"Don't make a noise!"

Zhu Ming glanced at the students, then looked at Lu Wei, and asked, "If water nature is compared to human nature, then what is water nature?" ”

Lu Wei said: "Water-based will go down." ”

"The water flows down, is it really watery?" Zhu Ming asked, "After boiling, the water vapor rises evapopiration, why don't you go low?" ”

Lu Wei said: "The rise in water vapor is caused by heat. It's like scooping water and splashing it up, and the force is upward, but it still has to fall in the end. When the water vapor is cold, it will also fall. ”

Zhu Ming asked again: "Mercury also flows to a low place, and molten iron also flows to a low place." If we compare human nature with water, why can't we compare people with mercury and molten iron? ”

Lu Wei said: "Mercury and molten iron also have the word water, which can be thought of, and the flow of these two to a low place is also caused by its water nature. ”

"Where's the oil?" Zhu Ming asked, "Oil and water are incompatible, won't it also be water-based?" ”

"Hmmm......"

Lu Wei was a little short of words and didn't know how to respond.

Zhu Ming chased and struck: "Oil is also down, why can't oiliness be compared to human nature?" ”

Lu Wei began to think seriously.

Zhu Ming also said: "This paragraph of Mencius contradicts the next paragraph. Mencius said that white feathers and white snow are white, and white dogs and white oxen are also white. But the nature of a white dog cannot be said to be the nature of a white cow. The nature of a white cow cannot be said to be the nature of a white man. As Mencius said, it is nothing more than that commonality cannot be individualized. Why, then, did Mencius compare water to human nature? ”

Not only did Lu Wei feel confused, but the students in the classroom were also confused.

Because of the context of Mencius, he slapped himself in the face. It's hard to spot, and it's a common trick in debates, introducing the topic into one's own preconceived position.

Zhu Ming smiled: "White dogs, white cows, and white people are all white, and this commonality is also." But dogs eat, cows eat grass, and people eat grain, of course it's different. Mencius said that the goodness of human nature is like water. But human nature is human nature, and water nature is water nature, how can it be compared? ”

Mencius's original intention was to refute the confession. Because Confucius compared water nature to human nature, Mencius refuted it like that. ”

"If the confessor does not use water as an example, but uses oil as an example. When Mencius refuted it, he would definitely say that the goodness of human nature is like oil. ”

"When you are studying, you should not stare at the words, but you should understand why Mencius said that. Instead of taking Mencius's words everywhere. What is right here is wrong. ”

Lu Wei no longer dared to talk casually, but asked, "Your Excellency agrees with the words of the confession?" ”

"What do I agree with the accuser? What the confession said was full of loopholes, so it was refuted by Mencius and was overwhelmed," Zhu Ming said with a smile, "The confession said, the color is also eaten." Is it really in the nature of eating color? The color of food is like the whiteness of a white dog or a white horse, it is only a appearance. ”

"A man's good food is to fill his stomach, and if he doesn't eat, he will be hungry. People are lustful for the sake of reproduction, how can they have children and grandchildren if they are not lustful? ”

"Satiety and reproduction are sexuality. Food and color are just love. ”

"Sexual Tai Chi, love yin and yang. Satiety and reproduction are like Tai Chi, which does not distinguish between yin and yang, and does not distinguish between good and bad. Eating and drinking, marrying a wife and having children, human nature is also a natural principle. Every meal must be full of fish and meat, extravagant and wasteful, and when you see a beauty, you have to marry home, and even covet other people's wives and concubines, which is evil and human desire. ”

Lü Wei pondered for a long time, and no longer knew how to answer, because Mencius himself did not understand.

Zhu Ming told the students: "Confucius only said that sex is similar and Xi is far away, but he does not talk about the good and evil of human nature. Xunzi said that sex is evil, Mencius said sex good, in fact, they are all the same. Xunzi's original intention was to go to evil, and Mencius's original intention was to be good. A few years ago, I wrote about the beginning of the Mongolian people, who are good in nature, similar in nature, and far away in Xi. This is to guide children to be good, but it is difficult to explain human nature when it comes to learning. ”

Lü Wei was still silently reciting the entire text of Mencius and Confession, trying to find definite evidence for the theory of sexual goodness.

Zhu Ming stood up: "Today, let's talk about why the water is down." Has anyone read "Tao Strategy: Physics"? Raise your hand, please. ”

In an instant, more than a dozen people raised their hands.

"Very good," Zhu Ming nodded approvingly, "It's not water-based, everything is like this." It's a flying bird, and when it doesn't flutter its wings, it will fall. The earth is like a magnet, attracting everything, you might as well call it gravitational. Therefore, it is not the water nature, but the universal nature of all things. If one day, the earth no longer attracts all things, then there will be no more commonality. ”

"Water, oil, mercury, molten iron, gold...... These objects that can flow, let's call them liquids. They flow lower because of gravity. What they have in common is not that they can go down, but that they can flow. ”

"Water transpires into water vapor when heated, and water condenses into ice. We can make a bold guess about whether there will be three states of everything. Ice is solid, water is liquid, and water vapor is gaseous. ”

"Be bold and be cautious. Iron is solid, heating can be liquid molten iron, reheating is transpiring into iron vapor? Unfortunately, with the existing smelting furnace, the temperature is not so high. When mercury is heated, it will also boil and turn into mercury vapor. So if mercury is cold enough to become solid? ”

"Either way, we can know that there are three states of water. Iron already has solid and liquid forms, while mercury has liquid and gaseous forms......"

