Xinshun 1730

Chapter 404: Heresy Meets
Confucianism talks about loyalty to the emperor. Yusen Fangzhou is a Confucian student, and because he is a Confucian student, he knows that he should serve his lord to the death.

Not to mention that only a group of officers from Dashun led the army at this time, even Kong as the general and Meng as the deputy general, they would fight to the death to be loyal to the emperor and protect the country.

He didn't see anything wrong with it.

Dashun is not a feudal system within Dashun, but Dashun’s suzerainty system and tribute system are similar to the feudal system. The vassals of my vassals are not my vassals. In theory, even the courtiers of North Korea are the courtiers of the king of Joseon, not the courtiers of the emperor of Dashun. ; Even Confucius and Mencius were not loyal to their lord first, rather than serving the emperor of Zhou?

Moreover, Yusen Fangzhou was influenced by Arai Shiraishi's theory that "Tang and He each called China".

When he came out of the mountain in his 70s, what he did was ultimately the safety of Japan.

However, seeing that the Dashun army surrounded this place, he knew that no matter what, he would not be able to escape.

Not only did he not get the information, but also because the Dashun army came suddenly, he was also captured.

He didn't want to die.

Guns have no eyes, even if I have the heart to serve the country, how can the more than [-] people in this Japanese hall die by guns because of one of my decisions?

Moreover, many of them are his disciples.He opened a Korean language school in Tsushima, and only after passing the assessment of the Korean language school could he be able to work in Wakan, and many people were his disciples.

From a certain point of view, Yusen Fangzhou is a qualified Confucian student with benevolence and righteousness in his heart.

When he was nine years old, he wrote a poem: "Before the cold night snows, the frozen people will be safe and free from worry? My generation is especially happy, and I wear good clothes to swim."

Although when he reads this poem he wrote when he grows up, he feels that it is far worse than Du Gongbu's "Ande Guangsha Ten Thousand Rooms" after all, but at the age of nine, he can think of poor people who have no clothes in the cold weather. It's rare.

After enlightenment, he studied medicine first, and then abandoned medicine to pursue literature... This is not because "studying medicine can't save Japan", but because his teacher said something to him.

Mr. Dongpo once said: study costs paper, and study medicine costs people.Anyone who studies medicine has a few lives in his hands who prescribe the wrong medicine, and then he can become a good doctor.

He lamented to himself that if he broke his humerus while studying medicine, it would be acceptable; but if it cost his life, what else would he learn?

So he abandoned medicine and followed Confucianism.

Having had such an experience, seeing hundreds of real people who might die under the guns of the Dashun Army because of his own decision, Yusen Fangzhou sighed and decided to obey the words of the Dashun Army who surrounded him outside.

But it's not a surrender, it's an intolerance to "trouble people".

I also thought that Dashun is a big country after all, with talents coming out in large numbers, so the study of Confucianism must have merit.

Since the shogunate locked down the country, China and Japan have cut off official exchanges.The traders who come and go to and from Nagasaki are all a group of businessmen with no culture at all.Therefore, many Confucian scholars in Japan concentrated on Tsushima, and even Arai Shiraishi believed that North Korea was culturally strong and military power was declining.

North Korea, on the other hand, is nothing but a second-hand dealer, or a derivative of the Central Plains culture.

Although I am seventy years old, I am still far from the state of "seventy years of doing what one wants without transgressing the rules" as the Master said, and there are still many puzzles in Confucianism.Perhaps it is no regret to be able to discuss the righteousness with the Confucianists of the Tangshan great country before death.

As for intelligence, it is meaningless.

These Dashun Army and the warships floating on the sea visible to the naked eye are enough to capture Tsushima, occupy Yanyuan, and plant the flag in Zhanyuan City.

Under his order, more than 400 people all gave up the idea of ​​resistance, and there was no way to resist, and North Korea did not allow them to carry too many weapons.

After everyone left the Japanese hall, Yusen Fangzhou found the officer and said: "This old man is the servant of the Mashou, and I hope to meet your general."

The officer knew what Tsushima Shou was probably, and frowned, "A side job?"

Yusen Fangzhou sighed, and said in another way: "Servant, secretary, staff, master."

"Oh, oh!"

With such an explanation, the officer immediately understood. Seeing that Yusen Fangzhou was in his seventies and eighties, and leaning on a staff, he said, "There is no need to tie this man up. Some people will bring him up on the boat. It is just time for the Tsushima Fan If someone sends a letter to someone, it would be the best if it is someone..."

