Just when Prince Gong's palace was in chaos, in the study room of Weng Tong and the Weng family in Dongcheng, this Qingliu dignitary sat alone on the Taishi chair. The desk in front of him was piled with rice paper, which was densely written with words.
Mr. Weng's calligraphy can be sold for one hundred taels per word in the capital, which is exactly like a living money printing machine. If this pile of messy words were to be sold at this price, it would be tens of thousands taels at least. But these words are destined not to be spread. Some of them have been burned in the charcoal basin, and the others will not escape this fate in the end.
"Confucius killed Shaozhengmao... He killed Shaozhengmao... Did the sage have selfish motives when he ordered the killings? Did he ever hesitate or contradict... The disputes of knowledge have always been bloody since ancient times? ah!"
The Shaozhengmao whom Weng Tonghe spoke of was a pioneer of Legalism in the State of Lu. At that time, Confucius had only been acting as prime minister for seven days, so he was executed on the grounds that he was malignant in the Fifth Middle School. And one of the biggest sins is gathering a crowd to spread heresy.
Gathering a crowd? heresy? These reasons have been very confusing to later generations of historians in China's thousands of years of history. This public case was also the most controversial in Confucius's life.
The Spring and Autumn Period was originally an era of great explosion of various ideas. There was no academic unification of the ideological world. At that time, there was no such thing as Confucianism, and Confucius was just one of the many disseminators of ideas.
Confucius allowed you to gather his disciples to teach your thoughts, but doesn’t he allow others to spread them? What's more, even Confucius's disciple Yan Hui loved to listen to Shaozhengmao's class and went to listen to it several times. It is said that the most sage disciple of Confucius was Yan Hui. The knowledge he praised should not be regarded as heresy, right?
But Confucius still took action, and the motivation behind it is self-evident. Sure enough, the battle of academic thoughts has been bloody since ancient times. The difficulties faced by Weng Tonghe today are probably more severe than those brought about by Shao Zhengmao back then.
"Xiao Letian, you are so amazing. You are truly a talent that is rare to see in a thousand years. Not only can you write books and lectures, but you can also amass countless amounts of money in an instant. Now you actually have a warrior who is as good as ten. You have already You have driven me to a dead end, and you have already disturbed the foundation of Xianxue..."
"I'm sorry, I have no choice. Regardless of whether you are guilty or not, as long as you still spread Western knowledge, I will deal with you and you must die..."
Weng Tonghe muttered to himself in the study like a madman, and even covered his face and cried when he was excited.
"Don't blame me, I have no choice... Do you think I don't believe everything written in your book? I believe it, I believe it all. Why don't I believe something that foreigners have confirmed? But I can only believe it secretly , I absolutely cannot express it. If even I bow my head, will Xianxue still have a future?"
"What a vicious era this is! What a terrible world this is! Why do you want to destroy our spiritual home, why do you want to destroy the ideal country of our literati... Without Xianxue, you will let the world's scholars How to live?"
"Your Majesty, Queen Mother, please wake up and don't be greedy for such small profits. If you break the hearts of all the scholars in the world, who will support you in the future? Didn't you give this to the Zeng brothers in vain? , Are you giving talents to those ambitious people in vain? You are so confused..."
Xiao Letian never imagined that he would be equated with Shao Zhengmao, who was controversial in history. This reputation increased quickly enough. No matter how controversial this matter is in the historians, Xiao Letian is already proud enough that a Japanese devil who returned from overseas can force a dignified Qingliu leader to do this.
Weng Tonghe wandered around in the study like a trapped animal. Rice papers written with "Confucius punished Shaozhengmao" were thrown everywhere, and several of them were even ignited by the charcoal basin.
"Oh, sir! It's on fire, it's all on fire..." The housekeeper just ran over and was so frightened that he rushed over and patted the flames so that it didn't cause a big disaster.
"Master, we just sent news that a fight has started in front of Prince Gong's Mansion. Four to five hundred people are fighting in a random group. Now the soldiers of the Nine Admirals and the officers of Shuntian Mansion have separated the people..."
"Now all the scholars in Sijiu City have begun to gather at Prince Gong's Mansion, and even scholars from the countryside outside the city have arrived. It is estimated that there will be thousands of scholars in the Prince's Mansion in a while..."
"Slave, I'm really scared. Is it really okay to let this matter continue like this? Will it be any hindrance to you, Master? I heard people say that the beating was terrible, with bloody heads, broken bones and tendons. of……"
The housekeeper was still chattering, but Weng Tonghe suddenly became furious. He overturned the desk and said, "Come on, let's all go to chaos. Are you afraid of chaos now? The real chaos is still to come. Various Western doctrines and Once the thoughts come in, thousands of people in Shenzhou will definitely be killed..."
"The Changmao Chaos is nothing. When the time comes, there will be battlefields everywhere in the mountains and rivers. Every family will use weapons, fathers and sons will kill each other, brothers will kill each other. After the collapse of ethics and ethics, the sky will collapse and the earth will collapse..."
"Stop chattering and let these scholars go make trouble. If we don't fight now, I'm afraid I won't be able to fight again in the future!"
The housekeeper was scolded so badly that he was so frightened by the horrific scene described by the master that he finally ran out to deliver the order without any hesitation.
