People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 178 There are two people in the world who can slay dragons
Trying to persuade Kong Xixue is slightly different from convincing Kong Na.

Zhang Yi once wanted to guide Kong Na, but it was a leisurely move.

He originally thought that he would have a chance to implement this idle thing at least in the future.

Who knew that the farce between Yang Xian and Liu Bowen would involve him, which made Zhang Yi want to carry out his plan a little bit.

Now that Kong Xixue has taken the bait, this is the best news for him.

However, to persuade Kong Xixue, you only need to emphasize that you have different ambitions. For an adult like Kong Xixue, you have to promise benefits.

"Uncle Kong, you said that the guidance is too much, how can I have the qualifications to guide the Kong family in this regard?
It's just that Xiao Dao's qualifications are dull, and he did have similar thoughts during the learning process, so he told Kong Na about it!
In my opinion, there are many ways to change the cost of education, but the most profitable way is to simplify the text and lower the entry threshold for knowledge!
Uncle and Kong Na were born in a scholarly family, so naturally they don't understand the hardships of people like me, or those who are worse than me in reading and literacy. Sometimes it's not that we don't want to learn, but that learning is more difficult than others! "

Kong Xixue was thoughtful, what Zhang Yi said did have some meaning.

Reading and literacy is as natural as breathing for a scholarly family like the Kong family, but he also knows that literacy is a very rare skill for people in this era.

Not only scholars, even if a person fails to study, as long as he can read and write, he can do many jobs that others cannot do.

But even if they know that these jobs can relieve them from hard physical labor to a certain extent, there are still very few people who can read and write.

Of course, there are reasons why most people do not have the resources to learn characters, but it is not without the fact that the popular characters are too complicated.

Simplifying the text seems like a good way to go.

However, children only talk about ideals, and what adults want to see is benefits.

The confusion of Kong Xiology is essentially the same as Kong Na, but there are some subtle differences.

He is not as deeply bound to the Mongolian court as Kong Kejian, but he has also received benefits from the Mongolians.

Having witnessed the glory of the Kong family, Kong Xixue was also unwilling.

"Um……"

Zhang Yi thought for a while, and said: "I can't explain the big truth, so let's use our Longhu Mountain as a metaphor!

The prestige of our Longhu Mountain is created by many factors, including the favor of the imperial court, the inheritance of the position of heavenly master from generation to generation, and the efforts of our ancestors and Zhengyi of the past generations. But in fact, the root of the glory of Longhu Mountain comes from Yu Zhengyi has accumulated the hearts of the people over the years.

These people's hearts have provided a lot of incense for Longhushan!
In fact, the Kong family has a similar situation. The scholars in the world are the incense of the Kong family! "

Kong Xixue was thoughtful, and he agreed with Zhang Yi's reasoning.

If the roots of the Zhang family are those foolish people, the roots of the Kong family lie in the scholars of the world.

Everyone reads the books of Confucius, and they respect the descendants of the Confucian family to some extent. These respects have created the incense of the Confucius Temple in Qufu.

Everything that the Confucian family enjoyed was lifted up by these scholars.

Zhang Yi continued:
"How can I put it this way, when my ancestor first realized the Dao from the Tao Te Ching and handed down the five famous teachings, my Zhang family was the only Taoist priest in the world!
Zhengyi represents Daomen, there is no doubt about it 1
But with the passage of time, the Tao of Taiping appeared in this world... the Tao of Quanzhen appeared, the art of Maoshan appeared... and the line of Lingbao appeared...

Although the Zhang family is still very popular today, the Daoist sect is no longer the original Daoist sect!

The Zhang family gained some incense, but also lost a lot of popular support!

Look, uncle, is this similar to Confucianism?

The teachings left by Master Kong have changed since Dong Zhongshu, and in the past few hundred years, many theories have come out in a short time.

These theories are parasitic on the theories of Confucius. In fact, they have been gradually implemented, and they have long deviated from what Confucius learned at the beginning!
They also divided the hearts of the people who originally belonged to the Kong family! "

If Zhang Yi's words spread, it would be treasonous, even murderous.

But from what the Kong family heard, it was in line with what they thought.

People always ignore the factors that are unfavorable to themselves, and only remember the interests that are harmful to them.

They wouldn't remember that without Dong Zhongshu, the Kong family didn't know which corner they were in. Kong Xixue would only think that the Kong family should have been better!

