My Daming New Empire

Now seems to be the time for a change.

This time, under the threat of Zhu Zhanji, the Confucian family relied on Confucianism and produced the article "The State and the Nation".

Although this book is quite a sensation in Daming and has received a lot of praise.

But everyone in the Confucian family knows better than anyone else that Confucianism is already facing the most important fork.

This book completely transformed the previous Confucian family world into a country world, and put the country and the nation above all powers.

In the past, the imperial court did not have so many frameworks. Confucianism can whitewash what is a country, what is a nation, what is surrender, and what is a traitor.

But now that the framework has been established, Zhu Zhanji is determined to engrave this idea in everyone's heart.

At this time, if Confucianism does not change accordingly, it will become backward.

After being saints, everyone in the Confucian family has enjoyed the glory of their ancestors since they were born, and at the same time maintained the status of Confucianism.

This is their fate!

After Kong Yanjin and others came to the capital, they saw that Zhu Zhanji even spent huge sums of money to publish newspapers in order to promote this idea.

Although Zhu Zhanji's main purpose is not this, but in their view, that's it.

So they need to keep up with Zhu Zhanji's footsteps and never fall behind.

It was hard to get back the lost Duke of Yansheng, and they didn't want to lose it again.

How should Confucianism change?This is the question that perplexes each of them.

Unlike Zhu Zhanji, they have a vision beyond history. For them, history is the present and the future.

But all of them knew that most of Zhu Cheng's philosophy of Neo-Confucianism no longer conformed to the current situation.

Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism is basically a new Confucianism founded by Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, Shao Yong, and Er Cheng, and inherited from the Xinxing Confucianism of Zisi and Mencius.Mr. Cheng Yichuan paid more attention to the Neo-Confucianism, and Zhu Xi creatively developed Mr. Yichuan's Neo-Confucianism, and finally formed the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism system.

The principles of heaven in Neo-Confucianism are moral theology, and at the same time become the basis for the legitimacy of Confucian theocracy and kingship.

The fundamental feature of Neo-Confucianism is to construct a more complete conceptualized and systematic philosophy and belief system from Confucian society, nationality, ethics, and personal life beliefs, and to make it logical, mindful, abstract, and truthful.

This makes Neo Confucianism have a strong sense of autonomy, forming a political concept that reason is higher than power, and morality is higher than governance.

In terms of restraining monarchy, Neo Confucianism provided theoretical support for popularization and civil participation in state affairs during the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

Why is there no Song Dynasty?Is it because in the Song Dynasty, literati and bureaucrats ruled the world, and Neo Confucianism did not work at all.

Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism did not have much superior status in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was designated as an official school by the rulers, and it began to flourish since then.

During the rule of the Mongols, they needed a theory to justify their rule.Neo Confucianism's political philosophy that reason is higher than power, and orthodoxy is higher than rule, can be changed to lay a theoretical basis for their alien rule.

This issue may seem unimportant in later generations, but in this era, if there is no orthodoxy, the name is not justified.

It is also for this reason that Meng Yuan paid so much attention to the Yan Shenggong family.

But now, Zhu Zhanji attaches great importance to governance and ignores orthodoxy.

However, in the past dynasties, there is no other dynasty that has the integrity of the Ming Dynasty.Zhu Zhanji doesn't need to argue at all, nor can he discredit him.

At this time, Confucianism must change, not only in terms of form, but also to correct the neglect of the study of things, and in terms of orthodoxy, it must also rebalance the name and status.

Therefore, although they don't know how to change Zhu Zhanji to be satisfied, they also have a basic direction.

They still dare not change. If they don't change, they will fall behind, and if they don't change, they will be eliminated.

It is already well known that Yiqingzi has summoned Taoist sects all over the world to create a Tianli religion in Taoism. Just from this point alone, it is enough to make Confucianism flustered.

Taoism and Confucianism are similar in many ways. The biggest difference between the two is that one is more inclined to be out of the world, and the other is more inclined to enter into the world.

Judging from today's mainstream thinking, Taoism is biased towards the study of the mind, vain in the study of the obvious, but Confucianism is based on the study of the mind, and grasps the study of the obvious.

However, today's Taoists rely on alchemy, and they have developed a knowledge.

Many people still don't understand what chemistry is, let alone understand it.But the dyes and explosives produced are real.

This chemistry is a real science, just like Gewu, it can be seen and touched by people.

If Taoism is allowed to take chemistry as its own, rely on chemistry to absorb disciples, and have Taoism as its foundation, it will create a great opponent for Confucianism.

Moreover, this opponent is not a heretic!

Of course Zhu Zhanji knew that many Confucian scholars had been jumping up and down recently, but he was unwilling to intervene.

Although he wanted to attack Confucianism in his heart, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are now one of the three religions, and the spirit of the entire Chinese nation is connected with the three.

Just like many people in later generations hate monks, but many people recognize the Buddhist classics very much.This life, future life, retribution, this kind of thinking has been integrated into everyone's thinking, has it been removed?

He founded Shinrikyo, not to suppress any one, but to make people's thinking tend to be rational, to analyze problems from an objective perspective, not to be influenced by any one, and not dare to break through the shackles.

This is a country, a nation, that can keep moving forward, with an insatiable driving force.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't expect everyone's thoughts to be unified, but as long as those educators and scientific researchers can always hold this clear understanding, that's enough.

So after he got the actions of these great scholars, he didn't interfere.In addition to dealing with government affairs, his recent energy has been devoted to the train.

The train can be said to be the most effective means of transportation to shorten the distance in this era.

However, the problems faced by the manufacture of trains are far beyond Zhu Zhanji's imagination.

Because of seeking perfection, the 1.6-meter-[-] wide gauge brings more manufacturing difficulties than when trains appeared in history.

Because the trains at that time were small trains with light bodies and limited loading capacity, they could not compare with the nearly four-meter-wide carriages today.

Although most of the carriages of the train are made of wood, the weight of the chassis, load-bearing frame, and wheels is not light.

The seats in the carriage, plus the personnel, walls, roof, and the weight of a carriage have reached about ten tons.

However, according to Zhu Zhanji's estimation, the power of the steam engine is at most tens of horsepower.

This is a real small horse-drawn cart, but because of the existence of the rails, it is not impossible to pull it, but the speed is slower.

The main problem is the heavy carriage against the rails, not the damage to the wooden rails.

During the test run at Xiamaqiao Farm, the entire wooden track had been replaced several times, and every lap of the train would almost cause damage.

If this problem is not solved, the train will never reach the trial operation stage.

In addition to this problem, the brake device has also troubled the craftsmen for a long time. Relying on air pressure brakes has become commonplace in later generations.

But now, the design of this pipeline has troubled craftsmen for a long time.