Dong Zhongshu, a doctor of "Spring and Autumn Annals" with two thousand stones, was the first to stand up.
He came out and said: "I have heard from Dr. Zhongshu Mo of "Spring and Autumn Annals" that he has passed away to report to your majesty: I have heard that saints have their own reasons for formulating rituals and music, and kings have their own reasons for formulating systems. Now your majesty has established the Imperial Academy and taught the work of hundreds of schools of thought.
I would like to congratulate the world for promoting rituals, music, education, and great virtues all over the world... However, I foolishly think that these mathematics, geography, and inquiry courses are unprecedented in the three generations and are not used by other countries. Your Majesty should think twice about it.
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Huang Lao, Legalists and other giants also followed suit and said: "Your Majesty, Taixue is an important weapon of the country and a place of ritual and music education. You must not be careless. Your Majesty, please think twice!"
Liu Che looked at these guys with a smile.
If he hadn't been reborn, Liu Che's thoughts would have been thrown into the ditch at this time, and he would have considered the contempt for scholars and complained about not paying attention to basic education, especially mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Maybe even break up with these guys.
But after being reborn, Liu Che already knew that in the political arena, many things are usually expressed in a very covert way.
It is true that these doctors are not politicians.
But, who told you that academia is not the political arena?
In fact, in most cases, academia is more political than politics!
Do you think that all those who engage in learning are wise men with a clear heart and noble conduct?
But in fact, in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, academia has never been far away from politics, and scholars have always been political figures. Even they are trapped deeper than politicians! The cruelty of the struggle between them is more terrifying than the political battles in the political arena.
In political disputes, as long as the political opponents are eliminated, basically no one will pursue them.
However, academic disputes are likely to continue for centuries, until the enemy is completely eliminated, both physically and mentally, and they will not give up!
If the law is the embodiment of the will of the ruling class, then academic thought is the cheating tool of the ruling class.
All laws, policies and academic thoughts ultimately serve the rulers.
Just as laws that do not conform to the will of the ruling class will become a piece of waste paper, academic ideas that do not conform to the ruling class's ideals will eventually perish.
It's just that academics or literati have always been pretentious. Even if they want to be sold, they will be coy and timid for a while, and they will work extremely hard to eliminate some requirements that may be too obvious to reveal their naked utilitarian goals.
And hide these requirements in some ambiguous phrases and let the emperor guess. As long as the emperor is not too stupid and spends more time thinking about it, he can always guess it. Even if the emperor is too stupid and can't guess it no matter how hard he guesses, then that's okay.
It doesn't matter. At this time, there will be some advisers and think tanks standing by to give advice.
In this way, scholar-bureaucrats and scholars can maintain their own phenomenon very well.
Let people who don't know what they are thinking think that they are pure and lovely white lotuses...
Even in the academic world two thousand years later, this is still the case.
What's more, now?
Therefore, Liu Che did not take what these people said seriously at all, but carefully tried to figure out what they meant.
Dong Zhongshu said: Sages have their own reasons for establishing rituals and music, and kings have even more reasons for establishing systems.
Others even kept saying, 'Education through rituals and music is an important weapon of the country and should not be taken carelessly.'
When did hundreds of schools of thought with completely different positions and contradictory ideas work together like this?
What's more, the status of mathematics and geography today is very, very high. It is even one of the standards by which the world measures a person's academic attainments!
Even investigating things is not too radical.
The university has said that studying things will lead to knowledge. It is not too much to arrange such a course in Taixue.
So here comes the question. What is the purpose of these top academics or academic elites opposing the arrangement of these courses in Taixue?
They can't be opposed because they are disgusted with the three courses of mathematics, geography, and studying things, right?
This is unreasonable, unscientific, extremely childish, and not something a normal person would do.
There must be deeper reasons and higher motivations.
Liu Che rubbed his temples. For a while, he couldn't figure out what the real purpose of these guys was.
But it doesn't matter. Historically, the rules of the game between the emperor and the academic elite have always been to come and go.
Just like the exchange between Emperor Wu and Dong Zhongshu in history.
One side asks, the other side answers, the other side asks again, and the other side answers again.
In the end, the positions of both parties quickly come close, and then the deal is completed, everyone gets what they need, and everyone is happy.
The emperor gained the benefit of unifying the voice and thoughts of the world, while Dong Zhongshu gained the title of dominance of his own faction.
So, Liu Che thought for a while, and then said: "I heard that the heaven and the earth remain unchanged, and if we do not change them, the yin and yang will not change, and things will not prosper. This is why Yi Yun: Through its changes, the people will not be tired! The poem says: Nine
Changes are restored, and you know what you have chosen! Today, I Jiajia, Tang, Yu, Yin and Zhou Dynasties, learn from the old to learn the new! I ordered Tai Chang to teach the three courses of Taixue, Yi Shu, Geography, and Investigation of Wu. I wanted to make the world's scholar-bureaucrats lead the people.
At the beginning of the new era, it is normal for you to understand my intention and have doubts. Now, I will explain it in detail. You should understand my intention. If you have any doubts, you can directly report it to me and I will personally read it!"
The meaning of these words is very simple.
First of all, he explained to the doctors that he, as an emperor, had a firm stance and would not give up on his decision because of any opposition.
After the emperor stated his firm position, the scholars should wake up if they have any bad intentions or unrealistic ideas.
Then came the drama.
Liu Che said, "It's normal to have doubts" and "I will explain it in detail." The meaning of these two sentences couldn't be more straightforward.
What I mean is, if you have any conditions, just put them forward, don’t hide them.
Sure enough, Dong Zhongshu, who has an extremely sensitive sense of smell, immediately smelled the smell.
Of course, he was not sure whether Liu Che knew his subtext, so he could not state his request directly, but had to be tactful.
Therefore, Dong Zhongshu kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty has extended great favors to the world, but I am ignorant and do not understand the holy will. I ask your Majesty to atone for my sins. However, your Majesty immediately counted and passed the geography test. I don't know who your Majesty would like to be the teacher of these three lessons?"
Then, Dong Zhongshu and other giants from various schools of thought raised their heads one after another, blinking their bright eyes and blinking desperately.
Seeing this, if Liu Che still doesn't understand what these guys mean, then he is really too stupid!
"So that's it..." Liu Che sneered in his heart. It was already clear that these guys were interested in the lecturer of the three courses of mathematics, geography and gewu.
But when I think about it, I feel relieved.
Among the three kingdoms of Confucianism, Legalism, Huang, and Lao in Taixue, they were fighting for hegemony. Obviously, these guys had no hope that a fourth party would join in.
As for the three courses of Mathematics, Geography and Gewu, anyone can take part in the lectures.
In this way, wouldn't it be very bad if something weird was put into the Mo family or the Za family?
In order to avoid the emergence of new competitors, they opposed it first and used it as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Liu Che.
Liu Che's words just now told them that he had no intention of letting anyone from the Mo family or the Za family get involved.
As a result, their attitude quickly changed from blocking competitors to enter the game, to bah! That scumbag on the other side, come and fight me for 300 rounds!
The battles between orthodoxy have always been fought with no concession of ground and blood flowed like rivers! (~^~)
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