Chapter 55: The Dilemma
Yang Ming sprinkled a handful of corn on the ground.
A flock of hens rushed over and competed for food.
Looking at the hen eating happily in front of him, Yang Ming's face was a little sad.
He was in the back house of Shizhong Temple at this time, and this was the fourth day after he reported to Shizhong Temple.
He didn't know why there was a flock of chickens in the back house of Shizhong Temple, and the key was that it was all hens.
He can understand that there was no such thing as an alarm clock in the Han Dynasty, and many people raised roosters to report it.
Hens are usually raised to lay eggs, but there is no shortage of eggs in the palace.
He can only regard this as a benefit for Lang Guan, so he will come over to feed the chickens for a while when he has leisure.
That's why he's feeding the chickens here, but it's not the reason for his sorrow.
His sorrow stemmed from the silk that Jian Shuo had sent to him yesterday, on which two things were written.
First, the controversy over the scriptures will be held in Taixue next month.
Second, Cao Jie won't let him get involved.
Originally, he was not worried about his participation in the controversy over scriptures, because whether as a disciple of Hongnong Yang, or a disciple of Zheng Xuan, and the reputation he has now, he is completely qualified.
But now he is facing this problem.
Rulemakers want to target participants, but there are many ways to do it.
For example, the participants in this scholastic controversy are limited to those who have not attained the crown, or the officials who must rank more than 300, or those who have adopted both schools are not allowed to participate, and so on.
I have to say that directly excluding him, which can be called a trick of drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle, really makes it a little difficult for him.
"Bird." At this moment, someone behind him called out to him.
Yang Ming turned around and saw Wang Lang holding a bunch of bamboo slips in his hand.
He walked over and picked up some, and the two of them went into the temple together.
In the past few days, Yang Ming has basically become familiar with how Shizhong Temple operates, or how it connects with Shangshutai.
In addition to Shangshu Ling, Shangshu Servant Shot and Liucao Shangshu, there are also 36 squires.
Shangshu is responsible for the specific affairs of the matter, and the waiter drafts the document according to the requirements of the book, and the document is drafted and sent to the Shizhong Temple, where the Lang official like him reviews the document for the first time, checks whether there are any typos and the like, and then hands it over to the waiter after it is correct, and the waiter reviews the content, and if there is no objection, it is transferred to the forbidden by the Huangmen waiter.
From this process, it can be seen that he is not much worse than the waiter.
Because he can also browse the Shangshutai documents, just to see the difference between what he writes and what he writes.
When the bamboo slips were moved into Yang Ming's room, Wang Lang did not leave immediately.
After closing the door, he then lowered his voice and said, "There is another disciple of the ancient scriptures in Taichung, named Hua Xin. ”
Hearing the word Hua Xin, Yang Ming's eyes lit up, and it turned out that Lang said goodbye, and Hua Xin went to Shangshutai.
"There are a lot of disciples in the ancient scriptures of Shangshutai?" Yang Ming asked.
"Not really, but in the past few months, the five new Shangshulang are all here." Wang Lang looked worried as he spoke.
Yang Ming realized.
The six Shangshutai, even Lu Zhi, are also famous Confucians, and it is not easy for Cao Jie to replace them.
But it would be much easier to replace the Lang officials below them.
Since a few of you are still emptying me, then I will slowly set you up, and there is nothing wrong with this logic.
As for those ancient Wenjing disciples who entered Shangshutai, although they were not the children of eunuchs, most of them came from poor families, just to get a stage to show their ambitions.
Cao Jie gave them a chance, and they were naturally willing to drive it.
Yang Ming had to sigh again at this time, Cao Jie was really different from Wang Fu, Zhao Zhong and others.
"Jingxing doesn't have to worry too much, Lang Guan is just drafting documents on his behalf." Yang Ming tried to comfort.
Shangshutai still plays a decisive role in the six Cao Shangshu, as long as the Shangshu is not changed, the role of how many Lang officials are changed is limited.
Wang Lang nodded, and then spoke: "How much does Bird know about the White Tiger View Conference?" ”
Yang Ming shook his head: "I don't know much. ”
It's really not much, he has always regarded scriptures as a tool, and he is not really ready to become a great Confucian.
He only knew that the White Tiger View Conference was a correction meeting, and its effect was similar to that of the Xiping Stone Scripture.
