Shen Zaikuan is different from Zeng Jing, he is a person who has really read the Four Books and Five Classics, and Cheng Zhu Lixue is like a muddy "set sail and is not a gangster", which firmly circles his thinking.

"Shen has a sage in his mind, the sky above his head, and his mind can be seen by the sun and the moon, so don't waste your efforts. Shen Mou regretted that he was born too late and could not protect me Huaxia with the ancestor and Huang Wang Gu and other sages, but now he feels lucky. A warm blood can be sprinkled on this piece of scorched earth where Taoism is abolished, arousing the hearts of the people all over the world, fast, fast! ”

Hearing his generous statement, Li Fangying smiled slightly. It's really like, I was so enthusiastic back then, risking the risk of killing my head, the stigma of betraying my friends, and attacking the emperor's national politics on the "Yuexiu Times", which caused a wave of people's hearts.

The difference is that he was far worse than Shen Zaikuan's knowledge back then, and because he didn't chew the Four Books and Five Classics, he was still able to introspect himself in prison. Shen Zaikuan chewed it out, and science was already like his backbone, and it was much more difficult to change direction.

Fortunately, now that Yinghua has learned to think about it, there is no need for Li Fangying to rely on his own mouth to do his work, he is still busy with a lot of translations and commentaries of Western books, and he only stretches out his hand to "adjust" Shen Zaikuan's work.

Li Fangying gave an order, and the police officer escorted Shen Zaikuan to the Yuexiu Academy jointly founded by Lei Xiang and Li Fangying.

Today's Yinghua is in the stage of combining basic education and higher education. Mengxue is a talent, and after graduating from the county school, he will go to various schools for further study, and after graduation, the township test is to lift people. Raise people to study in various colleges, and after graduation, they will pass the examination to become an official.

Of course, this talent, promotion and jinshi are already just a status symbol of the academic level, there is no special treatment, and the future is not limited to being an official. Nowadays, industry and commerce are active, many companies need too many talents, and Yinghua's original Whampoa Martial Arts School has been changed to Whampoa Army Academy, plus Changsha Army Academy and Hong Kong Naval Academy. Many scholars are reluctant to devote themselves to the long career anymore, but have entered the industrial and commercial circles and even the military circles, whether they are earning wealth or squandering their blood, they have a broad stage.

There are state-run colleges, such as Baicheng University and Huangpu University, as well as some technical colleges jointly run by the state and private sectors, such as Yingci Medical College, Dongguan Mechanical College, Foshan Iron and Steel Institute, Huangpu Maritime College, etc. There are also licensed and privately run colleges, such as Sanxian College and Yuexiu Academy such as the rebuilt Yuelu College and Shigu College.

The schools under the college, because the focus of the work of the Ministry of Culture and Humanities is still in Mongolia and the county, are basically derived from the college, so the college not only undertakes the work of higher education, but also undertakes the education of the transition stage. The people who can enter the college, on the one hand, are students, and on the other hand, the teachers of the affiliated schools are rare resources.

Earlier, Li Fangying and Tang Sunho and Song both competed for Wu Jingcui, which is the reason. Wu Jingcui is a scholar, as long as he is open-minded and understands the Yinghua Catholic Path and passes the exam, he can turn into a Yinghua Juren.

The Yuexiu College run by Lei Xiang and Li Fangying focused on "people's advocacy", and was later renamed "Yuexiu News College". Compared with Baicheng, Huangpu College and even Sanxian and other colleges, not only is it incomparable in scale, but the talent is far inferior to each other.

But it is precisely because of this that the students concentrated in Yuexiu College are more active in their thinking, and the collision between learning and thinking is more intense, which is why Li Fangying asked Shen Zaikuan to go to Yuexiu College.

"The words of Confucius and Mencius are the truth, and as long as the mind is the same, people should abide by this reason. Shen never believed it, the heart of this southern scholar was really bewitched by what you said, the three heavens and the three heavens, and the way of God! ”

Shen Zaikuan went very disdainfully, in his opinion, the people's hearts will lose the sages of Confucius and Mencius, either they will be forced to be oppressed by the violent "set sail and gangsters" like the north, or they will be lured away by the profits of the money, and he will see what the situation is.

When I entered the lobby of the college, I heard two groups of young scholars debating.

