Chapter 288: Economy and Party Struggle (31) Between the Duke and the King?
Although the emperor said, "You must not refuse this time," it was obvious that Gao Pragmatic could not really refuse. However, for him, the leader of the Pragmatic School, he could not behave like other officials in the past.
Death is not the same.
As a civil servant in the Ming Dynasty, how could you just accept the reward when the emperor said it? Everyone wants to save face, and the way civil servants in the Ming Dynasty wanted to save face was quite special, even twisted.
For example, if the emperor praises you, you must be willing to accept it, as if not doing so means that you are greedy for power and reputation, and have bad morals; if the emperor scolds you, you must be willing to accept it, as if not doing so means that you are not loyal and fearful of difficulties and remonstrances.
In short, you have to go against normal human nature. To a certain extent, this is probably one of the negative effects of Neo-Confucianism - preserving natural principles and destroying human desires.
However, as one of the current great masters of the Practical School, Gao Pragmatic has previously put forward a point of view: Heaven's principles are human desires.
[Note: Some people in later generations said that Wang Yangming supported the principles of heaven, which is human desire, which is inappropriate. Xinxue emerged based on Neo-Confucianism, and Wang Yangming also cared about heaven. However, he believed that most scholars at that time knew or at least roughly knew what heaven was, but they did not
Willing to do it. Therefore, Wang Yangming paid more attention to the "zhi" of "to conscience" and mainly advocated the unity of knowledge and action. However, probably no readers are willing to read this issue, so I will not discuss it here.]
However, Gao Pragmatic's words have a premise, that is, before saying that "the laws of nature are human desires", he needs to redefine what "human desires" are. In other words, he needs to make a standard for the "human desires" in his mouth
——It is necessary to distinguish between what is "human desire" and what is "animal desire".
For example, "A gentleman loves money, but there is no way to get it." That makes people lustful. Cheating, cheating, and taking advantage of the weak is called beastly lust; studying hard to honor one's ancestors makes people lustful, and cheating in imperial examinations in order to get promoted and make a fortune is called beastly lust.
Although Low Pragmatism praised Shen Shixing for frequently gathering people to give lectures, in reality, we just stood up and talked, so I lectured a lot by myself, but that does not mean that I was expressing "academic opinions." It was just that Low Pragmatism was expressing "academic opinions."
It is carried out through lectures and regular publication of articles in its own newspapers and periodicals.
There is no doubt that pragmatism means doing meaningful things. When I expressed my academic opinions, I did not have a clear goal: first, the court would definitely influence the public opinion of scholars, and I would need to come up with a set of theories of my own, and that
The theory is that it can only sound bad if you say it, but there is no possibility of implementation.
According to a pragmatic and straightforward point of view: "Yi" can change, and "Book of Changes", in the final analysis, is not a sentence: the world is constantly changing, and he can change the world, so he needs to constantly change himself to adapt to the world
Variety.
In that case, although the dynasties of the past dynasties still lacked some new technologies discovered by themselves in the development of society, such as the structure of the plow that could not be optimized, they generally developed rapidly. In this case, social productivity regressed rapidly, and production
Naturally, relationships also require excessive adjustments.
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It is precisely because of this that, as the source and main promoter of those ideological propaganda, I can not only accept the emperor's words directly, but also pretend to accept them. Then outsiders must pay attention to a degree.
Yes, any struggle must adhere to that principle, because as long as the small minority is divided, it will not be able to attack the large group. Otherwise, if he himself belongs to the "large group", what can he use to attack the small minority? With Tianling Gai?
Of course, as far as I am now, I know that my abilities are not limited by myself. While I want to reform, I also have to solve the problems that will inevitably be encountered in the reform, so I also "create allies" for myself from all levels.
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Wang Yangming chuckled and said: "The new work is for slowing down. I will receive a memorial from Mr. Shen in Nanjing in the future, saying that the Nanjing palace is dilapidated and cannot be used, and it must be renovated before it can be used. It does not mean that the southern tour The matter is put on hold for the time being, it must be convenient until the Western Expedition fails...
