People in Datang have been expelled from school

Chapter 254 Li Gang's Concept

Li Ke was coming back from the guards, and he reorganized the houses for Li Ke and Cheng Chumo alone in Jingyang. Now Jingyang has a lot of houses, and many houses are still empty.

Seeing Li Zheng sitting by the river alone, Li Ke asked: "I see you eating on time on weekdays. You must be eating at this hour. Why are you sitting here today?"

The sky was a little dark, Li Zheng looked at the river and said, "An old man is following me."

"Which old man?"

"The one you put in."

"You said Mr. Li Gang, isn't he your friend?"

"what?"

Li Ke explained: "Old Mr. Li Gang said that you and him are good friends, so I let him in, and I followed the prince to Jingyang yesterday."

Li Zheng breathed the still somewhat cold air, "People's hearts are sinister."

"Who is evil?"

An old voice came from behind, and Li Zheng looked back to see the old man Li Gang.

"Old man, what exactly do you want?" Li Zheng said helplessly.

Li Gang smiled and said to Li Zheng: "I don't want Datang to miss a smart person like you."

"I'm not a smart person." Li Zheng said.

Li Gang nodded, "I know, they all say you are a fool."

"So old man, don't waste your time with me, please go back."

Li Gang still stood at the same place, "There is no one to teach, this old man can teach you and let you go back to the right path."

"Don't!" Li Zheng quickly refused: "I am already a disciple of General Li Jing, and if you want to teach me, it is General Li Jing who will teach me, so you don't need to bother."

Li Gang said with emotion: "The old man came late, he should have come to Chang'an earlier."

"Even if you come to Chang'an earlier, it's useless."

As the bleak evening wind blew, Li Ke felt a little embarrassed standing where he was, so he turned around and went back the other way.

Sitting on the edge of the river, Li Gang asked, "Li Zheng, I have met many smart people."

"I'm a fool."

Li Zheng emphasized.

Li Gang smiled and said: "You are proficient in nine chapters of numerology. You can let the Tang Dynasty fight among the three parties in Turkic, Tubo, and Tuyuhun without bloodshed. You can take Yinshan, Qinghai, and Hexi Corridor, and make Turkic no sweat. You Such fools are rare."

The more Li Zheng heard it, the more something was wrong.

Li Gang said: "How can a man stand in the sky and do nothing?"

Li Zheng said lazily: "Save the people from the fire and water, and help the country and the country?"

Li Gang nodded.

"There are so many talented people in the Tang Dynasty, and I'm one of them is missing. Let's talk about saving the people? This is what those strong men from heaven do. I'm not interested in it, and it's better for your majesty to do it. It's easy to lose my life if I do it. "

"Life is too short." Li Zheng sighed.

Li Gang also nodded slightly, "Life is too short, we should cherish the present even more, get a Jinshi degree, and study the history of the country."

"Forget it, I prefer to earn enough money in a limited life, and then retire before the age of 30. I think this is the true meaning of life."

Li Gang shook his head and sighed, "I'm stubborn."

Li Zheng smiled disdainfully, "This is what I call my original intention."

Li Gang said again: "Have you always wanted to be a commoner? With your intelligence, you will definitely become the next generation of Confucianism."

"To be honest, I'm not interested in your so-called learning. You want people all over the world to study Confucianism and learn Confucianism. The imperial court and even the emperors all take Confucianism as the orthodoxy. To be honest, I really like these things. It's not rare."

Li Gang looked at Li Zheng's still immature face.

Li Zheng went on to say: "Confucianism can't feed me, and Confucian books can't be eaten?"

"The emperors of all dynasties have advocated Confucianism and respected Confucian rituals."

Li Zheng smiled coldly.

"What are you laughing at?" Li Gang was puzzled.

Li Zheng said loudly: "Does what you advocate change the morals of the world? You preach Confucianism, and you even use Confucianism to persuade the emperor, but you great Confucianists have never controlled the lives of people in the world."

"What do these thousands of people want? What they want is to be able to eat enough to not starve to death in winter."

Li Gang: "If there is no Confucianism, how can there be scholars in the world."

Li Zheng: "Learning the old knowledge will make it difficult for the world to make further progress. This is not progress, but backwardness."

"What kind of knowledge do you think should not be considered backward?"

Li Zheng smiled and said nothing.

Li Gang continued: "Is it just relying on the science you have inherited? What is the use of that thing other than making you money?"

Li Zheng grinned and said: "Differences do not conspire with each other, you live a life of character, and I live a life of necessities."

"And your strength of character, to me, is nothing more than a group of old guys holding old-fashioned knowledge and claiming to be lofty. In my opinion, this is very stupid. You dare not accept things that subvert your cognition."

In the pre-Qin period, everyone could put forward their own knowledge. At that time, Confucianism never thought of containing other schools of thought.

From the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu proposed to oust all schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone.

