Chapter 593 He wants the Holy Eastern Han Empire to die
Liu Xie was a little emperor with little actual power, but a little emperor was also an emperor.
The emperor's words are golden and jade. Once a word is spoken, it is difficult for a horse to catch up. With the constitution of heaven in his mouth, whatever he says is what he says.
Although he himself may not have figured out what is going on, the meaning is already in place, and there is no suspense about what to do next.
Under the steps, there is "His Majesty the Holy Ming" like a roaring mountain and a tsunami.
There are also some defeated dogs howling in despair.
Of course, no one cares what the roar of these defeated dogs looks like. The winners have fallen into ecstasy and cannot extricate themselves.
A hundred years of disputes have finally come to a successful end, and all the twists and turns of good things have finally come to an end.
Jinwen school has been abandoned!
The school of ancient literature has won!
In the afternoon of that day, what happened in the imperial court had spread throughout Luoyang City. The guidance of modern classics on government affairs has become a thing of the past, and the comprehensive introduction of ancient classics has become the present and future.
According to the announcement issued by the imperial court, the imperial court will complete the transformation of the country's official guiding ideology and the transformation of advanced education policies such as Taixue within one month.
The Han Empire will comprehensively adopt ancient Chinese classics as official orthodox scholarship, and abolish all modern Chinese classics. Modern Chinese classics are no longer official scholarship, and ancient Chinese classics are the latest official scholarship.
The Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws became history, were all deposed and abandoned, and the new Five Classics entered the stage of history.
they are--
"Official Rites of Zhou Dynasty".
"Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals".
"Fei's Yi".
"Ancient Classics".
"Mao's Poems".
There are no more fourteen family laws, there are only five family laws, and these five family laws correspond to more than ten inherited families.
Led by the Liu family from Zhuo County and Zhuoxian County of Liu Bei and the Lu family from Zhuo County and Zhuoxian County by Lu Zhi, these more than ten inherited families will become the new pinnacle of the noble clans in the Han Empire - the prestigious family.
On the contrary, all the inherited families corresponding to the Fourteen Family Laws of the Five Classics will all become history, losing their status as a prestigious family and losing everything.
Their disciples are no longer qualified to be recommended by their families to become officials. These inheritance families can no longer seek opportunities for their disciples to become officials. If they study Jinwen classics, they will never be officials again!
This makes so many people heartbroken, this makes so many people cry, and this makes so many people despair.
Even some old scholars of the Jinwen school could not accept this fact and hanged themselves when they returned home.
They will lose everything, they will lose all the future, all the glory of the past will be far away from them, they are finished!
But no one cares, no one cares about the howls of the losers, no one cares about how bleak the future will be for the defeated dogs of the Modern Literature School, even if they die, so what?
The death of the defeated was a matter of course. What the Eastern Han Empire lacked most was not people, but dead people.
no way.
This is a zero-sum game, where the winner takes all and the loser loses everything. There is no room for relaxation.
The result has been settled, all this cannot be changed, the emperor's golden words have been spoken, only the last few steps are left - the promulgation of the emperor's will and the final announcement to the world.
This process will probably take about two days. Zhang Rang said that it will be resolved as soon as possible and that it will be officially announced at the court meeting the day after tomorrow.
But the officials of the Ancient Literature School couldn't help but start celebrating.
They have been suppressed for too long and need to be clear, need to be released, need to fully vent, and need to do everything they want to do.
Even Lu Zhi, who had always looked neither sad nor happy and had excellent self-cultivation, held a cocktail party at home after the matter was confirmed. He drank a lot of wine like never before and hired musicians and dancers to add to the fun.
The old fellows of the ancient literature school were so excited and so happy that they were so happy that they almost became immortals.
They kept drinking, laughing, and singing ugly songs at the top of their lungs. They just felt that they had never been so happy since they were born.
However, Liu Bei was not too overjoyed. He attended the banquet and drank some wine. But while he was drinking, he excused himself to go outside to enjoy the breeze and left the banquet hall and the place where the demons were dancing.
The slightly chilly wind quickly blew away the heat from his body. He looked up at the cold moon and sighed slightly.
"Why are you sighing at such a great time?"