He was escorted by two soldiers, followed by two young disciples beside Yusen Fangzhou, and sent to the battleship that was the flagship of the squadron.

As soon as he came up, Zhao Baiquan saw Yusen Fangzhou wearing a Confucian green shirt, a Confucian scarf on his head, and a stick in his hand. Seeing that he was a Confucian scholar, he asked someone to help him.

Zhao Baiquan also met the Shimadzu family's samurai in Ryukyu, so he knew that the Japanese dress was not like this.If it was in North Korea, it is very common to see people dressed like this, but since this person is known as the side servant of Ma Shou, and is obviously a Japanese, it is really strange that he is dressed like this.

"You also learn from Confucius and Mencius?"

Yusen Fangzhou nodded and said: "Of course. Lao Dan is the sage of nothingness; Sakyamuni is the sage of compassion; Master is the sage of sages! The rest of us are born of Confucius and Mencius."

In a word, the relationship with Zhao Baiquan was immediately shortened. This is a standard official language, coupled with this statement that Confucianism is better than Buddhism and Taoism, Zhao Baiquan is quite satisfied.

"Look at the seat. You and I are enemies now, but for the sake of the master, seeing you at an [-]-year-old age, you must have a heart of compassion."

Yusen Fangzhou bowed his hands in thanks, and sat upright with the support of his disciples.

Zhao Baiquan's complexion was not so sharp, and he asked, "What did the Japanese Confucian scholars learn?"

"The study of Confucian students in Japan is nothing more than three grades. The first is Confucianism, the second is History, and the third is Literature. Scholars of Confucianism are the Thirteen Classics. Scholars of Confucianism, Sima Wen Gong has "Zizhi Tongjian". Ji Zhang, the principle of survival and death of chaos, and the effects of ritual, music, punishment and government are all well understood; as for literary scholars, according to the history of Jinghui, they write various words and sayings."

Hearing this, Mantou on the side felt impatient, but Zhao Baiquan's expression changed from not so sharp to a feeling of a friend, and he couldn't help but praise: "It's really like the poem in "Quan Tang": Mountains and Rivers Exotic".

Yusen Fangzhou almost subconsciously said the next sentence together with Zhao Baiquan.

"The wind and the moon are in the same sky!"

After all, the two actually looked at each other and smiled, quite a sense of acquaintance in a foreign land.

Zhao Baiquan came to negotiate with North Korea this time, and he didn't care about negotiating with Japan.

It's just that in this kind of place, I met Yusen Fangzhou who was dressed as a Confucian scholar, and I was curious.

Just like Christians in China, when they overhear a quote from the "Bible" in someone's mouth, they immediately feel close. This kind of similar feeling was born in Zhao Baiquan's heart.

Then, the statement about the ranks of "Confucian classics, historiography, and literature" and that the right path of literature should be "according to the history of classics and emblems, writing various words" is more like Zhao Baiquan's self-understanding experience over the years, from the Japanese in front of him. Say it in general.

After smiling, Zhao Baiquan wondered: "I heard that Confucianism is not popular in Japan, why does the old man study Confucianism?"

Immediately after Yusen Fangzhou talked about how he abandoned medicine and followed Confucianism, especially when he said what Su Dongpo said, the two of them spoke in unison again, unanimously.

"Study paper fee, medical student fee..."

This kind of sense of emotional identity is quite petty bourgeois, and the style among cultural people is always like this. Using their own knowledge systems is like a kind of pleasure of enclosing themselves, which is incomprehensible to people outside the circle.

It is precisely because of the incomprehension of people outside the circle that it promotes the sympathy of those inside the circle.

After Zhao Baiquan had a slight smile on his face, it evolved into a feeling of sympathy and pity, and praised: "The old man has a heart of compassion, and he really has the righteousness of Mencius. I heard that Tsushima is no more than Xiaofan, and the population is less than ten thousand. Old man Great talent, why do you live here?"

At this time, Yusen Fangzhou was also on Zhao Baiquan's body, and found a feeling that was hard to find in Tsushima. His disciples were far behind him. This kind of intimate feeling in the circle was really rare in normal times. Quickly, sighed: "My fifteenth year is determined to study, and I have learned from Muxia's sect. My senior brother Tao Shanduweng became an official in Duoma. At that time, the general issued an 'Order of Compassion for Human Beings', and all living things must not be killed, no matter whether it is dogs, horses, cattle or sheep. , chickens, pigs, dogs, and even wild boars and deer.”

