When Huo Guang fell headlong in the General's Mansion, Liu He certainly didn't know about it.

As soon as Shen Shi arrived, he came to Taixue, which was more than ten miles west of Chang'an City.

This is Liu He's first time coming to Taixue.

Unlike Taixue he imagined, it looked much shabby and dilapidated.

Similar to the palaces in Chang'anli, Taixue was also built on a high platform made of earth.

The size of this high platform is even comparable to the size of the high platform of Weiyang Palace.

At the time of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Huang Lao's learning was prevalent, so there was only private learning in the world, and there was no official learning from top to bottom. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone" that he adopted Dong Zi's suggestion and established Taixue in Chang'an.

At that time, Taixue had 50 doctoral disciples, but now it has increased to 300.

Judging from this scale, Emperor Xiaowu still attaches great importance to Taixue.

It's just that, compared with other government offices, Taixue is a cold yamen after all.

Although it occupies such a large area, the scale of the government office is not large, and it is comparable to the ordinary government office, which is just a courtyard with three entrances and three exits.

The main room in the front yard is a Confucian temple, the main hall in the middle courtyard is where Taixue Ling acts as the official officer, and the main room in the back yard is where the doctoral disciples teach collectively on weekdays.

In addition to the three most spacious main rooms, the wings on both sides were used either as guest quarters for doctoral students or as places for doctoral officials to give lectures.

In addition, Taixue also has ancillary buildings such as dining rooms and stables, and although the sparrows are small, they are complete.

All in all, it's enough, but it's definitely not spacious.

In addition, Huo Guang didn't like to read in the first place, and he didn't pay much attention to Confucianism, so this Taixue hadn't been repaired for a long time, and it looked a little decayed and broken.

However, unlike today's Prime Minister's Mansion and Shaofu, which are very deserted, today's Taixue is a little lively.

Wang Shi's Taixue order did not appear many times in Taixue, because there were not too many things to deal with in the agency.

But today, Wang Shi came to the temple early.

Soon after, the five edicts issued by the Son of Heaven were sent to Taixue, and one of the edicts was directly related to Taixue - the county officials who came to Chang'an City to be responsible for the responsibility of accounting and reporting had to come to Taixue to copy books.

Taixue is a cold yamen.

They are all powerless doctors and disciples.

Although they may rise to prominence in the future, they are now nobodies.

On weekdays, when there is nothing to do, there are no officials who want to set foot here.

Today, I heard that more than 100 officials from 600 stones to 1,000 stones were going to come to the temple to copy books, and the whole Taixue suddenly had some boiling.

Originally, because the Son of Heaven ordered that the popular version of the scriptures be adjudicated next year, the views of the disciples of the Doctor on the Son of Heaven were divided into two factions.

There are both praise and complaint – the latter being the mainstream.

Now, the Son of Heaven appointed county officials to come to Taixue to copy books, and in the eyes of Confucianism, it was a move to attach importance to Confucianism, so the resentment dissipated a lot.

In order to prevent these young and excited doctoral disciples from making jokes, Wang Shi ordered them to stay in the guest house in the backyard - the wings of the middle courtyard and the front yard should be vacated, and they were not allowed to enter and leave without permission.

This really made the doctoral disciples a little regretful, and it was not common to meet so many officials at one time.

However, they couldn't help but listen to what Taixue Ling Wang said, so they had to talk in the backyard and guess what would happen next.

After noon, the subordinate officials of the various counties came to Taixue one after another.

Whether it is the long history of a large county or the prime minister of a small country, they are all arranged to copy books in different wings.

There are many books in Taixue, all of which are Confucian classics, and these officials can only copy different Confucian classics.

It won't be long before there will be more and more books as printing becomes more popular.

In this way, the officials who copied the book and the doctoral disciples who watched the excitement gradually quieted down.

Let Taixue, who had some hustle and bustle, gradually return to quiet.

There are some old courtyards that seem to exude a power that quickly silences all restlessness.

Anyone who gets here can't help but calm down.

Those who are in the world of economic affairs, look at the peak and rest their hearts; The kite flies to the sky, peeps into the valley and forgets to rebel.

Maybe that's the power of a saint.

However, before noon, an even more shocking news made Taixue boil again.

——The Son of Heaven will come to Taixue in person and meet with the county officials, doctors, disciples, and Taixue officials.

