Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1604 Fang Jifan has become a saint

  Emperor Hongzhi raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

  He suddenly realized something.

  Among the hundreds of officials, there are also quite a few new disciples, who also shine at this moment.

  They suddenly seemed to understand something.

  This... Could it be the legendary unity of knowledge and action?

  Emperor Hongzhi cheered up, stared at Fang Jifan, and felt that Fang Jifan was not simple, and couldn't help saying: "So, this is what Fang Qing's family did on purpose?"

"Your Majesty." Fang Jifan talked eloquently: "There are some people in this world who have mastered this knowledge deeply. But...it is also extremely difficult to simplify this knowledge. With such talent and learning, I want to write It is even more difficult for a book that is so vulgar in the eyes of others."

   "..."

  Emperor Hongzhi was in a trance, subconsciously said: "Continue talking."

Fang Jifan said again: "For this reason, I have to search my brains. This is a bit more difficult than writing a "Spring and Autumn". Why? Because first of all, I have to lower my IQ to the same level as those who have not read books. As we all know, my son-in-law has been studying every day for these years, not to mention being compared with Confucius and Mencius, but he is also much better than ordinary Confucians. Therefore...During this process, my son-in-law was miserable. This "Ode to Ming", the first thing to do is to appreciate the level of literacy of the vulgar people who are despised by Zhou Tanzhi, the minister of the Ministry of Rites. same level."

"For example... I want to do this. There must be no rare characters in this book, because the characters that ordinary people can learn in a lifetime are extremely limited. Some of the characters they can know are mostly from money notes. , IOUs, Spring Festival couplets, or your own name, or the archway at the head of the village, because of this, Erchen listed these as commonly used characters, in addition, try to make all the characters as simple as possible."

  When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he couldn't help but imagine that he was an ordinary citizen who had never studied before. The characters that people can recognize must be limited, and the characters they can touch are even more limited.

  He raised his head abruptly, and couldn't help saying: "Come here, get that Ming Song."

Ming Song was soon placed on Emperor Hongzhi's desk. After a closer look, Emperor Hongzhi found that almost all the words and sentences used common words as much as possible. He didn't notice it before, but now he suddenly discovered that if he wrote articles It is certainly not easy to try to use uncommon words in every place, but it is also not easy to use simple words in every sentence.

   What a great effort it took!

Fang Jifan said again: "Besides, in order to ensure that they know the characters and can barely understand them, the poems and songs, as well as the antithesis and parallelism, naturally try their best not to use them as often as possible, but try their best to use them as much as possible. All the words and sentences were changed to people's common language, how the common people speak, how to write in this ode. Just like this pig, it has always been used in writing like this, but Erchen noticed that the common people just I like to call it a 'pig', even if there is a ban, the government can't change the inertia of the people, so... my ministers have the courage to simply call it a pig."

"The literati edit books, ask people to eat, ask whether they eat, but the common people, they don't usually talk like this. This is the language of the scholars. As for the ministers, just change it to, have you eaten? So... the common people Although some characters are not familiar to them, if they only know one or two characters, they can probably deduce what it means based on their own experience. In this way, they will write down the things they don't recognize, and at the same time, Being able to barely understand the contents of the book can be said to kill two birds with one stone, what's wrong with that?"

   At this time, Ouyang Zhi had already reacted, and his eyes were full of light.

  This is the real university question.

The teacher's move is really vivid, let me finally understand the profound meaning of the new learning, recite poems and compose fu, how many words and sentences are sympathetic to the common people in these poems and songs, but... these pretentious words and sentences are definitely ancient quatrains, and like Mencius also understands everything, calling for the people to be the foundation.

   But the problem is that whether it is Mencius or these literati who are sympathetic to farmers, these words are all said to the rulers and scholar-bureaucrats. This is more like a kind of condescending sympathy for the superiors.

But... the master's idea of ​​unity of knowledge and action and people-oriented thought greatly surpassed Confucius and Mencius. based thinking.

  Emperor Hongzhi found it even more incredible.

  In this temple, everyone is silent, this is a brand new way of thinking...

  Although some people scoff at it, no matter what, no one dares to stand up for those who claim to be disciples of saints and love the people like children, whether they are hypocritical or sincere.