A familiar voice sounded, and Liu Bei turned his head and smiled.
"Teacher, why don't you continue drinking inside? The disciple just now was very happy to see the teacher."
"Happiness is happiness, but my good disciple is worried. How can I, the teacher, be happy alone?"
Lu Zhi walked forward with a smile, patted Liu Bei's shoulder, and said with a drunken smile: "Tell me, tell me, it's such a good time, why do you sigh at the moon?"
Liu Bei looked at Lu Zhi for a while.
Then he turned his attention to the moon in the sky.
"Teacher, this disciple is just thinking, after the White Tiger Meeting, the celebration banquet that night when the Jinwen School achieved complete victory, was it exactly the same as our celebration banquet today? The ancestors of the Jinwen School that day
Are we, like us now, celebrating, drinking, and never returning until we get drunk?"
After Liu Bei finished speaking, Lu Zhi's expression slowly changed.
The three points of drunkenness quickly disappeared under the cold wind. Lu Zhi put down his hand and looked up at the bright moon in the sky.
"In fact, sometimes, you don't have to think so far-term, and there is no need to always bear too much responsibility on yourself and tire yourself out. Of course, as a teacher, you will also think about some things in the future, but you don't have to worry about the present.
I think about that all the time.”
"My disciple doesn't want to either, but I can't let it go no matter what."
"Try handing it over to someone else?"
"Those who have the ability do not have the will. Those who have the will lack the ability and qualifications. The disciples cannot find anyone with the same path and can only carry it on their own."
Liu Bei smiled bitterly and said: "Besides, how many people in this world are willing to do the things of sinners? If disciples don't do many things, no one will do them, but it doesn't matter if they don't do them."
"Aren't you still a teacher?"
Lu Zhi smiled slightly and said: "For a long time, your disciple has done much more than my teacher. Outsiders always say that my teacher is not as good as your disciple. I think this evaluation is unfair."
And indeed it is.”
"Teacher, you..."
"But it won't happen anymore. From now on, my teacher will never let you walk alone."
Lu Zhi squeezed Liu Bei's shoulders: "The path from now on is what you want to take, and what I want to take as a teacher. You are younger than my teacher. Some things that offend people will be done by my teacher. You and I
Master and apprentice work in succession, and we must complete this matter thoroughly, right?"
"Teacher, what this disciple is worried about is not just the matter of saving fields, there are many, many more."
Liu Bei smiled bitterly and said: "The Han Dynasty has too many ills. Since the ZTE, it has been faltering. The ills before the ZTE have not been actually solved, but have been strengthened. To this day, there are signs that it is difficult to recover.
Although the teacher has the ambition to change the world, he may not be able to do it. Without the disciples and the army at his hands, many things would not be possible."
"It all depends on man."
Lu Zhi shook his head and said: "Not only must you see, you must know, but you must also be able to do it. Don't think too much before things are completed, and don't put too many things in your mind. Otherwise, you will be tired before things are completed.
broken.
I know that there are many bad policies that you want to change. Take your time and don't be anxious. You are only 29 years old. You still have a lot of years and you still have a long time to do things. Don't be anxious."
"Teacher, I..."
"At least tonight, rejoice, listen to songs, watch dances, drink, and have fun."
Lu Zhi took Liu Bei's hand and pulled him back: "At least tonight, you and I, the master and the disciples, should run wild, no matter what, no matter what big things happen, let's wait and see tomorrow! Hahahahahahaha!"
Liu Bei was pulled by Lu Zhi and couldn't help but follow him forward.
He looked at Lu Zhi's unprecedented cheerful face, and suddenly felt that perhaps at this moment, Lu Zhi was like an excellent leader than ever before.
The world said that Lu Zhi, a teacher, was not as good as his disciple, but Lu Zhi may have always been an excellent leader, while Liu Bei was far from ready to become a teacher.
So that night, Liu Bei drank heavily and felt drunk like never before.
That night, he slept at Lu Zhi's house and slept until dawn. He ate a hearty breakfast and ended the night's indulgence.
The indulgence is over, and it's time for him to return to his original appearance.
The time was short, but he felt very happy.
