out of cage

Chapter 1005 Confucianism, Confucianism and Taoism 22.17

"Boom boom boom", the thunderclouds in the summer sky are flickering, and the shadows of the dragons are jumping in the clouds. With the dance of the dragon beasts in the alchemy period, the thousands of miles of farmland begin to rain and moisten, and in this world, the pastoral In front of the thatched farmhouse, the common people knelt on the table and thanked God.

Wei Keng looked up at the Jiaolong in the clouds and mist that was pardoned by the Confucianism to spread the clouds and rain. After finishing the work, this spirit beast returned to the mountains hundreds of kilometers away, and that mountain was canonized by the imperial court as a spirit mountain.

Wei Keng: The imperial court here has closer ties with the immortal cultivators, who can restrain the power of spirit beasts to govern the mortal world. Well, it is very likely that the royal family of the dynasty here is the immortal cultivator family.

Then Wei Keng found out that there were two schools of Confucianism and Taoism in the Daliang Dynasty.One faction ruled by doing nothing, and the other faction focused on education.

Wei Keng complained about this: "This group of cultivators all stand on high places, arrange mortals at will,—governance? Well, most of the time (Confucianism cultivators) arrange chess at will, let their own minds!"

Wei Keng was disdainful in his heart, but he acted with a certificate and entered the largest academy in Jiangyuan County, Yushan Academy.

It is Wei Keng's character to be a troublemaker.

At this time, Wei Keng was wearing a standard scholar's attire. With this temperament, as long as he didn't pick his nose or hips, he would step on the coffee table with one foot.That is still a refined and elegant young man.

Since Wei Keng cultivated immortality, the total age has exceeded two and a half years. After condensing the source of spiritual energy, the body basically maintains the vitality of 16 years old. After the condensed soul, the duration of the vitality of the essence has been increased for thousands of years. After all, he is still a teenager.

You can't enter the academy casually, you need to be entered in the documents of the local government at birth, that is, you must first be a nobleman.

That is to say, there are hundreds of acres of fertile land in the family, and it has been multiplied in the local area for several generations.In today's imperial court, the world is in order, and this is to prevent demons from mixing with the world.

The catastrophe of demons thousands of years ago was the entry of demons from the world into the world, entering the court to frame Zhongliang, corrupting the emperors in the world, and finally leading to chaos in the mortal world and the overthrow of the world.Since then, the imperial court has attached great importance to the family when selecting talents.

At this time, Wei Keng had no identity, and was very human, with a face like jade and a monster, so he had to get an identity.

After all, on the Thunder Cloud Continent, those tigers and elm spirits are all handsome men and beautiful women before deceiving people.

...Central co-shepherd, why are you angry?How solid is the bee moth's life? …

Three years later, in Yushan Academy, under the bamboo shed in the outer hall.

There were a hundred or so people in the classroom, holding Taoist scriptures, sitting in front of the desk and reciting aloud, Wei Keng was mixed in among them, his mouth moved and his throat didn't move, (he still made a sound when the master approached), which was quite elegant.

Of course, the old pedant glanced at it, and didn't care, this is an outer hall, and it's all the materials donated by the merchants in the past, so that the disciples of the family can study. Because they suddenly become rich, they are not considered nobles, so after studying, they can't take the imperial examination.

The bamboo slips in Wei Keng's hand at this time are Daoist scriptures!This is a work similar to the Analects of Confucius. It mainly talks about human relations. You must be humble when facing people, be good at discovering everyone's shortcomings, and be aware of the harm that one's own pride brings to oneself.

Master Wei's evaluation is quite satisfactory, this is a philosophical work.It is good to read a lot.In the process of cultivating the Tao, ensure a stable state of mind, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, know how to correct your mentality in the world of mortals, eliminate the influence of bad information, and be able to stick to principles with righteousness—that is, the so-called awe-inspiring righteousness in Confucianism.

Of course, besides the Taoist scriptures, there is a bundle of bamboo slips on the left called "Zhi Xue", and Wei Keng is not flattering - emphasizing enlightenment, straightening people's hearts, and tomorrow.

