I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 391 Fate
I was given an ultimatum, and if I continue to prevent theft, I will have no books. I originally wanted to get the previous two texts out in order, but the original words of the ultimatum were 'one more time, to death row'.In desperation, I can only post today's text first, and the anti-theft content of yesterday and the day before yesterday was changed overnight...
From now on, there will be no anti-theft, so everyone can rest assured.

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"Why do you two meet for the first time, it seems that you have known each other for many years?"

Weiyang Palace, Xuanshi Palace.

Looking at the hall, Yan Yi and Zhang Tang, who had never met before, were in perfect harmony, and somewhat inexplicably lowered their faces, Liu Sheng felt a burst of surprise.

Regarding Liu Sheng's half-kindness, half-reminder that it's not a big deal to watch the excitement, the two standing opposite each other in the center of the hall only gave each other a last meaningful look, then turned their bodies to the upper imperial couch again, He bowed slightly in the direction of Liu Sheng.

That is to say, while the expression on Liu Sheng's face became more and more weird, the expression of Yuan An, the eunuch in the courtiers' train, could not help but feel a little embarrassed.

Such a scene may be strange to others, even "unheard of, unseen".

But for Yuan Ang, the scene in front of him awakened an ancient memory that had been dusty for many years.

——Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the first year of the first year of the first year of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Chang'an Chaotang issued a recommendation index to the local counties and counties in the world in accordance with the practice of each new emperor (Taizu Liu Bang, Xiaohui Liu Ying) in the past.

The so-called index is naturally a dead order of 'a certain number must be recommended'.

Before that, the court in Chang'an had been silent for a long time under the influence of Lu's relatives and the Empress Dowager Lu, and everyone was afraid that they would not be able to protect themselves, so they couldn't care less about recommending young talents to make troubles.

Secondly, the risk of recommending this thing is really too great, and the corresponding rewards are really pitifully small.

——The recommended person has committed a crime. Although the recommender will not be able to sit down, if there is an enemy who wants to be charged with "unpredictable intentions", it will not be difficult at all.

Even if there is no enemy, one cannot escape the moral condemnation of 'unknown'.

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, the meaning of moral condemnation is roughly the level of 'as long as I have no morals, no one can kidnap me morally'.

But in this era, morality, or reputation, is the most basic foundation for standing up to the emperor of Liu Han and down to the head of Guizhou.

Needless to say, the Son of Heaven, as long as the word "losing morality" is on the edge, it must be not far from "losing the hearts of the world";
If a high-ranking official has a lack of moral character, there is a high probability that he will struggle in his official career—every time there is a vacancy, there will always be a competitor to say: such a morally corrupt person can do xx, why can't I do it?

Then there are the tyrants and wealthy households below, who have a bad reputation and basically cannot attract enough tenants—farmers. They are an extremely complicated group. They are both dull and shrewd at the same time.

They tend to remain silent until they are squeezed out of their last morsel of residual value, so as not to 'shoot the bird'.

But when they made up their minds to abandon that dishonest landlord Lao Cai, nothing could stop them.

——In some extreme cases, they even dared to abandon the world's largest landlord Lao Cai: Emperor Lao Tzu!

Even these farmers, Qianshou themselves, also attach great importance to their own virtue and reputation, for fear of being stabbed in the back by their neighbors.

In later generations, poking the backbone is a metaphor and an abstract adjective;

But in this generation, poking the spine is a verb that can no longer be true...
Therefore, not only officials and emperors in power, but almost everyone in this era regards their own morality and reputation as the highest pursuit.

Some people find that they have been told that they have "deficiencies in virtue", and they will give up their lives without hesitation in order to prove their innocence!

Some people hear that their reputation has started to stink, and they will hurriedly retreat from the public's sight, for fear that if they are too late, they will be bitten by something.

Under such a premise, let those high-ranking officials who have already enjoyed high-ranking officials and generous salaries, as long as they don’t make major mistakes in principle, be able to die in the position of two thousand stones, to recommend those who have nothing to do with them , is not really a wise choice.

——If you don’t recommend it, the big deal will be criticized by the court as “it’s not good to be a scholar”, as long as you reply with “there is really no one who can do it”, you will be prevaricated.

But once recommended, the fate of the recommender and the recommendee will be completely tied together.

The recommender loses power, and the recommendee is unlikely to make further achievements;

If the recommender makes a mistake, the recommender will also suffer failure, or even 'lost morality'.

