Li Su and Cai Yong are both extremely intelligent people, so they can go straight to the point and talk about "what is out of place with Dong Zhongshu's orthodox philosophical theories 300 years ago".

But many people who look down on Cai Yong from the perspective of God do not have Cai Yong's knowledge base, so before those people listen to Li Caigao's theory, they must first figure out: why Dong Zhongshu was respected by the emperor back then, and what mines were planted for this.

Dong Zhongshu's core attraction to the emperor, Chiguoguo is a sentence: he argues "why the Liu family has been the emperor for a long time". (The kind of crepe conclusion in middle school history books is just to make people feel better)

The orthodox view of the hundred schools of thought in the pre-Qin Dynasty, until the "Legend of the Ram" quoted by Gongsun Hong, mainly stayed at "whoever unifies the world so that the people do not have to fight anymore" will have the greatest merit, which is also the ideological root of "becoming a king and defeating a villain" in China. (Before Dong Zhongshu, Gongsun Hong was appreciated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty first, because Gongsun Hong demonstrated in detail from "The Legend of the Ram" that "the people who make the world unified are virtuous")

In addition to this, there are other secondary legitimacy reasons, such as whether the ruler's family lineage is noble.

But this law of the jungle has great hidden dangers: the first person to have this kind of "great unification and war-free" merit is Qin Shi Huang! Even the first queen has not been able to enjoy the eternal world, and the Liu family is even more humble, why should it be for thousands of generations?

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Taoists and Legalists respectively suggested "recuperation" and "use time to make the people accustomed to the emperor surnamed Liu", and avoided this matter, but it was not solved once and for all.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used too many people, and this problem became more and more prominent, so Dong Zhongshu wrote a "Spring and Autumn Dew", pieced together a set of "Heaven and Man Induction", stuffed his own private goods into the skin of Confucianism, and completely defeated the Taoist Legalists:

There are three rays of sun, moon and stars in the sky, and people have three fathers and husbands. Match all the natural ways of heaven with the gains and losses of human governance. As long as the way of heaven has not changed and there are no major disasters, it means that the Son of Heaven is still favored by heaven and has the "mandate of heaven" in his body.

After everyone in the world was sensed by heaven and man, many people obviously couldn't survive, but because they believed that "there is no disaster in the sky now, it means that the emperor has not been so mediocre that he has been abandoned by heaven, and we will definitely be sent to death if we rebel now, so it is better to wait", no one dares to be a bird.

But there is also a problem, that is, natural disasters are bound to happen sooner or later. In the year of good weather and weather, it was forbearance, but in the year of catastrophe, people were even more panicked.

Fortunately, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a second trick at that time, that is, to kill and apologize.

The political system of the early Western Han Dynasty was a virtual monarch. This brings a benefit, because the prime minister has a monopoly on power, and he can be held accountable if he does not do a good job.

And natural disasters are often temporary, for example, after a major earthquake, immediately kill a prime minister, as long as the earthquake does not immediately follow the second time, then the emperor can say that his measures are effective: you see, after the prime minister was killed by me, the heavens will no longer immediately send down the second calamity, which means that I killed the right thing, and the problem was solved after the killing, and the mandate of heaven returned to me.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had 12 prime ministers, killed 6, and 5 others were dismissed, imprisoned, or committed suicide in fear of crime, and only Gongsun Hong died of old age during his tenure.

So much so that the prime minister was a consumable, and when Emperor Wu appointed whoever was the prime minister, the ministers knelt down and begged for mercy.

But this set only worked well in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and later with the dispersion of phase power and the inability of heaven to deal with a specific phase clearly, it began to gradually become a big tail.

The Eastern Han Dynasty played even worse.

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Li Su made the above clear in a few words, and then he focused on the reasons why the "Heaven and Man Induction" should be abolished:

"Cai Gong, at this time, at that time, at the time of the Han Dynasty, the reason why the heavenly and human induction was able to stabilize the hearts of the people in the world was because of the dictatorship at that time, the Son of Heaven did not care about the detailed politics, and the prime minister could be blamed in case of disasters. Although many prime ministers have been wronged, they do not cause the people of the world to doubt the destiny of the imperial court.

Now, when the relatives are in power, no matter what the disaster is, it is impossible to kill the general Xie Tianxia, and the same is true when the eunuch is in power - you know this best, 10 years ago, why did you dismiss the official? It's not because the four disasters of typhoons, hailstorms, earthquakes, and locust plagues have been reported in various places, and the Son of Heaven has issued an edict to punish himself, and you have also written a letter to blame it for 'women interfering in politics' and impeaching many people.

But does your impeachment have an effect? No. Just because it is not a solitary situation now, the end result is that those in power misinterpret the will of heaven, blame the weaker side in the court struggle, and mutilate the weak to prevaricate the mandate of heaven. The world's major events have come to this point, and the natural disaster destiny has become a tool for the strong to fight against dissidents. ”

This truth is clear to later generations of people who know a little bit of political philosophy: the biggest advantage of a faction in power alone is that there is no way to shirk responsibility when something happens.

And the two factions taking turns will not solve this problem. For example, if he didn't do a good job in a certain thing, he threw the blame and said that his predecessor didn't do a good job, and the thunder they buried four years ago only broke out today.

But this simple truth opened up a new world for the literati of the Han Dynasty.

"This ...... The pros and cons of celestial and human induction, can it be analyzed like this? Cai Yong was slightly dumbfounded, he had studied the study of saints since he was a child, and he believed in it so firmly that he never thought of doubting it from this angle.

