different warring states of japan

Chapter 1575
Kennin-ji Temple was founded by Minamoto Yori's family, the second-generation general of the Kamakura Shogunate. Its architectural style is more Tang-like, and it is one of the oldest temples in Kyoto.

As we all know, there are many earthquakes in the island country, and the buildings are mainly made of wood, so the buildings burned again and again, even they themselves can't count how many disasters they have suffered.

Called ancient buildings, most of them are renovations, but the islanders like to count from the foundation, and do not admit that renovations are new buildings.

When Master Rongxi, the founder of Jianren Temple, returned from his studies in China, she was deeply influenced by the Southern School of Zen, and incorporated the charm of Jiangsu and Zhejiang into Jianren Temple, forming the current landscape.

Yoshiyin looked at the ancient meditation room in front of the corridor, and said to Akechi Mitsuhide.

"I'm all here, so don't make me dumb anymore.

Tell me, who on earth has such a big face that it deserves my condescension to come here. "

Mitsuhide Akechi couldn't bear these words of Yoshihiro, so he immediately stopped and bowed, and said.

"The subject is terrified. Where does the word condescending come from? The status of the emperor is extremely noble, no one in the world can match it, and no one deserves to be condescended by the emperor.

I only occasionally come to Jianren Temple with my friends to play and meet a childish girl, and it is even interesting, so I thought of inviting you to come and see what is new. "

Yiyin just wanted to scare Mitsuhide Akechi, and made a joke with her, but Mitsuhide Akechi really couldn't stand it, so he quickly made it clear.

She is ruthless and ruthless in her work, and has enemies everywhere, just the Gamo clan around Junshang hates her to the bone. If Junshang's joke spreads to other people's ears, it may not be a joke.

Yiyin shook his head, seeing Akechi Mitsuhide being so careful, he also found it boring, he seemed to have really become a superior person with Tianxian in his mouth, and he couldn't even make a joke.

he walked on and asked.

"What kind of funny childish girl?"

Akechi Mitsuhide calmed down and said with a smile.

"There is a young girl in this temple named Lin Xinsheng, who is talented and intelligent. She entered the temple as a young girl at the age of 13, and she has mastered Buddhism and Confucianism in five or six years.

The presiding officer of Jianren Temple cherishes talents and persuades her to be ordained and become a monk so that she can inherit the orthodoxy and achieve Buddhahood in the future.

But guess what Lin Xinsheng said? "

"How did she say it?"

"Lin Xinsheng said that the body, hair and skin should not be damaged, which is filial piety. And if there are no descendants, it is unfilial.

These words annoyed the abbot of Jianren Temple, and he didn't want to pay attention to her anymore.

If we had come a few days later, she might have been driven away by the nun.If you don't want to be a nun, why do you come to the monastery to learn Buddhism? "

Yi Yin laughed out loud.

"This childish girl is indeed interesting."

There are many branches of Japanese Buddhism, Zen and Esoteric Buddhism have their own laws.

Yixiangzong's localization method is the most down-to-earth. Drinking and eating meat, marrying a husband and having a daughter, can be described as no taboos.

The Linji sect belongs to the Zen sect, and it is a sect with strict precepts. The most basic requirement is to be ordained and not to marry.

Lin Xinsheng was pointing at the bald head and scolding the bald donkey. No wonder the abbot of Jianren Temple was angry. He really didn't give the slightest bit of face.

After laughing, Yi Yin asked.

"Looking at Lin Xinsheng's words of filial piety, she is a successful student of Confucianism."

Akechi Mitsuhide nodded.

"Hey, she reads the Annotations of the Four Books and studied Zhu Zi."

Yiyin didn't understand Confucianism, and didn't know what the Four Books Annotations were, but the word Zhu Zi was widely circulated in later generations, so he naturally knew who it was.

The character Zi has a sacred status in Confucianism. Apart from Confucius, Yan, Zeng, Mencius and Xun, among the Confucian scholars who can be honored as Zi throughout the ages, the most famous one is Zhu Zi, also known as Zhu Xi.

