The elite did not migrate south

Chapter 488 Wang Su's Teachings
Within Taixue.

When Wang Su appeared here, many chief academic officers in the Imperial Academy came to pay their respects to him.

When Wang Su was the Minister of Rites, he had managed the Imperial Academy. Moreover, he himself was a world-renowned Confucian scholar, and his reputation today was greater than ever before.

When they saw him, none of the doctors and priests in the Imperial Academy dared to look down on him.

As the current Minister of Rites, Zhong Yu naturally appeared here.

When he saw Sima Yan lying motionless, he felt a little confused.

Everyone comes forward to pay their respects, why don’t you come forward to pay your respects?

He suggested, "Sima Xuejian can go and pay his respects."

Sima Yan shook his head and said seriously, "I am related to Lord Situ. If I go to see him now and then debate with him later, won't everyone think I'm partial?"

Wang Su came to the Imperial College this time to teach.

Under Pei Xiu's promotion, the new version of Wangxue has attracted the attention of countless people, and everyone is constantly putting pressure on them, hoping that Wang Su can come out to answer questions and preach to everyone.

Pei Xiu still did not promote it on a large scale, and finally only agreed to let Wang Su conduct an internal preaching in the Imperial College.

Except for those within the Imperial College, no one else is allowed to attend the class as an auditor.

Such preaching was often carried out through debate, and a group of people from the Imperial Academy wanted to argue with Wang Su to get to the bottom of it.

Sima Yan was reluctant to go because he was afraid that others would worry that he was colluding with his grandfather and would deliberately lose because of family affection.

But Zhong Yu felt that you were thinking too much.

It’s indeed a bit too much.

With your level, forget about debating Confucian classics with Wang Su. The fact that you can understand what he says is because Wang Su is trying to put it in a simple way in order to express his personal feelings!

Sima Yan was very confident and he secretly looked into the distance.

There, Cao Mao was looking at this place from afar. He was dressed very casually, and under the shelter of a few "students" and the shade of trees, few people paid attention to this place.

Everyone's thoughts were on Wang Su.

It was impossible for Cao Mao not to attend such a grand event.

This is the first time that the new Wangxue has appeared.

If we want to reform the Wei Kingdom, it is important to change their thinking. The war of unification is about to begin. If we cannot adjust their thinking, even if they dare not openly oppose the expedition to Shu, they will definitely treat it negatively.

This is not what Cao Mao wants to see. What Cao Mao wants is for everyone to unite and fight together for unification.

Wang Su met everyone with a smile at this moment.

While they were chatting, they heard a commotion coming from a distance. A man rudely barged in. Several soldiers surrounded him, but they didn't dare to push him out.

Cao Mao didn't even need to look back, he already knew who the person was.

Zhong Hui ignored the soldiers who were blocking him and strode towards this place.

An official stood in front of him and said helplessly, "Zhong Pushe! Only those from the Imperial College can attend today's debate!!"

Zhong Hui walked up to Zhong Yu and said, "I'm here to see my brother, not to debate. Just do your own thing. I have something important to tell my brother, so don't bother with me!"

Zhong Yu had a dark face at this moment.

You little bastard, you never come to see me once when I'm at home. Now that there's a debate going on in the Imperial Academy, you remember that you have a brother like me?

Because of his elder brother, Zhong Hui was unable to inherit Zhong Yao's title and was weaker than Zhuge Zhan in terms of title. However, it was also because of his elder brother that he received an excellent education since childhood. He lost his father at the age of five and was raised by his elder brother ever since.

At this moment, Zhong Yu really wanted to send a few soldiers to kill this guy.

However, seeing the expectation in his brother's eyes, and then looking at Wang Su in the distance, he still said: "Let him stay here for a while, I will let him leave later."

Those officials were all subordinates of Taichang. Since Zhong Yu had said so, how could they dare to object and left in a hurry.

Zhong Hui laughed.

"Thank you, brother."

Zhong Yu just snorted coldly and didn't answer him.

Zhong Yu was actually very doting on his younger brother. When Xiahou Xuan was arrested for treason, Sima Shi ordered that no one was allowed to see him, but Zhong Hui insisted on seeing him, so Zhong Yu, the chief justice, sent his younger brother in to see Xiahou Xuan.

Seeing that his younger brother was unwilling to get married, Zhong Yu urged him several times but to no avail, so he had no choice but to find someone to adopt him.

Although Zhong Yu was quite cruel to Zhong Hui, he chose to tolerate his brother's strange and rebellious demands and behaviors. Perhaps he felt pity for his brother because he lost his father at a young age.

In short, Zhong Hui's extremely bad character was inseparable from his brother's doting.

Cao Mao watched this scene from a distance and shook his head again.

What kind of people are under my command?

Wang Su didn't care about the farce here. Soon, he sat on the high platform in the middle.

