Yang Tong was in the Tsinghua Academy, so he naturally didn't know what happened in the Fengyi Palace, and he didn't know that his eldest wife was so dirty, and he had more important things to deal with.

Today is the day of the official opening of the Tsinghua Academy, and it must be celebrated, this is a serious place to engage in academics, and naturally there will be no singing and dancing performances.

There is only one way to celebrate, and that is through academic debate. Liu Xuan, who advocates the rule of virtue, is the positive side, and Wei Zheng and Liu Zhenghui, who advocate the rule of law, are the opposing side.

All the candidates for the imperial examination are watching the 'battle'!

In fact, the dispute between the rule of virtue and the rule of law has been going on for a long time, and no one can convince anyone.

The idea of rule by virtue is paranoid about people's moral cultivation, emphasizing self-discipline and ignoring other laws; emphasizing education and neglecting supervision; Emphasizing the rule of man over the rule of law; Ignoring and despising system building. Use persuasive power to influence and improve the moral consciousness of the people, appeal to "conscience and conscience", appeal to "moral conviction". The main purpose is to stimulate the moral feelings of the people, strengthen the people's morality, enhance the people's concept of honor and disgrace, cultivate and form a "heart of shame", so that the people can form moral behavior in the depths of their hearts; Second, it is necessary to use public opinion to restrain the people's code of conduct, enhance their sense of moral responsibility, and make the people realize that if they fail to fulfill their moral obligations or violate the requirements of social morality, they will be condemned by public opinion and criticized and spurned by the people of the world. Public opinion can imperceptibly change people's temperament and behavior, improve the atmosphere, and thus form a certain moral atmosphere. Once public opinion is combined with inner conviction, it can play a huge role. However, the simple rule of virtue has little return, slow results, and because there is no standard, it gives unjudicial officials the opportunity to exploit loopholes, which eventually leads to unfair social problems.

The rule of law sets a standard, and everyone should abide by this standard rule, which is fair to everyone. It is not too much of a deviation because of the likes and dislikes of officials. However, the rule of law is preceded by a law to follow, and secondly, it is necessary to ensure the integrity of the ranks of officials and the impartiality of the supervisory organs.

The rule of virtue is an internal constraint, and the rule of law is an external control; The rule of virtue is the rule of high behavior advocacy, and the rule of law is the rule of low behavior norms; The rule of virtue is the rule of social education, and the rule of law is the rule of state compulsion...... From the Han Dynasty to the present, in fact, all dynasties have taken 'Confucianism and internal law' as the country's governance standard, that is, on the surface, Confucianism is admired, but in practice it also relies on Legalist thought, often combining Confucianism and law, and Confucianism and law are mutually beneficial. Political merit and ethical persuasion are the two core means used by successive rulers to stabilize their rule, and they are also important factors that constitute the Chinese culture of Confucianism and internal law. Generally speaking, Confucianism emphasizes benevolent government and implements rule through ethical persuasion, while Legalism emphasizes the legal system and focuses on political achievements. However, these two ideas were mixed with each other during the Han Dynasty to form a complementary ruling technique.

However, in ancient academic circles, Confucianism and Legalism had a long dispute, and many times it was some academic masters who fought with each other, purely for the sake of opposition, and no one was convinced or agreed with anyone. Even if I can't argue with you, but I'm not convinced, who are you?

However, today's debate is very rational, and Liu Xuan takes Dong Zhongshu's views as his core idea; Wei Zheng and Liu Zhenghui took the Shang Dynasty reform and the current reality of the Great Sui as an example, governing the country according to law is the core rule of Yang Dong's forces, and it is also the soul of the Great Sui, Yang Dong can have a strong cohesion in Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, and some areas of Yongzhou, it is because the Great Sui government has a strong credibility in the people, although the investment cost is huge than the rule of virtue, but the achievements are extremely amazing, even Wei Zheng, Liu Zhenghui and other people who are proficient in the law, did not expect such an effect, it can be said that as long as Yang Dong is still alive, If you want to break into the territory of the Great Sui, you can't do it without hundreds of thousands of troops.

