I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 492: Officials and Civilians as One
Inside the Qingdi clan temple, Zhao Fu was shocked and worried when he saw Zhou Tieyi spitting blood. Zhou Tieyi had exposed some of his background in the Golden Palace before. Everyone knew that Zhou Tieyi evolved the appearance of the Five Emperors and refined the Qi of the Five Elements. However, they did not expect that the removal of the Five Emperors' sacrifice would have an impact on Zhou Tieyi that was no less than that of their Qingdi clan itself.

However, Zhao Fu was a shrewd man after all. He quickly took out a life-saving second-grade pill from his arms and was about to hand it to Zhou Tieyi.

Zhou Tieyi took a look at the pill. He had long passed the stage of being greedy for bargains, otherwise he would have gotten this second-grade pill at all costs. After sorting out his aura, Zhou Tieyi waved his hand and said, "This pill is useless to me."

This elixir is indeed useless to him. The fundamental reason why he was injured this time was that his luck was severely damaged. Although it was false that he used the Five Elements' ancestral Qi to refine the Gang, it was true that he was the 'Ancestor of Humanity' who had been planning for ten thousand years.

Whether in the destiny of humanity or the destiny of gods, the worship of the Five Emperors is of vital importance to his past foundation and the future confluence of humans and gods.

Now that the Great Xia court has announced the abolition of the worship of the Five Emperors, it has dealt an extraordinary blow to his Taoist tradition. It also happened that his luck was at its lowest point, and the two combined caused him to suffer Taoist injuries.

This injury is more difficult to heal than ordinary injuries!

After calming his breath, Zhou Tieyi could clearly feel a huge crack in his body, just like a mortal's severed finger. Although his life was not in danger, if he did not repair this crack, his strength would never be able to be fully exerted, at most 80% or 90%, which could not be compensated by any method of repairing the injury.

Zhou Tieyi first looked inward at the Taiyi Jade Disc, and first discovered the message that Hao Ren was asking for his instructions through the Shinto talisman.

It's just that the time he asked for instructions happened to be the most critical moment of his battle with the Netherworld Dragon God. The Taiyi Jade Disc was blocked by the Yellow Springs Netherworld Array and affected by the aura of decay, so the information was lost.

Afterwards, he was worried that his luck was declining and that no one would protect him, so he did not choose to return to Tianjing first, but went to the Qingdi ancestral temple in Chongshan Prefecture. Once he entered the ancestral temple, he did not care about other things, and first concentrated on sorting out his own declining aura. There was no corpse dog to alert him to the danger, so he was delayed until now.

Zhou Tieyi opened his eyes. Instead of questioning Hao Ren, he might as well ask Zhao Fu directly, "If the Five Emperors sacrifice is removed, won't the Confucians fight to the death with Ke Anran? What other bad news do you have? Tell me all at once."

The top three grades of Confucianism are to establish oneself with words, to establish one's merits, and to establish one's virtues. The first grade is to establish one's virtues. Since the advent of the Five Emperors, almost all of them have established themselves with the five virtues. During the past two thousand years, there has been only one Confucian "Drunken Swordsman" who established himself with the "virtue of wine."

Now that Daxia has removed the worship of the Five Emperors, it has a great impact on Zhou Tieyi, on the Green Emperor, and on Confucianism!

Zhao Fu sighed softly, "After you left Tianjing yesterday, Ke Anran suddenly started to promote himself through the evening paper, criticizing the Confucianism of the Five Emperors and advocating the new study of human desires."

Zhao Fu signaled to the servant, and the servant handed a thick stack of newspapers to Zhou Tieyi.

Zhou Tieyi picked it up and took a look at the title "The Theory of the Non-Human Origin of the Five Emperors".

The above argument is very simple. The Five Emperors originated from Shintoism, not humanity, so they cannot represent the human race.

Today, Daxia is prosperous, and wise men Zhou Tieyi and Tianfu have been sent down from heaven to establish the theory of human desires, replacing the Five Emperors and allowing humanity to become independent, thus abolishing the Confucian theory of the Five Virtues and the Five Constant Virtues.

Zhou Tieyi grabbed the newspaper with his palm.

The Confucian theory of the Five Virtues and the Five Constant Virtues is naturally a dogmatic one, believing that destiny is constant. At first glance, it contradicts the theory of human desires proposed by Zhou Tieyi. That’s because Zhou Tieyi has not had time to evolve the theory of human desires to the second stage!
Especially now that everyone in the world knows that Zhou Tieyi and Confucianism are at odds and there is a dispute over the orthodox doctrine, and the means he uses is the newspaper, which Zhou Tieyi is best at. Therefore, it is easy to interpret that Zhou Tieyi is using newspapers to stir up trouble!
The other party caught the opportunity very accurately, and I was careless.

As an important official of Daxia, even if Zhou Tieyi wanted to explore the Yinting, he needed to arrange various tasks in advance and carry them out by taking leave.

The last time Zhou Tieyi was in seclusion for only one day, the Ministry of Revenue sent several people to urge him to leave. Although he had arranged what to do next this time, someone with interest could determine how long he would be away through his arrangements.

