Just when the time of Shen is in the beginning of the poem.

The debate caused by letter exchanges between Lin Yanchao and Zou Yuanbiao also reached its peak.

Lin Yanchao and Zou Yuanbiao were both recognized as common Confucian scholars in the court and the country, and their disciples were also spread all over the world, especially Lin Yanchao, the school of Lin Studies and the School of Mechanism, and the school of Neo-Confucianism and the study of Mind, which became the third school of Confucianism.

When Zou Yuanbiao got Lin Yanchao back to the letter that day, he was teaching at Donglin Academy. After seeing the letter, he thought about it all night, and the next day he wrote a letter to answer it.

In the letter, he wrote that when he saw the words, he was like a meeting, and he was happy to get the letter from Da Zongbo... What he said in the letter was to make courtesy with the superiors and to make courtesy with the subordinates. One sentence is better than the way, and a thousand words of the way of governing the times throughout the ages is included.

The rules should be simple and clear. Those who are superiors should not punish the poor indiscriminately, but those who violate the laws must be punished. Therefore, Emperor Gaozu of Han entered Xianyang to make three rules and regulations, and the world will return to his heart.?

The use of etiquette is complicated and contains it in the size of the size. Those who are superiors should advise diligently and can be advised in slightest. However, those who cannot be punished by the superiors, and there is no high or low to be expressed in the following.

Cheng Yi's advice to break willows was taken from the Zhou Li 's "No woodcutting in spring" which was all improper, but it was not favored by the emperor. Later Confucians actually became pedantic, but they did not know the meaning of etiquette and law.

At the end of the letter, Zou Yuanbiao criticized Lin Yanchao's views on reforms.

The sage said that if you do nothing, you should govern the world. Nowadays, you should rest with the people. It is important to not cause trouble. Promoting one thing will lead to one thing. If you prosper, you will suffer from one thing. It is better to have less trouble than having more things.

The benefits of the world are concentration. The harm of the world is to fight. Therefore, etiquette cannot be changed and laws cannot be changed. The more changes the people's hearts become more chaotic.

After receiving the letter from Zou Yuanbiao, Lin Yanchao really read it.

Whether a philosophical theory has vitality lies in always tolerance of any matter and constantly incorporating it into its own system, making it a meticulous logic to explain everything.

This is the state of "The Six Classics are mentioned in me, and I am the Six Classics".

Zou Yuanbiao is obviously at this level, and the system he borrows from philosophy is Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.

Zou Yuanbiao used the "conventional and ritual law" he proposed to prove his theory.

For the common people, the criminal law should be simple and clear and easy for people to understand. If the law is too strict and the regulations are very detailed, it will not only be complicated, but also make it easier for the emperor and the people-friendly officials to punish the people indiscriminately. The demise of the Qin Dynasty is a lesson learned from the past.

On the other hand, the best is to match the superior. As a meat eater, as a governor, he should be more strict with himself than the common people.

For example, ** matters are injustice, but they are handled differently between the people and officials.

For example, Cheng Yi advised him to break willows, but the emperor only broke a willow branch. What was there? Scholars often laughed in front of Master Cheng, and even the willow tree was not broken.

But according to the Zhou Literature, the emperor said that "there is no woodcutter in spring" and the emperor broke the willow tree and magnified it. Everyone in the world followed this, and it would be bad if everyone broke a few pieces. As the supreme people, the emperor was the example of the people at that time in terms of etiquette and law.

Therefore, the common people can break this willow tree, but the emperor cannot. If it breaks it, it means disobeying etiquette. As long as it violates etiquette, there is something wrong with it, and scholars should also give advice. Otherwise, they will be punished without being punished. If they don’t even allow them to say it, they will be unable to restrain the emperor.

This is also the authorized person is responsible and not punished.

Lin Yanchao felt that he could not refute Zou Yuanbiao's argument, and he didn't know how to resolve it for the time being.

