Oh, Zi Hou, if you are strapped for cash, you can tell us. We are colleagues of the same, surely is able to help on help. Why do you need to dip into that kind of copper odour and let people look at you as a joke for nothing.”
Zhu Pingan had only entered the Hall of No Ease, a middle-aged official who usually did not have much dealings with him, at the moment came forward very enthusiastically, patted Zhu Pingan’s shoulder, gave a heck of a laugh, and said to Zhu Pingan with a smirk on his face.
Seemingly warm and kind.
Yes, I can only use the word “seemingly”.
The acting skills are not online, and the whole process is not heartfelt.
That said, the contempt on your face can’t be hidden, and just now the sound of huh, ridicule is also too full it ……
At this time and in this situation, I have a sentence of mmp that I don’t know when to speak or not to speak.
Zhu Pingan raised his head to look at this person, pulled the corner of his mouth, in his heart he slandered a sentence, but on the face is a slight smile, “Thank you for this adult care, I don’t know if the adult is talking about the matter of Zhu Ji fast food?”
“Well, it is precisely this matter.”The middle-aged official nodded.
“I don’t think it’s anything.”Zhu Pingan shrugged his shoulders unconcernedly, with a frank face, “Three hundred and sixty lines of work are good.”
“Nothing? Zi Hou doesn’t know the difference between righteousness and profit?”The middle-aged official sniffed, couldn’t help but shake his head and laughed out loud, as if he had heard a big joke.
The distinction between righteousness and profit, of course, Zhu Pingan knew.
The discernment of righteousness and profit is a basic argument of Confucianism, which is the question of whether people should pursue righteousness or profit.
Confucius saint a “gentleman metaphor for righteousness, the small man metaphor for profit”, laid down the basic argument; Mencius’s “Gou for the righteousness of the first profit, do not take away, not tired of”, further elaborated the theory of righteousness; Xunzi’s “for the benefit of the matter, the fight for goods and property, the view of profitability, is a robber and thief.Xunzi’s “the idea of profitability is the courage of the robbers” has completely driven the business into the ground.
These are the mainstream ideologies of Confucianism, which emphasise righteousness and undervalue business, that is, “the so-called end of the world is business and industry”.
“The gentleman is a metaphor for righteousness and the villain is a metaphor for profit, so the scholar, the farmer, the industrialist and the businessman, the businessman is at the end of the line.”The middle-aged official spoke eloquently.
“Not also. In ancient times, there are four people, said shi, said agriculture, day workers, said business. Shi diligently in the study, you can take the title and salary; agricultural diligence in the field, you can gather crops and comics; labour diligence in the skills, you can be easy to feed and clothe; business diligence in trade, you can accumulate wealth and goods. These four, all the people of the industry, since the birth of the people, there is no one who can be easy, not divided into noble and lowly successive.”Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly, putting forward a viewpoint that was different from the mainstream concepts of this era.
This was the difference of the times.
Although the status of merchants was much better in the Ming Dynasty, it was still not comparable to modern times. They could never have imagined that a few hundred years later a businessman would be called “Dad” by all the people, and they could never have imagined the consortium politics of the western powers a few hundred years later …….
“It is ridiculous that there can be no distinction between the noble and the lowly. Xunzi has said: for the sake of matters of profit, compete for goods and wealth, only profit is seen, is the courage of the Jia thieves.”
Another official got up to refute Zhu Pingan, with an expression of Junior Lang your thoughts are dangerous yet.
“That’s right, Zi Hou. Merchants value profit over righteousness. The Book of Rites – The King’s System says that businessmen and industrialists ‘do not go out of the countryside with the teeth of a scholar’, which is clear evidence of this.”Immediately after that, there were officials who concurred.
These officials were all Avray rooted in the ideology of the great literati in their bones, and were full of the idea that all things are inferior but reading is superior.
Of course, the reason why so many officials stood out to taunt Zhu Pingan, there was also the reason for standing in line.
Zhu Pingan is the unveiler of the Taicang case.
