Chapter 137: The sky is ten feet high, and I point to the mulberry and scold the First Emperor (Part 1)

Feng Junzi's words are not very much about practicing, but rather examining my Chinese studies. Fortunately, I am not giving them completely for nothing now. After thinking about it, I replied: "By the eight-legged essay, the world's articles only test Zhu Xi's "Four Books Collection"."

Feng Junzi slapped the table again: "Isn't that all! The decline of civilization is not the superficial wealth and strength, but the spiritual atmosphere of this nation. I remember that the Song Dynasty was the richest country on earth, but it was not strong, so where was it defeated? The thoughts were imprisoned, and the creative spirit of the entire nation was closed. In the next eight hundred years, how could civilization remain unchanged based on Zhu Xi's "Four Books and Sentences Collection"?

I quickly interrupted him: "Wait, this account seems to be impossible to calculate Zhu Zi. The imperial examination is originally an imperial family matter. Besides, the imperial examination was not invented by Zhu Xi. If I remember correctly, the imperial examination was invented by Emperor Yang of Sui."

Feng Junzi: "You remember correctly. The imperial examination was first created by Emperor Yang of Sui. He selected talents based on the examination system and has been used throughout the world to this day. Although Emperor Yang of Sui later became a debauchery, he still made great contributions to the country!... Although the Qin and Sui dynasties unified the world in just two lifetimes, they both created a thousand-year atmosphere."

"Stop, why did you get involved in Qin Chao again? Then you scolded Qin Shihuang just now..."

Feng Junzi's anger just subsided, and when he mentioned Qin Shihuang, he was furious again. He reached out and slapped the table: "He actually burned books and buryed scholars, of course I would scold him. If he crawled out of the coffin, I would still have to carry him back! ... Qin Emperor burned books and buryed scholars, and Zhu Xi imprisoned books and usurped scholars, they were all people who should be scolded..."

"Boy, I've seen you drunk too much and be crazy, but I've never seen you play like this! I've been listening outside the door for a while, and I can't help but come in to debate with you." While speaking, Old Man Tang pushed the door and walked in, followed by Teacher Liu Feier.

No matter how angry Feng Junzi is, he is a student after all, and he still has to restrain himself when he sees the teacher. Especially this old man Tang, no one from the school leaders to the school dares to sting in front of him. Feng Junzi woke up when he saw Old Man Tang’s wine, and stood up on the chair.

Old Man Tang found a chair to sit down and also greeted Liu Feier. He looked at Feng Junzi's expression and said with interest: "You said Mr. Zhu imprisoned the books and usurped Confucianism. Then I ask you - to investigate things, to be aware of knowledge, to be honest, to upright the heart, to cultivate oneself, to manage the family, to govern the country, and to pacify the world. What other sentence is wrong with Zhu Xi?"

Feng Junzi felt emotional when he heard this: "Of course there is nothing wrong with the chapters of "The Great Learning" but Master Zhu's taste is wrong."

Old Man Tang smiled slightly: "Sit down and say!... Zhu Zi is a master of genocide. It should be good to have 'all things have reason', right?"

Feng Junzi sat down and poured wine. After thinking about it, he poured another cup for Old Man Tang before saying, "The etiquette that Confucius said was 'benevolence and etiquette', and the reason that Zhu Xi said was 'dead truth'. There is nothing wrong with 'all things having reason', but 'the heart of Tao is not human heart' is wrong! He talked about 'heavenly principle', but he always couldn't get along with 'human desire'. Talk about 'heavenly principle' but erased people's nature."

Old Man Tang was still laughing: "The word "nature" was invented by Neo-Confucianists. Don't the people say that there is always "nature" in the world?"

Feng Junzi: "The truth of heaven is there, yes! But the mistake is that the truth of heaven is not his Zhu Xi's truth. He talks about the principle of heaven and destroying the desires of the world. Those who are disagreeable with the superior will become people who do not follow the truth of heaven. This implies a very dangerous trap - academic and ideological hegemony and spiritual dictatorship. This is a poison, this is a disaster! It has destroyed many generations of people until today. The disaster of Neo-Confucianists has been deeply imprinted in the soul imprint of every generation of power. Can't you see such traces in the era you have experienced, including the times I have experienced?"

