The Ming Dynasty started with saving the eldest grandson

Chapter 340 Is Fang Xiaoru worthy of writing history?
Seeing the dense notes, Fang Xiaoru was not surprised, but just excited.

Materialism was first proposed by Chen Jingke, and he naturally knew this aspect very well.

It is not even ruled out that he already has a set of mature materialist thoughts, but for some reasons he has not come up with them.

It is normal for him to write these thoughts.

If I don’t write, there is only one answer, and that is that I don’t want to give opinions.

As soon as Fang Xiaoru finished the book, he couldn't wait to give it to Chen Jingke.

It's not to show off or anything, but I really want to get some advice.

how to say.

Chen Jingke is not the only one who is stuck in a bottleneck.

Fang Xiaoru also fell into a bottleneck and didn't know what to do next.

Normally, achieving qualitative change through accumulation of learning is the most commonly used method.

But there is no other way.

Why use dumb methods when there are shortcuts?
Chen Jingke is undoubtedly his shortcut.

Facts once again proved that his idea was correct, and Chen Jingke did have his own understanding of materialism.

After taking the note, he couldn't wait to read it. The more he read, the more excited he became.

"Okay, okay, great...wonderful...Jing Ke deserves to be you..."

As he looked at it, he suddenly realized that the back was gone, and his heart was as anxious as a cat's claws:
"Where's the back?"

Chen Jingke said speechlessly: "This book has only been in my hands for a few days, and I have just finished researching it."

Only then did Fang Xiaoru react and reluctantly put down the note:

"Hey, if I had known earlier, I would have written out the book and sent it to you earlier."

Chen Jingke smiled and said: "It's not too late now. There are many places that I don't know much about. It just so happens that you are back, so tell me about them."

Fang Xiaoru nodded and said, "I also have many questions that I would like to ask you..."

So, the two of them each asked their own questions, and the other person did the Q&A.

Ye Yunliu cleverly found pen and ink and started recording. This is precious first-hand information and must be remembered well.

When Hongwu first entered the palace in the fifteenth year, Chen Jingke would never have dared to go so in-depth and discuss knowledge with him.

Without him, if you don’t have enough foundation, you are afraid of being exposed.

After so many years of study, his shortcomings have gradually been improved.

Coupled with the knowledge that transcends the times, I can completely discuss the truth with Fang Xiaoru without falling behind.

This kind of discussion not only helped Fang Xiaoru, but Chen Jingke himself also gained a lot.

In particular, he also gained a deeper understanding of how to use Chinese culture to reinterpret materialism.

This understanding fed back to the structure of Datong World, which gave him many ideas, and the previous bottlenecks were loosened a lot.

Of course, they did not forget the more than 300 Korean students.

Fang Xiaoru took the time to go back and formally established the academy.

The name is very simple, Yi Shui and Luo Shui each take one word, Yi Luo Academy.

It looked normal on the surface, but Chen Jingke saw the connotation.

Cheng Yi, a great scholar of Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, once established an academy in Luoyang called Yichuan Academy.

Therefore, the Yiluo area is also known as a "famous area for science".

Fang Xiaoru built an academy here and named it Yiluo Academy, which was tantamount to showing off.

In other words, it doesn't matter whether he has this meaning or not.

When others see this name, they will definitely think too much about it.

With his wisdom, it is impossible to think of this.

He used this name even though he knew he would be misunderstood. Even if he didn't mean it, he wouldn't believe it.

Chen Jingke just smiled and pretended not to know anything.

Just kidding, the purpose of training Fang Xiaoru was to split Confucianism and attack the status of Neo-Confucianism.

Fang Xiaoru was so proactive, it was exactly what he wanted to see, how could he object.

After the academy was built, the group of North Korean students began to gear up and couldn't wait to make their voices heard.

However, Fang Xiaoru asked them to familiarize themselves with the environment and adapt to the life of Ming Dynasty.

If there are clan members who migrated to Daming, you can also try to contact them.

This is really not a perfunctory approach to them.

In fact, after the Ming Dynasty recovered North Korea, it carried out several large-scale immigrations.

In particular, the powerful, bureaucratic and scholarly classes were semi-forced to migrate a large part of their strength.

It can be said that almost every household has relatives who were moved to live in Daming.

Now that they are traveling to Daming to study, it is really necessary to contact their clansmen.

But obviously, this cannot appease the group of North Korean students. They still hope that Fang Xiaoru will step forward and fire the first shot.

Fang Xiaoru could only tell them that materialism still had flaws, and he was currently working on it with Chen Jingke to improve it.

This time, these North Korean students were no longer willing.

Materialism is their pride, and they were blocked before they even showed up. How could it be possible?

Fang Xiaoru did not hide anything, and told them directly that he found that materialism was originally influenced by Chen Jingke.

Now that you have achieved some success, you naturally have to discuss it with the other party, and it is normal for the other party to find flaws.

It was only then that the twenty scholars who followed him remembered that Fang Xiaoru had indeed said before that he was enlightened to materialism by others.

But this explanation is still unacceptable to North Korean students.

Especially when they learned that Chen Jingke was only twenty years old, they couldn't accept it.