Everyone has a position,
When it comes to the outside world, Confucianism is a whole, but once it involves interest disputes.

There are also undercurrents surging within Confucianism.

It's like the officials can protect the Kong family, but they also tacitly don't want people like Kong Kejian to continue to gain power in the new dynasty.

Those mascots in Qufu may not be jealous when they see the great Confucianism outside pointing out the country.

Zhang Yi once divided the power of Confucianism into two types: political power and religious power.

The political power belongs to the scholar-bureaucrat class, and the Confucian family has nothing to do with it.

As for the so-called teaching power, the Kong family has nothing to do with it. Thinking about it carefully, apart from being a mascot, the Kong family is actually worthless these years.

Zhang Yi used the Zhang family as an example to give evidence, which did not stimulate Kong Xixue, but it also aroused his empathy.

Then Zhang Yi changed his tone and said:
"The current situation is like this, and I, Longhushan, can't do anything about it. Even if I emphasize my orthodoxy, no one will ignore us!

But if we don't make any changes, the hearts of the people are in the Zhang family today, and will be transferred to other people tomorrow. Speaking of which, my Zhang family is considered lucky!

My family was already oppressed by the Quanzhen Taoism, but they didn't live up to it and gave us a good situation for nothing. But now that the dynasty has changed, my Zhang family's people's hearts are also in turmoil.
It’s just that the ancestors favored us, bestowed the vaccination method and the book "Tai Shang", revived the incense of Longhu Mountain, and cleaned up the gradually lost popular support..."

When Zhang Yi said this, the Kong family father and son showed envious expressions.

I am afraid that Zhang Yi himself cannot imagine the popularity of "The Sutra of the Wonderful Law of the Microcosmic World".

With the residual power of the vaccination method, this book makes the incense of the Taishang Laojun and Zhang Daoling approach the two major Bodhisattvas of the people, Guanshiyin Bodhisattva and Zhunti Bodhisattva.

Even now, the belief of Taishang Laojun has vaguely suppressed the belief of the two major bodhisattvas, becoming the No. 1 Chinese god.

Although the Kong family looked down on the Zhang family, they really envied the current situation of the Zhang family.

Since the beginning of the dynasty, the Zhang family has been treated by the emperor no less than the Kong family.

The name "Tianshi" is almost the root of Longhushan.

Losing the title of Celestial Master, the so-called inheritance of Celestial Masters has largely become a joke. In fact, the Zhang family was also driven back to Longhu Mountain by the emperor, and they can be used as mascots with peace of mind.

However, the sudden emergence of the vaccination method not only took back the lost hearts of the people in the Zhang family.

At the same time, he regained the favor of the emperor.

The current situation of the Kong family is even worse than that of the Zhang family. What can they do?
You know, even if Zhu Yuanzhang had already "forgiven" the Confucian family at this time, the word "emperor traitor" is enough for the Confucian family to be nailed to the pillar of shame for future generations to watch.

Kong Xixue became more anxious after listening to Zhang Yi's analysis.

The Zhang family won the round with the vaccination method, but what about the Kong family, can they find their own "vaccination method"?

But Kong Xixue thought about it, but became more and more desperate.

After all, Kong Shengren is not a so-called god, and he cannot entrust him with dreams.

Wait, what did the kid say in simplified words?
Kong Xixue thought of Zhang Yi's discussion on simplified characters, and seemed to understand what Zhang Yi wanted to express.

Unlike the Zhang family, the incense of the Kong family comes from scholars.

But the number of scholars in the world is fixed.

Just like the previous predicament of Zhengdao, Zhang Daoling founded the Five Dou Rice Religion, which was originally a Taoist orthodoxy.

However, various sects such as Quanzhen Taoism and Lingbao School appeared later, and they were actually sharing the incense of the Confucius family.

In Confucianism, the Confucian family and the Zhang family are actually connected. Various great Confucians and the schools founded by the great Confucians are also dividing the "teaching power" belonging to the Confucian family.

Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is now the greatest orthodoxy of Confucianism, so what's the matter without the Confucian family?

If the Confucian family wanted to expand their influence, they had to bypass these, just like the vaccination method, and benevolent to the people of the world.

Simplifying the text seems to be the way out.