Fang Jifan then said: "My son has managed to make the people barely recognize the words in the book, and also made it possible for the people to barely understand the sentences in the book. But... this is not enough, because... no matter how well the people can understand , understandable, if the things in the book are of no help to them, then... what is the meaning to them?"

"Those scholars are supported by someone, so they don't have to worry about food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, so they can talk openly, and what they say is about family affairs, state affairs, and world affairs. But the common people are different. They still don't have enough to eat, and they don't wear enough warm clothes. With so many mouths, young and old, they all press on them, if the content of the book is just pure preaching, would these common people be interested in such a book?"

"Since that's the case, then we need to know what the people need. As Your Majesty said, the princes in this palace are all raised by the people's fat and people's anointing. Where does the people's fat and people's anointing come from? Naturally, it comes from the people's cultivation. Raising pigs, raising chickens, and planting vegetables and fruits, the common people have worked for years and months, and they don’t care what year it is, but what they care most about is the solar terms. Why? Because they understand the solar terms, they can know the farming seasons well, and they know, When to plant crops and when to harvest, therefore, in the book, the minister compiled the almanac and taught the people how to raise pigs, how to deal with some diseases, and how to get rid of insects. These knowledge are not important to scholars at all. But for the common people, it is like they are the Four Books and Five Classics, and it is also the foundation of their survival."

Fang Jifan paused, and then said: "They read this book, if the crops are better planted, will it be more beneficial to the court? If more pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks can be raised, will it be beneficial to the court? Less burden? This great event of benefiting the country and the people is precisely the implementation of the benevolence of Confucius and Mencius. It is what a scholar with the world in mind should do. Your Majesty understands this person. My son is dedicated to helping the country and caring about the people. It is Chang Huai's benevolent heart that made this book of benefiting and benefiting the people hard and contemplative. If this book can benefit the people, His Majesty will also benefit from it. Speaking of Dali, the people will benefit from this book while making benefits. In this book, you can learn more characters, know more principles, and know more skills, so...isn't this not enlightenment?"

"There are some scholars who talk about enlightenment, but they talk about simple knowledge in the most complicated direction. It is obviously a sentence. Complicated words and phrases are piled up, so that he feels that he is extremely brilliant, as if only in this way can he prove that he is different as a scholar, and can maintain his aloofness."

   "There have been countless scholars like this throughout the dynasties. Even after thousands of years, such people will continue to emerge."

"However, Xishan Academy advocates new learning, and I also discovered that some students in Xishan Academy began to have such a situation. I am heartbroken by this. The real learning of learning should be simple. A true scholar, if he sincerely cherishes benevolence and righteousness, he must explain this complex phenomenon in the simplest terms, because only in this way can more people know about this phenomenon and understand these principles, so as to benefit the world. Such a person still considers himself a disciple of a saint, boasting of his character, putting on a high-ranking posture, and ridiculing his son, who said bluntly, these people are just a group of blood-sucking bugs, selfish Self-interest is not as good as pigs and dogs, what kind of sage's sect is just a pest."

  Emperor Hongzhi listened quietly, but began to think.

  Listening to these words, he didn't feel happy at all, but at this moment, what he was thinking in his heart was...whether he had seen or experienced such a phenomenon before.

  The newly-learned ministers are already too excited to contain themselves.

   Even Ouyang Zhi, who was belatedly aware of it, savored it carefully, and suddenly, his face flushed.

  They were ashamed. Because of Ming Song's book, many people felt heartbroken for Fang Jifan.

   And now... everything is clear.

  This is the way of the sages that Xinxue pursues.

Fang Jifan said again at this time: "Your minister said that these people are pigs and dogs, it is considered polite, but if you were young, you would have such a fiery temper, and if you saw such a mystifying person, you would wish to kill one, especially These people who live above the temple can clearly speak human words, but what they spit out is a lot of plausible nonsense, such as... Zhou Tanzhi, Shangshu of Nanjing Ministry of Rites, Zhou Shangshu, do you think my father-in-law is right? "

  …

  Recommend a book "Nine Dragons Swallowing Pearls", written by a handsome guy, I have already experienced it.

  The matter of enrolling in school is finally done, and I am relieved. I have been muddled for a while, and I am anxious every day. Finally, I can sleep peacefully.

  By the way, there are still more today, please ask for a guaranteed monthly pass.

  (end of this chapter)