A dusty cart rumbled through the bustling streets of Kaifeng Mansion. Turned to the street where Su Zhe Cidi was located in the west of Kaifeng Prefecture.

The late Prime Minister Su Dongpo had his own mansion in Kaifeng Mansion, which was a gift from Wu Haogu to honor him - the whole world knew that Wu Haogu was Su Dongpo's disciple, the disciple was so rich, there was nothing wrong with honoring a house to the teacher, and when Wu Haogu gave away the residence, Su Dongpo was already terminally ill, and he was not afraid of Raush's impeachment.

However, Su Zhe, who is an honest official, does not have a house in Kaifeng Mansion, so he can only live in the imperial court's Cidi, which is actually a "public house".

The carriage, which looked a little tattered, stopped at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion. In front of the Prime Minister's Palace, of course, there were countless officials who came to visit and waited to be summoned. The limited number of tethered stones has long been occupied by the first chariots and horses. The carriage had to stop in the corner, and the curtain was lifted, and a man dressed as a Confucian in his fifties came out of it, who was Wu Haowen's teacher, Hou Zi Hou Zhongliang.

There was still a man sitting in the carriage, very old, about 70 years old, although his complexion was very poor, but his sitting posture was meticulous, as if he was meeting the Son of Heaven in the palace. This person is Hou Zhongliang's teacher, Mr. Yi Chuan Cheng Yi.

After Hou Zhongliang stood firm on the ground, he first straightened his clothes, and then saluted his teacher: "Teacher, we have arrived. ”

"Good!" Cheng Yi nodded.

Hou Zhongliang turned around and went to the gatehouse of the Prime Minister's Mansion. He and Cheng Yi are both Su Zhe's distinguished guests! In order to save the ideal of the saint, regardless of the long distance, he came to Kaifeng Mansion from Luoyang Yichuan.

The ideal of a saint has been almost destroyed by Wu Haogu and his positivist school! He has completely gone astray, no longer taking the pursuit of "benevolence" as the highest ideal, but placing "seeking the Tao from things" at the highest.

Oh, according to the ideals of the Spring and Autumn sages, the Great Dao must be the highest existence! And "benevolence" is the highest ideal that retreats to the second place when it is impossible to seek the avenue.

Originally, "Dao" and "Ren" should not conflict. Of course, the Great Dao is a great "benevolence", how can it conflict with the Confucian "benevolence" - in fact, there is no conflict at all! The process of seeking truth from things will inevitably bring about the great development of the productive forces (scientific and technological progress), and the great development of the productive forces will inevitably greatly improve the people's lives. The ideal society in which "the old have their ends, the strong have their usefulness, the young have their growth, and the poor, the widowed, the lonely, the lonely, and the disabled are all supported" must also be established under the condition of a high degree of development of the productive forces.

Of course, it's not right to "abandon the goods", it's not a positive attitude...... And the current Confucianism represented by Su Zhe and Cheng Yi cannot look at the relationship between "Tao" and "benevolence" with a positive attitude now.

They felt that the positivist school of "seeking truth from things" was used in the wrong place. First, it has become a business boost, widening the gap between the rich and the poor, making the rich richer and the poor poorer - capitalism is evil!

Second, he has become an accomplice of the reckless army! The three major military academies are also the positions of the positivist school! Positivism and rationalism are not only applied to the natural sciences, they are equally applicable to the social sciences, especially military sciences.

So Su Zhe, who saw that Confucianism had gone astray, was anxious, but he himself was also a great Confucian, and he knew very well that "virtue is invincible" and "power is invincible". It is impossible for him to overcome positivism and rationalism by his own high morality and the power of the prime minister alone...... In fact, many civil officials now shout against the positivist school, but in practice, they like to reuse the students of the Yuntai Academy!

People can really do things! Most of the officials from the imperial examination do not have the ability to do practical work, and it is very easy to find a professional counterpart Yuntai Academy of Public Affairs.

Even Su Zhe himself is not using martial arts now? Do you still plan to let Wu Haogu go to be the pacification envoy of Hebei Jingluo?

And even if he got Wu Haogu out of Kaifeng Mansion, he didn't think about closing the Military Machinery Division.

Now the Military Aircraft Department has indeed sorted out the major affairs of the military aircraft clearly, which is much stronger than when the Privy Council was in charge of this big mess in the past.

Su Zhe knows that if it goes on like this for a long time, it's terrible! Twenty years, thirty years later, the Manchu Dynasty will be all misguided positivist Confucianism.

The Great Song Dynasty is probably going to perish because of this, right?

After thinking about it, Su Zhe thought of Cheng Yi, who lived in seclusion in Yichuan.

If there is anyone in the world who has studied the positivist school of Wu Haogu most thoroughly, it must be the people of Guan Luo Lixue.

A few years ago, they were fighting against the positivists! It was only as the Yuntai School Palace became more and more prosperous, and the talents of the positivist school exploded, which made the science of science be suppressed.

But even so, the positivists did not kick the science away.

Didn't the Great Doctor Group put forward the slogan of "Preserve Heavenly Principles, Destroy Evil Demons"?

Therefore, Su Zhe invited the reclusive Cheng Yi and Hou Zhongliang to Kaifeng Mansion.

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Enter the door, salute, and take a seat.

