Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1288 Sinology

   Fei Qian stood in the peach forest, looking at the peach tree in front of him.

  The peach blossoms on the peach hills are about to bloom again.

The peach tree is a deciduous tree. It is bare every winter, like a lifeless dead wood. When the spring warms up, the flower buds and young leaves emerge from the tip of the branches together, and then wait until the flowers bloom. When the peach blossoms bloom even more lushly than the leaves, the trees are full of red and the green leaves become embellishments.

   "Senior sister, why do you think the master studies, and why is he willing to teach others Confucian classics?" Fei Qian looked at the peach blossom buds and said without turning his head.

  Cai Yan froze for a moment, she didn't expect Fei Qian to come here and ask such a sentence.

"I've heard a saying before, it's called giving people... well, giving people peach blossoms leaves a lingering fragrance..." Fei Qian picked off an early-blooming peach blossom branch, handed it to Cai Yan and said, "I want to , the master must be the same."

  Cai Yan took the peach blossom branch subconsciously, and seemed to recall some things before Cai Yong's life, and a layer of water vapor appeared in his eyes again, like dew on the peach blossom petals.

   "What about you? Sister, why do you study?" Fei Qian didn't directly comfort her, but asked a second question.

   "Me?" Cai Yan raised his head.

Fei Qian nodded: "Well, Senior Sister is also a scholar...Well, I think if it is true that in this academy, including me, Senior Sister is second to none when it comes to reading. However, I want to know that Senior Sister Why are you reading?"

   "Why?" Cai Yan was a little dazed, and after a moment of stunned, he shook his head and said, "I...I don't know..."

   Fei Qian was also silent for a while.

   "What about these people?" Fei Qian pointed to the school on the hillside, and said, "Then what are these people studying for?"

  Cai Yan also looked at the academy, hesitant to speak.

  Actually, Fei Qian had considered this issue as early as when he was under Lushan.

  Later generations read books, basically follow the trend. It's not that there are any disadvantages in the education system of later generations, but that at the very beginning, the sentence hanging on the wall already made the initial foundation look a bit hollow.

  At that time, the teacher pointed to the wall and knocked on the blackboard and said, look, all of you are watching, this is the goal of your reading, and then the children sitting below all looked serious and nodded in cooperation.

  After returning home, the parents stared and said, your **** is not studying for your parents! Not for others! It is for your future job and for your good future!

Although the words are different from what the teacher said, most of the children nodded their heads half-seriously to deal with their parents, but in fact they opened a pair of more confused eyes, and most of them longed in their hearts not to study or do those things. I don’t forget my homework, I don’t listen to those troublesome questions, I just think about digging holes in the sand, catching loach by the river, playing marbles with my friends...

  What do you do with reading?

  For the majority of children who have just received education in later generations, they have no concept.

Beside him or them, although everyone looks a little different, most of them wear the same school uniform, take the same courses at the same time every day, although their parents and family conditions are different, but it doesn't matter There is such a big gap between the aristocratic schools, so as a child, I basically don't feel very good.

  Anyway, whether you are studying or not, you can upgrade. Primary school goes up all the way, and we don’t see each other until junior high school and high school. But at that time, it’s often a bit late, and it coincides with the rebellious period, hehe...

In the Han Dynasty, a scholar was a scholar, and the class gap became more and more obvious as it went on. A scholar could see an official without paying homage. After being promoted, he became a scholar and could start to enjoy privileges. more perks...

  For ordinary people in the later feudal dynasties, reading can change class. Even children understand this, and reading can eat and dress well. If you don't study, you are a mud leg without any privileges.

Although those who study purely for personal status and power may not have such lofty aspirations and make such outstanding contributions as those who study for the sake of the nation, but there is not much in the pursuit of knowledge. Even some corrupt officials in history, purely from a literary point of view, they are also outstanding.

  A person, only when he faces his own desires, will he not be tempted by desires and go astray.

  Cai Yan's eyes moved over. "Then the general..."

   "Don't call me general, call me junior." Cai Yan turned his eyes and just said the beginning, but was interrupted by Fei Qian.

  Cai Yan's eyes widened a little, blinked twice, hesitated, and finally changed his mouth: "...Junior brother, why are you studying?"

"I want to allow more people to read." Fei Qian smiled lightly, without any gaps, and said directly, as if this issue had been considered for a long time, "Reading can be very complicated, and it can also be complicated." It’s very simple, but a person, a Chinese person, has to read. Books have been the civilization of China since Cangjie. If you don’t read, how can you be worthy of the ancestors who have passed on the fire of these civilizations through untold hardships?”

