Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2016, let's make trouble, let's make trouble
In the Jinluan Hall of the Daming Imperial Palace, Emperor Hongzhi and his ministers are attending the early court.

"Your Majesty, most of the content taught by Xinxue School is heresy, ingenious tricks, strong branches and weak stems, which are not the way to long-term prosperity. I implore Your Majesty to request that the courses taught by Xinxue need to add a large number of Confucian classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics. , and subject to strict examination.”

Liu Jin and Wang Shouren left, the old school turned over, and the attacks on the new learning began to become more violent.

A few days ago, it was said that some of the Xinxue schools should be converted into academies and private schools in order to expand the Confucian school, so that more people can read sage books and become Confucian children.

Today, I am clamoring for changes in the teaching curriculum and content of the new learning, requiring more content from Confucian classics, and strict examinations.

This made it clear that the new learning would be dismantled, and the new learning would become a vassal and subordinate of the traditional and old learning. In fact, they had already disliked the growth of the new learning, and wished to slap the new learning to death.

However, the current student population of Xinxue is too large. Every year, millions of students enroll in Xinxue. There are more than 20 million students in all stages of Xinxue. Since then, nearly 2000 million new students have graduated.

Such a large number of people and groups far exceeds the number of old school.

Although the new learners are basically ordinary people in the society, there are very few officials, and even if there are, they are small officials. It seems that they are not as influential as the old learners.

However, such a huge group, their influence should not be underestimated, they are the pillars of the middle class of Ming society.

They are all over Daming's industry, agriculture, commerce, ocean trade, business houses, army, and many other fields, and they are the real middle class of Daming.

And unlike the ordinary people who were illiterate and didn't understand anything in the past, these people were all knowledgeable, cultured, skilled, and good at thinking in the new era of Daming.

They grew up reading newspapers and reading new books. They may not be as good as traditional old-school scholars in terms of Four Books, Five Classics, poetry and Fu, but they have to crush traditional scholars in other aspects. They have a wider range of knowledge. The horizon is more open, and at the same time, it is often well-informed.

If they really slapped the new school to death, it is estimated that a huge turmoil would break out in the whole Ming Dynasty. At that time, with their powerful strength, it would be hard to say that they would turn around and slap the old school to death every minute.

The only advantage of the old school now is that it has the right to speak in the court, so it is necessary to gradually infiltrate the influence of Confucianism into the new school step by step, and in the process, it is necessary to maintain the old school The current position continues to monopolize the official career.

It is only the first step to ask Xinxue to increase the content of the Four Books and Five Classics. In the future, it is best to make Xinxue similar to the imperial examination, using stereotyped essays to control and restrain Xinxue.

"Your Majesty, I also support Zhang Hanlin."

"Although the new learning has many merits, it is still lacking in loyalty to the king, ethics, and the way of governing the country. It is reasonable to strengthen education and learning in this area. My Confucianism is the way to govern the country and stabilize the country for all generations. Dao is the orthodox doctrine, and it has been the foundation of the country in all dynasties."

"The scale of the new school is huge and there are many students. It is reasonable to strengthen the teaching of orthodox theories, so that more students will learn to serve the king, and learn the principles of father and son, king and minister."

Another minister came forward to criticize the new learning.

People of the old school have always regarded themselves as orthodox. All dynasties have governed the country with Confucianism and established the country with Confucianism.

It is also divided into various courses, specializing in learning some heresy and the like, which are simply heresy, ingenious tricks, and there is no theory of governing the country and the country in it.

Emperor Hongzhi sat expressionless on the dragon chair, already having his own judgment and thoughts in his heart.

How the new learning is, everyone can see it.

The rapid development of Ming Dynasty in recent years is inseparable from the new learning.

Old learning may be, as you say, the way to govern the country and secure the country. It has been orthodox in all dynasties, but dynasties are constantly changing. There are no dynasties with a thousand years, but Confucianism with a thousand years.

The past dynasties have attached great importance to Confucianism, but they still have to experience decline.

The same is true for the Ming Dynasty. The original Ming Dynasty had internal and external troubles, and the people were poor and poor. If there was a slight famine, the land would be full of hunger and wars would be everywhere.

If it weren't for the continuous efforts of the new learning led by Liu Jin, which increased the productivity of Daming, strengthened the army of Daming, and continuously expanded to obtain more land, resources and wealth to supplement Daming, would there be Daming today?

The imperial court does not need so many people to be officials and courtiers. Now the distinction between the old and the new is already very good. The old learning is to be an official, and the new learning is to have a good job and to be able to study all kinds of existing natural sciences. Regularity, improve productivity and work efficiency.

