Chapter 12 Zhao Yun was silent for a long time, sighed, and walked into the study side by side with Li Wei.

"Even if Brother Feiyan wants to leave, he should wait until His Majesty has built a platform in the Central Plains and gained a firm foothold before leaving." Zhao Yun slowly sat down behind the desk, looked up at Li Wei and said,

"Look, am I going to write another recital for the eldest princess, asking her to give Brother Feiyan some time on the grounds that she is busy with affairs and attacking Nanyang again?" Li Wei thought about it and shook his head,

"The eldest princess's most feared minister is Lord Taiwei, he used to be the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, and he has high prestige among the Yellow Turban generals in the army. After Xiao Tianzi went south to the Central Plains, the eldest princess repeatedly urged Lord Taiwei to go north to Jinyang, obviously worried that Lord Taiwei would take advantage of the opportunity of the general's illness and the turmoil in Chang'an to collude with the generals in the army, and take the opportunity to hold Xiao Tianzi hostage, hold power, and cause chaos in the society. Lord Taiwei originally wanted to delay it and look at the situation on the battlefield in Nanyang, but now that Xiao Tianzi has decided to build a bank in the Central Plains, if he still delays and does not leave, the eldest princess will inevitably doubt his intentions, and in the future, the eldest princess will definitely kill him for the safety of Xiao Tianzi, and he will not be able to leave. Zhao Yun didn't speak for a long time.

Now almost all the generals of the Central Plains are yellow turbans, and the generals who came out of Youzhou with the generals in the past are basically in northern Xinjiang and the desert.

At this time, not only the eldest princess, but also the ministers around the Son of Heaven and the ministers of Chang'an were very afraid of Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan's goal in life is very clear, that is, to realize the peaceful world advocated in the "Taiping Sutra", a prosperous world where the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Whether or not this ideal can be realized, he and his brothers will fight for it. Whoever stands in the way must die.

At present, the reason why he came down from Taihang Mountain on the charge of rebellion in Taiping Dao was because of Li Hong's promise.

For more than 20 years, Li Hong has not broken his promise, and together with the people of Northern Xinjiang, he has tenaciously held up the sky of the Han Dynasty, freed tens of millions of people from the threat of death, and gradually lived the stable life they dreamed of.

Although the people are still poor, at least they have no worries about survival. At this moment, if the general dies and if Sheji is in danger of collapse, Zhang Yan will not hesitate to take action, do his best to defend Sheji, protect the people, and preserve the achievements of more than 20 years of struggle.

The general is gone, no one in the world can suppress Zhang Yan, and no one has the strength to resist Zhang Yan, the eldest princess has no choice, she can only take Zhang Yan

"Please" to yourself. Zhang Yan's power is too huge, she can't find an excuse to kill Zhang Yan and self-destruct

"The Great Wall", she can only use this method to temporarily control Zhang Yan, minimize his threat to Sheji, and at the same time give advice to the Yellow Turban generals.

But there must be advantages and disadvantages, if the general's illness is cured, Zhang Yan has lived in Jinyang for a long time, plus the eldest princess who actually controls the authority, Jinyang will immediately become the real power center of the Han Dynasty, and the pro-government little Tianzi has become insignificant, then Jinyang and the Son of Heaven will inevitably have a confrontation, and trouble will follow, as for the great cause of Zhongxing, I am afraid that it will also be crumbling in this fierce power struggle.

Of course, the original intention of the eldest princess and the general must be to return the government to the little emperor. But the crux of the matter is, how many people in the world believe?

This kind of thing abounds in all dynasties, who would believe that the general who got the eldest princess would hand over the authority in his hands?

No one believes, and the contradictions come, and the conflicts come. There will be people who help Xiao Tianzi impatiently force Jin Yang to hand over power, and there will be people who deliberately set up all kinds of ** schemes to divide the relationship between Xiao Tianzi and Jin Yang, and finally forced Jin Yang to be furious and take action to get rid of **.

Well, the original form was revealed, the contradictions intensified, the conflict broke out, and finally the cannibalism was killed, and in the end the two sides were defeated, and finally the society was defeated.

The more Zhao Yun thought about it, the more bored he became, and he couldn't help but sigh for a long time, hesitating and uneasy.

