Chapter 146: The Ambition of Words
There is a lot of wealth in the world, and if it is not in the government, it is in the people, this is a spell that nets Xu Ping. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoTo solve this problem, we must start with the fact that labor can create wealth, and then commercial exchange can multiply wealth.
However, the question of what wealth is must first be answered definitively. In his previous life, Xu Ping took political classes, and many concepts were learned from textbooks when he was a child, and he continued to learn them year after year to deepen his understanding little by little. Moisturizing things silently, unconsciously dissolving many complex academic concepts into thoughts, becoming an instinct.
However, when it comes to explaining these concepts to people who have not studied them systematically, they are at a loss. In the previous life, when it came to labor to create wealth, many people took it for granted and did not need to explain it, but in this era, it is not possible.
All things are born to support people, everything comes from God, how can it be created by people? Chinese, especially readers, do not believe much in God, but they believe in God and the destiny of heaven.
The pre-Qin Xian studied Confucianism and Moxi, Mozi talked about heaven and ghosts, and Confucius talked about respecting God and staying away, and they were not traditionally regarded as gods in the religious sense of omnipotent personification. The so-called "Shangshu" is "the sky sees itself and the people see, and the sky listens to its own people." "Connecting the heart of heaven with the heart of the people, to Mencius, and further replacing the heart of heaven with the will of the people. But no matter what, the omnipresent sky is there, just for people to dress up.
Starting from the Confucian classics, Li Jing believes that etiquette is the instinctive desire of human beings, first of all, food satisfies human survival, and then the natural affection (desire) of male and female reproduction, and the so-called erotic sex.
This opened a door for Xu Ping, as long as the basic needs of people are explained, then all kinds of things that meet people's needs are wealth. And this kind of wealth, labor can be created.
The greatest danger of such a theoretical foundation is that it has gone to the opposite side of Mencius's faction. Confucius said that human nature is not good and everything is bad, and food and sex are human nature, and Mencius put forward the theory of sexual goodness by refuting this view of Gaozi.
Li Ji hated Mencius very much, and even went all the way to Yongzhou to study for Xu Ping's copying a limerick poem from his previous life, which was a fundamental conflict with Mencius's thought on the basis of theory.
Xunzi advocated the theory of sexual evil, saying, "The nature of today's people is hungry and hungry, cold and warm, hard and rest, and this person's temperament is also." "It is precisely because it is human nature to eat color, so it is also human nature to fight, thieves, and ****.
This is the source of Legalist thought, to suppress the people's original desires), to satisfy the monarch's desires (hope), so the strict law, torture, so that the people under the rule have to obey, have to serve the king with all the people in the world. At the same time, it is also the ideological source of Confucian ethics, because human nature is evil, so it is necessary to establish a program, establish etiquette, suppress people's evil nature, and every move and even thoughts are limited by the three principles and five constants, until the existence of heavenly principles and the destruction of human desires.
Even in Confucianism, Mencius's status was not high until Han Yu's "Yuan Dao" officially put forward the theory of Taoism, and regarded Mencius as the only person who attained Taoism after Confucius. In Xu Ping's time, the so-called Taoists all respected Mencius, and Taoism originally meant Taoism. Those who are not Taoist are mostly demeaning Mencius.
For most people, either Meng is Zun Xun, and the extreme manifestation of the ideological struggle between these two factions in history is party struggle.
Wang Anshi respected Meng, Mencius's status rose in the real sense, and his thoughts were listed as classics, which began when he was in his hands when Shenzong was born. Sima Guang is not Meng Zunxun, he talks about the three outlines and five constants, and his ideological roots are incompatible with Wang Anshi.
Ironically, it was Li Jing who worked hardest for non-Meng, but it was his ideas that became the forerunner of Wang Anshi's reform in history. A rich country and a strong army is exactly what Li Jing is vigorously advocating.
The ideological struggle between the two Song Dynasty was basically entangled between respecting Meng and non-Meng, until Zhu Xi mixed up and introduced Buddhist ideas into Confucianism and became self-contained. Zhu Xi said that he respected Meng, and at the same time, he had heavenly principles to destroy people's desires. If human nature is inherently good, why should we destroy human desires? In fact, it was the banner of Mencius that wrapped Xunzi's bones in it.
It is more accurate to say that the rulers of the Song Dynasty thought that they were Confucian bones, but that they were Mengpixun bones. The increasingly strict Three Principles and Five Constants clamp down on society, cannibalistic etiquette, and the root of the ideology is actually in Xunzi's theory of sexual evil.
Li Jing opposed Mencius's theory of sexual goodness, and proposed that the essence of etiquette is the fundamental desire of human beings, and everything originates from here for survival and reproduction. But he is not from Xunzi's school of sexual evil, in fact, he is on the side of Xuzi.
If it does not belong to the Mencius faction or the Xunzi faction, it is destined to be a minority.
In his previous life, as a latecomer, Xu Ping had already had a prejudice against the society in which rituals planned everything, so he naturally would not support Xunzi's thoughts. Whether it is the harsh punishment of the Legalists, the use of the whole world to serve one person, or the establishment of the three outlines and five permanent rules of etiquette and religion, restricting people's behavior and thoughts to the greatest extent is not acceptable to Xu Ping.
