Soon after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne, he did a big thing, he wanted to remove Mencius from the temple...
It's not a joke. Although Mencius is not as great as Confucius, he is also more or less of the level of "son", and in terms of weight and status, it is also leveraged.
Most importantly, Mencius was a super idol and spiritual leader in the hearts of the Confucians.
Mencius was erudite and talented, still a super debater, a proper star, and could not hide his brilliance anywhere.
In particular, many of his ideas are simply the guide to the behavior of many benevolent people.
Idols were bullied, how could Confucian fans not be impatient, they vowed to die against Zhu Yuanzhang's removal of Mencius from the Temple of Confucius.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the Jiangshan, and he thought about how to sit firmly under his ass, cutting out the brothers who followed him to fight the world one by one, and he also formulated cruel laws, peeled the grass, opened the East Factory and the West Factory, and daxing the character prison, bent on safeguarding the imperial power he had gained by changing his life against the heavens.
Whoever dares to defy imperial power, that is a word, kill!
How could such a cruel Zhu Yuanzhang tolerate the arrogant Mencius, Mencius's sentence that "the people are noble, the society is secondary, and the king is light", that is a naked challenge to the mighty!
In addition to this, Mencius also disobeyed the emperor's absolute rule over his subjects, saying anything, the emperor took me as a brother, I took him as a confidant, he treated me as a dog and a horse, I just treated him as a compatriot of the countrymen, he wanted to see me as a grass mustard, I would take him as an enemy.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw such Mencius in the book, he was so angry that he was so angry that he directly characterized Mencius's theory as a fallacious heresy.
Although Mencius has been ancient for thousands of years, Zhu Yuanzhang will not be able to live with a dead man.
He said that if Mencius had lived in the world, torture would naturally not have been spared.
I am afraid that it is not just torture, if Mencius lived in the Ming Dynasty, or if there was a reader like Mencius, it was possible to be destroyed by the three ethnic groups.
Man is gone, but he cannot keep his thoughts from the restless students.
As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the deletion of the unfavorable chapters of Mencius, and at the same time ordered that mencius tablets be removed from the Confucius Temple.
This move is more painful for the world's readers than betrayal, and more shocking than the eight-magnitude earthquake, because this is undoubtedly a spiritual murder!
Mencius was their super idol, and the idol was invited to the altar, that is, to deny that the code of conduct they had always followed was wrong, how could they not be indignant!
The scholar protested, the courtier died, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang was helpless, and returned to the Mencius tablet, worthy of the sacrifice.
Successive emperors have not regarded Mencius as a flood beast, but the beggar emperor Zhu Yuanzhang can't tolerate it in his heart, but this time he is angry with the ancients, Zhu Yuanzhang lost in form, and his high-pressure rule has never changed.
Zhu Yuanzhang was angry with Mencius's madness, but Mencius was really crazy, not as good-tempered as Confucius, and Mencius did not sell anyone's face, and he was afraid if he wanted to, and he showed no mercy.
King Xuan of Qi, yes, is the monarch who is abusive, loves face, loves pomp.
He wanted to see Mencius, but he pretended to be ill and sent someone to send a message to Mencius to meet him.
Mencius knew it, but he refused to go down the steps, and he simply said that he was sick.
Others urged him to go to the court, and he was afraid of being annoyed and simply hid from his friend's house.
My friend asked him: I have only seen the King of Qi respecting you, why didn't I see you respecting him?
Mencius began to look proud again: there are three most noble things in the world, title, age and virtue.
In the court, the title is the most honorable; among the neighbors, the age is the most honorable; as for assisting the king in governing the people, the most honorable is of course virtue. Why did the King of Qi use his title to snub my age and virtue?
The accomplished monarch knew how to be a corporal, and Shang Tang first leaned over to learn from Yin Yi, and then regarded him as a subject, and the same was true of the important Guan Zhong of the Duke of Qi Huan. Guan Zhong can't be summoned yet, not to mention that I don't even despise Guan Zhong?
For Yan Bao and Guan Zhong, he was very dismissive, and he was most annoyed that others compared himself to them.
He also boasted to himself so generously: If you want to rule the world peacefully, in this world, who will you give up on me?
Mencius, that's it, a crazy word in capital letters, don't put the king in your eyes, what king power and wealth you are, although I am dressed in grass and mustard cloth, I have talent in my belly, and I have virtue in my body, just as honorable as you.
Discussing politics with King Xuan of Qi, Mencius was also unceremonious.
Mencius said that widowers, widows, orphans, and orphans are the four most pitiful, and that in practicing benevolent government, we must first consider them.
