After several days of competition, all four places for majoring in teaching materials were taken, that is, the four academic subjects of "Confucianism, Law, and Military Arts".
When Du You, the Minister of Rites, solemnly presented the memorial with these four quotas in person to Wei Wang Zhao Run, the latter joked: "It is a pity that the political strategist was not included in it."
Du You couldn't help but laugh.
He knew that although his political school could not be said to be a small academic school, it could not be compared with the four academic schools of Confucianism, Legalism, Military Science, and Mohism. Therefore, he had never thought about seizing the four major places.
A minor place is the goal of him and the Strategist this time.
After making a little joke with Du You, Zhao Hongrun once again focused his attention on the titles of the four schools on the list.
To be honest, he was a little surprised, because compared with Confucianism, Legalism, and Mohism, the current influence of military strategists in the Wei State and even in the Central Plains is not actually to the level of "prominent learning". Therefore, military strategists stood out and won four
The quota for majors was really beyond his expectation - he originally thought it would be "Taoist".
After thinking about it, Zhao Run asked in confusion: "Didn't the Taoist disciples... never come to compete for a spot?"
Du You was stunned for a moment, and then explained: "The disciples of the Taoist sect have not come here, but a small group of disciples of the Taoist sect who call themselves the "Huang Lao Sect" came after hearing the news. However, their ideas are somewhat different from those of the "Miscellaneous Sect"
Similar, so..."
"Has it been brushed off?"
Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly.
In fact, the current mainstream of Taoism, or traditional Taoism, is the "Lao-Zhuang sect". Its core idea is to "take the Tao as the root, take nature as a companion, take heaven and earth as the teacher, respect nature, and take inaction as the foundation."
They advocate purity and self-preservation, self-transformation by inaction, the unity of all things, the Tao follows nature, stay away from politics, be free and at ease, etc. How could these preparatory members of the Immortal Class, who have no desires or pursuits, follow the trend because of worldly interests?
Thinking about it, even if those Taoist disciples learned about the grand literary event in Wei State, they would not bother to come to participate, so as not to delay their self-cultivation and transformation into immortals and ascend to the immortal world. "Note: This core idea of traditional Taoism has been gradually misinterpreted by others.
It has become a way of self-paralysis, self-escape, and self-satisfaction for future generations of literati who are dissatisfied with reality, stay away from cruel reality, and seek a paradise.”
"Let me take a look at the scholarship of the Huanglao School and the Zajia School."
Zhao Hongrun said.
Du You was stunned for a moment. He was very surprised that the young monarch in front of him did not immediately read the academics such as Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, and military strategism that were on the list of majors. Instead, he asked to read "Taoism, Huang Lao School" and
Doesn't this mean that the two "Miscellaneous Scholars" who were unsuccessful were not very satisfied with the four selected scholars?
Not long after, the academic ideas of the "Taoist Huang-Lao School" and the "Miscellaneous School" were presented to Wei Wang Zhao Run. Zhao Run carefully observed the academic thoughts of these two schools in the study room of Ganlu Hall.
The thoughts of Zajia, as mentioned above, hope to combine the thoughts of Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, famous scholars, etc., but they lack a real ideological core-for example, in terms of "love" between Confucianism and Mohism, they are not very good.
Blend it together.
But the thoughts of the "Taoist Huang-Lao School", although Du You, the Minister of Rites, said that the former's thoughts are quite similar to those of the "Miscellaneous School", which also combines the thoughts of Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, and famous schools, but in Zhao Hongrun's view, "the Taoist Huang-Lao School"
"It is based on Taoist thought and selects the academic strengths of other schools to supplement it, rather than forcibly blending it like miscellaneous schools.
Therefore, there is an essential difference between the two: the core of thought of the "Taoist Huang-Lao School" is still Taoist thought, and other academics are just supplements; while the 'core' of the Zajia School is to combine the academic schools of various schools, hoping to gather the strengths of all schools and create new ideas.
There is an academic field that is suitable for any situation, but unfortunately, the Zajia School does not do a good enough job in blending the academic thoughts of various schools, so there are some inconsistencies or loopholes.
