Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 162
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned in triumph, and the city of Guangzhou was filled with joy and festive lights.However, the prince himself was very low-key about this victory. He did not accept the celebration proposed by people from all walks of life in Guangzhou, but silently sent the heads of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao to the monument in Honghuagang.

According to folk rumors, the prince got up early the next day and went to work in the government office, as if the victory had never happened.Guangzhou Mansion has become more and more prosperous in the past six months, and the locals have become very accustomed to talking about some extraordinarily novel things. Recently, everyone is praising the crown prince for his farming methods, and the grain output has increased dramatically.It even forced the government to take the initiative to put up notices and print newspapers explaining the issue of "scientific farming".

People who can read and write are very used to buying newspapers to read. There are already many newsstands on the street, as well as newsboys selling newspapers and periodicals along the street. Different newspapers have different prices. The wealthy can basically afford it.

National events, market anecdotes, and new scientific knowledge can all be seen in newspapers. The Chinese people’s thirst for knowledge has been strong since ancient times. Originally, there were also mansion newspapers, but mansion newspapers all recorded the emperor’s decree, which was too ungrounded. angry.The new newspapers represented by "Da Ming Daily" gradually entered people's lives.

Of course, for the vast number of scholars, compared with the more popular Daming Daily, what really caught their attention was the volume of "National Voice".Guosheng is a weekly magazine that goes on sale every Friday.The reason why this publication is so influential is that what is written on it is all today's "distinguished learning".

Scholars already know that the prince now has a teacher named Ma En.This teacher has no official position, but he has great influence on the prince, and this person is giving lectures in a humble hall in Guangzhou.Ma En publishes his theories on Guosheng every week. In just a few months, Ma En has already earned the title of a great contemporary Confucian.

His theory was born out of classical Confucianism, and even had the origin of Taoism, but any traveler holding his book can clearly point it out—this is clearly materialist philosophy, dialectics, historical materialism, and scientific socialism. !
Even when Bai Mingxiu read every issue of Guosheng, he couldn't help expressing emotion: "Ma En is really a man of God."

He quoted classics, and many things came from the Four Books and Five Classics, but miraculously, the conclusions all led to new theories.From "Book of Rites·University", he extended his interpretation of "finding knowledge through things", and then introduced the materialism that puts matter first and spirit second; From "Song of the Five Sons" in "Shangshu·Song of the Five Sons", "The people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid and the state is peaceful", which made him Only by developing to represent the interests of the majority of the people can the country be stabilized; from the "Book of Rites: Li Yun", "the journey of the great way, the world is for the public", was directly expanded by him along the class theory into a communist Datong society, This is what the utopia that the so-called sages wanted to build was supposed to look like.

In terms of the depth and breadth of this set of thoughts, it is basically unmatched by any thinker and great Confucianist of this era.There is no doubt that this set of theories is based on drawing on the experience of human historical development, so as to summarize the operating laws of human society extremely profoundly.Taking shelter under Confucianism is actually just to make it easier for people in this era to accept.But the impact of these things on intellectuals is undoubtedly huge.

At the same time, people in the world are all snobbish, and the current prince believes in what Ma En said, so this is a great learning.Anyone can see that what is said in the Imperial College is guided by the theory of Marx and Engels. This is the "new stereotyped writing"!So scholars can not read the Four Books and Five Classics, but it is absolutely impossible not to buy the national voice and learn from Ma Zhe.

The most frightening thing is that after the scholars accepted this theory, many of them felt refreshed and enlightened.The "new learning" in the cloak of Confucianism has already added a set of legal rationality to itself.Even though many of Marx and Engel's theories are madly criticizing Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and even thoroughly criticizing some idealistic views of Yangming's School of Mind, scholars still admit that this is Confucianism.

After all, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were many scholars who criticized Neo-Confucianism and developed Confucianism. Wang Shouren’s Mind Science was critical of Neo-Confucianism, Li Zhi also criticized Neo-Confucianism, and the three contemporary Confucianists also criticized it.From a certain point of view, some of Ma Eng's theories also cite the views of the three Confucians, and most people classify Ma En as one of the three Confucianists.

On Bai Mingxiu's desk, there are several new issues of Guosheng published recently. In the beginning, Guosheng Weekly was basically Ma En's own stage. Occasionally, Bai Mingxiu also wrote articles to increase his popularity.But since recently, more and more academics have begun to participate in it.

Some people here write about their reflections after studying Teacher Ma's theory, and there are many flattering works. Some are profound and even put forward many good opinions.Others refuted Teacher Ma's various theories. After all, the influence of the Luwang School was still huge in the late Ming Dynasty.

Bai Mingxiu pawed at the magazine, a little disgusted that the articles written by many scholars were difficult and obscure. They didn't have much content, but instead they wrote indiscriminately. The editor-in-chief should be asked to withdraw these messy articles, and also, writing in vernacular should be encouraged.”

He flipped through and came across an article, then his eyes widened.

"Wang Fuzhi? What the hell is "Moving and Forming, Stillness—On the Absoluteness and Relativity of Things"?"

His prime minister, Tang Beilu, said with great interest: "This Wang Daru came to Guangdong from Hunan two months ago after His Royal Highness was appointed as a teacher. Now many survivors of the Ming Dynasty are gathering in Guangdong, and it seems to be a common practice for scholars to travel south. I heard that after Wang Daru arrived in Guangzhou, he listened to a lecture given by Mr. Ma in the hall, and took it as his confidant, but Mr. Ma didn’t like to entertain guests. Later, Wang Daru stayed in Guangdong and devoted himself to studying. Recently, I also like to publish articles in magazines. The content is often based on my own theory and Teacher Ma's theory to confirm each other. After pointing it through, it becomes more and more radiant.”

Bai Mingxiu never expected that Wang Fuzhi would actually come to Guangdong, and even take the initiative to participate in the tide of "people's heart reform" initiated by Bai Mingxiu.In fact, this is also in line with Bai Mingxiu's expectations. He relies on the high status of Teacher Ma in the world, so that more people can read and study his theories.Now even the world's great Confucian Wang Fuzhi went off in person and began to help Teacher Ma stand on the platform, Bai Mingxiu couldn't help smiling.

(End of this chapter)