Chapter 254 Buy and Sell
Lu Hao asked if Lu Gongxiang was sweeping through hundreds of schools of thought like a whirlwind.
During the seven-day Chinese New Year holiday, there should have only been one issue of the court bulletin that was copied and published on the first or second day of the Chinese New Year. But it was obvious that Prime Minister Lu came prepared, and had the full support of Emperor Zhao... In the following days, the court bulletin continued to be published, with a supplement published every day, just like the wartime state last year.
However, these supplements contained no political documents and only the last two issues of the magazine, so they were nicknamed "Seven Days of New Year's Joy" in the streets of Tokyo.
There were two large pieces of paper. One was dedicated to "Miscellaneous Notes on Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". Obviously, this was the result of someone's continuous update to support Prime Minister Lu Gong. The other was only filled with scattered articles, some small poems, some strange stories, and even Feng Yi and Feng Erguan recommended which store in Tokyo had the most delicious ginger and fermented black beans, so much so that it became a government-appointed store... Of course, everyone knew that on this piece of paper, Prime Minister Lu Gong's "Introduction to Principles of Mathematics" which he had been writing for several days was the real main course.
For five or six days in a row, during the holiday, Lu Gongxiang talked about everything from the creation of the world to the pursuit of knowledge through the investigation of things, from following human desires to discerning the principles of nature to utilitarianism, as well as the unity of knowledge and action, and the testing of everything through practice. In the end, he did not forget to forcefully say that he got his insights from Wang Shuwang… In short, when other famous scholars had no chance to speak, this minister of military and national affairs used this cheating method, and then with someone's highly politically suggestive recommendation, with a publicity resource that was simply unmatched by other theories, and in a way that was ahead of its time, he forcibly completed the outline of this patchwork theory.
What is slightly worth mentioning is that although the court bulletin officially announced the name of Lu Gongxiang's new school as "Principle New School", and Lu Gongxiang has been working on "Introduction to Principle School" these days, the common people and scholars still named it as Qixue, New School, Lixue, Guanxue and Luoxue, and gave this school, which was obviously a forced combination of Shu Wang's New School, Lu's Taoism and the New Heaven Theory, a simple name of "Original School".
After all, the article on the third day of the Lunar New Year said that after the chaos of heaven and earth ended, atoms were quickly formed in the origin of heaven, and then atoms formed tiny molecules of specific substances according to the laws of nature, and then the molecules piled together to form all things in heaven and earth... In other words, all things in heaven and earth are composed of the origin of heaven through the basic particle of atoms... This statement is probably the only thing that ordinary people can understand.
So if we say it is original learning, then it is original learning.
Of course, what is coming will always come. After the seven-day holiday, Mr. Qingshan Hu Anguo, who had been unable to find a way to publish the holiday bulletin supplement, directly blocked the gate of the Honglu Temple. At this time, Hu Quan, who came to work on duty, did not hide it anymore, but took the initiative to accept Hu Anguo's submission and promised to put it in the next issue of the bulletin.
Moreover, from a political perspective, the Han Confucian theories of the Five Virtues and the Cycle of Reincarnation, and the theory of the correspondence between Heaven and man, experienced the impact of Buddhism and Taoism in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and the cruel reality of the Five Dynasties. After Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty offered sacrifices to the gods at Mount Tai, they basically died politically. From an ideological perspective, starting from Han Yu in the middle Tang Dynasty who witnessed the impact of Buddhism, all knowledgeable Confucianists gradually abandoned the old Han Confucianism and turned to seek a new Confucianism that would adapt to the times.
To put it bluntly, the elites of traditional Chinese society are by no means fools. As people who have personally experienced and implemented the theory of reincarnation of the five virtues and the interaction between heaven and man, how could they not know?
But the key is that the social problems are there. Han Confucianism is not good enough, and Han Dynasty classics are not good enough. You have to come up with a new approach! Moreover, after such a long time, Confucianism has already been integrated into the whole society and has unquestionable authority in politics. This means that if you want to reform, you have to start from within Confucianism and return to Confucian classics to make changes.
What else? Strip off the skin of Confucianism and use shock therapy?
Therefore, after the Song Dynasty, people like Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Zhang Zai, the two Cheng brothers, and now Hu Anguo, who are thoughtful social elites, have been studying related issues, trying to propose a new Confucianism to deal with social problems, while inheriting the old academic ideas of Han Confucianism and continuing to maintain China's great unified political and cultural achievements.
Back to the present, since Lu Haowen had begun to grit his teeth and become the sage of the original school, he was already prepared to be blown to pieces by the gunpowder pot. As the most advanced Confucian scholar who has gone the furthest, and the most physically distant Taoist master, Hu Anguo's counterattack was also something that almost everyone could foresee.
Moreover, we have to admit that Hu Anguo, as an expert who has been studying these issues for a lifetime, does have some knowledge. He pointed out a huge problem with the original school of thought from his own academic perspective - Lu Haowen's original school of thought did not have the concept of "qi", or in other words, Lu Haowen's original school of thought had no place for "qi" at its foundation.
You know, there is a reason why Hu Anguo's own doctrine puts everything on Qi. It is not just that he directly accepted some magical ideas from Zhang Zai and the two Cheng brothers and copied them... The important reason why almost all Taoists emphasize the concept of Qi is that Qi is invisible and at the same time fills the entire world, but it can be clearly perceived by people, and can also be connected to the person himself through the phenomenon of breathing, which then affects the two concepts of thought and morality.
In other words, Qi was carefully selected by Taoists and Neo-Confucianists of that time as an intermediary concept connecting complex philosophical concepts such as nature and man, life and non-life, tangible and intangible, inside and outside. Those illusory things were transformed into each other in the form of Qi.
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