Chapter 741: Huaiyang's argument

Yangzhou in the Manchu Qing Dynasty rich in the south of the Yangtze River, not only the north and south thoroughfare, the two Huai salt merchants are more group here, so that the Ming and Qing dynasties of the beauty economy prospered, creating a "Yangzhou thin horse". Not only beauties, but also those scholars who have no hope of a career, also take calligraphy and painting as their profession, gather in Yangzhou, and beg for food in the vassal and elegant wealthy merchants. Yangzhou Wensheng, the so-called "Yangzhou Eight Monsters" in the time and space of Li Xian's previous life, contrasts with the "Yangzhou Thin Horse". ”

But in this time and space, Li Xian's history stirring stick rose, Jiangnan was eroded by Yinghua for many years, and now it is all under the rule of Yinghua, after a few months of recovery, although Yangzhou is as lush as the old, the style is very different.

Lianghuai salt merchants and other imperial merchants, officials and businessmen were first washed by Li Shi and Yongzheng, and the remnants were raided by Li Fu and Nian Qianyao, and the Yinghua army entered Yangzhou, and the remaining some people who were close to the Qing court also fled north, and the wealthy merchant class almost did not exist, and the Qinglou, jewelry, Chinese clothing, curiosities, real estate and other businesses that depended on these wealthy merchants all collapsed.

In today's Yangzhou, it is difficult to see cage birds on the street, full of gold and jade, leisurely walking on the street and swinging the master. The flow of people is continuous, the pace is much faster than in the past, and those who are in a hurry to work and transport goods are eager to have the ability to shrink the ground into inches, and every inch of time is a penny.

In addition to the flow of people, the traffic flow is several times more prosperous than in the past, the style is complicated, there are horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts, people and carts, and the passengers are no longer a few rich and noble people in the past. The sedan chair can also be seen occasionally, but it attracts everyone's side eyes and contempt, and if you are slow, you will earn one less step of silver, which is really stupid! The sedan driver has this strength, and he can pull the car alone, at least double the earnings, which is really cheap!

The street is full of signboards, most of which are commonly used by people's livelihood, that is, the antique hall number, and also put out "southern things" such as clocks and mirrors, and the large celadon bottle at the door has been replaced by a floor clock. At the corner of the street and the teahouse of the restaurant, there were calligraphy and painting stalls in the past, and the storyteller also had "Golden Vase Plum" and "The Legend of the West Chamber" in his mouth, but now the street is full of newspaper stalls, and the storyteller is full of Jiangnan and even Anglo-Chinese state affairs. ”

In the past, many of the places where the red lanterns were hung were changed to archways, either weaving workshops or Qiaotang, selling women's knitted silk cotton, white powder rouge, and the girls who threw silk on the street were not selling themselves but goods.

Of course, the time-honored brand is still standing, but the way the girls greet their benefactors has changed...... "with a mixed yuan cover, no longer poisonous and disturbing". ”

After the bustling streets and alleys, the sound of Langlang reading is endless, but it is not the children who are more than ten or twenty years old in the past, but the children's voices are even more prosperous.

Where did the kids' talent go?

They all went to Huaiyang College, Yangzhou scholars are not particularly clear about the difference between "college" and "academy", only know one thing, being admitted to the college is equivalent to lifting people, and graduating from the college is equivalent to Jinshi. Before the construction of several colleges on the south bank, Yangzhou scholars were full of complaints, and now that Huaiyang College has been built, it is natural to go to see and see, touch the dragon gate, and pray that they can enter this dragon gate. ”

A convoy entered the wide front field of the college from the side gate of Huaiyang College and was surrounded by thousands of people, and there was a surging crowd outside the gate, but they all held their breath and were silent, and whoever opened their mouths was glared at by others, even if they couldn't see it, they had to listen to the movement in the front field.

Li Xi got out of the car, and through the crowd, he heard the sound of debate, a voice as solid as gold and iron, sonorous and powerful to attract the attention of the audience.

"The world is not peaceful, and Naide is not clear! If you don't know morality, it's not right! Isn't this injustice what a reasonable person should do? Although this is the words of the Mo family, Zhang Zai also said that the request of the scholar is to open peace for all generations! Why did Chengtianfu Baicheng College build a Taiping Building? It just proves that our dynasty also has this ambition! ”

"Peace and peace, wealth and nobility, everyone is equal, since then there is no dispute, eternal peace. Shouldn't this be what the scholar asks for and what the scholar learns!? ”…,

Blind Man...... Why did he come to this Huaiyang Academy?

Li Shi was stunned, Wang Shishen, the "moment" of the National Ink Society, begged for the unity of Moren but couldn't, and now he is tossing here?

