Living Leisurely in Tang Dynasty

Li Yuanying successfully persuaded Li Zhi, dragged Li Zhi to find Li Chunfeng, and quickly obtained relevant records.

Li Chunfeng heard that Li Yuanying wanted to engage in catastrophe theory, and he advised him not to shove these thoughts out casually.

Anyone who wants to overthrow the doctrine of "Heaven-Man induction" such as catastrophe theory is tantamount to offending the Confucian scholars all over the world. We must know that the monarchs all confessed to be ordered by the heavens, and the subordinates want to persuade the monarch, so naturally they can only rely on the doctrine of destiny.

It is actually a kind of "Confucianism" to associate various "catastrophes" with the politics and religions imposed by the emperor and the court.

Confucianism Confucianism, the difference of one word, the meaning is quite different.

Learning is knowledge, while skills are strategies and means.

Therefore, if anyone wants to kill the catastrophe theory, it is tantamount to taking away a great tool from the hands of Confucian scholars. It will definitely become a thorn in the eyes of many people, and even be attacked by groups!

Li Chunfeng has a Taishi Ling above him. He doesn’t need to come out on his own. He has studied a lot of miscellaneous things. Observing astronomical phenomena is his specialty. However, as he observes the astronomical phenomena more and more deeply, the more he discovers the previous ones. Doctrine works are untenable.

Both the yin and yang miscellaneous studies that he began studying since childhood or the various statements in Confucianism are contrary to the laws of appearance of various celestial phenomena he observed.

Li Chunfeng is a wise man. He is only in his early thirties. His age is not too big for them, and his qualifications are shallow and shallow. If he rashly says something out, he will only be attacked by someone as a lunatic. On the contrary, he can mix what he has mastered into the knowledge he has learned before, and use the inherent knowledge that other people believe in to gain promotion.

Li Chunfeng never even thought of it as Li Yuanying wanted to destroy the inherent sayings in a simple and rude manner.

Li Chunfeng thought for a moment, and recommended a book to Li Yuanying: "Have you ever read "Lun Heng"?"

Li Yuanying shook his head.

Li Chunfeng said: "I have a copy here. If your Highness is interested, you can take it back and have a look. There may be something you need in it."

When Li Yuanying heard that she wanted to read a book by herself, she frowned and asked, "Is it interesting?"

Li Chunfeng stroked his beard and said, "It's interesting, and all theories of a hundred schools of thought are in it, and he has a special opinion of his own."

Li Yuanying happily took the comet record given by Li Chunfeng and went back with "Lunheng" and Li Zhi.

Li Zhidao: "Since Tai Shicheng has said not to write this article, should we not write it?"

Li Yuanying didn't think so much at first, but now that he heard what Li Chunfeng said, he also felt that it was not good to encourage Li Zhi to do this. Li Zhi has always been a good baby, Kong Yingda and the others are full of praise for Li Zhi, and it is really not good to suddenly ask him to write such apostasy things.

Li Yuanying said: "Okay, you don't need to write it."

Li Zhi looked at the record held by Li Yuanying and Lun Heng, and said, "Then we return these manuscripts?"

Li Yuanying said: "If you don't write, you don't want to learn. I still have to read it. You can't read it at random." He thought for a while, and gave Li Zhi the task of bringing the little loli to study today, and prepared to go back to read "On" "Heng", by the way, study comet records.

Li Zhi raised an objection: "I can't teach your sister-in-law."

Li Zhi feels that Li Yuanying, a kid who learns things, is very discouraging. He learns all kinds of knowledge very fast. Obviously, it was a blank sheet two years ago, and now he reads more books than him. Recently, Li Yuanying brought Wei Shu over to study with them. Li Zhi was hit by another hard blow. This little girl was not much older than Si Zi. Both her calligraphy and her comprehension were far better than many people, and she was not like a seven or eight-year-old girl. Look like!

Li Yuanying didn’t take care of Li Zhi’s mood at all, she was quite proud: “Of course, you didn’t even read the book. That’s good, you can ask sister Shu if you want to come and watch "Lun Heng" with me. We can divide our troops into two ways and learn from each other!"

Li Zhi nodded and went to meet Chengyang and the others. After a while, Wei Shu came, but Li Zhi and Chengyang also came together. The place of study was changed to the courtyard where Li Yuanying lived. A group of people read the "Examination Bibliography" and a group of people read "Lun Heng". .

Gao Yang was not interested in reading, and went to play polo with Peng Huanyou.