This news, like a pebble, made Taixue's perennial turbulent water no longer calm.

This is the first time I've come to Taixue today.

For a long time, when today's son is really a little "disrespectful" to Confucianism, so in the undercurrent of resentment, there is a little more expectation - expecting the Son of Heaven to treat Confucianism well.

So, without the supervision of the king, all the doctoral disciples changed into the cleanest and decent clothes, and even took matters into their own hands to participate in the sprinkling and dusting.

There is no division between grains and grains, and the four bodies are not diligent - the Confucian students of the Han Dynasty are not so indisputable.

Shen Shi, everything that should be prepared was ready, and Taixue, who was originally a little dusty, exuded a different brilliance.

At this time, the messenger in charge of communication in the battle of the Son of Heaven brought the news that the Son of Heaven would arrive in a quarter of an hour.

For a while, there was some confusion among the county officials and the disciples of the doctors.

Fortunately, Wang Shi was highly respected and was once the teacher of the Son of Heaven, and everyone respected him.

Under his calm command, hundreds of people came to the high platform where Taixue was located one after another.

They were divided into two neat teams and stood in the cold wind, waiting for the arrival of the Son of Heaven.

The autumn wind was strong, but the faces of these hundreds of people were a little hot.

They all craned their necks and looked in the direction of Chang'an City......

Soon, billowing dust rose on the official road.

The chariot of the Son of Heaven is coming.

……

Liu He stood in the car and soon saw the waiting crowd.

"Xue Ti, Taixue is the place where the disciples of the doctor read the book of the sages, and gave the order to the chariot to stop thirty zhang away to show my respect for the sages."

"Yui!"

The loud command came out of Xue Ti's throat, passing forward and backward one by one.

In the end, the whole team of cars stopped firmly in the position that Liu He wanted - no more, no less, exactly thirty zhang away from the doctoral disciples and subordinate officials who came to greet him.

Liu He got out of the car and walked towards the crowd with Xue Ti.

Seeing that the Son of Heaven came almost alone, and even parked the car in the distance, the disciples of the doctor had a better impression of the Son of Heaven.

It doesn't seem that this son of heaven is as "crazy" as rumored.

When Liu He was still ten zhang away from the crowd, Taixue Ling Wang Shi stood up and made a big salute to him.

Then, the doctors, county officials, doctors' disciples, and Taixue officials behind him all knelt down.

"The ministers ask His Majesty the Emperor."

On weekdays, even if it is a big court, I don't see so many people.

Seeing so many people kneeling down in front of him, Liu He's calm heart still had some surging.

He walked quickly to Wang Shi, looked at Wang Shi, and then at the people behind him.

"Wang Fu, hurry up and get up."

"Zhongqing, please get up quickly."

"No!" Wang Shi stood up first.

"No!" Everyone followed suit.

"This is the first time I have come to Taixue, and I grew up reading the Confucian scriptures."

"After all, I am a Confucian student, just like Zhongqing."

These words are far-fetched, but they are not wrong – and they have a lot of meaning.

The Son of Heaven thinks he is a Confucian student, so will he still disrespect Confucianism?

Moreover, the teacher of the Son of Heaven is still the Wang style, and the Wang style is the current Taixue Ling. In this way, these doctoral disciples present turned out to be half classmates of the Son of Heaven.

When I think of this, many people feel a hint of anticipation and comfort in their hearts.

"Let's go and worship the master first."

"No!"

The first teacher, of course, is Confucius.

In front of the saints, the Son of Heaven also has to perform the rites of disciples.

In this way, Liu He climbed the ladder to Taixue in full view of everyone.

He was followed by Wang Shi and the doctor officer, and then the county official and the doctor's disciple.

No matter what their identity is, everyone's mood is a little surging, but they try to suppress it as much as possible.

Sadness but not sadness, joy but not lewdness.

That's etiquette.

In Taixue, how can you lose the courtesy?

Liu He walked steadily step by step towards Taixue at a high place.

In his heart, the things to be done in Taixue are also becoming clearer and clearer.

……

After a "trek", Liu He finally came to Taixuewai.

This Taixue is surrounded by many towering ancient trees.

These giant trees are even bigger than those in Weiyang Palace.