"Yang Zhuyan, which I am in the benefit society, focuses on valuing myself for me, taking personal interests first, and collecting the world's benefits from personal interests, so that the world's interests are self-consolidated. And your Mo family opens and closes its mouth to the world, and it is first-class with rotten Confucianism, and it has no roots, not only can it not benefit the world, but it will harm the world. ”

"The first Lun in the three heavens and men, saying that everyone is one, this is the love of my ink society! From love to harmony, this is inevitable. The great harmony of the world is not only the wish of mortals, but also the trend of heaven! This trend is the great benefit of the world, and the interests of individuals are supported by this profit. The third of the three Lun of heaven and man, everyone benefits themselves and does not harm each other, isn't this the truth? ”…,

"Your ink society is going to talk about the head and tail of the three heavens and men? What about the second one? Heaven allows people to benefit themselves, and this benefit falls on individuals, not the so-called benefits of Heaven in your mouth! Where is the benefit of God, who can judge? Just by your mouth? The officials only said that he judged on behalf of heaven, but did not say that he sought this great benefit on behalf of heaven! ”

"Then you Lishe will pinch the head and remove the tail, and only take the middle? What is the relationship between human hearts and interests? Just an old saying: don't suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequality! Heaven allows people to benefit themselves, but people do not judge whether they are good or not, but compare them with others. Not the same, people's hearts are always uneven, people's hearts are uneven, where does the world's benefits come from!? ”

Shen Zaikuan listened to it with both anger and secretly sneering. What is annoying is that these scholars, Yang Zhu on one side and Mo Zhai on the other, are full of sneering that the three heavens and men of Nanban are contradictory and unable to unify their thinking.

"When people's hearts are uneven, they only talk about profit and not righteousness!"

Although Shen Zaikuan is a prisoner, his treatment is very lenient, only two plainclothes bailiffs escort him, as long as he is in the academy, he is free to act and say "set sail and not gangsters". At this time, there was a lot of people in the lobby, thinking that he was also from the academy, so he didn't pay much attention.

Hearing this, someone asked, "There is a new theory!?" ”

Shen Zaikuan looked like a teaching student, and said awe-inspiringly: "The gentleman's words are righteous, and the villain's words are profitable!" Since he is a villain, he is naturally uneven. Yang Zhu Mo Zhai and his ilk have no monarch and no father, and their words are early, and they are also dug out from the scholars, and they talk about the world with rotten words of "setting sail and not gangsters", which is really ridiculous! ”

There was silence in the lobby for a while, and Shen Zaikuan regarded everyone's surprised appearance as being taken by righteousness, raised his head and beard, and smiled faintly.

"Where's the rotten man!?"

"Kick the gym, is this a kicking gym!?"

"This tattered move, even the Mengxue boy can't coax it, kick the hall? I think I'm having a madness......"

"Mr. Daoxue, it's better to teach you the science of self-cultivation, don't come to mix politics with political opinions."

The two societies of Limo, who were originally blushing and thick-necked, joined hands with each other at this moment, and after a wash, Shen Zai's hand holding his beard also trembled.

You can't teach your children! No, villains can't be raised!

Shen Zaikuan's forehead burst with green tendons, and he was cursing in his heart, and a young man said gently: "Brother Tai just came from the north? The distinction between righteousness and benefit is what everyone often talks about, and it is the unity of righteousness and benefit, so I should read more books......"

Listening to the accent is also from Jiangnan, Shen Zaikuan was a little relieved, avoided those high-spirited Limo disciples, and chatted with this person named Wu Jingcui.

"Confucianism is not forbidden in the country, but no longer allows the study of Confucianism to be involved in national politics. Therefore, at present, the thinking of governing politics and learning has fallen on the theories of Yang Zhu and Mo Zhaizhi. In the past few years, the country has been reviving and learning, and has found a lot of ancient books from all over the country, among which Yang Zhu and Mojia have written a lot. ”

"The Word of God? The way of God is only the general outline of heaven and man, only truth and truth, and so on. In the next few days, Western studies will be published, and I am afraid that there will be more factions to contend. ”

"What does the little brother think of himself? This..."The younger brother thinks that Li Mo is not enough to unify the academic thinking, but the science is not enough to cope with the changes of the situation. The younger brother thinks that it is enough to have a Catholic Tao as the general outline, so why do you have to have a single student who dominates the world. ”

"Whoever can win the hearts of the people and follow the current situation will be able to reach the court. But the current situation is also changing, if it is no longer in line with the current situation, and it also hinders people's hearts, change to another one, as long as the general outline remains the same, so that hundreds of schools can be at peace.

Hearing Wu Jingcui's words, Shen Zaikuan's anger was already in his stomach, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you want to quote Xiyi's theory!?" Is this country still China? In the end, what kind of situation is this country going to trap my Huaxia!? ”

Wu Jingcui smiled: "Huaxia..."Is it just the Huaxia of science? Yang Zhu, Mo Zhai, Zhuang Lao, aren't they also Huaxia? Brother Tai should also understand that the Confucianism of Confucius and Mencius has changed too much from ancient times to the present, and if Confucius is resurrected, I am afraid that he will have to question the scholars of science, what kind of situation do you want to put Huaxia in. ”

Shen Zaikuan was speechless, this is not only an official Confucianism with Confucianism as the skin and Legalism as the root, but also a problem that is difficult for scholars on the skin of Confucianism to face.

