A sudden heavy snowfall came to Hangzhou, and the goose feather-like snowflakes brought a hint of coldness, but compared to enthusiastic scholars, winter did not seem to dissipate their enthusiasm.
Hangzhou has been too lively recently, perhaps because it has been silent for too long, and now it is rare to become the center of attention in the world, especially those young scholars of Wang Xue. At this time, they obviously did not expect that they had participated in a huge turning point that could change the history of the Ming Dynasty. They just followed suit, spread various news, and made various fierce remarks. Some people, if any academic officials criticized Wang Xue, would these people rush over and knock him to the ground.
Violence cannot solve problems, but scholars often end with violence. Obviously, punching and kicking are considered very polite, and it is very rare to not eliminate them. But scholars are different from others after all, and others use violence to solve problems. Killing means killing, and beating means hitting. This is obviously a very rough approach, while scholars are obviously different. Before scholars hit people, they must first kill their hearts. What is killing their hearts? That is, first come up with a set of theories, finally summarize their legitimacy, and tell others that this is what they should be beaten.
And we beat people for the country and the people, representing the sun and the moon. After summarizing, we will take action, first beat or eliminate, and then naturally we will have to finish. Scholars who beat people but do not remedy afterwards are like prostitutes who do not close their pants after soliciting prostitution, without any professional ethics. What is the aftermath? The aftermath is to criticize the odor, expose your private morality and all kinds of shameless actions, and finally declare victory unilaterally, human pests have been completely eliminated, and justice has defeated evil. Everyone claps and applauds and go to bed.
There are many incidents of beating people, but the prefect of Hangzhou dare not care about it, and even if he is beaten, he dare not say anything. After all, this is not the capital. This is Jiangnan, and Wang Xue's supreme remarks are everywhere. There are countless disciples of Wang Xue in the yamen, all over the country. God knows how many people there are.
Any new learning is often energetic. After all, most people who are willing to abandon the old learning and turn to the new learning have some rebelliousness in their bones, which is the so-called iron-mindedness. Of course, their bones are harder when they make a fuss.
The fast horses from the capital, Nanjing, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan provinces are now running back and forth between Hangzhou, and news comes one by one. As Wang Xue’s nest, there will be horrifying news here at all times. There will also be the latest news from the court to those who follow it.
While indulging the head to cause trouble and confrontation, the backbone members obviously felt the importance of their relationship. Although they repeatedly encouraged their disciples, it does not mean that they were optimistic. The attitude in the palace may turn at any time. The cabinet may even counterattack regardless of the consequences, and may even use the power of the factory guards and the governor's office to suppress it. Once that time comes, everything will be over. Regardless of whether your Wang Xue is better than the old one, or your Wang Xue is more orthodox than Neo-Confucianism, and if you are mixed with force, it is the moment when everyone's heads fall.
Everyone was worried, especially Wang Gen in the Mingpao newspaper. Wang Gen is a aggressive person, but it does not mean that he is a reckless person. Of course, he knew the consequences of the matter. Over the years, in addition to meeting officials, gentry and great scholars from various provinces, he even wrote articles and published them, and also listened to various news at any time. For more than ten days, he had not slept well for a day. Sometimes he took a nap and was always exhausted, sometimes worried, sometimes worried.
Many people are expressing their opinions that there are either one or the other, and there have been controversies in various provinces, but the general situation is that Nanjing, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces are in a one-sided pattern, while the rest are mostly controlled by the old party. Even though Wang Xue's disciples wanted to take the opportunity to fight back, the effect was not obvious. As for Guangdong, Guangxi, Liaodong and other places, they no longer expect it. These places obviously do not care about this and completely regard the party struggle as air.
The only thing that makes Wang Gen thankful is that the palace has not made any statement yet. No statement is good news, at least it proves that Your Majesty is neutral. As long as Your Majesty can fight for it, Wang Xue still has a great chance. Even if Your Majesty is in the end, Wang Xue has already shown his strength, so that the palace may not have the desire to suppress strongly. As long as there is no suppression, it is a confrontation. Wang Gen believes that in time, the old school will be defeated!
However, his mentor Wang Shouren wrote a letter and scolded Wang Gen, saying that he had provoked a dispute over learning and did not know how to advance or retreat.
Now, Wang Gen can't take care of so much, but then he found out that he was wrong, and he was very wrong. The master was the master, and his damn greatness and light were correct. Wang Gen suddenly realized that he did not seem to have made a difficult decision like his father in later generations, but made a wrong decision.
A news came here, and then many backbone stationed in Hangzhou gathered in Mingpao.
Everyone remained silent, read the news one by one, and then smiled bitterly.
