Chapter 48: The Defeated Confucian Scholars
Bang Bang Bang!
These Confucian scholars raised their heads, and they were applauding in amazement: "The lineage of the Confucian family is really extraordinary, much stronger than those useless people who can only hold "Poems", "Shangshu", and "Spring and Autumn", my criticism of Jia Yi is unfair, is your criticism of Qin Xuan fair?" You Confucianists have never reflected on the reasons why your repeated attempts to govern have failed, and you have stubbornly adhered to unrealistic arguments, which can neither satisfy the king nor win the support of the ministers, so you have failed repeatedly but have not changed your ways.
Confucius as an excellent thinker left valuable spiritual wealth for future generations, but as a political scholar is extremely unsuccessful, among the three outstanding figures of Confucianism, Confucius's political career is the most unsuccessful, Mencius is completely an unrealistic idealist, Xunzi is closest to the essence but unfortunately did not succeed, but there is a pipe in the past, Yan Zi made the Qi country rule, and then there is Shen Bu Harm, Han Feizi has made many achievements in his political career, and Legalism is above the hundred schools of thought as a rising star. Taoism has continuous stamina to catch up with the great rule of the Han family for more than 60 years, and only Confucianism is self-styled for 300 years, and it is rare to make an inch! ”
Confucianism was speechless, the biggest weakness of Confucianism was the lack of political experience, Confucius era with the banner of "famous" in the Lu State to gain a firm foothold, and then the ruling power was exiled with the monarch, traveling around the world to promote their ideas but was repeatedly shelved, just like a person who has never met a talented person who constantly lamented that kings are illiterate.
But it turns out that most of the monarchs of the Spring and Autumn Period are very virtuous, at least they still have a lot of courtesy to Confucius, but Confucius thought that those kings did not use his governing policies, and they insulted his talent by raising him with a high salary, so he left angrily and continued to travel around the world, until he returned to Lu many years later, but he couldn't do much anymore.
Mencius is an outlier in Confucianism, the Confucian family is very rejecting Mencius, and when he sees Cao, he doesn't appreciate Mencius very much, and he doesn't care, Xunzi is also an outlier, or the outstanding talents of the Confucian family belong to the outliers, and they can't be called pure Confucianism, and they are very dissatisfied when they hear that Xunzi is closer to the essence.
Taking advantage of the gap between the Confucian scholars and the distractions, as the representative of the Legalist family, Zhao Yu took advantage of the situation to attack, Zhao Yu took the lead in attacking Kong Anguo, the leader of Confucianism, and the two sides debated extremely fiercely on the topic of Qin Law and Han Law, while on the other side, Huang Sheng gradually gained a firm foothold with the help of Cao Shi, and freed his hands to counterattack Wang Zang and Zhao Juan.
The palace maids and attendants of Weiyang Palace were dumbfounded, since the Han Dynasty, dozens of scholars caught and fought against each other and saw the scene of the fight, many people thought of the huge scene when the king of the pre-Qin era selected talents, perhaps only in that era would there be such a grand situation.
Liu Che looked left and right and listened as if he was fascinated, the prince and the servants who served on his side were dying, they held pen, ink and paper nervously recorded everyone's remarks, Ji Di and Sima An, who were good at pen and ink, had already been playing with Confucianism in the battle situation, Zheng was barely competent, Gongsun He and Han Yan held a stack of papers in a panic and didn't know where to remember, but a group of small servants shuttled to all corners under the command of Sang Hongyang, and summoned the palace maids to help grind the ink and change the paper.
Just when the prince didn't know who to listen to, he only heard Zhao Juan roaring angrily: "Doctor Taizhong! You have to remember that Taizu of the Han family raised an army against Qin, which shows that Taizu took the same path as the Tangwu Revolution, and your set of righteous remarks that follow the way of heaven is simply not worth mentioning! ”
Liu Che listened attentively, but he didn't want to be seen by the sharp-eyed Cao Shixian, so he immediately pulled him into the core area of the battlefield storm.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince reveres Emperor Taizu Gao the most, then you must know that Emperor Taizu Gao was a Chu person in the first half of his life, the Qin Dynasty tyrannically destroyed the Chu State for no reason, and made tens of millions of Chu people become the dogs of the Qin State, the hatred of the six countries of the Kwantung towards the Qin State gradually increased with the insult of the Qin people, and Qin Shi Huang had no kindness to the six countries of the Kwantung region, but had a gritty hatred of destroying the country!
The spark can start a prairie fire, Chen She's righteousness and righteousness swarmed all over the world, so Emperor Taizu Gao also raised an army against Qin at this moment, and then died in Qin for five years to destroy Chu, with an incomparably broad mind to accommodate talented generals and ministers, regardless of everyone's birth and virtue, as long as loyal to the king, honest and brave, it is a meritorious Han general, so it can be determined that the three Qin to destroy Xiang Yu to achieve the royal industry that is not easy for generations, the expectations are right, since ancient times, the emperor has won the right position is none other than Emperor Taizu Gao! Can this be the same as that careerist of SenseTime? ”
Zhao Wan clutched his chest angrily and panted: "You, you, you...... Nonsense! What is in place is complete nonsense! This is clearly the Tangwu Revolution! ”
"You bold and vainous rotten man can't stop talking! The success of my Han family is obvious to all, how can you, a humble and incompetent person, understand, and not retreat so as not to cause disaster! ”
But he didn't want Zhao Juan to laugh angrily, and was about to continue arguing, but was pulled back by Wang Zang, and when he raised his head, he saw that the prince's eyes were gloomy and his face was unhappy.
