I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 74 He is the conscience!

In fact, strictly speaking, the mourning period only needs to be twenty-six or twenty-seven months.

Completing the mourning period of twenty-six or twenty-seven months is enough to declare to the outside world that one has completed three years of mourning, but it is not necessary to actually observe the full three years.

This is already an unwritten rule.

However, Yuan Shu felt that this was not enough. He needed more time to be quiet and write, so he had to extend the mourning period.

At the beginning, Lu Zhi and others suggested that Yuan Shu extend the time to two and a half years, or thirty months.

But when Yuan Shu heard the three words "two and a half years", he suddenly felt his right shoulder inexplicably agitated.

In order to avoid becoming the one who had to observe mourning for two and a half years, Yuan Shu still insisted on observing the full thirty-six months of mourning and accompanied Ma Rong for three whole years.

His persistence in his beliefs and his mourning for Ma Rong for thirty-six months were also praised by everyone. Everyone said that Yuan Shu was grateful and thankful, and that Ma Rong had indeed made the right choice and that Yuan Shu was indeed an excellent successor.

Of course, this is not pure bragging, but real praise.

Yuan Shu indeed inherited and mastered the ancient classics represented by Zuo Zhuan, which Ma Rong was good at. On the academic level in the post-Ma Rong era, he did not embarrass Ma Rong at all.

He never missed the daily routine lectures on ancient Chinese classics. If he couldn't give a lecture himself, he would ask Lu Zhi and others to give it on his behalf.

More importantly, in the field of psychology, he spent three years organizing and summarizing the theories of psychology to form a complete system, and he also used strict punctuation and carefully explained the meaning of words and sentences.

He improved the "Mencius Interpretation" he had written previously with punctuation marks.

His new work, On Knowledge and Action, contains not only the main text, but also his own detailed annotations, simple explanations of difficult words and sentences, sources of quotations from classics, and the background of historical stories and characters.

He marked them all.

In the eyes of people of this era, that is "the unity of classics and commentary", with complete explanations and basically no room for misunderstanding or misinterpretation.

Therefore, Yuan Shu can even be regarded as the first person to break the strict anti-self-study mechanism in the academic world.

He used simpler and even more colloquial language to explain the mysteries of psychology, discarding the complicated and difficult-to-understand ancient sentences and uncommon characters. This made it easier not only for his own people to learn, but also for outsiders to understand.

There are definitely people who are unhappy about this, but they can't say anything.

Because this is the knowledge that Yuan Shu has studied on his own and does not belong to the Five Classics system. It is said to be beyond the Three Realms and not within the Five Elements. There are not so many rules of master-disciple and family rules. He is the ancestor and he can do whatever he wants and others cannot interfere.

Unless this group of scholars are willing to accept Yuan Shu's knowledge as an official school, give him a position, and share the spoils with them, then they can use their own rules to regulate Yuan Shu's behavior and find ways to put a "tight ring" on him.

Can they accept it?
They are unwilling to accept the ancient classics that have a history of more than a hundred years, so how can they be willing to accept this new school of mind?
In addition, after the Factions and Factions Persecution, they were pursued relentlessly by the eunuchs. They relied heavily on the Yuan family both politically and economically, so they could only swallow this loss in silence.

As for whether someone in the Five Classics system would do the same thing... Yuan Shu didn't know, and he didn't interfere or comment.

He only focused on developing his own philosophy of mind and constantly recruited more people who were interested in the philosophy of mind and willing to implement the concept of the unity of knowledge and action.

Just as he expected, because he made a breakthrough in the anti-self-study mechanism, anyone who has access to his works can have a basic understanding of psychology, and it is also easier to spread.

This has invisibly greatly expanded the audience of psychology and lowered the entry threshold to the level of being able to read and write.

It was for this reason that his secretary Cheng Li and Cheng Zhongde came into contact with the School of Mind, and then traveled thousands of miles to study it despite the dangers and dangers. He was accepted as his disciple and became his confidants.

This situation did not exist before.

There are many prerequisites for studying classics.

The most important thing is that you are on the luck list and are noticed by others and included in the academic system.

Or maybe you come from a good family and are born with a job.

Then, you need to master punctuation, understand ancient fonts, understand the meaning of ancient characters, understand the ancient historical background and character background, or have a teacher who masters all of the above skills.

Only after meeting all the above conditions can one study and understand the classics.

Otherwise, you will not be able to learn, understand, or even "not worthy of learning."

But now, psychology does not have many major premises.

Yuan Shu doesn't care about your background, your bloodline, or even whether you have any great teachers. As long as you can read and write, Yuan Shu will do his best to mark the rest for you in the original text.

"On Knowing and Doing" is a psychology textbook that does not require additional annotations. As long as you get it and know the characters, you can learn it by yourself. If you have a high level of comprehension and strong self-study ability, you don't even need to come to Yuan Shu in person to listen to the lectures.