However, in Zhao Hongrun's view, this miscellaneous school has its merits. After all, as the Minister of Rites speculated, he is not completely satisfied with traditional Confucianism, traditional Legalism, traditional Mohism, etc.
In his opinion, traditional Confucianism is just right for educating the world, but if it is used to govern a country, the Wei Kingdom may be the next Song Dynasty.
As for traditional Legalism, it is exactly the opposite of Confucianism. It is good to use it to govern the country, but it cannot be used to educate, because traditional Legalism is "too rigid in criminal law" and is sometimes unkind.
For example, there is a poor family whose mother is seriously ill, and his son steals property to treat his mother. Unfortunately, he is caught. Confucianism will slightly reduce the punishment on the son for the sake of "benevolence", but Legalism does not
Yes, he can be sentenced as he should, and the most he can do is ask the court to support his mother.
As a result, his son was sentenced to prison and was not able to see his mother's deathbed.
In this regard, the legalist point of view is that one cannot set a precedent because of one person, otherwise the law cannot warn everyone. Although this is true, in general, it is still a bit unhuman.
Of course, if the target is a member of the "privileged class", such as Wang Gui of the Zhao family of Wei State, the Legalists will also demand severe punishment. At this time, the Confucian "benevolence" will come out to hold back the Zhao family.
The noble ancestors of the clan had reluctantly let this go for the sake of the country.
Therefore, both traditional Confucianism and traditional Legalism have their limitations. In fact, Zhao Hongrun hopes that the two schools of thought can be slightly blended. After all, the contradiction between Confucianism and Legalism is not as inherently hostile as Confucianism and Mohism.
As for the Mohists, needless to say, the traditional Mohists are simply "friends of the weak" and "enemies of kings". "Note: During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Mohists were most disgusted by the monarchs of various countries. As long as a strong country attacked a weak country, the Mohists would definitely shout
'Love without aggression' to help weak countries defend their country and resist invasion."
For example, Song Mo, even though the Prime Minister of the Puppet Song Dynasty committed suicide and the Puppet Song Dynasty surrendered, Song Mo still refused to acknowledge Wei's occupation of Song County, believing it to be an "unjust war." If not for Wei's side, there would be
Wei Mo, a group of Mohist disciples, and Zhao Hongrun also needed the support of the Mohist family. He really wanted to teach those Song Mo a lesson - even though he knew that such a lesson would be useless, because Mohist disciples would never surrender to power.
Needless to say, the last military strategist, a country cannot survive forever without strong soldiers. This sentence has fully demonstrated the status of military strategists.
The problem is that the military strategist is not prosperous at present and really needs the support of the monarch.
"His Majesty?"
Seeing that Zhao Run had not replied for a long time, Du You, the Minister of Rites, asked tentatively.
Zhao Hongrun pondered for a moment and said: "Confucianism, Legalism, and Military...these three schools have no academic problems, but the Mohist school..."
Having said this, he shook his head slightly.
"Could it be that your Majesty wants to depose the Mo family?"
Du You, the Minister of Rites, looked at Zhao Hongrun in surprise.
At this time, Zhao Run was seen thinking for a moment and said: "Du Qing, please go back and rest first, let me think about it."
"Yes!" Du You bowed and retreated.
Although in the gathering of disciples of various schools outside the city, the four schools of Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, and the Military School emerged as the biggest winners, in the end, Wei Wang Zhao Run still had to nod and agree to the final quota.
After Du You left, Zhao Hongrun sent someone to call Xu Ruo, the great son of Wei Mo.
To be fair, Zhao Run does not object to the Mohist school’s shortlisting of four majors, but to be honest, the Mohist school’s idea of “loving all but not attacking” is too advanced: “non-attacking” is okay, after all, Zhao Run actually
We do not support unjust wars, but "universal love", especially the "abolition of social hierarchy" derived from it, will cause turmoil in the country.
Therefore, Zhao Run summoned Wei Mohist scholar Xu Ruo, hoping that he could slightly change the Mohist ideology, downplay or even abandon the promotion of "no social hierarchy", and also slightly change the scope of "universal love". Otherwise, Zhao Hongrun really did not dare
The Mohists were placed among the four majors because the danger was too great. Wei might be overthrown by the Mohists and turn into an anarchic country.
