Xuande

Chapter 775
Few of the court officials knew of the existence of the Gongqiao Research Institute, so they didn't know how Liu Bei came up with such exquisite technology, but this did not prevent them from being shocked by it.

And the smart ones among them quickly realized what kind of changes the emergence of this technology would bring to the big man.

All in all, the cost of reading and learning will be greatly reduced, and it will be difficult to be hindered by humans. I am afraid that it is a high probability event that everyone can learn and read. If you want to artificially monopolize certain knowledge, you need to pay a lot. cost.

In short, after the advent of printing, such things as family law inheritance are completely hopeless.

After the last three Fanyue families voluntarily chose the path of self-termination at Liu Bei's request, no new Fanyue families will be born.

The big change in history happened so unexpectedly, which made some people wonder if Liu Bei had prepared all this long ago, and they were just waiting for him to become emperor after he successfully ascended the throne, and then released these things to consolidate the throne .

These technologies are of course not a big deal for those in high positions, and they themselves can easily have the authority to read a large number of books, so the advancement of these technologies is not a good thing for them.

But such people are in the minority.

For the vast majority of people who do not have enough books, the emergence of these technologies and the supply of sufficient books are enough to make them feel grateful to Liu Bei, pledge their allegiance to him, and serve him.

He changed their destiny.

They will become his most loyal supporters, which will greatly strengthen his emperor status and power base.

A road that has never been seen before was opened by Liu Bei and placed in front of them, as long as they are willing to go, they can walk up it.

After the whole court learned about this matter, all those who needed this technology expressed their yearning for this technology and their gratitude to Liu Bei, either explicitly or implicitly.

Those who are not interested in this are also shocked by the breakthrough of this technology and the reshaping of the entire Han Empire that this technology may bring.

But they are almost used to it. After Liu Bei becomes the ruler, he will always bring many changes to the Han Empire. If they can't get used to it, how can they continue to live under his rule?

Liu Bei didn't care about the shock of the court at all, the situation had been completely controlled by him, and there was only one major thing he had to do next, and that was to completely save the land and complete the redistribution of this wave of wealth that should come.

But before that, he wanted to build a stronger foundation and weaken the enemy more, so he went to battle in person, joined the righteous compilation organization of the Five Classics, and participated in the compilation work with Zheng Xuan.

Then he personally announced the punctuation marks he designed, informed the editorial team of the specific meanings, so that they could understand them, and then began to punctuate and indicate Confucian classic articles.

Throughout the work, they basically followed Zheng Xuan's intentions. They would conclude sentences as Zheng Xuan did, and they would interpret them as Zheng Xuan explained.

Zheng Xuan is the No. [-] signboard of Tianzi in the Confucian classics system in the world today. With this signboard, punctuation marks can be used as quickly as possible to make people believe in them.

Using Zheng Xuan's reputation to endorse the punctuation mark, the effect is very good.

And when there were some obvious disputes in the work of sentence punctuation, Zheng Xuan was actually quite smart. He would take out some of these obvious disputes and send them to Liu Bei for Liu Bei to make a decision himself.

Just like the White Tiger View meeting back then.

At this time, Liu Bei would look at Zheng Xuan with a smile on his face, and tell him that Zheng Xuan can decide this matter by himself.

Zheng Xuan replied——

"Emperor Xiaozhang also personally decided the disputes back then. The emperor personally decided the disputes. There will be no more disputes. A minister is just a minister. No matter how high the prestige is, there will be people who question it, but the emperor is not."

Liu Bei was very happy with what he said, so with his Confucianism skills, he made his own decisions on those controversial parts, personally decided on the use of punctuation marks, and then explained the sentence sentences.

Whatever suits his mood.

This reflects something under the absolute monarchy.

Regardless of what the ancient sages thought about it, what is your original intention?
As long as the Son of Heaven says it, it is right, and what the Son of Heaven says is what the sages meant.

What they are learning today was decided by Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, and what people in the future will learn is what Liu Bei decided today.

Zheng Xuan is a scholar, but he is also a smart person. As he gets older, he seems to be getting smarter.

Liu Bei was very happy.

By the end of December in the fifth year of Jian'an, more than half of the project of "Five Classics of Justice" had been completed, and other affairs were also progressing steadily. .

Based on this foundation, the burden on Liu Bei was much lighter. He was able to take a break from the heavy work, and even had a little time to go to Taixue and Sili Academy to give lectures and give speeches to the students in person.

