Chapter 718

After the festival, Liu Yan held a banquet in the palace hall, but the process did not need to be described too much.

The banquet is not finished in a day. The winter solstice festival is held by the king on that night, and then there will be their own activities. After all, people now take the winter solstice festival as a "small year", which is one of the more important festivals. It is very common to visit home and contact feelings.

Since it is a festival and so many cultural people gather in old Chang'an, there are frequent cultural meetings and so on. On the contrary, many works have been born, and many conflicts have occurred.

"There are many inheritors who call themselves all schools of thought?"

"Back to the king, there are similar rumors, but they have not been confirmed."

Are there hundreds of schools now? Liu Yan believes there will still be. However, he did not think that there would be any inheritors. Even if someone knew a school of various schools, it was almost half a bucket.

We should know that Confucianism has flourished for too long and has not spared no effort to crack down on the remnants of all schools of thought. It is difficult for all schools of thought that have been surrounded and eliminated to find a student. How can we find good people to inherit knowledge?

[it seems that... Some of the various schools of thought have passed down?] Liu Yan was not sure: "is it that Wang xuance, the successor of the vertical and horizontal school, still appeared in the middle of the Tang Dynasty?"

"It should be opportunistic." Sang Yu said mercilessly, "the king wants to develop learning, not like the first Han Dynasty, which only respected Confucianism."

Liu Yanyuan actually hated Confucianism first. As a figure of the new era, he learned what virtue most Confucian scholars in song, Ming and Qing Dynasties were. He was very impressed by "widows keep festivals, and Confucian scholars scramble to join the enemy" and "the water is too cold".

Waiting for Liu Yan to really understand Confucianism, he knows that Confucianism in the song, Ming and Qing Dynasties is not the same thing at all. Next, he understands that people are good or bad. Whether the theory is good or not depends on practicality and people, just like people who use a knife do good or bad.

Generally speaking, Confucianism, which digests the knowledge of many schools of thought, is not good or bad in today's era. Compared with rigidity, it is too biased towards metaphysics.

In fact, although Confucius founded Confucianism, Confucianism after him has been modified or even tampered with by later generations. Many people think it is a "pot" without punctuation, but even if there are punctuation, how difficult is it to distort the meaning of a sentence?

Confucianism, like legalism, is to cater to the "evolution" of rulers. To some extent, Confucianism has more character than legalism. At least Confucianism will struggle a little when forced by the rulers, and even Confucianism will argue with the rulers, but Legalists really cater to the needs of the rulers infinitely.

"I've never said I don't respect Confucianism." Liu Yan completely ignored sang Yu's silly expression: "respecting one family alone can unify the national thought. Too many theories can make a hundred schools of thought contend, but the thought is also chaotic."

Every ruler wants to rule better under his own rule. No matter what theory is used, it is basically to achieve the goal beneficial to himself. Confucianism will turn to fools, and the "pot" should be thrown to the rulers and those Confucian scholars who cater to the rulers, rather than completely smashing the "pot" on the head of Confucianism.

"But..." Sang Yu's crotch was a little painful, full of questions: "but isn't the big man ruling the country according to law?"

Many officials in the Han Dynasty always believed that Liu Yan was going to follow the route of the Qin Empire, which was the result of Liu Yan's emphasis on the legal system. As a result, many officials began to learn legalist knowledge and even began to think of themselves as legalist disciples. Sang Yu was one of them.

"What I want is unity of thought." Liu Yan was surprised and wondered, "is there a conflict with the rule of law?"

Which dynasty has no law again? Ruling the country by law is the real king, which has long been proved by modern times.

"Rule the country according to law..." Sang Yu hesitated and said, "Confucianism confuses the law with words, and chivalry breaks the ban with martial arts. How solemn is the law when respecting Confucianism?"

"I didn't say to respect Confucianism." Liu Yan is a headache when asked. He is not good at this, or he can just come up with a set of theories by himself. He looked at the people around him and said, "if I can unify my thoughts, if Confucianism can do what I want, how to respect Confucianism, how to respect Dharma, and what theory can do, I will respect it!"

