First Minister of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Ximeng suddenly found the banner of Chen Youliang, and Zhang Ximeng had an idea.

"My lord, how about sending this over there? Zhang Dingbian must have been discouraged when he saw the banner, and his fighting spirit dropped sharply."

Old Zhu thought for a while, then said with a smile, "Sir, it seems that Zhang Dingbian attaches great importance to it, and he is determined to win it!"

Zhang Ximeng grinned, "Actually, I care about Zhu Ying. He is still in Fuliang. I want to be less desperate and less dangerous. His life is hard. To be honest, I don't want him to be wronged."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly, with a half-smile on his face.

Even for Zhu Biao, Zhang Ximeng advocated more experience, without experiencing those things, one cannot become a talent, and a good prince cannot be educated.

But when it comes to Zhu Ying, the style of painting is completely different.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded again and again, and suddenly he said with a smile: "Sir, you said that Ou Puxiang doesn't know how to flatter, and doesn't want to go outside to seal the country. Can you say that Zhu Ying can do it?"

"Okay! Why not!"

Zhang Ximeng immediately said: "My lord, if you think so, that would be great. You must find a good place for Zhu Ying, where the seasons are like spring and the scenery is beautiful."

"where?"

"Naturally, it's Yunnan!" Zhang Ximeng couldn't help but said, "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered the Southwest Yi and brought Yunnan and other places into his territory. Until the Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao established the country, and then Dali, and now... for hundreds of years Time, this land has been out of the control of the Central Plains dynasty. Now that Zaravalmi is in charge of Yunnan, there are not many Han people in the area. If the lord is willing, give Yunnan to Zhu Ying, and give him hundreds of thousands of Han people , Let him guard this place, restore the clothes of the Han family, and promote Huaxia education."

"If you keep Yunnan, you will stabilize the southwest, and if you stabilize the southwest, you will stabilize the rear of the Central Plains." Zhang Ximeng sighed: "Perhaps hundreds of years later, when the Central Plains faces a crisis, future generations will be grateful to us. Today's decision. The territory should be wider and the family property should be thicker. These are the true foundations of civilization. Even if you encounter a prodigal son, you will have to be defeated for a few years, so that the country will not be wiped out all at once."

Zhu Yuanzhang was skeptical about these words, but he could see that Zhang Ximeng really wanted to get some benefits for Zhu Ying.

"Actually, we should reward him for his meritorious service in guarding Fuliang!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a generous smile, "It's just Yunnan, isn't it too small and too far away?"

"No, no, no!" Zhang Ximeng said hastily: "Your Majesty, you can rest assured that there is still too much land in the south of Yunnan. If that kid doesn't even have the ability to expand the territory, I have taught him for so many years. What should I do?" spanking!"

Chapter 358 Master Zhang's Battlefield

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhang Ximeng's gesture of begging for benefits for Zhu Ying, and felt amused... Mr. Zhang at this moment is more like a tall young man.

Thinking about it, I was lucky at the beginning, I picked up a good son, and I picked up a great talent in Fuguo!

"Sir, if we want to hunt Zhang Dingbian's fierce tiger, I'm afraid Xu Da won't be able to do it, so you can go with us. By the way, take a look at that kid, he has been guarding the city for several days, see if he is scared to pee?"

Zhang Ximeng's heart moved, went to see Zhu Ying?

No, absolutely not!

If I go, won't this kid go to heaven?

He stole his salary for so many years, and he was so angry that his liver hurts... When he goes to Yunnan, let him repay twice... Yunnan is a good place, not only there are endless mushrooms, but also copper mines, we must let that The boy should be filial to himself and give away several million taels every year.

Let you steal from me, we want you to pay back ten thousand times!

Zhang Ximeng gritted his teeth like a profiteer.

"My lord, when dealing with Zhang Dingbian, I will not get involved... Actually, I have a more important thing to do."

Zhu Yuanzhang was taken aback, "Where are you going, sir?"