It can be seen that Xu Ruo, the great son of Wei Mo, was very interested in being selected into the four major spots in the Mo family, but Zhao Run's words were like a bucket of cold water poured on his head.
Of course, Zhao Run did not embarrass Xu Ruo. He gave two options: either, the Mohist school could slightly change its core academic ideas and at least reduce some of its hostility to those in power. In this way, he would allow the Mohist school to become one of the four majors.
quota; or, the Mohist family will maintain the status quo, but Zhao Run only allows the Mohist family to have a place among the eight minor minor spots.
It has to be said that this put Wei Mojuzi Xu Ruo in a dilemma.
Fortunately, he had already predicted that his Mohist style of universal love would not be recognized by the monarchs of various countries, but Wei Wang Zhao Run's straightforward rejection still made him feel a little uncomfortable.
After returning to the gathering place of various academic schools, Xu Ruo, the great scholar of Wei Dynasty, managed to get in touch with his confidant, Jie Zizi, a disciple of Confucianism, and the two parties arranged to meet in the nearby woods in the evening.
When they met, Jie Ziyu brought his newly acquainted Confucian companion Gongyang Gao with him.
It was learned that Gongyang Gao studied from the rather unusual "Bu family" in Confucianism, and that his unique idea of "great unification" coincided with that of Xu Ruo and Jie Zigui. Therefore, these three
The colleagues soon became quite tacit in understanding.
After chatting for a while, Jie Ziyu asked Xu Ruo why he secretly met him.
To be honest, it is very risky for the two of them to meet secretly in a place where the disciples of various families gather. After all, traditional Confucianism and traditional Mohism are mortal enemies. If Jie Ziu and Gongyang Gao are seen secretly meeting Xu Ruo, a powerful figure in the Mohist family,
Jie Ziu and Gongyang Gao will definitely be criticized by other Confucian disciples.
Faced with Jie Ziyu's inquiry, Wei Mojuzi Xu Ruo first expressed his apology, and then revealed the reason: "His Majesty summoned me today and asked me to try to change the academic thoughts of my Mohist family. Otherwise, I am afraid that my Mohist family will not be able to have four majors."
Quota..."
After hearing this, Jie Ziu and Gongyang Gao looked at each other, not surprised at all.
You must know that among the four majors listed in the Confucianism, Legalism, Military and Mohist schools, the other three all promote their ideas around the royal power. Only the Mohist school goes against the royal power and the privileged class. If so, they can get
Wei Wang Zhao Run's approval is incredible.
After thinking about it, Jie Ziyu said to Xu Ruo: "Juzi, what happened today will be of lasting benefit to our schools. Dear brother, please don't miss this opportunity."
Wei Mo Juzi Xu weakly nodded.
How could he not know that this opportunity is once in a lifetime?
However, King Zhao Run of Wei asked him to change Mohist's thoughts, which made him hesitate.
Seeing this, Jie Ziyu persuaded Xu Ruo, since the Legalists could acquiesce in and ignore the existence of the "monarch" that transcends national law for the survival and development of their own school, why should the Mohists be so stubborn?
Without the support of the monarch, how could the Mohist family endure for a long time?
Xu Ruo was still a little hesitant. Firstly, there was some resistance in his heart. Secondly, he was just Wei Mo Juzi, not Lu Mo of the Mohist sect.
In view of this situation, Jie Ziyu said inappropriately: "In that case, why doesn't Juzi propose that new idea?"
"New thoughts?" Xu Ruo glanced at Gongyang Gao subconsciously, thinking deeply in his heart.
The so-called new ideas are "universal love" and "non-attack" on the basis of "great unification" after Xu Ruo's original discussion with Jie Ziu - in this way, the problem of "non-attack" is perfectly solved
It changed to promote peace and stop civil strife.
And this is conducive to the stability of the country.
However, universal love is still an unavoidable problem.
"Juzi, don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" Jie Zigui advised from the side.
Xu Ruo, the great son of Wei Mohists, thought about it again and again, and finally gritted his teeth and decided to accept Wei Wang Zhao Run's suggestion and slightly modify the core ideas of his Mohism, downplaying universal love and non-aggression, or promoting universal love and non-aggression with reservations - it's just the same
Later, Mohist universal love was close to Confucian benevolence, which made Xu Ruo very uncomfortable.
