The big playground was full of people, the red flag was still flying high, and the classes were quickly lined up in their respective positions. The quality of the students at Sungkyun Public School is very high, and there is no quarrel between classes for you to occupy more places, and I have less space. All the classes quickly formed a large 50X50+ phalanx.

There are so many students in Sungkyun Public School, with a maximum of 48 students in each class, and only 423 people in each class, with 5 classes in one stage, from preschool to high school, a total of 12 stages, and only 26,700 students in the whole school. In this day and age, this is already a lot.

The whole school formed a large phalanx, and it took less than 20 minutes from the bell ringing to the end of the procession. But this is already a lot of time, and if it had been ten years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it would not have taken ten minutes. Every time the school gathers, each class is lined up, and the action is as if a regular army is gathering. Although the number of students at Sungkyun Public School at that time was definitely not as large as it is now, a large school with two or three thousand students was unimaginable at that time.

No one spoke, and the playground was silent. Although everyone was surprised, even some teachers, no one spoke without permission, including the primary school and preschool, and all eyes were on the high platform.

Zhang Honglin and Li Yaozong are about the same height, and the two of them are also in front and behind when they stand in line. Like all the students present, the two of them were also inexplicable about what was happening in front of them, Zhang Honglin was secretly happy because it was going to take up class time, but Li Yaozong was still depressed because the basketball game [physical education class] in his class was interrupted. Of course, the bigger reason for this is that their team is behind by too many points, and they can't even say that their team will be able to move back in the remaining time, and the end time has not yet come, and the verdict on who wins and who loses is still undecided.

The difference of twenty points is too big.

Soon, Ye Bangwei, the current principal of Sungkyun Public School, appeared on the stage, but he was not alone, he was followed by many high-ranking officials of the school, and most importantly, there was also a strange officer in military uniform. And looking at the rank of the officer, many students were surprised that it was a general.

Ye Bangwei is full of smiles, he is forty-six years old this year, he is unknown in the history of the original time and space. But in this time and space, he is a master of Chinese studies who emerged after the founding of Chen Han, and he is just thirty years old, and he is 'famous all over the world'. Because he has completely found the 'root' for Neo-Confucianism to survive and grow!

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen Han suppressed Confucianism, especially science. After the power of Western science, which Chen Ming vigorously advocated, showed its power on Chinese soil, the old Confucianism based on science was completely finished.

In this process, the influence of Confucianism, that is, 'Neo-Confucianism', has been increasing. But it also has a fatal flaw, which is that it has become completely powerless in the face of science.

Millions of Neo-Confucians do not want to see a new discipline that has degenerated into an academic discipline completely degenerate into a humanistic concept, and then be shelved. So what to do?

At that time, there were not just three or two scholars in China who were committed to blending Eastern and Western theories with Confucianism. It's a big group, a big group. There are still too many people in China who can't let go of Confucianism. Even many of them are quite famous.

But the world is different from what it used to be, and the fruits of industrial development are visible to all. Facts speak louder than all eloquence.

If Confucianism wants to have a way out, and if the new Confucianism wants not to repeat the mistakes of the old Confucianism, it is not only necessary to solve the biggest problem of Confucianism -- pragmatism, but also to integrate the development of productive forces.

For a long time, the path of 'research' of thousands of Neo-Confucians has been devoted to how to integrate everything such as industrial, commercial, judicial science, and so on into Neo-Confucianism, and they have not yet given up the forced character of Confucianism as the 'teacher of the world' in the past.

Many people are sad about the end of the old school, and on the other hand, on the basis of inheriting the traditional doctrine, they try to connect the two cultures. More Neo-Confucians, in the name of mimicking the ancient and tracing the roots, wantonly distort scientific theorems and link them to the traditional scholarship of Chinese Confucianism. For a time, the news of the 'hook-up' between Western natural science and Chinese Confucianism spread throughout the academic world, leaving Chen Ming in the palace dumbfounded. Later, when this group of Confucian students saw that a Confucianism was about to be overwhelmed, they did not hesitate to take out Taoism, Buddhism, the pre-Qin hundred schools, and everything that could be used to support them, and even put forward the 'Middle Source of Western Learning'. At the same time, Chen Ming was dumbfounded, and at the same time, he had to sigh that 'literati have no teeth', and lamented that the 'brick family called the beast' in later generations was not a teacher.

However, Ye Bangwei's proposition is exactly the opposite, he strips away the messy 'strangeness', and clings to the 'inner sage and outer king', the foundation of Confucianism, whose core idea is benevolence and propriety.

Benevolence is to implement benevolent governance with the heart of "loving others", so that all members of society can enjoy the right to survival and happiness; Etiquette is to establish the moral order of society by the method of "righteous name" (i.e., moral education), so that members of society have stable moral recognition and moral positioning for their social status.

If all members of society enjoy the right to life and happiness, there is no need for rebellion; Members of society generally recognize the moral order of society and abide by moral norms that suit their specific circumstances, and there is no moral basis for rebellion (i.e., there is no ideological basis). If there is no need for members of society to rebel and cause rebellion, and if they do not have the consciousness of rebellion, society will be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time. Therefore, Neo-Confucianism is theoretically a social ruling strategy and social management theory that transcends social forms and class forms. It can be simply understood by each doing its own thing and doing its best.