"Zilong, look at Yancai's letter......" Li Wei took Fu Gan's letter in his hand and shook it,

"He has been away from Chang'an for a long time, and he is not clear about the situation here, so he asked you to try to prevent Lord Taiwei from taking up his post in Xingtai, what does this mean? It shows that they don't believe in Lord Taiwei at all. ”

"Your Majesty has a lot of trust in Brother Feiyan." Zhao Yun said,

"He made it very clear in his holy decree that he asked Lord Taiwei to take some Shangshutai officials to the Central Plains to help him fight, but now he ......"

"Lord Taiwei does not dare to disobey the orders of the eldest princess, but listening to the orders of the eldest princess is tantamount to disobeying the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, and the ministers of Xingtai and the court can take the opportunity to impeach him and slander him in front of the Son of Heaven. Lord Taiwei is in a dilemma. Li Wei felt the same way, and his face showed a little bitterness,

"When he leaves, my strength is weak, although I have given in earlier and no longer participate in the affairs of the Shangshu, but those opponents in the court are willing to let go of such a good opportunity? Looks like I'm leaving, too. ”

"Why, I can't even believe it now?" Zhao Yunjian raised his eyebrows slightly and laughed,

"Brother Feiyan is gone, Brother Qizhi (Yang Feng) is still there."

"I can't believe Yang Feng." Li Wei said,

"After the Nanyang fiasco, he hated me to the core, so I'd better be careful."

"Your husband and wife turned their hands into clouds and turned their hands into rain, not only let him bury more than 30,000 lives in vain, but also made revenge come to naught, of course he hates you." Zhao Yun said,

"But at this time and that time, you are still unanimous in the matter of eradicating the ** Yu, and he will not be unfavorable to you."

"I won't stay in Chang'an anyway." Li Wei smiled,

"When Luoyang was in turmoil, He Miao, Xu Xiang, and Fan Ling were attacked and killed by Yuan Shao, and they were wiped out, and this incident is still fresh in my memory, so I won't repeat the mistakes of the past."

"If you want to go, you can only leave when the gate valve family and the wealthy businessmen take the initiative to ask for money and food to help Xiao Tianzi go south, otherwise you can't leave Chang'an." Li Wei smiled and nodded,

"Okay, okay...... I hope that this time Lizhong and Xu Ling can atone their merits and stop killing themselves. ”

"The premise is that the general must be alive, otherwise these two people will come up with a plot and betray us, and we will suffer from it." Zhao Yun sighed,

"When Zitai (Tian Chou) and them have discussed it, I will let Junyi (Zhang He) go to Xingtai in person and discuss it with Lord Jia Xu."

"If we don't kill them all this time, I, Li Wei, will never enter Chang'an City from now on." Li Wei's eyes showed murderous anger, and he slapped his palm on the case.

Zhao Yun looked at Li Wei, who was angry, hesitated for a while, and stopped talking.

"Let's discuss the details." Li Wei handed the letter back to Zhao Yun,

"Let's not meet again."

"In the future, we will turn against each other, fight each other, and repay each other." After Zhao Yun took the letter, he gently patted Li Wei's arm,

"Brother, don't blame me for being too ruthless." Taiwei Zhang Yan left Chang'an and went north to Jinyang. The ministers were well aware of Zhang Yan's situation, and his decision was expected by everyone.

At the same time, his departure also seems to herald the end of an era. The general Li Hong fell ill, the eldest princess got married, the hussar general Xian Yufu died of illness, the chariot general Koji Yi died in battle, and the old ministers who worked hard to revive the society also passed away one after another.

With the departure of the former Taifu Yang Biao and the Taiwei Zhang Yan successively, the Han Dynasty bid farewell to the era of the eldest princess and ushered in the era of Liu Shuo, the son of heaven.

When Zhang Yan arrived at the Ten Mile Long Pavilion, he was stunned by the crowd of people who saw him off. He actually saw all the ministers and ministers of the court, hundreds of officials standing on the long pavilion, and thousands of guards and attendants standing on both sides of the galloping road, and the scene was very spectacular.

Zhang Yan's mood was very complicated, he had a feeling of wanting to cry, not excited, but painful. This time going north to Jinyang is just a very ordinary edict to go north, neither to say goodbye to the court, nor to go far away, and the ministers don't need to come to the long pavilion to say goodbye.

