The sunshine in late autumn is neither dry nor arrogant, just right.
In the country of Yun, the pavilion in the center of the lake in Jixia Academy and the surrounding waterside pavilions and corridors were crowded with people.
There are scholars from the academy wearing scholar uniforms, children of powerful officials in gorgeous clothes, and disciples from humble families dressed simply, all gathered here.
Many of these people, just by looking at them, can be seen that these people are definitely not scholars from hundreds of schools in Jixia Academy. But these people dressed in different clothes are sitting here cross-legged.
They all looked towards the lake center pavilion not far away.
In the pavilion in the center of the lake, an old man with an elegant, gentle appearance and a clear and elegant appearance was sitting cross-legged, surrounded by many disciples.
A disciple bowed and asked for advice:
"A gentleman is always in competition with others, but a villain is not in competition with others. I dare to ask Si Ye, how can we tell the difference between a gentleman and a villain if people's hearts are unpredictable?"
The old man nodded slightly, stroked his long beard, and said loudly:
"Look at what it is, observe where it comes from, and observe where it is. How can a person be poor?"
"Look at his words and deeds, observe his motivations in doing things, and understand his interests. As long as you do this, how can a person's heart be concealed? This is how you can distinguish between a gentleman and a villain!"
Having said this, the old man paused and said:
"If you can do this, you will know how to recognize people, and then you can become an official! Because you know how to recognize people, you will also be able to take care of the talented people under you!"
The disciples around him suddenly understood, and they all bowed and saluted, saying:
"Thank you Si Ye for your guidance!"
At this time, the autumn breeze was gentle and pleasant, causing the lake surface to ripple and sparkle.
The old man brushed his beard and smiled, with a look of relief on his face. Many of the disciples who were listening to the lesson were thoughtful, and they all bowed to the old man and saluted. It was a scene of Confucianism, elegance and uprightness, a scene suitable for master and disciple.
Although Jixia Academy is not closed to the outside world, it is known as the highest academic institution in Yun Kingdom, but not everyone can come in and observe.
Today, the reason why there is such a grand occasion in the academy is because Shi Mingzhe, a well-known sage in the world, lectures in public at Jixia Academy.
This Shi Mingzhe, the old man who lectures in the pavilion in the center of the lake, is a contemporary Confucian administrator, in charge of the administration of Confucian teachings, and assists the Confucian sect leaders in managing this huge Confucian school.
Since Xiao Cheng established Jixia Academy and summoned hundreds of wise men, except for Yin Yang, Bing, and Za, who came with all their disciples to serve, the other hundreds of schools only sent a part of their disciples.
The leaders of each family are mostly second-generation disciples of the sect, and there is a vague intention of contact and testing.
As the Yun Kingdom dominated the southern part of the world and invaded the Central Plains, the country became increasingly powerful and seemed to be seeking to dominate the world. At the same time, among the hundreds of families, all their children entered the Yun Kingdom's court to serve as officials. Only then did hundreds of schools of thought become more and more interested in the Yun Kingdom.
He took it seriously and began to send important people from the sect to take charge of the affairs of the Yun Kingdom sect.
This is why this contemporary Confucian scholar, the famous sage Shi Mingzhe, came here.
After Shi Mingzhe came to Yun State, in order to uphold the Confucian concept of "education without distinction", he gave lectures in public many times, so that all interested people could listen.
If he encounters talented young students who come to ask questions, Shi Mingzhe is willing to help and often answers questions personally.
Such behavior naturally attracted people's favor, and many young scholars from the Yun Kingdom had already followed Shi Mingzhe to study before they entered Jixia Academy.
And just when some scholars wanted to ask questions, a Confucian disciple quickly walked up to Shi Mingzhe and whispered a few words in his ear.
Shi Mingzhe's eyes moved, he stood up slowly, and said loudly:
"Let's stop here today!"
After hearing this, all the scholars could not ask further questions, so they all bowed to Shi Mingzhe and said in unison:
"Congratulations Siye!"
Shi Mingzhe stood up, took the Confucian disciples around him, and quickly left the pavilion in the middle of the lake.
As soon as he reached a deserted place, he suddenly heard a meaningful chuckle from the side.
"If you look at it, observe its origin, and observe its position, you can tell whether a gentleman or a villain... Hehehe, does Si Ye think he is a villain or a gentleman?"
As soon as he finished speaking, an old man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, an ordinary appearance but cunning eyes, walked out from the side and looked at Shi Mingzhe with a smile.
When the Confucian disciples accompanying Shi Mingzhe heard this, they suddenly looked unhappy and said:
"Please Mr. Gongsun be careful what you say!"
Gongsun Song didn't care about the Confucian disciple's sweating, and looked at Shi Mingzhe quietly with a meaningful smile.
Gongsun Song, a famous scholar and virtuous man, is a well-known eloquent person in this generation.
Shi Mingzhe's eyes narrowed, but he raised his hand slightly, stopped the Confucian disciple beside him from saying anything, and said in a deep voice:
"The two Confucian and famous families are interested in holding a debate to promote their own ideas. Mr. Gongsun and I need to discuss this matter in detail. You all should go back first!"
