"Alas, the kingdom of heaven is originally a place of prosperity for saints, and I don't want to raise the study of evil ways, distort the ways of heaven and morality, and even revive the hundred schools of pseudo-learning.

There was actually one person in the carriage, and he sighed fakely: "The hundred schools have been suppressed by Confucianism for a long time, and if they are revived, they will definitely take revenge." ”

"Although he is an official of the lower country, he is also a disciple of a saint, and he has always revered the Confucian family for a long time, and he really can't bear to suffer this catastrophe for the study of the saint."

"Hmph, my Confucian family has been inherited for generations, how can that group of pseudo-apprentices be defeated." Kong Xixue's heart was even more aroused by these words. Turned his head and held the man's hand: "Unexpectedly, in the place where Qilu and my Confucius are founded, there are tens of thousands of rebellious households." On the contrary, in the Far East of Goryeo, there are reasonable talents like you. ”

"Wan Hu and Yang Shiqi were taught by my ancestors, but they openly did rebellious things...... It's really a bad day. ”

"Sacred learning is defiled, and it is incumbent upon everyone in my generation to do so. If it weren't for the fact that he was far away in Goryeo, he would have faced His Majesty Chen a long time ago, and he would have banned the evil new learning. How can you make the shaft a ...... for Wenzong?"

"Alas...... Let that vertical son take charge of the national prison, it is really a world trend. This is the day, the old man swears to fight with Xinxue to the end, and when the time comes, you will need your help. ”

Kong Xixue said sincerely, and the person in the same car agreed with him, and he looked like a dignified old man. It's just that the eyebrows and eyes are slender, and the clothes are very different, not like the Han people in the Central Plains.

This person is Zheng Mengzhou, an envoy of the Goryeo State, who visited Qufu along the way when he was an envoy to the Ming Dynasty, and happened to meet the dispute between Confucius and ten thousand households, so he entered Confucius to offer advice.

It can be said that the reason why Yan Shenggong Kong Xixue made up his mind to enter the court was mostly instigated by this person. However, what this person said is not right, if a hundred schools of thought arise, and the Confucian Mansion will be rich for thousands of years, I am afraid it will be empty.

With the change of dynasties, the Confucian government can be indifferent. Because no matter who is the emperor, there is always a need for the Confucian family to be a minister, thinking that the destiny of heaven returns. The title of a holy duke is not something that a dynasty can easily take;

With the invasion of foreign races, the Confucian Mansion can also be as immobile as a mountain. After all, no matter what ethnic group joins the Confucians, they always need the help of Confucian scholars to govern the country. If you need to read people, you must hold up the banner of Confucius's descendants. Even if the iron hooves of different races pass by, the Confucian Mansion is also worry-free;

As long as Confucius is immortal and the world is circulating, Confucius can still be passed on and will not fade for eternity. But Wanhu and Yang Shiqi proposed to "rejuvenate the hundred schools", and asked His Majesty to abandon Confucius in the scientific examination, which broke the foundation of Confucius.

For the sake of the eternal wealth of the Confucian Mansion, Confucius Xixue also had to come.

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At this time, the country was in prison.

"Youthful spirit, too hasty!" In the room, Song Lianzheng, who temporarily took the position of Guozi supervisor, was angry and reprimanded a young man who was kneeling below. "You are just a scholar, and you are trying in vain to raise the banner of a hundred schools of thought and interfere in the affairs of the country."

"Do you know that even the old man and the Fifth Highness have inducted new learning, and they have to use the learning of Confucius to stabilize the hearts of the people. Your words forced the Kong family to have no way out, and Yan Shenggong entered Beijing to fight back, what if it really shook the pioneering and enterprising policy of the dynasty? ”

"You must know that Yan Shenggong is a descendant of the Confucian family after all, if even he criticizes Xinxue, how can I convince the public of Xinxue's views?"

“…… The gentleman was angry. If there is a case, the student will not be able to escape the blame. Yang Shiqi knelt down in front of Song Lian and looked at the division commander whom he respected very much in horror.

This old minister of the Five Dynasties of the future Ming Dynasty was only a young and vigorous young man at this time. He was also from the new school of Guozijian, but his family was slightly poor, and he unfortunately lost his father when he was young and remarried with his mother. Although he was sponsored by his classmates and went to Beijing to study in Guozijian for a few years, he had to drop out of school and leave because he was shy and unwilling to continue to receive favors.

He is gifted and is one of the rare good seedlings of Xinxue, and Song Lian, Fang Xiaoru and others all value him very much. After leaving Guozijian, he did not relax his pace of further study, in response to Zhu Su's learning concept of "coming from the masses and going to the masses", while traveling around to understand the people's livelihood and increase his knowledge, on the other hand, as a teacher for the children of the common people, some time ago, just traveled to the land of Qilu.

However, Yang Shiqi never admitted his mistake. After Song Lian took a breath, Yang Shiqi said cautiously: "Sir, it's not that the student is disobedient to the teacher, it's just that the student really has something unclear. ”

"Although our new learning is based on Confucianism and the aspirations of the sages, its essence is all-encompassing, which is very different from Confucianism and Taoism."

"Among them, arithmetic, science, the study of governance, and so on, the distinction is so good that it must not be confused."

"Even the Fifth Highness of our country's Zijian and Master Saijiu once said in class that Confucianism and Taoism are moral studies, and they cannot be confused with practical studies such as arithmetic and science."

"Science, for example, is the study of progress, and it is also black and white, and it has no moral attributes. If Confucianism is used to guide science, it will inevitably lead to the stagnation and regression of science. Outsiders are fine, but my generation of new students, but we must distinguish many learnings, and we can't all call them new learning. ”

The students thought so. It's just that this statement has always been propagated only within our country's sub-prisons, and outside, Xinxue is still showing people with Confucian scholarship. ”

"You must know that since the founding of Confucius, after thousands of years of distorted and whitewashed by the so-called great Confucians, by the time Cheng Zhu arrived, it was unrecognizable and had no original meaning."

"If we still only respect Confucianism, thousands of years later, I know that my new school will not produce a 'great Confucian' as clever as Cheng Zhu, which is far-fetched with all kinds of learning and Confucianism, and misinterprets the original meaning of Mr. and Lord Sacrificial Wine?"

"In that case, shouldn't it be more appropriate to simply get out of the barrier of Confucianism and set up its own door?"

Song Lian was silent when he heard this, thinking that Yang Shiqi was also opening the way for new learning after all, and he had doubts, but he did not say nothing because of the teacher's reprimand, but still had to ask each other, this pursuit of "Tao" is exactly what Song Lian has always admired. He thought about it, and finally sighed: "You have this heart, which means that you are really thinking about my new learning." ”

In fact, His Highness was also worried about this. His Royal Highness once said that we will prosper according to Confucianism, and in the future, it is inevitable that we will die because of Confucianism. In the past, the study of Confucianism in Qin and Han was not all because the so-called 'great Confucian' vainly commented on the words of Confucius and refuted them with the words of Confucius, and finally died out? ”

"Confucius has been studying for thousands of years, and it has long been out of date, even if it is tinkered, there are always loopholes. Moreover, my generation of literati is always accustomed to using the views of our ancestors to guide the learning of future generations. After we were born in Confucius, we will inevitably be restrained by him. In this way, it may be difficult to develop. ”

"My new learning encompasses all things, and there are many divisions, and we must not rely only on Confucius. You have to take root on your own in order to really flourish. ”

(End of chapter)