Xinshun 1730

Chapter 500 No one is the universal truth
No one expected that the matter would develop to this stage. On such a formal occasion, the emperor directly did such a thing, and he really didn't want any face.

The standing Xunwei immediately rushed out, dragging the man outside.

The people outside also brought soup in a hurry. No one expected that someone would wash their hair on such an occasion, but there is no shortage of hot water for setting up a big banquet in the court.

The minister was carried out by Xun Wei, but he still tried his best to hang his neck and shouted: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

"Master did not worry about the real barbarians when he wrote "Spring and Autumn", but worried about the princes being reduced to barbarians! What he was talking about was this dynasty, which is slowly slipping towards barbarians!"

"Since this dynasty regards protecting the world as its righteousness, it must not be reduced to barbarians!"

"Forcing education and exporting morality, what's the difference between this and Western countries forcing people to believe in Catholicism? If the Celestial Dynasty and Westerners do the same, how is it different from barbarians? This sincerity really perishes the world!"

"Diplomatic envoys are no longer under the whole world. Could it be the land of the king? Isn't this world already dead?"

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

The shouts of loyalty echoed in the hall, and Liu Yu couldn't help being moved.

This person is really the backbone!

But what kind of backbone is it, I don’t know.

Liu Yu himself didn't figure it out.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Liu Yu absolutely believed that this kind of person would die a tragic death, at least he would die of a hunger strike, refusing to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, or surrender.

If Dashun didn't interfere and change history, it would probably be similar to Liu Zongzhou, who worshiped at the Confucian Temple in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Liu Yu himself didn't know how to face this kind of person.

There is a backbone, and so is knowledge.It is right to say that he is wrong, from a traditional point of view, that is true, the emperor’s step is indeed a bit big, and his thinking is reactionary back to the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the infiltration of theories formed over hundreds of years is really hard to accept.

In fact, from the point of view of the great Confucianists today, if there is no superiority and inferiority, and there is no strict etiquette, it can be regarded as a kind of destruction of the world.If the studies of Yang Zhu Mo Di flourished, they would perish in the world.Now the Celestial Dynasty actually wants to put down its arrogance and discuss friendship with the western barbarians, and even actively export culture, educate the barbarians and demarcate the sphere of influence. This is also a kind of destruction of the world.

Dashun is also a school of ancient Confucianism, which adopts the doctrine of originalism and religious doctrine, and requires to read the ancient books of the pre-Qin period directly, and not to listen to the annotations of later generations.However, except for the ancient Confucian school who is particularly horny, it still depends on the annotations of later generations. There is still a lot of market for the saying that the emperor will not rule the barbarians; It is also believed by many people that one does not practice benevolence and righteousness, but goes evil and becomes a barbarian.

Has Dashun gone the wrong way now?
Of course Liu Yu can understand, from these people's point of view, he must have gone on the crooked way, and it can't be any more crooked, and he is about to become "military, oppressive, shameless, deceitful, and violating the law of etiquette" It's Yidi.

Building a large navy is for the sake of militarism.

Liu Yu led troops to carry out a large-scale cleansing in Ryukyu, which was similar to what Ban Chao did.

Taking advantage of the Ryukyu incident to attack Japan is not actually for Ryukyu or etiquette, but for wealth and trade. This is a shameless fraud.

Abandoning the view of the world that the whole world is not a king, and wanting to forcefully export ideology like Westerners spread Christianity, this is a violation of etiquette.

In short, not to mention the "half-barbarians" like Qin and Chu who are about to become "greedy and shameless, and disregarded", they are almost the same as Qi and Jin, who are not pure China "out of deceit and participation in benevolence and righteousness".

Liu Yu could understand, and even understood that today's incident was just an outbreak of conflicts accumulated within Dashun over the years.

Originally, Dashun relied on the good family son who studied marginal knowledge and actually learned geometry surveying and mapping, and reached a balance with the Confucian officials in the imperial examination.Under this kind of balance backlog, there are great contradictions, but the emperor's balance technique is not bad and can always be suppressed.

As a result, Dashun banned teaching a few years ago.Under the ban on religion, even though the emperor distinguished early on the difference between "practical learning" and "Western learning" in order to prevent the occurrence of "in the name of banning religion, even practical learning was opposed", the effect was not very obvious.