"Go to the minister's battlefield!" Zhang Ximeng said meaningfully.

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Zhang Ximeng rode a little donkey, surrounded by a team of guards, from Jiangzhou to the south, and went straight to the south foot of Wulao Peak, where there was an academy called Bailudong Academy, which was the best in the world.

Zhu Xi, a great Confucianist in Confucianism, once gave lectures here.

Lu Jiuyuan, the founder of Mind Science, also gave lectures here.

What an achievement it is for an academy to combine Neo-Confucianism and psychology, which has shaped the cultural context of China for hundreds of years!

As for Zhang Ximeng, the newly rising Master Zhang, if he wants to replace Acting School and become his own family, what needs to be conquered most is Bailudong Academy!

As a monarch, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, always thinking of annexing the world, covering the eight wastelands, wishing to write a big Zhu character on the territory of the world.

However, unlike Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Ximeng took another path. What he was tinkering with was to replace proxy theory, lead the general trend of the millennium, and lead the rejuvenation of China.

His pattern is big!

So when others defeated Chen Youliang, they were thinking about territory, population, soldiers, horses, money and food... Only his eyes were on the academy that everyone ignored.

"Zhu Xi, Zhu Xi, don't blame me for digging up your ancestor's grave, stealing your inheritance, and breaking your cultural heritage."

Along with Zhang Ximeng, besides the guards, Sun Yan, Ye Chen, Gao Qi, Xu Ben, and several young people were also among them.

They didn't know Zhang Ximeng's plan, but thought that Zhang Xiang was indeed a literati, the number one academy in the world, with a long-standing reputation, and ordinary literati, who can not look up to those sages, it is good to be able to get a taste of the literati.

The big guys walked happily, Zhang Ximeng was riding a donkey, and suddenly asked: "Who can tell you that Jiangxi has a long history, and Bailudong Academy is famous all over the world...why?"

Everyone hesitated, isn't this question a matter of course?

After a while, Gao Qicai tried to say: "Mr. Zhang, Bailudong Academy faces Poyang Lake, backed by Wulao Peak, and gathers the cultural context of the world. It is well known that Jiangxi has outstanding people and talented people since ancient times. "

Zhang Ximeng said with a chuckle: "Listening to the king's table is like listening to a conversation!"

"Thank you..." Gao Qi didn't say the last words, he realized that something was wrong, his handsome white face flushed instantly, and the others couldn't help laughing when they saw it, were they embarrassed?

Gao Qi held back for a while, and could only bow and say: "Please enlighten me, Mr. Zhang."

Zhang Ximeng smiled, "Actually, I asked this question because I wanted to tell you about my recent experience. After all, there is nothing different in the place where Zhu Zi preached. I really dare not face the sages and seniors. mock!"

There was a sense of arrogance between Zhang Ximeng's eyebrows, and everyone was slightly stunned, no wonder Zhang Ximeng wanted to come, he was here to spoil the scene.

It stands to reason that Zhang Ximeng has done a lot of things to criticize Song Confucianism, criticize Confucianism, and overthrow Gangchang.However, what Zhang Ximeng expounded still lacks a complete system and lacks a basis for argumentation.

This cannot be blamed on Zhang Ximeng. Confucianism starts from benevolence, righteousness and kingship. After 2000 years of rich elucidation, it has formed a complete set of rigorous system with rich and complete content.

In contrast, Zhang Ximeng roughly interpreted the principles of heaven as equalizing the land, divided it into three thousand years, and made Zhao Gou kneel down to subvert the rules of the monarch and his ministers... Although these things are very powerful, they only impact the Confucian system and destroy the foundation of Confucianism.

The question is, enough damage has been done, what will replace it?

How to build a new system?

It seems that there is no clue yet, and the big guys don't have such high expectations. After all, the above things are already amazing. Zhang Ximeng is not as prolific as a writer, how can he continue to output steadily?

But it seems that the situation is a little different, Zhang Ximeng really intends to come up with something new!

