Chapter 124: The Calm That Should Be and The Calm That Shouldn't Be 5
86_86695 The Analects of Confucius and the Government of Confucius recorded a sentence from Confucius to his disciples, saying, "Why, what do you know? Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and knowing is knowing. The meaning of this sentence is that Master Confucius is admonishing his most reckless and fierce disciples, knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, this is the real wisdom.
Wang Shuhui has always thought that Confucius was a person who was inconsistent with his words and deeds, and it was because of this sentence.
This sentence of Confucius, if only from the meaning of the sentence itself, is completely problematic. Moreover, Wang Shuhui also feels that this sentence reflects a materialistic attitude of seeking truth from facts. However, Confucius himself did not seek truth from facts in his actions.
Confucius himself emphasized the attitude of "saying but not doing" in terms of learning and life. What does it mean to "say but not do"? This is also from the Analects, from the Analects. The original phrase is "to say but not to do; Faith and antiquity; Plagiarism is compared to my old Peng. ”
This sentence expresses Confucius's very conservative and retro ideological concept. He believes that the thoughts of the ancients can only be explained and inherited, and the ideas of the ancients must be believed and adhered to. Confucius was quite complacent about his own solidified and unprogressive attitude, believing that he was the same as the educator "Lao Peng" in the Yin Shang era.
On the one hand, Confucius demanded that his disciples seek truth from facts, but on the other hand, he refused to admit that the world was constantly changing, and insisted on a stubbornly conservative ideology. Let's not talk about the "fine division" of Confucius's epistemology and methodology. The key is to say that Confucius preached this kind of thinking of "saying but not doing", whether he himself really adhered to it.
The answer is no. Confucius himself emphasized "saying but not doing", but in reality, when Confucius was revising the Spring and Autumn Period, he adopted the practice of directly deleting and rectifying the historical books in order to express his own thoughts and opinions. So much so that the allusion of the "Spring and Autumn Brushwork" that uses the means of material selection to indicate the author's position has been left in history.
Confucius asked his disciples to seek truth from facts, but he did not admit that the world was a reality that was constantly changing. In terms of learning and work, he emphasized the need to "say but not do", but in actual action, he played with words, implied praise and disapproval, and broke the tradition of Chinese historians "writing straight and straight".
As a lover of classical culture, Wang Shuhui, a staunch materialist, believes that Confucius showed a double "refinement" in his speech and action.
As the founder of Confucianism and the representative of Confucianism, Confucius himself is so "finely divided", so it is conceivable that the Confucian believers who were super "refined" by Dong Zhongshu, Zhu Xi and other later generations further used the means of "Spring and Autumn Brushwork", adhering to the so-called principle of "saying but not doing", and constantly deleted, rectified and explained Confucianism.
Then, it is further conceivable that because of Confucianism and Confucianism, this "refinement" characteristic, with Confucianism as the ideology and Confucianism as the main ruling class, what kind of super-large "refinement" characteristics will be embodied.
For example, this time Zhan Jiazhai and Jingzhou Wei jointly launched an attack on the Fuxing Society, after the Zhan Jiazhai and Jingzhou Wei coalition forces were defeated, the rout army and bandits flowed poison around Zhijiang County.
The local guard stations colluded with bandits to attack villages and towns, and the Fuxing Society took advantage of the rout of the rout to crack down on local tyrants and divide the land, depriving the landlords and rich peasants of their land. There was such a thing that completely violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the local guard station sent troops privately, the highest governor of the guard station died in an armed conflict, and the son-in-law of the vassal king used private soldiers to plunder the land of the local gentry.
In Jingzhou Prefecture, which is only more than 100 kilometers away from the place where the incident occurred, the prefect of Jingzhou Prefecture, Tongzhi, and others, who are the top leaders in Jingzhou, actually turned a blind eye to the occurrence of the incident.
It can be seen from this how ignorant the Confucians, who claim that "what they know is what they know, and what they don't know is not known", and how ignorant the feudal dynasty that adheres to Confucianism as its ideology.
They talk about "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith," but in fact they pursue principles that are diametrically opposed to what they advertise, such as "turning a blind eye to one eye" and "unspoken rules," and this is where the feudal ideology is most hypocritical and filthy. It is precisely this hypocritical and filthy feudal ideology that is still poisoning the Chinese today.
As the supreme governor of Jingzhou, Zhang Hong, the prefect of Jingzhou, who is a Confucian like all feudal officials, is implementing the kind of "saying one thing and doing another" that is inconsistent with words and deeds.
Zhang Hong, the prefect of Jingzhou, who has always been known as a "closed-door open" in the officialdom and the government and the opposition, has always boasted that he has never participated in politics and has devoted himself to painting, but in reality he does not care about political affairs as he advertises. He not only has eyeliner in the local garrison Jingzhou Weili. Even in the Jinyi Wei Jingzhou Thousand Households, he also has eyeliner.
Miao Weichang and Bao Huizan's plan, he has long mastered Guò eyeliner.
Although the collusion between the officials and soldiers of the imperial court and the local bandits to murder the royal family is very shocking. Hearing the news, Zhang Hong also felt very angry. However, Zhang Hong's anger was not because they violated the royal law and acted recklessly, but because in the current situation of strong civil officials, they should have taken him as the leader, and the local military Jingzhou Wei and the local intelligence department Jinyiwei did not take themselves as the supreme governor of Jingzhou Mansion in their eyes at all because they hooked up with the official department. That's why he felt so angry.
