Dou Yan's words made Dou Yi slightly startled. She opened her mouth but could not say a word.
Dayu has a vast territory and there will be no problem of land annexation in the short term.
In order to attract people to move north of the Yellow River, whether in Shanxi, Hebei or Youzhou, the imperial court issued many policies to reduce interest rates on land rentals. As long as people are willing to move their families north, they can receive land corresponding to their labor and only need to pay a small amount.
The land will be owned by the people after ten or five years of leasing and farming. Even the cost of migration is paid by the court. Various policies are used to fill the shortage of population in the north. Many people live in poverty without land, and the court even semi-forces them to do so.
They were sent to live in the north.
There is no shortage of labor, and there is enough land. As long as we don't encounter a famine year, we can be completely self-sufficient in food. Even if we encounter a famine year, there are still large granaries in the South China Sea countries, so there will not be a shortage of food and no food relief.
Condition.
Opportunities for a prosperous age are in front of us. As long as we don't meet Yang Guang, pigs can flap their wings and fly away in the wind.
Faced with this situation, continuing to develop agriculture blindly will only set the government back and plunge the already wealthy people into hardship.
Cheap grain hurts farmers!
How could Dou Yi not understand this truth?
At this point, developing business is something that has to be done. Especially after achieving great results in overseas trade, how could Dou Yi, with his intelligence, not realize the truth of making a country rich through business? It’s just that he is unwilling to go this way.
Just thinking.
Dou Yan lifted the veil at this moment, making Dou Yi unable to pretend anymore. Dou Yan said rudely: "Brother has realized that if you want the people to be rich, the prosperity of trade is the key. In fact, this is no longer a precedent, it is inevitable.
Shi. Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce has been the national policy of all dynasties. Starting from the pre-Qin Dynasty to reward farming and suppress merchants, from the Qin to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the emphasis on the basic and the suppression of the late was continued. Although this has always been the case, internal and external policies have been relaxed. At first, scholars did not interact with merchants.
Those who had close relatives who were engaged in business were not allowed to become officials until the middle and late Tang Dynasty, when merchants could later become officials through the imperial examination. Even Emperor Shizong of the previous dynasty went south to engage in business to subsidize his family."
Dou Yi said: "Learning from the previous dynasties, learning from each other's strengths, consolidating the foundation and innovating, this is the way to govern the world. Agriculture is the root, and this foundation is strong, so it is natural to enrich the people through business. I have a clear conscience as a brother, and I don't feel the slightest bit.
No."
Dou Yan praised: "Brother, you are so strong. The imperial court is prosperous today because of the help of a good prime minister like my brother who is open-minded and devoted to the people."
Dou Yi suppressed the anger in her heart and said: "Don't put a high hat on my brother. For the sake of the court and the people, it is reasonable to adapt to the current situation and make adjustments. But what did you say? You took over the school."
How many years have you dared to speak so brazenly that the depth of mathematics is better than the Four Books and Five Classics left by the saints? Mathematics is as important as the teachings of Confucius and Mencius? Reading can lead to understanding and enlightenment. This is a cultural inheritance of thousands of years. Why do you teach people to understand reasoning with the teachings of Confucius and Mencius?
Mathematics can make people wise, so they deny the knowledge of saints."
He slapped the table heavily and said: "The way of Confucius and Mencius, the Four Books and the Five Classics can't open up wisdom? What do you rely on to achieve today's achievements? Don't tell me, you rely on mathematics to achieve today's achievements. Don't rely on your own personal speculation.
The things that come out come out to question you and I have not thoroughly learned the sage’s knowledge after fifty years of study.”
If it weren't for the fact that the person in front of him who questioned the teachings of Confucius and Mencius was his closest brother, Dou Yi would have thrown away his sleeves long ago.
Dou Yan's previous words have seriously questioned the teachings of Confucius and Mencius. As a disciple of a saint, in this era where Confucianism is the only one, it is difficult to accept such alien ideas.
If Dou Yan's words were spread today, he would be criticized by Qianfu and cast aside by the scholars.
Dou Yan had already expected this scene. A similar situation had happened not long ago. It was just that the person who scolded him was changed. However, the same thing was that both of them were the ones he respected the most: a father who was responsible for childbirth and education.
, an eldest brother who is like a father.
Looking at his angry brother, Dou Yan did not argue with him, but looked at him quietly. After he calmed down a little, he said: "Brother, I think a saint's thousand words have different meanings in different people's eyes."
.The classics left by Confucius have been passed down to this day. Who is sure to understand the true meaning of the classics? If nothing else, just the meaning of the scriptures passed down to us by my father will be of great use to Mr. Qianfu. What my father said makes sense.
, or Mr. Diver
Does that make sense?"
The Mr. Qianfu mentioned by Dou Yan is Zhang Zhao.
Dou Yujun, Zhang Zhao, and Tian Min were all the Confucian leaders of the Central Plains.
Dou Yujun emphasized education, while Zhang Zhao emphasized editing and interpretation.
In the most chaotic years of the Central Plains, cultural seeds were still preserved, and Zhang Zhao's painstaking work in revising and interpreting the Six Classics is indispensable.
As two people who stood at the pinnacle of scholars in the Central Plains, their understanding of Confucian classics had certain conflicts in some aspects.
Both sides have certain supporters, and they have been arguing about this for many years, but no one is convinced and the other is ignored.
