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Chapter 1328 Seeing the Dragon in the Wild (Part 2)

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    No matter who you are, if you spread these eight characters, your political life can be declared over.  Because since the founding of the dynasty, no matter how capable or how powerful the background is, if you don¡¯t come to power after leaving the field, you will gradually be marginalized until you are completely finished, without exception.  Even Liu Bowen, who is like a god, and Mr. Xu Ge, who is known as the teacher of all officials, have not escaped such a fate.

    But experience is only a summary of the past. If the future can be predicted by experience, the future is not the future, it is just a constant repetition of yesterday.  One day, there will be exceptions that do not match the experience, and that is the real future

    Exceptions start with people like Sun Cheng.

    According to the practice of this dynasty, Mr. Sun, who was almost killed by the emperor because he pleaded for the people, was famous all over the world without any surprise.  From the moment he was imprisoned, countless officials, gentry, and even civilians appealed for his grievances. On the day he left Beijing, all the officials went out of the city to see him off.  There is no sadness of parting, but it is like a celebration of triumph, let alone the emperor's feelings.

    All the way to the south, Sun Yu received warm hospitality from the prefectures and counties he passed through without exception. Not only the local officials swept the seats, but also common people and gentry rushed out to welcome them.  See the heroic appearance of this Lord Qingtian who is in charge of the people, and then bow to him.

    Although Sun Wei is well-known all over the world, he has no pretensions. He warmly welcomes everyone who visits him, whether they are poor or rich, officials or people, he talks with them cordially and treats each other with sincerity.  Someone asked him, what is the use of your talking with foolish men and women?  He smiled and said, "I think everyone is a saint." Those who heard it couldn't help being awed.

    The further south he went, the warmer the welcome he received. When he returned to Nanjing, Jinling City was empty of people that day, and people all went to Yanziji Wharf to welcome their hero's return grandly.  The officials in Nanjing City also expressed their support for their leaders. Sun Yu first served as Minister of the Ministry of Officials in Nanjing, and then transferred to Yushi of Zuodu.  ,beyond imagination.

    Geng Dingxing, Jin Da and his class of the same year, as well as his younger brother Sun Ting, were naturally also in the welcome ranks.  Welcoming him back, Sun Ting's house had already prepared a banquet, and a group of Sun Kuang who came back with him in the same year sat down immediately. After the two drank the wine, everyone talked about the spectacular scene at the pier today, and Sun Ting joked  Said: "Back then, I won six of my humble remarks, and I never had such a good time. My brother, you are worth your money."

    Sun Wei shook his head and smiled without making a sound, Sun Kuang said to his second brother, "Brother, this journey to the south is really spectacular."

    "Why, are you envious?" Sun Ting smiled and said, "Actually, if you eat the imperial staff and be carried back, you will definitely be more popular than elder brother."

    "How old are you, let's be more serious." Sun Wei couldn't help but change the topic and said to Geng: "Let's talk about the academy!"

    "Why, you are finally willing to give lectures?!" Geng Ding said excitedly, "Join Chongzheng Academy, I still have the same attitude, and I will wait for the post of president!"

    "Brother Lifeng can join, our Qionglin School is even more powerful!" Jin Da, the Nanjing Imperial Academy Jijiu, also rubbed his hands excitedly: "Your skills are profound, and when you combine the two swords of Tiantai, you will definitely be able to overwhelm other schools.  I have full confidence in this meeting in the capital!"

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    At the beginning of the establishment of the Kingdom, Emperor Taizu established the dominant position of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism through stereotyped selection of scholars and the issuance of three "Complete Works" in order to unify his thinking.  Although this is the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's use of force to expand his territory, it is just a strategy to tame the vast number of scholars, but after all, it provides the best soil for the development and growth of the scholar class.

    After a period of gestation, the intellectual class of the country became more and more mature politically, and its elite group gradually became the scholar-officials who really dominated the country.  But at the same time, their desires are increasingly out of control, and various corruptions suppressed by the official policy of the second ancestor of the early Ming Dynasty continue to breed.  The corruption and ugliness of the officialdom and the opportunistic pursuit of power by the scholar-bureaucrats made people who stick to Confucian moral education naturally draw a conclusion: the world is declining, and people's hearts are not old.

