"Haha, the master of the palace is worrying too much." Liu Bowen said with a smile.
"Tiandong has been practicing emptiness for a long time. People like Cheng and Zhu often talk about heaven's principles and use them to suppress people. All things that cannot be explained by the Ming Dynasty are attributed to the profoundness of heaven's principles."
"What is more needed is someone who is down-to-earth and can practice the practical knowledge of what it means to strengthen the country and enrich the people. Science is very suitable."
"As for thoughts... I don't have to think about it myself, right? The sages have already written it down, right?"
Liu Bowen looked at Zhu Su.
Zhu Su was confused for a while, sage?
He asked tentatively: "Sir, did you say that we don't need to innovate, but should...retrograde?"
"Not bad." Liu Bowen nodded.
Zhu Su frowned. He mistook the word "retro" and it didn't leave a good impression.
After all, history is about to set off a mighty "retro" trend in a few years.
Emperor Jianwen took Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, and Fang Xiaoru to prepare to revive the Zhou rites, reverse the times, and build the Ming Dynasty into a "powerful country" like the Western Zhou Dynasty.
It turned out that it was obvious that when Tiandong collapsed, Zhu Laosi jumped out and picked the peaches.
Zhu Su himself was also very disgusted with the so-called "eating of the past but not adapting to the past". He was educated by later generations and always firmly believed that the trend of the times was overwhelming.
Only by proceeding from reality and keeping pace with the times can we truly avoid being eliminated by the times. Going retro? That’s worse than just tinkering and maintaining the status quo!
He even suspected that Liu Bowen had deliberately used those words to deceive him because of his young age. In fact, he was siding with the civil servants and the remnants of the former Yuan Dynasty to shut up.
"Please listen to my detailed explanation." Seeing Zhu Su's suspicion, Liu Bowen said with a smile: "Confucianism is broad and profound. If it is not fabricated out of thin air, it will definitely be difficult to convince the public."
"But if we insist on restoring ancient times, firstly, as Dian Dongfang Caicuo, Duke of Song Dynasty, said, Neo-Confucianism is often far-fetched. Let Tiandong students abandon Neo-Confucianism and learn the study of ancient times, and the resistance they will encounter will naturally be much smaller.
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"Second things..." Liu Bowen's eyes showed the confidence of a top counselor: "Whether we want to restore the past and how we should restore it, it all depends on the thoughts of the palace master and Bidong?"
"Do you want to restore the Confucianism of Gongyang, 'respect the king and fight against the barbarians', 'the hatred of ten generations can still be repaid'? Do you want to restore the Confucianism of the Tang Dynasty, 'manage the world and apply it', 'pull, push, and feed..."
"..."
Zhu Su looked at Liu Bowen in shock. Liu Bowen's words could be regarded as selling all the Confucian underwear directly to Zhu Su.
Confucianism has been developing for thousands of years. Is it possible that Confucianism is like the Neo-Confucianism of the Ming Dynasty, which suppresses social development and insists on maintaining natural principles but losing human nature? Of course not.
I want to know that there has been too much "old wine" in the bottle of Confucianism. Even though all kinds of Confucian thoughts have been baptized by the times, they are not completely useless.
For example, the aggressiveness of Han Confucianism and the pragmatism of Tang Confucianism were not the reasons why the Han and Tang Dynasties were so strong. Even Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which Zhu Su disliked most, actually had merits in some aspects.
Does Liu Bowen mean that since Neo-Confucianism has been abandoned by Lao Zhu, he might as well advocate restoration and "piece together" from the Confucianism that was once popular in the past to come up with a set of "ancient theory" that can conform to the development of the Ming Dynasty?
Confucianism" came out.
In any case, if Ming Dynasty Zhu Su refused to offer wine at the Imperial Academy, Lao Zhu could not serve as emperor.
The Imperial College asked for advice, and Enke asked for exams. Then Tiandong Confucian students must ask for something to learn!
When promoting "Old Confucianism", even scriptures and statements are not ready-made. They can be scraped together and used as they come!
"...Sir, you are indeed a great talent." Zhu Su admired him very much. As expected, the Confucian scholars were the best at mistreating them.
