"Master's saying that 'those who don't investigate, don't speak' is new, but if you really want to do something, just give an order, why make it so cumbersome? You can't investigate everything before making a decision, even if the daylily is cold. Zhu Gaoxu said dumbly.

Hearing this, some petty officials and officials in the courtyard who were also tossed into black bread by Jiang Xinghuo also looked at Jiang Xinghuo.

This is exactly what they don't understand these days, it stands to reason that with such a monstrous power as a national teacher, and the prestige of the victory of the White Lotus Sect in the rebellion, what do you want to do in Jiangnan, you still need to take advantage of the opportunity to control the water to assign these people, and even personally run from township to township, and everyone ran to more than 100 townships in total, before issuing such an investigation report for decision-making?

Isn't it over slapping your head? That's how everybody used to do that!

It's just that of course they didn't dare to say these words to Jiang Xinghuo, so they could only hold it silently in their hearts and work hard Jiang Xinghuo didn't treat them badly, and went to the township to do an investigation There was an additional meal subsidy, saying that it was a meal subsidy, but the amount was obviously not just the standard of two or even three meals a day, so everyone didn't say anything.

But since the second prince asked about the puzzle that had been buried in their hearts for a long time, they were naturally happy to listen to an answer.

Ye Xiucai, who was immersed in studying the design drawings of water conservancy projects, also raised his head at this time, recently he and Sun Kun have almost evolved into blasting ghosts, and the tofu slag dam built by those black-hearted gentry in the south of the Yangtze River was almost blown up and rebuilt by them.

"Of course, this doesn't mean that we do everything like this, but isn't that a matter of carving a boat for a sword? If something is too late to investigate, or if something is indeed common sense (not the same as empiricism), that's another story. ”

"But." Jiang Xinghuo picked up the fan and fanned the wind, and continued, "For major administrative decisions that are difficult to change once a decision is made, or that changes will cause serious consequences, then it must be investigated. ”

Seeing that everyone was still a little puzzled, Jiang Xinghuo simply gave an example, the short story "Hun Ranzi", the author is Zhang Chong, a Jinshi in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, but at this time it is still far from being born, but it is suitable to be used directly, without the embarrassment of being spied on by anyone.

"The farmer ploughs the field, counts the breath and hoes.

When the walker saw it, he said: "What's more, the laziness of the farmer!" After a few breaths and a hoe, this field is not successful!

The farmer said: If you don't know how to plow, can you show me the skill of ploughing?

The walker undressed and went to the field, a breath and a few hoes, a hoe to do his best, before the time to move, exhausted sweat and rain, panting and unable to make a sound, and servant in the field.

The farmer said: Now and then I know the difficulty of plowing the field. ”

At this time, Wang Bin came to report, but said that some local scholars in Songjiang asked to see them, but they were not alive, and the leaders were the ones who rode the donkey at the beginning.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't seem surprised, and said directly: "You can guess why they came, so let them in, but if there is anything, we have to wait until later." ”

More than a dozen well-dressed scholars poured in, apparently all of them were "opinion leaders" of local students in Songjiang Prefecture.

Since the national teacher planned to listen to their appeals, but asked them not to say it now, these people were also well-behaved, standing quietly in the position where they had just entered the courtyard, looking at the officials who had been sunburned, and at first they subconsciously despised these officials for losing their dignity, but some of them immediately admired and even ashamed themselves.

Song Li also didn't have any pomp and circumstance, got up and took out the cellared ice melon from the well with his own hands, and then cut it for everyone.

Song Li continued with a smile while dividing: "That is to say, it is easier to know than to do!" ”

The officials and scholars were indeed a little restless at this time, but Jiang Xinghuo signaled that everyone was fine, and had no choice but to watch and let the waiter cut the melon.

But others can watch, but Huang Zhifu can't, he hurriedly snatched this job.

Huang Ziwei, the prefect of Songjiang, has recently become more and more decent with the national teacher, not because of his appearance, he is also tanned, but because others are afraid of him, which he has never experienced when he was set up before.

He cut a piece of watermelon for Jiang Xinghuo, cut a piece himself, gnawed on the melon and said vaguely: "It's easier said than done, this official has a deep understanding, I used to feel that sitting under the government corridor and listening to the rain, relying on the case documents can govern a government in an orderly manner, but now I have run all over the township with the national teacher, but I feel very ashamed, just like a frog sitting in a well and watching the sky." ”

A group of scholars listened to the same as the auditors, and Jiang Xinghuo talked eloquently.

"Why do you say, 'Don't speak without a survey?'" Let's talk about two things that I have experienced recently. ”

Jiang Xinghuo pinched the melon with his thumb, index finger, and middle finger, revealing two fingers.