In the Taicang case, many officials were fined and punished, dozens of officials from Yan’s party were fined, and many people from Li Mo’s party were also fined. Many of the people present had been fined silver, or had friends or relatives who had been fined a lot of silver as a result.
If it is not Zhu Pingan this death star, I would not have been fined silver ……This was the sentiment of many officials who were fined silver.
It could be said that Zhu Pingan had almost offended a small half of the officialdom by himself.
Of course, when I heard that Zhu Pingan himself was also fined silver, many officials slightly out of the heart of a mouthful of bad gas, deserved, self-inflicted it. After hearing that Zhu Pingan was fined bankruptcy forced to go into business, the heart is a burst of relief.
When I learnt that Zhu Pingan doing business or stinky pig jerky business, but also can not help but ridicule.
Scholar is the best of the readers, thousands of horses in the first horse over the wooden bridge of the imperial examinations, as if the carp jumped the dragon door, the results you jumped the dragon door after going to toss the pig’s offal to go.
This is not a joke!
“Not also, not to generalise. The businessman and the scholar are different techniques and concentric, so the good businessman, in the field of wealth and goods and cultivate the line of high-mindedness, so although the profit is not tainted.”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand and faintly returned.
Although merchants and scholars had different methods of earning a living, their hearts were the same. People who are good at business, although they are sailing in the sea of business, but their moral cultivation is just as noble, just like the lotus flower that comes out of the silt but does not get stained, although the businessman seeks to make profit, but it can be just as noble.
“Zi said: the gentleman metaphor for righteousness, the small man metaphor for profit; Mencius cloud: Gou for after righteousness and first profit, not to take away and not tired; Xunzi said: for the matter of profit, compete for goods and property, only profit see, is the courage of the Jia thief also. Zi Hou you said of the four people do not distinguish between the noble and the lowly is what someone said?”
Another official got up to join in the refutation of Zhu Pingan, bluntly saying that what Zhu Pingan said was unjustified and was a personal sophistry.
“Mr Yangming’s words.”Zhu Pingan said back.
“Mr Yang Ming?”The crowd was stunned.
Wang Yangming could be said to be a legend in the Ming Dynasty, with a legendary life, legendary abilities, and an influence no less than that of Zhu Xi.
“Yes. I believe that all of you adults are aware of Mr Yangming’s learning tenet of ‘Gratifying Things to Conscientiousness’. The so-called ‘Ge Shi Zhi Liang Zhi Zhi Zhi’, said that everyone has a conscience in his heart, that is to say, no matter what you do, no matter whether you are a scholar or agricultural and industrial business, there is a conscience in his heart, and through the Ge Shi, you can achieve a conscience. That is why Mr Yang Ming said that ‘the streets are full of saints’, and he also emphasised that businessmen can also be saints and sages, saying that ‘even though they are trading all day long, it does not harm them to be saints and sages’. Since, the scholars, peasants, labourers, and businessmen can all be saints, what is the difference between high and low.”
Zhu Pingan glanced around the crowd, and without haste and without delay brought out Wang Yangming’s thesis of “Conscientiousness through materialism”.
Pulling the banner as a tiger skin, the effect was still there.
The crowd did not figure out how to refute Zhu Pingan for a short period of time after he brought out Wang Yangming’s Ge Shi Zhi Liang Zhi Zhi.
By the time they figured out how to refute Zhu Pingan, they realised that Zhu Pingan had already left with his hands in the air.
All that could be seen was Zhu Pingan’s back, and when Zhu Pingan’s back disappeared around the corner, the crowd could not help but mock in low voices.
“Hmph, a bunch of nonsense, misinterpreting Mr Yangming’s original intention.”
“Exactly.”
“Advocating what the equality of the scholars, peasants, farmers, and businessmen, you, a person who is a pig’s underbelly, is a businessman is also not a tooth, right.”
“Oh, I think he is reading stupid, business on business, to do what pig offal business. Pig offal and other lowly things, that will eat. See, when he Zhu Ji opened, have him cry time.”
“Hahaha, I’m afraid that it won’t be long before it opens and has to close down ……”
“Hahaha, words of wisdom.”
