Xinshun 1730

Chapter 972

The appearance of Liu Yu made the emperor decree to divide "Western learning" and "practical learning", completely separating culture, religion and science and mathematics.

The basis of this kind of cutting is that there is a person who is not a Catholic, but can solve equations, calculate geometry, introduce Newton's theory, and angrily denounce the Copernican theory preached by missionaries as outdated, at least talk about brother Gu Kepler system.

The basis of this cut is that someone who is not a Catholic can tell the emperor about the general situation of the Orthodox Church in the Holy Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, France and England.

This kind of cutting also led to the subsequent differences between Cheng Tingzuo and Wu Jingzi.

Before, both of them were the same: I felt that it was over, this era was dying, and I had to criticize the Song Confucianism in the past and the era, otherwise the world would be doomed!
If the times do not change, there will be no salvation, and the world will perish.

But what to do after criticism?

When opposing and criticizing, the two have a common language and are fellow travelers.

However, when it comes to "what to do", there are differences.

Some people took this step because of the factors of the times, and found a direction that they thought they could at least do something about.

Some people are wasted in criticism, unable to find direction, pinning on moral changes.

It’s like when capitalism emerged, everyone sprayed it, priests, nobles, emperors, kings, guild masters, peasants, they all sprayed and scolded.The paths chosen are different.There are those who retreat, those who have fantasies, and those who continue to move forward.

Seven or eight years after Cheng Tingzuo believed that "Western missionaries used learning as bait and harbored evil intentions", the emperor decreed to distinguish practical learning from Western learning.

Ten years after Cheng Tingzuo worried that "missionaries might be the pioneers of Western encroachment", Dashun ordered the ban on religion, but practical learning was still introduced, only religious books were banned, and the Catholic Church was destroyed.

More than ten years after Cheng Tingzuo worried about "when will he attack Luzon and cut it off as a vassal state", the Dashun Navy went to Nanyang and seized the vast ocean from Ceylon to Japan in one fell swoop.

It can be said that Liu Yu solved a doubt in Cheng Tingzuo's heart: Is science bound to Westerners?
In fact, everyone knows that it is not bound.

But someone who knows geometry is a Jesuit missionary; someone who knows algebra is a Jesuit missionary; someone who understands Kepler's system is the vice president of the Greater China Diocese...

How do you say that?how to think?If you want to oppose Catholicism, should you oppose these things?

Once he is not bound, this person who is keen on Yan Lishi's learning immediately feels that he has a direction after accepting the saying that "the knowledge of the East and the West does not distinguish between the East and the West, but Dous is not the same as the East and the West".

Songjiang Mansion is becoming more and more prosperous. After Cheng Tingzuo and Wu Jingzi went to Nanyang in Dashun, they met and visited Songjiang Mansion.

And this trip was also the beginning of the differences between the two in the future.

What Cheng Tingzuo saw in Songjiang Mansion is that everything is happening, everyone is talking about the truth, and the schools of agriculture, industry and commerce are all brilliant and useful.Human desires, daily use of human relations, diet of men and women, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, enjoying life and hating death, no one can change them, they can only use them according to the situation and control them.But if a person has been hungry for a long time, when he eats violently, it is meaningless to say that restraint...everywhere he sees, there is vitality.

But the Songjiang Mansion Wu Jingzi saw was that everyone was seeking profit, manic and restless, money was the most important thing, profit was the first, and the stink of money completely covered up morality.Speculators, hoarding goods, proud of receiving dividends for nothing, all kinds of people are in a hurry, and they all come and go for money.In order to fight for family property and equity, yamen lawsuits and judgments are endless all day long; what everyone is talking about, or what the price of soybeans and futures are today, or how much profit was made in yesterday's trade...Everywhere you hear, there are demons dancing wildly.

The two, both in their 40s, have since had different ideas.

Cheng Tingzuo wants to start from scratch, starting from the new school, learn those new knowledge, be familiar with geography, astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, physics and chemistry, know the way of the world, and integrate Zhou Gong's knowledge of Confucius and Mencius, and promote the world of universal love.

Wu Jingzi wanted to write a book called "A Foreign History of Merchants and Merchants", satirizing the many magics of the new era.

If it is said that this is just the beginning of the differences between the two, then at most it is the difference in what they see.What really caused the two to break up was the dispute between "big righteousness" and "small righteousness", which is the so-called "same way? Different ways?"

The cause is precisely the reform of the salt administration.

Both supported reform, but disagreed over the issue of salt merchants.

Wu Jingzi said that when he was poor, the salt merchant gave him 200 taels of silver without saying anything, so as not to embarrass himself.

Think again when I was young, relatives competed for family property, and after being ruined, I was stared at and avoided by relatives.Comparing the attitude of the salt merchants, I am really moved.

In the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, a scholar dies for a confidant, and a woman looks for a person who pleases her.Treat me with a gentleman, and I will repay you with a soldier!

It was a coincidence that when he was in Japan, Liu Yu persuaded Shi Shiyong to find a gunman when he came back and write some of his experience in Japan into a storybook, so that the world can know the stories of Japan.

So as not to write a "Shuo Yue Quan Zhuan", those foreign countries, the whole Central Plains, have a layer of weird names, Jin Wushu is almost becoming a Confucian general.Or write a Nanyang novel, the Nanyang countries can't see any difference from the Central Plains at all.

Because of the books used in history, another one is the exchange between Japanese Confucian scholars and Dashun Confucian scholars, the disputes between Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism and ancient Confucianism, and so on.

Here, because of an old incident, a lot of discussions have been triggered,
That old event was the "Ako Incident".

In fact, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, scholars avenged their masters.

Some people say that this is really a legacy of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the soldiers of the Warring States Period still exist in Fusang.The ancient morality has been lost for a long time in this dynasty.