Wei Da's one-sided criticism: This is where the monks occupy a strong position. Through communication, the weak can practice their ideas.

Master Wei has carefully seen the sufferings of the world. A handful of food, a hanging copper coin, a bundle of furs, and a small packet of medicinal materials. How can the world's distress be solved by studying it?These Confucian scholars eat their own energy and nourish their essence, they are free from fireworks, and they are not seeking truth from facts.

Generally speaking, Confucian and Taoist governance has a strategy of "taming and using" ordinary people, requiring ordinary people to live in poverty and live in peace.

Just like the rotten Confucians in the outer hall of the academy in front of us: they emphasize Confucianism and depreciate other schools of thought as inferior.

When Wei Keng was in the Xianshu Pavilion of the academy, he was reading mechanism techniques and agriculture, and every time he was caught by these old rotten scholars, he was always reprimanded. ——Of course Wei Keng would not care about these mortal Confucian scholars. To Wei Keng, they were also pitiful people who had been controlled by Confucianism all their lives.

Wei Keng: What monks practice is Confucianism, but what is taught among ordinary people is Confucianism.

Confucianism is an academic concept: it is inclusive. For example, Confucius said, "There is no distinction between teaching and learning. If three people walk together, there must be my teacher."

Confucianism spreads teachings: it is an exclusive teaching, such as "the book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu", "everything is inferior, only reading is high."

After seeing this point, Wei Keng lost interest in writing words on the bamboo slips in the school.The reason why he is still here is purely because of his qualifications.

...For scholars in this continent, articles are food, so "Peng Keng pours pheasants, what does the emperor eat?"...

The three years of school will soon come to an end. After the school is over, the local officials have ticked off those certificates on their bodies, and they can join the imperial examination for their official career. However, Wei Keng's situation can also be tested because Wei Keng is After enshrining a sum of property to the academy, Wei Keng's name was added to the list of the township examination.

However, after a few sticks of incense, Wei Keng glanced with his divine sense and realized that he was on another list.During the exam, I will get a paper test paper that only the examiner can distinguish, and this paper must be a failure!
Without him, even if it is the provincial examination, the examiners are all inclined to local students. As for the sons of merchants who donate their wealth to take the examination, it is a joke, but when correcting the examination papers, it is "a gentleman can do something and not do something." .

After figuring this out, Master Wei nodded, so he decided to change the paper during the exam!
In the examination hall, Wei Keng took a bamboo ink pen and wrote vigorously, um, copied the answers according to the stereotyped essay format.

Stereotyped Essay - This is the most standardized text, similar to the version of Classical Chinese.As long as you explain your point of view according to a certain format, for example, the first paragraph throws questions, then the second paragraph introduces the theory, and then there are cited examples, ancient examples, and current examples. Finally, from the perspective of fairness, fill in the Give yourself a little extra opinion.Geez, this is a beautiful article.Right, it is appropriate to add some gorgeous rhetoric in it.

For example, the first question roughly means, with the topic of teaching and governance, how should I explain myself in an area where moralization is insufficient? .

Faced with this problem, Wei Keng can think of relevant earth philosophy sentences: "People can, let them know; if they can't, let them know." So, he handed over this argument to the system, and let the system use the sentence database of the Great Confucianism of this plane , as well as ancient allusions and recent examples, are handed over to this secretarial system to compile.

As for the system, it came out quickly, with more than 20 templates, and then, Wei Keng was the evil Party A: "This paragraph is too fierce", "This paragraph, don't be aggressive, but use reason to give people a solid foundation." Feeling" After hundreds of revisions, Wei Keng finished handing in the paper.

And then, when it’s time to post the list~
Wei Keng was defeated, and the officials who announced the list walked past Master Wei beating gongs and drums, without even looking at this "weet" scholar.

Wei Keng on why he failed the ranking?Wei Keng threw the brush into the pen holder aside: "I'm so unconvinced?"——At this time, the system on the side was rarely ridiculed, because when preparing the test paper, the system was helping Master Wei to check the information.

