When Zhu Xi, the Confucian master of science for more than a thousand years, shouted this slogan, all the scholars in the world obeyed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Two hundred years later, Wang Yangming, the great sage of Wang Yangming, who was in Huiji Mountain, also proposed to his disciples that "save the principles of heaven and eliminate human desires", which is enough to show how broad the market for this Confucian theory is.

In fact, the thoughts of the saints are all of the same origin, and the purpose is the same, but 'preserving heavenly principles and destroying human desires' is achieved by "conscience".

The Song Dynasty was a very prosperous dynasty in Chinese history, but because there were too many strong enemies around, later generations always looked at this dynasty with colored glasses.

The prosperity of the commodity economy and the breadth of material abundance in the Song Dynasty were incomparable to many later dynasties, but the Song people were not martial, and in the face of strong enemies, they became more and more cowardly from generation to generation.

In an era when there are rich people, but they are surrounded by robbers, this rich man does not have to worry about whether the robbers will come to rob him all the time, and every minute and every second he has to worry about how to live the next day, so there will always be some pathological changes in his mentality.

It was in this embarrassing situation that the social atmosphere of the whole society gradually produced a kind of heart of life being short and happy in time.

After I die, let him flood the abyss!

This is a true portrayal of the mentality of the rich people in the Song Dynasty.

They began to anesthetize themselves with a luxurious life, and began to use the days of squandering and enjoying themselves to get drunk, anyway, the country is not a country, and the money saved by thrift is better than being robbed by the Xixia people of the Liao State, it is better to spend it to their heart's content.

"The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the backyard flowers across the river!"

In a country, there will always be a group of people who are enough to support the backbone of its nation, although sometimes these people are just a group of helpless scholars, but they are absolute giants in spirit, and they will never be willing to go along with the dirt and measure everything with their own eyes.

They will stand in the perspective of the country and take the interests of the country as their lifelong goal.

Only a group of them can say the words 'the rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible'.

Fortunately, Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty was just such a person.

"Preserving the principles of heaven and destroying human desires" is one of the important views of Zhu Xi's big brother's physical thoughts, and the three poisons of human desire Buddhism. When later generations judged the Song and Ming Dynasty out of context, they often said that "preserving heavenly principles and destroying human desires" imprisoned people's freedom.

It is believed that "human desire" here refers to people's basic needs and desires, such as selfish desires, greed, etc., and these desires are to be eliminated, but in fact, science believes that people's basic needs and desires are what people usually understand as "human desires" are "heavenly principles" - here human desires are heavenly principles.

In layman's terms, people's desires should have a degree, and they can't indulge themselves at will, self-denial and etiquette are a prerequisite for the development of a society, and if you vent your desires at will, then civilized society will regress step by step.

This point of view was verified little by little in the future, from the emperor to the common people, everyone must obey the principles of heaven and control their desires, once they lose their own heart, they will harm others and themselves, as big as the destruction of the country, as small as the destruction of the family.

The proposition of this viewpoint, and gradually became the mainstream values in the society, is an effective means to hinder the fall of the social atmosphere of the Song Dynasty, and it is also because of the promotion of this social atmosphere that the Central Plains can still retain the traditional spiritual culture of the Central Plains from being completely destroyed by foreigners.......

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However, in 978 AD, the Great Song Dynasty was still under the rule of Zhao Laoer, and Zhu Xi, Zhu Lao's eldest brother and Wang Yangming, Wang Dashengren, had not yet been born, so the overall social thought of this era was still in a state of mist and germination.

Although Jiang Yin's large-scale encouragement of commerce greatly improved the material life of the people of the New Song Dynasty, compared with the prosperous material, the lack of ideological level was particularly dazzling.

It is not possible to walk on one leg, and there are countless examples to prove the truth of this statement.

Even the world hegemon, which was as strong as the Soviet Union, finally fell under the lame leg of commodity materials.

At the beginning of the establishment of the New Song Dynasty, there is no difference between the general legs of babies in this country, but if some forward-looking national policies are not made at this time, then it is very likely that the baby will fall into the root of the disease, ten years, twenty years may not be too obvious defects, but thirty years, fifty years, the root of the disease will become more and more obvious, and eventually make the country gradually deformed.

If Jiang Yin wanted the healthy development of the New Song Kingdom, then ideological progress must be supported and guided in the same way as material.

Zhu Dong, Tao Yue, and Zhou Shi are the top thinkers Jiang Yin met in this era, although the understanding of these three people is not comparable to that of great gods like Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming, but as the leaders of the founding atmosphere, they are more than enough.

Because of the great abundance of social materials, the social atmosphere of the New Song Kingdom has gradually produced a corrupt atmosphere that is different from prosperity, which is absolutely unavoidable, and no government and society can avoid the problem of corruption when it develops to a certain social level.

The whole society has gradually rushed all the way from respecting etiquette and morality to worshipping money.

In the New Song Kingdom, as long as you have money, you can enjoy the best accommodation, eat the food transported from the Western Regions, drink wine imported from overseas, and have money to make many friends, and these friends have formed groups one after another, from small billionaires to gradually form a large group, and their energy is even stronger than that of many nobles.

At the same time, with money, the whole society slipped in the direction of luxury and enjoyment, which also made those officials who originally had a lot of money greedy.

As officials who control real power, in fact, they have more contact with the rich people in the society, and few people can directly refuse those material comforts.

This made many local officials in the New Song Kingdom mingle with those rich businessmen, and the matter of calling them brothers and sisters also appeared frequently, and they could waterproof the rich merchants in those places in many things, such as building roads, building bridges, building houses, and so on.

This made Jiang Yin feel a deep sense of crisis, the New Song Kingdom must not continue like this, if there is no new ideas, there are no strict enough laws to regulate, then such a prosperous landscape is just a flash in the pan, and soon, the New Song Kingdom will be corroded by a group of moths that can corrode everything, and there is not even a slag left.

So Jiang Yin, who was worried, launched a major purification operation against the New Song Kingdom in early August of the second year of Tianchen.......