However, Yuan Shu did not fully anticipate the position his behavior would occupy in the hearts of those students of humble origins. For example, in the hearts of Wei Jia, Dou Yun, Cheng Li and other humble scholars of poor origins, Yuan Shu was their light, their hope, and their spiritual pillar.

Yuan Shu helped them get rid of the greatest source of pain and led them on the path to sainthood. Therefore, Yuan Shu is the embodiment of conscience.

He is conscience!

Even those scholars from wealthy families who joined the Yi Xin Society basically agreed with this view. After accepting the theory of Mind Learning, they also felt that Yuan Shu's approach was truly great and correct.

Therefore, there is still a strong trend of personal worship of Yuan Shu within the Yi Xin Society.

Not to mention others, just Cheng Li, he is an absolute supporter and admirer of Yuan Shu. He regards Yuan Shu as the light of hope and even believes that Yuan Shu is the only sun in the Han Dynasty.

So out of respect and loyalty to Yuan Shu, he once again put forward his suggestions.

"No matter what, young master, you still have to make preparations. It is best to hide the party members, so as to avoid being caught by the eunuchs and having a bad ending."

"In this regard, I think my father will definitely be prepared. I will wait for his news before taking any action. There is no need to rush."

Yuan Shu thought for a while and then said, "In six days, the mourning period will be over. We need to start preparing. We need to accept students who were not accepted before, start the assessment of students, and Yi Xin Hui will also start accepting new members. In short, there are many things to do. The eunuchs' affairs are not the most important."

Cheng Li pursed his lips, but didn't say anything about his frustration.

The eunuchs who were as terrifying as tigers in the eyes of others were just playing around in Yuan Shu's mouth. Their death threats seemed to be nothing in Yuan Shu's eyes.

But the interesting thing is, this might be true.

His starting point was the pinnacle that most people could never reach in their lifetime, so those seemingly violent eunuchs had to treat the Yuan family with caution, and even promoted them to higher positions in order to win them over.

For example, Yuan Shu's father was originally the Jingzhao Yin. After the second Party Persecution, Du Mi, who served as the Grand Coachman, was naturally killed by the eunuchs as a party member, and the vacant position was given to Yuan Feng.

This position very close to the emperor fell into the hands of the Yuan family.

The Nine Ministers are generally headed by the Taichang, but in fact the one who is most likely to have access to the core of power, have a bright future, and even become one of the Three Dukes is actually the Taipu.

In the past, when the emperor still had power in his hands, it was easy for the emperor's personal coachman to become his confidant, and then take up some important positions when he went out. Even though the power is not actually completely in the hands of the emperor now, the position of Taifu is still equally valuable.

To put it bluntly, Yuan Feng's appointment to this position is to pave the way for him to become one of the Three Dukes in the future. It allows Liu Hong to get acquainted with Yuan Feng and know him as the most important minister of our Liu family in the future. You two should get to know each other first and see how compatible you are.

It’s best if we can get along well.

If it really doesn't work, try again until it works.

You know, his position is more stable than yours as the emperor!
There are so many relatives of the Han royal family in the world that there is no shortage of candidates to be the emperor.

However, there are very few families whose students and former officials are spread all over the world.

This is a fact that even the eunuchs understood and had to accept, which shows how great the political influence of the Yuan family was.

Based on this, Cheng Li suddenly thought that if the eunuchs did not really have some accurate information, they would not easily take action against You Fufeng.

The reason why they announced with such fanfare that they would focus on investigating and cracking down on Youfufeng was probably because Xiang Zhuang was dancing with a sword and targeting Pei Gong.

Yuan Shu noticed Cheng Li's expression and smiled.

"Zhongde, have you thought of something?"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Li looked at Yuan Shu, paused, and finally spoke.

"Sir, could it be that... the eunuchs did this on purpose?"

"correct."

Yuan Shu walked forward with a smile, patted Cheng Li on the shoulder, and said slowly: "According to the ruthless style of these eunuchs, if they really want to attack me, do they need to announce that Youfufeng is a key inspection area? There is no need at all, just send people to investigate secretly.

Even if they didn't know which specific people in various departments of the court were Yuan's spies, they would never think that there were no Yuan's spies in the court and that they did not act secretly. Instead, they announced it in the Secretariat, which had already alerted the enemy. How could I not know this in advance?

The party members are indeed here with me, but Youfufeng is so big. If I just find a cave to hide them, how much effort will it take for these eunuchs to find them? How long will it take to find them? Can they really find them?

I think they didn't even think about finding the party members from Youfufeng. Most likely, they wanted to put pressure on Yuan at the court level, or remind him not to go too far, or if he did go too far, he should give the eunuchs some benefits and not be so unscrupulous. "

(End of this chapter)