Chapter 53 Commentary
In the hall on the first floor of the Demon-Suppressing Golden Tower, hundreds of people from the Confucian Sect gathered together and looked at the dozen people standing in the center.
There was a murderous aura in the hall, and no one could speak quietly. It was heard by the needle.
"Zhu Zixi, what else do you have to say now?"
Xing Li looked at the tall old man in the lead and asked sternly: "I'll ask you, have you done this?"
Zhu Zixi was hunched over, as if she was born with a hunchback, with her hands together, her white hair was bleak and old.
Wherever he stood, he felt as if he was ready to kneel down at any time and kowtow to the person in front of him. He was extremely humble.
It gives people the feeling of being a docile dog. Just by the owner's order, he attacks desperately, and naturally reveals his loyalty.
Anyone who doesn't understand, just looking at his appearance, will involuntarily extend a thumb and praise him, "This is really a model of a loyal minister!"
But just such a "loyal minister and a model country" almost ruined the entire Confucian tradition.
This person has been smart and talented since childhood. He can learn things at a glance and has the ability to remember everything. Later, after entering the Confucian school, he devoted himself to studying. Whether it is knowledge or martial arts, he practiced quickly, and was original peers. He was also eloquent, eloquent, and generous, so he gathered some Confucian school children.
After forming a small gang, he quickly put forward his new insights on Confucianism, because his views were really different from the ideas that the Confucianism line wanted to penetrate, which led to fierce opposition from many Confucian scholars.
He summarized the way of biochemical transformation of heaven and earth, believing that heaven and earth have "reason" and "qi", and that "reason" and "qi" are inseparable.
Rule comes first, and qi comes later.
He created an ancient Confucian saint and then used the name of this saint to promote his own family's words.
He told Confucian scholars that the highest goal of the Confucian scholars is to become "saints", and to become saints, one must "preserve the laws of nature and eliminate human desires."
At that time, the Confucianism always emphasized that Confucianism was the dominant one, but it also had to absorb the meaning of the hundreds of schools of thought, so it respected all the scholars of the times.
But Zhu Zixi told people, "If the Confucian school wants to prosper, it must strengthen its interest relationship with secular imperial power, and at the same time dismiss all schools of thought, respect Confucianism alone, and change the original relationship with the emperor into a master-subordinate relationship. In this way, the Confucian school will naturally receive full support from the emperors of the dynasty, and will never suspicion. As long as the dynasty is not destroyed, the Confucian school will last forever."
His idea was disdained by orthodox Confucian scholars, but because everyone was qualified to express their ideas at that time, Confucian scholars would never shout and kill him because of this. However, when the academic debate was not raised to personal attacks.
However, as Zhu Zixi's reputation became more and more famous, he gradually became a great scholar and opened a library to teach his disciples, and his influence became greater and greater. His Confucianism theory, which he claimed to be Neo-Confucianism, began to spread throughout the human race.
His theory was spread so quickly, which was obviously a bit unusual. Ren Daoran, who was the leader of the Confucian sect at the time, sniffed out the crisis and ordered the Confucian sect's secret agents to investigate it carefully, and finally figured out what was going on.
It turned out that Zhu Zixi had long been colluding with the royal family of the dynasty because his theory was extremely in line with the thoughts of the ruling people of the dynasty. At that time, the dynasty spared no effort to promote his theory to the world.
This led to the official orthodox Confucianism gradually being influenced by Neo-Confucianism. When many students who did not know the truth really thought that this was the orthodox Confucianism and believed in the truth. After they left school, they naturally bowed to the kings at that time when they went to school.
Before Neo-Confucianism, all the ministers in the court bowed deeply and sang a fat look when they met the emperor. No one would kneel down to the king.
However, after the emergence of Neo-Confucianism, this kind of etiquette of kneeling and worship became a common etiquette in the officialdom at that time.
