Chapter 580: Wind and rain only hit stray travelers, and Buddhism only hits the rich.
Li Zhi may not be able to win over his colleagues when he is an official, but when he is a bag of opinions, he is the king of strong talk.
In just two words, he explained clearly why religion was born, why it flourished, and why it spread among the people.
"Well said, we should have gotten some money just now to fund their trip to the grassland." The way Zhu Yijun expressed his approval was to get money. It was not that easy to get money from him. It can be seen that Li Zhi and Lin Fucheng had different opinions and did a really good job.
After Li Zhi held his hands and looked around for a week, he said: "There is a saying in the Book of Ministers: Heaven and earth are the parents of all things, and humans are the parents of all things. Heaven and earth are the parents of all things. Although all things are born between heaven and earth, only human beings are the parents of all things. Someone is the primate of all things, spirit, spirituality.”
“Spirituality is the difference between people and all things, and spirituality can be shaped, just like a piece of rice paper, in the process of growth. Parents, relatives, friends, and teachers are all constantly shaping this spirituality, and then everything about human beings is formed.”
“People have spirituality, and they clearly know their own existence, and they clearly understand birth, old age, illness, and death. Searching for the existence of meaning and the meaning of life is the instinct of human beings to transcend all things and to be above all things. The reason why people are human is that they cannot live in ignorance like animals."
"Life. In this world, fate is unpredictable, and the future is uncertain. It seems difficult to control one's own destiny, and one is always drifting with the tide. At this time, one needs a world on the other side to rest all one's spirituality. ”
Lin Fucheng waited for everyone to digest Li Zhi's words. Li Zhi started from the spirit of all things in "Shang Shu" and discussed human spirituality. Living is the pursuit of meaning, and living requires a world on the other side.
"It seems that the meaning of life does not lie in reality, but in the other shore. So, can this other shore really be reached?" Lin Fucheng waited for everyone to raise their heads and the confusion on their faces dissipated. After that, he asked doubtfully.
Li Zhi said with a smile: "Yeah, look, people live to pursue the meaning of life, and then fictionalize a world on the other side. Then this world on the other side seems to have nothing to do with reality. This is the weird part. Once you work tirelessly, To pursue that fictitious other shore, the meaning of life does not exist between reality. "
"So once we pursue that other shore excessively, people will live in a state of 'not gaining themselves' and 'losing themselves again. ' Living in this paradox that troubles life, when people's hearts are most confused, evil spirits will take advantage of it. Because of the confusion caused by the capriciousness of life, people will naturally think that there is a kind of confusion. The mysterious power is above everything and controls the operation of the world. "
"And then pursue this mysterious power."
"How can we reach the fictitious other side. "
Lin Fucheng nodded and said, "It's still a bit too complicated. Li Zhi, do you have any cases?"
"The Metropolitan Procuratorate is shouting about the law all day long. "Three generations of cheap Confucians." Li Zhi said matter-of-factly: "They are the most specific case."
When Zhu Yijun heard this, he was stunned. He is indeed a liberal fighter who makes Confucian scholars tremble. , discussing religion can bring out these cheap Confucians and criticize them.
It’s no wonder that Li Zhi and Lin Fucheng used cheap Confucianism as an example, because they really fit this issue.
Li Zhi said loudly: "These cheap Confucians constructed an imaginary other shore - three generations above. Then for thousands of years, they continued to perfect this fictitious shore above three generations, and Confucius , Mencius, Zhu Xi and others continued to sanctify and elevate their status, and eventually Confucianism became Confucianism."
"To shape people into sacred images is to create gods! Under the idol, constant self-alienation and alienation from others began.”
"Yes, contradictions are everywhere, and the same is true in religion. The alienation of oneself constantly convincing oneself, the alienation of others persuading oneself, and the collision between one's own spirituality and the spirituality of others are where the contradictions intensify!"
“In the process of self-alienation and alienation from others, human spirituality gradually becomes illusory and divorced from reality. In the end, human spirituality is completely alienated by the other side of illusory reality. Human spirituality becomes a religious instinct and then becomes a beast. "
Lin Fucheng immediately said: "If you hold the theory of contradiction to such a high level, are you creating a divine image? What kind of god are you creating? "
Li Zhi shook his head. If the theory of contradiction is sanctified and placed in a shrine, will the theory of contradiction still be the theory of contradiction? Just like those Confucian classics, it may have been the most appropriate method at that time, but now we are still copying it mechanically. Is it really appropriate?
