Comprehensive martial arts: Summon the thunder and lightning general, I will rule the world

"Yes!" Cai Jing was overjoyed when he heard this. He knew that this was Zhu Houzhao's promise to him, and this was not the first time such a promise had appeared.

As long as you finish this job, you can go to the Ming Dynasty Royal Academy to teach.

If it were an ordinary academy, Cai Jing would still have a headache. After all, he was once a prime minister, but it was different in the Ming Royal Academy.

Wang Shouren was the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, and he was considered the prime minister when he joined the cabinet. Now he is still teaching in the Royal Academy of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there are also Confucian bigwigs such as Yan Zi and Xun Zi, which makes some officials and gentry unacceptable. Now many people have begun to spread the saying that Confucian orthodoxy is in the Ming Royal Academy.

Moreover, it has been recognized by many people.

This is very embarrassing!
You know, Zhu Houzhao was the emperor who attacked Confucianism the hardest. Although the previous Ming Dynasty did not depose hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism, it was almost the same.

Confucianism still had a very high status in the Ming Dynasty, and they even worshiped Duke Yan.

But now looking at the status of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty, although it is still the most prominent school, its status has dropped a lot.

If it continues to develop at this rate, the status of Confucianism will obviously be overtaken by the Ming Royal Academy.

Although Confucianism is still the main knowledge taught in the Ming Royal Academy, this Confucianism is not the Confucianism they want!
Is it still Confucianism if we do not suppress other schools of thought, but only respect ourselves and protect the interests of scholars like them?
However, the protests of these people were obviously useless. Zhu Houzhao would not tolerate them. Even Yanzi, Xunzi, and Wang Shouren, the big Confucian figures, would not tolerate them.

Even within the Ming Dynasty Royal Academy, Yan Zi launched a vigorous movement to return Confucianism to its essence.

It is self-evident who this action is directed against.

If Yan Hui was not a disciple of Confucius, if he was not one of the spiritual leaders of many Confucian disciples, then Yan Zi would have been expelled from his Confucian birthplace.

Of course, there are people like Yan Zi among Confucians, and there are also some naysayers. Zhu Xi is out of luck, but other Confucian disciples are different.

At first, only Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, and Cheng Pin stood up to oppose Yan Hui.

He said that Confucianism has never been a self-proclaimed Confucianism, but a Confucianism built by countless scholars. He hoped that Yan Zi could recognize his mistakes, correct them, and realize his own mistakes.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know what to say to these people.

Logically speaking, some of these people should have been before Zhu Xi, but in this world, for some reason, Zhu Xi is dead, but they are still alive and well.

Zhu Houzhao asked people to investigate the information of these people. Good guy, it turns out that these people have always claimed to be Confucian bigwigs, but in fact they are people who usually study Buddhism.

No wonder many theories are similar to Buddhism. Even if you are Confucian, you have been poisoned by Buddhism!!
Zhu Houzhao did not know this. In fact, not only Neo-Confucianists such as Zhang Zai, Cheng Ti, and Cheng Yi, but also Wang Yangming in history were actually influenced by Buddhist ideas. However, in this world, Wang Yangming did not have much contact with Buddhism because of Zhu Houzhao. Instead, he was interested in Ma Zhe, which Zhu Houzhao talked about a lot...

This also leads to how unconventional the mind science proposed by Wang Yangming is in this world.

Moreover, it was recognized by Yan Zi and Xun Zi, and now it has become something that countless students in the Ming Royal Academy study.

Even Zhu Houzhao said that although some aspects of Wang Yangming's Xinxue were open to question, it was much stronger ideologically than Neo-Confucianism and was more suitable for expanding Confucianism.

This also gave Wang Yangming's knowledge an official definition in the Ming Dynasty.

However, in other countries, there are some problems. If Wang Yangming and his colleagues are right, then they are wrong?
Scholars from the Song Dynasty and even the Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties continued to secretly smear the Ming Royal Academy, and also stated that Yan Zi and Xunzi were traitors to Confucianism. If the Confucian saint knew about it, they would definitely be expelled from the Confucian school!
Zhu Houzhao was a tyrant who killed the entire Kong family of the Ming Dynasty, so that even the blood of saints could be killed directly.

How could he be the wise king in their Confucian eyes?
The king chooses his ministers, and the ministers choose their king!

But at this time, they obviously forgot that the theories they created were all about strengthening the imperial power, but they were also improving their status in disguise.

It is true that Zhu Houzhao is not the wise king they call him. However, the ministers under Zhu Houzhao are actually very satisfied with their current life. Except for going to the morning court when necessary, most of the time they work from nine to five.

Think about ministers in other countries, who have to get up at three or four o'clock every morning, but look at our own side, getting up at seven or eight o'clock every day is not a problem.

In terms of salary, it is also on par with other countries. You must know that the salary of Ming officials in the past was indeed not comparable to other countries.

But since Zhu Houzhao came to the throne, the salary of Ming officials has been getting higher and higher, especially in terms of performance pay. Ming Dynasty is not bad at all. Even good officials, after verification, are paid better than officials in other countries. Much more.

This can be regarded as a reward for some officials who are diligent and love the people!
However, Zhu Houzhao did not hold back any officials who liked to do messy things for their own career. People from Tianwang, East and West Factory, Jinyiwei and Gen were not free earners.

Unable to corrupt these people, officials could only hold back their hands.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty actually treats some truly capable scholars quite well. Organizations such as the Ming Dynasty Daily will invite some officials to publish some articles from time to time. If they are good, they will also give them a good polish. fee.

If they have a book they want to publish, it can be printed and published as long as it is approved by the Ming Dynasty official.

At that time, they can also earn a lot of royalties.

It can be said that in this regard, Zhu Houzhao thinks that he has done a very good job. As long as they do not do business themselves, and then let their immediate relatives do business, or make profits through their own power, Zhu Houzhao is acceptable.

After all, it is impossible for Zhu Houzhao to really let the officials under him become saints!!
But if something goes wrong, then it will depend on whether Zhu Houzhao's sword is sharp or not. (End of chapter)