As soon as Yan Shu said this, the atmosphere immediately became relaxed. Even Xu Ping, who had been stern all day, smiled.

After saying a few gossips, Li Di asked Yan Shu: "Xu Longtu compiled this set of "Strategy for Rich and Safeguarding the People" to exhaust all his energy and work hard. More than 200,000 words are reasonable and meaningful. I wonder if the scholar can say it in one word?"

This is Li Di who was in the exam for Yan Shu. He stayed on Jingxi Road for half a year. He reads what he should read, asks what he should ask, and reads what he should read. He has to say one, two, three. Otherwise, if he just goes back to Beijing and helps, what will he say?

Yan Shu thought for a long time before saying, "When you look at it without talent, you can use four words to make money and make money!"

The four-character letters were expressed, and the people present laughed together. This is right, but it is not right. It is right. It is right. It summarizes the principles held in the book and talks about financial management, but it is always remembered that it is not for the purpose of accumulating wealth. It is not right, and it is actually not involved in the specific content in the book. It is no wonder that Yan Shu really can't say anything about those specific policies, has no experience, and has no feelings. In his opinion, it is already rare to make money without violating the Confucian fundamentals.

Li Di knew Yan Shu very well, and no longer asked more questions, and asked Chen Yaozuo again: "What is the solution for Mr. Chen?"

"The people do not increase taxes, but the country can be self-sufficient! I don't know how many people have said this sentence since ancient times, but if you really explain it thoroughly, people believe that the only thing that can be achieved is this "Strategy for the Country and the People"!"

Chen Yaozuo has really read it carefully and has rich experience in handling political affairs. Li Di blurted out as soon as he asked.

After hearing Chen Yaozuo's words, Li Di refused to comment and said to Xu Ping: "I think that if Xu Longtu is asked to say it, it will definitely be different from you two. Longtu, I wonder if it is right or not?"

Xu Ping smiled: "This is human nature. In the eyes of different people, there are always subtle differences."

"What sentence will the Dragon Tu use to summarize this strategy?"

"The law of heaven is human desire, human desire is the law of heaven, and the unity of man and nature." When he said this, Xu Ping paused, "National affairs are civil affairs, civil affairs are state affairs, and national affairs are unity."

After Xu Ping finished speaking, Li Di held his beard and smiled and said, "It's not as expected by me, Longtu really has far-reaching thoughts. This strategy starts with the principles of heaven and man, and isn't it just a financial management strategy? With these two sentences, "Plan for Rich and Safeguarding the People" is not only a skill for governing the country, but also a way to govern the country. It can be passed down to the world by spreading the Tao, which is enough to make a one-on-one's word!"

Li Di's evaluation is obviously higher than Chen Yaozuo and Yan Shu's evaluation, which also shows that he has seen something deeper. This evaluation made Xu Ping admire Li Di, and the reputation of this old prime minister was indeed not in vain.

Since Fan Zhongyan was demoted, Xu Ping has taken unprecedented importance to ideology. The more he pays attention to it, the more he discovers its importance, and no matter how he evaluates it, he will not be overestimated. "The Strength of Profiting the Country and Safeguarding the People", Xu Ping has roughly expected the consequences, and it is nothing more than that he is idle and reforms are completed by others. Under thirty years old, Xu Ping is not so eager to be a high-ranking official in charge of the government. Haste is not enough, and it is not necessarily a bad thing to experience more at the grassroots level. The only thing that makes him feel a pity and cannot let go is that Fan Zhongyan leaves, and a large number of young officials such as Ouyang Xiu were demoted. There was an ideological gap in the court, but he himself couldn't catch it.

Fan Zhongyan’s evaluation of the importance of ideological construction in the Song Dynasty later was not too much. This was something that Xu Ping felt more and more deeply. First, Fan Zhongyan and second, Ouyang Xiu, these two people determined the mainstream of ideology in the Northern Song Dynasty. As for Zhu Xi and others, the origin should be found in Guanxuelulu. Although the important place was Luoyang, the key figures had not yet emerged.

This is the conclusion that Xu Ping draws based on his memories of his previous life. As for his good student Li Wei, it is very embarrassing. Xu Ping really didn't have him in his previous life memory. His impression of him is far less than that of Zhou Dunyi, a half-grown doll.

The fifth son of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shao Yong was still farming in Gongcheng. Zhou Dunyi followed his uncle Zheng Xiang in the capital. Zhang Zai was in the early 10 years old. Because he was located in the border area of ​​Shaanxi, he was now thinking about studying military affairs and growing up in war. Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi brothers learned to speak at the age of two or three, and even their names had not been given. These five people, together with Sima Guang, were called the Sixth Master of Taoism by Zhu Xi, which was the origin of Neo-Confucianism. Of course, embarrassing that the Neo-Confucianism was mixed with Sima Guang, a stranger who was the supreme emperor of Xun, also illustrates Neo-Confucianism's attitude towards Mencius.

Although Neo-Confucianism is the authenticity in the eyes of later generations, it was far from that in the Song Dynasty, and its influence may not be greater than that of Li Yu. Since Wang Anshi's reform and Sima Guang opposed it, his thoughts were divided into two branches, later generations called reformists and conservatives, while the Song people distinguished between the old and the new. Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, who started the dispute between the old and the new, had a very shallow relationship with Ouyang Xiu. The most important person who influenced their thoughts was Fan Zhongyan. The more he had contacted these people in this era, Xu Ping became more and more aware of some ideological contexts.

