The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1686

[1686. Chapter 1604 Fang Jifan becomes a saint]

Emperor Hongzhi raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

He suddenly realized something.

Among the hundreds of officials, there were also quite a few new disciples, whose eyes lit up at this moment.

Suddenly, they seemed to understand something.

Is this… the legendary unity of knowledge and action?

Emperor Hongzhi cheered up and stared at Fang Jifan. He felt more and more that Fang Jifan was not simple. He couldn’t help but said: “So, this is what Fang Qing’s family did intentionally?”

“Your Majesty.” Fang Jifan said eloquently: “There are many people in this world. It is also extremely difficult to make this knowledge profound. However, it is also extremely difficult for a person with such a talent as Erchen to write such a vulgar book in the eyes of others. It’s even more difficult.”

“…”

Emperor Hongzhi was in a daze and said subconsciously: “Keep talking.”

Fang Jifan then said: “For this reason, I am going through a lot of trouble. This is a bit more difficult than writing a “Spring and Autumn”. Why? Because first of all, Erchen wants to lower his IQ to the same level as those who have not read books. As we all know, Erchen has been reading every day for these years, not only compared with Confucius and Mencius, but also better than ordinary Confucian scholars. It’s much smarter. Therefore… In this process, I suffered terribly. In order to write this “Ode to the Ming Dynasty”, the first thing I had to do was to understand what Zhou Tanzhi, the Minister of Rites, despised. The common people’s literacy level is so high, I want to bring myself to the same level as them.”

“For example… I want to do it, there must not be a single uncommon word in this book. , because ordinary people can only recognize very limited characters in their lifetime. Most of the characters they can recognize come from money, IOUs, Spring Festival couplets, their own names, or the memorial arch at the head of the village. For this reason, Erchen listed these as common characters. In addition, he tried his best to make all the characters as simple as possible.”

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he couldn’t help but start to imagine that he had never studied. Ordinary people, the characters they can recognize are definitely limited, and the characters they can come into contact with are even more limited.

He raised his head sharply and couldn’t help but said: “Come here, take the Ming Song.”

The Ming Song was quickly placed on Emperor Hongzhi’s desk. After a closer look, Emperor Hongzhi found that almost all the words and sentences were written with his best. He had not noticed the use of common words before, but now he suddenly discovered that if you write an article and try to use uncommon words in every place, it is certainly not easy, but if you use simple words in every sentence, it is also not easy. thing.

How much effort was put into this!

Fang Jifan added: “In addition, in order to ensure that they knew the words in it and could barely understand it, I tried my best not to use the poems, songs, verses, and parallelisms as much as possible, but I tried my best to use them. All the words and phrases were changed to people’s common idioms. How the people spoke was how they were written in this poem. Just like this pig, it has always been used in writing, but Erchen noticed that the people were like this. He liked to call him a ‘pig’, but even if there was a ban, the government could not change the inertia of the people, so… the ministers boldly decided to write it as a pig.”

“The literati revised the book and asked people if they wanted to eat. , but the common people don’t usually speak like this. This is the speech of the scholars. As for my son, I directly changed it to, “Have you eaten?” So… Of course, the common people don’t know some words well, but if they only know them, One or two words among them can probably be deduced based on their own experience. In this way, they can write down those things they don’t recognize, and at the same time, they can barely understand the contents of the book. It can be said that Killing two birds with one stone, what’s wrong?”

Ouyang Zhi had already reacted, his eyes shining brightly.

This is the real university question.

The teacher’s move was really vivid, allowing me to finally understand the secret of the new learning, reciting poems and composing poems. There are many words and phrases that care about the people in these poems and poems, but… these pretentious words and phrases are indeed quatrains of the ages. Another example is what Mencius said, calling for the people to be the foundation.

But the problem is that whether it is Mencius or these literati and poets who are sympathetic to the peasants, these words are all said to the rulers and scholar-bureaucrats. This is more like a condescending pity and sympathy from the superiors.

However… my mentor’s idea of integrating knowledge and action and putting people first is far beyond Confucius and Mencius. Although it continues the benevolence of Confucius and Mencius, it is actually a bit more advanced because it has truly penetrated into the people and implemented this idea. People-oriented thinking.

Emperor Hongzhi felt even more incredible when he heard this.