Later, Liu Bei discussed important matters in Lu Zhi's Taiwei Mansion with the big guys from the ancient literature school who came to discuss matters - such as a series of procedures for completely replacing modern classics with ancient classics.
This is an important matter related to the superstructure of the entire Han Empire, and cannot be taken lightly. Yesterday's joy has become a thing of the past, and the future is slowly approaching. They must be cautious, extremely cautious.
At that time, a White Tiger Temple meeting confirmed that the ancient literature school was out, but also set up layers of shackles for the modern literature school. They wanted to comprehensively transform the modern literature school with the ability to change into a governing technique suitable for rulers. This is
unsuccessful.
The rulers of the Eastern Han Dynasty spent a hundred years, but due to their own insufficient academic level and short lifespan, they failed to complete the transformation of the modern classics, and instead became hemiplegic.
As a result, the Jinwen school was abolished, and so was the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Incompetent governance, confused thinking, inability to unify, and fragmentation.
But now that the Ancient Literature School has come to power, they also need to launch a new [White Tiger View Meeting] based on the political situation of the Eastern Han Empire, discuss with the rulers the latest and most realistic ruling order, change it, and start anew.
Of course, the ancient literature school does not have the same entanglements as the modern literature school.
"Etiquette" is the etiquette of scholars. The Modern Literature School did not adapt to the changes in imperial society from the beginning. It still viewed the first empire of Qin and Han with the attitude of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period that the monarch and the scholar-bureaucrats shared the world. This was naturally inconsistent with the situation.
Objective development laws.
And from beginning to end, they never met the needs of the emperors.
The ancient literature school is much more pragmatic. "Zhou Guanli" doesn't care about these at all. What it cares about is just a shell, a "ritual system" shell that can accommodate the desires of the entire ruler.
In short, the shell wears mine, and the coat is mine, claiming it is mine, and as for what is inside...
Lord ruler, you can do whatever you like.
The soft-bodied ancient literature school and ancient literature classics are very good at this.
However, the situation at this moment is different from that of back then.
The school of modern literature faced an excellent and powerful emperor, while the school of ancient literature faced an eight-year-old little emperor.
The White Tiger Temple Conference in the new era does not have an adult emperor like Emperor Zhang of Han.
Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty had received a complete education in imperial power and Confucian classics. He had his own views on Confucian classics and how to rule. He was also an adult emperor with a stable status. Confucian scholars faced Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty.
is weak.
Liu Xie does not have these conditions.
He is now just a little emperor with insufficient knowledge.
Of course, this little emperor cannot decide everything, nor does he have the ability to decide everything, so how to deal with things depends on the opinions of the four ministers, and among the four ministers, the one with the greatest say is Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was also the leader of Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period.
Therefore, in the White Tiger Temple Meeting in the new era, the person who can make the final decision on the future path of the Han Dynasty is Liu Bei, his own member of the Ancient Literature School.
It's like Liu Bei is both a referee and a player.
Being able to hold an internal meeting with Liu Bei in advance on this matter is of course the greatest benefit to the Ancient Literature School.
What they hope is that Liu Bei can move more towards the Ancient Literature School and retain as much content as possible that is beneficial to the school and the family, instead of having too many things decided by Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty like during the Baihuguan Conference.
The Modern Literature School was made paralyzed by Emperor Zhang of Han Dynasty, and the Ancient Literature School was inherently deficient. If it was made hemiplegic again, would it still be able to govern?
Regarding these, Liu Bei's attitude is relatively clear.
He did not agree with many things left behind by the White Tiger Temple Conference, and did not agree with many things determined by Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, and even had an attitude of complete opposition.
But on the surface, he opposed these things purely from the perspective of the Ancient Classics School.
Therefore, regarding the agreement reached between Jinwen School and the imperial power a hundred years ago, his intention was to [criticize the inheritance].
We cannot oppose them all, but we will never accept them completely. Considering practical factors, we cannot overturn them all, but there are always some things that need to be changed.
He wants to slash with all his strength.
And this sword struck at the theocratic rule system established by three generations of emperors: Emperor Guangwu of Han, Emperor Ming of Han, and Emperor Zhang of Han.
In short, he wanted to bring the Holy Eastern Han Empire to its death at this meeting.