214 The threat of Confucianism
Weng Tongyi is a typical Confucian minister, and what he shows to everyone on weekdays is gentle and elegant, but this does not mean that he will not be angry, let alone that he will not be clumsy and will not debate.
Facts have proved that once Weng Tongyi starts to fight back, the sharp Cheng Dรน is definitely no less than Xiao Letian. The emperor in his thirties, looking around at the Manchu princes in the Dongnuan Pavilion, said with a sneer.
"Where is the foundation of the Qing Dynasty? There are no outsiders here, I will tell the truth, the Eight Banners ruled the Central Plains with foreign races, and the national Zuo can continue for more than 200 years, which is rare in the history of China......
"In the distance, there are five chaotic Hua, and in the near future, there is also the Yuan Dynasty, which one can capture the hearts of the Han people like the national dynasty? How did this miracle come about, I think you should have thought about it......
"Hahaha, the Qing Dynasty has come to this day, relying on nothing more than the knife in the hands of the Eight Banners, as well as a sharp mouth of our scholars. When the founding of the country was founded, it was said that it was forcibly promoted by the children of the Eight Banners with knives, but then there was no little bit of our Confucian students to ease the feelings of the people, do you really think that the country can be stable?"
Weng Tongxiao's words made the faces of the Manchen present blush slightly, but the subsequent words stimulated them even more, and Weng Tongrong simply began to expose the truth.
"It is those of us who have been helping the court to calm people's hearts for two hundred years, which can make the Manchurian country sit down forever. Those old peasants in the countryside who can't read a basket of big words, what truth can they understand, it is not up to us scholars to tell them, we say that whoever is orthodox is orthodox......"
"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the dynasty has reached the most critical moment, how is the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners? Has it declined? The battle between the monk king and the Anglo-French alliance army damaged the core strength of the Eight Banners. Weichen said something rebellious, if the Hunan army goes north today, where will the imperial court transfer troops to block it?"
This sentence shocked the hall was cold, Ci'an heard this and hurriedly gave the eunuchs a look, the great eunuchs Zhou Daoying and An Dehai hurriedly took all the subordinates away, leaving only high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the palace.
Weng Tongyi can be regarded as out of the way, "The knife in the hands of the imperial court is no longer sharp enough, and it is too late to polish it now, this is the reality of Tie Zhengzheng." Don't you want the knife in the imperial court, and now you have to cut off even the mouthpiece? If we Confucian scholars use our conscience and Confucian classics to lock the hearts of the Zeng brothers, what other good ways do you have?"
"Your Majesty... The Queen Mother... Ladies and gentlemen, haven't you seen the shape clearly? Now we Confucian scholars are desperately trying our best to force Zeng Guofan with moral articles, and we are trying our best to push him into the pile of loyal ministers... Now there is a second devil in the West, and a few leaflets have been printed, and the imperial court is about to give up on our Xianxue?"
Speaking of this, Weng Tongyi sighed and knelt in the center of the main hall, "Weichen has also said something in his heart, if you want to kill, you have to listen to it..."
How can this be killed, Weng Tongyi has already lifted the biggest worry in the hearts of everyone present, just put it under the sun, how dare the court do it.
Cixi moved her eyes, and Prince Gong hurriedly stood up and supported the emperor, "Shuping, Shuping, what are you doing?" I'll have a relationship with you, I was too rude to talk just now, don't blame, of course the imperial court should use Xianxue, of course, it must use Confucianism, this is the ancestral family law, and it will definitely not change......"
Yisheng pulled it hard, Weng Tongyi stuffed it into the chair again, "Aren't we just discussing, Xiao Lotian has already made a move, how should the court accept it, you scholars have brains, you have to come up with more ideas......"
At this time, the Empress Dowager also spoke, "Shuping, these evidences are all passed from the Tanggu Kuaima, Xiao Letian can be regarded as holding ironclad evidence in his hand, and even has photos of foreigners." Originally, the imperial court was not afraid of him playing mud legs, but I was a little confused when he got the flyers like this......"
"What if Xiao Letian continues to do it so endlessly, and the people's hearts are bewitched? This is the point that the imperial court is most worried about......
Weng Tongyi shook his head, "No, the court is too worried, it has been thousands of years since the school controlled the hearts of the people, and the people have long developed a habit, which is not something that can be changed by a few posts." What's more, there are not many literate people in the countryside, and we readers have to tell them about these posts in the end, which is our advantage......"
It is undeniable that Xiao Letian's fallacies and heresies are very demagogic to some literate people with half a bottle of vinegar. Those shopkeepers, the green forest people who run the rivers and lakes, and countless merchants, this group of people is not small, and there are many literate people, they are the most easily bewitched by Xiao Letian......"
"Please Your Majesty and the Queen Mother to stabilize their mentality, Xiao Letian's poisonous plan is indeed very clever, but it is not so urgent, and the court still has time to deal with it. Now the biggest question is how big Xiao Letian's plan will be, and how long it can be done, if we don't figure this matter out, we can't deal with it at all......"
Everyone in the hall fell into deep thought, and the wise Emperor Tongzhi suddenly spoke, "Shuntianfu came to report, saying that there were countless flyers flying in the capital yesterday, and there must be 80,000 if not 100,000...... I wondered, doesn't it cost money to print these things? Even if Xiao Letian has mountains of gold and silver, he can't stand such a bad waste? Also, how did he print so many leaflets in a few days?"
This question is too critical, Yi once asked the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry the same question, and those craftsmen were also confused. First of all, they don't understand what kind of printing technology it is, and secondly, there are problems of cost and efficiency. If the Ministry of Industry is allowed to do it, the cost of 100,000 leaflets will be at least 100,000 copper coins, and it will take half a month to complete printing.
