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Chapter 444: The Origin of the Armed Scholars! Ask for a Monthly Pass)

"The law of heaven, the destiny of heaven is indeed far away," Zhao Kai frowned and thought for a while, "I don't say anything about strange powers and gods, so we can't pretend to be a god or a ghost. Then it will become Taoism? Moreover, the Western God and the two religions of Tianfang do not talk about ghosts and gods. They only have one 'master'. It's too easy to get rid of things about pretending to be a god or a ghost."

The so-called "one god" of the "one god" in the West is actually not the same as the ghosts and gods of the Eastern people. Their "one god", that is, the god of creation and the lord of creation, are actually existences similar to the laws of nature.

But their Catholicism (Catholicism, Tianfang Buddhism shares one Lord) is said to "love the world", and occasionally floods the world, and they can use the doomsday judgment to scare the world. However, the Chinese law of heaven does not "rule the world", and it is okay for the world to do whatever it takes...

Therefore, the laws of nature in China were discovered by Confucian and Taoist sages, rather than the principles of nature sent Jesus or angels to spread his principles.

"Officials," Hu Yin and Hu Daru pondered for a while, "We can't pretend to be a god or a ghost. In that way, Confucian scholars in the world will not agree with the Confucian Congress... But we are not unable to link the laws of nature with ordinary people."

Zhao Kai looked at Hu Yin and smiled and said, "Ming Zhong, don't keep it a secret. If you have any good ideas, just say it."

Hu Yin paused and thought about the words, "Since ancient times, sacrifices have been followed by the upper and lower levels. Only the emperor can sacrifice the world, mountains, rivers and rivers can be sacrificed by princes and officials, and gentry and common people can only sacrifice to ancestors and the kitchen god. Therefore, we only need to link the principles of heaven with ancestor worship, so that all people in the world can accept the theory of heaven."

Zhao Kai nodded, "How to contact us?"

Hu Yin said: "All things are from heaven, and humans are from ancestors... and humans are also one of all things, so humans are from ancestors, that is from heaven. After the ancestors die, there is a soul and ghosts have no substance. In fact, it is a qi. This qi cannot last forever in the world and will eventually return to heaven. Since the soul of the ancestors returns to heaven, then worshiping ancestors is to respect heaven."

A great Confucian scholar is a great Confucian scholar. After some explanation, it is even smoother.

Zhao Kai nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, it's this principle that the soul of the ancestor must have a place to return. Otherwise, who should we burn our yellow paper to? Since the law of heaven is the origin of all things, the soul of the ancestor must return to the origin...that is, it will return to heaven."

He sighed and said, "Everyone knows about Guitian, right?"

The great scholars couldn't help but frown and nodded. Although everyone didn't like Guitian, they all knew they couldn't escape!

However, if you don’t even have to return after kicking your feet, you will be even more unhappy...

Zhao Kai pondered for a while and asked again: "Then how can we link the matters of returning to heaven, worshiping ancestors, the principles of heaven and the Confucian school?"

In fact, the Confucian "ritual" originated from sacrifices, or in other words, the early Confucians were just doing sacrifices in addition to education... There were no monks back then, and the old Taoists helped chant scriptures and pass on the journey!

Perhaps it is precisely because of the two things of education and sacrifice that Confucianism can survive and grow in an era of struggle between various schools of thought.

However, after Confucianism became a prominent scholar, Confucian scholars either studied and sought officials, or local lords and gentry exploited poor and lower-middle peasants. Not only did they stop doing their old sacrificial rituals, but they were not even interested in teaching and educating people. None of them would have any great scholars like Confucius, who had "teaching but not being different" and received 3,000 disciples.

Nowadays, the great scholars who open academies to teach disciples, this gentleman and that gentleman, actually have few disciples. And even if they accept disciples, they may not necessarily teach them... In most cases, the disciples who have become disciples of the great scholars have already read the "Four Books and Five Classics". There is no need for a teacher to teach anything, just a name.

Those who have many disciples are usually village scholars, and they are poor and have great difficulty. Regardless of their level, they actually don’t have many students. Therefore, the Song Dynasty, which is known as the literary style, has a very high literacy rate.

Moreover, those village scholars who open private schools or take disciples to teach in private schools are poor and have no organization, so these people are usually not part of rural gentry, so they naturally have no appeal.

When facing monks, Taoists, and monks of the White Lotus Sect, they are also at a disadvantage.

When overseas, when facing the more powerful Tianfang jurists, Theravada Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, those village scholars who could not survive in China and had to go out to explore the sea were extremely poor and humble.

"We can run schools..." Hu Yin said, "We should run not only schools and academies, but also many primary schools, township schools, and preside over primary schools. The teachers of the township schools not only teach people to read, practice calligraphy and martial arts, but also preside over rituals."

"How many schools do you have to run?" Chen Dong immediately raised an objection, "It costs money to run a school! Even if you don't cover the full amount of school fees, you will have to give a subsidy, right? But do we have that much money?"