Unless they dare to break the monopoly of the family gate valve on all kinds of resources, but it is obviously a good medicine for the Great Sui, and for Li Yuan, it is poison.

Similarly, the family gate valve and the scholar clan are good medicine for Li Yuan, and they are poison for Yang Tong, so Yang Dong did not give the family gate valve and the Dashi clan the soil for survival!

There must be loyal ministers who are loyal to the country and the nation, and there are many of them, Yang Tong has always known this. But he didn't dare to use it!

Why?

Because the interests of the ordinary people and the Han people represented by Yang Dong are compromised with the family gate lord and the Dashi clan, it will be a two-sided displeasure...... With the advantages of the family gate valve and the Dashi clan in all aspects, once the ban is loosened, then their children will quickly devour various positions with their knowledge and clan advantages, thus forming a huge network of interests. Therefore, if he compromises on this, then everything Yang Tong has done before will be completely meaningless, and in the future, even if he wins the world, what is the difference between it and the Great Sui under the rule of Yang Jian and Yang Guang before, it is still an unbreakable circle.

In the future, he will definitely pursue the principle of employing those who are capable and those who are mediocre, and only in this way can the country and the nation make progress, but it will certainly not be possible before the world is unified.

This debate lasted until the evening! In the end, there was no difference, but it was definitely the most exciting debate in the past 100 years!

However, Liu Xuan insisted on supporting and affirming Yang Tong's attitude of attaching equal importance to a hundred schools.

Nowadays, the original Confucianism still has the advantage of absorbing the strengths of a hundred schools, but since the implementation of the policy of exclusive respect for Confucianism, Confucianism has been self-styled until now, Confucianism has lost its competitors, and gradually lost its progressive and pioneering heart, resulting in the emergence of a saint in Confucianism for hundreds of years.

Although Liu Xuan is known as a master of scripture and a great Confucian, he is not pedantic, and the Legalist ideas represented by Wei Zheng and Liu Zhenghui have achieved great results in Yang Tong, which is beneficial to the country and the people.

And Confucianism has a fundamental conflict, and it is the innate conflict that gives Liu Xuan a higher level of understanding in this debate.

The most direct perception is that Confucianism needs opponents, otherwise it will get smaller and smaller, and eventually 'die of comfort'.

This debate is not only the founding of the Tsinghua Academy, but also the Great Sui represented by Yang Tong, announcing to the world: The Great Sui will implement the way of a hundred schools of thought in academics, and in the future, in addition to Confucianism and Legalism, agriculture, ink, medicine, soldiers, names, miscellaneous, vertical and horizontal, Yin and Yang families and other families can write books and speak in the Tsinghua School Palace of the Great Sui, and open a hospital to help the apprentices!

Yang Tong founded the 'one pavilion and three museums' is to accumulate teachers for today's Tsinghua Academy, even if the representatives of each family do not come, or in the long history, agriculture, ink, medicine, miscellaneous, vertical and horizontal, yin and yang, these mainstream colleges, can also be done, this is the "Shenji Museum" has accumulated a great effect for several years.

It was good news for all schools and factions other than Confucianism, but for other princes, it meant that they would lose a lot of talent.

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After all, there were tens of thousands of spectators, and even many people were willing to stay in Dasui after the debate, and Liu Xuan was a scholar and a teacher in the Tsinghua Academy.

Li Yuan was not interested in this debate, he was more concerned about the meaning of this debate.

Maybe Liu Xuan started this big debate in the spirit of pure academic discussion, but without Yang Tong's strong support behind him, this debate would not have spread all over the world in just a few days, not that Liu Xuan is not famous enough, but that Liu Xuan is not capable of financial resources and publicity.

This is Yang Tong's manifestation to other schools of thought in the world: the Great Sui can provide them with the soil for survival, the Great Sui supports a hundred schools of thought, as long as your school has the ability and can benefit the world, Yang Tong will still use your views to govern the world.