Kong Xixue also understood that if he wanted to create a theory to rule the world like Cheng Zhu and the two sages, none of the Kong family could do it.

Since it cannot be done, it is better to open up another path,
If simplification of characters can increase the number of scholars in the world, it will be a good thing for Confucianism as a whole.

The expansion of influence is in line with Confucius' original intention of preaching to the world.

And the extra scholars in this part are the "people's hearts" that belong exclusively to the Confucian family, and the influence of the Confucian family will also improve because of this incident.

more than this……

Kong Xixue thought that this matter may not be without benefits for the king himself.

Kong Xixue has also heard about the Ming court's desire for talents and the plight of lack of officials.

In the long run, this incident should also change the world and benefit the king, right?
The more he thought about it, the more Kong Xixue paid more attention to this matter, and his expression became agitated.

That's right, this is indeed a way for the Kong family to expand their influence and find a way out.

"I'm here, thank you little real person! This method is very important to my Kong family, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is worth a thousand gold!
If this matter is successful, the Kong family owes the little real person a favor, and the Kong family and the Zhang family will be friends from generation to generation!
Also, if my Confucius family in Qufu changes the status quo because of this policy, I will sell and sell property, and I will also send 1000 taels of gold to the little real person, as a thank you for the little real person's guidance! "

1000 taels of gold, put outside is 1 taels of silver.

This is definitely not a small sum, that is to say, the Kong family has a great career, so they dare to boast.

It can be seen from this that Kong Xixue was indeed persuaded by himself.

Zhang Yi chuckled, he was a little guilty.

He didn't have any good intentions in proposing to simplify the text.

This thing seems to be beneficial to Confucianism, but in essence, this thing is definitely a dragon slaying technique.

It may not be able to kill the truth handed down by Confucius, but it can peel off a layer of skin for the scholar-bureaucrat class based on Confucianism.

The text is simplified, and the efficiency of knowledge dissemination becomes higher, which seems to benefit Confucianism,

But who stipulated that knowledge would be equal to [Confucianism]?
After the literacy rate rises, ordinary people will not be so easy to fool.

Once a person masters the method of learning knowledge, his thoughts will fly uncontrollably.

Leaving aside the fact that the value of the scholar-bureaucrat class will decrease due to the increase in the number of scholars, a large number of scholars who have no room for improvement will reflect on the rationality of Confucianism.

Zhang Yi wants to spread simplified characters because he knows the impact of the reduction of illiteracy rate on a society.

This kind of influence is beneficial to China for generations to come, but it may not benefit the Ming Dynasty, let alone the scholar-bureaucrat class.

He dared to fool Kong Xixue openly and aboveboard, and even dared to fool the emperor,

It was because he was sure that no matter how wise these people were, they would not be able to see the changes of hundreds of years later.

Many things, just like the many "ancestral precepts" that Zhu Yuanzhang set for his descendants, the original intention is indeed good, but the changes in the world will never change with people's wishes.

Zhang Yi could not influence the emperor, but he had the opportunity to influence the Kong family.

From the first day he knew Kong Na, his idea was vaguely formed.

However, before Yang Xian entrapped him, he was not too anxious to promote this matter, but after that incident, Zhang Yi's distaste for the court made him pay more attention to this matter.

Simplifying the text is a good medicine that can benefit the future of China, but for Confucianism, it is a slow poison.

Zhang Yi comes from an era full of rebellion. People respect authority, but do not believe in authority.

He thinks that the so-called ideal world is not an era in which 98% of the people are illiterate but boasted about the emergence of great masters, but that everyone has the right to acquire knowledge and no longer look down on those superior masters, which is the best .

Therefore, Zhang Yi also wanted to be in Daming, to witness those people in the previous life who were mourning and concubine, saying that the era of shining stars no longer existed.

And it all starts today.

"There is only one person in the world who can slay dragons!

One is the Confucian family, and the other is the king! "

It is far more difficult to promote the simplification of characters than to enter the imperial examination with mathematics.

Zhang Yi does not underestimate the people of the world. Confucianism is the orthodoxy of this era, and it also gathers the most intelligent people in the world.

Others may not be able to see the changes after a hundred years, but they can understand that simplifying the characters will shake the foundation of the Confucian group?
The promotion of simplified characters will increase the number of competitors, and those in power will definitely not do this.

