XXXVI. Rising waves
Guo Shan felt that he needed to give Guo Peng enough guidance and enough cognition, so that Guo Peng could understand his situation.
But why did he say that?
Guo Peng's will is not weak at all.
If you don't have a good background, you have to pay what others can't pay to get what others can't get.
But for people who have no background, it's different, you need to climb up with your hands and feet and with blood and tears on your face to get it.
Therefore, the word "climb" is used quite accurately.
It's just that in the troubled times, the meaning and way of climbing up are different from those in the heyday.
In the prosperous world, you need to sacrifice your dignity and soul to climb up, and you must have the determination to be a dog first and then a human to climb up, defeat all the dogs that climb up together, and finally become the well-dressed "person".
And in troubled times, everything will be overturned.
Surviving by any means, killing all opponents to survive to the end, and becoming the final victor is everything, for this, no matter what you pay, it is worth it, as long as you can survive to the end, you will earn it.
Guo Peng has such determination, and this is not for fun.
"What the father means, the son understands."
Guo Peng's eyes were quite calm, calm like a pool of stagnant water, which was daunting.
He has always been an introverted driven person, he doesn't need external thrust, he has his own endless and extremely strong motivation to move forward.
So sometimes, Guo Peng himself feels a little scary, because he doesn't know when he will do something that makes him feel creepy.
He didn't even know if he had a bottom line.
Fortunately, he still has a little feeling.
The feeling of pity when facing Cao Lan and the feeling of gratitude when facing Cai Yong may be his bottom line as a person.
In addition, it is not clear that when he does not regard himself as a person, there may be no bottom line.
However, even these feelings will be instinctively used by him to create a good environment for himself and build momentum for himself.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with these things.
Just like the first year of Light and the First Year, he remembered that certain things would happen, and these things might make him famous faster, or even kill two birds with one stone.
He noticed that when the mountain rain was about to come, it was not long after the holiday of the first year of Guanghe, and there was a sudden wave in the court.
The reason is that at the beginning of the new year, Emperor Ling announced that he would set up a new national-level school in addition to Taixue, called Hongdu Gate School.
Hongdu Gate School is the world's first junior college, and the talents cultivated are mainly calligraphy and painting arts, rather than studying orthodox textbooks such as the Five Classics, and its birth has its historical background.
Eunuchs have always been notorious, but eunuchs often have the upper hand in politics, and when they achieve political success, eunuchs will naturally pursue success in public opinion.
Therefore, the eunuchs of the Han Dynasty came up with the idea of running a school during this period of unprecedented strength.
Run a school, train your own scholars, fight against the scholars who have mastered Taixue, and reverse the shortcomings of public opinion for yourself.
This is going to kill the scholars, the right to education is monopolized by them, in order to compete with the imperial power, and now the eunuchs actually want to toss some movement on their lifeline, so what's the point?
They desperately opposed it, whether they had evil intentions or really thought that it was insulting to the sages and should be banned, and they all wrote against it.
But it was useless, in February, Emperor Ling ordered the establishment of Hongdu Gate School to cultivate high-achieving art students, and ordered all counties and counties to immediately select and send suitable talents to Hongdu Gate School.
Naturally, the selected ones are all poor children, who have no way out, and are poor, so they don't care about what sages or morals, they have to eat their stomachs.
So working with eunuchs is the best way.
Emperor Ling naturally stood on the same front with the eunuchs, providing political convenience for these scholars who had learned from the Hongdu Sect, making it easier for them to become officials than the students of Taixue, trying to achieve the effect of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposing the Confucianism of the hundred schools.
From the birth of Hongdu Gate School to the death of Emperor Ling, Hongdu Gate School was deposed, during this period of time, the scholars followed one after another, and never gave up their efforts to depose it, in order not to damage their core interests.
There is no doubt that Lu Zhi and Cai Yong also joined in, although they also like art, but they never thought that some people could rely on this crooked way to become officials.
If you treat it as nothing, in the long run, the officials in the world are the "protégés and former officials" of the eunuchs, then what is it worth?
In fact, in Guo Peng's view, it makes no difference whether the officials in the world are the protégés of the eunuchs or the protégés of the scholars, the two bastards are just more bastards than whom.
For the scholars, this is a long-term struggle, and there is little to see in the short term, and in contrast to it, some other political storms are brewing.
Lu Zhi, as a waiter, often accompanies Emperor Ling to do things left and right, and one day when he taught Guo Peng Jingyi, he couldn't help but sigh a few times.
Guo Peng asked Lu Zhi why he sighed, whether it was for Hongdumen's learning, and Lu Zhi told Guo Peng that this was not the case.
The reason is that when he was on an errand in the palace, he heard Emperor Ling complain to Empress Song several times.
"Your Majesty complained to the queen, this is not a trivial matter, the affairs of the inner palace should not have been known to me and other foreign ministers, and now, Your Majesty actually took the initiative to mention these things, this is clearly testing our reaction, Your Majesty...... I'm afraid I have the idea of scrapping. ”
Lu Zhi looked at Guo Peng, and there was something strange in his eyes.
Guo Peng saw it.
Empress Song's elder brother Song Qi's wife is Cao Chi's daughter, Cao Ren and Cao Chun's sister, Cao Cao, is Song Qi's brother-in-law and has a good relationship with Song Qi.
And he, Guo Peng, is Cao Cao's sister-in-law.
In the Han Dynasty, the identity of relatives was always very special and embarrassing, and strong relatives such as Dou and Liang could manipulate the succession to the throne, of course, not all relatives were so strong, and the relatives of Queen Song were relatively honest.
The Song family belongs to the relatives, with the status of the Song queen and more developed, the Cao family through the marriage with the Song family also gained a lot of benefits, once the Song family is abolished, I am afraid that there will be a big shock, the aftermath of the shock, and even affect many innocent people.
Lu Zhi patted Guo Peng on the shoulder.
"Xiao Yi, this matter is not simple, you can study with peace of mind, do things, don't participate, don't make any remarks, as a teacher, you can be safe."
As the time spent getting along became longer, Lu Zhi became more and more fond of Guo Peng, who was diligent and hardworking, so he gave Guo Peng a reassuring pill in advance.
Guo Peng was a little flustered at first, but after thinking about it carefully, this matter really has nothing to do with him, isn't it okay for the Cao family to do well later?
But why did Emperor Ling depose the queen, and what blow would the Cao clan suffer?
Soon after, around April, Cao Song called Guo Peng to his home, and asked Guo Peng a little nervously if he had heard some rumors around Lu Zhi and Cai Yong, and Cao Chi was also present at that time.
"Your Majesty wants to depose the queen?"
Guo Peng asked tentatively, Cao Chi's face turned white suddenly, and Cao Song's expression was not very good.
And so it was! You know it's so! Now many people are rumoring, this kind of thing is so big, how can it be groundless? Jugao, what to do? ”
Cao Chi had some six gods and no masters, and asked Cao Song for advice.
Cao Song was cultivated by Cao Teng, he has a deep mind and a lot of means, and he has seen a lot of winds and waves, so he is naturally relatively calm in this regard.
"Don't worry, this matter is not necessarily, even if it is confirmed, there must always be a reason, the Song family is not public, not extravagant, and not criminal, and Queen Song has never had any news of any mistakes, why does Your Majesty want to abolish the queen? There must be a demon when things go wrong, there must be a problem here! ”
Cao Song's face was nervous, pacing around, and Shao Tian suddenly stood up and looked at Cao Chi.
"Could it be that Wang Fu is making a mistake about it?"