Cao Shi easily defeated Confucianism's counterattack, not that he boasted of Liu Bang's ability in the sycophancy, when he was in the Pingyang Marquis, he didn't look down on the legendary ** Son of Heaven, but when he deeply understood the history of the Cao family, as well as the turbulent legend of the early Han Dynasty, he admired Liu Bang's skills and talents more and more.
Today's people have always believed that from the three emperors and five emperors to the Han family to get the most righteous name in the world, the 3,000 abundant children led by Liu Bang, and the 30,000 Chu people group are all remnants of the old Chu, and the hatred of the old country is unswervingly determined to repay the destruction of the country is the Spring and Autumn righteousness that has been praised for the ages, showing that the Chu people are not afraid of the courage and oppression of the tyrannical Qin, and the tyrannical Qin and the Chu people have no grace at all.
In contrast, Xia Qi killed Boyi and abolished Chan to break the covenant in front, the Xia Dynasty had nothing to do with the throne at all, Cheng Tang had expanded everywhere and tried to cut off the tributary and establish himself as the king, and was almost attacked by the Jiuyi division sent by Xia Wei, so he had to bow his head and submit to the soft to survive the catastrophe, and later Cheng Tang became stronger and stronger to completely isolate the Xia Dynasty and destroy it in one fell swoop, which had nothing to do with the so-called Tang Wu Revolution, that is, the powerful vassals used military power to destroy the Xia Dynasty.
And the situation of the Zhou Dynasty is similar, since the Zhou Dynasty has repeatedly destroyed the country and expanded, after all, it touched the sensitive nerves of the Shang King, Cheng Tang is to use similar means to destroy the Xia Dynasty and determine the Great Shang, so the Shang King Taiding (Wen Ding) at that time killed the Zhou King Ji Li, and his son Zhou King Ji Chang succeeded to the throne and still did not listen to the warning and continued to expand, so Di Xin (纣王) imprisoned Ji Chang and prepared to kill, but for some reason he wanted the woman's benevolence to release Ji Chang, and guided Ji Chang to occupy two-thirds of the world as a vassal, laying the foundation for King Wu to conquer the world.
The third dynasty of Xia Shang has nothing to do with the so-called success, whether Boyi was smeared is not easy to say, because after the establishment of the Great Qin Empire, the ancestor Boyi set up a monument to show his merits, to the businessman's perseverance in smearing Xia Wei, and the Zhou people's determined smearing of Di Xin is also well-intentioned, a bit like Qin Shihuang was smeared as a ghost is also a truth.
The above historical materials can be found in the Qin Jian of Shiqu Pavilion, there are many articles in the pre-Qin era that reflect the lessons of the Xia and Shang dynasties who lost the country, but those Confucian students are not qualified to enter and leave the palace and cannot see the precious historical records, and the information asymmetry makes the balance of victory in the polemic from the beginning to the Huang Lao School, coupled with the help of the Legalists and the careful preparation of Cao Shi, almost bloodless to defeat the menacing Confucian group.
The biggest gain of this battle is that the crown prince has a different view of Cao Shi's academic level, he is knowledgeable, eager and wise, and he is also the best choice in the talented Han court, and the lectures are much more interesting than the Confucian scholars who can only talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, with high status, close kinship, kindness and modesty, and no shelf, almost every aspect is impeccable, Liu Che is very satisfied with the chair candidates arranged by the Son of Heaven.
Soon, Wang Zang was really dismissed from his official position, and he was expelled from Beijing without even having a chance to defend himself, and it was also a punishment for returning to his hometown and not being able to be used.
What surprised Cao Shi the most was the action of the crown prince Liu Che, who rushed to meet the sick Son of Heaven at the end of the debate, and threw the former teacher out of the court in a few words, so that he did not give a chance to prepare.
It is said that when Wang Zang was leaving, there were a lot of Confucian scholars who rushed to see him off, all the way from the Bacheng Gate of Chang'an to Baqiao, twenty miles away, before giving up, many scholars wrote poems to lament the disaster of Wang Zang's resignation for no reason, and faintly hinted that there were traitors in the court, cholera and the court, so that the benevolent and wise men had to leave the capital to bear the pain of running and displacement.
Speaking of which, this kind of painless sarcasm did not cause any pressure on Cao Shi, Confucian scholars were as clean as washed bean sprouts all day long, and opened and closed their mouths to make lofty remarks such as benevolence, righteousness, honesty and morality, and behind their backs, their parents and brothers were all local landlords and heroes, and they didn't know how much usury they secretly released outside with amazing interest, forcing many wives and wives to break up and ruin their families.
In contrast, the liehou is much cleaner, except for a few liehou who are constantly good at death, most of the liehou are still honest people, Cao Shi himself has not done the bad thing of bullying men and women, to the point that there are many Chang'an women who go to the Hou Mansion every three or five times to poke their heads out, hoping to be favored by the Pingyang Marquis as a concubine to enjoy the blessings, and at worst to be an outer room can also mix a lot of financial benefits, this is the Han Dynasty version of the raising of the third child.
Cao Shi didn't dare to ask for these indiscriminate women, a bunch of warblers and warblers at home Yanyan didn't have time to take care of it, and it was pure idle nonsense to go outside to find a woman, Qu Shunhou Chen He belonged to this kind of nonsense man, his slogan probably meant that a wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good as stealing, this person is the best at hooking up with a good family woman for adultery, a hundred times worse than those liehou who sleep in flowers and willows, and he is simply a Ximen official in the liehou.
ps: Historically, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty didn't like Confucianism Wang Zang very much, and drove him out of Chang'an, so that the young Liu Che was fooled a lot, and when he became the emperor, he immediately used this teacher.
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