Zhu Youxiao looked at Song Yingxing and asked in confusion: "Brother Song seems to be very disdainful of Neo-Confucianism and Mind Science. What is the reason? I'm very curious, you must know that they are showing off their studies now."

Although there are no more schools of thought in this era, there are many schools of thought in Confucianism, and their opinions are also very large. Song Yingxing seems to be not a person from the mind or the Neo-Confucianism, because he does not admire these two schools very much, and seems to be a little disdainful.

"Because their path is off the wrong path." Song Yingxing picked up the teacup and took a sip and said.

This was the first time Zhu Youxiao heard this statement, which instantly aroused his interest, so he asked again: "What do you think is the right way?"

This is what Zhu Youxiao is most interested in, and he is also looking for a way for the Ming Dynasty.

Currently, there are two theories of mind and Neo-Confucianism on the surface.

Neo-Confucianism will definitely not be praised by Zhu Youzao, and Zhu Youzao must also consider it if he is aware of his heart.

I support Xu Guangqi and Shen Tingyun because of their scientific vision; and as for Li Zhi's theory, I mainly focus on his discourse on capitalism and his understanding of human and aggressiveness.

Zhu Youxiao now wants to know what Song Yingxing thinks.

"I am Guan Xuemen." Song Yingxing looked at Zhu Youxiao with a smile, but saw some doubts on Zhu Youxiao's face.

He stopped smiling awkwardly and understood something. The virtuous brother in front of him had no idea what Guan Xue was.

Zhu Youxiao was also a little embarrassed, and he really didn’t know what Guanxue is. Is there such a science in Confucianism?

Zhu Youxiao hugged Song Yingxing and said apologetically: "It makes my brother laugh, it's my ignorant."

Looking at Zhu Youxiao like this, Song Yingxing smiled and waved his hand, and said helplessly: "It's no wonder that brother is a virtuous person. There have always been debates between schools. The mainstream schools suppress other schools and have always been doing things. People like us naturally cannot get mainstream recognition. Brother brother has never heard of the truth, so it is not strange."

Song Yingxing looked at Zhu Youxiao and said with a smile: "That's why I want to do something for our Guanxue so that more people can know, and let Your Majesty today also know that in addition to the study of psychology, Daming also has another Guanxue."

"How do you know that Your Majesty will be interested in Guan Xue today?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

In fact, this is a question that Zhu Youxiao is really curious about. Because he can see hope in Song Yingxing's eyes, especially when talking about His Majesty today.

This means that Song Yingxing is full of hope for His Majesty today.

So where did this hope come from? This made Zhu Youxiao very curious.

"Because Your Majesty now says that practice is the only criterion for testing the truth." Song Yingxing said, "If Your Majesty knows that there is still relevant learning, then Your Majesty will definitely support it. But how to break through the blockade in front of Your Majesty is a difficult problem."

Speaking of this, Song Yingxing smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying helplessly: "At the beginning, Neo-Confucianism did not allow us to speak, but now the study of Mind may not allow us to speak. But in the end, we have to try it. If we succeed, we will not succeed."

"Why do you do this? Just to promote Guanxue?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Song Yingxing and asked again.

"I know what my brother means. In the end, a person needs to do something in his life. After reading the books of sages, he naturally wants to show what he has learned and want to give him Yao and Shun. This is the ideal of all scholars, and I am no exception."

After Song Yingxing said this, he looked at Zhu Youxiao and asked, "What do you think of the Ming Dynasty today?"

"Internal and external troubles are in danger." Zhu Youxiao said without any politeness: "It seems that the prosperous times are actually like cooking oil. If you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss."

"It has been more than two hundred years since the Ming Dynasty. Looking at all dynasties, it has reached the end of the dynasty." Zhu Youxiao did not hesitate at all.

After saying this, he smiled himself, and then continued, "Maybe I can see more than I. The knowledgeable people in the court and the scholars and Qingliu in the wild can also see that, so they proposed various strategies. Since Zhang Juzheng's reform, everyone is looking for a path to revive the Ming Dynasty."

"But there are not many people who dare to say it like my brother." Song Yingxing said with a smile: "People are selfish, and they are entangled by these things after all. If everything is like this, you think you can do it, I think I can do it. The fight will eventually be a party struggle."

