I am the master of this world

Chapter 34
"Anyone else have any other ideas?"

Meng Xingchen asked deliberately, and finally set his gaze on Shen Ning's position.

Everyone present looked at each other, but no one stood up.

Those with good eloquence have already finished their presentations, and those with mediocre skills don't want to be ashamed, so naturally no one will show it.

So Meng Xingchen continued: "Several students have expressed their opinions just now, but everyone must have seen that Meng is not satisfied. Because your thoughts can never be separated from the thoughts of a saint, and the saint Confucius is unparalleled in the world. This kind of behavior is normal, so Meng did not comment. By the way, speaking of the sage Kong, it reminded Meng of the couplet in front of the academy, Lao Tzu is the best in the world, and those who don’t know how to get out of the couplet can be here ? It seems that he respects Laozi more in Lianzhong, and Meng also likes to read Laozi, so I just met him today."

Meng Xingchen drew Shen Ning out by beating around the bush.

Many people looked at Shen Ning. Shen Ning got up immediately, cupped his hands and said: "Student Zhao Baoyu, with a smooth handwriting, I pay my respects to Mr. Meng. The above couplet was written by a student, so Mr. laughed."

Meng Xingchen looked at Shen Ning, and praised: "You are a talented person, handsome and unrestrained, you really are Mr. Pianpianyu!"

Of course I have to praise my nephew vigorously.

But other people around were talking about it. When it comes to Pengcheng's young talents, Zhao Baoyu's reputation is not small at all.One is because he is the prospective son-in-law of the Li family, and the other is because of Taoist Xuanji's fate-testing motto.

A traitor in a prosperous age, a traitor in a troubled age, has the appearance of a wolf!
This evaluation is not a good word, so Zhao Baoyu is not a good reputation, but a bad reputation.Once he becomes an official, it will be a blow to the head, so everyone's attitude towards Zhao Baoyu is disdainful.

"Thank you Mr. Meng for your compliment." Shen Ning said respectfully.

Unexpectedly, Meng Xingchen said again: "So you are Zhao Baoyu. Although Meng has just arrived in Pengcheng, he has heard about Xuanjizi's test of your fate. Your Shanglian is bold and unruly, and you think you are very knowledgeable. You have a lot of knowledge about Confucianism. My own opinion? You might as well say it. It doesn’t matter if you don’t.”

Hearing his question, Shen Ning immediately understood why Meng Xingchen did this.

It seems that he wants to take this opportunity to clear his name!
Shen Ning was pretending to be Zhao Baoyu, and Xuan Jizi was to test Zhao Baoyu's fate. Although those proverbs were about Zhao Baoyu, if the pretending was exposed in the future, those bad reputations would definitely be transferred to Shen Ning, and Shen Ning pretended to be someone else. , It further proves the word of treachery, when the time comes, Shen Ning will never be able to get rid of the stigma.

Shen Ning doesn't care about fame, as long as he feels good about himself, who cares about the opinions of outsiders.

But as an elder, Meng Xingchen cared, so he wanted to take this opportunity to create a big name for Shen Ning.

If Shen Ning's understanding of Confucianism is novel, then Meng Xingchen can praise him without hesitation, saying that he is the future pioneer of Confucianism and Taoism, and as the future pioneer of Confucianism and Taoism, how could he be a traitor?Confucians will not agree then.

This is Meng Xingchen's good intentions and his love for protecting the calf.

Of course, Meng Xingchen was also afraid that Shen Ning would not be able to speak, so at the end of the sentence, he reminded Shen Ning tactfully.

Shen Ning understood his intentions, so she raised her voice and said, "Mr. Meng, the students do have some vulgar views, but they are afraid of saying something bad, so they dare not make a fool of themselves. Since the master asked, the students dare not hide it."

"Okay, hurry up, let me listen." Meng Xingchen was overjoyed and asked hastily.

The others were a little depressed. They didn't expect Meng Daru to value this person so much. Hearing the urging tone, there was surprise in curiosity, and eagerness in surprise.

This upset the others.

Shen Ning took away Pengcheng's goddess and is an outsider. Now that he is so arrogant, everyone will naturally share the same hatred. If he speaks badly after the meeting, he must ridicule him.

"I'm also curious about Mr. Zhao's opinion!" Wang Beixuan couldn't help but said.

"That's right, I wonder if Mr. Zhao will have any new ideas?" Xing Yu also laughed.

