"Father, the heavens are constant, not for Yao, not for the sake of death, this is the content of "Xunzi Heavenly Treatise".

Zhu Gaochi's expression was still a little unconcealable, and he tried his best to continue to explain to Zhu Di.

"Xunzi, I know that the hundred schools of thought in the pre-Qin Dynasty are the ones who have gathered the masters."

Zhu Di took a sip of tea and said slowly: "I just know that Xunzi has served as the sacrificial wine of the Qi Guoji School Palace three times, sorted out and inherited the "Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "Li", "Music", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn", and also cultivated several very amazing disciples."

Zhu Gaochi hurriedly said: "Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, Zhang Cang, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, and the famous Han Fei. ”

When Dao Yan heard Zhu Di say this, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Since Zhu Di still remembers these histories of Xunzi, it is much easier to communicate if he thinks about what he is going to say next.

Zhu Di looked at Dao Yan, Zhu Gaochi, and Zhang Yuchu beside him, and asked, "What?" Do you think such an explanation must be possible? ”

Dao Yan nodded and smiled: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true! ”

"Then tell me, how are you going to explain this gravitational and heliocentric theory?" Zhu Di also hid a little throbbing in his heart, and asked slowly.

"It should start with the Heavenly Treatise and the Unraveling Chapter of "Xunzi"." Zhu Gaochi paused, stretched out his hand and motioned to invite Dao Yan and Zhang Yuchu to speak.

Dao Yan didn't say anything, so naturally Zhang Yuchu took over the conversation.

Zhang Yuchu flicked the feather coat and said seriously: "Your Majesty allows the poor to be presumptuous, and dare to talk about these two articles of "Xunzi" to break this situation." ”

"Zhang Zhenren, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Zhu Di looked very generous.

Zhang Yuchu pondered for a moment, and then said: "Actually, it's simple, let's start with this sentence that His Royal Highness the Great Prince just mentioned, heaven is constant, not for Yaocun, not for death." ”

Your Majesty must know the meaning of this sentence, that is, in fact, the operation of the Heavenly Dao is constant, and it does not exist because of Yao's wisdom, nor does it perish because of the tyranny of Yao. In other words, in fact, the first sentence of the opening sentence of "Xunzi Heavenly Treatise" has already denied the induction of heaven and man. ”

"Otherwise, according to the theory of celestial and human induction, the Heavenly Dao would have already been blessed because of Yao's wisdom, and it would also be punished because of Yao's tyranny."

That is to say, Xunzi, as a philosopher who advocated simple materialism in ancient China, on the basis of attaching importance to social personnel, absorbed the ancient materialist atheistic ideas and the achievements of natural science in the Warring States period at that time, and established his own set of materialist views on nature.

Xunzi's materialist view of nature, fundamentally, is contrary to the traditional idealistic view that the mandate of heaven determines personnel and the divine right of the monarch, according to Xunzi's viewpoint, the good luck of personnel and the chaos of society are completely determined by the appropriateness of the ruler's governance measures, and it is not necessarily related to the changes in the natural world.

In Zhu Di's mind, he also seemed to recall the stories of the ancestors that his eldest brother Zhu Biao told him when he was a child, and his views on Xunzi gradually became clearer.

Zhu Di nodded and motioned for Zhang Yuchu to continue.

Seeing that the emperor was not angry about this, Zhang Yuchu, who was heartfelt, breathed a sigh of relief and continued.

The next thing in this paragraph is: If it should be cured, it will be auspicious, if it should be chaotic, it will be fierce, and if it is strong and economical, then the sky cannot be poor; When you are ready to move, you can't get sick; If you don't cultivate the way, you can't be in trouble. Therefore floods and droughts cannot make them hungry, nor cold and heat can make them sick."

The rough translation is that the king responds to heaven by ruling the world is auspicious, and the king responds to heaven by disturbing the world is evil, and if man can strengthen the fundamental moderation, then heaven cannot make man poor; If a person has sufficient sustenance and exercise in season, then heaven cannot make a person sick. If a person is single-minded in his cultivation and not double-minded, then heaven will not be able to cause harm to others. Therefore neither a great flood nor a great drought can make a man hungry, nor can a cold or hot day make a man sick.

"Do your job, god is a fart?"

Zhu Gaosui, the third prince who was guarding at the door, said suddenly.

"Shut up!"

Although Zhu Di scolded, he was very satisfied with his youngest son's ability to summarize.

In one sentence, isn't it over just saying that?

Zhang Yuchu had to ask Rory to talk a lot, and it hurt to hear it.

"Zhang Zhenren." Zhu Di warned slightly, "Be concise! ”

"Poor Dao understands!"

Zhang Yuchu was so careful, knowing that the emperor didn't like to listen to nonsense, the words were immediately refined.

Xunzi also said that the position of heaven will not succeed because of people's efforts, nor will it be obtained because of people's efforts. This also means that things like the Heavenly Dao have nothing to do with people. Although the way of heaven is great, people do not need to increase their thoughts because of this; Although the way of heaven is wonderful, people don't have to bother too much about it, which means that people don't fight with heaven, because it's meaningless. ”

"Why is it pointless?" Zhu Di asked curiously.

Xunzi's explanation is that the heavens have the seasons of the heavens, the earth has the wealth of the earth, and the people have the governance of people, which is called the juxtaposition of heaven, earth and man. Juxtaposition means not interfering with each other, and it would be extremely foolish for people to abandon the reason why they are able to juxtapose themselves with heaven (i.e., the ability to govern all things) and try to interfere with the functions of the Heavenly Dao. ”

Zhu Di: "."

Zhu Gaosui: "."

In the past, because they didn't read so many sage books, especially about Xunzi, which was deliberately blocked and diluted in the Confucian system, the concept they accepted was the set of "heaven and man induction" and "divine authority of the monarch".

