The main thing of today's court meeting is to open Taixue.

Zhang Yuan seemed to have just attended a court meeting to get things done, but in fact, it was a wrestling between Liu Che and Dong Zhongshu in private.

Dong Zhongshu wanted Liu Che to respect Confucianism alone, consolidate Confucianism's position as the first among the hundred schools of thought, and suppress other schools of thought by the way.

And what Liu Che really wants is Confucianism and internal law, not Confucianism inside and outside.

The doctrine of Confucianism can help him determine the legitimacy of the regime, otherwise there will be a rebellion of some great king every once in a while, and the people can still believe and support it stupidly, then the emperor would have to think about suppressing the rebellion all day long.

The main reason is that the divine right of the monarch and the theory of great unification advocated in "Ram Spring and Autumn" made Liu Che yearn for it.

A king's lifelong pursuit is to maximize the perfection of centralized power, and an ideological theory that can be matched with it will naturally flourish.

However, Liu Che also didn't want these Confucians to really use Confucianism to brainwash the people, what Liu Che wanted was to brainwash the people at the same time, and establish his supreme image by the way.

In this way, it is very necessary to suppress these Confucianists, and they can't help to make Confucianism a national study by themselves, and then those Confucian bigwigs will attack the emperor with the content of Confucian classics.

One thing to say, Liu Che's worries are not unreasonable, which led to Zhang Yuan being promoted and becoming a person who is too learned in management.

In this way, the doctors of the Pentateuch can only be engaged in the work of teaching, and cannot interfere with the election of officials.

Zhang Yuan's power is great, but Zhang Yuan has no family background, Liu Che wants to kill Zhang Yuan, and the entire court except Wei Qing is estimated to be applauded.

Liu Che wanted a lonely minister, not a capable minister, but at this time, most ministers only cared about whether their family was prosperous, rather than thinking about the emperor's interests.

After discussing these things, there was nothing next, that is, Dou Ying mentioned that he wanted Liu Che to use the irrigation again.

Then Tian Wei jumped out and strongly objected, listing a lot of accusations against the bushman, and finally Liu Che could only stop and let everyone stop talking about this topic.

So everyone broke up unhappily, Zhang Yuan patted his ass and followed Wei Qing and slipped away directly, but on the way out of the palace, wave after wave of people came over to say hello to Zhang Yuan.

There was no way, Zhang Yuan could only return the salute to those people one by one, and then smile embarrassedly.

"Brother Yuan, you're terrible now.

Everyone knows that if you want to stuff people into Taixue, you have to get in touch with you. ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head helplessly, now that he is saying this, there are hundreds of thousands of officials appointed by the Han Dynasty, and how many people can be cultivated by a Taixue.

There must be some people who have no ambition to be officials at all, and the most important thing is that Liu Che cannot make all the officials in the Han Dynasty composed of Taixue students.

If you really do this, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty in the future will not say that it is Liu Bang, but directly say that it is Confucius and Mencius, and it will be more appropriate.

"Your Majesty will not let me control Taixue, in the end, you see, Taixue must be separated from the imperial court, otherwise it will definitely not last long."

Wei Qing also nodded.

"It's still Brother Yuan's comprehensive consideration, let's take it step by step.

Brother, what are you going to do next? ”

Zhang Yuan spread his hands and said with a smile.

"The next thing is to go and see the doctors of the Five Classics who are about to be buried above their heads, and ask them to go to Du County to see what Du County has become now deserted."

Zhang Yuan of Duxian County has passed by I don't know how many times, but it is an empty city, and no one will be interested in exploring it.

Just from a distance, the walls are covered with vines, and a city will quickly become a part of nature after it is deprived of human life.

"Do you want me to send some people to help you clean up?"

"No need, those Doctors of the Five Classics will definitely have students, and His Majesty will send some craftsmen to me when the time comes."

"That'll be fine."

As he walked, he said that he saw that the gate of the palace was about to arrive.

Zhang Yuan and Wei Qing also rode their respective war horses, planning to return to the city directly.

"Taixue Ling, wait a minute."

Zhang Yuan and Wei Qing looked back when they heard the shouting, and found that it was an old man who ran over panting.

This person Zhang Yuan still has an impression, just now in the palace, this person is with Hu Wusheng, and he should also be a doctor.

Thinking that the people were old, Zhang Yuan still had to have a minimum of respect, so he turned over and got off the horse.

"Sir, are you looking for me?"

"Uh-huh, the lower official is calling you."

"You don't need to be polite, old gentleman, I'm a lot younger than you, and it's more than enough for you to be my grandfather at your age.

If you don't dislike it, just call me Ah Yuan. ”

Zhang Yuan thought that he couldn't offend all the doctors of the Five Classics, so he lowered his posture and said to the old man.

"Okay, then the old man will rely on the old and sell the old."

"Dare to ask Mr. what is the matter with the boy?"

"Lao Yu is the doctor of "Poetry" Han Ying, Xiang Bi Ah Yuan, you are the first time you have heard the name of Lao Yu."

Zhang Yuan nodded a little embarrassedly.

"I'm a rough man, and it's true that I only saw a few great Confucians today."

"Don't be humble, you kid is much better than us old men, and I still need to rely on you in the future."

Mr. Han laughed.

"The old man didn't come to you for anything else, but because of your remarks above the court, which really made the old man deafening and quite emotional.

Dare to ask if you have already read Mencius and Yi? ”

How dare Zhang Yuan take this kind of thing on himself, if it is not good, these old scholars will come to him every day to discuss knowledge.

"I just took a cursory glance, but I found that the content was extremely mysterious and obscure, and it was not something that a rough person like me could understand."

Han Ying did not continue to praise each other with Zhang Yuan, but said directly to the topic.

"The old man just decided to use the four sentences of Taixue Ling, which is the foundation of Taixue Order, I don't know what Taixue Ling thinks?"

Zhang Yuan lowered his head and thought for a while, then he felt that it was feasible, no matter what he said, he said it himself, and hanging it in a conspicuous place would also make them deepen their respect for themselves.

"Yes, according to Mr. Han.

By the way, there is one more thing I want to ask Mr. for help, please ask Mr. to make an appointment with the remaining four doctors tomorrow morning, tomorrow we will not go to the morning court, how about an appointment to go to Du County? ”

"Okay, the old people originally thought that Taixue Ling would not take this matter to heart, but they didn't expect your character to be so resolute."

Zhang Yuan smiled and led the horse out of the palace with Han Ying, Wei Qing had also dismounted before, but he couldn't intervene in the conversation between the two.