"Why doesn't that gentleman fight with the students and rejuvenate the hundred schools?" Yang Shiqi's face showed joy, he took a few steps on his knees and came to Song Lian's feet. "Sir is a man of insight, and he naturally knows that now, my Ming Dynasty is in the midst of a rare change in thousands of years."

"If we allow Confucianism to run rampant and control the government, in the future, after we die, I am afraid that my new school should be short-lived."

"Since childhood, students have been in a state of confusion, studying the books of sages for more than ten years, until they enter the national prison, and they know what is the truth of the world and what is the will of the nation. If there is no Mr. and the Lord of the Sacrificial Wine, I am afraid that even if the students can rank in the court class in this life, they will be like other Confucian students, and they will be a paste-making craftsman to paste this ancestral family business, and they will not know how to forge ahead and open up. ”

"But the heavenly sage like the Lord of the Sacrificial Wine will never have it again in the future! After hearing about the new learning, our generation can do nothing to make the foundation of the new learning permanent. ”

"Even if you die nine times, you still don't regret it! If we retreat today, and the new learning of future generations is distorted and attached to the same way as the learning of Confucius, we will be unable to escape the blame for all eternity! ”

"Students are dull, thinking about it, only by making the imperial court reopen a hundred schools and learn from a hundred schools of thought, can the foundation of Confucianism be weakened, and many new categories of learning can become prominent learning."

"Finally enter the house and support my Huaxia foundation!"

Yang Shiqi was so impassioned that even Song Lian couldn't help but be moved. He stretched out his calloused hand and patted Yang Shiqi's shoulder. "I know what you want, but you're in a hurry."

He stood up tremblingly, and Yang Shiqi hurriedly got up to support him.

"You despise Confucianism, thinking that Confucianism will definitely become an obstacle to my new learning. But I don't know that our new learning was originally established on the basis of the knowledge of many ancestors such as Confucianism. ”

"If there is no ancestor Zhuyu in front of him, even if the Fifth Highness is the capital of the heavens, can he still create something out of nothing and create so many learnings out of thin air?"

Yang Shiqi was stunned.

"Confucianism has been rooted in China for thousands of years. If there is no Confucianism, there will be no outstanding people like Prime Minister Wen and Yue Wumu in times of crisis, who are impassioned and save the building from collapse. If there was no Confucianism, when His Majesty rose up in the first year of the previous year, there would not be so many Chinese children who sacrificed their lives to accompany them, and finally expelled the Tartars and restored the Hanjia rivers and mountains. ”

"Advocating new learning is never to overthrow Confucianism, but to be eclectic and learn from others. His Highness the Fifth Highness has also said: I am not seeing farther than others, but I am standing on the shoulders of giants. It is precisely because of the many sages in front of us that there is the rise of Xinxue today. ”

"It's not that a hundred schools of thought are not contending, but that although Confucianism has its shortcomings, it also has the original intention of using. Although the hundred schools of thought have strengths, they also have incorrigible points. ”

"For example, the Mohists advocate 'non-offensive'. If you want to raise a hundred schools, if there are disciples of the Mo family who have to be in the court class and advocate the idea of 'non-attack', then won't I have to defend myself in the future tomorrow, and I can't go beyond the country one step further? ”

For example, the farmer learns to be self-sufficient, and the people of the world are all self-produced and self-used, and never communicate with each other...... If this is the case, how will my Ming Taxation Department collect commercial taxes, and what should I do if there are people with ill intentions who collude with the children of peasant families to attack the Taxation Department in the future? ”

"This ......" Yang Shiqi didn't think of this, and when Song Lian said it, he was in a cold sweat, and he already knew his mistakes.

Song Lian saw his appearance in his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief. "If you already know, that's good."

"It is not a good thing for the imperial court not to use Confucianism to judge scholars, but to use the words of a hundred schools...... The reason why Confucianism flourished and why a hundred schools of thought died all had antecedents and consequences. Confucianism is outdated, and the hundred schools of thought are not old-fashioned? At least Confucianism can be passed down to the present, and the early death of the hundred schools in the pre-Qin period is enough to show that the obsolescence of the hundred schools is even worse than that of Confucianism. ”

"If you promote hundreds of scholars to enter the court, don't say that my new school is a school of its own, but I am afraid that in the future, hundreds of officials above the court will attack each other, and it will become the norm."

