Ming Dynasty: Domination of the World from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 393 The tea is cool when people leave!

Hanlin Academy.

For the next few days, Xia Zhibai stayed in the Hanlin Academy.

Spend the whole day with books.

Now his status in the Hanlin Academy has completely risen. Liu Sanwu, Fang Xiaoru and others dare not look down on him anymore. After Liu Sanwu "recuperated from illness" for a while, he finally returned to the Hanlin Academy in the cold winter.

When I returned to the Hanlin Academy, there were still people to greet me.

When Huang Zhang, Dong Guan and others heard that Liu Sanwu had returned, they took the initiative to go out to greet him.

But compared with the large groups in the past, this one is relatively shabby.

Seeing Liu Sanwu, Huang Zhang greeted him enthusiastically and said, "Old Scholar Liu, are you feeling better?"

Liu Sanwu smiled with a thin face, "Thank you for your concern, I'm much better now. Did anything happen in the Hanlin Academy during the time I was away?"

Huang Zhang glanced at Dong Guan and smiled helplessly, "There is nothing serious happening in the academy, but Xia Zhibai is becoming more and more powerful in the academy. The entire Hanlin Academy has almost become his one-man show. Any ideas that contradict his opinions will be directly refuted by him. Right now, the book editing is all done according to Xia Zhibai's ideas."

"We can't get in at all."

Huang Zhang smiled bitterly and was also quite depressed.

With their talents, if they were placed in a certain position, who would dare not take a closer look at them? And who would dare not take seriously what they say?
But this Xia Zhibai doesn’t eat anything soft or hard.

Dong Guandao: "Under his orders, the Han Dynasty was full of militarism, the Jin Dynasty became the scourge of the 'Five Poisons', and the subsequent Northern and Southern Dynasties were forcibly attached with the demise of the Chinese nation and the integration of foreign states. There was also the Sui Dynasty's vain pursuit of power, the Tang Dynasty's separatist regimes, the Song Dynasty's excessive issuance of paper money, the Yuan Dynasty's lowly people and stupidity, and the factional struggles that have always existed in the court, etc."

"The history book he wanted to compile turned into a negative history of all the dynasties, and he said he wanted future generations to learn from history."

“Don’t follow the path of the fallen dynasties.”

Dong Guan shook his head.

How can we teach history to students if we want to educate people? Isn't this misleading? And were these dynasties really as bad as Xia Zhibai described? If the Han Dynasty was militaristic, how could there be the rule of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing? Is paper money a problem in the Song Dynasty?
What’s the problem with the Yuan Dynasty’s lowly and ignorant people?
He just couldn't figure it out.

Xia Zhibai is a scholar, a person of status and reputation. Why does he question and want to expose the sacred face of scholars? What good will it do for him after exposing it? Does he really want to see these scholars being laughed at by the untouchables and said to be useless?
The world is governed by scholars.

Who doesn’t know this truth from ancient times to the present?
But Xia Zhibai insisted on doing the opposite. They argued with him, but he scolded them. He also said that it was "learning from history". Learning from history means exposing the ugly side of many scholars? It means writing about all the bad things in the world?
There is no such thing as perfection in the world.

Huang Zhang sneered, "There's more to it than that."

"During the time when you, Master Liu, were away, a lot of things were forced into his miscellaneous studies, such as force, heat, electricity, light, sound, the continuous division of objects, astronomy, geography, and so on. Anyway, he mixed all kinds of things together."

"That book was blurry even for me, let alone those students?"

"This Xia Zhibai has put the cart before the horse!"

"He created a bunch of specious and aimless things in an attempt to show his uniqueness. But these things just exposed the shallowness of Xia Zhibai's knowledge. He has only a superficial understanding of many things, especially the books of sages. He knows nothing about them. That's why he dares not to read more about the teachings of sages, and only dares to work hard on these unorthodox methods. I think that book of miscellaneous studies will be burned to ashes sooner or later." Huang Zhang's eyes were full of contempt.

Not learning the teachings of sages but going to learn miscellaneous subjects, in Huang Zhang's mind, is not only unlearned but also perverse and is something he absolutely cannot tolerate. A scholar should behave like a scholar and should not do something else.

He has been really angry recently.

Liu Sanwu frowned.

He snorted coldly, "I have long seen that Xia Zhibai has evil intentions and has no interest in learning. He relied on opportunism in the past to barely catch the eye of Your Majesty, and now he wants to continue using this trick to cheat people."

"His tricks are too immature."

"Your Majesty is a believer in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and the most important thing about Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is restraint, but Xia Zhibai is obsessed with wanting to 'let go', which is completely contrary to Your Majesty's thoughts. Now I want to see how he will face Your Majesty's wrath when he really presents these books!"

Huang Zhang nodded vigorously and said, "I think so too."

He continued with a sneer, "So during this period of time, we, the Hanlin scholars, have been very serious about compiling books. We want to finish compiling these books as soon as possible, so that we can get out of the sea of ​​suffering as soon as possible, and at the same time see how Xia Zhibai will end up."

"But Master Liu, when you were away, we felt like we had no backbone. Now that you're back, we can finally feel at ease."

Dong Guan also smiled and nodded in response.

Liu Sanwu frowned, looking a little unnatural.

It was okay to complain about Xia Zhibai in private, but he really didn't have the interest to confront Xia Zhibai again, especially since his own son-in-law had told him last month about Xia Zhibai's novel ideas, which were also recognized by His Highness, which made him even more fearful.

Besides, how could he not know what Huang Zhang and Dong Guan were planning?

They themselves did not dare to cause trouble for Xia Zhibai, so they wanted to push themselves out and let him stand up for them. They would then decide based on the situation later. How could he be willing to be used as a gun by others?

Liu Sanwu said calmly, "I haven't been here for more than a month, and I'm a little unfamiliar with the situation in the Hanlin Academy. It's better for me to get familiar with it first."

Huang Zhang smiled and said, "That's natural."

"The Hanlin Academy has not changed much, and it is impossible for it to change too much."

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Huang Zhang started talking to Liu Sanwu very enthusiastically, and the three of them walked into the Hanlin Academy one after another. When they saw Liu Sanwu coming back, many Hanlin scholars showed a strange look in their eyes, and then looked at the inner room with a strange expression, and then greeted Liu Sanwu with a smile.

Liu Sanwu pretended not to see it and nodded with a smile.

After Huang Zhang and Dong Guan left, the smile on Liu Sanwu's face completely disappeared, replaced by melancholy and sadness. When he came back today, he had deeply felt one thing, that is, people leave and the tea gets cold. If it were in the past, how could he end up so deserted when he came back?
but now.

Most of them just nodded in response.

People's hearts are scattered!
(End of this chapter)