Xuande

Chapter 27 He, Liu Xuande, Will Become a Tool Man Sooner or Later
For Liu Bei, the first thing after arriving in Luoyang is of course to meet his teacher Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi's residence has been told to Liu Bei before, Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei, Liu Hui and others to go to their residence in Luoyang to arrange, and he took Han Ning, and the two went to Lu Zhi's residence by car to visit.

Knowing that Liu Bei was coming, Lu Zhi deliberately got off work from the official office early, and bought Luoyang's good wine and food to entertain Liu Bei. The master and apprentice ate and drank for a while, chatted about the old days, and chatted about the family life, which was very pleasant.

After drinking for three rounds, Mrs. Lu took Han Ning to the backyard to talk about some women's topics. Lu Zhi and Liu Bei took a walk together to digest food. By the way, I would like to talk about what happened in Luoyang recently.

It can be heard that Lu Zhi is very dissatisfied with Luoyang's current politics.

"Your Majesty is becoming less and less concerned about government affairs. You know, not long ago, His Majesty actually opened a shop in the harem, letting the palace servants and concubines be merchants, pretending to be a market, calling for buying and selling, and a country The monarch actually dressed up as a merchant.

What's more, His Majesty played with dogs in the West Garden, and dressed the dogs in the clothes of high-ranking officials and celebrities for fun. , the result, guess what? "

Liu Bei guessed it.

"The price of donkeys in Luoyang has soared?"

Lu Zhi was a little surprised.

"You knew already?"

"What is good at the top is a thing, but there must be something worse at the bottom. Therefore, the likes and dislikes of the top must not be careless, and they are the expression of the people."

Liu Bei sighed: "What the emperor likes, what the subjects will definitely pursue. If they can buy it, they will rush to buy it, and the price will inevitably soar. Therefore, the things that the superiors like must be cautious."

Lu Zhi stopped in his tracks, smiled and said, "Xuande is studious."

"Disciples dare not learn badly."

Liu Bei bowed and saluted.

Lu Zhi chuckled.

"Xuande, your talent is very good. My teacher even thinks that you should learn more classics, or my teacher introduces you to join other famous teachers. There is no possibility of inheriting knowledge and establishing a sect. At that time, Your achievements will be limitless."

Liu Bei just shook his head.

"Teacher, Dahantianxia doesn't need more Confucian scholars. No matter how many Confucian scholars there are, can Dahantianxia become better? This disciple thinks it won't."

Lu Zhi was stunned for a long time, and finally heaved a long sigh and shook his head.

"Today's people have long forgotten the reason why our generation of scholars study the classics hard, and turn the hard study of the classics into a way to get promoted and get rich. In order to become a Confucian scholar, there is no other purpose."

"So, no matter how much you read the classics, no matter how profound your knowledge is, and how many small words you understand, how many of them can fill the stomachs of the hungry? How many of them can make the world's thieves disappear?"

Liu Bei sighed, and said: "Teacher, my disciples think that people today have reached a dead end in reading the scriptures, becoming a tool for reading the scriptures instead of a real person. They only have the classics in their eyes, and only the classics can help them. There is no other benefit.”

"Equipment for reading the Bible..."

Lu Zhi murmured to himself for a while, then sighed: "Xuande is right, looking for words one by one, picking out words, fighting over the meaning of a word, blushing, sometimes bloody, Students from different schools of thought often fight each other when they study stone scriptures for their teachers.

Xuande, you don’t know that in recent years, the number of people who study Gongyang has decreased day by day, so that some people shouted the slogan that Dr. Gongyang should be dismissed and Dr. Zuo’s should be established. The student asked Zuo to replace Ram. "

Lu Zhi sighed, shook his head, stretched out his hand to pat Liu Bei's shoulder, sighed again, and said, "The original intention of the sage is not like this at all, but why do scholars become tools for reading scriptures? Xuande, I can't figure it out as a teacher. what."

Liu Bei knew the reason, but he didn't want to say it, and he couldn't say it.

It is this society, this system, and this general environment that alienate people into tools for reading scriptures. They use the attributes of tools to the extreme, and then human nature is squeezed to the edge.

The selection method of thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge will inevitably select a group of excellent tool people. It is okay to count on them to do things, and it is okay to count on them to do things well, but it is difficult to count on them to make the world less cold. big.

The more perfect and tight this system is, the colder the world will be, and the less likely it will be to see a way out.

But even so, what can be done?

This world will not change because one more person understands its essence.

So even telling Lu Zhi about these things is meaningless, it just adds to his troubles.

Moreover, in order to survive, in order to survive in this system, if there is no other way out, then Liu Xuande will become a tool man sooner or later.

That's it.

Lu Zhi is a rare person in the whole system whose human nature is greater than tool attributes, and this is what Liu Bei admires Lu Zhi.

In this bureaucratic society, if a person wants to make his humanity greater than his tool attributes, he must pay a certain price.

With Lu Zhi's great reputation, he can only stop at a mere minister, and he can never be named Sangong. Perhaps this is the price he paid for maintaining his humanity.

And he, Liu, in the future Luoyang vortex, how should he maintain his humanity?

Or is it to give up humanity completely, and to pursue the supreme authority at all costs?
The current Liu Bei cannot answer this question.

He can only focus on more practical issues.

"The teacher wrote a letter before, saying that in June, the emperor issued an imperial edict, ordering the ministers to recommend one person each for the classics of "Guwen Shangshu", "Mao Shi", "Zuo Zhuan" and "Gu Liang Zhuan", and all those who were elected would worship him. Yilang, do you have any deep meaning in this matter?"

When Liu Bei raised this question, Lu Zhi could only put away his thoughts and focus on the present.

But when it comes to this issue, Lu Zhi is quite disdainful.

"If there is a deep meaning, it's okay. It's just a manipulative act by the eunuchs to return to the court for some people. All the candidates have already belonged, hmph!"

On the surface, this matter involves a dispute between modern and ancient prose, but in fact, this matter does involve a dispute between modern and ancient prose.

But judging from the results, it seems more like some ignorant guys are taking advantage of the dispute between modern and ancient literature to benefit themselves, fish in troubled waters, and try to provoke a war between the modern literature school and the ancient literature school by the way, trying to get some benefits.

However, although the two sides in the dispute between modern and ancient prose have different academic interests, and the ancient text masters are in a disadvantageous position politically against the modern text masters, they can still reluctantly unify their line when facing the eunuchs.

We are all serious men, how can we mix with those disabled intersex people?
Liu Hong issued an imperial edict to make special moves against the four classics. Among the four classics, except "Gu Liang Biography", which is a modern classic, the other three are "Ancient Classics".

It seems that some emperors intend to use imperial power to support the School of Classical Classics and suppress the School of Modern Literature.

But this is not the case.

Who is the [Ancient Prose Master] who is proficient in ancient prose and classics recommended by the minister?

Cao Cao.

Among the people who were chosen to worship as Yilang, Cao Cao's name was impressively listed. The reason was that he was proficient in "Guwen Shangshu" and was an excellent teacher of ancient scriptures, so he was worshiped as Yilang.

Liu Bei wanted to laugh when he heard about it.

Can this intention be any more obvious?

You eunuchs really don't even pretend, do you?

(End of this chapter)