Then, on what basis did Wang Yangming get such a position comparable to Confucius?
Wang Yangming's family background is very good and he is intelligent. However, unlike ordinary scholars, he only looks for solutions to problems in words, and he prefers to test them with practice, which also determines that his pattern is to focus on the fate of the country, rather than just staring at the imperial examinations. He is more interested in the military.
Regarding Wang Yangming's military achievements, the most frequently mentioned is to quell the rebellion in Wang Ning, but there are other stories in it. He didn't get timely praise for this military achievement, but it is enough to see the essence of his thought. When the rebellion in Wang Ning reached the capital, the ministers were surprised and the emperor was very happy.
Zhu Houzhao has military talent, but he is more playful. He had a small victory before. This time, of course, he won't miss this opportunity. Only at this critical moment, he is busy with the beautiful woman, and even, in order to find the hair clasp given by the beautiful woman, he is standing still. If someone else changed and learned that the emperor was going to fight for this credit, he would basically retreat to one side.
Wang Yangming understands that this matter can't be delayed any longer and must be solved as soon as possible. Otherwise, a small trouble will turn into a catastrophe. However, he doesn't have any army. What do we do? Wang Yangming practiced his thoughts with actions: take advantage of favorable factors, take the initiative to attack and create opportunities. Wang Ning's rebellion was well prepared, and to some extent, he occupied the military initiative. At this point, to crack Wang Ning's attack, it is not as simple as winning head-on, but also need to disintegrate the morale of the rebels in Wang Ning, so as to completely eliminate hidden dangers.
Wang Yangming knows that those troops in his hand, if they fight the rebels directly, are undoubtedly throwing eggs at stones. However, the situation is so urgent at the moment that there is only one way to break it and create a "rumor". This trick has been used in many battles in history and is extremely useful. The battle between Changping, Qin and Zhao, rumors made Wang Zhao change coaches; When the Yan army besieged the city of Qi, Qi was in jeopardy. There were only two cities left at that time. At this time, rumors spread everywhere and the prince was replaced by General Le Yi. As a result, Qi won.
So, how did Wang Yangming create "momentum"?
It's actually very simple. First, news was spread through various channels, and as many as160,000 troops besieged Ning Wang. Then, he borrowed the routine of "Jiang Gan stealing books" in Battle of Red Cliffs, making Wang Ning suspicious and afraid to send troops easily.
This bought time for Wang Yangming.
In the end, the key to this rebellion, which lasted only 35 days, was that Wang Yangming seized the opportunity. This is actually the core of his thought. He is good at discovering opportunities and amplifying their effects.
Wang Ning waited a few days and found that the previous news was only false, so he led the main force, and Wang Yangming went straight to Wang Ning's lair with his temporarily assembled troops. At this time, Wang Yangming has mastered the initiative.
However, he did not attack the city directly. Sun Tzu's Art of War always says that siege is a trick. When he learned that there were more than 65,438+10,000 enemy troops outside Nanchang, he had another idea. He made the troops swear to take Nanchang city and sent elite troops to destroy the enemy, but left them alive to let these defeated soldiers "talk" into the city: Nanchang city was surrounded.
In this regard, the officers and men guarding the city can not panic. The siege momentum of the other side is so fierce that everyone outside the city has learned. Isn't guarding the city a dead end? So the rebels guarding the city chose to abandon the city. In this way, Wang Shouren broke Queen Ning's posterior approach, first struck the arrogance in morale, until the final confrontation between the two sides, that is, three days, Wang Ning was completely defeated.
When Emperor Zhu Houzhao arrived in high spirits, it was all over and he was a little annoyed. He even made up his mind to let the traitor go and fight again. Wang Yangming reacted quickly and quickly said that he was ill and stopped asking about it.
The reason why Wang Yangming keeps pace with Confucius and Mencius is that Wang Yangming opposes taking Confucius and Mencius as immutable precepts, blindly obeying feudal ethics and morality, and emphasizing personal initiative. Now Wang Yangming's most commonly used sentence is: unity of knowledge and action. There is a line in knowledge, and there is knowledge in the line. Knowing and doing is not a "guiding" relationship, but an exterior-interior relationship. If you think something in your heart, you will implement it with practice.
Just like this rebellion, in Wang Yangming's mind, he just wants to destroy the rebels as soon as possible, and everything he does is to carry out this idea. In today's business world, this is more instructive. We practice "planning" with practical actions, and we will make adjustment strategies in real time according to changes in the situation. Facts have repeatedly proved that only in the process of doing things can we find more opportunities to achieve our goals. There is no absolute "dead end". With more brains, you will be able to put your "ideas" into practice.
Wang Yangming is highly respected because he was the first to put forward the dialectical relationship between knowledge and action. Only when they are harmonious and unified can the healthy development of body and mind be truly realized. His thought pays more attention to moral construction. However, from the perspective of derivation, knowing and doing also promote each other. When carrying out a specific event, you can also enhance your inner understanding of yourself and the world. Therefore, Yangming school later became one of the mainstream theories in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and at the same time spread to Japan, which had a great influence on Japan and East Asia.
The world never stops moving forward. As for the thoughts of the ancients, we need to look at them from the perspective of the times. However, kindness will never go out of fashion. Even in today's new historical position, inheriting and carrying forward Yangming's theory of mind has important theoretical value and practical significance.