When Yao Ruoyu returned to Chengdu Mansion, the dispute in King Wen's palace was not over.

"Confucianism, Taoism, soldiers, legalists, Mohists, and vertical and horizontal families, there is no problem with these being included in the seats, but the peasants, miscellaneous families, famous artists, novelists, and doctors have long disappeared over the years, and some of them have simply broken off the inheritance of doctors, so what is the use of being included in them?"

"That's right, it's good that someone comes, but if no one comes, how ridiculous is it that the seats are empty?"

"But what the prince said is 'a hundred pulpits', a hundred schools of thought, not a hundred schools, isn't it in vain?"

"Ridiculous! A hundred words are just an imaginary number, in fact, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there were no records in the history books of a hundred families, and if only seven or eight families came at that time, wouldn't it be a laughing stock?"

"Wouldn't it be even more ridiculous if a family of children came and didn't have their seats?"

Disputes erupted one after another, and from time to time officials came out to raise different opinions in an impassioned voice.

Xu Xuanrong, Bai Qiuyu, Guo Fengjie, Wen Yuancai, Duan Shaojie, and Zou Buyi, Wu Xue, and Cai Xudong, who were directly under the Wenwang Palace, were all onlookers and allowed their subordinates to argue fiercely.

After several days of meetings, Wu Xue was already impatient, and when she heard them chattering endlessly, she couldn't help but slap the table after all, and said angrily: "Quarrel with a fart! Can you discuss quietly!"

In Wenbang, the status of everyone in the Ministry of Literature and Art is transcendent, even Fan Difei and others, who have no real power, can be comparable to the ministerial level in Yao Ruoyu's mind, not to mention Wu Xue and others who are in official positions.

Seeing that she was suddenly angry, the Qiantian Palace suddenly fell silent, Bai Qiuyu raised his eyelids, and suddenly smiled: "Why do you need to be angry, the Senate speaks about the Tao, and only after talking about the Tao can there be a Tao, everyone doesn't want me to lose face, so I am a little emotional." ”

The corners of Xu Xuanrong's lips twitched slightly when he heard this, and he sneered: "So after arguing for so many days, what are the ways?"

Bai Qiuyu didn't feel suffocated, and only after a while did he sneer: "Isn't it not over yet." ”

Although according to the rules, the Hundred Forums are the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites, but because this matter is too important, Yao Ruoyu directly asked everyone to discuss a process plan at the court meeting, but he didn't think about it, which ignited the civil officialdom, and the quarrel has been going on until today.

Among the five people, Bai Qiuyu is a Confucian child, Wen Yuan is biased towards the Legalists, Duan Shaojie is in charge of the Ministry of Industry, and he has some incense with the Mo family, Xu Xuanrong and Guo Fengjie's positions are unclear, and most of them are playing a round to ease the atmosphere.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little solemn, Guo Fengjie pursed the corners of his lips and said with a smile: "According to what this official sees, it will simply be decided by voting, and we will discuss the details of the hundred pulpits one by one, and if there is a dispute, it will be decided by voting, how about it?"

"The Hundred Lectures are of great significance, how can you make decisions in such a childish way?" Wen Yuancai frowned and said unhappily.

Guo Fengjie laughed: "Forget it, let's continue to discuss." ”

Seeing that he specially added an accent to the word "discuss", everyone also heard his sarcasm, and their faces were complicated.

"The voting method is good," I don't want to think at this time, Xu Xuanrong suddenly smiled, and said, "This matter is the main responsibility of the Ministry of Rites, and we are just providing advice, and finally completing the process planning according to the voting method, and we can also take into account the ideas of the majority, yes, what does Si Tianjian think?"

Si Tian's office has been renamed Si Tianfu, and Zou Buyi is the Si Tian supervisor.

Seeing her ask herself, Zou Buyi, who had been there all the time, was noncommittal, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Yes." ”

Seeing that Cai Xudong and Wu Xue were also nodding their heads, Wen Yuancai's brows tightened tightly, and after a while, he nodded helplessly: "Then vote, who will come to see the vote?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and subconsciously looked at the main seat of the main hall, but the person who was supposed to be here to supervise the situation disappeared in the morning.

Xu Xuanrong took a deep breath and exhaled silently, she was also very angry that Yao Ruoyu had nothing to do and ran away, but now that there are many people, she can't help but take care of the other party's image, so she can only say lightly: "Come on, this official." ”

"This matter is very important, if Minister Xu doesn't participate in the discussion and voting, then it doesn't hurt to look at the votes, but since he participated, how much should he avoid suspicion?" Bai Qiuyu shook his sleeves and smiled gently.

Xu Xuanrong frowned, stared at the other party fixedly, and sneered: "Is there a suitable candidate for Minister Bai?"

Bai Qiuyu smiled indifferently, spread his hands and said, "Why don't you wait for the prince to come back?"

Everyone sighed secretly, Yao Ruoyu likes to go out and hang out when he has nothing to do, as short as three or four days, as long as half a month, if he comes back, it is estimated that the hundred pulpits will be over.

