In the seventh year of Shaoxing, my father was called to Beijing. Before entering Beijing, he and his mother settled in Pucheng, Jianzhou. Although his father is not around, he still keeps the habit of putting down his books and immersing himself in the sea of books all day. Five years later, his father died of illness, and he was entrusted to his good friend Liu Ziyu before he died. His father wrote to several friends with high academic attainments, hoping that they could teach his son. He is very kind to his family and treats Zhu as his own child. In order to take care of his old friends, he built a house next to his home for them to live in, named Ziyang Building.
Seventeen or eighteen years old in Shaoxing, one year later, he was admitted to Jinshi, and he began his short career. He served as editor-in-chief of Tongan for four years. During his tenure, he advocated governing Tonga with Confucianism. During his tenure, he also advocated spreading Confucianism. Four years later, he resigned at the end of his term, but he felt that his talents were not perfect enough, so he decided to start his study trip again. He decided to learn from Cheng Zhu's disciple Dong Li, improve his knowledge and explore the way of governing the country. From Dong Li, he learned the orthodox thoughts of Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism, which played an important role in his later improvement of Neo-Confucianism.
After accepting the idea of the second minister, he decided to engage in educational activities. In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing, the emperor asked his subjects how to govern the country. He was called to write a letter, advocating the main battle against peace and opposing Taoism and Buddhism, which was appreciated by the emperor. So he was called into the vertical arch hall and played three emperors. He urged the court at that time to fight against Li Jing and oppose peace, but the power of peace in the court was too strong and his thoughts were not adopted. Later, he urged the court to oppose peace.
After walking on the road for five years, his mother died, and he built a cold spring house to guard her grave. From then on, he began a six-year cold spring writing period. During the six years of guarding the mother's grave, he did a lot of measures and was praised by later generations. During his seven years on the road, he established a "social warehouse" in Five Blessingg. Together with the local squire, he borrowed 600 stones of rice from the government and lent it to the victims to help them tide over the difficulties in the event of famine. Then when farmers harvest in winter, they return the borrowed rice and millet and charge interest at the rate of two cents. Interest is halved for minor hunger, and free for major disasters. This move was a great success, which solved the problem that farmers were at a loss when they encountered famine, and also eased the pressure of the court during the famine.
In the past ten years, all the rice and millet lent by the government have been returned, and at the same time, rice storage warehouses have been established to reduce the pressure on the people. Because of the good results achieved here, this measure began to be similar in other places, which largely solved the famine problem of the people and eased the pressure of the court, and was loved by everyone. In the fifth year of Xichun, Xiaozong appointed him as the commander of Nankang Army. After he took office, it coincided with the drought at that time and the people were in dire straits. He immediately began to build water conservancy projects to fight the disaster. At the same time, he begged the court to reduce taxes for local victims, which was well received by local people. /kloc-in October, Zhu found the abandoned site of Bailudong Academy through the guidance of a woodcutter during a trip, so he decided to start teaching again.
He first started to repair the academy, then invited famous teachers to enrich books for the academy and set up a school yard to help poor students. He also personally formulated learning rules to restrain students' behavior, which is the earliest academic norm in the world. Later, he began his teaching career in the college. At that time, many students came here to accept his teaching, and he spared no effort to impart his thoughts to them! At the age of 52, he successfully completed the Notes on Four Books, which played an important role in the spread of Confucius and Mencius' thoughts. His four books became an important part of the imperial examination in later generations and made great contributions.
In the second year of Qingyuan, the famous "Party Banning" event happened in Song Dynasty. Shen Jizu reversed black and white, added ten charges to him, and left him helpless in prison. At that time, his learning was also called pseudo-learning, and students were forbidden to learn. Qingyuan was ill for five years. He felt that his life was running out, so he stepped up his study, but it accelerated the deterioration of his condition. The next spring, the great thinker died in prison. And our descendants will always remember this person!