Li Zhi thought for a moment and said: "The paradox is that this is a way for people to think about problems, so that people don't look at problems one-sidedly. This is not sanctification, it is a boat for people to raft in the sea of suffering. It’s just an oar. If you don’t want to use it, you can just go with it. It doesn’t need to be placed in a shrine and worshiped at all times.” Any influence, on the contrary, rescued Confucius from the evil Confucius. "
"It is better to worry about the theory of contradiction being abandoned than to worry about it being sanctified."
Lin Fucheng was stunned and asked: "Why did Master Li say this?"
Li Zhi said helplessly: "What do you think, what do you mean by contradiction? Talk about top-down, the same It also talks about bottom-up. Once this question is talked about from bottom-up, whose interests will be harmed in this question? "Meat-eaters" "How can meat-eaters allow such knowledge to prevail?" ? Only in the era of Emperor Ren and Emperor Ji can we have such a scene. Afterwards, I am afraid that the theory of contradiction will be swept into the pile of old books and everyone will embrace Confucianism again. This will be the most relaxing. ”
At that time, it was ordinary and a very common phenomenon, because people lived in the present and were accustomed to all this, thinking that the world should be like this. But in fact, the Wanli Reform during the Wanli Period was a very special and special time. In the past It's over.
"Will it really happen?" Zhu Yijun patted the railing and suddenly asked loudly.
Li Zhi was immediately startled. Of course he knew that it was Mr. Huang, His Majesty the Emperor, who was asking. A gathering is a gathering, and a performance is a performance, which are two completely different concepts.
"Young Master Huang, you will definitely know it. We always talk about contradictions. Contradictions come one after another, one ebbs and the other grows." Li Zhi said quickly, history is always turning over sesame seeds.
Hu Hui, who served as the Minister of Rites from the Yongle period to the Tianshun period, is a typical example.
Hu Hui once laughed at himself. He served as the Minister of Rites for thirty-six years and served in five dynasties. He was really ridiculous and repeatedly demeaned.
As the Minister of Rites, Hu Hui sometimes firmly supports Kaihai and sometimes firmly opposes Kaihai; sometimes he firmly supports Weisuo Confucianism School, sometimes he firmly supports the merger of Wei Confucianism School; sometimes he firmly supports Kaibian During the Northern Expedition, he sometimes firmly opposed the Northern Expedition;
He firmly supported and opposed competing for profits with the people; he firmly supported and opposed the Sedentary Craftsman Law; he firmly supported and opposed the enfeoffment of foreign relatives.
Hu Hui's capriciousness is because the times are changing, and history is always turning over the cakes, always in a cycle, which is vividly reflected in Hu Hui.
The theory of contradiction cannot escape this fate. Now people regard the theory of contradiction as a must-read. After the Wanli Reform, everyone will firmly oppose it. This seems to be the case in the world.
"We don't believe in this evil!" Zhu Yijun waved his sleeves and went to sulk on his own, signaling the two of them to continue the conversation.
Of course Zhu Yijun knew that what these two people said was right. Even a powerful emperor like Taizu Gao couldn't care about what happened behind his back.
The most important achievement of the theory of contradiction is that it provides a bottom-up perspective, and this perspective is abandoned and disgusted by meat-eaters. Once the supporters of the Wanli Reform pass away, the theory of contradiction will It will become a page in history just like the old case of Zheng He's mission to Shuicheng.
Li Zhi actually understands why His Majesty the Emperor is so diligent and enterprising, in order to prevent such things from happening, or in other words, when such things happen, leave enough legacy for future generations. Splurge, you can squander until the next cycle.
But is history really ups and downs? It's usually ups and downs.
“The root of religion is that people live to find meaning, for the other side. Then the essence of religion is the alienation of people.” Li Zhi looked at everyone and said with a little helplessness: “Three years of Wanli will unite the people. There is a lot of publicity in Nanya, in order to seek immortality, the umbilical cord blood is taken from the baby, which is terrible."
"Such a tragedy also happened on the grassland. We can't imagine that we can only keep two taels of silver a year, but we have to pay for it. The embarrassment of donating three taels to the lamasery. "
Li Zhi is indicting the evils of religion. Apart from those crazy behaviors, it is to make money. These two things are the most damning things. A poor coolie can stay for a year. No more than a few dollars were spent, and they were all sent to temples, and the lamas in these temples were places harboring filth and evil, including all five poisons.
“The so-called faith, the stronger the faith, the more serious the alienation of people. In the imaginary other side world, because of fiction, people can realize everything they want about infinity, sublimity, other side, poetry, and even immortality. Yearning, the more you believe in this fictitious world on the other side, the more determined you become, and the more determined you are, the more self-alienation you have."
