Chapter 1486: The reason for the separation of Confucianism and law
Three rounds of examinations, which lasted for a month, were conducted to select qualified officials from tens of thousands of scholars.
Their results, as well as the abilities and insights they demonstrated during the examination, will become important reference indicators for assigning them jobs in the future.
Those who are good at criminal names will naturally be criminal officials. Those who are good at calculation and organization will be office officers and people-friendly officials. Those who are sensitive to mathematics will be assigned to the Shaofu, Da Nong and even the Lord Duwei Yamen.
All of these are not enough.
However, in the past few years, Legalists have suffered enough during the Mingshu exam.
Especially for Wang Cheng's faction, from the first year of Yuande to now, only one person has been able to enter the third round!
That is Wang Cheng's elder brother Wang Zhi.
Others, including Wang Cheng, all failed.
Wang Zhi's ability to enter the third round relied on the cooperation during the honeymoon period of Confucianism and Legalism.
At that time, Confucianism was advocating the slogans of "External Law and Internal Confucianism" and "Decorating Confucianism with Law", and it was once close to Legalism.
Chu Da, Dong Zhongshu's favorite disciple, even said privately, "The Spring and Autumn Annals can be determined by law..."
This means that Legalist thought can explain and solve many things recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Therefore, at the beginning, the Legalist Hedong Academy and the Confucian Dayang Academy, which were both located in Hedong County, were very close.
Some of the disciples of the two academies even developed a deep friendship.
For example, Wang Cheng's elder brother married the daughter of the headmaster of Dayang Academy.
but……
That extremely sweet time was shattered by the open break between the Confucian and Legalist factions in Shiqu Pavilion, and was even more intense due to the recent Confucian-Legal debate.
There is no possibility of cooperation between the two!
The Confucian scholars of Dayang Academy denounced the Legalist disciples of Hedong Academy as "cruel officials" and "minions who harm the people and disruptive ministers who harm the government."
The Legalist scholars of Hedong Academy complained that the other party was one of the "five beetles" and was the chief culprit that hindered and disrupted the Holy King's governance of the world.
It's just that I didn't say it directly - it might be unfair to kill all the Confucian scholars, but killing every other one is definitely not wrong!
The two schools of Confucianism and Legalism went from fighting in the court to the Imperial Academy, and from fighting from the Imperial Academy to the marketplace.
It seems that the two have a deep hatred.
But in fact, only the elites and giants of Confucianism and Legalism really know in their hearts what the situation is.
In fact, whether you are opening the bookcases in Chao Cuo's house or opening the door of Dong Zhongshu's study, you can inspect these people's book collections.
You will be surprised to find that - I am Cao! The bookshelves of the two factions who fight to the death in front of outsiders and want to eat each other's brains are filled with each other's works and expositions.
It is understandable that Confucianism studies Legalism’s discussion.
After all, Legalism has the upper hand now, and it is human nature for the weak to learn from the strong.
But the Legalists are also busy researching and studying every day, and even add Confucian discussions and ideas to their own ideological theories. This is very strange.
It can't even be described as strange.
"Huh!" The leading Confucian scholar walked up to Wang Cheng and said with a smile: "This is beyond your concern..."
Confucianism has always had huge shortcomings in criminal naming and governance.
It can even be said that any school of thought can completely defeat most Confucian scholars in this aspect.
But what does it matter?
Dayang Academy is an academy of the Guliang School, which teaches the principle of reclusiveness among relatives and advocates the autonomy of rural virtuous people.
In their eyes, criminal names and governance are not really issues.
If you have any problems, you can leave them to the local good gentry and famous people to solve. For a gentleman like yourself, you only need to set an example.
"Taoist thief..." Wang Cheng looked at this person, sneered, and scolded: "If you still have the face, don't copy my Legalist articles and theories!"
Beginning in the third year of Yuan De, Confucianism and Legalism began to enter a honeymoon period that lasted for more than two years.
During this period, giants from various Confucian and Legalist schools interacted with each other and even married each other.
The Legalist giants and the Confucian giants even symbolically accepted a few of each other's children and trained them on their behalf.
At that time, voices of Confucianism and Legalism ruling the world were rising one after another.
Not only are Confucians convinced, but Legalists also seem to believe it.
It was not until the Shiqu Pavilion meeting that the naked and cold decisiveness and slap in the face caused the relationship between Confucianism and Legalism to completely break down.
Before that, Dayang Academy and Hedong Academy had very frequent exchanges of students.
At that time, Confucian scholars taught and guided young Legalists how to learn and apply mathematical formulas better and faster, and how to understand geometric operations.
The Legalists, on the other hand, taught the Confucians a lot of knowledge about criminal names and key points of local governance. Each one got what they needed, and it was a happy and harmonious experience.
Now, the two are accusing each other of "plagiarizing" and "stealing" their own academics and theories, and calling each other "traitors", "cowards" and "hypocrites".
At this moment, when he heard Wang Cheng's accusation, the Confucian scholar's face turned cold and he snorted: "Only scoundrels like you would think that gentlemen like us need to use things like you..."
