Wentang

Chapter 690
"Three Schools Govern the World? Confucianism, Legalism, and Books? Taoism?" As the second reader of this book, Wang Ji asked more professional questions, and he guessed who the three schools were from the title of the book.

"Yes, the three schools of Taoism, Confucianism and Legalism." Yue Shan said.

"Didn't you say that you want to write about the relationship between Confucianism and Legalism? How did you involve Taoism?" Wang Ji was puzzled, but he immediately gave the answer himself:

"I understand that Confucianism and Taoism have long merged without distinction. The relationship between Confucianism and Law is actually the relationship between Taoism, Confucianism and Law, right?"

Yue Shan gave a thumbs up and said, "As expected, he is the principal of Weishui Academy, smart."

Wang Ji shook his head and said: "If I can't even guess this, I will have no face to be the principal of this courtyard."

As he spoke, he opened the book, and a sentence written in the center of the title page came into view: the law is the bottom line of moral standards.

Just this sentence made him shudder and his whole body went numb.He closed his eyes and meditated, countless thoughts came to his mind, and he couldn't help saying:
"This is true and even reasonable, and just one sentence makes this book a classic."

Then he turned to the next page, and there was also only one sentence: the law is the written morality, and morality is the law in the heart.

Despite the shock brought by the first sentence, seeing this sentence still shocked his heart...

Continue to turn the page, and finally entered the text.

The beginning of the chapter first introduces the problems of the moral system under the Chinese civilization system, and points out that our moral system is established on the basis of Confucianism and Taoism.To talk about morality, one must talk about Taoism and Confucianism, and the two are inseparable.

Then I talked about the construction of the law. On the surface, viewers, like Confucianism and Taoism, are independent schools of thought. In fact, it is based on Confucianism and Taoism.

Why do you say that? This involves the first sentence on the title page: the law is the bottom line of moral standards.

What is the basis for our laws?It is the moral system of the country.

Under this moral system, what is good, what is evil, what should be commended, and what should be prohibited...Writing these things in words is the law.

But there is no upper limit to the pursuit of morality by human beings, but there are thousands of impossible things that require everyone to be a saint.

We can morally encourage everyone to be a saint, but we cannot use the law to force everyone to be a saint, which is difficult for others.

Therefore, the law must be made according to the lowest moral standard, and it can only be made according to the lowest moral standard.If it is a little higher, it may become a harsh punishment.

That's why we say that the law is the bottom line of moral standards.

As already mentioned in the first paragraph of the opening article, the moral system of Chinese civilization is established based on Taoism and Confucianism, which means that the current law is established based on Confucianism and Taoism.

The Legalists must understand this point. If they can’t understand these things and insist on competing with Confucianism and Taoism, and who is right and who is wrong, then it is self-denial.

All other morality and laws are the products of human ideology, and they are used to restrain human beings themselves.

What freedom is relative, absolute freedom is self-destruction.

To allow the long-term existence and healthy development of the collective, it is necessary to have a suitable moral system and legal system to restrict and restrict freedom...

Law and morality go hand in hand.

These things were known to everyone in the previous life, but in Datang, they were all advanced ideas that surpassed the times.

This book is very short, and it can be said that it has the least number of words in all the books in Yueshan. It only has more than 3 words without punctuation marks.

In the previous life, this number of words was not enough for a graduation thesis. At a certain point, writing a novel with [-] words probably has not yet started the story.

But now [-] words is already a complete book.

To put gold on my face, every sentence and every word in this book is determined after careful consideration, and there is no single word of nonsense.

In order to make this book appear more refined, Yue Shan even adopted a format that is more inclined to classical Chinese. Strictly speaking, this can be regarded as a book written in classical Chinese.

So 3 characters is not a lot at all. After all, the university in the Four Books only has more than 2000 characters, and the Analects of Confucius is only a little over [-] characters.

Wang Ji knew whether the book was good or not. From time to time, he shouted 'incisive' and 'that's how it is', and sometimes he even slapped the table excitedly.

After reading the book, he couldn't help but praised: "This book not only explains the relationship between Taoism, Confucianism and Legalism, but also pushes the thoughts of the three schools to a higher level. It must be a classic respected by the three schools. The merger of the three schools It can be done."

"Don't be too optimistic. Many ideas in this book are too advanced. I don't know if they will be accepted by everyone." Yue Shan was naturally happy when his book was praised, but he still kept calm.

"You're too careful. If nothing else, my new school will definitely make this book a standard, and even many people from the ancient school will completely turn to the new school because of this book. Just wait and see." Wang Ji Confidently said.

