My Daming New Empire

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After considering the words, Su Liang said: "Although I feel guilty about what happened, don't expect this personal emotion to affect my help in official affairs. Besides, I don't know why you came, Who came here on behalf of, of course, I don’t want to know.”

Hu Yuansheng was obviously prepared for Su Liang's reaction, he pondered for a moment and said: "In fact, I still hate you in my heart, and I don't want to deal with you at all, but it's all for Daming!"

He took out a small book with a black plastic cover from his pocket, and opened it in front of Su Liang.

What came into view was the golden sun and moon national emblem of Ming Dynasty, with a small photo of Hu Yuansheng below it, and a row of large characters between the national emblem and the photo. "The General Administration Department of the Ming Empire."

Below Hu Yuansheng's photo, there are some personal introductions in small print.

Due to the advent of cameras, it is very difficult for many people to pretend to be other people these days.

What reassures Su Liang even more is that currently only a few factories can produce the plastic skin of this kind of work permit, and it is impossible for others to imitate it.

Seeing this work card, Su Liang felt a kind of funny.

He never imagined that Hu Yuansheng, a young man who was once regarded as a benchmark by the civil service group, is now serving the Secretary of the General Administration.

Although the Department of General Administration is partly affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this is only for the convenience of personnel management abroad. In fact, in terms of overall establishment, more administrative affairs of the Department of General Administration belong to the Ministry of National Defense.

In other words, the Secretary of General Administration should now be regarded as the military side of the civil and military struggle.

Seeing Su Liang's expression, Hu Yuansheng also showed a trace of annoyance and embarrassment on his face.He explained: "You were ordered to return to Xizhou. You didn't know anything. Xue Dongdong passed away last year."

Six years ago, the lawsuit between Su Liang and Hu Yuansheng intensified mainly because Xue Xuan and Xue Dewen, the Minister of Rites at the time, launched a public opinion offensive behind the scenes.

Xue Xuan and Yu Qian were Jinshi in the same period of Xie Zhenqi. At that time, Xie Zhenqi was the number one scholar, Xue Xuan was second in the list, and Yu Qian was the third.

And this period of Jinshi is also a period in which there are many talents in the Ming Dynasty.

Although Xue Dewen's highest official position was only Minister of the Ministry of Rites, he was a great Confucianist of the generation after Cao Duan. He created the "Hedong School" in the north, and his disciples spread all over Shanxi, Henan, and Guanlong.

Ideologically, this person takes the revival of Confucianism as his own responsibility, and is quite dissatisfied with Zhu Zhanji's emphasis on business and despise Confucianism, and his support for the truth religion.It is believed that emphasizing business causes the people to seek profit, while despising Confucianism leads to the corruption of people's morals.

In terms of being an official, he is honest and self-disciplined, and he is diligent in government and loves the people. He has a good official reputation among the people.

As a famous Neo-Confucianism master in Ming Dynasty, Xue Xuan admired Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.

However, although he is in the same line with Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism in thought, it is not a simple continuation of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but a further improvement and development of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.

In order to fight against Taoism and Buddhism, under the guidance of the idea that "reasons are infinite, so sages have infinite speeches", he abandoned the old and pursued the new, and put forward many viewpoints with materialist ideological tendency, which played a role in the rise of Neo Confucianism materialism in recent years. Initiative and leadership.

Moreover, he also founded the Confucianism of Reality, and published the words "people are in the 'truth', you should never forget it, check your words and deeds anytime, anywhere, and respond to things, and make every thought and thing come from the truth. The place.” And the remarks of “It’s not about talking too much for learning, but also about how to do it!”.

While emphasizing the importance of action, he also affirmed the guiding role of knowledge on action, such as saying: "Those who know the reason and act are like walking with a clear view of the day, without mistakes; See what you see and walk in meditation, although there may occasionally be people who are suitable for the road, there will be differences in the end."

The theory of "restoration" also occupies an important position in Xue Xuan's Neo-Confucian thought system.Although he actively defended Cheng Zhu's "orthodoxy" concept, he was still idealistic in nature, but there were also materialist views in it.

For example, in terms of the origin of "nature", Zhu Xi believed that "nature" was innate, which came from innate nature; while Xue Xuan believed that "nature" was "reason", which was mainly formed in the day after tomorrow.

Regarding the specific interpretation of "recovery", Zhu Xi pointed out that "recovery" is to restore people's natural good nature; Xue Xuan is not the same, he said that "recovery" is to see, hear, speak, move.Xue Xuan's theory of "restoration" is to a large extent the revision and perfection of Zhu Xi's theory of "restoration".

Because Xue Xuan strongly advocated "practical learning" and practiced it all his life, his theory was called "the learning of earnest practice" by people at that time, and he himself was known as "the Confucianism of practice".

