In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 309 The Brand New Confucianism

After the joint law enforcement imperial team set off, Lin Rui also issued an edict. First, he explained that the Qufu Confucian family had groveled in the face of foreign invasions in the past dynasties. They were not worthy of being descendants of Confucius, let alone setting an example for scholars all over the world. It can be said that he has not inherited any Confucian spirit, and his behavior is undoubtedly that of a traitor.

Then he announced the crimes of the Confucius family. They were like neighbors, killed officials and rebelled, and openly resisted the new policies of the imperial court. The crime should not be punished.

Finally, he said that the Confucian family could not represent the entire Confucianism. In the future, Dahua would continue to use Confucianism to govern the country and select scholars through the imperial examination.

The Council will continue to promote the Confucian way of governing the country, and decided to build a [-]-foot-tall statue of Confucius in Qufu, Shandong, and a Confucian academy in the capital.

Sure enough, as soon as the edict was issued, there was a huge uproar. First of all, the entire scholar population around the capital was in a panic.

However, although everyone was dissatisfied and His Majesty wanted to attack the Confucian family, they saw that His Majesty had no intention of shaking Confucianism and made it clear that he would continue to promote Confucian ways of governing the country. Everyone only talked about it and did not make any actions. What extreme words and deeds.

After all, the virtues of the Confucian family in Qufu are actually known to all scholars. However, because belittling the Confucian family in the past is equivalent to belittling Confucianism, which will have a bad impact on Confucius and Confucianism, this is why they deceive themselves and others, even if the Confucian family goes too far. , since ancient times, no one wants to mention it, and no one dares to mention it.

Even the emperors of all dynasties were no exception, but now Lin Rui directly opened the lid, and with the guidance of thoughtful people, public opinion gradually began to turn against the Kong family. The result was that it was out of control. The family has simply become a street rat.

Because the current status of the Confucius family was not deliberately elevated by scholars, but was done by emperors of all dynasties out of political needs. As a result, the emperors and dynasties of later generations had to follow suit, and finally developed such a blind eye. Wolf family.

Seeing that there was not much turmoil near the capital, Lin Rui breathed a sigh of relief, obviously he was very worried about the Kong family.

After all, the Kong family has been standing for more than 2000 years. It is so highly praised and its political influence is so great that emperors of all dynasties can only choose preferential treatment, even foreign regimes are no exception. You can see how terrifying the Kong family is if you keep an emperor at arm's length.

Of course, the main reason is that the emperors of the past dynasties were unwilling to cause trouble to the Confucius family for the sake of governance. After all, one bad move would shake the foundation of rule. Therefore, as long as the Confucius family did not openly rebel, no matter how excessive it was, or even insulted the emperor, the emperor would They will only choose to compromise and appease.

Basically, he would not directly show his cards and take action like Lin Rui. After all, the problem can be easily solved by a vain Yansheng Duke, so why take the risk of shaking the foundation of the rule to deal with the Kong family? ?

Mature politicians all know how to choose, but as a person of later generations, Lin Rui hates the Kong family from the bottom of his heart. He knows that if he doesn't move now, no one in the future emperors will dare to touch the Kong family again, and even if he doesn't Canonization, future generations of emperors, there will always be people who will canonize people in order to sell off the world's scholars.

After feeling relieved, Lin Rui no longer cared about the Confucian family's affairs, but began to figure out how to transform and improve Confucianism, and then use this idea to establish a Confucian academy.

In his previous life, Lin Rui was neither a thinker nor a politician. After seven years of hard work in the late Ming Dynasty, he could barely be regarded as a politician, but he had to do it himself.

Otherwise, if he relies on the scholars of this era to help him improve his thoughts on governing the country, what he will end up with will only be what the scholars of this era want, and never what he wants.

It can be said that no one in this era can help him in this regard. Fortunately, although he is not a thinker, he has the experience and vision of his previous life.

