Outside, the night was as thick as ink, and the April night was cool.

Although the candles in the study were bright, a group of teenagers did not make a sound as the night outside.

After everyone basically digested what Gan Tang said, Gan Hu, who was sitting next to Gan Shuo, raised his head and said to Gan Tang: "I don't know much about the inner shesheng, but it is said that there is a leader named Shi Zui who is the leader of the Taixue inner shesheng. According to my observation in the past six months, about 20% of the people who advocate the doctrine of "Huaxuan Weekly" are in favor of changing the law, and most of them, including Lu Mengya and others, are in favor of changing the law. ”

Gan Tang nodded and said, "There are two achievements that are very good, after all, most of Taixue are the children of official eunuchs." In a few days, he will take me to meet and know this Taixue leader named Lu Mengya. ”

"Some of them are really against the change, and some of them are in favor of the change, but they do not approve of the change of the law in the style of Wang Chengxiang, they are led by the teaching of Yu Kongjin and advocate the restoration of the 'well field system'. Although the two factions have different reasons for opposing the change, they are aiming at the same goal, so they are united in the same spirit and sing a chorus of opposition to the change. Gan Hu added.

Hearing this, Gan Tang almost wanted to laugh, it was actually a well field system!

"Don't look at what era it is. Although the retro system and the Zhou rites are the lifelong wish of every true Confucian disciple - the so-called 'depressed and literary, I follow the Zhou'. But after all, the times are different, in ancient times, 900 acres of land per mile, the land was divided like the word 'well', and according to the existence of public land, it was equally distributed to eight or nine households. And with the current situation, where there are so many plots of land that are divided into civilian fields as well fields, it is already very good to be able to inventory the hidden fields, and the average tax is already very good. ”

Gan Tang said with a smile.

An idealist like Kong Jin can't see through the conflict of interests hidden under the undercurrent, and only knows how to rush to the front for his own ideas. Characters like them, often very famous and upright, no one will suspect that they are fighting for their own interests, and it is easy to believe their words. The interest strata took advantage of the situation and stood behind to set off waves of impact and change. ”

"The conflict of interests cannot be reconciled, and he can't expect Jia Ru, Xie Yan, and Cao Lei to say good things about Wang Mingzhi's change, because this matter can't give them any benefits, it can only damage their interests, but it will make Wang Mingzhi's position in Shilin more stable. On the contrary, Kong Jin and others can use reason to persuade them. ”

The gentleman is in righteousness, and the villain is in profit.

Gan Tang was not surprised by this. Kong Jin is a Confucian master and has dabbled in astronomy and geography, but it does not mean that he is good at financial planning and governance. Just as Kong Jin and his disciples were still discussing how to restore the Zhou system of the Jing Tian system in order to suppress the land annexation that was becoming more and more intense today, there were quite a few Confucian masters, although they were different from the Kong Jin school and had different views, but they also generally worshiped the Zhou system and also wanted to restore the Jing Tian.

Gan Tang joked: "These people are just reading books that burn out their brains and are completely out of reality." But they are gentlemen. Therefore, Prime Minister Wang Cheng can use the facts to explain it to them and fight for it. At this time, Prime Minister Wang needs such an ally, and we need it too. ”

Since Wang Mingzhi proposed the change, there has been no rain in the counties around Jiankang for more than two months, which is fatal for the rice-based farmers in the south of the Yangtze River, and the seedlings planted may be lost.

This year is the first year of Xianheng, and other places encounter natural disasters, if the Son of Heaven makes these troubles, it is really a big slap in the face of the 'generation of famous ministers' Jia Ru. After all, at this time, people's cognition is limited, and they do not know that the rain and clouds are natural changes, and they cannot be interfered with by external forces.

In people's cognition, since ancient times, it was because the imperial court affairs violated the peace of heaven that they would be punished by God and cause natural disasters. Of course, no one dares to accuse the emperor of being high and high, and the emperor will not pull down his face and think that he has done something wrong.

Starting from Taizu, whenever there were large-scale natural disasters such as floods and droughts, the prime minister would become a "scapegoat" and be deposed or demoted to a local government to appease God's anger.

Of course, it is the regent Taishi Jia Ru who is in power now, since the 'Xianheng' emperor can't carry the blame, then Jia Ru will not carry this pot.

Jia Ru seems to have found a golden opportunity to strike at his political opponents.

The second day of June. The emperor issued an edict to all scholars and Jiuqing.

It's the beginning of summer, and the weather is getting hotter. It is very pitiful that prisoners are prone to death due to illness, and except for the actual capital offense, the other prisoners are given leniency at their discretion. This is to be amnesty, although the holy decree does not explicitly say that it is for the drought in the capital, but everyone knows it.

The atmosphere in the various ministries of the imperial court became tense again, because the holy decree was clearly issued, and the words were said to be in a great drought, or "the political affairs were not properly done", or "the employment of people was not allowed", and the cabinet scholars and Jiuqing were ordered to thoroughly investigate the officials of all sizes to see if there were any "secret party aid" and "cruel people" still in their posts; The Penal Department was urged to inspect the prison to see if there were any innocent people.

The holy decrees all pointed out the direction, and a thorough investigation from top to bottom unfolded vigorously in the six ministries and other yamen. High-grade officials, with their hands stretched out and their forces staggered, can they be easily moved? The key target is those petty officials of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, pull out the radish with mud, and pull out a bunch.