The relationship between benevolence and propriety is the unity of benevolence and propriety. If you don't talk about benevolence but only etiquette, etiquette will not be widely recognized by members of society, and it will be opposed; If the members of society are not subject to moral constraints, the anarchy of the mind will lead to the anarchy of the reality - the term came from the West. Therefore, the 'benevolence and courtesy' of Neo-Confucianism are inseparable.

In terms of specific practice, Ye Bangwei is holding on to Master Meng's 'people's noble thoughts', the people are noble and the monarch is light, and the "people" is placed at the center of the doctrine. It was a big adventure on the part of Ye Bangwei, but apparently he won the bet.

Ye Bangwei also made a new explanation of the three outlines and five constants advocated by the old Confucianism, the set of monarchs and ministers, and the sons of the fathers, on the one hand, the connotation of "the monarch and the ministers, the fathers and the sons" are: the monarch guards the monarch and the minister guards the minister, the father guards the father's way and the son guards the son's way; On the one hand, it is the premise that the king guards the king's way is the premise of the minister's observance, and the father's observance of the father's way is the premise of the son's observance of the son's way. Therefore, when the superior person violates benevolence and propriety, the subordinate person can take positive or negative measures to maintain benevolence and propriety. That's like what Mencius said to King Wei Hui: A thief is a thief; Those who are righteous are called cruel. The thief is called a husband. I heard that a husband was punished, but I didn't hear of killing the king!

Generally speaking, not many of the ideas advocated by Ye Bangwei were independently conceived by him, and many aspects were published in newspapers during the previous major debates. But what is rare is that Ye Bangwei has systematically combined all this, and stripped off a lot of 'strange and obscene skills'.

The most important thing is that Ye Bangwei, who is under the banner of 'retro', did not suffer a thunderous blow from Chen Ming when he just made his voice, which means that the 'people's noble thought' is recognized by the imperial court.

Ten years of ups and downs, Ye Bangwei has gone from a newcomer to a Confucianism, from 'famous all over the world' to 'famous all over the world'. He did not enter the officialdom, but gained a foothold in the academic world, and after the retirement of the old principal of Sungkyun Public School, Liu Wen, three years ago, he was hired as the principal of Sungkyun Public School.

Ye Bangwei, all the students know each other, the principal of the public school? But no one knows the generals around Ye Bangwei, and the generals represented by Chen Han can all be said to be the dry cities of the country, but there are not only generals in Nanjing who represent the soldiers, but also those who are in charge of the capital governor's mansion, and there are dozens or nearly 100 generals who hold real power, and there are even more who have no real power. Hell knows where this one came from.

Yang Fang stood behind the principal, and when Ye Bangwei turned his head to examine the student phalanx below, Yang Fang was still worried about the wave of speeches that were about to start, so don't miss a word.

He came today for nothing else, but to officially inform Sungkyun Public School of the start of military training. This is not just a matter of Sungkyun Public School, but a thing that the entire Chen Han wants to promote.

Five days ago, the emperor had officially ordered the conscription of 300,000 people, which was not a small number. Now, starting today, all the country's large, medium, and primary schools will have to devote one month of each school year to systematic military training.

Just like when the People's Republic of China was founded, the school physical education class at that time was a military training class, and the students were fighting and playing to capture the enemy's positions and fight bayonets. It is an era of peace, and the military color has long since receded from all civilian schools.

One month of military training every year, depending on the age of the adjustment of the training subjects and intensity, like high school students, that can already shoot guns and practice fighting bayonets.

Yang Fang is the director of the newly established Military Training Bureau of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, of course, this is his part-time job.

And the reason why Yang Fang, a powerful general, personally came to Chengjun Public School to announce the order, isn't it because of the special status of the public school. If this place is lined up by rockets, eighty percent of Chen Han's powerful families will cry bitterly.

Ye Bangwei understands this decision made by the imperial court. He is a representative of the Neo-Confucian school, and although he is not in the officialdom, he is well-informed. Alexander I of Russia officially rejected the negotiation of peace, and the war in the great northwest will continue. Moreover, the Ottomans also sent people to help, and the current emperor has decided to fight the Russians to the end.

Whether it is a conscription or an order to carry out military training in universities, schools, and colleges and universities across the country, it is all making a difference. Let Chen Han's internal and external Europeans see clearly that he Emperor Chen's determination and domineering.

If you fight, you will fight, if you don't fight, it is your grandson, who is Lao Tzu afraid of?

Ye Bangwei also knew some things that ordinary people didn't know, such as Emperor Chen's request for help from the Ottoman Empire, which was not only to give money and materials, but also to prepare a team of soldiers and horses to really rush to the Ottomans.

However, it was not a sea route from the south, but by the Caspian Sea in the northwest, through Persia and the South Caucasus, directly to the northeast of the Ottomans.

As for these students in the school, it is better to exercise and exercise, and it is better to play guns and horses than to play ball.

Ye Bangwei's banner is 'retro', where can the retro of Confucianism be restored? is not only Master Kong, but also Duke Zhou. The Confucian school worships the Duke of Zhou and Confucius, and the ancestor of Confucianism can be traced back to the Duke of Zhou. In the aristocratic education system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were archery and driving. The chariot has long been outdated, and it is necessary to make up for it on horseback.