golden scales

"Lecture." Wu Tong spat out two words.

The prince's lecture is just a traditional name, which actually means "listen to people's lectures".In the current context, Wu Tong obviously did not ask Zhu Cihong to study, but seriously proposed to teach others.

In practice, there are roughly two ways to cultivate a solid foundation for wings in today's world: giving lectures and adopting sons.

Mao Wenlong was in Dongjiang, and the whole town was surnamed Mao; Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong also had adopted sons under their tents;When eunuchs reached a certain status, they would also accept adopted sons. The representative Wei Zhongxian not only accepted a bunch of adopted sons, but also adopted adopted grandsons.

Of course, Zhu Cihong couldn't take this road.

Then there is only lectures.

But Zhu Cihong knew that he was definitely not material for lecturing.It is not nonsense to explain that the great thinkers of the era are not nonsense, especially during the Jiajing and Wanli years, if the elders of the Shoufu Pavilion did not have their own academic system and could not be admired by scholars, it would be a very shameful thing.Yan Song didn't get rid of Xu Jie when his power was overwhelmed. Could it be true that Xu Jie is in harmony with him?In fact, Xu Jie's status in Wang Xuezhong was so high that Yan Song didn't dare to tear his face.

Zhu Cihong smiled wryly and said: "Sir, I am fond of small arts, and I am impatient with the way of conscience and regulating qi and yin and yang. In a world where there are many Confucian scholars, how can my small arts be in the hall of elegance? It just makes people laugh."

Wu Sheng smiled and said, "Your Highness, nowadays the world is famous for learning, and in the south it is Yangming's Mind Learning, which is divided into seven schools: Taizhou, Jiangyou, Nanzhong, Minyue, Beiwang, Chuzhong, and Zhezhong. In the north On the other hand, the studies of Hedong and Chongren are widely spread. I heard that Liu Zongzhou gave lectures in Mount Ji, which is unique. It can be seen that all the great Confucians in the world hold their own views, how can Your Highness convince the public?"

"Mister's so-called lectures..." Zhu Cihong was quite puzzled.Wu Tong's knowledge is not enough to give lectures, let alone himself?It is very simple to impart technology, but it is not something ordinary people can do to impart philosophy.Not only do you have to read a lot of books, but you also need to have a master to guide you, so you have to follow the orthodoxy, and finally you have to be patient and meditate to understand.If the aptitude is good and the surname is full of savvy, it may be decades before you can become a generation of philosophers.

The crown prince's advanced occupation is the emperor, how could he switch to such a low-key and glamorous occupation?

"From the Holy King." Wu Sheng said.

"The study of sage kings?" Zhu Cihong was taken aback: Isn't this what all the great Confucians of the past dynasties wanted to know!Where do I know where to go?I have learned so many things in my previous life, but I never thought of studying philosophy... Well, I can talk about legal philosophy, but it is also someone else's stuff, and I still have nothing in my stomach.

"The study of sage-kings," Wu Chen repeated, "Zhuangzi's so-called internal sages and external kings said: 'The sages are born, the kings are accomplished, and they all originate in one'. My Confucian school expounds the best on this in " "University". It said: "The way of university lies in Ming Mingde, in being close to the people, and in ending in perfection.""

"Sir," Zhu Cihong said with a laugh, "my understanding of the theory of sage kings is limited to this."

If the general outline is the same, even a scholar can recite a few sentences.However, how to explain and how to guide practice is not something that can be done by lip service.Just like the general outline of martial arts at the beginning of "Nine Yin Manual", it has already explained the world's martial arts thoroughly, but how many people can really become masters?And none of them were memorized by memorization!

"Your Highness doesn't need to talk about it, you just need to uphold this 'one'." Wu Zhen backed up again: "That's why the way of the inner sage and the outer king is dark but not clear, gloomy but not open, and people in the world do what they want. Fang." Zhu Cihong was limited to reading Zhuangzi and could not understand it, so he was a little dazed at the moment.

Wu Sheng said: "That's why Your Highness only needs to be 'dark but not clear, gloomy but not open', so that those 'people in the world' think they have obtained the right way, and let them speak."

Zhu Cilang breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Sir, I've said so much, I'll try to put it simply: a hundred schools of thought contend, and I'll be the manor. Or not?"

Wu Tong couldn't help but laugh, and said with a smile, "Your Highness has revealed the secret of the Holy King."

"But this banker is not so easy to do. How can I let the Confucianists from all over the world flock here?" Just like CCTV can hold hundreds of lecture forums and attract great Confucianists from famous schools in the world to conduct cultural popularization.How many professors are willing to go to another place?Just wave your hand and let go!

