Daming Yuanfu

Reply to Chapter 1818 Pingwo ([-])
"In ancient times, those who wished to manifest virtue in the world first ruled their country; those who wanted to rule their country first ordered their families; those who wanted to order their families first cultivated their bodies; those who wanted to cultivate their bodies first rectified their hearts; those who wanted to rectify their families Those who want to sincerely express their intentions first; those who want to sincerely express their intentions first extend their knowledge; the extension of knowledge lies in the investigation of things..."

In the Rixin Building of the Nanning Houfu, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, a childish voice recited seriously.A small figure sits behind the desk by the window, but that small head turns to the study next to it from time to time, and it seems that it can't help sneaking a glance.

"Cough!" Liu Xin gave a reminding cough, which attracted the child's attention. The little guy shrank his neck and muttered softly, "Daddy has been in for a long time."

"So you're distracted?" Liu Xin snorted softly, "Your father will come out for the school test later, if you can't answer the question, you will be punished for running again."

The little guy said angrily: "But every time Daddy takes the school exam, he will ask me some things that I haven't learned. It's not fair."

"Where is it that you haven't learned it, it's obvious that you haven't mastered it, so when he connects to ask questions, you answer the wrong question. In the end, you still haven't learned enough."

While speaking, Liu Xin sat beside him, looked at him seriously, and said, "Gao Yuan, did you find out that this year when your father took the exams for you, he was no longer satisfied with letting you recite them, but wanted to ask you about them?" Reason, reason, do you know why?"

"why?"

This boy is naturally none other than Gao Yuan, the eldest son of Gao Shishi and Huang Zhiting.He was born in the 15th year of Wanli, and he is already eight years old this year.

"Because your father was already a prince's accompanying reader when you were your age, and many times he even needed to explain the scriptures to the prince at that time and now the emperor." Liu Xin smiled slightly: "If you are asked to give Can you explain all the truths in the scriptures clearly when others talk about them?"

Gao Yuan shook his head, and said: "I can't." After a pause, he said: "But Daddy is the number one scholar in the six poems, and he is the smartest person in the world."

The door of the study room next door opened just at this time, and Gao Yushi, who was wearing a Taoist robe at home, walked out, and said indifferently: "The number one scholar in the six poems does not mean that you are the smartest, but it may mean that you are the most hardworking. Will be smarter than daddy."

"Daddy." Gao Yuan stood up, stood upright and obediently called out, and asked cautiously, "Are you finished?"

"Well, what did you learn today?" Gao Wushi waved him to sit down, and went to the chair beside him to sit down, looked at the "University Chapters" on his desk, and suddenly thought.

Gao Yuan recited the passage just now, and Gao Yushi asked, "What is Zhu Zi's comment?"

"Governance, calm down, let this go. Those who manifest their virtues in the world will make everyone in the world understand their virtues. The heart is the master of the body. Sincerity is the truth. The mind is the heart. .In fact, the origin of his heart is to want to be good without self-deception. To, to push to the extreme. To know, to know. To push to the extreme my knowledge, to want to know everything. Things are still things. As far as the principles of things are concerned, you can reach their extremes. These eight things are also the items of the university.

When you know things, you will know them; if you know them, you will be sincere; if you are sincere, you will be sincere; if you have a righteous heart, you will cultivate yourself;

Zhi, remove the sound, and put this later.Objects, the extremes of physics are everywhere.Those who know the best, the knowledge of my heart is inexhaustible.Once the knowledge is exhausted, the meaning can be obtained and realized; when the meaning is realized, the mind can be obtained and corrected.More than self-cultivation, it is also a matter of Ming Mingde.Below the Qi family, it is the matter of the new people.If you know where things are, you will know where they are.If the sincerity is below, then everything will be in order.

From the emperor to the common people, all of them are based on self-cultivation.One is, everything.More than a righteous heart, it is all about self-cultivation.Those below the Qi family will take measures to deal with it.Those who are originally chaotic but not ruled are not, what is thick is thin, and what is thin is thick, there is no such thing!This is the body.What is thick is called home.These two sections conclude the meaning of the above two sections. "

After Gao Wushi listened quietly, he nodded and said, "You recited well, I'm here today. You can go and rest for a while, and Mr. Xiao will come to explain the next section to you later."

Gao Yuan was quite surprised. He looked at him, then turned to look at Liu Xin, as if he felt that something was wrong with today's plot.