The smile on Old Man Tang's face gradually disappeared. He also drank a glass of wine and looked at Feng Junzi thoughtfully: "This is Junziju, not Ehu Temple, I am not Master Zhu, you are not Lu Jiuyuan... Hum? Wait? I almost let you, the brat, go around in... Boy, honestly, what are you angry at home? How did your parents deal with you?"

Old Man Tang suddenly jumped out of this debate about Neo-Confucianism and asked if Feng Junzi had provoked his parents at home? Liu Feier and I were both a little surprised. Seeing Feng Junzi's expression seemed to have been hit by someone, his face immediately became aggrieved and his voice lowered eight degrees. He asked Old Man Tang cowardly: "Teacher Tang, how did you see it?"

Jiang is still so hot. It turns out that Feng Junzi was angry with his parents at home. Liu Feier and I didn’t expect it at all, but Old Man Tang saw through it after a few words. Old Man Tang poured another glass of wine and laughed: “You are still a filial son! You don’t dare to scold your parents, but Zhu Xi, who has a firm mind, vented his anger!”

Feng Junzi nodded: "I understand filial piety, teacher, and humanity. That's why I dislike Zhu Zi's intentions that will last forever..."

Old Man Tang: "Don't say that it's useless! Tell me why your parents deal with you? I just heard you scold Qin Shihuang for burning books and burying scholars. Did your extracurricular books be confiscated?"

Feng Junzi said tragically like a deflated ball, "It's not just confiscated, but my mother tore the treasures I have treasured for many years into pieces!" Old man Tang was indeed powerful, and he guessed the truth of the matter at once. The cause and effect are like this-

I have seen Feng Junzi's mother, and her discipline is sometimes too harsh. I remember that Feng Junzi once read a book called "Funny Physics" at home, which aroused her dissatisfaction. She thought it was an idle book, and Feng Junzi should only read textbooks and tutoring exercises. Although I had said a few times before, there was no conflict and I was still peaceful.

His parents both work in the same unit, and his father is a leader of the unit. In the past few days, the unit was rated as advanced. His mother thought that he was fully qualified in terms of work performance and qualifications, but he was not rated. She thought that a leader of the unit, Feng Junzi's father, deliberately interfered and did not comment on her to show her "high moral character and valuation of relatives". His mother had a fight with his father, but she did not quarrel. She was not rated as advanced, and she had a lot of anger with her husband.

When he went home that day, he saw Feng Junzi not reviewing his homework, but reading ancient books that had nothing to do with the college entrance examination. His mother suddenly had anger, and a fire came to her son. Feng Junzi probably lost Cheng Fengjie because of the Forgetful Palace. This time, he didn't interrupt him with a smile, but he raised his mouth impatiently. The more he talked back, his mother became more angry. In the end, his mother asked him to get out, and Feng Junzi hid in the bathroom. At this time, her mother did something that made Feng Junzi stunned.

She opened Feng Junzi's desk drawer and the camphor wooden box under his bed, and found a lot of idle books that had nothing to do with "study", and tore them into pieces. At this time, Feng Junzi's father also went home, and Feng Junzi came out of the bathroom to see all this. The boy stopped doing it on the spot, pulled his father to judge, and asked his mother to compensate. He probably wasn't in a good mood, so he said, "If you tear it up, just tear it up, it's better to concentrate on studying!"

Feng Junzi was sad, sad and angry, but he had no choice but to face his parents. Now that things have come to this point, he can't take out Hei Ruyi, right? He ran to Zhiwei Tower in anger and began to drink and scold Zhu Xi and Qin Shihuang, and the more he scolded him, the more he became more and more active.

After listening to this passage, we all understood that Feng Junzi was inspired today and took advantage of the topic. I can only express sympathy for his experience. If someone offended him, I might be able to help, but no one of the two who offended him today could do so. Ask the reason, everyone had to comfort him a few words, and the boy's anger gradually faded. However, Old Man Tang became interested in the topic just now. He poured Feng Junzi a glass of wine and asked, "You are really good, you actually think of Qin Shihuang burning books and burying scholars, and scolding Master Zhu in a bloody way. If your parents heard you scold them so much, they don't know whether to be happy or angry... But you won't be so excited, right? You're almost cursing for eternal articles!"

