People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 164 Addition and subtraction, simplified text

Zhang Yi was taken aback, and Kong Na actually asked him this question.

Although the relationship with Kong Na is not bad, Kong Jiazi always maintains a trace of pride in his heart.

It is fine to ask Kong Na to ask him about other things, but this matter is beyond Zhang Yi's expectations.

But he also understood after thinking about it, probably this guy is really confused.

It is a certainty that the Kong family will withdraw from the stage and go back to be a mascot in accordance with the emperor's idea.

In the future, unless necessary, the voice of the Confucius family in Qufu will not be able to appear in the court.

Don't talk about Kong Kejian, Kong Xixue...

Now that Kong Na is "studying abroad" in Yingtian, he probably can't find the value of his own existence.

Why do you work hard to study in Guozixue?
In order to display one's ambition, that is impossible, the gate of the temple was closed by the Confucius family early,

No matter how hard Kong Na worked, he could not realize the ideal of a scholar.

Then learn so much, just to go back to Qufu to worship the ancestors?

The young man saw his life in the next 30 years at a glance, and saw these scholars in front of him running around for fame and fortune, and suddenly his mind was in turmoil.

This is a typical case of not being able to see the future and having one's Dao heart broken by others.

"You don't say nothing to me, it's the safest..."

Having been with Zhang Yi for so long, Kong Na probably knew his tricks, so he blocked Zhang Yi's mouth first.

He is confused:
"I don't know that it's best to do nothing, but if...if it's possible, I'm not willing to accept the title of Duke Yan!
But I also know that even if I don't become Duke Yansheng, I won't be able to enter the court!
My efforts seem to find no direction! "

These words were his sincere words, and it was after Kong Na and Zhang Yi had experienced so many things that he chose to talk to him.

Zhang Yi smiled and said:

"Actually, you can, but you don't have to do it! I remember I told you before that using the [people's hearts] in the Kong family to bridge the north and the south is the greatest contribution!"

When Kong Na heard this, his eyes dimmed!

He agrees with Daming, the dynasty of the Han family in his heart, but he may not be able to change his father and grandfather's ideas.

They are people who have benefited from the Mongols, so they will miss the goodness of the previous dynasty even more.

Unwilling, how can he be willing to be with Daming.

As for myself, I am a soft-spoken person, this matter is most likely just a joke!

"If you don't mention that matter, I don't think you can control it yourself. There is one thing that will benefit the future generations, but I don't know if you will advance it!"

"what's up?"

As expected, Kong Na was attracted by Zhang Yi. He was too eager to do something by himself, and people always want to realize their own value in life.

All his confusion now comes from this.

"enlightenment!"

Zhang Yi's simple two words shocked Kong Na.

"enlightenment!"

He couldn't help repeating Zhang Yi's words!
"All schools of thought, or the three teachings, the meaning of inheritance is to educate!
Throw away the aura of your ancestor, isn't he a teacher in essence?
Do what your ancestors did, do what he did, how can you feel that your life is meaningless? "

Kong Na opened his mouth wide and was speechless for a long time. When he thought about it carefully, a flame burst into his heart!
That's right, why do I feel that staying at Kong's house means doing nothing?

enlightenment!

Kong Na clenched his little fist, keeping these two words in his heart.

But he was soon discouraged. Enlightenment is easy to say, but it is too difficult to do.

The Confucius family followed the blood of the most holy teacher, but they may not be able to follow the talent of Confucius.

In fact, the power of Confucianism to educate the world has long been out of the hands of the Confucian family.

Of those great Confucians who are famous all over the world, which one is not learned and rich?

Not to mention people like Cheng Zhu and others, their contributions to Confucianism could have been canonized long ago.

Even Song Lian, Liu Bowen and other great Confucians in eastern Zhejiang are not as good as Kong Na,
Kong Na thought that if he did academics, he probably wouldn't be able to do anything.

It is feasible to strive to become a great Confucian, but it is definitely not possible for a talent like Cheng Zhu who is not born in the world.

Just when he was struggling with his goal, Zhang Yi thought it was funny.

He pointed to the bookstore opposite and said:
"I'll show you a way. In fact, enlightenment itself can be added or subtracted!"

Addition, subtraction!
Kong Na, who had also brushed the real test recently, accepted these concepts fairly easily, but he still didn't understand what Zhang Yi was talking about?
"Look at the bookstore opposite, is the business booming?"

Kong Na nodded when he heard the words, there are two books by Zhang Yi, the business of Jinling Bookstore is very good recently...

If not, he wouldn't have come here to look at these people and think about life.

"Suppose we regard the business of the bookstore as education itself, you can regard the popularity of the bookstore business as someone adding to the bookstore,
Assuming that the bookstore can only sell 100 taels a year, the store rent is 20 taels, the salary of the clerk is 40 taels, and the channel is 60 taels, then the cost of the bookstore is [-] taels, and the profit is [-] taels!