Zha Sheng likes to answer correctly, and Wei Keng is no exception.

After Master Wei finished the exam, he lay down on the exam hall and peeped with his spiritual eyes!The rhetoric of my own article is good, and it was indeed selected in the first round.

But then, Wei Keng's article was finished - because there was no awe-inspiring righteousness.

Those articles that express one's own emotions are not only read sentences, but also words, and the strokes and strokes in the text can also express messages.This is the so-called miscellaneous Fu manifold spiritual artistic conception.

System: "You are ignorant and incompetent, and the data collection here is insufficient." - Wei Keng blamed the system: "I knew that the articles written by AI have no soul."

... In the 21st century, Mr. Wei writes exam essays dryly, but when he quarrels on the Internet, he immediately turns into a bully. …

In this world, there is "magnificence and righteousness", which is the resonance of the new spiritual union of all living beings under the dynasty here.

The Confucianism in Leiyun Continent can arouse this kind of resonance, which is the so-called awe-inspiring righteousness.

Wei Keng's initial understanding of "Awe-inspiring Righteousness" was theoretically to disperse and store some of his ideas among mortals, similar to the concept of information and regional block storage. Of course, this understanding is too technical.

But later found it easier to understand

Confucian monks can be recognized by the world when they preach, and when mortals are resolute in the world of mortals, their Taoism has also been echoed.

Confucianism Cultivator is the center of awe-inspiring righteousness feedback, so the demons will not invade.

Wei Keng: Hehe, after all, with such a benefit, those Confucianism cultivators in this world who can live for hundreds or thousands of years will put education first.

After failing the rankings, Wei Keng took another look. In the academy, the old Confucian scholars at the ninth level of qi training who reviewed the papers sighed.

Of course Wei Keng used carved objects to write articles, but he didn't use his heart!They are mind-blowing.

Wei Keng's unruly understanding of governing the world: My own goals, as long as I can achieve them with tools, I try not to tie others to suppress my nature to achieve them.That is "inaction", but my own purpose is the same as other people's interests, so I must actively pursue "comrade"

Confucian scholars, on the other hand, have the goal of leveling the world, [-]% of which depends on their handling of people's hearts.

This is the reason why Confucianism can easily become a code of ethics and restrain others.

Wei Keng: Although the moral resonance of human society exists, it is the encouragement of mutual help and mutual help in the development and survival, but the core purpose is to let more lives, including yourself, go towards a bright future.It is by no means tied to a large number of people, tending to the "positive" set by a few people!
Wei Keng admitted that he deserved to fail the ranking, because the pen and ink did not reveal his true feelings.

However, Wei Keng categorically refused to accept the reasons given by these question makers for his failure.

Wei Keng (axis): As long as it does not meet the "magnanimous righteousness" of a few people in the academy, then there is a problem.The true righteousness is not only "blindly enlightened", but also "enlightened and beneficial".

Most of the young students are infused with the righteousness of those qi-training Confucian scholars in the academy, but Wei Keng, who has his own thoughts, secretly pokes and despises his sanctimoniousness every day, and there is no way to get along with these guys in his conscious mind The psychic influences are mixed together.Of course it cannot be simulated.

Well, Wei Keng has his own rebellious nature, and he will always habitually mark the conflicts of interest between different classes!

As for Wei Keng, he is a mud-legged reader, and even if he is familiar with it, he still has an objection to his ruling rules.

...Master Wei is sure he can't write an article, but it is beneficial to open the book...

A year later, under the pine pavilion in the academy, Wei Keng was seeing off a classmate from his school. This classmate was a high school student.

Wei Keng: "Brother Taiwan, let's go, I wish you great success."

The classmate named Taifu accepted Wei Keng's toast, but asked, "Brother Wei, do you really want to leave Yushan Academy? If you continue to study with your talents, you might not be able to go to high school."

After passing the provincial examination, this young man passed the general examination and went to high school, but he was stuck in the palace examination. On the way to study, Wei Keng helped him explain a lot of scriptures, and he developed a noble spirit while studying, but Wei Keng did not. .

