Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 136 Scholars are surprised
When he came out of Jinlingji's Chengji Mansion, Bai Tu felt even heavier - although "Xian Zhiwen" was very beneficial to Bai Tu, it also made Bai Tu bear the burden of Jinling Ji's "emotions".

Xianshi knew about it and avoided it as much as possible. Bai Tu's original intention was distorted by the noble class and directly displayed in front of the common people.

Bai Tu could only calm down and prepare for the changes that this matter would bring, as well as... the changes after Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor.

As for Jinling Princess herself, with Yu Ji taking care of her for the time being, Bai Tu can't do anything else. After all, Cheng Ji's existence form is a "mystery" to Bai Tu, and it cannot be diagnosed by ordinary doctors.

Fortunately, according to Yu Ji, Jinling Ji is not in any danger now...

Bai Tu soon felt that the "variables" brought about by this incident were, first of all, the recruitment hall system. In just a few days, it had received several times or even dozens of times more self-recommendations than before!
One by one, the rosters were registered and sent to Bai Tu.

Among them, there are even many names that are "familiar" to Bai Tu. Especially as time goes by, the names of some outstanding people who are not from Jiangdong also appear in the Naxian Hall.

The list of Naxian Hall is often reviewed by Bai Tu, and familiar names can be seen from time to time, such as Pan Zhang before...

However, for such familiar names, Bai Tu only specially drew up a list of key observations, and did not directly meet with them and then entrust them with important tasks - no "talent" is born, and starting from the grassroots is also part of growth.

The talents who come to the Talent Hall are basically young talents who come from poor families.

Talents who are truly famous in a state or county will rarely lower themselves to go to the Naxian Hall. If they really want to seek refuge with Bai Tu, they will prepare invitations and come directly to see Bai Tu. If they are from a noble family, they can also Just take the path of Chaju!

Therefore, for these "newcomers", only when Bai Tu feels that their development in Jiangdong has been suppressed and has not received reasonable development, will he directly fish them up from top to bottom to avoid being buried or losing their talents.

After the "Xian Envoys learned about it", the Xianzhi Hall in various places was overcrowded...

Although Bai Tu's "Killing one person is like killing my father" can only win a [-]-[-] vote in public opinion, but in the Naxian Hall, there are almost no disadvantages.

After all, most of the people who have prejudices against this are the type of people who would not recommend themselves to the Naxian Hall in the first place. However, for those who have good intentions towards this, this will become their motivation to join Baitu...

At the same time, even those who had the most objections to Bai Tu did not dare to come to Naxian Pavilion to cause trouble, and they would not even comment on Bai Tu regarding the incident itself.

Now that Bai Tu has won the love of the people on this matter, they will not provoke him head-on and lower his popularity, but will find other ways to hurt Bai Tu!
After all, what they are targeting is not "killing one person is like killing my father", but the concept of Bai Tu represented behind it...

The most intense criticism came from the famous scholars - compared with those who represented the gentry, they were simpler, not to mention whether they would be abandoned by the people.

Generally speaking, those great Confucians who are indeed very famous in the current era, but whose names will not be left at all in "Three Kingdoms" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", are the only ones who have the ability to express public opinion and have no political power. of baggage.

In this regard, Kong Rong advocated for Bai Tu. From then on... Kong Rong began a several-year debate among scholars.

On the second day, Kong Rong had already used "old people, old people and old people" as the fulcrum and some of Mencius's ideas to find the legal basis for Bai Tu's words in the Confucian community...

Of course, in this debate, Kong Rong was at a congenital disadvantage - Mencius' idea of ​​"reaching" people's old age was inferior, and Kong Rong's reason for land washing was not even believed by himself.

Just as Mozi's "universal love" would make Mencius scold the public, any provocative remarks based on "patriarchal blood relations" would greatly touch the nerves of Confucianism.

However, Bai Tu has a reputation as a saint, and no one dares to carry him out of the Shennong Temple...

Kong Rong now has a minor literary reputation, and as a descendant of the Kong family, he can pat his chest and say, "No one understands Kong Sheng better than me." This can at least attract the votes of passers-by.

However, the battlefield that Kong Rong was responsible for was too "treacherous". After all, it was too difficult to prove a statement that went against the core ideas of Confucianism on the home court of Confucianism, and Kong Rong was also very troubled.

