Li Su didn't pay attention to the guys who questioned the blessing of the palace mentioned by Zhang Liang, and they didn't seem to have any heavyweights.

This situation is also expected - the vast majority of Confucians, who are rigorous in their studies and focus on the right path, do not want to question the theoretical basis of Dianxing Youfu, because they know that what they want to question is politically rebellious. It's better to hide it in your heart and not say it, or wait until you abandon the official and hide in a safe place in the future.

And people like Dong Fu and Hua Xin, and even Wang Lang, who has not yet been promoted by Tao Qian, are all famous people in the late Han Dynasty who like to predict the "destiny of heaven".

At every turn, it is a prediction where there is a heavenly son, or it is a big word to say that "the number of days has changed, and the artifact is easier". This type of scholar likes to pretend to admit the theoretical basis of the "theory of prosperity and blessing" to conduct historical case analysis, and to find out Li Su's contradictions from specific cases in the posture of "friendly academic exchanges".

To put it bluntly, it is an enhanced version of "Cai Li Gong Asks Right".

Come if you want! The truth becomes clearer the more it is argued.

Although the prestige and seniority of the academic world are high, he is too old and his combat effectiveness is not good.

As for Hua Xin, hehe, now a Shang Shulang, don't worry - don't think that with the word Shang Shu feel awesome, plus a "Lang" is worthless, basically all of them are filial piety after three or five years of experience, that is, Shang Shulang. For example, Zhong Xuan, who copied books for Li Su before and took a pen, is also Shang Shulang.

Of course, Hua Xin's threat does not only depend on his official position, but because he has a relatively high academic rank.

He and Liaodong Guanning, who worshiped under Ma Rong back then, were the youngest disciples of Ma Rong, so theoretically they were of the same generation as Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan.

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Li Su was in Luoyang for two days, and he always expected that the emperor would be summoned separately to understand the situation before the court meeting.

But it seems that he prepared in vain.

Maybe Emperor Ling didn't pay much attention to Zhang Ju's award, or maybe he felt that it was enough to read Liu Yu's written music.

After Li Su completed the formalities for his arrival in Beijing, the eunuch on duty just casually explained a few words, and asked him to wait directly at the Taiyi Altar in the southern suburbs on the day of the Yuan Festival, and meet him according to the call.

Li Su also wanted to ask about the arrangements for the day's court meeting, but was told that there was no separate court meeting.

After the emperor completes the Shangyuan sacrifice at the Taiyi Altar, he will deal with some important court affairs with the hundred officials on the spot, even if it is a court meeting.

Considering the absurdity of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, who had not personally participated in the court meeting for many years, and only let the ten permanent servants pass it on, Li Su immediately believed that he could indeed do such a thing.

The emperor is willing to listen to the beep of hundreds of officials with his own ears, which is already very face-saving, and he still wants to pick a place?

On the day of the Shangyuan Festival, before dawn, Li Su got up very actively, only took Zhao Yun alone, wearing red court clothes, riding out of the city to the southern suburbs to wait in line.

Zhao Yun was only responsible for protecting Li Su along the way, plus he was responsible for holding the wooden box containing the human head for a while, so he didn't wear armor, he was also in a red robe, and he only brought a sword. When it really comes to face the saint, the sword will be saved from afar.

The official uniforms of the Han Dynasty did not have the level of those birds and beasts, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was still hot, and all officials wore red robes, and it was not easy to see the level of the official position from the clothes.

Li Su and Zhao Yun are both facing saints for the first time, so a little nervousness is inevitable.

To be an official to do a thousand stones, the emperor has never seen it, and there are many people.

Moreover, when facing the holy pilgrimage, the queue is not according to the rank, although Li Su is a thousand stones, but because he is a foreign official who is summoned, he can only be ranked last. Many squires who were more than six hundred stones, and Shang Shulang, who were of lower rank, were all ranked ahead of him.

Today's squire and Shang Shulang are both low-level officials of Shang Shutai, and when Shang Shulang is not allowed to be promoted and transferred for more than five years, he will generally be given a regular rank as a squire.

The morning light was faint, and when it was about three o'clock, the hundred officials had already lined up neatly in front of the Taiyi altar and waited for a long time.