King Xuan of Qi praised him one after another.
Mencius asked him, "Since you said yes, why don't you practice it?"
King Xuan of Qi was also frank and frank: I have a problem, I love money.
As a bystander, he received it early, Mencius did not, he did not attack the King of Qi like a stunned qingqing, but instead followed the words of King Xuan of Qi, making him powerless.
Mencius replied: In the past, Gong Liu also loved money, and under his rule, the family had surplus grain, the army had military food, and the king loved money, and he could think that the people also loved money.
King Qi Xuan revealed himself with an iron face: I still have a problem, I am.
A king, forced to be shameless and shameless, Mencius and his old man still did not forgive.
Mencius said: In the past, King Tai of Zhou (the grandfather of King Wen of Zhou) also loved women and was very fond of concubine Tai Jiang. At that time, the people lived in peace, and there were no complaining women inside and no husbands outside. The king is lustful, can you think that the common people also love female sex, what impact does this have on the implementation of the royal government?
King Xuan of Qi was forced to have nowhere to retreat, so he had to be dumbfounded.
Such a blind Mencius, King Xuan of Qi estimated that there were ten thousand horses galloping in his heart.
Such a Mencius, who was good at eloquence, did not spare himself at all, did King Xuan of Qi dare to reuse it?
Coupled with his set of benevolent political ideas, suitable for the Taiping Dynasty to rule the world, in the era of the rise of the masses, the monarchs are harder than whose fists, Mencius's set is not timely, does not land, King Qi Xuan raised Mencius very high, respected as the secretary of state, but only respect is not important, only give Mencius a false name, to win himself a good name that attaches importance to talent.
As the inheritor and promoter of Confucius's thought, the stubborn Mencius was doomed to be lonely.
With two mouths of iron teeth and copper teeth, Mencius walked the rivers and lakes, relying on his clever brain and two lips that could speak the Tao.
Bachelors argue with Mencius about human nature.
The confessor said, "Innate endowments are called sex. ”
Mencius asked rhetorically: "If innate endowments are called sex, is that the same as saying that what is white is called white?" ”
The accuser nodded and said yes.
Mencius went on to say, "Then the white of the white feathers is like the white of the white snow, and the white of the white snow is like the white of the white jade?" ”
The informant nodded again.
Mencius said, "Then the nature of the dog is like the nature of the cow, and the nature of the cow is like the nature of man?"
In the face of Mencius's inductive interpretation, Suzi was dumbfounded.
Mencius is undoubtedly a genius debater, and he will make you obediently lead you away when you are defenseless.
Mencius was like a philosopher for a while, and then like a Laipi, arguing with such a person, Presumably, you and I will be angry to the point of vomiting blood.
Once, Mencius had a trick with another master of debate, Chun Yu.
Chun Yujie was a guest secretary of the State of Qi, and also a great thinker, erudite and eloquent, arguing with Mencius, mastering tricks, and being particularly wonderful.
Chun Yuji preemptively asked Mencius, "Is it a ceremonial system for men and women not to pass on and accept things with their own hands?" ”
Mencius obediently said yes.
Chun YuJi began to set up a trap: "If your sister-in-law drowns, do you want to reach out and save her?" ”
Mencius went with the flow: "Sister-in-law drowning and not reaching out to save, is simply a jackal." The so-called impersonality of men and women is a normal etiquette; a sister-in-law drowning and reaching out to save is a temporary and workaround. ”
Chun Yu's words turned sharply: "If the people today are drowning in the water, but mr. Does not reach out to the rescue, why is this?" ”
Mencius saw the trick and shot back: "The people of the world are submerged in the water, and if you want to rescue, you must use the 'Tao' to rescue." The sister-in-law drowned in the water and just held out a hand to save it. Do you want me to use one hand to rescue the people of the world? ”
It was really a foot tall, the devil was one foot tall, and Mencius's reaction was too admirable.
People who have always been eloquent are actually people who are not very popular. Mencius' disciple Gong duzi once asked Mencius why he liked to debate so much.
Mencius sighed. If they can live as a dove of peace, who wants to live as a hedgehog? The world knows that he is eloquent, and he writes articles that are full of arrogance and compelling momentum, but they do not know that he has no choice.
Mencius's eloquence was actually to speak for Confucianism. His eloquence is due to the mission. At that time, the princely states were full of smoke, and the remarks of Yang Zhu and Mo Zhai filled the world. Yang Zhu put forward very far ahead of time: live for yourself.
