In this hundred forums, Confucianism has the largest number of people, almost four or five hundred.

However, except for those scholars who were from poor families and did not enter the stream, there were only 31 people who were finally qualified to enter the lecture hall to speak and debate, and 28 of them were high-level people in the Song Dynasty, such as Wei Jinxiu, the envoy of Jinghu South Road, Li Yuezhou, the champion of the Song Dynasty, and Lu Xiufu, the head of the household department.

Led by these 28 people, a total of 148 Confucian scholars of the Song Dynasty who were born in the gate or held high positions settled together in the Lun Scarf Inn in the east of the city.

Their settlement this time also made the inn, which used to have little business because of its remote location, no longer deserted, and it was very lively every day, with countless beautifully dressed Confucian scholars coming in and out, as busy as a street market.

After the list of the top three was announced, many Confucian scholars gathered in a room on the third floor of the inn, talking with joy on their faces.

Most of these people are standing, only seven are sitting, in addition to Li Yuezhou, Wei Jinxiu, and Lu Xiufu, who are in the limelight in this speech, there are also Xu Jingmiao, the envoy of Chongqing Prefecture, and Han Junyao, the envoy of Jinghu North Road, as well as two old men who are dressed plainly but have a dignified face.

Xu Jingmiao, Han Junyao, and Wei Jinxiu are the three of them, Lu Xiufu is also a household servant, and Li Yuezhou is the famous champion of the current branch in China, and their status is extraordinary, but when they face the two old men, they all show respect.

Su Shi, the secretary of the military department!

Zhao Tingzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites!

Who would have thought that in this hundred forums, Confucianism not only had the most visitors, but even the dignified Song Shangshu did not hesitate to condescend to the noble and came to Wenbang anonymously.

Although they are concerned about their identities and do not reveal their identities, they secretly instruct you every day.

With their years of experience in officialdom, every time they give advice, it is undoubtedly like a golden stone, so that many speakers are like treasures, so these days, Confucian preaching can be so wonderful and attractive.

When everyone in the house arrived, Su Shi could no longer suppress his joy, and laughed loudly: "Haha! God bless my Confucianism for a long time, even if the literary thief is cunning and wants to unite all the sons and hundreds of schools to destroy my Confucian foundation, but justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, my Confucian teachings are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and they are respected by the people, how can their conspiracy and tricks be shaken!"

Zhao Tingzhi bowed his head slightly, and exclaimed: "Yes! My Confucianism is the academic choice of heaven to govern the country and the people, which has been praised by ancient kings and admired by hundreds of people. ”

Hearing the two Shangshu speak, everyone in the room echoed their words, only Li Yuezhou and Xu Jingmiao were silent, the former was of a high temperament and disdained so, and the latter had a good relationship with everyone in Wenbang and did not want to speak ill of him.

"Dawen held a hundred schools of thought forum this time, with ill intentions, intending to shake the foundation of Confucianism with the power of a hundred schools of thought, which is a great sin!

Su Shi looked around at everyone, his face was majestic, and he said slowly: "If they only had one place in Hezhou back then, then the old man wouldn't say anything, but now that they occupy the treasure land of Sichuan and Shu, and dare to do something to my Confucianism, I am afraid that they will have a heart of disobedience, and if they are allowed to continue, they are only afraid of disaster for me in the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Li Yuezhou's expression was slightly awe-inspiring, and he subconsciously looked at Su Shi, and was about to speak, but he was pulled by his sleeve, he turned his head to look, and saw Xu Jingmiao shaking his head lightly, signaling him not to interject.

The two of them moved slightly, and others didn't pay attention to it, and one by one they excitedly reprimanded Wen Bang for his bad intentions, and Han Junyao frowned even more and said: "Master Su, but you want to do something to Wen Bang? ”

Wei Jinxiu hesitated slightly, and also said: "Jinghu South Road is the same. ”

Seeing everyone looking over, Xu Jingmiao's expression was calm, and she smiled lightly: "Lord Su, you might as well tell me what the plan is first?" Wenbang is strong in Sichuan and Shu, with strong military strength, and there are masters of the Seven Realms in charge, so he made a rash move, just afraid of leaving someone to speak. ”

As a strategic envoy of Chongqing Prefecture, he has a transcendent status, so he naturally has the courage to resist Su Shi.

Although Su Shi frowned slightly and did not speak, his henchmen next to him were not polite, and one of them immediately stood up and said solemnly: "The literary thief is a great disaster! It is a great disaster for my Confucian sect, and it is also a great disaster for my Great Song Dynasty, Lord Xu wants to cover it up, but there is some collusion with that literary thief?"

Xu Jingmiao's face sank when she heard this, her body stood up, she glared angrily, and a momentum as strong as a mountain rose in an instant, which actually made everyone around her retreat and look at him with a pale face.

