Xinshun 1730

Chapter 485

After the banquet, the slightly drunk Dazai Harutai returned to his residence.

His fellow brother Shanxian Zhou Nan had been waiting for a long time. Originally, with Shanxian Zhou Nan's reputation in the Confucian circle, he could go to this banquet as well.

But his official identity is the principal of Changzhou Fan Minglun Museum. He was captured and captured in the first battle of Hagi City, and he was released just a few days ago.Matsudaira Huizhen was worried that Shanxian Zhou Nan would say something resentful at the banquet, so he didn't allow him to participate.

In fact, Zhou Nan in Shan County didn't have any resentment. Finally, when Dazai Harutai came back, he glanced at Dazai Harutai with a happy face, and couldn't help wondering: "What happened during the banquet? Brother Chuntai has a spring breeze on his face, and he wants to come to the banquet There must be a high theory in between?"

"What can I say? I just talked to Liu Yu of the Tang Dynasty about the things after the opening of the port. It is much easier to communicate with him. With just a little bit of knowledge about economics and the people, he can understand it. I have also benefited a lot. That is to say, some things about buying and selling after the opening of the port."

"During the meeting, Liu Yu talked a lot about the theory of 'respecting Zhou and rejecting barbarians'. After a while, it may spread throughout Japan."

After all, he talked to Zhou Nan of Shan County about the price of rice for the opening of the port during the meeting, Zhou Nan of Shan County also nodded frequently.

After the death of Hagyu Sorai, the school of ancient studies split.One school is immersed in ancient Ci and exegesis; the other is immersed in economics and economics, believing that Ci is a small way, and the great meaning of Confucianism lies in governing the country and benefiting the people.

Zhou Nan in Shan County is quite good at writing Han poems, and he has a high foundation in Sinology, but he also thinks that poetry is a small way.

As the headmaster of Meilunkan, which has cultivated talents such as Yoshida Shoin, Katsura Kogoro, and Takasugi Shinsaku a hundred years later, under the banner of "Zhu Zixue", the headmaster is actually a disciple of the ancient school Hagyu Sorai. This Zhu Zixue is nothing more than deception.

The Minglun Hall taught everything, such as agriculture, arithmetic, astronomy, medicine, art of war, etc. Shunan in Yamagata was one of the few people who could understand Dazai Shuntai's economic remarks at this time.

Ogyu Sorai and Yan Yuan, the leader of Northern Confucianism in Dashun, were at the same time and had similar ideas. They both advocated true Confucianism under the banner of opposing Song Confucianism.

The School of Northern Confucianism called for the division of education, to engage in literary studies, to learn rituals, music, books, mathematics, astronomy, and geography; Tactics of War, Archery, Martial Arts and other subjects; Do Jing Shizhai: study "Thirteen Classics", history of past dynasties, imperial system, chapters, poems and other subjects; do Yineng Zhai: study water, fire, engineering, Like mathematics, agronomy, gardening, etc.

The same is true here in Japan. They generally agree with Dazai Harutai’s proposal that “people without Confucian talent should just learn some basic Confucian morals and focus on practical learning.”

It's just that Dazai Chuntai's name is too boring, and he is too lazy to be an official. The one who really presides over and carries forward is Shanxian Zhou Nan, who presides over the Changzhou Fan Minglun Pavilion.

After listening to Dazai Chuntai finish the discussion during the meeting, Shan County Zhou Nan sighed and said: "It was here at the time, and it was also at Jieyin Temple for official affairs. Because of the Korean messenger, it led to a debate among Confucian scholars in our country. The same sect Brother Yusen Fangzhou and Arai Junmei have never spoken to each other since Junmei's death, and they broke off their friendship."

"Today's words, I don't know what kind of controversy it will cause, but it also pushed my ancient school to the forefront."

Thirty years ago, in this place, in this place, Shunan of Shan County, who was still young and only a little famous at that time, also met Dazai Shuntai for the first time here.

