I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 364 The Future of Confucianism

In this way, there was a lot of trouble in history, and the Han family was almost faced with another Jianyuan New Deal of "the young emperor was abolished as the emperor". With Liu Sheng's light words, he completely deviated from the original direction .

——Jianyuan New Deal, completely negated by Emperor Sheng and Empress Dowager Dou;

The political career of the core figure, Dou Ying, was completely ruined, and even lost the position of prime minister who was already inseparable;

Zhao Wan, a doctor of "Poetry", received forty sticks outside Dongshi, and his face was disgraced;

Confucian scholar Wang Zang was publicly executed outside Dongshi, which sounded the alarm for scholars all over the world.

Today, another person who hates Confucianism...
For similar situations, people in the world have long been accustomed to it.

After all, since Emperor Taizu Gao, the emperors of the old Liu family were hardly accustomed to Confucianism.

If there is any emperor who is a little more tolerant of Confucianism, it is Emperor Taizong Xiaowen who is kind to all schools of thought, and even the vast majority of human beings.

But this time—in the stillborn 'Jianyuan New Deal', the whole of Chang'an did not produce many ripples. A fact was only straightforwardly placed in front of the people of the world.

——The bitter days of Confucianism are not over yet;
At least during the reign of Liu Sheng today, the bitter days of Confucianism are far from coming to an end...

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"Shen Pei?"

Walking in the back hall of Weiyang Palace, to the palace road in the front hall of the Xuanshi, while walking, he heard Zhou Ren beside him mentioning the reaction of all parts of the world to the abolition of the "Jianyuan New Deal" in recent days, On Liu Sheng's relaxed and evil face, there was only a hint of hesitation quietly.

"Lu Shen Gong Shen Pei..."

"Come to Chang'an?"

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"What do you mean?"

"Invoke the teacher to ask the crime, or bear the thorn to ask the crime..."

Hearing this question, he saw the change in Liu Sheng's expression. On top of Zhou Ren's serious face, there was also a little relaxed smile.

"His Majesty smiled."

"Shen Pei is a native of Lu, but he cannot be regarded as a 'Lu Confucian' in the true sense."

"It is enough to see that this person is not the same as Lu Ru and his ilk just because he ruled the "Poetry" rather than the "Li".

"I came to Chang'an this time. I think it's because my disciples caused such a disaster. I think that as a teacher, I should personally apologize to His Majesty."

"As for 'invoking the teacher', of course there is no way to talk about it..."

As Zhou Renyu said this easily, Liu Sheng's frown relaxed a little, and after thinking for a moment, he nodded thoughtfully.

Liu Sheng is not unfamiliar with Lu Shengong Shenpei.

It's not that Liu Sheng has met or dealt with this person, but Liu Sheng is quite clear about the origin of this person.

Shen Pei is his name, and 'Shen Gong' and 'Lu Shen Gong' are the academic honorific titles people all over the world give to Shen Pei.

Just like Confucius, who is called Confucius by more people.

Lu Shengong Shen Pei was roughly born in the 28th year of Qin Shihuang (219 BC), and now he is over [-] years old, so he is undoubtedly very old.

However, Liu Sheng was not worried about Shen Pei's physical condition, or even his decision to travel to Chang'an at the age of seventy.

——Because Liu Sheng remembers it very clearly: during the reign of the first emperor Liu Qi, Duke Shen Pei of Lu Shen came to Chang'an more than once.

Although he doesn't know why he came here, Liu Sheng still vaguely remembers how much that old man, who was obviously very old but still walking like flying, really shocked him...

Speaking of Shen Pei's background, it actually has a lot of background.

Lu Shen Gong Lu Shen Gong, 'Shen' is the surname, and 'Lu' is naturally the native place - Shen Pei is from Lu.

But just as Zhou Ren just said: Shen Pei, who was born in Ludi, did not specialize in the study of "Li" like the vast majority of Confucian scholars who were born in Ludi, but turned to Youzhi "Poetry".

According to legend, when Shen Pei was young, he studied "Poetry" under the disciple of the great Confucian Fu Qiubo, and he was the only younger brother of Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang: Liu Jiao, King of Chu and Yuan, can also be regarded as brothers of the same school.

In the sixth year of Emperor Taizu Gao (201 BC), the young Shen Pei was appointed as a Chinese doctor of Chu by his fellow apprentice: Liu Jiao, king of Chu.

In the 12th year of Emperor Gao of Taizu (195 BC), the imperial conquest was in person to quell the chaos of Huainan Wang Ying (Tattoo). On the way back, Taizu Liu Bang, who passed by Ludi, summoned Fuqiu Bo and Shen Pei in Lunan Palace. A group of disciples, including Fuqiubo, went to face the saint together;

That meeting was actually not very meaningful—the great ancestor Liu Bang passed by and heard that his younger brother’s teacher was nearby, so he went to meet him. "Great Wind Song" went.