He sneered and said: "Besides, what's so good about what you guys have? Shen Buhai's knowledge is the source of trouble in the world, and you guys are nothing more than... embroidered clothes... um... hawks and dogs
Just his minions..."
Since the organization of the Xiu Yiwei was made public, it has been like a sword of Darkmos hanging over the heads of all the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles. Everyone is gnashing their teeth and eager to bury the Xiu Yiwei.
However, several factions within Legalism that respected Shen Buhai's ideas or schools that were inclined to Shen Buhai held high the banner of Xiuyiwei, singing praises, publicizing and making noises for it.
They described the appearance of the Xiu Yiwei as "the eyes and ears of the sage king, and the heart and soul of the wise king", and believed that it would be impossible to survive without the Xiu Yiwei.
Naturally, Xiuyiwei also had a special affection for these scholar-bureaucrats and literati who suddenly appeared to praise and praise him.
In previous examinations, if Xiuyiwei wanted to recruit officials, he would give priority to choosing from these schools of thought.
Academies like Hedong Academy have even evolved into the ‘Dahan Agent Advanced Training Academy’.
In the past two years, Hedong Academy has sent dozens of scholars to Xiuyiwei.
Among them, some have even climbed to the position of county embroidered guard captain responsible for monitoring a county.
Naturally, in the eyes of Confucians, especially the Guliang sect, the disciples of Hedong Academy can no longer be described as bad.
They are the minions of the devil, the x-factors that disturb the peace of the world, and the culprits who may bring trouble to the world.
But, nowadays, Xiuyiwei is at its peak.
Rumor has it that Xiuyiwei was directly ordered by the emperor and had the power to kill and seize life.
All kinds of stories about the embroidered guards coercing, maiming and humiliating the "loyal and good scholar-bureaucrats" are all over the streets.
Xiuyiwei naturally refused to sit back and let others slander him.
Therefore, officials from the Xiuyi Guards often came to visit to cordially "condol" those Confucian scholars who spread rumors and slandered themselves.
Their methods of revenge are diverse.
It may be to strictly check your household registration, land, shops and workshops.
Once they catch you, you're doomed.
Officials who are like wolves and tigers will remove the last grain of food from your house...
After all, who in the world hasn’t done something illegal or illegal?
For example, he violated the regulations and freely switched between being a businessman and a landowner, or he secretly kept slaves but did not report them to them to avoid being taxed.
It may also be possible to investigate the ** issues of your third-generation relatives who are officials, which would be easier to handle.
It was almost a sure thing, and then the Optimus Prime in your family suddenly collapsed...
Therefore, nowadays, almost no one dares to openly slander and attack Xiuyiwei in public.
It wouldn’t be fun if you were targeted!
"Hey..." Wang Cheng looked at the other person's appearance and laughed loudly: "Brother Ziyun, don't be afraid..."
The other party glared at Wang Cheng fiercely. He knew that there might be countless Xiu Yiwei spies and spies lurking around here.
No matter how much he hates the Xiuyiwei, he would not dare to openly challenge the Emperor's Eagle Dog Organization.
In the story, even the two thousand stone loyal ministers were tortured by these cruel officials and hawks and dogs until they were transformed into human beings!
How can his little arms and legs hold up?
"Let's go!" The Confucian scholar said with a gloomy face, waved his sleeves and left with his brothers.
Wang Cheng looked at their backs and spat on the ground: "There are no cowards!"
The other scholars also nodded and said: "Senior brother, don't be like these five beetles..."
"These great rats have been dreaming of sweet dreams..." Wang Cheng coldly hummed and said to his senior brothers.
He knew this was a rare opportunity for unity and education.
"Back then, this generation had the idea of trying to occupy the magpie's nest..." Wang Cheng coldly hummed: "If we hadn't responded in time, I'm afraid the sages' orthodoxy would have been cut off in our hands!"
During the honeymoon period of Confucianism and Legalism, many things happened.
In the end, the two schools parted ways without hesitation.
But the upper echelons of the two schools of thought were very secretive about what happened back then.
Only Hedong Academy, a faction that admires Shen Buhao's thoughts, can tell its disciples the truth and facts.
Others were shocked when they heard this. Obviously, this was the first time they heard the inside story of this matter.
"Do they dare?" Someone jumped up immediately. Orthodoxy is the foundation of a school of thought.
Just like Gongyang School, which is based on "Gongyang Chunqiu Zhuan", it dreams of annexing "Gu Liang" and other Spring and Autumn Classic schools to complete the unification.
But after all, that is only an internal matter within the Confucian sect, and it would be relatively easy to annex it.
It is almost impossible nowadays to annex a school of thought with completely different ideas.
At that time, the Legalists were able to annex the famous schools because the famous schools were declining and their succession was difficult, but the Legalists were so powerful that they were able to succeed in one fell swoop.
In today's situation, it is almost impossible to successfully annex a school of thought.