They have no incentive to change anything, and may even provide resistance to reform.

Just as the six arts of gentlemen are needed as a signboard to enter the imperial examination, the implementation of simplified characters also needs a high-sounding reason and a person who can promote this matter.

The only people in the world who can promote this matter, except the Confucius family, are only the emperor.

Emperor Zhang Yi couldn't reach him, and the Kong family was the best choice Zhang Yi could find.

As the spiritual totem of Confucianism, if Kong Xixue persuaded the emperor with the reason of reducing the cost of enlightenment, there is a slight chance that simplified characters will be implemented.

If the idea in Zhang Yi's mind can be promoted, the impact of this matter will never be lower than that of mathematics admission to the imperial examination.

When the literacy rate of the people goes up, even if they don't have to do anything, it will also promote the development of productivity.

In Zhang Yi's view, today's intellectual class is deformed.

They clearly possess knowledge, but they are too focused on metaphysics and power.

Only a very small number of people will change something in their spare time.

Most of these people are scholars who have not been successful in terms of fame.

That being the case, what is the use of reading?
The monopoly of knowledge has formed a hindrance to social development.

If it is just spread, it can break through the class of "scholars", and spread among industry, peasants and businessmen. Naturally, some people will make changes because of knowledge and invent something more meaningful.

Zhang Yi is a time traveler, but being a time traveler does not mean he knows everything.

Instead of changing the world by yourself, it is better to give the world a little loose.

Of course, this change may not be a good thing for the scholar class and the emperor himself.

So he must hide his little thoughts well, so as not to be discovered.

"Little real?"

Kong Xixue interrupted Zhang Yi who was distracted, he recovered and quickly refused:
"Uncle, a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way. I don't want this thousand pieces of gold!"

If he sincerely helped the Kong family, Zhang Yi would accept a thousand gold with a smile, but his intention was to cheat others, and he had no face to ask for the gold.

Seeing that he really didn't want him, Kong Xixue admired Zhang Yi's mind even more.

He may have a general impression of the Zhang family, but he has a good impression of Zhang Yi.

"This is a direction, I will look back and study..."

Kong Xixue can't wait to start studying how to simplify the text now, he can't wait.

Zhang Yi chuckled, the more enthusiastic Yan Shenggong was, the greater his hope of success.

This matter was mainly driven by the background, he had done everything he should do, and the rest was left to time and luck.

Zhang Yi looked at Kong Kejian on the side at this moment, and said:
"I'll hypnotize the old man and let him have a good sleep!"

The Kong family father and son do not doubt that he is there. Zhang Yi has demonstrated hypnotism to them long ago. After microbiology, he is the first time in this era to popularize the concept of mental illness for Xiao Jiuxian and others.

In addition to popularizing knowledge, Zhang Yi also used this action to dispel rumors about his use of witchcraft.

Dispelling the doubts of the Kong family can be regarded as clearing themselves of suspicion.

Zhang Yi took Kong Kejian to his dormitory. Hypnosis requires a relatively quiet environment. After Xiao Jiuxian gave Kong Kejian the medicine for recuperation, he left the space for the two of them.

Kong Kejian sat there, waiting for Zhang Yi to hypnotize him.

Zhang Yi did not move for a long time.

"How long will you pretend to be an old man? In fact, you have already recovered, right?"

Kong Kejian's body shook violently, but he still tried to struggle.

Zhang Yi said helplessly:
"A person pretending to be crazy and a real lunatic have different body instincts when facing hypnotism!

I didn't notice it at first, but if I try a few more times and you still want to lie, you're too bullying Xiaodao!

Besides, you are not a man of the city, you have already exposed your secrets when we chatted just now, and I don't care about exposing you..."

Kong Kejian's old face turned red by the way, and he was a little angry, but he finally sighed, stood up, and saluted Zhang Yi:

"Kong Kejian, the sinner of the Confucian family, has met Your Excellency!
The grace of saving lives is unforgettable! "

Zhang Yi received Kong Kejian's gift, but laughed:

"Just one sentence, sir, I guess you woke up in the Taoist temple
I'll go, the old man has seen all of Xiaodao's underpants! "

Zhang Yi was born with the ability to get acquainted with others, and Kong Kejian was amused by his gag.

He was still a little embarrassed at first, but now he was completely relaxed.

(End of this chapter)