Liu Hong was obviously very satisfied with the operation suggested by Liu Bei.
By changing the party's custodial orders and wooing scholars from the Ancient Classics School, we successfully promoted this three-pronged joint operation between the emperor, eunuchs, and the Ancient Classics School. We also succeeded in prompting the Yuan and Xun clans to rebel, and successfully stabbed the Modern Literature School in the back.
After this blow, the Jinwen school was almost in a state of decline academically. It was completely in decline and unable to inspire.
Even in politics, they lost some officials who held positions in the Shangshutai, and their power was severely suppressed, which was very unfavorable to them.
As a political force, they really did something wrong, took the wrong path, suffered a complete defeat, and were defeated like a mountain.
Even Liu Hong and the eunuch group were prepared to follow closely to promote the officialization of "Zhou Guan Li", and also to depose the "Li" of the Modern Literature School, thus beating the Modern Literature School to death with one blow.
But at this moment, Liu Bei put forward a different view.
He stopped Liu Hong's actions.
“Your Majesty, although the Modern Literature School is decadent, old, and pedantic, their existence is a threat, a check, and a deterrent to the Ancient Literature School.
I believe that the Modern Literature School cannot be completely deposed, otherwise, within twenty or thirty years, the Ancient Literature School will become the Modern Literature School today, and it will become even more powerful. "
After listening to Liu Bei's suggestion, Liu Hong frowned and thought for a while.
After a while, he looked at Liu Bei.
"Xuande, with this sudden change, you have achieved great achievements for yourself. I heard that the Liu family of Zhuo County has been promised the inheritance of "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals". For you, modern literature is Isn’t it a good thing that the faction is destroyed?”
Liu Bei shook his head and bowed again.
"I have never regarded myself as a scholar. I only regard myself as a clan member of the Han Dynasty and a descendant of the Miao Dynasty. I don't care about the family. As for the status of a scholar, it is only necessary for me to serve your majesty and the Han Dynasty. To obtain.
With this level of status, I can have better and deeper contact with the core of the scholars and make suggestions for Your Majesty. As for everything that comes with it, I need it to serve Your Majesty. Your Majesty and the great man are what I have in mind. the most important. "
When Zhang Rang heard this, he was deeply impressed by Liu Bei's art of discourse and political consciousness.
With this realization, this skill of speaking, and this situation, Zhang Rang felt that if Liu Bei didn't have the sword below, his position as chief eunuch would probably be in jeopardy.
When Liu Hong heard this, he was silent for a long time.
Then he personally poured a glass of rice wine for Liu Bei and handed it to Liu Bei with both hands.
Liu Bei took it with both hands.
"It is a blessing for the Han family to have descendants like you. It is also a blessing for me to have a fellow clan member like you. You have done a good job and spoken well. We are all descendants of the Han family and descendants of our ancestors. We are all descendants of the great ancestor. The surname Liu is the blood of our ancestors, and nothing is more important than this identity."
Liu Hong raised his glass, Liu Bei also raised his glass, and then they drank the glass of wine together.
After Liu Bei's explanation of the internal relations among scholars, Liu Hong obviously had a deeper understanding of this, knew what was most important to scholars, and also understood the current struggle between the modern school of literature and the ancient school of literature. the general situation.
Obviously, the ancient literary school has begun to become politically stronger. Although the current literary school is losing ground, a centipede is still alive and a dead camel is bigger than a horse.
Thirteen of the fourteen schools of thought in the Five Classics belong to the Jinwen school, and they still have strong political energy within the central court.
For now, Liu Bei believes that Liu Hong does not need to directly launch any attack on the Jinwen school itself.
He only needs to slowly raise several ancient classics such as "Fei Shiyi", "Guwen Shangshu", and "Mao Shi" in the years to come, and let them compete with modern official studies.
"Zhou Guan Li" cannot be easily promoted to the throne. It can even be said that "Zhou Guan Li" needs to be temporarily frozen.
That is the life and death line of the Modern Literature School. Once it loses the official status of "Ritual", the Modern Literature School will fall into a state of brain death.
Now that "Gongyang Chunqiu" has been lost, the modern literature school has been paralyzed from the lower body. If the remaining ancient Chinese classics come to the forefront, it will make the modern literature school paralyzed at the top.