Obviously: Compared with the recommendees ranging from a few hundred shi, those local county governors who could have lived in peace for two thousand shi high officials are the ones who bear the responsibility in this transaction.

As for the harvest?

——For a person recommended by two thousand stones, when he gets to two thousand stones, the benefactor who recommended him at the beginning will not know how tall the grass has grown on the grave!

It is precisely for this reason that the Han family has suffered from the problem of "the country has no available people" since Emperor Taizu Gao established Han Guozuo.

And in the first year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, in the customary feast of "forcing locals to recommend good talents", there were two great talents in one body.

Pick out any one of the two, and throw it into any other era, and you can leave a strong mark on the history of the country.

——Jia Yi, and Chao Cuo.

The two were born in the seventh year of Emperor Taizu Gao (200 BC), and at the same age of 20, they were recommended to enter the court and received by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen in person.

At that time, people believed that these two young talents, who were born in the same year, had the same age, and entered the court at the same time, would become deadly enemies with a grudge that lasted for decades.

But no one ever thought that it was not these two young talents who became opponents, nor Jia Yi, a disciple of Beiping Hou Zhang Cang, nor Chao Cuo, who was born in Confucianism.

In the very beginning, Kanto was having a carnival.

——Chang'an Chaotang, two potential stocks with Confucian background appeared in one fell swoop!

Even Jia Yi was deceived by Chao Cuo at the time, and tried to establish a private friendship with Chao Cuo.

Unfortunately······

"It's a pity that Yuan Si has countless people and has become the only person in the entire Chang'an court who was not deceived by Chao Cuo."

"Sigh~"

"What did Yuan Si say?"

"oh oh······"

"—Even with a layer of Confucian skin on, Chao Cuo's body still has the stench of cruel legalist officials that cannot be concealed..."

"Hey······"

For a moment, almost everyone's eyes were focused on Yuan Ang, the courtier.

——In the end, Chao Cuo became the opponent, not the most evenly matched Jia Yi, who should be the opponent;

It was Xiao Xiami who 'smelled' Chao Cuo's true identity: Yuan Ang.

Back then, it was also the first time - when they were received by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen for the first time at the same time, Yuan An and Chao Cuo, who had never met each other before, hated each other for no reason.

Although the vicissitudes of life have changed, Yuan An lives high in the temple, eats Jiuqing Zhilu, and Chao Cuo lives far away in the north, and is responsible for guarding the frontier, but the struggle between these two people has not yet come to an end.

But today, the same scene was staged again out of the Xuanshi Palace.

——Two young people from the same Confucian background and one Legalist background, only saw each other, and hated each other instinctively without saying a word.

But no one knows what the open and secret struggle between the two will mean to the future Chang'an court and Liu Han Sheji...

"Why did no one speak when I didn't speak?"

After an extremely long silence, Liu Sheng finally took the initiative to break the oppressive atmosphere in the hall, which seemed to be drained of air;
And after Liu Sheng opened his mouth, Liu Sheng's most loyal son-in-law: Prime Minister Liu She, stood up without thinking.

"Both of you are talents that His Majesty values ​​very much. You may not have the opportunity to work with Your Majesty in the future."

"Let's take advantage of today to get acquainted with each other..."

"——This is Zhang Tang and Zhang Jianling, who was recommended by the current Tingweiqing Zhao Yu during the reign of Emperor Xian Xiaojing, and was arranged by the prince to go to Tingwei for training."

"—This one, is the first place in the gold examination this year, the tenth grandson of Confucian virtuous Yan Hui, the number one scholar hand-picked by His Majesty: Yan Yiyansheng."

With Liu She enlivening the atmosphere, the atmosphere in the hall seemed to be dispelled a little;
Baiguan Gongqing, who had been intimidated by these two young people before, finally turned around when the atmosphere tended to ease, adjusted his posture, and looked at the two young people in the hall calmly.

It is a good thing to be energetic;
It's even better to have competition.

Especially at a time when Huang Laoxue lazily controls the political arena and academia, making "not doing well" a popular phrase, it is always a good thing that young officials are willing to compete and do something.

But for these two young people, the minds of all the officials and officials in the palace are more about watching the excitement and not being afraid of big things.

——Confucianism and Legalism!
Fighting openly and secretly and criticizing each other for hundreds of years, the most outstanding new generations of the two schools that are still "incompatible" unexpectedly appeared in front of the emperor Liu Sheng and the officials of the Manchu Dynasty at the same time.

So what will the story be next?