Cheng-Zhu Confucianism is well-known and dominated the orthodoxy of Confucianism in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with great influence.

Emperor Wu of Han respected Confucianism exclusively, and Confucianism established the route of serving the emperor.But after the Han and Tang Dynasties, the rise of Taoism and Buddhism gradually shared the attention of Confucianism.

The most terrible thing is that the emperor seems to have believed in Taoism and Buddhism.

The king of Chu has a thin waist, and many people starved to death in the palace.As long as the emperor likes it, he can starve to death, let alone learn a new route?
If you have learned literary and martial arts, you must sell it to the emperor's family, otherwise what's the point of studying hard in the cold window?
The biggest hidden danger of Confucianism is that intellectuals have other choices, and their own doctrine gradually fails to attract intellectuals who pursue self-improvement.

Confucianism seeks change, but it can't be called dialectical. In the end, Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism came out, completed the philosophizing and systematization of Confucianism, restored the decline, and established the status of Confucianism.

Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism combined the moral ethics of Confucianism's three cardinal principles and five constant principles with the principles of heaven to better serve the emperor and the ruling class, so it was favored and supported by the feudal mainstream society.

Intellectuals who want to be officials must believe in this doctrine and shout this slogan. Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism has unified the educational field, and it has made great achievements for Confucianism.

From then on, regardless of whether people who study Confucianism believe in the three cardinal principles and five constant principles, they must learn Confucianism when they become officials.

Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism had books flowing into the island country since the Southern Song Dynasty. As the cultural repository of the island country, the temples naturally contained Zhu Zi's works.

Lin Xinsheng came to the monastery to learn Buddhism but didn't learn it. On the contrary, he was obsessed with Zhu Zi's theory. No wonder the nuns were furious and felt that she didn't know how to praise her.

While talking and joking, Yiyin and Akechi Mitsuhide had already walked outside the door of the meditation room, and Yiyin smiled at Akechi Mitsuhide.

"Let's go, let's meet this young girl who is obsessed with Confucianism."

Ming Zhi Guangxiu can't get up early without profit, and Yiyin doesn't think that she deliberately befriends this Lin Xinsheng just because she finds it interesting.

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In the meditation room, Lin Xinsheng had been reading for a day.She didn't want to read at this time, just to calm down.

Speaking of it, the circle of Confucianism in the island country is very bleak.

After the fall of the Emperor's court, the samurai family advocated speaking with swords, and valued etiquette over righteousness. Confucianism could not find a secular foundation in the island country.

Shintoism died out, Buddhism occupied the cultural high ground of the island country, and they didn't care about Confucianism at all.

Zhu Zixue, who was famous in the Chinese dynasty, was not acclimatized when he arrived in the island country, and he could only engage in small circle culture, which was also aggrieved.

Confucian scholars in the island country always look forward to an opportunity to spread Confucian teachings to those in power, and make Confucianism the mainstream doctrine of the upper class just like the Celestial Dynasty.

Akechi Mitsuhide handed over the details, so Lin Xinsheng regarded it as a good opportunity.

In fact, Lin Xinsheng's current situation is not good.

Adopted by her uncle, she showed intelligence since she was a child, so she was sent to Jianren Temple to study Buddhism. The family expected her to be a high-ranking nun, so that she could help the family business in the future.

But Lin Xinsheng believed in Confucianism, and sternly rejected Jianren Temple's request for a shave, and was about to be forced to leave the temple.

Once he left, the future was uncertain, and Lin Xinsheng didn't know how to explain to his family.

Just last night, Ming Zhi Guangxiu suddenly sent someone to inform Lin Xinsheng that a noble person would come to Jianren Temple today, and asked her to prepare well.

Lin Xinsheng was still a little calm at first, but when she heard the chaos outside, and all the nuns of Jianren Temple rushed to wait in the courtyard, she also panicked.

