In the Guangzhou Mansion, after Zhang Fujing led the officials to bow to the emperor, a banquet was held in the governor's yamen.

The full name of the governor's yamen is the governor's court.

If it is the governor's yamen of another province, in addition to the scribe in the camp of the governor's pacesetter barracks, there is actually only one civil official, and that is the governor himself.

The rest were all staff members of the governor's staff, or supernumerary clerks hired by the governor himself.

However, there are now 136 people in the Governor's Procuratorate of Guangdong.

Zhang Fujing, the governor, was appointed as the right deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his grade was the third grade.

Under him, the governor of Guangdong, Yamen, now has no officials who exceed the sixth rank for the time being. That's because, under the six products, Guangdong can choose by itself.

And the current governor's yamen itself only needs to have official contacts with the political envoy department, the metropolitan command envoy department, the criminal prosecution department, the public security department, the tax department, and the metropolitan prosecutor's office. Each department has its own office, and the governor's subordinate officials only need to connect with them.

At the provincial level, it stands to reason that the Governor's Yuan and the Metropolitan Inspectorate are both local constitutional departments at the same level. The head of the Guangdong Metropolitan Prosecutor's Department theoretically has to supervise the performance of Zhang Fujing and the rest of the divisions.

But this is because Zhang Fujing's current qualifications are not enough, because according to the design, Guangdong will have a governor in the future.

The rank of this governor must be higher than that of the current envoy from the second rank, and reach the second rank.

Therefore, the current reform of the government office is not the end, Zhang Fujing thought about the "merits of the Taimiao" that Liang Chu said that day, and seriously said to the senior officials of the departments and departments he invited to the governor's yamen today:

"Guangdong is the place where the new law is tried out, and His Majesty's practice and dialectics have benefited a lot from the deafening and thoughtful teachings of Fu Jingwen, and the true transmission of the avenue has been achieved!"

Zhang Fujing saluted to the north, and then said solemnly, "By the grace of His Majesty and the high esteem of the imperial court, the Guangdong Township Test can be tried once a year!" The township examination was appointed by the imperial court, and then the Guangdong Institute took the examination for the students, and Ben Fu thought that Guangdong should take the new examination! ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone's expressions were different.

Enke was opened this year, but the total number of lifters in the province in a year is not too much.

The difficulty of the examination is very high, and the quota is set by each province. During the reign of Renzong Hongxi, the quota for admission to the township examination in each province was stipulated:

Nanjing Guozijian and Nanzhili numbered eighty; Beijing Guozijian and Beizhili numbered eighty; 50 in Jiangxi, 45 in Zhejiang, 45 in Fujian, 40 in Huguang, 40 in Guangdong, 35 each in Henan and Sichuan, 30 each in Shaanxi and Shanxi, 30 in Shandong, and 20 in Guangxi......

Even if Guangdong set up a sub-list last year and this year, the total number of new lifters in Guangdong is less than 200.

This is a drop in the bucket for the huge number of official posts that Guangdong has decided to create.

At present, many candidates from the past have come to Guangdong, many people from other provinces have been recommended to become officials in Guangdong, and many prisoners have also come, but this is not enough.

After the reform of the government offices in Guangdong this year, the total number of officials who have actually taken up their posts is less than 4,000, and most of them are still some cadres and officials who have a good reputation in the three-level yamen of the provincial capital and county in the past, and they have been awarded the ninth grade to the eighth grade.

Now Zhang Fujing said that Guangdong's college examination for Xiucai next year will be a new school, and everyone doesn't know what chain reaction it will cause.

Xuezheng used to be in the Department of Punishment and Prosecution, but now it has been moved to the Department of Political Affairs, and the lower hall is in charge.

Zhang En, the political envoy of Zuobu in Guangdong, hesitated and said: "Next year, it will be separated from servitude, and the gentry and wealthy households are not allowed to hide their fields, levy land taxes according to the right to the bottom of the field, and strictly abide by the preferential and exemption policy, and the conscription is even more apportioned into the mu. Futai, the real tough battle is about to begin, is it inappropriate to announce the practical study of all prefectures and counties at this time? ”

Zhang Fujing killed twice in Guangdong, and had two defeats against the Portuguese, and his prestige was already quite strong at this time.