"Okay." Yue Shan didn't argue with him, there's no need for that, no matter what the result is, this book will be published.

"You have also read the book, but what shortcomings do you find?"

"You slapped me on purpose, right? I'm not capable of criticizing such classics."

"Just publish it like this? Do you want to find a few people for reference?"

"No, just listen to me and publish it word by word."

"Ok."

"Forget it, I'll be responsible for the publication myself, you don't need to worry about it. Writing a book should be very tiring, you should take a good rest for a few days."

"No, no, not tired at all."

"The point is not whether you are tired or not, but that you have to recharge your batteries. After the book is published in a few days, you must come back to give lectures. It is estimated that many people will come to listen to you talk about this book. I am afraid that you will not be able to stand it." .”

"..."

Yue Shan went home anyway, not to rest but to prepare materials.

What Wang Ji meant was not as simple as teaching a class, but explaining the content of the book to the audience in person like an open class.

Most of the people who come to attend the lectures are famous teachers and scholars, and there are very few real students.These people not only listen to the lectures, but also ask a lot of tricky questions, and they will stop them if they do not do well.

The last time Yue Shan held this public class was when he was writing the book "Education". Fortunately, he was a teacher in his previous life, and he has studied a lot of related knowledge in this life, so he barely managed it.

It was precisely after withstood the bombardment of so many teachers and scholars that everyone recognized Yue Shan's status in the academic world.

Otherwise, do you really think that writing a book will be recognized by everyone?What if the book was copied?
Only after these great Confucians ask all-round questions and persist, can you prove that your knowledge is genuine, and you will be recognized by them.

Now Wang Ji just wanted to let him suffer another round of bombing like this.

The benefits of doing so are also very obvious. The original author's personal lecture will help everyone understand the ideas of this book more deeply, and make the book spread faster.

Although Yue Shan had lingering fears about this kind of public class, he didn't want to come again, but in order to solve the conflicts between Confucianism and Legalism students faster and better, he still agreed with Wang Ji's suggestion.

Besides, the first open class was a test for him. Now that everyone has recognized his status, no one will intentionally make things difficult for him when the open class is held again.

The pressure on him as a speaker will naturally be reduced.

Moreover, this book was indeed written by him after reviewing a large amount of information, and he is extremely familiar with every word and every sentence in it, and he is not afraid of others asking questions.

But no matter what, it was a speech to the elites of the era, so it's better to be cautious to avoid accidents.

So after agreeing to Wang Ji's suggestion, he was going home to sort out the materials and prepare for the speech.

……

On the other hand, Wang Ji didn't stop after sending Yue Shan away, and immediately took the manuscript to the newspaper office.

Find ten people with the most similar fonts, unseal the seal of the book, divide each person into several pages, and ask them to quickly carve wax paper.

This is the convenience of wax printing, which can be engraved on stencils and printed in small batches at any time.For the printing volume of less than a thousand copies, the efficiency of wax printing is higher than that of movable type printing.

Wang Ji's plan was to first print a batch with wax seals, some of which would be circulated within the academy, and some would be given to the great Confucian teachers of the new school.

Firstly, it showed that the academy attached great importance to them, and Yue Shan's new book was delivered to them immediately, which increased the bond between the two parties; secondly, they used their mouths to build momentum in advance.

Dozens of people worked together, and in less than an hour, [-] ink-scented wax prints of "Three Family Governance" were placed in front of Wang Ji.

He asked people to send these books to his office for safekeeping, and he went to the Longshou Mountain Printing Library, handed the originals to Zhang Dachun himself, and told him that this was Yue Shan's new work and asked him to print it out at the fastest speed.

In fact, he didn't need to tell him specifically, Zhang Dachun understood everything when he saw the font on the book.Immediately convened the best group of craftsmen, and he personally led the team to print the book.

The size of the printing house at this time has expanded more than ten times compared to last year-Yueshan plans to print thousands of copies of all books and send them to academies around the world to build libraries.

The academy has a collection of nearly [-] books. The imperial court has collected tens of thousands of books in various ways over the years, and at least [-] sets of each book have been printed. This is an unprecedented large-scale project.

Relying on the original grass-roots team alone is not enough, and expanding the scale is what it should be.

As for whether he will lose money... This is not within the scope of Yue Shan's consideration.Too much money and no place to put it is an adjective for others, but it is the real situation for him.

He still overestimated the imitation ability of craftsmen in this era, or it is the result of the imperial court restricting the outflow of high-quality steel, and high-quality imitators have not been able to appear.

Up to now, the watch business is monopolized by the Royal Commercial Bank. Although the profit is several times lower than that in the first few months, it is still a terrifying figure.

