A light snow just fell today, so the temperature is very low, and in front of the Daming Palace, there is a person kneeling on the wet ground, this person is the famous cabinet deputy Lu Hang.

After Li Jun finished drinking a bowl of mutton soup, he felt warm all over, and Li Jun asked lightly, "How long has Lu Hang been kneeling outside?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's been two hours." Liu Hong replied cautiously.

Li Jun nodded and said, "Leave a bowl of mutton soup and let Lu Hang come in." ”

"No."

After Lu Hang came in and saw Li Jun, he immediately knelt down again and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, shielding Luoyang Zhu Shen and others almost made a big mistake, please forgive your Majesty." ”

Li Jun waved his hand and said, "Okay, your sins are remembered for you, don't talk about these things now, hurry up and drink a bowl of mutton soup to warm up." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Lu Hang said movingly after the mutton soup.

After Lu Hang finished drinking, Li Jun said with a smile: "Now that the matter has happened, it will be useless to punish your crimes, so let's do it, there are still two years, and there will be a change of office again, if you want to become the first assistant of the cabinet, you must have the qualifications to get your hands on, I will give you a chance, this time there are people like Zhu Xiang in all counties and counties, you and Sima Da will work together to find out the truth of the matter and see if there is any falsehood?" Also, as soon as possible, you must complete the local officials, as long as there is no chaos in the local area, I will make you a great success, how about it? ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured, this is the responsibility of the minister, and the minister will definitely do his best to do it." Lu Hang hurriedly agreed.

Li Jun then instructed: "You are mainly responsible for this matter, as for going down to investigate the case, leave it to Sima Da to be responsible, I have promised Sima Da to give him two years to let him go down and take a look." ”

"No, the minister obeys."

Sima Da's departure was instructed by Li Jun, in Li Jun's eyes, walking, is an important step for historians to see the world, just like the great historian Sima Qian in later generations, he set off from Chang'an to the southeast, out of Wuguan to Wan. Go south to Xiangfan to Gangneung. Cross the river, trace the water to Xiangxi, and then turn southeast to Jiuji. After peeking at the nine suspicions, go north to Changsha, go to the old Luo Quyuan abyss to hang, cross the Dongting, go out of the Yangtze River, and go down the river to the east. Climb Lushan, view Yu Shujiujiang, and turn to Qiantang. On the meeting, explore the Yu acupoint. Also Wu tour the spring Shenjun palace room. Shanggusu, looking at the five lakes. After that, go north to cross the river, cross Huaiyin, to Linzi, Qufu, see all over the land of Qilu, watch the legacy left by Confucius, trapped in Po, Xue, Pengcheng, and then follow the Qin and Han dynasties to see Pei County, the chasm, the wall, with the Chu and Han Dynasty fighting for the battlefield, through Pengcheng, Li Pei, Feng, Dang, Suiyang, to Liang......

Then Sima Qian wrote the treasure in the history of Chinese civilization "Historical Records", and Li Jun hoped that Sima Da could bring him the same surprise.

After Sima Da left, Yan Jiao became the new Shangshu Ling, for which the Confucian people were happy and almost crazy, because Yan Jiao was the first real high-ranking official of the Confucian court for so many years, Yan Jiao and Fu Nian are different, although Fu Nian is still the head of Confucianism, but Fu Nian has been impartial for so many years, Confucian people have not actually touched the light here in Fu Nian, but Yan Jiao is a Confucian heir who is honest and straightforward.

On this day, Xia Houen and Dong Zhong came to Yan Jiao's house to congratulate, and Yan Jiao personally greeted him: "The two gentlemen have something to do, Jiao should go to the husband's mansion by herself, how dare you work the two gentlemen to come here?" ”

Dong Zhong patted Yan Jiao's shoulder and said, "Yes, the gentleman's style has not changed, let's go, let's go in and talk." ”

The three of them came to the study, Yan Jiao sent all the servants down, Yan Jiao personally served a cup of tea to the two elders, and then stood aside respectfully, although Yan Jiao is now a close minister of the Son of Heaven, but in terms of Yan Jiao's status in Confucianism, there is still a big gap with Dong Zhong.

Dong Zhong and Xia Houen glanced at each other, and saw Xia Houen laugh and say, "Zimei, why be polite?" Hurry up, please take a seat. ”

Yan Jiao saluted the two and sat aside, now Yan Jiao has been by Li Jun's side for so long, and she has already exercised out, although she still maintains respect for Dong Zhong and the two in her heart, but it is impossible to obey the two of them like before, as a courtier, the most important thing is to maintain loyalty to the monarch.