Lu Wei was already confused, wasn't he discussing good and evil? How do you run to pull all this content?

Zhu Ming continued to lecture: "Having said a lot, we can conclude that water is not watery. It's not even watery, and it's impossible to compare it to human nature. Water flows downward, which is a common feature of all kinds of liquids. What is water-based? It can condense into ice, and it can transpire into water vapor. My father made a thermometer and called the temperature at which water condenses into ice as the condensation point, and the temperature at which water boils into water vapor as the boiling point......"

Lu Wei couldn't help it, and interrupted: "Your Excellency is talking about this in the academy, what is the use? ”

Zhu Ming said: "The people's daily use is the way, isn't this the truth of steamed steamed buns?" Everyone knows how to steam steamed buns, but they don't know why. Are we scholars also going to be confused and not to discover and analyze the truth? Besides, water freezes into ice, and there are still fewer examples of watering and building ice walls in ancient times? If a front-line general goes to the battlefield with a thermometer and knows the freezing point of the water, he will know when he can water and build the city! ”

Lu Wei wanted to say something more, but he didn't know where to start.

Zhu Ming said: "I will lend you a few books, if you want to debate, read my books first." Where it is not written correctly, just point it out! ”

Lu Wei is not very gregarious, inclined to be a doer, usually does not even have a correspondence friend, and knows very little about what is happening in the capital.

The content of the newspaper is very brief, and if you don't understand it in many ways, you won't be able to figure it out even if you read it.

For example, Zhu Ming is in charge of Guizhou, and he will only write like this: Cheng Lang, Zhu Ming, who knows Hanyuan County, will be removed from the list and suspended, and Guizhou will be arranged. to discuss the government in vain.

What exactly is going on, and how do local officials know?

recommended Lu Wei to be the envoy of Changping in Guangxi, he was his fellow villager, and he also had a bit of kinship. only reminded Lu Wei to come to Guizhou, and to take care of Zhu Ming more to prevent this person from causing trouble, but he didn't explain the matter clearly at all.

Zhu Ming took out "Tao Strategy", "University Chapters and Sentences" and "The Mean Chapters and Sentences", but Lu Wei knew that the first two books were clearly banned in the newspaper.

He could immediately report to the imperial court that Zhu Ming was spreading banned books in Guizhou.

But Lu Wei became more and more curious, what is written in the book?

Let the entourage leave with the book in his arms, and Lu Wei read "University" while walking. He soon discovered that the book was well annotated, and only a few places "misinterpreted" the meaning of the scriptures, so it should not be banned.

It took me a few days to read two of them, and I also read some of them.

Although he didn't agree with some of the contents, he admired Zhu Ming more and more, and at the same time sent someone to inquire what Zhu Ming did.

"Public Security Sparse" and "Song of Righteousness" were quickly obtained, and Lu Wei was silent when he saw it.

Wang Hao's bad deeds are mainly manifested in Gyeonggi and the southeast, and it has not yet become a nationwide evil. Even for Guangdong and Guangxi, Wang Hao was still a good prime minister, and he abolished a large number of Cai Jing's bad policies.

So, Zhu Ming listed Wang Hao as one of the six thieves, is the charge in Song Shuli true? Lu Wei felt a little confused.

In any case, he did not write a letter to the imperial court to report, and went to listen to Zhu Ming's lectures whenever he had time.

By the way, impeached Cai Yi, Shang Yongzhi and others for a vegetarian meal, and traveled all day long and did not do business.

In the Guizhou officialdom, where he was lying down collectively, Lu Wei was soon isolated by his colleagues, but he had the most contact with Zhu Ming.

Late spring.

Bai Sheng came from Yangzhou with a few letters from home.

The content of Zhu Guoxiang's letter, in addition to introducing the three major bases, also roughly talked about the situation in Yangzhou and Jinzhou. Since the Fangla Uprising, the imperial court has raised taxes on various roads in the Sichuan Gorge, and the people of Yangzhou and Jinzhou have become more and more difficult.

Although the newcomers to Jinzhou Governor and Tongju are not like Li Daochong who are crazy about making money, they are also wantonly leviing harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes for the sake of political achievements, and looting money to curry favor with the governors of Jingxi Road.

In the entire Hanzhong region, the landlords and peasants were the most unlucky, and the miscellaneous taxes on agriculture became more and more severe.

Corn has been officially listed as one of the taxes in kind, and large quantities of corn and rice have been shipped to Tokyo and Luoyang to drive down the soaring grain prices in Beijing.

Also, since Zhu Ming was put into custody, the new state and county officials have not been so polite to Zhu Guoxiang.

Fortunately, Zhu Guoxiang himself still has an official status, and the local prestige is extremely high, otherwise the three villages would definitely be taxed by Fangtian. Even so, the tax amount in the three villages has increased, and the annual payment of food and grain has increased by 40%.

Zhang Jinping and Zheng Yuanyi's letters tell the latest situation and remind Zhu Ming to pay attention to his body.

Zhang Jinping was pregnant, and she found out halfway through. Shu Road is too rugged and tired, and I didn't pay attention to the menstrual affairs, and I suddenly fainted when I walked to Lizhou City, and asked the doctor to diagnose it before I found the happy pulse. After that, he continued to walk after two months of recuperation in Lizhou City, and most of the time he switched to sliding poles and boats.

Zhu Ming replied to the letters one by one, and asked his father to send someone to Tokyo to pay attention to the information of the imperial court at any time.

(End of chapter)