The old man stroked his beard and looked at the corn field in the thatched cottage with fascination: "But this corn field is different. There is no one here. There are no mountains, no peaks and rocks, only endless fields of corn fluttering in the wind. They are monotonous and ugly.
, but it means that countless people will be fed by it and will no longer suffer from hunger. Where in the world can there be a more beautiful scene than this? Look at the stretching branches and leaves, the plump ears of corn, it is simply more beautiful than the world.
The most enchanting beauty must be even more beautiful and charming to all living beings!"
Fang Jun looked stunned...
But when he looked at Kong Yingda, he saw Kong Yingda's eyes lovingly looking at the leaves of the corns swaying and swaying in the breeze. It really seemed that what he was looking at was a peerless beauty who would conquer the country...
This is a state.
It is also a kind of feeling, a kind of feeling of compassion for heaven and earth, kindness and kindness to the world.
Fang Jun was in awe, kneeling there, leaning forward slightly, and said in admiration: "Senior, you have an open mind, you hide all the people in your heart, you have benevolence in your organs, you are sincere and kind-hearted, you are truly our generation.
A role model that I admire and respect."
"Hahaha……"
Kong Yingda sat cross-legged and laughed loudly: "These corns, sweet potatoes, and potatoes were all obtained by you who arranged for people to cross the ocean and travel to foreign lands. I was just complaining and expressing my feelings, so you put such a high hat on me. How could it be that you put on such a high hat?"
Isn’t it a disguised boasting of your own achievements? After all, I’m just talking, you have actually done these things. Young man, it’s not a good thing to be too thick-skinned!”
Unexpectedly, this great scholar of the time also had such a playful and playful side. Fang Jun was teased and blushed a little...
"If you are poor, you can do well for yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world. The younger generation thinks about how much they have achieved, so they inevitably want to do more things that are beneficial to the country and the people. Once you go through this life, you always want to leave a name for others.
I don't dare to expect that my name will go down in history and be remembered forever, but I still have to leave some memories for future generations, right? In this way, my life will not be in vain."
Fang Jun is very humble and low-key, and that's what he thinks in his heart.
The soul of a later generation suddenly traveled to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. With talents, knowledge, and vision, he was superior to others. Naturally, he had to try his best to use his abilities and do something beneficial to the country and the people. Only in this way could he not
Negative time travel this time.
Kong Yingda raised his white eyebrows, looked at Fang Jun with an increasingly kind and kind look, and said with approval: "I heard a saying among the dandies in Chang'an before, saying that a person's life is not wasted. When he was about to die and looked back on the past,
If you don’t regret wasting your years, and don’t feel ashamed of doing nothing, then you can live up to your life. Erlang, this state of mind must not only be maintained, but also improved.”
The corner of Fang Jun's mouth twitched, this is already close to being supreme, right?
Where should we improve?
Is it really possible to come up with a sentence for you: "My whole life and all my energy have been dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world - the struggle for the liberation of mankind"?
I'm afraid that I haven't scared you to death, and I will be hacked to death by His Majesty Li Er.
On the shore of the land, are you the king's ministers? Everyone in the world is the emperor's ministers, but you vow to liberate "all mankind". Isn't this a clear plan to overthrow the emperor's rule?
His Majesty Li Er became really angry, and he was always too light on the frying pan...
Fang Jun said humbly: "I am a latecomer in my studies, and my talents are sparse and my studies are shallow. It is a joke to my seniors."
Kong Yingda shook his head and said: "Erlang is extremely talented and amazing. Sooner or later he will surely become a first-rate scholar. Why should he belittle himself?"
Fang Jun just smiled and didn't answer.
Great scholar?
I'm afraid I can't...
We studied mathematics, physics and chemistry in elementary school, and agriculture in college. It was only after time travel that we came into contact with Confucianism in a real sense. We have read a lot of various works and have some understanding of it, but we only regard Confucianism as a philosophy.
Self-study in class has never been regarded as the main means to save the world and create a prosperous age.
It is true that Confucianism is compatible with hundreds of schools of thought, and it has become the root of Chinese culture today. However, in the final analysis, it is just a philosophy, and governing the country relies more on natural science. "Half of the Analects rules the world."
The fallacy is simply ridiculous.
Being able to be a good person is the basic quality of an official.
But being able to be a human being definitely does not mean being able to do things. Even if a person studies Confucianism thoroughly, it is impossible to measure the repair of river embankments, the smelting of steel, the preparation of gunpowder, the forging of guns...
Confucianism is the root, the marrow, and the symbol of supremacy. This is no problem. It can educate and restrain the behavior of the world from a moral level.
