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Chapter 358 True Confucianism and Fake Confucianism

"Split up the family" is something Wu Haogu had planned long ago. It is not to divide the two female lions in the family and treat them, but to prepare for the possible Jingkang Incident in the future.

The chaos that only happened more than 20 years later must be a bit too early to prepare now. However, Wu Haogu is a traitorous businessman and an innocent official. He is not the kind of big blue sky who can climb high and turn the tide when he is in a brutal state. The routes of the two are different. The latter can use a righteous spirit to incite the blood of the Kaifeng Prefecture army and people, and achieve the effect of being one-man in one heart and a common hatred of the enemy. Just like Li Gang and Zong Ze in history.

But Wu Haogu's identity as a clerk and a businessman, determines that he does not have such appeal, so he can only follow the evil capitalist route and seek benefits from management and operation.

To operate and manage, of course, it is necessary to set up an organization and send reliable and powerful people to take charge.

The Wu family's accountants and the Republic Headquarters were naturally responsible for the general responsibility. When Wu Haogu left Kaifeng Prefecture, the Republic Headquarters had to be controlled by Su Dalang, while Pan Qiaolian controlled the Wu family's accountants to exercise the supervision power of major shareholders over the Republic Headquarters.

Of course, the only female hero Ximen Qing is able to manage the layout of the Haizhou, Xuzhou and Huaiyang Army (between Xuhai) and represent Wu Haogu to exercise the power of the patriarch of the "Yuntai Wu Family". She had already managed the affairs of the Ximen Family in Yanggu and knew how to establish a powerful family that was both business and martial.

In addition, Wu Haogu also planned to attract the Ximen family in Yanggu, Zhang family in Yucheng (Zhang Xizai family), and Wudi Chai family to move to Xu, Hai, and Huaiyang. Murong Wangyou has also written a letter to the official Zhao Xu, requesting that the Murong family members who came to surrender to the south be placed in Xu, Hai, Huaiyang and other places (of course the land was obtained through the allocation of official fields). The Haizhou Hua family, which was originally weakened due to the shipwreck, would also be revived by Wu Haogu's support.

In this way, a local tyrant group will appear between Xu, Hai and Huaiyang, with the Wu family, Ximen family, Murong family, Zhang family, Chai family, Hua family and other powerful families as the core.

If the operation is done properly, these six powerful families can control more than a dozen guarantees in the future, each with 500 guarantees, and a total of 6,000 to 8,000 legal local armed forces will be available!

In addition, with the children of these six powerful families as the basis, Wu Haogu could open a "Yuntai Academy" and may open a Yuntai University in the future. Moreover, the Republic Headquarters will also need the help of the six powerful families in Haizhou in the future.

Of course, Wu Haogu’s ultimate goal is to bring together a army of kings in Xuzhou, Haizhou and Huaiyang when the Jingkang Shame happened...

As for Jiehe Commercial City, Wu Haogu needs to make careful arrangements. He himself is the first "mayor" of Jiehe Commercial City! Naturally, he has to settle a home in Jiehe Commercial City. In the next 10 or 20 years, if nothing unexpected happens, Wu Haogu will spend at least one-third of his time in Jiehe Commercial City.

"Da Lang," Pan Qiaolian's little mouth pouted, as if she was a little unhappy, "Can I not stay with you forever in the future?"

"This..." Wu Haogu looked at Pan Qiaolian a little apologetically. Of course he knew what Pan Shibajie was thinking. This girl and Ximen Qing had a completely different way. Ximen Qing liked men to make achievements, so he could naturally tolerate the life of having more and less gatherings with Wu Haogu.

But Pan Qiaolian didn't care how many achievements Wu Haogu could achieve. The most important thing was to be with her forever.

"Sister," Ximen Qing also understood Pan Qiaolian's wishes. She hurriedly said, "This is only temporary. Now Jiehe Commercial City is still deserted. After a few years, the situation of the Commercial City will rise, and our house in Jiehe Commercial City will also rise, and you can get along with Dalang between Jiehe Commercial City and Kaifeng Prefecture."

"What should I do if the inner account in Kaifeng Prefecture?" Pan Qiaolian asked.

Ximen Qing smiled and said, "At that time, the arrangement between Xu Hai will be almost done, so I can return to Kaifeng Mansion to take charge of my sister."

"That's all my hard work, sister." Pan Qiaolian finally smiled, "Dalang, do you still remember what I promised to slaves in Yuntaishan that day?"

"Why don't you remember?" Wu Haogu said to Ximen Qing with a smile, "I have a villa on Yuntai Mountain and bought a lot of land at the foot of the mountain. I originally planned to live a fairy life with Shibajie there."

"Yes." Ximen Qing nodded, "I know, I must renovate the villa on Yuntai Mountain. How should I use the land at the foot of the mountain?"

"I want to build a college there. One day I retire, I will teach and educate people there." Wu Haogu smiled and said, "No hurry, I will renovate the villa on the mountain first. Yuntai Academy has to wait until half of the Baibowu family members arrive in Haizhou before starting construction... And the academy matters must be discussed with Mr. Murong, after all, he is a great scholar."

