Chapter 1,433 Discussion

Cai Jing cupped his hands and said: "This is a book that teaches people all over the world. The Duke of the country is one of the righteous and rational. With this book, he can be compared with the sages."

Su You waved his hand: "I let Yuan Chang read it so that you can give me your opinion. There is no need to say these words."

Cai Jing sorted out his thoughts and asked first: "May I ask the Duke, have you read the outline of "Ethics" with others?"

This is certain. While Su You was sorting out his thoughts, he also maintained correspondence with influential figures in the country.

In this compendium, he collaborated with Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Wen Yanbo, Lu Gongzhu, and Zhang Fangping who represented the older generation; Tang Yan, Su Shi, Su Che, Zhang Dun, Han Zhongyan, Zheng Xia, and even Cheng Hao of the middle generation, All opinions were sought.

Among the younger generation, there are Huang Shang, Liu Zhengfu, Shao Bowen, Su Yuanzhen, Chao Buzhi, Bi Zhongyou and Su Yu.

Compared with Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which stood at the lower end of philosophy, moving in the direction of philosophy from an ethical perspective, with the intention of finding a philosophical basis for the "kingly way", and finally forming Neo-Confucianism, the value of what Su You wanted to do is self-evident.

What Su You wants to do is to use philosophy as the basis and ethics as the framework to explore the rules that should be followed if a nearly perfect moral society is to be built.

This has broken through the scope of philosophy and traditional Confucianism, and has focused on the future development direction of mankind and the development path at our feet.

Su You opened a window that scholars in the Song Dynasty had never reached.

Su You no longer simply divided this society based on monarchs, ministers, farmers, industry and commerce, but divided everyone who participated in social life based on their shared attributes.

Within this division system, everyone is fulfilling their social responsibilities, assuming corresponding powers and equivalent obligations, and serving one system, which is human society.

The sum of all things that are conducive to maintaining this society and making it progress is morality and civilization.

And morals are affected by the degree of civilization progress. For example, human sacrifices were performed in the Shang Dynasty. For people in the Shang Dynasty, it was also the goodness they recognized as worshiping heaven and respecting their ancestors. This was their morality, which was limited by their degree of civilization.

Therefore the two complement each other.

As for personal morality, it is limited by the "social scope", which is the difference between people and me.

Cultivating one's self means "self alone"; regulating one's family means expanding the scope of "I" to include the family; governing the country means expanding the scope of "I" to include the country; and bringing peace to the world means expanding the scope of "I" to the whole world.

This also includes the cognitive expansion of social scope and the cognitive convergence of social morality.

Moreover, such expansion and convergence must be conducive to social progress, the progress of human society? It is conducive to everyone or the majority of people, the improvement of material and spiritual levels? Otherwise, society will become a head-eating tail. The involution society eventually fell apart.

Is this the necessity of moral existence? It is also its core value.

Today's Song Dynasty is undoubtedly the country with the highest degree of human civilization development. Therefore, it is conducive to the common progress of all human society to have the values, ethics, and moral values ​​of the Song Dynasty converge in the "world".

This gave the Song Dynasty, which was developing, progressing and expanding, a powerful ideological weapon to firmly occupy Dayi.

And there is one thing that has not been written out? That is, if the rulers of the Song Dynasty wanted to use this theory to develop their country and enjoy the dividends this theory brought to themselves, they would also be bound by this theory.

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Of course the intellectuals of the Song Dynasty, the elites of the three generations, old, middle and young, could see the value in it. They were all amazed by Su You's theoretical direction, which made the older generation happy, respected by their peers, and admired by the younger generations.

But this has nothing to do with Cai Jing. Su You showed his theory to those people because he trusted their character.

For them, as long as the theory is tenable and beneficial to most people, they naturally know how to choose.

But a gentleman can be deceived. Not all people in this world are like that. Out of caution, Su You also needs the advice of a "traitor" like Cai Jing.

He waved his hand and said, "You don't have to worry about what other people think. I don't want to use other people's opinions to influence you. I only ask for your thoughts and suggestions."

"Cai Jing really admires the Duke's cultivation." Cai Jing bowed to Su You first, and then said, "I have opinions... it's not like I don't have any."