For the orthodox Confucian scholars at that time, they only knelt on the ancestors of heaven and earth, and the monarchs at that time had only cooperated with them, without a very obvious concept of hierarchy, so they never knelt down to the king, let alone to their superiors and colleagues.
After the emergence of Neo-Confucianism, traditional Confucian scholars could not bear this humiliation and left the temple one after another. For a time, Neo-Confucian disciples controlled the government.
The king of the dynasty accepted Zhu Zixi's idea of "abolishing all schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", and began to increase support for Neo-Confucianism, and slaughtered and suppressed the remaining hundreds of schools of thought.
How can Confucian children do such crazy things?
They counted all the grudges on Ren Daoran, the leader of the Confucian sect at that time, so the pursuit of Ren Daoran began.
Although Ren Daoran had explained the whole story to the leaders of each family clearly to the whole story, at that time, no matter the children of the traditional Confucian school or the other hundreds of families, they had died, and the blood feud had already been formed and could not be resolved.
After that, the traditional Confucian scholars had to deal with assassination by hundreds of children, and at the same time they had to kill disciples of Neo-Confucianism in order to clear the portal and restore the book. During this period, many people died and became bigger and bigger, and countless elites of the Central Plains were killed and injured.
Later, the Immortal Black Mountain Black Tide emerged, and the people in the Confucians were in trouble with internal and external troubles. Everything happened together, and the entire Taoist system was almost destroyed by someone.
After a thousand years, the Confucian orthodox rises again and kills all the people in Neo-Confucianism. However, the initiator Zhu Zixi had already ascended to the sky and ignored the world's affairs.
His Neo-Confucianism has been endless and broken the backbone of the entire human race. In the thousands of years of development of Neo-Confucianism, no grand master has appeared in the human race except for the people of a hundred schools of thought and traditional Confucian disciples.
Neo-Confucianism can be said to have softened the human race from its roots, bound the thoughts of people at that time, and almost cut off the human race descendants.
Although the orthodox Confucians have been educated for hundreds of years, it is still difficult to eradicate all the problems left by Neo-Confucianism, even the relationship with the various schools of thought is far from reaching the previous harmony.
It was not until Yang Shenxing emerged and overthrew the world that the various schools of thought truly removed the gap with the Confucian Sect and no longer fought with each other. The Confucian Sect truly developed to its heyday.
The Confucian school in the human world has regained its vitality, but in the heavenly world, Neo-Confucianism spread throughout the three realms as Zhu Zixi ascended through the sky.
Emperor Tian was naturally very interested in Zhu Zixi's Neo-Confucian thoughts, so he wanted to govern the three realms according to his law, but was rejected by the Confucian children who were still in the heavenly court at that time.
In terms of seniority, cultivation, and reputation, Zhu Zixi was far inferior to those of the old predecessors before him. Since the Confucian scholars in the Heavenly Court opposed Neo-Confucianism in unison, the Emperor of Heaven had to give up at that time.
But after this incident, Emperor Tian discovered that before he knew it, Confucian children actually managed so many forces in the Three Realms.
The emperor's position was not right. Seeing that the Confucian sect was so powerful, he was naturally alert, so he summoned Zhu Zixi to discuss how to deal with these Confucian sect masters.
Zhu Zixi was also hindered by his thoughts and predecessors of Confucianism. He became ruthless and conspired with Emperor Xing to cut off the Confucians one by one. By the time the Confucians were alert, most of their wings had been cut off.
After that, a great chaos broke out in the Heavenly Court, killing and injuring countless immortals. All the traditional Confucian disciples were killed and unable to be killed, so they were imprisoned in this demon-suppressing tower.
Perhaps he was afraid of Zhu Zixi and several descendants of Neo-Confucianism's prestige among Neo-Confucian disciples. After cutting off the power of traditional Confucian scholars, Zhu Zixi and several disciples were actually imprisoned by the Emperor of Heaven into this demon-suppressing golden tower.
Now that Yang Yi goes into the tower to save people, how can these Confucian ancestors who were framed by Zhu Zixi let him go?
Chapter completed!