This is different from the details of the schedule reported before, the prefect of Yangzhou brought the Yangzhou scholar and the head of Huaiyang College to meet him, saying that Wang Blind came uninvited and wanted Huaiyang College to open ink studies. At the moment, there are too many people, and the academy is not in a hurry, so the professors in the academy can only come on the field and argue with this guy.

"Hmm...... I have also become Tang monk meat, you all have to come and take a bite. ”

Li Xian expressed the careful thoughts of these people, wanting to use him, the emperor, to drive away the blind man.

Although Moxue was revived in the country, it talked about fairness and equality, advocated unrealistic, and mixed with the theory of ghosts and gods. It is difficult for students to interfere with the formation of their own ink clubs, but the academy, a place for cultivating bureaucrats, will not make ink studies a formal discipline.

Yinghua Heavenly Dao seeks the coexistence of all the ways, and the academy is not good to use strong, and it cannot clearly depreciate Moxue, so it can only argue and be difficult to resist. It would be better to leave this trouble to the Emperor.

The prefect and the scholar were afraid to ask for guilt, but Liu Da, the head of the academy, returned the mouth: "Your Majesty is the co-lord of the world, feeding all the people, and also inheriting the mandate of heaven and practicing the virtues of heaven......"

Li Xi glanced at this person, remembered the information he had read in the car before, this person and Fang Bao are fellow villagers, although he abandoned the Manchu Qing Dynasty and stayed in Jiangnan, but he still guards science in his bones, of course, he especially knows the science of change. Because he is quite famous in Yangzhou, he is known as the "Fang Hou Yi Liu" of the Tongcheng faction, and he was also in charge of the Huaiyang Academy, the predecessor of Huaiyang College, so he was selected as the head of the college. ”

This sycophant shot with ulterior motives, and Rong Wang's blind man made trouble in the emperor's own time, which is even more ulterior motives. Li Xi snorted secretly, I am afraid that you want to borrow the authority of me, the emperor, to refute here, and even punish Wang Blind, so as to suppress Moxue, and fulfill your wish to Xing Confucianism and cut ink.

This is still an old intellectual who "seeks oneness", advocating that he is different from himself, and that he will want to destroy it as soon as possible, and he can do whatever it takes to do so. It's not that the Jiangnan literati have been infiltrated by Confucianism for a long time, and they are basically like this, so they can only rely on them to pull the framework of the local education system first, and Li Xi really wants to change all these people. ”

Li Shi said coldly: "Feeding all the people, it is the parent of man, the fat of heaven, and I am not the father of the monarch, how can I come from this virtue?" The mandate of heaven that I have inherited is nothing but the adjudication of disputes, so that the world will be promoted and harmed......"

Liu Da's face turned slightly pale, and he quickly shrank to the side, not daring to say anything more. Even if he didn't understand what the emperor said, he understood that the emperor had seen through his intentions.

Qu Chengshuo, the accompanying scholar of the Ministry of Education, asked for instructions on whether to stop the argument and start the plaque ceremony of the college, Li Shi waved his hand, he wanted to hear again how the Huaiyang Academy refuted Wang Blind.

"The days are cloudy and sunny, the moon is full and absent, the time is divided into four seasons, the land is divided into mountains and fields, the fields are barren, and people are wise and foolish. There is injustice in heaven and earth, and there is injustice in the world! If you want to be even, you must first make the day and day empty, and then there is no spring, summer, autumn and winter, the mountains and fields are all flat, and the acres are as fat and thin. Heaven and earth are uneven, how can the world be peaceful!? The grass and trees are uneven, why are they all rich!? ”

"The Mo family stopped the war, can there be a righteous war and an unjust war? The Manchu Dynasty stole in China, His Majesty led the benevolent and righteous people to rise, more than ten years of soldiers, millions of people died, Fang Kai this unprecedented momentum, this war your Mo family want to stop? Without this battle, and the resurgence of your Mo family today? This is righteous warfare! Defend the country and protect the people, China strives for profit, I Yinghua will fight every year, do you want to stop the Mo family? In the same way, if the world is equal, the injustice of the world you are talking about is like a soldier, and it is also mixed with the injustice of heaven, earth and the world. ”

"What the Mo family said is uneven, and it must all be returned to the world, which is the connection between heaven and man. To divide the world evenly, this is not the request of the external Confucianism and the internal law in the past. ”…,

For example, when a person dies, he will die of sickness, wounds, hunger and thirst. Your Mohists ignore this kind of distinction, and only talk about the misery of people's deaths, but do not investigate the causes of people's deaths. ”