"Zhang Xiang, we are all listening!"

Zhang Ximeng smiled, "Learning is not enough for learning, it must be discussed. What I tell you must go back to history, verify with facts, and stand the test before it can convince most people. If If I just talk to myself, I would be deceiving myself."

After a few words, Zhang Ximeng suddenly said, "I remember that Meng Haoran had a poem that was given to Prime Minister Zhang. Now I am also surnamed Zhang and I am on the right. If someone writes such a poem for me, What do you say will happen to me?"

This time Gao Qi didn't speak, but Xu Ben said: "Meng Haoran is also considered to be a poetic talent, with Zhang Xiang's love for talent, he will definitely reuse it."

"Wrong!" Zhang Ximeng said decisively: "I will not use this kind of crazy life!"

Xu Ben was stunned, and subconsciously said: "Mr. Zhang, Meng Haoran's official career is difficult. If he doesn't flatter the world, he can't be considered crazy!"

"It doesn't count? How can you write without arrogance and shameful sage? Is it a shame for those of us who are in power to co-author such a great talent to sit high and have nothing to do? We are all blind, Is it the prime minister's fault if he doesn't know talents, doesn't argue about the virtuous and the foolish, so that there are virtuous people in the wild?"

Xu Ben was stunned, do these two sentences mean this?

Sun Yan said from the side: "Who cares what Meng Haoran means, anyway, I believe the two Prime Ministers Zhang, I guarantee they both think so!"

His words caused everyone to burst into laughter.

Gao Qi asked curiously: "Master Zhang, are you trying to say that Meng Haoran doesn't know what's good?"

Zhang Ximeng said with a smile: "What do I tell you about a confused and confused literati? Is it interesting? I want to talk about Prime Minister Zhang, my colleague, who started the prosperity of Jiangxi!"

Everyone was surprised, what is the reason?

After a long while, Ye Chen said slowly, "Mr. Zhang, you said you were digging through the Meiling Pass?"

Zhang Ximeng nodded, "That's what I said."

Meiling, also known as Dayuling, is just between Jiangxi and Guangdong, separated by a mountain, and belongs to two different economic and cultural circles.

Zhang Jiuling had crossed Meiling several times. He felt that the road was difficult and it was very inconvenient to cross mountains and mountains.Therefore, Zhang Jiuling wrote to Tang Xuanzong, which eventually led to the digging of Meiling and the construction of a wide official road.

At that time, people described it as frank and square with five tracks, and Tiantian and four links.

Just imagine, in the Tang Dynasty, there was an official road that could run parallel with five carriages. How spectacular would it be?

In all directions, merchants from the north and the south of Dayuling all took this road.

In an instant, merchants prospered, and goods flowed continuously.

If it's just a commercial road, it's fine. When people gathered, they suddenly found that the south of Meiling was the Beijiang waterway, and they could reach Guangzhou along the water.

And to the north of Meiling is the Ganjiang River Basin.

Starting from the Ganjiang River, passing through Poyang Lake, entering the Yangtze River, and then taking the canal to the capital city.

In other words, this commercial route runs through the north and the south, and communicates with sea, river, and water transportation... The distance and the radiation are so wide that it is simply indescribable.

Moreover, the Poyang Lake Basin has a large population and rich products, and the materials from the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River will also be gathered and then transferred to the north together.

A commercial route has created Jiangxi's economic take-off.

It's just that this road didn't have time to play a role in the Tang Dynasty. Because of the Anshi Rebellion, the world fell apart and the war continued. Until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, people were precarious and business was suppressed to the lowest point.

Until the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, a rare period of peace finally ushered in, merchants exchanged and goods gathered.

Jiangxi has entered a period of rapid development.

During the Song Dynasty, although Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Bashu were the most prosperous areas, Jiangxi has sprung up and made the fastest progress.

Merchants gather, wealth gathers, and with a material foundation, there are academies all over Jiangxi, and talents emerge in large numbers.

