Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 241 Great Confucian Wang Wei ([-])

another year later
In the fourth year of founding
Luo Yang
White Tiger View

"Langya Wangyin attended the meeting and met all the lords."

"Wang Jun from Taiyuan attended the meeting and met all the gentlemen."

"Hongnong Yang Zhen attended the meeting and met all the gentlemen."

"Yuan An from Runan attended the meeting and met all the gentlemen."

"Qinghe Cui Ke attended the meeting and met all the gentlemen."

"The Zheng people in Xingyang attended the meeting and met all the lords."

"Sima Jun from Hanoi attended the meeting and met all the gentlemen."

"The king of Liaodong attended the meeting and met all the lords."

"Xun Sui from Yingchuan attended the meeting and met all the gentlemen."

"Nanyang..."

Scholars from all over the world came to participate in the "White Tiger View Conference" hosted by Emperor Liu Da. They were all local talents, and some of them were from famous families.

Some of these people are only fifteen or sixteen years old, and some are four or fifty years old, but they are all Confucian scholars.

Even the son of General Fubo Ma Yuan came. He just gave birth to a child a month ago and named him Ma Rong. Then he rushed to Luoyang Baihu Temple to attend the meeting without caring about his child.

Wang Wei, whose name is Ruoshui, is Wang Rui's only son, who just turned 16 this year.

Because he loved the house and Wu, Wang Bian loved his great-grandson very much and asked him to study Confucian classics with the great Confucian Yuan An in the Central Plains.

Today, Wang Wei came to the meeting with his teacher Yuan An.

The reason why Yuan An was willing to accept Wang Wei as a student was because Wang Wei was talented and intelligent and loved Confucianism, and secondly, there was a living legend in the Wang family—Wang Wei!
28 of Yuntai's 27 generals died, and only Wang Bian, the youngest, was still alive, and Wang Bian was the only female general among the 28 generals.

Yuan An is over 40 years old this year. His grandfather, Yuan Liang, was once used by Wang Mang. Later, when Wang Mang was destroyed, the Yuan family was worried that their family would be implicated, so they lived in seclusion for more than ten years. It was not until Liu Xiu unified the world that the Yuan family reappeared. He began to recruit disciples and teach Confucian classics.

"Teacher, you taught the ninth chapter of "Meng Shiyi" yesterday, and the students didn't understand it very well. Can you explain it again?" Wang Wei knelt down beside Yuan An, and asked him humbly.

Although the school established by the Wang family also teaches Confucian classics and has a collection of Confucian books that have been looted, the Confucian classics are an elective course in the Wang family, not a compulsory course. To study Confucian classics, most of the Wang family's children are studying [military school] [Taoist school] [Mo school] [medical school] [farm school] and so on.

The Confucian classics taught by the Royal Academy are enough to be an official, but it is not enough to become a great Confucian.

It's not that there is a lack of books. The Wang family has a lot of books. The Wang family has more Confucian classics than those of the famous families in the Central Plains.

The main reason is that there is a lack of great Confucians who specialize in teaching these books. The Wang family has no interest in cultivating great Confucians. After all, great Confucians cannot create economic value for the Wang family, and the Great Confucians in the Central Plains are not interested in going to the desolate and remote Liaodong.

As a result, the children of the Wang family had piles of Confucian Confucian classics, but no professional professors of Confucianism, so they could only learn by themselves.

Originally, Wang Bian wanted Wang Bing to learn [navigation] like his father Wang Rui, and then go overseas to be an explorer.

However, Wang Bing was not interested in the [navigation] that the Wang family had summed up over the past 200 years. Instead, he was very interested in the [Confucian classics] that Wang Bing didn't like.

If it was the children of other families like this, Wang Bian wouldn't bother to care about it.

But Wang Wei was so favored by her, that's why Wang Wei used his reputation as the 28th general of Yuntai to forcibly entrust Wang Wei to Yuan An, one of the great Confucianists in the Central Plains, to study.

"Ruoshui, the meeting is about to start, let's teach tomorrow, haha~" Yuan An smiled slightly, stroked his beard, and was very satisfied with the student in front of him.