"When the time comes, the internal friction will not stop, how can I have the spare strength to expand the territory?"

"Student...... The student has no form, it is the student who acts Meng Lang......" Yang Shiqi sweated through his spring shirt and knelt down again towards Song Lian. "In this way, isn't it the student's reckless behavior, but it hurts my Chinese plan?"

"The students are really ...... Dare to ask sir, is there a good way to make up for this omission? Even if the students go to the soup and the fire, they will not give up! ”

Song Lian leaned over and helped Yang Shiqi up. "I know that you are sincere, but you did an errand with good intentions, and the news that you entered Beijing and entered the Book of All People has spread all over the Ming Dynasty, and it is no longer possible to retreat at this time."

"And the Holy Father of Yan is menacing, and we can't wait to avoid it...... Fortunately, the saints of today are not pedantic people, and in real terms, they can even be said to be heroes who are willing to help us and others promote new learning. ”

"With the presence of the Holy Being, naturally I will not grant your request to reopen the Hundred Schools. Alas, it is just to let the Confucian Mansion temporarily seize the initiative, my new study is the righteous path of Huanghuang, and if I lose temporarily, I can always prosper. ”

In the end, there was only a way to let it go, Yang Shiqi was even more ashamed when he heard this, and he only felt that he had stabbed such a big basket for Xinxue, which was really not a son of man. But now I have no choice but to do this, in the future, I need to work harder and redouble my efforts to spread the new learning, so that the days of new learning will come more or less.

That's all there is to it.

Yan Shenggong Kong Xixue finally arrived at Yingtian. With the arrival of Yan Shenggong from afar, Ying Tian was suddenly a gathering of great Confucians. Such as the three elders of Pingyang, the four Hao of Huangshan and other great Confucians who became famous in the previous Yuan Dynasty, all gathered here. A few days later, it was His Majesty's Halloween, and this year, for some reason, His Majesty the Emperor, who has always been frugal, announced that he would celebrate it on a rare scale. The joy of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty made Ying Tianfu more lively, and on the official road, scholars, officials, and the outward-turned procession that entered Beijing to celebrate the longevity of Lao Zhu was endless.

"After Yan Shenggong entered the palace to ask His Majesty on the day he came to Beijing, he didn't make the slightest move. It's just that I will drink with many foreign envoys in Honglu Temple. I don't know what the idea was? In the cabinet, the crown prince Zhu Biao summoned Liu Bowen, Song Lian and others to discuss matters. Zhu Biao looked at the news reported by Honglu Temple in his hand, and frowned with some concern.

"Now Xinxue has become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of Yan Shenggong. The new learning is not removed, and the Confucian inheritance is uneasy day by day. The Confucian Mansion has always been powerful behind closed doors, and now that it has taken the initiative to leave Qufu to make a move, it is bound to win. Many great Confucians in the city have been lecturing everywhere in recent days, and there is a great sign of reviving the old learning. Most of these people are highly respected, and even the newspapers of the newspaper offices can hardly suppress all the public opinion they have set off for a while. Liu Bowen said.

"In the opinion of the old minister, they have learned the lesson of the beginning and understood the importance of public opinion, so they first used public opinion to suppress my new learning among the people, and then made a thunderous blow in the rear. The old minister wondered, what means did he have to get His Majesty to agree to ban Xinxue? ”

"Your Majesty's temperament, how can Yan Shenggong not know? What is the means by which he came at the risk of the wrath of His Majesty's thunder. ”

"It's really intriguing."

"It's okay, stand upright, and you're not afraid of the torrent." Song Lian spoke. The old man's face was resolute and resolute. "New learning, the study of rejuvenating the country. Even if Yan Shenggong is a descendant of a saint, he cannot shake our avenue. ”

"I'll wait and see. Even if there are open guns and hidden arrows, for the rise of China, the old man will not hesitate to die. ”

Time turns, and the undercurrents in Yingtian City are surging, but the surface is always calm. Until the day of September 48th.

Emperor Hongwu's longevity festival is here after all.

(End of chapter)