"The first one, Jiangnan is going to open a mine, and there are still a few thousand White Lotus Sect soldiers left after fifteen strokes, so coal mines, iron mines, and silver mines. No matter what kind of mine it is, it must be opened, and resources cannot be wasted, but must be utilized. The four silver mines of Xiaosu Shishiyan, Heyan, Guanshan, and Qiancha were said by the local government to be opened during the Hongwu period and are now going to be scrapped. ”

This is to say, Li Jinglong mentioned in the edict prison before, during the Hongwu Dynasty, he supervised the silver class in Jiangxi and other places, and the silver output of the Ming Dynasty decreased year by year, and was ruthlessly punctured by Zhu Gaoxu, and the difference went into his own pocket of the Duke of Cao, although the tens of thousands of taels of silver Li Jinglong donated to the Ming Dynasty's navigation career during the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet last year, which can be regarded as spending money to buy peace, but the inside story of the silver class can be seen from this.

This time it was the same, the magistrate wanted to subcontract the remaining silver in the silver pit to the local Haoqiang miners to mine in the name of reporting the silver mine to be scrapped, and make a lot of money from it.

Jiang Xinghuo ostensibly sent a group of people to investigate, of course, these people were sent to souvenirs with food, drink and entertainment, but secretly, Cao Song took people to find evidence, which directly led to the earthquake in the local eunuch field.

Everyone nodded along with it, if it was just by talking, they would not be able to understand the subtle meaning, but with one example, it was clear that the words of the national teacher were not a big truth, but a criterion that could really guide them in doing things.

Jiang Xinghuo gnawed on two petals of melon in one breath, and then stretched out his little finger and said:

"The second thing is that when we check the apportionment into the mu, does it clearly stipulate that there can be no 'new type of servitude', and no more unpaid apportionment of labor?"

"Your Majesty is afraid that we will not be able to control the guards, and also deliberately issued a holy decree: for several years of using soldiers, the army and the people are trapped, and now the 'apportionment into the mu' is rested with it, and there are several orders, those who are good at serving one army and one people, will be punished with heavy laws, and they will not obey the law than the county of Wenwei, and still attack the old and bad and good service, such as driving dogs and sheep, without the slightest sense of compassion, is the surest of the poor who are not respectful to the king's order, when can it be completed? The officials of the guards, wait for them to affirm the previous order, and from now on those who commit another offense will not be punished. The tone is harsh enough, right? The punishment for killing the head is cruel enough, right? ”

Hearing this, even Song Li showed a wry smile, this incident really opened their eyes, and they didn't expect that those insects in the place could still play flowers when they had drawn a red line so clearly.

"As a result, because of a trivial matter, His Majesty issued a holy decree to the Ministry of Rites and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, saying: Since Jingnan raised the army, the people of Jianghuai and the Central Plains have fed the people who died in battle, and the violent bones in the wilderness have not been buried. It is nothing more than the matter of burying corpses in the wilderness, and according to the current regulations, it is good for the local governments and health offices to spend some money to hire people to do it, and this money has been collected from the people's taxes. ”

"Well, how do they play? In the past, whoever did not want to serve the conscription had to pay for exemption from the service, but now whoever wants to collect the corpse has to pay the officials privately! Then the magistrate withholds a portion of the money that should be used for the expenditure according to the regulations, and sends it out, earning two cents inside and out! ”

Jiang Xinghuo became more and more angry the more he talked, and directly stuffed the watermelon into Zhu Gaoxu's hand, pointed to the air and scolded his mother: "You made money but did something for the imperial court, and you also subcontracted it out again, and subcontracted it and endured it, this kind of thing is inevitable, but these ruffians who took over the task couldn't find many wilderness corpses by themselves, because they spent the corresponding budget and had corpse collection targets, and finally simply dug up the ancestral graves of the villagers in the middle of the night!" If it weren't for the villagers who reported to Huang Zhifu, no one here would know, is this like a word?! ”

This is really not like words, and the melon-eating officials and scholars present are quite unbearable.

The matter of digging up the grave was too embarrassing, and the entire Songjiang Mansion was spread as a joke.

Jiang Xinghuo sighed and said: "So, a silver mine is reported for scrapping, and a corpse is collected and the grave is dug up, just these two small things can be seen, if you don't investigate, just give instructions to the bottom from above and send official documents, I'll tell you the truth, our change of law, we have to become Wang Anshi Qingmiao method second, it can't be done!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the melons in the hands of the officials suddenly became unsweet.

The severance of the national teacher's remarks even raised the "investigation practice" to the level of "the success or failure of the law change", and it really did not look like a joke, and they could not afford not to attach importance to it, after all, it was a matter related to their vital interests and future destiny.

The main reason why Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law failed was that the officials below violated the yang and yin, so that in the actual implementation process, it was seriously out of shape, which can be described as full of ugliness.