In that era that needs to recuperate and recuperate, when the family and the country need to face the Huns' foreign enemies together, they really need to unify their thinking.

Together with all the people of the world, we will fight against each other.

This kind of method is somewhat despicable but the effect is very good, but there will be endless troubles.

It also indirectly created the aristocratic family and the Shandong gentry.

A pattern of completely monopolizing knowledge.

The emperor will always choose the idea that is most beneficial to his rule.

But such a big package, cut off all the trivial, almost curbed the development of knowledge.

If things go on like this, there will no longer be hundreds of schools in the world, only Confucianism.

Li Zheng sneered, "Dong Zhongshu, who deposed all schools of thought and only respected Confucianism? He is nothing more than that. He created Confucianism and destroyed all schools of thought. What kind of shit is asked by heaven and man? Pretending to be great is just a way to strengthen the emperor. It’s just a means, treating Confucian knowledge as a kind of thought, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty just used Confucianism to calm people’s hearts, how much do you really think the emperors of the world think highly of Confucianism?”

"Learning has become a means for the emperor to consolidate power. Is this really the essence of Confucianism? Is this the essence of Confucianism? In my opinion, it is a very despicable method,"

Li Gang became more and more angry.

Li Zheng continued: "Don't think too highly of yourself, there are gentlemen and villains in this world."

"Li Zheng, do you want to be an enemy of Confucian students all over the world?"

Li Zheng shook the cattail fan in his hand and said: "With all due respect, even if you hold high the banner of Confucianism's unification, you can't make the whole world a gentleman. Your goal is wrong and doomed to failure. I don’t pay attention to lofty ideals at all.”

"Insanity."

Li Zheng sneered and said: "I'm sorry, I'm more particular about reality. It's money, it's life, and it's about making people live well. I think you Confucians only need to keep their spirits. No."

"You!" Li Gang trembled with anger. In his whole life, it was the first time in his life that Confucianism was so worthless by a child with a yellow mouth.

"In my opinion, knowledge is a very free thing, not your so-called rules and regulations. When you want to lock up knowledge, you also lock up an era."

"According to what you say, we Confucian children are all sinners through the ages."

"You can't be called sinners. You are just a sentence in the history. You will become the summary of future generations, and the negative teaching material for future generations."

Li Gang breathed heavily, and seemed to be thinking about something in a daze.

Li Zheng went on to say: "After history has passed, scholars in this world will definitely pay attention to seeking truth from facts and materialism, rather than those inexplicable spiritual pillars. In my opinion, reading and studying have always been to make themselves better. Instead of being your mouthpiece for spreading Confucian classics."

Thinking about Li Zheng's words, Li Gang stood still as if he had settled down.

I think of those Confucian children who recite Confucian classics, but they are not diligent.

He keeps talking about the great unification of Confucianism, but he doesn't know how to do things for the people and the world.

Advising the emperor became an honor.

Sometimes I think about what Confucianism has become today.

I remembered that when I was young, everyone would argue for knowledge and compare themselves.

I don't know when the taste changed, full of all kinds of utilitarianism.

Materialism and idealism are indeed very important. Some students have become the mouthpiece of Confucianism for the sake of those utilitarianism.

Li Gang said with a wry smile: "If the old man were ten years younger, the old man would kill you now."

Li Zheng smiled again, "If it weren't for your age, I would have kicked you out a long time ago, so why bother."

Talking to someone with different values ​​is very mindless.

The pedantry and old-fashionedness are vividly reflected in Li Gang.

All Confucianism has advantages and disadvantages, it is just a choice of an era.

But blindly advocating Confucianism will only make knowledge wither.

Li Gang said in a low voice: "I have lived my whole life, and I have met many, many people. Some people are duplicity, some people are flattering. You are very honest."

"I advise the old man, don't think about me anymore. I really don't have the wisdom to be your Confucian."

Li Gang went on to say: "You dare to question and argue, there are fewer and fewer people like you now, and too many people are just flattery."

Hearing this, it doesn't feel right!There seems to be a smile in the old man's eyes?

Could it be that you are not angry?
Li Zheng gave a shock.

It was already dark, but the moonlight was bright tonight.

The sky is clean.

Li Gang nodded and smiled again: "The old man appreciates you very much."

"Don't! I'm afraid that the Confucian disciples will kill me and then hurry up."

"How can we talk about life and death in front of righteousness?"

"But pull it down, there is no righteousness if you lose your life."

"Indeed, it is also necessary to survive."

After Li Gang finished speaking, he picked up a stone and said, "Li Zheng, I think you are like a stubborn stone."

Li Zheng said: "Mr. Li, you are the prince's teacher, so you should teach the prince well. I really don't have the root of wisdom, so please let me go."

Li Gang nodded, "When you were kicked out by the grandson's family back then, did you still care about that?"

"No." Li Zheng shook his head.

"It's true that it would be uncomfortable if it were someone else."

Li Zheng stood up and said, "I really don't mind about it."

(End of this chapter)