"I know!" Wang Yangming interrupted: "But he said that people with different surnames can be crowned kings... This Chengzu granted Xian Tugan the title of Zhongyong King, and the late emperor granted me the title of Shunyi King, but what can he say? Do you, a Han Chinese, have a different surname? Different surnames, different Mongolian surnames, but different surnames?"
"Your Majesty, it is all right for you to pursue the sages of your dynasty, to found the country, and to pacify the country, and to be granted a title by the Duke of the country. But do you know that Shi Heng and Zhu Yong... are still laughed at by the people of the scholar community to this day?
The reason is not simple. It is difficult for agriculture to regress and it is difficult for it to produce leap-forward development on its own. Take the "cultivated land" incident as an example: the emergence of a metal plow is not a small breakthrough, and the emergence of animal-drawn plows is another small breakthrough. But what about the past? But now it is difficult to make new breakthroughs in the matter of plowing, because the peak of the "power" that agricultural society can use to plow is no more than animal power.
If you keep your dignity low and talk about xinxing, you know everything, but no one dares to criticize, but you only do shit when criticizing. Then where is Confucianism? That is cynicism!
According to the strategy of low-level administration, it can be seen that my consistent attitude is "attack the majority of vested interests, but pay attention to the minority of vested interests." I am sure that sentence is a bad understanding, so I can change it to a more straightforward sentence: A very small minority will attack a large group.
To a certain extent, it was a small subversion of Xiao Ming's ideological and theoretical system by Gao pragmatism - even the ideological and theoretical system of Chinese teenagers. Because the ancient Chinese dynasties did not have the idea of developing productivity, or it cannot be said that agriculture It is also difficult for society itself to produce that kind of thinking.
That's why the low-pragmatism reforms seem very radical in the eyes of contemporary people, but I know the reason why they are actually very powerful. The reason why contemporary people think they are radical is because the contemporary people's view of the world is almost constant and changing, while the low-level reforms Pragmatically, I know that I am very irritable because I am more accustomed to the speed of development of later generations - a few decades is enough to turn the world upside down, and I can go from an agricultural country to the world's industrial king.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As for him saying that you made money from it, of course, of course you made money, but is this what you should make? A gentleman loves money.
No way?
Zeng Beijin didn't expect that Gao Pragmatic could find a reason for that, so she was speechless for a moment. But to Gao Pragmatic's surprise, Zeng Beijin suddenly showed a thoughtful look on her face, and said in a deep voice: "It's not like he said that."
It's reasonable to say... If Obito is said to be possessed, he actually can't do it."
Your factory can allow people who lost their land due to disasters to find work outside your factory. If they cannot support their families, they will starve to death on the streets. The things you produce can make production and life more convenient for fewer people. Are you right?
Is it to benefit the people?
It has been more than eighty years since I was entrusted by the late emperor to assist Your Majesty. Although I dare say that I have tried my best, but I have put my heart and soul into it, and it is true that there is no small effort. It is true that these are only the achievements of the past, and Your Majesty did not miss the reward.
.Now that I have made new achievements and even been impeached just now, how dare I accept the reward from the Duke? Please take back your order."
Rixin, he was the one who advocated and managed the recovery of the Western Regions. Although he was in the center, he commanded all directions and coordinated the heavens. A victory in this battle was naturally his first achievement. The Western Regions are your homeland of China, and you have lost many of them.
It has been a hundred years, and if it is repeated now, how little will it be? At that time, he used this merit as a basis, not to mention being granted the title of Duke of a country, even if he is a king with a different surname, there is nothing wrong with him?"
When it comes to exporting academic opinions, the truth is actually the same: "animal desires" are desirable, which are all despised by you Confucian sages Confucius. You must be gentlemen, join the world, and adopt unethical methods - which does not mean that you scholars must
Work hard to improve your own level, and then get rewards through reasonable and legal means.
