This special situation surprised the scholars.
They thought this was because the emperor was beginning to give in to them.
However, just when they thought this was the emperor's surrender to them, they discovered that the other twenty scholars and officials still had not received the emperor's permission to take office. They still had to pay a fee of 20 million yuan to take office, and they were not exempt from the fee.
The scholars, Monk Zhang Er, were puzzled. At first, they couldn't figure out what was special about those six people.
Until someone pointed out that these six scholar-officials who were allowed to be "officials for free" seemed to be scholars from families who studied ancient Chinese classics.
Everyone took another look, hey, it’s really like this. Those six people all studied ancient scriptures.
Then the attitudes of the scholars of the two major factions became quite subtle.
The contradiction between the Ancient Classics School and the Modern Classics School has always existed, and everyone is very clear that the disputes between them are fundamental and there is no possibility of reconciliation.
The Ancient Classics School is a rising star and hopes to gain sufficient political power, but the Modern Classics School controls most of the political power and is unwilling to share power with rising stars.
The two sides launched a protracted and fierce debate over the national recognition of this title.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the attack of the Ancient Classics School failed.
During the Wang Mang period, Wang Mang, who relied on the ancient reform, chose to support the softer ancient classical school for his own benefit, and established academic officials such as "Mao Shi", "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu", and "Zhou Guan Li", and elevated them to high positions, which is the same as today's. The juxtaposition of classics and classics was a glorious period for the study of ancient classics.
The struggle between the Ancient Classical School and the Modern Classical School in the Xinmang period was not the end.
After Wang Mang's rapid fall, the academic officials of the Ancient Classics School were also hit. A large number of ancient classics were lost, and the ancient Classics teachers who clung to Wang Mang were liquidated.
However, Liu Xiu, who founded the Eastern Han Dynasty, realized the opportunities that the struggle between the two schools could bring, and was also dissatisfied with the ideological and theoretical guidance that Jinwen Jingxue brought to his dynasty, so he inherited some of Wang Mang's policies.
Liu Xiu defied public opinion and ignored the strong protests of the Jin Wen Jing school, and established Zuo Shi Chun Qiu as orthodox scholarship and established academic officials to stand alongside Jin Wen Jing's Gong Yang Chun Qiu.
I won’t use your upper-level theoretical guidance, but I want to make some improvements to some of the following specific methods of doing things. You can’t help but let me try it, right?
Faced with the threat of imperial power, the Jinwen school had to compromise.
But at the same time, they also believe that as long as "Zhou Guan Li" is not established as orthodox scholarship, as long as "Yi Li" belonging to the Jinwen school is still the highest guiding theoretical thought of the Luoyang court, then no matter what the "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" group is doing underneath No matter what, the main theme of Jinwen school’s dominance of government affairs will not change.
What's more, at that time, "Gongyang Chunqiu" was still the official official scholarship of the Eight Classics, and this point has not changed.
Therefore, the power of the Ancient Classics School still maintained a certain scale, and it was able to continue to fight against the Modern Classics School in the court.
However, as the literary school of today judged at the time, as long as "Ritual" as the core guiding ideology of the entire Eastern Han Empire was not shaken, no matter how hard the "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" gang tried, they would still be dancing in shackles.
At that time, the still weak ancient literature school missed this window period and failed to successfully gain a foothold.
So during the period of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, at the Baihuguan Conference, out of considerations of his own interests, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty decided to unify academic thinking again and deposed the Zuo family's Spring and Autumn School officials, so that students of the Ancient Classics School could no longer become officials by studying Zuo's Spring and Autumn School. .
This behavior greatly weakened the power of ancient classics, and modern classics once again had the upper hand.
They thought they could just sit back and relax.
However, as early as the late Western Han Dynasty, Jinwen Jingxue had gradually fallen into rigidity and cumbersomeness, and combined with prophecies and predictions, it became absurd. Compared with Guwen Jingxue, which was more pragmatic and more willing to cater to the rulers, it lost its vitality and practical significance.