Under the guise of "retro", they promoted the new Confucianism that Ming Dynasty wanted to pursue. Those retro Confucianisms have their own niche critics and have their own fans.
Originally suppressed by Neo-Confucianism, they would naturally jump out and completely drag Neo-Confucianism into the quagmire. Coupled with the push from the imperial court and the country's highest universities...
If he, a layman like himself, could barely come up with a set of so-called Confucian theories, he would probably be sprayed into a sieve by the Confucian scholars who fought hard to resist it before he promoted it.
Liu Bowen's words undoubtedly opened a big window for Zhu Su, who was originally having a headache about this matter.
"It would be a great honor for me to have the Emperor of the Palace give me some enlightenment." Liu Bowen said with a smile and his legs crossed. "The details need to be discussed by the Emperor of the Palace and the Emperor of the Palace. I will not get involved."
After finishing speaking, he picked up the tea and said no more words.
That old fox really knows how to protect himself wisely! Zhu Su cursed in his heart.
This is the only point I can make. If I and Lao Zhu succeed in the end, please accept his favor. Even if they liquidate the old officials of Yuanting, they will not be able to liquidate his head.
If it fails, the secret words in the dark room do not say anything true, and those old officials of Yuanting will not be able to find a reason to settle the accounts!
Is Lao Liu directly invincible?
But looking at the patchwork on his clothes, Zhu Su felt desolate again.
A generation of great talents lived so cautiously, using all their talents and knowledge to protect themselves...
Isn’t it China’s loss?
…
A few months after coming to the east, Zhu Su even put the matter of going to the Imperial College behind to take up his post, and directly began to retreat in the Imperial Mansion.
Although after Liu Bowen's advice, Zhu Su already understood what to do. But even so, this matter still requires a lot of energy. After telling Gouer Xiangdeng not to disturb anyone, Zhu Su started
The poor man, who had no ears to hear what was happening outside the window, devoted himself to reading through the pile of servants, trying to get rid of the dross, extract the essence, and create a "retro Confucianism" suitable as the ideological program of the Ming Dynasty.
There was no moon in the mountains, and no one knew how many months had passed. Zhu Su, who finally had some income, came out of the study. He hadn't seen the sun for a long time, and it was a bit dazzling when he opened the door. He felt that Dongba was slightly itchy, so he took it
The legs looked exactly like they were, but they actually had stubble growing on them.
"Master of the Palace, have you come out?" The foreigner Xiangdeng looked distressed and rushed to greet people to bring him silk clothes, cloud shoes, and warm soup with willow branches. The Master of the Palace has been personable since he was a child, and he is nothing more than that. How can he let this happen?
Did anyone else see Dian Dong looking so slovenly?
"Xiangdeng, are there any foreign affairs during those months?" Zhu Su asked while letting the foreign waiters change their clothes. The foreign waiter thought for a moment and said, "I'll give it to the east of the palace, there is some."
"In those few months, the Prince's Palace, the Prince of Qin's Palace, the Prince of Jin's Palace, the Prince of Yan's Palace, the Prince of Chu's Palace, the Prince of Jingjiang's Palace, the Young Duke of the Duke of Wei, the Young Duke of the Duke of Cao, etc. all came to look for you."
"I heard that you were thinking hard about the great road, so I all left."
"Many of the great dignitaries in Beijing have sent you invitations to congratulate you on your meritorious service and sent them as congratulatory gifts."
"Huh?" Zhu Su frowned, "Are there nobles? Don't the civil servants want to congratulate you?"
"Not at all." Xiang Deng shook his head with some confusion. "If the emperor of the palace is a prince, how dare those civil servants come to contaminate him?"
"That way..." Zhu Su didn't answer. He thought the waiter was too slow to change clothes, so he moved his legs to put on his clothes.
It turns out that as a prince, those civil servants should certainly not come to contaminate Fu Fei.
But if Ruming himself was appointed to serve as the Imperial College's liberator... Even if those civil servants were superficial, they should express their goodwill to their "new colleagues" and only verbally express their sincerity.
"It seems that those civil servants are not all fools. Have they realized something and are ready to collude?"