The head of the Li family stood outside the study, listening to the sound of his father and son reading in the house, standing and waiting with a smile on his face.
My father hates people interrupting him while he is studying, even if that person is himself!
Therefore, he had to wait obediently outside the door!
As the sound of reading in the study stopped, the head of the Li family reached out and knocked on the door.
Winter! Winter winter!
His father's gentle voice came from inside.
"Come in!"
The head of the Li family pushed open the door and walked in, and then he saw his father wearing a Confucian shirt, with his hair in a bun and big sleeves fluttering.
And the son who is wearing a boy's clothes and hair in hair.
"The son has met his father!"
The head of the Li family spoke very respectfully.
The old man stroked the beard on his chest and said.
"Why are you here looking for me?"
The head of the Li family answered.
"The total income of the family this year has been calculated. Please take a look at it, father!"
The old man stood up, took the document from his son, and started to read it.
Although he is no longer in charge, he is still the head of the family in terms of clan etiquette.
For something as important as this, the old man also needs to have a purpose.
The old man of the Li family took the document and started to read it.
In the past year, the Li family's income was not much. The total income of the big Li family was only more than 200 silver dollars.
Of course, it’s not that business is failing!
Instead, the Li family invested almost all of last year's income into a sugar cane plantation and supporting sugar refinery.
Just the development of plantations, the construction of sugar refineries, and the hiring of workers cost the Li family a lot of silver dollars.
Moreover, the Li family also plans to expand the scale of the sugar factory in the coming year and use their own fleet to sell the sugar throughout Southeast Asia.
As well as dispatching ships to open fleets to Korea and Japan!
The old man of the Li family nodded and said.
"Okay, you are smarter than your father when it comes to business!"
"Just keep it locked!"
The head of the Li family nodded.
But as if he suddenly remembered something, he spoke.
"Father, my son heard that His Royal Highness the Governor is going to gather the world's great Confucians and famous scholars in Luzon to transform the old Confucian thought and create a new school of Confucianism."
"And name it the New Confucian school, and use the New Confucian school to replace the old Neo-Confucianism and regard it as the orthodoxy of the world."
"I have a friend who is an official in the military government. He heard that his father is a master of Confucianism and is proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics. He asked me to ask if my father is interested in participating in the founding of the New Confucian school."
After the head of the Li family finished speaking, the old man couldn't help frowning and said.
"Nonsense!"
"Neo-Confucianism is a prominent school in the world. The lifelong efforts of the two sages Cheng and Zhu are not comparable to that of Mr. Yangming. Your Highness, Jian Guo, is young and frivolous. How dare you talk about reforming Neo-Confucianism?"
Mr. Li received Confucian education from an early age and was quite obsessed with Neo-Confucianism.
I believe that Neo-Confucianism is the authentic teaching in the world!
Now that I heard that Zhu Hongyu wanted to reform Neo-Confucianism, I would naturally feel dissatisfied.
The head of the Li family spoke.
"Then son, go and reject your friends now!"
"etc!"
The old man of the Li family suddenly stopped his son, and then said.
"There's no need to refuse, as a father I'd better go for it!"
"As a father, I cannot allow those sycophants to manipulate the treasure of my Confucianism, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, according to the wishes of His Royal Highness!"
"I, a Confucian student, also have character!"
The old man of the Li family straightened his back and said.
The head of the Li family said quickly.
"Yes, it all depends on father!"
Zhu Hongyu wanted to reform and innovate Confucianism, and his purpose was very clear. He wanted to fundamentally change people's thinking.
His Ming Dynasty is going to be a bourgeois revolution, and his ideas are still the same as before!
Anyway, Confucianism has always been relatively soft and can change its shape according to the ruler's wishes, so what else is there to say?
Change it!
The reason why scholars all over the world pursue Neo-Confucianism is because the imperial examination requires Neo-Confucianism. The standard four books and five classics for the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty can only be annotated with "Zhu Zi's Annotations".
Of course Neo-Confucianism is explicit learning!
As long as Zhu Hongyu changed the content of the imperial examination from Neo-Confucianism to Neo-Confucianism, it would only take a matter of minutes for Neo-Confucianism to be abandoned by scholars all over the world.
The reason why Zhu Hongyu chose to change Confucianism and add his own private goods into Confucianism instead of using other ideas instead.
That's because Confucianism is now the world's most prominent school and represents the values of almost all Chinese people.
He can use the fact that Neo-Confucianism has already destroyed the world as a reason to start reforming Neo-Confucianism!
But the knowledge after he completed the reform can only be called New Confucianism, and Confucianism cannot be discarded!
This is the influence of Confucianism that has been cultivated in China for two thousand years!
Even in the 21st century, the ideas of the Rabbit family still have a hint of Confucianism.
At this time, China had never experienced a hundred years of decline, nor had it experienced the humiliation of being invaded by thousands of Western barbarians into the capital, burning, killing, looting, and ceding territory to pay compensation!
They are full of confidence in their own culture, system, etc.!
I am number one in the world, and I am the king of heaven!
It is impossible for the proud Chinese to abandon their own culture, abandon their own system, and fully accept Westernization.
Just like when Europeans want to reform their own ideological fields, they can only introduce Protestantism and Catholicism to compete, but they cannot directly knock God off the altar.
Zhu Hongyu could only take action on Neo-Confucianism, transform Confucianism according to his own wishes, and create a New Confucian school that conformed to his own wishes, but he could not overthrow Confucius.
Of course, Confucius is Confucius, and the Confucius family is the Confucius family. After the Liberation Army made its northern expedition to the Central Plains and recovered the rivers and mountains.
Zhu Hongyu promised that he would send the entire Confucius family of the "Great Qingyan Holy Duke" to meet Confucius underground!
Anyway, he is not planning to erect the Kong family tablet again in the future!
As for the reasons, the Kong family have all turned traitors and become traitors, so they still need a shitty reason!
…
In Luzon City, a second-floor seating area of a restaurant.
Sitting in the elegant seat by the window was a middle-aged man wearing a Confucian shirt and having an elegant demeanor.
He looked at the scenery outside the window, and his eyes showed deep fatigue.
However, it is not physical fatigue, but mental fatigue.
Just sitting there gives people the feeling that it has weathered many storms and gone through many vicissitudes of life.
There were several strong and powerful guards standing beside him, all of them had sharp eyes and fierce expressions.
"Sir, we have found newspapers that contain news about His Highness the Governor's victory in Tanzhou Town, Guangdong, and the Suixi River on the Leizhou Peninsula!"
A guard ran up to the middle-aged man and handed a thick stack of newspapers into his hands.
The middle-aged man took the newspaper and began to read it.
Looking at the passionate words in the newspaper, he seemed to see the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty risking their lives to fight and win on the battlefield.
Look at the detailed records of battle results, seizures and other data in the newspaper.
His state of mind, which had long been cold and no longer had any thoughts about rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, became agitated again.