Chapter 177: The Revival of Confucianism

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At the end of April, a torrential rain caused the Wei River to swell, and villages along the river guarded the embankment day and night to prevent it from bursting.

The stone pavement on the streets of Chang'an City was repeatedly washed by the rain, the canopy was erected in front of the four-horse carriage, and the two horses ran comfortably under the canopy, and the pedestrians who passed by looked enviously at the carriage with the canopy, which was a new product of the Pingyang Hou Mansion, and the hardcover version was priced at 2 silver coins, which was equivalent to 3oo five-baht coins, and the ordinary version of 1 silver coin was equivalent to 15o five-baht coins.

"This canopy is good, at least you don't have to get out of the carriage to be rained, and my horses won't be blown by the wind and rain, it's good!"

Dou Ying smiled and chatted with the two Confucian students in the car, the old Confucian opened the bamboo curtain, and couldn't believe that the city in front of him was called Chang'an, which was a completely strange city, not the Chang'an City where he had lived for more than ten years.

"The credit of Pingyang Hou Caoshi?"

"He built Chang'an City, the credit of one person, so he was promoted to Shaofu."

The old Confucian shook his head, not knowing whether he believed or couldn't understand it, he was still looking at the scenery outside the window, such as the neatly arranged chessboard, the black and red wall paint, the exquisite two-story building, and many strange buildings that he had never seen. It is said that there are public baths, public toilets, and biogas digesters.

"Why has it changed so much?"

The young Confucian was also looking out the window, and he didn't know if he was looking at the fairyland of his dreams. The prosperity of Chang'an is far different from the Linzi of Qi State, more brilliant than the passing Luoyang, on the sidewalk of the roadside, people hurrying by with oil-paper umbrellas, their faces are filled with happy smiles, and the beauty of life dilutes the troubles brought by the rain.

"Why?"

Everyone who has just arrived in Chang'an will have similar questions, and they are also part of the Han Empire. Why does the life of Chang'an City seem to be higher than other cities, whether it is Linzi, Luoyang, Pengcheng, Chengdu, and the large city. The quaint city walls and the rustic Lu are their main colors, and which idler will take the trouble to color the inner wall.

Maybe there is a group of troublesome rich people in Chang'an City, or Shaofu Cao Shi is a problematic bureaucrat who spares no expense to build a first-class city for his own political achievements. It is said that during the Great Prosperity Conscription, the people were also provided with three meals a day. Eating fat pork and drinking fresh fish soup is simply a waste of food, and there must be something wrong in Shaofu Cao's mind.

Dou Ying personally drove to meet them outside the city of Chang'an, and the two were the main members of the Confucian persuasion who took the initiative to help him, the old Confucian named Yuan Gusheng, and the young Confucian named Kong Wu.

Yuan Gusheng asked, "I heard that Guangchuan Dong Zhongshu came to Beijing one step earlier. Don't know where he went? It must be Kong Anguo's place. ”

Dong Zhongshu of Guangchuan County!

One of the three masters of the Ram School, two of his best friends, Ram Shou and Hu Wusheng, have a high status. If it weren't for Kong Anguo's blind action and single-handedly destroying the painstaking management of the two old gentlemen, maybe Confucianism would have taken root in Chang'an City again and made a difference.

It's a pity that Kong Anguo is incompetent, he has an ambition to tolerate the world, he can't do big things with empty hands and no long things, and a big defeat almost uprooted the power of Confucianism in the court.

Dong Zhongshu Tian is one of the three masters of the Ram School, and is also the youngest Confucian among the three, he is a well-known big man in Qi Confucianism, compared to Yuan Gusheng, who has been a doctor in Beijing for more than ten years, has no worse reputation, more than 3,000 apprentices, and has great influence in the territory of Qi State.

Everyone has ambitions, the greater the ability, the higher the ambition, ordinary Confucian students encounter such a precious opportunity, maybe they will break their heads in order to enter the Linzi Palace, Dong Zhongshu will not be like this.

He is a long-famous Confucian, and if he wants to take refuge in the King of Qi ten years earlier, a sudden rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu almost destroyed the State of Qi, and the rebellious King of Qi Liu Jiang Lu was defeated and committed suicide, and the overlord of the Kwantung region of more than 70 cities shrank sharply, Dong Zhongshu did not hesitate.

There is only one goal, to enter Chang'an City to serve the emperor.