Could it be that the era of the eldest princess is really over? Is this the ceremony of the end of an era? Zhang Yan held her long hair in her hand, looked at the silver threads in her beard, and sighed,

"Old, old......" farewell ceremony was very grand, lasting for more than an hour, until it was nearly noon, Zhang Yan waved goodbye to everyone, got on the horse and left.

Zhao Yun rode the horse and sent it again, silently accompanying him.

"Originally, I wanted to persuade you, hoping that you could help Your Majesty." Zhao Yun said in a low voice,

"Who knows......" Zhang Yan shook her hand and smiled sadly,

"I'm going to the Central Plains, who can stop me? I have to go to Jinyang. After I arrived in Jinyang, I could help the eldest princess effectively curb the expansion of Xingtai's authority and alleviate the contradictions between Jinyang and Xingtai. Jinyang and Xingtai must maintain a high degree of consistency in ZTE strategy, only in this way can the transfer of authority be smooth, otherwise, sooner or later the two sides will break into conflict. If Jinyang and Xingtai are in lockstep, Chang'an will feel threatened, and the crisis in Chang'an will soon erupt, and you and Zhong Yuan (Li Wei) will immediately find an opportunity to eradicate the rebellion and stabilize Chang'an. Zhang Yan raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed behind his back,

"You see, so many people want me to leave Chang'an, which shows the fear of Chang'an people towards Jinyang. In their opinion, as long as I am gone, their lives are secured, the threat is reduced, and they can do what they want with impunity. I am very sad, the eldest princess, the general and our generation have fought for the Han for more than 20 years, and after all the hardships and dangers, they finally pushed the Han on the road to Zhongxing, however, what did we get? Aren't we doing this to save the community? Is it only by doing what they think that we can save the community? Zhao Yun looked at the distressed Zhang Yan, and had the heart to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say.

"The closer we are to the time when the world is pacified, the more brutal the struggle for power in the court becomes, and the more fierce the struggle between the various factions of Confucianism and classics, why? ZTE's great cause is just around the corner, but we feel more and more distant, and we feel more and more hopeless, why is this? ”

"Since Emperor Xiaowu monopolized Confucianism, the strategy of governing the country has undergone fundamental changes, and the Confucian scholars of all dynasties have accused the national policy of this dynasty as 'external Confucianism and internal law', and the court nominally governs the world with etiquette and morality, but in fact it is essentially to use laws and punishments to rule the people. In the final analysis, the contradictions in today's court come from this. ”

"Confucianism insists on governing the country with etiquette, which is not only the criterion of the scholars, but also the criterion of the common people, and Confucianism hopes that the common people can abide by etiquette like the scholars. In a sense, Confucianism has elevated the status of the common people. ”

"Legalists insist on the rule of law, the law is above all else, and everyone is equal before the law. This practice of the Legalists did not raise the status of the common people, but lowered the status of the scholars. The Legalists relied on punishments, rewards and punishments to govern the world, and completely threw the rites aside. ”

"Therefore, Confucianism accuses Legalism of being despicable and rude, while Legalism accuses Confucianism of daydreaming and being unrealistic."

"When we were in Jinyang, we put forward Xunzi's strategy of governing the country with great propriety and law. Xunzi's doctrine is actually a compromise between Confucianism and Legalism, which is reflected in the strategy of governing the country, that is, the external Confucianism and internal law, that is, using Confucianism as the core of national policy and academic thought to educate the people, and formulating and implementing laws with the main purpose of Legalism to govern the people. ”

However, after more than 20 years of war, the Han Dynasty has long lost the conditions for the implementation of etiquette, and now the most urgent need of the people is not moral education, but survival, food and clothing, grain and silk cloth. Therefore, the Prime Minister implemented a series of reforms, which quickly broke the balance of the core of the national policy, which led to the increasingly fierce academic dispute in the Han Dynasty and the more and more cruel power struggle in the court. If these fundamental things related to the survival of the society are not corrected in a timely manner, it will be difficult for the great cause of ZTE to advance sustainably and steadily. Zhang Yan's words made Zhao Yun feel a sense of surprise.