At the end of his farewell, Xu Ruo sighed: "When this matter spreads all over the world, I'm afraid I, Wei Mo, will be expelled from the Mo family..."
His words were indeed prescient. A few months later, when Mohist disciples all over the world learned that Wei Mo had actually deleted Mohist thoughts, they were immediately in an uproar.
Soon, Wei Mo's status in the Mohist family became similar to that of the "Bu family" in the Confucian school. Both were regarded as "alternative", but accordingly, Wei Mo received the support of Wei King Zhao Run.
, following Confucianism and Legalism, it became another prominent school of Wei.
Wei Mo's compromise allowed Wei King Zhao Run to truly confirm that "Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, and Military Affairs" were destined to become the four major majors in the Wei Kingdom in the future.
After the edict was promulgated, the Confucian, Legalist, Mohist (Wei Mo), and military strategists celebrated joyfully.
It is worth mentioning that even if they are all selected as majors, the competition between Confucian and Legalist disciples is far from over. They are still competing with each other for the position of the most prominent school.
As for other schools of thought, they began to compete for the eight minor spots. Although the minor is obviously not as good as the major, it is still a good opportunity to develop their own academic school.
However, among the eight minor spots, Wei Wang Zhao Run began to operate in secret.
The first to be selected were the politicians.
Although compared to the three major schools of Confucianism, Legalism, and Mohism, the Politburo School was only a small school, Zhao Run had high hopes for this school of thought.
In his view, only those with strategic vision can be called politicians. In fact, this is very important to the country.
Take Zhao Run himself as an example. If he had not had an outstanding vision beyond the contemporary era and formulated various strategic and national policies suitable for the development of Wei State, Wei State would not have been able to develop so fast. Although Zhao Run was not a disciple of a political strategist, he
In itself, he has already played the role of a disciple of the strategist family.
Especially in the unprecedented battle that affected the entire Central Plains a few years ago, it was Zhao Run who single-handedly promoted the alliance of the three powerful countries of "Wei, Qin, and Chu" to compete with "Qi, Han, Lu, Yue, and Song". Even an orthodox political strategist could not
It's hard to do better than Zhao Run.
However, why did Zhao Hongrun only give a minor to such an important academic subject?
The reason is very simple, because not everyone can have excellent vision. Among tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Wei people, if one or two talents with excellent strategic vision can appear, Zhao Hongrun will be satisfied - you know, wrong
Strategy can make a country extremely doomed.
The second person selected was the "Huang Lao Sect" of Taoism.
In fact, it is disrespectful to Taoism to succumb to the status of a minor with a Taoist status. Fortunately, traditional Taoist disciples are busy cultivating their moral character and ascending to the immortal world, and do not care much about worldly interests. As for its branch Huanglao Sect, it is
For now, giving a minor is enough.
Anyway, what Zhao Hongrun paid attention to was only the core Taoist ideas in the "Huang-Lao School" academics. He hoped that in the future, Wei officials would be patient enough to cultivate their moral character.
The third school to be selected is "Medical Master (Fang Technique)". To be honest, this is really surprising.
You must know that nowadays, doctors are not actually prosperous. Most people in the world are still in an era where "medical skills are taboo". In contrast, "witch doctors" are more respected by the world, such as talisman water for treating diseases and so on.
What Zhao Run wants to do is to improve the status of orthodox doctors so that doctors can develop rapidly. After all, this is also something that benefits all people.
The fourth school selected is the "famous".
It is not surprising that famous people are selected. After all, although the reputation of famous people has become poor due to allusions such as "the white horse is not a horse theory", in fact, any qualified lobbyist must learn the thoughts of famous people -
- If you master the academics of politicians and strategists on the basis of being proficient in the academics of famous scholars, you will become a figure that the monarchs of all countries need to be afraid of.
The fifth school selected is the Yin Yang family.
The Yin-Yang School is also a branch of Taoism. It is still a small school at present, but this academic field cannot be underestimated.
