Zheng Xuan was a little strange when he heard Liu Bei say that he was dissatisfied with the current situation.
"Isn't this a fact? Isn't it an absolute advantage for the other party's thirteen family laws to have one of our own?"
"The other party has an advantage, but we don't have an advantage?"
Liu Bei said with a smile: "Mr. Zheng, during the Taixue debate that day, there was a huge crowd of tens of thousands of students in Luoyang. It was endless as far as the eye could see. Most of those people were scholars of our ancient literature school. That day, the Taixue debate was won." , the cheers resounded throughout the world, even the emperor living in the deep palace could hear it, so the next day, the Zuo family won the Spring and Autumn Period."
Zheng Xuan didn't seem to understand what Liu Bei meant.
"you mean?"
"Mr. Zheng, why do you think we can win?"
"There are many reasons."
"What's the biggest reason?"
Zheng Xuan looked at Liu Bei.
"Does Xuande want to boast?"
Liu Bei scratched his face.
"Bei is not being modest, nor does he want to erase his own role, but Mr. Zheng, I believe that the fundamental reason why we can win is because of what people want, and because most of the world's scholars study ancient scriptures. , and we happened to bring them together at this critical moment, so the people's will completely overwhelmed the Jinwen School."
Zheng Xuan was slightly surprised.
"Xuande, if it hadn't been for you and your teacher to fight bravely, I think Zuo's Chunqiu would never have been able to win this victory. Even if they did win, it wouldn't be now."
Liu Bei nodded.
"Bei does not deny this, but without the support of the people and the support of the vast number of scholars of the Ancient Literature School, Bei believes that even relying only on Teacher Bei and other great sages, we cannot win. The support and prestige of tens of thousands of people Zhentian, even the emperor cannot ignore it.”
Zheng Xuan lowered his head and was silent for a while, then slowly raised his head and looked at Liu Bei.
"Xuande, what you want to say is that one of the important reasons for our victory that time was that the support for us from the scholars of the Ancient Literature School in Luoyang reached the point where people's hearts aspired to it?"
"exactly."
Liu Bei said loudly: "Without the enthusiastic support of tens of thousands of scholars studying ancient classics in Luoyang, does Zheng Gong think that only a dozen families can seize a doctorate from the Modern Literature School? What about that? Japan's momentum has become so united that it's hard to get angry. When things get to that point, they are unstoppable.
Later, when Yang Ci slandered the teacher, we were unable to fight against him due to lack of power. At that time, many scholars from the ancient literature school learned about this and were filled with righteous indignation. They took the initiative to stand up to argue for us and redress the grievances of the teacher with great momentum. , Yang Ci's people had to give in for this. "
Zheng Xuan stroked his beard and thought for a while, gradually gained some insights and nodded slowly.
"That makes sense..."
"At the beginning, we didn't even master the family law, but we won. Now that we have mastered the family law, we are more powerful and should have a better chance of winning. Why are we considered unable to win?"
Liu Bei's question hit the point. Zheng Xuan was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to answer this question.
After a while, Zheng Xuan realized what Liu Bei meant.
"Xuande, you mean that no scholar from Luoyang will come to our aid this time?"
"Sounding support is one way, but the scholars in Luoyang can do far more than that."
Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Mr. Zheng, I think that the ancient literary school is still far less powerful than the current literary school. However, the main reason why we were able to successfully survive the previous two crises and even turn defeat into victory is because of the will of the people.
Even if the Luoyang scholars were not officials and had no power, one person would be weak, but what about ten people? What about a hundred people? What about a thousand people? What about ten thousand people? Mr. Zheng, the reason why we defeated the enemy was not Teacher Beihe, but the people's hearts. "
Zheng Xuan looked at Liu Bei for a while before sighing deeply.
"Xuande, now I understand why Ziqian is willing to accept you as his disciple."
"Mr. Zheng is so complimentary."
"This is not a compliment, this is what you deserve."
Zheng Xuan shook his head and said slowly: "Before you mentioned it, I never thought about it, but when you mentioned it, I thought about it again, and I know you are right. Just rely on me, even if there are Yuan and Xun It would be too arrogant to want to fight against the Jinwen school.
The reason why they were able to win was indeed due to the great help of the Luoyang scholars. Although they were unknown, once they gathered together, they became the people's heart. Everyone knows it, but why doesn’t anyone mention it? "
Liu Bei pretended to sigh for a while.
"It can only be said that in the eyes of many people, they are just people who study ancient literature and are not members of our ancient literature school. This view is very dangerous in Bei's view."
This is not Liu Bei's alarmism.
In Liu Bei's eyes, the Ancient Literature School should be a large group united from top to bottom, including both the upper-level elite families and the lower-level ordinary scholars.
But that doesn't seem to be the case to others.
The Ancient Literature School is just a group composed of many Fanyue families and future Fanyue families as well as their disciples and former officials. It has nothing to do with ordinary scholars who study ancient literary classics.
Ordinary scholars who came from powerful landowners are not generally considered to be members of the ancient literature school by the upper echelons of the ancient literature school.
The dispute between the ancient literature school and the modern literature school did have substantive incidents of party struggle, but the two parties were more like two grassroots teams than political parties.
Previously, at Liu Bei's suggestion, out of the need to fight against the Modern Literature School, the upper echelons of the Ancient Literature School unanimously agreed to hold regular meetings at Zheng Xuan's house to discuss the recent situation. If there were any emergencies, emergency meetings could be held immediately. .
Anyway, the meeting place was at Zheng Xuan's house, because Zheng Xuan was everyone's leader.
Zheng Xuan himself is good at everything, and he is happy to use his home as a gathering place for everyone.
The people attending the meeting were all the heads of the major inherited families, as well as the outstanding children and protégés of their respective families, etc.
Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhi and others were mainly responsible for deliberation, while outstanding disciples and disciples represented by Liu Bei were in the audience. Without the permission and questions of their elders, they could not express their opinions.
Liu Bei knew at that time that, as a primitive Caotai group that had just gathered together, the Ancient Literature School did not have a clear coordination mechanism from top to bottom, nor did it have a power mechanism belonging to the new aggregation of the "Ancient Literature School".
After the upper-level bosses get together to discuss, if there is nothing special, just pretend that nothing happened.
If there are very urgent matters that need to be implemented, then go back and mobilize your own disciples' forces to do the work.
Whoever has the power to handle these emergencies should handle them. If it is handled well, everyone will be happy, but if it is not handled well, everyone will be sad.
Like the Modern Literature School, although the Ancient Literature School has gradually condensed into an entity, with a mutual negotiation mechanism at the upper level and a clear interest orientation and distinction between friend and foe, there is no coordinated and unified execution mechanism for implementation.
This means that the ancient literature school is still in disarray.
In essence, the Ancient Literature School is a familial union of the Fang Yue family and the potential Fang Yue family, similar to a "confederacy" in a national organization, rather than a real political organization.
How could such a coalition, which was essentially the same as the Jinwen School, be able to defeat the Jinwen School, which was more powerful in terms of family power?
Without the support of the imperial power and the eunuch group, the school of ancient literature could only rely on the passage of time to wear out the school of modern literature.
This is worse than competition, not competition.
(End of chapter)