After tossing for a few days, the farce came to an end, and the scholars and Jiuqing both prayed for their sins, blaming the reason for the "slight drought in the sky" on their "lack of service". Naturally, the emperor and the regent are not at all wrong, the administration is unlimited, and the employment of people is proper and tight. They also denounced those who formed cliques for personal gain, those who were sinister, greedy and jealous, and prayed for the emperor to punish them severely.

In the end, the officials who were implicated were basically the officials who responded to Wang Ming's change.

Thinking of those who were taken off their official hats because they stood on the wrong team. A drought and the ministers who ruined their future because of the dignity of the emperor and the regent, everyone not only had palpitations.

What about ten years of hard study, what about the background of Jinshi, if there is no power to rely on, it is just a mustard in the eyes of the powerful.

Now that we have come to a conclusion about this drought, the haze caused by the drought seems to have disappeared, and the world is clear again.

In June, the weather in Jiankang City is gradually getting hotter. Outside Jiankang City, it is a busy season for farming. For people of this age, summer and autumn are probably the best days, there is no softness in spring, there is no cold in winter, the sun is in full bloom, the white clouds are like flocculent, everything is so bright that people are refreshed.

But although the imperial court was amnesty and degrading officials, the rain never fell.

Lu Mengxiong got out of Taixue at noon, and occasionally went to the restaurant with a few of his like-minded friends to eat.

Lu Mengxiong knows how to measure things very well, and in the past few months, Gan Tang has probably understood this person's character and experience. He also participated in the imperial imperial examination in the early years, but because his strategy was too radical and offended a senior official, he did not win the promotion, so he returned to Taixue to continue his studies. Although the appearance is modest, if you put it in a thousand years, it is probably still the type of angry youth, and you don't talk about it when you chat, but when it comes to learning, some ideas still can't be concealed, and it's clear at a glance.

To put it simply, this guy has a solid family background, is proficient in Confucianism, arithmetic, and is also somewhat proficient in the way of archery, and the gentleman knows all six arts.

In this era, it is already very good, treat people and things, and deal with advances and retreats decently. But because I think too much, I basically hate rotten Confucianism, and I like people who work hard but don't leave the road.

I want to stand for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations. But if the door is cut off for a while, ordinary Confucian students offend the big officials, and if they are not promoted, they may be depressed for the rest of their lives.

He was also depressed for a while, and then read "Huaxia Weekly", and under the influence of this, he now cheered up, thinking about Confucianism, thinking about the Xia Dynasty, thinking about the road ahead, and he can be regarded as a person who can afford to let go. After all, still young.

On the one hand, the original Guozixue, Guangwenguan and Zongxue have not been able to cultivate high-level politicians, and they face the younger brothers of the powerful, and the students are narrow, and they cannot meet the needs of the new dynasty at all.

Especially after the Xia Dynasty entered the civilian society, the moderation of the imperial court and the importance of the ruling class to the rights of ordinary people gave more opportunities for the rise of the poor scholars.

However, the Xia Dynasty had a strong style of reading, and relying on a Taixue alone was still far from meeting the needs of the Great Xia scholars, and the four major academies appeared, and they became a supplement to Taixue, but the emergence of the four academies did not weaken the main position of Taixue, but promoted the development of Taixue even more.

Wang Anshi changed the law, strongly advocated the replacement of the imperial examination with long-term education, Taixue officially entered the heyday, the three-way method was born, the establishment of state schools, county schools, with the imperial examination, layer by layer to cultivate higher-level talents, most of the students are in this context, from an ordinary teenager step by step into the door of Taixue.

Taixue carried out an expansion of enrollment after Jia Ru took office, and the number of students increased from 10,000 to more than 40,000.

Among them, there are more than 30,000 people in the outer house, more than 3,000 people in the inner house, and there are only more than 300 people in the inner house who can directly receive the officials.

But this is only a theoretical time, and the really excellent scholars don't need to spend so much time at all, and many scholars are admitted to the imperial examination two or three years after entering Taixue, and they are directly awarded official careers.

And as long as the person in the examination is eligible to enter the Taixue study, it is not required whether the state school has been studied, if the examination Xie Yuan or even directly enter the inner house, this kind of loose and flexible policy has given many outstanding scholars the opportunity to overtake in the corner, it is for this reason that the fifteen or sixteen-year-old Taixue students abound.

Although Taixue gives students absolute freedom, Taixue also depends on the results.

No matter how relaxed you usually are, the upgrade exam is a roadblock that no one wants to easily step over, its difficulty is no less than the imperial examination, the score must be on the top to upgrade, the score is allowed to repeat for a year, and the upper middle school is directly eliminated, which is why there are 30,000 students in the outer house, but it suddenly becomes 3,000 people in the inner house, and ten students in the outer house can only be upgraded to one person.

Taixue is composed of three plots of land, the first is the former land of the Confucius Temple and the Guozijian, and later the Chaoji Courtyard was assigned to Taixue, which is connected with the palace. The teaching and accommodation conditions of students have been greatly improved.

Three years ago, Jia Ru presided over the reform of Taixue, and established an area of thousands of acres outside the southern city of Biyong, as a new school building for Taixue, also called to live in foreign schools, and now more than 30,000 students basically live in Biyong.