Wang Gen couldn't even laugh. He dazed with his hands on the desk, and finally breathed a long sigh: "Xu Qian misled me!"
Four words express everyone's mood.
If now, everyone still doesn't understand what's going on, then they are really fools. Xu Qian is a guy who stirs up the flames, making them mistakenly think that it was the palace who favored Wang Xue. At the same time, it also made the old school suddenly alert to Wang Xue, causing everyone to lose their due judgment and make a wrong decision. As a result, Wang Xue and the old school are in a turmoil. The guy actually escaped at the last minute and suddenly started to tinker with miscellaneous studies.
"Shameless, this is obviously a death to me. It's really outrageous." Someone complained loudly.
However, everyone's anger is understandable. They think they are creating history and rebelling against old learning. Who knows the causes and consequences of all the causes and consequences? They are just being used as a gun by a young man who is still young. Judging from all the trajectories, now afterwards, Xu Qian wants to make up the roots of miscellaneous learning, but they are afraid that the opposition will be too loud and that it will attract opposition from scholars all over the world, so they instigated Wang Xue to be cannon fodder.
"Master Wang, what should I do now? This is the act of Xu Qian, both humans and gods, will he... announce the matter and let the people in the world see his face?"
Wang Gen's face was gloomy and almost nodded, but then he smiled bitterly, "This guy couldn't be lit, and Xu Qian had already arranged a way out. Now if we told everyone that Xu Qian had cheated us, Wang Xuegen would not have the support of the palace. Everything was just a scam. I'm afraid that in a few days, these high-spirited students Wang's children would have a low morale, and some even retreated. But Xu Qian can get out of here, can Wang Gen? Can these people here? Can those Wang Xue officials who stood up? Can those scholars?
Obviously, no!
If Wang Xue takes a step back, the old learning will step by step. Wang Xue has become a thorn in their side and cannot solve the problem by retreating. Now everyone has surfaced and has shown some ability to subvert the old learning. Old learning will never tolerate evil.
If that's the case, why do you need to shoot yourself in the foot?
"No!" Wang Gen said without hesitation: "At this point, we have no choice but to retreat. Even if we retreat, we will be liquidated sooner or later. We can only hold on to the end at the moment. This news must be completely blocked and we must never let people know."
Someone smiled bitterly and said, "It's not easy to not let others know. I'm afraid that there are many people who know about this, and it will be reported sooner or later."
Wang Gen also smiled bitterly. Once it was spread to Jiangnan, it proved that his and everyone's recent actions have become jokes. Xu Qian is really harmful to others. You just want to cheat others, but you have to sell them and endorse them and count money for him. Such a person is really a disaster.
Wang Gen had no choice but to say, "Then just make up for it and immediately spread the news. He said that the old scholars put pressure on Xu Qian and used all kinds of despicable means to make Xu Xueshu helpless. After all, he was an official in the court and could not go against the superior intentions. Therefore, he was disheartened and used the excuse to compile miscellaneous studies to satirize the great masters in the court. Think about it, Xu Xueshu did not compile Neo-Confucianism, but instead compile miscellaneous studies. Isn't this a concealed way to tell the rotten trees in the court that are inferior to Neo-Confucianism? The news is spread like this, so you must not mess up everyone's minds. Now, we can't go back!"
Hearing this, everyone smiled bitterly and shook their heads. Even though they were cheated, they had to try their best to portray this guy into a hero who dared to resist and was flexible and clever. But what can I do now? At the beginning of the counterattack, everyone was under the banner of supporting Xu Qian's book editing, and they almost portrayed this guy into a sub-saint-level figure of Wang Xue. Now they found that they were just fans of the nature, they were not a pioneer at all, they were just watching the show, and they were also a hooligan who didn't pay for money to watch the show. Can you still kill the capital and raise this guy to beat him up?
The only way is to continue to gild this guy.
In fact, all of us are quite ideal people. If it were the past, we would never do such despicable things. However, now we know the interests of them, which are related to Wang Xue's life and death, but we have to put aside our nobleness and silently, which is considered to be acquiescent to Wang Gen's decision.
Finally, someone asked, "What should we do now? It seems that all this was misled by Xu Qian. Your Majesty's attitude is hard to understand, I'm afraid..."
This person expressed his concerns. Everyone's determination to appear may not be to truly safeguard Wang Xue, but to mistakenly think that the emperor tends to Wang Xue. He thought that with the support of the palace, he started to show his strength, and to confront the old school, and to support the emperor, and to strive for the status of the official school in one go. Who knows that the ending will be like this?
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Alas, the plot I thought about for a night has finally been updated. Speaking of which... monthly tickets, monthly tickets, and I have not even made the monthly ticket list yet. I don’t know what to explain my tragic life.