Qiming 1158

Chapter 1154 Zhang Shi is a member of the Renaissance

What Zhang Shi said was not polite.

The reason why his plan can be successfully launched is not only the pressure of the Ming army outside Lin'an City, but also the rapid spread of rumors in the city. The coup d'état made a great contribution.

Of course, the most important thing is Zhang Shi, his role is irreplaceable, and the first credit belongs to him, which is not controversial.

Then the two sat down together and talked about this time.

For Su Changsheng, the joining of Zhang Shi was really a surprise to him, because with his status as Zhang Shi and his status in the academic circle of the Southern Song Dynasty, he could not imagine that Zhang Shi would be willing to join at first. organized by the revival.

But the fact is that Zhang Shi not only joined, but also actively joined.

As the location of Yuelu Academy, Changsha has been one of the important ideological and cultural centers of the entire Song Dynasty since the middle and early stages of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Although Zhang Shi is the son of the famous minister Zhang Jun, the reason why he can preside over the work in Yuelu Academy is indeed his own ability.

In fact, Zhang Shi has a very solid foundation in the field of science. He took the opposition to the imperial examinations and the cultivation of talents for the people as the guiding ideology of running the school, and achieved great results. A lot of hard work.

However, his most well-known achievement is not the achievement of running a school, but he is the leader. After the "Hongwu Political Theory" entered the Southern Song Dynasty on a large scale and had a huge ideological impact, the teachers and students of Yuelu Academy "bravely" stood up, The "Hongwu Political Theory" was severely criticized.

At that time, with the strong national strength of the Ming Dynasty and the pressure on the Southern Song Dynasty, the ideological and cultural circles of the Southern Song Dynasty were severely impacted, and a considerable number of scholars doubted what they had learned under the cruel reality.

Why did Su Yonglin's arrogant remarks make the Ming Dynasty prosperous, but the Southern Song Dynasty, which maintained the orthodoxy of Confucianism, was repeatedly defeated in the battle between the two countries?
This huge contrast has greatly impacted the thinking of some Confucian scholars, making them start to study "Hongwu Zheng Lun" in depth, and have doubts about the official thinking of the Southern Song Dynasty.

When this suspicion gradually expanded, Zhang Shi and Yuelu Academy stood up.

They launched a violent attack on "Hongwu Political Theory", and took out the "mad and paradoxical words" in it to refute and criticize one by one. .

As a result, Zhang Shi was deeply appreciated by conservative Neo-Confucianists who were extremely disgusted with the ideology of the Ming Dynasty, and they were also representatives of those who held power in the political arena of the Southern Song Dynasty. Therefore, Zhang Shi was also highly praised by the official, and even received by the Central Committee of Lin'an. compliment.

So much so that when Zhang Yu brought the students of Yuelu Academy to run Lin'an, he received special treatment from Zhao Tan, giving him a good position and a generous salary.

However, what no one thought was that Zhang Shi was a member of the Renaissance.

Zhang Shi was not the first person to watch "Hongwu Political Theory". When "Hongwu Political Theory" spread into the Southern Song Dynasty, he didn't care about it.

Later, when some of his students read the book secretly in the academy and had some private discussions, he learned of the existence of the book and read it secretly himself.

The more in-depth study of Neo-Confucianism, the more in-depth understanding of the officialdom of the Southern Song Dynasty through the experience of his father and himself, the greater the ideological impact on him after reading "Hongwu Political Theory".

Zhang Shi is one of the group of people who has a very deep understanding of the contrast between the truth, the good and the beautiful in the Confucianism.

He himself is a member of the scholar-official group, so he knows nothing about the internal situation of this group.

Therefore, when he read "Hongwu Political Theory" and learned about what really happened in Ming through some friends who had been to Ming, he was extremely surprised and desperate to find that the backwardness of the Southern Song Dynasty relative to Ming was all-round.

Corruption and backwardness in various senses, coupled with a group of hypocritical villains who play havoc with them, hold power, and destroy the world, it is surprising that the Southern Song Dynasty can defeat the Ming Kingdom.

At that time, Zhang Shi was still holding the idea of ​​"learning the skills of the barbarians to control the barbarians", thinking of finding some ways to save the country from Hongwu's political theory, and then summed it up, finding a group of like-minded people to summarize a set of new policies, and then put it on the table To Zhao Tan, request the implementation of the New Deal to counter the growing power of Ming.

But when he communicated this idea with some of his friends in the official circles, the friends persuaded him not to do it, because "Hongwu Political Theory" has been classified as a fallacy by the Southern Song Dynasty officials. No matter what, the Southern Song Dynasty will resolutely resist it. .

Zhang Shi was dissatisfied with this, thinking that it was a blindfold. The reason why the Ming Dynasty was strong must have something to do with the content of "Hongwu Political Theory".

Friends in the official circles persuaded Zhang Shi to calm down. Everyone knew about this, but they were very disgusted by it, so they had better pretend that they didn't know anything about it.

Zhang Shi was helpless and could only be sullen, and then he held the "Hongwu Political Theory" to himself, researching and researching, one day he suddenly realized that there are some commonalities between "Hongwu Political Theory" and Confucianism.

The two sides have the same pursuit of morality and the quality of the truth, goodness and beauty of human beings, and they also pursue a "Great Harmony Society" where everyone is equal.

Datong society is the highest ideal pursued by Confucian scholars since ancient times. It is absolutely politically correct and beyond doubt.

However, in actual practice, the Confucian scholars did not realize the actions and subjective intentions of the Datong society, but instead fell into luxury and corruption. , power, woman.

This social reality made Zhang Shi greatly sad and dissatisfied.

And when he read "Hongwu Zheng Lun" and understood what was going on in the Ming Kingdom, he realized that what the Ming Kingdom was pursuing and building was actually consistent with the Confucian ideal of Datong society.

There is no oppression and exploitation, there is no huge gap between the rich and the poor, and there is no conflict between people and cattle, and everything is honest with each other.

The conflicts between the officials and the people and between the army and the people have almost been swept away, and everyone is working hard to build a beautiful home.

For those bastards who corrupt and oppress the people, the Ming Kingdom advocates revolution, liquidation, and comprehensive elimination of their sins, allocating their all to the peasants according to certain standards, so that the cultivators have their own land, and the peasants have their own land. Excessive levies and miscellaneous taxes, reduce agricultural tax rates, and protect the interests of farmers.

These are what the Confucian descendants of the Southern Song Dynasty pursued verbally but ignored in reality.

They cry out that they attach importance to agricultural production and attach importance to farmers, but in fact they are doing their best to oppress and exploit them.

However, these things were insisted by the Ming people who opposed Confucianism and criticized Confucianism on political slogans, and tried their best to realize them.

The historical mission that the descendants of Confucianism gave up was insisted on by a group of "pagans" who criticized Confucianism, and it was just beginning to emerge.

What ironic truth is this?

As Zhang Shi learned more and more about these truths, his thoughts were shaken more and more violently, and he became more and more aware of the authenticity and correctness of some of the ideological principles expounded by Su Yonglin in Hongwu Political Theory. sex.

Without the challenge of heretical ideas, Confucianism itself has undergone a mutation, and it has become its own worst enemy and the last gravedigger.

(End of this chapter)