"The more you practice, the more you know; the more you know, the more you practice!"
Cai was not present at the scene. It was the first time that the emperor and ministers heard Zhang Yue's words and fell into deep thought.
"I can use the metaphor of a stone in a barrel, and I have gained something," the official said.
Han Jiang said: "Your Majesty, I think Zhang Yue's words are the way to enlighten the body and achieve practical use."
"Yes, understanding the body and realizing the application is the first skill of Confucianism, which is what Mr. Anding talked about." The official smiled and nodded.
Mr. Anding is Hu Yuan. How to understand the body? How to apply it? How to understand the body and use it clearly? This is the biggest proposition of Song Dynasty philosophy, and it is also the first concern of scholars.
Mingtidayong means epistemology and methodology.
To put it bluntly, it means knowing and doing it.
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, the integration of body and function means the unity of knowledge and action."
Zhang Yue thought of the later Wang Yangming's "unity of knowledge and action", which was also the most profound knowledge he founded in the philosophy of mind.
In fact, "the unity of knowledge and action" is not as good as "the power of action leads to deeper knowledge, and the deeper the knowledge, the more effective action".
The more powerful the practice, the deeper the understanding; the deeper the understanding, the more forward the practice can be.
Next, the minister made another speech based on Zhang Yue's words. Everyone said something to me.
The official smiled and said: "I just understood it, but when I heard what the ministers said, I was confused for a while, so I asked Mr. Zhang to explain it."
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yue stopped talking at this moment, and just smiled and said: "Your Majesty has the ambition to forge ahead, this is the prosperity of the imperial court!"
After Zhang Yue finished speaking, he stepped aside. When the officials saw that Zhang Yue was unwilling to continue speaking, they were immediately puzzled.
The discussion in the palace immediately dispersed.
After the official returned to the palace, he was very puzzled and happened to go to visit Empress Dowager Cao.
The official servant Empress Dowager Cao was extremely filial, even more so than her biological mother, Empress Dowager Gao.
After Queen Mother Cao drank the medicine, she listened carefully to the official's detailed explanation of what happened in the palace today. After hearing what Zhang Yue said, "Knowing will advance with the power of action, and action will progress with the depth of knowledge." Queen Mother Cao smiled and said:
"Guardian, Mr. Zhang is not telling you about the war against Xia, but about the great sutras and laws for governing the world. Please listen carefully."
The official took the medicine bowl from Queen Mother Cao's hand and said, "My grandson knows it, but he is stupid and still doesn't understand its meaning. When he asked me about it in the palace, Zhang Qing didn't answer. I don't know what it means?"
"I wonder if grandma understands?"
Queen Mother Cao thought for a moment and said, "I understand."
“Ask your grandma to teach your grandson!”
Empress Dowager Cao smiled slightly and said: "At that time, Emperor Renzong was ashamed of losing to Li Yuanhao, so he treated Fan Wenzheng courteously and repeatedly urged him to write down how to reform the world."
"At that time, Emperor Renzong was no less eager to seek governance than His Majesty is today. He ordered Fan Wenzheng to report the urgent matters of the day. Fan Wenzheng had never received an edict, and every word he said was important and should not be ignored."
"So Emperor Renzong sent the imperial edict, and sent his ministers to the Political Affairs Hall to supervise the collection, and opened the Longtu Pavilion to give the papers and order them to be written one by one, and there were countless people who would interrogate them every day."
"Fan Wenzheng then stepped back and said to the left and right, "My Lord is so eager to seek governance, how can I spare time to wait for it? Only by reading the "Answers to the Imperial Edict and Chen Ten Matters" can Qingli know the government."
"Guan, do you understand?"
When the official heard this, he suddenly realized, and immediately said: "What's the matter? My grandson is so sincere to Zhang Yue. He understood his grandson's thoughts long ago, so why bother?"
Empress Dowager Cao said: "Don't officials understand that doctors don't knock on the door, teachers don't follow the way, Tao is not taught lightly, and Dharma is not taught in vain?"
"Back then, the officials asked Wang Anshi to write the "Notes on Nothing Happened in This Dynasty for a Hundred Years". How could he be so stingy towards Xianggong Zhang now?"
When the official heard this, he said, "My grandson understands."
After the official family left Queen Mother Cao, they headed to Tianzhang Pavilion.
The servants in the pavilion were all shocked when they saw the officials suddenly arriving at Tianzhang Pavilion.
It has been a long time since the officials came to Tianzhang Pavilion. At the beginning of the Xining Reform, the officials met with the ministers here and discussed military and state affairs.
However, after Wang Anshi resigned as prime minister for the first time, the officials wanted to maintain the emperor's majesty, so they ordered the Tianzhang Pavilion to be closed, and they rarely discussed it with ministers.
Tianzhang Pavilion enshrines the imperial pen of Emperor Zhenzong, as well as the imperial portraits of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong. In addition, there are countless books.