This popular book is roughly equivalent to Confucianism producing a genius like Zhu Zi. The benefits he brings to the bookstore are naturally immeasurable!

But most of us are ordinary people, and if we want to open source, we can't do it, so what should we do?

Then save money, I think there are three clerks in the bookstore, and one shopkeeper!
The three of them are now able to deal with the people outside, so the shopkeeper is drinking tea inside..."

Zhang Yi pointed to the inside of the bookstore, Kong Na nodded.

"I came to the bookstore a while ago. The situation at that time was not like this. At that time, there were not enough people in the store, and the shopkeepers had to be busy with each other.

One thing I would think if I were the boss, am I wasting my wages in this situation!
This level of busyness is actually not the norm!
After this period of time has passed, three workers are a bit too much in the store.

In fact, if there are only two workers, letting the shopkeeper be busy occasionally will not delay his own work.

So as long as there is one less worker in the store, the business of this bookstore will be just right!
And if I lay off a worker, this business can save more than one or two dollars!
Also, I have observed Jinling Bookstore, probably Mr. Chen is not short of money, so this store is a bit too big!

In fact, from the perspective of business alone, there is no need. If you rent a smaller shop, you can save a little rent...

Calculated in this way, saving ten taels of silver a year is actually not a problem!
Although ten taels of silver is not much, it may be difficult to earn more than ten taels of silver for the store, but it is relatively easy to save ten taels of silver!

This is doing subtraction!

The same is true for enlightenment, you only focus on learning Cheng Zhu, or Song Lian and other great Confucians, it will naturally take time and practice to become them, but it may not be successful!

But it is easy for you to use the influence of your Confucian family to reduce the cost of enlightenment! "

Listening to Jun's words is better than reading ten years of books, Kong Na was enlightened, and instantly understood Zhang Yi's deep meaning.

He looked at Zhang Yi with some gratitude. Although this guy often cheated himself, he was still a good friend at critical moments.

Addition can't be done, and subtraction is indeed much easier.

Kong Na was already thinking hard about how to do the subtraction.

He thought about it for a long time, his face turned red, but he couldn't think of it.

"What is the essence of education, is it to allow more and more people to be educated and learn something?"

Zhang Yi spoke softly, guiding Kong Na.

Conne listened quietly like a student.

"But the matter of achieving success in learning belongs to the category of addition, so don't even think about it!

Then the remaining choices are actually not difficult to guess! "

"So, should I use the relationship of the Kong family to educate more people?"

Kong Na suddenly realized that this is the real way to do subtraction!

"I understand, when I return to Qufu in the future, I will take out the extra money and food of my Kong family to open a school and spread the holy teachings!

It is my goal to let people in the world have books to read! "

Xiao Kong's mood suddenly brightened, with a happy smile on his face.

Seeing him like this, Zhang Yi shook his head and smiled.

Children are children, so foolish...

Do your best, um...

"The layout is too small!"

Zhang Yi knocked on the table, and Kong Na's smile suddenly froze on his face. When he was in full swing, Zhang Yi poured cold water on him.

It discouraged him a lot.

"You run a school, how many schools can you open?

With the little money from your Kong family, opening a school will not help many people, and everyone is doing things like opening a school.
Even if your Kong family did it, so what?
This is actually adding, not subtracting.

Also, it's not that you don't know your own image in His Majesty's mind, what do you want to do when you start a school?
Expanding one's own influence, isn't this courting death? "

Kong Nadeng broke out in a cold sweat, but he forgot about it.

After returning to Qufu, running a school like crazy, in the eyes of the man in the palace, it probably belongs to escape.

"For subtraction, it is best not to pay any cost, and to give the credit to the person in the deep palace, it is indeed a righteous name, and it can be promoted by others!
You use this way of thinking to think, see if you can come up with a way? "

Kong Na tried hard, but he couldn't figure it out.

"Tell me, what can you do?"

"Actually, I have an immature idea, we brothers can discuss it..."

What Zhang Yi waited for was Kong Na's words.

He coughed twice, pretending to be calm:

"Of course, this is just my immature idea!"

"Hurry up and talk!" Kong Na couldn't help urging his appetite.

"When I was in Longhushan, I didn't like to study, and reading and practicing handwriting was also very annoying, so I made my husband angry every time!
One of the reasons why I didn't like to practice calligraphy at that time was that the characters we handed down were too complicated!
It's troublesome to write, very troublesome, and I hate trouble the most! "

"so what?"

"So I later researched how to make writing easier, and I also discovered that many people on the mountain have actually thought about reading and learning, but many people can't pass the level of learning!
At that time, I thought, if only our Chinese characters were simpler!