Liu Hong finally Shi Shiran appeared in the golden root car of the Six Emperors.

As the sky brightened and the torches around him were extinguished, Li Sucai saw the shape of the bronze fountain on the Taiyi altar clearly.

It turned out to be a huge bronze turtle and snake statue (Xuanwu), and I am afraid that there are no more than 100,000 catties of copper. A copper pillar was erected on the back of the turtle, and the snake of the turtle tail was wound along the copper pillar, and after the ceremony began, the Xuanwu snake mouth and the turtle mouth spewed water violently at the same time, which was a magnificent sight for the people of the Han Dynasty who had never seen it.

But Li Su saw more fountains, and estimated that the copper pillar on the turtle's back should be hollow, which played the role of a water tower. There must have been some other mechanism behind the copper pillar to pump water upwards.

Emperor Liu Hong looked fat from a distance, and he never walked down a few steps, and the festival speeches were all read by Ma Riyan, the newly appointed Taichangqing, and Liu Hong watched Ma Riyan's performance throughout the whole process.

"What a waste, these copper are used to mint money, at least 10,000 yuan, and they will be used to make a copper fountain statue. And that's not even counting the cost of processing. ”

Li Su shook his head secretly, not interested in looking at the details of the ceremony.

After some strange operations of dancing the gods, the festival finally ended, and the emperor also ascended the altar to worship and enter the court meeting.

The ministers of the DPRK and China have not seen the emperor at the court meeting for several months, and there must be many people who want to behave. But their desire to perform is destined to be cut in line.

Zhao Zhong, who ranked second among the ten permanent servants, walked between the emperor and the hundred officials calmly, and ordered to summon the envoy of Youzhou to meet him.

The officials whispered, the news of Zhang Ju's beheading, the emperor knew four or five days ago, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the courtiers with high rank and well-informed certainly also knew. But more often than not, I don't know what to do.

"Youzhou don't drive, protect Wuhuan school captain and support the festival chief Shi Li Su to see him, and offer the puppet emperor Zhang Ju's head."

With Zhao Zhong's explanation, Li Su stepped forward quickly, and Zhao Yun was holding the wooden box beside him, and his steps were not slow at all.

"Hahahaha, emperor? Do you dare to be the emperor when you wander through the secluded land? It's ridiculous to confer the head in less than half a year. Liu Hong actually laughed and ridiculed in front of hundreds of officials in the court, regardless of the prestige of the Son of Heaven.

The hundred officials also know what the emperor is like, and he doesn't look like a human monarch in the first place, so he can't say much.

"Hurry up and show me what that lift looks like." Liu Hong ordered Zhao Zhong to go down the steps to pick up the head, and Zhao Zhong immediately complied.

It's a pity that the human head has been pickled in lime for more than a month, and it has long been completely black, how can you see the face clearly, Liu Hong glanced at it slightly, and kicked open the wooden box: "Such a filthy thing, take it away." The rats are in trouble, there should be this report! ”

After Zhao Zhong opened it, Liu Hong's psychological shadow seemed to be dispelled at once, and soon he looked like a nobody, pointing at Li Su below and asking, "How did you persuade Qiu Liju to kill Zhang Ju?" ”

Li Su: "Fortunately, thanks to Your Majesty's Heavenly Authority and the Mandate of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, after listening to Qiu Liju's explanation of the Mandate of Heaven, Wuhuan Shan deeply felt that Zhang Juding was punished by Heaven and could not cooperate with him to a good death, so he was sent away. In addition, the lack of food for the Wuhuan rebellion is also an important reason. ”

Li Su spoke very steadily, and finally did not forget to make up for the lack of food in Wuhuan. lest he be criticized for patting the emperor's sycophants and being sprayed as a "flattering minister".

But Liu Yu made up for the arrears of the Wuhuan people, which can never be said, so the credit of the money must be all said to be "Qiu Liju also believes that the mandate of heaven is always blessed in the Han and Dianxing".

