Xuande

Chapter 175 Reformists and Conservatives

Yang Biao not only gave suggestions, but also gave well-executed motions.

People nodded and praised Yang Biao's good method.

Yang Ci was also quite satisfied, and then asked: "That's all for killing, what about besieging?"

"Lu Zhi has an upright personality, hates evil like a hatred, and is not flexible. This is his greatest strength and his greatest weakness."

Yang Biao said: "The people in the court who are dissatisfied with Lu Zhi, except us, He Jin, Huang Fusong and Zhu Jun will also be dissatisfied with him after the killing. In this way, we have assistants, but apart from this In addition, someone needs help to completely defeat Lu Zhi."

"who?"

"eunuch."

Yang Biao said with a smile: "I heard that eunuchs like to buy properties all over the world to leave a way out for themselves. Among them, Jizhou is one of the places where eunuchs buy properties, and most of them are shady. If Lu Zhi knows about these things, he will How to do it?"

When Yang Biao said this, everyone suddenly realized.

"If that's the case, even if Lu Zhi has the power to reach the sky, I'm afraid he won't be able to escape the net. Once Lu Zhi is gone, our position will be stabilized. Next, we will plan to revive."

But according to their current observations, there is no alliance between the eunuchs and the ancient literature school.

So what to do?
Yang Ci came up with an idea.

Yang Ci felt very depressed about this situation, and he tried his best to comfort everyone.

"After this catastrophe, you must have noticed that the gang of traitors who studied ancient prose and pseudo-science have already established such a deep foundation among scholars. Not only did it not sever the inheritance, but it became stronger and stronger.

"They are a group of villains, a group of despicable villains who hold fake schools as official schools! If you let me be with villains, it is an insult to me! I would rather kill myself than be with villains!"

The heads of the other big families including the Gao family, Xia family, and Liu family were all dissatisfied with Yang Ci's suggestion.

"They took advantage of my unpreparedness and used despicable means to plot against us. If they succeed for a while, how can they last long? Yang Gong, I will not live with them!"

"They use false learning to harm orthodox learning and go against the teachings of saints. How abhorrent, if they can't be completely wiped out, I can't close my eyes even if I die!"

"How can such a despicable villain be in the same room as us? If so, please go!"

But despite this, the exclusive and conservative atmosphere of the school that has lasted for more than two hundred years cannot be reversed in a short while.

As long as there is a conflict of interests, the eunuch forces will inevitably fight fiercely with the forces of the ancient texts and classics, and when that time comes, Lu Zhi will be the victim.

In order to cooperate with Yang Ci, everyone present also expressed the same feeling, and they also regretted, regretted, and felt extremely remorseful.

But it's useless to do this alone, there must be something to do.

But except for Yang Ci and his son Yang Biao, the other bigwigs don't seem to hold such an attitude.

I betrayed Yuan Shi and jumped to your side for profit, but the profit has not been seen yet, you want me to take the initiative to cut flesh to contribute to the future of your so-called school?
Shouldn't I take the lead in doing such a thing?

"They have developed and grown due to our negligence for a while, so that more scholars choose fake learning instead of orthodox learning. Firstly, it is the bewitching of fake learning, and secondly, it is the sinister intentions of the fake learning disciples. However, the world is so ignorant. It is heartbreaking to mistakenly ask false learning because of yearning for the knowledge of saints!
In order to correct the ignorant scholars, to revive the orthodoxy, and to eradicate false studies, we should recruit outstanding scholars to enter the ethnology, impart knowledge, pass it on, and make changes in this way. This is the most important thing. What do you guys think? "

Faced with such a situation, Yang Biao's expression turned ugly, and Yang Ci sighed.

As the current leader of the Jinwen Confucianism School, Yang Ci obviously holds a reformist attitude.

Because what Yang Ci said is indeed the only way for the Jinwen School to break through the current predicament.

