The Confucian disciples of the imperial capital Nanling are being "cleared" by the government for various reasons, in order not to make things so targeted, in fact, the disciples of other schools have also been selected to be assigned tasks out of the imperial capital.

Chen Yu and the others were tasked with going to Chenjun, and he would join the road construction team with a group of companions to educate those alien slaves. They are not the only team, there are many teams scattered all over the country, and those who are assigned to the hinterland of the empire are actually quite happy, if the place of assignment is in the border county, then it will be really sinful.

"How should we educate?" Chen Yu's face was full of distress: "Teach them to read and write?" ”

The empire has always been carrying out the popularization of education, and the vacancies of teachers it needs are very large, and the education teachers of its own nation state are not enough, will the state entangle a group of people to teach foreign races to read and write?

What can be understood by a little thought is not that concept in the Confucian disciples, because they really do not have the concept of the state and the nation, and the education that the Confucian disciples receive is "whoever approves of it is their own people", and Confucianism never cares what those so-called "own people" have done to the country and the nation.

"The enmity of the tenth world can still be avenged" Originally, there was a sentence in front of "The royal road is retro, respect the king", but this sentence "The royal road is retro, respect the king is ruined" is not what Confucius said by his old man, it was said by the ram, so don't blame the Confucian disciples for not buying it.

If it is "the royal road is retro, respect the king; The enmity of the tenth world can still be avenged", then it is a bit of a national consciousness, although it is still reflected in the core idea of the respect of the ruler, but at least the meaning has become different. But if there is only "the revenge of the tenth generation, it can still be avenged" is basically pointed to personal revenge.

The concept of not having a state and a nation has always been a flaw in Confucianism, and it is also based on Confucianism's long-term unwillingness, which forces Confucianism to undergo "mutations" when it has no space for governance, and becomes not picky as long as it can win the favor of those in power. The so-called not picky. It doesn't matter who the ruler is, as long as the ruler is willing to reuse Confucianism. Under this view, Confucian disciples don't mind teaching anyone, they care about whether they will give themselves a chance to take the path to mastery of the state.

"No, the ruling government didn't let us do that." Huang Ye glanced at Chen Yu strangely, there were already officials from the ruling government who had come to announce before they set off. It didn't make sense that Chen Yu wouldn't know, so he only thought that Chen Yu was so angry that he forgot about it. "We were given the task of preaching," he said. ”

The emperor believed that Confucian thought was beneficial for making those slaves peaceful, and when assigning positions to Confucian disciples, he arranged a function similar to that of a political ~ commissar.

The ruling government did not quite understand the emperor's intentions, but all the ruling government officials, including Xiao He, hoped to restrain and quell the resistance of the slaves, which had become more and more obvious recently.

"There's not much we can do in the short term." Chen Yu said sullenly: "Those people don't understand our language, and we don't understand their language. ”

It is precisely because of the language barrier and the assignment of indoctrination of slaves that most Confucian disciples are depressed in their hearts. If they want to carry out their tasks, they first have to solve a difficult problem, which is to make communication barriers.

"They come from too many places!" Chen Yu covered his forehead. "The farthest is from Greece...... ”

In fact, the most official slaves in the empire are still the Baiyue barbarians and the grassland Hu people, who make these two ethnic groups closest to the empire. Then, because the empire marched into the Western Regions, many slaves were transported back from the Western Regions in the past year.

The composition of slaves from the Western Regions was the most complicated, because a very large number of people had fled from the west to the east, and the Imperial army defeated Touman and captured nearly 200,000 captives, of which 50,000 or 60,000 were those who fled.

In addition to the prisoners of war after the defeat of Touman, because the imperial army drove directly into the Western Regions, there were actually a large number of prisoners in the continuous military operations. The empire attached great importance to the construction of transportation. There are also too many hydraulic facilities and industrial facilities that require labor, and the prisoners of war captured in the Western Regions are naturally transported back to China.