After all, it is well known: Taizu Liu Bang has always disliked Confucian scholars, and he especially disliked Confucian scholars in Ludi.

why?
Hey!
Whoever it is, I am afraid that the Confucian scholars in Lu will not like everything that happened to Taizu Liu Bang.

It's not even an exaggeration to say: For that matter, Liu Bang didn't order Lu to be killed to bleed into a river, so Liu Bang's "kind heart" is considered!
In the fifth year of Emperor Gao of the Han Taizu (202 BC), the overlord Xiang Yu was trapped in the siege of Gaixia, and was besieged by the Han army led by the Qi king Han Xin, or the allied forces of the princes;
In the end, the overlord Xiang Yu, who had no way to escape and did not want to escape any more, drew his sword and slayed himself on the banks of the Wujiang River, which was only one river away from the base camp: Ludi.

and then?
How many people have noticed what happened after the overlord Wujiang committed suicide?

The influence of the vast majority of people, the overlord Xiang Yu's suicide in Wujiang, is already the sad and beautiful ending of this story.

—— Lie Ma Wuzhao did not want to abandon the Overlord, and the beauty Yu Ji did not want to abandon the Overlord, but the Overlord himself was "silent in the face of Jiangdong's elders", so he drew his sword and slayed himself.

But among the "subsequent matters" that later generations have not noticed, there are at least two things that people need to know.

One: After the siege of Gaixia was formed, Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty, publicly ordered that those who obtained Xiangji, regardless of life or death, would be rewarded with a thousand gold and seal ten thousand households!
Therefore, after Xiang Yu drew his sword and killed himself, to be precise, at the moment when Xiang Yu fell to the ground, tens of hundreds of figures of Han soldiers rushed out, and killed each other as if they were fighting in battle;

The final winners are Wang Yi who got Xiang Yu's head, Yang Xi who cut off Xiang Yu's left leg, Lu Matong who snatched Xiang Yu's fragments, Lu Sheng who cut off Xiang Yu's left arm, and Yang Wuwu who cut off Xiang Yu's right leg. people.

The reward of "rewarding thousands of gold and sealing ten thousand households" promised by Liu Bang was finally divided up by these five people.

Wang Yi, who won the head of Xiang Yu, was finally named Du Yanhou, with 1700 households in Shiyi;
Yang Xi, who got Xiang Yu's left leg, was named Marquis of Chiquan, with 1900 households in Shiyi;
Lu Matong, who asked Xiang Yu to say the phrase "Isn't this my old friend?", although he only robbed some fragments of flesh and blood, was finally named Zhongshuihou, with 1500 households in Shiyi;
Lu Sheng, who snatched Xiang Yu's left arm, was named Marquis of Nieyang, with 1500 households in Shiyi;
Yang Wu, who snatched Xiang Yu's right foot, was named Wu Fanghou, with 700 households in Shiyi.

Why do people need to know this?
——Because none of these five people died well!
From the establishment of the Han Dynasty to the death of the first ancestors of the five Chehou families, the "ghost" of the overlord has always plagued these five families.

As for who is playing tricks behind the scenes, who is the farce behind the "Overlord's ghost lingers" again and again, it is really intriguing.

Second: After Xiang Yu's death, almost all parts of the world are determined by the spread of the proclamation, and the trend of reunifying the world under the Han Dynasty is unstoppable.

But Xiang Yu's last reservation: Ludi, under the call of the local Confucian scholars, resolutely refused to surrender, and even took the entire region as a unit to wear hemp and mourning for the dead overlord.

——In most people's minds, Xiang Yu is the Overlord, the Overlord of Western Chu.

But in fact, the earliest imperial conferment on Xiang Yu by Emperor Yi of the late Qin Dynasty and King Huai of Chu was actually Duke Lu.

Confucian scholars in Ludi said: Our king has died, we should wear sackcloth and mourning for our king;
The king of Han has killed our king, and we are unwilling to surrender to the king of Han.

If the matter ends here—the Confucian scholars in Ludi really "sworn to the death and not to surrender" as they said, then it can be said: This is another good story that will go down in history.

Just like later, Qi Wang Tian Heng committed suicide to prove his innocence, and his followers died with Tian Heng without exception, so that the last backbone of the Mohist family was buried: as long as the Confucian scholars in Ludi did what they said, That will be another good story.

But in the end, the Confucian scholars in Ludi "turned back on their promises", and failed to follow their own big words to fight for the overlord.

Even Liu Banggang sent an army, but before he had time to surround Lu, those Lu Confucians who had clamored for "swearing to die will not surrender" knelt down and professed their ministers at almost the speed of light, and shamelessly said: oh~
We're all just kidding...

