After leaving Jixian Gate, Zhang Yuan saw his carriage parked under the red pine tree on Chengxian Street at a glance, because the horse driving the horse was something special——
Since moving to Lige Old Hutong, Zhang Yuan spent thirty taels of silver to buy a single-coach carriage for the convenience of travel. The green gelding he drove came from Datong Deshengbao. The horse was eight years old and was in the prime of life. Uncle Yao felt that it was cold in the capital, so he put a bright red cotton pad on the waist of the big green horse to protect him from the cold. In fact, it was not necessary. Mongolian horses are not afraid of the cold——
Zhang Yuan, Xu Guangqi and others said goodbye and walked towards the red-skinned carriage. He was thinking about the summary of the debate the day after tomorrow. Zhang Yuan felt satisfied with the second debate just now, like Shen Que and Xu Ruke, a pedantic and rigid Ming Dynasty. Except for using their power to suppress Western learning or insisting on the so-called ancestral system, officials can't argue with him. Although Liu Zongzhou is profound in Confucianism, his shortcomings are when it comes to astronomy and calendar. The best thing is that yesterday he said The "Hua-Yi Debate" in "Spring and Autumn" restrained the opponent's hands and feet, so their side achieved an overwhelming victory in today's debate...
"Master——"
Mu Zhenzhen stepped out from the side of the carriage, wearing a stone basket-colored undershirt, with a face as white as porcelain and a smile. Mu Zhenzhen was five months pregnant. Although Mu Zhenzhen didn’t feel too burdensome, she still She wanted to go out with Zhang Yuan, but Shang Danran ordered her to rest more, so she rarely came to the Yamen to pick up Zhang Yuan recently.
Zhang Yuan asked with a smile: "Why are you really here today? Are you bored at home?"
Mu Zhenzhen said: "People from Qingmo Mountain came to announce the good news that Milk Tea Girl gave birth to a daughter the night before yesterday. The young mistress prepared some gifts for Weigu to visit, and the maid followed her out." After saying that, she opened the car door and let Zhang go. When Yuan got in the car, Wang Wei reached out and pulled Zhang Yuan in the car, and then Mu Zhenzhen also got in. The car seemed a bit crowded.
Wang Wei chuckled and said, "Sit on my husband's lap. You are a twin, so don't get squeezed."
Mu Zhenzhen pursed her lips and smiled: "Weigu, sit down, Weigu's body is light. She will not press the young master."
"One on each side, sit on my lap."
Mu Zhenzhen refused, so Wang Wei and Zhang Yuan sat close to each other so that Mu Zhenzhen could sit more comfortably.
Zhang Yuan hugged each other, very happy, and said: "I am very happy to be a father in Qingmo Mountain - so shall we go to Dongsi Archway now?"
Mu Zhenzhen said: "Young mistress and young master Hongjian have already returned to Dongsi Archway. Let the young master leave the office and go there, while the maid and Wei Gu go to visit Dong Milk Tea and his daughter."
Zhang Yuan said: "I will go with you too and come back after a short visit."
Uncle Yao had just turned around in his carriage when he heard someone shouting: "Zhang Jiezi, I have something to tell you."
Zhang Yuan recognized Liu Zongzhou's voice and thought to himself: "What does Mr. Qidong want to tell me? Do you still want to convince me?" He opened the window curtains and saw Liu Zongzhou riding a donkey. A servant was leading the donkey. He had already left. To the red-skinned Panasonic.
"What do you want Mr. Qidong to do?" The debate was a debate, and Zhang Yuan still respected Liu Zongzhou very much.
Liu Zongzhou got off the donkey and said: "Zhang Jiezi, let me take your car and go all the way to the Huitong Hall and talk slowly." Little did he know that Zhang Yuan had two concubines in his car. They were so arrogant and extravagant.
Wang Wei, who was half leaning in Zhang Yuan's arms, covered her mouth with her sleeves to hold back her laughter. Mu Zhenzhen also couldn't help laughing——
Zhang Yuan said to Liu Zongzhou: "I'm not going to the hall. The student can get off the car and walk with his husband for a while." After saying that, he lowered the car curtain and asked Mu Zhenzhen to move from his lap to sit with Wang Wei.