Li Su added solemnly: "It's not just that-the court can't confirm the power and responsibility, and it's just the beginning." Once the court is blamed unfavorably, there are also thieves among the people who begin to use the celestial induction.

Zhang Jiao and his ilk, and even the rice thieves in Yizhou today, which one is not preaching the change of the Mandate of Heaven and the catastrophe, and the catharsis cannot be attributed to the change of power, so as to guide the head of Qiantou to directly question the Han family? ”

Cai Yong's pupils shrank and shrank quickly, and he couldn't refute it.

In fact, in good conscience, the difficulties caused by various natural disasters in the late Han Dynasty should also be changed, and a great war was needed to vent the population pressure of Malthus. But after all, in terms of the degree of disaster, it is not as severe as the Xiaoice period at the end of the Ming Dynasty. (At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were mainly many plagues, and the agricultural harvest was far less than at the end of the Ming Dynasty)

But why did the Han Dynasty people have a worse "tolerance" for natural disasters than the people of the Ming Dynasty? In the final analysis, it was the Han people who believed that the reaction of heaven and man induction broke out.

The catastrophe cannot be blamed, and everyone believes that the destiny of heaven is going to change.

The blow of natural disasters to the Han Dynasty is a double blow composed of a physical blow on the material level and a spiritual and magical blow on the back level of the human heart!

What Li Su wants to do now, if it is really done, is equivalent to putting a magic immunity equipment on the Han Dynasty.

This is only the contribution of the stage of "abolishing", and there is also the stage of "establishment", which is even more complicated.

Based on Cai Yong's current friendship with Li Su, Li Su will not tell the other party the details of "Li", but must first look at the other party's performance in the first stage.

But I can mention a little bit: if the work of "standing" is also done, the effect is not only "magic immunity", but "magic rebound", which can be blessed with an additional cohesion DEBUFF for all rebels who want to rebel in the future.

From now on, no one can destroy the Great Han through psychic magical attacks, only physical attacks that work harder. (For example, if you encounter a super strong alien invasion, it is still possible to be destroyed, barbarians will not listen to your beep Destiny, and they cannot be incited with political philosophy, which is a typical pure physical attack, and it is useless to pretend to be demonic)

Cai Yong thought about it again and again, and felt that what Li Su said was really profound, but the impact was too great.

Celestial and human induction has been believed by the people of the world for almost three hundred years! How can you say that you can change it? What should I do if the interests of those Confucian scholars are moved? The knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation by the world's scholars must be changed from now on, and they must relearn a part of it, won't they resist?

Cai Yong took a deep breath and sighed: "Don't drive the real genius who is not born in the world, he is a little righteous, it is rare in the world, and the old man really underestimates you." However, this matter is too widely implicated, and you are still young, and you don't know the resistance.

Just imagine, if you and I question the induction of heaven and man, so that all the scholars in the world have to rebuild the scriptures, how turbulent will this be? How much money? Will they do what they do? The world is already in turmoil, and it is not an auspicious sign that it is broken and not established. ”

Li Sutui said sincerely: "This matter is difficult, and I have already estimated it, but it is not completely impossible. First of all, if Cai Gong intends to participate in the grand event with me, he can slowly think about where Dong Zhongshu's method can be kept, where it should be deleted, and where it should be changed, so that the length of the deletion and correction should be as small as possible.

Moreover, since Emperor Wu, the first emperors of the past dynasties only respected 'Confucianism', not 'Dong Shu', we continue to respect Confucianism, the name of retro, go to Dong and return to Confucius and Mencius, we only fight against the 'heaven and man induction' a little, not as good as the rest, may not be able to fight with the old generation, this is also one of them.

Dong Zhongshu's doctrine is far-fetched, and his "Spring and Autumn Dew" is far inferior to the same Taishi Gong and Sima Xiangru in writing and philosophy. If Cai Gong is willing to scrutinize the meaning of the text, think carefully about philosophy, and have me to guide the direction, he can surpass Dong Zhongshu in literature and science, and this is the second.

Finally, in today's world, from the Son of Heaven, down to the bureaucrats, and the wealthy families, in fact, they have all suffered for a long time. From the position of the Son of Heaven, if the times are not right today, and disasters have changed year after year, the abolition of the induction of heaven and man can cut off the arm of the anti-thief in the world, so that it cannot bewitch the public.

As far as the ministers are concerned, although the unauthorized faction can now use disasters to attack dissidents, they also have to worry that one day the Son of Heaven will die, the court will reshuffle the cards, and in case the Heavenly Dao cycle will lose their power and the enemy will take power, and they will also use the method of imputing blame for disasters and disasters to frame them. This is tantamount to each side taking a step back and abolishing a trick to trap the weak, which is happy for all parties to see. ”

The last point that Li Su said is like a group of officials attacking each other, although one faction has won the political struggle today, if someone suggests: From now on, all those who are convicted for greed for money are not allowed to be sentenced to death.

So the side that believes in winning the fight will also support it, who knows if he will fall to the day when he loses in the future? Who wouldn't want to leave themselves a little more way back?

When Cai Yong heard this, he already felt that everything was beyond the scope of his cognition.

How can this Li Su be so treacherous? Dissecting the science of the saints so bloody?

He who is born to know is called holy.

In this world, there are really people who are born to know, otherwise with Li Su's age and experience, it is impossible to explain it at all.

"Don't drive the real talent, the old man is willing to work hard to participate in the grand event - the old man is not for fame and fortune, nor for the name of the saint, but just to make the people of the world suffer less from the chaos and educate the people of the world to settle down."