From the meeting to the present, Xia Yuan can only say that the record of Emperor Hongzhi in the history books is still very reliable, and Zhu Youzhu may not be an emperor with many achievements, but he is a generous and benevolent virtuous monarch.

In fact, it is true, Xia Yuan's current impression of him is that he is a very amiable uncle, as a generation of emperors, he doesn't seem to have the kind of aura that makes people dare not look directly at the king.

What he has is just approachable and easy-going, but in comparison, the emperor's majesty is much lighter, or maybe he deliberately restrained it.

And now in the face of the multiple-choice question thrown by this friendly uncle, Xia Yuan hesitated for a moment, and boldly proposed: "Your Majesty, do you think that Cheng Zhu should be abolished?" ”

Zhu Youzhu was not surprised by this, but asked gently, "Can you tell me the reason?" ”

“......”

Xia Yuan was a little asked, in fact, since the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, the study of mind has successfully entered the mainstream ideology, and it can fight against the division of science, and even developed to the Longqing Wanli period, with an overwhelming trend of science.

Many officials have become believers in the study of the mind, and when the candidates do the eight strands, they also integrate the ideas of the mind into the eight strands of literature and strategy, and the study of the mind is thriving, and the science of science can be said to have been hit hard.

That's it, it still happened when the official did not abolish Cheng Zhu, and it has always been nominally based on Cheng Zhu.

But this is what happened decades later, and it can't be said, Your Majesty, students can actually tell fortunes, I pinched my fingers and calculated that the initiative of science in the future will be defeated by mental science, so we might as well let this matter advance.

After thinking about it, Xia Yuan finally asked, "I don't know what Your Majesty thinks about the principles of preserving heaven and destroying people's desires advocated by science?" ”

"I...."Zhu Youzhu opened his mouth to speak, and suddenly paused, this question involves the foundation of science, although he also studied Confucian classics, read the words of Confucius and Mencius, those Hanlin scriptures were also according to Cheng Zhu's commentary to interpret the words of the sage for him.

However, like most of the scholars who read Confucius and Mencius and Cheng Zhu in this era, he only knew how to study step by step, but he never analyzed the essence of science, so he didn't know how to answer this question for a while.

Seeing this, Xia Yuan continued to ask: "The student dares to ask again, does Your Majesty think that there are people in the world who can save heavenly principles and destroy people's desires?" ”

"There are so many people in the world, I think there should be."

"Nope." Xia Yuan shook his head and said categorically: "Students dare to assert that no one can do it, this sentence has been a false proposition from the beginning of its birth. ”

"False propositions?"

"That's right, people have their own desires, such as drinking water when they are thirsty, and eating when they are hungry, of course, what Cheng Zhu said about human desires does not include these legitimate desires, but refers to selfish desires.

But selfish desire is human nature, human nature is unavoidable, and it has nothing to do with how much knowledge is learned and how much reason is obtained. In other words, if a person loses his humanity, is he still a human being? ”

Speaking of this, Xia Yuan glanced at the emperor and said in a low voice: "Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, for more than 100 years, there have been many corrupt officials and corrupt officials during this period, these corrupt officials have all come up from the imperial examination, they have all studied science, and they are all respecting the principles of heaven and destroying people's desires, but they still can't suppress their selfish desires, should they be corrupt or corrupt."

It can be seen from this that the preservation of heavenly principles and the destruction of human desires is just a slogan, just a beautiful yearning, which can be taken out and shouted, but no one can do it. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Youzhu couldn't help but fall into deep thought, he had to admit that what Xia Yuan said made sense, and it may really be just a beautiful yearning to save heavenly reason and destroy people's desires, but it is really difficult to do, at least he can't do it himself.

But...

He opened his mouth and asked, "What is the relationship between what Keqing said so much and why I asked you why you wanted to abolish Cheng Zhu?" ”

“......”

Xia Yuan was silent, although he had a lot of nonsense, it didn't seem to matter.

“... Your Majesty, can you give the students another chance to choose? ”

Zhu Youzhu was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "What does Qing want to choose this time, abolish Xinxue?" ”

"No, the student didn't say anything about it this time, but just wanted to say that His Majesty doesn't need to worry about this matter."

"No need to worry?"

Zhu Youzhu was a little reluctant to agree with this, but still quietly waited for him to continue.

"Your Majesty, the meaning of the student is that none of them are wasted, just go with the natural development, the people of the world learn Cheng Zhu, and Cheng Zhu is the guideline, because the dynasty stipulates that the annotation of Cheng Zhu Lixue is the criterion when answering the questions in the imperial examination, which is the reason why all the scholars in the world learn Cheng Zhu and take Cheng Zhu as the orthodox."

"The student said something a little rebellious, if it weren't for the imperial examination, maybe no one would take Cheng Zhu so seriously."

"And it is very easy for Your Majesty to abolish Cheng Zhu, so he just issued an edict, saying that from now on, the answers to the imperial examination questions are not allowed to be subject to Cheng Zhu's annotations, and no one in the world will definitely read Cheng Zhu anymore."

Xia Yuan said a lot, and then asked at the end: "But the consequences of doing this, I don't know if Your Majesty has ever thought about it?" ”

"Of course I thought about it, if I did this, I am afraid that the scholars of the world will be angry, gather people to write a book, and openly accuse me of being a faint monarch and a tyrant."

Zhu Youzhu is obviously an emperor who cares about reputation, no, it should be said that there are very few emperors who don't care about reputation.

It is indeed easy for an edict to be promulgated, but it is easy to promulgate, but it is extremely difficult to promote it, not to mention that this matter is a change of course and a change in the national policy of more than 100 years.

At that time, the whole world was not allowed to blow up the nest.

"That's why I wondered if I wanted to abolish the new school..."

Zhu Youzhu is very difficult about this, abolishing new learning is definitely the best solution, he is the emperor, he doesn't care about which knowledge is good or bad, he only cares about the stability of the country, don't make any trouble.

But what made him worry was that the person who created the new school was teaching the prince to read, helping him solve the most troublesome problem.

If you abolish the new school, you always feel that you can't go.

What's more, even if he is abolished now, it is very possible to wait for the crown prince to ascend the throne in the future, correct the name of Xinxue, and then abolish Cheng Zhu.

So he summoned Xia Yuan into the palace this time, and to put it bluntly, he wanted to have a discussion.

So Emperor Hongzhi said in a deliberative tone: "According to me, how about if Qing doesn't study that new study?" Don't teach the prince anything new, just let the world be stable, you see? ”

Xia Yuan's cheeks twitched.

It's useless for you to tell me about this, you have to talk to Wang Shouren.

He made the study of the heart, and teaching the prince is also what he does.