The three people in the carriage knew that Dong Zhongshu was living in this huge city, but they didn't know how good or bad his life was.

Dou Ying's eyebrows raised, then he shook his head and smiled: "I don't know where Dong Sheng lives now, when my servant went to Qi State to deliver a letter to Dong Sheng, he realized that Dong Sheng had already set off for Chang'an City, and he passed by without knowing it, what a pity!" ”

"Dong Sheng is a strange person! Talent is amazing, ambitious, early intention to help the Han family Jiangshan Sheji, I have a lot of dealings with him in the Linzi Palace, although each other has learned not the same school of doctrine, I still admire his talent and morality. Yuan Gusheng pinched his goatee and talked eloquently.

On being fifteen years older than Dong Zhongshu, in terms of the custom of getting married and having children at the age of fifteen in the early Han Dynasty, it is not an exaggeration for him to be Dong Zhongshu's elder, just because he and the other two members of the Ram School are confidants, the Ram is over sixty years old (2o3 years ago), and Hu Wusheng is also close to sixty years old (199 years ago), although Dong Zhongshu is Hu Wusheng is a half-teacher and half-friend, but the two are equal generations after all.

It is inconvenient for Yuan Gusheng to rashly call Dong Zhongshu a junior, but he just raised the old man's shelf and commented lightly on Dong Zhongshu, no one will say that he is disrespectful to the old and the young, Yuan Gusheng's academic status and fame have long been there, and educating Dong Zhongshu is the right thing.

Kong Wu didn't say anything, and there was no Dou Ying in the carriage. Or Yuan Gusheng, they are all his elders, and he shouldn't be a gimmick when the elders talk. Zunli is always Kong Wu's best, and his younger brother Kong Anguo will never be able to catch up with him, so Kong Anguo is not favored at home, and he was beaten to Chang'an City early to follow his brother Kong Zang.

After a while, the two old men stopped talking, and he asked, "May I ask Wei Qihou, where is my brother who is not a weapon now?" ”

"Dr. Kong since that time. Wuyan has a foothold in the court, and he has resigned from his official position, and I heard that he is in the mansion of the Marquis Kong Zang. Every day, I enjoy reading poetry and books. Dou Ying felt a little regretful in his heart, he failed to persuade the impulsive Kong Anguo.

This kid wrote dozens of letters to send to his classmates and friends, and more than a dozen letters to the elders and masters he looked up to, hoping to borrow some strength to return to the court. It's best to overturn Shaofu Cao Shi together. Let Confucianism regain the right to speak, but everything he did was in vain.

At the beginning of the month, the first qiē shocked the people of the world, the Hou Chen Chan of Longxi, the son of the Hou of Tangyi Chen Jixu were killed, the Hou Chen Wu of Tangyi was dismissed, the Prime Minister Wei Xuan, the Imperial Shi Dafu Zhi Budo, Tingwei Niu Arrive, Langzhong Linghe, Danong Linghui, the lord Du Weinu and many other Shangqing either resigned voluntarily or were dismissed, the mainstay of the Huang Lao School was wiped out, and the Empress Dowager Dou Yifang was seriously ill and bedridden and could not be a director. Such a heavy blow almost killed the Huang Lao School.

You must know that the position of the Huang Lao School has been stable for decades. It is inseparable from the strong support of the queen mother of the past dynasties, from the time of the high queen Lu Pheasant, the imperial court insisted on the rule of Huang Lao Wuwei, the Empress Dowager Bo came to Chang'an with the young Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the first Yi Zhi is to seal the daughter-in-law Dou Yifang as the queen, and the second Yi Zhi emphasizes that Huang Lao Wu is a national policy, and no one is allowed to have other thoughts.

At the beginning, how many people wanted to fool Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to change the national policy, but they were blocked by the Empress Dowager Bo with one hand, Jia Yi was driven out of Chang'an City smoothly, the resolute words of Guan Ying, Feng Jing and other important ministers were on the one hand, and the Empress Dowager Bo did not like the Confucian scholars who talked about empty words on the other hand, and Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty knew his mother's preferences, so when he secretly summoned Jia Yi, he didn't even dare to ask about the national policy, and could only talk about the etiquette of ghost and god sacrifices.

