Chapter 612: Experiencing Life
"Wang Yangming." Three words came out of Chen Kan's mouth.
"Good!" As he spoke, Chen Kan disappeared.
Wang Shouren, the word Bo'an, alias "Yangming". A native of Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now Yuyao, Ningbo), he was called "Yangmingzi" because he had built a room in Yangming Cave in Huiji Mountain, and scholars called him Mr. Yangming, also known as Wang Yangming.
A famous thinker, writer, philosopher and military strategist in the Ming Dynasty, he was the master of Lu Wang's mind and was proficient in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.
This is a person in Chinese history who cannot be bypassed, either ideologically or militarily.
As mentioned before, Chen Kan's ideal of doing academics is to "make a speech", which is one of the "three immortals" (virtue, speech, and meritorious service) that the ancients said.
In China's thousands of years of history, Wang Yangming is the only one recognized by the academic community to achieve the "three immortals".
Of course, some people say that Zhuge Liang and Zeng Guofan have also completed the "Three Immortals", but there is a lot of controversy between Zhuge Liang and Zeng Guofan, and many people do not agree with their status, and the only thing is that there is no controversy about Wang Yangming.
Ideologically, Wang Yangming is the master of the study of mind (also known as Wang Xue), becoming the most influential thought in the Ming Dynasty, and his academic ideas later spread to Japan, the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asian countries, and the influence on Japan is very great, and even influenced Japan's later Meiji Restoration, and the ideological height is very far-reaching.
There is a saying that there are three sages in Chinese history, one is Confucius in the pre-Qin period, the other is Zeng Guofan in the Qing Dynasty, and the other is Wang Yangming in the Ming Dynasty.
In later generations, there are many cattle who are die-hard fans of Wang Yangming's thoughts.
The two most famous are Grandpa Mao and Chairman Jiang, many of Grandpa Mao's thoughts and Wang Yangming's thoughts are in the same line, and Grandpa Mao studied Wang Yangming's thoughts in the early years.
And this Chairman Jiang is the iron of the iron, the word "Zhongzheng" was taken by him later, and the source of the name is the "Dazhong Zhizheng" in Wang Yangming's psychology, and later when he was educating his children, he asked his children to study Wang Yangming's thoughts painstakingly, and use this to govern the treasure island.
In Japan, the status and role of Wang Yangming's psychology are almost equivalent to the Renaissance to the Middle Ages and Nietzsche's philosophy to Germany.
At the same time, Wang Yangming is also a military strategist, in Chinese history, the literati used soldiers to three people, one is Wang Yangming of the Ming Dynasty, the other is Zeng Guofan, who pacified the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the last is Grandpa Mao, who established New China.
When Wang Yangming was appointed as the imperial history of the Imperial Palace, he quelled the rebellion in the deep mountains and old forests of Fujian and Jiangxi, and put down the rebellion that had been in danger for decades in one fell swoop, and used troops like ghosts and gods.
And the battle of his fame was to quell the rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning (remember the Xingye version of "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance"?). King Ning is the prince who has always wanted to be mad but couldn't), and this happened in the Zhengde period, Chen Kan once wanted to look for Wang Yangming in the last plane, but he didn't find it.
In history, because Wang Yangming relied on some militia to quickly quell the rebellion, there was a ridiculous thing after the pacification.
This time, Emperor Zhengde was a personal expedition, but as soon as he was halfway there, he found that Wang Yangming, a "visionless" guy, had actually completed the rebellion by dividing it by two.
This made Emperor Zhengde very unhappy, how does this reflect his martial arts, at first he did not accept the surrender of King Ning, and then he gave birth to the idea of putting King Ning back and making trouble again, and capturing it by himself, and at the same time, he was not happy with Wang Yangming, and did not give Wang Yangming a credit.
(This is also a point of fire for historians to comment on Emperor Zhengde, this story is a bit complicated, but it is very interesting, if you are interested, you can check out the related books.) )
When Jiajing ascended the throne, Wang Yangming's merits were recognized, and he was named "Xinjian Bo", which was given to him by Wang Yangming during his lifetime, in ancient times, the duke was divided into five classes: "Duke, Marquis, Uncle, Son, and Male", don't look at "Xinjian Bo" is only a third-class duke, you must know that it is difficult to be a duke in ancient times.
There are two exceptions, one is after the saint mentioned above, for example, the descendants of Confucius will be named "Yan Shenggong"; In the Qing Dynasty, if your daughter became the queen, she would be given the title of "Cheng'en Gong".
It is very difficult for others to be crowned a duke by virtue of military merits, and it is even more difficult to be crowned a duke alive, even if it is Li Hongzhang, this credit is big enough, and his duke title is only given after death.
It can be seen how good this Wang Yangming is.
At the same time, Wang Yangming is also a master of national arts, it is recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty", one night, Wang Yangming practiced qi in the army, and suddenly there was a long howl, and the three armies were shocked, and about this paragraph, Mr. Jin also quoted it in "The Condor Heroes".
So Chen Kan chose Wang Yangming without hesitation, this person has been brilliant and down-and-out, and his achievements in all aspects are very good, and he is definitely a benchmark figure in Chinese history.
In the eighth year of Chenghua (1472), his mother was pregnant for more than ten months, and Wang Yangming was born, named "Wang Shouren".
At the age of thirteen, he believed that "the imperial examination is not the first priority", and the most important thing in the world is to study and be a sage.
At the age of fifteen, he traveled to Yongguan and Shanhaiguan, and already had the ambition to travel through the Quartet.
When he was seventeen years old, on the day of his wedding, he met a priest meditating while wandering, so he asked the Taoist priest for advice, and the Taoist priest told him some health preservation techniques, and he sat quietly with the Taoist priest and forgot to return, and was found the next day.
At the age of eighteen, he came into contact with "Gewu Zhizhi", read Zhu Xi's works all over the world, in order to practice Zhu Xi's "Gewu Zhizhi", he made up his mind to exhaust the principle of bamboo, "Ge" bamboo for seven days and seven nights, and found nothing, but people fell ill because of this, and had great doubts about the theory of "Gewu".
After entering the office, the career was not smooth, at the age of twenty-eight angered the dictatorship eunuch Liu Jin, the staff was forty, and he was relegated to Guizhou Longchang, which was still an uncivilized area at that time, Wang Yangming was not discouraged, and taught the locals according to the customs and culture, and was loved by the people.
In the quiet and difficult environment of Longchang, Wang Yangming combined with the experiences of the past years, reflected day and night, and in the middle of the night, he suddenly had an epiphany, which is the famous "Longchang Enlightenment" in history.
Later, he pacified thieves in various places, and used soldiers to be "weird" and arbitrary, and got the name of "cunning soldiers"; In the fourteenth year of Zhengde, the rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, was quelled.
In the first year of Jiajing, his father died, Wang Yangming returned to his hometown to guard the system, and then founded Yangming Academy in Shaoxing to spread "Wang Xue".
In the sixth year of Jiajing, the governor of Liangguang and the governor, got the Danshu iron coupon, and leveled the rebellion of Lusu and Wang Shou.
At 8 o'clock on November 29, 1529 (January 9, 1529), he died of illness in Qinglonggang, Dageng County, Anfu, Jiangxi Province (now in Dayu County, Jiangxi Province).
When he was dying, his disciple asked him what his last words were, and he said, "This heart is bright, and what can I say!" "After the mourning in Jiangxi, the soldiers and civilians wore sackcloth and cried to see Wang Yangming.
"Whew!" In the blink of an eye, Chen Kan appeared again in the small black room of the cruise ship, and he replaced Wang Yangming and finished his life.