Gaoling County, Yongzhou, in a private manor on the outskirts of the city.

Compared with the prosperity of the past, this estate has been much calmer over the years.

People have peaks and valleys, and each different stage brings very different feelings.

Yu Zhining, who was close to the sixtieth year, sat at the desk, full of expression, the pen in his hand was sonorous and powerful, his arm waved, and the tip of the pen fell on the white paper.

The handwriting seems to be a little sloppy, but those who know how can see at a glance that this handwriting is full of soul, and after the scribbled handwriting is connected together, it seems to come to life.

The Tang Dynasty lacked everything, and the last thing was calligraphers.

Any official, or even an ordinary Confucian scholar, writes beautifully.

And those officials who can go to high positions, which one does not have a good hand?

However, Yu Zhiwen didn't take the handwriting to heart, he wrote more, understood more, and wrote the handwriting as he wanted, and naturally formed his own style and soul.

He was more concerned about the content of this document.

Yu Zhining's life over the years has not been satisfactory, he once served as an official in Zhongshu, and then with the resignation of Li Shimin, he was demoted to Zhongshushe.

Although he was demoted, compared to other colleagues, Yu Zhining felt that his fate was good, at least he was not expelled home.

Therefore, in the position of the Zhongshu Sheren, he is also doing his business.

But who would have thought that the cold and unscrupulous would have a Liang Ziyi incident.

Who is Liang Ziyi? It was the one who bought Confucian books in Luozhou a few years ago, and even bullied men and women, and directly bullied the emperor.

Unfortunately, Liang Ziyi is really Yu Zhining's apprentice.

In ancient times, apprenticeship was far less simple than in later generations, students needed to stay in the teacher's house for at least three years, in fact, they were servants in the teacher's house for three years, and any dirty work and tiring work were all yours.

Even so, only a few people can obtain this qualification.

This process is not corporal punishment, nor is it because of the arrogance of the teacher, but in this way, to examine a person's mind to see if he is really suitable for his own knowledge or craft.

The other is also to examine this person, if he teaches him this knowledge or craft, will he do that kind of thing that people and gods are angry with?

The teacher is stern, but also tolerant and accommodating.

Liang Ziyi was born in poverty, and he showed enough patience and intelligence at the beginning, and by chance, Yu Zhining happened to meet him and took a fancy to him.

And Liang Ziyi also saw that Zhining's identity was unusual, and hurriedly put forward a request for apprenticeship.

The two hit it off, and Liang Ziyi was brought into the house by Yu Zhining.

Maybe it's because the road to learning is too easy, or maybe it's because Yu Zhining attaches too much importance to it, in less than half a year, Liang Ziyi showed a frivolous posture, and Yu Zhining reprimanded him many times, but he still failed to pull him back.

They can only be expelled from the house at the end of the first year of the inspection period.

What?

That's it?

Of course not, through this year's time, Liang Ziyi has made a lot of Confucian students, famous and decent ones, so he naturally disdains to be with them, and he doesn't even bother to take care of them.

But the kind of people who were kicked out soon got together.

With the help of Yu Zhining's identity, Liang Ziyi quickly made some achievements, so the words of learning from Yu Zhining often hung on Liang Ziyi's lips.

For this reason, Yu Zhining even mentioned this matter more than once in private.

But he still didn't expect that this Liang Ziyi still brought a huge hidden danger to himself.

Although Liang Ziyi was expelled from the house as early as ten years ago, at the time of the incident, he was pulling Yu Zhining's banner as a blessing.

Yu Zhining, a down-and-out Chinese scholar, is he awesome?

The cow is a bit of a cow, but the real cow is not the Zhongshu Sheren, but its status in Confucianism, if you use the current title system as a metaphor, Yu Zhining's status in Confucianism is at least equivalent to the level of a king.

As a result, Yu Zhining, who was helpless, could only ask the court to deal with it according to the rules on the one hand, and resign on the other hand to assume his own responsibilities.

Regardless of whether this person is a student of his own or not, he has at least entered the probation period, and those who have entered the probation period have been examined in advance, and there is no problem with his character, so that this step can be carried out.

Obviously, Yu Zhining ignored these steps, and did not stop them afterwards, let alone publicly declare, if anyone else was an official, Yu Zhining would not respond like this, but Liang Ziyi bullied the emperor, and asked the emperor to take out the poetry scriptures from the library and sell them to him at a low price, how many fucking dares to do this?

It has been half a year since he resigned at home, and in the past six months, Yu Zhining has seen a lot, said a lot, thought a lot, and compared a lot.

So, there is this scene, and there is this document in his hand.

"Meng You, spread this document!" Yu Zhining summoned his students.

