Xuande

Chapter 87 They're in a hurry, they're in a hurry!

Perhaps it was Liu Bei's up-and-down tone and passionate words that made people inexplicably excited. As soon as the words fell, everyone praised him loudly, nodded and showed excitement, obviously agreeing with what Liu Bei said.

They, the School of Ancient Chinese Classics, are the true inheritors of Confucianism and the mantle of the saints!
Modern literature school, nothing more than chicken and tile dog!
The times have come to the present, the Jinwen Jing school no longer conforms to the trend of the times, and it is no longer a school that can lead the big man to move forward, but it is our ancient Wen Jing school that can lead the big man to go forward!

They cheered up.

For most of the people who participated in the gathering, this was the first time in the world that they felt that they belonged to the large group of the School of Classical Classics.

This feeling of belonging is very special.

Among a group of inexplicably excited people, Lu Zhi remained calm and looked at Liu Bei with a smile.

"Xuande, what you said is very correct, but you need to know that this opportunity was not given to us by Wang Mang or Emperor Guangwu, but by the eunuch. If we seize this opportunity, what do you think the people of the Modern Literature School will do? Say?"

The inexplicably excited crowd cooled down instantly, and once again looked at Liu Bei in unison, as if expecting some subtle words from him.

However, Liu Bei just smiled.

"Teacher, things are no longer the same as they were back then. Even if Wang Mang and Emperor Guangwu helped each other back then, our generation was still a minority, but now, our generation is the majority. Looking at the big men, there are only a few scholars who study ancient scriptures. Scholars who study modern scriptures are the majority." It is a minority!
They are self-styled, rigid and unaware, more and more closed schools, so that there are fewer and fewer followers, and our generation has opened the door of the school to recruit heroes from all over the world. In this way, our generation has already gained the upper hand. What is lacking is nothing more than a recognition. a chance.

If they think that we are colluding with the eunuchs, then it is tantamount to offending most of the scholars in the world. They are closed and unpopular. If they offend the entire ancient literature school again, they will only seek their own death! "

Lu Zhi pinched his beard, smiled, and nodded slowly.

Now, he can be sure that Liu Bei is qualified to inherit his mantle.

Liu Bei saw it very clearly. Obviously, in the current society, those who study ancient Chinese classics are the majority, while those who study modern Chinese classics have become a complete minority because of their own isolation.

Do you want a minority to stigmatize the majority?

How much anger of the majority can you bear?

Presumably, even those politicians with rigid thinking can understand this truth.

That's why they were so anxious to win over people from the School of Classical Classics so that they would not accept the eunuch's conditions.

But now, can the ancient Chinese classics school want to rise up and replace it, can it be curbed?
At this time of fierce battles between the old and the new, no matter what, someone must stand up and add fuel to this all-out struggle that is about to break out, so that this struggle will completely explode.

Blow up a whole new future.

So Liu Bei stood up, strengthened the belief of the ancient literature school, and ignited the fuse of the bomb held by the ancient literature school.

Of course, even if Liu Bei didn't say it, the leaders of the ancient text masters knew it well.

It is impossible for Emperor Han to accept the system of etiquette created for him by the Jinwen School, and it is impossible for Emperor Han to accept himself as a "scholar" of the highest level instead of an emperor who transcended everything.

The rites of the Jinwen School are not the emperor's rites after all, and they have no plans to adapt them so far, or they have lost the ability to adapt.

But the School of Ancient Literature is different. The School of Ancient Literature has a flexible academic bottom line and political bottom line. If the ruler needs it, the School of Ancient Literature can make relatively flexible adjustments to adjust the purpose of the school to what the ruler needs.

Their figures are soft enough.

Anyway, the first generation of ancient text teachers at the end of the Western Han Dynasty fought against the modern literature school in this way, so we can be regarded as comforting our ancestors by continuing to be shameless.

The Ancient Text School unified their ideas unprecedentedly, and rejected the solicitation and some meaningless promises of the Jinwen School.

At the same time, for the first time, the School of Classical Classics showed its imprint on the spirit of the School of Classical Classics, and since the fall of the Xinmang Dynasty, it has shown a collective consciousness.

From this moment on, the loose and huge nihilistic conceptual body of the School of Classical Classics has gradually condensed into an entity, a tangible existence.

In Liu Bei's view, this rally was more like announcing the birth of a primitive party.

Yes.

A party that is primitive but has clear common interests.

Lu Zhi and others also jointly wrote to Zheng Xuan who was far away in Qingzhou at this time, telling Zheng Xuan to accept the emperor's call to be an official in Luoyang, they needed him.

At this moment of unprecedented unity of the ancient scriptures school, the ancient scriptures school needs a leader who can convince the crowd, and a leader who can call them to lead them to charge.

And Zheng Xuan, who majored in ancient Chinese classics, was this person.

After the letter was sent out, the promoted scholars of the School of Classical Classics accepted free appointments from the imperial court one after another, and took up their posts for free.

With the collective appointment of the promoted scholars of the Classical Classics School, the delicate political balance between the Classical Classical Schools and the Classical Classics School was completely broken.

Under the deliberate manipulation of the imperial court, the boundary between the ancient school of classics and the modern school of classics appeared in the eyes of scholars with unprecedented clarity.

All the tender veils were lifted, and the bloody facts were presented to the scholars, telling them that the dispute between modern and ancient Chinese was not over yet.

The formal end is not the real end. Once the imperial power takes action, and once the theoretical guidance of the highest level of the country is loosened, it will affect the whole body.

The "war" has begun.

Scholars of the Jinwen Confucian School finally could not accept the status quo that made them feel angry. They made a large-scale petition to Emperor Liu Hong, demanding to change this status quo and demand that they be treated equally. Since the policy of party imprisonment was lifted, it should be lifted to the end.

We have always been the only ones who can enjoy the privileges, how dare the ancient literature school enjoy the privileges that we do not have?

Although the scholars of the School of Classics and Classics did not publicly express their views, they did not lag behind in their appointments. They soon took office one after another, and began to grasp power and handle official duties.

The more they remained silent, the more frantic and terrified the scholars of Jinwen Confucianism would be.

They were very worried that this was a harbinger that the emperor would fully support the School of Classical Classics and change the state guiding theory of the Eastern Han Empire.

Once the School of Classical Classics is supported, with their current huge size among the people, it is very likely that they will explode and eat up the benefits of the School of Classical Chinese Classics.

this is too scary.

It is related to the common interests of the entire faction and gentry, and those with vested interests are in a hurry.

They are in a hurry, they are really in a hurry!

The top gentry and the heads of the first-class gentry formed by the Jinwen Confucianism School can no longer continue to sit and watch success or failure like this.

Some big families living in Luoyang held an emergency meeting. These high-ranking noble families gathered together to discuss and exchange views on the current situation and share everyone's views.

Finally, to sum up, they have drawn several important conclusions.

First, the eunuch must have played a big role in this matter, and the eunuch bears an inescapable responsibility for this matter.

Second, there must be people from the School of Classical Classics who cooperated with the eunuchs, and revealed the contradictions among the scholars to the eunuchs, so that the eunuchs and the emperor had the correct code to split the scholars.

Third, the long-suppressed resentment of the Ancient Wenjing School made it impossible for them to refuse the temptations offered by the emperor and eunuchs. The future political situation was extremely unfriendly to the Jinwen Confucian School.

(End of this chapter)