For Liu Bei, the first thing he did after arriving in Luoyang was, of course, to meet his teacher Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi's residence had already told Liu Bei before, and Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei, Liu Hui and others to go to their residence in Luoyang to make arrangements, and he took Han Ning with him, and the two of them went to Lu Zhi's residence by car together.

Knowing that Liu Bei was coming, Lu Zhi deliberately got off work early from the official office and bought good wine and food from Luoyang to entertain Liu Bei.

After three rounds of drinking, Mrs. Lu took Han Ning to the backyard to talk about some topics among women, Lu Zhi and Liu Bei took a walk together to eat, and by the way, they talked about what happened in Luoyang recently.

It can be heard that Lu Zhi is very dissatisfied with the current politics in Luoyang.

"Your Majesty is becoming less and less concerned about the affairs of the court and politics, do you know that not long ago, Your Majesty actually opened a shop in the harem, let the palace people and concubines be merchants, disguised as a bazaar, called buying and selling, and the monarch of a country actually dressed up as a businessman.

What's more, His Majesty made a dog in the West Garden, and dressed the dog in the clothes of high-ranking officials and celebrities for fun, openly insulting celebrities and high-ranking officials, and drove a donkey cart in the palace and wandered around, attracting young people to follow suit, and as a result, guess what? ”

Liu Bei guessed.

"The price of donkeys in Luoyang has soared?"

Lu Zhi was a little surprised.

"You got it?"

"The good is a thing, and there must be something wrong, so the likes and dislikes of the top must not be careless, and it is the expression of the people."

Liu Bei sighed: "What the emperor likes, what the subjects will inevitably pursue, if it can be bought, it will inevitably compete to buy, and the price will inevitably soar, so the things that the superior likes must be cautious." ”

Lu Zhi stopped, smiled and said, "Xuande is studious." ”

"Disciples don't dare to be difficult to learn."

Liu Bei bowed.

Lu Zhi smiled.

"Xuande, your talent is very good, you even think that you should learn more classics, or be introduced by your teacher, and worship under other famous teachers, there is no possibility of inheriting the knowledge and opening a sect, and at that time, your achievements will be limitless."

In this regard, Liu Bei just shook his head.

"Teacher, the Han world doesn't need one more scripture, no matter how many scripture scholars there are, can it make the Han world better? The disciple thought it wouldn't. ”

Lu Zhi was stunned for a long time, and finally sighed and shook his head.

"Today's people have long forgotten the reason why our generation of scholars studied the classics hard, and turned the hard study of the classics into a method for promotion and wealth, and there is no other purpose for the sake of becoming a scholar and a scholar."

Therefore, no matter how much they read the scriptures, no matter how deep their knowledge, and how many subtle words they understand, how many of them will be able to feed the hungry? And how many people can make the thieves disappear from the world? ”

Liu Bei sighed and said: "Teacher, the disciple thinks that today's people have read the scriptures to a dead end, and have become instruments for reading the scriptures, and are no longer a real person, they only have the classics in their eyes, only the benefits that the classics can bring to them, and nothing else. ”

"The ...... of the Apparatus for Bible Reading"

Lu Zhi muttered to himself for a while, and sighed: "Xuande is right, looking for words and sentences, picking out words to death, fighting for what a word means, and sometimes having to break the blood flow, cultivating stone scriptures for teachers, and many students from different schools have big fights."

Xuande, don't you know, in recent years, because the number of people studying the ram has been decreasing, so that some people have shouted the slogan of dismissing Dr. Ram and setting up Dr. Zuo, such calls have become increasingly fierce, and even when revising the Stone Scripture, some students have asked for Zuo to replace the ram. ”

Lu Zhi sighed, shook his head, reached out and patted Liu Bei's shoulder, sighed again, and said, "The original intention of the sage is not like this at all, but why have scholars become instruments for reading the scriptures?" Xuande, I can't figure it out as a teacher. ”

Liu Bei knew what the reason was, but he didn't want to say it, and he couldn't say it.

It is this society, this system, and this environment that makes people alienated into tools for reading the Bible, and they give full play to the attributes of the tools, so that human nature is squeezed to the edge.

The selection method of thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge will inevitably select a group of excellent tool people, and it is okay to expect them to do things, and it is okay to expect them to do things well, but it is difficult to expect them to make the world not so cold.

The more perfect and closely this system operates, the colder the world will become, and the more there will be no way out.

But what can be done despite this?

The world doesn't change because one more person learns what it is.

So even if he told Lu Zhi these things, it didn't make sense, it just added to his troubles.

Moreover, in order to get mixed up, in order to get mixed up in this system, if he can't go out of other ways, then he, Liu Xuande, will become a tool man sooner or later.

That's all.

Lu Zhi is a rare person in the entire system whose humanity is greater than his tool attributes, which is also where Liu Bei admires Lu Zhi.

In this bureaucratic society, if a person wants to make his humanity more than a tool, he must pay a certain price.

With Lu Zhi's great prestige, he can only stop at a mere Shangshu, and he is never allowed to seal the third duke, perhaps, this is the price he pays in order to maintain his humanity.

And how should he, Liu, insist on humanity in the whirlpool of the future sun?

Or is it a complete renunciation of humanity and the pursuit of supreme authority at all costs?

Now Liu Bei can't answer this question.

He can only focus on more practical issues.

"The teacher wrote from the teacher before, saying that in June, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to order the secretary to raise the scriptures of "Guwen Shangshu", "Mao Shi", "Zuo Chuan", and "Gu Liang Biography", and the recipients all worshiped as the Lang, is there any deep meaning to this matter?"

Liu Bei mentioned this issue, and Lu Zhi could only put away his thoughts and focus on the present.

However, when it comes to this issue, Lu Zhi is quite disdainful.

"If there is a deep meaning, it's okay, but it's just the manipulation of the eunuchs and thieves, for some people to return to the court, all the candidates already have a belonging, hum!"

On the surface, this matter involves the dispute between modern and ancient texts, but in fact, this matter does involve the dispute between modern and ancient texts.

But judging from the results, it is more like some uneducated guys who use the dispute between modern and ancient literature to gild their own money, fish in troubled waters, and try to provoke a war between the modern literature school and the ancient literature school, trying to get some benefits.

However, although the academic interests of the two sides of the dispute between the ancient and modern texts are different, and the ancient scholars are in a disadvantageous position politically facing the modern scholars, they can still reluctantly unify the line in the face of the eunuchs.

Everyone is a decent man, how can they get mixed with that group of crippled yin and yang people?

Liu Hong issued an edict to make special moves against four classics, and among the four classics, except for "The Biography of Gu Liang", which is a modern classic, the other three are "ancient classics".

It seems that some emperors want to use the imperial power to support the ancient school of literature and suppress the modern school of literature.

But that's not the case.

Who is the [Ancient Scripture Master] who is recommended by the Minister to be proficient in ancient classics?

Cao Cao.

Among the people who were selected to worship as Yilang, Cao Cao's name was impressive, because he was proficient in the "Ancient Texts and Scriptures" and was an excellent teacher of ancient scriptures, so he was worshiped as Yilang.

Liu Bei wanted to laugh when he learned about it.

Could this have been more obvious?

You eunuchs really don't pretend to be any, do you?