"Greece? I've heard that it's a very powerful civilization. An inexplicable interest appeared in Huang Ye's eyes. "Rumor that Greece does not refer to a single country, but to an ethnic group of the same culture," he said. This group has quite a few nations, and at their height they had the territory of three continents? ”

The people in the carriage were all looking at Huang Ye with a strange gaze, they were expressing their miserable feelings, resenting the injustice of their circumstances, and regretting that their full talents could not be used. As a result, Huang Ye went to talk about what it meant to talk about a nation tens of thousands of miles away with that expression.

"Our (Confucian's) hope for the future lies in these ethnic groups." Huang Ye said very seriously: "Your Majesty obviously doesn't want us to meddle in too many affairs in the homeland. ”

Yes, Confucianism also did not know how to provoke the emperor, and the emperor suppressed the activities of Confucianism more than once.

"Heh......" Chen Yu smiled coldly, stared at Huang Ye, and said a little forcefully, "When have we ever been favored by the king?" We've always gone against the tide! ”

Everyone present knew that Chen Yu was talking nonsense with his eyes open. Confucianism has been favored by kings, and not only when Confucius was alive, but also the later vassal states also used Confucianism to govern the country, but the tragedy is that these countries were originally fine, and they perished in a short time after choosing to govern the country with Confucianism, so frightened that no country dared to use Confucianism to govern the country again.

In fact, at that stage in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucianism is really a great tragedy, after all, the Spring and Autumn Period is a world of great contention, which is about trying to be strong, whether the country can exist and be strong can not look at benevolence, let alone relying on etiquette, it is a matter of course that Confucianism is not recognized by means and sparing no effort, so it is natural that Confucianism is not recognized, and only the lack of brains will use Confucianism to govern the country in the world of great controversy in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The vitality of Confucianism is the most tenacious of all schools, and there is no one. For hundreds of years, it has not been recognized by the rulers, and some schools of thought should have been scattered long ago, but Confucianism has been growing in a difficult situation.

Why did Confucianism grow when the powerful did not approve of it? There is only one key point, and that is the Confucian teachings, which absorb all the disciples they can absorb in order to maintain a large number to ensure their existence.

Other schools of thought obviously do not have Confucian consciousness, and many schools of thought are elitist. That is, those schools are quite strict about the selection of disciples, unlike Confucianism, which everyone wants.

The school that takes the elite route may be very, very beautiful when the scenery is shining, such as the Zongheng School because of the emergence of Su Qin and Zhang Yi, but since Su Qin and Zhang Yi, is the scenery of the Zongheng School still there? The scenery of the Zongheng School is not only gone. In fact, it is not so certain whether there are disciples or not, at least there are no more famous Zonghengshi active.

Not only the vertical and horizontal schools, but also many schools are in general condition, the war is only a few years, and some entire schools have only single digits of people, and a military disaster can be wiped out "full of people", and the result is that the schools active in the empire really cannot be compared with before.

The whole of Confucianism should be grateful to Confucius, not to Confucius for creating Confucianism, because Confucius only sorted out and remarked a lot of previous knowledge when he was a librarian. The establishment of Confucianism was not by Confucius alone, but stood on the shoulders of the sages of the past dynasties.

The Confucian disciples have to thank Confucius for one of his actions, that is, there is no class in teaching, so that Confucianism has received many support from the bottom from the beginning, and most importantly, because of this, it has a huge number of disciples.

If it weren't for the huge number of disciples, Confucianism would not have been able to sustain it for so long. At the same time, it is also because Confucian disciples emphasized that Confucius had taught no class and benefited the common people, and used this fact to begin to "make saints". Almost all the common people of the poor family are grateful to Confucius for creating a precedent for sharing knowledge to strengthen the centripetal force within Confucianism, otherwise the vitality of Confucianism would not be so tenacious.

"It's different, it's really different, and now it's not a situation where persistence gives you a chance." Huang Ye didn't dare to say it too clearly, he meant that the empire was getting stronger and stronger. I don't know how long the current royal family will hold the country, and Confucianism thinks that it will take a few years for the new royal family to appear. He said: "What we can do is to carry forward the core idea of education and classlessness, and perhaps we can find our treasure land 'outside the territory'." ”

What do you mean? Isn't it just that the emperor is not happy with Confucianism entering the officialdom, at least he does not want Confucianism to control the government, so he should go to other countries to find opportunities!

