"Your Majesty? This is it?"
"Haha, prince, you have come a long way, so naturally you should meet your family. Although I miss you, I am not in a hurry to disturb you. I will wait for you to spend a few days with your family before coming to see me."
Cao Mao drove the carriage directly to the General's Mansion and asked Wang Su to get off here.
Looking at Cao Mao's smiling face, Wang Su always felt a little uneasy.
Just as Wang Kai was about to say something, Cao Mao left the place directly.
Wang Kai said very displeasedly: "How could your Majesty be so rude to you?"
Wang Su took a deep look at his younger son. He still had urgent things to do. When the things are done, I will tell you what rudeness means.
Wang Su walked into the General's Mansion with his son. Sima Yan and Sima You came out to greet him soon. They did not expect that grandpa would arrive suddenly. Sima Yan's eyes were red, and he held his grandpa's hand and was particularly close to Wang Su. , but Sima You was standing not far away, with his head lowered, looking very respectful, but he was not very friendly with Wang Su and others.
According to the judgment standards of scholars, Sima You's performance is obviously better. After all, his behavior is in line with etiquette, and he does not act "loosely" when meeting his elders.
But from a family point of view, both Wang Su and Wang Kai liked Sima Yan, and they couldn't be said to dislike Sima You, but they were not as close to him as Sima Yan.
Sima Yan is a person who attaches great importance to emotions. He often protects his relatives. Many people talk about his unfair treatment of Sima You and think that he does not pay attention to these things. But if he is like a certain person whose status is also threatened by his younger brother, Compared with Emperor Wen, Sima Yan was too gentle to his younger brother!
First of all, after Sima You was granted the title of King of Qi, he was never tossed around.
As a vassal king, he served as a general of hussars and the third division of Kaifu Yitong. He also retained a private armed force of thousands of people.
More than half of the ministers in the DPRK initially publicly supported Sima You in succeeding to the throne, and later they dared to openly support Sima You after Sima Yan officially proclaimed himself emperor.
Sima You stayed in Luoyang for a long time and served as a general, a Sikong, and a minister.
It can be said that if the above things had happened to other emperors, Sima You would never have died in grief and anger. Finally, Jia Chong and others continued to admonish Sima Yan, which made Sima Yan suspicious, and then ordered to let him go. The younger brother returned to Qi.
But it is not to depose Sima You and make him a pure vassal king.
Sima Yan issued an edict to let his younger brother return to Qi State and serve as Grand Sima. During holidays, he would be in charge of all military affairs in Qingzhou.
Sima You was unwilling to leave, saying that he wanted to guard his mother's tomb. However, more than ten important officials in the temple wrote a letter to refute Sima Yan, asking him not to drive King Qi out of the temple.
To be honest, Sima Yan is really generous. To this extent, he only dismissed those ministers who submitted letters. If it were replaced by a certain Emperor Wen, he would probably shed a river of blood.
Sima You's talents are extremely outstanding, and he has the demeanor of the successor of Sima Shi, while Sima Yan's character is more simple. He is not as famous as his younger brother, but he treats his friends and relatives very well.
In Wang Su's view, Sima You is a capable grandson, while Sima Yan is a well-behaved grandson.
"Take me to your mother quickly!"
Wang Su had countless doubts in his heart at the moment, and he didn't bother to say anything to Sima Yan. When he saw Wang Yuanji, Wang Su breathed a sigh of relief. His daughter and grandson were both fine.
Wang Su immediately ordered everyone to go out and asked Wang Yuanji alone about what happened in the temple.
At the same time, Cao Mao's carriage did not return to the palace. Instead, it came to the west of Luoyang, where Wang Xiang's residence was.
Wang Xiang was dismissed from his official title, but was not taken to Tingwei Prison, but this did not mean that he was completely free. Cao Mao still sent someone to take care of him.
There were a large number of soldiers guarding him inside and outside his mansion.
When Cao Mao arrived, the soldiers hurriedly got out of the way. Wang Xiang also learned the news and came out to greet him personally.
At this moment, Wang Xiang looked particularly sincere. When facing the emperor, the fear, guilt, and uneasiness on his face were so real.
Seeing such outstanding acting skills, Cao Mao couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It seems that he still has a lot to learn.
"His Majesty!!"
"Teacher, don't be too polite. I'm here this time for important matters. Let's talk about it after we go in."
The two walked into the inner room, and Cao Mao asked the soldiers to wait outside the door.
Immediately, the two sat facing each other.
Cao Mao didn't waste any time and said directly: "Teacher, Wang Su has returned to Luoyang."
A trace of uneasiness flashed in Wang Xiang's eyes.
He had known for a long time that Wang Su would be a restless factor, but at that time, in order to get the position of Taichang as soon as possible and start a new era of his own, Wang Xiang could only temporarily ignore Wang Su, speed up the process, and pretend to be Wang Su's academic achievement.
In Wang Xiang's view at the time, after he took over the power, Wang Su would not dare to completely break up with him as long as he could give the other party a certain amount of compensation.
