Xuande

Chapter 176 Action Begins

After the meeting adjourned, Yang Ci was very worried about the fact that the meeting failed to achieve his greatest goal.

He told Yang Biao about his worries.

"They are full-fledged and uncontrollable. The current situation is to use the advantages we still have to widely absorb outstanding students from within, attack the shield with the spear of the son, and let them be used by me. to change the situation.

So far, only the "Zuo's Spring and Autumn" faction has become a school official, and there are only six classic inheritance families, and they can't compete with me. The number of Xiaolian, Maocai and officials they can provide is still far less than us. Our greatest advantage.

If we can’t disintegrate and overthrow them while they are still unable to carry "Zhou Guanli" into the official school, once they are really asked to replace "Yi Li" with "Zhou Guanli", then it will be the end of us. "

Yang Biao was a little surprised by this.

Although he also held a reformist attitude and felt that he should take advantage of their school's advantages to attract some elites from the ancient literature school to join him, but he never expected that Yang Ci had already seen the end of the modern literature school.

Moreover, it is only a matter of one sentence to say that "Zhou Guanli" replaced "Yili", but how could the whole set of basic logic of governing the country forged by the Luoyang court using "Yili" for more than a hundred years be seamlessly switched to "Yili" in a short period of time? Where is the logic of "Zhou Guanli"?
If the huge Luoyang court wants to change its thinking logic, how difficult is it?

"Father, our school has been passed down for 200 years. The vicissitudes of the 200 years have not been able to do anything to us, let alone now? From my son's point of view, the current setbacks are just a small test. They are strong for a while, but after all, they have a shallow foundation. It's easy to be uprooted.

"Duke Zheng, come here this time, I have some things I want to discuss with Mr. Zheng."

In the future, there may be some hope.

At the time of parting, Lu Zhi's uneasiness was unprecedented.

But for this benefactor who directly contributed to his ascension to the top of the scholar, even if it was ridicule, Liu Bei would greet him with a smile.

Zheng Xuan said with a smile: "On this point, I think your teacher should learn from you in turn. Your Liu's family business has not yet been acquired, but it has already started. His Lu's family business is still the same as before and has not changed. But, I really don't care."

But today when Liu Bei visited Zheng Xuan, Zheng Xuan was in a good mood and received Liu Bei happily.

As a scholar-type official, Liu Bei noticed that after the second peak of the dispute between modern and ancient prose began, Zheng Xuan's mood had not been very high. Perhaps he himself was also confused about what he was doing.

"I noticed that many people in the school are convinced of you. You have convinced them with your real talents, and your credit is also their willingness to care about you. Therefore, they will not doubt what you say, but will choose to believe it. It's amazing.

But if you can't deal with it alone, you must ask Zheng Gong and Fu Gong for help. I will ask them to do this. Also, you must think twice before making a decision. Try not to be arbitrary. Discuss with your elders more. I'm better than arbitrarily, understand? "

"That's right. Others follow you through life and death, so you can't just give them no rewards, right? Only when rewards and punishments are clearly defined can you go a long way, right?"

In a few days, it will be the day when Lu Zhi is going to take office in Jizhou.

But he has his own way and the way he chooses, which is destined that he and those guys from the ancient literature school will not be able to go together in the end.

Perhaps it was expected that the struggle between the ancient literature school and the modern literature school would become increasingly fierce, and in his absence, no one could directly raise and protect Liu Bei.

After bidding farewell to Lu Zhi, Liu Bei will start his own action, and the first step of this action is to visit Zheng Xuan.

One word from Yang Ci left Yang Biao speechless.

But the current situation is that our inheritance is only in a small area, almost completely isolated from outsiders, and the number of people is limited, and they accommodate scholars from all over the world, so there are many talents in the school, even if only one talent can emerge out of a hundred, Its number advantage is too big. "

On the way Liu Bei saw him off, he explained everything to Liu Bei.

Lu Zhi treats Liu Bei as his nephew and successor from the bottom of his heart, and Liu Bei is also very clear about this.

"Although my son has seen part of it, he has not seen the whole picture. In the early Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu, why was Confucianism able to defeat hundreds of schools of thought and become the only prominent school? The main reason lies in the inheritance. The school has the largest number of scholars, the most stable inheritance, and the greatest influence. .

For a while, Liu Bei couldn't figure out whether Zheng Xuan was mocking him or praising him.

Only Lu Zhi, at least, had relatively consistent views on the land issue.

As long as we knock down Lu Zhi, the Ancient Literature School will suffer heavy losses. After the heavy damage, as long as we express that we will ignore the past and accept the Yuan and Xun families again, at least we can make them place their bets on both sides and stop helping the Ancient Literature School wholeheartedly. That being the case, the disintegration of the School of Ancient Literature is the immediate task. How could my father think so highly of these villains? "

With this kind of prestige, Zheng Gong, Fu Gong, Yuan Gong and others will rely on you a lot. You have to be careful at all times and strictly demand yourself to maintain this prestige. More importantly, you must be vigilant at all times. criticism.

He is a scholar who writes books and a cultural master who is dedicated to academics, but what he is doing now is a political struggle that runs counter to his ideals.

Zheng Xuan blinked at Liu Bei, looking like a naughty and cute little old man.

Liu Bei is very grateful for this kind of fatherly care.

If it is said that one Lu Zhi and one Liu Bei can bring the Jinwen School to the end, he will not believe it anyway.

"Bei is ashamed. I did some bad things. Maybe it's not something a disciple of a saint should do, but they all followed Bei to the battlefield and risked their lives to protect Bei. Bei really doesn't know how to reward them."

Yang Ci sighed deeply and shook his head again and again.

"Father's meaning... I understand a little bit, so I agree with my father's idea, thinking that we should open up some ethnology quotas to attract outstanding talents, but even so, it is not always true to say that we have reached the end, right? "

"Perhaps all schools of thought thought the same way back then, but what happened? Xiaowu's edict was only a few short years away."

The heaviness in Liu Bei's heart was instantly swept away, and he found himself liking this little old man more and more.

Yang Biao understood a little bit.

"You seldom come to my place. I heard that you have been walking around in many government offices recently, arranging a lot of errands for your subordinates. Yes, this skill is self-taught. Compared with you, Zigan can't I don’t have that ability anymore.”

Even so, he still didn't pay too much attention to his father's words. He thought that the modern literature school had been ups and downs for hundreds of years. What situation hadn't been seen?

The political struggle hidden under the skin of academic struggle may be too cruel for this master.

"I knew that you, Liu Xuande, came to visit me on purpose, and it definitely wasn't as simple as just seeing me."

Zheng Xuan laughed, and said, "Just tell me."

Liu Bei nodded.

"Zheng Gong, the matter of the teacher leaving Luoyang has made many people in the school feel uncertain about the future. Before, many people felt uneasy about this, thinking that the current situation is very unfavorable to us, and worried that the Jinwen School would treat us I'm not happy with the situation where there's a tough fight and we can't fight it."

(End of this chapter)