Beiping Guozijian.

Zhou Chengzhi rushed back from the capital to conduct his final defense.

There are more than a dozen doctors from Guozijian on the stage, among them is his master Zhao Sheng, Zhao Sheng's face is serious, and Zhou Chengzhi in the audience can't help but complain, he doesn't know that his master will also participate.

The presence of the master is not a good thing for Zhou Chengzhi.

Because of his own relationship, the master must be extremely strict with himself.

Zhao Sheng on the stage did have a serious face.

Zhou Chengzhi bent down and saluted after entering the door, and the rest of the gentlemen nodded in return, and then Zhou Chengzhi bowed to his mentor, although he knew that the mentor must be strict with himself, but the etiquette should still be observed.

After seeing the disciple salute, Zhao Sheng returned the salute and did not give a smile.

An annual graduation ceremony.

The Beiping Guozijian has been implemented for several years, but in the past three years, the reform has no longer been completed from the school, but the Guozi first have to go to the local and unit for the trial, combined with the results of their trials, and then return to the Guozijian to defend themselves, and obtain the approval of the majority of the people before they can be completed.

Equally.

China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times.

The inmates of the original Guozijian have different etiquette and procedures from admission to graduation, and although they are simplified, there will be no lack of etiquette.

"Let's get started."

A gentleman on the stage said directly.

In the defense for several days in a row, although the countrymen said that they only listened, but to judge everyone, they spent a lot of energy and were not as patient as before.

Seeing this, Zhou Chengzhi returned to his seat.

There is a desk in front of the seat.

Zhou Chengzhi spread out the booklet he brought, sorted it out, and then began to reply.

"The disciple works in the capital, and the institution he is engaged in belongs to the scope of secrecy, so the disciple cannot report it, and the direction of the disciple's recent research is why the industrialized society can happen in the Ming Dynasty."

"Since ancient times, it has been said that only by understanding the truth of the universe can we correctly understand the development of things, so throughout the ages, the sages have tirelessly pursued the truth of the universe and explored the road of nature."

"The development of the world's most powerful and glorious civilization achievements, there are also many shortcomings, such as the former Song Dynasty, from the social humanities and even science and technology, it is tantamount to reaching the peak since ancient times."

"But only the Song Dynasty lost the world, resulting in the severance of Chinese civilization, and even our dynasty carried on the past and forged ahead, repeating our Chinese civilization, it is easy to destroy, but it is difficult to recover, Emperor Taizu spent more than 30 years, although the country was stabilized, but the restoration of civilization is still a big deficiency compared to the former Song Dynasty."

"Until the spring of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, proposed in Beiping to promote industrialization, develop material civilization and spiritual civilization, and establish a resource distribution model and a people-oriented advanced society."

"From the expansion of Beiping to Kaiping and Daning, and then Jinzhou, to lead the whole country with points and areas, so far 15 years, has achieved great success, and the social productive forces have undergone earth-shaking changes."

"It's only been fifteen years, and the disciple still remembers his life when he was a child, and his current life, looking back, it's like two worlds."

Zhou Chengzhi's opening attracted the attention of the doctors on stage.

Compared with the disciples in front of him, his account is a bit plain and popular.

The disciples in front of them are either industrial or technical, but everyone also understands that Zhou Chengzhi learned from Zhao Sheng, and he learned theory and eloquence, which must be much better than ordinary people.

Zhou Chengzhi in the audience became more and more nervous.

Those who study theory suffer more than those disciples of the industrial school.

The other party only needs to take out the results, or the research things, and basically they can complete the course, but they can't, what can prove to be correct?

A qualified master must understand the disciples, including the personalities of the disciples.

Zhao Sheng didn't even need to think about it, he knew that his disciple was flustered, and the atmosphere in the room was too serious, so the stern Zhao Sheng suddenly smiled.

Seeing his teacher's smile, Zhou Chengzhi was stunned, and then his heart warmed, and the tension that rose immediately dissipated.

"When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was in Beiping, there were many ideas disseminated, especially the theory of industrialization, and with the progress of time, more and more achievements, many people found that His Royal Highness the Prince's original concept was so profound and accurate."