The ministers did not dare to despise them. They were different from Liu Yan who came from later generations. The idea was that once the king loved any theory, that theory would inevitably become a prominent one. People who studied that theory would naturally be more likely to be favored. When they met some overbearing theories, they would take advantage of the situation to force people who studied other theories to have no way to live, Otherwise, the court would not be full of Confucian scholars after respecting Confucianism alone.

"Maintaining national stability requires Legalists, developing national strength requires miscellaneous experts, and defending the country and fighting abroad requires strategists..." Liu Yan cited quite a number of examples and said helplessly: "can't you synthesize it?"

Modern people, which is not a pragmatist? Whatever theory it is, what can be used is a good theory. What's more, a party is allowed to have many factions, and a theory is not allowed to have many branches?

Ji Chang was the first to understand. He was excited first and then embarrassed: "Confucianism has digested many theories of various schools of thought. It has long been not pure Confucianism, but... Named after Confucianism, there are many schools of thought. Is it different from the contention of a hundred schools of thought?"

"Let me be clear." Liu Yan began to be impatient. "No matter which theory is the study of summer, can it be called" Xia Xue "or" Sinology ", only taking its essence and removing its chaff.

Later academic circles believed that the Xia Dynasty was the first dynasty of Zhuxia descendants, which was once difficult to find strong proof, so that western countries believed that there was no "Xia" Dynasty at all. Later, it was found from the archaeology of oracle bone inscriptions that it really existed. The most direct proof was that there were records about the Xia Dynasty on the tripod unearthed in the Shang Dynasty.

Ji Chang looked at sang Yu in an instant. They had fully understood that the king of his family was simply ambitious. He wanted to combine all theories, including Confucianism, for the use of the state of Han, even the name "Xia Shuo", which was forced to rise above the sky.

Liu Yan's idea is very direct. The later Chinese dynasties have always emphasized "Chinese culture". No matter what the purpose was at the beginning, it is to standardize and collectively refer to the culture of all dynasties and generations. Of course, this approach is correct. First of all, it belongs to a part of "Chinese culture". There is no need to argue about which region it comes from, and there is no need for internal disputes.

The ancients liked to respect culture. People from different schools of thought should not be too terrible to fight each other. They will fight so fiercely, because their differences are too obvious, which leads to no one being satisfied with anyone. Then they should be regarded as a branch of the same culture. All belong to the extension of a certain subject culture, and then it is completely difficult to get along with the authorities.

"Xia Xue is a good name." Ran min seized the opportunity and said loudly, "I feel grand and grand."

The reason why it is called "Zhuxia" is not only because the Xia Dynasty was the first dynasty, but also because they all came from one ethnic group. It is said that Zhuxia was different because of the subsequent development of culture and values. The word "Xia" itself represents the source. All theories are combined and called "Xia Xue". Whoever opposes it is a traitor who betrays his ancestors and does not regard himself as a member of Zhuxia.

"What the Hussars general said is very true." Ji Chang was just worried that if Liu Yan identified the title of "Sinology", it would basically only represent the contemporary: "no one dares to disagree with calling it" Xia Xue. "

A big thing was confirmed so hastily. Whether the participants recognized the importance or not, they were both excited and excited.

"No one dares to disagree." Liu Yan is also very happy. Some shortcomings are that calling "Chinese culture" now will not be recognized, or it will be more in line with his wishes. He began to assign tasks in an ordered tone: "during the young year, those scholars were very lively. Let them stop making noise."

Those who belong to the civil service system stand up and salute. They will disclose today's decision by different means. It would be better if those literati are more knowledgeable and accept it calmly. If they don't accept it, they will also use various means to let the guys with objections accept it or evaporate among people.

The crowd left Liu Yan's place, went out of the palace, and Jichang stood still.

I don't know whether I forgot or deliberately. Just now, Liu Yan didn't designate who was the leader. Ji Chang knew that although he was the prime minister and was the natural leader, some Jiuqing, including sang Yu and LV Yi, wouldn't be so comfortable.

A country determines that culture is not a trivial matter. Anyone who implements it can benefit from it. Sang Yu thinks he is the leader of the northern faction. LV Yi is forced to become the leader of the southern faction. Even if they don't want to fight, they will be forced to fight by their followers. Ji Chang stops to have a frank talk with them.

