Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 261 The Eternal Perfect Man Wang Yangming ([-])

Luo Yang
Yuan Mansion
"Your Majesty actually canonized a group of eunuchs as marquises. It's really... the world is corrupt, alas~"

"It's absurd to be a county lord without growing something!"

"This big man, I think it's a pill!"

"Shh...don't say such things!"

A group of young scholars are discussing current affairs in Sikong Yuanjing's private mansion.

Although the current Yuan family is only the second generation and the third lord, not comparable to the Hongnong Yang family, it has already won the support of many scholars.

However, there were also some scholars who secretly slandered the Yuan family, because the Yuan family secretly gave gifts to the eunuchs in order to become the Sangong.

Most of the scholars expressed their understanding of the Yuan family and felt that the Yuan family was "forced by eunuchs". They still believed that the Yuan family was pure and believed that it was absolutely impossible for the Yuan family to collude with the eunuchs.

The vast majority of scholars are like this, while criticizing eunuchs for corruption, and then they are merciless when they themselves are corrupt in the local area.

They are not against corruption, but against eunuchs competing with them for the power of corruption.

On the surface, the Yuan family in Runan stood in line with the eunuchs to gain the position of the third prince, but secretly cooperated with other gentry families.

In the same situation as the Yuan family in Runan, the royal family of Liaodong also flattered the eunuchs and the emperor on the surface, but secretly colluded with the nobles.

A group of scholars envied and hated the eunuch who was named Marquis, but they were embarrassed to say that they were simply jealous, so they criticized the eunuch with various sage sayings, and used the sage classics to cover up their jealousy.

Maybe they should think about it, the eunuchs helped the emperor clean up his relatives, and the title of marquis was just the emperor's reward to the eunuchs. Instead, their gentry colluded with their relatives. As long as the emperor was still a normal person, it was impossible for them to reuse these gentry who had a history of colluding with their relatives.

Sikong and Yuan Jing were not in the house, and his son Yuan Tang was now serving as the prefect outside, so Yuan Tang's three sons, Yuan Cheng, Yuan Feng, and Yuan Kai, entertained a group of scholars.

The eldest son, Yuan Cheng, was 16 years old and was born handsome. The second son, Yuan Feng, was only ten years old and had bright eyes and teeth. The youngest son, Yuan Kai, had just turned three years old and also came to join in the fun. He showed his face in the circle of scholars in advance so that he could become an official or even a Sangong in the future. Not impossible.

"Gentlemen, be careful!" Yuan Cheng was worried that some ghost in the mansion would report today's words to the eunuchs in the palace. After everyone fell silent, Yuan Tang turned to a silent scholar among the scholars. Asked: "Brother Bo'an, why are you so sad?"

The rest of the scholars also looked at the silent and frowning young man.

The young man was in his early 20s, his name was Wang Yun, his courtesy name was Bo'an, and his nickname was Yangming.

He is the only grandson of Wang Ding. His father died of illness when he was just one year old. He grew up in Liaodong.

His grandfather was the great Confucian Wang Wei, and his grandmother was Ban Zhao, a talented woman who continued to write "Book of Han" and wrote "Nv Commandments". Although his father died early, he was also a Jiuqing, and his mother was a member of the Yuan family in Runan A prostitute.

Although the family is "down and down" now, and the highest official position is Wang Huang, the prefect of Liaodong with two thousand shi, and there is not even a third prince in the family, but after all, it is a family that once produced the famous general Wang Changzhi and the famous minister Wang Changjiong, so now The big man is quite famous.

With the blessing of so many dazzling backgrounds, he is undoubtedly the most eye-catching in the entire Yuan Mansion.

According to the seniority of blood, he is the cousin of Yuan Cheng, Yuan Feng and Yuan Kai, and according to the seniority of the teachers and students, he is the senior of the three of them.

"Yu is just thinking, why are there so many rebels in the world?" Wang Yun said, "Yu" is his self-effacing, which means that he doesn't know much, similar to a little understanding.

