"At the beginning of man, one is good..."

Lu Tixue finished reading it carefully, nodded from time to time to express his agreement, and finally said: "This Mongolian text is indeed superior and is conducive to children's learning, but it cannot be called the scriptures, so it should be changed to "Three Character Text".

Zhu Ming didn't care about this and bowed and said, "Thank you for your name."

Lu Tixue smiled and nodded: "Person Li Tong said that you are well-versed in the Three Classics, I will take the test now."

As soon as this was said, the twenty scholars from Xixiang County who accompanied him all turned their attention to Zhu Ming. They had doubts, disdain, jealousy... and all kinds of emotions were all in one go.

It is not easy to say that you can penetrate the three classics!

A young man who is able to understand the Three Classics can basically be determined to be bragging.

Lu Tixue said to Professor Qian and his scholars: "I can answer the questions I asked."

"Please give me some advice!"

Everyone bowed and bowed.

Lu Tixue stood with his hands behind his back and looked at the mountains and rivers ahead: "What is Tao? What is a weapon?"

A scholar named Yu quickly answered: "The metaphysical one is called Tao, and the physical one is called utensil."

Before this man could finish his words, the other scholars were already regretful.

What I regret is that I react too slowly and missed the opportunity to express myself. This is the original saying in "The Book of Changes", and it is very famous. Even if I don't treat the Book of Changes, I can answer it.

Lu Tixue looked at Zhu Ming: "What do you think successfully?"

Zhu Ming understood what the other party meant. In the past, Bai Chongwen and Li Hanzhang asked the county magistrate to take the teaching content of the imperial examination as the starting point, and just asked Zhu Ming to explain the scriptures.

Lu Dixue, who was in front of him, had already skipped the imperial examination level and wanted to talk to Zhu Ming about theory.

Zhu Ming replied: "Tao is the principle, and tools are the matter."

This answer is similar to that of the Shizi surnamed Yu, but it is more specific.

Lu Tixue asked again: "What is the Taoist instrument?"

"For Taoist instruments!"

"The Taoist instruments are the same."

"Tao is also a tool, and a tool is also a way."

“…”

The followers all answered that they had to seize the opportunity this time, and they were talking about the mainstream view of being big and empty.

Zhu Ming thought carefully but didn't say anything. He was guessing Lu Tixue's thoughts.

Candidates who are good at reading comprehension know that only by thinking through the intention of the questioner can they be infinitely close to the standard answer.

Lu Ti’s knowledge and Zhu Ming: “Why don’t you speak?”

In connection with Lu Tixue's words and deeds before, the other party seemed to admire miscellaneous studies very much, and Zhu Ming gave the answer: "The treatment of the instrument shows the truth."

Lu Tixue was stunned when he heard this. After thinking seriously, he laughed happily: "What a good tool to show his truth, he is really the most of us!"

This is not only a standard answer, but also exceeds the expectations of the questioner.

"Treating instruments and showing the truth" was the idea of ​​the Southern Song Dynasty School of Merit. At that time, the court experienced a series of disastrous defeats, and many scholars began to reflect. Therefore, they proposed to apply what they learned and pursue knowledge. The pursuit of learning was to enrich the country and strengthen the people, abandon those principles of being empty and empty, and be realistic and do things. They advocated that both rural and commercial enterprises should be given equal importance to justice, and use both righteousness and profit, and use both kings and dominances.

The environment in which the birth of the Southern Song Dynasty's Shigong School and the content they advocated were exactly the same as the practical school in the late Ming Dynasty. They were both weak and abandoned false talks and pursued practicality.

Of course, Lu Tixue is not a good school, but he advocates miscellaneous studies and can match each other.

Seeing that Lu Tixue was touching the itchy spot, Zhu Ming chased after the victory and said, "Those who enrich the universe are nothing but things, and everyday use is nothing more than things."

Lu Tixue carefully savored this sentence and felt like a close friend. At the same time, he was a little jealous: I thought so too, why didn’t I summarize it?