If it were a scholar in his seventies, eighties, or even forties or fifties, they would all understand.

Six or seven years ago, Chen Jingke was only twelve or thirteen years old. How could he consecrate Fang Xiaoru?
Even if you are a genius, there must be a limit.

Of course, they have heard of Chen Jingke's name.

Hailed by many as the greatest genius in history, he participated in the design of various institutional changes in the Ming Dynasty.

But that is just political wisdom, learning is different.

How is it possible that one can realize materialism at the age of twelve or thirteen?

The point is, if he really knows why he doesn't publish relevant articles? Instead, you want to give the credit to others?
Fang Xiaoru had no choice but to find Chen Jingke to discuss a solution.

When Chen Jingke heard this, it was easy to handle.

In addition to the three hundred students, there are also twenty scholars coming with you.

Just let the twenty scholars come over in turn to observe.

Fang Xiaoru was overjoyed and immediately went to arrange the hearing.

In fact, this is also his original intention, and letting people come and listen is the best way.

However, listening to sermons is a very important thing.

During discussions, they will show their true talents and knowledge, and their true knowledge will be exposed.

Many people do not want to be observed by too many people, especially by outsiders.

Fang Xiaoru knew that Chen Jingke was not a secretive person.

But others' generosity is their business. If you take other generosity as a matter of course, that means you don't know how to be a good person.

Therefore, he couldn't make this suggestion directly, he could only ask in a circumstantial way.

Things did go as he expected. Chen Jingke didn't care about this and decided to let people come and observe.

The next thing is simple.

First, five Korean scholars came to listen. By the end of the day, the five of them were completely convinced.

They went back and told others what they had seen and heard, but they still couldn't make them believe it.

Five more people were changed the next day, but the result was still the same.

These observers also took notes, and the students discovered knowledge points that they had previously needed to be taught by teachers to understand.

I was actually able to study on my own through notes.

They naturally understand what this means.

At this point, this group of scholars from North Korea were completely convinced.

The little pride I had as a materialistic student was completely dissipated.

Indeed, it is worthy of being called the Central Heavenly Dynasty, with numerous talents.

Such a monster-like genius can only appear in the Celestial Dynasty.

After that, these people became honest, began to study with concentration, and never mentioned the matter of creating a world again.

However, they also jointly requested that they be allowed to send people to observe every day.

Chen Jingke naturally had no objection, but in subsequent discussions, he never mentioned the matter of Datong World.

This is now considered the Ming Dynasty’s top secret, and the number of people who know it can be counted on both hands.

It must not be exposed in advance.
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Speaking of the outside world, the compilation of "Book of Liaodong" and the return of Fang Xiaoru attracted considerable attention. After all, as a traitor to Confucianism, he had criticized many people back then.

To this day, 'Take off your pants before talking' is still widely circulated.

When he stayed in the Kingdom of Korea in order to help the court stabilize people's hearts, the Confucian scholars in the Central Plains ridiculed him a lot.

They were scared away, and there was no place for them in the Central Plains anymore.

Fangxue replaced Neo-Confucianism as a prominent school in Korea, but it still did not attract the attention of Confucian scholars.

Fang Xiaoru, a traitor, was driven out of the Central Plains, but became Wen Zong in North Korea. Doesn't this prove that North Korea is a small barbarian country with poor academic skills?

The logic is directly closed.

Now this traitor actually dares to come back and brings hundreds of his descendants with him, which is simply too outrageous.

Especially when they learned that Fang Xiaoru built an academy and named it Yiluo Academy, they were even more angry.

This is simply provocative.

Many people are gearing up to give him a head-on blow.

But if you look closely, you will find that the most active ones are the younger generation of Confucian scholars.

Those who are a little older and have experienced the baptism of Fang Xiaoru's words back then.

They were all just hiding behind and shouting slogans, and few were really willing to move forward.

It's just that Fang Xiaoru didn't give them this chance at all.

After returning from Liaodong, he first went to the court to resume his duties, and then went to Chen Jingke's home, saying that he wanted to exchange knowledge.

Even if you give those Confucian scholars a hundred courages, they wouldn't dare to make trouble in front of Chen Jingke's house.

But this did not prevent them from targeting Fang Xiaoru.

I can’t find you in person, so I can’t go to your academy?
Take off the plaque on the gate of You Academy and see if you can keep your composure.

Then they discovered that the plaque could not be removed.

Because the brew was inscribed by Lao Zhu himself.

Needless to say, Lao Zhu's evil reputation is so bad that he doesn't even dare to trouble the academy anymore, let alone picking up plaques.

When things got to this point, they could only attack Fang Xiaoru verbally.

Many people began to write articles to criticize, such as taking out his previous articles to criticize.

There was also "Book of Liaodong", which also became the target of their attack.

How can such a morally corrupt person deserve to write a history book?

As an official history, the imperial court naturally attached great importance to "Book of Liaodong".

After all, this is an attempt at great integration of China, and its experience is very important to the imperial court.

If it succeeds this time, then similar methods can be used in the future to create a theoretical basis for great integration.