"During the period of Emperor Ming and Emperor Zhang, I was so gentle and gentle. During the period of Emperor He, my great Han made great martial arts and wiped out the northern Huns. But since Emperor An, first the Qiang people rebelled, and the people rebelled in various parts of the Central Plains. The eunuchs and relatives took turns to control the government. After all Why?"

Wang Yun was very calm when he spoke. He was clearly talking about a very sad thing, but there was no trace of sadness in his tone.

"There are many rebels, of course, because the eunuchs control the government. As long as the eunuchs are killed, the sky will be clear, and the world will be peaceful!" said a scholar.

"Yes, yes, the reason why the world is getting more and more miserable is because the eunuchs control the government and are greedy!" Another scholar echoed!

"Since it is the eunuchs' insatiable greed that caused the suffering of the common people, why does His Majesty still use eunuchs?" Wang Yun continued to ask.

"It must be the eunuch's insidiousness and cunning, who deceived his majesty by deceiving his majesty!" A scholar dared not say that the emperor was wrong, so he pushed all the responsibility on the eunuch.

"As long as there are no eunuchs, there will be no suffering in the world?" Wang Yun does not agree with the current mainstream thinking. He thinks that there may be other reasons for the suffering of the people, but he does not know the reason, but it is definitely not the land annexation and the greed of the gentry. Because it is impossible for the gentry to make mistakes, they can only find what went wrong elsewhere.

The mainstream thinking of today's great Han people thinks that the eunuchs caused the world's corruption, so as long as the eunuchs are killed, everything will be fine!
But Wang Yun knew about the former Han and Xinmang, and knew that the former Han died because of Wang Mang, and the new mang died because of the uprising.

But before the fall of the former Han Dynasty, the emperor at that time did not seem to have reused eunuchs, but Confucian scholars, and Wang Mang vigorously promoted Confucian scholars.

The former Han Dynasty and the Xinmang, which used Confucian scholars but not eunuchs, still perished. What does this mean?This shows that eunuchs may not be the main reason for the corruption of the world, maybe the main reason is something else?
"Brother Bo'an, do you want to speak for eunuchs?" A scholar said angrily. In their values, eunuchs are heinous. As long as the emperor reuses eunuchs, he is a foolish emperor, and as long as he reuses Confucian scholars, he is a wise emperor.

"No." Wang Yun didn't really want to pay attention to these bullshits. Although he didn't agree with the mainstream view [eunuchs lead to the destruction of the world], it didn't mean he approved of eunuchs. As a scholar, he also hated eunuchs, but he didn't It is believed that killing the eunuchs will bring peace to the world, but things are not as simple as everyone thinks.

"I think eunuchs' greed is only one of them when the world is corrupted, but the most important thing is people's hearts." Wang Yun expressed his opinion to the crowd: "Whether they are eunuchs, ordinary people, or barbarians on the frontier, they are all human beings, but Why are most people so greedy?"

"The key to this is the human heart. These people have no conscience in their hearts, which is why the world is corrupt."

"Only by preserving the principles of nature and eliminating human desires, and everyone can study things to gain knowledge, unite knowledge and action, achieve conscience, and achieve good ability, then the world will be safe."

Wang Yun was influenced by Confucian ancient and modern classics, Buddhists, Christian missionaries, and Taoist legalist classics since he was a child. He is no longer a pure Confucian scholar, but a blend of various ideas.

Ji Xingfo lived for more than 130 years and passed away only ten years ago, and his last disciple was Wang Yun.

Thanos Wang's thinking also influenced Wang Yun.

Coupled with the influence of his great Confucian grandfather on him.

There is also the influence of the Taoist and Legalist classics collected by the royal family of Liaodong on him.

Wang Yun is integrating Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Buddhism and Christ into one.

The rest of the scholars were all surprised by Wang Yun's new insights, and they were all dumbfounded.

"Yangming, Yangming, you are really deviant!" Yuan Cheng is a traditional Confucian scholar. His only feeling about Wang Yun's words is that he is too deviant, completely out of the scope of the current Confucianism.

(End of this chapter)