Mo Zhai advocated both love and non-aggression, and the need to build a cosmopolitan society. Mencius was extremely critical of these two propositions, believing that living for oneself is not a king, and loving is not a parent, and having no king and no father is no different from a beast.
Bad money drives out good money. Mencius wanted to speak for his own doctrine.
With his three inches of incorruptible tongue, he will carry forward Confucianism and defend the path of the first saints.
Mencius was clothed in hedgehog skin and armored only for preaching, but unfortunately he was born at the wrong time, and the hero was useless.
Although Mencius was worshipped as a Qingxiang, he was only a vacant position. His generous statement was nothing more than a splash at the time, but it was radiant in the hereafter.
Born in sorrow and died in comfort, just 8 words, but like a flood bell, it has been ringing for two thousand years.
Heaven will send down a great task to the Scythians, and they will first suffer their hearts and minds, and work their bones and bones... It has become the motto of many people to improve themselves.
Guo Degang once, when he was down, could not catch the bus on the night shift, and at night when he walked home, he stood on the overpass, in the desolate night, crying and singing: "The heavens will descend on the Si people..."
Mencius's eloquence enabled Confucianism to be seen and heard, and thus passed down for thousands of years...
Mencius, with a look of arrogance and delicacy who was battling with the world, but when he heard that lu Guo, who was not as good as his Lezhengzi, was in power, he was so happy that he could not sleep.
Le Zhengzi, a person of average ability, is neither intelligent nor well-informed, so why did He make Mencius so happy?
It turned out that it was only because this person could listen to good words. In Mencius's view, it is more than enough to listen to good words and govern the world, let alone a small Lu country?
If you like to listen to good words, then the wise men of the four directions will come thousands of miles to advise him, and if you can't listen to good words, you will be complacent. Complacency will only reject the wise man for thousands of miles, and invite flattery and greeting, and it is not far from the wrong country.
Mencius is talented, and he should be proud, but he is never jealous.
How can a person who can hold the world in his belly be so conceited that he cannot tolerate people, and if he is born of yu and is born of a narrowness, how can Mencius have it?
Mencius, who was left in a vacant position, decided to leave the state of Qi, and did not listen to Mencius's advice to eat the defeated King Xuan of Qi, and sent a house to send ten thousand cartons of grain to keep him, he still had to leave.
In the end, King Xuan of Qi asked him to give him a hundred pieces of gold (20 taels in one piece), but he refused.
However, when he passed through the Song Dynasty, the King of the State of Song gave him seventy yokes, which he unceremoniously accepted, and in Xue Di, Xue Jun gave him fifty yokes, and he also simply accepted.
The disciple was puzzled: Sir, you suffer for a while, you refuse for a while, there is always a time when it is wrong, right? Mencius shook his head, he didn't want nameless money.
He was going to travel far, and the Song monarch said that it was a coil that he had sent, so Mencius accepted it.
In the territory of Xue Guo, the soldiers were in chaos, and Xue Guojun said that this was the money sent to him to buy weapons.
However, the monarch of the State of Qi sent money, but the teacher was unknown, and there was no reason to send money, which in Mencius's view was a naked bribe.
Refusing money for a while, collecting money for a while, it is inevitable that people will fall into reality, but Mencius does not care. Mencius lived so freely.
Even Kuang Zhang, the unfilial son of the world's scorn, defended him.
Kuang Zhang was scolded by the whole country as an unfilial son because he disagreed with his parents, his parents did not pay attention, and he could not live together.
But Mencius did not think so, he believed that Kuang Zhang did not have filial piety, neither a lazy gambler, ignoring his parents' lives, nor doing ugly things to shame his parents, nor was he aggressive and aggressive to endanger his parents.
Others avoided Kuang Zhang, and Mencius not only befriended him, but also treated him with courtesy.
Mencius didn't care what people said was terrible, he had his own set of standards.
Look up to the sky, and bow down to people.
Be honest and straightforward, say whatever you want, and do whatever you want.
This is Mencius, a man of great talent, who can speak eloquently, who dares to speak and dare to be afraid, who lives freely and calmly. Try your best to persuade the monarch to practice benevolent government, not to be adopted or resentful, and to enjoy himself.
Mencius said that he had three pleasures: parents are there, brothers are for no reason; Look up to the sky, and bow down to people; Educate the world's talents.
His life was too busy, busy with intimidation, busy educating people, sometimes sharp, sometimes humble, like a wise man, and like a madman.
Such a true and spontaneous, frank Mencius, is the person you have always wanted to be?
. END .
【Text| Flower Shore】
Edit | Daniel Lee]
【Typography | Drizzle】
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