As for education, he has always been very tight and has never let go. Moreover, he has carried out reforms in advance of the education model, so the things taught in the current school are not all Confucianism.

More of it is with some pragmatism in it, teaching some things that may be used as a small official, which is quite practical for students.

However, no one will have a clear understanding of what the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty will use as the guiding ideology for governing the country until "Jia De Tong Yi" is completed.

Liu Bei once thought about what theory to use as his guiding ideology, but he still didn't decide after much deliberation.

He sent people to observe the people's sentiments and understand the public opinion, and found that the thoughts of the folk scholars were relatively chaotic.

Those who support Confucianism of the ancient literature school and those who support the fundamental Taoism are the majority, accounting for about 80.00%, and the remaining [-]% are the remnants of other schools of thought, and the last [-]% are some weird ones. ghosts and monsters.

There are even brain-damaged people who advocate a complete departure from Liu Bei and want everyone to dance to the master together to solve all problems.

Liu Bei scoffed at this thought.

Therefore, since the conservatives of the Modern Literature School and the Ancient Literature School were physically eliminated by Liu Bei, the ideological circle of the Han Dynasty has not been stabilized. The current situation of this ideological circle is in a situation that can be completely controlled by Liu Bei.

Whether it is the Confucianism of the ancient literature school or the Taoist thought that is still in the folk and has not entered the room, it is Liu Bei who has the final say.

Therefore, Ruan Yu, who presided over the compilation of "Jia De Tong Yi", also asked Liu Bei many times whether he should focus on Confucianism or Taoism, whether he should continue the idea of ​​benevolence, or return to the way of Huang Lao?

Liu Bei struggled for a long time, and decided that no one should be the master. He decided to learn from others, not from the perspective of governance, but from the perspective of social development and progress.

In the current state where the central ideological circle is in a state of authority vacuum, whatever he decides, what he decides can become the ruling thought of the great Han. If this is the case, why should he be limited to the theory of one family and one family name?
Liu Bei decided to personally participate in the compilation of "Jia De Tong Yi", deeply intervened, and personally checked and revised many of the contents.

Confucianism's generosity, Taoism's conformity, Mohism's universal love, Legalism's strictness, and Strategists' diplomatic diplomacy, all of these, he wants to adopt and integrate.

If you only think from the perspective of governance, you will naturally choose the theory that is most suitable for governance, but if you think from another angle, you can draw completely different conclusions.

Isn't the Tang Dynasty also the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism?
Even if it fell apart in the end.

But at this stall, Liu Bei has too much room for maneuver.

So at the end of December in the fifth year of Jian'an, before the first year of Zhenguan, Liu Beiming issued an edict, announcing to the world, and decided to reform.

Because he has a deep understanding of the theories of both the ancient literature school and the modern literature school, and he himself was stabbed in the back by both the ancient literature school and the modern literature school, so he deeply realized the shortcomings of the ancient literature school and the modern literature school.

This kind of words will seem pale to others, but if Liu Bei says it, it will only make people feel convinced and have nothing to say.

Because he was really an unlucky guy who was targeted and backstabbed by both the modern literature school and the ancient literature school. This is something everyone in the world knows.

Therefore, when he talked about the shortcomings of these two schools of thought, he felt that the sufferer was complaining.

The sufferer has complained that there is nothing wrong with it.

Not to mention that the suffering master is still the emperor.

Liu Bei used this superior status to accuse the people of the world of the inadequacy of Confucianism.

Every word was stained with blood and tears.

He said that after he was stabbed in the back, he deeply realized that it is impossible to make people be good only by teaching. People who have mastered the inheritance of Confucian classics will do despicable and shameless bad things and fail to set an example. How about we become moral role models?
I couldn't do it myself, but let others do it. Such despicable and shameless things happened again and again, and they still happened in the upper echelons of the Second Empire, which made Liu Bei feel heartbroken.

Such things happen again and again, which fully proves the limitations of Confucianism in governing the country.

It just so happened that he also gave up the inheritance of "Zuoshi Chunqiu" and Confucianism, so from now on, stop using Confucianism alone as the guiding ideology of the country.

Since Dong Zhongshu, the Han court's nearly 300-year-old Confucianism thought pattern has come to an end.

The reason why it is not abolished, but a separate qualification is canceled is mainly because there are many things worth adopting in Confucianism.

The way of benevolence and emphasis on education in Confucianism are not available in other schools.

Only by simply adopting Confucianism to govern the country, one-sidedly emphasizing benevolence and ignoring other important things, will the shortcomings of Confucianism be infinitely magnified, which is not the result that our ancestors wanted.

