Compared with the aging Modern Literature School, the current style of the Ancient Literature School is completely different.
The defeats one after another made the old guys of Jinwen Jing school lose their face. In order to save their respect, some old guys who usually don't come forward took the initiative to participate in the debate.
They don't dare to cause trouble to the juniors.
Because it doesn't make much sense.
If you win, you won't win with force; if you lose, you will die immediately.
Moreover, when they looked at Liu Bei, who was so powerful in combat and so powerful, they also felt terrified. They felt that if they really wanted to debate, they might not be his opponents.
When it comes to political struggles, they still have their own way of doing things. They are experts at all kinds of conspiracies and calculations, full of bad intentions, and confusing right and wrong to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
But when it comes to academics, they are really not good enough.
They don't know how long they have been addicted to power and neglected academics.
Therefore, they could only go to middle-aged scholars like Lu Zhi and Fu Qian who had been famous for a long time to try to regain their position from them.
However, although Lu Zhifuqian and others were not as angry and their fighting power was not as strong as Liu Bei's, they were better because they were steady and fought back and forth with these old guys without leakage.
After days of debate, they couldn't win, and were picked on and criticized by Lu Zhi, Fu Qian and others.
All face was lost.
Even though the big bosses have failed, they are still unable to win. The weakness of the modern literature school is completely exposed in the eyes of the world.
As a result, the large-scale Ancient Classics School suddenly exploded and could no longer be suppressed.
In this turbulent counterattack by the Ancient Classics School against the Modern Classics School, Yuan and Xun, who took the initiative to stay out of the incident, seemed quite calm. They did not intend to fall into the quagmire of the Modern Classics School.
At the end of September in the fifth year of Guanghe's reign, when the Jinwen Jing School was completely defeated on the battlefield of public opinion, Yuan Wei met with Xun Shuang, an important figure in the Xun family who came from Chang'an and secretly entered Beijing.
Although the Xun family also has a family inheritance of modern classics, Xun Shuang himself saw through a certain trend, followed the trend of the times, and had already begun to study ancient classics.
Like the Yuan family, the Xun family is also a family with relatively flexible moral and political bottom lines. The wife of Xun Yu, an important member of the new generation of the family, is the daughter of Tang Heng, the official minister of the Central Committee. This is closely related to the relationship between the Yuan family and the eunuchs. resemblance.
Previously, Xun Shuang was implicated in the calamity of the Party and had to live in seclusion to avoid chaos. He hid in Chang'an and lived in seclusion for a long time. He has been concentrating on creation and writing books, planning to follow Zheng Xuan's path.
But this time things were so big, and as the most powerful person in the Xun family today, he couldn't stay out of it.
So he secretly went to Beijing and met with several of his brothers. Then he was appointed by the brothers as the plenipotentiary representative of the Yingchuan Xun family and the representative of the Runan Yuan family, Yuan Wei, to meet. The two families were ready to discuss some key matters.
On the day of the meeting, the news that Liu Bei once again defeated the six-man siege at Yuan Shao's banquet spread throughout Luoyang City. Scholars from the Ancient Classics School frantically built momentum and celebrated for Liu Bei, causing Yuan Wei and Xun who had just arrived in Beijing to Shuangdu learned quickly.
"It's great to be young. At the age of twenty-one, when you are full of energy, and to have such talent, one person can challenge six or nine people and still win completely. It is so amazing and talented. No wonder Lu Ziqian has to fight even in battles. Take him with you and teach him carefully, and make him a closed disciple."
Xun Shuang picked up a glass of rice wine, drank a little, then put down the glass and said with a smile: "Looking back on those days, I was not so high-spirited. If I think about it carefully, I am really a little jealous... I still haven't mastered the skills of cultivating my moral character. "
Yuan Wei shook his head.
"Although Liu Xuande is talented, it is not a good thing to show off his talents and not know how to keep a low profile and bide his time."
Xun Shuang looked at him with a smile and said, "Isn't it really a good thing?"
"……………………"
Yuan Wei was silent for a while and then said: "In most cases, it is not a good thing."
"What now?"
"Xunjun, just say whatever you want to say..."
