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Chapter 1472 Continuation
Zhu Muxi is a lucky one. He likes to study history, especially the ancient Gongyang School.

Many things in this school are not applicable to the Great Unification Dynasty, so it is actually a kind of luck for Zhu Muxi to be sent to Japan by the emperor.

If he was in the mainland, sooner or later he would be convicted of his words and his title would be cut off and the high wall would be confiscated.

It's not that the Eastern Military Government is open to speech. Some things of the Gongyang School can't be solved by freedom of speech. Zhu Muxi was almost beheaded by Zou Yuanbiao as soon as he came here.

These days, how many ministers would dare to talk to him about things like 'Emperor is just a kind of title', 'Wanli and Chen Mu hate the theory of interaction between heaven and man', 'the loyalty between the monarch and the ministers is conditional' and so on.

It's not that it cannot be discussed, but that it is too dangerous, and if you are not careful, it will form an uncontrollable school of thought.

No matter how many good things there are, but shaking the ruling foundation of the Great Unification Dynasty, let alone lecturing, talking about it is considered resentment.

But Dongyang is also good. There are many new things here, and there are many things to study. You don’t have to look at those old almanacs all day long. How are we different.

Even if it is about whether King Shunyi of the West is bald or not, everyone can openly talk about it.

Why did we win the war instead of them, and what went wrong with them that led to the defeat of the war... There is never a shortage of research like this in the Eastern Military Government.

After the Second Ming-Xi War, Deng Zilong, who occupied Panama, obtained a large number of Spanish literature books, most of which were records of Spanish scholars studying the Aztecs and Incas for decades.

Even the surviving Asian indigenous people don't know what the past era was like. That is almost the only way for Ming people to understand the history of indigenous people.

In order to rule this land, Ming people must learn these things, and are inevitably influenced by these books and theoretical forms, and then apply what they have learned.

On the one hand, it is used to rule the East Ocean, and on the other hand, it is used to study the Europa on the other side of the sea.

In the environment of public opinion that people don't understand very well, everything is trying to find a reason... The Spaniards' defeat in the war will even be classified as the reason why their bones are thin and their skulls are like Ming children.

This 'heresy' theory should also be attributed to Chen Shigong, a first-class physician who had already returned to the Ming Dynasty. His anatomical work is an effective proof of this argument.

The skulls of Xiyi soldiers are generally smaller, narrower, and not strong enough than the skulls of Ming criminals, and the place where the skull is filled with water is also three cents and four cents less.

In this era, the people of Ming Dynasty have just ignorantly realized that the brain is the home of the primordial spirit, and it was quickly used by weird people as the reason for winning the war—they were stupid.

Chen Mu disagreed with this very much, and he would scold anyone who dared to tell him about it.

Which general in the world has worked so hard to win, would like to hear people say: Hehehe, you defeated some fools.

Research is actually a very extravagant thing, so extravagant that most people in the world have no chance to know what they don't know or understand, so naturally they can't study it.

Although they don’t know enough about the Spaniards, fortunately, the Ming people have a rich history to compare. In the decrees passed by the Spaniards in Asia and the letters that remained in Asia, they soon found a way to support the Spaniards. Methodology for developing overseas.

"The evil ones say that the natives are human-like in appearance; the good ones say that the natives are uncivilized savages; why?"

On the podium, Zhu Muxi crossed his hands in front of his chest, narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his fists into palms and said slightly downwards: "Those who are human-like but not human can be killed; killing people means seizing land."

"Chen Shuai said this is a rhetoric, to create the legitimacy of conquest."

When Zhu Muxi talked about this, he couldn't help being mocking on his face. No one thought this way before, but once he thought this way, in fact, Da Ming treated others as barbarians.

On this basis, Zhu Muxi talked about his latest understanding: "In the pre-Qin period, a hundred schools of thought contended; Wusheng, punching and kicking, pioneered the unification of Confucianism."

"The two of them are descendants of the Gongyang School of Confucianism. Since the absence of Confucius and Sage, Confucianism has been divided into eight, each holding their own interpretations; the disciples of the sage's school have different learnings, and they can still talk in twos and twos, so they can't get along with each other. What's more, at that time, Huang Lao The study of Confucianism is especially prosperous, how can Confucianism be unified?"

Zhu Muxi said: "It meets the needs of the world."

"At that time, there were ten schools of thought, divided into Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, Fa, Ming, Nong, Za, Yin and Yang, Zongheng, and novels. From today's perspective, they are ten disciplines. Other disciplines are not interested and do not do research.”

"They cannot be tolerant, but Confucianism can be tolerant. Dong Zhongshu not only studied "Gongyang Chunqiu", but also studied yin and yang, arithmetic, and Taoism, and mixed them together to form New Confucianism."

"Today's Confucianism not only has a history of etiquette, but also Taoist theory, legalist theory, peasant theory, miscellaneous theory, yin and yang and five elements, and vertical and horizontal novels. Confucianism is not Confucianism, and Confucianism is also Confucianism. "

Zhu Muxi is a bold person. When he saw Chen Mu who was listening with gusto at the end, he raised his hand and said, "Chen Shuai doesn't like the theory of the relationship between heaven and man. The students once heard that Chen Shuai denounced the relationship between heaven and man in the court. It is said that the comet flew by, and dozens of countries were destroyed overseas, not to remind me that the son of heaven has virtuous deeds."

"However, the connection between heaven and man, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, meant that heaven also had the air of joy, anger, and heart of sorrow and joy. , but because he is the Son of Heaven, he is the Son of Heaven."

"This is a sword. When the world is initially settled, it can be used to stabilize the world. When the world is in trouble, it can also be used to disrupt the world. Because people believe in it, even lightning and thunder can make people afraid."

"It's just that every time the dynasty changes, the relationship between heaven and man is brought out again."

When it comes to the Ram School, one can talk about dynastic change without shy away.

And Chen Mu in the back row of the classroom took a small notebook and wrote down: Confucianism was prospered by Dong Sheng and died by Dong Sheng. Confucius' attitude of keeping ghosts and gods at arm's length was held by the shining Tai Ah.

Take the blade and hand the hilt to the emperor.

Regarding the idea that Confucianism has long since died, Chen Mu must have thought the same as Zhu Muxi on the podium. If Dong Zhongshu's Gongyangology is still Confucianism, then Confucianism is already dead.

What is left is just a shell, filled with the combination of all people and everything in the Central Plains. Anything can be Confucianism, because everything is Confucianism.

The most daring of the Gongyang School, and what Chen Mu was most impressed with was not the theory of great revenge against public enemies, but something inherited from Mencius.

It is Zhang Sanshi, who divides the society into three stages: decline and chaos, prosperity and peace, and the cycle goes on and on. The monarch is obliged to lead the people into the rule of three generations, referring to the three generations of the sages Yao, Shun and Yu.

If not, there is something wrong with the emperor, so change it.

Chen Mu didn't want to change the emperor, he just thought of Tong III in the late Qing Dynasty from this Zhang Sanshi, and the unique Gongyang faction was picked up again, linked with "Book of Rites", and divided the three generations into decline, well-off, well-off, Datong.

When he came here, the country had been in the primary stage of socialism for a long time, with the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way.

At that time, he didn't know what the next step was.

Now he understands that the next step is the great harmony of the world.

History is continuous.

(End of this chapter)