You only need to check the historical data a little bit to know this. Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, Yan Shu, Yan Jidao, Huang Tingjian, Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuyuan, Yang Wanli, Jiang Kui, Wen Tianxiang...these brilliant and golden names all came from Jiangxi.

And this kind of prosperity continued until the Yuan Dynasty. Just a few years before the Red Turban Uprising, according to the national census, the population of Jiangxi was nearly 400 million, reaching an astonishing level!

You must know that the entire Yuan Dynasty did not have [-] million people!

Economic prosperity and a large population have brought cultural prosperity and theories emerge in endlessly.

It is not surprising that Zhu Xi gave lectures at Bailudong Academy, and Neo Confucianism became popular.

"So what I want to say is that it's not the luck of culture that makes scholars, but solid wealth... It's food production, it's business contacts... When Zhu Xi was giving lectures at Bailudong Academy, he wanted to People who eat rice, don’t you think so?”

Everyone was stunned, as keen as Gao Qi seemed to have understood what Zhang Ximeng was going to say!

Whether it is the benevolent government of Confucius and Mencius, or the interaction between heaven and man, or Zhu Xi's law of heaven and human desires... In fact, these are all inseparable from the category of moral determinism.

As long as you are a good person, practice the kingly way, practice benevolence, cultivate your morals and regulate your family, you can guarantee to govern the country and the world... This seems to be a joke in the eyes of later generations, but it has been the truth that has ruled the thinking of literati for a long time.

But Zhang Ximeng said, you are saying the opposite, because material wealth and business exchanges have created cultural prosperity.

Sure enough, he came to smash the scene, and now there is a good show.

Chapter 359 Zhu Xi is right!

Zhang Ximeng led a group of people, followed the pavilions and entered the academy.

The founder of Bailudong Academy can be traced back to Li Bo in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

It is said that Li Bo has a white deer, which is with him all day long, so he is called Mr. Bailu.Later, when Li Bo became the governor of Jiangzhou, he revisited the old place, built pavilions, diverted mountain springs, planted flowers and trees, and became a tourist attraction.

Because the peak here is round and shaped like a hole, it is named Bailu Cave.

With beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery, many scholars naturally gathered to talk about poetry, Taoism, scriptures and essays, gradually becoming a place where celebrities gather.

After the founding of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, academies sprang up all over the place due to the prevalence of lectures. The Bailudong Academy with its impressive heritage quickly became a model for the world's academies, and a large number of celebrities came out of it.

And it was the great Confucian Zhu Xi who pushed Bailudong Academy to the extreme.

Since he had cultivated Neo Confucianism to the Ninth Heaven Realm, he has been here to preach knowledge and recruit disciples, and then Lu Jiuyuan, who has the Eighth Heaven Skill of Mind Learning, also came to discuss and debate.

With the blessing of the two great Confucianists, Bailudong Academy has become the source of Confucianism in the world.

Zhu Xi's aesthetics is absolutely superb. The academy he left behind is a large courtyard building, which is spacious and elegant... This is an indescribable feeling.

Ordinary large courtyards, that is, well-behaved, better magnificent, majestic and majestic.

But the academy in front of me, in its spaciousness, has a trace of distinction, in its elegance, it has simplicity, and in its simplicity, it has unique ingenuity.

Zhang Ximeng had also seen a good house by the West Lake, it was built by the Wang family, spared no expense, and condensed the essence of gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.

At that time Zhang Ximeng felt that it was the best place to live.

But when you arrive at this academy, you will immediately understand that the courtyard is still too crafty, and it is a bit of a show-off.

But Bailudong Academy couldn't feel it at all. The pavilions, pavilions, and lecture halls seemed to be like that, not even close to it. Everything was just right.

Frankly speaking, judging from this architectural pattern, Zhu Xi's level of self-cultivation is also extraordinary and refined. If he is not a great Confucianist, but instead becomes a designer, that would be good.