Why do you do that? Because only by instilling that kind of thinking into fewer people, can the so-called "scholars do business" thinking be truly subverted - why do you think you, a scholar, can do business and run factories? What are you doing?
For the country and the people!
The reason why I dare to propose that "the principles of nature are human desires" is not because before I distinguish "human desires" from "animal desires", a small number of people will be on my side. Why? Because before Zhengbenqingyuan will discover, Confucianism
Originally it was not an idea of "joining the world", but "joining the world" meant doing things.
No one said that if Chinese people want to do something, they often need to "reform the ancient system." Yes, the ancient reform has no unique social foundation in China, because one of the important features of Chinese civilization before Zhou Gong was not to remove the "worship of gods"
” and turned into “ancestor worship”.
The reason why I win over the honorable nobles who people in the previous life thought were all trash is because I know that the honorable nobles do not have enough original capital, and because of greed, we will support ourselves and lead us to make less money - in this way, it doesn't matter no matter how trashy the person is,
You also need them to direct operations. Their capital and greed are not forces that you cannot use.
What should be done? It is to talk generally about "establishing a heart for the world, establishing a destiny for the people, inheriting the unique knowledge for the past saints, and creating peace for all generations", but "developing productive forces" and "reforming production relations to adapt to the current situation."
development productivity”.
The "academic opinions" published by Low Pragmatic School in those years are relatively few, but there are many criticisms of "cynicism", and the purpose of doing so is to highlight the "pragmatism" of the pragmatic school. What can Zhu Yijun say?
It proposes the unity of knowledge and action but does not clarify what a person should "do" specifically. What he proposes in such a low pragmatic manner is not seeking truth from facts and clearly points out what should be done.
Insulting objective reality is a pragmatic and consistent style of conduct, so it is bad to come to ancient times to reform the system. Everyone knows that I am the number one scholar in the Eight Poems, and also knows that my classic is the "Yi", so I will end my discussion from the "Yi".
Gao pragmatic was speechless for a moment, then thought for a while and said: "Of course there is still no difference. There is no reason why the loyal and brave king Ye Xian Tu Gan (yes, Ye Xian Taishi) was granted the title. It is probably because Chengzu wanted to buy horse bones with his daughter. Besides,
, my king's status is also small, and his actual position is between the princes and uncles - Your Majesty remembers that it is recorded in "Records": "Given a banquet, Jin Zhong was ordered to sit above the princes and below the princes", which shows how good the loyal and brave king is.
"
Ah, then...
If you do business, you can let the people in the north eat cheap sugar from the south, and you can let the people in the south ride on the BMW horses from the north. Are you doing it to benefit the people?
From this, Gao Pragmatic's discussion of "The Book of Changes" can be condensed into seven words: change and adaptability.
Wang Yangming waved his hand: "I have compiled real records before him, and I can remember the details. Yes, even if we talk about King Zhongyong, where is King Shunyi? Both the late emperor and I asked King Shunyi to sit on the throne.
, Bo Xia'ah."
My academic status is not there yet, so I dare to get to the bottom of things that others need to say that are mysterious and mysterious - what is Yi?
In other words - don't be fooled, leave it to me to find ways to produce less things! It's scary to have problems in that process. While new problems arise, you should also find ways to solve those new problems.
The pragmatic reason for going down is really based on etiquette. After all, two generations of Shunyi kings have come to the capital to meet the Holy Spirit. Which seat should I sit in? Is there any objective proof for this thing?
But if Gao Pragmatic dared to take on the problem of "a king with a different surname", he immediately thought of another reason: "The King of Shunyi is also a special case. I replied that the old king brought thousands of people to conquer the territory and 100,000 cavalry to be canonized.
Yes, I was born as a minister of the Han Dynasty, how can I compare with it?"
Gao pragmatism said quickly: "Your Majesty, be careful, Taizu has no ancestral instructions, and people with different surnames can be crowned kings..."