This place was used only for major events. For example, when the emperor came to study, he would sit here, and the great scholars would sit in front of him. When there were debates on classics, they would also sit around it. Of course, Wang Su didn't dare sit in the center. Once the emperor sat here, no one else could sit there again. He moved closer, deliberately keeping a distance.

Wang Su cleared his throat and began to talk about Taixuan.

Taixuan is very familiar to everyone. Wang Su's attainments in Taixuan were an important pillar in the rise of metaphysics.

At this moment, Wang Su stretched out his tone, first talking about Taixuan, and after finishing a paragraph, he began to add his own annotations and supplements.

And the second half of the sentence is often the most important.

Wang Su fully demonstrated why he was qualified to enter the Confucian Temple.

He was truly erudite, and while he could say something profound, his subsequent annotations included a large number of classics to prove his point.

But the content of this Taixuan is very short.

This gave Cao Mao the feeling that it was as if he had used two hundred references to interpret ten words.

Anyway, if you don't have some cultural knowledge, you won't be able to understand his references. They are unheard of.

And using these references, he managed to understand these words to mean what he wanted.

The scholars were all stunned.

Not to mention the students, even the doctors of classics were not in a good mood at the moment. Not to mention refuting Wang Su, they were even wondering where the basis of Wang Su's allusions came from.

Every word Wang Su said seemed to have a special meaning and could lead to an allusion.

After listening for a moment, Cao Mao couldn't help but admire it.

This is a Confucian scholar. Wang Su is already so powerful. If it were Zheng Xuan, how powerful would he be?

It is said that Zheng Xuan was a god of classics and never lost a debate in his life. This nickname was not given by later generations, but by people of his time. His erudition must have reached an even more terrifying level.

Wang Su's new annotations finally revealed their full appearance for the first time.

The first people to feel the impact were not the students, but the PhDs.

Wang Su's study of classics is most relatable to those who have profound attainments in the study of classics.

For the older generation, the dispute between ancient and modern times really cost the scholars a huge amount of money. For the younger generation, there was a collapse of faith, distrust of classics, self-paralysis with metaphysics, and a disconnect between what they learned and reality.

And Wang Su can solve all these problems.

Wang Su talked like this for a full hour, and during this hour, almost no one interrupted him. Even when he took a break to drink water, no one thought of taking the opportunity to ask him anything.

The doctors who were the first to understand Wang Su's idea were now completely immersed in it.

The scholars' understanding may not be thorough enough, but they also know the general meaning, and many things seem to become clearer.

For example, the biggest question that troubled the scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties was why the principles of Confucian classics failed to save the Han Dynasty?

Wang Su gave the answer. The decline in the quality of life of the people led to the arrival of the world of decline and destruction, so the artifact changed hands.

Why did everyone in troubled times adopt cruel laws and use war as a form of warfare? No action was in line with the classics. There were even cases of massacres. Betrayal was common. They fought against each other and treated the emperor with disdain. They did all kinds of things that were not advocated in the classics.

But it had no effect at all, and in the end these people established a new regime.

All this is easy to understand from the perspective of Mencius's idea that the people are supreme.

In a declining world, the only way to achieve the goal of great unification is as soon as possible. The goal of great unification is beneficial to more people and can help them get rid of the declining world. This is also what Gongyang advocated in the Spring and Autumn Period. Only great unification!
Wang Su is like a doctor, using his own methods to solve the psychological illnesses of the scholars bit by bit.

The entire Imperial College was quiet.

Sima Yan was a little surprised and looked at Zhong Yu beside him.

“Shouldn’t there be a debate?”

Zhong Yu did not speak at this moment. He was also humming Wang Su's knowledge. Zhong Yu was a supporter of Wang Su's knowledge.

He advocated combining metaphysics and Confucianism, but he did not expect that Wang Su would combine all the knowledge together.

The benefits are obvious, but Zhong Yu also thought of the disadvantages. This will increase the inheritability of many academic disciplines. Any academic discipline may be revived under such a proposition and cannot be completely absorbed or eliminated by other schools.

It's still okay now, but if a similar academic debate occurs again in the future, it will definitely be too intense.

Just one sentence about what sutra should be used in today's world may cause a certain knowledge that has been dead for hundreds of years to suddenly resurrect, and then the whole world will be in chaos.

Zhong Yu pondered for a long time and shook his head again.

Forget it, let future generations take care of their own affairs.

Zhong Hui sat beside his brother excitedly. Although he had read the annotations, reading them was different from hearing about them. Wang Su had obviously made a lot of preparations in recent days.

Sima Yan found it obscure and difficult to understand, and he was not happy at all. He was still thinking that there would be a wonderful debate, but when he looked in the direction of the emperor, he found that there was no one there.

Look, even the emperor got bored and ran away.

(End of this chapter)