Chapter 81-01: The Four Schools of Confucianism (Happy New Year)

Dear readers, Happy New Year, may the Year of the Dragon bring you good fortune and prosperity~
The great Confucian scholars practice what they preach.

Two days later, Su Mu handed the "Spring and Autumn Annals" to Chu Zhongxing on time.

Like the "Six Strategies", the "Spring and Autumn Annals" is the general outline of the four schools of Confucianism, and it contains the "Five Constant Virtues", a cultivation method created by Confucius.

The Five Constant Virtues are: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness.

By practicing the Five Constant Virtues, one can comprehend the Great Righteousness, which is not only much stronger than the spiritual energy of other hundred schools, but will be even more powerful if combined with Confucian magical powers!

Taking the "Spring and Autumn Annals" from Su Mu, Chu Zhongxing bowed deeply to Su Mu to express his gratitude. Confucianism emphasizes teaching, educating and resolving doubts. If it were other schools of thought, they might not be able to pass on the general principles of Confucianism so easily.

But Confucianism is different.

Confucius, the sage of Confucianism, taught everyone without distinction. He broke the monopoly of the "Tao Te Ching" by the nobles of Jiuzhou and allowed the people of Jiuzhou to seek the truth.

As one of the four schools of Confucianism, the Gongyang School naturally inherited the style of Confucian sages in teaching, imparting knowledge and resolving doubts.

"Thank you angel!"

Chu Zhongxing thanked him and looked through the "Spring and Autumn Annals" in front of Su Mu.

Seeing Chu Zhongxing carefully reading the Spring and Autumn Annals, Su Mu did not interrupt him, nor did he scold him because of his military strategist status. He looked at Chu Zhongxing quietly, and when he saw Chu Zhongxing frowning in thought, he kindly asked, "General Chu, is there anything you don't understand?"

"a lot of."

Chu Zhongxing spoke the truth. After he finished speaking, he put down the Spring and Autumn Annals in his hand, tilted his head and looked at Su Mu, a little curious: "Angel, I read your Confucian Outline, and you are not angry?"

"Why are you angry?"

"I am a disciple of the Military School of Military Science, and you are a disciple of the Gongyang School of Confucianism. As the saying goes, if you have different paths, you cannot make plans together."

"No!"

"My Confucianism teaches everyone and accepts disciples from all walks of life. If General Chu is interested in my Confucianism and agrees with my Confucian beliefs, he can switch from military science to Confucianism!"

"Give up practicing the "Wen Tao Wu Lue" and practice the "Wu Chang" instead, and cultivate a righteous spirit!"

Su Mu bewitched Chu Zhongxing: "General Chu is the commander of Yancheng at a young age. If he were to transfer to my Confucian school and read my Confucian books, then General Chu would be both civil and military, and it would not be impossible for him to step into the realm of governing a country."

"Military strategists are good at deciding the fate of the world on horseback, but not good at pacifying the world with a pen. Many military strategists' disciples are stuck in the realm of managing their families, and will never be able to enter the realm of governing a country in their entire lives!"

At this point, Su Mu bowed slightly to the General's Mansion to express his apology, and then continued: "For example, General Guo Xiaoding, although he governs the country, it is a 'fake' after all. If he has not really achieved peace in the world with his pen, how can he be considered to be governing the country?"

"Fake world?"

It was the first time that Chu Zhongxing heard the term "false realm". He immediately became interested and humbly asked Su Mu: "Angel, what is a false realm?"

"Self-recognition is a false state!"

Su Mu explained: "Like General Guo, after the death of his commander-in-chief, he took over the entire Zhenbei Army and governed the seven cities in the northern border in an orderly manner.

General Guo believed that he had the ability to bring peace to the world with his writing, so he recognized himself and asked himself, and felt that he had the ability to govern the country, so he stepped forward and entered the realm of governing the country!
Also, because the Northern Frontier Zhenbei Army were all military strategists, they did not have much knowledge and did not refute General Guo, so General Guo has always been in the state-governing realm and has not fallen to the family-governing realm. "

"But this state of governing is a false state. If General Guo sees the real state of governing, his Dao heart will collapse and his state will naturally fall back. Or, if several Qijia realm masters jointly question General Guo's ability, and the talent General Guo has shown is not recognized by several state masters, or most of the Qijia realm masters, he will also fall back to the Qijia realm!

Or, if the majority of the people are dissatisfied with General Guo’s governance, over time, General Guo will fall back to the state of the Qi family.”

Su Mu seemed to be recalling: "The real ability to govern a country is far beyond what General Guo can compare to."

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Good guy!
I just exclaimed, "Great guy!"

It turns out that the false state is actually self-recognition.

if
I mean if.
If I think that I have reached the state of pacifying the world, and the players under my command also think so and agree with me, then have I directly entered the state of pacifying the world?

Even if it is just a false state of pacifying the world, it is much better than the current state of studying!
Chu Zhongxing really wanted to try to see if he could exploit this BUG and prove himself to be at the level of pacifying the world!

As if seeing through Chu Zhongxing's thoughts, Su Mu laughed: "Self-recognition is true self-recognition, it is recognizing oneself from the bottom of one's heart.

Deceptive self-recognition is not self-recognition, it is self-deception."

"Ahem, I am just a student, so I know my own limitations."

Chu Zhongxing coughed to cover up his embarrassment. At this stage, he had mastered the magical powers [The Strategy of Confusing the Enemy] and [Driving the Tiger to Devour the Wolf], and was already half a step into the realm of self-cultivation.

As a disciple of the military strategists and the school of military power, Chu Zhongxing will be able to enter the realm of self-cultivation when he can command a thousand soldiers and make them use them as easily as his own arms.

As for the military power, the more soldiers one can command, the better.

"General Chu, there is no need to be modest. Being able to become the commander-in-chief of the Zhenbei Army and having a great ruler like General Guo respect you is enough to show your potential."

"Would you like to consider switching to my Confucian school? I will personally answer all your questions."

Chu Zhongxing did not respond to Su Mu's words. He picked up the Spring and Autumn Annals again and read it for a while before asking Su Mu again:
"Angel, the Spring and Autumn Annals is the general outline of Confucianism. It contains the Five Constant Virtues, a method of cultivation. If you give the Spring and Autumn Annals to my soldiers, can they comprehend the Spring and Autumn Annals on their own and join other Confucian schools without anyone to guide them?"

"By the way, Angel, how many schools of Confucianism are there?"

Chu Zhongxing raised two questions, and Su Mu answered them one by one: "That's natural. Everyone's understanding of the Spring and Autumn Annals is different, and their beliefs and ideas are naturally different, and the schools they belong to are also different."

"My Confucianism is divided into four schools, namely the Confucius School, the Gongyang School, the Guliang School and the Chenwei School."

"Among them, the Confucian Confucian school is further divided into eight branches, such as Confucius' Confucianism, Zi Zhang's Confucianism, Meng's Confucianism, etc. However, since the eight branches only have slight differences in concepts, we generally do not divide them into eight branches and call them all Confucian Confucianism."

“I won’t introduce the Ram Sect in detail.”

"As for the Guliang School, well, they are simply a disgrace to Confucianism!"

"Respecting the monarch's authority, opposing the monarch and his subjects' union based on righteousness, believing that subjects are the monarch's private property and that no transgression is allowed, opposing war and emphasizing friendship, what else is this school of thought if not a shame for Confucianism?"

When it comes to the Guliang School, Su Mu gritted his teeth. He still doesn't understand why the Guliang School actually belongs to Confucianism.

The shame of Confucianism, the Guliang School!
(End of this chapter)