At the same time, the emperor was also worried that Liu Zongyuan would rebel before the battle because of his close relationship with Gao Yue, so he asked his daughter Princess Lingxu to send Gao Yue another letter quickly, asking Gao Yue to keep his promise and not to join this war of public opinion.

In the Persimmon Forest Pavilion, the prince assured the lieutenant officials who came to tell him: "Liu Zi is not a person who destroys justice for personal gain. ”

After sending off the lieutenant officials, the prince asked Wang Shuwen and Wang Ling, Liu Zongyuan is in Weinan now?

"Yes, I have already entered Shangluoshan, and after being chased back by Mengde, I temporarily lived in Weinan and traveled with Mengde and other friends."

"Hurry up and ask Yanagi to come."

But after saying this, the crown prince obviously had extra eye contact with Wang Ling.

Wang Ling also responded with a look full of "knowing" details.

When the prince's envoy came to Weinan County, Liu Yuxi was traveling with Liu Zongyuan to visit Shilou Mountain, anyway, the position of county lieutenant was just a springboard for Liu Yuxi, and there were not too many specific and practical affairs to deal with.

From the prince's envoy, Liu Zongyuan learned that he was about to become a member of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of Jixian Academy, while Liu Yuxi was promoted to the crown prince and a bachelor of Chongwenguan.

At this point, Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan immediately smelled the breath of the coming war.

In the Yanying Palace, "Do you want to restore Liu Zongyuan's love to the five grades?" ”

The prime ministers did not expect that the emperor would make this request.

For example, in the past, the emperor promoted Liu and Liu, and asked the Hanlin scholars to draft an edict, and even directly met these two in the Yanying Palace, and then promised.

But now that the academy has been abolished, the emperor has no choice but to find the prime minister to discuss it, and the prime minister nods, and then the middle scholar in the government appoints him.

The reason given by the emperor was that a scholar was needed to explain the scriptures to me or the crown prince.

Although the prime ministers understood the emperor's true thoughts in their hearts, they were not easy to debunk because of the superficiality, not to mention that everyone had reached an agreement on "striking later" in advance, so there was no pushback.

If it is not broken, it will not stand, and if it is not broken, it will not be broken.

Soon, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi were suddenly promoted to the fifth grade, and the Jingshi was in an uproar, knowing that these two were the future upstarts.

In the persimmon forest hall of Shaoyang Courtyard of Daming Palace, the emperor specially asked the lieutenant officials to send a large number of gifts to Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi who came here.

The emperor's gifts are: a pair of chapter clothes, 30 horses of fine silk produced in Suzhou, 35,000 yuan of hand power, and 30 horses of Shu brocade for the Chongyang Festival, and prepay for the first day of the first month of the next year, March 3, and the three festivals of September 9 this year, a total of 100 yuan, which is just money, and there are a number of ancient soaps made of "lip fat" lard and "red snow bath beans" used in winter.

This flattered Yoo Jong-won and Yoo Woo-seok.

Meng Guangcheng, who came to give gifts, told them: "If the two bachelors have temporary revisions, there will also be tea and fruit wine as gifts." After speaking, Meng Guangcheng pointed to the closed gate of the Academy, sighed and said to Liu and Liu, "These are all the treatment of the Holy Lord to the Hanlin Scholars in the past, who didn't know that the Hanyuan was the place of the prime minister?" It's a pity that it's now abandoned. ”

When he arrived in the Persimmon Forest Pavilion, Wang Shuwen asked Liu and Liu again: "Zihou will give more lectures to the Holy Lord from now on, and Dream will continue to lecture for the prince after that." Although there are no more Hanlin scholars now, I still hope that the two of them can follow the story of Wen Shu and Han Zhu. ”

"Your Majesty and Your Highness treat me like this, it is really an honor to fall from heaven and flatter the world." The two hurriedly agreed.