This momentum is as thick as a mountain, it is the spiritual charm of the mountain city that Xu Jingmiao has comprehended, he is originally a cultivator of the six realms and nine realms, although he can no longer break through in this life, but as long as he is in the territory of Chongqing Fu Road, with the help of Lingyun, he can be promoted to the seventh realm, even if Su Shi and Zhao Tingzhi are both seven realms, they can't help but be shocked at this moment.

Not to mention the other scholars in the room, they all retreated back with panicked faces, and the person who had spoken and reprimanded before trembled even more, and his knees were weakened by the majestic momentum like a mountain, and he fell directly to the ground, trembling.

Looking around at everyone, Xu Jingmiao pointed to the sky and said sharply: "I, Xu Jingmiao, stood up to the sky and the earth, when the Jin Guotie rode south, it was I who did not hesitate to lead the dragon vein into my body to repel the Jin soldiers, these years I have been sitting in the northwest, have you ever let half of the Jin soldiers enter my Great Song Dynasty?"

Even though my Confucianism is the chosen family, there are also shortcomings, and what we should really do in this hundred schools of thought forum is to check and fill in the gaps and learn from the other family's positions, instead of being like Er and other ordinary officialdom party disputes, only knowing how to catch the other party's leaks and blow hard!"

Hearing his angry rebuke, Su Shi and the others became more and more ugly, and since the Hundred Schools of Thought, the dissatisfaction with Wenbang within Confucianism has overflowed.

Xu Jingmiao, as a disciple of Confucianism, even if she is a strategic envoy of the road, does not follow the crowd and angrily reprimands everyone, although this move is not willing to form a party and boast of being noble, but it also makes the faces of Confucian scholars dull.

Silently, two majestic and mighty Haoran righteousness rose into the sky, and it was Su Shi and Zhao Tingzhi who couldn't stand Xu Jingmiao's arrogance, and shot together, both of them were intermediate in the Seven Realms, far better than Xu Jingmiao in terms of strength.

But after all, this place is a state of Wen, not the territory of the Song Dynasty, and the two Shangshu can borrow a limited amount of national power, but Xu Jingmiao is fighting in this battle, and the spiritual charm of the mountain city is endless, so even if there is only one person, he can also compete with the two Shangshu.

"Lord Xu. ”

Seeing that the atmosphere in the room was tense, Li Yuezhou, who had always sat upright, suddenly laughed softly, Xu Jingmiao glanced at him when he heard the words, slowly retracted his momentum, and snorted angrily: "Do you really know the essence of my Confucian teachings?"

Su Shi and the others' faces were white and blue, and many people stayed until Xu Jingmiao left for a long time, and only then did they scold one by one, accusing the other party of being a fellow thief, and some even suspected that he had secretly colluded with Jin Guo with the intention of sacrificing Chongqing Fulu.

Seeing the ugliness of everyone, Li Yuezhou sighed softly, got up and said, "It's not early, Li has gone back to the room first, let's talk slowly." Before he could finish speaking, he had already turned and walked out of the room, waiting to slap everyone in the face again.

Su Shi and Zhao Tingzhi are deep in the city again, and the two of them left one after another, and their faces were also pale.

After a long time, the two slowly calmed down, looked at each other, Zhao Tingzhi smiled slowly: "They are gone, in fact, it's okay, after all, the next thing is really not in line with my Confucian teachings, but the so-called borrowing a knife to kill people, the knife is certainly evil, only the knife operator is decent enough, and he can naturally resist the evil demon's qi from erosion, Lord Su, do you think so?"

Su Shi bowed his head lightly and smiled: "It should be so." ”

Hearing the words of the two, everyone was a little confused, but Wei Jinxiu and the others had some doubts in their eyes.

Zhao Ting wore a green robe and said with a smile: "Tomorrow is the day when my Confucianism and Legalism and Zonghengjia debate on the same stage, this is the last link of the hundred schools of thought, and it is also the most critical link. ”

Hearing this, many smart people have already faintly realized and showed a look of surprise.

Su Shi smiled and said indifferently: "Don't worry, after all, the literary thieves are my vassals of the Great Song Dynasty, and my Confucianism naturally can't make a move on them." ”

"However, the so-called tree is a big move, Wenbang is arrogant and domineering, and his demeanor is flamboyant, so it is naturally easy to provoke right and wrong," Zhao Tingzhi looked around and said with a smile, "If Zhao is not bad, tomorrow in the top three debates, there will inevitably be a big enemy to make trouble." ”

Su Shi smiled, but there was a chilling look in his eyes: "My Confucian scholars can continue to watch the debate of the top three tomorrow, but we are all weak scholars, and we have no power to restrain the chicken, if there is a big enemy coming, naturally we can't help Wen Bang fight the enemy, have you ever remembered these words?"