When the Confucian disciples heard this, they hesitated for a while, and finally bowed together and said:
"Yes, disciple, please leave!"
When the disciples left, Gongsun Song immediately sneered and continued:
"There is no one else here, so Shi Siye might as well tell you, do you consider yourself a gentleman?"
Shi Mingzhe's eyes did not waver, and he just said in a deep voice:
"A gentleman has nine thoughts and four objections. This is the realm of sage that I pursue as a Confucian. I think I am not talented enough and have insufficient cultivation, so I can hardly be called a gentleman."
Gongsun Song clicked his tongue, touched his chin, and said to himself:
"Yes, Master Siye is ruthless and ruthless. Even his own disciples can kill ruthlessly. How can you consider yourself a gentleman? But in front of others, you look like a gentle old man. You teach your students earnestly, so you can't be called a villain.
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Speaking of this, Gongsun Song suddenly raised his eyebrows and said with a smile:
"After much thought, it seems that only a hypocrite and a hypocrite can describe you, Siye!"
After all, he comes from a famous family, and if nothing else, his poisonous tongue is really powerful.
Rao Shishi Mingzhe thought he had a good character, but at this moment he was aroused to anger in his heart, and he couldn't help but said coldly:
"Mr. Gongsun, be careful what you say!"
Hearing this, Gongsun Song showed a look of astonishment on his face, then suddenly sneered, pointed at himself and said:
"Be careful what you say? Master Si Ye made a mistake! My famous disciples all live by their mouths."
Shi Mingzhe frowned and narrowed his eyes. Just when he was about to refute, he heard another cold voice:
"If you two still want to argue about this, please forgive me for the inconvenience of accompanying you!"
The old man, with a serious face and a tall and square figure, looked at the two quarreling people coldly, as if he was ready to leave.
Shi Mingzhe and Gongsun Song also knew that business was important and stopped their quarrel immediately.
Gongsun Song turned to look at him and said with a smile:
"But Hall Master Ji just found us two, how can we leave now?"
This old man is Ji Fang, the head of the Legalist Criminal Law Hall.
A law hall was established in the Legalist family, which was owned by the direct disciples of the Legalist family. This Ji Fang could be regarded as the second-largest figure in the Legalist family, and he was very famous!
Seeing that the two had stopped arguing, Ji Fang's serious and gloomy face softened slightly and said straight to the point:
"I'm looking for you two today just for one thing. The emperor seems to be sending people to investigate!"
As soon as these words came out, the two people frowned and looked at Ji Fang together.
"really?"
"Where did Hall Master Ji find out?"
Ji Fang said in a deep voice:
"In the past few days, Di Renjie, Zhi Du and others who were ordered to investigate the case have not continued to return to their respective government offices to take charge of general affairs. Instead, they have tightly closed the doors of their respective government offices. All the scribes under their command have stayed overnight in the government offices and are not allowed to go home or do anything to the outside world.
We have contacted each other through messages and are still busy... With this action, I suspect that they are still secretly pursuing it!"
Most Legalist disciples work in the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Yushitai. As the head of the Legalist Law Hall, Ji Fang cannot get any important information, but he can still find out some of the movements in the Sansi Yamen.
After hearing this, Shi Mingzhe and Gongsun Song both fell silent, their expressions solemn, and they remained silent for a long time.
The reason why the three of them attacked the imperial examination was simply because they saw that Xiao Cheng, the current emperor of the Yun Kingdom, wanted to use official education to cultivate scholars and weaken the influence of hundreds of schools. This is exactly what they cannot tolerate!
Xia Emperor Yu Zhaoling, in order to curb the intensifying party disputes in the court, took action brazenly. The disciples of hundreds of schools in the Xia Kingdom's court died, were demoted, or were dismissed from their posts to serve the people. The influence of hundreds of schools in the Xia Kingdom's court was greatly damaged.
But even so, it just made the Baijia forces dormant temporarily. After Yu Zhaoling ascended the throne, weren't the officials appointed in the court also disciples of Baijia?
The so-called "cleaning up of the government and the public" is just a temporary phenomenon. One day, hundreds of forces will come back and continue to repeat the past.
On the contrary, on the Yun Kingdom side, because Buddhism was the dominant school at the time, the influence of hundreds of schools on the court was not great.
But now, Emperor Yun Xiao Cheng ordered to supervise the establishment of local official schools and train scholars as a check and balance. This is what made them feel threatened and began to secretly plot and criticize local official schools.
Once this matter is exposed, not only will they be in trouble, but it will also implicate the three schools of Confucianism, Legalism, and Mingming.
The Yun Kingdom now has the image of aspiration to dominate the world. Even if it fails, it can at least control half of the world. Even if the three families are the most powerful and influential among the hundreds of families, they will never be able to withstand such a blow!
"I thought that I should never sit back and wait for death like this, so I came here to find you two... I just don't know what evidence Di Renjie has in his hands." Ji Fang said in a deep voice.