The Song people respected Han Yu. Most of the Neo-Confucianism lineage were in the wild, and there was basically no chance to take charge of the government. In fact, it had little to do with politics. Knowledge was to inherit Mencius's theory of life and life. The real content was to transform the Buddhist theory of mind and nature into Confucianism, which later generations called it to support Buddhism and join Confucianism. This was also the beginning of Han Yu, talking about the distinction between temperament and temperament, and using Confucian temperament to confront the Buddhist theory of mind and nature. Ouyang Xiu inherited this lineage in his thoughts, but it was closer to the original Mencius's thoughts, and he believed that there was no need to go into the good nature and evil nature and eliminate the Buddha's suppression of Taoism.

Sima Guang and Wang Anshi were both influenced by Ouyang Xiu. The mind and nature were not mainstream among scholars in the Song Dynasty, especially in the Northern Song Dynasty. The mainstream Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty was to focus on practical learning, practical politics and people's livelihood, rather than talking about necessity, and to emphasize personal practice. The significance of Neo-Confucianism is greater in the philosophical sense of virtuality, the absorption and integration of Buddhist philosophy cut off the cultural roots of Buddhism in the upper class of society. The mainstream of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty was established by Fan Zhongyan, a theory of governing the country based on the "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn" as the main principles. They strictly require themselves, care about the sufferings of the people, and the Tao is indifferent to their own lives. Fan Zhongyan seems rough in terms of knowledge, but precisely because of the roughness, there are no flaws, and some major principles are correct. What he left to future generations is a spirit, which inspires future generations. As for real meticulous learning, it is not important.

Whether it is Wang Anshi or Sima Guang, whether it is new or old, they all inherited the spirit of Fan Zhongyan. Their differences lie in the way of governing the country, and the sources of ideas for this way of governing the country are mixed, and Li Wei is one of the major schools.

When he wants to promote reforms, Xu Ping will naturally pay attention to the past and present reforms. After seeing more, he will keenly discover a problem. Whether it is success or failure, the far-reaching changes often have a strong ideological color.

Shang Yang's reform was the practice of the Legalists. Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty was the active sinicization of the Hu people. Wang Anshi's reform was not to be discussed. The color of ideological conflicts was particularly strong. Taking ideology seriously and thinking that one can express the world's situation in one sentence means thinking too simply. If you don't solve ideological problems, doing reform is to jump into the fire pit.

Later generations talk about historical reforms, and often skip ideological conflicts. There are many reasons for this. As for dividing the various forces in the reform into several interest groups, it is believed that opponents oppose only because of their damage to interests. It is nothing more than vulgarizing history and representing several characters in opera. Damage to interests will definitely cause resistance, but what supports are profitable, and what opposes is damage to interests. Using politics as a small businessman to do business is ridiculous of human IQ.

Vulgarize historical figures, simplify historical events, and nihilize historical processes. Xu Ping was idle in his previous life and chatted with others without any trouble. Posting and bragging was nothing more than leisure. But if he was in this torrent of history and had no awareness anymore, and looking at history with a game mentality, he deserved to be crushed into dust by the historical trend.

Using the principles of historical materialism, the development of productivity has caused changes in production relations, and production relations constitute the most important content of the economic foundation. This change must be expressed in the superstructure. Superstructure includes ideology and political structure. The difficulty of changing political structures is first reflected in the change of ideology.

The lack of movement in ideology means that the time for reform is not ripe. If forced to push, it will be the end of Shang Yang being broken by a car. If it fails, there will be no place to die. One of Wang Mang is still ridiculed. Fortunately, Fan Zhongyan's appearance and his support are the support of others, which shows that when ideology has undergone major changes, reform has become an inherent need of society. As long as you follow the times of the times, you can promote the progress of social change at the minimum cost.

It is precisely because the change has become the call of the times that "The Strategy for Rich the Country and Safeguarding the People" has been released that even Lu Yijian can accept it happily. It is precisely because he grasped the pulse of the times that Xu Ping is not worried that his efforts will be wasted.

However, if you cannot occupy the high ground of ideology and unify your thoughts and consciousness, reform will eventually lead to twists and turns. What Xu Ping is most afraid of is that the policy changes in the hands of others, the way to make money has become a way to make money, and if you lose your reputation, it will be difficult for you to start over again. He is even more afraid that because of the deviation of the policy, his previous efforts will be in vain.

Fan Zhongyan left Beijing, and now two censors Gao Ruonai and Yao Zhongsun were in charge of the Imperial College. There were no academic convincing people in the capital. It was a good opportunity to seize the ideological position. He was really unwilling to let the opportunity slip away in vain.

The unity of heaven, law, man and man is the theoretical basis centered on economic construction. In the words of Xu Ping in his previous life, it is just to meet the material and cultural needs of the people and is the main task of current governance. The unity of state and civil affairs is to bypass the distinction between justice and interests. The official interest demands and the people's interest demands are unified, and can go hand in hand, not deviate from each other. These two sentences can be found from the classics and developed into systematic theories. This is Li Wei's specialty.

With such a theoretical basis, there is a distinction between selfish interests and public interests, and there is a dialectical unity between the two. Public interest is based on selfish interests, but different from selfish interests. The final development results must still be implemented on selfish interests. Coordinating public interest and private interests is the fundamental "ritual" of Confucianism, which is also the core of Li Lu's thought. "ritual" is a principle and the law is intact. There is a fundamental connection between the two and is different, and it also plays a normative role in social forms.

If these can be placed at the core of ideology now, then reform will be natural and will no longer die halfway due to mistakes in a certain person or a certain policy.

Xu Ping tried his best to compile "Plan for Richness and Safeguarding the People" and compiled it, but found that this was not his most important task. Without ideological guidance, policies may eventually change their flavor and go to a direction that he cannot explain. Only by occupying the ideological position can one be said to have established the law for all eternity.

This is how things in the world are done. One thing is done, but I find that the goal is always ahead. There is no lack of joy of success on the road of struggle, but it is always accompanied by loss. It is this loss that gives people the motivation to move forward forever.
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