Xu Ping drank tea and listened to Li Jian who was sitting on the side talking eloquently and frowned secretly.

Although I feel that this young man has come all the way after listening to one of his limerick poems, it is a bit unreliable. But when it comes to learning, this quote is a set of classics.

In good conscience, although Xu Ping read the classics and was admitted to the Jinshi, he did not have a deep understanding of the development of Confucianism in this era, and he did not do things according to the words of the sage, but the knowledge of his previous life. Such a background is too pale in front of this budding generation of masters.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty, since the Wei and Jin dynasties, Confucianism has been suppressed by both Buddhism and Taoism. In the Tang Dynasty, the sage Confucius was ranked behind Sakyamuni and Lao Tzu, and barely sat in the third place. The late Tang Dynasty poet Luo Yin once had a poem "Confession to the Temple of Wenxuan": "When I came to the late to visit the ancestors, the pines and cypresses were sad and people didn't know." The walls of Jiu Qian Xiao are piled with rubble, and the three thatched halls are wild foxes. The rain is like a sad cry, and the dew drops are still sighing and sad. If the name of the little Confucian is established slightly, how can I teach my way to be late. There may be exaggeration in the poem, which also vividly illustrates the status of Confucianism at that time.

Entering the Song Dynasty, Confucianism began to revivenation, but the Taizu Taizong Dynasty also flourished Buddhism and Taoism, and Zhenzong Yingtianshu, and the status of Confucianism was still unstable. However, it began with Taizong's practice of expanding the scale of the imperial examination and reusing the scholars from Jinshi, until the Zhenzong Dynasty was stabilized, and the Zhirenzong Dynasty finally set off a huge wave of Confucianism.

Along with the revival of Confucianism, what was entangled was the Mencius ascension movement and the non-Meng wave. Eventually, Mencius's position was established, and Confucianism became the only official orthodox doctrine. and thus went to perdition.

Mencius's ascension began with Han Yu, followed by Song Confucianism, and Song Shenzong and Song Gaozong explicitly supported it as supreme rulers. During the reign of Shenzong, Mencius was named "Duke of Zou Guo". With the Confucian Temple, the book "Mencius" in the Southern Song Dynasty became a scripture and was no longer classified as a subclass, and Mencius in the Yuan Dynasty was named a sub-sage.

At this time of Xu Ping, Mencius was far from the sub-sage status he understood in his previous life, and was only the only unification advocated by some Taoist scholars after Han Yu that Mencius was the only unification after Confucius. Not to mention that in the early days, Mencius had a humble status even among Confucian scholars. It's not as good as Xunzi and others. He was reprimanded for doing that limerick poem at that time, just because his father-in-law's thinking was inclined to the side of Taoists.

Accompanying Mencius's promotion movement was the flourishing of non-Mencius thought, and there were many famous scholars on both sides. You're going back and forth. The most famous and provocative of the non-Meng scholars is the shabby young man sitting in front of Xu Ping, Li Ji and Li Taibo, who have just emerged at this time.

History is always full of humor, and Li is not Meng. The starting point is the righteousness of the monarch and the minister. At that time, King Zhou Xian was not comparable to the like. Mencius not only did not assist the king of Zhou, but also lobbied the kings everywhere to call him the Son of Heaven, that is, the name "There was a son of Zhou Tianzi at that time, and everything was said about Wei Qi" could arouse his strong resonance. But after Mencius established himself as the only heir to Confucianism and Taoism, no one mentioned it, as if Mencius also talked about kings and ministers. Not to mention that the people and gentlemen are light, and they disappeared directly from his school. And the rest is another issue that these non-Meng scholars criticize, the core distinction between righteousness and benefit.

The controversy between Mencius's ascension and non-Mencius thought. It was entangled with the distinction between righteousness and benefit, and became the center of the continuous debate of Song Confucianism. There is a big flag on one side. The Mencius faction is to emphasize righteousness over profit, and the profit is a villain, while the non-Mengzi faction exalts the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, and Mencius has no son of heaven in his eyes. These polemics, the party struggles that have been repeated with the reforming conservatives, have also become a spectacle for the scholars of the Song Dynasty.

In the end, the Zunmeng faction won and took away the banner of righteousness of the monarch and ministers, and Confucianism lost its vitality.

Xu Ping didn't know anything about these backgrounds, and the knowledge of his previous life was that Confucianism must be about Confucius and Mencius, where did he know the twists and turns in the middle. Listening to Li Jing's set of words, what etiquette begins with profit, you must be fed and clothed when you are born, you must find a spouse to have children when you become an adult, eating and drinking **** is really human instinct, and it is more important than any other benevolence, righteousness and morality. To learn the way of the sage, we must first learn to make profits, and only by making profits can we enrich the country, and only by making a rich country can we strengthen the army, and only by strengthening the army can we reassure the people. Everything Xu Ping did in the cane sugar business is really the most in line with the original meaning of the saint.

Speaking of cane sugar, Li Jing also said that the ills of the world all start from the uneven fields, the rich have no place to stand on the edge of the field, and the poor have no place to stand. Those who farm have no food to eat, and those who weave have no clothes to wear, how can this be true in the world? The so-called grain is the foundation of the world, but cultivation is not the foundation of grain, and who owns the land is the foundation of grain. Therefore, we must have flat fields, we can't have land without farming, and we can't eat it by paying rent when we farm, that's not okay, we have to learn the ancient Jingtian method, whoever can farm will own the land.