"So I highly respect what Your Majesty said, practice is the only criterion for testing truth. If you say you can do it, it won't work; if I say I can do it, it won't work, so let's try it to see who it is. It is precisely because of this sentence that I think Your Majesty will like us Guanxue. Since neither Mind nor Neo-Confucianism can work, why not let us Guanxue try it?" Song Yingxing said this sentence lightly, but it is loud and clear.

"Do you know, when you go to the court to preside over the innovation, you may bleed and die! I believe your brother should know what Zhang Juzheng ended up in the beginning." Zhu Youxiao looked at Song Yingxing and asked expressionlessly.

"Why do you care about this? What is my purpose for the world and the Ming Dynasty. What are my fears of death? If Zhang Juzheng is still alive, what he is sad about is definitely not his fate, but his new policy has been destroyed." Song Yingxing looked at Zhu Youxiao and said with a smile: "I don't know if I can do it, but I want to give it a try."

After a while of silence, Zhu Youxiao nodded and said with a serious expression: "Then just talk about it, tell me about Guan Xue. I am even more curious about Guan Xue when I can cultivate a talent like my brother."

"My brother is really interested?" Song Yuanxing asked with a smile.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and smiled gently, "Of course I am very interested. Seeing my brother like this, I want to learn it. If it is appropriate, then I will follow my brother to learn Guanxue."

"If you are not afraid of delaying your future, then there is no problem. I will talk to you."

"Guan Xue is a school that was first founded by Hou Ke, a great scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty during the Qingli period of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was officially founded by Zhang Zai. Because its actual founder, Mr. Zhang Zai, was from Guanzhong, it was called "Guan Xue"; because Mr. Zhang Zai was called "Hengqu" in the past, it was also called "Hengqu Xue".

"'Guanxue' takes the Book of Changes as its core, the Doctrine of the Mean as its body, the Rites as its use, and Confucius and Mencius as its law. Mr. Zhang Zai once said: Establish a mind for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the living people, inherit the unique knowledge of the past sages, and bring peace to all ages. This is the idea that Mr. has always pursued, and we are all believers of Mr.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's face changed.

It turns out that Zhang Zai from Guan Xue is this Zhang Zai. He really doesn’t understand Guan Xue, but Zhu Youxiao has heard these words, which is really famous.

In later generations, no one does not know this sentence, it is simply a manifesto-like existence.

In the following time, Song Yingxing explained to Zhu Youxiao in great detail what Guanxue is.

After listening to Song Yingxing's story, Zhu Youxiao probably understood what was going on.

This so-called Guanxue is actually a simple materialism, but it is actually far less thorough than Xunzi.

To put it bluntly, Guanxue is still a school of Neo-Confucianism, but it is not welcomed in many places. It advocates the Qi-based theory, its "harmony between man and nature" and "people and things" not only emphasizes the subjective initiative of a person, but also reflects the principle of equality of his treating the people as compatriots.

It also advocated the restoration of the well-field system, believing that the well-field system can make the people evenly rich and poor, and have enough food and clothing; it advocates caring for all people and things in the world, not being greedy, and not being allowed to occupy them.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, the only desirable thing is its simple materialistic values, and the others are completely undesirable.

However, there is also something that shocked Zhu Youxiao, that is, Guan Xue proposed a theory that Zhu Youxiao did not expect: the earth is the center of the universe, and it has its own rotation. The seven stars composed of the sun, the moon and the other five constellations rotate to the left at the same time with the earth, but because of the different speeds, it is formed on the ground, with left rotation and right rotation.

This is actually a geocentric theory, which is definitely a very, very amazing achievement in this era.

However, Guanxue cannot do it, its policies and ideas cannot save the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao looked at Song Yingxing and asked with a smile: "Why do I think Xunzi's theory is better? Xunzi said at the beginning: Don't live for Yao, don't die for Jie."

"In terms of human nature, Xunzi advocated the theory of evil nature, and good human nature is the result of education; in terms of the view of heavenly way, he proposed the idea of ​​"controlling the destiny of heaven and using it" to conquer nature. Xunzi attached great importance to etiquette and promoted the Confucian idea of ​​kingly way, believing that 'water can carry a boat and can also restore the boat'. Xunzi once said: Heaven and man are divided, and control the destiny of heaven and use it."

After looking at Zhu Youxiao, Song Yingxing's eyes widened.

He didn't expect that the virtuous brother he knew would be so bold to say that he admired Xunzi's theory.