The situation was out of control at this point. Weng Tonghe personally pulled out the last safety fuse of the nuclear warhead, and the countdown to nuclear weapons that shook the foundation of the Qing Dynasty finally began.
The information about the attack on Prince Gong's Mansion was also sent to the Forbidden City. The two Queen Mothers walked around the room angrily, "These sour scholars are so arrogant. The court is unwilling to cause trouble and has already appeased and forgiven them. Why are they still making trouble? Even if You don’t like Western learning, and neither does the court, but you have to give the court some time..."
"You know how to push, push, push, the country is too tolerant to them now. If at the founding of the country, they still dared to force the palace? Dare to attack the palace? They would have sent troops long ago..."
Ci'an could still maintain her composure to a certain extent, and she comforted her softly, "Sit down and have a rest, Andehai, give your master a cup of Longjing to clear the fire... I have seen through these literati, they are just afraid." "
"In the past, these people didn't take Xiao Letian to heart. They were all plotting behind their backs. They never expected that Xiao Letian would overcome all the difficulties and resolve all the problems. Now Qingliu is scared. They know that they can no longer restrain Xiao Letian. . So they have to go into battle in person. These scholars are desperate, they are afraid that the imperial court will abandon Xianxue!"
"Then what should I do according to my sister's wishes?"
Ci'an smiled bitterly and shook his head and sighed, "Hey... you just said that now is not the time when the dynasty was just established, so you should be polite to these scholars. You can't suppress it, you still have to persuade them nicely. Anyway, these scholars are just that. After a while of warmth, I naturally let go when I was tired..."
At the most critical moment, the Forbidden City also chose to deal with it coldly. This was the last chance to control the situation. The Manchu royal family did not seize this opportunity.
After Xiao Letian's nuclear weapons were officially detonated, Qingliu and the Manchu royal family regretted it more than once. If they had known that Xiao Letian had such a dirty trick, they would not have made the matter so big, and none of them would have dared to do it. Xiao Letian was forced into the corner.
In the end, Muge did not get the order to expel. The purpose of going up to the peak was to isolate the crowd and let them disperse on their own as long as they stopped fighting. The sighing Muge rode his war horse to maintain morale in the military formation. This cold weather did not let people calm down, and the brothers were already very angry.
But this group of scholars also got into trouble today. They all had bruises and swollen faces and refused to retreat. They actually went to the head with the soldiers. Not only that, as time went by, more and more scholars came to support them. Seeing that the pioneers were beaten so badly, they all became anxious.
"It is an insult to politeness, it is simply an insult to politeness! How can we scholars be subjected to such an insult? How can the country treat us scholars like this? What have we done wrong? Expelling the fallacies and heresies of Western learning and protecting outstanding learning, how can this become a sin? Already? Give me an explanation..."
"Explain, give an explanation to the scholars all over the world..." More and more scholars crowded in front of the military formation, holding their shields and letting out angry roars, which almost frightened Muge's horse like a stormy sea.
"Explain? What explanation do you want from me? The imperial court gave me an order not to let you fight, and I can't give you an explanation. But I still want to advise you to calm down and just stop making trouble. It's almost noon, go back and drink. Bar……"
Muge's indifferent look made the scholars completely furious. More and more of them gathered, and the shouts became louder and louder. In the end, there were even thousands of scholars gathered, and the angry slogans shook the sky of the entire capital. .
"Expel the heresy of Western learning, kill Xiao Letian, and give us justice..."
"Expulse Western learning and kill Xiao Letian..."
"Kill Xixue, kill Xiao Letian..."
The more people chanted the slogan, the shorter it would become. In the end, it was just two sentences: "Kill Western Learning, Kill Xiao Letian." Everyone on the Wangfu Long Street was shouting kill with one heart, and the momentum that came towards them was frightening. Prince Gong, who was peeping behind the door, almost fell down.
"Classmates, classmates... The court won't let us fight, then we will use our throats to wake up all the princes in the court and wake up the stupid people in the world. Let the Qing Dynasty hear our voices today..."
Hundreds of scholars chose to demonstrate. They walked on the streets and shouted out their demands in the eyes of the people in the capital in disbelief.
"Kill Xixue, kill Xiao Letian..."
Soon the queue began to change. One long queue turned into two, then four, or eight, rushing towards the streets of the capital. But the strange thing is that no matter how many dragons there are, the number of people in each one is not much smaller.
Countless people from the capital and spectators were following behind, and some even joined in and roared a few times. In the high-pressure society of the late Qing Dynasty, it was very attractive to be able to run wild without restraint.
There was finally a sensation in the capital. Hundreds of thousands of people in the imperial capital heard the scholar's voice. These people who worshiped knowledge almost subconsciously chose to believe in the scholar. Not only because of habit, but also because at this moment, the voice of scholars is the loudest.
Scholars say that Western learning is bad, so that’s right! Anyway, the big-nosed foreigner burned down three mountains and five gardens. The scholar who was indeed bad enough said that Xiao Letian should be killed, so let him be killed! Didn't everyone say he was going to rebel? People say that Xiucai Ju should be killed, so it shouldn't be an injustice.
The roar was like thunder, not only beating the sky in the capital, but also beating people's hearts. Xiao Letian suddenly became the target of public criticism.
However, no one expected that near each long dragon, there were vigilant eyes observing them, and some figures had even climbed onto the roof. Xiao Letian's counterattack was about to begin.