"While admiring His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, people can't help but study the statements put forward by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince more and make more discoveries."

"What the disciple is most interested in is why in only ten years, the growth of a generation is like two worlds, in the primary school in Beiping, those children born in an industrialized society, and the disciple's childhood, their thoughts and behaviors seem to be completely different people."

"Man is man because man is wise."

"Then man's behavior is determined by his thoughts, from small individuals to large countries, and thoughts determine the future of this country and race, and it is also the great road pursued by the sages since ancient times, and only when they understand the truth can they understand the direction of the development of things."

"After more than years of research, forgive the disciple's shallow cognition, the disciple thinks that only productivity is the right thing."

"At the same time that the productive forces are turned upside down, combined with the people-oriented and social resource distribution model of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, then the disciples set the Hongwu Dynasty as the period of establishing the foundation."

"Restoring people's livelihood, restoring civilization, promoting schools, improving the literacy rate of the population, etc., in this process, it is the original Chinese civilization, and the degree of restoration is far less than that of the Song Dynasty."

"Then the industrialization guided by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a period of great change, from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization."

"The reason why the Ming Dynasty can progress so fast, and as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, China has been highly developed since ancient times, and has accumulated a large number of excellent technologies and social atmosphere."

"Demand is the driving force of progress."

"Therefore, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince started from the market demand for 25 years, first started from the market demand, created honeycomb coal and popularized it, and invented the steam engine for pumping water, and used the social resource distribution model to increase people's income, and even established military household economic cooperatives, which stabilized agriculture while increasing the income of the agricultural population and ensuring the strength of the army."

"Combined with the current supervision of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and even the reform of the past two years, in fact, it still revolves around demand."

"Under the means of the social resource distribution model, the demand can be created, which is the really strong place, as long as the demand is created, then the resources of the society have the motivation to develop in this direction."

"In traditional Chinese society, population migration has always been a major event that costs the people and money, and the development and development of the south have been difficult for China several times, and a large number of people have gone south to have today's south."

"And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince starts with demand." Zhou Chengzhi couldn't help laughing and said a few witty words, "Tossing officials and businessmen is just to make people not too comfortable in China." ”

"Since the interior is uneasy and forces officials and businessmen to go to the frontier and overseas, so as to promote the migration of the people, it can be seen that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is like an ancestor, starting from human nature, first making the people like it, and then making rules."

"Instead of using rules and laws to force the people to do things, His Royal Highness the Prince's benevolence is breathtaking."

Zhou Chengzhi said movingly.

Childhood.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still the prince, and Zhou Chengzhi only has an impression in his heart, people say that the good life is brought by the prince, and with his enrollment, he has learned more knowledge.

So much so that today I began to study the theories put forward by His Royal Highness the Prince, and the more I studied these things, the more I sighed at His Royal Highness the Prince's intentions.

People-oriented.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never forgotten the four words.

The pro-sage, the far villain.

Shi Dezheng.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does things, just as the sages said that the Holy King!

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never boasted about himself, so that people often ignore it, but in Zhou Chengzhi's heart, His Royal Highness the Prince's image has become more and more brilliant, such a holy monarch, how fortunate they are.

In the latter words, the doctors looked at each other and couldn't help but look at Zhao Sheng.

Okay.

Is this what you claim to be the theorists? said a good theory, how can the disciples who teach it be so shameless to pat themselves on the back?

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not in Beiping, can you use it?

Zhao Sheng couldn't help but smile.

This time, it's sincere.

The sycophants slapped so loudly that everyone finally agreed to give Zhou Chengzhi the closure.

Day 5.

The doctors and teachers of Guozijian have basically arrived.

In the garden of the Guozijian of Beiping.

Five or six hundred young sons of the country sat on chairs on the grass.

The presiding officer stood in the audience.

On the stage is the Beiping Guozi priest wine.

The occasion was solemn and festive, and many family members of the country also came from all directions, at least two or three thousand people on the venue, and the family members were even more excited than the country children, and their faces were full of glory.

"Cao Duan."

The chief sang loudly.