In this way, it will be easier for many people who should be literate to acquire knowledge! "

"Do you want to change the text?"

Kong Na was taken aback by Zhang Yi's unconstrained imagination. As long as this guy thinks of something, it will be a shocking event.

Words are very important in the knowledge dissemination system.

Moreover, literati have long given more meaning to words than words.

Calligraphy is something based on words.

And Zhang Yi actually wanted to touch the text?
"It doesn't work..."

Kong Na quickly waved his hand and directly rejected Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi chuckled and didn't try to persuade him, but just took a sip of boiling water lightly.

He didn't persuade, and Kong Na felt uncomfortable. After a while, he couldn't help asking:
"Why don't you persuade me?"

Zhang Yidao: "If you want to do it, you will naturally do it. Why should I persuade you? What does this have to do with me?"

The child was probably scared by himself, so he was quite wary.

The more indifferent Zhang Yi behaved, the more itchy Kong Na felt.

"You analyze it for me, I will consider it..."

"What is there to analyze? In fact, the truth is not very simple. The essence of enlightenment is to let more people learn the truth, and there are many costs of enlightenment, the most important of which is the text itself!
In the process of writing development, because scholars have always been a privileged group, they have forgotten the original intention of the saints to preach, that is to let more people accept enlightenment!

But the more complex the text, the lower the possibility of people receiving education!The so-called Confucianism and scholar-bureaucrats have long forgotten the original intention of your ancestors. They are obsessed with knowledge as a high barrier to separate the common people from the scholar-officials.

Is this still the path that Confucius practiced before?I don’t think so. Confucius was first and foremost a teacher, and his way is not the way of Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
Only by making changes is the way to break through the current situation! "

"But if you need simplified text to learn knowledge, what is the use of such a person?"

Before Kong Na could finish speaking, Zhang Yi flicked his head on his head, and he glared at Zhang Yi in pain.

"Did you go back to worship your ancestors and see the graves?"

"I've seen it!"

"Then let me ask you, if you want to build a tall tomb, shouldn't the plate underneath be as big as possible?"

When Kong Na heard that he was struck by lightning, he seemed to understand what Zhang Yi meant.

"Don't think that scholars are only those great Confucians who have written books and established officials and officials who are all-powerful in the officialdom.
In this land of China, there are still many down-and-out people who have never achieved fame in their lifetime. They may be insignificant, but they are the cornerstone of sacred learning!

Without them preaching and imparting knowledge, how can there be the scenery of those above.

You can't see them, but they are precisely the [people's hearts] of your Confucius family, and they are the worshipers of incense!
They may be mediocre, but when their children are born, they have the opportunity to receive education and have the opportunity to become pillars.
Do you think there are too many scholars in the world, is it a bad thing for the spread of the Confucian family's thoughts? "

Kong Na raised his head and suddenly had an idea in his heart!

"Go back and think about it first, I'll go to Lao Chen to settle the score, and I'll ask you to pay dividends later!"

Seeing Kong Na's appearance, Zhang Yi heaved a sigh of relief.

He took advantage of Kong Na's confusion and set up a small game on his Kong family. As for whether this game will be successful, it depends on whether China has this fate!
Anyway, he's just an idler, so it's not worth asking.

As soon as he left, Conne also left.

In the teahouse where the two sat, one person put away the pen and paper, and immediately went to the palace.

Soon after, Gao Jianxian received the note and entered the palace in person.

When he came to the door of the imperial study, he saw Zhu Biao also standing at the door and did not go in.

"His Royal Highness!"

Gao Jianxian greeted in a low voice, and Zhu Biao made a gesture not to speak.

"Give me your things, and I'll take them in!"

"Okay, this is a conversation between the Confucius family and the Zhang family in the busy city, I think it's important, so I hurried to hand it over!

Your Royal Highness, please send your Majesty greetings from the ministers, I will take my leave! "

From the moment Zhu Yuanzhang handed over the "business" to Zhu Biao.

In a sense, Zhu Biao also intervened in the operation of the school.

Although this organization is not as good as the Jinyiwei that appeared in later generations, it is still an intelligence organization after all.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince intervening in this kind of organization would be detrimental to the dignity of the outside world.

It is very important to maintain a relationship that is well known but not exposed. After Gao Jianxian handed over the secret note, he turned around and left.

Zhu Biao took a deep breath, told the eunuch not to report, and quietly walked into the imperial study.

At this time, the emperor put down all his guard and was holding a baby with a smile all over his face.

"Father, don't lie, don't go back on what you promised me!"

"Fourth, do you underestimate me so much?"

The child Zhu Yuanzhang is holding is the fourth prince Zhu Di.

(End of this chapter)