Chapter 7: The Thoughts of the Scholars
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Jiang Yin's "Ai Lian Said" was widely circulated among the scholar class, and for a time, the elegant and noble writing and image of the new Song Dynasty lord were deeply admired by the literati in the land of Qilu.
Originally, Jiang Yin couldn't recruit the scribe talents by throwing money, but now because of an article, they all came to the New Song Kingdom to seek a visit, which also made Jiang Yin feel the power of fame.
Zhu Dong, Tao Yue, and Zhou Shi, the three pioneers of Huxiang culture, are the most profitable business Jiang Yin has made.
Because of the golden remuneration in that room, these three did not mean to be lazy at all, and helped the New Song Kingdom build a complete education system all day long.
Jiang Yin even saw Tao Yue come to the court every day with a big black circle under his eyes, which made him look at these Great Song scribes with admiration, and at the same time, he was also very worried about the bodies of these people.
"Shun Zhi, don't work too hard, seeing that your expression is extremely bad, it is a big loss for my new Song Dynasty to burn down your body like this."
After the early dynasty, Jiang Yin specially found Tao Yue, who was in the worst state, and instructed him, for this brother, Jiang Yin actually admired it very much, "Song History and Art Chronicles" recorded, Tao Yue, the word Shun Consulting, has a reputation for integrity. Once the prefect of Duanzhou, the local people said that the successive assassin history, the prefect did not ask for inkstones, only Bao Zheng, Tao Yue two people, who wrote 5 volumes of "Five Dynasties History Supplement", "Lingling General Records" 15 volumes, "Jinghu Recent Affairs" 10 volumes, "Tao Kangzhou Anthology" 18 volumes, "Taoling Prefecture Collection" and "Goods Spring Records" and so on.
These are enough to see that this Tao Yue is an absolute talent, but his health is not very good in history, and Jiang Yin doesn't want such a talent to get sick because of work.
"Thank you for Your Majesty's love, when the ministers think of the gold in Your Majesty's room, they feel that a month's salary is so much to be ashamed of, and the minister's body is still tough, and he can make more contributions to the New Song Dynasty, which can be regarded as reducing the guilt in the old man's heart."
Looking at Tao Yue's haggard face and saying such loyal words, Jiang Yin was very moved, although modern people have made a lot of progress compared to ancient people, but in terms of honesty and sincerity, modern people are really far away from being left behind by the ancients for hundreds of years.
Only in these scholars can Jiang Yin feel the kind of real 'heart for heaven and earth, life for the people, for the saints to continue learning, and for all generations to open peace. 'The Confucian orthodoxy is coupled with a body of righteousness.
Such a person, even if he dies, will be remembered by everyone for a lifetime.
Jiang Yin, who had nothing to repay, could only exchange some ideological and cultural theories and discussions with these scribes, and provide them with some ways of thinking in the eyes of later generations and ideas and theories that were different from those of their time.
However, as a later generation, when Jiang Yin chatted with literati such as Zhu Dong, Tao Yue, and Zhou Shi, he would accidentally reveal the kind of thinking that was already mature.
Cheng Zhu Lixue, Lu Wang Xinxue, such as materialist Confucianism and idealistic Confucianism, which have been basically perfected, made scribes like Zhu Dong and Tao Yue explode all at once.
Originally, in this era in history, Confucianism in the Song Dynasty was only in the integration of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
As an emerging cultural trend, the main feature of science lies in the synthesis of traditional ideas and cultures. Under the banner of reviving Confucianism, it called for the reinterpretation of Confucian classics and tried to revitalize Confucian culture in the new historical period.
On the other hand, it also absorbed and synthesized a large number of cosmic philosophies and speculative methods of Buddhism and Taoism, supplemented them to Confucianism, and developed Confucianism into a system of thought with profound philosophies. Because of its ability to revitalize and develop Confucianism, it quickly became a dominant ideology because it met the needs of the later period of Chinese feudal society.
The regionalization of Confucianism emerged in the Song Dynasty. "Depose a hundred schools", devote himself to writing, teaching and lecturing. As a result, regional schools with their own academic traditions and ideological characteristics were formed. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were Lian Xue of Zhou Dunyi, the originator of science, Guan Xue of Zhang Zai, and Luo Xue of the Ercheng brothers; In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was Zhu Xi's Min Studies, and later Zhu Xi lectured in Yuelu Academy, and there was a famous "Zhu Zhang Hui Lecture" in history, so that the science that originated in Huxiang was further developed in Hunan.
But these things had not happened until Jiang Yin chatted with Zhu Dong, Tao Yue, and Zhou Shi, who were pioneers in the ideological circles of scholars.
This made the thoughts of Zhu Dong, Tao Yue, Zhou Shi and others constantly collide and blend when communicating with Jiang Yin, and finally get the greatest improvement.
Tao Yue was the first person who proposed to stay, because those new ideas made him excited and couldn't sleep all night, he felt that he had touched the threshold of something, and he was only one foot away from the door, so he proposed to Jiang Yin to take a half-month vacation in the New Song Kingdom, and he planned to write something at home to summarize it, if he could, he hoped to write a book and write a biography in the New Song Kingdom.
Jiang Yin of course welcomed this kind of good deeds to promote his country, and he also sent his subordinates to Tao Yue's mansion to deliver a box of gold and silver, declaring that when Tao Yue wrote the book and wrote the biography, the government was willing to reimburse all the daily living expenses he needed.
This time, Zhu Dong, Zhou Shi and the two also joined the team of writing and biography after knowing about it.
If they have any confusion, they like to go to Jiang Yin, and Jiang Yin, a later generation, after familiarizing himself with the works of Cheng Zhu Lixue and Lu Wang Xinxue, gave them an answer that was also penetrating.
Soon, Zhu Dong, Tao Yue, and Zhou Shi wrote their first work in the New Song Dynasty, the article "Discussion on Confucianism in Tianli", which put forward in detail the views of Confucianism under the science of science.
Its basic viewpoints include the idealistic system of rational monism, which holds that rational or heavenly principles are the fundamental laws of all things in nature and human society; Reason is different??, believes that everything has a reason, this is differentiation. The principles of things and people are derived from the principles of heaven, which is the principle of one, which also proposes to preserve the principles of heaven and destroy people's desires, and the principles of heaven constitute the essence of human beings, which are embodied in the world as the "three outlines and five constants" of ethics and morality. "Human desire" is the desire to maintain human life and the behavior that violates the norms of etiquette, which is contrary to the principles of heaven.
Jiang Yin was very satisfied after seeing the article "Discussion of Confucianism in Tianli", which is simply a copy of Zhu Xi's summary, but the concept of this era is still a little constrained, but this will not hinder the vigorous development of new ideas.....
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