And ...... For a long time. That's all we can do. "Huang Ye saw very clearly that the current emperor would not allow Confucianism to grow in the empire.

"Hateful...... Uncle Sun Tong does not cooperate with us. Chen Yu said with a gloomy face: "If he is willing to cooperate with us, at least we can strive to become a ...... of teachers. ”

The ellipsis is because Chen Yu lowered his voice, he was referring to the emperor's heirs, any heir can do it, at least pry open a door to the royal family, as long as it is done properly, it may be able to reverse the emperor's prejudice against Confucianism?

I have to say that Chen Yu's idea is really a bit far-sighted, but it does not come from Chen Yu's thinking, it is the most feasible method discussed by many Confucian disciples.

It must be explained that the rise of Confucianism in history is really such a path, if history has not changed, they are one of the sons of Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty, the son of Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty did not seem special at first, when the Huang Lao School controlled the government of the Han Empire, Confucianism did not have the ability to become the teacher of too important princes, so it was already a great harvest to be able to pong one of the princes.

The son of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty was naturally Liu Che, but at that time, Liu Che was not called Liu Che, but Liu Yu. Confucianism never dreamed that Liu Yu would become the emperor of the Han Empire, and one of their tentative acts seemed to be blessed by the "Mandate of Heaven", and then there was another Dong Zhongshu who was more like a god ~ stick more like a disciple of Confucianism, and Confucianism has since taken a glorious road to control the destiny of the Chinese nation for two thousand years.

"Even if the Doctor is willing, is it possible in the end?" Huang Ye felt the pause of the car, looked at Chen Yu very seriously, and said: "Impossible, not to mention that it is not the situation where the prince is educated alone, many princes have entered the school, aren't the people of our (school) educating the prince?" ”

Chen Yu was a little annoyed by what he said, "snorted", and said, "That's why they're too useless." ”

Huang Ye didn't want to chat with Chen Yu a little, and the Chen Yu he saw was an extreme and too gloomy image.

The opportunity for Confucianism is not good, but it is far from the time of despair, and the extremism and inclination towards darkness not only do not help Confucianism in any way, but are very likely to make Confucianism further irritate the royal family.

The current royal family...... At least the Emperor's usual attitude was gentle internally, but the Emperor's patience always had limits. Confucianism had already angered the emperor at a prisoner sacrifice ceremony, and the scene of shouting slogans and jumping off buildings in front of hundreds of thousands of people was so bad that the estrangement between the civilian and military groups of the empire did not surface turned into a mutual target.

The sensible Confucian disciples were actually very glad for the emperor's mildness, if it weren't for the fact that it would not only intensify the contradiction between the civilian clique and the military clique, no one would cry out if the emperor destroyed Confucianism, because that thing was really bad. It is precisely because of this that many Confucian disciples have another level of understanding of the emperor's suppression of Confucianism, believing that the emperor's suppression of Confucianism is actually protecting Confucianism, after all, after that time, not only the military general group hated Confucianism to the core, but the civilian group also hated Confucianism very much.

"Should it have arrived?" Huang Ye stood up straight as he spoke, and he greeted a few people who were as gentle and unbiased as himself: "Let's go down?" ”

Huang Ye's greeting was responded to by many people, they are all people who don't want the situation to become serious again, or people who think that they have found a new direction, so what they hope in their hearts is not to hate and blame anyone in an extreme way, as long as they use actions to confirm something.

When I got out of the car, I looked up to see a flat field, where many soldiers were watching over the many people who looked like slaves.

"Is that the kind of people we're going to experiment with new ideas?" A young Confucian student looked at the young man with curiosity in his eyes, and he said, "It's really anyone!" ”

Indeed, the group they saw had just been escorted from the Western Regions to the hinterland of the empire, unlike most of them who had come from Baiyue or the grasslands before, because there were all white-skinned, dark-skinned, and wheat-skinned people, and even the same skin had different hair colors or eye pupil colors.

"It looks very down-and......-out," Huang Ye looked at the group of aliens in uniform prison uniforms, and thought, "Most of them look like malnutrition, maybe changing their health is the best first step?" (To be continued.) )