In the final analysis, the struggle for academic and power is a struggle of interests, but if the struggle of interests is too intense, it means that there is a problem with the national policy, and it will certainly not be solved by forcibly suppressing it by just relying on harsh punishment and law.

Blindly cracking down on and slaughtering can only make the contradictions more and more intense, and can only make the social situation worse and worse.

Zhang Yan analyzed the reasons for the intensification of contradictions from the core idea of national policy and from the perspective of etiquette and law. The reason why the struggle between the court and the court is heating up now is not that there is a problem with the Prime Minister's idea of insisting on establishing the country by law and reforming the system by law, nor is it that the concept of the family insisting on governing the country by virtue and reforming the system with etiquette is wrong, but that Confucianism does not adapt to the times, and Confucianism cannot revitalize the current society that is riddled with holes, and cannot meet the needs of the people who are currently struggling on the line of life and death.

If today's Han wants to prosper, and if today's Han wants to let the people recuperate, it needs an academic thought that can adapt to it and complement each other.

"When Emperor Gaozu fought the world, after arriving in Guanzhong, the 'Three Chapters of the Law', the murderer died, the wounded and the theft were punished, and other harsh laws were abolished, and the people all supported it." Zhang Yan lightly planned the war horse and continued,

"After the great rebellion, the people needed to recuperate, and they wanted the imperial court to abolish the harsh rule of the Qin Dynasty. And Emperor Gaozu did it, he inherited the Qin Dynasty's policy of benefiting the people, abolished all the harsh policies of the Qin Dynasty, and as a result, with the rule of Wenjing, the Han Dynasty was prosperous and prosperous in just a few decades. ”

"At the beginning of Emperor Gaozu's founding of the country, the Han Dynasty was in ruins, the people's livelihood was withering, the society was unstable, and many imminent problems needed to be solved urgently. At this time, Confucianism, which took moral cultivation as its own business, and Taoist Laoxue, who advocated nature and passive inaction, were unable to solve these problems, so the Taoist Huang Laozhixue, which had both civil and military skills, combined criminal and moral use, took the law as the conformity, lightly punished the thin endowment, rested with the people, was frugal and inactive, and the Taoist Huang Laozhi with the main content of nobility and softness was born at the right time. ”

"In the era of Emperor Xiaowu, the Han Dynasty needed to attack the Xiongnu in the north, needed to expand its territory, and needed a kind of scholarship that was compatible with it, so Confucianism entered the hall."

"The times are different, the needs of the emperor, the court and the people are different, academic thinking must also be changed, but also developed, and the history of this dynasty over the past 400 years has provided us with many vivid examples. As future generations, we should not only learn from history, but also draw lessons from it and avoid detours, so as to ensure that the community and the people can survive better. Zhao Yun already understood the true purpose of Zhang Yan's trip to Jinyang.

At this moment, Jinyang gathered Xiangkai, Ms. Lu, Wang Zhen and other famous Taoist masters, Xu Shao, Wang Jian, Hua Tuo, Zhang Ji and others are also Confucianism and Taoism.

With the establishment of the Son of Heaven and the beginning of the Nanyang War, the power struggle in the court became more and more intense, and the development of the situation became more and more difficult to control. Completely eliminate the control and influence of the gate valve family on the government.

In the final analysis, Zhang Yan was still born in Taoism, and has a deep-seated dissatisfaction with Confucianism, as shown in the Taiping Sutra

The concept of governance such as "people-oriented, saving the poor and urgent" had too much influence on him. When Confucianism could not help him realize his ideals, he had to revisit the Taoist argument of Huang Laozhi.

However, the Taoist Huang Lao's learning has fallen since Emperor Xiaowu, when the Guangwu Emperor was in the Han Dynasty, the Taoist Huang Lao's learning also rose for a time, but the Guangwu Emperor finally chose Confucianism.

After a long period of time, can Taoism's Huang Laozhi rise again? This seems a bit too wishful.

Zhao Yun voiced his doubts,

"Brother Feiyan, don't mention the Taiping Sutra, so as not to cause trouble, as for Huang Lao's learning, it is a little inappropriate to mention it now."

