Dao Fruit

The eastern part of Lingnan Road, Fujian.

According to the political divisions of the world, although Fujian belongs to Lingnan Road, with its continuous development, it has become increasingly closely connected with Jiangnan Road, and it also has a flourishing humanities.

In the past two years, with the spread of a new theory, Fujian, a place far away from the capital of China and close to the sea, has also undergone subtle changes, changing the fate of some people.

"Brother Cui, do you still remember the article you wrote a few days ago?"

Early in the morning, a group of Confucian students gathered in the most famous tea shop in Changle Prefecture, all holding books and surrounding one person.

The person being surrounded was named Cui Sujing. He was originally a failed scholar. He failed in many examinations and was despised by others. However, he also had a literary name when he was young. After becoming a scholar, the road to the imperial examination was quite bumpy, but he did not feel sorry for himself. He is calm in his studies and has quick thinking. He is also well-read in poetry and books and has extensive knowledge.

Of course, it is the Cui family that is a wealthy family and has a business at sea, so it can support an idle person like Cui Sujing. If it were someone else, even if they had the Susukita land given by the government and the money of a scholar every month, they would still be in a tight situation and would have to run around for a living. , bend down for five buckets of rice.

However, as time went by, it was inevitable that there would be gossip in the Cui family clan. Because Cui Sujing's father had some influence in the clan, they suppressed it, but eventually he had to explain it to him, which gradually created pressure.

This situation suddenly changed a year ago.

The opportunity for change was a book spread from the north.

In fact, the material of this book is not good, and there are many errors and omissions in the printing. Compared with the books in the Cui family library, it looks extremely crude. The reason is that this book is made of brand new The method of printing——

Movable type printing.

The advent of printing. The impact on traditional woodblock printing was huge.

However, this impact is also divided into different levels. The specific factors have been mentioned before, but the actual changes have changed. As expected, the rise of countless private workshops has taken away a lot of business from the Great Seal. However, disputes over interests are secondary, and more importantly, the dissemination of knowledge.

Movable type printing compared to engraving. The biggest advantage is the cost, which has been reduced step by step. When it comes to circulation, the price of a book may be less than one-third of that of an engraving book.

You can get three copies for the price of one. Whether it is a wealthy student or a person from a poor family, it is undoubtedly good news. Since there are many buyers, the speed and breadth of the spread of knowledge have increased a lot, and to a certain extent, the monopoly of knowledge has been broken.

It's just that private workshops want to maintain their market share. To maintain the advantage of engraving, we will try every means to reduce costs, from paper materials to the arrangement and storage of movable type plates. They always save as much as they can, and do as little as they can. Many problems have arisen, and they have been criticized by those who represent the interests of the family.

However, blame belongs to blame, even if many Confucian scholars are influenced by public opinion. He holds a disdainful attitude towards books printed with movable type, but the situation is stronger than the people. Driven by human nature and instinct, you still have to buy what you should buy.

Even a rich kid like Cui Sujing. He will also buy it. One of his hobbies is to read a lot of books and accumulate knowledge in all aspects. The contents of this book spread from the north have not yet been circulated in Fujian, which also urges him to have to Make a purchase.

This book is called "Scholar's Statement" and is circulated in the north and a small part of Jiangnan Province. It records the words and deeds of Qiu Yan, the imperial envoy of Jiannan Province and a Hanlin scholar, when he was in the capital. The main part includes several lectures in the Imperial College. The core of the subject is the way of knowing and doing.

The way of knowing and doing is now also called "Qiu Xue". Due to the expansion of the literary network, its influence in the world is beginning to take shape. Dali is still suppressed by many schools of thought, so it is not obvious yet. But outside the territory of Dali, Especially in the northern Xinjiang frontier, the prevalence of Qiu Xue was really unexpected, and it even caused several disputes.

One of them is about the ownership of Qiu Yan. The two parties fighting for it are Confucianism and military strategists. Although these two families have gaps and conflicts with Qiu Yan for some reasons, they still do not care about the theories that may be passed down. Those who are let go will not be neglected for public reasons, because this involves the luck of hundreds of families.

It's just that this kind of dispute is not considered mainstream at the moment, and the scope of its impact is not large, so it has not attracted many people's attention yet.

In contrast, another kind of dispute is particularly eye-catching. Because of this kind of competition, the area and scope involved are not small, and there are deep problems hidden behind it. This is the orthodox origin of Qiu Xue.

"Qiu Xue" refers to the way of knowing and doing. It can be seen from the name that the founder is Qiu Yan, but it is not clear enough where and when he achieved the theory.

There is a process for the formation of a theory. It begins with sporadic whispers, gradually takes shape, is finally settled, and then perfected and enriched. Such a process is almost unavoidable, and the same is true for the way of knowing and doing. As Qiu Yan Step by step, it gradually took shape and became famous.

But this also gave rise to a dispute over the birthplace of the way of knowing and doing.

Currently, there are four main places that claim to be the birthplace of the Way of Knowledge and Action, namely the Land of the Three Jin Dynasties, the Imperial College in Beijing, Jiannan Road and Saishang Grassland.

