Liu Zongzhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is a physical thinker who emphasizes improving his own self-cultivation, and even put forward the theory of "Shen Du", but he usually thinks about how to improve his own self-cultivation, but he doesn't know how to improve the cultivation of others, so Zhu Youzhen's question makes him not know how to speak for a while, so he can only awkwardly surrender his hand to Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen: "Please give advice to Your Majesty!" ”

Huang Daozhou, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, habitually used the principles learned from books to forcibly explain Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen's doubts.

After all, today's Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen rarely asks his subordinates for their opinions, and it is rare for the monarchs and ministers to answer, he feels that he can't help but perfunctory as the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, so he also stretches his hands and kowtows:

"Back to Your Majesty, these ministers die without observing the festival, and are willing to be thieves, which can be described as a real villain, because Your Majesty was too eager to employ people in the past, Your Majesty will be a pro-virtuous minister in the future, and you can be far from a villain."

Huang Daozhou said that he bowed again, this kind of dialogue generally appears in the dialogue between the monarchs and ministers of many dynasties, generally speaking, the emperor's next question will be to ask his subordinates how to pro-virtuous ministers, far from villains; Huang Daozhou felt that when the time came, it would be enough to quote the scriptures and answer according to the meaning of the ancient books and the principles of Confucianism, and he could also leave a good story of the monarch and the minister's answer.

Wang Siren, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, smiled slightly, he was an idle person, he had no enterprising heart for his career, and naturally he was not keen on what Huang Daozhou wanted to tell the emperor like this, and he really couldn't give a real answer.

In his opinion, keeping festivals is his own business, and he can indeed ensure that he is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but he doesn't know how to ensure that others also follow the festival.

Therefore, Wang Siren only said that he was stupid and didn't know how to comment on this matter.

Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly, now only Huang Daozhou answered his question positively, but it was the answer he didn't want to hear.

However, the current Zhu Youzhen will no longer be angry because of this, and he cannot expect a famous minister of science to put forward any constructive suggestions.

"Huang Aiqing is a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, and he can be regarded as an old minister, and he should also understand that the people of the world, whether they are villains or gentlemen, are nothing more than the acquired attributes of people, at the beginning of people, they are inherently good, what is teaching and preaching, that is, to teach people to be virtuous ministers, the officials who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the officials who went south with me all grew up reading Cheng Zhu Lixue, and even sat for the officials, but there were still traitors and thieves, what does this mean, it shows that the current learning has not succeeded in making all the people in the world become virtuous ministers!"

Zhu Youzhen's words made Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou, and Wang Siren change color on the spot, they didn't expect His Majesty to directly deny the correctness of Cheng Zhu's science based on this!

Since the Song Dynasty, this has always been the orthodox study respected by scholars and doctors and the royal family, and it will be denied by His Majesty the Emperor at this moment, because Cheng Zhu Lixue has not been able to avoid the appearance of traitors and villains.

But Liu Zongzhou and others couldn't say anything at this time, they couldn't deny the fact that many officials surrendered, and they didn't care about this matter before, they paid more attention to their own cultivation, and paid attention to learning for their own use, and they didn't think about how good this kind of learning was and what effect it would achieve.

Zhu Youzhen is a person of later generations, his thinking is utilitarian, and he requires that there must be some effect to do something, so the views he put forward gave Liu Zongzhou and others a great impact, and even made them unable to refute!

This reminded Liu Zongzhou of the incident that happened on the way to the south, and the accompanying officials coerced the Kong family to hang themselves.

No one has detailed the specific cause and process of this incident, and the officials who went south are silent about it, so not many people know the specific secrets now.

Readers in Jiangnan and even all over the world are very willing to believe this fact, and even if they don't believe it, they will not expose it, because to investigate the truth is tantamount to denying their own ideology.

Even with the Southern Sect Confucius, they said that this is the festival that the descendants of the Holy Master should do.

Zhu Youzhen also made a will, hoping that the Confucius Sect of the Southern Sect could pass on the righteousness of the descendants of the saints, be loyal to the country, and swear not to be a persuader of the Hu people to enslave China.

But Liu Zongzhou now found that His Majesty should be involved in this matter, although he believed that he was a cultivated person, he did not believe that the Confucian Sect of the Northern Sect would really all hang himself for the Ming Dynasty.

This kind of ideal scene should not appear, perhaps it is really His Majesty and the hundred officials who forced Confucius to do this for the sake of Kuang Zheng's education, with the righteousness of the people's hearts and the virtue of the whole people.

Liu Zongzhou couldn't help but sigh secretly, His Majesty and the officials who followed him back then did not do this without good intentions, with the life of a whole Confucianism and the ethics of the world.

"Your Majesty now proposes that Cheng Zhu Lixue is not very good at educating people's hearts, perhaps it is not to deny the meaning of the entire Confucianism, but when today's learning is too much to advocate personal self-cultivation, and does not fulfill the responsibility of education, it is why there are so many traitors and traitors, perhaps the orthodoxy of the world's learning needs to be re-determined, and it needs to be beneficial, for example, this Confucian family is full of saints as a descendant of the saint can be loyal to the Ming Dynasty because of the thief, which is a rare move, and it is enough to see that the orthodox knowledge of Confucianism can still promote people to be loyal and observant, but the descendants read and read the deviation, Seeking too much utilitarianism and the golden mean, it ended up in a situation of no moderation and no virtue. ”

Liu Zongzhou said this, which made Zhu Youzhen quite satisfied.

Zhu Youzhen knows that even if he is an emperor, it is difficult to shake the orthodox position of Confucianism in the whole society, and his current imperial ruling order and ruling authority also need Confucianism to provide theoretical support, it is not enough to rely on the divine authority of the monarch, Confucianism proposed the rule of etiquette, that is, the prince of heaven and earth is the foundation of his own rule, and he can not completely abandon it now, after all, today's Ming society is still based on family and clan, and these families and clans rely on the fundamental order of etiquette, On top of the clan, it is combined into a family country, that is, the emperor himself, which is equivalent to the patriarch of the big family of the entire Ming Han nation in the world.

Zhu Youzhen cannot deny this order yet, nor can he deny this order, because unless one day the economic form changes and household production is completely changed by industrial production, and the order of etiquette and governance will take place.

But even then, there will still be the family as the basic unit that forms the basis of the whole society, but without the control of the clan.

This is what Zhu Youzhen wants to see, he doesn't want to have a clan between himself, the emperor, and an ordinary direct family.

(End of chapter)