The first thousand one hundred and fifty-seventh chapters (3)
February in Handan is slightly cold.
Zhu Wen stood at the head of Handan City and looked at the land of Feilian (Note 1).
Zhu Wen was born in Mingmen.
His father is the famous Pingyuan Lord Zhu Jian.
When Zhu Jiansheng was in power, he once served as Yingbo's adviser and urged not to rebel against the Han Dynasty.
Later, Yingbu was overthrown and Zhu Jian came to Chang'an. During the period of Empress Lu, he became famous for a while.
Because, his mastermind became Piyang Hou Shen Shiqi!
That year, Zhu Jian's mother passed away, and Piyang Hou Shenshi was persuaded by Lu Jia to pay a tax of 100 gold (Note 2), which caused other nobles and princes to pay a tax of 500 gold.
Zhu Jian received this great favor, so he knew how to repay his kindness. When Emperor Hui caught him by the pigtails in Shenshi, he was about to be executed. Even Empress Lu did not dare to rescue him (Note 3).
As a result, Zhu Jian took action and paid to bribe and negotiate with Emperor Hui's favored minister Hong Jiru, which allowed Shen Shi to escape death.
From then on, Shen Shiqi took Zhu Jian as his confidant and obeyed him in almost everything.
But, unfortunately, things changed suddenly after that.
After the death of Empress Lu, the originally prosperous Lu family was wiped out overnight. The princes and ministers welcomed Taizong to take over the ancestral temple on behalf of the country.
It's time to settle accounts after the fall.
Even if Shen Shiqi followed Zhu Jian's plan, stayed behind closed doors, and was extremely cautious, he still could not escape the blow of King Li of Huainan!
As the eldest brother of King Li of Huainan, Emperor Taizong not only did not pursue his crime after King Li of Huainan killed Shen Shi, but instead wiped his ass and ordered the officials to arrest all the retainers and guests of Piyanghou, including Zhu.
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Before the arrested officials arrived, Zhu Jian chose to commit suicide to avoid harming his family.
Zhu Wen was Zhu Jian's son born in his later years.
I am only forty years old this year, which is the period when a scholar is at his most prosperous and energetic.
"I heard that the Emperor of Chang'an wants to convene hundreds of scholars from all over the world to discuss state affairs at Shiqu Pavilion..." Zhu Wen said to a nobleman standing at the corner of the city: "As an elder in Guliang, do you have any plans?
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The man smiled slightly, stroked his beard and said, "Zhu Zi is impatient?"
Zhu Wen lowered his head and smiled. Why was he not in a hurry?
Since ancient times, the emperor has been the master of all things and the arbiter of all things.
But now, neither his Xunzi school nor the other party's Guliang school are actually official scriptures.
As a result, very few questions from the Xunzi School and Guliang School were involved in the previous examinations.
Sometimes not even at all!
This is the disadvantage caused by the lack of voice.
And now the emperor is going to hold a Shiqu Pavilion meeting to discuss state affairs with hundreds of scholars.
Anyone who is not stupid can basically conclude that this time will definitely involve many issues that are of common concern and debate among all schools of thought.
For example, let’s take the dispute between justice and profit.
For example, is nature inherently good or inherently evil?
In fact, who is orthodox, who is collateral, and who is heresy is an important issue related to the life and death of the school!
Who dares not to pay attention to it? Who is not worried?
Originally, Zhu Wen and his Xunzi school looked down upon the Guliang school.
I think Gu Liang is too girly.
However, now the Gongyang Sect is at its peak and almost dominates the ups and downs of Confucianism.
If everyone does not unite to fight against the powerful Gongyang faction, I am afraid that this time Shiqu Pavilion will draw many conclusions that no one wants to see.
For Xunzi's school, the most worrying thing is that the emperor himself ruled that human nature is inherently good!
This is so terrible!
Because human nature is inherently evil, which is the foundation of Xunzi’s school of life! The foundation of life!
If this is denied, Xunzi's school of thought will probably weaken for decades even if it does not die out!
Today, we definitely have the ability and power to do such a thing.
Because he is a recognized holy king in the world, and he is another supreme being after the three kings who has realized his destiny.
At the same time, he also mastered the powerful weapon of examination.
Under such a situation, if the emperor says that a certain school is a heresy, it will definitely be regarded as a heresy by the people of the world!
Just like last year's Dishan case, it was very involved.
Guliang suffered a heavy blow and lost hundreds of disciples in just three months.
If this person hadn't reacted in time and cut off from Di Shan, I'm afraid the Guliang Sect would have been in ruins by now.
The decline of Guliang gave Xunzi's school a great opportunity to flourish in Yanzhao.
He even entered the city of Handan for the first time, opened an academy in Handan, and recruited more than a hundred disciples.
However, it was not just the Xunzi school of thought that benefited from this incident.
In addition to the Xunzi school, the Han poetry school in Yanzhao also rose rapidly and grew.
