Chapter 2017, let's make trouble, let's make trouble
In the Jinluan Hall of the Ming Dynasty Palace, Emperor Hongzhi and his ministers were attending the morning court.
"Your Majesty, the content taught in Xinxue School is mostly heretical, strange and cunning techniques, strong branches and weak trunks, which is not the way to long-term prosperity. I sincerely request your Majesty to issue an order requiring that the courses taught by Xinxue need to include a large number of Confucian classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics.
, and carry out strict assessment.”
After Liu Jin and Wang Shouren left, the old school rebelled, and the attack on the new learning in the court became more violent.
A few days ago, there was talk of turning some of the new schools into academies and private schools in order to expand the Confucian community and allow more people to read the books of sages and become Confucian disciples.
Today, people are clamoring here again for changes to the new teaching curriculum and content, requiring more content from Confucian classics, and strict examinations.
This made it clear that they would dismantle the new school and make it a vassal and subordinate of the traditional old school. In fact, they had already disliked the growth of the new school and wanted to slap the new school to death.
However, the current student body of Xinxue is really too large. Millions of students enroll in Xinxue every year. The total number of students at all stages of Xinxue is more than 10 million, and the number has increased over the past 20 years.
Since then, nearly 20 million new students have graduated.
Such a huge number of people and groups far exceed the number of people in the old school.
Although the people of the New School are basically ordinary people in society, there are very few who are officials, and even if they are, they are small officials and minor officials, and they seem to be less influential than the people of the Old School.
However, for such a large group, their influence cannot be underestimated. They are the pillars of the middle class in Ming Dynasty society.
They can be found in many fields such as industry, agriculture, commerce, maritime trade, commercial firms, and the military in the Ming Dynasty. They are the real middle class of the Ming Dynasty.
And unlike ordinary people who were illiterate and knew nothing in the past, these people are all Ming people of the new era who are knowledgeable, cultured, skilled, and good at thinking.
They grew up reading newspapers and reading the New School. Maybe they are not as good as the traditional old school scholars in terms of the Four Books, Five Classics, poems and poems, but in other aspects they have to crush the traditional scholars. They have a wider range of knowledge.
Your horizons are broader and you are often more knowledgeable.
If they really slap the new school to death, it is estimated that huge turmoil will break out in the entire Ming Dynasty. At that time, with their strong power, it is hard to say that they will slap the old school to death in a matter of minutes.
The only advantage of the old school now is that it controls the court and has the right to speak, so it must gradually and step by step penetrate the influence of Confucianism into the new school, and in the process, it must maintain the old school
In his current position, he continues to monopolize official career.
Requiring Xinxue to add content to the Four Books and Five Classics is only the first step. In the future, it would be best to make Xinxue similar to the imperial examination and use the eight-legged essay to control and constrain Xinxue.
"Your Majesty, I also support Zhang Hanlin."
"Although the new learning has many merits, it still has shortcomings in terms of loyalty to the king, ethical principles, and the way to govern the country and secure the country. Education and learning in this area should be strengthened. Our Confucian doctrine is the basis for governing the country and ensuring peace of the country for all generations.
Tao is the orthodox doctrine, which has been the foundation of the country in all dynasties."
"The new school has a large scale and a large number of students. It should strengthen the teaching of orthodox doctrines so that more students can serve the king with knowledge and know the principles of father and son, king and ministers."
Another minister stood up to criticize the new learning.
People of the old school have always claimed to be orthodox. All dynasties have used Confucianism to govern the country, and Confucianism has been the foundation of the country. However, they do not like the new school.
It is also divided into various courses, specializing in learning some heresies and the like. They are simply heresies and strange techniques, and there is no theory on governing the country and ensuring peace.
Emperor Hongzhi sat expressionless on the dragon throne, already having his own judgments and thoughts in his heart.
How good your new study is is for everyone to see.
The rapid development of Ming Dynasty over the years is inseparable from new learning.
The old learning may be, as you say, the way to govern the country and secure the country. It has been orthodox in all dynasties. However, dynasties are constantly changing. There is no dynasty for a thousand years, but there is Confucianism for a thousand years.
All dynasties have attached great importance to Confucianism, but it has not always experienced decline.
The same was true for the Ming Dynasty. In the original Ming Dynasty, there were internal and external troubles, and the people were suffering and poor. If there was even a slight famine, the land would be filled with hungry people, and wars would break out everywhere.
If the new learning led by Liu Jin had not continued to work hard, improving Ming's productivity, strengthening Ming's army, and continuously expanding to acquire more land, resources and wealth to counter Ming, would Ming be where it is today?
The imperial court does not need so many people to serve as officials and ministers. Now the distinction between the old and the new is already very good. The old study is for becoming an official, and the new study is for having a good job and being able to study various existing natural phenomena.
