Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 773 Confucian Orthodoxy
Using the old man's name to recruit talents is nothing more than to use the old man's "Five Classics of Justice", which is tolerable or unbearable. Old Kong is so angry that his beard is cocked and he wants to kill someone!
This "Five Classics of Justice" Kong Yingda devoted all his life to compiling this book successfully in this life, so that his name will be passed down to future generations, and he will become famous and be admired by the Confucian children of later generations.But Fang Jun’s actions will inevitably gather scholars from all over the world. At that time, this book will become a major event of Confucianism and the crystallization of collective wisdom. What does it have to do with Lao Tzu?

But these words are a bit speechless. Could it be that I compiled this book to make my name known to future generations? As for the "compatibility with Baishi, integration of North and South" is simply a gimmick?
Kong Yingda does have the idea of ​​borrowing books to become famous, but of course he is not completely philistine!Now being meddled by Fang Jun, the old man found himself speechless!
This anger!

Seeing that Kong Yingda was so angry that he was about to have high blood pressure, Fang Jun quickly explained: "The scale of this book is huge, and it cannot be undertaken by one person alone. If we can preserve the achievements of Confucian classics since the Western Han Dynasty, so that the teachings of the former teacher will not be wiped out, Wouldn’t it be a great virtue of Confucianism for scholars of later generations to gain admiration? As the editor-in-chief, wouldn’t you be a sage and sage who is highly respected by future generations? And the more people participate, the greater the influence of this book will be. Maybe the "Five Classics of Justice" can be promulgated by the imperial court as the standard interpretation of Confucian classics. If this is the case, it will be an unprecedented evolution process from dispute to unity in the history of Confucian classics. At that time, you will be a Confucian classic. and the great scribe of unification.”

Kong Yingda thought carefully, and felt that Fang Jun's words were not completely unreasonable.

There have been many schools of Confucianism since the Western Han Dynasty, with different teachers.

At that time, "Poetry" was divided into Qi, Lu, and Han families, "Book" was divided into Ouyang, Xiahou, and Xiahou, and "Li" included "Yili" and "Book of Rites". Meng, Liangqiu, and Jing, "Spring and Autumn" not only divides Gong and Gu into two biographies, but Gongyang also has the study of Yan and Yan.

In the history of Confucian classics, these differences are called "teaching methods".

Later, under the banner of imitating the law, the scripture masters gave birth to different theories, so they separated the "family law", and then separated the theories of various experts from the family law.Just like the branches of the tree trunk, the branches are branched again, the branches and leaves are luxuriant, and the roots are gradually lost, and the meaning of the scriptures is difficult to understand.Therefore, there is a saying that "learning is futile and less meritorious, and later students are suspicious and sigh."

Later, the ancient prose prospered, and the entanglement regenerated.

"Poetry" has Mao Zhuan and Qilu Han contending for supremacy, "Yi" has Gao Fei and Shi Meng contending for victory, "Spring and Autumn" has Zuo Zhuan's sudden emergence, "Li" has "Zhou Li" and the division of high and low, and "Book" has ancient texts in the wall Sixteen articles...

The writing is modern and ancient, teachers say different things, and all kinds of differences have disturbed the Confucian classics forum.

Prior to this, there were three major discussions among the entire academic community.

One is that Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty had the Shiqu Pavilion meeting, the other was that Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty had a discussion on the concept of the white tiger, and the third was that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty Zheng Xuan did not teach family law, but wrote all kinds of scriptures.

The meeting at Shiqu Pavilion focused on discussing the issue of the complexity of the internal teachers' theories of the modern classics. The results of the discussion not only failed to unify the differences between teachers and teachers, but also increased the number of doctors, which intensified the emergence of internal dissent in the Confucian classics; Disagreement, the result is "Baihu Tongyi", which uses Dong Zhongshu's induction between heaven and man and superstition of Chenwei in the Western Han Dynasty to unify ideology. It has nothing to correct the excellent content of the ancient scriptures, and has not achieved the goal of academic unification.

This kind of situation was tolerable when the regime was separated, but after the unification of the world, especially since the Sui Dynasty established the study of the prefectures and states to support scholars, opened the Mingjing, and Jinshi to obtain talents, there is no unified interpretation of the classics as a teaching material And test standards, will inevitably bring a lot of trouble to education and election work.

Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty ordered the examination of Guozijian students to select the best candidates. However, "Since Zhengshuo has been around for 300 years, the teacher training has given nothing to correct." The answers could not be agreed, and the doctors could not judge the examination papers...

This is awkward.