Coupled with the share of other businesses of the Royal Commercial Bank, Yue Shan's entire net worth is tens of millions, richer than the national treasury and the internal treasury.

Another person may have been scared to pee, begging the emperor to take back all the shares, and not to pay dividends in the future.But Yue Shan didn't, because the money was of great use to him.

For example, it is one of the plans to print thousands of sets of all books and send them to the academy under the name of Guozijian to build a library.

And this time Feng Yi went to Lianghu Road to build a new academy. That academy was used to integrate the entire southern academic circle. Naturally, the bigger the building, the better, and hundreds of thousands of money and food can't afford it.

In the next few years, it will continue to invest money until it can support itself.

It is foreseeable that academies will be needed in the north, the west and even overseas in the future, and a huge amount of money is really needed to complete this work.

This is a long-term plan. Right now, various researches in the Academy also need money, especially the Gewu Academy and the School of Medicine.

Anyone who has an understanding of scientific research knows that every bit of technological progress is made with massive amounts of money.

Don't think about anything without money.

Although Li Shimin didn't know all of Yue Shan's thoughts, he could guess some of them.So just in the name of Li Lizhi, a few experts in accounting were transferred from the palace to monitor the flow of the money.

As long as he doesn't mess around, it's fine for the time being.

……

Let's talk about Yue Shan, he walked home unsteadily after he came out of the academy, and halfway he saw his father, Yue Lao Si, wearing old linen clothes and driving a bullock cart, not knowing what to do.

He asked, "Father, what are you doing here?"

"Wow~" Yue Laosi stopped the ox cart and said, "Your old man insists on plowing the fields, so your uncle can't help but ask me to persuade you. How can I persuade you? I'm going to lead our cattle Go help."

"Then you have to take good care of Er Weng, don't let him get tired when he gets old." Yue Shan said hastily.

"Don't worry, your Er Weng is in good health." Fourth Yue said with a smile, "He's just too poor to live a good life. He gets scratched all over his body after working in the field for three days. Let him go to the field and do everything. gone."

Yue Shan thought to himself, you still have the nerve to talk about others, don't you do the same.But he said with a smile on his mouth: "That's fine, as long as you have the background. I have something inconvenient right now, or I just went to help look at it."

Fourth Yue immediately said: "Forget it, if you dare to let the soles of your shoes touch the ground, you can scold us all to death. Go do your work, don't make trouble."

After finishing speaking, he set up the ox cart and left without waiting for Yue Shan to reply, for fear that he would follow.

Yue Shan was also amused for a while.

Like Yue Laosi, Yue Erwa couldn't stay idle, making them work and complaining every day, cursing and saying when this was a head.Educating children is also to let them study hard and strive to become officials and not farm land.

But really letting them idle for three days without working is like killing them, either it hurts or it's uncomfortable.Even if the doctors come over, they can't see the disease. Let them go to the field with a hoe to bask in the sun for a long time, and all the diseases will be cured without medicine.

They yelled for the children to study hard, and they didn't let the children idle when it was time to work. If any child dared to use reading as an excuse not to go, he would be whipped with thorns.

But Yue Shan was the only exception, not to mention working in the fields, if Yue Erwa saw him stepping on the ground, the entire Yue family would be scolded.

Moreover, he has always restrained the children of the Yue family, preventing them from going out and fooling around in the name of Yue Shan.Whenever he hears someone bullying others, he will immediately hold a clan meeting to criticize them, and those who refuse to mend their ways after repeated admonitions dare to be directly expelled from the clan.

This is also the reason why there has never been any dirty things in the family after Yueshan developed.

Of course, Yue Shan also helped them a lot.Four surnames and [-] households surnamed Yue are considered rich, and Yue Erwa's family basically works in the industry under his name.

Their descendants directly entered Longshoushan Academy to receive the best education. Even if they failed to pass the imperial examinations and could not become officials, they could live comfortably all their lives by relying on their ability to write and count.

Not only the family with the Yue surname, but all the families with the four surnames in Ping have benefited a lot, it's just how much they have benefited.

This is the so-called one person attains the Tao and the chicken dog ascends to heaven.

After separating from Yue Laosi, Yue Shan continued to walk home, but as he walked, he felt that he seemed to have forgotten something important.

It was only when I walked to the door that I suddenly remembered, good breed.

Li Shimin asked him to be responsible for the sowing of good seeds. It was almost April, and the seedling period had long passed.Although Li Shimin has a planting manual in his hand, he doesn't have a knowledgeable command. I don't know how they are planting.

(End of this chapter)