Akechi Mitsuhide said that the nobleman who defeated Oda Nobunaga just now, and was praised by the people as the mortal Bishamon world, the current saint Spozindo Temple?

At this moment, Lin Xinsheng didn't have the mind to read the book, his hands were trembling while turning the pages.But what else could she do besides reading?
As the door of the meditation room was opened, seeing Akechi Mitsuhide respectfully invited a man into the room, Lin Xinsheng's heartbeat instantly accelerated.

What a handsome man this is, like a banished fairy descended from the sky, every carving and carving is perfect, flawless.

Dazed for a moment, Lin Xinsheng secretly said "Do not look at evil", hurriedly got up, bypassed the copybook he was reading, and kowtowed to Yiyin.

"Grassman Lin Xinsheng, I have seen Jin Duo Hall and Mr Wise."

Lin Xinsheng's composure strengthened Yiyin's thoughts, and this was the recommendation arranged by Akechi Mitsusu.

Yi Yin gave Akechi Mitsuhide a white look, and said.

"Get up."

"Xie Jinduo hall."

Yiyin walked to her desk, picked up the book she was reading just now, it was indeed the Four Books Annotation.

"I heard from Zhizhi Ji that you are studying Zhu Zixue?"

Lin Xinsheng glanced at the wise Guangxiu who was sitting on the side without saying a word, knowing that this would be the most important moment in her life, suppressing the excitement in her heart, she bowed and said.

"Yes."

Yiyin put down his book, came to Lin Xinsheng, and looked down at her.

"Your family sent you to the monastery as a young girl in the hope that you will succeed in your studies and become a generation of enlightened gonis.

Do you live up to the ardent expectations of your family by refusing to be ordained with all your heart in imitating Zhu Zi? "

Lin Xinsheng said solemnly.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me."

"You said."

"I entered Jianren Temple at the age of 13, read all the books in the temple, and treated Buddhist and Confucian works equally. But as people grow up and understand the truth, they like Confucianism more and more, and they don't like Buddhism."

"Oh why?"

"Buddhism studies the afterlife assiduously, but Confucianism thinks about family, country and world, and governing the country.

The world has been in turmoil for a hundred years, and the world is in dire straits. Buddha only teaches people to be patient, to suffer in this life, and to enjoy happiness in the next life.

I can't agree with this kind of world-weary abandonment. "

Yiyin agreed with Lin Xinsheng's statement.

The Zhuni of the island nation are a group of parasites, who fail to succeed and fail.Those in power tolerate them only because the world is unfair, and they need to use faith to paralyze the low-level cattle and horses, so as not to rise up and resist.

Sitting cross-legged in front of Lin Xinsheng, Yiyin asked.

"In your opinion, learning from Zhu Zi and Confucianism can save this troubled world?"

Lin Xinsheng shook his head.

"Hanging the pot to help the world and calm the world, there is a savior like the king. This is the reincarnation of heaven. How dare we Confucian scholars covet the merits of heaven.

It's just that it's easy to fight the world, but it's hard to sit in the world.

Both the Kamakura Shogunate and the Ashikaga Shogunate failed to become strong for three generations, and then turned to decline. This is a lesson from the past, and I implore you to distinguish. "

Yiyin laughed.

"The cultivated land in the island country is scattered, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, and the hearts of the people are not united. If we learn from the centralized power of the Celestial Dynasty, I am afraid that it will not be able to sustain the prosperity of three generations. Maybe it will not last as long as the two shogunates of Kamakura Ashikaga."

With regard to the unlucky geographical environment of the island country, with the centralization method of the Celestial Dynasty, I am afraid that the death will be faster.The economic foundation determines the superstructure. This foundation is too bad, and it is impossible to forcibly copy the Celestial Dynasty.

Lin Xinsheng said.

"Your Majesty, there are flaws in the Wu family system, and we need to find ways to improve it. Even if we can't copy the laws of the Celestial Dynasty, we can adapt to local conditions. It's better than just sitting on the sidelines."