After the ban on religion, conservative forces quickly raised their heads and made a full-scale counterattack.

As a result, judging from the current posture, the emperor is not going to continue to be conservative, but is trying to move forward, even more radical than before.

The conflicts that had been accumulated for a long time, with the help of today's incident, someone finally couldn't hold back and completely tore his face.Using the past to satirize the present, talking about Tang Taizong's four faults, in fact, every sentence is a criticism of Dashun's current policy.

But obviously, the emperor was not ready.As the actual leader of the Practical Learning School, Liu Yu is too clear that the Practical Learning School is completely lacking in strength now.

But conservatives also see danger.

After the compensation this time, there will be large-scale practical studies in some places, and even divided education. Ten or twenty years later, this is a force that can completely rival the Confucian classics, not the few good families.

That's why Liu Yu couldn't understand this matter, and it felt weird from the beginning.

If the emperor wants to reform, what he has to learn now is Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty. He does not argue, does not argue, develops quietly, and accumulates social changes to reach a certain threshold.

If the emperor didn't want to reform, he shouldn't have made such a big commotion on this occasion.

Or, the emperor swelled?Do you think you can be both an emperor and a Confucian theorist, transforming Confucianism, or at least transforming the view of the world?

This is a little pointless, Liu Yu thought that his own level is a bit weak, but don't you know what your level is, the emperor?
He felt that today's matter was weird, so he made up his mind and didn't say a word, unless the emperor insisted on him.

I was thinking in my heart that if I were the emperor, how I should treat the loyal minister who spoke outright just now, try to hold my heart as much as possible, and don't listen to the howls of advice outside the hall.

It's just that this honest and loyal minister today will probably die.It is estimated that he may commit suicide after returning home.

The emperor is irretrievable. If a loyal minister is forced to death, his reputation will not be good.Liu Yu was shocked, thinking that he was about to smash the jar, right?

The rest of the ministers also saw that something was wrong with today's situation, and the scene was a bit uncontrollable, so they hurriedly spoke out.

"Your Majesty calm down. Although his words are extreme and pedantic, they are also sincere. Your Majesty's words are really heartbreaking."

"Yes, Your Majesty. After this dynasty took over the world, there have been a lot of jokes. How is this itchy scalp joke different from giving people the name of juniper? Please calm down, Your Majesty!"

"His Majesty!"

All the courtiers knelt down one after another, and those who had somewhat similar views on this matter to Liu Yu also knelt down to beg for mercy.

Kneeling down to intercede at this time does not mean supporting the other party's ideas, but focusing on the overall situation, not wanting to create factional disputes in the court, at least to create a harmonious situation on the surface.

Liu Yu pondered for a while, cursed again in his heart, and then knelt down.

In the current situation, once the hot water arrives, if you put the head of the minister who advised you just now into the basin to wash your hair, even if it just wets your head, the minister will not be able to live.Anyone who has the face to suffer such a great humiliation, in the environment of Dashun with severe PTSD stress disorder in the late Ming Dynasty, has no choice but to die.

Seeing that all the officials present knelt down to beg for mercy, including the ministers headed by Liu Yu who could not possibly support this minister's views, Li Gan snorted and said, "It's absurd, but its loyalty may be encouraging." .That's all. All my loves, get up."

All the ministers stood up now, and the official whose hair was almost washed was also invited back, but the atmosphere in the banquet was completely wrong.

Originally, today's banquet was a very happy event. The conquest of Japan was successful and so easy. Dashun finally became a bit like the Tang Dynasty, forcing Japan to become a vassal again after a thousand years.It turned out like this.

Li Gan asked someone to clean up the mess caused by the Xunwei's dragging people just now, and after cleaning up, he said: "Just now what the Qing family said was the fault of Tang Taizong, and that Tang Taizong opened up the barbarians, which led to the prosperity of the barbarians in Song Dynasty. It's all Taizong's curse."

"During the first Ming Dynasty, the Netherlands attacked Ryukyu and occupied Taiwan; the United Kingdom and the Netherlands attacked Macau and robbed Zhoushan; the Raksha Kingdom went out to the sea of ​​whales and looted settlements. Could it be that they were also the root of disaster planted by Tang Taizong?"

