In the fifty-third year of the Xia Dynasty, the news of Wang Mang's death finally spread.

At the same time, the edict he left behind was also transmitted.

Emperor Xia, who had adhered to the Xia Dynasty for fifty-three years, was still thinking about the people of the Xia Dynasty in this land after leaving.

On that day, some people who received the news rushed to the streets, wailing and crying.

Most of them are elderly.

These people may not have experienced the chaotic scene of the smoke and division of the Great Moon, but they have witnessed how the Xia Dynasty has become strong step by step.

As the emperor, he bears the brunt of the evil in the world, and the good in the world naturally has his share.

They were extremely sad to have lost such a holy monarch and sage.

Some people will regret that they had insulted Wang Mang when he had just ascended the throne.

But in any case, all this is in the past.

There is no resurrection from the dead.

Whether it is sorrow or joy, this world will function normally without anyone.

Whether it is a sage who is highly respected, or a sage who is diligent in government and loves the people, the same is true.

In the face of death, all beings are equal and there is no difference.

Only the names that shine in history can vaguely glimpse a bit of style.

After Wang Mang's death, the new emperor succeeded to the throne.

It was his and Xu Wanrong's child.

The new emperor did not disobey the edict left by Wang Mang, and everything was simple.

In the face of the tragic situation of the whole country, the new emperor did not take any action, including even his own accession to the throne, he did not set up an altar to announce it to the world.

In this respect, he can be regarded as an acquaintance.

The fifty-fourth year of the Xia Dynasty.

The new emperor chose the era name, Chengping.

In the end of Wang Mang's life, he has never set an era name, he has great ambitions, and I hope that when future generations mention the word Xia Huang, the first person who comes to mind will be him.

And his children had to choose an era name to distinguish it from their parents, indicating that the emperor had changed.

After that, he was called the new emperor, and he was no longer Emperor Xia, but Emperor Chengping.

Undertake peace and peace.

Emperor Chengping did not have as many sages as Wang Mang, in addition to Xun Ke, Wang Mang also had people like Gongshang Guo and Yu Lisheng for his use, and it was almost impossible for him to make a higher career than Wang Mang.

The word Chengping is not only a recognition of the emperor, but also an encouragement to himself.

Times change, and there are big differences.

Now the grandmaster is an extremely scarce figure in mortal dust, at least in the land around the Xia Dynasty, even if someone is promoted to grandmaster, after learning the news of the Buzhou Mountain Range, they will immediately rush over, and there is nothing in the mortal realm that can attract grandmasters.

Previously, it was just because everyone was the same, so the grandmaster went to the same place, after all, the homeland was difficult to leave, and many grandmasters stayed in their own country, eating and waiting for death in peace, enjoying all the glory and wealth.

Now that I have higher goals and pursuits, my homeland is just a memory.

To ask is to like, to stay is not to work.

Grandmasters began to become "precious", and scarcity is precious, and so are people.

And Xun Ke, as a great grandmaster, is naturally one level higher than all grandmasters, especially in today's situation.

Confucianism is growing rapidly.

The new concept is baptizing the Xia Dynasty, Xun Ke advocates education, because he believes that human nature is evil, and seeking good in evil requires learning good character.

Private schools and academies have been set up in various places, and they are very popular.

The textbook used is written by Xun Ke.

There are all sorts of fables, folklore, and even stories of people you once knew.

For example, Mozi, such as Gongshang, such as Yu Lisheng, such as Wang Mang. Some of these people's things were written by him.

There are not only praises, but even faint criticisms, but in general, they are undoubtedly persuasive to be good.

If the person who wrote this book was not Xun Ke, I am afraid that he would be condemned to the point that he would not be able to stay in the Xia Dynasty.

But he was Xun Ke, the leader of Confucianism, the apprentice of Mozi, and the great master of the Xia Dynasty.

Therefore, he is qualified to evaluate his predecessors, even Emperor Chengping can't say anything.

Only one person is qualified to disagree.

"Mr. Gu, look."

In the increasingly clean courtyard of the Gu family, Xun Ke handed the work he had completed to Gu Dan.

Gu Dan took it and looked at it unhurriedly.

When I see the stories of those familiar people, I can't help but have a smile on my face, but I can carefully evaluate the true flavor of them, but I find that there are some places that need to be discussed.

For example, when Xun Ke wrote the story about Moqiu, he mentioned that when Moqiu founded the Mo family, the standards were extremely high, and the heroes of the world wanted to join the Mo family, but they were forced to retreat by the almost strict regulations of the Mo family, and there were few people left.

Of course, this is also true.

Gu Dan also agrees with this, the Mo family is not doing badly, but doing too well, so good that it has transcended this era, even if it is a short period of glory, it will inevitably decline.

And Yu Lisheng is a dead-eyed person, he firmly continues to move forward along the path of Moqiu, without correction, whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, even Gu Dan himself can't tell.

Should we be glad that the Mo family did not "fall", or should we regret that the Mo family, which is out of the times, will eventually be defeated by the times?

I only hope that before Yu Lisheng left, what he said could give Yu Lisheng some inspiration.