Don't you have to be willing to part with you and die?

If it really gets to that point, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably be in turmoil, and Confucianism may not really be able to defeat the new learning at that time, because the new learning has already become stronger and involves all aspects.

Ministers one after another stood up one after another, constantly criticizing the new learning, pointing fingers at the new learning, demanding that the new learning must be changed, and so on.

However, these ministers are all censors, Hanlin and the like. Yang Yiqing, Yang Tinghe, Jiang Mian, Mao Ji, Liang Chu and other big bosses did not speak.

In fact, they are also very clear in their hearts.

Although the dispute between the old and the new is important, it is not completely incompatible. In fact, these conservative officials above the court still want to use this method to attack the officials of the hard-working faction, and at the same time, they are behind their backs. group interests.

In addition to mastering the encyclopedia, these officials of the practical faction often have huge interest groups behind them.

For example, Liu Jin himself is the largest capitalist and colonist in Ming Dynasty, owns a large number of industries, and does not know how many factories, commercial firms, colonies, etc. under his command.

In addition, British Duke, Ding Guogong, Cheng Guogong, etc. are all big capitalists and colonists of Ming Dynasty, and they all have extremely large industries. Their industries spread all over all walks of life in Ming Dynasty, and they are all leaders in various fields. .

As far as I am concerned, because I followed Liu Jin, I started early and developed rapidly. I was the first to enjoy the dividends of capitalism and colonialism, and now I am enjoying the dividends of the industrial revolution.

It can be said that the Practical Group currently occupies the most interest groups in Daming and owns the largest industry.

As for the conservative officials and the group behind them, because they started late, they stuck to the one-acre three-point land in their homes at the beginning, and they still wanted to continue by the old way of farming, studying and passing on their families.

However, under the turbulent trend of the times, they were shattered by the impact, food prices plummeted, land prices plummeted, and a large number of poor farmers emigrated overseas and outside the customs.

This had a huge impact on the traditional gentry class, seriously affecting their inheritance and life.

When they recover and want to change, they have already lagged behind others in development, and it will be very, very difficult to catch up.

But the traditional gentry class, they are the best at using power to serve themselves, and now they have managed to stand up and have the right to speak. Naturally, they want to take this opportunity to suppress new learning and fight for more benefits at the same time.

In the final analysis, fighting back and forth is not for profit.

The reason why many ministers became officials of the practical faction is not because they also tasted the dividends of the times with Liu Jin, and naturally they also want to maintain everything now.

Above the court, officials of the old school are criticizing the new learning.

Outside the ruling and opposition parties, the old school academies, private schools and other old school students were also inspired, and ran to the new school in groups to make trouble.

Imperial College of Technology, Imperial University, Beijing Institute of Mechanical Technology and other institutions of higher learning represented by new schools naturally became the targets of attacks and disturbances by these old school students.

All of a sudden, at the gates of each school, students from old and new schools were making noise.

"Your new learning is heresy and ingenious tricks, look at the couplet I gave you: new learning, new learning, under the pretense of being called learning, but in fact it is male thieves and prostitutes, heretics, ingenious and ingenious, mobs, it is difficult to enter the hall of elegance! "

"If someone of your new students can tell the truth, we will leave immediately and never come to your Imperial College of Technology again."

At the gate of Imperial College of Technology, a group of former students with a pair of couplets directly blocked the road at the school gate, mocking the angry new students.

A simple couplet directly satirizes the fact that men and women teach together in the new school without distinction, which seriously violates the traditional Ming philosophy of male and female defense.

It also satirizes that the new learning is miscellaneous and has everything. The key is that after learning it, you can't take the imperial examination to become an official, and you will always be a mob at the bottom.

It's nothing more than murder.

As a result, the new students were beaten and kicked. The new students must not be able to play pairs and word games with these old students.

But as the saying goes, if you can speak with your fists, don't use your mouth. A group of fists and feet are waiting for you. These old school students who were beaten up immediately ran away one by one.

However, they were beaten today, and students from the old school came to make trouble tomorrow, and this time there were even more people. It seemed that they wanted to get back where they were yesterday, and they wanted to compete with the new school.

It's just that the number of students in the old school is far less than the number of students in the new school. You have more people coming, and the number of people in the new school is even greater. After the beating was finished yesterday, it will be called again today, and it will be repaired again, and many people will be beaten again. With a bruised nose and a swollen face, let these students call directly.

Talking but not using hands, insulting to gentleness, brutal and rude, ignorant of education and etiquette, etc.

(End of this chapter)