When he heard this, he didn't directly refute Zhang En, but asked Sun Jiao: "Master Hou, what do you think?" ”

Sun Jiaohe smiled: "I went to Guangdong just to supervise the restructuring of the Inspectorate Bureau. If it weren't for the young girl, she would have returned to Beijing to resume her life. Guangdong Xuezheng doesn't need me to put more beaks. ”

At the beginning of the year, Sun Jiao, who sent the good news back to the capital, was happy at this advanced age, and it was only a full moon soon.

He plans to stay in a warmer part of Guangdong until spring blooms before returning to Beijing.

Zhang Fujing ignored his shirk, and continued to ask with a smile: "Hou Ye is also a scholar, I don't know what you have to know about Your Majesty's three principles of heaven, things, and people and the dialectical method?" ”

Sun Jiao glanced at him helplessly.

Fortunately, I only asked him about his experience in this study itself, and it did not involve the specific policy decisions of Guangdong Province.

Sun Jiao, the national abbot, could only sigh: "I have studied all my life, and I have never seen someone as talented as His Majesty." This day, things, and people are connected by the words reality and practice, which is indeed like the sound of the brilliant avenue, which is deafening and thought-provoking. The dialectic is a good way to behave in the world and govern the country together. ”

Zhang En looked at the two of them with a complicated expression.

What to play?

One of you was promoted by the emperor, and the other was the ruler.

Whether or not this new knowledge proposed by His Majesty can withstand the scrutiny of the people of the world is one thing, and that in itself is not important.

However, the New Party deduced the basis for changing the law from the theory of the three principles of heaven, things and man and the dialectic, and the sentence "the foundation of the state system cannot be changed lightly, and the law of the state should always change according to reason" is something that touches the nerves of many people.

This is the right to interpret whether there is a need to change the law in the current situation.

Guangdong is now starting to take the new examination, that is, to help the new party propagate this knowledge.

At present, science is still orthodox, and many scholars have studied it for an unknown number of years, and used it to take the imperial examination and talk about it.

This new set of learning is based on the strengths of others within the framework of science, and it seems that on the surface it is a good integration of more learning.

If there is no new law, then those who study knowledge in the world will not try to contribute to the process of adding bricks and tiles, commenting and publicizing, and invite the name of the text.

But now that there is a new law, the timing of the new knowledge being proposed is a bit coincidental.

Fei Hong, Sun Jiao, and Wang Shouren are not in the center, is this new set of knowledge really from Your Majesty, or is it carefully prepared by the New Party led by Yang Tinghe and put forward in the name of Your Majesty?

"Yongxiu, you participated in the debate between mind and science back then, what do you think of the three principles of heaven, matter, and man?" Zhang Fujing asked Yang Shen again.

Yang Shen, who has been promoted to the head of the ceremonial hall of the political envoy from the third grade, said categorically: "With this knowledge, even Wang Bo'an should be speechless. This is a fortunate thing for Confucianism, why not Guangdong is the first in the world? ”

Zhang En was speechless, you are Yang Ting and his son, you were reckless before.

Yang Shen looked at Gui Cao again: "Brother Zishi, you are in charge of the household hall, how are the fields and taxes in Guangdong this year?" ”

Gui Cao's eyes were full of excitement, he liked the feeling of opening and closing now.

"Although this year, although only the editorial and review rules have not yet been restructured, Tian Fu has carried on with the prestige of Futai in the past year. Guangdong Tianfu has collected more than 1.7 million stones this year, more than 600,000 stones more than in previous years! If there is no catastrophe next year, there will be at least 6,700,000 more stones. ”

Gui Cao sighed: "After Qingzhang, Guangdong should be endowed with more than twice the land, and this is not counting ......"

He didn't finish his sentence. At the beginning of the Republic of China, Guangdong had more than 230,000 hectares of land, and now after more than 100 years of reclamation, the actual total land area should be 30,000 or 40,000 hectares more. But correspondingly, tens of thousands of hectares of them have become guards.