You should know that at this time, Xunzi is almost heresy.

Everyone praised Confucius and Mencius. In terms of human nature, they believed that human nature is inherently good, they praised Neo-Confucianism, Zhu Xi, and the two Chengs. Even if they were praised by Wang Yangming, no one would praise Xunzi, because Xunzi's theory had no market.

Since the heavenly movements are constant, it will not survive for Yao or perish for Jie. So what is Dong Zhongshu's theory of induction of heaven and man?

Natural disasters are early warnings for emperors to lose their virtues. If the heavens and man are divided and the destiny is used, then what is the emperor? What are the officials using to limit the emperor?

If human nature is evil, then what should be used to limit this evil?

Use education and law. In Xunzi's proposition, he should be generous and respectful to law.

In Xunzi's view, human nature is to pursue profit and desire, and the role of etiquette restricts human infinite pursuit of profit and desire, and there is inevitably conflict between the two.

In order to ensure the normal operation of public order, the following of etiquette inevitably involves a kind of compulsory nature. Thus, etiquette is transformed into law.

Therefore, Xunzi often mentioned "the key points of etiquette and law" and "the great parts of etiquette and law", and was called "etiquette and law together.

This goes against the opposite of "the punishment cannot be punished by a doctor, and the etiquette cannot be compared with the common people."

Although no one would shout "The punishment cannot be punished, and the courtesy cannot be submissive to the common people", everyone wants a special treatment, everyone wants to be different from others, everyone wants to be punished when they commit crimes, and even more so for officials.

In such a situation, no one will like the Legalists, and this is the most important thing.

Originally, the emperor should have insisted on supporting the Legalists, but it did not.

After the growth of Confucianism, it completely occupied the mainstream and put the Legalist ideas in a cage. The law needs to be maintained by the power of the emperor. Once the emperor loses power or the power is weakened, the law of the empire will disappear.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the strictness of the laws and the implementation of them were incomparable to the present.

In recent years, the consequences of civil officials' crimes have become lighter and lighter, so naturally more people will take this path.

On such a selfish basis, Xunzi's thoughts are naturally inappropriate.

So they began to suppress Xunzi's thoughts, began to denounce Xunzi as a heresy, and even drove Xunzi out of the Confucius Temple. This was all what they were doing.

After all, it is just a fight against dissidents, and there is no other reason.

The remarks Zhu Youxiao just said are definitely excluded in this era.

No one wants the emperor to implement Xunzi's theory, because once the emperor implements Xunzi's theory, many of their privileges will be weakened and many of their statements will not work. So they will not let the emperor do this.

This is the collective interest of scholars, and they subconsciously oppose it. The reasons that each person finds may be different, but they just oppose it because it is the interests of their entire class and there is no other reason.

Even Song Yingxing looked at Zhu Youxiao differently.

"Your brother actually wants to learn from Xunzi?" Song Yingxing asked in surprise.

"Isn't it possible?" Zhu Youxiao asked back, a smile appeared on his face.

"But Xunzi..." Song Yingxing hesitated a little.

Originally he wanted to say something, but after seeing the smile on Zhu Youxiao's face, he swallowed what he wanted to say, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.

"I said I want to learn from Xunzi. Is this the reaction of Brother Song?" Zhu Youxiao said with a serious face: "Does Brother Song want me to turn from evil to justice? If I am stubborn, do I need to attack me? But what is the difference between such actions and Neo-Confucianism and Mind Learning?"

"You said you think what Your Majesty said makes sense, but Xunzi's thoughts are useless? You said you can try Guanxue, so why can't you try Xunzi's thoughts?"

"Do you know what I call this? This is called double standard, which means that it can be placed on my own, but it can't be placed on your own."

Song Yingxing looked at Zhu Youxiao with some shame, and after a while he spoke, "My brother's words were like enlightenment, which made me suddenly understand. I couldn't figure it out before, but now I understand."

"Thank you, brother." Song Yingxing hugged Zhu Youxiao and fisted.

"We should not decide who is right or who is wrong, nor should we decide whose doctrine is right or whose doctrine is wrong. Collusion between each other will lead to party struggles, so we can just practice it. Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth."

"If it is right, then there will naturally be a good result; if there is no good result, it will prove to be wrong."

"We must allow others to have different ideas, and we must tolerate different schools. Even if we have to argue, we must use facts to prove it, rather than destroying others and not letting others say it."
To be continued...