But in order to become the dominant one, Confucianism continues to suppress other schools of thought, not to mention, and even targets natural sciences such as arithmetic and inquiry. This is a bit retrograde.
When it comes to talking about principles, one can talk endlessly about citing scriptures and allusions, but when it comes to doing practical things, it is useless to focus on the superior and the inferior, and spend all the time forming cliques and excluding dissidents. The final outcome is that the innate wisdom of the Chinese nation is tightly bound and transformed.
Become stupid rotten wood.
When the alien bandits break through the border and invade the Central Plains, will they use "mouth cannons" to repel the enemy?
Confucianism is great, but it is precisely because it is too great that it has hindered the progress of the entire Chinese nation, causing it to become self-contained and find it difficult to look up at itself and the world.
Fang Jun's dream is definitely not to be a great Confucian who is famous all over the world with his scriptures. Relatively speaking, he would rather be a craftsman...
Seeing Fang Jun smiling and saying nothing, Kong Yingda said no more.
He was familiar with Fang Jun, so he naturally knew about Fang Jun's ambitions, so he didn't say much to avoid embarrassing himself. Facts have also proved that although Fang Jun's path of "investigating things to gain knowledge" runs counter to Confucianism, his achievements are obvious.
I have to admit that that is a point that Confucianism can never reach.
Confucianism cannot build a curved plow, glass cannot be made by Confucianism, bamboo paper cannot be made by Confucianism, fine steel cannot be made by Confucianism, gunpowder cannot be made by Confucianism, a warship that can travel thousands of miles a day cannot be built by Confucianism, and men and horses equipped with invincible equipment can't be built by Confucianism.
The Confucians could not create iron cavalry, the Confucians could not create movable type printing, and even the two books "Mathematics" and "Physics" that have been popularized all over the world, the Confucians could not write...
Fortunately, this is an era of tolerance.
Confucianism has mastered the right to speak and has become a unique school in the world. Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism has not yet emerged. The strategy pursued by Confucianism is to tolerate everything and devour everything. It suppresses all schools first, and then gradually cannibalizes, absorbs, and uses them for its own purposes, gradually becoming the dominant one.
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They allow arithmetic, research, and even doctors, military strategists, etc. to exist, but the prerequisite is that they must be under the control of Confucianism, and they must wear a Confucian coat...
After the rise of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, Confucianism completely changed. They excluded dissidents. All doctrines other than Confucian classics were "heresies", and they must concentrate their firepower to completely destroy them. Those who obey me will prosper.
If I die, I will be the only one in all directions!
Then, they unified the world, and then they started fighting among themselves...
The original meaning of Confucianism has long been changed beyond recognition. Its origin is Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. The doctrine of "restraining human desires and preserving natural principles" was denounced by the world when Zhu Xi was alive and was not included in the mainstream. As a result, after Zhu Xi's death, in the Ming and Qing dynasties,
This absolutism of "preserving natural principles and destroying human desires" prevailed all over the world and became a weapon used by rulers to suppress the people, killing all progressive theories.
Everything is done because of desire. If there is no desire, there is no action. If there is desire, there will be action, and if there is action, it will end. This cannot be easily said to be rational. If there is no desire and no action, how can there be reason?
However, the ruler liked this, so all the Confucian scholars flocked to it...
In the first year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Wo Ren, a follower of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, moved several times in a short period of time. In just eight months, he was promoted to minister of the Ministry of Industry, teacher to Emperor Tongzhi, bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, co-organizer of the bachelor's degree, and bachelor's degree.
At the same time, Li Tangjie and Wu Tingdong were also summoned to the capital and promoted many times. Several other masters of Emperor Tongzhi, such as Li Hongzao, Xu Tong, Weng Tonghe and Cheng Zhuxue.
The famous Confucian scholars in Neo-Confucianism were promoted to powerful positions at the same time, which was considered by later generations to be the beginning of the complete collapse of the political system of the Qing Dynasty.
Of course, this view is a bit far-fetched, because even if Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism did not occupy the court in the late Qing Dynasty and became popular in the world, the overall backwardness of science and technology, and the political system had already doomed the Qing Dynasty. The strong ships and cannons of the West did not care whether you existed or not.
The laws of nature, the destruction of human desires, and all corruption and ignorance will be shattered under the smoke of artillery.
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Fortunately, Kong Yingda didn't know this. The Confucianism he believed in was true Confucianism, which was inclusive and forged ahead.
Therefore, I don’t have much resistance to Fang Jun’s wishes. I just think that everyone has his own ambitions. Perhaps Fang Jun can find a new path that has never been walked by ancient sages, become famous throughout history, and achieve something unprecedented and golden.