The reason for the Three Jins was Qiu Yan's lecture there after he returned from the north.

Throughout his life, there were not many such opening lectures, and there were even fewer examples of focusing on preaching the way of knowing and doing. Naturally, people had to pay attention to it. The local students used this as an excuse to describe the way of knowing and doing. The origin of Taoism belongs to the Three Jin Dynasties, and a book club was organized to claim that there was a successor to Qiu Xue.

The Imperial College in the capital was named because Qiu Yan was a doctor and had a professor there. Even the first appearance of Wenwang took place in the Imperial College. With these assets, it was inevitable that he regarded his place as the birthplace of Qiuxue in order to seize the fortune of the school.

As for Jiannandao, it was still due to Qiu Yan's origin. In addition, after Qiu Yan became an official, he stayed in Jiannandao for the longest time. This also gave Jiannan scholars a reason to raise the banner of Qiuxue's origin.

In addition, there is another tribe on the grassland.

Today, the Sanshui tribe has begun to show its hegemony, unifying nearly one-third of the grassland and bringing all tribes under its command. This tribe has a kind of awe from the bottom of its heart for Qiu Yan and pays special attention to Qiu Yan's words and deeds. Prince Duolu, who holds real power in the tribe, has also studied the Central Plains Learning. After coming into contact with the Way of Knowing and Doing, he highly praised it and extracted some of its thoughts.

With the intervention of people with good intentions, the Sanshui tribe also began to promote the origin of Qiuxue as the grassland.

This is not nonsense, because the humanitarian classics that established Qiu Yan's status were formed in the grassland. Humanitarian classics have always been regarded as the culmination of doctrines. It is not strange to use objects as evidence to promote the origin.

On the other hand, as the national war subsided, the Sanshui tribe became famous in the grassland and had the momentum to swallow the desert. Their actions gradually became the weather vane of the grassland. Duolu promoted Qiuxue, and with Qiu Yan's past, many tribes knew that the victory or defeat of the Northern Xinjiang Campaign was actually closely related to this person. Back and forth, promoting Qiuxue became a grassland fashion, and there was a hint of fighting for orthodoxy.

All of these laid the foundation for the grassland branch of Qiuxue and the reincarnation inheritance of two living saints a few decades later. This is a later story, so let's not talk about it for now.

It is said that Qiuxue was spread on the grassland, but except for the Duolu branch of the Sanshui tribe, other tribes had no understanding of Qiuxue, and many had never even seen it, so the spread on the grassland was more symbolic, and the real Qiuxue branch had not yet appeared.

In comparison, the other three parties all had their own propositions and bases, and it was difficult to distinguish the superiority.

For example, in the Sanjin area, there was a book called "Zhixingyan" compiled by Huashe, a disciple of Qiu Yan, which was a record of Qiu Yan's lectures, including the opinions and annotations of several students. The main content was the guiding ideology of Zhixingdao in specific industries, which was a little thin.

In comparison, the proposition of Jiannan was slightly inferior. The core thing was the "Notes" circulated in the officialdom. Because Qiu Yan never officially passed it down, there was no specific name. Some people called it "Qinshi Notes" and some called it "Qiu Guan Handwritten Notes". The names were different, and what was recorded was not a specific doctrine, but the way of dealing with people, being an official, and the reform of the military system.

It is worth mentioning that it is this notebook that is highly praised by military strategists.

As for the book "Scholar's Sayings" obtained by Cui Sujing, it is a compilation of Qiu Yan's words and deeds, mainly what he said and did when he was in the capital. It was summarized and compiled by Fang Ziyan and others in the Imperial College. In addition to Qiu Yan's lectures, there are also words he said when he asked the students to work in the farmland outside the city. The changes brought about by the labor itself are also involved, but the system and logic of the book are not clear, and the relationship between knowledge and action is not pointed out. In fact, it is quite obscure.

"Scholar's Sayings" is also the most recognized book among scholars at present, and it is believed that this book represents some of the thoughts of Qiu's school.

At the beginning, Qiu Yan's doctrine was feared by many schools of thought, and they wanted to suppress it. At the same time, they wanted to transplant his thoughts into their own doctrines, so that the way of knowledge and action would eventually disappear and become the nutrients of other doctrines.

But now, most academies have given up the idea. The reason for this and the reason for the rapid spread of Qiu Xue are all the same -

The way of knowing and doing is the key to open the Wenwang!

The impact of this network on the literati and literary world is much stronger than the impact of movable type on woodblock printing.

"Brother Cui, since you can't remember anything, why don't you go to Wenwang again? It just so happens that we have questions to ask, and Brother Cui can repeat them so that we can write them down. The required books are ready."

Cui Sujing's fate changed, from a failed scholar and an idler of the Cui family to a celebrity in the city, and the root cause was also Wenwang.

"Okay, but I have to think about it." Looking at the anxious expressions of the crowd, Cui Sujing took a sip of tea and agreed. He didn't know that he would also get opportunities from entering Wenwang again this time! (To be continued)

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