Chapter 1725: Transforming Confucianism
For Ye Chunqiu, Zhu Houzhao was not an incomprehensible person, so he did not go into too much detail and understood the reason why Zhu Houzhao was tolerant of Li Dongyang.
In Zhu Houzhao's heart, Li Dongyang represents a past, an era led by Zhu Houzhao's father. As an old minister of the three dynasties, Li Dongyang almost spent too many careers with the late emperor Zhu Youzang.
Zhu Houzhao was still soft-hearted after all. In fact, Ye Chunqiu knew very well that Zhu Houzhao was definitely not a qualified emperor. No trace of the qualities possessed by any qualified emperor could be found in him.
But Ye Chunqiu knew that Zhu Houzhao was a living person, a person with joy, anger, sorrow and happiness!
Ye Chunqiu understood even more that it was probably because Zhu Houzhao was such a person that they became the best brothers under the huge gap in status.
Ye Chunqiu sighed in his heart, but it was just a sigh.
The reason for this sigh was that he understood too much that Zhu Houzhao was hesitant and struggled when he was in the Holy Judgment.
"This guy..." Ye Chunqiu couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.
However, Ye Chunqiu sometimes worried about the movements in the court. The new army defeated the Tatars and began to guard the desert in one fell swoop, which made the strength of Zhenguo Mansion outside the pass grow day by day.
However, the crazy increase in strength naturally aroused the vigilance of many "knowledgeable people" in the court. In addition, although the anti-Shang scholars were headless, they still revenge the Zhenguo Mansion. Many of the things about Qinglong were slandered and laughed and ridiculed by them. Some special newspapers even enjoyed ridicule the Zhenguo Mansion and merchants, and they were even popular.
In other words, the demand for anti-Shanghai is still there. Although there is no longer much force to compete in the court, Ye Chunqiu understands very well...the majority of these people are still there.
This is why Ye Chunqiu would rather be in Qinglong. He has thousands of years of old customs in the pass, and the theory of Neo-Confucianism is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In that soil, countless great scholars were born. They were conservative, conservative, had no intention, and even hated any change. After all, the previous set of rules was beneficial to them, and the new policy may shake their transcendent status and privileges, so they will instinctively oppose anything that may change.
It is precisely because of this that a group of new Confucian scholars have begun to come out of seclusion. Ye Chunqiu set up a special Chongwen Pavilion to raise a group of new great Confucian scholars and ask them to compile Confucian classics.
Ye Chunqiu still thought deeply about this. To deal with this decadent Confucianism, which has been corrupt for thousands of years, either one should either innovate independently and create new theories to replace it, or one should criticize and deny Neo-Confucianism under the Confucian classics.
The former is too difficult. Ye Chunqiu knew the status of Confucius and Meng in the minds of the people of the world. He was afraid that even the merchants in Zhenguo Mansion would be disgusted with many scholars in the pass, but they would never dare to defeat Confucius and Mencius and the saint. So... they had to choose the latter.
Therefore, transforming Confucianism became the biggest function in Chongwenguan!
At this time, the end of the year was approaching. Ye Chunqiu had just met the great scholar Fang Mo in the old town government. This recently became famous great scholar, who was quite famous in Qinglong and was sought after by the business newspaper. He is now the vice president of Chongwenguan, and his duty is to compile books and interpret the Four Books and Five Classics.
Ye Chunqiu was very interested in this person. Because he proposed to return to nature, the meaning was that the popular Neo-Confucian school of Neo-Confucianism distorted the classics, so he made unceremonious criticisms of Cheng and Zhu. But what Confucianism did he admire? It was the Han Confucian Confucian! What is Han Confucian? It emphasizes repaying virtue with virtue and grievances with grievances.
In fact, the Confucian scholars and Neo-Confucianism are completely different. For example, the same sentence is the ruler, the ruler, the minister, the father, the son, and the son, under the interpretation of Cheng and Zhu, as the subjects and sons, and must obey the king and the father unconditionally. However, this Vice President Fang Mo believes that Cheng and Zhu distort the meaning of the scriptures. In fact, the original intention of this sentence is Confucius and Mencius is that the ruler is the ruler, the ruler is not upright, the minister joins other countries, the country is not upright, the country is not upright, the people attack it, the father is not kind, the son goes to a foreign land, the son is not upright, the son is not upright, and the relatives are destroyed for justice. The husband is the ruler, and the husband is not upright, and the wife can remarry, the wife is helping the husband, and the wife is not virtuous, and the husband is restless.
What is positive?
Even if everyone abides by their own duties, Ye Chunqiu is the king at this time, so if he has power, he must have a proper obligation. If the city gate official meets the Duke of Zhenguo, he should be respected. Although the Duke of Zhenguo is superior, he should also return the courtesy to show the respect of the superiors to the ministers. Otherwise, even the city gate official may submit to other countries. If the king is righteous and respected by the ministers, then the ministers will be rewarded with death.
The monarch, minister, father and son here are not the so-called extreme loyalty and filial piety of Neo-Confucianism, but the duty of each person.
Fang Mo was very excited by the reception from Ye Chunqiu. Although his theory was supported by certain people, his colleagues also received a lot of criticism. The Duke of Zhenguo specifically advised him, which was obviously of profound meaning.
When he arrived at Zhenguo Mansion, he led Ye Chunqiu's Zhenguo Mansion public house and saluted Ye Chunqiu first.
Ye Chunqiu was less solemn when talking to his subordinates about official business, and said with a smile: "Sir, please sit down."
Fang Mo was obviously a little rigorous and shook his head and said, "Mr. Master is in the upper hand. Although the students are humble, Master should also give the students a gift."
"Ah..." Ye Chunqiu had read a lot of his articles in the newspaper, and then he remembered something.
This guy is really... quite serious.
Ye Chunqiu had to get up and bow to him, and the guest and the host and the guests then sat down.
Ye Chunqiu took the lead and said: "I heard about Mr. Mr.'s name for a long time. I wonder if he is used to living in Chongwen Museum? I remember Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.
Fang Mo said: "The food, clothing, housing and transportation are very convenient here, and there are many different types of food, so it is not unacceptable to the local environment, but the weather is a little dry."
Ye Chunqiu is not a person who can greet people very much, so he went straight to the topic: "I have read Mr.'s articles. Some articles make sense, but why do you think Cheng and Zhu mislead people?"
Fang Mo knew that his next conversation was closely related to his theory. At this time, he was quite like Jia Yi. What he feared the most was that sentence, but he was poor in the middle of the night, without asking the people and ghosts and gods.
Fang Mo did not hesitate and replied: "Because Cheng and Zhu distort the meaning of the scriptures, he will never forgive him!"
Chapter completed!