When she became the queen mother in Dou Yifang, she almost suppressed Emperor Jing of Han with her own strength, and resolutely did not allow her son to use the art of legalism to govern the country, Dou Yifang's background is not an ordinary person, she is a palace maid carefully selected and cultivated by Lu Pheasant, and her words and deeds have a profound Lu style, and the collapse of the Lu family after the death of Lu Hou is indeed a great stimulus to her, so that she will not dare to fall out with the initiator Liehou for the rest of her life.

But when it comes to the insistence on the Huang Lao School, Dou Yifang is no better than her former master, Lu Pheasant, and her mother-in-law, the Empress Dowager Bo, who resolutely defends the national policy of Huang Lao Wuwei to govern the country.

Otherwise, with the ability of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, he could abolish the liehou with one hand, or pinch the old Huang school to death with one hand.

Cao Shi did it, kicked away the Huang Lao school that blocked his way, although he also belongs to an emerging force in the Huang Lao branch, but the national policy he upholds does not have the four words Huang Lao Wuwei, maybe the grassroots family will continue to maintain the framework of Huang Lao Wuwei, but at the level of the ruling empire of the Three Princes and Nine Qings, there is not much Huang Lao Wuwei.

His strength exceeded everyone's expectations, and his actions caused a new power gap to appear, which was suddenly occupied by the liehou faction and the relatives and loyal ministers of the emperor.

How many people beat their chests when they learned the news, and sighed for a long time, Confucianism has a lot of popular one Buddha born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, what a good opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as long as the two thousand stone high-ranking officials stay in the court, they will have the opportunity to be among the dozens of people in the highest power, but there is no such person in the major factions of pure Confucianism.

Wang Zang and Zhao Xuan, who had the most chances, were defeated and lost, and Shengsheng was kicked out of the court and never hired, and his good political career came to an end, but he was a prince and young master with a rank of more than 2,000 stones, and it was easy to mix the left and right internal history of the real 2,000 stones, and if he was lucky, he might have crossed a few thresholds in one step, and dozens of candidates became the secretary of the middle 2,000 stones.

The bowels of Confucianism regret are green, but they have no way to resist, and those who originally had the intention to help Kong Anguo have nothing to do, only the strange man with his head in the water will support him, and the fool can also see that the situation is not right, Cao Shi's position is in full swing, and his personal prestige is established by defeating the three princes and nine kings.

Cao Shi is already invincible in the world.

Dou Ying was very helpless, he was not from a pure Confucian background, he could not get the support of the pure Confucian faction, and his academic influence would always be so high, even if he had been an official and worshiped a general. Even if he is a relative of the Dou family, even if he is the crown prince and the prince who receives the true 2,000 stones, for the arrogant pure Confucian. The so-called high-ranking officials are not worth mentioning, and they have only one thought in front of the emperor.

Show your talents and govern the country and level the world.

Pure Confucianism seeks fame, but profit is not important, so in the eyes of Confucianism, fame and fortune are ranked differently, and the court puts the fortune at the end, and the interests of others and themselves are ranked second-to-last. Fame is highly valued by Confucianism, who believes that Confucianism should be better than Taoism, and that it is the highest doctrine that surpasses a hundred schools. The treasure of the town and the country that should be worshipped, Confucius should be crowned with a saint comparable to the Duke of Zhou.

The last and highest is the merit, the merit of governing the country, the merit of assisting the country, the merit of Zhongxing, and the limit of the so-called fame is nothing more than great merit. Wen Sheng Zhou Gong. Wusheng Lu Shang (Jiang Ziya), the fame of the two is as great as the mountains and the sea, it is nothing more than the great contribution of the founder, the auxiliary country, and the governance of the country, and the two levels of meritorious service that opened the 800 years of the Great Zhou Dynasty are veritable gods in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the society that worships them is equivalent to the temple.

But now it's different.

Because of Kong Anguo's arrogance and stupidity, Confucianism suffered a heavy blow, and even the Confucian family, which had always been peaceful and self-contained, was also affected by the pond fish. Cao Shi was not a true gentleman with a big heart, and under his orders, the Kong family was forced to leave the ancestral court where he lived in the era. They went to Handan, Zhao State, to live temporarily, but the Kong family was not willing to be implicated, and they still wanted to return to the ancestral court of Lu State, where they had their roots.

Therefore, the best successor, known as the perfect Confucian scholar, the leader of the new generation of Confucianism, bears countless glorious titles, and shoulders the ardent expectations of countless people, Kong Wu, the eldest son of the Confucian family, left Handan and came to Chang'an City.