Everyone in this hall was silent. This was a brand-new way of thinking…

Although some people sneered at it, in any case, people who claim to be disciples of saints and love their people like sons, whether they are hypocritical or sincere, are not right now. People dare to stand up.

Fang Jifan then added: “I have done it so that the people can barely recognize the words in the book, and I have also done it so that the people can barely understand the sentences in the book. But… this is not enough, because… the people will read again. If the things in the book are not helpful to them, then… what is the meaning to them? “

“Those scholars are supported by people, so they don’t have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation. They can talk openly, and what they say are all family affairs, national affairs, and world affairs. But the common people are different. They don’t have enough to eat, and they don’t have enough warm clothes. There are so many mouths of the whole family, and they all weigh on them. If the content in the book is just a sermon, would these people be interested in such a book? “

“In that case, you need to know what the people need. As your Majesty said, all the princes in this palace are… It relies on the people’s fat and the people’s anointing. Where does this people’s fat and the people’s anointing come from? It comes from the people farming, raising pigs, chickens, and growing fruits and vegetables. The people work for many years. They don’t care what year it is, but they care most about it. But it is the solar terms, why? Because only by understanding the solar terms can they know the farming season, and they know when to plant crops and when to harvest. Therefore, I compiled the almanac in the book and taught the people how to raise pigs. How to simply deal with some diseases and how to get rid of insects. This knowledge is not important at all to scholars, but to the common people, it is like the Four Books and Five Classics, and it is also the basis for their survival. “

Fang Jifan paused and then said: “After reading this book, if they could grow better crops, would it be more beneficial to the court? If they could raise more pigs, cows, chickens and ducks, would it be more beneficial to the court? Less burden? This important matter of benefiting the country and the people is exactly the benevolence of Confucius and Mencius. It is what a scholar with a heart for the world should do. Your Majesty knows this person. He is dedicated to helping the country and caring for the people. , it is with a benevolent heart that I have thought hard and compiled this book that will benefit the people. If this book can benefit the people, your Majesty will also benefit from it, and the people will benefit from it. From a book, you can learn more words, know more truths, and understand more skills. Then… isn’t this not education? “

“Some scholars talk about education, but they use simple knowledge. , to speak in the most complicated direction, it is obviously a sentence, he wants to break it up, crush it, and then use some mysterious and mysterious words to pile it up with complicated words. In this way, he feels that he is extremely clever, as if Only in this way can he prove that he is different as a scholar and maintain his dignity.”

“There are countless scholars like this throughout the ages. Even thousands of years later, there will be such people. “

But Xishan Academy promotes new learning, and Erchen also discovered that some students in Xishan Academy began to have such a situation. I was really sad about this. University scholarship should be simple. If a true scholar is truly benevolent, he should explain this complex phenomenon in the simplest terms, because only in this way can more people know about this phenomenon and understand it. Only these principles can benefit the world. Such people actually regard themselves as disciples of saints, pride themselves on their character, put on a condescending attitude, and ridicule and ridicule the children. The children said rudely, “This kind of people are nothing but They are just a bunch of blood-sucking bugs, selfish and inferior to pigs and dogs. They are just pests under the sect of a saint.”

Emperor Hongzhi listened quietly, but began to think.

Hearing these words, he didn’t feel happy at all, but at this moment, what he was thinking about was…whether he had seen this before or had experienced such a phenomenon before.

The new ministers were so excited that they could hardly control themselves.

Even Ouyang Zhi, who was belatedly aware of it, tasted it carefully and suddenly his face turned red.

They were ashamed. Many people had felt sad about Fang Jifan because of Ming Song’s book. They always felt that it was inexplicable that Fang Jifan published this book.

And now…everything is clear.

This is the way of the sages that New Learning pursues.

Fang Jifan added at this time: “I’m being polite when you say these people are pigs and dogs. If I had been a boy with such a hot temper, I would have wanted to beat him to death if he saw such a mysterious person. These people who live in temples can obviously speak human language, but what they spew out is a lot of specious lies, such as… Zhou Tanzhi, Minister of Rites of Nanjing, Zhou Shangshu, do you think what I said is right? ?”

………

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The enrollment matters were finally settled, and I breathed a sigh of relief. I had been in a state of confusion during this period, and I was terribly anxious every day. Finally, I could sleep peacefully.

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(End of chapter)