Sucrose is very good, for those who farm the land, although the land is not their own, but in fact they are their own, so the cane sugar business can make so much money, because the people who farm the land make money for themselves.

Xu Ping was a human being in two lives, but he was stunned by this little brother. Although these words are quoted from the classics and are not far from the Confucian sages, when he thinks about it carefully, he actually touches on the extremely sensitive issue of productive forces and production relations.

What are the Confucian students thinking about in their heads? Xu Ping was a little confused.

Although Xu Ping wanted to give a political lesson to the enthusiastic Li Jing, he carefully searched the ink in his stomach, but his thoughts could not be connected with the Confucian classics, so he had to use perfunctory sentences from time to time.

After drinking several cups of tea, Li Jing felt that his throat was dry, so he stopped talking and asked Xu Ping humbly: "The student has shallow knowledge, and he is ugly in front of Mr. and laughs." ”

Xu Ping was stunned for a while and asked Li Jing: "I don't know what you are doing this year?" ”

Li Jing said: "The student is twenty-four years old. ”

"Oh, a year older than me." Xu Ping nodded again and again, his heart was finally balanced, if Li Ji was a few years younger than him, his face would really be a little unbearable. "I'll tell you, you're talking very well, but I don't know how to talk to you about it all at once. Besides, I left home at the age of eighteen, and I was so busy with affairs that I didn't have much time to study. I know a lot of things in my heart, but I don't know how to say them so that others can understand them. Do you understand? ”

Li Jing said: "Students understand. A gentleman is quick to say and quick to act, and a gentleman is meritorious, this is the greatest knowledge, and it is not comparable to a student who can only talk about it. ”

"Well, you're right! The key is to do things, and when things are done well, others will naturally understand. When you come here, I can't sit with you every day. In this way, I have set up a new school here, and I have listened to your speech and learned very well, and the foundation is also very hard, so I will make a cameo appearance in the school and teach for a few days. When you are free, go to Han Tiju and see how the affairs in the sugar business are done, isn't this better than anything else? ”

Seeing that Xu Ping said sincerely, Li Jing stood up and saluted: "Thank you for lifting up first, the student will definitely live up to the trust." ”

Xu Ping looked at Li Ji's outfit, and said, "I'll ask Tan Hu to take you to arrange a place to live in a while, and then take ten yuan from the treasury, and you can settle down." Teaching in the school is two times a month, although the price in Taiping County is expensive, it should be enough for you to save money. ”

"Shame on the students."

Li Jing is more important than righteousness, profit is the foundation of people, and there is no hypocrisy of those who are stupid in reading, Xu Ping will follow if he gives money, and teaching by himself is also a legitimate reward.

Listening to Li Ji as a student, Xu Ping was a little embarrassed. This gentleman is a year younger than him, especially when it comes to learning, he is a little uncomfortable.

Li Anren is much older than Li Jing, but he doesn't feel anything when he calls himself a student Xu Ping, because that's what society calls him normally. The fact that scholars who are not in the middle of the junior corporate and become officials all call themselves students in front of the officials shows a kind of identity, indicating that they have been studying and studying, not that they want to learn things from the officials.

Li Jing calls himself a student, and he also calls himself Mr. Xu Ping, this taste has changed a little, that is from the heart of learning, Xu Ping knows his level, how can he afford it?

After arranging Li Ji's place, Xu Ping encouraged him a few more words, and then called Tan Hu over and asked him to arrange Li Ji to go to the residence built for the teachers of the school, and at the same time approved a note for him to go to the minister's treasury to receive ten yuan of money.

Sucrose has its own minister's treasury, and the money in it is now Xu Ping's final say, which is much more convenient than using the money in the Yongzhou minister's treasury. Yongzhou Minister Qian Xuping no longer cares, and handed it over to the Jiedu Judge to delegate, which is convenient for Feng Shenji, and also saves his own effort, anyway, Yongzhou's Minister Qian is completely incomparable with Sucane Sugar.

Watching Li Ji go out with Tan Hu, Xu Ping was still a little stunned when he sat in his seat. He couldn't figure out how he was young and ignorant at the time, and he casually plagiarized a limerick poem from his previous life, how could he attract such a classic disciple. If he is cheeky and copies what Su Ci Xin Ci, Lu You's poems, and Wang Anshi's essays, will all the readers all over the world come to chase his ass?

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping finally shook his head, obviously thinking too much. Not to mention that these things are copied out, there is no deeds and real talent to cooperate, and they can only leave an interesting story in the notebook novels of later generations, or even the story of the wounded Zhongyong. What if others believe? Which of these people has a social status because of a good job in poetry and writing? Wang Anshi and Su Shi are because of their true talent and hard work and Jinshi status, Xin Qijian is because of the legend of winning the seal with a horse and the insight of "Ten Treatises on Mei Qin", Lu You's poems are famous all over the world, but they have not been reused in their lives. Not to mention the current Liu Yong, no matter how well the words are written, how many scholars, including Xu Ping himself, take him seriously? His fame only spreads among the courtesans of the Qinglou, and the scholar only talks about being an entertainment star like Xu Ping in his previous life, and the so-called legendary deeds will not be made up until the novels of later generations are popular.

Thinking about it, it seems that only by honestly doing official and brushing up on political achievements can you get ahead in this era.

Sighing deeply, Xu Ping also felt helpless. (To be continued.) )