Rumor has it that these giant trees were moved from the edge of the Qin Palace.

Therefore, they are the tallest giant trees in the entire city of Chang'an.

At this time, the dozens of giant trees had already lost their leaves, and their torsos made a "creaking" sound in the autumn wind.

Liu He walked in it, as if he heard the whispers of countless old Qin people.

In the spring of next year, it must be a dark mille-feuille, and there must be a different scenery.

Liu He walked in front, and the rest of the people followed behind him more than ten feet away.

He is like the first horse among the herds, standing out from the crowd.

Soon, Liu He walked into the front yard of Taixue and came to the front of the Confucian Temple.

The front yard is spacious, but it can't accommodate more than a few hundred people, so it's a bit crowded at the moment.

Many people have even lined up outside Taixue.

Among the people present, almost no one had ever seen the scene of the Son of Heaven coming to Taixue.

But now the Son of Heaven only brings one retinue, and there is not much difference from being "alone".

This not only reflects the approachability of the Son of Heaven, but also reflects the absolute trust of the Son of Heaven in Confucianism.

Vote for my papaya, and repay it with Qiong Yao.

Originally, the Confucian scholars who still had a little resentment naturally did not have any disrespect for the Son of Heaven.

They all stood without saying a word, looking very respectful.

Liu He looked at the Confucian Temple in front of him and found that it was not big, even inferior to the family temple of the family.

In the Han Dynasty, the construction of sacrificial temples has its own set of rituals.

For example, in terms of quantity, there is a saying that "there are seven temples of the Son of Heaven, five temples of the princes, three temples of doctors, one temple of scholars, and no people".

In addition to the difference in quantity, the form, sacrifice, and music are all customized, and they cannot be surpassed.

Once the etiquette system is crossed, it is obscenity, and it is not only subject to ridicule and scolding, but also more likely to be punished by the imperial court.

When the Han Dynasty was built, although Emperor Taizu Gao went to worship the Confucian Temple in Qufu, he did not give Confucius the title like later monarchs.

Therefore, it is true that Confucius's status is respected, but in the final analysis, the Confucian family can only be regarded as a "scholar", and the shape of the Confucian temple must naturally be built in accordance with the specifications of the scholar's family temple.

The Confucian temple in front of Liu He is probably the "highest" family temple in the Han Empire, but it is still inevitably a little shabby.

He stood outside the door, with his hands behind his back, and did not speak for a long time, as if thinking about something.

Looking inside, you can see a portrait of Confucius on the wall in the middle - with long hair bent and crossed hands, with the demeanor of a teacher.

Through the smoke and smoke, Liu He was in a trance, feeling that the portrait of Confucius seemed to come to life.

At this time, Taixue Ling Wang Shi followed.

"I came in a hurry today, and I didn't bring sacrifices, but I still have to give a few pillars of incense to the saint, perform disciple gifts, and talk about my heart."

"No."

Wang Shi hurriedly ordered to go down, and the doctor Guan Tian Wang Sun brought three pillars of incense, lit them and presented them to the Son of Heaven.

Liu He took it, didn't say a word, and walked into the hall with his feet raised.

After three or two steps, he came to the tablet.

This tablet is two circles smaller than the tablet of Emperor Taizu Gao in the Gao Temple, but it is also carved in red seal script, and there are only a few words on it: "The Divine Seat of the Ancestor Confucius".

Simple and quaint.

Smelling the somewhat pungent smell of incense, Liu He thought of an interesting thing for no reason.

If the young Emperor Taizu Gao had met Confucius, would he have worshipped him as a teacher?

If you worship Confucius as a teacher, what kind of person will Emperor Taizu Gao become?

Perhaps, Emperor Taizu Gao will be a student like Zilu - he can not only protect Confucius, but also scold the sage to jump to his feet.

Thinking of this, Liu He was in front of the statue of Confucius in a regular manner, and made a student bow to the teacher.

This is from the heart, and it is also for those Confucian scholars and subordinate officials in the courtyard.

Throughout his life, Confucius had almost no relationship with power.

But it is ironic that his learning has now become a source of power.

There is no right or wrong in Confucius's learning, but later people used it in the wrong place, and Liu He wanted to return Confucianism to its rightful place and let it benefit the people of the Han Dynasty.

