Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 280 The Strength of Chinese Literati

Looking at the high-spirited Da Ming Zi, Wang Fuzhi showed a regretful look.

Why regret?
Because Wang Fuzhi regrets that he did not meet Zhu Kezang when he was young.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng swept Henan, conquered Nanyang, surrounded Kaifeng, defeated the Ming army, and then moved to Hubei. Zhang Xianzhong also swept Anhui and pushed Qishui. The Qing Dynasty entered the customs again. Most of Shandong was devastated and the population was looted 36, 32 livestock, and more than 200 million taels of gold and silver. At this time, the Ming Dynasty can be described as a piece of corruption, with little pure land.

This year, the new imperial examiner Wang Fuzhi and his eldest brother traveled by water to Nanchang, intending to go to Beijing to take part in the examination. However, the Central Plains was raging and the road to the north was impassable. The imperial court had to postpone the examination until the next day because the candidates from various places could not come to Beijing. Year.

After a few months of delay, in January of the 16th year of Chongzhen, the two brothers had no choice but to embark on the road back to their hometown with disappointment, confusion and bitterness.

However, there is still hope. After all, the court will only try to postpone it for a year, and the situation may improve again. With this in mind, the husband's brother returned to his hometown and started a peaceful rural life again.

However, the torrent of the times rushed forward, mercilessly shattering Wang Fuzhi's peaceful life. In the autumn and August of that year, Zhang Xianzhong conquered Wuchang, and even broke Changsha and Hengzhou.

Ai Qineng, Zhang Xianzhong's general, entered Hengzhou and implemented the policy of "recruiting talents". He named Xinzhong Juren Wang Fuzhi's brothers and others.

In order to let the whole family escape, Wang Fuzhi stabbed the face and limbs and applied poison. He pretended to be seriously injured and was carried to the county town. Let his father and son go home.

At the moment when Mrs. Wang's family hugged their heads and cried, feeling sorry for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, Mrs. Wang probably felt faintly in her heart that Daming's fate was about to come to an end.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng broke through Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Jingshan with resentment, despair and exhaustion.

The old Ming Dynasty is dead.

The temple waiting for young talents to display their ambitions and talents is gone.

The usual path for scholars to take exams to rule the country and the world is broken.

The dream of living high in the temple and then clarifying the world is shattered.

The life and death of a family, although shocking, is not tragic.

However, with the implementation of the policy of "shaving hair and changing clothes" by the Qing government, the literati at that time deeply felt that the world that carried China's civilization for thousands of years might also perish.

Like many spineless scholars, Wang Fuzhi has been fighting against the Qing court all his life.

When he was young, he sold his property and actively participated in the anti-Qing uprising. When he was middle-aged, he fled around to avoid the pursuit of the Qing court. During this period, he was trapped in a water village and survived four days of fasting. A generation of great Confucianists, the Qing government switched to a soft policy, intending to win over, but he stood firm and refused to serve in the Qing Dynasty.

By the way, Wang Fuzhi, his name is in the history books!

As one of the three great thinkers in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, he had already formed a systematic thinking at this time. He believed that the law of heaven is in human desires, and he also opposed knowledge from birth. Know the laws of things, to understand the world.

Although it is still in the circle of sensory awareness and physical and mental cultivation, it is much more advanced than Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism's preservation of the principles of nature and destruction of human desires!

His political thought is "follow the world's public".

Under this theme, he slammed the "lonely Qin" and "shabby Song", deeply exposing the practice of Qin Shihuang and successive emperors treating the world as private property.

His thinking is not completely anti-feudal, but a concentrated expression of China's public thinking since ancient times, but it still has great innovative significance.

On this point, Wang Fuzhi coincided with Zhu Kezang. In order to adapt to this era, Zhu Kezang could not go against himself, so he put forward the slogan of great harmony in the world.

Without Zhu Kezang, on the second day of the first lunar month in 1692 (the 31st year of Kangxi), Wang Fuzhi would have passed away with confidence in the Chinese school and the future of the Chinese nation, ending his life of stubbornness and struggle.

Shaking his head, Wang Fuzhi put aside the regrets in his heart, it is not too late, as long as Daming can be resurrected.

Looking at the middle-aged disciple, Wang Fuzhi said: "You must do it. Look at a person, observe his actions, and observe his words, and you can know the person's character and ambition. From the words of the emperor just now, you can know that his ambition is great. And I heard It is said that although the emperor is still young, his personal conduct is very noble, he is not extravagant, not greedy for money, not obsessed with women, he usually eats simple food and treats his courtiers very kindly, you are really a wise king!"

Tang Duanhu was very appreciative of Wang Fuzhi's bragging.

"Teacher, listen to what you mean, do you want to serve Daming?"

Tang Duanhu asked a little excitedly.

Wang Fuzhi nodded and said: "This old man really came up with this idea. It has been 20 years since His Majesty Yongli passed away in Burma. I have lost confidence. I feel that the world has been completely destroyed. This beautiful river and mountain has been completely reduced to the barbarians hands."

"But the appearance of the sage and the emperor made me, a dying person, feel like moving again, and I gave birth to the idea of ​​assisting him in his career."

"Expel the Tartars and restore China. In the past, Emperor Hongwu proposed these eight characters, and finally expelled the Mongolian and Yuan courts to the desert, and established the Great Ming Dynasty. Now the sage and emperor once again take these eight characters as his ambition. Isn't this Is it something that people of my generation pursue all their lives? Isn’t this kind of great achievement more meaningful than sitting in the mountains and indulging in scrolls all day long?”

Wang Fuzhi's words made Tang Duanhu respect his teacher again.

The two were talking nearby, and Zhu Kezang also spotted them!
As if they had a tacit understanding, the eyes of the two sides met!

The first meeting between Zhu Kezang and Wang Fuzhi caught each other off guard.

Zhu Kezang seemed to have thought of something. In Hunan, the only one who dared to dress up like this was Mr. Chuanshan, Mr. Wang Fuzhi!

Thinking of Mr. Chuanshan, Zhu Kezang didn't care about the king's face anymore, and shouted while trotting:

"Your Excellency is Mr. Chuanshan?"

"Your Majesty, you are old!" Wang Fuzhi replied.

What surprised Zhu Kezang was that Wang Fuzhi came to look for him.

He originally planned to go to Hengyang to pay a visit on his own initiative after a while, but he didn't expect Wang Fuzhi to appear in front of him on his own initiative.

While this surprised him, he was still a little moved in his heart.

As expected of a famous anti-Qing scholar, when he heard that Daming was back, he resolutely stopped living in seclusion and offered to help.

This is the real scholar, a man who perfectly conforms to the theory of Confucianism.

"Mr. Chuanshan, I plan to go to Hengyang to pay a visit in person, but I didn't expect you to come here, sorry for your disrespect!"

(End of this chapter)