Some of the policies used in Yongle reform may be relatively radical, but from the original intention of Jiang Xinghuo's policymakers, they are all aimed at strengthening the country and enriching the people, and the key question is whether the implementation process can be implemented locally.

If you can't, then it will really be empty, after all, any good policy must be implemented on people in the end.

And now, the national teacher seems to have found a way out of the shadow of Wang Anshi's change.

- That's the "no surveyor, don't speak".

The size of the policy, at least a survey should be done before landing, so as to ensure that it will not be out of shape and will not be deceived by the insects at the bottom.

"The more you know, the more you do; The more you do, the better you know. The principle of the national teacher's 'no investigator should not speak' is the same as what is said in "Zhu Zi's Language". A scholar spoke.

At this opening, the rest of the scholars also followed along, but the atmosphere at the scene turned in another direction.

Huang Ziwei, as a local parent official, also knows the recent temple wind direction, and did not use Cheng Zhu Lixue's set, but came to the content of Xunzi's "Persuasion": "If you don't climb the mountain, you don't know the height of the sky; Not near the deep stream, I don't know the thickness of the ground. ”

Well, this is the result of the recent efforts of the imperial court to push Xunzi back to the position of a saint among the people.

Recently, all kinds of classics of Xunzi have been reprinted overtime by the Guozijian Printing Institute, and under the guidance of the mainstream discourse of the imperial court, schools at all levels such as Fuzhou County have begun to learn Xunzi's upsurge, and the officials are also more or less idle to talk about his old man's words to make a trend.

Of course, this has also caused considerable controversy and backlash, this kind of public opinion backlash, Jiang Xinghuo is not so obvious in Jiangnan for the time being, but once he finishes dealing with the implementation of Jiangnan's reform and returns to Nanjing, then this large-scale public opinion backlash must be inevitable.

If you were still talking about official business just now, the atmosphere that followed was a little more academic.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't stop them from crooking the meeting, after all, on the one hand, these scholars were there, and it was difficult to say some official things; On the other hand, he also felt that what he had just emphasized was a little too serious.

Jiang Xinghuo himself took the melon from Zhu Gaoxu's hand again, and watched them discuss happily, which can be regarded as an observation of how Shilinli regarded himself as respecting Xunzi and trying to replace science with science.

"The national teacher might as well talk about it?"

"Yes, the national teacher can solve 'Tai Chi', but it is enough to become a great master of a generation of Confucianism."

"I don't know the truth of the national teacher, but what is the saying? If there is, we can be regarded as listening to the national teacher's sermon seriously! ”

The scholars were in a hurry.

After a night on Taiping Street, Jiang Xinghuo's hat of "Confucianism and extraordinary attainments" was buttoned up, which is not an exaggeration, and he can solve 'Tai Chi' with 'contradictions', breaking through one of the last theoretical peaks of science.

Therefore, there are also a group of believers in Nanjing Guozijian who use Jiang Xinghuo's ideas to do experiments to verify the 'contradiction', and this atmosphere has further affected the wider range of the north and south of the river, and some people even send posts to worship Jiang Xinghuo, to rub the title of a disciple, and help their careers.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, the academic circle and the eunuch field are inseparable, and in the four words "protégé and former official", the status of the disciple is even more before the old subordinates, which can be seen.

In this way, the thoughts of these scholars who came to see him were self-evident.

However, Jiang Xinghuo did not refuse.

It is his goal to walk the royal road with benevolence and righteousness, gather people on the same road, and turn the tide of the sky.

If you want to do something, how can you do it without supporters? It can be said to be cheesy, in this era, most people are nothing more than an exchange of fame and fortune, and only a very small number of people like Yao Guangxiao and Xia Yuanji are really changing the law with him for some inner ideals.

As soon as he thought of this, Jiang Xinghuo also said calmly: "Since you want to hear it, you can also slow down the matter of the report first, Jiang Mou can talk about it casually, and there is indeed a little bit of saying in this." ”

Recently, the national teacher has been busy with things and less than empty talk, but the empty talk of the national teacher has always been more interesting, even if the people around him have heard less recently, they also know that it is precious, so they suddenly sat up.

"First of all, we want to emphasize that today we are talking about Taoism, investigation, and practice, but not ontology. Since the creation, establishment, development, and perfection of this thing in the two Song Dynasty science and science, it is not clear to argue, and we simply do not argue, what do you think? ”

The scholars whispered.

The so-called "ontology" of science is the 'Tai Chi' mentioned earlier, but according to the principle of 'Reason is different', we can know that in everyone's heart, there is their own 'Tai Chi', that is, their own Heavenly Principles. In the middle, the heart also; The mediocre one, use also. It can be seen from this that 'Tai Chi' is outside the heart? That is, it is equivalent to one's own 'heart'.