A student who was not very optimistic about himself at the beginning, a student with average talent, no matter what he studied, his progress was the slowest at the beginning, at the beginning, he could still use more heart, but in the back, there were so many students, how could he have the energy to take care of this stupid student?

Another thing that Yu Zhining didn't expect happened, some of his students chose to quit, some chose to change their courts, and some chose the same path as Liang Ziyi, wanting to seek a position for themselves in this chaotic era of Confucianism.

Everyone has their own ambitions, Yu Zhining did not stop it, nor did he denounce it, as long as someone asked him to say this, he nodded and agreed.

went around in a circle, and only Meng You, a student he was not optimistic about, stayed and followed him all the time.

And at this time, Yu Zhining finally had time to train Meng You alone, at the age of twenty, it was not too late, but if you want to gain fame, it will be very difficult.

The four major academies can't get in, which means that they can only join those academies outside, and then tens of thousands of people squeeze their heads to grab the few pitiful places, and then compete with those proud sons of heaven to compete for the final places.

Meng You took the document and looked at it directly, this is Yu Zhiwen's rules, the rules that have been set for him in the past six months.

Whether it is a test, a study, or a point, every time after reading it, Meng You has to say his feelings, and then Yu Zhining begins to correct and guide.

"Meng You, what are your plans after that?" While Meng You was reading the paperwork, Yu Zhining asked.

My own students have no future and no way out, so where can I put my old face? By Confucianism? Hehe......

"Teacher, the students feel that there are still many things that they have not yet understood, so they have not thought about the future for the time being." Meng You responded with some smugness, and continued: "Teacher, if this article is sent out......

"Go on!" Yu Zhining looked at Meng You, and it wasn't until this half a year that he gradually discovered Meng You's strengths, and after carefully cultivating him for half a year, Meng You also became more and more liking him.

"If this article is sent out, the teacher is afraid that there will be no place for Confucianism, and the students feel that the teacher may wish to discuss with other Confucians, and then issue it together, the effect will be better, and the teacher's status in Confucianism will also be higher." Meng You expressed his opinion.

There are two masters and apprentices, and there are only two people left here, so he has nothing to avoid, plus he won't be so flamboyant, and he won't deliberately please anyone.

Meng You's temper is very similar to Yu Zhining, which also makes Yu Zhining like this student even more.

"Meng You, do you know what the biggest feeling of being a teacher has been under His Majesty in the past few years?" Yu Zhining smiled slightly and explained seriously.

"Students don't know!" Meng You shook his head, how could he know this?

"Judge the situation!" Yu Zhining slowly said these four words, the four words that are very common, and the four words that are said most often, but Yu Zhining said them again.

It's just that this time, unlike in the past, the circumstances are different, the feelings are different, and the things referred to are naturally different.

Yu Zhining knew Meng You's temper very well, so he didn't continue to ask him, but said directly: "What Confucianism wants is a new life, to restore the glory of the past, but in this situation, they can only be fools' dreams."

Just by relying on bringing together the world's ten thousand doors to form a general trend, the power is naturally great, but there are no other advantages, on the contrary, Your Majesty will never sit idly by.

The world was not won by literati, but by the army.

Even in peacetime, when the army is not fighting, their influence is enormous, and the scenery of the literati may overshadow the army for a while, but from the beginning to the end, in the eyes of any upper class, the army will always be in the first place.

If Confucianism wants to be reborn, the only way is to break the boat, give up those unrealistic, find more problems from themselves, and then change to be as good as possible.

Unification? Isn't the lesson of the First Emperor enough?

If the teacher had consulted with those great Confucians, this article would still have been sent out eventually, but not in the world, but within Confucianism.

On the premise that their own interests are not guaranteed, they will not consider anything else.

If it was before, the teacher would have done this, but now, the times are different, the time for the teacher to leave the official position is relatively late, how did Datang get to where it is today, and how much bitterness has been experienced in the middle, the teacher knows better than anyone else, and he also sees it in his eyes.

In front of Li Min Cangsheng, what is the identity and status of a teacher?

Now Confucianism has completely changed its taste, they only rule for the sake of domination, only for their own sake, no one has ever remembered, what was their original intention? What is their original intention?

Soldiers on the front line sacrificed their lives for the Tang Dynasty to expand the territory, businessmen were busy working day and night, contributing to the economic revival of the Tang Dynasty, ordinary people, in addition to farming, are also working hard to find a job, any kind of work can be done, the Academy of Sciences is constantly studying all kinds of new science and technology day and night, and the scholars are studying day and night, just for one day, to be able to display what they have learned all their lives.

Everyone has their own things, everyone has their own mission, and everyone is contributing their own strength to this country and this nation in different ways, but what about us? We're dreaming......"