"Self-deception is the beginning of alienation, being pious enough to dedicate everything to oneself is the end of alienation. Nothing like that.”
"Master Li just mentioned the alienation between self and others. In addition to the alienation of self-deception, are there other people alienating during this alienation process?" Lin Fucheng asked with a smile.
Li Zhi said with great conviction: "Self-alienation is self-deception, and the deception of others is ultimately for profit. We have not yet gone to the grassland, and we have not yet been able to penetrate deeply into the institutional deprivation of the lamasery. Discussion, but from the perspective of Heyi Zhong gathering a large number of people, we can briefly analyze it.”
“Wang Xiangu’s purpose of deifying herself is not just for the incense money, the relationship between the incense money is really too big. After loosening up, Wang Xiangu deified herself and established Heyi Zhong. Its fundamental purpose is nothing more than a common topic. "
Lin Fucheng immediately asked: "What topic?"
“Through religion, we can establish a strong personal dependence relationship and take life and death from others. This is its fundamental purpose.” Li Zhi replied very smoothly.
This is the relationship between people that liberals are most opposed to, forced personal attachment, and the relationship between slaves and slave owners.
In the question and answer session, Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi revealed the essence of religion: self-deception and expropriation.
Li Zhi continued: "Everything created by man is to satisfy his own needs. So what needs do men create religion to satisfy people? The need to get rid of the reality of suffering."
< br>“Facing the limitations of life and facing the suffering of reality, people need to find psychological comfort, their spirituality needs to be settled, and their spirit needs to be comforted.”
“This is the so-called god saving all living beings, but God usually does not save the poor.”
Wind and rain only hit stray travelers, and Buddhism only hits the rich.
The Buddha is a golden Buddha, and worshiping the Buddha requires silver. The pagoda where Empress Dowager Li worshiped the Buddha cost 200,000 taels of silver in the early years of Wanli. This money was well spent. Zhu Yijun, an old man, is a dignitary. I think it is worth it, it is a landmark event dedicated by Wang Chonggu.
After Li Zhi finished speaking, Lin Fucheng said with a serious face: "Religion is people's protest against the suffering of reality, but if you want your spirituality to settle down and your spirit to be comforted, you need to buy it with real money. In essence, the spiritual comfort sold by religion is also a commodity, and it is expensive.”
“This kind of exchange is unequal, and there is too much fraud and concealment, so it is not freedom. Trade. ""Religion is a prison, a shackle, and the enemy of freedom."
Zhu Yijun extended his hand and applauded the two masters, and everyone in the audience reacted very much. dull.
The Ming Dynasty was an extremely secular country. Everyone in the audience came to see how Li Zhi and Lin Fucheng, two liberals who openly challenged the bureaucracy and autocracy, challenged the imperial power. The two masters talked a lot, mainly about the alienation of people by religion.
They cannot empathize with them because they have no environment, especially this group of scholar-bureaucrats. Confucius said that the Master does not talk about strange powers and confuses the gods, so he should stay away from ghosts and gods.
There was a person in the audience whose face turned red and kept clapping his hands to express his inner excitement. This person was Legas. He was a victim. When he was young, he was unable to stay with his lover. In anger, he swore an oath to remain unmarried and serve the gods for the rest of his life. As a result, this oath became a shackles and a prison.
Later, Legas' lover turned to him and betrayed him. Legas felt that his original oath was extremely stupid.
If Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi's remarks were put in Taixi, they could immediately become saints on the spot.
"Suiyuan is the Suiyuan of the Ming Dynasty, and Suiyuan suffered a lot." Lin Fucheng looked at the reaction of everyone in the audience, and knew that they were not very enthusiastic about this matter, but Lin Fucheng still said what they discussed The purpose of this question is to cheer for Wang Huasuiyuan.
Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi looked at each other and then laughed. They had already expected the mediocre response from the audience, so they smiled.
"I know, you may say that it is really boring to just talk about this in today's gathering. Indeed, it does seem very boring." Lin Fucheng said with a smile: "Then next, Let’s play a little game. Raise your hands if any of the following things have never happened in your life.” "
After everyone fully understood the rules of the game, Li Zhi said: "First, it can be said that it is the fault of the king, but not the fault of the teacher. Those who have not experienced it now raise their hands. "
The scene was silent. Everyone looked at the two masters on the stage in stunned silence. Aren't these two masters discussing religion? It does make sense, but as soon as this question came up, everyone at the scene immediately understood that they were also under similar oppression without knowing it.
