Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 205 Wang Shouren Enlightenment

  Time flies by, and another half a month has passed.

  In the past half a month, Xishan was still very busy, recruiting refugees everywhere, and many people were even more motivated than before.

  The Mansion News has set off a turbulent wave, because it was personally instructed by the emperor, so the content of the lecture on Fang Jifan was sent to all the officials as quickly as possible.

  Once there are unusual contents in the mansion report, it is obviously some kind of unusual signal from the palace, which is enough to make countless people try to figure out the deep meaning behind the mansion report.

  Fang Jifan...

   These three words, apparently officially began to gradually surface, of course, he is no longer a scumbag identity.

  There are so many reasons for having a brain disease?

  Many people are depressed, and they really can't figure it out.

During this period, the promotion of sweet potatoes finally began to go smoothly. The Fang family's thousands of acres of land, plus the thousands of acres of land granted by the promotion of Xinjian Bo, as well as Longquan Temple and Xishan, a large amount of land began to be planted with new sweet potatoes. Seedlings are full of vitality everywhere.

  Zhang Xin was so busy that he was so busy that he rode his horse back and forth between Longquan Temple and Xishan every day.

  He is black, thin, and a bad person, and he can even curse.

  Seeing that the farmers were not good at cultivating and ruining the seedlings, he stomped his feet angrily and cursed. This supposedly gentle county horse turned out to be a bit more murderous.

  The new seedlings are his lifeblood. He brought them up with one hand. He wrote a whole book about the cultivation techniques, which is full of experience in planting.

  …

   And the day of the election is coming.

  The newly promoted Jinshi are gearing up.

   Only Wang Shouren was not happy at all.

  He locked himself in the study again for half a month.

When Wang Hua arrived in the study, he saw his son sitting there with a beard and staring straight at the desk. There was still a picture of words on the desk, but... this picture was no longer the unity of knowledge and action, but "the great way" Simplicity, unity of knowledge and action. '.

Wang Hua sighed, and sat aside, looking at the bloodshot son. After all, he was born in Hanlin, and Zhan Shifu was a young man. Wang Hua's theoretical level is still very high, and he is determined to enlighten this silly boy. !

  So he cleared his throat, and said, "Well... the great way is simple, and knowledge and action are one. This horoscope is quite Zen-like. Bo'an, what Taoist books have you read recently?"

  Wang Hua smiled and was mentally prepared to communicate with his son well so as to pull him out of the abyss.

  Teaching the naughty Prince Highness in Zhan Shifu, isn't it easy to catch? No matter how stubborn my son is, he is still much better than His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

   Be patient.

  Wang Shouren's eyes suddenly brightened, and he said, "It's wrong, it's all wrong."

   "What?" Wang Hua was stunned, wrong, took the wrong medicine?

  Wang Shouren jumped up suddenly, and shouted: "They are all wrong."

   "..." Wang Hua tried his best to hold back his worry, still smiling: "Who...who is wrong?"

   "All Confucian scholars in the world are wrong, very wrong."

   "..." Wang Hua's heart skipped a beat, with a bad feeling: "Confucian scholars in the world?"

   Wang Shouren stared at Wang Hua, and became ecstatic. He took a deep breath and began to say word by word: "Xunzi!"

   "Xunzi?" Wang Huadun felt struck by lightning!

   Xunzi is a sage, after Confucius and Mencius, the first person of Confucianism.

  Just listen to Wang Shouren continue: "Dong Zhongshu!"

   "..."

  Wang Shouren trembled with excitement, he continued in ecstasy: "Cheng Yi..."

   "Cheng...Master Cheng...he...what do you mean?" Wang Hua felt more and more bad in his heart.

  At this time, Wang Shouren raised his head and put his hands behind his back. His joy began to subside a little, his gaze became deeper, and gradually, he seemed to gain confidence. He continued, "Zhu Xi!"

   "Zhu Xi?" Wang Hua's face was miserable.

   "Lu Jiuyuan!"

  Another person, everyone mentioned by Wang Shouren is an ancient sage.

There was sharpness in Wang Shouren's eyes. He stared at his father and said seriously: "They are all wrong, very wrong. Confucian schools are famous all over the world for their interpretation of Confucius and Mencius, and it has been passed down to this day. But Confucius What is the original form of Meng Zhixue? In fact, no one knows. Over the past thousand years, countless scriptures and annotations have turned a short Analects of Confucius into a vast sea of ​​knowledge. the door to a glimpse of truth itself."

  Wang Hua covered his heart, looking shaky, his lips trembling: "You...you... are not my son..."

   Deviant, this is deviant.

  You criticize the Confucians of the Han Dynasty, but you criticize the Confucians of Lu Jiuyuan, and it makes sense, but you criticize Cheng Zhu? The Wang family is today only by studying Cheng Zhu.

However, Wang Shouren fell into a certain kind of fanaticism, with an unusually solemn expression on his face: "But where is the real Dao? The Dao is as simple as it is, and the word is benevolence. There is no need for countless great scholars to explain what is called benevolence, benevolence, and benevolence." It is benevolence in itself; Zi said benevolent government, so why should countless people interpret what benevolent government is based on these two words? Benevolence and benevolent government are knowledge. Said, a gentleman is sensitive to action. Once you know it, you should do it. This is called the unity of knowledge and action!"