However, only "Zhou Guan Li" cannot be easily promoted to the throne, and it must also give the modern literature school a glimmer of hope.
It only makes sense for official learning to confront official learning, and if the Modern Literature School hadn't been too ruthless and completely angered the Ancient Literature School, Liu Bei even wanted to suggest that the Gongyang Chunqiu School should not be dismissed.
If you keep it, you will feel like a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contend.
“The contention of a hundred schools of thought is not only for the opening and development of academics, but also for the various schools of thought to check and balance each other and undermine each other, so that they cannot form a unified understanding, cannot form a unified interest, and cannot allow any one school to come out on top.
In this way, when the Ancient Literature School and the Modern Literature School are in constant dispute, Your Majesty can intervene in it, make a judgment, establish prestige, and restore the authority of the three previous emperors. If the Ancient Literature School is allowed to dominate, the world will only know Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhi, Fu Qian, Ma Rixi, not knowing that His Majesty is there. "
Under Liu Bei's suggestion, Liu Hong deeply felt that what Liu Bei said was reasonable.
He doesn't want to be a fool who makes wedding clothes for others.
"Xuan De is right. The Jin Wen Jing School monopolizes the Fourteenth Doctor, so it feels like it dominates the world, which makes me feel a great threat. However, if the Ancient Wen Jing School comes up from behind and takes its place, it will obviously not be a good thing."
"What your Majesty said is true."
Liu Bei complimented.
"Hahahaha, what Xuande said won my heart."
Liu Hong took Liu Bei's hand intimately and said: "I understand Xuande like a fish in water. Xuande, although you are young now and cannot suddenly be in a high position, I will always ask Zhang Rang to find you and talk to you privately." Please contact me individually, tell me everything you know, give me advice, and help me."
"I am a member of the Han clan, and I only care about the Han Dynasty. I will suffer all my troubles because of the Han Dynasty. I will die even if I die!"
Liu Bei prostrated himself on the spot and loudly expressed his loyalty to Liu Hong.
Liu Hong smiled even more happily, and rewarded Liu Bei with two hundred taels of gold with a wave of his hand, asking him to take it home and press it in the bottom of the box to increase the family's reserves. In the future, his Liu family will still need money to carry forward it.
Liu Bei thanked Liu Hong hurriedly and accepted Liu Hong's reward.
In Liu Bei's view, Liu Hong, who grew up in the company of eunuchs, did not have the ability to navigate the world.
He may have sensed the crisis of imperial power, but his actions did not change the declining situation of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but instead promoted it.
If he can make some corrections more or less, if this correction can work a little bit, then some benign changes may occur in the devastating future.
This was crucial to his future rationale.
After this political storm, Liu Bei's approach to his unimagined route became clearer.
He believes that troubled times are not a good thing, and extremely terrifying and long-lasting troubled times like the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty are everyone's nightmare.
In troubled times, the cards can be reshuffled, but it is the most bloody and cruel way of shuffling, which is not friendly to the upper class, let alone ordinary people.
During the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, the population of the entire Chinese state dropped sharply. From the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, at least half of the population was lost, exceeding 30 million people. The excessive population loss directly led to the subsequent inward migration of the Five Hus and the hundreds of years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The chaos of secession.
For more than three hundred years, there was no daylight, and people were inferior to dogs.
He hates troubled times, he hates troubled times.
But sometimes, a certain degree of chaos is also a good thing for the future peace and prosperity.
Liu Bei thought about it over and over and felt that he needed to treat troubled times dialectically.
First of all, he can never accept the original version of the chaotic times that came at the end of the Han Dynasty, with ten rooms and nine empty houses and no roosters crowing for thousands of miles. He would rather die to prevent it. He can never accept the ending of the bones being exposed in the wild.
The next true unification must not wait until the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
But at the same time, he needs a certain degree of chaos to destroy some outdated things. He cannot allow some dirty existence to speed through this terrible level without any damage and smoothly enter the next chapter of history. That would be too much for them. Tender.
They don't deserve it.
Liu Bei is not a gentle person either.
Therefore, this unimagined road is not easy...
(End of chapter)