"Whether it is the way of heaven or the holy Confucianism, although it talks about the rule of great harmony, it is about the rule of common wealth, the way of heaven with people's hearts, the exchange of manpower for heavenly rewards, and the pursuit of wealth and nobility in heaven, and they do not compete with each other. And your Mo family is like a rotten Confucian, so you want to be leveled between everyone, and the strong are compensated for the weak, regardless of the reason for the strength and weakness, just look at the unevenness in your eyes. Don't investigate the cause, just ask the effect, how is it different from the law of violence? ”

Although the head of Huaiyang College is a Confucian, the discipline that can be set up is no longer the director of Confucianism, and it is the professors from Lingnan College who have been transferred to Jiangnan from Baicheng, Huangpu and even Sanxian who came forward to argue with Wang Blind. These people have learned from China and abroad, and their vision has become extraordinary, and their words are sharp, like knives, poking at the flaws of Wang Blind's ink science, not only the scholars and people who "listen to the war" outside the field have nodded one after another, but even Li Xi secretly said that he may not be able to refute it so sharply. ”

But Li Xi is different from these professors, what he has to think about is not to refute Moxue, so he is full of expectations for how the blind man Wang will argue.

The blind man was silent for a moment, and although his tone was no longer high-pitched, he seemed to suppress the breath in his chest, and pushed his voice to swing in a low voice.

"My Mo family follows the path of benevolence, what is the path of benevolence? Everybody's got it! Heaven and earth are indifferent, and people's hearts seek peace! In ancient times, there was no official government, no court, the saint was not the king but the king, the people were self-reliant, and there were three generations of governance. ”

"The government has been successive, the first emperor has been one for two thousand years, and the division and merger have continued, so that the world is uneven, and the people are suffering, how can it be the injustice of heaven and earth!? At the right time, the government dominates the world, plunders the interests of the people, and those who are close to power get rich, and the mustard is like a knife! The time-sharing strong eats the benefits of the world with the inequality of heaven and earth, and it is even more the weak and the strong, and it is uneven everywhere! ”

"Heaven and earth are uneven, people can move and strength, and everyone is at peace. And the injustice of the world, calling the heavens and the earth, who will cut it? Is it official? The government holds the authority, and the power is injustice! The government holds the strongest power in the world, the government is the great harm in the world, and the government is born in this world is unfair! ”

The surroundings were quiet, and when these words came out, they were so quiet that they didn't even have the sound of breathing, this, these words were simply too ......

The blind man Wang was completely open-minded, and he took out all the basic statements of Gu Mo, and directly stated that he was against the government!

In Lingnan, everyone can still be regarded as a theoretical debate, a retreat, not too taboo, but in Jiangnan, which has just changed owners, it is simply a tall tree battle flag, and the heads are surrendered, and the surrounding scholars and people are all stunned.

If it is replaced by other people, most of them will turn to an emotional discourse, enumerate all kinds of injustices in the world, and crusade against the sins of the jungle. But Wang Shishen is different, he was originally a Confucian scholar, and he was hesitant under the thinking of Yinghua Heavenly Dao, although he felt that the three theories of heaven and man were indeed the avenue of heaven and man, but how to achieve it, the so-called unity of righteousness and benefit of the Heavenly Daoist faction was a superficial effort to cover up and seek profit, not the truth.

What he saw in Lingnan, especially the many grievances, made him finally turn to the Mo family, from seeking justice to the road of denying the government. In his view, the government is the source of all injustices in the world.

Therefore, he did not evade it, did not appeal to favors, but confronted the biggest taboo in China for 2,000 years with the truth he believed, and this truth, whether it was the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Yinghua, regarded it as a serious crime, and it was not even much different from the core doctrine of the White Lotus cult.

But Wang Shishen thought so, and since he had already expressed his heart, he simply spilled all his heart.

"In addition to the government, industry and commerce are also the source of injustice in the world! God created man, food and clothing are saved, brocade clothes and jade food, but it is just a swaggering heart, a desire for appetite! And from the beginning of industry and commerce, in order to benefit the people, everyone has the heart of the baht, for the benefit of gold and silver, abandon the family and sacrifice their lives, lose virtue and lose morality, all of them are like human beasts, what they want is to be strong with others, and this world is more and more unfair! "Now the industry and commerce are prosperous, and everyone is profit-seeking. Since ancient times, the rich have regarded the poor as the best people and have compassion. But now the word profit is in front, the unity of righteousness and profit is righteous to the rich, and the cheapness of the poor is taken for granted, and everyone has no benevolence. In the long run, the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, and there will be no mercy from others. The rich and the poor are always there, and there is no justice in the world, how can we achieve the same!? ”…,

"Don't suffer from few, but suffer from unevenness! This is the basis of benevolence, and all the people seek justice from it! No matter how much truth there is, no matter how uneven the world is, what the human heart wants is peace, and you ask yourself, is this the human heart!? ”

When Wang Shishen attacked industry and commerce and attacked the unity of righteousness and benefit, those professors were still eager to try and confidently refute this "anti-thief", but when Wang Shishen sacrificed the earth-shaking seal of "not suffering from widowhood but suffering from unevenness", the professors were all deflated. There were also low echoes all around, mostly people, and they felt that these words were seeking justice for the poor people in the world, and they mustered up the courage to support Wang Shishen. ”

That's right, people's hearts are profit-seeking, and they all want to be stronger than others, but people's hearts are also uneven, and they would rather everyone be the same than have a strong person.