Before and after the new law in Guangdong, Guangdong's land should be given increased from only more than 70,000 hectares to nearly 200,000 hectares.

"As for the commercial tax collected by the Procurement Law and the Commercial Law, I heard from Zhai Zhangsi that there are more than 230,000 taels, right?"

Gui Cao looked at Zhai Luan, who had been promoted from the fourth grade to the head of the third grade tax department, and saw him nod: "This year, the imperial court and the Guangdong offices have spent a total of more than 400,000 taels on purchases, and one out of ten is more than 40,000 taels. On the side of the city, since the tributary city is all borne by the emperor Mingji, the city is easy to collect more than 150,000 taels, which is twice as much as in previous years. Together with many other courses, the total is more than 237,500 taels. ”

The household hall is only in charge of the population and the land endowment, and the other is used by Guangdong itself. The tax department is a lot of miscellaneous taxes in addition to the field endowment, and in Guangdong, there is also the city department.

After listening to this, Yang Shen said: "Guangdong's new law will be successful!" There are also stubborn and greedy praying mantis blocking the car, and they must be unlucky. On the contrary, if Guangdong has more opportunities to raise its sons, and the Jiajing Five-Year Examination will certainly also test the study of practice and dialectics, so will Guangdong be able to show its style? ”

Hearing Yang Shen's words, Zhang Fujing nodded, and looked at Yang Shen with some emotion.

"I have been studying this practice a lot recently. Among them, physics, I don't know how many Confucians have also dabbled in it throughout the ages. Now it seems that it is a deep road. Physics and human reason are just like the Taoist so-called Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, and three to all things. ”

Yang Shen entered a state of real excitement: "Heavenly reason gives birth to physics and human reason, and this physics and human reason are intertwined and circulating. If no one goes to the object, the reason for the object is not clear; If no one understands physics and uses it, our generation can only slash and burn now, how can we have the power to train cattle and horses, guide water disasters to profit, and follow the calendar to meet the agricultural time? Knowing honor and disgrace with enough food and clothing, and knowing etiquette with a solid warehouse, isn't this principle of humanity closely related to the reason of all things? ”

He showed his own cleverness and quick acceptance of new learning. Although others nodded secretly in their hearts, they finally felt that he was emotionally inclined to accept new knowledge.

But Yang Shen's argument is very clear: "This new knowledge is deeply in line with the principles of the Great Dao and will surely flourish!" Guangdong is the first to take the new examination, and people of insight will only applaud! With the prosperity of Guangdong's culture and education, I am afraid that this new law is a good opportunity! ”

Guangdong is discussing the practice and dialectics that will be tested in the provincial examination for Xiucai next year, while the Chengdu Mansion in Sichuan Province and the Fei Hong Mansion are indignant.

"Yang Jiefu is simply unscrupulous for the new law! Now it seems that he did not hesitate to debate the scriptures with Wang Bo'an at the sutra banquet with the respect of the first assistant, what kind of face did he have to speak out? ”

This angry erupted and pointed the finger at Yang Tinghe's betrayal of Lixue.

Although the core of this practical science is still the three principles of heaven, matter, and man, it can add a new thing, which seems to many people to be unrecognizable.

"According to these three principles, what kind of farmer, Mohist, doctor, Yin and Yang...... Aren't these three religions and nine streams all classified as physics and among the children of Confucianism? In the future, will these people be able to enter the imperial examination again without learning the words of the sages? So, where is the etiquette system? Where is the humility? ”

"Miraculous tricks and tricks enter the house, the world is not ancient, and the big bad gang is common! Fei Gong, you have to do something! ”

They all looked at Fei Hong, who was silent, only to see Fei Hong sigh faintly, then looked at them and said: "According to Yang Jiefu, the theory of the three principles of heaven, things, and people and the dialectic are realized by Your Majesty. ”

The crowd was speechless.

Avoiding this point just now is not easy to refute the emperor's thinking problematicly.

This is the advantage of Zhu Houxi himself standing up and putting forward some new ideas, and it is also the reason why Yang Ting and them can endure the temperament and never shout about any new knowledge first.

It takes courage and perseverance for an official to stand up and directly refute the emperor's crooked learning. Such people, after all, are only a very small minority. In other words, if it can become a trend, more people will come out to echo it.