It can only be said that Wei Keng's "gourd" has heaven and earth in it, and after it has been poured into the book, it has not overflowed.So it looks like a leak.

Wei Keng smiled and pointed to his own brain and said, "Dead wood cannot be carved. I think it's better for me to be a ranger. I can't rule the people in the temple, but I can still hold a three-foot sword and kill some small people."

After exchanging pleasantries with his friends, Wei Keng took out some gold and silver, which he regarded as "lend" to him.This classmate and friend went down the mountain after thanking him a thousand times.

He took the road guide and the letter from the imperial court, and descended the mountain vigorously, ready to benefit the people of one side, but Wei Keng frowned when he saw his retreating figure.Worry a little about this mortal friend.

...Wei Keng: This world is sinister, a scholar with ideals is really worrying...

The place where Taifu took office belongs to the land of the sky—specifically similar to the land of Shu on the earth, Jingzhou,

Surrounded by steep mountains, the center is a flat land.Geographically speaking, this is an enclave where the human race is embedded in the Yaozu territory.

Taifu belongs to a humble disciple with no family background, and Wei Keng has quietly measured that his five-element spiritual root is basically not capable of cultivating immortals.But Wei Keng felt strange that he took over the volume of the academy, and a great scholar accepted him as a student.

The volume is the proof of the Confucian disciples, and those who enter the volume are equivalent to inheriting this person's mantle.Then a school of thought (Wei Keng: Xueban) was formed.

Ordinary people are not allowed to cultivate immortality, among mortals Confucian scholars are only at the end of the faction, they are often only recognized by Confucian scholars in the Qi training period, forming a teacher-student relationship.

However, after Taifu completed his studies, the mentor he met was a great Confucianism. Ordinary people don't know the specific concept, and only think that the great Confucianists who were conferred by the dynasty in the academy are pedantic heaven and man. ——But Wei Keng knew it!
Wei Keng didn't bother to judge: "Hehe, Jindanqi, an old fritter who has lived for more than a hundred years, how can he debate the scriptures, how can it be compared with the wisdom of ordinary people who have studied hard for more than ten years. How can they live so long to become a great Confucian? The posture of a middle man."

But here comes the question, why does a great Confucian at the Jindan stage include Taifu, a guy without spiritual roots, in the volume?
Nothing in the world is free. Taifu just paid a visit to the old-fashioned Confucianism, got the teacher's approval, and obtained the ruling power of a county.But why?Wei Keng sensed that there was a calculation behind this.

Wei Keng speculated like a "villain": "In the overall situation where humans and monsters are confronting each other, these Confucianism cultivators are using mortals as pawns."

System: Hey, you are a blatant laggard and cynical.

…Wei Keng: The best policy should be to become an official yourself, but now we can only settle for the next best thing…

Two months later, Taifu went to Qionglu to take up his post, and Wei Keng also "just happened" to have a business opportunity, to do a business of medicinal materials, to go to Qionglu!
He took the caravan and a few good horses and drove into the Qionglu.

The path to the Vault is very difficult.The road was full of thorny branches, and with a sound of thorns, everyone in the caravan was cut again. The clothes that were once made of good cloth were now patched with linen patches one after another.

Wei Keng, on the other hand, was as chic as the wind, and his handsome figure just avoided a series of miscellaneous trees.So, after seeing everyone's complaints, he walked in front, drew out a sharp knife, chopped back and forth the thorns, and opened a path.

Just as Wei Keng was humming a ditty in his heart: "Rewarding each other with kindness, there was once a chivalrous man in Kyoto, who shook his clothes and raised his sword to attack the enemy."

Wei Keng turned his head and looked at the salt, cloth and other in-demand items he brought to the Qionglu. Wei Keng said to the system in a bored way: "Look, if I go this way, will there be any chance?"

System: "For most people, you are an opportunity." But then added: "Of course it may also be a trap, Daoist Tukang."

(End of this chapter)