Perhaps it was Liu Bei's subdued tone and passionate words that made people excited and inexplicable, as soon as the words fell, everyone praised loudly, nodded and applauded, and showed excitement, obviously agreeing with what Liu Bei said.

They are the true inheritors of Confucius and the true inheritors of the mantle of the sage!

Today's literary school, the local chicken and the dog!

The times have come to this day, and the current Wenjing school is no longer in line with the trend of the times, and it is no longer a school that can lead the Han Dynasty to continue to move forward, but what can lead the Han Dynasty to continue to move forward is the ancient Wenjing school of our generation!

They were invigorated.

For most of the people who attended the rally, it was the first time that they felt like they belonged to the large group of the ancient school of scriptures.

This feeling of belonging is very special.

In the midst of a group of inexplicably excited people, Lu Zhi still remained calm, and he looked at Liu Bei with a smile.

"Xuande, what you said is very right, but you need to know that this opportunity was not given to us by Wang Mang or Emperor Guangwu, but by eunuchs, if you seize this opportunity, what do you think the people of the modern literary school will do, what will they say?"

The inexplicably excited crowd cooled down instantly, and they all looked at Liu Bei again, as if they were expecting him to have some subtle words.

However, Liu Bei just smiled.

"Teacher, it is no longer the situation of the past, even if Wang Mang and Emperor Guangwu helped each other, my generation was a minority, and now, my generation is the majority, looking at the Han Dynasty, the scholars who study the ancient scriptures are the majority, and the scholars who study the modern scriptures are a minority!

They are self-contained, rigid and unconscious, more and more closed schools, so that there are fewer and fewer followers, and our generation has opened the door of the school and recruited the world's heroes, so that our generation has already gained the upper hand, and what is lacking is nothing more than an acknowledgement and an opportunity.

If they think that our generation is in the same stream as the eunuchs, then it is equivalent to offending most of the scholars in the world, they are already closed and unpopular, if they offend the entire ancient literature school in one breath, they will only kill themselves! ”

Lu Zhi pinched his beard, smiled, and nodded slowly.

Now, he can be sure that Liu Bei is qualified to be the heir to his mantle.

Liu Bei saw it very clearly, obviously, the people who study ancient scriptures in the current society are the majority, and those who study modern scriptures have become a complete minority because of their own isolation.

You, a minority, want to stigmatize the majority?

How much can you bear the anger of the majority?

This truth must be understood even by a group of politicians with rigid thinking.

That's why they were so anxious to win over the people of the ancient school of literature and scriptures, so that they would not accept the conditions of the eunuchs.

But now, can the ancient school of literature and scriptures still be curbed if they want to rise up and replace it?

At this time when the old and the new are fighting fiercely, someone must stand up and add a fire to this all-out struggle that is faintly about to break out, so that this struggle will completely explode.

Blow up a whole new future.

So Liu Bei stood up, strengthened the belief of the ancient literature and scripture school, and ignited the fuse of the bomb in the hands of the ancient literature school.

Of course, even if Liu Bei didn't say it, the leaders of the ancient scriptures knew it in their hearts.

It was impossible for the Han Emperor to accept the system of etiquette created for him by the Modern Literature School, and it was impossible for the Han Emperor to accept himself as a "scholar" of the highest rank rather than a transcendent emperor.

After all, the rites of the modern literary school are not the rites of the emperor, and they do not intend to be flexible, or rather, they have lost the ability to be flexible.

However, the school of ancient literature is different, the school of ancient literature has a flexible academic and political bottom line, if the ruler needs, the school of ancient literature can make relatively flexible adjustments, adjust the purpose of the school to the needs of the ruler.

Their bodies are soft enough.

Anyway, this is how the first generation of ancient scholars in the late Western Han Dynasty fought against the modern literary school, so we continue to be shameless and can be regarded as comforting our ancestors.

The ancient school of literature and scriptures unified their ideas as never before, and rejected the co-optation and certain meaningless promises of the modern school of literature and scriptures.

At the same time, the ancient Wenjing school also showed the imprint of the ancient Wenjing school for the first time in spirit, and since the fall of the Xinmang Dynasty, it has revealed a collective consciousness.

From this moment on, the loose and huge concept of nothingness of the ancient Wenjing school gradually condensed into an entity, a tangible existence.

In Liu Bei's view, this rally was more like announcing the birth of a primitive party.

Yes.

A primitive but clear party of common interests.

Lu Zhi and others also jointly wrote a letter to Zheng Xuan, who was at this time and far away in Qingzhou, asking Zheng Xuan to accept the emperor's conscription to come to Luoyang as an official, and they needed him.

At this moment of unprecedented unity of the Ancient Scripture School, the Ancient Scripture School needs a leader who can convince the public, and a leader who can call on them to lead them to launch a charge.

And Zheng Xuan, the god of scripture who majored in ancient scriptures, is this person.

After this letter was sent, the scholars of the ancient Wenjing school who had been promoted accepted the free appointment of the imperial court and went to their posts for free.

With the collective appointment of the scholars of the ancient Wenjing school who were promoted, the delicate political balance between the ancient Wenjing school and the modern Wenjing school was completely broken.

Under the deliberate means of the imperial court, the boundary between the ancient Wenjing school and the modern Wenjing school has never been clearer in the eyes of the scholars.

All the veils of warmth and affection have been lifted, and the bloody facts are placed in front of the scholars, telling them that the dispute between the ancient and modern texts is not over.

The formal end is not the real end, once the imperial power makes a move, once the forbidden area of theoretical guidance at the highest level of the country is loosened, it is the time when the whole body is moved.

The "war" began.

The scholars of the Wenjing School finally could not accept this status quo that made them angry, and they made a large-scale appeal to Emperor Liu Hong, demanding that this status quo be changed, and that everyone should be treated equally, and since the policy of lifting the party's shackles should be lifted to the end.

We have never been the only one who can enjoy privileges, how dare the school of ancient literature enjoy privileges that none of us can get?

Although the scholars of the ancient school of literature and scriptures did not express their position publicly, they did not lag behind in the slightest in terms of office, and soon took up positions one after another, and began to grasp power and handle official affairs.

The more they did not speak, the more maddened and frightened the scholars became.

They were very worried that this was a sign that the emperor would fully support the ancient school of literature and scriptures and change the guiding theory of the Eastern Han Empire.

Once the ancient Wenjing school is uplifted, with their current huge size among the people, it is very likely that they will always explode and eat up the interests of the modern Wenjing school.

It's horrible.

It is a matter of the common interests of the entire faction and the clan, and the vested interests are anxious.

They're in a hurry, they're really in a hurry!

The heads of the top scholar clan and the first-class scholar clan composed of the Wenjing school can finally no longer sit back and watch the success or failure like this.

Some of the big families living in Luoyang had an emergency meeting, and these high-ranking scholars came together to discuss and exchange views on the current situation.

Finally, they came to several important conclusions.

First, the eunuch must have played a great role in this matter, and the eunuch has an unshirkable responsibility for this matter.

Second, there must be people from the ancient school of literature and scriptures who cooperated with the eunuchs, and stabbed the eunuchs about the contradictions within the scholars, so that the eunuchs and the emperor could grasp the correct password for splitting the scholars.

Third, the long-suppressed resentment of the ancient Wenjing school made it impossible for them to refuse the temptations offered by the emperor and eunuchs, and the future political situation was extremely unfriendly to the modern Wenjing school.