"Borrowing the corpse to return the soul." Wu Tong had already thought about this problem for Zhu Cihong: "I recently went to Xi'an Confucian Temple and met a great sage. Your Highness can use his name to attract people of the time."

"Which great sage?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"Confucian Zhang Zi first." Wu Chen said.

"Zhang Hengqu?" Zhu Cihong reacted.

This is Guanzhong, the source of Guan Xue in the Northern Song Dynasty.Although Guan Xue is no longer a school of reading, but the shadow of Guan Xue haunts many schools in Ming Dynasty.Even Yangming's theory of mind has always been connected with Lu Jiuyuan, known as Lu Wang, and a large part of its theoretical foundation is laid by Zhang's explanation of the surname of mind.As for the Neo-Confucianism of Ercheng, it absorbed a lot of nutrients from Zhang's theory, and directly copied Zhang Zai's distinction between "the surname of destiny" and "the surname of temperament".

It can be said that Zhang Zai is a great master who inherited Zisi and Meng Ke from the top, and enlightened Neo Confucianism and Xinxue from the bottom.

"The old man thinks that Guan Xue can be prosperous, and it is also because the Western and Western studies are attracting more and more attention." Wu Sheng said: "Guan Xue emphasizes the study of things to gain knowledge, so that practice can overcome empty talk, which is exactly in line with Western learning. Look at the books written by His Highness In theory, it looks like Western learning, but it is actually better, and it can be compared to Guan Xue. Why don't your highness start the lecture with this?"

When Zhu Cihong was in the palace, he designed his own physical and chemical experiments and ordered people to build experimental equipment. Because he was afraid that the knowledge of his previous life would be forgotten for a long time, he recorded the knowledge of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, geography, and astronomy into books, which were published by Neizhong.Counting all kinds of verifiable and unprovable words, there are as many as 30 to [-] words, which can be regarded as a masterpiece at this moment.

With such a huge book in hand, Zhu Cihong could not establish his academic status with it.

"It's a pity that the system is incomplete and the orthodoxy is unclear." Zhu Cihong said helplessly.

The system is well understood, and no discipline is isolated.Physics and chemistry based on mathematics are all branches and branches like a big tree.As a liberal arts student, Zhu Cihong did not master the modern science system in his previous life, so he can only be regarded as having a little understanding of the branch.Not only Zhu Cihong, but Europe, as the representative of Western civilization, has not yet formed a system.Physics was in its infancy; chemistry was a variant of alchemy; medicine was more limited to bloodletting and enemas, and herbal remedies were considered witchcraft.

As for ethics, it is troublesome.Han Yu said long ago that people are not born with knowledge, how can there be no teacher?No matter what you create, always tell others where it came from.If you cannot tell, others will not think that you are born with a spirit, but will only think that it is a heresy from a wrong source.Even if it is demonstrated by experiment, most of them will squint and say: "So what?"

Think of a generation of masters like Wang Yangming who went to see Lou Liang, a giant of the Chongren School, and were despised because they were not orthodox.

At least Wang Yangming still has the aura of champion, what does Zhu Cihong have?The royal light can not shine in the pure academic field.

"That's why His Highness can give lectures." Wu Tong said again: "If His Highness has learned about heaven and man, and learned from the past and the present, how can those great Confucianists deal with themselves? It is impossible for a person to change his course after forty. Do we still let them They all study under His Highness?" Seeing Zhu Cihuang smiled, Wu Yan continued: "Your Highness can bluntly say that this is the continuation of Guan Xue, a drop in the ocean, and ask the world's great Confucian scholars to complete the traceability. At that time, no matter who agrees If you don’t agree, great Confucian scholars will stand up. Your Highness can also follow the example of Duke Tian Huan and open up the style of Ji Xia.”

Zhu Cihong nodded slightly, and had to admit that what Wu Tong said made sense.It turned out that this lecture was just to attract jade, and the purpose was to gather these great Confucian scholars and attract more young people to study.As long as there is this "power", there will be people who "follow the power".At that time, the prince will have a greater choice and seek more political positions.In the current situation, assuming that Feng Shikong died suddenly, the emperor was willing to listen to Zhu Cihong's recommendation to appoint the governor of Shaanxi... Even so, who would the crown prince recommend?

What's more, behind which big official in the frontier is not the result of a power struggle in the court?

"Then let's start by paying homage to Zhang Zi!" Zhu Cihong said vigorously, the haze in his heart was completely swept away.He looked at Wu Zhen again, and felt that it was a blessing with low cost and high reward that he personally picked him up from the prison that day—this man really has the talent of Wang Zuozhi! (To be continued.)