It’s like everyone used to laugh at Cheng Yi for admonishing him how pedantic hell it is, but Master Cheng will tell you in person, that’s what restrains the emperor, and I’m too lazy to say, you are a commoner.

Of course, there must be logical loopholes in this statement, but it is not consistent with Lin Yanchao's current identity for the sake of argument, let alone why he wants to argue.

Lin Yanchao thought carefully and wrote back to Zou Yuanbiao.

In ancient times, there were three hundred rituals, three thousand majestic etiquettes, and three hundred punishments were also correct. Brother Zou said, "be careful of punishment and complex etiquette" was consistent with the way of sages to create etiquette.

After flattering, Lin Yanchao began to refute the general idea.

The meaning of etiquette not being inferior to common people is not that common people can not know etiquette, but that they should first educate the common people with etiquette and laws, and only after knowing etiquette can they make etiquette.

As for not punishing a doctor, it is not about maintaining high and low levels, but about being easily punished so that no one dares to take responsibility.

At this point of debate, Lin Yanchao wrote again,

The sage once said that the gains and losses of the Yin rituals due to the Xia rituals; the gains and losses of the Zhou rituals due to the Yin rituals due to the Yin rituals. From this, we can see that the rituals of ten generations can gains and losses, and the rituals of hundreds of generations can gains and losses.

When Duke Zhou made rituals and music, he was still afraid that "a gentleman was ashamed of his words but did not follow him, and a shame of his actions but did not follow him." It has been two thousand years since then. If we move, we will follow him in the past and then in the present. If we move, we will be in trouble.

Here Lin Yanchao quoted Confucius' words to debate, and Zou Yuanbiao said that etiquette cannot be changed.

However, Confucius said that the Yin rituals come from the Xia rituals, but there are gains and losses, while the Zhou rituals come from the Yin rituals, but there are gains and losses. From this we can see that although the rituals after ten or hundreds of generations are inherited, they can also be gains and losses.

When Duke Zhou made rituals and music, he was still worried that gentlemen would not follow him. But now he has been in the Zhou Duke for two thousand years to prepare rituals, but we are still confident that the Zhou rituals remain unchanged. Fagu was lagging behind the present and sticking to the current situation, and being bound by the current situation cannot keep up with the development of the times.

Lin Yanchao also wrote that etiquette and law do not come from heaven or are born from earth, but are only born from the human world, and are just in line with people's hearts.

By following one another, it is undoubtedly a time of self-confidence. Over the past thousands of years, generations have been a time of great struggle.

Learning is like sailing against the current, if you don’t advance, you will retreat. This is how people should be and the country should be like this.

Lin Yanchao wrote thousands of words, but his heart was in a state of great excitement. At the end of his belief, he couldn't help but think of Yan Fu's theory of heaven.

Another sentence is "Survival of the fittest,"

Lin Yanchao hesitated for a long time whether to write this sentence.

This is true for animals, just like the climate becomes colder and stronger and colder to survive.

But if you put it on others, how can you easily say that a person is useful or not?

In ancient times, those with strong bodies were respected, but later, scholars who won the weak could also become officials.

For example, the disabled, or the poor, can they survive with the fittest?

Among the disabled, Hawking is. Although the poor are poor, they have the urgent desire to change the status quo. Once they encounter opportunities, they will turn around.

The century-old prosperity made the doctors lack a sense of crisis, and they only thought about how to balance from top to bottom. Such a sleeping lion would definitely not wake up without whipping a few whips.

So this sentence is not correct, and it is still correct at the moment. Although Lin Yanchao knew that this statement was very controversial, he was still written in a letter to Zou Yuanbiao.

Both agreed to show the letter to the students, so the content of the letter was spread through discussions under the school.

In the 19th year of Wanli, in the east of the Ming Empire, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was already determined to attack Korea.

Although North Korea heard the news, domestic officials still lived a life of drunkenness and demise.

The King of Shunyi in the northwest, and the Mongolian troops in Haixi were confronting Zheng Luo's army. When the deputy general was in reinforcements, he saw that the Ming army could not stand this way, so he couldn't help but feel despised China.

