Chapter 280 The character of Chinese literati

Looking at the high-spirited Emperor of Heaven, Wang Euzhi showed a look of regret.

Why regret?

Because Wang Fuzhi regretted that he did not meet Zhu Kezang when he was young.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng swept through Henan, captured Nanyang, then besieged Kaifeng, defeated the Ming army, and then moved to Hubei. Zhang Xianzhong also swept through Anhui and pushed into Qishui. The Qing Dynasty once again entered the pass. Most of Shandong was ravaged and plundered.

With a population of 360,000, 320,000 livestock, and more than 2 million taels of gold and silver, the Ming Dynasty at this time could be described as a state of decay, with almost no pure land.

This year, the new imperial examiner Wang Fuzhi and his eldest brother took the water route to Nanchang, intending to go to Beijing to participate in the joint examination. However, the war in the Central Plains made the road to the north blocked. The imperial court was unable to go to Beijing due to the examination of candidates from various places, so it had to postpone the general examination until next time.

Year.

After several months of delay, in January of the 16th year of Chongzhen, the two brothers had no choice but to embark on the road back home with disappointment, confusion and bitterness.

However, there is still hope. After all, the court will only postpone the trial for one year, not to mention that the situation may improve again. With this idea, the husband's brother returned to his hometown and restarted a peaceful rural life.

However, the torrent of the times rushed forward and mercilessly shattered Wang Euzhi's peaceful life. In the autumn and August of that year, Zhang Xianzhong captured Wuchang and even defeated Changsha and Hengzhou.

Zhang Xianzhong's general Ai Qineng stationed in Hengzhou, implemented the policy of "recruiting talents", and recruited the new candidate Wang Fuzhi's brother and others by name. Wang Fuzhi's brother did not want to become thieves, so he fled into the mountains, but the peasant army threatened his father.

In order to let the whole family escape, Wang Euzhi stabbed his face and limbs and applied poison. He pretended to be seriously injured and had people carry him to the county seat. He lied that his brother was dead and relied on friends to mediate the situation, so that the peasant army no longer forced him.

Let his father and son return home.

"Your Excellency, are you Mr. Funayama?"

Although it is still in the circle of sensory awareness and physical and mental cultivation, it is much more advanced than the Neo-Confucianism of Cheng and Zhu.

"But the appearance of the saint and the emperor made me, an old man, feel excited again, and I had the idea of ​​assisting him in his career."

The first meeting between Zhu Kezang and Wang Fuzhi caught each other a little off guard.

"Teacher, I hear you say, do you want to join the Ming Dynasty?"

Wang Huizhi immediately boasted wildly, and Tang Duanhuang agreed very much.

On this point, Wang Fuzhi coincided with Zhu Kezang. In order to adapt to this era, Zhu Kezang could not rebel against himself, so he put forward the slogan of world harmony.

By the way, Wang Fuzhi, his name is in the history books!

At the moment when Wang Fu's family members held each other's hands and cried, lamenting the rest of their lives after the disaster, Wang Fu's heart was probably already vaguely aware that the Ming Dynasty was about to end.

The temple that waited for young talents to display their ambitions and talents is gone.

Like many courageous scholars, Mrs. Wang spent her whole life fighting against the Qing court.

Wang Fuzhi nodded and said: "I have indeed had this idea. It has been twenty years since His Majesty Yongli passed away in Myanmar. I have already lost confidence. I feel that the world has been completely destroyed and that this beautiful river and mountain has completely fallen into ruins."

in the hands of barbarians."

The ordinary path of scholars taking the exam to rule the country and bring peace to the world has been cut off.

Wang Fuzhi's words made Tang Duanhua stand in awe of his teacher again.

Zhu Kezang seemed to have thought of something. In Hunan, the only person who dared to dress like this was Mr. Chuanshan Wang Fuzhi!

When he thought it was Mr. Chuanshan, Zhu Kezang no longer cared about the king's face, and shouted while trotting:

The two were talking nearby, and Zhu Kezang also discovered them!

As if they had a tacit understanding, the two sides looked at each other!

Shaking his head, Wang Euzhi put aside the regrets in his heart. It is not too late, as long as Daming can be resurrected.

"Expel the Tartars and restore China. In the past, Emperor Hongwu put forward these eight words, which eventually drove the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties to the desert and established the Ming Dynasty. Now the saint and the emperor have once again used these eight words as his ambition. Isn't this

Is it something that people of our generation pursue throughout their lives? Isn’t this kind of great cause more meaningful than me sitting in the mountains all day long and indulging in papers? "

His political thought is to "follow the principles of the world."

Tang Duanhuo asked a little excitedly.

In the Jiashen period of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng conquered Beijing. Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Jingshan with resentment, despair and exhaustion.

Although the survival of a family is shocking, it is not tragic.

He originally planned to go to Hengyang in person to visit him after a while, but he didn't expect that Wang Fuzhi actually took the initiative to appear in front of him.

His thoughts were not completely anti-feudal, but merely a concentrated expression of China's ancient communal thoughts, but they still had great innovative significance.

Without Zhu Kezang, Wang Fuzhi would have passed away suddenly on the second day of the first lunar month in 1692 (the 31st year of Kangxi) with his confidence in the Chinese righteousness and the future of the Chinese nation, ending his stubborn and unyielding life full of struggle.

However, as the Qing government implemented the policy of "shaving your hair and changing clothes", the scholar-bureaucrats at that time deeply felt that the world that carried thousands of years of Chinese civilization might also be destroyed.

Under this theme, he fiercely criticized the "lonely Qin" and the "poor Song", profoundly exposing the practice of Qin Shihuang and other emperors in the past dynasties in treating the world as private property.

Looking at the middle-aged disciple, Mr. Wang said: "You must do it. If you look at a person, observe his actions and words, you can know his character and ambition. From the emperor's words just now, you can know his ambition. And I heard

He said that although the emperor is still young, his personal conduct is very noble. He is not extravagant, not greedy for money, and not addicted to women. He usually lives a simple life and treats his ministers very kindly. He is truly a wise king!"

As one of the three major thinkers in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, he had already formed systematic thoughts at this time. He believed that the principles of nature are in human desires, and opposed innate knowledge. He advocated relying on sensory knowledge to enter the sounds and colors of all things in the world to explore

Know the laws of things and understand the world.

Zhu Kezang was surprised that Wang Fuzhi actually came to look for him.

The dream of living high in a temple and then clarifying the world was shattered.

"Your Majesty, you are an old man!" Wang Euzhi responded.

When he was young, he sold his property and actively participated in the anti-Qing uprising. When he was middle-aged, he fled everywhere to avoid pursuit by the Qing court. During this period, he was trapped in a water village and fasted for four days without dying. In his later years, he lived in seclusion in the mountains and studied hard, and finally became a successful scholar.

A great scholar of the generation, the Qing government switched to a soft policy and deliberately tried to win over him, but he stood firm and refused to serve in the Qing Dynasty.

The old Ming Dynasty died.

This surprised him but at the same time he was still very moved.

As expected of a famous figure who fought against the Qing Dynasty, when he heard that Ming Dynasty was back, he decided not to live in seclusion and took the initiative to help.

This is a true scholar, a man who perfectly conforms to the true Confucian theory.

"Mr. Chuanshan, I planned to go to Hengyang to pay a visit in person, but I didn't expect you to come over. I'm disrespectful!"
Chapter completed!