"As for where to go in China, Jing Cui feels that my Chinese clothes, written language, and historical inheritance are all there, which is the foundation, and the road ahead should be the peace and happiness of all the people, a strong country, proud of the world, and Enweize is ...... by the four seas"...,

Wu Jingcui's answer-style style was impossible to shake Shen Zaikuan, but a standard popped out of his heart.

"In the land of the Southern Barbarians, there have been military disasters for many years, and the poor soldiers are silent. The officials were several times that of the previous dynasty, and industry and commerce were rampant in the countryside. In the land of six provinces, thirty million kingdoms will enter. Not only is it impossible for the people to be happy, but most of them are also boiling with resentment. I'm going to go to the people's homes to have a look, as long as I see the poverty of the people with my eyes, let this court do all its tricks, it will be difficult for me to be distracted! ”

Shen Zaikuan understood that this court was overpowering him psychologically, this was a war, and he was never willing to admit defeat.

The north and the south have been too far away, and there is no basis for debate and communication, Shen Zaikuan has found such a new battlefield, and everything is based on facts!

Shen Zaikuan had stayed in Yongxing, Hunan before, and Yinghua's governance in Hunan had not yet penetrated into the countryside, and the local area had not changed much, so it was not easy to use it as a comparison, but Guangdong could compete with Jiangnan. He was born in Jiangnan, saw the wealth of Jiangnan, and vaguely knew the grand situation of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty, and never believed that Yinghua would govern Guangdong better than Jiangnan in the past seven or eight years.

"After all, he is not an ignorant person who does not enter oil and salt, and he also knows how to find comparisons, okay, let him go!"

Li Fangying responded to Shen Zaikuan's request, and in his opinion, Shen Zaikuan was already a turtle in an urn.

This is the world, not the kingdom of heaven, there must be rich and poor, Shen Zaikuan's heart is more not to compare, but to look for lanterns with lanterns, as long as he sees a poor family and a people shouting, he can be stable in his heart, and he can consider himself victorious.

Therefore, he was not captured by the hustle and bustle of the streets of Whampoa and Guangzhou, but instead regarded the matter of driving out the street vendors who occupied the horse road as the government's cruel policy of bullying the weak. can ignore the bustle of the crowd, and instead regard the occasional beggar on the street as the hardship of the state-owned homeless. If you can resist the buzzing sound of iron and wood on the streets of Dongguan, you will feel that in this bustling place, people's hearts will no longer be at peace.

When he arrived in the countryside of Dongguan, he saw either a fish pond or a sugar cane field, and he regarded it as a sign of the loss of a country without food and instability.

It wasn't until he bumped into a village in the village that he felt that he had been completely victorious, and his psychology was quietly relaxed.

"Luo Ergou, get sixty-eight beans, the results are out, and our Luo Village will choose Ergou as the director of the Township Public Bureau."

"Who else could it be if it's not Ergou? Without him and the sugar company, our cane price would not have been raised. ”

"That's right, Ergou is about to finish his school, but he is a showman! In the affairs of the village, he spoke on behalf of everyone, and everyone believed it! ”

"Why are you still called Ergou? Hurry up and pick a good name! ”

"Dongguan has two places for the Eastern Academy, let's also try it and push Ergou into the imperial court!"

The villagers are using beans to elect the director of the bureau, Shen Zaikuan has also heard of the public bureau before, but Yongxing is a remote county, and it has not yet been implemented.

It seems that this is the village of the Wuda clan, but why is it not the patriarch's words, but the bean election?

"The director of the bureau is to compete for profits with other villages on behalf of us, and to compete for the profits of our township in the county together with other villages. I don't have much knowledge of the old man, my brain is not good, and my tongue skills are also poor, of course, I have to let the young man who has the ability go. ”

Curious, he asked the old man who looked to be the patriarch, and the old man replied.

"Township covenant, this is different from the Lu family's township covenant ......, it seems to be a step further."

Shen Zaikuan's heart was agitated, and his teacher Lu Liuliang discussed the township covenant very seriously in his writings, believing that relying on the township covenant and the Jingtian system, the world could be reassured and the rule of great harmony could be achieved, which was also pursued by all Confucianism. Although the surface is based on the people's hearts and minds, the essence still falls on the practice of national politics. Li Confucian's empty talk of "setting sail and not gangsters" is clumsy in governing the country, so in the way of governance he advocates, it is best to leave the practice to the people to solve it themselves.

After consulting the old man about the affairs of the public bureau, Shen Zaikuan sighed even more emotionally, although there are many differences in details, especially the importance of profit, not much emphasis on people's hearts and education, but in essence, it is about the same as Lu's Township, which is to connect public opinion, coordinate internal and neighborhood interests, and work with the government to settle down and work together.