Xu Ping takes a fancy to Li Jing's sexuality, which is not good or bad, survival and reproduction are the fundamental desires of human beings, and there will be higher desires after satisfying the fundamental desires, and "li" is the development and restriction of these desires. This kind of thinking is the thought that Xu Ping was accustomed to in his previous life, but he did not have the ability to read poetry and books like Li Ji and be proficient in scripture, so he could integrate this kind of thinking into the mainstream Confucianism, so as to become a family.
Li Jing solved the basic problem, and Xu Ping was able to complete the high-level ideological construction behind.
Xu Ping has always been very cautious about writing books and preaching ideas. He knows his own pounds, knows little about the classics, and explains them casually, which can easily make him an enemy of Shilin. Once you get to that point, you don't want to do anything more, and you don't have the means to care about other people's opinions like Ding Wei. is that kind of ability and means, Ding Wei is not the same, and he has only been in power for more than two years.
Now that Li Jing has arrived in Fangcheng and really started to govern, his thoughts have begun to shine. With such a student who can be regarded as his own, Xu Ping can consider starting to speak up and bring the thoughts of his previous life to this world.
Picking up the pen, Xu Ping wrote a reply to Li Jing seriously.
For the first time, Xu Ping systematically proposed to another person that labor can create wealth, and the improvement of labor efficiency and the use of labor tools can create more wealth. As long as this point is established, then how to improve labor efficiency and produce better tools will become the top priority of economic development. With this, there is a theoretical basis for giving craftsmen and scientific and technological workers a higher status.
As long as this point is established, the study of physics will have the same importance as the study of life. Since then, science and technology can be justifiably promoted as an important national policy.
This is also the first time that Xu Ping has high hopes for Li Jing, hoping that he can really lay a solid foundation for his own thinking in this era when various academic factions have appeared like blowouts, making people irrefutable.
After a thousand years, there may no longer be the possibility of the theory of destroying human desires by preserving heavenly principles, and what will continue to exist can only be the simplicity of human nature, no good and no evil, and no evil in human desires.
Xiuxiu occasionally raised her head, looked at Xu Ping at the desk with a holy face, writing intently, and couldn't help but smile and shake her head. Thinking about the days when the two had just met, Xu Ping frowned sadly as soon as he picked up the book, and asked Xiuxiu to supervise him, and he gnawed down those classics and was admitted to Jinshi. Many years have passed, and the official is no longer the somewhat stubborn rural boy he was back then, he has really become an official and has become the reader in her mind.
Emperor Zhenzong wrote a poem of persuasion, saying, "Rich families don't need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of millets in the book." There is no need to raise a hall to live in peace, and there is a golden house in the book. Don't hate to go out with no one, there are many cars and horses in the book. Don't hate unscrupulous matchmakers when marrying a wife, there is Yan Ruyu in the book. If a boy follows his life's aspirations, he reads the Six Classics to the window. ”
In the eyes of readers, this poem can no longer be vulgar, from the inside to the outside, it is full of philistine, far inferior to Yan Zhenqing's poem, "The three watches are lit and the five watches are chickens, which is when men are studying." The black hair does not know how to study early, and the white head regrets studying late. ”
The emperor's poetic tone is like that of a marketman, and Yan's poetry is inspirational.
But isn't that exactly what happened in this era? The whole country is full of philistine spirit from the inside out, and the emperor is the one who really understands the world. In Xiuxiu's eyes, what Emperor Zhenzong said was the truth, and a scholar should have the appearance of a scholar, and naturally there should be a reward that a scholar should have.
Fertile land, carriages and horses, golden houses, and officials now have them, aren't they all earned by reading well?
Xu Ping wrote word by word, seriously writing down his knowledge in his previous life, and combined it with the experience and knowledge of this life, he just felt that with a pen, there were thousands of words, and he could not stop.
Why did Sucrose become an all-encompassing monster, making countless dollars and feeding hundreds of thousands of people? Because the organization has improved the efficiency of labor, all kinds of new agricultural tools have improved the efficiency of labor, and more wealth can be created with the same amount of labor. The most valuable thing about sucrose is not the value of sucrose, but the form of organization, which is the ingenious use of various new agricultural tools. If Li Ji wants to set up a field in Fangcheng, he must clearly understand this point, learn the organization of cane sugar business, and use new farm tools, and cannot do it blindly.
And it is not only necessary to learn and use, but also to combine these with classical theories, make innovations, and become a family of its own, so as to live up to Xu Ping's cultivation for so many years.
Combining theory with practice, testing theory with practice, and using theory to guide practice, complementing each other, and laying a good theoretical foundation for what Xu Ping wanted to propose. This is Xu Ping's expectation of him, not just to be a good county.
Standing up for immortality can be called virtuous and enlighten the minds of future generations; The immortality of meritorious service can be a god and protect a land; The immortality of virtue, Ze is born by the common people, and it is the most holy.
Xu Ping set a small goal for himself, starting with his words, being a man in two lives, and being a sage. (To be continued.) )