However, even though he was very angry about his feelings, Zhang Hong, who had been in the sea for a long time and had long become a politician who was scheming and calculating, did not let his feelings affect his thinking. He still considers his position on the imminent outbreak of events from the perspective of interests.
After careful consideration, considering that on the one hand, he was a hot official of the Ministry of Heaven, and on the other hand, he was a local vassal king who communicated with the inner palace, and his relationship with both parties was not very warm, and neither side took the initiative to provide any benefits to him. Zhang Hong decided to stand on an outsider neutral position and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
Sometimes, though, things don't go the way people think about them. Zhang Hong did not expect that the "powerful armament" of thousands of people in his eyes would be defeated by Wang Shuhui's militia as a reserve armed force. Zhang Hong also didn't expect that Miao Weichang and Bao Huizan, who were on the pole to shoot the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Zhang Wenda's fart, would accidentally win the lottery and die under the scopeless long-range sniping of modern rifles, which is also unlikely from a scientific point of view.
Zhang Hong didn't expect that he, who had been staying out of the matter, would actually face the situation of routs and bandits. He actually fell into the end of wiping his ass for the conflict between the officials and the local feudal kings.
The great painter Zhang Hong is very anxious now. The collapse of Zhan Jiazhai and Jingzhou Wei Alliance, the death of Miao Weichang and Bao Huizan, the rout of the army and bandits, all kinds of headache news, soon gathered on his table.
He now faces four issues that are in his own vital interest.
First, the local garrison chiefs and local intelligence chiefs privately transferred troops without imperial court orders and military documents. That's already quite a huge event. What's more, the accidental deaths of Miao Weichang and Bao Huizan made Zhang Hong unable to explain to the imperial court.
Second, whether there was actual danger and loss, whether the local feudal king was attacked for no reason, or whether it was attacked by the official forces of the Jingzhou region under the leadership of the commander of the army and the chief of intelligence. No feudal king will honestly accept reality. It is obvious that the king of Zhijiang will quickly complain to the imperial court about the incident. As the head of the Jingzhou region, Zhang Hong will soon face questions from the imperial court. What's even worse is that the local feudal king was attacked, which is a super big deal that is tantamount to complicity.
Third, the rout of the army and bandits ravaged the countryside will obviously harm the interests of the landlords and gentry in the region. The reason why these landlords and squires were able to become landlords and squires was precisely because most of their family children, relatives and friends were current cadres and incumbent officials of the imperial court. If you can't solve the problem of rout and banditry immediately, you may soon be impeached and attacked by various officials.
Fourth, once you offend the local landlords, and the rampant rout of the army and bandits cannot be quickly suppressed, then the tax revenue of Jingzhou Mansion this year will be very dangerous. The townships and counties that have been ravaged by the soldiers and bandits will have an excuse to default on and not pay taxes and fees, and not only will the expenses of the yamen be threatened next year, but more importantly, if they do not collect enough taxes and fees, they will not be those Donglin Party members who are gangs and groups, and no one will say that they love the people and cherish the people. I will definitely get an incompetent evaluation in the court, and my career will be in danger.
From Zhang Hong's thoughts, we can see that although he is known as a "closed-door Zhang" who is honest and ancient, he can become a prefect (equivalent to the secretary of the municipal party committee, the mayor, the chief procurator of the municipal high procuratorate, the president of the municipal court, the director of the municipal national and local taxation bureau, the director of the municipal public security bureau and other modern positions), Zhang Hong's political mind is very clear.
Of course, like a bureaucrat in ancient and modern times, full of feudal ideas, he did not think about the interests of the common people who were endangered by the soldiers. Whether he thinks or acts, he follows his own interests.
Faced with this complex and difficult situation, looking at the master who was as helpless as himself, Zhang Hong regretted for the first time that he did not choose an experienced master to follow him.
In addition to warning the five thousand households who fled back from Jingzhou Wei, they immediately made up for the missing soldiers; dispatched fast archers to capture beggars and homeless people, and took the initiative to help Miao Weichang, who had died, to make up for the lack of points in his soldiers; Summoned the big families of Jingzhou Mansion and called on them to dispatch their families to help the government organize defense, and prevent the rout of the army from wandering outside the capital city to make chaos. Because it was really a widow sleeping - there was no one on it, and Zhang Hong, who had no way to find backers and help from the high-level officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, was really helpless.
Just when Zhang Hong imagined that Jingshi's Jinyiwei descended from the sky, handed over the driving sticker (Jinyiwei's arrest document, wholesaled by the Criminal Department), tied himself to the prisoner car and sent him to Jingshi, and spent the night having a nightmare of being raided and exterminated. A person who claimed to be the new master of the county order of Zhijiang County handed over a post asking to see him.
Hearing the new master of Zhijiang County, who calls himself "Student Niu Jinxing", he bluntly said, "Lord Taishou is in danger!" words. Zhang Hong, the four-pin Huangtang and Jingzhou prefect, was dark in front of him. He finally fainted under the double blow of daily torment and the alarmism of Bull Venus