Perhaps it was Liu Bei's ups and downs tone and passionate words that made people inexplicably excited. As soon as he finished speaking, everyone praised loudly, nodded and applauded, with excitement on their faces, obviously very much agreeing with what Liu Bei said.
They, the Ancient Classics School, are the true inheritors of Confucius and the true inheritors of the saint's mantle!
The Jinwen school is nothing more than a local chicken and a tile dog!
As time has come, the Jin Wen Jing School no longer conforms to the trend of the times. It is no longer a school that can lead the Han Dynasty to move forward. The one who can lead the Han Dynasty to continue to move forward is our Ancient Wen Jing School!
They cheered up.
For most of the people who participated in the gathering, this was the first time in history that they felt they belonged to the large group of the Ancient Classics School.
This feeling of belonging is very special.
Among a group of inexplicably excited people, Lu Zhi remained calm and looked at Liu Bei with a smile.
"Xuande, what you said is all right, but you need to know that this opportunity was not given to us by Wang Mang or Emperor Guangwu, but by the eunuchs. If we seize this opportunity, what do you think the people of the Jinwen School will do? explain?"
The inexplicably excited crowd instantly cooled down and looked at Liu Bei again, as if expecting him to have something subtle to say.
However, Liu Bei just smiled.
"Teacher, things are no longer the same as they were back then. Even if Wang Mang and Emperor Guangwu helped each other, we were still in the minority. But now, we are in the majority. Looking at the Han Dynasty, the majority are those who study the ancient classics, and the majority are those who study the modern classics. It's a minority!
They are self-contained, rigid and unaware of themselves, and they are becoming more and more closed-minded in their schools, so that there are fewer and fewer followers. However, we have opened the door of the school widely and recruited heroes from all over the world. In this way, we have already gained the upper hand. What is missing is nothing more than recognition. a chance.
If they think that we are colluding with the eunuchs, then they have offended the majority of the scholars in the world. They are already closed-minded and unpopular. If they offend the entire ancient literature school again, they will only seek death! "
Lu Zhi pinched his beard, smiled, and nodded slowly.
Now, he can be sure that Liu Bei is qualified to inherit his mantle.
Liu Bei saw clearly that in the current society, those who study ancient classics are the majority, while those who study modern classics have become a complete minority because of their own insularity.
You, a minority, want to stigmatize the majority?
How much can you bear the anger of the majority?
Even those politicians with rigid thinking can understand this truth.
That's why they were so anxious to win over the people from the Ancient Classics School so that they would not accept the eunuch's conditions.
But now, can the Ancient Classics School’s desire to rise up and replace it still be contained?
At this time of fierce fighting between the old and the new, no matter what, someone has to stand up and add fire to this all-out struggle that is about to break out, so that this struggle will completely explode.
Explode a brand new future.
So Liu Bei stood up, strengthened the belief of the Ancient Literature School, and ignited the fuse of the bomb in the hands of the Ancient Literature School.
Of course, even if Liu Bei didn't say it, the leaders of the Ancient Classics Master knew it in their hearts.
It was impossible for the Emperor of the Han Dynasty to accept the etiquette system created for him by the Jinwen School. It was impossible for the Emperor of the Han Dynasty to accept that he would become a "scholar" of the highest rank instead of an emperor who was above all else.
After all, the Jinwen school's etiquette is not the emperor's etiquette, and they still have no intention of adapting to it. In other words, they have also lost the ability to adapt.
But the Ancient Literature School is different. The Ancient Literature School has flexible academic and political bottom lines. If the ruler needs it, the Ancient Literature School can make relatively flexible adjustments and adjust the school's purpose to what the ruler needs.
Their bodies are soft enough.
Anyway, this is how the first generation of ancient classics teachers in the late Western Han Dynasty fought against the modern literature school, so if we continue to be shameless, it can be regarded as comforting our ancestors.
The Ancient Classics School unified their ideas in an unprecedented manner and rejected the efforts of the Modern Classics School to win over and make certain meaningless promises.
At the same time, the Ancient Classics School also showed its spiritual imprint for the first time, revealing its collective consciousness since the fall of the Xinmang Dynasty.
Starting from this moment, the loose and huge concept of nothingness of the Ancient Classics School gradually condensed into an entity, a real existence.
In Liu Bei's view, this rally was more like announcing the birth of a primitive party.
Yes.
A primitive party with clear common interests.
Lu Zhi and others also jointly wrote to Zheng Xuan, who was currently in Qingzhou and was far away in Qingzhou, asking Zheng Xuan to accept the emperor's call and come to Luoyang to serve as an official. They needed him.
At this moment of unprecedented unity among the Ancient Classics School, the Ancient Classics School needs a leader who can convince the masses and a leader who can call on them to lead them to charge.
Zheng Xuan, the God of Classics who majored in ancient Chinese classics, was this person.
After this letter was sent, the promoted scholars of the Ancient Classics School accepted free appointments from the imperial court and took up their posts for free.
With the collective appointment of promoted scholars from the Ancient Classics School, the delicate political balance between the Ancient Classics School and the Modern Classics School was completely broken.
Under the deliberate manipulation of the imperial court, the boundary between the Ancient Classics School and the Modern Classics School appeared as clear as ever in the eyes of the scholars.
All the veils of tenderness were lifted, and the bloody facts were placed in front of the scholars, telling them that the dispute between modern and ancient literature was not over yet.
The formal end is not the real end. Once the imperial power takes action, once the restricted area of theoretical guidance at the highest level of the country is loosened, it will affect the whole body.
The "war" begins.
The scholars of the Jinwen Jing School finally could not accept this status quo that made them angry. They petitioned Emperor Liu Hong on a large scale, demanding that this status quo be changed and that everyone should be treated equally. Since the party's shackles were lifted, they should be lifted to the end.
Only we have always been able to enjoy privileges. How dare the Ancient Literature School enjoy privileges that we don’t have?
Although the scholars of the Ancient Classics School did not make a public statement, there was no lag in taking up their posts. They quickly took up their posts one after another and began to grasp power and handle official affairs.
The less they spoke, the more frantic and frightened the scholars of the Jinwen Jing School became.
They were very worried that this was a sign that the emperor would fully support the Ancient Classics School and change the guiding theory of the Eastern Han Empire.
Once the Ancient Classics School is supported, with their current huge size among the people, it is very likely that they will explode and eat up all the benefits of the Modern Classics School.
this is too scary.
It is related to the common interests of the entire faction and the nobles, and those with vested interests are anxious.
They are anxious, they are really anxious!
The top gentry and the heads of the first-class gentry composed of the Jinwen Jing School finally could no longer sit back and watch success or failure like this.
Some large families living in Luoyang held an emergency meeting. These high-ranking noble families gathered together to discuss and exchange views on the current situation and share their opinions.
In summary, they reached several important conclusions.
First, eunuchs must have played a big role in this matter, and they have an unshirkable responsibility for this matter.
Second, there must be people from the Ancient Classics School who cooperated with the eunuchs and exposed the conflicts among the scholars to the eunuchs, so that the eunuchs and the emperor could master the correct password to divide the scholars.
Third, the long-suppressed resentment of the Ancient Classics School made it impossible for them to refuse the temptations offered by the emperor and eunuchs. The future political situation was extremely unfriendly to the Modern Classics School.