On the contrary, Xun Ke, who seems to be deviant, is doing something that can really change the Xia Dynasty.

Educate the people, seek goodness and truth.

This is one thing that needs to be rooted in one place and keep working hard.

"Not bad."

In the end, Gu Dan still nodded, not feeling that there was any need to revise it.

Written into a book.

Since then, this book will become one of the must-read books for enlightening countless people of the Xia Dynasty, from this book, to understand how the Xia Dynasty was founded and even the predecessors before its creation, how they threw their heads and sprinkled their blood, in exchange for today's peaceful and stable situation.

Chengping Chengping inherited not only the Xia Dynasty, but also the ideas of the ancestors.

Isn't this a kind of passing on the torch?

Time goes on and on, never stopping.

The small courtyard of the Gu family fell silent.

There are very few people who visit, and now Xun Ke's busy feet don't touch the ground, and Xiaoying also has things to do in the Tai Hospital and the Tianxia Medical Center.

The person who used to visit this small courtyard often was Wang Mang's kid.

After Wang Mang's death, the small courtyard seemed to be out of the world.

One day, Gu Dan continued to go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of the Xia Dynasty to get books to read.

But he was surprised to find that he had finished reading all the books on the Daozang, and he memorized them like a stream.

I even read all the books in one day.

If you do the math, he has been rooted here for seventy-five years.

Seventy-five years is a long time, so long that his contemporaries have withered away.

Only Moqiu, the Grandmaster, could theoretically accompany him for a longer time, but he had been asleep for a long time and showed no signs of waking up.

But Moqiu's flesh and blood were intact, his complexion was ruddy, and he did not lose his physical vitality like after the death of the Grandmaster, and it was not like a real eternal separation between heaven and man, but more like being immersed in an indescribable sleep.

Every time Gu Dan entered the Aoki Transformation Technique, he would go to the place of the White Lotus Inheritance to take a look at him and replenish the Aoki liquid for him.

"Brother Mo, if you don't get up again, when you wake up, I'm afraid you won't see anyone you know except me."

Gently patted the coffin board, Gu Dan sighed.

The cave was empty, and his voice echoed along the cave, layered on top of each other, as if countless people were speaking together.

However, there was no answer.

Gu Dan sat by the coffin all night.

The time came to the fifty-ninth year of the Xia Dynasty.

Nothing major has happened in five years, and nothing has been done well.

Emperor Chengping has never made a big move, and he is very honest.

It's just that the officials in the court have changed, which is quite conventional.

It is worth mentioning that Xun Ke's Confucianism is becoming more and more prosperous, after all, even the teaching materials in private schools and schools are produced by Xun Ke, and most of those who read books will naturally inherit the Confucian concept when they use his teaching materials.

That's the benefit of invisibility.

It is also for this reason that in the fifty-ninth year of the Xia Dynasty, Xun Ke announced that he would preach in the Tianxia Academy, and the time was set for the sixtieth year of the Xia Dynasty.

The last time I sat down to talk about Taoism was back in the twenty-fifth year of the Xia Dynasty.

In the blink of an eye, thirty-five years have passed.

But this time, it's preaching, not sitting and talking.

Many people feel that this is Xun Ke's preparation to promote the "hegemony" of Confucianism, and the former Confucian competitor Mojia, with the departure of the Mojia giant, has collapsed.

The few ink people who are left alone have no talent to compete with Xun Ke at all.

The textbooks used by students all over the world are Confucian, how can they touch Xun Ke?

Looking at all countries, except for Confucianism, there is no one who can fight now.

Even the Grandmaster is almost invisible, as if it only exists in a script.

At this time, who can still confront Confucianism or pose a threat to Confucianism?

Probably not.

So what Xun Ke's preaching means at this time is self-evident.

He wants to declare that Confucianism has become the world's leading learning, and he wants to rule the world with etiquette.

It seemed that no one could stop him anymore.

The sixty years of the Xia Dynasty came quietly.

The land of the imperial capital, whether it is a restaurant or an inn, is overcrowded.

Not only that, but even the price of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone has risen sharply, and for a time the imperial capital paper is expensive.

Many students and talents traveled thousands of miles to the imperial capital to pay homage to the Confucian leaders.

And take the opportunity to write their own policies for governing the country and loving the people, not seeking to hear it directly, as long as they can be appreciated by Xun Ke and can be brilliant, they will naturally have a good future waiting for them.

It was an internal Confucian.

This event, Gu Dan naturally did not miss it.

Although Xun Ke, the real protagonist of this event, has not yet appeared on stage, it has actually begun.

It's just that at this time, the people who took the stage to debate were all Xun Ke's disciples.

They learned from each other, discussed, and played a front for this grand event, after all, where can Xun Ke overwhelm the crowd as soon as he comes up?

Gu Dan has been listening to it here for a while, and there are really a lot of talented people who are really capable during this time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are thriving.

Not all talents need to be sharpened by hardship, and these young people who have been cultivated with hard work also have their own ideas, although it is inevitable that some swords will be biased and whimsical, but they are not distorted by talented scholars.