"Before this dynasty used the heavy arquebus from Persia, and also used the Lumi musket from Rome, and now it uses the musket from France. So what? Who planted this disaster?"

After clicking the names of several Western countries or Turkey, which was not present, the expressions of the Western envoys varied.Britain and the Netherlands thought, after all, China still remembers the past of the first year of the apocalypse.But the Netherlands is a dead pig and is not afraid of boiling water, while the United Kingdom feels that it is purely implicated by the Netherlands. Most of the warships that attacked Macau and looted Chinese merchant ships were Dutch. East and Southeast Asia.

As for the French envoys, they were secretly delighted. Liu Yu had already talked to them about the trade route of pearl mining, ginseng and ice cubes. France could at least increase its income by several 10 taels of silver a year.Now that they have taken the initiative to find out the old account of the British and Dutch attacks on the Chinese coast, the French are undoubtedly happy. They wish that both the British and the Dutch would be driven out by Dashun.

After Li Gan finished talking about the events of the late Ming Dynasty, he said again: "Although there are many omissions in Qi Guogong's theory, there are some truths, and I deeply believe it."

"The toes of mountain birds are sparse, the toes of wet birds are wide, the power of birds is horizontal, the power of plowing birds is fir, the south is suitable for water farming, and the north is suitable for frost farming. Right and wrong are tolerated by their pans and scattered, and they are analyzed in large quantities. The situation is also irreparable. And no harm."

"The morality, sacred words, etiquette and legal system of the Celestial Dynasty have their own reasons, and are in line with the way of heaven and earth. But they are only suitable for those suitable places."

"There are saints in the West, and they also have their morals and etiquette, which are very different from those in China, but they have been passed down for thousands of years. It can be seen that the holy words of China may not be applicable to the West."

"But also, Western morality and etiquette are not applicable to the Celestial Dynasty."

"The words of Confucius and Mencius, the Duke of Zhou, are universally applicable to the heavens, but not necessarily applicable to the earth. Isn't their Dousi the same? They are universally applicable across the West, but not necessarily applicable to the earth."

"This is the cornerstone of diplomacy and commerce. I am proud of my virtue, and you praise yourself for your righteousness. They do not interfere with each other. Without this, there is no diplomacy or commerce."

"If this cornerstone is still denied, the Celestial Dynasty can only sever diplomatic relations, go to war, cut off business, close business houses, and drive out merchants."

"Now all the envoys from the West are here, you can come to me, and I want to ask you, do you agree with this statement?"

When Liu Yu heard this moment, he suddenly realized, and his mind was wonderful.This is to completely separate practical learning from Western learning, and at the same time disintegrate the Western "Bible" that shines everywhere.

This can be regarded as injuring one thousand enemies and eight hundred self-inflicted injuries.Give up the unrealistic fantasy of being the emperor at this time, one or the other, life and death, and only one universal truth.It can also be regarded as completely cutting off the entanglement of practical learning and Western learning, making people focus on practical learning, instead of the endless disputes between Christianity and Confucianism before and after the ban on religion, air-to-air output, and the discussion all day is about the law of heaven in Dous Theological questions before and after creation.

But in fact, Dashun still won.Because the cornerstone of this set of theories is the way of heaven and earth.It is the way of heaven and earth that divides the ethnic groups, and makes each ethnic group have its own morality.But this kind of winning is a self-indulgent winning, which is meaningless.

It not only maintains communication, exchanges, and introduces practical learning; but also prevents top talents in the society from thinking about those air-to-air things.

Between religions, there are no winners in the debate, only the winners, and Li Gan is quite clear about this.

And... Judging from the results of the current debate, Confucianism is retreating steadily, and the ban on religion has already caused big disturbances and martyrdom in Fujian, Guangdong and other places, so we should cut it off as soon as possible.

For this matter, a contract must be signed and written documents must be issued.

In fact, this treaty is a treaty that is forced to admit that the Bible is not universally applicable.Signing officials include Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, and Protestant representatives from various countries.

As for Dashun... Confucianism didn't go out in the first place, one was offensive and the other was defensive.If everyone does not have universal adaptability, the defense wins.

(End of this chapter)