This is really terrible.
“It’s really disappointing. This has happened to everyone. It’s so sad. You can point out your father’s mistakes, but you can’t say that your teacher is wrong, even if you’re wrong. You can't have any disobedient thoughts." Lin Fucheng took a sip of water and looked at the many Confucian scholars in the audience.
"Jiangling Gong taught me a lesson and solved my doubts. It's the teacher's fault!" Zhu Yijun said loudly.
"No, your Majesty has a message, Mr. Yan's fault will be punished." Lin Fucheng said with great conviction. This was an unconscious boomerang. Lin Fucheng really never thought about such a terrible thing that Mr. Huang is the emperor. Those treasonous words, Lin Fucheng said this more than once in front of Mr. Huang.
Zhu Yijun was stunned and was stunned by this boomerang. He couldn't tell Lin Fucheng directly that he was the emperor. He could say it!
The money in Guangde Bookstore’s account is still too much!
Li Zhi's face darkened. Lin Fucheng was just relying on his own abilities. Your Majesty would not care about it. Otherwise, he would kill the person who made the mistake of stabbing others. He dragged Lin Fucheng to behead him, but no one could save him.
Li Zhi immediately said: "Second, any different opinions cannot be tolerated, no matter how reasonable they are."
Li Zhi is changing the subject to prevent the issue from getting deeper. Lin Fucheng can't say any more If you go on, if you continue to criticize Chengyu, it is a heinous crime, and it cannot be fooled by just saying that the person who knows nothing is not guilty.
The second question caused some quiet discussions, which seemed to be full of words such as rulers, admonitions, reprimands, etc. In fact, it seems to have been like this since childhood. From childhood, people have learned to obey.
"This is another tragedy." Lin Fucheng said with emotion: "Look, you are still laughing at the ignorance of the grassland border people and being deceived by the Lama Temple. You are not the same. It is true that these persecutions Some of the rules and regulations you obey are indeed for your studies, but how much is this part? "
"You naturally have a steelyard in your heart, and you will weigh what is right and wrong. Respect your teacher. There is nothing wrong with the Tao, but are these teachers who cannot tolerate any different opinions really for your studies?"
Li Zhi sighed and looked around and said, "If these are obedient orders? , more than half are for your studies, please raise your hand, if not, just for the so-called authority, please remain silent.”
The answer was silence again. Everyone ignored Mr. Huang. He was one of the few powerful people in the world, with his hands and eyes reaching the heavens. He was a dandy in the contemporary general's palace. No one who taught him dared to do anything to Mr. Huang.
But most ordinary people, even powerful right-wingers, have experienced this.
"What the two masters said is like enlightenment. I, the Yao family in Wuzhong, claim to be a scholarly family, a home of poetry, calligraphy, etiquette, music and hairpins. But in terms of my study, what the two masters said is I hit the nail on the head, if it was really for my studies, then it would be fine. When I was a child, I studied and learned. This person actually vented his personal anger on me because his concubine died in childbirth. When I was a child, I didn't dare to tell my parents about it for fear. You will be scolded again." Yao Guangming, the younger brother of the kelp king Yao Guangqi, stood up.
The Yao family is a wealthy family that the emperor personally selected to move into the capital. They are considered to be the representatives of the richest family. If Yao Guangming is studying like this, others will not be less generous.
“Getting to the Imperial Academy is no different from entering the Palace of Hell.” Yao Guangming complained again, which could be described as arrogance.
He has no intention of pursuing an official career, but those demons and monsters in the Imperial College still control the power. When the time comes, they will have the good fruit of the Yao family to eat. If the resentment in his heart is not too great, he will not say this.
The Hall of the King of Hell is feudal, hierarchical, and terrifying. It does not tolerate any gossip or any different voices. If it makes the 'King of Hell' people feel a little unhappy, they will easily snap it down and make rash arguments and empty talk. Hat, this person who makes the Lord of Hell unhappy will be squeezed out immediately, and may even become difficult to move.
"The Hall of the King of Hell..." Li Zhi muttered to himself and repeated it, and looked at Lin Fucheng, who also had a blank look on his face.
Neither he nor Lin Fucheng had any experience of studying in the Imperial College. Li Zhi passed the imperial examination at the age of twenty-six, but failed to pass the Jinshi examination at the age of twenty-seven. He immediately went to Henan and became a lecturer, without studying in the Imperial College. , and Lin Fucheng simply became a criminal because of the persecution of Ren and Xia, and could not even pass the examination.
None of them have any experience in this area, but this is a public place, and Yao Guangming’s complaint is obviously not as simple as a nickname.