As a traitorous businessman and dirty official, Wu Haogu actually attached great importance to Confucian education, so he spent a lot of money to open academies. However, what he valued was not the false Confucianism under the education, but the real Confucianism!

The six arts of gentlemen he advocated are true Confucian things, which can come from the "Zhou Li. Baoshi": " Raising a nation's son to use the Tao is the six arts of teaching". And what Confucius said about "restraining oneself and replacing rituals is benevolence", the one that needs to be restored is the "Zhou Li".

Theoretically, the Imperial College of the Song Dynasty (when Mi Youren studied) and the Imperial College should teach the methods of bowing, horses, riding, shooting, and marching and formation... In Wu Haogu's view, the Imperial College of the Imperial College, which focuses on moral articles, is completely nonsense.

Especially in the Imperial Academy, those who can get into the exam are all first-class moral articles, and later generations have been masters of Chinese studies. What articles can you learn to do?

The "calligraphy" among the six arts of gentlemen is just one of them. Should we make up for the other five arts after entering the Taixue School? How could we educate more than 2,000 Taixue students and two or three hundred martial arts students to the level of "Xuanjia Cavalry"? In this way, they would not have to write a letter to ask for resistance during the Jingkang period, and they would just wear armor and horses, carrying horse spears and long spears to fight against the Jin soldiers. This is true Confucianism!

Therefore, according to the standards of "The Book of Zhou", academies that teach the six arts of gentlemen is precisely using practical actions to implement the sage Confucius' proposition of "restraining oneself and restoring rituals" and are a great respect for Confucianism.

Therefore, all kinds of great scholars will definitely support the Six Arts Academy, which Wu Haogu strongly recommended. At least they have no way to oppose it. Because opposing Six Arts Academy means opposing self-discipline and rebuilding rituals, and opposing self-discipline and rebuilding rituals is opposing Confucius.

As a Confucian businessman who respects Confucianism with practical actions, Wu Haogu certainly would not rashly write to the official family to ask for the restoration of rituals. The restoration of rituals should start with his own academy.

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"A rich family does not need to buy good land, there are thousands of millets in books; there are no tall buildings in living, there are golden houses in books; there are no bad matchmakers in marriage, there are beautiful women in books; there are no regrets that no one follows you when you go out, there are many carriages and horses in books; a man wants to fulfill his life's ambition, and read the Five Classics diligently to the window..."

Just when Wu Haogu, Pan Qiaolian, Ximen Qing, Yan Po'er and others didn't have much appetite for a table of delicious Kaifeng dishes, in a tube building next to the newly completed Huaxian Temple, four Wu family members were gathering at a square table and chanting Song Zhenzong's "Lixue Chapter".

This poem "Lixue Pian" is probably the first poem read in his life by every Confucian scholar who came to Kaifeng Prefecture to take the exam, and it is also the poem that is most deeply rooted in their hearts.

It is this song "Lixue Chapter" that inspired countless scholars to devote their lives to the completely castrated Confucian academic gentleman. The five arts of the six arts are gone, leaving only "calligraphy art", and not a hundred schools of thought. Without natural science, only the Four Books and Five Classics are left.

If Confucius read the "Lixue Chapter" by Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, he would definitely be "Zi said: "The tyrant king."

However, Wu Zhongyi, one of his nephews and two nephews would not think so much. They recited Emperor Zhenzong's "Lixue Chapter" with the most pious loyalty. This is a habit they developed since childhood. Since they opened Mengshu, they would recite it every time they were at dinner to inspire their ambitions.

After reciting, you will just eat bad food and don’t feel bitter. As long as you read the Four Books and Five Classics well, you will be like your ancestors, and you will be rich in fish and meat every day!

The meal tonight was already on the table, which was quite rich for the four Baibowu Juren. The fragrant lard fried chicken breasts were sandwiched in the hot pancakes, authentic Kaifeng dishes, and each person could eat two servings!

The three Juren (excluding Wu Zhongyi) were all saliva flowing out when they were reciting the poem... In the future, if they passed the Jinshi, they would eat fried chicken breasts and cakes every day. If they were not satisfied, they would give them a pancake chicken roll (they would eat this at noon today). That was a fairy day!

Of course, Wu Haogu was not unable to provide better meals for the four relatives of the juren, but Wu Zhongyi refused to accept it. He believed that now, his three juniors must not let their three juniors know that one official and businessman could live as good as their ancestors. Otherwise, these three young people would have doubted that the correct values ​​they formed since childhood would be shaken...

"Eat quickly," Wu Zhongyi glanced at the three hungry juren, "After eating, they all went back to their rooms to study... The few articles sent this afternoon were written by the top three juren of Kaifeng Prefecture's Examination. They are all good articles, you can take a good look.

Oh, the second place in Kaifeng Prefecture Examination this time is Wu Haowen, a brother of the good generation, and has always lived in Kaifeng Prefecture. This time, he will definitely win the Jinshi!"

Wu Zhongyi's tone became very heavy, and he said, "The division of the Kaifeng Prefecture and Wu from our Baibo Yimen have not been very harmonious until last year. But the two sides still have to compete... So I hope that this time, at least one of the four of us will be able to have a high school Jinshi!"
Chapter completed!
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