As a result, a question arose in Shen Zaikuan's heart, why did this country suppress Confucianism, but it was able to realize an ideal government that Confucianism has always advocated, but could not be turned into reality? The roots are completely different, but why can they grow a tree of governance that is close to the words of the sages? …,

Looking at the people in the village, even the people who went to the field with hoes on their shoulders were all dressed in fine cotton clothes, with ruddy complexions and full of blood and blood, which made Shen Zaikuan subconsciously think of those yellow-skinned and thin villagers in the south of the Yangtze River.

Shen Zaikuan left thoughtfully, and the patriarch here glanced at the elected bureau director Ergou and talked in a low voice.

"Is it the Great Imperial History or the Small Imperial History? Or is it the lord of the prefecture? ”

"If you don't understand anything, it should be the little imperial history of the poor newspapers of "Righteousness" or "Righteousness".

"Anyway, I'll just pick up the good ones and say, I didn't say anything bad about the village and the public bureau."

"Uncle be careful, those poor little imperial histories, sesame is a bit of a bad thing, he can say in the newspaper that the sky is falling. Recently, everything has been going well in our public bureau, and we don't need them, and we will let them stir up when needed. ”

Shen Zaikuan didn't know that it was difficult for an outsider to get in touch with the complete truth, but as far as what he saw, it had already made him think deeply.

But he still doesn't think that this Nanban is Huaxia, Kong Sheng is not in the first place, and science does not unify people's hearts, how can it be called Huaxia?

Li Fangying took the time to see him, and felt that the heat was not enough, and Shen Zaikuan had too few contacts, so he sent him to Humen and asked him to work with the workers who were repairing the fort.

Shen Zaikuan suddenly stiffened his waist, it's going to be hard, I'm not afraid!

This hard but hard in the empty place, he was not asked to go to work, and he, a scholar, couldn't do any work, just asked him to help with the construction site counting.

Seeing that these workers were sweating like rain all day long and working extraordinarily hard, Shen Zaikuan looked for a vacancy and said in words: "Don't you think that life is hard? ”

The workers immediately began to nag and complain.

"Of course it's bitter, it's less than three taels of silver to die in January, so it's better to run a boat."

"We don't have the ability, so we can only earn money, we can only support a family, and we can only buy a house in three or five years, which is really hard."

"Fujian people are just slamming the door! Changed the Qingtian infrastructure, how can you see Ran every day, this food, you can see meat in three days, do you say bitter or not!? ”

Shen Zaikuan froze, this ...... Is this also bitter? He also thought that these "people's husbands" were requisitioned, but he didn't want to be employees of the company, and he could still earn three taels of silver a month!? It's just an ordinary Lifu, and he actually has such treatment, and he complains, it's the first time he's seen such a "delicate" Lifu. He didn't know that Yinghua had developed greatly in recent years, and Lifu's wage had more than doubled, otherwise he wouldn't be able to recruit enough people.

"I really want to be a soldier, but we can't read big characters, and we don't even want to ...... the guards."

"Look, Mr. is a scholar, why don't you start a make-up school, teach us after work, let's make up money, how about ten taels a month? It's just to make sure we recognize half of the words in March. ”

Then the worker said this, and Shen Zaikuan was even more sweaty on his forehead.

"The company's bookkeeper is just this amount in January, right? Why didn't he take it? ”

"I think it's ...... to teach us people to lose their identity",

"Cut, I only know how to read and write, I don't know how to reason, what is my identity."

The workers were very disdainful of Shen Zaikuan, who waved his sleeves away, and then they rushed to the unfinished fort with excitement and "set sail".

Two huge ships sailed through Humen, the 100,000 Dashan and the Wuyishan, both of which were handed over from Spain, and had been painted in red and black at the moment, and the huge hull and tall mast and white sails were particularly eye-catching.

The workers waved their arms and shouted, although they were only workers repairing the fort, they also felt that the giant ship also made their hearts high. While Shen Zaikuan watched, his heart was mixed.

Although these workers are delicate, they are also simple people, looking at their movements, it is obvious that they regard the giant ship as the king of the imperial court, and rejoice in the majesty of the giant ship, this country, this court, has obviously won their hearts.

From the scholars, to the ordinary rural people, and even to the people, these people have complicated thoughts, and without the protection of Confucius and Mencius, why can they still gather under this country and regard this country as the Zhengshuo of China? This is impossible!

Am I really wrong?

Looking at the majestic posture of the two giant ships, Shen Zaikuan's heart fluttered.

Thousands of miles to the north, in a special cell in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, Zeng Jing trembled and trembled with his pen.

"Repeat offenses, sin cannot be sent"...".