"Of course they dare!" Wang Chengleng said with a snort: "Just use conspiracy, subtlety, and win with numbers..."
"Confucianism and Legalism have similar transmission methods, but they are completely different..." Wang Cheng explained.
"We, the Legalist scholars, have been passing down the classics from family to disciple since ancient times. It seems similar to Confucianism... but in fact it is fundamentally different!"
"Confucianism, since the fall of Qin, has changed its focus to passing on the methods of disciples..."
"Whether it is Duke Shen, Prince Yuan and his son, or today's Dong Zi, Hu Zi, Han Zi and others, they were all created under this system..."
"And what about us?" Wang Cheng looked at the crowd and asked: "Since ancient times, most of the Legalists have mainly passed down the classics from family to disciple, and then passed it on to disciples as a supplement..."
"Like my grandfather, my father...and your ancestors..."
In the history of Legalism, most of the well-known scholars, sages and political leaders learned from others.
but……
The main body and main members of Legalism have always been officials in the criminal system.
They may be wardens of prisons, or they may be grass-roots officers, Qiangfu, Duyou, county captains, and bailiffs.
Together, these people constitute the overall structure of Legalism and its absolute advantage in the field of criminal justice.
However, since there are advantages, there are also disadvantages.
"The shortcomings of family-traditional classics are that there are few exchanges, they are not affiliated with each other, and they even contradict each other..."
"It's hard to do anything if it's just a mess of sand..."
Listening to Wang Cheng's words, many people began to wake up.
"But what about the Confucian sect? Since Taizong, we have opened wide doors and recruited disciples. There are countless disciples all over the world! The number of Confucian sect disciples is ten times or even dozens of times that of our Legalists!"
This is not an exaggeration, but a fact!
In fact, the number of schools of Confucian schools combined exceeds the number of schools of all other schools!
More importantly, the number of Confucian disciples is overwhelming!
Today, among every ten scholars, there may be seven or more Confucian scholars.
"And what about me?" Wang Cheng lowered his head and sighed: "I only started to open the academy in the second year of the late emperor's reign..."
"To this day, most of my colleagues are still disciples of the ancestral classics from the past..."
The hallmark of Confucianism is that there is no distinction between education and distinction.
Don't call me a mud-legged person!
Even if they are barbarians, barbarians, and barbarians, as long as Confucian scholars think they can educate them, they will not be stingy!
Among the Confucian schools, the Chu Poetry School and the Lu Confucian School are even the most active factions in foreign education!
This is not the case with Legalists. Legalists have always followed the elite route.
Moreover, Legalism's requirements are strict and cruel.
You don't just impart knowledge to others casually.
Moreover, Legalism opened its academy too late compared to Confucianism!
Legalists had already lost at the starting line.
Why can a Confucian academy receive so many disciples? Why can it receive so many disciples?
The answer is that they have been prepared for today and laid the foundation decades ago.
Their teaching staff is extremely powerful.
Compared with this, the Legalists are simply weaklings!
Unlike Confucianism, the elites and giants of Legalism have basically entered the political arena and are unlikely to come back to teach disciples!
Under this situation, once Confucianism and Legalism really merge, one can imagine the status of Legalism decades later.
A dove occupies a magpie's nest, both are light!
To be more serious, they directly annexed the past and submerged all the efforts and spirit of the Legalist sages in Confucian classics!
That's why the Legalists were so resolute and resolute during the Shiqu Pavilion meeting.
Listening to Wang Cheng's explanation and introduction, all the Legalist disciples felt a thick shadow cast in their hearts.
In the past, they only vaguely felt that Confucian scholars were a threat and a problem.
But today, they discovered and realized that Confucian scholars were no longer a threat or problem, they had become monsters that could threaten and affect the survival of Legalism!
They are like a prairie fire, burning all over the world and burning up the wilderness.
When they burn all over the world and burn up the wilderness, they will inevitably rob and seize the territory and authority that belongs to Legalism.
This is a life and death battle!
It is also a battle of life and death!
But, this enemy is so powerful!
Some people even became shaken and fearful.
This is also the reason why other Legalist sects generally do not tell their disciples these things.
But Hedong Academy was different. They admired Shen Buhai's thoughts and theories, and their minds were full of power and power, as well as all kinds of conspiracies and tricks.
Therefore, more people are already thinking about how to break the situation and attack.
The top management is already doing the sniping thing.
In the past few months, senior Legalists and Confucian giants have been at war with each other, debating endlessly on ideas and theories.
But when it comes to breaking the situation, everyone has no clue.
"Gentlemen, don't be anxious..." Wang Cheng looked at his brothers and said: "The matter of breaking the situation is already in progress... All the elders and teachers have already made their plans..."
To break the Confucian situation, we must solve the problem of weak teachers.
so……
The Legalists need to annex or merge an immediate combat force with a strong teaching force.
This goal cannot be too strong.
If it is too strong, it cannot be annexed!
Therefore, apart from the Pyongyang Academy of Miscellaneous Family, there is no better goal in the world!