"On Tsushima Island, wild boars run rampant and trample on food, making farmers unable to live, but there is an order of mercy for living creatures, and those who kill live will be punished."

"My senior brother Tao Shanduan held the belief that he must die, and advised the feudal lord. The feudal lord was benevolent, and with the heart of mortal death, he issued a 'pig hunting order' to encourage the people to hunt wild boars."

"I see that Tsushima has a heart of benevolence and righteousness, so I vote."

"At that time, the general was sympathetic to animals, not only forbidding killing, but also built 20 square meters of 'kennels and cat pens' everywhere to protect stray cats and dogs. Each wild dog and wild cat was provided with a catty of rice and three taels of sardines every day. A spoonful of bean paste."

"The common people eat too many radishes and cannot satisfy their hunger. What cats and dogs eat is not white rice, but the ointment of the people. It is really like what Mencius said: dogs eat people and don't know how to check. Therefore, I know that benevolence and righteousness are not feasible, so I stay away from Edo , run on the right horse."

"Today's generals are wise and benevolent, and they abolish the policy of mercy; they set up the Mu An Box, so that people who have grievances can go directly to the Mu An Box to check the unkind officials; seeing the poor getting poorer, they prevent the land from being sold...True benevolence and righteousness Lord. But I was born at the wrong time, my beard and hair are white, I can't help, and I deeply hate it."

These words made Zhao Baiquan feel the same sigh in his heart, thinking, if the way is not good, you will float in the sea; if you are not benevolent, you will give up the temple.This man is a real gentleman.

Zhao Baiquan knew that there were some high-level Confucian scholars in Japan. When Liu Yu sent sweet potatoes to Edo, the Confucian scholars in Japan asked him to bring back a book in China called "Seven Classics of Mencius".

Once this book was published, it immediately caused a sensation in the Confucian circles in the capital.

Ouyang Xiu once wrote a poem saying: Xu Fu's books were not burned when he was traveling, but hundreds of suicide notes still exist today.

Before the popularization of printing, it was necessary to copy books, and when there were always mistakes in copying books, maybe a word was copied wrong.

This "Seven Classics Mencius Textual Research" has solved many unresolved cases and corrected many wrongly copied characters.

Moreover, it also solved a seemingly intractable problem. The "Shangshu" in "Seven Classics of Mencius" is the same as the "Shangshu" circulated in China.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Fengfang, who was known as the king of forgers. Not only could he forge seamlessly with his good calligraphy, but he also forged a large number of ancient books, including the "Shangshu", which is known as the ancient Japanese book.

However, this is a real level, and a lot of fake books are made, all of which can be confused with real ones.This time, the ancient Japanese "Shangshu" in the "Seven Classics of Mencius" is completely different from the "Shangshu" created by Fengfang, which can be regarded as completely dispelling the rumors.

In the capital city, especially under the thought of "Cheng Zhu must be broken, and Confucius and Mencius must be broken" in the Northern Confucianism, and it is resorted to the ancient background, the sensation caused by this book can be imagined.

Zhao Baiquan belongs to the Northern Confucian school, so he has read this book, so he asked about it at this time, and said with a smile: "I know that there are also great Confucianists in Erbang, but I don't know that the old man is related to Shanjing Ding who wrote "Seven Classics of Mencius". , Hagyu Beixi and others who have revised and completed, are there any contacts? We have been friends for a long time, and we have only one side."

Yusen Fangzhou snorted coldly when he heard the words: "His writing "Seven Classics of Mencius Research" has indeed made great achievements. But in his heart, his intentions are not right."

"This is an ancient Confucian school, thinking that Zhu Zi's learning is empty talk, and even saying that Cheng Zhu's learning was infected by the Buddhists, talking about meditation and half-day Zen. Such remarks are really ridiculous."

"Taoism is different, if we don't conspire with each other, how can we talk about intersecting? I take Confucius and Mencius as the example, and Cheng Zhu as the standard. eyes and ears."

Zhao Baiquan, who was originally smiling, changed drastically.

From the smiling face just now to the frosty one, it's just a few words.

He clenched his fists and said angrily: "I'm afraid you are the one who speaks absurdly! Cheng Zhu's study is indeed contaminated by interpretation. It will break a part of Cheng Zhu and come close to Confucius and Mencius. You and I have different ways, so don't repeat it! "

After all, he rushed out, if he hadn't considered that the old man was an envoy to the war, he would have been thrown over the side of the ship and thrown into the sea long ago.

(End of this chapter)