But the situation is obviously different now.
He is now a guilty minister and has nothing. The ministers will never dare to continue to support him. If Wang Su comes to visit him now, Wang Xiang is afraid that his reputation will be ruined from now on.
Wang Xiang is not afraid of death, but this reputation is very important.
If his reputation is bad, it will affect the entire clan. In a world where inheriting classics is the foundation of a large clan, his behavior will definitely arouse public outrage and cause his entire family to be despised from now on.
This is more serious than killing Wang Xiang.
"Your Majesty, what can I do for you?"
Wang Xiang stopped pretending at this moment, and he asked Cao Mao's conditions very directly.
There was no deep grudge between him and his disciple. There was no need for his disciple to seek out Wang Su to discredit himself. This would not do any good to Cao Mao.
Now that he came to see me and mentioned this matter again, it meant that things were still turning around, and maybe I was of some use to him.
Cao Mao laughed, he liked dealing with such smart people.
Pretend when you need to pretend, and be honest when you need to be honest.
The reason why Cao Mao wanted to keep Wang Xiang was actually for the study of Confucian classics.
There is a very serious problem today. The highest theoretical knowledge at present, that is, Confucian classics, is in the hands of aristocratic families. If you want to climb to the position of two thousand stones, you have to study the classics, not the aristocratic families. There is no such condition, unless you become a disciple of a rich family.
Wang Su now accuses Wang Xianglai of plagiarizing his classics.
Cao Mao can make a big fuss about this matter.
Through the fight between these two people, the right to interpret the classics was derived, and then the right to interpret the classics was taken back into the hands of the temple.
To put it simply, it means that temples have the power to choose official knowledge. Temples can designate certain classics as official knowledge and recruit officials through this knowledge.
In the past, due to matters related to official studies, the Eastern Han Dynasty set off a huge dispute between ancient and modern literature.
By the Wei and Jin Dynasties, this academic dispute was much weaker, because the dominance of etiquette classics began to decline.
Cao Mao wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to try to break the intellectual monopoly of the wealthy family.
Wang Xiang could ask directly, but Cao Mao couldn't explain directly.
Cao Mao did not dare to take this teacher lightly. Even though he had nothing now, he was still the biggest threat among the ministers. That is, people like Gao Rou were holding him back. If he were to serve as Situ, he would be fully responsible. In the temple fight, Cao Mao might really suffer a big loss.
Cao Mao said seriously: "Teacher, I came to you this time just to ask, have you really stolen the prince's knowledge?"
Wang Xiang was stunned. You still don’t know whether I stole it or not? ?
But he reacted quickly and hurriedly shook his head, "Your Majesty! Oh my lord! The Taixuan Sutra is not the property of a prince alone, but was written by the sages of the past. Is it possible that he is the only one in the world qualified to comment on it?" Taixuan? If someone else does this, he will be accused of stealing. What is the truth? "
"I have never had any contact with him, how can I steal his knowledge?"
"Although I respect the prince very much, he treats the sages' books that have been passed down to this day as his own private property and does not allow others to annotate and read them. In my opinion, this is a very excessive behavior and disrespectful to the sages!"
"If we follow what he said, then does it mean that no one except the Confucius family can study and annotate these books such as "Spring and Autumn" and "The Analects of Confucius"?"
"The Taixuan Sutra should be studied by the Yang family. How can the prince interpret it?"
Wang Xiang quickly began to refute.
Cao Mao smiled again, yes, this is what he wants.
In the Han, Wei, and Jin Dynasties, how to become a true gatekeeper?
The most fundamental condition is that you must have the final right to interpret a certain classic.
Take Xun Yi for example, why did Xun Yi dare to scold Zhong Hui for studying Yi without even understanding the most basic knowledge? And Zhong Hui didn't dare to refute it at all?
This is the role of the final right of interpretation. The inheritors can decide how to annotate the classics, how to segment the sentences, and how to understand it, and the rest of the world can only listen to them.
Through this supreme power of interpretation, they can monopolize knowledge and official titles, absorb a large number of elites from civilian backgrounds, turn them into their own disciples and former officials, and then turn them into a behemoth, so that no one dares to take action against them easily.
Cao Mao didn't like this situation very much. He would either let himself get the highest right of explanation, or destroy the highest right of explanation in the hands of this big family.
The scriptures are passed down from generation to generation, right?
I will let you do corvée work for generations!
Wang Xiang looked at the smile on the emperor's face, suddenly realized something, and his expression changed drastically.
"Although Your Majesty said so, my knowledge is not comparable to that of the prince. The prince has classics passed down from his family and is a great scholar in governing the world. I have not stolen his knowledge, but I definitely dare not say that he is not worthy of annotating the classics. The prince's talents are not worth mentioning. Everyone in the world knows it.”
"Your Majesty is still young, and the rule of the world must be based on the classics. If the classics are damaged because of this, it will cause chaos in the temple and shock the scholars, which is really not good for the world!"