Even if he was terminally ill, Cheng Yi's etiquette was still not chaotic at all, and in the inner hall of Su Zhe's mansion, he sat upright like a statue carved from dead wood.

Looking at Cheng Yi, who was sitting at the bottom and was about to die, Su Zhe asked with concern: "Uncle Zheng, do you want to recuperate for a few days first?" ”

A wry smile squeezed out of Cheng Yi's dry face: "I can't always meditate!" Even if a person is lying down, and there are still intellectual disputes in his heart, how can he recuperate? ”

Su Zhe stroked his beard: "It's really hard for my uncle...... That Wu Haogu opened the Yuntai Academy, and the disciples of the Yuntai Academy, now have entered the Qingcheng Academy, the Gezhi Academy, and the three major military academies...... Alas, it's getting bigger and bigger! ”

Cheng Yi is now a small sect, and there are few people under him. And there are countless disciples on the side of Wu Haogu! If you want to count it carefully, there are more than 2,000 talents from Yuntai Academy, Knight Academy, etc. And it is also cultivating new talents at an ever-increasing rate, and of course there are many talented people. The big guys are together, how can Cheng Yi parry?

"If only the teacher could have a school palace!" Hou Zhongliang said thoughtfully.

"The school palace is easy to do!" Su Zhe said, "There is now a success." ”

"Xianggong refers to ......"

"Biyong Academy!" Su Zhe said, "It's just that what should be taught in the Biyong Academy?" ”

Su Zhe didn't want to raise money from businessmen to open his own academy, but he wouldn't completely give up his educational position. Therefore, further reform of Taixue has become his only method.

In the era when Su Dongpo was in power, the Biyong School Palace was actually the territory of the Yuntai family, and it also cultivated a class of students.

But after Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian died one after another, the two brothers Cai Jing and Cai Bian changed the Biyong School Palace, ran away from the teachers of the Yuntai Department, and found a group of old Confucians to teach. Naturally, they could not teach the courses of the Shixue School, and as a result, they could only change back to the original Confucian scriptures.

Later, although Cai Jing and Cai Bian stepped down, Su Zhe and Zhang Shangying did not invite the teachers of the PTZ Department back.

Therefore, the Biyong School Palace changed from a positivist "university" back to Confucian Taixue. Many of the students in it also transferred to the Qingcheng School Palace and the Gezhi School Palace - those students who have completed the preparatory department and the outer and inner houses are also rare wealth in the eyes of Qingcheng and Gezhi School Palace! As long as you teach for another year, you can become a talent and become your own teacher.

However, Su Zhe and Zhang Shangying also knew that they couldn't let the Biyong Academy become a "waste wood academy", otherwise the world would be a real school in the future.

This is also the reason why Cheng Yi was invited to Kaifeng Mansion! In Su Zhe's vision, the Biyong School Palace should become the highest peak of the examination promotion system, and below it should be the local government school and the lower level of the township (county) school. If a scholar passes the examination, he can be promoted from the township (county) school to the Biyong School Palace, and finally become an official of the imperial court.

"Heavenly principles are the body, practical learning is the use!" Cheng Yi touched his beard, "Biyong Academy should cultivate talents for this purpose!" ”

"Heavenly Reason as a Body?" Su Zhe thought for a while and nodded, "It's true that the principles of heaven and wrong are not enough to resist the empirical evidence!" As long as we can restrain the fallacy of blindly seeking progress, and follow the morality of heavenly principles, empirical evidence should be able to benefit the world. ”

Su Zhe's point of view is the same as Cheng Yi's - they are all real Confucians, and of course they know that Wu Haogu's positivist system is becoming larger and more perfect. It is very difficult to fight against this by relying on "virtue" and "benevolence".

Because "virtue" and "benevolence" are not the real avenues. And "Heavenly Principles" is the real way - why practice benevolence? Because benevolence represents heavenly principles! "Preserving the principles of heaven" means practicing benevolence, righteousness and morality, and "destroying people's desires" means destroying the evil desires of capitalism.

If there is no doctrine of heavenly principles, then benevolence, righteousness and morality are a kind of ethics, how can human ethics be compared with the avenue of all things in the universe? If it can be compared, Confucianism will not let the monk Lao Dao grab so much territory.

Of course, the doctrine of Tianli is not without loopholes. Using this doctrine to confront the positivists is equivalent to the great philosopher of the Heavenly Sect (Pit Dad?). Beat Aristotle with the theory of the origin of all things.

The source of Cheng Yi is Heavenly Reason, and the source of Sonority is Allah. However, there is Allah the last messenger in the world, the prophet Muhammad, as a backer, but Cheng Yi has no way to say that Confucius is the last messenger of Tianli in the world...... If he wants to say this, he will immediately be spurned by the Confucian students all over the world! A good Confucian is about to become a god!

However, there is also a little advantage to the science led by Cheng Yi, that is, the level of Wu Haogu is limited, and there is no way to construct a large and complete philosophical system.

He only "proposed" positivism and rationalism, and did not have the ability to perfect it. Even if there are many talented people in the Yuntai Academy, it will take years of thinking and analysis to gradually form a complete and huge philosophical system - unless someone can bring the complete set of Aristotle's writings back to the Yuntai Academy......

Oh, that guy looks like he's almost in Baghdad!