Li Zhi smiled and saluted me with the tea in his hand: "Brother Jun, the incisiveness of the arguments in your "Theory of Heavenly Evolution" is really eye-opening, and my father and emperor have praised your book very much. And the younger brother also witnessed Brother Jun'er's doctrine, and he really had a feeling that he could die at night. ”

"Okay, okay, don't be a sycophant, doing this for the teacher is just to add another piece of green leaf to my Chinese culture and academics." I am quite modest in saying this, in fact, we are using the academic theory of "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution" to promote the development direction of the Tang Dynasty's capable people and wise people's ideological theories. He raised his hand and waved at Bonarjin, huh? As soon as I turned around, the ancestor was a plank, except for Li Zhi who raised his eyelids when he came in, this guy would continue to fall asleep, which really annoyed me, and kicked over: "Roast suckling pig is on the table, still sleep?!" ”

"I want hind legs!" Bonnar jumped three feet high, and when his eyes widened, he noticed the young man with a black line in front of him and the prince who was smiling forward and backwards. This guy saw that his son was not good, so he naturally didn't dare to stay for a long time, so he laughed twice and scratched his scalp: "Childe, the little one will go down now, you must be hungry, and the little one will give you and the prince a whole fragrant roast suckling pig to drink." ”

"That's good, by the way, don't forget to bake a little fat, the crispy and crispy skin is sandwiched with plate oil, and the taste is authentic." When Li Zhi heard this, his saliva almost gushed out, and he almost forgot the purpose of his coming here.

I glanced back at this lazy prince. "I don't know how I made such an apprentice as you, alas......" I shook my head helplessly, Li Zhi didn't care about my ridicule of him, and squeezed his eyes at me: "It's appropriate not to take advantage of it, pretending to say that you don't want to, and the one who thinks panicked in your heart is a hypocrite, and that really doesn't meet the code of conduct for you to teach your younger brother." ”

“…… Alas, there are so many advantages in the teacher, why didn't I see you learn them, but those shortcomings, you are familiar with all of them, evil obstacles! I sighed to the sky, very helpless.

"My father said that this thing is not so much in conflict with the doctrine of Confucianism, but rather beneficial to each other, Brother Jun, what do you think?" Li Zhigan on the side laughed twice, and it seemed that he didn't want to continue to entangle with me on the issue of his personality quality, so he picked up a copy of "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution" on the table, pretended to read a few words, and then looked up at me and asked.

I nodded: "Your father is worthy of being the wise master of my Tang Dynasty, and this is not wrong at all, in fact, according to the teacher's opinion, ......"

------------------------------------------------Well, I really have to mention Confucianism, since that Dong Zhongshu shouted the slogan of "depose the hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone" when he was in the Han Dynasty, the function of Confucianism at the social and political level was formed and strengthened, and at the same time, the role of Confucianism as a general ethical and moral cultivation and political ideal was weakened.

In primitive Confucianism, it is through moral education and ideal education to inspire people's consciousness of abiding by moral norms and pursuing an ideal society. Therefore, Confucianism has great significance and role in the self-cultivation of scholars and doctors. However, when Confucianism was transformed by Dong Zhongshu and some of the main contents of Confucianism were politically institutionalized, it became an external norm that you must abide by whether you consciously or not, voluntarily or not, so its significance and role in cultivation were greatly weakened.

In this way, the success of Confucianism in institutionalization became an opportunity for it to decline in terms of its function of moral cultivation.

By the end of the Han Dynasty, Confucianism, which had been institutionalized politically, became a thing that bound and suppressed people's natural feelings, and on the other hand, it became a tool for those hypocrites to gain fame and reputation, thus causing strong dissatisfaction among people. Metaphysics took advantage of this trend to reconcile the contradictions between famous religions and nature, and both emphasized the "nature" as the foundation. And in terms of theory and doctrine, metaphysics also clearly put forward the idea of "explaining the essence and using Confucianism".

Therefore, since the birth of metaphysics, although Confucianism still maintains its dominant position at the level of political system, its function at the level of ideological cultivation has been replaced by metaphysics or Taoism.

After the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and even in the period of the former Sui Dynasty, Buddhist thought began to flourish, and even surpassed the momentum of metaphysics, which played a certain role in the ideological cultivation of scholars, but in the era of the Tang Dynasty, with the Li family's support for Taoism and the suppression of Buddhism, as well as the strict control of religion over the years, the influence of Buddhism on the scholar class has become weaker and weaker.