"Tai'an, Yu knows a place with beautiful scenery." Sang Yu obviously knew why Ji Chang stood still and said with a smile, "go together?"

LV Yi was not polite at all. Then he said, "go with me."

Ji Chang nodded expressionless. What he didn't expect was that ran min pulled Xu Zheng over and asked to go together.

"It's not a lot." Ran Min said directly, "Xia learning naturally includes military learning. How can you and other literati fully represent it?"

Xu Yuanlai was very helpless. As soon as he heard what ran Min said, he immediately reacted and nodded seriously, indicating that he must go.

Sang Yu wanted the water to be more muddy, so he helped with a smile.

The so-called place with beautiful scenery is not in the city. It is near Lishan Mountain in the southwest of the old Great Wall. It used to be part of Shanglinyuan. It is said that it is still the location of the first emperor's Qinling mausoleum, that is, no one has really found the location of the first Emperor's Qinling mausoleum in the past hundreds of years.

Since it is the winter solstice, the weather is naturally not very warm. It is because of the climate change that there is no snow today, but to be honest, it is also very cold.

"What's wrong? I chose such a remote place." Ran min is not afraid of the cold, but simply feels that the surrounding scenery has no so-called beauty: "at a glance, everything withers. Where is the beauty?"

Sang Yu didn't hear it when he heard it, while the others were smiling bitterly.

By the way, the last one to come was not only the agreed people, but also Sangong Jiuqing, and even the military general at the level of Zhengzi was notified by Ji Chang.

An entourage is building a shed and a maid is preparing a banquet, which makes this place, which has not been visited for many years, more popular all of a sudden.

"The first emperor swept through the eight wastelands and six harmonies, so that the Zhuxia was unified again. The merit is in the present age and the benefit is in the future." Ji Chang said this, which Confucian scholars have repeatedly denied. He then looked at the crowd and waited for a little while before continuing to say, "the theory of the unity of the Xia and the great unification cannot be abandoned. We stand at the location of the Qin mausoleum, which is rumored to be the first emperor. Do you have any ideas?"

Even if the people present have no sense of existence at ordinary times, they are all senior officials and important officials, as well as contemporary vested interests. Safeguarding the country is tantamount to safeguarding themselves. Some people understand the meaning of Jichang dialect, while others really don't understand it.

"The first emperor did more than sweep the eight wastelands and six harmonies." Sang Yu said with a smile, "more cars are on the same track, books are the same, and lines are the same wheel."

Even those who have not read history books basically know those. They can scold the first emperor for his cruelty, but they must not deny the first emperor's contribution to Zhuxia. Otherwise, it's hard to say that Zhuxia is not one.

"The first emperor did not unify his thoughts." That's what Ji Chang wants to say. He glanced at the crowd again and said solemnly, "today, we need to make up for this deficiency and gather the learning of the various Xia dynasties. Do you know what a great undertaking this is?"

Liu Che, Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, did a very good job in unifying thought. He didn't last long and supported the monster of Confucianism.

Contemporary people will not say that Confucianism is bad. It is also the business of some people. It has nothing to do with theory.

Then, contemporary Confucianism has not yet moved towards the study of how to fool the people, but has been made into how to study metaphysics by the mainstream.

Ran min is not a brainless person, but he really doesn't like twists and turns. He didn't feel anything embarrassed and said, "what does the prime minister want to say? It's too mysterious. Min can't understand!"

In an instant, Xu Zheng hurried to move a few steps aside. He was really ashamed to stand side by side with ran min.

"..." Ji Chang felt that he was talking very seriously. He didn't know whether ran min was intentional or making jokes. He stared at ran min in a more depressed way, and simply opened up and said, "if this is really done, we will not only be the founding heroes, but also be with the words."

"Of course!" Sang Yu extremely agreed with this point, that is, whether to fight or win, and said: "it is precisely because it is an unprecedented great cause, how to pay too much attention to it. Yu privately thought that the theory of the South was too unhealthy..."

LV Yi didn't care about politeness at all. He shouted directly, "the imperial envoy, the doctor, stay!"