He also very much hoped to educate Wang Wei well, which would have two advantages, one would increase his reputation, and the other would be to curry favor with the living legend of the Liaodong royal family.

"His Majesty is here!"

When everyone was discussing, greeting each other and making friends, the officials who maintained order shouted loudly at the scholars.

Afterwards, hundreds of scholars from all over the world stood up one after another, saluted the belated emperor Liu Da and said, "Long live! Long live! Long live!"

"Please sit down, gentlemen." Emperor Liu Da smiled lightly. He was not only the emperor of the Han Dynasty, but also the spiritual leader of a group of Confucian scholars.

Beginning with Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, the Great Han consciously shaped himself as the spiritual leader of all Confucian scholars in the world, so Liu Xiu, Liu Zhuang, and Liu Da all studied Confucianism deeply.

I will rule you not only physically, but also mentally!
However, there are two types of Confucianism today, one is Jinwen Confucianism and the other is Guwen Confucianism.

Jinwen Confucianism is the set of Dong Zhongshu and others, while ancient Wen Confucianism is the set discovered by Wang Mang and Liu Xiu (Liu Xin).

Beginning in the reign of Emperor Cheng of the former Han Dynasty, ancient texts and classics were all the rage, but with the leader of ancient texts, Wang Mang usurping Han and the failure of reforms, the reputation of the entire ancient texts was completely stink.

Liu Xiu inherited the orthodoxy of Liu Han and overthrew the Wang Mang regime, so of course he must respect Jinwen Confucianism.

Now some Confucian students study Jinwen Confucian classics, some Confucian scholars study ancient Chinese Confucian classics, and some Confucian students are even more outrageous and directly create their own schools of Confucian classics.

The purpose of Emperor Liu Da's convening of the Baihuguan meeting was also to unify the thoughts and unite the thoughts of the people of the world on Jinwen Confucianism.

"Since this is the case, let's start discussing the Five Classics, discussing one by one, see what is out of date, delete it, and see what needs to be added, then add it."

The emperor formally called a meeting and let everyone speak freely.

"Chunqiu No.11 has a problem. I think the original words of the sage should not be this. The sage would never say such a thing. According to my understanding of other books, this sentence may have been deviated from word of mouth. , the real original text in history should be..."

"The ninth chapter of "Book of Changes" is ambiguous, and I think the same ninth chapter in "Meng Yi Jing" is more suitable as the official content of "Zhouyi"."

"Mr. Shao's statement is wrong. The "Meng Yi Jing" is just the opinion of one family. How can it be used as the basis for overthrowing the original text of the "Zhou Yi"?"

"No, according to the existing "Book of Changes", we can't explain the prophecy [Liu Xiudang is the son of heaven] at all, but in the "Meng Yi Jing", there are many studies on prophecy, using the "Meng Yi Jing" "Replacing some content in the existing "Book of Changes" is more in line with the national conditions of my big man!"

"The Yugong chapter of the "Book of History" says that Huayang and Heishui are the only ones in Liangzhou... and Heyi. I think there may be deviations in this sentence. I saw something different in a book on ancient Chinese classics. sentence, and the content in that ancient Chinese classics book is more in line with the original description of the ancient sage-king period."

A group of Confucian scholars argued with each other. They all had their own ancestral books. For example, there were different versions of "Yi". Other people's ancestral books may be counterfeit.

This discussion lasted intermittently for a month. Although it was not as important and intense as the salt and iron meeting in the previous Han Dynasty, it lasted quite a long time.

During the discussion of the Salt and Iron Conference, the two parties almost started to fight after the discussion. Both parties seemed to be arguing.

The Baihuguan meeting was much more civilized and elegant. No matter how much the discussion was, everyone was very friendly.

This is mainly because the discussions at the Salt and Iron Conference are related to the real interests of both parties involved in the discussion, while the Baihuguan Conference is only an academic discussion, and there is no major conflict of interest, so everyone can discuss it calmly.

(End of this chapter)