So represented by Zhang Xi and Huan Dian, many family representatives expressed their opposition to Yang Ci's suggestion.

"When they gain power for a while, are we going to make a compromise?"

The ancient literature school is full of talents, but once Lu Zhi, as the core of the school of Yunwen Yunwu, is frustrated and leaves, it will be a serious blow to the ancient literature school.

Although the ancient literature school's counterattack directly sank Gongyang Chunqiu, it directly caught the modern literature school off guard and suffered heavy losses, and made the modern literature school see the power of people's hearts.

But time has passed and the situation is different now.

When Yang Ci said this, the leaders of the modern literature school began to get serious.

"Lu Zhi has been driven away, and your position as a lieutenant has been consolidated. It is time for us to launch a counterattack. Do you want to admit defeat at this time?"

Zhang Xi made it clear that he was unwilling to support.

Perhaps Yang Ci's words contained too strong a taste of compromise, which caused strong dissatisfaction among many people.

Having figured this out, Yang Ci nodded again and again, approving Yang Biao's proposal very much.

During the previous war, the forces of the eunuchs and the forces of the School of Classical Classics dealt a thunderous blow to the forces of the School of Modern Literature. They were hit so hard that they were unable to fight back.

Today, there are more and more people studying pseudo-science, and the number has already surpassed us. Talented people come out in large numbers. Although we uphold orthodox learning, we are limited in a difficult situation and cannot fight against these rebels to maintain orthodoxy. Makes me sad. "

Headed by them, several families stood up and said that making changes at this time would be admitting defeat, so they were resolutely unwilling to make changes.

And once Lu Zhi is hated by others, the situation of Liu Bei, Lu Zhi's disciple, will deteriorate sharply. This is simply a strategy that kills two birds with one stone.

The current situation is difficult and dangerous, you can't see clearly. After Lu Zhi's victory, my position as a captain was in jeopardy for a while. Those people raised their voices, advocating that Lu Zhi is the pillar of the country and should be the third prince. If we didn't fight desperately, now It's really hard to say who this position of Taiwei belongs to.

The eunuchs held the imperial power on behalf of the emperor, which in a sense represented the interests of the emperor, and the interests of the emperor at that time were to unite with the ancient literature school to overthrow the modern literature school.

They are full-fledged and powerful, and they are led by Zheng Xuan and others with real talents and real learning. They pose a great threat to us. It is definitely not easy to defeat them with three or two moves.If you don't take the initiative to seek change, this matter will probably be difficult! "

The previous cooperation was not so much an alliance as a matter of getting what they needed.

Zhang Xi did not support it, while Huan Dian was rather hesitant.

"Can't you see the current situation? There are too many scholars studying pseudo-science. It doesn't mean that they are powerful, but that there are too many of them. If there are too many people, there will be many talents. When there are more talents , You can decorate the pseudo school as the official school.

Huan Dian, a swinger, was also dissatisfied.

They must uphold the tradition, stick to the glory, and never admit defeat.

"If we make a change and completely abandon the persistence of our ancestors, wouldn't it be contrary to the teachings of our ancestors and an act of treason?"

To put it bluntly, in the current political situation that is changing day by day, the decadent and old Jinwen School is also forced to embark on the road of self-innovation, and internal reformists have emerged, confronting internal conservatives, and the two sides have different opinions. one.

Yang Ci's speech made these school leaders look at me and I look at you, quite hesitant.

Yang Ci's face was full of regret and remorse, as if he really regretted and hated because the orthodox academics were bullied by the fake ones and he could not uphold justice and boost the orthodoxy.

Faced with the excitement of the crowd, Yang Ci had no choice but to put aside his compromise proposal for the time being, and was prepared to put forward the same opinion when he had a chance later.

But judging from the present, the conservative forces within the Jinwen School are still very strong, and the reformists are not yet strong enough to lead the school's actions.

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PS: Because I ate delicious mutton steamed buns this morning, I added a new chapter.

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