"Yuan Chang will tell you."

Cai Jing thought about it and decided that it would be better to speak directly, so he said: "This book uses many new words, including outlines, examples and other styles, and the traces of Neo-Confucianism are really too heavy."

"Although Neo-Confucianism is now a prominent science, it has not been adopted by the imperial court as a way to recruit scholars. The scholar-officials' speculation and study are not profound enough."

"If you don't understand "Principles", then start reading "Ethics". For those who are far-fetched, I am afraid that they will not be able to understand it, or they will be distracted and interpret it randomly, and they may end up criticizing it."

Su You really didn't think about this, so he couldn't help but ask: "What does Yuan Chang mean..."

Cai Jing said: "My lord, the book is a good book, but... it's a bit... ahead of its time. In other words, the promotion has not yet reached its peak."

Su You hesitated for a moment: "But when will the heat be reached?"

Cai Jing also knocked on the coffee table, pondered for a long time, and then said: "Or, let Bachelor Sima come?"

Su You spat out a mouthful of tea and said, "Can you give me some advice? Don't cheat anyone if you catch them."

After saying that, his face darkened: "Did Yuan Chang see any risks?"

Cai Jing did not deny it, but he said it very artistically: "The emperor is now a promising monarch. He restored the Tang system and established six ministries to divide the power of the prime minister. Aren't these originally designed by the Duke of the country?"

Su You did not deny it, but he also said it very artistically: "What I did was to serve the kings Yao and Shun. However, Yao and Shun worked diligently and set an example for the people. Their rights and interests increased and their labors benefited greatly. This is called a crown."

, who must bear its weight.”

Cai Jing was shocked: "This...this..."

Su You asked: "What's wrong?"

Cai Jing took a deep breath: "My lord, I think that when the royal family of the Song Dynasty and the scholar-bureaucrats jointly governed the world, the words 'a crown must bear its weight' are enough for today."

"The book "Ethics" is indeed the ultimate principle, and it also points out the way for the future development. However, the ignorant people may only think that the Duke of the country is calling for orders for the people who want to fight. The capital is only afraid of the scholar-bureaucrats.

If you don't care about it, it will be incomprehensible to the common people. It will only increase troubles and be of no benefit to the country."

"If this book is to be promulgated, it will have to be processed, erasing the excessive traces of science and engineering, starting the discussion from a theoretical direction, following the style of The Analects, and first attracting the approval of the scholar-official class."

"Now the Duke's writings are too clear, as straight as a sword or a halberd. Ignorant people, I don't know if it is to protect them, but I am afraid that they will feel uneasy first."

Su You finally realized that he was still thinking like a latecomer and had forgotten to consider the habits and acceptance of Song people.

This book of mine is not only for elites to read, the fundamental purpose is to popularize sowing.

He put his hands on his hands and said with a smile: "I understand, Yuan Chang's theory is the most reasonable. Why don't you call it "Ethical Training"? How about a summary of the gossip about educating flat pot colanders behind closed doors?"

Seeing that Su You listened to the advice, Cai Jing couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He was also amazed that Su You could think of such a clever method in a blink of an eye: "This method is wonderful. Cai Jing is lucky. He must first get a glimpse of Master's way. Master, don't think that Cai Jing If you want to be independent, you will just get in the way."

Su You felt extremely funny in his heart at this moment.

Not only because I had a long debate about morality with the famous traitor in real history, but finally accepted his advice;

It was also because he thought of a later book called "Zhu Xi Yu Lei".

In the book "Zhu Xi Yu Lei", many words are almost pure vernacular.

For example, "People only have their own hearts. If you don't surrender, who will you be?"

Another example is "If a person's spirit is high and his heart is not inside the shell, he will cause trouble."

Another example is the Analects of Confucius: "Zengzi made three calculations. It seems that he can save them at the moment. Only when there are shortcomings, can he correct them. It is not that he will start to correct them after the fact, but he will stop after saving them."

Su You was not very fond of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but now that he wants to promote his own ideas, he has to imitate the compilation of Zhu Xi and his disciples' questions and answers published in the fourth year of Jingding in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is really too special...

Not only does this mean that the food is changed, but the cooking pots are also moved away. I don’t know where to start complaining.
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