Yang Yinglong from Bozhou temporarily surrendered, but he was even more dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty.

Inside the empire, the people had just recovered from the severe drought in the past two years, but they still had time to take a break.

Emperor Wanli, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, was worried about the foundation of the country and thought about how to delay it for a year.

As for Prime Minister Shen Shixing, who was considering retirement, there were constant talks among the government and the country.

However, after the letter exchanges between the capital and Wuxi, Lin Yanchao and Zou Yuanbiao, the most famous dialogue between the Confucian scholars, aroused a warm response between today's officials and scholars.

As the Minister of Rites and is famous for his bold statement, Lin Yanchao's two letters are refreshing, which gives scholars all over the world a deeper understanding of the School of Merit.

Zou Yuanbiao's sharp words were not inferior.

Scholars all over the world have a fierce discussion on the principle of "Ming for good governance, good governance, customs for etiquette and law, and careful punishment and complex etiquette, especially the saying "Survival of the fittest".

From establishing the charity school, then opening a newspaper, then reviving the school of meritorious affairs, and circulating in the circle of scholars, as well as the focus of the imperial examination, and finally the identity of the Minister of Rites of Lin Yanchao.

Together, these people gradually became a trend of talking about practical learning among scholars. Many knowledgeable people turned to economic and people's livelihood, instead of focusing on the sutra, morality, etiquette and law. This debate between the government and the country ran through the entire 19th year of Wanli in the environment of internal and external troubles in the Ming Dynasty.

Lin Yanchao was a little relieved. After so many years of hard work, he finally achieved some results. Although his success is still far from success, the soil for his childbirth has begun to loosen.

When Lin Yanchao had not yet contributed to the fire, his students did something that no one expected.

In the Xinmin Daily of the Hanlin Academy, Fang Congzhe made his own decision to publish the letter debate between Lin Yanchao and Zou Yuanbiao directly in the newspaper, and published an editorial after the debate with the Hanlin Academy.

Lin Yanchao felt distressed when he knew it and felt that he had missed an opportunity.

If this is published in the Tianli Daily, Zou Yuanbiao and his celebrity effect will definitely be a blowout for the sales of the Tianli Daily. But if you think about it, it will be a bad idea. After all, it is always bad to publish articles of the Minister of Rites in the newspapers of the Ministry of Rites.

But it has to be said that Fang Congzhe, as the editor-in-chief of Xinmin Daily, did a good job in grasping the hot spots of public opinion. He used his identity as a student of Lin Yanchao to obtain first-hand information and used it.

Xinmin Daily is positioned to focus on the level of scholars and follow the popular route. It is not afraid of others saying that they are vulgar or that they are laughing at the low level. However, in addition to entertainment, the current affairs comments are still relatively fair and objective. The topics are focused on economy and people's livelihood, and they try to explain them in a popular way. If they are not moved, they will fool people with the meaning of the scriptures.

Therefore, the success of Xinmin Daily naturally has its own reason. These reports of Lin Yanchao and Fang Congzhe’s debate and editorials, which suddenly made Xinmin Daily’s sales exceed 10,000 copies.

When discussing with Zou Yuanbiao, Lin Yanchao was not idle either.

Chen Yinglong, the left-ranking minister of the engineering department, submitted a memorial to the court, saying that Wang Yie, the current Minister of War, was ill and should return the right to grant tribute to the Ministry of Rites. At the same time, the Huitongguan was still under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites to avoid delaying national affairs.

Li Yi submitted a memorial to the minister of the official department.

As we all know, Chen Yinglong and Li Yi were both Shujishi in the 14th year of Wanli. Lin Yanchao was not only their mentor, but also their teachers as Shuchang.

After submitting a memorial, Shen Shixing communicated with Xu State and decided to return the power to the Ministry of Rites as soon as the memorial was reported.

ps: There will be updates tomorrow.
Chapter completed!