Because of the importance attached to it, the imperial court did not want any problems with this book.

In order to prevent any prohibited content, it must be fully reviewed.

This task naturally fell on the Hanlin Academy.

The largest number of people in the Hanlin Academy are Confucian scholars.

Regardless of the imperial court's plans, they launched an all-round criticism of this history book.

Which historical data are unknown, which ones contain too much fabricated content...the biggest problem is still the main idea.

The development of history books has gone through several stages.

The first is the pre-Qin period, when historians were hereditary, and the authenticity of the records was related to family glory.

If any historian dares to make up nonsense, he will be despised by the entire circle, and the monarch will not use you.

Children and grandchildren will bear the infamy.

Therefore, the standard for historians at that time to record history was to be truthful and record whatever they saw.

Unless absolutely necessary, I would not choose to make things up.

The most famous ones are the Taishi brothers of Qi State, who died one after another for the words "Cui Zhu killed his king".

It maintained the dignity of the historian and the honor of the family.

After the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the group of historians was abolished, and the writing of history books became very personal.

"Historical Records" and "Hanshu" were both written by private individuals, and a lot of personal preferences were inevitably mixed into them.

"Historical Records" is a history book with the most distinctive personal characteristics.

"Han Shu" was also written by private individuals, but the "main theme" atmosphere is stronger.

But until now, the standard for writing history books is still to be as true as possible.

Later, the imperial court gradually noticed this and began to compile official history.

In particular, compiling history books for the previous dynasty has become a must-do for the succeeding dynasty.

Successive dynasties will naturally make some deletions and emphasis when compiling history books for the previous dynasty.

The key point is that historians changed from hereditary officials to temporary bureaucrats.

It doesn't matter whether the history books are well written or whether the content is true or not. The emperor's satisfaction is the primary criterion.

As you can imagine, the result is that authenticity is greatly compromised.

The "Book of Liaodong" compiled by Fang Xiaoru had a strong political purpose.

As mentioned before, the content is 60% true, 30% speculation, and 1% false.

Now these speculations and fictional contents have naturally become the subject of criticism by Confucian scholars.

Moreover, Fang Xiaoru himself is a materialist.

The style of the entire book basically abandons the view of destiny in favor of the people's view of history.

For example, if there is a natural disaster, other history books will say that the leader of the country has lost his virtue.

Or it could be forcibly combined with some major event that happened at that time, and forced to explain it as a warning from heaven.

Liaodong Shu directly said that natural and man-made disasters are normal and have nothing to do with God's will.

If the consequences of a disaster are particularly serious, it is because local powerful forces have limited the government's ability to provide disaster relief, leading to severe disasters.

In the same disaster, another monarch did well.

It can be seen that although natural disasters cannot be avoided, losses can be minimized through effective disaster relief measures.

There are also some other things that are completely written in accordance with objective laws in terms of point of view.

This argument is naturally inconsistent with current mainstream views.

Therefore, the group of Confucian scholars criticized this book thoroughly.

In short, Fang Xiaoru is worthy of writing history?

How could Zhu Biao not know about such a big thing? He was angry and helpless at the same time.

But he was not Lao Zhu, and he did not lose his temper.

Instead, he ordered the Liaodong Book to be taken back and replaced with a group of his own people to review it.

In fact, by this point, he already knew that there were no principled issues with this book.

Otherwise, the Confucian scholars would not just focus on the forgery and the main theme to criticize.

The reason why it is still being reviewed is just out of caution.

The emperor actually protected this book, and the Confucian scholars were naturally very dissatisfied with this.

One after another, they reported that there was a problem and that they had to be rewritten.

Fang Xiaoru, the guy who is just trying to gain fame, must be defeated and severely criticized, and his Jinshi status and all honors must be stripped away.

Zhu Biao had a headache about this.

After Chen Jingke learned about this, he was not worried at all and suggested:
"The history of the Yuan Dynasty was written in a hurry and contains many errors and omissions."

"Since the officials of the Hanlin Academy are so knowledgeable about writing history books, let them renovate it."

When Zhu Biao heard this, he also thought this was a good idea.

After Lao Zhu established the Ming Dynasty, he hastily compiled the History of the Yuan Dynasty in order to declare his orthodox identity.

Announce to the world that the rule of the Yuan Dynasty is over, and now the world belongs to me, the Ming Dynasty.

It has the meaning of closing the coffin.

Therefore, the quality of "Yuan Shi" is very poor and it is necessary to revise it.

So Zhu Biao issued an order for the Hanlin Academy to re-edit the history of the Yuan Dynasty.

And he also hinted, didn’t you say that the Liaodong book is not good, then you should compile one yourself.

Don't worry, the quality will not be as good as Liaodong books by then.

Now the group of Confucian scholars couldn't bear it anymore and immediately took over the job.

Only then did the roots of Zhu Biao's ears become clear.

Chen Jingke's life returned to peace again.

Every morning I would talk about materialism with Fang Xiaoru at home, and in the afternoon I would go to the palace to handle some government affairs and give lessons to everyone.

At this time, an urgent and secret letter of 800 miles was sent from Temasek to Luoyang.

(End of this chapter)