Liu He silently turned around and walked back to the top and sat back on his couch.

"Elder Wei Ge, ruling the popular version of the scriptures and re-establishing the official school, this is an edict I issued a few months ago......"

"If you let me take back the edict at this moment, don't you want me to go back on my word, how can I behave in front of the people of the world?"

What Liu He decided, whether it was right or wrong, could never be taken back.

With the first time, there may be a second time, over and over again, where is the prestige?

"Your Majesty, but on the day of the debate, if Your Majesty can't calm the disputes between the various factions and come up with a result that convinces the public, it will damage the prestige of heaven." Wei Xian bowed a few points lower.

"Listening to Wei Ge's words, are you afraid that I will not learn enough and will not be able to judge the merits of the Qunjing, so that I will lose my authority to Confucianism and the world?" Liu He sneered.

Liu He not only laughed at this old Confucian self-righteousness, but also laughed at this old Confucian rat's eyes.

At this moment, he naively thought that Liu He was just going to "pick out a few Confucian scriptures and set them up as the popular version of the scriptures".

But in fact, Liu He wanted to use the "Thirteen Classics" that he copied silently to start anew and solve the problem once and for all.

In fact, there is a second half of the sentence of this "Confucianism of a hundred schools of thought, and Confucianism is a unique sect": "The unification of Confucianism belongs to the king"!

Wei Xian always knelt on the ground, so naturally he didn't see the cruel sneer of the Son of Heaven, he just went down to his own heart.

"Your Majesty, adjudicating the scriptures and re-establishing official studies are all major events, the great Confucians and sages in the world are complete, although Your Majesty is smart and sage, but when it comes to understanding the meaning of the scriptures, I'm afraid it ......"

"Huh? I was able to convince Wei Qing just now, can't I convince other Confucians? Liu He asked half-seriously, half-jokingly.

"Lao Chen is just a barnyard grass in this Confucian forest, the pearl of rice grains, how dare he shine, the Confucian giant doesn't know geometry?" Wei Xian still didn't dare to straighten up.

"Speaking of which, Wei Ge Lao is still afraid that I won't be able to win the great Confucian giants in this world?" Liu He stepped forward and asked.

"Your Majesty forgives your sins, the old man is blunt, Your Majesty will definitely not win!" Wei Xian said again.

"But what if I win?"

The Son of Heaven's extremely bland words once again attracted the eyes of everyone in the hall - together with Wei Xian, they all straightened their waists.

Except for the king style, there was surprise in everyone's eyes.

Although the Son of Heaven won Wei Xian's debate, he was already a talented person among his peers.

However, those Confucians who are not important ministers in the court are not as easy to deal with as Wei Xian.

Wei Xian served as an official in the court for decades, and although he was still a loyal believer in Confucianism, he was able to balance the relationship between practice and Bible reading.

Those great Confucians are different, they don't care whether the Son of Heaven will be angry or not, let alone whether the new policy can be implemented, and they will not consider a compromise.

If you want to force them to bow their heads and drink water, give up their own scriptures and use other people's scriptures, it is tantamount to asking for their lives, and they will definitely resist desperately.

These Confucians, like Xiahou Sheng, who scolded the Son of Heaven as a "tyrant" in the court, all regard the Confucian Classics as the root of their lives, and they will definitely fight with the Son of Heaven to the end.

The Son of Heaven argues with them, and there is no possibility of winning!

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, Your Majesty can't win." Wei Xian said calmly.

"I promised Wei Ge Lao that if I can't convince the great Confucians of the world, rule out the common scriptures, and establish a new official school, I will never mention the imperial examination system and the Zhen school system again!"

"Your Majesty is it serious?" There was a hint of ecstasy in Wei Xian's cloudy eyes, the Son of Heaven was too impulsive and immature to agree to this.

"You don't joke." Liu He replied without hesitation.

"Thank you......" Wei Xian, who was excited, was about to make a big gift of thanksgiving, but was immediately interrupted by Liu He.