After hearing this, Liu Hong became more and more fluttering: "You are very good at talking, you can convince Hu people with just your tongue, the world has not seen such a person in the world for decades." ”

Li Su: "Don't dare, the Mandate of Heaven is in Han, but Hu Lu and ignorant fools don't know how to interpret it." The words of the ministers are like the clouds and the sun, and their merits are in the sun, and how can those who sweep the clouds be greedy for the merits of the sun for themselves.

What's more, the beheading of Zhang Ju was only a small achievement, after Zhang Ju's death, the rebels in Youbeiping and Liaoxi counties still existed, thanks to Liu Zhijun, Liu Duwei, Gongsun Changshi and their lives, to recover the counties. ”

The Mandate of Heaven and the truth were originally there, and Li Su was just interpreting, not inventing the truth.

Confucius's "say but not do" is also this truth, people regard themselves as the discoverers of the Heavenly Dao, not the inventors of the Heavenly Dao.

Liu Hong became more and more happy when he heard this, and the other courtiers were even more shocked.

Because even if they knew in advance that Zhang Ju was sent by diplomacy, they didn't know what Li Su said to Qiu Liju before Li Su explained it himself.

Now that Li Su is telling the inside story to his face, he actually made Chief Hu surrender after talking to Chief Hu about the Mandate of Heaven, what an exaggerated foundation of political philosophy and orthodoxy!

"Dianxing is blessed, is it so powerful in actual combat to recruit and surrender rebels? Can it be used in the future when fighting the Qiang people in Liangzhou? Let the Qiang chieftain himself find that he has no future, and surrender directly. Many Confucians who are not optimistic about Li Su thought maliciously in their hearts.

"Since he is so bullish, when the time comes, he will instigate His Majesty to send this Li Su to other difficult Hu chiefs, and let him make unreasonable and excessive demands one by one, and when those Hu chiefs can't stand it anymore, they chop Li Su with a knife, and we don't need to argue with him with our tongues." A few other courtiers who pretended to be eloquent and had extraordinary ability to debate were even more vicious, after all, their peers were enemies.

It's like a venomous barrister's grudge against another smug barrister that doesn't need a reason.

Fortunately, they didn't have a chance to speak, so Liu Hong didn't have the heart to find a troublesome question for Li Su personally:

"Li Aiqing, you co-authored with Cai Yong "The Blessing of the Palace" and ask the right question, I also asked Zhao Changshi to tell me, it is really interesting, then I want to ask, since I won the world because of the prosperity of Emperor Gaozu Emperor Wang, then do we need to sacrifice Chen Sheng anymore? Chen Sheng is just a person who was the first to be punished by heaven, according to what you say, it is no different from Xiang Wei. ”

Li Su's heart sank slightly, he estimated that the emperor couldn't think of this kind of problem, and it must be that other Confucian scholars in the court took the opportunity of telling stories to plant the seeds of suspicion, and wanted to give the rebuttal of the Dianxing blessing theory an eye medicine.

Prior to this, the attitude of the Han Dynasty towards Chen Sheng and Wu Guang was still relatively positive, after all, they were the first to advocate against Qin, but they were killed by the Qin army, and Liu Bang no longer needed to conflict with Chen Sheng when he fought for the world.

After Liu Bang became the emperor, he enclosed the land in Mangdang Mountain and allocated 30 households to Chen Sheng's tomb, and the taxes of these 30 households did not need to be paid, which was regarded as the cost of maintaining the mausoleum. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was enshrined, the Han Dynasty has not been disadvantaged in this aspect of sacrifice since then.

Obviously, the person who came up with the idea did not want to refute "the palace is blessed" head-on, but wanted to promote this theory to the margins, and even secretly changed the concept to lure the enemy deeper, forcing Li Su to take one more step.

After all, truth also has a scope of application, and taking one more step is not truth.

Li Su took a deep breath: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that according to the theory that the palace is blessed, Chen Shengzhi should be the same as Xiang Yu." ”

"What? Isn't this a change in the rules since Emperor Gaozu? It's crazy! The crowd was immediately turbulent, and soon two big Confucians wanted to jump out.

"Your Majesty, the minister impeached Li Su for vain talking about the Mandate of Heaven!" A Confucian in his early thirties, with a barefoot posture that is not afraid of wearing shoes, is invited to the class, it is the newborn calf Shangshu Lang Huaxin.