Everyone looked at each other, and if they could participate in the hundred forums and communicate with Su Shi and others in the same room, they would naturally not be stupid, and they all understood the meaning of Su Shi and Zhao Tingzhi, but this kind of strategy was good, but it did not match Confucian teachings, and they were a little hesitant for a while.

Wei Jinxiu sighed and said, "I'll understand." ”

Han Junyao glanced at him in surprise and gently bowed his hand, and then Lu Xiufu and the others also silently said yes, and with the consent of several of them, the rest of the scholars also agreed.

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"Confucianism is at the top of the list, this is a matter of course, but with the hearts of Su Shi and others, they will never allow the hundred pulpits to proceed smoothly, otherwise they will let the foundation of Confucianism be pried by. ”

In an unknown dilapidated inn, Wang Anshi, who was the secretary of the Great Song Dynasty, actually wore cloth clothes and sat in the lobby calmly.

After eating three steamed buns slowly, Wang Anshi wiped his mouth with a napkin, looked at the person across the table, and said indifferently: "So what do you think Su Shi and the others will do this time?"

The person at the table was an old man who was about the same age as Wang Anshi, and he smiled faintly after hearing this: "I received news yesterday that Hua Sansheng and Hua Siniang suddenly left the north the day before yesterday, and they seemed to be coming to Shu. ”

"Seven Great Kou?" Wang Anshi raised his eyebrows and pondered, and the man smiled again: "With Zhao Tingzhi's cautious temperament, I'm afraid it won't be just these two big Kou, you should also have received some information, right?"

Wang Anshi bowed his head lightly and said indifferently: "Long Armor Breaking, Qu Zhicai." ”

"The third big Kou, the third big reverse, plus the first and seventh big Kou of the Hua family brothers and sisters, it's really a big deal!"

The man grinned, took a sip of the wine glass, and was immediately choked by the shoddy rice wine.

Seeing his distorted face, Wang Anshi laughed, pointed at the man, and said with a smile: "When you were in the Jin Kingdom, you were a gentleman with fine clothes and jade food, and now when you are in Mongolia, you are also a prime minister under one person and above ten thousand people, and it is normal for you to not be able to stand this kind of bad wine." ”

When the old man heard this, he couldn't help sighing, his eyes were empty, as if he was recalling something, and after a while, he put down his wine glass and said with a wry smile: "Back in Huaxia Academy, you liked to use this thing to satirize me the most. ”

"Haven't you changed yet?" Wang Anshi's smile also became complicated, and he chuckled, "After decades, you still can't get rid of this problem of fine clothes and fine food." ”

"Is this a problem?"

"Isn't it?" Wang Anshi raised his eyebrows and smiled, "I'm too lazy to debate with you, but you came this time, but for that black dream?"

"Yes and no," the old man shook his head slightly, "he is a disciple of my old friend, and this time I came to Wenbang for personal matters, and by the way, I will help him shelter one or two." ”

Seeing Wang Anshi frowning, the old man smiled: "Don't worry, I'm not here to pry you into the corner of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Wang Anshi bowed his head at this time, pondered for a moment, and said lightly: "Chu Cai, go back! Next, the situation in Wenbang is complicated, if you stay here, if your identity is exposed, I can't keep your hand." ”

The old man raised his head silently, and the two looked at each other for a long time, before he smiled bitterly and lowered his head, silently drank the bad wine in the cup, and laughed in a low voice: "After decades of separation, I slept in the same bed back then, talked with candles and nights, sat and discussed, how joyful, I can't imagine that today, you are the same, haha, it's just that, talking about you, why aren't you talking about the old decay yourself?"

The house suddenly fell silent, and the innkeeper did not have the slightest reaction to the word "Chu Cai", thinking that as a low-level person, he had never heard of this word at all.

Chu Cai!

Yelu Chucai!

The eighth grandson of Yelubei, the king of Dongdan of the Liao Dynasty, the son of Yelulu, the right of the Jin Dynasty, and the current left prime minister of Mongolia.

Before the Huaxia Beacon Fire that year, this son was in the Huaxia Academy jointly built by various countries, and Wang Anshi and other nine people were known as Huaxia Jiujian, who once proposed to govern the country with Confucianism and formulated various governance strategies, which laid the foundation for the development of the Mongol Empire and now the upcoming restructuring into the Yuan.

Who would have thought that the Huaxia beacon fire, the academy was shattered, and the Jin State was forced to move westward, but Yelu Chucai was separated from the army, was subdued by Temujin, and became the right prime minister of Mongolia.

At the same time, the best friends of the year have also become the officials of the Song Dynasty, although the two are powerful in the two countries, and their power is monstrous, but they can judge the life and death of countless people, but they can never return to the pure youth of the year.