This sentence comes from the words of Chen Liang of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhu Xi and Chen Liang are good friends, both of whom are fanatical and pro-war factions, but their academic thoughts are incompatible. They all try to convince each other, but they can't do anything about the other party, so they just need to fight to judge the winner and lose.

"Successfully come forward!"

Lu Tixue was happy when he saw the hunt and ignored others at all, and asked Zhu Ming to move forward with him.

After walking for a while, the ridge of the field was slightly wider and there was a mulberry tree.

Lu Tixue didn't mind that the ground was dirty. He sat under the mulberry tree and waved, "Come and sit down."

So Zhu Ming also became free and sat down next to Lu Tixue.

This situation made the follower crazy jealous and wanted to kick Zhu Ming away and replace him with him.

Who made them not know how to review the questions? They started to answer questions as soon as they were excited.

When dealing with this kind of teaching test, it doesn’t matter whether the answer is correct or not. It mainly depends on whether the questioner likes it or not.

"Get wine!" Lu Tixue shouted.

The two soap officials hurried forward, arranged wine cups and filled them with them, and spread dried fruits on the ground with silk cloth.

Lu Tixue chewed the dried fruit and took a sip, and asked again: "What Er Cheng said is 'preserving the laws of heaven and destroying human desires'. How do you view success?"

"The truth is good, and there is no point in criticizing it," Zhu Ming said. "It is the principle of heaven that is full and well-dressed, marrying a wife and having children. Overeating, having a group of concubines, and human desires. It is the principle of heaven that should be preserved and eliminated."

Lu Tixue was unhappy: "How can human desires be eliminated?"

Zhu Ming smiled and said, "So the truth is right, and we should persuade the world in this way. But in reality, we can only abide by it and cannot force others. There are even those hypocritical people who treat others strictly and be lenient to themselves, and only let others destroy human desires, but they will not refuse their own human desires."

"Well, there are people who are so hypocritical," Lu Tixue raised his wine cup and said, "Come on, drink!"

Zhu Ming also said: "This is about nature and temperament. Nature is the emotion that has not been released, and emotion is the nature that has been released. Everyone has evil thoughts and evil spirits. Being able to control one is a gentleman. Those who are happy, anger, sorrow, love and hate, those who get the right are the way, and those who lose the right are desires."

Lu Tixue felt strange. What Zhu Ming said was the same as he thought, and he could also explain it accurately.

It's very simple. What Zhu Ming just said just now combines the essence of the enemies Zhu Xi and Chen Liang. How could the two great Confucians of the Southern Song Dynasty not crush Lu Tixue?

Lu Tixue seemed to hate Taoism very much, and then drank a bowl of wine and continued to criticize: "Surveying things leads to knowledge, and the two Chengs have also understood the wrong way, so what kind of mind, nature and fortune-telling are involved? Since it is to investigate things, it is necessary to do things, and how can we investigate things without doing things?"

Zhu Ming deliberately followed the other party's wishes and said, "That's true. If you study things and seek knowledge, you should make plans based on things and seek the way."

"I'm a good example of things and seek the truth from things," Lu Tixue liked it and raised his wine cup and said, "Let's have another bowl!"

Zhu Ming smiled and clinked glasses. He had figured out the way to learn from his mission.

The current official mainstream idea is Wang Anshi's new learning, promoted by Cai Jing, and later inherited by Qin Hui. The new learning was eventually abandoned and could not be separated from Cai Jing and Qin Hui. What good knowledge can the two treacherous people respect each other?

At the same time, although Taoism was suppressed, it had a great influence among the people.

However, Lu Tixue had a little idea of ​​"schoolism" and had nothing to do with new learning and Taoism. He was able to be a student of the learning industry, but he was just closer to new learning and was a mortal enemy of Taoism, which was why he was promoted by Cai Jing.