"Nonsense, you are nonsense!" Wang Hua shouted excitedly, his face was pale, he stood up unconsciously, stomped his feet, and tears wet his clothes: "You are not my son, how can you say such a thing, You're crazy."

But Wang Shouren looked at his father firmly and said: "I'm not talking nonsense. Liu Bang entered the Guanzhong, and there were three chapters of the law, so the Guanzhong was settled. Only these three chapters of the law, the subjects and the common people, everyone can know what to do and what not to do." It should be done. But from then on, how many criminal laws and laws there are in the world, just take my Great Ming Law and the Great Patent as an example. I don’t know what to do and what not to do, and in the end, muddleheaded officials fabricate laws and regulations at will, and they can judge people’s lives. People who are even more ignorant of laws and regulations are even more ignorant of laws and regulations, and can only be slaughtered.”

"The root of the law lies in its simplicity. It is simple and clear, and the judge can tell what crime he has committed at a glance. And the simpler it is, the people will know whether they have violated the law, and everyone in the world will know the law. If they think it is unreasonable, Only then can there be doubts. Only in this way can we try our best to make the world fair. But if the laws and regulations are as vast as the sea, then the people don’t know the laws, and the officials don’t know what the laws are. In the end, this mountain of laws and regulations becomes Harmful to the people!"

   "The same is true for Dao. The study of Confucius and Mencius has always been consistent, but it is nothing more than hard work and benevolence. But now... dare to ask my father, after studying for so many years, do you dare to say that you know the Dao of a sage?"

   "..."

  Wang Hua was stunned by this question.

  He is the No. 1 Scholar, he is Zhan Shifu Shao Zhan Shi, it can be said that he is one of the few people in Ming Dynasty with the highest level of theory.

   But when his son asked him this question, he was dumbfounded.

  If the son asks him, how to solve it? He may be able to talk eloquently for ten days and a half.

  If his son asked him that Confucius climbed Dongshan, he would naturally be complacent and talk about it with the topic of Confucius climbing Dongshan.

  But... what is the way of a saint...

  He is silent, he has learned too many principles of saints, ten years of hard work, ten years of writing books in the Imperial Academy, the books he has read and written are enough to fill the entire Wang family, but...

  After a while, he finally said: "Master Cheng's book has already stated the way of the sage, why bother to ask me."

   This is sophistry.

   Only Master Cheng has the power to interpret the saint.

  Wang Shouren laughed loudly, and said, "No, why do you need Master Cheng to interpret the words of the sage Confucius? Confucius said Chengren, Meng said righteousness, that's all, the word benevolence and righteousness, do you need someone to interpret it for them?"

   "You...you are crazy." Wang Hua cried, and tears really fell from his cloudy eyes.

  He can't stand his son like this.

  The Wang family should not have such a person.

  Which one of the children from the Wang family is not moderate and respected?

   But now, son, how can you do this.

   This is his own flesh and blood, his own close relatives, but now this son is actually questioning the ideas he has believed in for decades.

Wang Shouren's eyes were shining brightly, and this light was brilliant: "The Analects of Confucius is so simple and clear, but the great Confucians of later generations made it extremely complicated, making people read the sage's book, but they don't know the sage's meaning. This is like the three chapters of the contract, and finally But it has become today's great edict and clear law. Instead of going to the bottom of what is benevolence and justice and what is benevolent government, you might as well learn from Fang Jifan, keep the conscience of heaven and conscience in your heart, and yearn for benevolence and justice, and practice and implement it. The book talks about loving the people and talking about the people For this, where are the people? Are the people in the book? The people are not in the book. The people are in our Wang family’s mansion and outside the gate wall of the Wang family. They are only a short distance away from you, my father and son, but we I can't see it, but I can't see it clearly, but I close the door and shut myself in this study room, thinking about the golden house in the book, there is Yan Ruyu in the book, to pursue the people in the book, to learn the so-called Great rule of the world, great rule of the world, I don’t need rotten Confucianism to teach me, but with the thoughts of a sage in mind, just bend over and do it, even if it’s just to resettle a refugee, even if it’s to make one person, one family, one surname have enough food and drink To make them live and work in peace and contentment is benevolence, benevolent government, and the virtue of a sage!"

  Wang Hua was so angry that he beat his chest and fell to the ground. He couldn't control his emotions, and shouted hysterically: "Where did you learn the outrageous words!"

  Wang Shouren was silent for a while, and said: "My teacher...Fang Jifan..."

   "..."

  Wang Hua stopped talking.

  The howling stopped abruptly.

  My teacher...Fang Jifan...

   These five words, like a needle, poked Wang Hua's heart.

   And then...

  Wang Hua, obviously...crying again!

  ...

  Sorry, my head is a little slow due to illness, and because I didn't sleep enough, I wrote this chapter a little slower!

  (end of this chapter)