Liu Xin held back her laughter, and said with a straight face on purpose: "Why, do you have anything else to say?"

"No, no, no." Gao Yuan quickly denied it three times, packed his books in a hurry, and bowed to Gao Yushi to say goodbye: "Daddy, my son is leaving."

"Go." Gao Wushi nodded and said, then seemed to think of something, and stopped Gao Yuan who had just turned around to leave, and told him: "The autumn water is getting colder, don't play in the water."

Gao Yuan's complexion sank slightly, but he obviously didn't dare to show it, he lowered his head and replied, "Yes, Daddy."

As soon as Xiao Gaoyuan left, Liu Xin couldn't help laughing and said, "Every time I see you father and son answering each other, I find it very interesting."

"How to say?" Gao Wushi didn't have to put on his father's airs at this time, but also smiled slightly.

"It's nothing else, I just feel that being a father...has to be before the 'modern'." Liu Xin shook her head and said: "At that time, when I think about it, it probably wasn't called being a father. Doing a long-term job in the name of being a father."

Gao Wushi also laughed, but he didn't expand on this, but quickly asked: "You have read the letter just now, what suggestion does the secretariat have?"

"The secretariat has no suggestion, because this matter first of all depends on your attitude towards Japan in the future." Liu Xin said: "Simply put, if you plan to support the Tokugawa family in Japan in the future, then Tokugawa Ieyasu's proposal this time is very important." Very good; if you don't have this plan—whether you want to rule Japan directly, or if the object of support is not the Tokugawa family, then Tokugawa Ieyasu's suggestion is worthless."

Gao Wushi didn't seem to respond after listening to it, which probably meant the default. After a while, he said: "In fact, compared to whether Tokugawa Ieyasu's proposal has practical significance, I think it is his attitude that is more interesting. .”

Liu Xin thought for a while, then asked: "You mean, he intends to use you and Jia Feiji's son as his heir, what is the meaning of this move itself?"

Gao Wushi nodded, and Liu Xin frowned and said, "But haven't you said many times that the Japanese samurai family name is more important than blood? According to this premise, there is nothing wrong with him doing this."

"Tradition is true, but have you ever thought that the so-called 'emphasis on family name and depreciation on bloodline' itself has a premise." Gao Yushi said with bright eyes, "The premise is the difference between 'preserving the family name' and 'preserving the bloodline'. When there is a contradiction, you can’t have both, you can only choose one of them.”

Liu Xin came to her senses and said in surprise, "Ah...you mean Tokugawa Ieyasu realizes that if he wants to preserve his bloodline, his family name will be untenable?"

Gao Wushi tapped his index finger twice on the desk, and said: "To put it more bluntly, Tokugawa Ieyasu has realized that Japan will undergo major changes in the near future, and the person who can decide Japan's direction at that time is not Toyoda. It's not Tokugawa, but the Maritime Trade Alliance—that's me."

Liu Xin was quite amazed and said: "No wonder you have always attached great importance to this person. It seems that this guy really has some eyes, but why did he suddenly understand?"

Gao Wushi thought for a while and said, "I think it should be caused by Toyotomi Hideji's death."

"Is the death of a second generation really so serious?" Liu Xin seemed a little puzzled, wondering: "If the relationship between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Toyotomi Hideji is like that of Li Yuan and Li Shimin, then the consequences of Hideyoshi killing Hideji It will indeed be very serious, but Hideji’s contribution is not that big, right? If so, his death should not have that big of an impact.”

Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "Your analogy is wrong. There are a lot of Li Yuan's sons. After taking over the world, there will be Jiancheng, Shimin, and Yuanji. It doesn't necessarily mean that there will be big trouble if all three die, the bastard can still inherit - as long as all the first-born sons die, the right of inheritance of the bastard is undisputed.

Besides, not only did Li Yuan have many sons, but most of them had already grown up in Li Yuan's later years. Li Tang didn't need to worry about being suspicious of his master, which was completely different from the current situation in Japan.

Hideyoshi didn't have a son in his early years, so he had to adopt Hideyoshi as his heir.In his later years, he first had a Hesong, but it died soon.

Now this Ashi is still in his infancy, and it is uncertain whether he can grow up smoothly, but Xiuci was killed first.His death made the already small Toyotomi family even fewer blood relatives. Once Hideyoshi himself died, the Toyotomi regime would not only rule the country, but also fall into a dangerous state of having no relatives at all. "

Liu Xin had already entered the state at this time, and said: "If the strength of the Toyotomi family is still strong, they can actually maintain their rule at this time. After all, judging from Hideyoshi's final arrangement, he will be the most threatening to the two big names Tokugawa and Mori. All are prepared.