The emperor was rude and asked for help.

Some people used Liu Yu's set of theories to give a comprehensive criticism.

Of course, it is not a moral critique, but a critique of "the economic base determines the superstructure" - the style of supporting scholars in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods lies in the enfeoffment system and the overall control of the land.Without the master, these soldiers cannot live, they can only survive by relying on the master.

Today, the one that most closely resembles the enfeoffment system is that of the Salt Administration.

Lord Xinling, Lord Mengchang, etc. all have their own fiefs and properties, and those scholars must rely on them to survive.

But the salt merchants hold Yanyin in their hands, father and son inherit it, newcomers cannot enter the industry, and Yanyin will never be easy. What is the difference between this and a fiefdom?
Only the enfeoffment system can support soldiers and have the so-called warrior spirit.

Salt merchants have now raised a bunch of staff, retainers, purveyors, and Confucian scholars to promote them. What is the difference from keeping retainers?It's nothing more than that those Confucian scholars still have other ways to go, they can take the imperial examination and do other things, unlike those warriors and patriarchs who will never have a good life once they die.

Therefore, when Lord Mengchang lost his power, all the disciples ran away, which just showed that the Celestial Dynasty was moving forward—it submerged the holy eruption of the scholars' righteousness and other emotions in the icy water of self-interested plans.In place of what is veiled by fantasy and morality it substitutes what is open, direct, and explicit.

If you want a scholar of Chisui, you must abolish the prefectures and counties and redistribute them. The guarantors cannot move around at will, and the guarantors live under the enfeoffment of the patriarch and cannot change jobs.

This so-called economic base of Zheng Xinggong determines the superstructure.

Just ask the world, who wants to abolish counties and return to feudalism?

Cheng Tingzuo felt that he had seen a new world after watching it at the time, and immediately took this set of things to his friend Wu Jingzi.

Then there was an argument about what is righteousness and what is righteousness.

What should I do if there is a conflict between Dayi and Xiaoyi?
What is Daren and what is Xiaoren?

What should Daren and Xiaoren do if there is a conflict?
There is a saying, don't persuade people to be kind without suffering from others.

The life experienced by the two people can be regarded as the early foreshadowing of the differences between the two.

Cheng Tingzuo's family was poor when he was a child, and his father made a living by selling calligraphy. Of course, it was definitely not the poor type of writing, but the middle and high-end type, which supported him to study.After he came into contact with Yan Lizhi's studies, he was appreciated by his later father-in-law, because his father-in-law also believed that "sages and sages are more valuable than practical use! What's the use of talking about life in vain?"Not only did he get a wife because of this, but his father-in-law's family never thought he was poor and gave them their full support.Neighbors and neighbors love each other a lot, so the idea of ​​"universal love, not just love for one's relatives" came into being since childhood.

Wu Jingzi's family was rich when he was a child, and his father adopted him to the eldest son in order to inherit more of the family property.The environment in which he grew up was that "brothers and brothers are respectful", "fathers are kind and sons are filial", and for the sake of family property, they can't wait for the whole family to kill each other.His wife was forced to death by the family members, and his brothers and sisters of the same race wished they could get rid of the younger ones.The family is in decline, and has been stared at by others-in this family, it should be said that it is difficult to have the idea of ​​​​"universal love" and "universal love". Even the father and brother do not make people feel love, and they still love others ?
Cheng Tingzuo lives up to his name, and he does a great job.Ever since I came into contact with Yan Li Zhixue, I have been spouting various theories.But because of his love of practical learning, he "explored the origins of agriculture, history, military affairs, rivers and canals, astronomy, and geography endlessly", so that although he was extremely arrogant, many famous scholars in the south of the Yangtze River also made friends with him.

Wu Jingzi, on the other hand, was in the downfall of his family and suffered all kinds of cold and warm things in the world, so he became obsessed with novels. If he had money, he read novels, watched dramas, and became addicted to the fantasy world.The more you lack love since you were young, the more you have to be generous, make friends, be hospitable, and get compensation for the lack of love.Although relying on the skills of the imperial examinations back then and my own talent, I did a good job in the article, but after all, my interest is not there, and I am more thinking about how to write novels.

Cheng Tingzuo was already well-known, but as a result, the song "Worrying about the Western Barbarians" written 20 years ago, accompanied by Dashun's voyage to Nanyang, conquering Japan, and banning God, was praised by the world as "20 years of vision, Jiangnan Scholars inspired service"—if the original history, this is called 120 years of vision.He said he didn't want the imperial examination, but his father-in-law said, okay, what are the imperial examinations for?Do what you like, learn some useful practical knowledge, or write books at home by yourself.

As for Wu Jingzi, after undergoing a change in his family property, he was once poor to the point of "it rained for three days in Baimen, and he had no money in his pocket".My own father, since I was a child, adopted him to others in order to share more of the family property; my brothers and sisters fought for the family property and forced my wife to death.Those friends who made a lot of friends when they were rich are gone now.

In this case, how heavy is the 200 taels of silver from the salt merchant, and the 200 taels of silver that he did not ask for, and the 200 taels of silver that he offered to save face after the salt merchant gave it?
It's really hard to tell.

Cheng Tingzuo asked him: Do you support salt reform?

Wu Jingzi said he supported it.

Then do you still want to help the salt merchant?

Wu Jingzi said he would help.

Because, that is my "righteousness" since elementary school.

That's what I'm looking for when I satirize the world.I don't want to be the kind of person I'm satirized by.

So Cheng Tingzuo cut off his robe, and walked into the Xinxue School in Songjiang Mansion; Wu Jingzi turned and left, and came to Yangzhou Mansion alone.

(End of this chapter)