Feng Junzi muttered, "At the beginning, I just said a few words to relieve my anger. Later, the more I cursed, the more I felt it made sense. I felt that Qin Shihuang and Zhu Xi should scold me. In the end, I forgot that I was angry at home... Teacher Tang, I said Zhu Xi was a pseudo-Confucianism, and Neo-Confucianism was a usurpation of Confucianism. Do you agree?"

Old Man Tang: "With the consent of reservation, what you said is a little more reasonable. When I criticized Lin and Confucius, those revolutionary pens poured all the dirty waters of feudal ethics, the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, women's foot binding, and widow's death. In fact, these are all good things that Master Zhu and Neo-Confucianists did. How much scolding did Confucius get for Zhu Xi? I feel wronged for the saint!"

Feng Junzi: "This is not the point, the most annoying thing is that he tampers with the meaning of the classics and pretends to be classics, and was actually used as an official school in later generations."

Old Man Tang smiled: "Actually, Zhu Zi is good at studying and being an official, and some of the faults are not Zhu Zi... Then why are you related to Qin Shihuang again? I think you are very excited to scold Qin Huang?"

Feng Junzi: "Zhu Zi wanted to make a mistake but couldn't make it. Let these emperors make up for it. Li Si did not allow the world to talk about the past and the present, so Qin Shihuang ordered the burning of books and burying scholars. Everyone in the world shut up and became idiots, just listen to one person's words! These are two extremes on the same path as Zhu Xi - with his principles of heaven, people in the world should not be desirable... Do you know, what I hate most now when I read books and newspapers - unify my thoughts and understanding. Do you think this thing can be unified and should be unified?"

Old Man Tang: "Stop, let's just talk about the ancients. In fact, no matter how you scold Zhu Xi, he is still a great scholar and thinker. When it comes to 'just reason and correcting the mind', his achievements are not inferior to Hegel."

Feng Junzi: "A great man is a great man, and he should be scolded or scolded. Even if it is a profound thought and academic, the consequences of becoming the sacred authority of the world are terrible. For example, there is Nietzsche first, then Hitler first, Zhu Xi, then hundreds of years of eight-legged essays, first..."

Old Man Tang: "Shut up and don't get further and further! You said that Zhu Zi tampers with the meaning of the scriptures and fakes classics, don't talk nonsense and give some evidence."

Feng Junzi: "There is one of the evidence at will. There is a poem in the Book of Songs, "The Female says the Crying of the Rooster". How can I recite it?"

Old Man Tang: "I am old and have a bad memory, so I really can't recite it. Teacher Liu, can you recite it?"

Just now, Liu Feier and I were sitting next to each other listening to the old and the young, unable to speak. Old Man Tang asked Liu Feier before answering: "The girl said that the rooster crows, the scholar said that the martyr was. Zixing looked at the night, and the stars were bad..."

Feng Junzi: "Yes, it's this poem. Shi Ye, what do you mean by these poems?"

The scope of discussion expanded, and Feng Junzi pulled me in. I replied: "Actually, the meaning is relatively simple. The woman said the chicken was crowing, while the man said it was not dawn yet..."

Feng Junzi: "Look at it, even Shino knows what it means. It's a man, a woman and a bed. The woman said it's time to get up, but the man still didn't want to get up. What a normal thing? Shino, do you always do this?"

Feng Junzi's anger disappeared, but after all, he still drank too much wine. He actually asked me such words in front of Teacher Liu. Teacher Liu's face turned slightly red and felt a little uncomfortable. He said hello, "I think it's okay here, you guys talk, I won't disturb you." He stood up and said goodbye and walked out of Junziju.

I glared at Feng Junzi, but the boy didn't see it at all. He was still drunk and said, "Ishino was holding the Book of Songs annotated by Zhu Xi. How did you say this pig head? The woman had hallucinations and misheard the time because she always wanted to remind her husband to go to the morning court on time... The Book of Songs was compiled by Confucius, and Zhu Xi's annotation was so absurd that it could not be absurd anymore. She was simply perverted!"

Old Man Tang also smiled and pointed at the two books in my hand and asked Feng Junzi: "What's going on with these two books? Did you bring them? Why didn't you tore them off by your mother?"

Feng Junzi picked up the wine glass and drank it all, and said with a bitter face: "The pieces of paper on the ground are all intact, these two books are all from Zhu Xi! Why don't you say I'm not angry? Is this a coincidence? It's just annoying me!"
Chapter completed!