Chapter 3 A hundred schools of thought contend
Liu Hou is very impatient to deal with government affairs, first of all, he is not good at handling government affairs, and he lacks education and training in this area. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Even after ascending the throne as the emperor, the government affairs were entrusted to Zhuge Liang for a long time, and he concentrated on leading troops to fight against Wei and Wu. It can be said that for government affairs, he is completely a hands-off shopkeeper.
Although Liu Bei also arranged for a Confucian teacher to follow him and teach him carefully, he was not interested in Chinese studies, so he just coped with the errands. Because of his repeated victories and the accumulation of great prestige among the Shu Han and Han armies, those old masters who were ordered to teach him did not dare to force ~ too tightly, so that he is now seriously biased.
For a long time, he was biased towards science and engineering and war courses, and now he needs to face the liberal arts courses such as politics and public administration, and he naturally has a little difficulty coping with them.
Therefore, he once wanted to escape from the palace and go to the frontier to join the three wars of foreign expansion. But if you think about it, the wars in these places are time-consuming, and the environment is very harsh, and you may lose your life at any time if you participate in them.
Since the lethal factors are natural, biological and other reasons, not war crimes, these factors are objective, just, and fair, and will not be treated differently because of a person's dignity. Therefore, even if you go there as an emperor, you will not be exempt, and the dangers you face are not much different from those of ordinary soldiers.
Therefore, Liu Hou, who cherished his life, did not dare to rush to these three battlefields in person, and he didn't even dare to mention it, because he knew that if he proposed a personal expedition, he would inevitably be opposed by all the courtiers.
After this period of observation, Liu Hou found that the Confucian disciples really have a set of rules for governing the country, Confucius is worthy of being a great educator and an old man, and his disciples and grandchildren are still quite capable.
At least in the Han Dynasty, the children of Confucianism had not been poisoned by the Bagu Wen, and their thinking was not rigid, on the contrary, Confucianism still paid attention to quality education. The six arts of a gentleman, etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics, this is simply a comprehensive quality education in later generations, and the people who are cultivated in this way must be both civil and military.
It's a pity that after the Tang and Song dynasties, the aspects of martial arts such as shooting and imperial were gradually kicked out of the compulsory courses of "gentlemen", and the rest were all liberal arts.
However, in the Three Kingdoms era, it was okay, many local officials were military and political powers, and they were really able to lead the army and govern the country when they got off the horse, and most of these people were Confucian disciples. For this reason, Liu Hou also reflected on the courses taught in various colleges now, and found that the proportion of courses such as mathematics, physics and chemistry was too large, and Chinese studies gradually declined.
Liberal arts students still need it. When Liu Hou really began to govern the country, he found that these Chinese studies were not useless, and the students he cultivated were flexible in thinking, very good at governing the country, and very adaptable, some people had a strong sense of responsibility, and some people were very stylish, and these people could get started quickly whether they were placed in the army or other various positions.
More importantly, these Chinese studies are very effective in ideological education, and the talents cultivated are responsible, righteous, loyal, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, gentleness, kindness, courtesy, thrift, and letting, these are the basic principles of life advocated by Confucianism, and as the ruler of society, this value system is no exception, and Liu Hou is no exception.
This kind of Confucian advocacy has simply annoyed the rulers, which is also the reason why Confucianism has been popular in all dynasties. After Liu Hou sat in the world, he also realized that Chinese culture was very beneficial to educating the people, so he decided to increase the proportion of Chinese studies courses in the college.
For this, those Confucian disciples raised their hands in favor. Originally, they dominated the world in the education world, but as soon as this little emperor came to power, he subversively compressed the Confucian curriculum to a very small extent, and instead emphasized strange ~ obscene skills, which made them very dissatisfied.
Now it is rare for the little emperor to relent, and began to pay attention to Confucianism again, and a group of Confucian children began to jump up and down again to restore the scenery of Confucianism.
However, Liu Hou clearly told them that from now on, they must not respect a certain technique alone, but must contend, and a hundred schools of thought will flourish together, so that the civilization of the Chinese nation will become more and more brilliant. He also issued an edict saying that those who advocate a certain technique and suppress other doctrines are careerists and should be eradicated.
In the future, the imperial court will create a level playing field, and if various schools of thought want to get ahead, they must show real skills to prove the advanced nature of their doctrines. The method of proof is strictly forbidden to be carried out by suppressing or belittling other schools of thought, but must be based on facts, and put forward the criterion that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth".
In addition to Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Moism, and these larger factions, those Yin and Yang families, military families, peasant families, novelists, miscellaneous families, vertical and horizontal families, square technicians, famous scholars, and so on that have been gradually weakened have also emerged.
Writings from various schools and schools have sprung up. Various viewpoints coexisted, and various-for-tat debates occurred from time to time, and finally re-formed the academic prosperity of "a hundred schools of thought contending" in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Liu Hou was very pleased with this, and his move was precisely to imitate the Renaissance in Europe and set off a Han version of the ideological emancipation movement. The Renaissance in Europe may seem like a revolution in science and art, but it has great significance in European history.
The Renaissance was actually an ideological and cultural movement, which brought about a period of scientific and artistic revolution, opened the prelude to modern European history, and is considered to be the boundary between the Middle Ages and the modern era. The Renaissance was one of the three major ideological emancipation movements (Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment) in Western Europe in modern times, which laid the foundation for the later Industrial Revolution.
In the current Han Dynasty, the religious problem is not serious, as long as ~ Taiwan has some laws and regulations to restrict the development of religion. The Enlightenment Han was doing it, and when Liu Hou was still the crown prince, he gradually established academies and libraries throughout the territory, and then passed on all kinds of natural science knowledge he knew to Zuo Ci's master and apprentice through dictation.
Of course, Liu Hou was just an ordinary person in his previous life, with limited knowledge, and it was impossible to get all the knowledge involved in various fields at once, especially the enlightenment of the whole society, which involved various fields of knowledge, such as natural science, philosophy, ethics, political science, economics, history, literature, education, etc., Liu Hou could not be all-encompassing even if he had three heads and six arms.
Therefore, he can only be planted in the bud, and it needs to be explored and completed by countless academic masters together, and the Enlightenment is destined to be a long period of cultural movement, which may take a generation or even several generations to complete.
The emancipation of the mind can be said to be the foundation of the Enlightenment, and now Liu Hou is also vigorously promoting the contention of a hundred schools, the purpose is to replace the Renaissance movement, in order to emancipate the minds of the whole people, give birth to the Enlightenment movement, and then make the industrial revolution come naturally.