"Which school of thought is practical and dialectical seeking truth from this school of thought?"

As soon as Chen Yichen finished speaking, he aroused doubts among everyone present. Because no mainstream school of Ming Dynasty has advocated this view, and even traced back to Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism in the previous Song Dynasty, he has never heard of this tune.

"Sir, do you know which school of thought Chen Yichen is talking about?"

Zhu Qizhen turned his head and asked softly at Wang Zhen beside him.

What he taught during the imperial court day in the palace were all about the art of governing the country, and he had no time to pay attention to school ideas. Moreover, in order to maintain political balance, officials would not allow a lecturer to bring private goods to instill their academic propositions into the emperor.

If the emperor is successfully "brainwashed", how can other officials who do not believe in this sect survive? Will the court become the dominant one?

Of course, this kind of thing is hard to guard against. For example, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen was cheated by Huang Zicheng, a corrupt scholar teacher. He was obeyed and eventually played a good hand in his hand.

This is the disadvantage of believing in one's own words. Zhu Qizhen and Wang Zhen are also replicating history in a sense.

"Reporting to Master Long Live, I sound like the view of the former Song Yongjia School, but it is very different."

After all, Wang Zhen was a juren and still had a foundation in knowledge. From the four words "practice in the world", he felt that it was very similar to the Yongjia School's proposition, but it was not completely consistent.

As for the dialectical seeking truth behind it, it is even more unheard of.

"Mr. Yi's words, is Chen Yichen's own idea?"

"I am not sure, I can only find out after I have the lecture of the top scholar."

Now Shen Yichen put forward the eight-character viewpoint, and the content is still unknown, so he concluded that it is an original concept, which is a bit too early.

You should know that once you put forward your own ideas in ancient times, if you can carry them forward, it would be equivalent to starting a sect and becoming a master.

Chen Yichen is only eighteen this year. Even if he has the peak fame of the literati who is ranked three and six, he is far behind many great scholars in his academic research and precipitation.

Wang Zhen couldn't believe that today's lecture was the time when Chen Yichen started his sect!

"Um."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, and then silently recited the four words of Yongjia School in his heart.

In fact, it was not just Zhu Qizhen. Most of the students and officials present at the Imperial College were guessing in their hearts whether the content Chen Yichen wanted to teach was related to the Yongjia School of the former Song Dynasty.

The Yongjia School was an important Confucian school in the Southern Song Dynasty. It advocated the "Study of Mechanics" with Zhu Xi's "Neo-Confucianism" and Lu Jiuyuan's "Study of Heart" at that time.

The main point of this Yongjia School is to emphasize the importance of practice and the consistency between profit and righteousness.

The principle of importance of practice is simple, and many people can understand that the consistency between profit and righteousness lies in "harmony righteousness with profit, not suppress profit with righteousness."

To put it simply, Taoists cannot just open their mouths to require everyone to meet the moral standards of "saints". They must be profitable and have the motivation to do good deeds. The pursuit of interests is not contrary to morality.

In a sense, this view is more retro than the ideas of the pre-Qin period, that is, if you have enough food and clothing, you will know honor and disgrace, and if you have enough granaries, you will know etiquette.

As for the four words "to be used in the world", it is the result of the later Confucian scholars Wang, Huang Zongxi and others who further developed their merits.

It is more prominently expressed that knowledge must be beneficial to state affairs, govern the country and ensure the people's peace and pragmatism. Instead of being as unrealistic as some Neo-Confucianists, they just want to pursue so-called benevolence, righteousness and morality all day long, and ultimately empty talk will ruin the country!

It has been passed down to the orthodox dynasty of the ancient sages for two thousand years since the orthodox dynasty of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, seriously, Confucianism itself does not have much problem. On the contrary, it is extremely advanced philosophical thinking two thousand years ago. Even if it is placed two thousand years later, it still has many advantages, and it shines with the light of thought that belongs to the ancestors!