"There was a reason why this dynasty admired Taoism and dethroned Confucianism back then, in addition to being able to cultivate with the people, Huang Laozhi's learning was also an excuse for meritorious heroes, relatives and county kings not to let the emperor interfere in the affairs of the county. To a certain extent, the national policy of ruling by inaction caused serious consequences such as the decentralization of power, the tyranny of the princes, and the restriction of imperial power, and finally led to the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms. The Taoist Huang Laozhi was not conducive to the centralization of power by the emperor and the unification of the society, which was already criticized as early as the time of Emperor Xiaowen and Emperor Xiaojing. ”

In the Xiaowu Emperor's Dynasty, the imperial court reused Confucianism and deposed Huang Lao's name of the Hundred Schools, but Confucianism still could not compete with Taoism. At that time, although Emperor Xiaowu was inclined to Confucian inaction, he felt that Taoist inaction also had merit; He also agreed with the extravagance of Confucianism, but he could not get rid of the shackles of Taoist simplicity and frugality; In addition, he also admired Cheng and Kang's punishment methods, but he felt that governing the country could not be without punishment. In order to centralize power, Emperor Xiaowu needed to respect Confucianism and dethrone Taoism, but there were many ways in which the Taoist Huang Laozhixue was superior to Confucianism, so he urgently needed a new Confucianism centered on Confucianism and fully absorbing the strengths of Taoism, and surpassing Taoism. As a result, a generation of great Confucian Dong Zhongshu came out from time to time. With the help of the "Spring and Autumn Ram" study, he openly aided Taoism and entered Confucianism, and on the basis of integrating the three schools of Confucianism, Taoism and Yinyangism, he constructed a new Confucian doctrine, and the essence of Taoism Huang Laozhi immediately became the flesh and blood of Neo-Confucianism, and Huang Lao's learning has since declined. ”

"Brother Feiyan, this is also an important reason why Emperor Guangwu chose Confucianism during the Zhongxing period, how can you persuade the eldest princess and the imperial court to re-implement Huang Lao's learning?" Zhang Yan was silent for a while, and said slowly: "I didn't say that I wanted to promote Huang Lao's learning, but you are right about one thing, I want to follow the example of the great Confucian Dong Zhongshu, vigorously promote the aid of Taoism and Confucianism, and then achieve the goal of dual cultivation of Confucianism and Taoism." ”

"In fact, the authentic status of Confucianism in this dynasty, after being fiercely criticized by the great Confucian Wang Chong, although it can still maintain the status of official education for the time being, in fact, its foundation has begun to waver."

"After the deposition of the Confucianism of the hundred schools of thought in this dynasty, the Confucian scholars in order to enter the career of the emperor have catered to the needs of the king. The great Confucian king couldn't bear it anymore, roared angrily, and used a "Treatise on Balance" to expose the lies of Confucian biographies, break the mystery of the Confucian scriptures, and at the same time pull the two sages Confucius and Mencius back from heaven to the world. ”

"What doctrine did Master Wang Chong use to shake the foundation of Confucian scriptures? Taoist doctrine. ”

Since then, many Confucian scholars in this dynasty, including many famous Confucians, Zhang Heng, Master Ma Rong, etc., including your father-in-law, Master Cai Yong, although they mainly studied scriptures, but in the case of the decline of Confucianism, they inevitably embarked on the road of dual cultivation of Confucianism and Taoism, and the integration of Confucianism and Taoism. Master Ma Rong is the master of the fusion of Confucianism and Taoism in this dynasty. ”

"Confucianism and Taoism are equivalent to the implementation of the Taoist Huang Lao's learning, so that Huang Lao's many advantages in governing the country, such as both civil and military, criminal and moral use, rest with the people, frugality and inaction, noble and soft and female and other strategies can gradually take root in the hearts of the people, and the resistance to the implementation and implementation of the new policy will be smaller and smaller, and many shortcomings of Confucianism can be made up, so as to effectively promote the sustainable and stable development of the great cause of Zhongxing." Zhao Yun looked at Zhang Yan with admiration, bowed and saluted,

"I wish you success, I am waiting for your good news in Chang'an." Zhang Yan looked up at the sky and sighed softly,

"As long as the general can survive, as long as the little Tianzi grows up quickly, the big man will eventually become strong." Jump to