If you want to say who is in front and who is behind, who is the master and who is the servant, this is not clear, just like the chicken or the egg first, perhaps, the human heart is made up of these two sides.

On the emperor's side, a group of officials were sweating, the prefect of Yangzhou trembled, pointed at Wang Shishen, and was about to greet the people, but Qu Chengshuo, the secretary of the Ministry of Education, had already knelt on the ground, saying that this was just a dispute between academics and theories, not involving the real world, and begged the emperor not to be imprisoned because of anger. Everyone else also knelt down and pleaded together, but of course, Liu Da, the head of the academy, forced a smile.

"Hmm...... Take it, no, it's not Wang Blind, it's the prefect, if he doesn't hold him down, he's afraid that he will rush up and cut people. ”

Li Xian's expression was leisurely, and while signaling everyone to be flat, he beckoned the guards to settle the Yangzhou prefect, who was already on the verge of going berserk.

"Alright, let's get behind the wheel......"

Then Li Shi signaled to reveal his identity, and the ministers looked at each other nervously, not knowing what the next scene would be.

"Your Majesty the Emperor - Arrived!"

The guards came out, but they did not disperse the two sides of the debate, but only surrounded them.

Thousands of scholars and people, and countless listeners outside the academy were boiling, and the emperor was here!

Then everyone's hearts sank again, and Wang Shishen ...... It's over, even if the emperor doesn't punish the death penalty, I'm afraid he will be thrown to Nanyang to open a mine, and it will be difficult to see the sun again in his life.

"Hooray, hooray, hooray......"

Thousands of people shouted long live, and most of them still knelt and bowed, this is the difference between Jiangnan and Lingnan, in Lingnan, as long as it is not a ceremony such as worshipping the sky, it is basically a long worship.

Therefore, in the midst of the crowd falling like a wheat field, Wang Shishen and several college professors just bowed down for a long time, which seemed extremely abrupt.

Seeing the emperor walking into the field surrounded by the noble concubine and the brocade guards, Wang Shishen said bitterly, in fact, he had no intention of going against this court, in fact, he just wanted to find a way to eternal peace, and the emperor was already doing it, and he just felt that the specific direction was wrong, and the root was ...... There are three theories of heaven and man, and he is full of faith.

But anti-government, anti-court, anti-court, anti-emperor, his own crime, how can he get rid of it, when Wang Shishen finished his salute, his mind had calmed down, and he quietly waited for the emperor's fall.

"Your Majesty, this is just a matter of reasoning......"

Several professors also hurriedly pleaded with Li Xian, they are not Confucianism, the emperor himself has said that Yinghua Rong resonates with a hundred schools, and it is not just a dispute, there is no need to fight for anything, they blend together, and each keeps its differences. It's just that Wang Shishen's words are too shocking, and I hope the emperor will not punish him heavily.

Li Xian waved his hand to stop them, and with a gesture of his hand, the guard pulled over a stool, and he sat down idly, but Sanniang looked at Wang Shishen, and said in her heart that this White Lotus Sect is really harmful, and even scholars believe in its teachings.

Sanniang doesn't understand these truths very well, but she reversed the relationship between the two, but Li Xian knew that we have a long history in China, no matter what kind of ideology, what doctrine, the ancestors of two or three thousand years ago, they have all played. The people in the back, although they practiced with all kinds of foreigners' things, were all in their bones.

Fairness and justice, justice and heavenly justice, eternal topics, these are the worries he was awake from the carriage.

"Go on......"

Li Shi came to such a sentence, which made Wang Shishen and those professors stunned.

"You're throwing in the towel?"

Li Shi asked the professor, and everyone quickly shook their heads.

"Go ahead, I'm a listener."

Li Xi took the small teapot, pulled over a stool, and motioned for Sanniang to sit down, and let off the excitement of listening to books in the teahouse.

The professor and Wang Shishen glanced at each other, and they both felt like they were in a trance in a dream.

"Continue ......"

A professor is alert, this Holy Dao Emperor is already acting a little unreasonable, since he has this order, he should concentrate on the war of words in front of him.

Emperors, concubines, officials, and even scholars and civilians all became listeners again, and the debate resumed.