A scholar in his early thirties, gracefully stepped forward, saluted one after another, and finally stood in front of the sacrificial wine.

The priest congratulated the man.

Then he cautiously gave the other party a piece of jade, and the scholar took it seriously and hung it on his waist.

The audience burst into applause.

"Who is this person?"

"So old."

Many family members asked curiously.

Because of the Guozijian system, the age of graduation is not uniform, and it is not possible to complete the course after studying Guozijian, and it still needs to go through two steps: practice and defense.

In addition to giving a jade pendant hanging on the waist, the meaning of a gentleman.

It will also be registered in the National Prison and the Ministry of Rites.

But the eldest is only twenty-two or three years old, and the appearance of this man at the age of thirty is indeed unique.

"He."

"He's Cao Duan."

A young countryman said excitedly.

Listening to his tone, you can know how much he admires the graduating countryman, and sure enough, he said loudly: "Cao Duan is a recognized person in the history of our country. ”

People are becoming more and more confused.

So powerful, why haven't you heard his name, and didn't graduate until he was thirty years old?

The sacrificial wine said a few words to Cao Duan on the stage, and the people below couldn't hear clearly, only to see Cao Duan nodded, and then the sacrificial wine laughed, Cao Duan bent down and saluted, and then came off the stage.

Looked at.

The presiding officer sang the next name.

"Zhou Chengzhi!"

Soon.

Hundreds of graduates of the country returned to the stage and bowed to the mentors together.

The instructors smiled gently and returned the salute one by one.

In half a day, the thanksgiving ceremony was officially completed.

A thanksgiving ceremony is a formal etiquette.

After the second day.

The graduating sons of the country each went to visit their own mentors, and their private behavior was a worship ceremony.

The teachers will tell the disciples what are the shortcomings, what needs to be improved, and give some aspects of care and support, which is what the country's sons value the most.

Day 3.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites and the local officials of Peiping held a big banquet and invited all the graduates to participate.

In addition to the official registration, the officials would celebrate the sons of the country, bless them to become the pillars of the imperial court, and the blessing of the society was a gift of thanks.

Although Guozijian has been simplified.

However, the various imperial examination etiquette that flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and even the Song Dynasty became more complicated, and the Guozijian reformed from the imperial examination, even if it was fine and fine, there should still be etiquette.

The doctoral graduation ceremony that emerged in modern times in the West has some similarities with the ancient Chinese thanksgiving ceremony.

The large-scale "Deer Banquet" is the prelude to the graduation ceremony of local readers.

After the entrance examination, the new champion led the first jinshi to the ceremonial department to stand in line, report their names, and wait for thanksgiving, and then, under the guidance of the director, the champion and the chief priest saluted each other and gave a speech of thanks, and then the students bowed to the chief in turn.

Wait until these liturgies are over.

The countrymen who have graduated from school finally breathe a sigh of relief.

They gathered with their friends, which was known as the Qujiang Banquet in the Tang Dynasty, and there were other organizations, such as the Wenxi Banquet held by the local township association, and the Banquet and the Departure Banquet.

"Congratulations."

Cao Duan had already left.

He is a thirty-year-old man, huddled with young people, not only others do not adapt, but also himself.

Jiang Binzhi quipped.

"I became your junior all of a sudden, and you don't know how to laugh at me in your heart."

Cao Duan said helplessly.

Jiang Binzhi nodded confidently.

"When you were in Guozijian, you were obviously not a student of Guozijian, but everyone regarded you as a student of Guozijian and suppressed me for four whole years."

Hear the words.

Cao Duan smiled bitterly.

Of course, he knew that his friend was making fun of him, and the two of them were used to playing.

However, my friend is still a little jealous in his heart, Cao Duan didn't care, people can be ruthless, and they demand people around them according to the standards of sages, which shows that this person is extremely selfish.

Only by facing the heart squarely can we be strong, not disturbed by external things, and accept the mortal world.

Undoubtedly.

Cao Duan did a very good job.

Those who have confessed to Cao Duan, no matter what kind of thoughts they have, have to admit that Cao Duan is a very strong reader in his heart, the truth of the universe, the avenue of nature, and this person has a thorough grasp.