It is equivalent to being artificially created into an information cocoon.

And Zhu Gaochi is more studious, he also goes to school with Zhu Gaosui, Zhu Gaochi finishes the coursework assigned by Mr. Teaching, and will go to learn other books, so Zhu Gaochi knows this.

But knowing doesn't mean that Zhu Gaochi will go and talk about it.

So after going back and forth, Zhu Di only realized now that the original "heaven and man induction" is not something that has been taken for granted since ancient times.

On the contrary, Xunzi, one of the Confucian sages who was several generations earlier than Dong Zhongshu, had already put forward a point of refutation of criticism!

And the best thing is that Xunzi's seniority is much better than Dong Zhongshu!

"Anything else? Go on. ”

Zhang Yuchu saw that the emperor's face was cloudy for a long time, and his heart kept holding it, until the emperor asked him to continue, Zhang Yuchu cautiously continued.

"Yes, and the next thing is to directly explain Mr. Jiang's 'heliocentric theory' from "Xunzi"."

"What did you say?"

Zhu Di was greatly confused.

In Zhu Di's known information, the 'heliocentric theory' is a statement just put forward by Jiang Xinghuo, and the existence of gravitation must be proved through the twist scale experiment in order to deduce and prove the heliocentric theory.

But Zhang Yuchu told him that "Xunzi Heavenly Treatise" could directly explain heliocentrism?

How is this possible? Could it be that in this world, there really is a mysterious and mysterious way of heaven, and it has long been recognized by Xunzi?

"Your Majesty, the minister is saying that "Xunzi" can explain heliocentrism." Zhang Yuchu hurriedly bowed and bowed.

Zhu Di frowned, but after all, he didn't continue, but ordered the eunuch next to him to help Zhang Yuchu sit down.

"I went on, I wanted to know more details." Zhu Di said softly.

Zhang Yuchu arched his hand and said: "That poor road will be ugly, if there is any inappropriate expression, please forgive Your Majesty." ”

Zhang Yuchu slowly retold a sentence in "Xunzi" that can be used to explain the 'heliocentric theory'.

"The stars rotate, the sun and the moon pass the fire, the four times of the emperor, the yin and yang are magnified, the wind and rain are blessed, all things have their own harmony to live, each has its own nourishment, do not see its things, but see its work, the husband is called God. Everyone knows why it is made, but I don't know that it is invisible, and the husband is the sky. Only the saints do not seek to know the heavens. ”

The meaning of this sentence is that the stars in the sky follow each other and rotate, the sun and the moon shine alternately on each other, the four seasons take turns to control the climate, yin and yang change all things, wind and rain are universally given to all things, all things are born in harmony with heaven, all things are nourished by heaven and grow, and there is nothing special in heaven. Everyone knows that there is heaven for all things to come into being, but they don't know that heaven is invisible, and this is called the way of heaven.

"I can understand the front." Zhu Di frowned slightly and said, "In the last sentence, what does it mean that only the saint does not seek to know the sky?" Why can't a saint seek knowledge of the Heavenly Dao? ”

Zhang Yuchu originally wanted to say that the general understanding is that because the way of heaven is unknowable, it is difficult to understand with human reason, and it is better to understand nature than to understand oneself, so Xunzi said so.

"Ahem, ahem."

But Dao Yan suddenly coughed lightly twice.

Zhang Yuchu woke up in an instant, and said almost in his heart.

"Because the saint is the emperor of men, the emperor of men does not need to know the way of heaven, the emperor himself is the embodiment of the way of heaven and a part of the way of heaven!"

As soon as these words came out, the room was silent!

Zhu Di's heart beat violently, his face was not shocked, only a pair of tiger eyes were slightly condensed, staring at Zhang Yuchu.

Zhu Di has never thought about this, and even angrily accused Zhang Yuchu of talking nonsense!

But Zhang Yuchu's appearance looked very calm, without the slightest sign of panic, which made Zhu Di's heart shake, is this guy really talking nonsense?

Or rather, it can really be explained in this way.

"Haha! What a man! Your Majesty really deserves to be favored by Heaven! Dao Yan couldn't help but clapped his hands and smiled.

Dao Yan had been observing Zhu Di's reaction just now, and he found that although Zhu Di's face was as calm as water, his fists were actually clenched, the green tendons on the back of his hands were bursting up, and his eyes were also blooming, showing that Zhu Di's heart was not as calm as it seemed on the surface.

Before the Zhou Dynasty, there was no son of heaven!

In the Xia Shang and even more ancient times, the king was the emperor of men!

"Spring and Autumn Wei Destiny Calendar Preface" contains: "The emperor of the people came out of the valley and divided into nine rivers. ”

"The Three Five-Year Calendar" contains: "The emperor, the emperor of the earth, and the emperor of men are juxtaposed. ”

The meaning of the human emperor is the human emperor who is on par with the way of heaven.

And after the Zhou Dynasty, there was the title of "Son of Heaven".

What is the Son of Heaven? The eldest son of the Heavenly Princess.

In order to consolidate his position and political power, the king claimed that his power was granted by God and that he was adhering to the will of heaven to govern the world, so he was called the Son of Heaven.

Since then, the emperor of the world has changed from an existence on a par with the Heavenly Dao to a son of the Heavenly Dao.

"I am the Emperor of Men, not the Son of Heaven!"

Zhu Di's heart suddenly popped up with such an exciting idea.

It was almost the same as what he had thought when he first observed the stars of the day!

Zhu Di looked at Zhang Yuchu, the Heavenly Master of Dragon and Tiger Mountain in front of him, and said slowly: "I, I have one more thing to ask you. ”

"Your Majesty, please speak."

(End of chapter)