Chapter 259 The Debate between Neo-Confucianism and Psychology
Zhang Cai has become an official, and the new official minister Zhang Cong did not expect that the first edict he received was to release Guo Nan. He had to sigh:
"Guo Nan studied under the great Confucian Gu Lin and believed in Neo-Confucianism as orthodox. Now that the imperial court wants to reward Wang Shouren, the founder of Yixinxue, he will naturally regard it as a great defense and refute it."
"Then what Otsuka Zai means is to protect this Guo Nan and ask to see His Majesty to intercede for Guo Nan?"
Shao Rui, a doctor in the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Official Affairs asked.
"I believe that the governance of the country should be based on Neo-Confucianism and Shengxue as the application. Wang Shouren's mental studies will only confuse people's hearts and are not conducive to governing the world. However, Your Majesty also has your reasons for rewarding Wang Shouren. Your Majesty is not promoting your mental studies. Abandoning Neo-Confucianism is nothing more than incentives to govern, learn to govern diligently We only have 10,000 taels of silver left and right to study, and we cannot ask your majesty to lock up all the ministers who are interested in learning. Guo Nan wants to block the study, like blocking a river. This will only put the court in danger of partisanship. His Majesty’s decree, please release Guo Nan!”
Zhang Cong then added: "Since he is a minister of Neo-Confucianism, don't go to the south. There are many psychology scholars in the south. In order to avoid the more intense dispute between Neo-Confucianism and psychology, we transferred him to the north."
"Then he will be transferred to the Chief Envoy of Shandong Province to serve as a counselor?" Shao Rui asked.
"It seems that you sympathize with him. It doesn't matter if a seventh-rank official is transferred to a fourth-rank official, it doesn't count as burying him!"
Zhang Cong nodded as he said this: "Let Wang Shouren's disciple Yin Tianxu give him a job in the subject!"
After Zhu Houzhao received the reply from the Ministry of Personnel, he just smiled lightly, thinking that Zhang Cong, the official of the Ministry of Personnel, actually sympathized with Guo Nan. It seemed that Zhang Cong was also a supporter of Neo-Confucianism.
"That's right! I don't have the time to care about the debate between psychology and psychology." Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but let out a long breath as he said this. He didn't expect that a good thing like setting up prizes and giving out money would be delayed for so long, and he had to be dismissed. Each one must be put in the process and then another one can be passed. At this rate, when will the Ming Dynasty completely move towards industrial civilization?
After Yin Tianxu took charge of the subject, he quickly passed the resolution to award Wang Shouren as the winner of the Chinese Studies Award.
However, Guo Nan did not leave the capital immediately after receiving the edict from the Ministry of Personnel regarding his release. From the moment he knew that the new subject was Yin Tianxu, he knew that Wang Shouren, the founder of the mind science, had obtained The matter of the Chinese Studies Award has become a fact.
So, Guo Nan came to Denwen Drum.
Guo Nan beat the Dengwen drum, knelt on the ground, and shouted: "I, Guo Nan, request to see your Majesty! The study of mind is not useful, not useful!"
According to the system, Dengwen Drum has a special person responsible for the affairs, and the person in charge of Dengwen Drum, Chen Boliang, is also a Neo-Confucianist and has always been known as one of the "Ten Talents". When he saw Guo Nan, he did not want the court to support Xinxue. He asked for a face-to-face meeting, so he did not stop him, but directly said to the Jin Yiwei who was supervising the plan to ascend the Wengu: "Everyone, Mr. Guo is a loyal and upright minister, and I hope you will be treated well!"
Naturally, Jinyiwei didn't interfere so much. Guo Nan would be taken away first if he dared to beat the drum.
Zhu Houzhao did not expect that Guo Nan would be so persistent. Seeing that it had started to rain heavily outside, he had to summon Guo Nan and asked, "What hatred does Xinxue have against you, so that you are so willing to resist it at the risk of your life?"
"Your Majesty! Learning from the heart is based on selfish desires, which may lead to chaos in the world! As a minister, you should regard the world as the public, and if you study with your heart, then you will not regard the world as a private matter. I ask Your Majesty not to use your mind to learn. Otherwise, the world will be in chaos! Instead of rewarding Wang Shouren, your Majesty should remove him from office and make him ruin his words!"