Poverty could not defeat him, nor could affluence defeat him.

Such people.

What else could make him lose his temper.

Even if the prime minister is in front of him, he can only treat him with courtesy.

"Guozijian is finally shameless."

Jiang Binzhi sighed for his friend.

Cao Duan did not grow up in the new school system, so he did not have a new school status, because of a coincidence, he entered the Guozijian to study for himself.

But Cao Duan's light was too dazzling.

Even if he left Guozijian for five years, even if there was no reputation of Cao Duan in the world, Guozijian finally violated the system and gave a special exception, and Cao Duan's body must be marked by Beiping Guozijian.

Because the people of Beiping Guozijian know it.

Future.

The Beiping Guozijian will receive unprecedented glory because of this student.

"What is its integrity? public, the people dare not abuse; If you are honest, you will not dare to deceive. ”

A public and incorruptible.

The road has been exhausted.

As long as the magistrate maintains his own integrity, the officials will not dare to bully him, and as long as the magistrate does things in a public manner and pursues justice, the people will not dare to be slow and accept governance.

Whether it is Chinese or foreign, ancient or modern, what the common people want is nothing more than fairness and integrity.

These are just some of the ideas put forward by Cao Duan, as well as those who persuade learning, break superstitious activities, and advocate the pursuit of the origin of things.

Deny the monistic view and advocate the pluralistic view.

Taking Tai Chi as an example, although it has not been published in newspapers, it has become the most popular thought of Beiping Guozijian, and many Guozi have spontaneously studied and studied.

In a nutshell.

In the early days of the Yongle Dynasty, in the complex social environment and complex schools, a new thought was taking shape in the Beiping Guozijian, and the guide was Cao Duan.

This extremely low-key reading club has become more and more unable to hide its figure, and even the Beiping Guozijian has publicly stood for it.

"Ugh."

Cao Duan sighed suddenly.

"Why sigh?"

Jiang Binzhi hurriedly asked, he admitted that he was not as good as Cao Duan and often jealous of the other party, but Jiang Binzhi was not ashamed, he had always done things worthy of his heart, and he did not violate the moral law, so what was there to be ashamed of.

"There are many smart people in the imperial court, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince cannot be underestimated, the pluralistic view cannot be hidden, and I don't know where to go."

"I'm not afraid of my life, I'm afraid of death."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not such a person."

Jiang Binzhi said confidently.

When Cao Duan came to Beiping Guozijian, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had already gone south, but Jiang Binzhi had seen His Royal Highness the Prince, although he had met him from afar, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince often appeared on the streets in Beiping.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never bullied any people, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never redressed the grievances of the people, including someone blocking the road and kowtowing, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only asked people to investigate.

But everyone knows that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the best.

Because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince pays attention to justice.

As long as the people are righteous, the people will be convinced of him, and they will not fear him.

Everything is just a word.

"I hope so."

Cao Duan said.

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Capital.

Several well-known scholars walked around Zhu Gaochi in the garden.

A month has passed since the Three Kings turmoil.

The Zhangjia firm was also removed.

It seems that everything has passed, but Zhu Gaochi knows that this is just the beginning.

The richest people in the world.

What does a 50 percent inheritance tax on them represent? It is not easy for the originally hereditary territorial nobles to directly become a virtual degraded noble.

According to the visit and investigation of the Jinyi Health and Research Division.

Many businesses have begun to get involved in foreign trade.

What does that mean?

It shows that some people feel that overseas is profitable, where is the benefit? Lei's hand in the imperial court couldn't reach that far, and he had already begun to accumulate strength.

In the past, they were making every effort to explore the domestic market and explore all domestic interests.

Sure enough, the great man said it well.

Theory of Struggle.

Zhao Sheng told some interesting stories about the graduation of the Beiping Guozijian.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but smile when he heard this, in fact, many theories of modern society were not unfamiliar in ancient times.

Especially when he heard the final defense of Zhao Sheng's disciple Zhou Chengzhi, Zhu Gao smiled more and more.

Subsequently.