Because there were many errors and redundant chapters in the modern scriptures at that time.
According to historical records, the specific meeting process is that the Confucians debate the objections in the scriptures, and if there is no result in the debate, Emperor Zhang will personally adjudicate, and finally summarize the content as the four volumes of "White Tiger Tongyi".
Then there are some anecdotes he learned from Yang Qi, that meeting touched on a lot of gender topics, such as the minimum number of times you should have sex with a concubine under the age of 50, which is a little absurd.
"The White Tiger View Conference was originally aimed at the current scriptures, but in that meeting, the most brilliant person was the ancient scripture scholar Jia Kui, who fought the Confucianism with the power of one person, and most of the debates were approved by Emperor Zhang." Wang Lang continued.
"Emperor Zhang's ancient scriptures?" Yang Ming immediately grasped the point.
Ever since he studied the ancient scriptures in Buqishan, he knew that if he didn't use Zheng Xue, there would be no results in the debate between the ancient and modern scriptures.
You said that the Son of Heaven patrols once every five years, and I said that he only patrols once when he is twelve years old, and this fight will not solve any problems.
So in the end, it was the referee of Emperor Zhang of Han who decided what was right or wrong.
From what Wang Lang said, this Emperor Zhang, as a referee, obviously pulled the bias.
Wang Lang nodded and said: "After the White Tiger Conference, although Emperor Zhang did not establish a doctor of ancient scriptures, he still summoned high-ranking students to teach "Ancient Texts and Books", "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period", etc., and the ancient scriptures were greatly prosperous. ”
Yang Ming looked at Wang Lang again at this time, and then realized that what the latter was really worried about was not the matter of Lang Guan, but Liu Hong's attitude in this matter.
Liu Hong acquiesced in Cao Jie's continued addition of disciples of the ancient scriptures to Shangshutai, which meant that in the later Taixue treatises, he would favor the ancient scriptures like Emperor Zhang.
In this way, the present Wenjing will not only be defeated, but will be defeated very badly.
However, unlike Emperor Zhang at that time, Emperor Zhang liked the ancient scriptures and would revive the ancient scriptures afterwards, while Liu Hong just used the disciples of the ancient scriptures as tools, and afterwards it would only be the collapse of the current Wenjing family and the eunuchs would be completely in power.
What Yang Ming had thought before when he was studying Taixue was becoming a reality.
However, Wang Lang, this disciple of Yang Ci, should be a disciple of Jinwenjing who wanted to discuss with Yang Ming how to break the situation at this time, and he didn't know that Yang Ming had been arranged by Cao Jie to enter this bureau.
Wang Lang left in the end, and he didn't get anything.
Yang Ming began to review the documents that Wang Lang had brought.
The first document is that Liu Hong is ready to worship Zhang Hao as a lieutenant.
In the previous earthquake, Meng Fang, the Taiwei among the Three Princes, became the unlucky guy.
And this Zhang Hao's identity is very special, because he is not a Confucian at all, but just the younger brother of Zhang Feng.
This is another statement by Liu Hong, not only the "Chinese Dynasty" Shangshutai, but also the "Foreign Dynasty" Three Dukes' Mansion, he is also ready to appoint the children of eunuchs.
Yang Ming took a deep breath and picked up the second paperwork.
This is a recital from Lu Zhi, who hopes that Liu Hong will recruit Zheng Xuan into the court as an official.
At this point in time, the purpose is self-evident, Lu Zhi hopes that Zheng Xuan will solve this dispute over scriptures.
When he put down this document, Yang Ming took a long breath.
Luoyang seems to be a great Confucian, but there is no one who can really solve this dispute over scriptures, or even make Jinwenjing lose less miserably.
Lu Zhi is not the only one who recognizes this, but he is the only one who has found a solution.
As Zheng Xuan's classmate, or judging from the reaction when talking about Zheng Xuan at the wedding that day, he may still be a comrade, he should know that Zheng Xuan's Zheng Xue is the only hope.
But it was obvious that Zheng Xuan would not come, and Cao Jie would not let him come.
Then as a disciple of Zheng Xuan, he became the only one who had the opportunity to do it.
Thinking of this, he took another deep breath, and his gaze became determined.
He's got to get into this game!