"Zhu Wen's Official Documents, Volume 77" says: The reason why people are in the middle of heaven and earth, and those who are the spirits of all things, are only in the heart! However, the mind is the body, it cannot be smelled, it cannot be thought about, it is said that there is something, it cannot be spoken, and if it is said that there is nothing, then between daily use, there is no adaptation but also.

Zhu Xi felt that although the 'heart' could not be touched or spoken, it was all-encompassing, so he had a cloud in "Zhu Zi's Language, Volume 98": All things have a heart and there must be a void in it. Only these voids contain a lot of truths, Milun world covers the ancient and modern, promoted, covering the world, all because of this, this is the wonder of people's hearts!

In the final analysis, it is a more idealistic thing, Jiang Xinghuo has never been interested in it, and there is indeed no objective standard for judging who is right and who is wrong, once it is debated, it will soon fall into the cycle of "Zi Fei Yu knows the joy of fish" and "Zi Fei I know that I don't know the joy of fish".

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo simply emphasized in advance that we will not involve the ontology set, but only discuss objective investigation and practice, and we should not use such things as 'ontology' and 'mind' to touch them.

However, in the eyes of the scholars of this era, ontology is the most core thing, and everything is ultimately sought from one's own heart, and wanting to bypass ontology and talk about other things is a bit crooked.

Well, anyway, the mainstream philosophical concepts of different eras are completely different, but if the national teachers have to have this premise, they can't say anything, they can only default to ignoring the influence of ontology on everything.

But in this way, these scholars are a little curious, what angle does the national teacher want to interpret his own set of things.

"As you all know, the theory of science is a mixture of categories, including the theory of rational qi, ontology, theory of mind, and theory of work, as well as the principle of reason and difference, so I talked about the 'Tai Chi' and 'contradiction' in the theory of reason and qi before, and today I want to combine it with reality, and I am talking about the epistemology of the 'so-so' in the theory of work."

For Jiang Xinghuo, change has never been a slogan.

Jiang Xinghuo is very clearly aware that if he wants to truly and completely change the world, there are two parallel main lines to do, one is to point the manufacturing force, and the other is to unravel the thought.

In the past, what Jiang Xinghuo did in prison was to dissolve the thoughts of the top decision-makers of the Ming Dynasty, and after he was released from prison, Taiping Street and praying for rain were to dissolve the thoughts of scholars in Beijing; Subsequently, Jiang Xinghuo's series of things at hand in Jiangnan counterinsurgency, disaster relief, flood control, factory construction, etc., including the future conquest of Annan and Japan, really ignited and changed the manufacturing force.

But at the same time, the idea of unwinding cannot be left behind.

Before, I was too busy, so busy that the soles of my feet were sparkling, but now I am a little free, so I naturally have to put it on the agenda.

The first is the promotion of science, which is needless to say, and it is also the main task after returning to Beijing; The second is the change of philosophical concepts, which is more difficult and cannot be done by ordinary travelers.

Why can't you do it?

The answer is also very simple, philosophy also has its limitations of the times, this limitation is not only that the previous philosophy will be put in some places that are not suitable for the future (of course, most of the original philosophical concepts are timeless), and the advanced philosophical ideas of later generations, if there are no corresponding conditions of the times, directly thrown into the previous era, then the universality will be limited to a certain extent.

Speaking of human words means copying directly, and people of this era will be regarded as fools and madmen.

Therefore, the correct way to solve the problem is to express the advanced philosophical ideas of later generations through the mainstream philosophical concepts of this era and in a way that people of this era can understand.

This requires that the traveler not only understand most of the philosophical views of later generations (from the beginning of the 19th century to the 80s of the 20th century, but also do not need to understand postmodernist philosophy), but also have the ability to understand the academic understanding and subjective creativity (or stitching is more appropriate).

But the truth is that being able to understand the basic principles and schools of philosophy is already a filter for most time-travelers.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo's way of "igniting manufacturing power" and "untying thoughts" to transform the world at the same time is relatively rare.

Previously, Jiang Xinghuo thought that the previous solution of "Tai Chi" with "contradiction" was a good theoretical breakthrough, which on the surface was to break through the important theoretical peak of the theory of rationality and qi for science, but in fact, it promoted the promotion of early scientific experimental thinking, and this promotion effect can be seen by looking at the hot air balloons that the scholars in Beijing rushed to fly.

If Cheng Zhu science is regarded as a discipline, then it is nothing more than the four main categories of rational qi theory, ontology, mental nature theory, and labor theory, and then mixed with more than a dozen branches. The theory of rational qi has been partially solved by 'contradiction'; ontology, for the time being, and the theory of mind, which has already been discussed in the previous "Metaphysical Critique of the 'Transcendental Theory of Human Nature'"; The rest is this theory of work.

(End of chapter)