Because they were exploring the Yin Court, there was no way to be sure whether it would take a few more days, so the arrangements Zhou Tieyi left behind would take at least five days.

So after he gave instructions to his clerks at noon that day, Ke Anran started to work in the evening.

But how can the other party be sure that he will lose contact with the outside world and be unable to return to help in the first time?

Zhou Tieyi looked up at Zhao Fu suspiciously. If he hadn't been the one who brought up the matter of Yin Ting, he would even suspect that Zhao Fu and Ke Anran were in cahoots.

Of course, in this world of magical powers, perhaps the other party will use other means and combine the actual situation to determine that you cannot intervene in the short term.

After being looked at by Zhou Tieyi, Zhao Fu was confused and could only continue, "The newspaper was distributed in the evening, and at night the students of Tai Academy were organized to cause trouble and attack Zhou's residence."

"Where are the three officers? What are they doing?"

The riot among students of Tai College must have been organized by Ke Anran. He was both the promoter and the thug.

"The Right General was urgently transferred to the front line. The Minister of Civil Affairs Dong Xingshu went to inspect the newly started Tianjing-Southeast Railway Line on behalf of the emperor. The Minister of Law Qingkonggui was dragged out for a night drink by the Minister of Education Tang Anshi."

Although the Qingdi clan lives in the frontier and gets the news late, but once something happens, it is rare that it can be hidden from the Qingdi's eyes and ears.

Zhou Tieyi leaned back in his chair and sighed softly. Things that he originally thought were reasonable and logical suddenly had a different explanation. It seemed that the Emperor of Daxia had been preparing for a long time.

"Tang Anshi, if he does this, isn't he afraid of the backlash of his righteousness?"

No one expected that the "traitor" in Confucianism was actually the second leader of Tianjing, the Minister of Education Tang Anshi!

Zhao Fu sighed softly, "After all, the Minister of Education is different from the Minister of Public Security. Now that I think about it, since Dong Xingshu is willing to let Wang Mingyi, a disciple of Che Wenyuan, and that new Confucianist Li Jianhu learn your reforms, it means that he actually wants to change as well. His bringing Ke Anran back is just a cover. It has been too late to hide this cover from those old Confucian scholars for several months. Tang Anshi and Dong Xingshu are in contact every day, so he must have noticed Dong Xingshu's transformation, but Tang Anshi's Confucianism does not approve of it."

One is an official, the other a scholar. Even though they are both Confucianists, there was no conflict between them before, but now there is a huge conflict.

There is a famous saying that heretics deserve to be burned on the cross more than pagans!
In Tang Anshi's eyes, Dong Xingshu is now a heretic who stands with Zhou Tieyi, the pagan, so naturally he has no room to hold back!
Zhou Tieyi lost his corpse dog and was so upset that he could hardly control himself. But after Zhao Fu said that, he understood and sneered, "It's just that the butt determines the head."

Tang Anshi and Ke Anran were linked together, and it was obvious that the "Theory of the Three Talents of Heaven, Saint and People" proposed by Ke Anran and the Great Xia Emperor was more attractive than his own "Theory of Human Desire". Even when it came time for Confucianism to change, Tang Anshi was not prepared to turn Confucianism into a second version of the "Theory of Human Desire"!
Then he couldn't help cursing, "Qingkong Gui is also an indecisive person. No wonder he has been stuck at the second rank for so many years! He has learned the way of the Legalists in vain!"

When Zhao Fu saw Zhou Tieyi scolding the important officials of the court, he felt a little amused. Si Lu Qingkonggui had been criticized for being indecisive before, but he had given Zhou Tieyi many opportunities on the basis of Confucianism. Now he was just giving opportunities to other Confucian people, which was in line with Qingkonggui's personality and way of dealing with people.

Zhou Tieyi exhaled a breath of foul air, "Attack Zhou Mansion, then what?"

If it was just some students attacking the Zhou Mansion, the Zhou family would not care too much even if it lost face. After all, it would not hurt the foundation. A group of students who were not even at the third rank, could they really attack the Zhou Mansion with Tian Xiang in charge? At most, they could just curse outside.

Zhao Fu hesitated for a moment, "Someone brought an imperial decree from the palace to the God-Slaying Division to mobilize people to suppress the rebellion. Shen Tuyuan personally led the team and escorted thousands of Confucian scholars who were causing trouble back to the God-Slaying Division. In the process...someone was killed in the process."

"Bastard thing!"

Zhou Tieyi became furious and stood up suddenly.

He didn't expect that the most crucial link in this was Shen Tu Yuan!
When he recruited Shentu Yuan, he really wanted to recruit a white glove to do some dishonorable things for him in the Zhushen Division, so he also reminded Shentu Yuan of the escape route of the cruel official.

But Zhou Tieyi forgot that he was still able to suppress the half-cruel official he had trained when he was in Tianjing. When he was not in Tianjing and someone attacked Zhou's mansion again, it was no wonder that Shentu Yuan made such a choice.

Because this was the will of the palace and the authority of the Zhou Mansion, so as a half-cruel official, from Shentu Yuan's perspective, it was right for him to kill people! The left and right were just some Confucian scholars who were making trouble.

