Chapter Eighty-Four: The Ancestors Build Temples

"Han Qing, how many books in the Shiqu Pavilion have been sorted out by asking you to count before?" Liu asked

"Back to Your Majesty, Lantai Shangshu, waiter, the big and small yellow doors have sorted out a total of 3,684 books, and there are still a lot of bamboo slips to sort out!!" Han Zeng bowed and replied

After listening to Han Zeng's answer, Liu Xun thought for a while and continued: "Keep the bamboo slips sorted out properly, send someone to copy them on paper, send them to Shaofu to carve all the important books, prepare to print them into books, and send them to Taixue and Guanlu University for students to study!" ”

"Whoa!" Han Zeng, Chen Wannian bowed

"Your Majesty, the minister has a play!!" Huo Shan, who had been standing beside Liu Xun, suddenly spoke

"Huo Qing, let's talk about it!" Liu Xun said calmly

Huo Shan got the permission of the Son of Heaven and said: "Your Majesty, today is stable, the Huns fled north, and Your Majesty has just pacified the Hexi Rebellion, and will also hold a grand ceremony of the examination soon after, this merit is in the community, the benefit is in the future, Your Majesty's martial arts have made the world known, but there are many people in the world, there are many evil books and disorderly classics, and there are people who confuse the public, it is better to take advantage of this prosperous time to determine the sages of each family, and correct their hearts!" ”

After listening to Huo Shan's words, Liu Xun immediately understood that this was the feedback that Huo Shan got some time ago after Liu Xun sent Huo Shan to contact the heads of the hundreds of schools of thought.

Zhuzi refers to the representatives of academic thought such as Guanzi, Laozi, Confucius, Zhuangzi, Mozi, Mencius, and Xunzi in the pre-Qin period of China.

The hundred schools of thought refer to the representatives of academic schools such as Confucianism, Taoism, Moism, Mingjia, and Legalism. Zhuzi Baijia is the general name of the pre-Qin academic thought figures and factions in later generations.

In the late Spring and Autumn Period, there were different schools of thought such as Legalism, Taoism, Confucianism, Moism, and Yin-Yang School, which had considerable social influence, and by the middle of the Warring States Period, many schools of thought were numerous, and many theories were rich and colorful, laying a broad foundation for the development of Chinese culture.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, when the royal family declined and the princes competed for hegemony, scholars traveled around the world to give advice to the princes, and in the Warring States Period, a situation of "a hundred schools of thought contended" was formed. The traditional division of the hundred schools originated from Sima Qian's father, Sima Tan.

In his "On the Essence of the Six Schools", he divided the hundred schools of thought for the first time into six schools: "Yin and Yang, Confucianism, Mo, Name, Law, and Huang Lao".

Later, in the "Seven Strategies", Liu Xin added "vertical and horizontal, miscellaneous, agricultural, and novel" to ten on the basis of Sima Tan's division.

However, there are many intermittent inheritances of various factions, Qin Shi Huang burned books, burned many miscellaneous books, and only left the famous works of each faction in Xianyang, and waited until Xiang Yu entered Xianyang to burn Xianyang City, and the writings of hundreds of schools of thought also turned into green smoke with this fire, and then Emperor Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu and entered the main pass.

Xiao Hecai excavated a large number of bamboo slip fragments in the ruins of Afang Palace in Xianyang, sorted out day and night in Lantai, and how much was sorted out when he died.

When Emperor Xiaowu arrived, Dong Zhongshu offered the unity of heaven and man, and Emperor Xiaowu was happy after seeing it, and immediately announced the deposition of the hundred schools and the exclusive respect for Confucianism.

This made the hundred schools of thought gradually decline, and Confucianism, with the support of the government, completely dominated the world.

Thinking of this, Liu Xun shook his head secretly, Confucian dominance is of no use to the Han family at all, it is better to let it become an opposition party.

After thinking about the cause and effect, Liu Xun said: "Educating and educating people is the way of the ancestors, but I have heard that the scholars of the various scriptures today are mostly the words of one family, and they can be divided into families but not people, what is it?" Most of the sons of the pre-Qin dynasty did not write their own books; All the compilations are from the later generations, so how to choose the virtues of the sages? But the exploits of the ancestors and sages cannot but preach the people of the world? I listened to Huo Aiqing's words, and suddenly opened, it is better to choose a good site in Maoling, and set up a temple to worship the sages of the past dynasties. ”

"The ministers only have His Majesty as a blessing, and they are the lackeys of His Majesty's subordinates, for His Majesty to drive!!" Huo Guang and the others immediately bowed

Liu Xun stepped down from the throne again, helped Huo Guang and others up one by one, and then continued: "But there are so many sages in the world, it is the key point of the six families: Yi Dachuan: The world is the same and a hundred considerations, the same end but different paths, husband yin and yang, Confucianism, ink, name, law, morality, this matter is also the ruler, in this way, I am afraid of the world's criticism, it is better to do so, this temple is set as the Temple of Literature, to be determined Zhou Gong, Shang Jun, Sun Wu these three sages into the temple, the rest of the people, etc., after the clarification of the world, in the world of ministers to be determined, and the establishment of the Temple of Literature is handed over to the servant Huo Shan is responsible, inquire about the sages of the world, and leave it to Shangguan An in the service to be responsible!! ”

Hearing the appointment from the Son of Heaven, Huo Shan and Shangguan An immediately attended the worship and said: "Ministers, obey the holy order, you will be conscientious and conscientious, and you will not fail in your mission!" ”

Liu Xun nodded and motioned for the two to get up, Huo Shan got up and returned to Liu Xun's side, Shangguan An continued to speak: "The minister is ignorant, and he is afraid that he will not know the holy will, so he dares to ask His Majesty what kind of evaluation criteria are used to evaluate the sages of each family, and ask Your Majesty to make it clear!! ”