This event, in fact, is also an opportunity for these new generation of young people to show themselves.

As for whether you can get into the eyes of everyone, it all depends on your own performance.

Finally, when this appetizer was coming to an end, Xun Ke came here.

The audience was already overcrowded.

The Tianxia School Palace has been expanded several times over the years, and the area of this pulpit is already very large, and it is not a problem at all for more than a thousand people to sit around - don't think that there are very few people in the thousands, if it is not for the grandmaster, the people in the back need to pass the note if they want to hear the speech of the person in front.

What's even more unfortunate can only listen to others repeat it, which is inevitably a little distorted.

In order to occupy a good position, someone even came over in the middle of the night to occupy a good position, and then he was surprised to find that he had not come far earlier enough, the good place had already been occupied, and there was a casual layer of cloth on the ground and lay there.

However, Gu Dan did not have this trouble, he had his own position, just at the front, and the closest place to the podium, to be precise, there should be several special positions left on the podium.

Almost all of these places were reserved for the dignitaries of the Xia Dynasty to sit, they were both listeners and judges, and if they could get their appreciation, it would not be an exaggeration to rise to prominence.

On such days, even Emperor Chengping would come here to show his attention, just as Wang Mang had also observed.

When everyone was seated, a bell rang outside.

Xun Ke strolled over, facing the countless intricate lines of sight below, his expression was calm, and he said leisurely: "Today, I said. ”

In the Xia Dynasty, he had no opponents.

He didn't come to debate, he declared victory.

Confucianism has been polished for decades, and it is enough to be on the stage.

Even the 'inherent evil of human nature', which was despised by countless people at the beginning, is now almost no longer picky, because after so many years, they can't debate Xun Ke, and they have touched the ashes of their noses, where do they dare to come and provoke?

From any point of view, Confucianism is the trend of the times.

"I speak of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and law."

Xun Ke didn't talk nonsense, and said simply and directly: "From human nature, conforming to people's feelings, it will be out of contention, and it will be violent because of chaos." It is necessary to rule the holy king and educate the law to transform the hypocrisy and enhance the personality. ”

After 35 years, it seems to be an old-fashioned thing.

After all, Confucianism is not a fledgling time, its skeleton has been built, almost nothing has changed, and the remaining more subtle flesh and blood and veins are nothing more than need to be slowly filled and verified from generation to generation.

The difference is that this time Xun Ke does not need to explain it word by word, but simply puts forward how to 'turn sex into hypocrisy', how to keep evil and good, and how to reach the realm of a saint.

In Xun Ke's concept, anyone has the opportunity to become a saint, and the difference between the virtuous and the foolish is due to "the accumulation of wrong customs".

The acquired environment and experience play a decisive role in the transformation of human nature, through people's subjective efforts, "their etiquette, law-making", and the transformation of people's "evil" nature, then "the person can be holy".

The saints are the result of the accumulation of people.

Xun Ke's narration was fast and concise, and with the blessing of the great grandmaster's strength, his voice reached all directions, and there was no need to worry that anyone would not hear it clearly.

In his narration, whether it is a student or a person on the stage, he is not serious.

But untimely, there was a sudden noise outside, even if it was faint, but it could not hide from Gu Dan's ears.

Gu Dan turned his head to look, wanting to see who dared to stir up trouble at this time.

But he was surprised to find that it was an old man, and to put it more accurately, it should be an old man who was completely unable to walk, and could only rely on two sad-faced servants to carry him in.

He was probably very old, his hair was as unpolished as weeds, and his gray hair was not carefully groomed, but hung down naturally, like a ball of duckweed gathered together.

Behind him, the guards of the Tianxia Academy Palace looked a little helpless, and they didn't dare to attack the old man at all, so they could only wave their arms out of thin air, looking quite helpless and helpless.

After so many years of development of the Xia Dynasty, the tradition of respecting the elderly has been imprinted in all aspects, the old man over 70 years old does not have to salute when he sees the emperor, if he can live over 100 years old, he is a genuine person, not to mention that he does not have to worship the emperor, the emperor even has to pay a visit himself.

The old man's old age spots were already covered with most of his cheeks, and the wrinkles were densely covered on his face, and he looked very old, and even walking became a problem, and the guards were naturally worried about themselves, if they stopped people to death, it was really inexplicable, and they really let them rush here.

Of course, there is no need to worry about the safety of the venue, if such a person can be an assassin and can successfully assassinate under the nose of the great grandmaster, the Xia Dynasty should change the dynasty as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the officials of the Xia Dynasty reacted quickly, and when they came in, an official immediately approached, bent down and asked a few words, and his originally solemn face relaxed a lot.

Immediately after that, he took a piece of brocade out of nowhere and spread it on the ground, so that the old man who could no longer move freely could have a place to live.

The old man stared at Xun Ke in the stands without blinking, and a huge light burst out in his eyes that were almost dim.

Then he looked around, and finally met Gu Dan's eyes.

There were tears in his cloudy eyes, and his lips twitched and made an inaudible sound.

Gu Dan's hearing was good, he heard it.

"You're still here!"

(End of chapter)