In the end, Lin Rui planned to come up with a core Confucian ideological program by himself, and then select a group of ladies with good literary skills to compile and judge all Confucian classics and famous sayings based on the new core thoughts.

Keep what is in line with the core idea, and revise what cannot be defined. Those classics and famous quotes that are obviously contrary to the core idea must not be kept.

Finally, with reference to some advanced governance thoughts of later generations and Confucianism's own refinement, Lin Rui developed the Five Virtues and Six Arts as the new core ideology and governance program of Confucianism.

The five virtues are still benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust, but Lin Rui has added some of his own understanding to the traditional understanding.

For example, benevolence includes kindness to the enemy and cruelty to oneself. The old pedantic attitude of not distinguishing between friend and foe and blindly only being kind has been changed beyond recognition.

Wisdom has also been completely changed, abolishing some behaviors of wise men who are easy to become traitors and protecting themselves wisely, and increasing the pursuit of the origin of all things, the verification and desire for new knowledge. In addition to keeping faith, one must also abide by the law.

The Six Arts of the Gentleman have also been changed beyond recognition, incorporating both the martial spirit and scientific creation.Lin Rui was very satisfied with the new Five Virtues and Six Arts, while the hundreds of ladies who were selected were dumbfounded.

Fortunately for them, if they were a real scholar, they would probably jump to their feet.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, my concubines are not very talented and have little knowledge, so they may not be able to handle such an important task. Your Majesty, please choose someone more capable!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, this matter is too important. It is related to the long-term peace and stability of our country. It is also related to... it must be a great scholar of the world. I, I, I really cannot take this responsibility!"

Hundreds of ladies all knelt on the ground, scrambling to postpone it. Some even broke into sweat, and some were on the verge of tears. It was obvious that they all understood what kind of errand this was.

Such random tampering with Confucian moral principles will definitely be despised by thousands of people and scolded for thousands of years.

"It has to be okay. If you don't do this, why should those scholars do it? Do you think they are willing to do it?"

Lin Rui rolled his eyes and ignored their pleas. Even the most ordinary scholar would probably not be able to do it, let alone a great scholar of the time.

"His Majesty…"

"Well, I have always treated you well, but don't let me down. Don't worry, no one will know that you did it. Those scholars who want to scold you in the future will only scold me. What else do you have to worry about?"

Lin Rui waved his hand and said without any doubt.

It's right for the girls to think about it. They are now helpless. Even if future generations know that they tampered with Confucian morality, they will only know that it was a group of women who did it and will not know their specific identities and background. Thinking of this , the girls had no choice but to grit their teeth and agree.

After all, His Majesty did treat them well. Not only did he save them from the devil's clutches in the first place, but now they are well-dressed and well-fed. They have no worries about food and clothing. Their status in the palace is higher than that of the eunuchs. No one dares to laugh at or bully them.

"That's right, haha. I will allocate the palace in Xiyuan to you. No one will bother you in the future. All the Confucian classics and famous sayings will also be collected by someone and sent to you. As long as you follow this core idea, Just reorganize the useful things into a book, don’t mix your own ideas and understandings, understand?”

"clear."

"Well, three years, I will give you three years at most. If you are satisfied by then, I will find you a good family." Lin Rui did not forget to draw a big picture.

"My concubines only hope that they can stay in the palace to serve His Majesty from now on, and don't dare to think about him anymore."

However, the girls were not interested in Lin Rui's pie.

After all, they are old. Although they still have some beauty now, they will be old and yellow in ten years. Instead of living in misery and being homeless in the future, it is better to stay in the palace and have the protection of the royal family.

Anyway, His Majesty is much younger than them. As long as His Majesty is around, he will never ignore them.

"Okay, it's up to you. When the time comes, I will build a nursing home specifically in the imperial city so that you can enjoy your old age in peace."

Lin Rui nodded and didn't care. He could afford it anyway.

(End of this chapter)