Moreover, the Jinwen Jing School's use of power to suppress the Ancient Classics School and its scholars also aroused the dissatisfaction of a large number of rising stars. They were even more dissatisfied with their behavior of monopolizing academic and political interests. They all regarded Ancient Classics as their life-saving straw and died. Catch and hold on.
Therefore, although the ancient literature school was suppressed by politics, it did not die out. Instead, it became more tenacious and blossomed among the people.
Compared with the inheritance model of the Jinwen Jing School, which is limited to blood and family status, and the increasingly rigid thinking model, the Ancient Classics school is more open-minded, more willing to accept new blood, and does not attach so much importance to family background in inheritance.
As a result, famous ancient classics masters such as Ma Rong, Xu Shen, Zheng Xuan, Jia Kui, Fu Qian, and Lu Zhi emerged.
They annotated the Confucian classics with the theory of ancient classics, and widely disseminated their classic meanings to the world's scholars and even landlords who were not scholars. They were highly sought after and recognized by a large number of scholars.
Therefore, among the people, in the early and middle Eastern Han Dynasty, the ancient classics had the momentum to overwhelm the modern classics. This trend became more and more obvious in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, and by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was a fact.
The most typical representative is Zheng Xuan.
Zheng Xuan was implicated in the misfortunes of the party and was imprisoned, so he returned home and settled down to write a book and write a theory, which was remarkable.
Although he is also proficient in modern classics, his main position is to annotate the scriptures from the standpoint of ancient classics, and spread it widely. There is no narrow way of spreading modern classics that is limited to family blood and family status, so the audience is very wide.
At this time, Zheng Xuan's scholarship has already reached great success. He is still imprisoned, but his scholarship has spread throughout the Han Dynasty and is widely recognized.
On the surface, the Five Classics and Fourteenth Family Law is still an officially sanctioned academic discipline, and it firmly suppresses ancient classics. However, in the private environment, the situation between the two sides is completely opposite.
Fei's "Yi", an ancient Chinese classic annotated by Zheng Xuan, is popular, while "Yi" written by Shi, Mencius and Liangqiu is not taken seriously by people today.
The "Gu Wen Shangshu" annotated by Zheng Xuan is popular, but the "Shangshu" of Ouyang and Xiao Xiahou in modern Wen Jing are not taken seriously.
Zheng Xuan's "Mao Shi", which annotated the ancient Wen Jing, became popular, but the "Shi" of Qi, Lu and Han in the modern Wen Jing was not taken seriously.
The vast number of second- and third-rate scholars who were excluded from the political interest system of Jinwen Confucianism pursued Zheng Xuan's scholarship with a vengeance, worshiped him with a vengeance, elevated him to a high position, and called him "the God of Scripture". 】.
So [Zheng Xue] was born.
The birth of Zheng Xue brought the debate between modern and ancient classics to an end in form. In the popular environment, modern classics has been completely suppressed by ancient classics in a semi-active and semi-passive manner. A large number of scholars are studying ancient classics. Disregard Jinwen Jingxue.
In this civil environment, the major families of Jinwen Confucianism have actually been severely isolated, and they have a sense of enclosure. In addition to still occupying an absolute active position in politics, they have fallen behind in the field of public opinion. It's hard to cheer up when you're downwind.
Therefore, the scholar families of the Jinwen Jing school could only continue to cling to political interests and dare not let go. They became increasingly closed and rigid, falling into a vicious cycle.
But decline is visible to the naked eye and cannot be denied objectively.
Not only scholars from second- and third-rate families, but also some concubines from Jinwen Jingxue families were more willing to adopt flexible methods to seek benefits for themselves.
For example, Yuan Shao.
In this context, Liu Hong's actions aroused great concern and panic among scholars of the Jinwen Jing School.
They are worried that this is a precursor to the implementation of some very bad policies.
They all petitioned the emperor to treat everyone equally and appoint the remaining twenty officials to serve as prefects without spending any money or being special.
However, Liu Hong acted as if he hadn't heard anything and still went his own way.
Not only that, he also made a decision that stunned the scholars of the Jinwen Jing school.
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PS: I am in the process of saving my manuscript for being blind to what is happening outside the window~~~
