They can sacrifice the Wu part, but the Wen part cannot be shaken.

In a sense, the various schools of thought were unwilling to hand over the monopoly of knowledge to Ying Zheng.

This can be said to be a dog-eat-dog battle of interests, but not entirely.

After all, intellectual property is also a legitimate right, and the knowledge of various schools of thought comes from their sages. They have some inherited power, and at the same time they continue to expand and deepen this knowledge - regardless of whether the direction is right or wrong,

Anyway, they are doing something.

Even putting these aside, scholars from various schools of thought generally do not mind sharing their knowledge with others - they are willing to spread it and hope that their knowledge will spread as widely as possible, but it is limited by reality or objectivity or

Subjective constraints prevent unlimited dissemination.

But the emperor is different.

He shrinks the power to spread 'knowledge' just to add additional restrictions.

For 'knowledge' itself, and for the common people, it is harmful but not beneficial.

Of course, the vast majority of people today are still struggling with hunger and cold, and are on the line between life and death. Generally, they are not very interested in luxuries like knowledge.

If you have the time, you might help out, but if you don’t have the time, just do whatever you want. Therefore, the book-burning order may cause an uproar throughout the empire, but the only ones who will really fight against the empire for this are destined to be hundreds of scholars.

These are the direct victims.

Of course, the hidden dangers behind it are far more than that simple.

"We must stop him!" Yuki-onna ended the noisy situation and shouted coldly.

"What should I do?" Big Hammer scratched his head and asked, "Find another way to kill him?"

Apart from killing the person directly, Sledgehammer couldn't think of any other way to stop what Ying Zheng wanted to do.

Although his mind was single-threaded, this time, his thoughts were really right.

On the contrary, the smarter Gao Jianli failed to understand this and turned his attention to Zhang Liang:

"Zifang, there should be something we can do, right?"

"Even Ying Zheng can't really go against everyone in the world."

Robber Zhi echoed, "Yes, not to mention the Legalists. Prime Minister Li Si is from the Legalist school. They occupy half of the court. How can they accept it?"

Zhang Liang smiled calmly and responded, "First of all, in the central court of the empire, people from the Legalist school account for less than half, but most of them are high-ranking people. In terms of authority, they account for more than half."

"Secondly, although Legalist classics were also among those burned, for these Legalist officials, Legalist interests were not consistent with their own interests."

"In this matter, the more important label for officials who came from Legalism is that of officials, not Legalists."

The emperor's move was to dig out the roots of various schools of thought, but it did not actually harm the interests of the bureaucrats. In the long run, it was more beneficial - even if they did not have books, they could guarantee their own success by word of mouth.

Future generations receive education.

As one goes and the other goes, no one will be able to compete with their descendants in the future.

"Shit! Did you read all the books and go into the dog's stomach?" Sledgehammer didn't understand much, but he could still understand simple things like profit and gain, so he couldn't help but cursed.

Gao Jianli retorted calmly, "But is the emperor really willing to share his power with them all the time?"

The emperor did need officials, but official positions were not hereditary.

The current Prime Minister is Li Si, but it does not mean that the future Prime Minister will be Li Si's descendant.

What the emperor wants is not to destroy knowledge, but to hold the power of who can obtain knowledge in his own hands.

Of course, he can let the existing bureaucrats share weal and woe with him for generations, but he can also choose to change a group of people.

Judging from the empire's system, the probability of the latter is obviously higher - the only thing in the empire that can be hereditary is the throne, and other than that, the titles that can be inherited are all inherited by demotion.

From this perspective, giving the emperor greater power is absolutely detrimental to the bureaucrats.

Zhang Liang's smile did not change and he replied softly, "Power and power are incompatible, and one waxes and wanes."

"A friend of mine once said that there will always be a conflict between the power of the emperor and the power of his ministers."

"But it's a pity that my fellow 'senior brother' who is the head of the hundred officials, he... haha, he is a wonderful person."

Li Si was an out-and-out official fan, and from this point of view he was worthy of being a disciple of Confucius.
Chapter completed!