With the rise of the imperial examinations in this dynasty, many Confucian students got the opportunity to be promoted, but because the answers to Confucian classics were not uniform, it brought great difficulty to the examinations of classics. Therefore, when Fang Jun led the reform of the imperial examinations, many Instead of deleting the examination questions on Confucian classics, a large number of examination questions on Chinese studies and mathematics were added.If Confucian classics can have a unified answer, how can it be reduced to such a situation?
Well, no matter Fang Jun's original intention is to suppress Confucian classics or something, anyway, that's what Confucian children think...

As a leader of Confucianism, Kong Yingda's original intention of compiling "Five Classics of Justice" originated from this.

Fang Jun has no objection to this.

Confucianism may not be as unbearable as some extremists in later generations said. They even think that it is the chief culprit that caused the Chinese nation to lag behind the world.

Since the Han Dynasty, Confucianism is the only orthodoxy fully supported by the ruling class. Why did the technology of the Sui Dynasty not lag behind? Why did the technology of the Tang Dynasty not lag behind?Why did the technological level of the Song Dynasty dominate the world?Why did the early Ming Dynasty still lead the world?
In the final analysis, everything is caused by the system, and has no real relationship with what theory one believes in.

Confucianism is nothing more than a philosophy, it talks about self-cultivation, the imperial examinations before the mid-Song Dynasty were mostly policy theory, and few of the classics were tested, but in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the classics and classics were raised to infinite heights, but why Going to pursue "Half the Analects of Confucius governing the world", if you don't perish, who will perish?

Moreover, the theme of Confucian Confucian classics in the early stage was positive and healthy, but in the late Song Dynasty, Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism made it go to the extreme, and the stereotyped essays of the Ming and Qing dynasties were the chief culprit of confinement!
Confucian classics are extremely effective for a person's self-cultivation and moral cultivation, so Fang Jun has absolutely no aversion to Confucianism.

Seeing that Kong Yingda's anger was gradually calming down, Fang Jun struck while the iron was hot and said, "You are the editor-in-chief and can lead everything. You are the soul of this "Five Classics of Justice"! You are the revivalist of Confucianism! You are the most holy teacher for the children of Confucianism in later generations! "

The name "Supreme Sacred Teacher" was probably bestowed on the descendants of Confucius in the Song Dynasty. Now that Fang Jun is generous to others, it is not too much to give it to Kong Yingda in advance. Anyway, they are all from the Kong family...

Kong Yingda was moved this time.

The position of "editor-in-chief" mentioned by Fang Jun is indeed the core of this book.

In the process of compiling commentaries, the formulation of meanings and examples and the examination of right and wrong are all determined by Kong Yingda.As the editor-in-chief, Kong Yingda has the right to choose an excellent annotation as the standard annotation among the many chapters and sentences of the scriptures, and then explain the annotations of the scriptures in detail.

Kong Yingda is also a layman, who has the pursuit of fame and fortune, and can not only reflect his own value, but also gather outstanding Confucian scholars from all over the world to compile this book, as a classic of Confucianism handed down from generation to generation, why not do it?

However, Kong Yingda was naturally calm after going through the world, and still agreed with Fang Jun's proposal in his heart, but his face still had an expression of "I'm very upset, you owe me money", and said lightly: "It is really possible to centralize the world. How many copies can be published of the books compiled by the children of Confucianism? Even if it is published, how many poor Confucian children can afford such a book?"

Fang Jun almost raised a middle finger at the old man!
Our Fang Er has always been a person who takes people out of the house, but today he is going to be robbed by an old man like you?
But Kong Yingda's name is really useful. Today's cultural people are basically the children of Confucianism. With him as a great god in charge, why are all the heroes in the world competing to vote?

If you want to take it, you must first give it...

Fang Jun gritted his teeth, and said like bloodletting: "Knowledge is the essence that distinguishes our generation from beasts. It is our responsibility to promote knowledge and spread knowledge. Therefore, the younger generation will set up a bookstore in the near future to publish the upcoming "Agriculture" "Book". When the senior's book is successfully compiled, the junior will print [-] copies, and the price of each copy will definitely not exceed [-] yuan, what does the senior think?"

Kong Yingda suddenly smiled: "Fang Erlang is indeed a generous person. The more good things like this kind of spreading knowledge, the better. I will sell this old man's name to you, and you can do whatever you want. In addition, this old man will write books for some old men." Friends, invite them to come to Huating Town, maybe you can teach a thing or two in the school in your spare time."

Old Kong heard that Fang Jun would publish 20 copies of "Five Classics of Justice", and the price was only [-] taels, but he was very happy.In this way, more poor students will be able to receive the most orthodox Confucian education.

I just don't know what kind of mood Lao Kong will have when he knows that Fang Jun is planning to distribute "Nongshu" to the whole country for free in the name of Princess Jinyang...

(End of this chapter)