And that is, from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the present, Confucianism has only those things that are embodied in political institutionalization, and continue to play a role under the maintenance of the ruling class. Although the study of Confucian literature during this period was not interrupted, works such as the Five Classics of Justice compiled by Kong Yingda in the Tang Dynasty did not have much new meaning other than to integrate and gradually unify the views of Han Confucianism and metaphysicians. Therefore, Confucianism does not play much role in people's ideological cultivation.

After casually telling Li Zhi my objective views and conclusions on Confucianism over the years, I made a concluding speech: "As a teacher, I also know that the Confucian masters such as Confucius and Linghu have changed their criticism of their younger brother is that the academic basis of the "Theory of Heavenly Evolution" is based on the doctrine of Lao Tzu, believing that heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are considered dogs, which is contrary to the foundation of the development of Confucianism of the unity of heaven and man in the Han Dynasty. ”

The basis of Confucianism is the doctrine of 'heaven and man induction'. Dong Zhongshu believes that heaven is the supreme personality of God, who not only created all things, but also created man. Therefore, he believed that heaven has a will, and like man, he "has the air of joy and anger, and the heart of sorrow." Man and Heaven are one and the same. This idea of "the unity of heaven and man" inherited the doctrine of the Simeng school and the Yin-Yang school Zou Yan, and developed it very exquisitely.

But at the same time, it also limited the development of society, because Dong Zhongshu put forward the theological theory of human surnames in his ideological system. He believes that people are ordained by heaven and their surnames are derived from heaven, and the political purpose of his theory of human surnames is to try to regard the feudal class and hierarchy as all out of the will of heaven or the way of heaven, and from the surnames of people who receive the mandate of heaven, they decide who should be the ruler and who should be the ruled; who should be one class higher and who should be one class lower; Who should be educated and who shouldn't. He believed that this feudal order, which was determined by the mandate of heaven and the surname of the person, could not be changed.

However, the academic basis of my "Theory of Heavenly Evolution" is based on the original surname of living beings, and proposes "the survival of the fittest." "This **naked, chilling cruel reality. As the so-called natural selection of the fittest, if they cannot adapt to the environment or society, they can only be eliminated by the environment or society.

------------------------------------------------, the improvement of the imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty, the establishment of the Royal Military Academy of the Tang Dynasty and the achievements of cultural knowledge learning, the establishment of the Qujiang Academy in the Tang Dynasty, and the establishment of the Hope and Righteousness School in Weinan of the Tang Dynasty are not a kind of erosion of Dong Zhongshu's political thoughts? Isn't it just that Ben Gongzi is touching and biting this bottom line again and again? All we have to do now is to see when we can break it completely.

"Xiaozhi, the teacher is right in front of you, say something that shouldn't have been said, the reason why the previous dynasty perished at the hands of Emperor Yang of Sui was because he followed the survival rule of 'natural selection of the fittest', and this Emperor Yang of Sui happened to think that this law of survival was useless to him, or he ignored this law and was replaced by my Tang Dynasty. What does this prove? …… Throughout the ages, the change of dynasties, in fact, is because human society has regarded the law of the jungle as a matter of course since ancient times, but one thing to remember is that strength and weakness can be reversed, so we must always have a sense of crisis. ”

When I said this, I breathed a sigh of relief, I didn't dare to write these few sentences into the "Theory of Heavenly Evolution", after all, Uncle Li is also a talented reader no matter how wise he is, and I am an example of the succession of previous dynasties, and many things are just objective comments, so as to highlight the political ideas contained in my book "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution".

Li Zhi looked at me, stunned for a long time without saying a word, and finally sighed to himself: "Brother Jun'er's words are like deafening thunder, little brother, I really, alas, I really can't find any words suitable to praise you." Brother Jun, let me tell you, the day after your book was delivered to my father, my father called the new prince of the country, Lord Linghu, into the palace, do you know why? ”

"I really don't know this, let's talk about it quickly, let the teacher know a thing or two." I'm interested, after all, I want to know all of Uncle Lee's coping methods after this incident.

A strange smile appeared on Li Zhi's face: "Because Lord Linghu has a lot of complaints about your doctrine in the country, my father let him enter the palace, and told him that since he is the prince of the country, he should not comment on it before the truth is discerned, besides, this is an academic dispute, and the court should not stand on which side, but should remain neutral...... Li Zhi relayed his father's words very euphemistically.

(To be continued)