The Dazai Chuntai at that time was not the Dazai Chuntai who believed that writing poetry was a trivial way and should focus on helping the world and the people, but a Dazai Chuntai who was proficient in Chinese poetry and immersed in poetry.

That year, the North Korean messenger came here with a strong smell of gunpowder, because Arai Shiraishi demanded that the Japanese maharaja be changed to the Japanese king, and North Korea could not accept it at all.Because they are like a mirror in their hearts, knowing that the shogunate has changed to the king and the emperor is the maharaja, and the county king of North Korea is inferior in etiquette.

Although they didn't tell Dashun, it didn't mean they didn't know clearly.

Since Tsushima, the people of Tsushima Fan have frightened the North Korean messengers with swords.

At that time, Arai Shiraishi believed that Japan was inferior to North Korea in terms of culture, and North Korea always used culture to humiliate Japan.Therefore, Sinology and Confucian students from all over the world are encouraged to participate in the reception activities to show that "Japan is not a barbarian, but also has culture."

Zhou Nan of Shan County became famous in the first battle, and he drew a tie with the Koreans in the joint poem. For this reason, the official envoy of the Korean messenger, Zhao Taiyi, who drafted the enthronement edict for the current king of North Korea and caused the association of candle shadow and ax sound, also Specially interviewed Zhou Nan in Shan County.

Since both of them have personally participated in this incident, and the incident happened in Jieyin Temple, and the banquet was served with pufferfish, naturally they also remembered the violent storm caused by that incident.

Headed by the Lin family, Zhu Zixue's party attacked Arai Shiraishi, thinking that Arai Shiraishi was overreaching, and the shogunate was the shogunate and could not be called king.

Confucian scholars from all over Japan participated in this discussion, including of course Dazai Harutai and Yamagata Shunan, who were still young and emerging at the time.

This kind of thing shouldn't be discussed.With the background of large-scale dissemination of Confucianism, the best way to deal with this kind of matter is "not to argue".

It was this discussion that made Japanese Confucian scholars begin to think about the issues of "monarch and subject" and "name and status".Arai Shiraishi's best friend, Yu Mori Fangzhou, who was forced by Dashun in Tsushima Island to commit suicide in despair a few days ago, broke justice with Arai Shiraishi for this reason, and never said a word to Arai Shiraishi until his death.

In the blink of an eye, 30 years have passed, and it is also at Jieyin Temple in Xiaguan, where many Confucian scholars also participated. The contract renewal, port opening and other matters will inevitably lead to a fierce debate again.And this debate will not be as simple as last time, when the new general came to power and reused the old name, no longer discussed, and gradually the public opinion subsided.

And this time it is no longer a battle between the maharaja and the king, but a battle of status after the tribute, a battle of Confucianism respecting Zhou and barbarians, a battle of whether Japan should sincerely integrate into the tributary system, and the opening of ports is beneficial to Japan. Controversy.

Zhou Nan in Shanxian County is old, what happened 30 years ago, in this familiar place, is just like before our eyes.That dispute led to many problems, and this time I am afraid it will be more serious. What should Japanese Confucian scholars do?
Is it from Zhou?Loyalty?From righteousness?
"Brother Chuntai, what do you think of the theory of 'respecting Zhou and rejecting barbarians'?"

Dazai Chuntai picked up a cup of tea, was silent for a while, picked up and put down the tea in his hand, hesitated for a long time, and said: "Brother also knows that I am against Liu Zihou's "On Feudalism". "On" and Lu Ji of the Jin Dynasty's "On the Five Lords", both talked about the advantages of feudalism and the disadvantages of counties and counties."

"I say, oh so beautiful! The feudal system! Born in this world and seeing its beauty firsthand, it's a true three-generation system."

"If the Tang Kingdom is the emperor, there are princes such as Korea, Annan, and Japan under it. This is a big feudalism. Within Japan, there are many countries, this is a small feudalism."