How did Xiao Lotian make such a miracle, no one in the entire Manchu court could figure it out.
The little emperor frowned and said, "According to the master's analysis, if these leaflets are already the limit of Xiao Letian's ability, if he can only do this, then the impact on the people's hearts should not be very big...... I'm afraid that Xiao Letian's means are more than that, now he is a direct subordinate, and he may be Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, ...... next."
"Impossible..."Weng Tongxiao jumped up like a mouse that had been stepped on by its tail, "Absolutely impossible, how can there be such a magical printing technique in the world, even if he Xiao Letian does not have so much financial resources to do this." A leaflet needs a copper plate, and if you want to cover the entire Qing Dynasty, can't you have tens of millions of sheets? How could he have so much money to waste ......?"
Everyone thought about it, what is the concept of hundreds of millions of copper plates, that is 100,000 taels of silver, and the army can support tens of thousands of people, and a fool will print this thing to play.
At this point in the court, everyone's mood was a little better, and the next topic was how to deal with Xiao Letian's aggressive posture.
According to the practice of the Qing Dynasty for a hundred years, Xiao Letian's actions were enough to raid his family and destroy his family, and everything he did was enough to kill him, but no one in the audience could say the word "suppression".
The situation has made Xiao Letian too complicated, the strength of the foreigners and the Hunan army has been mixed in, and Xiao Letian is not hesitant to fight a propaganda war with the imperial court, if he uses the sword again, I am afraid that Xiao Letian will really be ruined.
If you want to exterminate Xiao Letian, it won't work at all if you send fewer troops, and if you send more troops, this slippery guy will definitely escape to the sea. The end result was nothing more than pirates attacking the coastline of the Qing Dynasty, and then all the big cities were flying posts and leaflets. If it really gets to that point, the inside and face of the court will be lost.
But if you don't suppress Xiao Letian, the court really can't swallow this breath, but now that the court has pacified the long hair and the twist army, the prestige of the court is gradually recovering, if you bow your head to a stinky businessman, you can't let the world laugh to death.
There is a dead silence in the East Warm Pavilion, and this dilemma seems to be difficult to get through.
"Wait, wait for two more days, it is estimated that the Protector Ancestor will be able to come back in a few days, he will have no information that he can't get, send an edict to the Internal Affairs Office, Jiao Si is a spy sent by them, now although Sun Sanhu has been arrested, he has escaped, dig three feet into the ground to find him out, and see if he can get any information from his mouth......"
Yi's words ended the court, although there was no discussion on how to deal with Xiao Letian, but Xianxue successfully broke through, and no one in the court dared to weaken Xianxue's mind, and these troublesome scholars were completely safe.
The march was not sinful, and the demonstration was justified. These two sentences spread to the ears of all the scholars in the capital that night, and now they can be regarded as raising their eyebrows, a forced palace and a grand parade, the court actually tolerated it, this is simply a great joy worthy of carnival for the world's readers.
That night, all the entertainment places in the capital were crowded with scholars, and these learned and faithful servants drank happily one by one, and there was no longer any provocation from the lackeys of Western learning around them, and the world returned to their grasp.
"Congratulations to Wang Mian and Wang Gongzi...... Congratulations to Luo Tongwen and Luo Gongzi...... Congratulations to Fan Minxing and Fan Gongzi...... Congratulations to all the classmates and peers who maintain Xianxue...... Let's fill this cup..."
All the green buildings in the Bada Hutong were about to break through the walls, and there were drunken people everywhere, and the names of the people they shouted were the three scholars who had contributed the most to the demonstration.
Needless to say, Wang Mian did not forget to participate in the tandem of scholars when he was mourning, and he was the main force leader on the day of the palace.
Luo Gongzi and Fan Gongzi are even more unambiguous, they are the most fierce in the whole martial arts in front of Prince Gong's mansion, whenever their morale is low, they can always rush forward first, and they are really good at making trouble.
The three of them are now known as the 'Three Masters of Learning', the banner of Confucianism's future prosperity, and the three of them can be regarded as carrying it.
"Everyone, everyone...... Be quiet, listen to what I Wang Mian said......" Wang Mian, who was playing drunk, jumped on the table, surrounded by scholars and Qinglou women, and he had already found the feeling of a leader at that moment.
"The power of our generation of scholars has shaken the government and the opposition, and this matter will surely go down in history, and we are all great contributors to learning...... Let's drum up a little more energy, let's go one step further, I firmly believe it...... I firmly believe that the romance of the literati in the Great Song Dynasty is not far away, and it is already close at hand......"
In exchange for a full house of words, this group of scholars applauded and cheered like crazy, "The Great Song Dynasty is romantic, my generation of scholars want to restore the scenery of the Song Dynasty...... Let the court kill the white horse and swear ......"
Xiao Letian didn't expect it, Weng Tongxiao didn't think about it, and the Manchu court didn't expect that a great chaos of grace would actually allow this group of scattered scholars to find a political program of their own, and they actually wanted to restore the status of literati in the Song Dynasty.
I have to say that the Song Dynasty is really a paradise for scholars, as long as you are an official, there is no death penalty, and a status of a lifter is a gold medal for avoiding death, and this alone is enough for these scholars to carnival.
No one would have thought that an Enke Rebellion would give birth to so many changes, and even Xiao Letian couldn't grasp many of the changes.
The water has been completely muddy, whether Xiao Letian can cultivate in this muddy water depends on his ability.
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