"And there is something very interesting about reading..." Fei Qian turned around and pointed to the peach blossom in Cai Yan's hand, and said, "Most things in the world are getting less and less. For example, this peach blossom, I gave it to you. I don't have it in my hand, but only reading is different. No one in the world will lose that part of the content of the book just because one more person understands the book. As long as the inheritance continues, this is the only thing that can be endless. The things that go on and on…”

A word or a book does not lose its original function just because more people read it, but can still be read and understood by the next person. explode.

  Cai Yan was a little stunned.

   "However, Confucianism can't be the only scholars..." Fei Qian continued, "Although there are mostly Confucian classics now, the senior sister also knows that there are actually many classics that were not Confucian at the beginning..."

how to say?

  Confucianism certainly has various advantages, but this is the only one that is not very good. It refuses to face up to its own shortcomings, and just blindly covers up and embellishes them. How else can we say that later generations of Bangzi Kingdom have inherited this disadvantage of Confucianism, and everything they see seems to be fiddled with in their own name.

"In pre-Qin culture, Taoism followed Confucianism and Confucianism, and Confucianism was the last one. But now Taoism is hiding from the world, Legalism is dying, Mohism is retreating, and Confucianism is the only one left..." Fei Qian said, "Nowadays, Confucian classics are tampering with right and wrong, compiling Sacred words, ancient Chinese classics, taking meaning out of context, and prophecy theology, are constantly attacking each other... This is not a blessing for Confucianism, but a disaster for Confucianism..."

  During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were many schools of thought, but Taoism, Mohism and Confucianism were the main ones.

The so-called legalist theory of criminal names only looked at the opposite, and carried out absolute rule and exploitation and oppression on the people. This kind of theory also accumulated people's dissatisfaction to the apex when Qin II was in power. The Qin Dynasty was soon overthrown by uprisings in various places.

  The Mohists, on the other hand, only look at the unity, abandon the struggle, and try to persuade the two natural hostile classes to practice the same and love in the sameness. Naturally, this kind of knowledge cannot withstand the crushing of the ruling class, and it is almost destroyed in the end.

Confucianism is different from Taoism and Mohism. It is best at right and wrong. It advocates the use of rituals to control the exploitation of ordinary people in order to ease the struggle between classes. In line with the actual needs of the current feudal society, it naturally became the preferred political guiding theory of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, there are also many Confucians who are true Confucians who are loyal to Confucianism. They often speak out for the people's suffering and redress grievances, and they often do disasters and save disasters for the people. Yan Yan directly remonstrated and demanded to improve politics.

  For example, the scourge of the party, at the beginning, some people, such as Li Ying, felt that the eunuchs harmed the country and the government, and then rose up to rebel, but it was expanded later, and then it became crooked...

   "Senior Sister, I think there is one thing in this world, I am afraid there is nothing more suitable than you to do it..." Fei Qian looked up at the sky and said, "I wonder if Senior Sister would like to listen to it?"

   Cai Yan's eyes flickered a few times, his long eyelashes drooped, and he whispered, "...what...what's the matter?"

   "Reserve the difference from the true source, discard the false and preserve the true." Fei Qian said slowly, "There are too many Confucian classics in this world that have been tampered with, forgotten, and swallowed..."

  Cai Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he didn't know what kind of emotion surged up in his heart. After a while, he said slowly: "Master, is this going to reform Confucianism?"

   Fei Qian laughed, but shook his head, and said: "Confucianism regards their own learning as life, and they are conservative, so how can they allow me to criticize right and wrong? If it spreads, the Confucianists in the world will not criticize it with words or pens?"

After two or three hundred years of tireless indoctrination by Confucianism, Confucius has successfully evolved into a sage, and then these Confucian children can raise their heads and proudly call themselves the children of a sage, just like the current Han Dynasty often said that they were the The local surnames are the same, they belong to the most primitive clan worship, and Confucius, a saint, is like the patriarch of the gentry in the world.

   Humiliated the ancestors of a family, what would happen in the Han Dynasty? Even if he was hacked and killed by a member of this family on the spot, the government would not punish this person for murder.

Therefore, it is not advisable in the Han Dynasty for Fei Qian to slander or dissatisfy Confucius, or express his desire to surpass Confucius, because it is not only against Confucius, but also against the whole world. The foundation of clan worship hidden in the family of Confucian classics, the so-called Confucian "family" that later generations are more accustomed to, is the reason for this.

  Cai Yan frowned delicately: "Then... what does Junior Brother mean?"

   "It's like the Xiping Stone Scripture!" Fei Qian said with a smile, "It's just another Pingyang Stone Scripture! It's just that the senior sister can indicate in it that a certain scripture was found in a certain book, and it was said by someone..."