Faced with everyone's cynicism, Shen Ning definitely jumped out of the circle and would not play with you.You are playing what is left of the saints, if you are the first to jump out of the circle, then you are the boss.

So Shen Ning laughed, the laughter overwhelmed everyone's discussion, and then said:
"Everyone, in my opinion, Confucianism is our own heart, and since heart is reason, if we want to see our heart and master Confucianism, we need to understand reason, and the way is the unity of knowledge and action!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone present frowned.

Confucianism is the original mind, the mind is the reason, and understanding the reason requires the unity of knowledge and action.

In just a few words, Shen Ning expressed Shen Ning's views on Confucianism, and introduced the way and goal of realization.It’s like Confucius’ Confucianism and Taoism are benevolence, and self-cultivation, family governance, and world peace are also the way and goal.

What's even more rare is that this idea has never been thought of before.

For this alone, Shen Ning is far superior to Wang Beixuan and Xing Yu.

When everyone was talking about it, some old Confucian masters kept thinking about it, and they felt more and more mysterious about Shen Ning's statement. An old man hurriedly said: "Confucius once said: learning is close to knowledge, hard work is close to benevolence, knowing shame is close to courage. If you know how to cultivate yourself, you will know how to cultivate yourself. If you know how to cultivate yourself, you will know how to govern people. If you know how to govern people, you will know how to govern the world. Confucius said clearly that knowing and doing is the foundation of self-cultivation and governing the country. However, Confucius also said : A gentleman wants to be slow in speech but quick in action, so the sage of Confucius is actually based on action, not the unity of knowledge and action."

Meng Xingchen didn't expect Shen Ning to come and make a big hit. He answered, "Dean Guo is right. Knowing and doing is the essence of Confucianism. , Behavior is important. Knowledge and action have been prioritized since ancient times. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhao believes that knowledge and action are one. Can you explain in detail?"

Shen Ning could only bite the bullet and say: "In the eyes of students, knowledge is the idea of ​​action, and action is the effort of knowing. Knowledge is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowledge. Therefore, knowledge and action are one and cannot be separated. They are It is an entity, and the unity of knowledge and action leads to conscience.”

"To conscience is the process of knowing and doing at the same time. When you see your father, you will know filial piety. When you see your brother, you will know your brother. When you see a child in a well, you will know compassion. This is conscience."

Shen Ning pieced together Wang Yangming's mind theory and used it to bluff these old Confucian guys.

Just now Zhang Xiuer introduced the development of Confucianism and Taoism, Kong Sheng founded Confucianism and Taoism, Meng Xun promoted Confucianism, and with the development, after Confucianism and Taoism were inherited, they also experienced integration, such as the rise and decline of Confucianism, the germination of Neo Confucianism, etc. , but it has never formed a relatively unified thought, so it cannot create its unique status and is impacted by other thoughts.

The history of previous lives proves that this process, until the emergence of Neo-Confucianism, is the inheritance and development of Confucianism. Because Neo-Confucianism has been integrated, a relatively complete theoretical system has been established, and a unified trend of thought has been formed, so the influence is profound and enormous.

But now, Shen Ning has brought forward the theory of mind, which is an unprecedented new idea.

King Kong, Mencius and Zhu Wang, the four giants of thought in the long history of China in the previous life, Shen Ning invited the thoughts of the great achievements of the mind, the power can be imagined.

The unity of knowledge and action leads to conscience.

This is Confucianism.

In just seven words, it includes the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, but it is different.The more I think about it, the more awakened I become.

The dean of Yunlong Academy looked excited, and whined: "The unity of knowledge and action is difficult, difficult, how many people have been able to achieve the unity of knowledge and action throughout the ages?"

Today's Confucian scholars basically know first and act later. Let me give you the simplest example.Because Confucianism pays attention to father's kindness and son's filial piety, so people know this, so they abide by it.And the unity of knowledge and action means that one will know one's filial piety when one sees one's father, and one will know one's brother when one sees one's brother. This is easy to say, but what if everything is like this?

See injustice and know righteousness!
Knowing loyalty by seeing state affairs!
See what is not benevolent and know what is good!
How difficult it is to gain a conscience.

So today Shen Ning made a big move to scare everyone.

And Shen Ning was also happy in his heart, only listening to the system's prompt sound kept saying:

"Pretentious value +3."

"Pretentious value +3."

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(End of this chapter)