Li Yuanying shared the "Lun Heng" divided into many volumes to Wei Shu, and the two quickly immersed themselves in this brand new book.

In the next few days, Li Yuanying read "Lun Heng" while discussing with Wei Shu about the suspicious content, and quickly swept over 80 volumes of "Lun Heng".

This book cannot be said to be of Confucianism, nor can it be said that it is of Taoism, but it can only be admitted that it is indeed the "exotic book" that Li Chunfeng said.

The views expressed in the book even contradict what Li Chunfeng, Taishi Cheng, did in his daily life: the author of "Lun Heng" was an Eastern Han man named Wang Chong, and he was an atheist.

Wang Chong also refuted the theory of heaven-human induction believed by the Confucian scholars in the Han dynasty. His view is this: If there is a real way of heaven, he will definitely be able to directly appoint the monarch of Shengming. Why doesn't the way of heaven choose people like Yao and Shun to be in power, but choose those incompetent mediocre monarchs, and then repeatedly condemn the world with his destiny? Isn't he too tired? !

As a result, Wang Chong rejected the "Xiangrui theory" and "catastrophe theory" that people often talked about in the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties. Wang Chong said that other treasures of heaven and earth grow by themselves, and have nothing to do with the king and the court. You just saw it by chance; the disaster and vision happen and disappear by itself, and it has nothing to do with the king and the court. You just ran into it by accident.

For example, a solar eclipse, Wang Chong remembered this passage: "In the change of the sky, the sun and the moon are thin eclipses, there is an eclipse of the sun in April and December, and there is also an eclipse in May and June. They are all the same, not necessarily caused by the monarchy and religion.” In other words, solar eclipses and lunar eclipses can be calculated, and there is nothing like the monarchy and religion. If you don't believe it, you can calculate it according to the law I said.

Li Yuanying read this paragraph of "Lun Heng", and she was refreshed, and asked someone to go to Li Chunfeng to find Li Chunfeng to ask for solar and lunar eclipse records, to see if he could match Wang Chong's algorithm.

It is a pity that the solar eclipse observed during the Zhenguan period alone is not in line with the theory of "one eclipse in April and December".

But it doesn't matter whether it's right or not. Li Yuanying only selects the part of the letter that he feels reasonable. Other sayings such as Fulu depends on fate and the early days depend on time. Li Yuanying just took a look and didn't care at all.

Since he was not going to pull Li Zhi into the water, Li Yuanying changed to work with Wei Shu. Wei Shu was responsible for sorting out the records of comets, solar eclipses and lunar eclipses in the past three hundred years from the records given by Li Chunfeng, and Li Yuanying was in charge Sort out the major disasters and major events in the past three hundred years.

After working for a few days, they finally sorted out two long scrolls that could correspond to each other.

Arrange the contents of these two aspects according to the year, and it is clear at a glance whether the so-called "condemnation" and the monarch's virtue are related: although the year when the "crimination" occurred, there were disasters, but not every year, and no occurrence. There were many disaster years, and even some years when the country was subjugated without "condemnation."

It's a pity that these two comparative scrolls came out a bit late.

In the past few days when they were busy with their work, His Majesty Li Er had already issued an edict that he would not go to Mount Tai to convene Zen next year.

After Li Yuanying learned of the news, although regretted that he would not be able to go to Mount Tai next year and find the opportunity to take a look at her future fief in advance, she still brought two long scrolls to her Majesty Li Er.

His Majesty Li Er heard that Li Yuanying came to see him, thinking that there was nothing wrong at the moment, so he let them in.

Li Yuanying rushed to Li Erbi happily: "Brother Emperor, Sister Shu and I have compiled two manuscripts, and I will show them to you!"

His Majesty Li Er nodded, glanced at the thick scroll in his hand, and ordered someone to temporarily empty the book case in front of him.

Li Yuanying rolled out two long scrolls on Li Er's case.

The two volumes are combined into one, and the records above and below are listed in tables by year.

Floods, droughts, frosts, military disasters, civilian disasters, and national subjugation disasters do not overlap with "visions" such as solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, comets, and so on.

His Majesty Li Er didn't expect Li Yuanying would come up with something like this.

This kind of contrast at a glance is naturally impossible for His Majesty Li Er to fail to understand.

