucianism is at most a science, that is, a science, as for governing the country ......"

It's just a philosophy!

Like many later philosophies, it is only a discipline within the scope of philosophy. This is the essence of Confucianism, although it is clear about this, but on the other hand, in the past two thousand years, Confucianism has penetrated into all aspects of the Chinese people, Confucianism not only constitutes the moral bottom line of the Chinese people, restricts the Chinese people's fingers, but also has long been infiltrated into an inseparable part of the Chinese civilization. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Mingzhong did not dare to say anything "down with Confucianism", what a great man can't do, he is not a great man, and naturally it is even more impossible to do it.

As for the so-called Confucianism conservatism, it is just that later generations used the views of conservatives such as Wuren in the late Qing Dynasty to represent Confucianism, but it is only a one-leaf view. In fact, Confucianism has never excluded external learning, and the "practical learning" promoted in Qinghe Academy has always been a part of Confucianism.

It is the people, not the learning, who are conservative. What's more, the essence of Confucianism is philosophy. Just like most scholars in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty have never rejected technology and foreign knowledge, but on the other hand, in the late Qing Dynasty, conservative people such as Wuren rejected external learning, and this kind of "arrogant self-esteem" did not originate from Confucianism, but originated from the Manchu Qing Dynasty. On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty took the initiative to learn Western technology. One of the simplest examples, in the last years of Zhengde when the Franc machine was introduced to China, He Ru, the inspector of Baisha, saw the Western artillery on the Spanish ship coming to China, and its performance was better than that of the Ming Dynasty at that time, so he mobilized the Chinese gunsmiths on the ship to go ashore to imitate it.

This kind of active learning was unimaginable for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the "Western learning from the East" at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not just one example? In fact, Confucianism has been "inclusive" for 2,000 years, which is the fundamental reason for its inheritance for 2,000 years.

But...... Zhu Mingzhong doesn't care about this!

"More than 100 years ago, the Western Reformation began, and their reforms broke the spiritual shackles of Catholicism and laid the foundation for social development. In contrast, although Confucianism has not become a spiritual constraint for the Chinese people in the past thousand years or so, like Catholicism in Europe, it has also bound the spirit of the Chinese people to a certain extent, and it has affected the development of society in many ways......"

Even though two years have passed, Zhu Mingzhong still remembers the shocked appearance of Shi Lei when he heard these words, in Daming, some people may have questioned Confucianism, but it was not as naked as he said,

"The minister doesn't know ......"

Shi Lei's answer was very simple and direct, he didn't know, because he was not a scholar, he was not a "disciple of the Holy Gate", which was why Zhu Mingzhong would say this to him.

Because all the scholars in China are "sons of the Holy Gate", which means that he can never say these words to them, let alone what he really thinks in his heart.

"You don't know, it doesn't matter, but you have to know one thing, that is, Confucianism, from the day when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, although he was constantly adapting to the times, although he laid the foundation of Han civilization, but he was never locked up, from the day he opened the department, Confucianism has little by little control of the Han court, it is like a religion, like Buddhism, Taoism, mastering all aspects of people, binding the spirit of the people, the ancients can destroy Buddhism, can destroy Taoism, but who dares to say that Confucianism?"

When staring at Shi Lei and Zhu Mingzhong, he could see that his shoulders were trembling. Even he was "frightened" by those two words.

"Exterminate Confucianism, how to exterminate it? Do you want to kill all the scholars in the world? Burn a subset of scriptures and poems of all the people in the world? And then put loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, etiquette and shame, all of which are all in common? And then, what are we left with? ”

Nothing!

Even the Han people have become a noun, what is Han? What is Hua? What is Yi? It itself is extended from the Confucian "Spring and Autumn Righteousness" and "Huayi Debate".

"For 2,000 years, Confucianism has long been a part of our bones, our faith, our spirit, and our ...... Everything, disloyalty, filial piety, benevolence and injustice, Confucianism tells us what is loyalty, what is righteousness, what is benevolence, what is righteousness, and it also tells us, why do we do this? If we destroy him, how can we answer these questions? ”

In the Temple of Literature, Zhu Mingzhong said slowly as he walked.

"Just like the Catholicism of the Westerners, it has dominated the state, it has ruled over the king, it has tried heresy with the Inquisition, it has blocked science with the burning at the stake, but is it possible for the Westerners to strip it out of their culture? It itself has long been a part of their lives, and that's why they did the Reformation, which removed Catholicism from state power, and they became ......"

Turning to stare at the portrait of Confucius, the corners of Zhu Mingzhong's lips lifted.

"It became ritualized, the newlywed swore an oath before it, the children were baptized, and the people were ashamed before him, but ...... What's the point? ”

The corners of his lips were slightly raised, and Zhu Mingzhong said a Confucian point of view.

"Worship the ghosts and stay away! Revere it, just keep your distance, and as for the rest...... What's the use? That's what we need! ”

Perhaps, Shi Lei didn't understand, but from the king's words, he heard the king's meaning, that is, to turn the knowledge of the saint into a ...... Something like a Buddhist scripture can be recited, and everyone can use the knowledge of saints to be a person.

“****…… Perhaps, we don't seem to have ****, but in fact we have always been a **** country, but our religion is Confucianism, now, what we need is also a religious reform, Confucianism is Confucianism, it teaches us to be loyal, to be filial to relatives, to be friends, when we hold a wedding, in front of this saint to express loyalty to the monarch, filial piety to parents, in the children's opening ceremony, with cinnabar enlightenment, when we make mistakes, ashamed of the saint, when people die, in front of the saint, tell the living, The dead are worthy of teaching, and so on, it is only a form of religion......"

Of course, it's a philosophy!

These moralized oaths, ritualized forms, are what Zhu Mingzhong needs, of course, it is not only a philosophy, but also a tool.

"Religion is also a tool, Buddhism can be introduced, Catholicism can also be introduced, why can't our Confucianism spread? It is just religion, our Confucians, no longer the sages who govern the country, but missionaries, their responsibility is to educate the Quartet, that is, to spread Confucianism, so that the world is bathed in the glory of Confucianism, of course, we never say about heaven, because heaven is God's, and as believers in Confucianism, what is the purpose of mission? ”

Catholicism promises heaven, Buddhism promises reincarnation, so what does Confucianism promise to the world?

"The road is also a trip to the world. The selection of talents and abilities, the belief and harmony, so that people do not only kiss their relatives, do not only have sons and sons, so that the old have the end, the strong have usefulness, the young have growth, the widowed, lonely and the sick, all have support. Men have a share, and women have a home. If you abandon the goods on the ground, you don't have to hide them for yourself; The power of evil does not come from the body, and it does not have to be for oneself. It is because of the plot to close but not to prosper, to steal and thieves and not to do it, so the outside of the house is not closed, it is said to be the same! ”

Datong!

This is exactly what "Confucianism" will give in the future, of course, what he gave is "the world is the same as China", not "China is the same as the world", and colonization with "Confucianism" as the ideological basis is a successful colonization, because religion can be edified, and it can make others willing to be "Datong" by China in terms of faith.

"Datong ......"

Staring at the model of this "holy temple", Zhu Mingzhong suddenly realized that perhaps, this hall should be called "Datong Hall......