Hu Xian had already started to make a mistake by his fingers, "Not to mention the various ways of fortune, our Confucian Party Conference has just opened, so we can't control so many. Even if we are in the field and the military school of the Jieyuan... We now have about 600,000 soldiers and more than 300 Zhechong Mansions. Each Zhechong Mansion has two or three thousand children to enter the primary school. According to one teacher teaching one hundred children, there are twenty or thirty teachers. The school buildings, tables, chairs, textbooks, paper and pens in the township schools can be raised by the Zhechong Mansion, so we will subsidize the expenses of the teacher's teaching.

More than 300 Zhechong Mansions require up to eight or nine thousand men... One gentleman subsidizes thirty or forty cents a year, which is only hundreds of thousands of cents."

Although hundreds of thousands of coins are not bad, for Zhao Kai, who is about to unify the world, it is definitely not a big money.

Moreover, hundreds of thousands of education funds a year can cultivate generations of culture, ideals (Confucian ideals), morals (loyalty to the emperor and patriotism), disciplined, and martial arts, which seems to be very cost-effective.

By establishing a village school in the countryside and helping the soldiers to conduct sacrifices, the Confucian Party Conference can explore a set of methods to run schools and sacrifices, and can also prevent negative monks and Taoists from corrupting the soldiers with abundant martial ethics.

In addition, the number of soldiers in the palace is more than that in the palace... There will definitely be many Ding Yu with abundant martial ethics in the future. What should we do with these Ding Yu?

They are definitely unwilling to be farmers! These guys are all from the exploiting class and are trained as warriors. How can they be willing to work honestly?

Being a Confucian priest or joining an armed Confucian sect seems to be a good way out!

If a Confucian scholar group composed of hundreds of thousands of armed Confucian scholars with abundant martial ethics can be devoted to the pioneering and education movement in the future, then the Han people who went out to colonize the sea would not be afraid of reasoning with Catholicism, Tianfang Buddhism and Buddhism... These people must be particularly good at reasoning and will definitely be convinced with virtue.

As expected, running education is a very cost-effective investment!

As for the Confucianism that transfers all the ways... it is not particularly important. You can wait until you have money before you can slowly advance. Anyway, people in the hinterland of China will not believe in paganism, and hundreds of thousands of armed Confucian scholars are enough to defend the colonial territory. If there are more, only one earth will not be enough to colonize.

"Okay, okay!" Zhao Kai shouted three times in a row, "It's true to me! What I want is hundreds of thousands of Confucian scholars who respect the principles of heaven, respect ancestors, loyal to the king, and have abundant martial ethics!"

After hearing Zhao Kai's words, the great scholars below were all stunned.

What's going on? Why are hundreds of thousands of people with abundant martial ethics involved?

The world is about to be unified quickly, so what do the officials need so many Confucian scholars with abundant martial ethics do?

......

"Everyone, what we are discussing today's Confucian Conference is the matter of the Confucian Conference itself!"

The Confucian Conference continues.

That important conference will certainly not be over in one day.

On the first day, Zhao Kai answered the questions raised by Geng Nanzhong, Lu Benzhong, Li Qingzhao and others. On the second day of the Confucian Congress, it was not used to discuss the "Three Questions of Zhao Kai", but instead discussed the organization of the Confucian Congress.

The reason why Zhao Kai raised this issue at this year's meeting was of course because he heard that the Southeast Confucian scholars attending the meeting were very dissatisfied with being a teacher, so he temporarily changed the content of the discussion and brought out the Confucian Conference to discuss it.

"Officials, what is the best thing to discuss about the Confucian Congress?"

Geng Nanzhong raised his hand and asked a question.

"No?" Zhao Kai smiled, "Although I am a Confucian scholar, I am also the emperor, the supreme emperor, and I hold the power of the world. I am under the seventh rank. I cannot come to court to see me unless I have a special order... And today, I have a cloth wool and a scarf and sit with you to discuss the story. Isn't this worth mentioning?"

Geng Nanzhong was stunned and immediately understood what Zhao Kai meant. He had been a minister in the court for many years, and was the prince's teacher, and the minister of the East Mansion. Of course, he did not take the King of Famous seriously.

But for ordinary officials...Mianjun's affairs are incredible!

Moreover, these people who come to attend the Confucian Congress today can not only meet the emperor, but also sit down to discuss issues with the emperor.

This is simply the treatment of the magistrate! Even if the local prefect and the magistrate have the opportunity to see Tianyan, they can only stand and listen to the lecture. After a few words, they will be able to pass the matter down and chat slowly?

Zhao Kai then said: "In the past, the Imperial Academy had the power to write a letter to the court, so there was a saying that there was no official censorship. I don't know how many people were so sharp that they wanted to enter the Imperial Academy. And you are the great scholars I recognized, and you can discuss the Tao with me... Of course, you are also qualified to report to me and secretly!"

The minister secretly reported...Who has such power in feudal society? Even if he has no official status, he will be a local dominance! The local prefect and the county magistrate dare not provoke such people at all!

"And," Zhao Kai smiled and said, "The Confucian Party Conference will still be held after the Confucian Party Conference... Confucianism is complicated, can it be possible to discuss it well without a conference? Since the Confucian Party Conference is to be held, it must be opened, and there must be subordinates. The Confucian Party Conference attending the conference must also have an identity recognized by the conference. Do you think these matters should not be discussed carefully?"
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