However, because Zhu Zhanji attached great importance to the teaching of truth and only regarded Confucianism as the foundation of his thoughts, Xue Xuan's life was generally not satisfactory.

In his later years, he set off the orthodox Confucian theory, criticizing truth teaching and learning can only be for use, not for body, and the theory that "body should be more important than use" has caused many academic disputes among the people.

If the debate is only academic, Zhu Zhanji can tolerate him, because Zhu Zhanji knows very well that Xue Xuan is right.

Shinrikyo is actually applied science. Applied science can develop the economy, but it cannot enrich people's hearts.

The long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty cannot be separated from the academic influence of Confucianism.

However, Confucianism can be used as a body, but it cannot be used as a function. If you really want to use Confucianism as a function, the Ming Dynasty will go back to the old path of history.

Therefore, Xue Xuan brought academic disputes to the officialdom, and artificially divided different officials into factions, which Zhu Zhanji could not accept.

In the 37th year of orthodoxy, Zhu Zhanji dismissed him as a civilian, drove him back to his hometown, and asked him to write books and make a statement in his hometown.

Xue Xuan's removal of officials also represented the great defeat of Confucianism in the imperial court. From then on, all officials were mainly professional, and only the Ministry of Rites still belonged to the stronghold of Confucianism.

The Ministry of Rites controls Confucianism and takes education as the root of development, which is also in the interests of Ming Dynasty.

All children should learn Confucianism from an early age. Only in this way can they be fearful, loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and have the foundation of the unified thought.

Children learn Confucianism from an early age, and then learn professional knowledge when they grow up. They are real talents when they grow up and use them well.

In later generations, Confucianism was completely regarded as a feudal waste, which would only lead to the corruption of people's morals and fearlessness.

Hearing what Hu Yuansheng said, Su Liang sneered and said: "Although I am in Xizhou, I also know the news of his death, but I don't know, what does this have to do with your appointment as an errand in the General Administration Department? Is it because he died that you dared to join the army?" ?”

"You..." Hu Yuansheng slapped the table and stood up. "His Majesty punished you too lightly back then, so he should have dug out your tongue to see if you can still speak wild words!"

Su Liang also felt that it was a slip of the tongue and shouldn't be so sarcastic.He originally wanted to ease the relationship with the other party, rather than form a deep hatred with the other party.

But he couldn't do it to ask him to apologize to the other party, so he could only clenched his fists bluntly and slapped himself.

Hu Yuansheng couldn't help but sneer at this scene, but he knew in his heart that this was already the other party's apology.

Although the hatred is still there, but for the sake of the court, he can only endure it. "Let's get down to business!"

Su Liang nodded, clasped his fists and asked, "Why are you looking for me?"

Hu Yuansheng got up and walked around the room, looked around, and then returned to Su Liang and sat down. "Although the General Administration Department has an independent system in Xizhou, it has been in the public eye these years, and I don't know how deeply it has been corrupted by the two palaces. So even if I want to inquire about the news now, I dare not startle the snake.

In today's Xizhou, only the Golden City directly under the imperial court is trustworthy, and even Cao Guogong's mansion does not dare to trust it.You Su family are confused about small things, but you can manage big things.Therefore, it is a decision made by the higher-ups to use people from your Su family to inquire about news. "

"Where's the Counselor?"

"Of course people from the Counseling Department also need to use them, but His Majesty has no intention of sending troops from Daming to Xizhou."

Su Liang suddenly understood that the imperial court didn't want to tear their skins apart, and the investigation through the Su family was just to confirm from the side whether the two lines of the General Administration Department and the Advisory Information Department had been bought by the two palaces over the years.

It is of course necessary for the Su family to investigate the news, but what is more important is to let the Su family directly stand on the court's side from the very beginning.

When the two palaces heard the news, even though the Su family put pressure on them, they didn't dare to go to war to suppress the storm.

Su Liang pondered for a while and said: "Whether it's the Palace of the King of Han or the Palace of the King of Jin, although some of them have gone too far in recent years, I don't believe that there is any intention of self-reliance."

Hu Yuansheng said: "The key is not whether they have the will to stand on their own, but that His Majesty does not want the two palaces to be too powerful and occupy too much territory.

Jinwang Mansion covers an area of ​​more than 200 million square kilometers, while Hanwang Mansion has expanded its territory to more than 400 million square kilometers in the past few years.

And what about other palaces?The average area of ​​the Prince's Mansion in Nanzhou and Dongzhou is less than 60 square kilometers, which is too big a gap.

Therefore, it's not that His Majesty wants to deal with the two palaces, it's just to maintain long-term stability. "

"Isn't there a tweet order?"