Seeing that the vote was going to fail, a long laugh suddenly came from outside the hall, and then Yao Ruoyu, who was wearing a black python robe, strode in, and said with a smile: "The vote is good! ”

Seeing that he came back at the critical moment, everyone hurriedly bowed their hands, Yao Ruoyu waved his hand to show casualness, and then strode to the throne and sat down, and ordered the guards to call Chen Meng over, and then waved his hand and said with a smile: "What needs to be voted on, you can mention it now, let's start with the ministry, Minister Xu." ”

Xu Xuanrong's eyes lowered slightly, and he said indifferently: "First of all, there are hundreds of families, how many seats do we set aside for them, and at the same time, the number of seats in each family also needs to be discussed, whether it is more or less, or fair, all the same." ”

"Naturally, there are more and less," Bai Qiuyu said in a deep voice, "Like Confucianism has been passed down to the present, there are children all over China, and there are countless great Confucian celebrities. ”

Wen Yuancai sneered, and said coldly: "Confucianism is powerful, if the number of seats is determined according to the level of reputation, then there is no need to open a forum, just open a Confucian forum, anyway, when the time comes, Confucianism will be overwhelming, and there will be no matter how strategic it is, it will not be able to speak." ”

When Wen Yuancai and Bai Qiuyu were arguing, Guo Fengjie quietly glanced at Yao Ruoyu, with a little understanding and helpless smile on the corner of his lips.

In this hundred schools of thought, Yao Ruoyu nominally wanted to revive the golden prosperity of the hundred schools of thought, but secretly, in fact, many people vaguely guessed that Yao Ruoyu was dissatisfied with Confucianism and secretly helped the king of Shu, and deliberately wanted to use the hundred schools of thought to suppress the Confucian limelight.

Therefore, the question of the seats of each family has already had a result from the very beginning, and Yao Ruoyu will definitely not allow the seats to be arranged according to the size of his fame, so wouldn't Confucianism have the upper hand?

Sure enough, as he expected, just as the dispute between the two intensified, Yao Ruoyu had already knocked on the table, signaling the two to be quiet, and then frowned: "Since it is a hundred pulpits, it is natural to treat everyone equally, isn't it no longer fair to have different seats? Anyway, there will be a total of three hundred seats at that time, and each family will share it equally, so why is it so troublesome." ”

Yao Ruoyu spoke, and Bai Qiuyu was unwilling, so he could only drop his hand and agree.

Then the list of the establishment of this grand event began to be discussed, and the first to be selected were naturally the schools of Taoism, Legalism, Confucianism, Bingjia, Zonghengjia, etc., which still have many supporters, and then the controversy was caused by the rest of the factions such as the peasant family, the novelist, the miscellaneous family, and the famous family.

However, among them, the Yin and Yang family, who should not have much fame, was selected for the first time, and everyone knew about Zou Buyi's academic inheritance, which was regarded as selling him a face.

However, in the middle of the discussion, Wang Dade, director of the Finance Department of the Ministry of Households, suddenly proposed: "How about including Buddhism?"

"Buddhism?" Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then Wen Yuancai became furious, and said sharply: "How can such a Western Regions sect be included in the list?

Guo Fengjie, Zou Buyi and other casual people also vetoed one after another, for those who do not believe in Buddhism, Buddhism is not qualified to be compared with Taoism, Confucianism, etc., and even Bai Qiuyu, the head of the household department, reprimanded Wang Dade angrily.

This was a small episode, and after the discussion of the list was over, a total of 28 schools were included in the quota of the 100 forums, and then everyone began to discuss the way of exchange, whether to put forward their opinions one by one, or to let each family set up a lecture hall to tell their own opinions.

This also led to an even more heated controversy, with some arguing that since Yao Ruoyu had announced the topic of "reform", everyone should be allowed to gather and argue with each other, so as to highlight the spirit of the exchange of 100 schools.

However, some people feel that there are 300 seats, that is, a full 300 people taking turns to speak, so how much time to say, let alone the people who speak, even the people who listen will feel bored, it is better to separate each family and open their own lecture hall to speak freely.

In the end, the method proposed by Xu Xuanrong was supported by the majority of the people, and each school first set up a lecture hall to preach its own opinions, and the people who participated in the meeting voted for the three most supportive schools, and then the three of them conducted the final discussion.

In fact, when Xu Xuanrong first proposed this plan, Bai Qiuyu, Wen Yuancai, Duan Shaojie and others were extremely opposed.

In their view, the common people are the common people after all, ignorant and boring, where can they appreciate the essence of the theories of various schools, if they vote, it is estimated that in the end there will be a matter of universities sending money to buy votes.

But it wasn't until Yao Ruoyu couldn't see it and spoke out in support that everyone's views changed.

As Yao Ruoyu said, the topic of this 100 forums is "reform," and the reform is the current system, and who will benefit the most from it?

Since the ultimate goal of each school of thought is to benefit the people, why can't the people directly judge which school is the most suitable for them?