Chapter 203 Confucianism is not tolerance but devouring
Fang Linyue is back, with a complicated expression when she came back. She heard that her master has passed away due to illness, and she is here to see her master off on his last journey.
As luck would have it, Fang Linyue suddenly felt unwell at the dinner table, and then she ran out as fast as she could. Xuaner kindly went over to take care of her, and when she came back, she said mysteriously: "I think Sister Fang is pregnant."
, our Marquis Mansion is about to add another child, congratulations to the master!"
Ye An raised his eyebrows and looked at Qin Mumu: "Isn't it said that people who practice martial arts are strong? Why did you react so violently? You didn't have such a big reaction at the beginning! Oh, Xuan'er's reaction was quite serious.
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Seeing Ye An speaking these words without hesitation at the dinner table, Xuan'er's face immediately turned red, while Qin Mumu curled her lips and said: "People's physiques are different. Some women don't feel anything during menstruation.
Some are shattered."
It is not a good thing to have an imported child in the family, especially for the current Hou family. One more child will be an extra burden. Qin Mumu's eyes turned and said: "It seems that she is going to be sent away! Fang Linyue went to Liang
I'm relieved that I can take care of things there in the city..."
"I don't want to go to Ganliang alone. The Marquis and my sisters are all in Tokyo City, and my home is right here!"
Fang Linyue vomited and came back. Although her face was full of shyness, her tone was decisive. Since she entered the Hou Mansion, this saint has often shown her childish attitude. For a moment, everyone was stunned, even Qin Mumu.
Xuan'er is no exception.
"What did you say, girl? Can I still harm you? Besides, letting you go is for the sake of family matters. It is a heavy responsibility that cannot be shied away from!"
Qin Mumu showed a rare display of strength, and her words were full of the aura of a lady in charge. Even Ye An beside him couldn't help but grin secretly, good guy, this girl is really serious.
Thinking about everyone’s future.
Sure enough, seeing Qin Mumu getting angry and Fang Linyue immediately stopping her activities, as if she was a bullied little daughter-in-law, Ye An couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said: "It's a very important matter, and you can't bargain. Do it all according to Mumu's words, and you'll have a happy life."
You are busy, and it is even related to the future of the Hou Mansion, and Roxana, you two know what this means!"
Ye An officially began to make plans for the future of the Hou Mansion. In his eyes, Fan Zhongyan's reform was doomed to fail. No matter how he helped him, the premise was that there was no problem with the goal of the reform. If the goal of the reform was wrong, the result would always be
Being wrong will not save this dynasty.
The system of the Song Dynasty was full of bad governance. What's even worse is that the reformers were unable to reform all the bad politics, while the conservative forces were still strong.
There are no real reformers and conservatives in the court. As long as necessary, reformers will turn into conservatives when it comes to their own interests, and conservatives will turn into reformists.
Since the conflict between Fan Zhongyan and Lu Yijian broke out, party strife has begun to appear. In order to calm things down and maintain the stability of the court, Zhao Zhen could only issue an edict to "forbid party strife."
This is already a quite severe rebuke, but the party struggle will never subside because of the emperor's rebuke. It will only turn from the bright side to the dark side, and become more turbulent.
Ye An clearly felt the undercurrent surging in the court. The Yushitai and Jianyuan seemed to be "schizophrenic". They were either impeaching Lu Yijian or impeaching Fan Zhongyan. Anyway, various methods were emerging one after another.
With such a situation and such a political atmosphere, even if there were talented people such as Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu, and even if there was a benevolent monarch like Zhao Zhen, the edifice of the Song Dynasty would surely overturn.
It's not that Ye An feels powerless because he knows the future. Under his influence, many things in this era are changing, but unfortunately some things are deeply ingrained and cannot be changed at all.
Gewu flourished in the Song Dynasty, and the number of people who studied Gewu also increased, but there was still no trace of Gewu in the imperial examinations. Science and technology were still miraculous and cunning, and could not reach the level of elegance. As for Confucianism, it still ruled this dynasty.
Unless Zhao Zhen, the official, breaks it himself, there is no chance at all.
The crux of the problem is here. The rule of the Song Dynasty was maintained by Confucianism. It was impossible for him to break the monopoly of Confucianism, which was equivalent to breaking the foundation of his emperor.
At first, Ye An thought that the study of physical studies should be brought under Confucianism and developed slowly, but now he found that Confucianism is extremely inclusive, but it can also easily swallow up what he tolerated.
Many great Confucian scholars even proposed that Confucianism's control of the study of things is equivalent to the difference between scholars and craftsmen in reality. Craftsmen will always be craftsmen and never become scholars, but scholars can become officials and control craftsmen. This can be regarded as the use of study of things by Confucianism.
Ye An thought this statement was ridiculous and nonsense, but it was recognized by the scholar-bureaucrat class, and even scholars from poor families believed that it should be so.
Now Ye An finally saw the situation clearly. He would never be able to integrate into Confucianism, just like the study of studying things could never be integrated into Confucianism. He and those Confucian scholars were inherently contradictory, just like the relationship between Confucianism and studying things.
Although they come from the same place, they are contradictory to each other. Only by competing for superiority can the name be justified.
Wanting to implement reforms in the Song Dynasty and wanting to make Gewu stand out in the Song Dynasty was tantamount to wishful thinking. Ye An made many changes, but the final result disappointed him.
As for those who are optimistic about the study of objects, they are still based on Confucianism after all. The debate between "tools and Tao" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Examination of objects is "tools" for people to use, while Confucianism is "Tao" that guides people's hearts.
Such comments are flooded in the circle of scholars. Ye An feels powerless to resist at this time. Even if the investigation of things is useful, its value is only a "tool" and cannot become an orthodox status. If knowledge cannot become orthodox, it will soon become orthodox.
will be abandoned by others.
In this case, it is better to find another way and reopen an academic environment based on the study of objects in other places, and Ganliang and the entire Xizhou are the best places.
The poorer the place, the more advanced productivity is needed, and advanced productivity is inseparable from the study of things. Ye An believes that the study of studying things will take root there, and will continue to grow, and will be so powerful that it will "defeat" those who do not accept and tolerate it.
exist.
In the final analysis, Ye An gave up on the Song Dynasty. The political and academic environment here could no longer tolerate changes. However, any insightful person could see that the Song Dynasty needed to change, but the inherent system and etiquette-related content
No less reform.
Fan Zhongyan's reform will fail, not because there are problems with the measures, nor because the implementation is not strong enough. On the contrary, the measures are mostly good policies, good governance, and the implementation is very strong. This has led to a crazy attack by conservatives, and traditional Confucianism does not stand with them.
Over there, in the current political and academic environment of the Song Dynasty, the reform was to shake the country.
As for Wang Anshi's reform, although the measures were different and more powerful, the result was the same as Fan Zhongyan's New Deal. When one person fails to reform, the blame can be placed on his policies, but when the second person fails to reform, the result is the same.
, it is a problem of the reform itself, but a problem of the environment of this era.
It was precisely after seeing this that Ye An completely lost his intention to implement reforms in the Song Dynasty, because...the reforms changed the law, but they could not change people's hearts, let alone interests...