Because there were no sacrifices, Liu He's first sacrifice to Confucius ended hastily.

When he returned to the courtyard, he found that there was a different kind of respect in the eyes of the bustling subordinate officials and Confucian students.

Liu He stood under the eaves and cleared his throat.

The next thing he is going to say will cause an uproar here.

"Since ancient times, there have been many kings and sages in the world, and they were honored at that time, but they were gone."

"Although the ancestor Confucius was cloth, he has been passed down for more than ten generations, and the scholar Zongzhi. Since the prince of the Son of Heaven, the Chinese dialect of the six artists compromised with the master, which can be described as the most holy! ”

"I hereby issue an edict respecting Confucius as the most holy teacher of Dacheng, and entitle Confucius as the Marquis of Xuanni, and the title is the heir of Kong Anguo, the eleventh grandson of Confucius."

The Confucian scholars who stood at the front were the first to hear this edict.

They were stunned at first, but soon they blushed with excitement.

Then, the edict spread word of mouth and dispersed towards the crowd behind.

In a moment, the entire Taixue was completely boiling.

Whether it is to give Confucius the title of honorific title or to the Confucian family, it represents the respect of the Son of Heaven for Confucius.

As a Confucian student, of course, he is also honored.

Taixue Ling Wang Shi didn't expect that the Son of Heaven would be so "reckless" to edict, and originally wanted to dissuade the Son of Heaven so that he would not be in such a hurry.

But when he saw the excited faces of the young Confucian students in the courtyard, he secretly dispelled this thought.

Although the Son of Heaven has taken this step a little aggressively, it may be able to achieve miraculous results.

At this time, the wrestling between the Son of Heaven and Huo Guang came to a critical moment, and if he could get the support of Confucianism, it would definitely be beneficial and harmless.

Thinking of this, Wang Shi took a step forward and bowed down in front of the Son of Heaven.

"Your Majesty respects the teacher, and the saint is the best, it is really a model of my Confucianism, thank you for your grace!"

With this one leader, the rest of the people knew what to do, and they all fell to their knees and bowed to the Son of Heaven in thanksgiving.

"Zhongqing is flat." Liu He said calmly.

Wang Shi and the others maintained a posture of prostration, and after a while, they stood up.

Compared with just now, the atmosphere in this courtyard has eased a little.

"The deceased is like a husband, reluctant to give up day and night, all the doctors and disciples don't have to waste their time here, let's all go down and study."

"As for the officials of the counties, for a moment, I have a few words to ask you."

"No!" After several doctor officers led hundreds of doctor disciples to salute again, they walked towards the backyard one after another.

Soon, there were only more than 100 county officials left in the entire courtyard.

Among these county officials, there are both long histories and prime ministers, and they are all specifically responsible for the affairs of the county, so they are also called the chief officials.

They come to Chang'an twice a year – for the first year of the year and the report for September, and each time they stay for more than a month.

The nearby counties are fine, and the reckoners at least have time to rest; And the distant counties are suffering, and the officials are either in Chang'an City, or on the way to Chang'an City.

It is a chore to endure the wind and sun on the road, and to stay away from one's wife and children.

It is also a normal thing to want to complete the accounting and reporting as soon as possible and return to your hometown as soon as possible.

"Zhongqing has been tired of traveling, and this journey has been hard."

These officials have a low rank and almost never have seen the Son of Heaven, so they naturally don't know how close to the people they are today.

When they suddenly heard this greeting, they were all a little panicked, but fortunately Liu He stopped it in time, otherwise they would have fallen to their knees again.

"Zhongqing must have known yesterday that Prime Minister Ren Gong suddenly became seriously ill, and he can't verify the plans of the counties and countries this year for the time being."

"The prime minister fell ill suddenly, and the court had no way to deal with it for a while, so he could only wronged Zhongqing to copy books in this Taixue for the time being, and waited quietly while resting."

All the subordinate officials even said that they were not bitter, and they all obeyed the arrangement of the Son of Heaven.

"However, I have already thought about it, and this matter of accounting and reporting cannot be delayed, so I ......"

Liu He smiled.

"This matter of accounting and reporting will be handled by me personally, and the secretaries will see if this is feasible?"

This is the most important thing Liu He has to do when he comes to Taixue today. To control the local county, it is necessary to start with this matter of accounting and reporting.

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