In the current situation, Jinwen School is in a very difficult situation.
They will face a joint attack from the Ancient Classics School and the imperial power. Whether they can sustain it is really a question.
Some frustrated old guys are red-eyed about the benefits and power they are about to lose. Fueled by anger and fear, they even plan to launch an offensive to stigmatize the Ancient Classics School and label the entire Ancient Classics School as a filth that cooperates with eunuchs. They must be completely socialized and lose their status as scholars.
They plan to stand on the moral high ground and launch a murderous and horrific attack on the Ancient Classics School.
But before they could finish speaking, Yuan Wei, the speaker of the Yuan family, shook his head.
"In today's world, there are many scholars who study ancient scriptures and few scholars who study modern scriptures. If we act like this, I'm afraid... we will be the last heretics."
After Yuan Wei finished speaking, all the vested interests present fell silent.
The Ancient Classics School is not without channels to express its voice. It is not a little ant without the ability to resist and will not be easily crushed to death. And to be honest, in the Secretariat of the Han Dynasty’s powerful department, the Ancient Classics School has already occupied a relative advantage.
In order to maintain privileges, maintain interests, maintain power, and protect the family's prosperity and wealth for thousands of years, the fourteen legal masters of the Jinwen Jing School took the initiative to close the upward path and cut off most outsiders who wanted to enter this top power circle. the way.
This ensures the scarcity of top resources, ensures that the controllers of the Fourteenth Law have absolute control over the powerful and rising stars, and protects their interests to the maximum extent.
But at the same time, it has also resulted in a great decrease in the number of students of Modern Classics, which has led to the end of Modern Classics in an academic sense and the possibility of self-innovation and self-development has been lost.
Although it is said that rare things are more valuable, there are always times when this saying does not apply.
Such as now.
The other party is not a common people without the power to fight back. They are also a group with classic inheritance, culture and knowledge, and the number is larger. Almost all the second- and third-rate small gentry are people who study ancient classics, and they are all landlords and powerful people who want to make progress. Learned from ancient classics masters.
If you call them all eunuchs and lackeys...
More than 80% of the scholars in the entire Han Dynasty were eunuchs and lackeys.
Is that okay?
It is really impossible for them to make a comeback, and they will definitely be wiped out completely. The Five Classics and Fourteen Laws may not become history, but they themselves will definitely become history.
These guys don't want to become history. Even if the entire country and nation are to be destroyed, they will choose to stay until the end. It is absolutely impossible for them to voluntarily withdraw from the stage of history.
They began to frantically search for a solution to the problem.
The Yuan family represented by Yuan Wei has always had a relatively flexible moral and political bottom line, so the advice given was relatively kind.
"The most important thing we should do now is not to fight, but to win more people from the Ancient Classics School to our side. Don't forcefully embarrass them. Give in, step back, and don't let them get too close to the emperor's eunuchs. Otherwise it’s really over.”
However, Jinwen Jingxue has been suppressing ancient scriptures for nearly two hundred years, preventing them from entering the palace to maintain their own power and interests. They rely on zero-sum game methods.
Not every family has such flexible moral and political bottom lines as the Yuan family.
Although it has become a trend to "learn Confucianism" since the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are not a few who study both ancient classics and modern classics, most of the scholars in the modern classics family can still sit upright and know where their interests come from.
With the foundation of modern classics, they can also study ancient classics as a hobby.
And without the support of Jinwen Jingxue and family privileges to back them up, they would have to get involved with the rising stars of the Guwenjing school.
Scholars from the Ancient Classics School had relatively few advancement opportunities, so the internal involution within the school was very serious, and everyone who came out of the school was a Juan King or a Juan Emperor.
The representative figure is Zheng Xuan, the god of scriptures. He is the real god of scrolls, and he has created a new era of scrolls.
This is not the case with the modern Wenjing school.
Because of the monopoly, we have the confidence not to roll up.
Because there is no need for scrolls, the successors of the Jinwen school can happily win and laugh at the group of scroll kings of the Ancient Classics school, so that they cannot defeat the accumulation of their three or five generations of ancestors in ten years of hard work.
Once the monopoly is gone, the gentry disciples of the Jinwen Jing school will have to go out and take the exams, otherwise they will have no food to eat.
As for them, who have not won a scroll for a long time, they will definitely not be able to compete with those masters of ancient scriptures at the scroll king level in a short period of time. Once there is a stage where they have to compete head-on, the scholars of the modern literature school will definitely lose their shit.
Therefore, no matter what, they cannot give up their status and cannot tolerate the counterattack of the Ancient Classics School against the Modern Classics School.
This vested interest will never be compromised!
Even if the trend of history is like this, then let the trend of history crush us!
Until then, we will never give in!
Yuan Wei was helpless and very angry, and finally left the meeting angrily, saying before leaving - you will regret it.
Xun Yue, the representative of the Xun family who later attended the meeting, also left the meeting place. Before leaving, he shook his head and sighed: "People in the world have complained about us for a long time. How can we give up when the wind blows?"
The rest of the people were worried, but their greed for power and interests made them unable to tolerate other possibilities, and they voluntarily gave up other possibilities.
In their view, the Yuan family has a flexible moral and political bottom line, and the Xun family has many talents. It not only has the advantages of modern classics, but also has the masters of ancient classics.
But others don't have it, or don't want to have it.
Of course, this meeting still has an outcome.
At the meeting, the old guys of the Jinwen Jing school determined the main consciousness of confrontation rather than alliance. Except for a few families headed by the Yuan family in Runan who were opposed, most of the vested interests of the Jinwen Jing school were unanimous. Attitude.
He will never give in and fight against the Ancient Classics School and the imperial power to the end.
So in the process of the ancient Wen Jing school gradually awakening and condensing into a real entity, the Jin Wen Jing school seems to have also gone through the same process.
Two tit-for-tat political and academic entities began to take shape, and two primitive parties began to gradually take shape.
An unimagined situation arises.
Because they had the political advantage, the scholars of the Jinwen Jing school suddenly rose up and submitted a large number of petitions to the emperor. They spoke out in all kinds of unpleasant and fierce words, demanding that the emperor should not favor one over the other, and should not elevate the status of the ancient classics without neglecting others. Pay attention to Jinwen Jingxue.
At the same time as the above list, they also wrote articles criticizing the ancient classics, saying that the ancient classics were pseudo-study, a forgery by later generations, and not the true inheritance of Confucius at all. Their modern classics were the inheritance of Confucius and the real way to govern the country and bring peace to the world. technique.
They used the interaction between heaven and man and the unity of heaven and man to shape the supremacy of imperial power, and provided theoretical guidance for the political policy of the Han Dynasty for four hundred years. The entire political rules of the Han Dynasty were designed in accordance with the meaning of Jinwen Jingxue.
If the emperor wants to support the study of classical literature, is he trying to carry out reforms within the entire Han Dynasty?
What serious consequences this will have, is the emperor aware of it?
Because of fear and worry, they took out the methods used by their predecessors more than a hundred years ago to fight against the strong rise of ancient classics, and tried to strangle them in the cradle.
However……
The Ancient Literature School back then could be said to be a baby, but today's Ancient Literature School is a muscular man eight feet tall and weighing one hundred and eighty feet.
Stifle?
In the cradle?
This was really the coldest joke that Guanghe had made before winter for five years.
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