It was very convenient for him to get off the bus.
The snow was shoveled to both sides of the street, piled up like two low walls of ice and snow. The sun shone brightly at noon, making the snow walls shine exceptionally brightly, and the road became exceptionally clean. Zhang Yuan and Liu Zongzhou followed the carriage and headed south.
Liu's servant led the donkey and followed -
Liu Zongzhou frowned, stroking his goatee as he walked. After walking for less than half a mile, he said, "Zhang Jiezi, do you still remember that I met you and Qi Biaojia on the Yuewang Bridge when I left Shanyin that year?"
Zhang Yuandao: "I remember, Mr. Qi Huzi and I were told to visit Mr. Gao Jingyi in Wuxi."
Liu Zongzhou nodded: "I resigned last year and returned to Shaoxing. I passed by Wuxi and visited Nan Gao and Mr. Jing Yi. The two gentlemen admired you very much and had high expectations for you."
Zhang Yuandao: "Mr. Nan Gao and Mr. Jing Yi spare no effort in rewarding the underachievers, and the younger generations have benefited a lot."
Liu Zongzhou said: "That day at Yue Wang Qiaotou, you said, 'The learning of sages can help the world.' I admired it very much. But now, you have changed your original intention and adopted Western learning as your guide. Why is this?"
Zhang Yuandao: "Sir, just imagine, in terms of reputation, the student is now on the gold medal list and is a new member of the Imperial Academy. With his reputation, making friends with Western priests will not improve the student's reputation, I'm afraid it will damage it; in terms of profit, the student's family members have their own way to make money.
The imperial court also has a stipend, so students don’t have to worry about daily expenses. But besides giving me prisms and maps of all nations, do those Western priests also have money to give me? So, if students are interested in Western learning, it’s not about fame or profit, then
And for what purpose?”
Liu Zongzhou said: "This is indeed puzzling."
Zhang Yuandao: "At first, the teacher asked the students to concentrate on learning, but the students refused because the students felt that they were not dedicated to learning, but wanted to help the world. The students accommodated the Jesuits and promoted Western learning because they valued the ability of these missionaries to lead
Practical learning can make up for the shortcomings of Confucianism in practical aspects, and students’ enthusiasm can be demonstrated in the sky.”
Liu Zongzhou nodded, expressing his belief in Zhang Yuan's confession, but said: "The decline of the world does not lie in the existence of Western learning, but in the fact that the scholar-bureaucrats do not know the meaning of etiquette and justice, and rush to the field of fame and fortune with the whole world. This is the greatness of the country.
Worry, if you quote Western learning to help the world, aren't you abandoning the fundamentals and chasing the weak?"
Zhang Yuandao: "People's tendency to profit is like water's tendency to flow downwards. This can only be channeled and cannot be forcibly stopped. The prosperity of Jiangnan is precisely because there are many businessmen. This is not the reason for the decline of the world. Mr. Jingyang once said, 'There is no taboo in doing business.
"If you are rich and good at courtesy, you can do good things; if you are rich and good at conduct, your virtues can be compared with those of others, and you should consider how others use them." In business, wealth is not a sin, but how you treat it."
Liu Zongzhou admired the late Donglin leader Gu Xiancheng. Gu Xiancheng was in favor of business. Zhang Yuan used Gu Xiancheng's words to enlighten Liu Zongzhou, but Liu Zongzhou said: "You said that people tend to make profits like water downwards. Isn't this the Catholic theory of evil nature?"
Confucianism advocates that human nature is originally good, while Catholicism advocates original sin. This is really incompatible. Zhang Yuan carefully replied: "Mr. Qidong, there is a difference between the original sin of Catholicism and Xunzi's theory of evil nature, but it is different from the Buddhist concept of mana."
, Alaya consciousness is somewhat similar. This is a kind of karma accumulated by the soul from generation to generation, which will change people's nature. The original nature of people is good, which refers to the era when the hearts of the three emperors and the five emperors were simple. Nowadays, people's hearts are no longer ancient, and many bad habits and bad habits have been deeply rooted.