The Korean Poetry School is not the Korean Book of Songs school.
This name comes from its founder, a doctor of the Book of Songs during the reign of Emperor Taizong, who is now a well-known celebrity in the world, the famous Han Zi and Han Ying!
Han Ying's academic achievements can even be regarded as the first Confucian scholar in the world.
He is the master of the thoughts and scholarship of Mencius and Xunzi.
He was the first to creatively change the way that pre-Qin scholars used the Book of Songs to clarify things, and changed it to using things to prove poetry.
From this point of view, whether today's Hu Wusheng or Dong Zhongshu's Spring and Autumn Notes on Me and Wo Notes on Spring and Autumn Periods, they all learned from Han Ying.
In addition, he and his Korean Poetry School are still the truly largest academic school in the Yanzhao area today.
The Handan Academy in Handan City was his dojo.
There are 1,500 disciples in the Handan Academy, including many of them descendants of the princes' relatives.
Legend has it that Prime Minister Zhou Yafu even had a concubine who was admitted here!
In the entire northern Han Dynasty, apart from the Gongyang Sect, the Han Shi Sect is currently the most powerful, has the most disciples, and has the greatest say.
Today, the emperor even sent envoys to Handan four times to wish Han Zi birthday.
Even today, the emperor personally sent one of his close confidants, Captain Huben Guards and Captain Fengche Jumeng, to Handan to present Han Zi with wild geese and Shuyou that symbolized the disciple's apprenticeship ceremony.
Its courtesy is so great that it is the only one in the entire Confucian school and has no other branches.
According to legend, there are three books on Tianzi's desk today that will never change.
The first one is "Hong Fan", which is a book that must be read every day today.
The second book is "Shangshu", which is a book that today's people like to read in their leisure time.
The third book, the "Anthology of the Book of Songs" written by Han Ying, is known as the "Lecture Notes on Korean Poetry".
It is said that the emperor loved this book very much and once said: "After Zhongni, the person who can pass down poetry and calligraphy is Zixia. After Zixia died, Mencius also died. Xunzi also died. After Xunzi, Hanzi also!"
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His high esteem is astonishing.
If Mr. Han Ying had not suffered from inconvenience in his legs and feet in recent years, I am afraid he would have been sent to Chang'an to serve as the head of Taixue Mountain.
Even so, Han Zi's disciple Ben Sheng became a lecturer in Taixue. He is currently the youngest and most junior person in Taixue at only thirty-five years old!
The Xunzi school represented by Zhu Wen and the Guliang school represented by the other party came here also to visit this academic master.
The reason is also very simple.
Today, there are hundreds of schools of thought in the world, each with its own strengths.
Confucianism is the strongest and has the largest number of people.
However, for a long time, Lu Ru first and then Gong Yang dominated the Confucian affairs.
Other schools of thought were all subdued by these two.
However, times have changed.
No one wants to be represented by others, dominated and determined by others in the future of their own school.
Everyone wants to become a distinguished scholar.
At least, it must become a school recognized by the court and praised by the emperor.
But the power of Gongyang is too strong.
Neither the Xunzi school nor the Guliang school is strong enough to compete with Gongyang.
Naturally, everyone can only join forces to fight against powerful enemies.
Just like during the Warring States Period, when facing the powerful Qin, the six eastern countries united to fight against Qin.
And Han Ying and his Han Poetry School were the Qi Chu of those days.
Without the participation and help of the Han Shi Sect, the Hezong Alliance will lack momentum and sufficient deterrence, and it will be easy to break up.
In order to get Han Ying to agree to the alliance, Zhu Wen had already convinced the entire Xunzi school giants before coming, and agreed to temporarily shelve the dispute between the Xunzi school and the Han Shi school. Is human nature inherently evil or essentially good?
Thinking of this, Zhu Wen raised his head and said: "Ming Gong is here, he must have the same intention as someone, why not..."
Zhu Wen's expression flashed and he said: "Sir, let me first discuss the differences between justice and benefit?"
The Xunzi school is now the number one troll within Confucianism.
They inherited Xunzi's personality and knowledge, and claimed to be proud of Xunzi's successors.
He looked down upon all the other factions within the Confucian sect.
Gu Liang? Hypocrite, sissy!
Ram? Angry young man!
Lu Ru? A pedantic person, lacking in wisdom and wisdom!
Chu poetry? It’s hard to do anything in the old days!
Simeng? What Mencius said is wrong in the first place, but you still believe it? Are you mentally ill?
Chongmin? Your whole body smells like copper. You can smell it from three hundred miles away. I ask you if you are ashamed?
The only one they like is probably the Korean Poetry School.
But Han Ying had already announced that he had abandoned the theory of inherent evil in human nature, so...
The Han Shi School and others also sprayed...
In other words, for Xunzi's school, there is no perfect and complete school within Confucianism except themselves.
It’s all a pile of errors and mistakes!