Therefore, he decided to learn from others' strengths, listen to the excellence of various theories, adopt them all, and rebuild a brand-new guiding ideology system to replace the single Confucian ideology guiding system.

As for what other theories to use for reinforcement, Liu Bei thinks that there is no regulation. What kind of theory and content are suitable should be used for reinforcement. All good things should be used instead of being limited by schools and schools. Great content goes unnoticed.

In Liu Bei's vision, the ideological style of the Great Han Dynasty's Third Reich should focus on breaking the sect, drawing on the strengths of others, and not fixedly adopting a certain academic school, but showing a certain flavor of academic freedom.

Take the Legalists for example. The Legalists did lose their strength, but the fall of Qin cannot be entirely blamed on the Legalists. There are also many factors of the ruler and the times at that time.

Many things in Legalism are indeed strict, but the rule of law advocated by Legalism, the analysis and restraint of human nature, and the worldview that opposes the old and believes that the world is moving forward are very meaningful.

Anyway, Liu Bei came out to say that he was backstabbed by the School of Ancient Literature and the School of Modern Literature, which was the shattering of the Confucian view of human nature.

They themselves can't do what they said, and they blindly ask for leniency. Presumably, it is only leniency for themselves, and it is as strict as possible for others.

They themselves made a mistake, and three glasses of fine wine passed away, and those who opposed them wished they could be ashamed.

This just proved Liu Bei's previous decision to strengthen the "Han Law" and depose the "Spring and Autumn Judgment", which caused a lot of controversy inside and outside the court.

And got a considerable number of favorable comments.

Even though they were once students of Confucianism, in this period of change at this moment, they did not put their buttocks on the side of Confucianism, but followed Liu Bei to deeply reflect on the social chaos of the past years of dominating Confucianism.

It can only be said that Han Confucianism is far from the rigid and rigid state of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and they are still good at jumping around repeatedly.

In addition, Liu Bei also clearly pointed out in "Jia De Tong Yi" that the world is not static, and it is foolish to expect the world to be static.

In his view, the world is constantly moving forward, and he deeply agrees with the Legalists' views on the world, and believes that all laws and systems must develop with the development of history, neither retrogressive nor conservative.

He especially appreciates Shang Yang's proposition of "do not follow the past, do not follow the present", and also appreciates Han Fei's proposition of "time changes, but it is not easy to rule chaos".

He firmly disagrees with seeking wisdom from the ancients when things happen, so he further criticized [Chunqiu Judgment], stepped on the ground and stomped several times.

In addition, Liu Bei also proposed to act strictly according to the law and resolutely maintain its authority.

He believes that it is correct and reasonable for the ancient legalists to firmly oppose the practice of emphasizing benevolence and morality outside the law.

He appreciated Han Feizi's "government by law", and advocated that all human factors should be eliminated in the process of law enforcement, so as to avoid "people save government, people die government".

In this way, even if a person dies, the law will survive, and the correct behavior will become the yardstick in the hearts of people from generation to generation, and will not be distorted by one or two factors.

This point is the focus that Liu Bei especially spent a lot of pen and ink on.

He deeply believes that many regrets in Chinese history in the future are caused by the fact that this crucial point has not been changed when it should be changed. Many regrets are really doomed to become regrets from the very beginning. would be a tragedy.

How many tragedies are the source of human death?

Han Fei more than 2000 years ago has already seen this.

Therefore, he hopes to do his best to make some changes and fight.

Even if it can't be done, it can be regarded as a struggle.

In other chapters of Jiade Tongyi, Liu Bei also pointed out that once the law is promulgated and takes effect, it must be "officials do not have private relatives, and the law does not leave behind love".

Monarchs and ministers should allow the law to be private, insist on the law as the unified standard for regulating society, and not add other standards besides this standard.

Liu Bei insisted that one of the major hidden dangers of Confucianism in governing the country is that it likes to treat people differently, and punishments are not like that of doctors. In this way, criminals will not be punished, and those who do good deeds will not be rewarded. Sooner or later, the social order will collapse. .

How stupid is it that carnivores give up long-term peace and stability for the sake of temporary benefits, and finally die themselves and the family?
Meat-eaters are contemptible, and they cannot seek far. This is a famous sentence in "Zuoshi Chunqiu". Confucians regard this sentence as a classic of their school and think it is right.

But in the specific operation, they always become the "meat eaters" in their mouths.

This is hypocritical and sad.

(End of this chapter)