But the problem lies in later rulers or ambitious people who controlled the annotation power of Confucianism and even respected it to the level of irreversible "Bible" and adopted it as a scholarship for governing the country, which a big problem arises.

No thought can remain unchanged. No matter how advanced it was at that time, it could not withstand the changes of time and the times.

There is a famous saying in "Yan Zi's Envoy to Chu": Oranges grow in the south of Huai, and those grow in the north of Huai, are tangerines.

A regional difference of just a few hundred kilometers can produce two completely opposite results. How can a thousand years of time ensure that it can be applied to every dynasty and every piece of land?

Shen Yichen did not intend to intervene in the Confucian school dispute, but the reason was that he did not have enough ability and time.

If you want to put forward your own academic proposals, you need extremely solid knowledge. Whether it is Neo-Confucianism, Mind Learning, or even the thoughts of other schools of thought, there must be no obvious shortcomings.

Otherwise, why can we defeat the "enemy" in the debate and make the world believe in your academic propositions?

Shen Yichen was able to achieve brilliant achievements in the imperial examination because it was purely exam-oriented education. It was more explicit, but it depends on who has a strong ability to memorize it by rote.

To put forward academic propositions requires innovative thinking. Without decades of research and accumulation, it is difficult to improve one's own doctrine and will lead to many loopholes.

Shen Yichen is currently a mere sixth-rank Hanlin compilation, and is still 108,000 miles away from the Ming Dynasty's Power Center. Even if everything goes well in the future, and the highest-ranking minister takes charge of the world's power, he will face more urgent things.

The threat from northern Mongolia, the division of the southern chieftains, the corruption of the vassal system, the annexation of the land of the Ming Dynasty...

All kinds of imminent crises are far beyond academic disputes. Even immediate worries cannot be solved, so how can you still have the energy to care about any long-term considerations?

But now when the opportunity is placed in front of Shen Yichen, the times create heroes!

He did not want to emphasize the "preserving the laws of nature and eliminating human desires" on the premise that the Western continent had "Renathes" and "scientific and technological revolution". In the end, he was holding the corrupt Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and was beaten with advanced technology to find teeth all over the ground.

Even if you are ultimately unable to change anything from your thoughts, you will eventually make a different voice, which can give the world some inspiration!

Shen Yichen felt the puzzled eyes around him, took a deep breath, and began to give lectures and expound on his concept of "using the world and seeking truth from the dialectical way".

"Things must be based on the heart. Those who are good at speaking their hearts must have proven their work!"

"The law must be based on people, and those who are good at speaking the law must have resources for the law!"

"Now, I must be the ancients. Those who are good at talking about the ancients will have proven their experiences!"

"Things must be self-centered. Those who speak good about me must take advantage of things!"

Being practical and practical is just a general and pragmatic concept. If you want to have academic propositions, you must put forward specific ideological content.

The first point of these four points proposed by Chen Yichen is to oppose empty talk about the principles and sit and discuss the truth. "Experience is done" means that subjective cognition must be tested by practice, rather than idealism, which echoes the importance of practice emphasized in the Yongjia School.

The "law" in the second point does not refer to law, but to law.

Chen Yichen wants to express that people cannot act completely according to Confucian "benevolence, righteousness and morality", but should follow objective laws, otherwise they will fall into blind law.

The third point points out that the historical trend is constantly moving forward, oppose ancientism, do not hold on to things from thousands of years ago, and keep pace with the times!

The fourth point is to talk about the thinking and viewpoints of individuals and groups, indicating that we cannot act arbitrarily, we must respect different opinions, and to focus our minds to create the cremation of our thoughts.

The last point is that Chen Yichen has brought private goods and given vaccinations to the Imperial College students and officials present in advance. He is worried that his proposal today will cause an uproar and be attacked by the group!

So the ugly saying goes ahead. If you want to oppose attacking me, you will not accept different opinions and act arbitrarily.

Chen Yichen's propositions are considered to be a combination of "practice in the world" and the Yongjia School, but they do not leave the scope of the ancient Four Books and Five Classics, and have great limitations.

