Zhu Youjian: Taizu has an order! kill!

"Very surprised?"

"Do you think what we said is inconsistent?"

"If you want to destroy Confucianism, you must also use Confucianism."

Li Chen looked at the group of ministers below who were stunned.

He asked with a smile after sitting on the steps again.

Wen Tiren, who was at the front, couldn't help but breathe tight when he saw His Majesty coming so close.

He lowered his head and cupped his hands.

"Your Majesty, just tell me."

"What on earth are you going to do..."

This was a question that not only he, but everyone present wanted to ask.

What on earth are you going to do!

"What do we want to do?"

"Are you pig-minded? You can't even understand this?"

"Then let's be honest, we want to return Confucianism to its original appearance."

"I wonder if that's possible?"

Ok?

The original look?

Wen Tiren frowned slightly in confusion.

On the other hand, Kong Zhenyun, who was on the ground, shivered for no reason.

He... seems to know what this man is going to do.

After thinking about it, Kong Zhenyun gritted his teeth and took a deep breath.

"I wonder how Your Majesty wants Confucianism to change?"

Looking at Kong Zhenyun asking this.

Li Chen narrowed his eyes slightly and leaned forward.

"It seems there are still smart people."

"Then let me ask you a question before answering this question."

"You are the steward of the Southern Sect of the Kong family. I believe you must be familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics."

"Then tell us, is Confucianism today still the Confucianism Confucius mentioned?"

This question immediately made Kong Zhenyun break into cold sweat.

As the patriarch of the Southern Sect, he is naturally very familiar with Confucianism.

Normally, even the emperor would spit on him if he dared to ask this question.

but now...

Thanks to some bastard, the entire Confucian school has become meat on the chopping board.

"No."

Just two words seemed to exhaust Kong Zhenyun's strength.

Huang Jin's face suddenly frowned, and he looked at Kong Zhenyun with half-squinted eyes.

This pedantic person actually admitted it?

"Tsk, it seems you are not hopeless yet."

"I also know what the hell Confucianism has become now."

"What we have to do is very simple, that is to tell Cheng Zhuli to get out."

Seeing Kong Zhenyun spit out these two words very wisely.

Li Chen nodded with satisfaction and continued.

His so-called destruction of Confucianism is to kick out the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.

"Your Majesty, do you want to subvert the Three Cardinal Guidelines and the Five Constant Rules?"

Sure enough, he came here for Cheng Zhuli.

Kong Zhenyun's heart tightened, and he couldn't care less about the other people staring at him and questioning him!

Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is the current face of the Confucius family.

And isn't its core idea also to protect the imperial power of your old Zhu family?

Attack Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism...are you sick?

"Three cardinal guides and the five permanent members?"

"Then tell me, are these concepts of the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Virtues an inheritance or a betrayal of Confucianism?"

"Master Zhu believes that "reason" is omnipresent and is the highest principle of nature and society, as well as the ultimate embodiment of social ethics."

"So, the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Rules" were standardized as inviolable "natural principles" after being praised by Zhu Neo-Confucianism..."

“This will become the moral requirements and behavioral norms that must be followed in actual life and actions.”

"This view can be traced back to Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty, which is the concept of monarch, minister, father, son and son."

"But in fact, neither the sage Confucius nor the sub-sage Mencius ever talked about the Three Cardinal Guidelines and the Five Constant Rules."

"Confucius's original explanation of "Jun Jun, ministers, father, father, son" is nothing more than that a monarch should behave like a monarch, this is the way to be a king, and ministers should behave like a minister, this is how to be a minister The gift."

"Fathers must behave as fathers do, so that they can set an example for their children, and children must have the same standards as their children. This is the performance of an excellent inheritor."

"That is to say, in the Analects of Confucius, the king treats his ministers with courtesy, and the ministers treat the king with loyalty."

"Don't you think what Cheng Zhu said is too absolute?"

"Of course, I personally like the five points of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness, but the mistake is that it should not solidify our thoughts."

"Human thought is advancing with the times, and the school of thought that assists the king should also progress with it."

“Nothing is eternal, and if you don’t change it, it will eventually rot.”

"It's just like the current Confucianism, it's all the same stuff!"

Three cardinal guides and the five permanent members?

Useful, but also useless.

Although it appeared to consolidate the imperial power, we cannot restrict our thoughts in order to consolidate the imperial power!

"His Majesty..."

“Isn’t it bad for the imperial power to be great?”

Kong Zhenyun was silent for a long time after listening silently, and then asked quietly.

You, an emperor, actually want to overthrow the school of thought that maintains imperial power.

What on earth are you trying to figure out?

"There are ways to maintain imperial power, but it should never be this way."

"Confining ideas is equivalent to cutting off the potential of the nation. Any new things will not be accepted, and any new inventions will be scorned."

“Everything keeps running on the old philosophy.”

"Imperial power under this kind of thinking will eventually be abandoned by the times."

"To give the simplest example, there is a thing called firearms in the military. This was originally invented by our Han family."

"But just because of the existence of rotten scholars like you, Gewu is not taken seriously at all."

"The artillery that the Ming Dynasty is preparing to put into mass production is no longer developed by the Ming Dynasty, but imitated by the barbarians from the outer seas that you call them!"

"They learned our techniques, and we were stuck in our ways."

"Do you know what we saw? If Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is allowed to develop so unscrupulously, the entire nation will be doomed."

"When the barbarians outside come up with weapons that are more advanced than our Han family, the entire Han civilization will surely suffer heavy losses or even be destroyed!"

Li Chen's words were like a heavy hammer hitting everyone's chest.

Involuntarily, everyone including Wen Tiren began to really think about the possibility of this matter.

The more I think about it, the colder my back becomes!

Because they found that they could not refute what His Majesty said.

"Impossible, how could overseas barbarians enter the Central Plains!"

"You are arrogant!"

Kong Zhenyun widened his eyes and retorted subconsciously.

"Oh, look at you now, aren't you what we call a rotten scholar?"

"If you don't accept any new perspectives, don't accept any changes, you won't be able to see the changes in the entire era."

"Not to mention much, haven't the prairie people already taken over once? Aren't they the barbarians you call them?"

“If it’s possible for the grassland people, why can’t it be possible for the people on the outer sea?”

"When their weapons are more powerful than ours, the wealth of the Central Plains will be our talisman!"

"When the robbers come to your door, are you going to use Cheng-Zhu Lili to repel the enemy?"

"This is why we hate you rotten Confucians the most. Confucianism is just an idea."

"But now, you can't even educate all the people, so why are we here?"

"Distort history and tamper with the words of saints. Is this kind of school going to perish and wait for the country to perish?"

"Let me ask you, is Confucius really, as you said, a useless scholar?"

"Shouldn't he be a big man from Shandong who is nine feet six inches tall, broad-shouldered and round-waisted?"

"And among the six arts of a gentleman, etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and numeracy, four out of the six are related to war."

"On the top, you can perform military rituals and sacrifices, on the middle, you can accompany the army with music and theory, on the bottom, you can drive a chariot and gallop on the battlefield, and with a bow, you can hit the enemy chieftain with a hundred steps."

"Confucius's proposition has always been for both civil and military affairs. How come you have lost all martial arts?"

"You surrender to the enemy if you can't argue with it. Look at all the good things your Beizong has done. Is that something that the descendants of Confucius can do?"

"Come, tell us, what's the use of such a pedantic school?"

Li Chen became more and more angry as he talked and wanted to pull out his sword.

Confucianism has been ruined in the hands of you unfilial descendants!