Liu Bei's question really asked Liu Hong's slightly vast knowledge blind spot.

Although Liu Hong doesn't know that his knowledge blind spot is a bit big, and he doesn't care much about this matter, he still has the curiosity he should have.

"Is there any difference?"

Liu Hong asked, "What is the difference between the scholarship at that time and the scholarship today?" ”

"The minister also heard the teacher Lu Gong talk about it by chance."

Liu Bei pretended to sigh and said: "In the past, there was only one center in the Han Dynasty, and that was Luoyang, and there was only one core in Luoyang, and that was Taixue, and there was only one academic leader in Taixue, and that was ...... The Son of Heaven of the Great Han himself. ”

Not to mention Zhang Rang, even Liu Hong was very surprised when he heard this.

"The Son of Heaven himself?"

"Yes, in the past, starting with Emperor Guangwu and continuing to Emperor Xiaozhang, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty himself was the only true academic leader of the Han Dynasty."

Liu Bei said slowly: "Since Emperor Guangwu Zhongxing Han, three generations of emperors have personally talked about the scriptures with scholars in order to unify academic and unified cognition, led the direction of academic research, and made judgments for the debates of many scholars.

At that time, the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty was the leader of the Confucian scholars, the Son of Heaven often went in and out of Taixue, often communicated with doctors and students, a sentence of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, not only to decide government affairs, but also to decide academic disputes, the world's academic then revolved around the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, in Luoyang, in Taixue, not in Yuan, Yang. ”

"And then?"

Liu Hong hurriedly asked, "What happened later?" ”

"Originally, all this could have continued, but since Emperor Xiaozhang, there are few people who can become adults and pro-government."

Liu Bei sighed and said: "The emperor of the Han Dynasty has not reached adulthood, has not been able to pro-government, has not been able to study, and naturally cannot become an academic leader, and is increasingly swayed by his relatives, no longer majestic and depressing, and the central government is declining.

Without the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty as a leader to lead the academics, the Taixue model naturally could not be carried out, so the Taixue declined, the Luoyang declined, and the world's academic gradually split from the core of the Luoyang Taixue, from the public school to the private school, from the royal law to the family law.

Today's Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws are so prosperous, and the inheritance of the Valve Reading family is so noble in the Han Dynasty, all of which were gradually accumulated after Emperor Xiaozhang, and what the Emperor of the Han Dynasty lost did not disappear, but was stolen by these Valve Reading families and became their own. ”

After Liu Bei finished speaking, Liu Hong was silent for a long, long time, about two quarters of an hour, before he raised his eyes again to look at Liu Bei.

"Xuande, did all of what you said be told to you by your teacher Lu Zhi?"

"The teacher just sighed that Taixue was prosperous in the past, and everything else was explored by the minister himself."

Liu Bei said slowly: "The minister was curious about the prosperity of Taixue in the past and the current strong and powerful outside, so he delved into this matter and asked many well-known scholars why Taixue declined, and from what they knew, they probably pieced together all this now."

The minister didn't dare to say that this must be the truth, but the minister couldn't find a more reasonable explanation, but despite this, the minister could also be sure that for the Son of Heaven, adult pro-government and non-adult pro-government are completely different things. ”

Then there was a period of silence.

It seems that Liu Hong will need some time to sort through the information he has learned.

Liu Bei's nervous mood was hung up again.

This is all his cards, and he has already played all the cards in his hand.

If Liu Hong can't be impressed, can't be moved by the bad situation of the big man, can't be moved by everything that has happened, and make some decisions, then his efforts are meaningless, and everything he does will be meaningless.

The thigh-hugging route will not be able to go on.

But he still wanted to gamble, because he knew that Liu Hong was a greedy person, and Liu Hong had strong desires.

A greedy man becomes an emperor, and his desires should never be limited to something as simple as making money.

If Liu Hong still has a trace of desire for state power and worries about the instability of his own status, then he will definitely not turn a blind eye to this matter.

In this way, he can become an important weight for Liu Bei to coordinate the interests of the eunuchs in this matter.

When Liu Bei told all this, Zhang Rang was very unhappy and worried.

As a relatively capable eunuch politician, Zhang Rang was very aware of what Liu Bei was doing this for.

It is nothing more than to awaken the emperor Liu Hong's sense of imperial power, and take the initiative to reach out and ask the eunuchs to take power, and even damage the interests of the eunuchs to a certain extent.

Although eunuchs and emperors are political allies, and it is not impossible for eunuchs to hold imperial power on their behalf, the emperor and eunuchs are not individuals after all.

If an emperor's sense of imperial power is awakened, then he will definitely stretch out his hand to the imperial power, and the eunuchs can still exist as a group holding the imperial power, but the autonomy will be greatly reduced.

Similarly, as an extension and representative of imperial power, there is a big difference between acting cheaply and following the emperor's orders as minions.

Although Liu Hong never denied the eunuch's status as his political ally, Liu Bei's involvement was still a risk.

Zhang Rang was very unhappy, but what Liu Bei said was too harsh, and he was a relative of the Han family, and Zhang Rang really didn't know how to refute this kind of topic involving the survival of the Liu family.

In the late Western Han Dynasty, the idea of passing on the surname Yi was popular, which eventually led to the incident of Wang Mang's usurpation of the throne and the change of dynasty.

Although the eunuchs value power and interests, if Emperor Liu Hong's throne is unstable and the Han world is unstable, it will also be a fatal matter for them.

Contradictory emotions filled Zhang Rang's heart.

In the end, Zhang Rang could only watch Liu Bei angrily spray the ills of the Han world, which made Liu Hong's sense of imperial power unprecedentedly awakened.

You kid, are you talking a little too much?

Zhang Rang was not only conflicted, but also felt that Liu Bei's big mouth was talking too much.

But Liu Bei didn't see it that way.

Am I talking too much?

Perhaps, it is a little more, so that Liu Hong understands a lot, and he is about to become an emperor.

But so what?

I know when Liu Hong will die.

Liu Bei knows too many things that Zhang Rang doesn't know, whether it is the past or the future.

So the two will never stand on the same starting line.

Naturally, Liu Hong will not either.

In the end, Liu Hong was moved.

"Therefore, Xuande thinks that the solution to the current national dilemma is to restore the authority of the Son of Heaven in Taixue, as well as the academic leadership of the Son of Heaven?"

"Yes."

Liu Bei nodded and said: "This practice has been proved by Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Xiaoming and Emperor Xiaozhang, and it has been proven to be feasible.

This is not only something that can be done by the identity of the emperor, but also something that can only be done by academic leaders, and therefore, the authority of the emperor and the authority of academic leaders are combined into one, which is the real authority of the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

And now, His Majesty does not have the final decision on academics, and this power is not in any one person, but has been stolen by countless Lords and Lords, and has become their way to obtain the power that should belong to the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, from this point of view, they are all thieves who steal the country! ”