Disciples of the Yin-Yang School do not advocate the theory of ghosts and gods, but the Taoist "Yin-Yang Theory" and "Five Elements Theory". Among them, the "Yin-Yang Theory" regards "Yin" and "Yang" as two kinds of mutual growth and decline within things.
Coordinating power, it is considered to be the law of generation that nurtures all things in the world; and the "Five Elements Theory" is based on the theory of "the five basic elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth that are constantly changing in cycles" to develop the concept of "the five elements are mutually reinforcing and interfering with each other".
On the basis of these two, the Yin Yang family studies the movements of celestial bodies (stars) to formulate calendars and grasp the changes in all things in the world. This is also an academic field that will benefit the future.
In addition, Zhao Hongrun also picked up peasants, miscellaneous writers and novelists, these small academic sects that had been completely destroyed by Confucian and Legalist disciples.
It is undeniable that the farmers' idea of "advocating that the monarch and the people farm together" is indeed ridiculous, but farmers also have their own good ideas, such as "obeying the people's hearts and loving the people", "cultivating hunger, relieving famines", etc., and more importantly
Yes, farmers also teach people how to better identify high-quality land, how to improve the land, how to identify crop growth, how to get rid of insects, and even have a herb atlas, which are all very precious treasures.
Therefore, as long as the farmers put away their ridiculous political ideology of "advocating that the monarch and the people farm together," everything else will benefit the country and the people. Therefore, Zhao Run does not mind giving the farmers a place as a minor.
Promote the development of this school of thought.
As for the selection of the Zajia School, Zhao Hongrun simply held the purpose of "taking a long-term view and catching big fish". He wanted to see whether the Zajia School could really perfectly integrate Confucianism, Legalism, Mingmo and other schools of thought in the future to create a school suitable for any use.
The scholarship of the situation - and for now, this school of thought is really lackluster.
Compared with the selection of the above schools, the most uproarous one is the selection of "novelist". Even the novelist's disciples themselves can't believe it: We are actually selected?
After learning about this, the students of the unsuccessful school cried out that it was unfair, because in their view, even if the miscellaneous family was selected, they could accept it, but only the novelist was selected, which was absolutely unacceptable!
Why?
Because novelists have no academic knowledge that benefits the country and the people at all. They just collect celebrity anecdotes and folklore, and express them in exaggerated words to gain the interest of the world - this is not worthy of being academic at all!
Not to mention those disciples of schools of thought who were not selected, even the disciples of Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, military strategists, political strategists and other schools of thought who were selected felt ashamed to associate with novelists.
However, the imperial court only conveyed a sentence from Wei King Zhao Run, which silenced the disciples of the unsuccessful school who shouted about injustice: I admire the novelist's stories very much.
Heroes such as King Zhao Run of Wei have personally expressed their appreciation for the novelist, what can others say?
No matter how reluctant he is, he can only acquiesce that novelists are included in the list of "eight minors".
"Forget it, let's just relieve His Majesty (King Wei)'s boredom."
The disciples of various schools could only persuade themselves in this way, acquiescing to this established fact. Even the disciples of Confucianism, Legalism and other schools who looked down on the novelist before stopped attacking the novelist. They all thought that this time the court only gave "
"Four principals and seven auxiliaries" eleven places - the last place will be given to His Majesty the King of Wei.
But in fact, Zhao Hongrun values novelists not just because he likes to read novelists' stories.
What he values is the novelist's wild ideas and exaggerated writing form when writing those stories, which are quite powerful weapons.
For example, if Zhao Run wants to increase the reputation of his Wei generals in the future, he can let novelists write stories to spread to the world. For example, Sima An once defeated the Jie tribe in Sanchuan with 500 sheep.
What a good material this is. With the novelist's rendering, in this era of lack of entertainment conditions, Sima An will definitely become a famous general of Wei who is well-known to people all over the world.
Through the expression of the story, on the one hand, the officials and generals of Wei are promoted positively, on the other hand, the officials and generals of other countries are belittled, and the cultural export of Wei's private goods is mixed. Is there any more powerful weapon than this?
Because of this, although all schools of thought in this era looked down upon novelists, in Zhao Run's opinion, the support Wei could get from novelists was no less than a hundred thousand elite soldiers!