Yuan Wei sighed: "Now that things have reached this point, what else can't be discussed between you and me?"
Xun Shuang agreed with Yuan Wei's words and nodded.
"Indeed, although my father had already expected that it would be a bad thing for Jinwen classics to become complicated and prophetic, and it would lead to disaster sooner or later, he did not expect that disaster would come so soon."
"What you are doing now cannot be judged by common sense."
Yuan Wei shook his head and said: "What the eunuchs did was largely due to the permission of the emperor, and even the emperor may not have personally participated in the planning. Isn't that the reason why we are passive everywhere? Today's ancient scholars have launched an attack. We are losing ground and losing face..."
"Not only is it a loss of face, it's simply stupid to the extreme!"
Xun Shuang wiped away the smile on his face, with a fierce look on his face, and said: "I only focus on the immediate interests and fail to see the long-term. I blindly suppress the Ancient Classics School without giving any room for relaxation, forcing them to completely fight against the emperor." There are eunuchs standing together!
The emperor and the eunuchs both knew that they needed to recruit helpers, but they didn't know it! Thinking that you are powerful and that your power cannot be divided, you end up pushing your friends to your enemies. You are just looking for death! Maybe it will drag us to death together! How unreasonable! "
Yuan Wei was not surprised that Xun Shuang changed his face instantly.
Among the Eight Dragons of the Xun family, in Yuan Wei's opinion, the only one who can truly be called a dragon is Xun Shuang.
Most of his other seven brothers are average-looking, well-behaved Confucian scholars, but it was only with [Godly Lord] Xun Shu, an awesome father, and Xun Shuang, an outstanding brother, that they ascended to heaven.
This is also the reason why he is willing to meet and chat with Xun Shuang.
A family that doesn't know how to be flexible has no need to cooperate, but the Yingchuan Xun family has certain flexibility and is not rigid.
"What Mr. Xun said is absolutely true. I have disagreed with the continued suppression of the ancient literature school from the beginning. Times have changed, and people who study ancient literature are everywhere. How to deal with so many people? You don't want to win over, but you still suppress it. How short-sighted. ! How short-sighted!”
Yuan Wei shook his head and sighed for a while, then looked at Xun Shuang and whispered: "The situation has come to this point. I think the situation is irreversible. Has Jun Xun noticed that from last month to now, Jinshang and the eunuch have been inexplicably quiet? Nothing was done, nothing was said.”
"I noticed it, but this is the scariest thing. Who knows what they are thinking?"
Xun Shuang whispered: "The general trend now is that the party's restraints on us are still there, and the party's restraints on the ancient literature school have been lifted. In two or three years, they will be able to enter the house and gain power. By then, it will be difficult for us to say, although the power is Good, but it can easily become a passing cloud."
"So, Mr. Xun, what's your clever plan?"
"Yuan Jun asked me about my clever plan. Is he afraid that he also has a clever plan?"
Xun Shuang stared at Yuan Wei.
Yuan Wei pursed his lips and laughed, then handed over a pen and a bamboo slip and said, "How about we write down our strategies together and then exchange them?"
"Very good."
Xun Shuang smiled instantly and agreed with Yuan Wei's suggestion.
The two wrote for a while, and then exchanged words with each other.
After just one glance, the two of them laughed as if they had a sympathies with each other. When they looked up again, they looked at each other and laughed.
"As expected of Mr. Xun!"
"The same goes for Yuan Jun. I can only say that our thoughts are quite consistent."
"So, just do this?"
"Just do it!"
The two high-fived each other three times as an agreement.
So on the first day of October in the fifth year of Guanghe's reign, when the dispute between modern and ancient literature intensified, the new Situ, Yuan Wei, the spokesperson of the Yuan family, and Xun Shuang, the imprisoned party member and the spokesperson of the Xun family, publicly submitted their petitions to Emperor Liu Hong.
On the grounds that "Gongyang Chunqiu" was out of date, they requested Emperor Liu Hong to follow the example of Emperor Guangwu, dismiss Gongyang, and establish "Zuo Shi Chunqiu" as the only officially recognized Spring and Autumn Classic to represent orthodox scholarship, and to set up a doctorate.
(End of chapter)