Li Yuanying sat in front of His Majesty Li Er and said: "These celestial phenomena have nothing to do with the'scourge'. In the years with these astronomical phenomena, there are also great harvests and great victories. In the years without these astronomical phenomena, there are also catastrophes, great defeats and even the country's subjugation. "He took His Majesty Li Er's hand and said confidently, "So, whether there is a solar eclipse, a lunar eclipse or a starburst, it has nothing to do with whether the emperor is doing well, the emperor! You are a good emperor, the emperor. The best one!"

His Majesty Li Er looked at his little bit, and then at the two long scrolls on the case, and said: "You have a heart."

Seeing Li Er's eyebrows stretched, Li Yuanying looked pretty good, and told him about the theory of "Confucianism" and "Confucianism" that Li Chunfeng had told him.

Li Yuanying wrinkled her brows and asked Her Majesty Li Er: "Is it so complicated for Brother Huang and Wei to get along?"

His Majesty Li Er glanced at him, stretched out his hand and gently tapped the scroll that recorded the abnormal celestial phenomenon, and said slowly: "Believe it or not, but it's the second thing."

Li Yuanying sat upright, waiting for His Majesty Li Er to speak.

His Majesty Li Er said: "These statements are aimed at the people of the world. If the people of the world believe them, they are true; if the people of the world don't believe them, they are nothing but nothing. If the people of the world recognize that the king is the emperor ordered by the heavens, they must accept the correspondence. "Heaven and Human Induction" said."

Li Yuanying felt a little clear and at a loss after hearing the words of His Majesty Li Er. He pondered quietly for a while before he said what he had realized: "Brother Emperor, do you think that not all kings can restrain themselves, so being chased by Wei and the others did not reject these statements, and they still follow the world. Do what people believe in."

This is equivalent to putting oneself under the shackles, in order to set an example for future generations, and try not to let future generations of descendants appear to be blind monarchs who shut their eyes and listen, and bring harm to the country and the people.

His Majesty Li Er nodded.

Li Yuanying knows how to pick things up: "Brother Huang, you don't believe it or say it earlier, it made us work in vain!"

His Majesty Li Er thinks that his younger brother is smart, that's right, sometimes it's very likable, sometimes it's very ugly.

When he was a boy, he followed the Supreme Emperor to raise troops, his hands were stained with the blood of countless people, and even the throne was obtained by stepping on his brother's body. If he really had a destiny, how could he get to the point where his brothers were smashed because of the throne dispute? If he really believed in the Buddhist teachings, wouldn't he have to go to **** and suffer after he died?

Therefore, he doesn't believe in Buddha or believes in his heart, and he doesn't believe in his destiny.

He just wants to live well in this life, manage the world that has experienced great chaos, and leave a stable Datang country for future generations.

If it hadn't been for Li Yuanying to bring his sister-in-law to make such two long scrolls to coax him, His Majesty Li Er would not say this to Li Yuanying.

His Majesty Li Er looked at Li Yuanying with a solemn look: "In the future, you will think less about these things and read more useful books. You are not the only smart person in the world, you can think of others, and what you can see, others can also. See."

Seeing Majesty Li Er’s serious expression, Li Yuanying couldn’t help saying: "Brother Emperor, you are really hard." He also assured Majesty Li Er earnestly, "Brother Li, don’t worry. When I go to the fief in the future, I will definitely repair the roads as soon as possible. Brother Huang, you often go to Mount Tai to play!"

His Majesty Li Er heard that Li Yuanying opened his mouth and vowed, and he couldn't feel any seriousness. He leaned on the side table leisurely, pointed his finger at the long scroll that Li Yuanying had compiled, and said lightly: "Look at your character, it's far worse than your sister. It's better to practice the characters instead of talking big everyday. ."

Li Yuanying: "..."

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1 "Lun Heng" and related introductions of heaven and human induction refer to various encyclopedia materials 2 "Heaven can condemn a man, and he can also be a holy monarch. Choosing talents is if Yao and Shun are ordered by the king and entrusted with the king's affairs. Don't pay and know Now it is not true, the king of life and mediocrity, who loses morals and wastes morals, will be condemned, and he will not suffer." and "In the change of the sky, the sun and the moon are thin eclipses, April, December, and the sun are eclipses, May and June The moon is also an eclipse, the eclipse is constant, not in politics, and all kinds of disasters are all the same. They may not be caused by the monarchy." These two sentences are the original words of "Lun Heng" that deny the theory of disasters. As for the explanation! It's all sweet spring nonsense! Not necessarily right! After all, who would have thought that there were only one or two history classes a week in high school and everyone used to sleep for science students! One day, we will learn about what kind of monarchy and gods give to the heavens and humans! ! ! [Straightforwardly]