Hearing Liu Bei say that he was dissatisfied with the current status quo, Zheng Xuan was a little strange.

"Isn't that true? Isn't it an absolute advantage for the other party's thirteen family laws to our generation's family law? ”

"If the other party has an advantage, our generation will not have an advantage?"

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Gong Zheng, the debate of Taixue that day, tens of thousands of students in Luoyang were surging, and there was no end in sight, most of those people were scholars of our ancient literature school, and the debate of Taixue won that day, and the cheers resounded through the world, even the son of heaven who lived in the deep palace could hear it, so the next day, Zuo's Spring and Autumn Festival won." ”

Zheng Xuan didn't seem to understand what Liu Bei meant.

"What do you mean?"

"Gong Zheng, why do you think our generation can win?"

"There are a lot of reasons."

"The biggest reason?"

Zheng Xuan looked at Liu Bei.

"Xuan Demo doesn't want to boast?"

Liu Bei scratched his face.

"Bei is not humble, nor does he want to erase his role, but Zheng Gong, Bei thinks that the fundamental reason why our generation can win is because of the people's desire, because most of the scholars in the world are studying ancient scriptures, and our generation just brought them together at this critical moment, so the people's desire completely crushed the modern literary school."

Zheng Xuan was slightly surprised.

"Xuande, if it weren't for you and your teacher to fight bravely, I thought that Zuo's Spring and Autumn would never have won this victory, even if he won, it would not be now."

Liu Bei nodded.

"This point, Bei does not deny it, but if there is no people's desire, without the support of the vast number of scholars of the ancient literature school, Bei thinks that only relying on Beihe teachers and the great sages will not be able to win, and the support of tens of thousands of people, the voice is magnificent, even if it is the Son of Heaven, it cannot be ignored."

Zheng Xuan lowered his head and was silent for a while, then slowly raised his head to look at Liu Bei.

"Xuande, what you want to say is that an important reason for our generation's victory that time was that the support of the scholars of the ancient literature school in the whole of Luoyang to our generation has reached the point where the people's hearts want?"

"Exactly."

Liu Bei said loudly: "Without the enthusiastic support of tens of thousands of scholars who studied ancient classics in Quanluoyang, does Zheng Gong think that with only a dozen families, he can take a doctorate from the hands of the modern literary school?" The momentum of that day was already unanimous, and even to the point of public anger, and things reached that point, which was unstoppable.

Later, when Yang Ci slandered the teacher, our generation was difficult to fight because of the lack of power, and at that time, many scholars of the ancient literature school learned of this, and they were filled with righteous indignation, and took the initiative to stand up for our debate, and redress the grievances of the teacher, and the momentum was huge, and Yang Ci's generation had to back down for this. ”

Zheng Xuan stroked his beard and thought for a while, gradually gained some eyebrows, and nodded slowly.

"That makes sense......

"At the beginning, my generation didn't even master a family law, but we won, and now my generation has mastered a family law, and the momentum is greater, and it should have a better chance of winning, why is it considered that we can't win?"

Liu Bei's question was to the point, Zheng Xuan was speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to answer this question.

Leaning less, Zheng Xuan realized what Liu Bei meant.

"Xuande, do you mean that this time, there is no Yang Shizi to help us speak out?"

"Vocal assistance is a method, and the scholars of Luoyang can do far more than that."

Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Gong Zheng, I think that the current power of the ancient literature school is still far less than that of the current literary school, but in the previous two crises, the main reason why we were able to successfully survive or even turn defeat into victory is the desire of the people.

Even if the scholars of Luoyang are not officials, they have no power, and one person is weak, but what about ten people? What about a hundred? What about a thousand? What about 10,000 people? Zheng Gong, the reason why our generation defeated the enemy was not because of Teacher Beihe, but because of the hearts of the people. ”

Zheng Xuan looked at Liu Bei for a while before sighing deeply.

"Xuande, I now understand why Zigan is willing to accept you as a disciple."

"Zheng Gong praised."

"It's not a compliment, you deserve it."

Zheng Xuan shook his head and said slowly: "When you didn't mention it, I didn't think about it, but when you mentioned it, I thought about it again, before and after the series, I knew that you were right, relying only on my own generation, even if there is the help of the Yuan family and the Xun family, it is too arrogant to want to confront the modern literary school."

The reason why they were able to win was indeed because of the great help of the scholars of Luoyang, although they were nameless, but once they gathered together, they were the hearts of the people, and the hearts of the people were invincible, and everyone should understand this truth, but why didn't anyone mention it? ”

Liu Bei pretended to sigh for a while.

"It can only be said that perhaps in the eyes of many people, they are just people who study ancient scriptures, and not part of our ancient literature school, which is very dangerous in Bei's view."

This is not that Liu Bei is alarmist.

In Liu Bei's eyes, the ancient literature school should have been a large collective united from top to bottom, with both the upper echelons of the Valve-reading family and the ordinary scholars below.

But this does not seem to be the case in the eyes of others.

The School of Ancient Literature is just a group of many Valve Reading families and future Valve Reading families and their protégés, and has nothing to do with ordinary scholars who study ancient classics.

Ordinary scholars who were born into powerful landlords were not generally regarded as part of the ancient literature school by the upper echelons of the current school of ancient literature.

The dispute between the school of ancient literature and the school of modern literature did have a substantive incident of party strife, but the two sides were not so much political parties as two grass stage groups.

Previously, at Liu Bei's suggestion, out of the need to fight against the modern literary school, the upper echelons of the ancient literature school unanimously agreed to hold regular meetings in Zheng Xuan's mansion to discuss the recent situation, and if there was any emergency, an emergency meeting could also be held immediately.

Anyway, the meeting was all in Zheng Xuan's mansion, because Zheng Xuan was everyone's leader.

Zheng Xuan himself has nothing to do, and he is happy to use his home as a meeting place for everyone.

The people who attended the meeting were all heads of major inheritance families, as well as outstanding children and proud protégés of their respective families.

Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhi and others are mainly responsible for deliberation, while the outstanding children and protégés represented by Liu Bei belong to the audit sequence, and they cannot express their opinions without the permission and questions of their elders.

At that time, Liu Bei knew that as a primitive grass platform team that had just been condensed, the ancient literature school did not have a clear coordination mechanism between the upper and lower levels, and there was no power mechanism that belonged to the new aggregate of the "ancient literature school".

After the upper-level bigwigs get together to discuss, if there is nothing special, it is as if nothing has happened.

If there is something urgent that needs to be implemented, go back and mobilize their respective protégé forces to do things.

Whoever has the power to handle these emergencies will handle it, and everyone will be happy and sad if they do it well.

Like the modern literary school, although the ancient literary school has gradually condensed into an entity, with a mechanism of mutual consultation at the upper level and a clear interest orientation to distinguish between friend and foe, there is no coordinated and unified implementation mechanism in the implementation of affairs.

This means that the school of ancient literature is still scattered.

Essentially, the Paleoliterary School is a familial union of the Valve-reading family and the potential Valve-reading family, similar to a "confederation" in a state organization, rather than a political organization with real power.

How could such a consortium, which was not fundamentally different from the modern literary school, be able to fight against the modern literary school, which was even stronger in terms of family power?

Without the partial help of the imperial power and the eunuch group, the ancient literature school could only rely on the passage of time to grind the modern literature school to death.

It's worse than bad, not competition.

(End of chapter)