Is it another pair of mortal enemies like Chao Cuo and Yuan An?
still······
In fact, no matter what, the gold content of this gossip is enough to attract the attention of these high-ranking officials and nobles.

After all, in this era of extreme shortage of entertainment means, quarterly shortage of human resources, and so much work pressure in court, it is really comforting to have fun...
"Sure enough, he is the disciple and grandson of that rotten Confucian Confucius!"

"Across half of Weiyang Palace, I'm already in Tingwei's yamen, and I can smell the sour smell of rot..."

Although the opposite is the new champion, and the first champion in Chinese history, but Zhang Tang is already Bi Qianshi's Ting Wei Zuo Jianling.

Facing the yellow-haired boy who was bound to start from [-] shi, naturally he couldn't be polite, without hesitation, he dropped a word of contempt, then raised his head and arched his hands in the direction of the imperial couch.

Just about to bend down, like Liu Sheng bowed his hands to salute, but he heard a cowardly sarcasm in his ear.

"People who heard about the Legalists all call themselves the disciples and grandsons of Shang Yang and Han Fei."

"But I don't know that even the young master Han Fei once said that I, the sage of Confucianism: Bu Shang Zixia, is the real ancestor of Legalism."

"—People of the Legalists, learning from the knowledge of the sage Zixia, claim to be the descendants of Shang Yang, the noble family of Yanwei, and Han Fei, the son of Han, but they only call Zhongni, the teacher of the ancestor Zixia, 'Kongqiu' unreasonably. '?"

"Humph!"

···
"I heard that children and grandchildren respect their fathers and grandparents because of the grace of regeneration."

"The grandson respects his grandfather because he is grateful to his grandfather for giving birth to his father, so that his father has the opportunity to give birth to himself."

"I've never heard of any grandson who respects his father and is not filial to his grandfather at the same time."

"—Now, Bu Shang Zixia, the founder of the Legalists, is derogated as a 'stealer' by those who claim to be legalists, and Zixia's teacher, Zhong Ni, is repeatedly slandered as a corrupt Confucian by the Legalists."

"In my opinion, it's like a child who doesn't understand anything. While saying that his ancestors were villains, he also said that the father of the ancestors was a poor man who is more hateful than villains..."

···
"In this case, if it comes from the mouth of my Confucian scholar, it is absolutely unimaginable."

"But the Legalists have always used harsh laws to harm and deceive the people, and they often turn a deaf ear to the principles of human ethics."

"It's really nothing strange to be able to say such a thing and do such a thing-this is very in line with the Legalist style."

"I never thought: I came from far away Jinan, but I could also see cruel legalist officials who have no king and no father in this imperial palace..."

Good guy!
Yan Yi burst out like a machine gun, and all the officials in the middle and high officials just called each other a good guy!
--ox!

——As expected of a famous family, the direct descendant of Fu Sheng Yan Hui!

Regardless of whether what he said was reasonable or not, it was this calm demeanor, the courage to stand up to his background, and the sharpness of his words, which were enough to make all the officials in the palace look at this weak-looking number one scholar with admiration.

Even Liu Sheng, who was on the imperial couch, withdrew a little bit of the instinctive disdain in his eyes—the disdain for Confucianism.

Although Liu Sheng's attitude towards Confucianism is not as bad as Taizu Liu Bang's, it is definitely not as good as his grandfather Liu Heng.

If you have to discuss it, that is to the extent of 'you are a Confucian scholar, but you are very capable, so I can pretend not to know that you are a Confucian scholar'.

Going one step further, that is forcing Liu Sheng.

But today, I saw that the number one scholar who I personally selected, on the premise that he has not yet obtained an official, a noble, and is still in vain, responded positively that he was included in Liu Sheng's inspection list many years ago, and he can even be called "Jane When Zhang Tang was in Emperor's Heart, Liu Sheng subconsciously improved a lot towards Yan Yi, even with his sense of Confucianism.

Of course, this does not mean that Liu Sheng's stance is not firm, and if he can be dissatisfied by a Yan, he will change his bad views on Confucianism.

It's just that for a moment, watching Zhang Tang and Yan Yi confront each other, Liu Sheng seemed to hear the words that the old man had mentioned in his ear again in a daze.

"For a king, the first thing is checks and balances."

"If one person attains the Tao, he must have an enemy, and he can fight against him in court."

"If one person gains power and has an enemy, there will be little chaos in the court and peace in the world;"

"If one person gains power, the court will be in peace, and the world will be in chaos..."

(End of this chapter)