    These people believe that the stereotyped method of selecting scholars will not only fail to make the doctrine of sages deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but will ignore its original moral essence because scholars regard Confucian classics as a stepping stone to official career.  And the moral decline of the scholar class will inevitably lead to the moral decline of the entire country, so that the Chinese state of etiquette will really become a country of beasts.  For this reason, they believe that it is necessary to strengthen the emphasis on Confucian classics, and not allow stereotyped culture to become the entire content of learning for scholars.

    Therefore, in the textTireless lectures, actively attracting young students, and teaching without distinction, from officials, gentry, wealthy businessmen, to traffickers and pawns, can listen to lectures.  Despite being criticized by Neo-Confucians, especially those officials with vested interests, Wangmen Xinxue spread at an unprecedented speed. After one year after its birth, Yangming Xinxue finally overwhelmed Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism academically and became a social  mainstream thought.

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    In the seventh year of Jiajing, after the death of Lord Yangming, his disciples continued to promote lecture activities in accordance with the teacher's ambition.  However, Duke Yangming's academic thinking was not consistent throughout his life.  In his early years, he devoted himself to Zhu Zi's learning of things and became ill because of it; after Longchang's epiphany, he realized what he had done wrong in his early years, and began to pay attention to his inner understanding;  Some disciples put more emphasis on enlightenment than practice. They added the word "zhi" to "conscience" and put forward the theory of "reaching conscience".  Sentence 'teaching method, finally reached the mature state of thought in his later years.

    However, he has the common fault of philosophers throughout the ages. He emphasizes too much on experience and personal understanding, and loses in generality and abstraction, let alone a rigorous system.  The disciples have no rules to follow, so they let go of the shackles and become sloppy.  Under the circumstances of such congenital deficiencies, the postgraduates of the Wang family have come to a situation where each has his own theory, separates from each other, and speaks for himself.

    In Qian Dehong's preface to "Yangming Spectrum", he said bluntly: "Since the teacher died, our party's learning has not stopped, and each sticks to what he has heard to establish a teaching It is very serious to confuse the public before passing it on."  My party is worried.  'As he said, there were many descendants of Wang Yangming, and the four most prosperous families were Shanyin Wangji, Taizhou Wanggen, Anfu Liujunliang, and Yongfeng Niebao. All four established their own systems, called Wangxue  four doors.  In the last years of Jiajing, the latter two gradually declined, and the former two accounted for almost half of the country.  But still full of differences and disputes.

    Among them, Wang Ji was an official not long ago, lived in the forest for more than 40 years, and gave lectures every day. There are academies under his family from the southern capital to Wu, Chu, Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang. He is 80 years old and travels tirelessly  , all the scholars in the southeast regard it as the clan alliance and the Zhezhong School.  This school has evolved Yangming's theory of mind into an innate learning, and regards conscience as an inner spiritual pursuit like Zen enlightenment, which does not require hard work.  Embodied in politics, it is advocated that the ruler should do nothing and avoid disturbing the people as much as possible, which is naturally welcomed by scholar-bureaucrats and businessmen.

    Equally popular is Wang Gen's Taizhou School.  This school reformed the "mind is the essence" of mind learning into "the body is the essence".  The difference of one word shifts the focus from thought to action.  Therefore, it pays attention to being actively involved in the world, emphasizing self, advocating equality for all, affirming human desires, and respecting human nature In short, it can do whatever it is against Neo Confucianism and ethics.  To some extent, it is precisely because of its popularity that the frozen society begins to flow faster and become bizarre.  Moreover, its supporters mainly come from ordinary people, and the number is unmatched by the former.

    But both sides have fatal flaws.  Zhezhong School let its natural negative thoughts not help in saving the world.  However, the Taizhou school, which is extremely particular about self-liberation, inevitably produces a large number of madmen. From Wang Gen to Yan Jun, from Li Zhi to He Xinyin, they are all people who fight dragons and snakes with bare hands, so they are beyond the control of famous teachers, and their extreme thoughts  , Naturally, it is not liked by the ruling class.  He teaches without discrimination, and makes his disciples mixed up, making it inevitable for people in the upper class to avoid him.

    If you want to save the world, neither one can be relied on.  Where should Wang Xue go, and how to find the true meaning of Yangminggong, many scholars began to carefully reflect and revise Wang Xue, until the emergence of Qionglin School¡ª¡ª

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