Chapter 1169: The Great Hall Controversy (2)
"Your Majesty is heroic, expelling the gold thief, meritorious to the world, thousands of years later, it will surely be celebrated for centuries, and the old and so on congratulate Your Majesty." Jia Cunzhou suddenly said: "Although I think that although I and other scholars are powerless, the emperors of the past dynasties have also been praised through the ages because of me, and I think about it, Your Majesty will definitely be like this in the future." ”
After hearing this, Qiao Qingping and the Confucians immediately said yes again and again, even Li Fu and others had to agree with this point of view, and no one dared to oppose it.
"It is impossible to sing the praises of the ages. I never thought that I would be able to praise him for the ages, and after I died, I would care about the flood of the sky. Li Jing's eyes rolled, and he immediately knew what Jia Cunzhou wanted to say.
What has been praised through the ages, what has been passed down for centuries, in fact, it is all nonsense, the history books are written by the victors, at least in the hundreds of years of the Tang Dynasty, no one dares to say bad things about themselves.
"If Your Majesty doesn't preach the praises of the ages, let the future emperors deal with themselves." Qiao Qingping didn't expect Li Jing to be so single, and he didn't care about his status in the future, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is the founder of the country, opening up the world, and being an example for the world. ”
"Old Qiao, Emperor Chaowu once changed the living record back then, I don't know if there is such a thing? The same is true in this dynasty, in the beginning, there were many scholars who did not want to be loyal to me, so what now? Didn't many people participate in my imperial examination? Even the scholars from Jiangnan came, and I sometimes wondered, do these scholars really care about my absurdity and cruelty? No, what they care about is if I can give them a chance to show their talents, as long as they are given a chance, they can be used by me. Li Jing said solemnly.
Ancient scholars were like this, during the Qing Dynasty, I don't know how many scholars opposed the Qing Dynasty and didn't want to participate in the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty, but later, they didn't obediently join the Qing court, became the lackeys of the Qing Dynasty, and even exploited the Han people, they were more ferocious and brutal than the Jurchens.
Now these people are the same, at the beginning of the righteous words, forced Li Jing to have only three or five civil officials, in desperation, had to get a Taiyuan Academy, their own training of their own civil officials, although out of a path, but in fact, it was forced to do so.
"Your Majesty, you, you." After Qiao Qingping listened, his face turned red, and his eyes flashed with a trace of shame, Li Jing's words were like a sharp sword, stabbing into the heart fiercely, cutting off the skin on everyone's bodies, leaving everyone unrecognizable, and they didn't know what to do.
Li Fu didn't expect that Li Jing would actually say such a thing, and directly strip off the coat of Confucianism, if this word spreads, I am afraid that the readers of time will attack it en masse, and the bright appearance of the scholars will disappear cleanly and be spurned by the world.
"What is the purpose of your coming today, I know very well, and you should also know very well, whether the Zhao family is kind to scholars like you, I don't know, and I don't want to know, all this has no effect on me, Zhao is Zhao, Datang is Datang, Datang pays attention to meritocracy, as long as it is talented, even if it is a craftsman, as long as it can help Datang, I will reuse the other party, and I will not think that it is an outstanding talent because of a scholar. Some readers can write a few poems and write a number of strategies, but what can they do? Can he make artillery? Can you help the imperial court fight in the north and south? Li Jing said disdainfully.
After everyone in the hall listened, they suddenly fell silent, this is the first time Li Jing said that reading is useless theory, the impact on the world is very huge, Qiao Qingping and others look painful, Jia Cunzhou trembles all over his body, when an emperor doesn't like scholars and thinks that scholars are useless, there is no need for Confucianism to exist at all, is the Confucian catastrophe coming?
Li Fu couldn't help but glared at everyone, if it weren't for these guys coming to look for Li Jing, where would such a thing happen, Li Jing would at least acquiesce to the existence of Confucianism.
"Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, and Confucianism has become the orthodoxy of the world. In fact, it doesn't have any effect, it can't help what the world does. Li Jing said disdainfully: "I also heard that some scholars, in order to win the promotion, actually sold their wives and daughters, in order to exchange for money, and continued to participate in the imperial examination, thinking that these scholars have no power to restrain chickens and cannot produce, and they all rely on their wives and daughters to make some female celebrities to make a living, but in the end, they still have to sell their wives and daughters, isn't this a big joke?" ”
Everyone in the hall didn't dare to speak, Gao Zhong and the others were even more gloomy, and their breathing became short, they knew that Li Jing would never talk nonsense, it must be well-founded, but thinking of such a human tragedy, there was still infinite anger in their hearts, and even looked at Jia Cunzhou and the others with much worse complexion.
Jia Cunzhou and others didn't dare to speak, Li Jing said these things are not nothing, in fact, these people have also heard of it, but they just don't pay attention to it on weekdays. Once you become famous, where do you care about other things!
No pain, no gain. Not every reader is smooth sailing, and naturally there are many calamities. Everything Li Jing said was nothing more than a catastrophe.
"Being an official depends on talent, not everyone can be an official, reading is actually just literacy, let people know etiquette, know the laws and regulations of the imperial court, know shame, know how to behave, not everyone can be an official, many people can't become a master in their lives, Mr. Jia, what I said makes sense?" Li Jing looked at Jia Cunzhou, where are there so many titles and so many official positions in the imperial court. Judging from this, in fact, the poems made by the emperor of the Zhao family were also wrong.
"Your Majesty." Jia Cunzhou's face was like ashes after hearing this, and he had to admit that what Li Jing said was very reasonable. It's just that these truths make people's hearts very uncomfortable to listen to, especially these readers.
"As a man, you should support yourself, if you let your wife and daughter go out to work, be a rice worm yourself, and fight for an unknown hope, isn't it shameless? Could it be that all the disciples taught by the saints are like this? Li Jing's eyes were like lightning, and he glanced at these people coldly, full of benevolence and righteousness, he only knew how to fight for his own interests, but he didn't know the affairs of the world, and he still had the face to argue with himself, it was really a joke.