"Wei Ge Lao just said conclusively that among the officials, craftsmen, farmers, and lawyers, there are no talents...... This seems a bit arbitrary. ”

"I thought that the arithmetic was a Confucian, the craftsman was a Confucian, the farmer was a Confucian, and the merchant was a Confucian, so this official could naturally be a Confucian."

"Since Confucianism can play a role in supporting people's hearts and educating people, it should not escape from the world, nor should it exclude the three religions and nine streams......

"Instead, we should turn everyone in the world into Confucianism, and classify all the learnings of a hundred schools into Confucianism."

Speaking of this, Liu He paused for a moment, and after letting the several courtiers present chew on these few words, he continued to focus on it.

"In the past, Dong Zi put forward the theory of 'deposing a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone', which was deafening, and the aftermath was still there, so that the Han Dynasty could be unified."

"But looking at it today, I think that Dong Zi's remarks are a bit narrow-minded, and there are still merits in the study of a hundred schools......"

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on the Son of Heaven, and everyone didn't expect the Son of Heaven to depreciate Dong Zi's remarks, is there anything surprising?

Even Wei Xian, who had already been impressed by the Son of Heaven's Talent School, became a little angry again, and his face, which had finally turned white, began to turn red again.

Under his anger, he had some fear, he was afraid that the Son of Heaven would blurt out the tyrannical remarks of "no longer respecting Confucianism alone".

If such a thing really happened, Wei Xian was ready to die - he would die in this hall on the spot!

However, Tian Tian did not give him a chance to be martyred, and what the Son of Heaven said next made Wei Xian feel surprised and happy.

"That's why I think that 'depose a hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone' should be changed to 'a hundred schools of thought converge and Confucianism alone'!"

These eight words were subtle and meaningful, and as soon as they came out, they made all the courtiers in this palace refreshed.

The Son of Heaven does not want to abolish the hundred schools, but to put the hundred schools into Confucianism, so that the hundred schools of thought will become branches of Confucianism!

If it is said that "overthrow the hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone" solves the problems of the present and the future.

Then "a hundred schools of thought, a single sect of Confucianism" can solve the problems of the past.

The concept of "overthrowing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" has only been put forward for a few decades, which has made the status of Confucianism in the court and the people improve rapidly, but the hundred schools of thought are declining day by day.

As a later generation, Liu He naturally knew that in the original timeline, Confucianism eventually occupied a firm position at all levels of society, almost unshakable.

But for those who grew up in the present, they can't see this - they can't imagine that Confucianism will later become a behemoth beyond the power of the monarchy.

Because in the previous hundreds of years, what they saw was that hundreds of schools of thought took turns on the stage - Confucianism was not outstanding.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, during the Great Qin Dynasty, the Legalists were in charge, and in the first hundred years of the Han Dynasty, it was Huang Lao Taoism, and it was only in these decades that Confucianism was respected.

In this way, the time for Confucianism to dominate is actually the shortest.

This is also the reason why Wei Xian stood up and risked his life to admonish.

The great Confucians of the world are also worried that the Son of Heaven will take away the respected status of Confucianism by another edict.

After all, the strength of the Legalists, Taoists, Yin-Yang Families, and Soldier Families is still very strong, and the rest of the families still have more or less some supporters.

Even if it is the most declining Mo family, isn't there still a relic like a ranger, and isn't it still regarded as an ancestor by lowly and ordinary craftsmen?

The Son of Heaven now proposes that "a hundred schools of thought converge, a unique sect of Confucianism", naturally to absorb the essence of a hundred schools of thought into Confucianism, and use Confucianism to interpret and split the study of a hundred schools.

Compared with "deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", this new measure is softer but more powerful, and it can gradually digest the other schools in silence.

If you want to swallow up the other families, you should accommodate the supporters of the other families and become more enlightened.

Therefore, it is necessary to integrate these people into Confucianism, rather than excluding them.

In fact, this was not Liu He's first creation, in the following one or two thousand years, Confucianism also absorbed some ideas of the hundred schools, forming metaphysics, mind and science, and even Neo-Confucianism.

And now, hasn't Confucianism also integrated the theory of the Yin and Yang family's yin and yang catastrophe into the Confucian classics?

It's just that Liu He feels that the process should be faster, and the content and gist of absorbing and accommodating should be more pragmatic.

In addition, there is another layer of meaning that cannot be said, on the other hand, this Confucianism has become like this, can it still be called Confucianism - this is also the process of dissolving Confucianism.

On the other side, Wei Xian also figured out the joints, and saw the big game of chess played by the Son of Heaven even more clearly.

He suddenly felt that his resistance just now was somewhat ridiculous: it seemed that he was short-sighted, and the Son of Heaven was not so crazy.

It is no wonder that when the Son of Heaven mentioned the imperial examination just now, he required candidates in each subject to take an additional Ming Jing based on Confucianism.

It turned out to force everyone to learn the Confucian scriptures.

In the past, the supporters of other factions wanted to be out of office, but they couldn't, so they simply didn't go out.

Now, the supporters of the other factions have the bait of the scholars, and they will also learn from Confucianism appropriately.

