Xuande

Chapter 81 They are all thieves

Liu Bei's question really fell into Liu Hong's slightly vast knowledge blind spot.

Although Liu Hong doesn't know that his knowledge blind spot is a bit big, and he doesn't really care about this matter, he still has the curiosity he should have.

"Is there any difference?"

Liu Hong asked: "What is the difference between the academics at that time and today's academics?"

"I also heard my teacher Lu Gong mention it by chance."

Liu Bei pretended to sigh and said: "In the old days, there was only one center of Han academics, and that was Luoyang, and Luoyang also had only one core, and that was Taixue, and within Taixue, there was only one academic leader, and that was... ...the Son of Heaven himself."

Not to mention Zhang Rang, even Liu Hong was very surprised when he heard the words.

"The emperor himself?"

"Yes, in the past, from Emperor Guangwu to Emperor Xiaozhang, the Son of Heaven himself was the only true academic leader of the Han Dynasty."

Liu Bei said slowly: "Since Emperor Guangwu rejuvenated the Great Han Dynasty, in order to unify the academic understanding, the emperors of the three generations have personally discussed the scriptures with scholars, led the direction of academic research, and made judgments for the disputes of many scholars.

At that time, the emperor of the Han Dynasty was the leader of the Confucian scholars. The emperor often went to and from the imperial academy, and often communicated with doctors and students. A word from the emperor of the Han Dynasty could not only decide government affairs, but also resolve academic disputes. , in Luoyang, in Taixue, not in Yuan's or Yang's. "

"What then?"

Liu Hong quickly asked, "What happened later?"

"Originally, all of this could go on, but since Emperor Xiaozhang, there are very few emperors of the Han Dynasty who are able to grow up and be in charge."

Liu Bei sighed and said: "The emperor of the Han Dynasty has not yet grown up, has not been able to govern himself, has not been able to complete his education, and naturally cannot become an academic leader, and is increasingly influenced by his relatives, no longer dignified and demeanor, and is increasingly underestimated by others, and the central government is declining.

Without the emperor of Han as the leader to lead academics, the Taixue model would naturally not be able to continue. As a result, Taixue declined and Luoyang declined. The world's academics gradually split from Luoyang Taixue as the core, from public schools to private schools, from Wang Fa reduced to family law.

Today's Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws are so prosperous, and the inherited family of Fanyue is so noble in the Han Dynasty, all of which were gradually accumulated after Emperor Xiaozhang. What the Emperor of Han lost did not disappear, but was stolen by these Fanyue families. became their own. "

After Liu Bei finished speaking, Liu Hong was silent for a long time, about two quarters of an hour, before raising his eyes to look at Liu Bei again.

"Xuande, did your teacher Lu Zhi tell you everything you said?"

"The teacher just lamented the prosperity of the Imperial Academy in the past, and the rest was explored by myself."

Liu Bei said slowly: "I am curious about the prosperity of Taixue in the past and its current strength, so I delved into this matter and asked many well-known scholars why Taixue declined. From what they knew, they probably pieced together everything that is happening today. .

I dare not say that this must be the truth, but I can't find a more reasonable explanation. Even so, I can be sure that for the emperor, being an adult and not being an adult are completely different things. "

Then, there was another period of silence.

It seems that Liu Hong needs some time to sort out the information he has learned.

Liu Bei's nervousness was suspended again.

This is all his cards, and he has already played all the cards in his hand.

If Liu Hong can't be moved, can't be moved by the bad situation of the big man, can't be moved by everything that has happened, and then make some decisions, then his efforts are meaningless, and everything he does will be meaningless. meaningless.

There is no way to go on the thigh-holding route.

But he still wants to gamble, because he knows that Liu Hong is a greedy person, and Liu Hong has strong desires.

If a greedy person becomes an emperor, then his desire should never be limited to simple things like making money.

If it is said that Liu Hong still has a slight desire for state power and worries about his unstable status, then he will definitely not turn a blind eye to this matter.

In this way, he can become an important weight for Liu Bei to coordinate the eunuch's interests in this matter.

When Liu Bei told all this, Zhang Rang was very upset and worried.

As a relatively capable eunuch and politician, Zhang Rang clearly realized why Liu Bei did this.

It was nothing more than awakening the emperor Liu Hong's sense of imperial power, and took the initiative to ask the eunuch for power, even at the expense of the eunuch's interests to a certain extent.

Although the eunuch and the emperor were political allies, and it was not impossible for the eunuch to hold the imperial power on behalf of the eunuch, the emperor and the eunuch were not an individual after all.

If an emperor's sense of imperial power is awakened, then he will definitely extend his hand to the imperial power. Eunuchs can still exist as a group holding the imperial power on behalf of them, but their autonomy will be greatly reduced.

Also as an extension and representative of the imperial power, there is a big difference between acting cheaply and following the emperor's orders as minions.

Although Liu Hong never denied the existence of eunuchs as his political allies, Liu Bei's intervention was still a risk.

Zhang Rang was very unhappy, but Liu Bei's words were too harsh, and he was a clan member of the Han family. Zhang Rang really didn't know how to refute this topic involving the survival of the Liu family.

In the late Western Han Dynasty, the idea of ​​passing on the Yi surname became popular, which eventually led to Wang Mang usurping the throne and changing the dynasty. Although the final facts proved that the way Confucian scholars chose to pass on the Yi surname could not change the current situation, it is true that the Liu family once lost the world.

Although the eunuchs value power and interests, if Liu Hong's throne is unstable and the world of the great man is unstable, it will be a terrible thing for them.

Contradictory emotions filled Zhang Rang's heart.

In the end, Zhang Rang could only watch Liu Bei rant about the ills of the great man, which made Liu Hong's consciousness of imperial power awakened unprecedentedly.

Boy, did you talk a little too much?
In addition to Zhang Rang's conflict, he also felt that Liu Bei's big mouth was talking too much.

But Liu Bei didn't see it that way.

Am I talking too much?
Perhaps, it was a little too much, which made Liu Hong understand a lot, and he was about to become an emperor.

But what about it?

I know when Liu Hong will die.

Liu Bei knows too many things that Zhang Ren doesn't know, whether it is the past or the future.

So the two will never stand on the same starting line.

Naturally, neither will Liu Hong.

In the end, Liu Hong was persuaded.

"So, Xuande believes that the solution to the current national predicament is to restore the emperor's authority in Taixue, and the emperor's academic leadership?"

"Yes."

Liu Bei nodded and said: "This approach has been proved by Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Xiaoming, and Emperor Xiaozhang, and it has been proved to be feasible. During the period of the Three Emperors, whether it is the world's government affairs or academic topics, the Three Emperors have the final decision.

This is not only something that can be done by the status of the emperor, but also something that can only be done by academic leaders. Therefore, the combination of the authority of the emperor and the authority of academic leaders is the real authority of the Han emperor.

But now, His Majesty does not have the final decision-making power over academics, and this power does not belong to any one person, but has been stolen by countless noble families, and it has become a way for them to obtain the power that should belong to the emperor of the Han Dynasty. From this point of view Say, they are all thieves! "

(End of this chapter)