Royal study room.

Zhang Juzheng saw Guo Tianyi, knelt on the ground and said sincerely, "Your Majesty, please take care of Confucianism. If you don't take care of Confucianism anymore, it will perish..."

Today's Confucians are like rats crossing the street.

Even the great scholars moved their families to other places to ensure safety.

Otherwise, if you don't go out on the street, you will be attacked by rotten cabbage leaves, rotten eggs.

There are also nasty incidents such as people throwing excrement at the door of a Confucian scholar, and it is getting worse.

Many young students in Guanzhong even took their grievances to Confucianism because they failed the exam.

Confucian students themselves did not dare to go out.

Including newly promoted Jinshi.

When they arrived at the place, they found that the people looked at them with colored eyes.

What bad things did the teacher of a certain student do ten years ago? How good can the students taught by such a teacher be?

Therefore, once there is doubt in the mind, these people are breathing wrongly.

Zhang Juzheng was an upright man and told all what happened to Confucians in these days.

Guo Tianyi wanted to laugh when he heard this, but held it back.

Jin Yiwei has reported these things more than once.

But, he still didn't care.

Guo Tianyi suppressed his laughter and said, "Ai Qing, please get up and speak."

"Your Majesty, if you don't care, I will never get up."

"This is so unfair to Confucianism..."

"I know that some people in Confucianism are worms, but there are also good people."

"If this continues, the whole Confucianism will be doomed..."

Zhang Juzheng came today to intercede on behalf of those great Confucians.

Those great scholars have good relations with him.

Due to both emotion and reason, Zhang Juzheng made the plan to risk his life to persuade the emperor.

In fact, Zhang Juzheng had no choice but to do so.

He has no other choice but this method.

To seek help from the Queen Mother?

It's of no use.

Looking for Princess Guo Susu?

It's even more useless.

Today's emperor's prestige has reached an unprecedented level.

and firmly holds military power.

Otherwise, many old ministers would stand up and remonstrate, using topics that are difficult to oppose to public opinion to make the emperor give in.

This kind of thing has happened in all dynasties.

But they all know that this method is useless for Guo Tianyi.

Guo Tianyi, the military regime's leader, was all arrested.

Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Guo Tianyi has cultivated a large number of cronies.

His control over the army has reached a level even stronger than that of the late emperor.

No one dares to use those topics to criticize?

Only a righteous man like Zhang Juzheng dares to speak out for justice.

"My dear, I understand your heart."

"I also know that not all Confucians are evil people."

"And Confucianism also plays an extremely important role in the progress of civilization and the spread of culture..."

"A few days ago, I was very satisfied when Fan Xueyi led the Confucian students of the Qilu sect to propagate enlightenment in the southern Yi countries..."

The more Guo Tianyi talked, the more excited Zhang Juzheng became.

Everything your Majesty said makes sense.

These are all good aspects of Confucianism.

Indeed, without the huge group of Confucians, cultural progress would have been much slower.

Unlike Legalism, Confucian thought has undergone several changes.

Even if Confucius was alive, he would be stunned and stunned.

Because today's Confucianism not only has many factions, but its ideas are not the same as those when Confucius founded it.

Moreover, Confucius did not expect that the fights between factions within Confucianism would be so fierce.

In the era of Confucius and Mencius, Confucian disciples pursued self-cultivation, ordering the family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world.

But later, although most of the descendants of Confucianism talked about these things, their nature changed.

Pursuing interests, internal struggles, suppressing other schools of thought, etc. are common.

Confucius also asked Laozi for advice?

But later, Confucianism gave Huang-Lao theory a cloak of pretentiousness, causing Huang-Lao theory to wither.

Thinking of this, Guo Tianyi continued, "My dear, to be fair, today's Confucianism is mixed, good and bad. If I want to take care of it, it's just a matter of words, but I will not directly protect Confucianism in this matter."

Hearing this, Zhang Juzheng seemed to understand something, and a lot of thoughts flashed in his eyes.

He studied Confucianism and Legalism the most.

Why are most of the important officials in the imperial court born in Legalism?

Moreover, one of the celebrities around Guo Tianyi, Cai Xuan, the spy chief of Jinyiwei, was also from Legalism.

Isn’t it because there isn’t much party strife within Legalism?

Another point is that Legalists tried their best to safeguard imperial power.

It is not easy to persuade the emperor with all kinds of righteousness.

Even if the emperor is a foolish emperor, they will obey any order of the emperor.

Various laws were even promulgated to safeguard imperial power.

Could it be...

Your Majesty wants Confucians to make changes themselves?

During the previous dynasty, the king did not want to see Confucianism, and the influence of Confucianism in Guanzhong dropped to a freezing point.

Moreover, the previous dynasty also placed too much emphasis on Legalism, which resulted in people’s livelihood being in dire straits.

But after that, after Dafeng was established, Legalism was frantically suppressed by Confucianism.

This kind of thing lasted for ten years.

But today, when the Legalists see the opportunity to beat up the drowned dog, they will naturally not be merciful.

There were extremely dark moments in the struggle between the various factions, and these things are still vivid in my mind when I think of them now.

Today, I am not a foolish king.

Zhang Juzheng watched Guo Tianyi step by step from the weak King of Han to the prince and the ruler of the world, and he naturally knew that the emperor would not deliberately support any school of thought.

Otherwise, why would the emperor spend a lot of money to build universities and military academies?

"Now that Your Majesty has made a decision."

"I resigned."

After thinking through some problems, Zhang Juzheng felt much more comfortable, stood up and saluted.

"This matter."

"I will find a suitable opportunity to deal with it."

"What I hope is for hundreds of schools of thought to flourish together, like the healthy competition in the Confucius era, rather than for one sect to dominate."

"Go ahead."

Guo Tianyi waved his hand, signaling the commander to leave.

"promise!"

"I excuse myself."
To be continued...