Regularity, improve productivity and work efficiency.
Do we have to be willing to die one by one?
If it really reaches that point, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably be turbulent, and Confucianism may not really be able to defeat the New Learning by then, because the New Learning has become powerful and involves all aspects.
One minister after another stood up, constantly criticizing the new learning, pointing out the new learning, demanding that the new learning must be changed, etc.
However, these ministers were all censors, Hanlin officials, etc. None of the elders such as Yang Yiqing, Yang Tinghe, Jiang Mian, Mao Ji, and Liang Chu spoke.
In fact, they are also very clear-minded in their hearts.
Although the dispute between the old and the new is of great importance, it is not completely incompatible. In fact, these conservative officials above the court are more thinking about using such means to attack the officials who are practical, and at the same time, they are behind each other.
group interest services.
In addition to mastering the general affairs, these officials of the practical group often also have huge interest groups behind them.
For example, Liu Jin himself was the largest capitalist and colonist in the Ming Dynasty. He owned a large number of industries, and he owned countless factories, trading houses, colonies, etc.
In addition, the British Duke, Ding Guogong, Cheng Guogong, etc. are also the great capitalists and colonists of the Ming Dynasty. They all have extremely huge industries. Their industries are spread across all walks of life and fields in the Ming Dynasty, and they are the leaders.
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In itself, because we followed Liu Jin, we started early and developed quickly. We were the first to enjoy the dividends of capitalism and colonialism, and now we are enjoying the dividends of the Industrial Revolution.
It can be said that people of the practical side currently occupy the largest interest groups in Ming Dynasty and own the largest industry.
As for the old-school officials and the groups behind them, because they started late, they initially clung to the one-third of an acre of land at home, and they still wanted to rely on the old method of farming, studying and passing down the family.
However, under the rolling tide of the times, they were completely affected. Food prices plummeted, land prices plummeted, and a large number of poor farmers immigrated overseas and outside the country.
This had a huge impact on the traditional gentry class and seriously affected their inheritance and life.
By the time they have recovered and want to change, they have already fallen behind others in their development, and it will be very difficult to catch up.
But the traditional gentry class, they are the best at using power to serve themselves. Now that they have finally turned over and have the right to speak, they naturally want to take this opportunity to suppress the new learning and compete for more benefits.
At the end of the day, fighting over each other is not about profit.
The reason why many ministers became officials of the practical side is not because they also tasted the dividends of the times following Liu Jin, and naturally they also wanted to maintain everything now.
Above the court, old-school officials were criticizing the new learning.
Outside the government and the public, students of the old school, such as academies and private schools, were also inspired and encouraged, and they went to the new school in groups to cause trouble.
Institutions of higher learning representing the new school, such as Imperial College London, Imperial University, and Beijing Institute of Mechanical Technology, have naturally become the targets of attacks and troubles by students of the old school.
All of a sudden, at the gates of each school, students from both new and old schools were noisy.
"Your new learning is all about heresy and ingenious sexual skills. Look at the couplet I gave you: New learning, new learning. It is euphemistically called learning, but in reality it is men who steal and female prostitutes. It is all about heresy and ingenious sexual skills. It is a ragtag group of people who cannot reach the level of elegance!"
"If any of you new students can figure it out, we will leave immediately and never come to your Imperial College again."
At the gate of Imperial College, a group of students from the old school blocked the road directly at the school gate with a pair of couplets in the first couplet, and taunted the angry new students.
A simple couplet directly satirizes the fact that men and women are taught together in the New School without distinction. This seriously violates the Ming Dynasty's traditional ideological concept of male and female defense.
He also satirizes the newly learned things, which are miscellaneous and include everything. The key is that after learning, he will not be able to take the imperial examination and become an official, and he will always be a rabble at the bottom.
Killing people and killing people is nothing more than that.
The result is that it attracts fists and kicks from the new students. The new students will definitely not be able to beat these old students when it comes to playing pairs or word games.
But as the saying goes, if you can speak with your fists, don't use your mouth. A group of fists and feet were waiting for them, and they immediately beat these students of the old school with bruises and swollen faces, and they quickly ran away one by one.
However, today I was beaten, and tomorrow students from the old school came to make trouble again. This time the number was even larger. It seemed that they wanted to get back the place they had yesterday, and they also had to make a difference with the new school.
It's just that the number of students in the old school is far less than the number of students in the new school. If you come more people come, and there are even more people in the new school. The beating was completed yesterday, and the beating was continued today. It was another repair, and many people were beaten again.
The students had bruises on their noses and swollen faces.
He speaks but does not use his hands, is degrading to politeness, is barbaric and rude, does not understand education and etiquette, etc.