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After hearing this, Zhou Tiege almost understood. Now the Zhou family is not a human being. Shen Tuyuan killed someone, and they have to admit it even if they don't want to. "It's come to this. Stay calm."

When Zhou Tiege saw Zhou Tieyi, who had stood up and paced back and forth anxiously, he knew that his brother was not in good condition in the past two days, so he reminded him.

Zhou Tieyi paced two steps and sighed in his heart, in this power struggle, the center really cannot be separated for a moment. He could already foresee how big a disturbance this time of Tai Academy students' riot would cause.

"At the court meeting today, Minister of Civil Affairs Dong Xingshu rushed back immediately and denounced the current emperor for removing the Five Emperors' sacrifices. He was just roaring at the court, and was scolded by the emperor for his inability to govern the country. He was far inferior to Shengshi Hou and could only repeat what his predecessors said. He was caught on the spot by the Queen Mother and is now imprisoned in the half-built Zixiao Palace to let him reflect on himself."

Hearing this, Zhou Tieyi stopped and sighed. He sat down again and picked up the tea. As he drank the sweet and fragrant tea, he couldn't help but sigh, "I have been fighting with Dong Xingshu for so many days, and I was thinking about how it would end. I didn't expect the situation to change so quickly. One day he was a guest in the court, and today he is a prisoner. He didn't lose to a heretic like me, but to his own people. It's really ironic."

"According to the news this afternoon, Confucian academies in various places have jointly signed a petition requesting the emperor to set things right and punish the treacherous officials."

"A traitor?"

Zhou Tieyi sneered, "What a good trick to divert trouble!"

From the moment Ke Anran wrote that article, all signs appeared to be the plan of the Emperor of Great Xia and Ke Anran, but what was shown to the world was that the Emperor of Great Xia was protecting Zhou Tieyi!

Zhou Tieyi wanted to use the harmony between the monarch and his subjects to force the Emperor of Daxia to submit in the Moshi case. Today, the Emperor of Daxia also used the harmony between the monarch and his subjects to force Zhou Tieyi.

That article was written by those who supported Zhou Tieyi, who were willing to abolish the worship of the Five Emperors. Later, the party colluded with each other and mobilized the God-Slaying Division to suppress the Imperial Academy. Now, they directly arrested Simin in the court, mocked him for his incompetent governance, and finally imprisoned him in the Zixiao Taoist Palace that Zhou Tieyi had ordered to be built.

Combined with what the people of the world have seen before, the Emperor of Great Xia is an ambitious reformer who is trying his best to protect Zhou Tieyi. And Zhou Tieyi, as a minister of reform, should be shedding tears, devoting himself to his work, and working until his death!
Seeing that Zhou Tieyi was in a state of anxiety, and had just been injured and vomited blood, Zhao Fu could not help but remind him softly, "In this situation, why not retreat to advance?"

“How to retreat in order to advance?”

"I'm just resigning to shut up the students of Tianxia Academy."

Zhao Fu was certainly also worried about the abolition of the worship of the Five Emperors, but until now he only saw this as a tactic of the Emperor of Great Xia. If Zhou Tieyi retreated to advance and resigned, the Emperor of Great Xia might stop abolition of the worship of the Five Emperors, because the Emperor of Great Xia had already achieved his goal.

Although Zhou Tieyi was panicking, he had reference to history for this kind of situation and had made corresponding plans before!

"The head of the Zhao family has been living in seclusion for too long, and he is as indecisive as Si Lu! If he withdraws now, let alone whether there is a chance to take back the central power once it is handed over to someone else, I, Zhou, will never admit this mistake! If he is not afraid of causing chaos in the world, what should I be afraid of! Can you lend me a pen and paper?"

Being scolded for being indecisive in front of so many elders, Zhao Fu couldn't help but smile bitterly. There were only a few people in this world who dared to evaluate himself and Si Lu in this way, and the person in front of him was indeed qualified.

He glanced at the expression of his daughter sitting next to him and sighed in his heart, thinking that once a daughter is married off, she is like water spilled.

When Zhao Qinxin heard her father being scolded, she was not angry. Instead, she looked at Zhou Tieyi in the middle with admiration. He was wearing a white dragon robe and had an aura like a new sky. Such a person would not be wronged to be a concubine.

Of course, Zhao Fu was also curious about Zhou Tieyi's plan. Seeing that Zhou Tieyi did not hide it at all, he signaled his servants to bring him paper and pen.

Zhou Tieyi started writing in public. Anyway, the article would be published soon, so he was not afraid that the Qingdi clan would read it first.

"Officials and Civilians as One".

This was a strategy that Zhou Tieyi had decided on a long time ago. The reason why Confucianism held the most power over education was because the Confucian imperial examination system held the greatest power over the selection of officials.

Officials are selected through imperial examinations, and clerks are selected through judicial examinations.

Even the Legalists cannot be compared with the Confucians. This is also the confidence of the Confucian scholars. If you want to suppress these scholars, you can only cut off their dragon gate and pull them down to the mortal world!

(End of this chapter)