It is good news for other miscellaneous schools, but for all the princes, it means that a large number of talents, and even Confucianism itself, will gather in Yecheng.

Chang'an, Xingqing Palace!

"It is said that a century-old dynasty, a thousand-year-old family, and a 10,000-year-old school. For the arrival of this day, the Legalists, Mohists, Doctors, and Zongheng Families...... If they have waited too long, they will definitely flock to the Sui Dynasty one after another! Look at it, Yang Tong, this kid must have a trick! Li Yuan rubbed his head and put down the information in his hand.

Although Li Yuan also wanted to emulate Yang Tong to run a righteous school, train the children of ordinary people, and send a steady stream of fresh blood to the Li Tang Dynasty, he was unanimously opposed by the strategists and officials of the sergeant clan, and even his two sons did not support it, for the simple reason that this was a move to shake the foundation of the family, and everyone did not support it.

As for Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's opposition, first, they represent the interests of some big families, and they must stand up against it; The second is that Li Tang is not the co-master of the world, once he runs a righteous school, the family that Li Tang relies on the most will leave Germany.

"The latter came out, and it was this Mengxue." Liu Wenjing sighed and put down a few copies of "Mengxue" in his hand, which was a gift from the Tsinghua Academy Palace to tens of thousands of viewers after the debate competition, one for each person, and Li Tang's secret agents in Yecheng all participated in this debate and brought back a few copies of "Mengxue"

"This book ......" Li Yuan looked at Liu Wenjing suspiciously, he also has this book, which collects the "Thousand Character Text" and Yang Tong's "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules", in addition to each sentence has an explanation, as well as the celebrity allusions and classic stories involved are compiled, there is no unfavorable remarks to other princes, the thinking is positive, and it is a good thing for the country, the family and the people.

"There are only three books in Mengxue, which are used to enlighten children. I heard that Yang Tong is now going to run a village school, and every five villages will run a righteous school, if Yang Tong can really promote it......"

Liu Wenjing did not continue, Li Yuan also woke up, when Yang Tong founded the free system of 'Yixue', there were many people ridiculed, and the same is true of the middle school later, now this "Mengxue" is indeed suitable for young children to learn, no need for a special gentleman to teach, as long as people who know a few words can be taught, the three articles are catchy, as long as you listen to it once, children can memorize a few sentences.

And the content of it, even if the adults who don't know how to read, as long as they have life experience, they can also understand the truth inside, over time, literate people will grow up, ten years later, these people will grow up, with Yang Dong based on the law to establish a governing mechanism, so that Yang Tong's entire power efficiency, will be qualitatively improved because of the influx of a large number of talents, and then take this as the foundation, people's livelihood, government ......

If all the people in the world are literate, it means that the monopoly of the family on knowledge is gone, and the two hundred yuan of this "Mengxue" is not only circulated under the rule of Yang Tong, but also brought into their own sphere of influence by booksellers of various forces, and there is a tendency to promote it all over the world, and they can't stop it, and they don't dare to stop it. Ten years later, even if Yang Tong did not expand outward, his hegemony was unshakable.

The ancient ruling class pursued a policy of fooling the people and making it easy to conquer! So before Yang Tong, even if there was Cai Hou paper, the ruling class did not think about promoting, because they felt that it would shake the status of the ruling class, and now the monopoly of paper books was broken by Yang Tong, with high-quality and inexpensive books, knowledge will slowly be produced in the hands of the people, and the people's ideas will naturally increase, and with the tax system of 'apportioning the land into the mu, and the officials and gentry pay taxes in one' in front, and so on for more than ten years, these policies of the Great Sui have spread, how will the people choose?

Thinking of these things, Li Yuan and the surrounding ministers all gasped, if 'the land is evenly distributed to the household, the land is apportioned into the mu, and the officials and gentry pay taxes as one' is Yang Dong's weapon to deal with the family, this "Mengxue" and the joint 'village study' are ruthless moves to cut off the foundation of the family's door valve, and it will definitely pry the foundation of the family and let it return to the public under Yang Dong's rule!

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