The Son of Heaven is so far-sighted, the luck of the world, the luck of Confucianism.

Although there was a lot of recognition for the Son of Heaven in his heart, Wei Xian still kept a straight face and did not smile.

"Elder Wei Ge, do you still have any questions?" Liu He asked.

"Your Majesty is from a commanding height, and the old ministers can't catch up with it, and the old ministers of this imperial examination system and the Xuan school system think that there are merits."

"And 'a hundred schools of thought, a unique sect of Confucianism' is even more far-sighted, Your Majesty is proficient in Confucianism, is a contemporary Confucian."

"I offended Tianyan just now, please condemn Your Majesty!" After Wei Xian finished speaking, he finally bent down his straight waist and knelt on the ground to salute the Son of Heaven and plead guilty.

Liu He finally forced Wei Xian to admit defeat and bow his head, but he didn't feel any joy - Wei Xian still had something to say.

Wei Xian praised the 'confluence of a hundred schools of thought, the only sect of Confucianism', but he still had reservations about the Xuan school system and the imperial examination system.

Saying that "there are merits in the imperial examination system and the Xuan school system", that is, there are still undesirable points?

This old thief is really hateful and difficult.

Liu He thought about it silently, and soon understood where the problem was—the problem with the popular version of the scriptures!

"Elder Wei Ge doesn't have to ask for guilt, I said it, no one is guilty here today." Liu He pretended to be afraid and said calmly.

"Your Majesty is far-sighted, and the old man is convinced, but the old man still has one more thing about this imperial examination system and education system, and I want to ask Your Majesty to think twice."

"What?" Liu He said indifferently.

"Ruling on the matter of the passage of the scriptures, I hope that Your Majesty will withdraw the edict." Wei Xian bowed down again and said.

A few months ago, when Liu He first tried the imperial examination system in Chang'an City, he issued an edict to rule on the popular version of the scriptures.

When Liu He proposed this proposal, it caused an uproar among the Confucian scholars, many of whom strongly opposed it.

If it weren't for that, Liu He took advantage of Xiahou Sheng's "slander of Emperor Xiaowu" to arrest a batch of virtuous literature in the court.

I'm afraid the Confucian scholars will make a big fuss.

It seems that this is the last obstacle to the implementation of the imperial examination system and the school system.

It was not ordinary Confucian scholars who opposed this, but famous Confucians, and even Confucians.

The main reason why the great Confucians in the world were reluctant to let the Son of Heaven rule on the popular version of the scriptures was that they were worried about losing the right to interpret the scriptures.

In today's Han Dynasty, although those who are appointed as doctoral officials are called official schools, the spread of private learning is still very strong.

It can even be said that private learning is stronger than official learning - private learning has spread widely enough that the imperial court has to establish it as an official school.

Moreover, these schools of thought that were established as official schools only had a certain symbolic meaning, but they did not have an actual impact on the government.

However, if the Son of Heaven ruled that the scriptures were to be published, things would have changed completely—the status of the official school would have risen rapidly and would have begun to influence the government more directly.

The county schools, county schools, and Taixue teach the common version of the scriptures; The imperial examination system is also a popular version of the scriptures.

In this way, where will the Confucian students in the world learn the scriptures of various schools of private learning?

Not to mention that Confucian students can still receive a few hours of corn a month in the school, which is also very attractive.

With the blessing of the Zhen school system, the imperial examination system, and the corn system, the popular version of the scriptures will become official learning in the true sense.

It is estimated that it will not be long before the rest of the sects will gradually disappear into recklessness, except for those official schools that have been designated as the popular version of the scriptures.

And once the various schools and factions of private learning disappear, how can those schools that have been established as official schools still be able to compete with the Son of Heaven?

The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook; The swallows are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden.

Without the need for checks and balances in private schools, the various schools and factions that have been established as government schools will lose their value.

When the time comes, won't Confucianism and Confucianism be left to the Son of Heaven to manipulate and use?

So what's the difference with an internal officer?

Therefore, Wei Xian opposed the "common version of the scriptures", but in fact opposed "the use of the common version of the scriptures as the standard for the selection of scholars for the imperial examination".

The test can be tested, and the learning of a hundred schools of thought can be added, but not just one Confucianism, Confucianism must bloom within a hundred flowers, and all schools and factions must share the right to interpret the scriptures together!

As long as the Son of Heaven does not have the popular version of the scriptures in his hands, then it is impossible for him to control Confucianism and Confucianism in his hands!

From Wei Xian's point of view, he is very proficient in the "Five Classics", and he studied under the great Confucian Jiang Gong, and is the great Confucian who governed the "Lu Poems".

And "Lu Shi" has now been established as an official school, so the possibility that the "Lu Shi" that Wei Xian learned is ruled to be a popular version of the scriptures.

However, for the long-term benefit of Confucianism, Wei Xian still had to obstruct the Son of Heaven.

Wei Xian's resolute opposition naturally made Liu He very displeased!

He didn't immediately respond to the other party's request, but let him kneel on the ground. (End of chapter)