In his early years, Dou Yi devoted himself to studying the meaning of the Confucian classics, and he was able to speak a few words. However, since he became prime minister, he has devoted himself to serving the country and the people. He rarely had time to study the meaning of the Confucian classics. At that time, he could not tell the truth from the false, and it is even more so now.
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Dou continued: "This is still the case in our Central Plains, and now the world is unified. Jiangnan means one thing, Bashu means another, and now even more so, Khitan has also come to join in the fun. In one sentence, there can be five, six or even more explanations, who can explain it?
I really don’t know who’s wrong.”
Dou Yi knew that what Dou Yan said was the truth. The Central Plains was most seriously affected by the turmoil of the Five Dynasties. As a result, rituals collapsed and music collapsed, which hit the scholars the most seriously. A large number of scholars had their backbones forcibly broken by martial arts.
As a result, Bashu and Jiangnan, where literary styles flourished, have always looked down on the Central Plains in this regard. They have their own opinions on Confucianism and do not recognize the meaning of the Central Plains.
This is not only Jiangnan, Bashu looks down on the culture of the Central Plains, but even the scholars of the Central Plains look down on themselves.
As Dou Yujun, Zhang Zhao, and Tian Min died of old age and illness, the leader respected by scholars in the Central Plains was named Han Xizai.
Although it is true that Han Xizai was from Beihai and had enough talent to serve as this leader, he was deeply influenced by southern scholars and his understanding of classics and meanings was biased towards Jiangnan.
This made Dou Yi and Dou Yan very uncomfortable, but there was nothing they could do about it.
Both of them were first-class Confucian scholars, but if they really wanted to debate with Han Xizai on the classics and meanings, they might not be the opponents of Zhong Kui in the temple and the immortal in Jiangnan.
As for Khitan, they are also getting involved. Not to mention the Central Plains, even Jiangnan and Bashu are a little helpless.
The Chinese culture of Khitan comes from the books brought by Yelu Deguang from the Central Plains. The Khitan Taizong not only brought the imperial artifacts representing the orthodoxy of the Central Plains to the north, but also brought with him the Confucian classics and meanings passed down from generation to generation by the Central Plains court. Compiled by Kong Yingda
The only copy of the "Five Classics of Justice" that collects the great achievements of Confucian classics since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is in the hands of the Khitan people.
The Khitan students took the books they had printed based on the original Confucian texts and pointed them at the scholars from the Central Plains, Jiangnan, and Bashu.
It contains errors, omissions, or modifications, so it is not a true Confucian classic."
It is a posture that what we learn is true and what you learn is false.
A dimensionality reduction attack is like a scholar meeting a soldier. There is no way to refute it. In a word, everyone has their own understanding. Outsiders may not be able to detect it, but the inside of Shilin is extremely chaotic, especially after Luo Youdu suppressed the Kong family. Now,
It is even more difficult to achieve a unified interpretation of scripture and meaning.
Dou Yi said in a deep voice: "The confusion of scriptures and meanings is caused by these troubled times. The world is divided, leading to cultural severance. In the face of sudden unification, friction between each other is inevitable. Your Majesty has unified, and everything is moving forward in an orderly manner. You and me
Affected by the times, we cannot give an accurate answer. But as long as we stick to our true intentions, future generations will naturally summarize and explain your and my views. Why should you be in a hurry?"
Dou Yan said: "But mathematics is different. Right is right and wrong is wrong. How can the real truth be so complicated?"
"Erlang!" Dou Yi's face changed drastically and she said, "You...are you questioning the knowledge of the saint?"
"No!" Dou Yan said solemnly, "Brother, you are wrong. I am not questioning the saint's knowledge, let alone questioning the saint. I want to save the saint's knowledge. From the beginning to the end, I regard myself as a disciple of the saint.
"It's just that I think knowledge should change with the times, rather than being old-fashioned and rigid. Now that Confucianism is so confusing, I think that instead of arguing about right and wrong, it's better to create a new study, a new study derived from Confucianism." Dou Yi was dumbfounded.
looking at his brother
, his eyes were full of shock. Dou Yan continued: "Just like the early Tang Dynasty, the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties were chaotic and turbulent. Confucianism was also dismantled into pieces. It was Mr. Chongyuan, a great scholar in the prosperous age, who compiled the "Five Classics of Justice" on the order of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
Integrate the opinions of many classics scholars to unify the thoughts."
The Mr. Chongyuan he refers to is Kong Yingda, a great Confucian in the early Tang Dynasty, who was the greatest Confucian Confucian scholar besides Confucius.
Dou Yi finally understood what his younger brother Cun was thinking, took a breath, and said, "You want to unify Confucian classics and include mathematics?"
Dou Yan said: "The Six Arts of Saints, etiquette, music, shooting, imperialism, calligraphy, and counting, are the knowledge that Confucius attached great importance to. They were discarded by our descendants. Now your Majesty has found them and incorporated them into Confucianism. Why not?"
?" "Brother!"
Dou Yan called out, and said with some hope and a little pleading: "Creating a new school and incorporating mathematics into Confucianism will be beneficial to the court, Confucianism, and future generations. If it succeeds, we will not be able to guarantee that you and I will succeed."
Just like Mr. Chongyuan, he also gained the reputation of a great Confucian."
The words of her father suddenly appeared in Dou Yi's mind, "As a father, I am not angry with Erlang. It's just that I can't live with it. I'm old and useless. I can't be as open-minded as you." And the last sentence, "Don't do it."
I feel so angry."
"So this is what Father is referring to. Judging from his tone, he actually convinced his younger brother?"