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

Chapter 271 Wang Situ ([-])

one year later
the first year of Yongxi
Liaodong
Royal Manor
"Don't let the rotten Confucian be the head of my royal family anymore, otherwise it will ruin the foundation of my royal family, cough cough—"

The 70-year-old Liaodong prefect Wang Huang is about to usher in the end of his life after being the head of the family for more than ten years.

Since Wang Yun was abandoned by the Wang family, the family council elected Wang Huang, who had the highest reputation in the family, as the new head of the family.

In terms of seniority, Wang Huang is the No.13 descendant of the Wang family, Wang Yun is the No.14 generation, and Wang Huang is Wang Yun's uncle.

Since Wang Huang ascended the throne, the Wang family has accelerated the speed of land acquisition, which ushered in a period of great development for the whole family.

Therefore, for the children of the Wang family, Wang Huang is the real saint in their minds!
A Mingjun who led the family to merge land and made the family develop rapidly!

"Learning Confucian classics is just to make money for being an official. This is the original intention of our Wang family children, but some Wang family children have forgotten our original intentions of our Wang family, and actually believed in those deceptive nonsense in Confucian classics, which led to my Wang family's continuation. Decades of stagnant development!"

"This is the darkest period in the history of my royal family! Perhaps it can be called, 40 years backwards!"

"Our Wang family must set things right and get back on the right track of corruption and land annexation. Only in this way can we be regarded as an orthodox gentry, and in this way we can have a strong character. There must be no more elbow-turning people like Wang Wei and Wang Yun!"

"We must not forget the great character of corruption of the Wang family's children, let alone the lofty ideals of our past generations of patriarchs who persisted in land annexation. Don't forget your original intention and keep your mission in mind. I hope you can remember it."

Before he died, Wang Huang, the prefect of Liaodong, left many last words. He had too much to say, but what he worried most about was his only grandson, Wang Yun.

"Yun, do you remember what I said?" Wang Huang smiled at Wang Yun.

"Grandfather's words, children will always remember them in their hearts." Wang Yun, who had just turned nine years old, wept and nodded.

In terms of seniority, Wang Yun is Wang Yun's nephew.

After Wang Yun committed suicide and became a benevolent scholar, the scholars mourned for him one after another.

When Wang Yun was alive, everyone opposed him, and when he died, everyone mourned for him.

The dead are sometimes more useful than the living.

Wang Yun completed the book "Six Classics" in prison. This book has a total of 15 characters, and it took Wang Yun nearly ten years to finish it.

Nowadays, "Six Classics" has become the sixth classic along with "Spring and Autumn", "Poetry", "Book of Changes", "Book of Rites" and "Shangshu". Scholars no longer talk about Four Books and Five Classics, but Four Books and Six Classics.

However, the complete version of the "Six Classics" has been brought back by the Wang family to their family manor for collection, and the imperial court copy is only a version that was deleted by the Han Emperor Liu Bao.
In the abridged version of the "Six Classics" by the imperial court, a large number of ideological contents such as love for the people, benevolent government, conscience, and unity of knowledge and action were deleted, and then only the ideological contents of respecting the emperor, patriotism, filial piety, the three cardinal guides and five constant rules, and the divine right of the monarch were retained.

Moreover, at the unanimous request of the scholars, the imperial court built a stone statue of Wang Yun in Luoyang and forged Wang Yun's deeds.

When promoting Wang Yun, it only publicized that Wang Yun pleaded for the people and finally committed suicide, and never mentioned that Wang Yun also criticized the land annexation and corruption of the gentry class.

Make Wang Yun into an image of a scholar who denounced the eunuch for the sake of the common people, and was finally forced to death by the eunuch!
The point is...scholars and eunuchs!

A harmless idol was erected!
People don't need to know what kind of person Wang Yun was in fact before he was alive, they only need to know that Wang Yun was a scholar, a scholar who pleaded for the people!At the same time, he knew that it was the eunuch who forced such a good man to death!
that's enough!

You see, we scholars are all pleading for the people, Wang Yun is an example, so this world should be ruled by us scholars, we are good people, you see, Wang Yun is an example!
It doesn't matter what Wang Yun did, nor does it matter what kind of person he is. The important thing is that the ruling class needs to make everyone think what kind of person Wang Yun is and what Wang Yun has done.

For such forgery, the Liaodong royal family also acquiesced.

Because the interests of the royal family and other noble families are the same.

The imperial court also acquiesced, because the imperial court wanted to shift the responsibility of killing loyal ministers to the eunuchs, and absolutely could not allow the emperor to bear the infamy!
The emperor must never be wrong, and the only ones who are wrong are the eunuchs who carry out the emperor's orders!

"There are tens of thousands of people like Wang Yun. Every one of us is Wang Yun!"

Under the unified propaganda of the gentry, those people who did not know Wang Yun were also moved by it, and cried: "The world is corrupted by eunuchs. As long as the Confucian scholars are allowed to take power, the world will be better. We You can eat well and dress warmly.”

Of course, if an old man who has lived for two hundred years hears this, he will definitely scold: "The Confucian scholars were in power at the end of the former Han Dynasty and the Xinmang regime. After more than 100 years, you have started to miss those guys who cheated people? I have already been cheated by Confucian scholars once, and I will never trust them again!"

However, the long years can erase all traces.

Nearly 200 years have passed, and people have long forgotten how those Confucian scholars of ancient literature, classics, and Confucianism made people eat each other everywhere in the world, their bones were exposed in the wild, and no rooster crowed for thousands of miles. The people beg for life, and there is also a scholar Wang Yun who was forced to death by eunuchs because he was outspoken for the people, so only eunuchs are bad in this world, and the emperor and the gentry are good people.

It was just like the descendants of the Jianren who were slaughtered by the Wang family, after they were assimilated by the Wang family, they would in turn denounce their ancestors as barbarians.

Just like those immigrants who were destroyed by the Wang family and had to migrate overseas to open up wasteland, their descendants are still grateful to the Wang family, thinking that the Wang family made them live a richer life than the Central Plains people today, and they have long forgotten their ancestors The hatred of being ruined by the Wang family is filled with gratitude to the Wang family for emigrating their ancestors overseas, otherwise their descendants will always be miserable farmers in the Central Plains.

And just like Confucius, the descendant of the Yin and Shang royal family, not only did he not hate the Ji Zhou Dynasty, the enemy who destroyed his ancestors, but instead, "I am very literary, I follow Zhou!", and he was only grateful to Da Zhou.

The long years are really the most powerful weapon!Even a sage like Confucius couldn't resist, let alone a group of ordinary people?
Year after year, under the repeated tampering and propaganda of one dynasty after another, who will know the real Wang Yun in the future?

Perhaps one day when the eunuch came to power, Wang Yun would be publicized as a loyal minister who berated his relatives, praised the eunuch, and was finally forced to death by his relatives.

When his relatives came to power, Wang Yun would be publicized as a loyal minister who denounced the eunuchs, praised his relatives, and was finally forced to death by the eunuchs.

When the barbarians took over the Central Plains, Wang Yun would be portrayed as a loyal minister who denounced the Han emperor who wanted the Northern Expedition, praised the barbarians, and was finally forced to death by the Han emperor who wanted the Northern Expedition.

When the gentry came to power completely, Wang Yun would be portrayed as a great scholar who denounced the emperor, his relatives, and eunuchs at the same time, and praised the gentry, and was finally forced to death by the emperor's relatives and eunuchs.

It is the ruler who needs such Wang Yun, not this is Wang Yun!

(End of this chapter)