To the bone marrow and blood, it is necessary to cultivate the mind and nature through acquired learning. Confucianism can lead people to be good, as can Catholicism and Buddhism, but these are only moral constraints, and governing a country requires rationality and the rule of law."
In the late Ming Dynasty, there was an ideological tendency to integrate Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Jiao Hong was the epitome of this. However, the Donglin Party members opposed the integration of the three religions and opposed Buddhism and Taoism. Now Zhang Yuan’s statement is simply four
The religions were unified and the rule of law was emphasized. This was intolerable to Liu Zongzhou, who advocated the exclusive respect of Confucianism. He loudly said: "Zhang Jiezi, I think you have fallen into the fallacies and heresies of Buddhism and Christianity. If you don't rein in,
You must be a sinner of the famous religion." Seeing Zhang Yuan frowning and saying nothing, he added: "Although you have the ambition to help the world and benefit the people, your words and deeds can only go in the opposite direction."
Zhang Yuan knew that he could not persuade the stubborn Liu Zongzhou, so he said slowly: "Mr. Qidong, I don't want to be a Confucian master. What I want to do is to be an able minister in governing the world. Today, disasters are frequent, people's resentments are boiling, the Eastern barbarians are rampant, and frontier affairs are critical. I need to be so pragmatic."
I don’t object to Mr. Qidong’s talk of morality and justice, and I also ask him not to hinder students’ pursuit of knowledge and pragmatism to help the world. This is just like morality cannot replace the law.”
Liu Zongzhou originally planned to persuade Zhang Yuan privately, but he didn't expect that it would be difficult to conspire against each other because of differences. After a few words, the conversation broke down again. He also knew that Zhang Yuan was no longer the young man who consulted him at Dashan Temple that day. He sighed: "Zhang
Jiezi, you are too utilitarian!"
Zhang Yuandao: "My utilitarian interests are not only for my own sake, but also for my family and my country. Students should also boldly say that Mr. Qidong seems to cherish Yu's good name too much -"
Liu Zongzhou said angrily: "How can I gain a good reputation?"
Zhang Yuandao: "To resign from time to time is to keep a clear name for oneself, but to attribute the blame to the monarch. How can we work conscientiously, bear the burden of humiliation, stay in the court and do practical things?"
Zhang Yuan's words were extremely sharp and hit the mark of Liu Zongzhou's excessive cherishment of reputation. The great scholar suddenly changed his color, but finally did not have an attack. He stopped and asked his servant to lead the donkey and ride on it. He said to Zhang Yuan: "Zhang Jiezi, I still
I hope you won’t forget what you said on the Yuewang Bridge back then.”
Zhang Yuan bowed deeply and said: "The learning of sages can help others - students will never dare to look away."
Liu Zongzhou was condescending and stared at Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan's eyes were calm, neither humble nor overbearing. After a while, Liu Zongzhou sighed and said: "See you later." He rode a donkey to the west to join the hall.
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Liu Zongzhou wanted to persuade Zhang Yuan openly, but after Shen Que left the Imperial Academy, he went to Fang Congzhe's residence in Yongfang in Dashi. After Fang Congzhe left the palace, he reported to Fang Congzhe about the debate in the Imperial Academy that day, saying: "——Zhang Yuan Shanneng
Sophistry, coupled with his status as an official in the East Palace, is beyond what we Nanjing officials can contend with. Mr. Ge, how do you think we should deal with it?"
Fang Congzhe raised his eyebrows and asked, "Can Liu Qidong not be able to defend Zhang Yuan?"
Shen Guo said: "Zhang Yuan did not respect Liu Zongzhou as a teacher at all. The debate was merciless at all, and it involved calendars, which Liu Zongzhou was not good at."
Fang Congzhe sneered and said: "If you want to change the calendar, you are just talking nonsense." After pondering for a moment, he said: "The day after tomorrow, I will report to the cabinet, and the seven ministers will go to the Imperial College to listen to the final debate."
Shen Que felt a little guilty. The more officials were watching, wouldn't it be more embarrassing if he couldn't argue with Zhang Yuan? But he heard Fang Congzhe say: "Don't worry, I have my own sense of proportion."
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