The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

"But Mr. Kong's sentence is "the people can let them know, but they can't make them know." This means that the people can follow the path we guide, and there is no need to let them know why." Xiao Shisi pursed his mouth: "This is foolish people. Ah! But it is said that reading can enlighten wisdom, how many scholars can the common people have? What's the point of this!"

In fact, this sentence has a long history. It was used to attack Confucius during the ten years of catastrophe in the early days of liberation.

Xiao Shisi was in the orphanage in his previous life, and the vice president was the victim at that time. He was originally from a scholarly family, but he turned into a black five-category son of a bitch.

Even Xiao Shishi has a deep memory of this sentence.

Later, when he was older, he even looked up the meaning of this sentence.

"Huh?" Kangxi didn't expect his fourteenth son to be so smart. A seven-year-old child could detect something wrong with a sentence in "The Analects of Confucius".

"But later, the gentleman has a new sentence, which is "the people can, let them know; if they can't, let them know." Little Fourteen spread his hands: "Then the meaning of the whole sentence of Confucius has changed again, and changed it to Mastering the three things of poetry, ritual, and music is the basis for educating the people. We must do a good job. If everyone has mastered poetry, ritual, and music, well, let them play freely. If ordinary people still can’t play these things, we will We must educate them and let them know and understand these things. It has been changed to need everyone to open up the wisdom of the people!"

Kangxi's face was a little strange.

"Okay, it's only been a few days since the second explanation? The third sentence came, this time it's "people can make it, let it go; if they can't make it, they know it"!" Xiao Shisi sniffed: " Old Master Confucius has become a pioneer of freedom again. What is he trying to do? I haven’t figured it out yet, and the fourth sentence comes again. This time it is "the people can be used, but they can't be controlled; let them know"! This kind of statement! Not free anymore."

Kangxi's face is like a palette.

"This is not over, the fifth sentence immediately appeared, is" can the people make it?No.You can make it known." Little Fourteen spread out his hands: "The sixth is even more amusing, it is" people "can", let it go.No, make you know, is it knowing or not knowing?”

Kangxi was silent.

"Huang Ama, did you squeak?" Little Fourteen patted his Huang Ama's arm: "My son is really confused... By the way, why don't they use punctuation marks?"

In fact, punctuation marks took shape in the Song Dynasty. "Song History·He Ji Biography" praised He Ji: "Everything he reads is punctuated. The meaning is self-evident, and you can see it without talking about it."

But it didn't attract much attention, let alone standardize it.

Besides, it's just a prototype, and everyone's using it is not very good.

"Do you know why the sentences are different?" Kangxi asked Xiao Shisi.

"I don't know!" Little Fourteen shook his head: "Can't we unify it? Is it known or not? Is the wisdom of the people to be enlightened or not?"

Kangxi thought it was a bit crazy for an emperor to discuss this issue with a seven-year-old boy, but he still seriously discussed it with his fourteenth son: "The words of the saints come from ancient times, and there was no such thing as sentence punctuation at that time." In addition, "The Analects" was sorted out by Confucius' descendants and his students. It is some of Confucius' knowledge, but no one knows what Confucius wanted to express at that time, so in general, he would not teach it. Those who judge sentences by people will not fix sentences and explain doubts, because no one can represent a saint, do you understand?"

"Even if you can't represent a sage, you can after a sage!" Little Fourteen tilted his head and said, "Besides, what was the situation of Sage Confucius back then? What was the world like in the Qing Dynasty? Sage Confucius was not always right. "

Kangxi's eyes widened when he said this: "Who taught you this?"

The little poor child dared to say anything, even the sage Confucius dared to question it?

"No one taught the son, the son figured it out by himself, Huang Ama, the son only told you, not even the elder brother and the son, for fear of being taught a lesson by the elder brother, hehehe..." Little Fourteen pretended to be stupid and was stunned.

"Little Fourteen, you are very smart, but remember to hide your clumsiness." Kangxi rarely sighed: "In the future, don't mention this kind of thing to others. By the way, what are the punctuation marks you are talking about?"

"This is it, my son will show it to you!" Little Fourteen jumped up, ran to his study room, and brought over a booklet. This is a punctuation manual he wrote for himself when he was about to enter school.

But at this time, it cannot be said that he is planning for a rainy day. He only explained to Kangxi: "After the son was confused about the sentence, he referred to the "Song History He Ji Biography" and made this out."

He couldn't say that he was just curious about "Song History·He Ji Biography", what kind of "base" should be used as "biography"?

Kangxi opened it and saw that it turned out to be the description and use of various punctuation marks.

Can't help being very surprised!

"You did it all?"

"Yes, make a mark."

Kangxi read it for a long time before finishing it, and found that in this way, some obscure things in the book will indeed become clear, especially after being used in the book.

"Have you mentioned it to others?" Kangxi closed the booklet and asked Xiao Shisi.

"No, only Huang Ama, you know." Little Fourteen shook his head: "I'm afraid that my brother will say that I'm not doing my job properly, and I don't study hard, so I dare not even tell him."

Obviously, Xiao Shisi is close to him, even closer than his own elder brother Si Age.

Kangxi is proud and happy, this can only show one thing, Kangxi's narrow-mindedness is everywhere!

"Do you want any reward?" Kangxi asked Xiao Shishi again, but he held the booklet given by Xiao Shisi in his hand and didn't give it away.

But he can't ask for his fourteenth son's things in vain.

"Is everything okay?" Little Fourteen immediately grinned happily: "Can my son come to Shang's study room for two hours every night?"

Waking up at three o'clock in the morning every day is really tormenting.

No matter how early he went to bed the first day, he couldn't get up!

Every day I struggle with life and death with quilts and pillows.

Kangxi couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this condition, he raised his hand and shook the booklet in his hand: "Give this booklet to Huang Ama, and Huang Ama will use it for business, but this booklet of yours has made a lot of contributions, so think about it." Yes? Just this one chance."

"After thinking about it, I want this reward, okay?" Little Fourteen clasped his fists and looked at Kangxi eagerly.

Kangxi was silent for a while: "Let's say you are not feeling well, and Huang Ama allows you to arrive an hour later than others."

Two hours is absolutely not enough, and one hour is actually barely enough. The morning self-study is nothing to Xiaosi.

"Long live Huang Ama!" One hour is one hour, he really doesn't want to repeat it 120 times like chanting scriptures, writing is still tolerable, just practice brush calligraphy.

Seeing that he was so happy and easy to be satisfied, Kangxi waved his hand: "Huang Ama didn't want your brochure for nothing, and I will give you 500 taels of gold."

"Long live Huang Ama, long live, long live!" This shout was particularly loud.

It seems that the charm of gold has been everywhere throughout the ages.

Emperor Kangxi even had a meal here, and it was a very pleasant process to chat with his fourteenth son, but what the other sons thought after hearing the news was beyond Xiao Shishi's ability to know.

But when Xiao Shishi returned to Shang's study, he heard the news that Kangxi was going to compile a dictionary with sentence breaks and punctuation marks.

It's just that the candidate for the host, between the crown prince and the third elder brother, has not yet decided who will lead.