Suddenly, Kong Wu's legs were propped up, and he stood up and bowed: "I was shocked to hear that my brother recklessly said something that shouldn't be said, and he offended Da Nong Ling, so I apologize to Da Nong Ling on behalf of my brother in the next generation." ”

"Don't worry about the big farmer, Kong Wu is the most knowledgeable young man in the Kong family, and his father is a rare enlightened person, much more stubborn and easy to talk than the old stubborn people in the Kong family." Yuan Gusheng said with a smile.

Dou Ying put his mind at ease and smiled gently: "Kong Sheng doesn't need to be polite, I have no personal grudges with Kong Anguo, it's just that there are some disputes due to different concepts, and there is no need to mention the matter in the past." ”

"My Confucian family has long been interested in getting in touch with the way of miscellaneous learning, and my father sent me to learn miscellaneous learning from the Great Agricultural Order."

"Kong Sheng, aren't you joking?"

"I never say anything in the next place."

Dou Ying was shocked, the so-called miscellaneous studies are the general term for all books other than Confucianism, and the Confucian scholars maintain a contemptuous attitude for other schools, so whether it is Huang Lao Wuwei's Taoism, or Shen Han's domineering Legalist, and the Mo family who loves non-attack, the famous white horse and non-horse, and the soldiers who conquer the city and other schools belong to miscellaneous studies.

Another more neutral word is the doctrine of all schools, which is also far inferior to the doctrine of Confucianism, and in the eyes of the arrogant pure Confucianism, Mencius and Xunzi also belong to the list of all schools, and cannot be ranked in the Confucian ranking of Confucius and Zengzi.

Dou Ying didn't quite understand what Kong Wu meant, pure Confucians were all proud, their hearts were filled with a sense of superiority, and they were so superior that they discriminated against all compatriots other than their own, thinking that what they said was the real words of governing the country, and what others said was just useless words for daily communication, as well as nonsense and nonsense.

The Confucian family is the proudest of pure Confucianism, they have the most noble bloodline, which is from the spirit passed down by Confucius, in order to promote the doctrine of Confucius, they do not hesitate to support the poor students who come to study in various places at a price, so the Confucian family has never been very rich, and the Confucian family who was driven to the Handan City tribe to divide the family and buy property is not as good as before.

With the pride of the Kong family, even if the prime minister personally invited, it would be difficult to persuade the head of the Kong family to leave his hometown, only the Son of Heaven had the ability to invite him, but the current situation deteriorated to the point where he could not meet the normal life of the Kong family, and the head of the Kong family was also a very assertive and decisive person, and he quickly made up his mind to let Kong Wu come out for a walk.

Dou Ying used his brain to think of the possibility in an instant, maybe the Kong family was unwilling to continue to remain silent, so he smiled: "I thought that the Kong family just sent Kong Sheng out to understand the situation, and returned to Handan after a walk in Chang'an City." ”

Kong Wu shook his head.

"In order to adapt to this new era, our Confucian family must make some changes, I heard that Shaofu Cao once said a sentence, natural selection, survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest, I don't agree with most of his views, but this sentence is very reasonable, adapt to the times in order to live better."

Survival of the fittest.

Yuan Gusheng closed his eyes and chewed the four words slowly, and shook his head after a long time, he never expected that the heir of the Kong family was a Confucian reformist, he always thought that the head of the Kong family was boxy, so the conservative and traditional family couldn't help but make changes, maybe the crisis of the Kong family has become unbearable, otherwise the old stubborn members of the Kong family would never agree to let the eldest son Kong Wu learn any miscellaneous studies.

"Well, I hope you'll be interested in Outer Confucianism......"

Dou Ying didn't agree stunned, he was not stupid, he couldn't see the meaning of the Confucian family, maybe this is a new win-win way, it is a good opportunity for him to the Confucian family and even the entire Confucianism, the Confucian family is betting on Dou Ying's net worth and future, Dou Ying doesn't need a big help to support himself, the Confucian family endorses and then invites Confucian students to enter the house as a guest It is much easier.

The heavy rain stopped, a six-level wind blew from the southeast, the strong wind blew the big girl and the little daughter-in-law on the road fluttering, many women's beautiful printed skirts were blown up, revealing the colored stockings on the two slender and slender calves, Kong Wu happened to turn his head to look at it, his face was red, he quickly turned his face and put down the curtain, and silently recited: "Don't look at indecent things, don't look at indecent ......" (to be continued!)

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