Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel strange.
Ye Xianggao's reaction seemed a little wrong.
He actually seemed to be opposed to the talk of strange skills and tricks.
In fact, this is because he does not quite understand the intellectuals of this era.
In fact, many of them have begun to open their eyes to see the world, and Ye Xianggao is one of them.
They themselves also recognize the problems of Confucian culture itself and know that if they do not reform, there will be some serious consequences.
However, reform can be done, but it is impossible to completely overthrow Confucianism, because Confucianism is their root.
They can prune the branches and dig up the roots.
It's intolerable.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao's words revealed his disapproval of Confucius' teachings, which was tantamount to offending his inner self, which is why he reacted so violently.
And when Zhu Youxiao said that the birth year of Confucius should be used as the first year of the new calendar, he was so excited that he lost his composure.
Since Ye Xianggaodu has made it clear that he should completely overthrow the theory of strange skills and obscene skills, Zhu Youxiao naturally understands that he supports his reform of Confucianism.
As for how to solve problems such as strange skills and tricks, it is naturally best to leave it all to them.
He smiled and said: "As for how to carry out Confucian reform, I leave it to Master Ye.
My familiarity with Confucianism is obviously far from that of other ministers.
I just mentioned a few things that need to be revised.
The first is the issue of uncanny skills, the second is the issue of foolishness and filial piety, the third is the issue of taboos, and the fourth is the issue of a gentleman not talking about benefits.
These are the issues.
On the one hand, I think it is an obstacle to the perfection of Confucianism.
We need to build a new Confucianism and absorb the beneficial parts of other schools of thought, such as the issue of magic and skill, and combine it with Mohist thought.
Anyway, Mohism is now there.
No more.
There should be no problem if we add some of their ideas to Confucianism.”
Fang Congzhe thought to himself, you are thinking simply.
This project cannot be solved by just talking.
You must consult a large amount of information and choose the ones that suit your liking from the various interpretations of Confucius' remarks and eliminate the ones that don't suit your liking.
This can be It cannot be effective in the short term.
Sure enough, Ye Xianggao said: "Your Majesty, this is not a day's work.
The veteran has to borrow the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy to participate.
In addition, which sect of Confucianism your Majesty is inclined to, the veteran can establish the focus."
Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said: "First of all, I was inclined towards Xunzi's theory of human nature and evil in the past school.
I think the current Xinxue is very good.
It is best to reject Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism altogether."
Ye Xianggao was stunned and said: "Your Majesty, I have always studied Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
There is really no way to make this veteran give up Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism."
Xu Guangqi interjected: "Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is just an interpretation of the saint's remarks.
We take other people's interpretations or reinterpret it ourselves, and change the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism that His Majesty deems inappropriate.
Is that okay?"
Zhu Youxiao said: "Yes, that's what I mean too.
By the way, having said that, we must strongly oppose the remarriage of widows and the binding of feet.
The chastity memorial arch should also pay attention to it.
It can only praise the older ones and those who are young widows."
No more praise."
Fang Congzhe said with an expression of embarrassment: "Your Majesty, our court has always strongly advocated the chastity memorial arch, which is still effective in educating all people.
As for widow remarriage and foot binding, I'm afraid it must be stipulated in the laws. ” Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Yes, this will be promulgated soon.
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First, an imperial edict will be promulgated, and then laws will be drawn up to strictly prohibit women from binding their feet, and encourage widows to remarry, and their husbands' families will not stop them.
As for the chastity memorial arch, some people do do it because of the love between the couple.
Deep, so I decided to stay a lifelong widow, but there are also many reasons.
It is caused by family persecution.
If it is stipulated that chastity arches are no longer awarded to young widowed women, it can reduce many cases of forced widowhood.
The families of all ministers also have children.
If it is their own daughter who is young and widowed and does not marry, it will be almost impossible.
After ten years of living as an ancient Buddha with a green lantern, how can I feel pain in my heart?"
Fang Congzhe felt that this matter should not be said in this way, but it was an unreasonable matter.
After the emperor decided on a new way of counting, such a small concession was not important to him.
After everyone discussed for a while and assigned their respective tasks, the secretary brought paper and pen, Ye Xianggao wrote and Zhu Youxiao dictated, and wrote the imperial edict.
The next day's newspaper promulgated a new edict: bound feet of women are not conducive to walking and harmful to health.
Therefore, it is strictly forbidden for women to bind their feet.
Widow remarriage is conducive to increasing the population of the country and nation, so widows are encouraged to remarry.
Neither the husband's family nor the daughter's family can obstruct it.
The chastity arch is no longer awarded to women who were widowed before the age of thirty.
After the promulgation of this imperial edict, it caused a great response, and a large number of letters poured into the newspapers.
According to Wang Chengen's statistics, more than 90% of the cases are aimed at widows remarrying and chastity memorials.
Moreover, they all had the same idea.
They believed that remarriage of widows would bring bad social atmosphere, and the court should encourage widowhood to preserve their chastity.
As for foot binding, no one has any objections.
On the contrary, some people think it is better to strictly prohibit it.
Because the phenomenon of foot binding was not serious at this time, even if there were foot binding, it was only in the homes of some wealthy people.
Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to organize people to launch a counterattack, listing the disadvantages of being widowed and the advantages of remarrying.
It is believed that people who support widowhood do not want their mothers or wives to remarry after losing their husbands, just for the sake of face.
And blocking other people's happiness because of your own face is extremely selfish.
He also pointed out that after a man is widowed, why don't he stop marrying like a woman, but instead use it to demand others?
Don't you think it's ridiculous?
The saint said, "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you."
Don't you think so?
Haven't you read it?
After this counterattack article was published in the newspaper, it finally triggered a great debate that was later called "the pioneer of the women's liberation movement".
Zhu Youxiao told Wang Chengen that as long as the letter did not criticize the emperor, regardless of his views, he would choose a representative letter and publish it intact in the newspaper.
Those who supported women's widowhood first had an absolute advantage, but gradually, the situation began to change.
Those who opposed widowhood slowly increased from less than 10% to 30% two months later.
The two sides cited classics and the fight was lively.
The central cabinet once suggested to Zhu Youxiao that such an argument was too inappropriate and that the publication of letters from the two sides should be stopped, but Zhu Youxiao rejected it.
Zhu Youxiao said: "The truth becomes clearer with more debate.
I like this method.
Debate is a good thing.
We can see the true thoughts of the people in the world, so that we can guide them correctly.
And there are more and more people who oppose widowhood." , doesn’t it just illustrate the effectiveness of this method of debate?”
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