The school of meritorious work has not been formed at all, and there are only such scholars. Lu Tixue was depressed. He could not find anyone to communicate with him. He wanted to do things seriously but was constrained. He simply traveled all day long to do the game.

Today, Zhu Ming's brain waves actually met him!

Confidant, absolute confidant!

But where are there any confidants?

Just talking to people when you see them, just talking to ghosts.

Anyone from any school of learning comes here, as long as he or she is the student, Zhu Ming can meet the brain waves.

Under the mulberry tree, the more they talked, the more they became more and more speculative.

While drinking, discussing.

Officials, scholars, gentry, peasants... were all standing there stupidly, just watching them nonsense.

Even Xiang County Magistrate, a Jinshi in the B-level department, had no room for interruption.

The knowledge of the magistrate was not enough. Although he could understand it, he could not continue the topic and was going to make a joke when he spoke randomly.

The main thing is the content of the conversation between Zhu Ming and Lu Tixue, which is very different from the mainstream ideas. Xiang Zhixian thought it was the unique insights of which school.

Professor Qian asked in a low voice: "Brother Weitian, what is Zhu Chenggong's origin? What he and Lu Tixue said seem to be in line with the right way."

Xiang Magistrate couldn't understand it, but he pretended to understand it very well: "Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there have been countless factions of the theories. Where did the righteous path heretics come from? Lu Tixue has regarded Mr. Anding as his ancestor, he must be the branch of the righteous path."

As the county principal, Professor Qian also has a Jinshi origin—the county school requirements are not high, and only the principal must be a Jinshi, and ordinary teachers can hire a juren.

Professor Qian thought carefully and nodded, "But I am ignorant, but I didn't expect that Zhu Chenggong could answer the questions smoothly."

After a long time, Bai Zongwang felt that his pig should have been killed, so he couldn't help but say, "Lu Tixue, it's getting late, please move to my house and talk about it?"

"Noisy!"

Lu Tixue was dissatisfied with the communication interruption, but he also stood up and said, "I'll go cook pork first, and you guys will try the craftsmanship."

When discussing Tao, we must not forget Dongpo Po.

The Tixue envoy was surrounded by the Bai family and actually went straight to the kitchen, rolled up his sleeves and started cutting meat.

Moreover, his movements are extremely quick, and his knife skills are like graduating from New Oriental, and he seems to be majoring in cooking courses.

The scholars in this county could only stand and look foolishly, with mixed feelings in their hearts. How could the academic envoy responsible for the education work in Lizhou Road look like this?

I shouldn’t be elegant and serious in my attitude?

This is probably a fake scholar!

Zhu Guoxiang finally had the opportunity to communicate with his son: "What's going on with this person?"

Zhu Ming whispered: "Now the mainstream school is Xinxue. Luoxue and Shuxue are not from either school, but he is close to Xinxue and Shuxue. I guess I can't find anyone to communicate with you in normal times, so I'll share my preferences and chat to him. I guess I'll continue to talk tomorrow. Today I only talk about the general direction, and I haven't mentioned the details yet."

"The thoughts are more advanced than giving gifts. Once this leader is happy, things will definitely be done." Zhu Guoxiang said.

Zhu Ming smiled and said, "I'm afraid he'll bring me as a confidant when he chats for a few more days. Dean Zhu, you can join in. This person's thoughts are very...well, modern."

"Modern?" Zhu Guoxiang didn't understand.

Zhu Ming said: "He does not value etiquette and law, but only pursues practicality. If the Confucian scholars in this school continue to evolve, they will even have the idea of ​​"non-Confucian". It can be simply understood that they belong to Wang Fuzhi and Huang Zongxi's predecessors, but they are limited to their historical background and personal qualifications, and have not yet made their knowledge so in-depth. You only need to talk to him about agriculture, and he will definitely like it."

Zhu Guoxiang looked at Lu Tixue who was cutting meat and nodded, "Then let's wait to eat meat."
Chapter completed!