The first people Kong Rong had to face were the Confucian scholars in Jiangdong, Jingchu, and Huainan. As for the Confucian scholars in the Central Plains, Hebei and other places, they wanted to quarrel with Kong Rong, but they did not have such a fast communication channel.

And just "nearby" there are many great scholars whose literary names are far inferior to those of Kong Rong, which can make him miserable...

It wasn't until half a month later that Wang Lang visited Kong Rong in private and gave him a trick - if he really couldn't influence others, he would try to force them to make mistakes!
That is... deliberately leading the other party to fiercely criticize Bai Tu's character, or preferably directly obliterate Bai Tu's contribution.

When Kong Rong heard what Wang Lang said at first, he seemed very angry, thinking that Wang Lang was going to abandon Bai Tu. However, after hearing Wang Lang's explanation, he understood that this was Bai Tu's greatest advantage!
No matter how high their status is and how much they want to look down on Bai Tu, as long as they don't want to be removed from the battlefield of public opinion, they must adhere to the principle that they can attack some of Bai Tu's ideas to prove that Bai Tu is wrong. , but we must not directly criticize Bai Tu.

The character and prestige of a great sage who twice caused the vision of the great sage being born, and the second time directly caused the vision of the divine being appearing in Shennong Temple, is beyond anyone's ability.

The first person to be recruited was Song Zhong, a great scholar from Jingxiang, a guy with a very unlucky name...

He held a civil service in Liu Biao, and his ability in writing and military strategy was average, but he was quite proficient in studying classics and had annotated many classics. He was considered one of the top scholars in Jingxiang.

Because he has a thorough grasp of the Confucian classics, Kong Rong often argues with him that he can't argue...

Later, under the guidance of Kong Rong who seemed to be showing weakness, Song Zhong was the first to publicly slander Bai Tu's personal reputation, and even suggested that Liu Biao order a ban on building temples for Bai Tu in Jingzhou.

As a result... the next day, blood was thrown at Song Zhong in front of his door, and he was the kind of person who would spit on him even if he walked on the street.

On the fourth day, Song Zhong received a letter from Zhang Ling's home in the countryside, saying that the Song family's property had been deliberately destroyed by unscrupulous people, and because the surrounding township parties were shielding each other and hostile to the Song family, they did not dare to ask the county magistrate to take charge. To be fair, he took the initiative to reduce major issues to trivial matters. The letter warned Song Zhong not to talk nonsense for the sake of his own literary name.

On the sixth day, Song Zhong received a reply from Kong Rong... He directly broke away from the topic itself and ignored its various factors that made it impossible for Kong Rong to refute the theory based on Confucianism. He directly sprayed: "Shameless old thief, don't you know that the people of the world are I am all willing to eat your flesh alive, why are you arguing with me here!"

Song Zhong vomited blood and asked Liu Biao to resign due to illness...

As for his previous suggestions, Liu Biao ignored them at all, including Kuai and Cai. Even if he didn't agree with Bai Tu in his heart, he would not compete with Bai Tu's reputation in this matter.

After discovering this advantage of his own and making full use of this technique, Kong Rong's combat effectiveness increased sharply. Even among the scholars, no one could put Bai Tu into the ranks of "undisputed mistakes".

Even in other aspects, Bai Tu had unexpected gains, such as... beyond Bai Tu's expectation, what he waited for first was not the fierce opposition of a certain family, but Wei Teng of the Wei family and Gu Yong of the Gu family. For a while, through Lao Lu, he once again expressed to Bai Tu his idea of ​​joining the state pastoral government...

　Dongdong: This part is very confusing to write... It’s not that the story itself is confusing, it’s that I don’t know how to arrange the plot.

　　It is said that Kong Rong's "fighting" with others in the scholars, even if it was only the first stage, would be at least a few months process. If it were written purely in chronological order like "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there would also be the Battle of Huainan and drought relief in the middle. Wait for the big plot to be separated.

　　Big plots can be written according to time, but if such "little things" are interspersed, everyone may forget who "Song Zhong" is in the end, and there will be no coherence at all...

　　After hesitating, Dongdong decided to jump back in time and write this part out, and then pull back the time to the time when Pan Zhang's trial had just ended.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)