The allusion of "Wen Shu" comes from the Western Han Dynasty Imperial Historian Kong Guang, when Kong Guang returned, his family asked him, I heard that there is a greenhouse in the emperor's palace, I don't know what trees grow in the greenhouse? Kong Guang silently did not answer, saying that "I will never leak the forbidden words" and Hanzhu, saying that he asked for solitary chastity and no party.

This requires Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi to keep the words and situation in the palace absolutely confidential.

When the prince came out from behind the curtain, and the two hurriedly saluted, the prince directly threw out the topic and asked Liu Zongyuan to write an article, and said that this was also what the Holy Lord meant.

It is to refute the view that the world can return to feudalism, and to demand that under the county system, from the nine grades to the top, must be taught by the Holy Lord himself.

Then, on the bookcase, all kinds of precious food and drink were brought in an endless stream.

In fact, Liu Zongyuan has been preparing for this for a long time, sat down, picked up the pen, is thinking like a spring, the pen walks the dragon and snake, and soon a policy article on the world can not resume feudalism will be completed.

Wang Shuwen took it, looked at it first, and couldn't help but show a look of great admiration on his face, "Mr. is talented, Mr. is talented", full of praise. Immediately dedicated to the prince sitting in the curtain, after the prince read it, he also exclaimed that it is a pity, and now there is no Hanlin Academy, otherwise with Liu Zi's talent, he should be directly a Hanlin bachelor with the official title of a member of the foreign lang, and the world will be dominated by Liu Zi in the future.

They are not polite, but really admire Liu Zongyuan's insight and talent.

Especially Wang Shuwen, he felt that Liu Zongyuan had to be promoted higher as soon as possible.

That night, after reading Liu Zongyuan's article, the emperor was also very satisfied, "This is the real Jinshi!" ”

Three days later, Liu Zongyuan's article was transcribed in large font and hung majestically on the wall of Guangzhai Fang, and the officials and people looked at it like a block.

The war of public opinion has officially begun!

In the article, Liu Zongyuan systematically refuted the article of "Han Shanzuo" in detail, and finally concluded that for the sake of the peace of the world, this county system is "impregnable"!

For a time, in the Beijing Division, Liu Zongyuan's articles were recited by everyone, and there were more good deeds, of course, many of them were copied from the Fangzhen Jinju Academy, and dozens of copies were copied from each Jinju Academy, which were printed overnight by the carving machines of each Jinju Academy, and after a few days, there were thousands of copies, pasted all over the capital and even the counties in Jinnei, and finally Fengxiang and Tonghua were affected.

"Just look at this Han Shanzuo, can you fight a battle?" People roll up their sleeves and are most concerned about this issue.

However, Han Shanzuo did not disappoint, you must know that behind this "virtual idol" is the support of the three major concert halls.

In particular, Liu Pi, the judge of the Jiannan shogunate who is now in Beijing, is the most active, and he immediately presided over it, so that the pen sticks who are cultivated on weekdays are brainstorming and splashing ink in the Jinju Academy, and the name is "Han Shanzuo", and he wrote a rebuttal and wrote a rebuttal of the eloquent essay, which was hung on the wall of Chongrenfang.

As a result, in the middle of January, the public opinion circles of Daming Palace and Jinjuan Academy were back and forth, arguing and fighting.

Then more and more people participated: the people who entered Beijing should be raised, as well as the officials waiting for the selection of Dong Jiquan, and even the literati who lived in Liuyu, as well as monks and Taoist priests were involved.

The dispute between the county and the feudal, the battle between Liu Zongyuan and Han Shanzuo, can be said to have earned enough eyeballs and shouts.

Everyone also vaguely felt that this controversy was actually a great struggle of public opinion and ideology related to the state of the country.

The court couldn't hold back, and the prime ministers collectively made a statement to the emperor, so they might as well set up a meeting in Qujiang, Chang'an City, where Liu Zongyuan and Han Shanzuo debated and debated in person, and I, Tang Tianzi and the prime minister, could observe.