Gongsun Song's eyes flashed coldly, and he said coldly:
"Fortunately, he never stops doing anything... After the fire, Emperor Yun has no evidence left in his hands. What else can be found?"
Shi Mingzhe pondered for a long time, but instead chuckled a few times, looked at the two of them and said:
"We have cleaned up everything. Apart from the fact that the origins of the three people cannot be concealed, is there any evidence left behind?"
When the two heard this, they were slightly stunned.
After everyone considered it, they all shook their heads.
Shi Mingzhe looked at the two of them and continued:
"You and I, the three schools of thought, are ranked among the top ten schools and have great influence in the world. Emperor Yun has no other evidence. How can he be sure that the three of us are behind the conspiracy and take action against us just based on the backgrounds of Zhuang You and the others?
?”
The two of them didn't even think much about it and shook their heads again.
Confucianism and Legalism are powerful, with disciples all over the world, and their influence is astonishing. They are the real top existences among the nine schools of thought. Although the famous schools seem to be weaker, it is only because they have to compare with Confucianism and Legalism. In the world
The forces among them are definitely not weak.
There was no evidence to attack three families. It was expected that even with Emperor Yun's scheming methods, he would never be able to do such a reckless and impulsive thing.
Ji Fang's eyes narrowed and he said in a deep voice:
"In this way, if Emperor Yun is suspicious, he will at least be on guard against the Legalist disciples who work in the Sansi Yamen. For me, the Legalist, to be aware of it so easily, it does seem that there is a deliberate attempt to expose a flaw.
, meaning to lure a snake out of its hole..."
Gongsun Song frowned and said:
"So let's do nothing?"
Shi Mingzhe nodded slowly and said matter-of-factly:
"What to do? We have nothing to do with this, why should we react!"
Gongsun Song couldn't help but retort:
"If that's the case, are we going to have to watch the local government schools in Yun Kingdom develop?"
"Preserving heaven's principles and destroying human desires is the pursuit of saints. How can ordinary people be exempt from vulgarity? Now that there is no Master Gao from the Department of Ceremony of the Ministry of Etiquette, there will be Master Zhang in the future. Master Li is willing to cooperate with us, so why worry!"
Gongsun Song, Ji Fang heard the words, pondered for a moment, and finally nodded slowly.
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In the Yun Kingdom Palace, in the Yangxin Hall.
Lu Bing stood respectfully in the hall and reported back to Xiao Cheng:
"The spies in Jixia Academy received news that Shi Mingzhe, Gongsun Song, and Ji Fang met secretly. But after that, they dispersed without any movement."
The ink pen in Xiao Cheng's hand for reviewing the memorial paused slightly, and he raised his eyebrows and said:
"Nothing unusual?"
"yes."
Xiao Cheng's eyes narrowed, but he suddenly sneered and said:
"Among these hundreds of schools of thought, there is no one who is well-known throughout the world for being a 'talented and famous person'. But now, he can still keep his composure!"
Lu Bing opened his mouth and couldn't help but said:
"Your Majesty, neither I, nor Eunuch Wang, nor Mr. Di, the Minister of Dali Temple, have any evidence in hand. What should we do next?"
Just as Shi Mingzhe had guessed, Di Renjie and the others made quite a move. It was Di Renjie and others who made the secret signal in order to deliberately spread the news to the ears of Shi Mingzhe and the others, thereby taking advantage of them.
It's just that he is an outstanding resourceful person from various schools of thought, and he is sure that Xiao Cheng has no substantial evidence in his hands, and still does not reveal any flaws.
Without evidence, it would be difficult for even Xiao Cheng to directly take down a person from the three schools of Confucianism, Legalism, and Ming.
On the dragon chair, Xiao Cheng looked slightly cold and said in a deep voice:
"It doesn't matter, I will give them a chance to stretch out my claws in the future..."
Speaking of this, Xiao Cheng suddenly said:
"Is there any new military report coming from the frontline battlefield now?"
Wang Zhi on the side heard this and immediately took a step forward and said:
"Reporting to your majesty, General Anbei has now taken full control of Anshun County, and the army is approaching Xiangzhou, Jiangzhou County of the Xia Kingdom. General Wu Xiang and General Andong have all sent out their armies to attack in all directions. Qi Mo, the commander-in-chief of the Xia army in Shaoyang County, is attacked from both sides and is unable to
Support, we have abandoned Hengyang Mansion and led the remaining troops back to defend Jiangzhou County..."
Having said this, Wang Zhi leaned over and bowed, and said loudly:
"My slave, congratulations to Your Majesty, the land of the six southwest counties is now in my hands, Dayun!"
When Xiao Cheng heard this, he curved his mouth, subconsciously looked at the golden emperor card [Qin Shihuang] that had been equipped with him, and said loudly:
"Inform the generals on the front line to capture Jiangzhou County. I will personally inspect and reward the three armies!"
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I forgot to ask for leave yesterday. With things like this today, I can't help but feel excited and I really don't have the heart to type.
I don’t dare to say that I can reissue yesterday’s chapter tomorrow, but I will try my best to make it up as soon as possible!
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