Dong Zhong took a sip of tea and his eyes lit up and said, "Good tea, is this the Xiao family's dragon well before the rain?" Zimei is really a blessing. ”

Yan Jiao said with a smile: "Mr. is ashamed, but he was only given less than a catty by His Majesty's grace, if Mr. wants to drink, Jiao will give Mr. to get it immediately." ”

"Haha, Zimei, a gentleman doesn't take away the beauty of others, if the old man really wants to drink, he will go to Xiao Ting to ask for it, Xiao Ting still gives this face." Dong Zhong laughed.

Xia Houen watched Dong Zhong and Yan Jiao discussing the weathering Xueyue there, but he didn't talk about business, and couldn't help but secretly scold his senior brother for making another mistake, Dong Zhong is good at learning and has a good character, but he is a little too timid.

Xia Houen coughed and interrupted the words of the two and said: "Zimei, this time my brother and sister are not here to ask for anything, you can rest assured, this time I came mainly to discuss with you the future of our Confucianism, since Fu Shi put forward the concept of "unity of knowledge and action", my Confucian disciples have obtained the treasure, day and night study, although some achievements have been made in recent years, but it has also led to different voices within Confucianism, many disciples have taken a detour while learning to learn, and they like to work and ignore benevolence and righteousness, this phenomenon now aboundsIn addition, now Confucianism has also produced the scum of Confucius, which has led to the momentum of Confucianism now splitting again, and in the long run, I am afraid that you and I will become sinners of Confucianism. ”

"What Mr. Xiahou said is extremely true, Jiao is also aware of this matter, and even asked Your Majesty, do the two gentlemen want to know how Your Majesty answered?" Yan Jiao also replied very seriously.

"Oh, Your Majesty has always been different from people, and the old man listens to him." Xia Houen hurriedly said.

Yan Jiao organized her language and said: "Your Majesty said that this phenomenon is not only in Confucianism, but all schools of thought should have this kind of problem, but compared with Confucianism, the degree of trouble caused by this problem is very small. ”

Dong Zhong nodded in agreement after hearing this: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true. ”

"Your Majesty also analyzed the reasons, mainly because our Confucianism lacks a cohesive force, the Mohists have non-attack, the Legalists demand the rule of law, the Huang family talks about the rule of inaction, the miscellaneous family is good at absorbing the strengths of others, the Yin and Yang family talks about the unity of yin and yang, each family has its own demands, has its own characteristics, so compared, only our Confucianism is lacking characteristics, and no characteristics is the reason why Confucianism is easy to split."

Hearing Yan Jiao's words, Xia Houen smiled bitterly: "I understand what Your Majesty means, according to what Your Majesty said, my Confucianism is the most fickle, and it seems that it is not a good thing to know how to be flexible too much." ”

Yan Jiao nodded and said: "That's true, if you don't know how to be flexible, just like Lu Ru, you will be eliminated by society slowly, it's not good to know how to be flexible too much, if a school doesn't even have its own program, then how can you unite people's hearts?" ”

"It seems that we have gone down the wrong path again this time." Dong Zhong sighed.

Yan Jiao helped Dong Zhong and the others change the tea again, and Dong Zhong and Xia Houen fell into their own thoughts and couldn't extricate themselves for a long time.

After a long while, Dong Zhongcai asked, "Zimei, what do you think is better to use as a Confucian program?" After all, you have been by His Majesty's side for a long time, and you still know some of His Majesty's thoughts. ”

Yan Jiao shook her head and said: "Sir, don't you still understand, Your Majesty likes us Confucianism very much, so what we want to gain now is not Your Majesty's trust, but the trust of the people in the world. "Even Your Majesty has begun to curry favor with the people, and we can't be left behind."

"Zimei, what you said is very right, the group of people of the Mo family will please the people, and now they are slowly overpowering us, if Confucianism does not act, then sooner or later they will be driven out by the Mo family." Dong Zhong nodded and said.

"Since this is the case, let's hold a Confucian conference, let's discuss it together, and by the way, take advantage of this conference to completely clean up the scum of Confucianism." In the end, it was Xia Houen who made a decision.

Yan Jiao arched her hand to Xia Houen and said, "Mr. Xiahou is wise, but Jiao can't participate in this conference, but Jiao can give a few words to the two gentlemen." ”

"Please, Zimei."

"Benevolence and righteousness, education without class, unity of knowledge and action."