Chapter 748: Learning from east to west, foreign barbarian monarchs become students
The bright red flag with the word "Ming" began to float above Vienna City, on the northern foot of the Alps.
What Li Dingguo in this life would not know was that he died in a resentful death in the border areas of Yunnan in another time and space, rather than holding a knife to enter this European important city known as the music capital in later generations.
Looking at the many Baroque buildings that filled his eyes, he couldn't help but smile.
As a Han family, being able to ride a horse in this foreign land one day and make everything here become owned by the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly a real achievement worthy of people writing about it.
The trembling European nobles still knelt on the ground and glanced at the Ming army entering the city.
They had no choice but to accept the ending.
I could only watch the wealth I had accumulated for more than 500 years and was about to be reborn from these people from the East.
Military victory comes with cultural victory.
Wang Fuzhi and Sun Qifeng were ordered to come to Europe to spread Confucianism, and they also came here shortly after the Ming army entered the city of Vienna.
During this period, Wang Fuzhi and Sun Qifeng and other Confucian scholars did not shave their hair and wear braids when they entered the Central Plains at this age, but still came to this Western place with a tall crown and wide belt.
After seeing the murals and various sculptures in the Baroque buildings here, great scholars such as Wang Fuzhi and Sun Qifeng were the Han people of this era and were in the prime of the country and the people, so they scoffed at these Western cultures.
Wang Fuzhi directly scolded him: "It's simply inappropriate! Witchcraft is rampant! They must be educated by Confucian Neo-Confucianism as soon as possible!"
Sun Qifeng nodded, agreed with this, and said: "First build a Confucian temple and create a statue of the emperor and Confucius. At that time, let the first group of Confucian children visit the emperor and the ancestors, and then accept the teachings of Confucianism and Taoism."
Wang Fuzhi, Sun Qifeng and others did it as soon as they said it.
Taking the military threats of the Ming Empire at present, the European nobles did not dare to stop them, and could only cooperate. They were forced to start wearing Confucian crowns and Confucian robes.
Because Wang Fuzhi strongly demanded that the General Zhou Yuji of Dingxi have given Jun orders to request that the Western barbarians in the land they surrendered must be easily subdued, otherwise they should be hanged on the grounds of refusing to obey Wanghua.
The Western barbarians still care more about their lives. Compared to their loyalty to God, most of them honestly implemented the policy of being easy to subdue and easy to deal with.
On this day, the preface was mid-spring, and the fragrance of flowers was everywhere in Vienna. Thousands of Western Confucian scholars began to kneel down to worship the Emperor Ming and Confucius under the leadership of Wang Fuzhi and Sun Qifeng.
Wang Fuzhi even made a speech, talking about the virtue of self-cultivation and family management.
"I examine myself three times a day: Are you unfaithful when you plan for others? Are you unfaithful when you make friends but don't believe in them? Are you unfaithful when you pass on them?"
"The people have what they want, and God will follow it."
"The emperor has no relatives, only virtue is the auxiliary."
"Cultivate yourself to comfort the people."
"Offering people can help people."
"The people are the most important, the country is the next, and the king is the least important."
As Confucianism took advantage of the military expansion of the Ming Dynasty and spread widely in the West, some Western scholars also seemed to have opened up a new world after they came into contact with Confucianism.
Especially the idea of focusing on self-consciousness and people-oriented thinking in Confucianism made Western scholars who had just enlightened their thoughts in this era shocked these Confucian words after contacting them.
At this time, Locke, who was one of the founders of the English Whig Party in history and was an English Enlightenment thinker, and as the first person in the West, should reflect on his heart, was shocked by the materialism and people-oriented thoughts that the West still lacked, and therefore he was very addicted to muttering these Confucian sentences, and said to Prince Orange:
"It turns out that Oriental people have long had the idea of the people's human rights! And it has been there thousands of years ago! The civilization of this country is really advanced!"
Prince Orange also sighed: "Yes! We are so backward that we have only gradually gotten rid of ignorance now."
Huaxia does have strong cultural advantages.
Therefore, these Western thinkers who were still in the ideological enlightenment stage were shocked when they saw these Chinese cultures.
In fact, it is not just the people-oriented idea that began to emerge in Western barbarians.
Even in terms of economy, the government had the economic idea of controlling the market economy during the Guan Zhong period, and the economic idea reflected in Sima Qian's "Biography of Merchant" is exactly the same as that in Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations".
It can be seen that the heritage of Chinese culture.
It is only because later generations are not committed to their moral integrity and recite the scriptures more and more wrongly, which leads to a phenomenon where the East cannot learn from the West.
But this does not mean that the various ideas accumulated by thousands of years of civilization are really obsolete.
And in this life, when Dongxue was recommended by Zhu Youxiao, the Ming emperor, to a wilderness and practiced the way of education, it did not seem useless.
It's actually very useful.
For the Western Barbarians who had just escaped from the Middle Ages, many Eastern ideas made them feel quite fresh and bright, and they were not as repulsive as they imagined.
However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty, with Lu Wang's study of the heart, opened up the thinking of the Ming scholars, freed from the confinement of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, began to question the heart again, and thought independently, ushered in an era of great explosion of thought. In addition, Emperor Zhu You, excluding the Tartars outside the school, swept the reactionary people inside, promoted civilian education and reshaped the nation, and promoted local scholars long ago after inheriting the studies of the sages and then criticized and developed.
Now the Ming Dynasty has become more inclined to distinguish the people by class and the nature of the country according to interest relations.
It is difficult for people of any class to fool most of the people.
Because the people in the Ming Dynasty have already gradually gained wisdom due to decades of civilian education.
Even if those who have ulterior motives want to fool the people, they will eventually become a joke and will be punished by the empire with iron fists.
After Leopold VI came to such a Ming land, because of this, as soon as he got ashore, he was surrounded by a large group of newspaper editors and asked him many questions.
Questions such as "As the king of the Habsburg dynasty, what do you think about becoming a king of a country that is destroyed now?" and "Why didn't you avoid the ending of this by rescuing your serfs?"
Because the Ming Dynasty is now full of people's wisdom, and there are many people reading books and newspapers, almost everyone likes to pay attention to various current affairs, such as the battle between Japan and Britain and France in the Americas, and whether there were conspiracies in Europe. These are all hot topics they talk about after dinner.
Even the peddlers were worried all day long whether the vassal states would rebel, and which prince would inherit the throne in the future of the Ming Dynasty.
And because of this demand, there is a corresponding market, the editors of major newspapers and magazines are very active in editing and editing various news, just like a hungry wolf who smells meat.
When people like Leopold VI came to the Ming Dynasty, they would naturally be actively edited by many newspapers and editors.
Leopold VI was shocked to see this scene. What he did not expect was that in this Eastern country, civilians would be as curious as the rulers, and the whole country seemed to be more than the rulers' country.
"No wonder this Eastern country is so powerful! It's really different from my Europe!"
Leopold VI sighed.
After arriving in the Ming Dynasty, he was naturally arranged to be a college for foreign education and education to receive Chineseization.
He was received at the Educational College by Orwitzki, King of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania.
Chapter completed!