From the extension of religion to the issue of academic circles, the issue has become extremely sensitive, and everyone has chosen to shut up.
Only one of the scholars present, Yao Guangming, dared to say it because of his family's great business, his brother is now the Kelp King, and the son-in-law of the brother of Wang Chonggu, the leader of the Jin Party.
Yao Guangqi was indeed cut off from the Yao family, but if Yao Guangming really suffered any injustice, Yao Guangqi still wanted to seek justice for his brother.
Only Yao Guangming dared to speak, the others were silent and did not dare to say even a single word.
“In fact, the Royal Institute of Technology and the Royal Institute of Technology are very good. A layman named Da Zongbo who knows nothing about the Institute is responsible for the administration of the Institute. The layman leads the expert. It seems unreasonable, but if the Institute is allowed to If it continues to develop, I'm afraid it will become an iron house like the Imperial College, which is impenetrable to needles and water." Yao Guangming is extremely envious of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the Polytechnic Institute. At least the administrative power there has not failed, and the overall environment is... The atmosphere is much stronger than that of the Imperial College.
Once you have a control group, things become simpler.
Why did Yao Guangming dare to fire on those Princes of Hell in the Imperial College? In fact, it is very simple, because power is no longer completely monopolized by Prince Yan of the Imperial College, things have changed, so Yao Guangming has become bolder.
Any place where administrative power fails will turn into an independent kingdom and an iron house. This is also one of the reasons why the Ming Dynasty had too many lowly Confucians.
What hindered the administrative power of the imperial court was the etiquette built by Confucian scholars based on the law for three generations.
“Actually, the governor of Guangdong, Wang Jiaping, and his disciples Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong did not have such things. On the contrary, Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong often made the governor half angry to death, and regretted that they should not have accepted them in the first place. These two people are getting started." Zhu Yijun still found an example.
On the way to Beijing, Wang Jiaping and his two living treasure disciples were very angry with Wang Jiaping. Fortunately, these two people knew what the importance was and did not cause any trouble during the meeting.
Wang Jiaping’s generosity comes from Ge Shouli’s generosity.
"Indeed, there are still a handful of masters and disciples like them." Zhu Yijun thought about it again and found that there were very few, almost none.
"Religion is a prison, a shackle, and the enemy of people's freedom." When Lin Fucheng repeated this sentence again, the applause was like thunder.
The discussion continued. The issues discussed ranged from religion, to freedom, to opening up the sea. The students became particularly enthusiastic.
More and more Bi Zheng and students went to the prairie Lama Temple for field investigation, and eventually a group of fifty people went to the prairie for study tour. Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and said a few words to Zhao Mengyou. Zhao Mengyou led Order to do it.
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not provide financial help because of frugality, but Zhu Yijun chose to use people and selected two hundred people from Tiqi to be responsible for protecting these traveling scholars who went to the grassland. Lin Fucheng did not have any organization at all. Activity experience requires help.
Once the number of people exceeds ten, a leader is needed. Once the number of people exceeds twenty, it is difficult to think of eating, drinking, and eating. Once the number of people exceeds fifty, there are more factors to consider, such as illness. , such as leaving the team without permission, staying up all night, etc. Such actions require planning and organization.
If Lin Fucheng is really asked to complete this study tour alone, I am afraid that he was fine when he went there, but he will not be able to come back.
Zhu Yijun provided protection and organization to help Lin Fucheng complete this grassland study tour.
The two hundred Tiqi troops actually exceeded the limit that the General's Mansion could mobilize. After all, the General's Mansion only had a total of two hundred Tielin troops. Such high-level protection was to prevent accidents during the study tour. After all, Suiyuan was newly established. , horse bandits are still as serious a scourge on the grasslands as wild wolves.
As long as Lin Fucheng can understand a little bit about the specifications of the Tielin Army, he will guess who Mr. Huang is.
But Lin Fucheng still didn't guess it. Zhu Yijun thought he was just confused, but soon Zhu Yijun discovered that Lin Fucheng really didn't guess it.
With his hands and eyes as bright as the sky, nothing seems to be an accident for Mr. Huang. In Lin Fucheng's eyes, Mr. Huang who can get an official position is an omnipotent existence.
"Master Huang, mobilize two hundred Tiqi to protect him. This bookstore does not have so much money, so we have raised a total of two hundred taels of silver." Lin Fucheng raised his own difficulty. He was afraid that there would be too many Tiqi and the silver would be lost. Not enough.
Is this a matter of money?
(End of this chapter)