Liu Sheng had also speculated about the truth of this matter.

As the hometown of Confucius, Ludi has always been the most fundamental foundation of Confucianism;

At the same time, for no reason, all Confucian scholars who were born in this area, or even studied in this area, would involuntarily become guardians of "Li".

What is "Li"?
In a word: monarch and minister, father and son;
To put it more bluntly, the king begets the king, the minister begets the minister, the dragon begets the dragon, and the phoenix begets the phoenix;

The son of a farmer can plow, and the son of a mouse can dig a hole.

In the final analysis, the "Rituals" that Confucian scholars in Ludi insisted on and abided by was the social class solidification that paid close attention to the fundamental principles.

why?

Why do the Confucian scholars in Ludi insist on such a standard that is obviously too backward?

Because the ass decides the head;
Because "Li" means that Confucius is a sage, and the descendants of Confucius should all enjoy the privilege of "descendants of sages".

As for why the Confucian scholars in Ludi had to be arrogant and respectful after the death of the Overlord—why they first said that "Ludi and the Overlord will coexist and perish" and then knelt down at the speed of light, Liu Sheng also thought about the general answer.

There is a high probability that these Lu Confucians naively think that their act of wearing hemp and filial piety for the overlord can let the world see the Confucian scholars in Ludi "fighting for righteousness and death", so that in the future, in the land of China under the rule of Liu Han , so that Confucian scholars in Ludi have more right to speak.

As for the aftermath, the big deal is to have a haha ​​with Liu Bang to fool the past, and forget about it.

After all, Liu Bang is the king, and he will be the emperor in the future. Could it be possible that he can really have trouble with the literati and the descendants of Confucius?

If there were any miscalculations by the Lu Rus back then, it was this one.

——Liu Bang at that time was indeed the King of Han;

In just a few months after Xiang Yu's death, Liu Bang did indeed establish Liu Han Sheji on the banks of the Sishui River as the emperor.

But even though he became emperor, Liu Bang still had the temperament of that local ruffian, who still dared to kick the Confucian scholars on the roadside into the ditch and urinate in the Confucian scholar's hat;

Of course, I don't take the 'after Kong Sheng' seriously at all...
"Luru and his ilk..."

"Hey;"

"It's full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and it's 'following Zong Zhou' and 'recovering the well field system', or it's a 'sacred place of etiquette' and 'former residence of Kong Sheng'."

"In the final analysis, don't you just want to be in the light of Kong Zhongni and live a good life for nothing?"

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"It is said that the gentleman's marsh will be cut in the third life, and the sage's marsh will be cut in the seventh life."

"Since Zhongni traveled around the world, how many hundreds of years and dozens of generations have passed?"

"Even if that Kong Qiu is really a saint, it should be the time when the 'blessings are gone'?"

Talking jokingly, and slandering and muttering to himself for a while, Liu Sheng finally let go of his indented brows again.

Zhou Ren was right;

Since Shen Pei dared to come to Chang'an, he must have committed a crime of Taoism, not asking a teacher for a crime.

Because Shen Pei is not Lu Ru.

As long as it is not Lu Ru, it is impossible to do such pretentious and absurd things as "questioning the emperor".

As for Shen Pei who came to apologize and plead guilty, the 19-year-old Tian Zisheng has at least nine ways to deal with it.

Nine...
"Aside from Shen Pei, who else has an 'opinion' on this matter?"

Asking this question softly, Liu Sheng's face remained relaxed, but his ears couldn't help but prick up a little;

Seeing that Zhou Ren still had that relaxed smile, he said slowly, "Therefore, Dr. Yuangu seems to be quite critical."

"But it was just a few complaints, saying that His Majesty was too harsh on the Confucians, but he didn't dare to say anything more."

"Fusheng, Jinan, sent his family members to bring news: Confucian scholars Zhao Wan and Wang Zang are not good at arts, and it is the fault of their teacher Shen Pei."

"For Fu Sheng's accusation, Shen Pei specially sent someone to send a gift as a thank you..."

Hearing this, Liu Sheng finally felt relieved, and stopped paying attention to the Jianyuan New Deal, which was impossible to happen again.

——Jinan Fusheng is the only Confucianist in the world today who can speak up.

Anything about Confucianism, or even anything about academics, as long as Jinan Fusheng speaks out, there are not many people in the world who are qualified to stand up and say, "You are wrong."

As for the reason, it is not difficult to understand...

"Who let people keep the complete "Shangshu" on the wall of their own house back then, and taught it to the then "Shangshu" doctor Chao Cuo..."

"Hey······"

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"correct;"

"Left Prime Minister Wei Wan..."

"That's all."

"I, I'd better go there myself."

(End of this chapter)