Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

For Zhu Su, it was not unfamiliar to guard the border and assist the royal family.

In the eleventh year of Hongwu, his second brother Zhu Chong and third brother Zhu Yu had been enfeoffed in Xi'an and Taiyuan respectively.

His fourth brother Zhu Di was originally scheduled to be enfeoffed in Beiping this year, but because of the Guangmu incident and the early recall of General Xu Da, he temporarily postponed the enfeoffment of his third brother, and most likely he would have to wait until General Xu returned to the north.

And the place where he, the King of Zhou, would be enfeoffed in Kaifeng had already been decided, and the original time of enfeoffment was next year.

During his stay in Yingtian Prefecture, his eldest brother Zhu Biao told him about the places he had seen in his early years; his second brother Zhu Chong wrote to him saying that he planned to rebuild the defense of Xi'an; his third brother Zhu Yu wrote to him saying that the people of Taiyuan were difficult to govern and he was still trying to adapt.

All this made Zhu Su more eager to leave Yingtian Prefecture and see the local customs and people, instead of staying with the collection of books in the deep palace.

But after the Tianshou Festival, Daddy gave them brothers a piece of paper, saying that if they could understand the meaning, it might be of great use to the Ming Dynasty.

It was from then on that Zhu Su felt that he should stay in Yingtian Prefecture for a while longer, after all, there were quite a lot of books and all kinds of scholars here.

More importantly, in the few short sentences about the meaning of science, he seemed to see an endless and dangerous peak covered with thorns, but at the top of that dangerous peak, he seemed to be able to see the shadow of the one principle that the Neo-Confucian scholars had been pursuing for two or three hundred years.

And until today, seeing this spectacular light curtain with my own eyes and hearing what Daddy said was the evaluation and discussion of "Xiyuanlu Ji" by later generations, this feeling became stronger.

The customs and people of Kaifeng had long been forgotten, and Daddy also said that this was not the first time he had seen the light curtain, so there must be a third and fourth time later, so Zhu Su's idea of ​​staying in Yingtian Prefecture became stronger.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little hesitant.

He also gave the scientific proposal to his sons to some scholars for their study, and there were also some interesting points.

But Zhu Su was his son after all. Which was more important, defending the Ming Dynasty or exploring science?

The emperor, who was lost in thought, felt his sleeve being pulled. When he looked up, he saw his sister's eager eyes, so his heart softened:

"Forget it, the fifth brother will accompany you to read the future proposal, and the matter of Kaifeng will be postponed for the time being."

Zhu Su was overjoyed, and Zhu Bo was also happy. After all, he liked the fifth brother very much among all the brothers.

Zhu Biao was somewhat relieved. It was rare for his father to take back his decision.

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In the Guangzheng Hall, Qian Chu raised his eyebrows:

“How could the Great Song Dynasty cause the Mongolian Khan to die in battle?”

Although it was his first time to see the light curtain, after Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu compared the map and explained, Qian Chu, who was a little familiar with maritime business, also had a preliminary concept of the world.

It was also because of this that the boundless territory of Mongolia on the light curtain seemed even more terrifying.

And he also remembered that this Mengge was the final winner of the Khuriltai Conference? The result was that it ended in this way.

Li Yu sneered at Qian Chu's remarks, but thinking about how Emperor Zhao had just said his ending in just a few words, he was a little upset for a while.

Now that the King of Jin has shaved his head and become a monk, Emperor Zhao has clearly stated that alcohol and rich food are banned in the palace. Unless there is anything unexpected, the King of Jin should only be able to talk about Buddhism for the rest of his life, and it is difficult to play tricks.

His life was temporarily safe, so why did Emperor Zhao summon him here? Li Yu's three pupils were full of confusion.

Then he suddenly remembered what Qian Chu said just now, "The convergence of hundreds of rivers is the general trend."

Zhao Pu, who was discussing with Zhao Kuangyin, said softly:

"Money cannot make you warm, and food cannot make you full, but it can be used to control civil affairs and pacify the world."

"Without money, the world will be difficult to pacify."

Zhao Kuangyin also sighed, he understood this truth very well, after all, this is the purpose of the Fengzhuang Treasury.

It's a pity that future generations would rather use this money to go to Mount Tai to deceive ghosts and gods, rather than use it to strengthen the army and engrave the stone in Yanran.

Master Kong Jiong shrank his neck.

[When we talked about Neo-Confucianism in the last issue, we talked about the fact that Zhu Xi almost promoted the rise of Neo-Confucianism before his death.

And Neo-Confucianism can be roughly divided into three stages in the Song Dynasty.

The first is the transition period from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, when the chaotic times forced various theories to evolve rapidly.

The second is the debate among great Confucian scholars such as Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuyuan, and Lu Zuqian, which eventually led to the Ehu Debate. This stage ended with Zhu Xi's death and Han Tuozhou's opening of the party ban to persecute Neo-Confucian scholars.

The third is that Li Zong respected Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and Neo-Confucianism became the orthodox thought during this period.

Unlike traditional Confucianism that focuses on literature and politics, Neo-Confucianism pays more attention to moral cultivation. Zhu Xi also said that "when reading history, we should look at the great ethics, great opportunities, and the gains and losses of great governance and chaos", putting great ethics first.

Some modern scholars believe that Zhu Xi's view of historiography is based on "molding history and returning to the purity of reason", and judging historical events and figures with the standards of Neo-Confucianism, hoping to play a role in maintaining the moral principles and teachings for future politics and society.

In short, historical records influenced by Neo-Confucianism will have a strong moral color.

When talking about Jia Sidao, we have to talk about Shi Miyuan first. After all, it is rare that he assassinated the prime minister, beheaded him to negotiate peace, forged imperial edicts to arbitrarily depose and enthrone, and these things were not included in the "Biography of Traitorous Ministers".

But if we compare them, we will find that during Shi Miyuan's reign, the "Jiading Reform" was implemented, and the Neo-Confucianists who were persecuted during the Qingyuan Party Ban were rehabilitated. In addition, Song Lizong, who advocated Neo-Confucianism, was also supported by Shi Miyuan, so Shi Miyuan really contributed to the development of Neo-Confucianism.

On the other hand, Jia Sidao controlled the system of remonstrance, suppressed the students of the Imperial Academy, and scolded the pseudo-Taoists who talked nonsense as "lazy and slow and incompetent people", mocking them for "not knowing what military, finance and punishment are".

In this case, the most talkative pseudo-Taoists will naturally scold your old Jia family's coffin lid upside down.

And modern scholars have also verified that Temur Tashi and Zhang Qiyan, who "cooperated a lot" in the compilation of "History of Song Dynasty", are people who have studied "the origin of Song Confucianism".

Ouyang Xuan, who set the format of "History of Song Dynasty" and wrote the theory, praise and preface, was also a Taoist who "has a profound understanding of the origin of Yi and Luo books".

Seriously speaking, it is not a big problem for Neo-Confucianism to judge history by morality, and it also belongs to the multi-angle view of history. After all, Jia Sidao's personal morality is indeed problematic.

But it is a bit problematic to fail to correctly recognize the inevitability of historical laws and instead blame it on personal morality.

After all, if we follow this logic, the only one who could save the Southern Song Dynasty at that time would not be Hai Rui, who was sniping at the Taoist priest in the middle gate.

But if Hai Rui sat in Jia Sidao's position, he would probably not be able to escape the fate of being sent into the "Biography of Traitors" by this logic in the future.

Some people say that in the Southern Song Dynasty, it would rather offend Mongolia or the emperor than offend the powerful and the literati, and Jia Sidao offended all of them with the "Public Land Law". 】