  Cai Yan's eyes lit up for a moment, then he shook his head and said: "This... the younger brother's intention is to re-learn the studies of various schools? Reinvigorate the ink method? I'm afraid there will be more controversy..."

Fei Qian smiled slightly and said, "Why do you use the word 'family'? The world is all Han people, so the world's knowledge is 'Sinology'!" If you want to improve within the original framework, you need to modify and touch the place There are too many, so I simply enlarged it to do it, but this time, Fei Qian didn't want to have the concept of "home" anymore, but put it on the status of the whole China from the beginning.

It's like dividing a cake. At the beginning, there was only such a small piece, and everyone naturally had constant disputes. If there are more people, there will be fewer people. Now that the cake is made bigger, even if the original ratio is maintained, it is better than the original one. Be bigger!

   "Sinology?" Cai Yan repeated in a murmur, "But...but I'm just a girl..."

"So what about women?" Fei Qian looked at Cai Yan seriously, and said, "Senior Sister, when someone looks at you, they only see your face. If you give birth to a child in your body and pass on your bloodline, if you give birth to a daughter or you are infertile, you will be insulted in every possible way..."

"But in my eyes, what I see is the sky full of Wenhua..." Fei Qian said slowly, there seemed to be a hidden magic power in the words, which made a faint blush appear on Cai Yan's face, "Senior Sister You have been reading scriptures since you were a child, not to mention the volumes in the master’s house, but even the books in Piyong, Dongguan, and Lantai! What’s more, my senior sister has a photographic memory, and at least half of the books in the Han Dynasty are stored in A senior sister! Who dares to underestimate the senior sister! Tell him to come here!"

   "Pfft!" Cai Yan couldn't help it after all, and burst out laughing. For a while, she was really three points more beautiful than a peach blossom.

   What Fei Qian said was mostly the truth.

  Fei Qian also likes Cai Yan, but it doesn't mean that Fei Qian must bring Cai Yan into the harem.

   It is the natural instinct of every adult man to like a beautiful and attractive woman, but it does not mean that when seeing such a woman, one has to use the lower body to replace the brain for thinking.

If this is the case, wouldn't it be like many people in later generations know that it may be fake, but they are willing to spend more money to get the title of a so-called female college student female star to serve, as if this can represent that he has played with all female college students and actress...

  Cai Yan in the Han Dynasty, was his value really only used to vent his desires and then give birth to an heir?

In history, Cai Yan was plundered by the Huns for twelve years and was treated like a female slave. Naturally, it was impossible for her to have access to any books, and it was impossible to continue to read books for her. Every day, like ordinary Hun women, she had to squeeze sheep Shearing sheep, cutting grass, etc. Under such circumstances, Cao Cao can still remember more than 400 books he has read after redeeming them with gold, and there are still no mistakes in the silent writing!

   Twelve years!

Most people in later generations have gone through 12 years of education, and still have the opportunity to have continuous access to books, as well as the opportunity to use knowledge and repeat memory, but who can still remember the texts recited 12 years ago? ? Not to mention that it can be written word for word.

  Not to mention others, most of the texts that Fei Qian recited in elementary school have been returned to the teacher now.

   Such a Cai Yan is standing here alive. This is in the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty when the illiteracy rate was almost 99%, and many people only want to use her as...

"If you use money, I will give it, and if you employ people, I will transfer it. If I find it inconvenient for a male official, I will transfer a female!" Fei Qian said, "In the past, there were female ministers, female historians, and female cavaliers. Today, there is a female doctor. Why not? If there are two stone scriptures of Caimen father and daughter, they must be passed down through the ages!"

  In primitive society, women were often engaged in collecting and breeding, while men were often engaged in field hunting and other work. After that, the division of labor between men farming and women weaving, and men outside and women inside gradually formed. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the gender division of labor between men and women was not very clear, and the status of women was not reduced too much. Even in history books, many women who left their names were seen, but the later, for some reasons, The rarer it is, the more it gradually evolves from "the difference between men and women" to "the difference between the status of men and women". Under the oppression of Confucianism, women gradually lose themselves and become obedient, and then form the "three principles of obedience". It was even written in black and white in the "Book of Rites", "Women follow others. When young, follow father and brother. When married, follow husband. When husband dies, follow son."

Cai Yan stared blankly at Fei Qian, the slight sadness on his face gradually disappeared, the rosy color reappeared, and his figure gradually straightened up. After a while, he seemed to have made up his mind, and said proudly: "Okay." !Since the younger brother said so, I will give it a try!"

  (end of this chapter)