Zhao Sheng couldn't help but mention Cao Duan's name.

Hearing this name, Zhu Gaochi put away his smile, and several scholars around him also became serious.

Zhao Sheng's first identity was a clerk in the clerical office of the Daming Industrial Bureau.

These scholars, they all grew up with Zhu Gaochi, and now they are old, and Zhu Gaochi is about to be thirty years old, time flies so fast, thinking of his Hongwu twenty-five spring, when he first came to this era.

I was a little scared because of the unfamiliarity of the environment.

Now.

Everything is logical.

Cao Duan was the greatest scholar in the early Ming Dynasty, and he was also an advanced figure in historical learning when he advocated clean government in later generations.

Pluralism.

It looks like an ordinary name, but it actually hides a lot of deep meaning.

The development of learning is systematic, including the same in society, where only one has two, and only with two can there be three.

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Equally.

The restoration of Hongwu in the past 25 years is also the foundation of Zhu Gaochi's implementation of the social resource distribution model.

Not only has the literacy rate been greatly improved, but the social productivity has also been restored on a large scale, otherwise no matter how much craftsmanship Zhu Gaochi has, there will be no rice to cook.

So is pluralism.

Historically, the pluralism that was born in the early Ming Dynasty, the restrictions on monarchical power that began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and the advanced ideas of equality between men and women were also born in the early Ming Dynasty on the ideas of Cao Duan's pluralism.

You can see the importance of design.

Including the United States, the design of their country came from the ideas of the French thinkers of Montesquieu in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Before the XVII century.

The brief exchange between the East and the West, when the cultural center of the West was France, set off an oriental fever.

From social customs, to economic thought, and even schools, people studied China in an all-round way and admired the East, which was the mainstream ideology of the Western elite at that time.

This phenomenon.

It was not until the end of the 17th century that the French thinker Montesquieu put forward the idea of negating China, which was initially opposed by his contemporaries and even gradually accepted.

In modern times.

Not only did people unanimously endorse Montesquieu's ideas, but even the English officers in the nineteenth century lamented.

"This is a subjugated people, living under a long period of high pressure and whiplash, and the people here have become psychologically distorted and mentally numb because of excessive fear."

in the process.

The rising Germany, because of the rise of national consciousness, they denied the advanced theory of China in France, and began to despise Chinese culture in all aspects.

Visible.

There is a process for the development of everything.

Zhu Gaochi understands the scholars' concerns.

What is Pluralism?

It is not only the pursuit of an open society, but also the suppression of monarchical power in essence.

This is what Confucian scholars have been pursuing since ancient times.

The Qin Dynasty unified the six countries, but the Qin Dynasty was too short, and the great unification of the Han Dynasty was an unprecedented system in China, and the imperial power was infinitely expanded.

Therefore, Dong Zhongshu proposed the induction of heaven and man.

took away the heaven of the Son of Heaven and replaced it with the hearts of the people.

The people are providential.

The Son of Heaven must not lose his morality.

To lose virtue is to lose the will of heaven, thus limiting the imperial power.

Then Montesquieu comes to mind.

Didn't this person put forward the concept of governing the country according to law?

In the United States in later generations, in addition to paying attention to the law, the court also had to take care of morality, isn't it the same social atmosphere and political pursuit as the Song Dynasty and the middle Ming Dynasty in China?

So why did Montesquieu oppose ancient Chinese thought?

Because at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the cultural achievements left by the Ming Dynasty had been wiped out, and the new dynasty was exhausted, and the backward society was replaced by it, and people were proud of their masters and worshiped power.

So the answer is already clear.

What Zhu Gaochi has to consider now is Tai Chi Theory.

Because of the integration and pluralism of this school, the vitality of such learning is bound to last for a long time and gradually grow, which has been proven by history.

How to face Tai Chi said?

This is a very vital issue that will determine the future of the country and the nation.

Thought.

Always come first.

The starting point of the idea comes from the position.

The rapid development of society has brought about the density of contradictions, and there are advantages and disadvantages to everything, and Zhu Gaochi once again has a clear understanding.

Study.

It's so important.

See if it will be carried away, so send it out in advance.

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