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Chapter 1473
For two weeks, Chen Mu sat in the Imperial Clan University and almost studied the Gongyang School and the Gongyang Chunqiu, and finally came to the conclusion that this school is quite scary.

Because strictly speaking, it is probably the only school among the many theories of Confucianism that is extremely similar to religion.

In other words, it is Dong Zhongshu's post-reading reflections, and it is not a very well-written book, but it has established a religious system different from that of Confucius' era.

Unlike Confucius who was only interested in human society, he embraced all things, trying to find universal truths in the universe, the human body, and society and politics.

And use this truth to restrain believers, forcing believers to live in the happiness created.

Isn't that what religion is?
In particular, this religion is extremely powerful. It equates the emperor with the sky, and opposing the emperor is against the sky; it has an almost crazy obsession with the power brought about by centralization and unification, and encourages the release of this power to the outside world, advocating public hatred The Great Revenge Theory.

The great unification in "Gongyang Zhuan" does not mean the unification of geographical units, but the king is ordered by the heavens to rule the first month to unify the world, so that all things start with it, so it is said that the great unification is also.

"Recover the enmity of the Nine Generations, the great China and the barbarian." As a logical basis, it once dominated the Han-Hungarian War, but in today's Eastern Clan University, it was once again brought up by Zhu Muxi. Whose revenge does he want to avenge?

Chen Mu thought that this Ming clan was trying to revive Gongyang and imposed this theory on the natives of Eastern Asia in order to win people's hearts and promote further wars.

But in fact, Zhu Muxi was just giving lectures, but Chen Mu didn't listen to him when he taught Song and Ming Neo Confucianism.

When Chen Mu decided to leave the Clan University, Chen Mu was full of confusion.

He knew that the Gongyang School had a strong offensive power, but he also knew why this school that had run through the entire Western Han Dynasty disappeared in the end.

All schools, philosophies, and logical models in this world exist because of people.

The prosperity of the ram is due to the needs of the ruler; the decline of the ram is due to the need of the ruler no longer.

This brought him a lot of thinking, for example, what Daming needs at this moment.

What the Ming Dynasty needed, Confucius couldn’t do it, the Gongyang School couldn’t do it, and the Neo-Confucianism mixed with Buddhism and Taoism couldn’t do it either.

Because the world is changing, the old academic ideas can no longer meet the needs of the present, and they urgently need a new set of ideological theories to emerge as the times require to guide the life, economy, war, and politics of the country and the people.

But this problem cannot be solved by Chen Mu alone. He has limited knowledge of traditional academics, and it is much more difficult for him to advance this matter than to destroy any country.

Neither can Zhu Muxi. Although he is a well-learned person and has enough knowledge of historical schools, he doesn't know how much the world has changed. This clan general can't even recognize the territory map of Daming today.

But soon, Chen Mu met someone who could do it.

At first, it was Zhao Shizhen from the yamen of the military government. He unpacked and picked up the letters sent to Dongyang from the mainland this month. After meeting a few visitors from the sea, he came to ask Chen Mu for leave, saying that he would go to Changsheng for a trip. county.

Chen Mu didn't think too much, and asked him to come back as soon as possible.

This month, Daxigang just received a letter from Li Dan in Daming Port, Spain, saying that Chen Ju’s fleet had circled the Mediterranean Sea. The envoys from the southern sultanates had gathered in Morocco, and the northern countries were also gathering in Spain. Recently, there have been news of new kingdoms sending envoys, so take it slow.

Many matters need to be handled by Li Dan, Fu Yuan and others, and it is inevitable that there will be undecided matters, such as whether the two teams will join one fleet or sail westward in two fleets.

Such a similar matter is very troublesome to discuss.

Similarly, Daxigang is also making preparations. Previously, Chen Mu thought that the Conference of the World Nations would be held in Havana, but Havana is not nominally under the rule of the Eastern Military Government, and he was worried that something unexpected would happen, so he planned to move it. Held in Jinmo County.

But then there are more things to worry about.

Chen Mu couldn't do without people, but he didn't stay here for seven or eight days, so he released him easily, but before releasing him, he still asked, "What's the matter with going to Changsheng?"

"It's Director Zhou of the Steam Bureau of the Ministry of Industry. He wrote a letter to introduce one of his friends to Dongyang, and entrusted the students to take care of him. He just arrived in Hong Kong on a merchant ship the day before yesterday, and the students went to pick him up."

The Steam Bureau of the Ministry of Industry... This name seemed to Chen Mu like a lifetime ago, and it instantly brought him back to the place where the boilers exploded and the mud was everywhere in the south of Beijing many years ago.

In the letters written by the imperial court, Wanli often mentioned that the Steam Bureau, a small department that was unknown at the time, sounded like it had developed well, and even gave steam engines models such as Huode Xingjun and Qinglong Xuanwu.

Machines are big things that can change productivity, and the imperial court has paid enough attention to them. The progress has been rapid over the years, and even large machines weighing tens of thousands of catties can be made.

He has always wanted to go back and see the changes in that place... I don't know if Zhou Sijing will continue to study his chariot powered by gunpowder explosion.

"Boss Zhou has worked hard these years. Since he has entrusted him, you should go to Haosheng to entertain his friends."

The two most important staff members around Chen Mu are Zhao Shizhen and Xu Wei.

The crazy old man at the back offended a lot of people, while Zhao Shizhen in the front had a lot of friends. After all, he spent a period of time in the capital, and Chen Mu was not surprised that he had many friends.

It was Zhao Shizhen himself who was in trouble, and muttered: "Actually, it's not just for the students to entertain. His friend was once an old friend of Yuan Zizhang, a general of the Eastern Army. It seems that he came here this time to join General Yuan, but now General Yuan Under the tent of Baishan, but came here to nothing."

The general Yuan Zhao Shizhen mentioned was Yuan Zizhang of the Eastern Army Mansion. He followed Fu Yuan to Spain earlier, and advanced into France as the vanguard of Fu Yuan's Eastern Expeditionary Army, serving as Chen Jiujing's flank.

Now the battle over there is over, but for the convening of the first World Congress of Nations, the army is stationed there to frighten the crowd.

Now that his friend is here, naturally he can’t be found, and Chen Mu is unwilling to let him go to France again. The situation there is a few months behind the news of the Eastern Military Government. beautiful.

"How about the commander-in-chief first recruit that man into the military mansion. This man has also served as a magistrate in his hometown. Although he offended many people in the court, his official reputation is still very good. I heard that when he left office, the people hoped that Don't leave him."

Chen Mu frowned, not because of disgust or displeasure, but because he had realized that there must be something wrong in this world.

Why is this kind of problematic people around him when he goes overseas?

There is an ominous premonition upon hearing it.

"This person, what's his name, where did he become the magistrate in the past?"

Zhao Shizhen looked indifferent: "Li Zhi, the magistrate of Yao'an Mansion in Yunnan."

　Good morning, I read most of the book today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)