Now, don't they just want Fei Hong to lead the way?

But on the contrary, everyone knows that the old party is now at a disadvantage. Your Majesty still hopes that the new law will achieve the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and the new party is at least supported for now.

At this time, the old party stood up and attacked the new learning bullshit to slap the emperor in the face? Isn't that a self-defeating road?

The old party also hoped that the new party would not be able to achieve anything, and the emperor was disappointed and reactivated the old party.

"Yang Jiefu's sentence can be called a big rebellion!" A man spoke, "In Your Majesty's opinion, it is not inappropriate to use all the elders who have a skill in the world, and the method of dialectics is only the method of speculation. However, Yang Tinghe, because of what His Majesty has obtained, claims that the foundation of the national system cannot be changed lightly, and the law of the state should be changed according to reason, which is really a big mistake! ”

He looked at Fei Hong with burning eyes: "Fei Gong, the foundation of the national body cannot be changed lightly, doesn't that mean that the foundation of the national body can be changed, but it can't be easily changed?" What is the foundation of this nation? This is not a subordinate! ”

Fei Hong looked at him unexpectedly: "What do you say?" ”

"The foundation of the national system, to a small extent, is the emperor's throne, the heir, the respect of the imperial power, to the large extent, it is the etiquette system, and it is the Son of Heaven who abides by the law of etiquette and takes the Confucian scholars to rule the world! Yang Jiefu actually said that the foundation of the national system is changeable, but it cannot be changed lightly, what is his intention? No matter how small or big it is, it is the enemy of the Son of Heaven and the enemy of the world! ”

As soon as he said this, everyone nodded again and again.

"There is a point in that! In Guangdong's new law, the gentry purchased land and property, which was no different from the general payment of taxes by the people, which was harmless, and it was a move of public loyalty to the country. However, the gentry can do business, but they are generally regarded as the same as the commercial law and the tax law as cunning merchants, so why should people in the world still study? Shinong industry and commerce, should be everywhere, the world can be orderly! ”

"Your Majesty's words are physical, the method of speculation, and this kind of learning is originally done by scholars. Now the New Party does not know the true meaning of His Majesty, but it has misinterpreted it as evidence of the new law, and its intentions are sinister, as can be seen from the sentence that the foundation of the national system cannot be changed lightly, and the law used by the state should be changed according to reason. ”

"Not only does it mean not to be subordinate, but also to lead Daming to go to chaos! If the law used by the country changes from time to time, and the people of the world are at a loss, how can they deal with themselves? ”

After he finished his impassioned speech, he looked at Fei Hong eagerly.

The core meaning is to let the gentry of the world have a point to focus on attacking the New Party and Yang Tinghe: Do you still want to move the country? What do you mean?

In addition, there is also a direction of incitement: Do you Yang Tinghe want to dig the roots of Confucianism in the world? If you are just a scholar, can you still be in order if you are attacking the status of the gentry so much now?

Fei Hong looked at these "old parties" who were reluctant to make profits because they were reluctant to make profits from their own land and commercial houses: Can't you see that with Yang Tinghe's level of knowledge, you can't get this set of knowledge?

In fact, as long as you are calm in learning, you will naturally be able to taste the rigor and profundity of this set of learning.

They don't necessarily don't understand, it's just that they don't want to understand because of interests.

At the very least, we must first drive out the new party and restore the old system, and then explain this practice and dialectics from another angle.

Hermeneutics?

It is not good to directly offend the emperor from attacking the three principles of heaven, things, and man, and directly enter the level of the dispute over the right of interpretation, so doesn't it agree that these three principles are already a new classic?

After this great controversy, the core of the theory of the three principles of heaven, matter, and man should be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is bound to come true.

Fei Hong stood up and said: "It is reasonable, I will impeach Yang Jiefu for this fallacy." ”

Everyone was overjoyed, but Fei Hong was a little puzzled.

If we really deduce from the theory of the three principles of heaven, matter, and man and the dialectic, there really will be no unchanging national foundation in the world.

Why was His Majesty willing to let Yang Tinghe say that?

(End of chapter)