If you want to get rid of the limitations of the times, you can only rely on the following sentence "Dialectical Seeking Truth" and use more advanced modern dialectical materialist concepts to drive the development and development of ideas.

When Chen Yichen finished his lecture, he looked around and found that the entire auditorium was silent. Everyone looked at him with extremely shocked eyes.

Why didn’t there be any response? I said it too well, and I was still immersed in the impact of thinking for a while and couldn’t extricate myself?

Just when Shen Yichen felt unclear, the great Confucian scholar Wei Congwen stood up, pointed at him with anger and said, "This kind of practice of heresy theory is not tolerated by Neo-Confucianism!"

Wei Congwen had no experience of traveling through time in later generations, so he could only look for the source of Chen Yichen's theory from the previous dynasty.

It is obvious that these contents are similar to the "school of merit" of the Yongjia School. They all oppose Neo-Confucianism's "self-cultivation" and "internal sage" propositions, what is it not heresy?

As soon as these words were spoken, the audience was in an uproar!

Although Chen Yichen did not directly attack Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism, the meaning expressed was almost completely different from the concepts commonly used in the Ming Dynasty.

Those who can listen to lectures here, whether they are ministers or students of the Imperial College. As long as they are not in contact with each other, they can be called the best among the literati of the Ming Dynasty. How could they not understand the meaning behind it?

It’s just that Chen Yichen is the third grade, and his fame and reputation are too strong. Even if he feels something is wrong, no one dares to take the lead in opposing it.

Now the great scholars of the dynasty have stood up and said frankly that Chen Yichen has made great contributions to the heretical theory. Now many people dare to speak freely.

"Every sentence of Zhuang Yuan Gong refers to Neo-Confucianism, which is too bold."

"Bah, I was so proud of myself that I admired Chen Xiangbei so much before. I am really a traitor!"

"Why did the priest emperor say such disrespectful words? Is it that he wants to be tolerated by the scholars of all literati in the world?"

"For those who are sensational, fortunately, the emperor and emperor are here, and Chen Yichen's official position and fame should be dismissed on the spot!"

Various attacks came one after another in the auditorium, and many officials supported Wei Congwen with students from the Imperial College, full of righteous indignation.

Because Chen Yichen's academic propositions are equivalent to denying the concept they have learned through hard study throughout their lives. How can they accept it?

However, there were also a small number of officials and students who did not follow the crowd and blamed each other. They carefully recalled Chen Yichen's ideas in their hearts, and felt that many places made sense and were not sensational remarks.

But no one dared to speak for Chen Yichen because of the general trend.

Li Shimian looked at Chen Yichen on the teacher's seat being attacked, and his face was extremely solemn.

Today, he invited Chen Yichen to give lectures, one is to repay kindness and the other is to appreciate it. He thought that this son could show his talent in front of the emperor, thus gain favor and start his own path to the sky.

As a result, I never expected that Chen Yichen's talent was too "surprise". He directly established a sect in the Imperial College and put forward his own academic proposals.

The problem is that you can start a sect and establish a sect, but you just say something amazing. These remarks are not tolerated by the current Neo-Confucian atmosphere. This has nothing to do with the right or wrong of knowledge, but only with different camp positions.

Those who challenge the established rules will inevitably be attacked by groups!

Even if Li Shimian wants to help Chen Yichen to help him relieve this situation today, he will be powerless.

"Chen Yichen may be in trouble."

Zhu Qizhen, who was high above the imperial throne, looked at Chen Yichen being criticized by the officials and scholars, and a playful smile appeared on his face.

Unlike Neo-Confucians and passionate students, Zhu Qizhen was not interested in various theories and concepts, and he could even classify them as "averse learning party" and didn't even want to read the Four Books and Five Classics.

So he didn't feel offended at Chen Yichen's words. On the contrary, he could see such a "lively" scene when he left the palace. It was not a big deal to eat melons, and it was really worth the trip.

"The first emperor's move is a bit too bold, and I'm afraid it won't end well."
To be continued...