Yiyin's eyes are bright, is it localized?This Lin Xinsheng can think of this point, he is indeed not a rotten Confucian.

"Then tell me, how to change the law?"

Lin Xinsheng said seriously.

"Mother, mother, and daughter, monarchs, ministers, and ministers, are the laws of heaven and ethics.

The grassroots boldly said that the foundation of the samurai family is unstable, and the root cause lies in the slaughter of the emperor's court by the three generations of general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. "

Yiyin nodded, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, it really is the theory of heavenly principles.

"I forgive you for your innocence, but you can speak up."

Yiyin's tolerance gave Lin Xinsheng courage, she said.

"Since ancient times, the orthodoxy can continue and cannot be abolished, and the line of emperors and emperors has lasted for thousands of years.

During the time of the Three Kingdoms, Sima Yi swore an oath to Luoshui, but he broke his promise afterwards. Since then, politics has no bottom line, and there is no way out for a powerful minister.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu slaughtered the emperor, his ministers, and the Shinto religion for his own selfishness. He thought he could change the world, which is really not wise.

She thought that if the body was eliminated, future troubles would be eliminated forever.But she forgot that the instigator has no successors.

After three generations of the Ashikaga Shogunate, the shogun no longer has the right to rule the world, and the struggle between the pro-vassal and the foreign vassal is a clear proof.

The king has no way, and the world is in chaos. This is the punishment of heaven. "

Yiyin was also speechless, he allowed Lin Xinsheng to speak freely, but he did not expect that Lin Xinsheng would grab Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and export madly.

What is the instigator? He has no heirs. This is a curse to the Ashikaga family. Lin Xinsheng really dares to say it.

Yoshiaki sighed helplessly, pretending he didn't hear it, anyway, it was Ashikaga Yoshiaki who cut off his children and grandchildren, and didn't care about his business.

"Don't talk about the past, talk about something practical and useful."

Lin Xinsheng bowed and apologized, and then said.

"The Ashikaga family has no way, and broke the thousand-year-old morality of our island country, so it will cause the people of the island country to fall into troubled times and struggle hard.

Your Majesty, you are a saint today, and you should continue the lineage of the emperor of the island country and bring peace to all generations. "

Yi Yin was sweating behind his back when he heard this, Lin Xinsheng is really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers.I don't know if it's because the Confucian scholars live too aggrieved in the island country, dare to say anything, it's a big killing.

Yiyin couldn't help looking back at Akechi Mitsuhide, he finally knew why Akechi Mitsuhide admired Lin Xinsheng so much.Because Lin Xinsheng's theory is to dig out the roots of General Ashikaga.

From the point of view of Confucianism, Ashikaga Yoshiman is a great rebellious and immoral man, committing rebellion and breaking the orthodoxy, so the wrath of the Dao of Heaven caused great chaos in the world, and the chaos lasted without end.

If you want the troubled times to end, you have to bring order out of the chaos. Lin Xinsheng completely negates the justice of the rule of the island country by the Ashikaga shogun after Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

If the generals after Ashikaga Yoshimitsu were all moralless and immoral people, then in order to find morality, one must go back.

This is unfortunate, the ancestor of Shiba was the orthodox heir who was forced to depose the governor of the Ashikaga family in order to please the former Hojo family and marry the son of Hojo.

From the perspective of Confucianism, the behavior of the Ashikaga family governor of that generation was to abolish the prostitute and establish the concubine, which was also wrong.Therefore, if you want to set things right, you must start with the ancestors of the Ashikaga family.

The orthodoxy of the Ashikaga family needs to be recalculated. Counting from the ancestors of Shiba, the real orthodox descendants of the Ashikaga family are the Shibazong family.

Now the Shiba clan is extinct, and there is only Shiba Yoshigin, the only seedling, so the Ashikaga orthodoxy lies in Shiba Yoshigin.

Lin Xinsheng's way of deliberately pleasing the emperor is a bit of Dong Zhongshu's old wisdom of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)