Guo Nan shouted hurriedly.
Zhu Houzhao admitted that he, a science student, did not understand the philosophy of mind science very well, but he knew that historically mind science was promoted during the Jiajing Dynasty, and this led to the emergence of the Longqing switch. Of course, Zhang Juzheng was opposed to mind science. On this point, Zhu Houzhao I also know that, but no matter what, at least the Donglin Party does not believe in faith but believes in Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao would not believe that the Xinxue Society would lead to chaos in the world. He could guess that Guo Nan regarded Xinxue as a defense in order to protect his own status in Neo-Confucianism.
Zhu Houzhao felt that regardless of whether he was a scholar of mind or Neo-Confucianism, an extreme person like Guo Nan could not be established in the central court, otherwise it would only turn the dispute between schools into a dispute between parties. Therefore, he was not polite and directly reprimanded: "you They keep saying that the heart will bring chaos to the world. Let me ask you, what evidence do you have to prove that the heart will bring chaos to the world? Li Shishi is Neo-Confucianism and Liu Yang is Neo-Confucianism. Aren't they still traitors who want to bring chaos to the world?"
Guo Nan could not refute for a while. He could not argue that the two civil servants who followed King Ning in rebellion were not ministers of Neo-Confucianism.
"I don't have the time to discuss psychology with you. If you are interested, go to the newspapers and argue with them. But now I ask you, are you going to obey the decree and go to Shandong to serve as an official or not?" Zhu Houzhao asked.
"I dare not resist the decree. I am just admonishing Your Majesty. Don't follow orthodoxy with your heart!" Guo Nan cried.
"Come here, drag him down. There is no need to let him go to Shandong. He is sent to the officials to demote him to Haicheng's edict and let him go to Nanyang to spread his Neo-Confucianism!"
Zhu Houzhao said to Guo Nan: "Since you want me to accept Neo-Confucianism as orthodox, then go to Nanyang and make the countries in Nanyang orthodox Neo-Confucianism! As soon as people in Nanyang are allowed to follow the principles of nature and destroy human desires, I will give in. You return home!”
Zhu Houzhao was really annoyed and asked people to drag Guo Nan out.
And Guo Nan had no choice but to accept the arrangement of going to Haicheng, the Ming Dynasty's current colony in Manchuria, to teach.
After Zhang Cong received Zhu Houzhao's order, he shook his head helplessly: "This Guo Nan is really weird. He has to force your majesty to make a promise, but everyone knows that your majesty wants to restore the Spring and Autumn Period and want to promote hundreds of families. He wanted to learn more, but now he has no choice but to live in a foreign land! ”
Guo Nan himself was not so depressed. When his friend Shao Rui said the same thing to him as Zhang Cong, he only said: "Thunder and rain are all for your kindness. Since Your Majesty wants me, Guo, to go to Nanyang to teach Confucianism, then I, Guo I then accepted this decree and let the people of the world understand that Neo-Confucianism should be the foundation for maintaining the stability of the world!"
Guo Nan was demoted to Haicheng, and the decision was officially issued that Wang Shouren was the winner of the first highest award in Chinese studies. Unsurprisingly, as soon as the decision was issued, it caused an uproar in the whole court, and even the entire Shilin was talking about it. got up one after another.
The debate between Neo-Confucianism and Psychology was already fierce among the people. Now that the imperial court wanted to reward Wang Shouren, the founder of Psychological Studies, civil servants with a Neo-Confucian background naturally couldn't bear it.
Ouyang Dan, the Minister of Rites, and Xia Yan, the right minister of the Ministry of War, both believed that this move was tantamount to supporting the spread of Xinxue on behalf of the imperial court.
Therefore, the two people quickly found the cabinet minister Kang Hai. Ouyang Dan first said: "Mr. Cabinet, why did you let Wang Shouren get this honor!"
Kang Hai also didn't expect that his recommendation for Wang Shouren to win this award would cause such a big sensation. He just asked: "According to what you said, who should be awarded?"
"It's not that I think it's wrong for Mr. Ge to confer Wang Shouren, it's just that I believe that the study of the Ming Dynasty should be based on Neo-Confucianism and sacred science as its application, and that the study of mind is not enough!" Xia Yan took over the words at this time and said.
(End of chapter)