Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 118 Sir, you are wrong
  "I was wrong?"

Fang Xiaoru had not heard in a long time that someone dared to question whether he was wrong or whether a seven-year-old child said so. Thinking of Zhu Xuan's fallacies, he felt angry and asked angrily: "Then where was my mistake? "

"What you just said is to study things and reason."

"Sir, you should have seen that the article I wrote basically revolves around the four words "Studying Things to Know". The two may seem different, but their meanings are not much different."

"Probably, they all study the principles and laws of things and summarize them into rational knowledge."

Zhu Xuan said again.

Fang Xiaoru snorted coldly: "You are distorting the principles handed down by the sages. You just put your heretical remarks into a shell of studying things and being rational. In fact, they are messy. Studying things and being rational is the most important thing in all Zhu Zi's thoughts. , the essence of it has been so distorted by you, you are humiliating the world’s scholars and sages.”

Fang Xiaoru's face turned red with anger when he heard that Zhu Xuan dared to use those fallacious theories to forcefully explain their saint's thoughts.

Even the tone of his words was a bit serious.

The princes and grandsons present just looked at them.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Xuan dared to argue with Mr. Fang, which was already bullying his teacher and destroying his ancestors.

Zhu Yunxi wanted to pull Zhu Xuan down, but Zhu Xuan waved his hand and told them to leave him alone.

After accumulating ideological enlightenment for so long, he will use this plan today to take a crucial step. If he can defeat Fang Xiaoru, he will have to face Grandpa Huang later.

If you defeat them all, convince them all, and liberate your mind, you will be able to take a big step forward, get rid of the constraints of Confucianism, and get rid of the eight-legged essay that imprisons people's thoughts.

Imprisoning people's thoughts is indeed a good thing for the rulers, but the premise is that this country is an ideal country, there will be no foreign enemies, there will be no disputes, and it will always be in a state of absolute peace.

Otherwise it would be impossible to do this.

"Sir, what do you think is the study of things and principles?"

Zhu Xuan asked again and continued to fight.

Fang Xiaoru felt that he must teach this naughty kid a lesson today, and said directly: "It should not be left to the outside world. It is as close as restoring one's nature and righteousness of mind, and as far as it is possible to understand things and understand the principles."

After a moment of pause, he continued to defeat Zhu Xuan with his words. But just as he was about to speak again, he heard Zhu Xuan continue to ask: "Excuse me, sir, how should I measure things? How many principles are there in the world?" ?”

Scholars after Cheng and Zhu actually didn’t have much understanding of the theory of matter and reason.

They will only repeatedly study every sentence and every word left by Zhu Xi or other saints, thinking that the saint's principles are in these words, and they don't know how to format them.

Zhu Xi just left these four words and forget it.

How to investigate things and how to reason about them is not explained clearly.

As a result, scholars such as Fang Xiaoru only knew how to analyze things, but could not get the real methods and theories. In the end, they could not figure out anything, but they thought they had gained something.

Fang Xiaoru opened her mouth, wanting to answer Zhu Xuan's question.

But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them.

Because I don’t know how to answer.

Fang Xiaoru found that he was asked by Zhu Xuan.

As a master of Dabentang and a well-known Confucian scholar, Fang Xiaoru was unable to answer questions from a seven-year-old child. Fang Xiaoru was stunned for a while because Zhu Xi really did not pass down the method of studying things and reasoning.

The scholars who came after them did not understand this at all.

All the princes and grandsons were also surprised when they saw this.

Sir, it seems that he doesn’t know how to answer.

Zhu Song and Zhu Xuan looked at each other, and both could see the confusion in each other's eyes.

"The words of the saints are left for future generations to understand, but we, the later generations, have not yet been able to understand the principles of Gewuqiongli." Fang Xiaoru can only say this.

He couldn't think of any other explanation.

Later generations can't understand it. It's not that they are incompetent, but that the scholars after Zhu Zi only focused on the four words "Ge Wu Qi Li" to understand.

Zhu Xuan said: "To study things, to get to the bottom of things and to explore them to the extreme is to speculate on the principles of things, understand their essence, find their laws, and in the process, correct people's behavior, and make people's behavior better. Thoughts that have reached a certain level of sublimation can also govern the country and bring peace to the world."

After listening to Zhu Xuan's words, Fang Xiaoru thought for a moment and retorted: "According to His Highness's wishes, all scholars in the world do not need to study or understand things. They can only study things and find out the laws mentioned by His Highness, and then their thoughts can be sublimated. ? This way can we govern the country and bring peace to the world?"

He was very disdainful of this.

I also want to see how Zhu Xuan explains it.

Fang Xiaoru feels that Zhu Xuan still has great potential, has many ideas, is smart, and can understand so many fallacies.

It's just that we have taken a wrong path, and all the principles we think about are wrong.

As long as he can help Zhu Xuan correct himself, Fang Xiaoru is confident that he can cultivate a better student.

Faced with the questioning, Zhu Xuan didn't get angry and picked up the paper on the desk.

"Sir, you should know the importance of paper, right?"

"Without paper, there would be no books. Our ability to read sages' books depends entirely on the application of these papers."

Fang Xiaoru naturally knew its importance and asked, "What does this have to do with the investigation of things that the little emperor grandson said?"

Zhu Xuan explained: "Paper is exactly what I said, a product made by studying things. People in the past turned wood into pieces of paper through studying things. It not only facilitates writing, but also facilitates the spread of knowledge. It allows us to Studying hard is why there are so many scholars like us, what do you think, sir?"

Fang Xiaoru: "..."

Everyone: "..."

This sounds reasonable.

It was Zhu Xuan's "Gewu" that changed the state in which they could read. Otherwise, the books they read were still heavy and troublesome bamboo slips, and those books were still very expensive.

Nowadays, a book is so cheap that even ordinary people can afford it.

Fang Xiaoru frowned and wanted to say a few more words to rebut.

But I don’t know where to start.

Zhu Xuan added: "Sir, should you know about firearms?"

"These are also people from the past who made firearms through searching for things. Only then could Grandpa Huang use the firearms to drive away Yuan Meng and restore our Han people's country, which would bring peace to the world."

"In addition, there is farming. People in the past left us with rich agricultural production experience through investigating things, so that we can have enough to eat. Agriculture is fundamentally related to the country. This is one of the methods of governing the country."

"Even the way we dress and travel..."

Zhu Xuan also listed several examples of studying things to achieve knowledge.

After saying this, Fang Xiaoru fell into silence.

The other princes and grandsons had never thought about these questions. Zhu Xuan's words and repeated questions not only made Fang Xiaoru speechless, but also made them think deeply.

"Brother, this is awesome!"

Zhu Yunxi whispered.

Zhu Xuan finally said: "Sir has taught me so many principles, and I also have something I want to teach him, which is the unity of knowledge and action. I am the conscience of my heart. I hope you can understand the truth."

(End of this chapter)