"The great feudalism and the small feudalism are justified. The greatest trouble in the world is the invasion of the barbarians. Brother was in Hagi, and saw with his own eyes the military formation and firearms of the Tang people. Liu Yuyan said that the Nanman ships were ten times and a hundred times better. I think this statement is true. Otherwise, why did the Tang people build so many warships? If it was only for Japan, it would be enough to halve the number of warships, and even without warships, how could Japan win by landing in Nagasaki by land warfare alone? Building a large number of warships , the plotter must be the Nanman."

"Since I saw it with my own eyes, I can also know the strength of the Southern Barbarian army. I see the conquest of the Tang people, which is a good thing. If not, Japan will be in a catastrophe."

Zhou Nan of Shan County knew that Dazai Chuntai had a peculiar idea. He had said some shocking words before, but now he directly said "the conquest by the Tang people is a good thing", which was really shocking.

"Brother Chuntai speak carefully. Even if the shogunate doesn't blame him, they are afraid that some samurai will assassinate him for insulting the country."

Dazai Harutai laughed and said, "What fear do I have? I'm just telling the truth. In the past, Junmei Arai said that the Nanman's technology is far superior to that of Japan, and the people's wealth is far beyond that. However, how can the Nanman's knowledge be spread in Japan? "

"On the other hand, it was the Tang people who conquered this time. What is the difficulty of spreading the knowledge of the Tang people in Japan?"

"Japan has a lot of gold and silver, and it is a crime to have jade. Its skills are not as good as others. Sooner or later, it will be beaten. Being beaten by the Tang people is far better than being beaten by the Nanman."

"Being beaten by the people of the Tang Dynasty, I have learned a lot since the Tang Dynasty. If I lose, I will learn."

"Secondly, the people of Tang Dynasty were not barbarians. If they were really beaten by barbarians, there would be talk of banishing barbarians in Japan. There are so many ignorant people, and the words of barbarians are a little careless, even barbarian knowledge is useless. Is this a good thing? "

"Three years later, Tang Guoben also banned religion. The practical books that can be circulated in Tang Kingdom must pass the censorship and enter Japan. On the contrary, if you directly learn Southern Barbarian knowledge, it is inevitable that there will be Qiezhi Danjiao terms and be banned."

"Fourth, learning from the Tang Dynasty is a matter of course. Learning from the barbarians, I'm afraid that the public opinion will be boiling, and the theory of rejecting the barbarians will be overwhelming, which is not conducive to the spread of practical learning."

"So I think this is a good thing. The big feudalism and the small feudalism are the same in this world. There are those who subjugate the country and those who subjugate the world. If you pay tribute to the Celestial Dynasty, if you don't lose the title of emperor and be called king, the world will not perish; if you don't pay tribute to the Celestial Dynasty, the Nanban people will live in the future." Invasion, the world will perish."

"Japan has been locked away for too long, and the outside world is changing every day. Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty first developed practical learning, and Japan has no obstacles to learning; if the Tang Dynasty did not flourish, I am afraid that practical learning will only really rise after the Nanban invasion."

"I've always been opposed to Soko Yamaga's Japanese cultural spontaneity theory. So I think that if the Celestial Empire is strong, Japan will not be weak. Even if the world is connected by sailing ships according to Liu Yu's words, you can go to and from the southern barbarian Europa country and Is it as easy as going to and from the heavens?"

"I not only think it is a good thing, but also think that the system of sending Tang envoys should be restarted. However, it should be different."

With these arguments, Shanxian Shunan thought about what he saw and heard during the days when he was detained in Hagi.

Not only the battlefield of the First Battle of Qiucheng, but also the period when he was detained in the future.During that time, the Dashun Army made a desperate attempt to prevent the shogunate from going crazy, and repaired the defense system of Hagi Castle.Although after the peace talks were finalized, they were all dismantled and bombed, but Zhou Nan in Shan County had already seen many methods that he could not understand. It was an eye-opener for the disciples who had learned the art of war.

(End of this chapter)