Naturally, even though Zhu Wen is shouldering the heavy responsibility of He Zong at this moment, but seeing the people of the Guliang faction, and seeing that this person still looks down on him, I feel sorry for him, so He Zong will put it aside for now and let's debate it later!
This is also a common problem among scholar-bureaucrats and literati.
In this world, celebrities are not the only ones who like to debate.
In fact, there are hundreds of schools of thought, and everyone loves to debate.
The more we argue, the clearer the truth becomes.
Since Mr. Zixia, when scholar-bureaucrats gather together, if they are not like-minded people, they will inevitably have to go to the debate stage.
The theory that a white horse is not a horse at that time was the pinnacle expression of this hobby and preference.
In addition to the White Horse Debate, famous debates among hundreds of schools of thought have occurred more than once in history.
For example, the debate between Mr. Xu Xing, the founder of Nongjia, and Mencius had a profound impact on the entire Confucianism.
The most obvious thing is that Confucianism has since learned the method of spiritual victory. Regardless of whether others believe it or not, Mencius himself declared his victory and denounced Xu Xingxing as "a man of the southern barbarians with a bad tongue, who followed the way of the ancestors..."
but……
This method may be able to get away with it in future generations, but it won't work now!
Because the "Book of Shennong" written by Mr. Xu Xing himself and the writings left by his disciples are very good proof of what the debate was about back then.
Moreover, there is a clearer proof that after that debate, many disciples of Mencius abandoned Confucianism and became farmers...
Therefore, the Simeng school still holds a grudge and insists that Mencius won that year.
This became a public case.
As for this time, the main stage of the upcoming Shiquge meeting will definitely be reserved for debate among various schools of thought.
Is it reasonable? Is it useful? Is it in line with public order and good customs, and the way of the ancestors?
Everything will be decided on the debate stage.
So, actually, Zhu Wen felt that it would be good to warm up before that.
And the giant of the Guliang School seems to have this intention to argue? Who is afraid of whom? Just argue!
If the same sect cannot win, then how can we face powerful enemies like Mohism, Legalism, and Huang Laoxue in Shiqu Pavilion?
Therefore, he bowed his hands and said: "In that case, Mr. Zhu, please come with me..."
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At the same time, in a separate courtyard in Handan City.
Han Ying, the 70-year-old leader and founder of the Korean Poetry School, was entertaining a guest from afar.
The guest's surname is Wu. He is very young, about thirty years old. He is wearing a coat made of white fox fur and a pair of dark leather boots that are very eye-catching.
"The younger generation often cannot put it down after reading the masterpieces of the elders. Today I am lucky enough to meet the elders. It is truly a blessing in my lifetime..." The young man surnamed Wu bowed respectfully.
Han Ying laughed but said nothing.
Over the years, he edited and published a few articles he wrote in his spare time, and became the author of "Han Zi Za Tan", and countless people came from all over the world to get close to him.
because……
In fact, anyone who is really close to the emperor knows that what the emperor really likes and praises Han Ying is not his eloquent "Anthology of the Book of Songs" with hundreds of thousands of words.
Rather, it is just a few stories, a total of only 20,000 to 30,000 words, and about ten pages of "Han Zi Zatan".
Compared with the "Collected Commentary on the Book of Songs" which is more academic and ideological, "Hanzi Zatan" not only has fewer words, but also has casual writing style, somewhat similar to that of a novelist.
The story is so fanciful that it may even be fiction.
When Han Ying wrote these stories, he was actually just educating his disciples and entertaining them.
But that fantasy, which was originally a story to entertain myself and educate my disciples, attracted my attention and even made me very fond of it.
I have sent envoys here many times today just to remind you of one thing!
Han Ying once personally heard the emperor's oral edict conveyed to him by the visiting angel: I will use my husband's stories and articles as a book for my descendants, and as a guide for the enlightenment of all disciples!
This is what Han Ying knows so far. It is the first time that the emperor has told people about his education plan for the princes.
Your own articles and stories can become part of the royal education.
This made Han Ying very happy.
But the ensuing annoyance from his relatives and noble people made him extremely annoyed.
But there is no other way.
For example, the person in front of me.
He was from Andong, and he was holding a greeting card personally written by King Liu Ming of Joseon.
It doesn’t matter if I don’t see you!
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Note 1: After Zhao Guoshi Fei Lian, there is a detailed description in "Spring and Autumn I Control Sister" written by my good friend in July, oh no, Spring and Autumn I am the King. If you are interested, you can check it out, it is really good to watch!
Note 2: Travel tax, in the Han Dynasty, was a way of giving death gifts to nobles, which is equivalent to the gifts we give at other people's funerals today.
Note 3: It was said that Emperor Hui was the one who caught the traitor, Empress Lu and Shen Shiqi, so Empress Lu did not dare to interfere in this matter at all...
ps: Recommend a book "Super Summoning System of the Three Kingdoms" (To be continued.)