He has arranged for the Toyotomi clan daimyo to guard the areas around Tokugawa and Maori. As long as his successor or actual ruler can maintain the internal stability of the Toyotomi regime, the crisis will pass when the heir becomes an adult and establishes prestige. .

However, judging from the history you told me before, in the end Tokugawa Ieyasu was superior in skills, not only provoking the infighting between the generals and the obliging faction within the Toyotomi regime, but also daring to mobilize troops at critical moments... So it seems Ieyasu Tokugawa is probably the most powerful person in Japan in the future. I don't think you will agree with his suggestion. "

Gao Wushi laughed and said: "The premise of supporting a puppet is that the other party is suitable to be a puppet, and the premise of 'suitable to be a puppet' is divided into two points: one is that the other party's strength should not be too strong, and it must be in the category that you are fully capable of controlling The second is that the other party must know how to judge the situation and not just come to a dead end."

He paused, then continued: "Tokugawa Ieyasu actually complies with the second rule, he is a very tolerant person, if he doesn't make a clear balance and ensure that he is almost certain to win, he will not run away indiscriminately. But... do you know how the British generally ruled the colonies during the colonial empire?

The British have always used the minority to rule the majority, and the second strongest to attack the strongest.If the minority wants to rule the majority, they have to rely on the power of the British; if the local secondary power wants to suppress the strongest in turn, they have to rely on the British, so that the British can use the smallest force to achieve the greatest ruling effect .

After Hidetoshi's death, once Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself dies, the military general faction and the pursuit faction in the Toyotomi regime will inevitably fall out. This is determined by objective reality, and then Tokugawa Ieyasu will become the strongest in fact.

Obviously, if I support him, he will indeed easily take over the world, and then restore the shogunate system and become a general who conquers barbarians. But at that time, although I still surpass him in strength, I have to worry about what to do if he really regrets it .

And if I don't support him, whether it's the young master of the Toyotomi family or Maori, Tokugawa Ieyasu will in turn become my help in controlling the puppet—the puppet is worried about Ieyasu and has to rely on me. "

Liu Xin also smiled and said, "But you don't want this kind of puppet, right? In other words, you may need such a puppet in the short term, but you don't need it in the long run. That's why you said before that you want Let Japan have two armies, East and West, as in history, and let them fall into a continuous war, and you will come forward to clean up the mess when both sides are exhausted... Then, I guess you will directly accept Japan."

Gao Wushi curled his lips and said, "It's roughly the rhythm, but it's not as simple as you said, especially when you said 'direct rule', this is wrong, and the embellishment of face is still needed."

"A pretense for face?" Liu Xin thought for a while, and asked, "For example, there still needs to be a shogunate, but this general is just a name, and in fact it is the leader you sent to take power?"

Guanling is the highest position in the shogunate to assist the general in handling government affairs. It is the abbreviation of "General Manager and Commander".From the perspective of Japanese history, the three families of Hosokawa, Shiba, and Hatakeyama used to hold this position alternately, and in fact they often emptied the generals.

However, Gao Wushi shook his head and said: "Japan's power system is often a bad book. The generals evade the emperor, the leaders evade the generals, and the leaders evade the generals... In fact, the name is not so important. The key is that the power system requires actual strength. to maintain.

The reason why I still think that I need a name to decorate after making so many arrangements is nothing more than hoping to suffer less resistance.However, embellishment is just embellishment after all. It doesn’t matter whether the person I send directly serves as the general, or serves as the leader under the general’s name, or even if I bring back the Toyotomi system and ask him to be Guanbai.

In terms of name, just find one at random, it’s justified, it’s just giving people a reason to convince themselves that they don’t have to rebel.But now Ieyasu Tokugawa's proposal, I think it's best not to refuse immediately.

This man is very smart. If I refuse now, he must be thinking of a way out, and if I refuse such a "favorable" offer, he must think that I must destroy the Tokugawa family, so maybe he won't. It will stir up internal strife in the Toyotomi family and delay my schedule...

Therefore, I want you to draft a reply letter and agree to it vaguely, but you must not write it clearly, so as not to make it clear in the future. "

Liu Xin nodded in agreement.
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