"Elder Wei Ge, since I have made a heavy bet, you won't want to empty the glove white wolf, what bet do you want to bet on this game with me?" Liu He smiled slyly.

"Bet, bet?" Wei Xian was a little dazed, he never thought that he would be in this greenhouse hall where the monarchs and ministers discussed politics, and the words that would hang on his lips when he heard the splashing skin in the north of the city.

"There are no fathers and sons in the casino, and naturally there are no monarchs and ministers, Wei Ge Lao can't have been to the cockfighting liao in Beichengguo, right?"

The Son of Heaven began to rebel against Meng Lang again, and even compared the major events of the court to things like lackeys fighting cocks.

However, Wei Xian, who saw a glimmer of life, did not advise again, he stiffened his neck and said: "All the things of Weichen are given by Your Majesty, and Your Majesty wants Lao Chen to bet on what he wants, just give an order." ”

"Okay, Wei Ge Lao still has a youthful chivalrous spirit, I don't want anything else, if I can convince all the great Confucians, and adjudicate the popular version of the scriptures......"

"Then ask Wei Ge Lao to serve as the chief examiner of the first national examination and select talents for me, what do you think?"

This is another murderous plot by Liu He, Wei Xian is the person with the highest status in the court of Confucianism - the official position and rank surpass Gong Sui and Wang Shi.

Moreover, Wei Xian's opposition to the imperial examination system, the Xuan school system, and the popular version of the scriptures will soon spread, and he will become a benchmark for the opposition.

If Wei Xian is the chief examiner of the national examination and selects talents according to the imperial examination system, it will be a very symbolic thing.

It's like turning the opponent's vanguard into his own minions, and he doesn't know how many enemies he can recruit.

Wei Xian naturally saw the thoughts of the Son of Heaven, but his words had already been released, and there was no possibility of taking them back.

He thought that the Son of Heaven would never have any hope of winning, so he gritted his teeth and agreed to the Son of Heaven's request on the spot.

Zhang Anshi, who was on the side, as the chief scholar of the cabinet, should have stood up to persuade the Son of Heaven not to take risks, but in the end, he only symbolically asked the Son of Heaven to think twice, and he didn't say much.

He hoped that the young and vigorous Son of Heaven would suffer a big loss on Rulin's body.

Maybe after suffering this loss, then the majesty of the Son of Heaven will decrease slightly, and it will be easier to listen to their advice, right?

Bingji and Liu De also had the same thoughts, so the entire cabinet remained eerily quiet and calm.

On the contrary, it was Gong Sui and Su Wuqing, who were foreign court officials, who sincerely admonished the Son of Heaven and asked the Son of Heaven to first explain the joint with the Great Confucian in private, and strive to gain their support.

Of course, this request was rejected by Liu He: it was just a waste of time, and there was no room for argument.

"As for the process of debate, I have to think about it again, and after it is decided, I will naturally tell Wei Ge Lao and all Aiqing."

As a result, this very small court meeting ended in the atmosphere of "each with a ghost", and the courtiers who participated in the court meeting left the greenhouse hall after saluting the Son of Heaven with different expressions.

After a while, only Liu He and Wang Shi were left in this greenhouse hall.

Wang Shi stayed, naturally because Wang Shi was the military advisor and vanguard general that the Son of Heaven relied on in this battle - they still had many things to discuss.

……

Liu He sat on the couch, and after watching the rest of the people leave the courtyard of the greenhouse hall, he finally looked at Wang Shi with a more peaceful gaze.

This old man has had a lot of vicissitudes than before, and it seems that during the period when Liu He pacified cholera, Wang Shi did not work less.

The king style, who is too old, has put all his efforts into the matter of proofreading the popular version of the scriptures, and he is worthy of being a marquis.

"Wang Fu, after the news of today's events of the veteran Wei Ge is spread, I am afraid that the great Confucians will regard me as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh." Liu He laughed and laughed at himself.

"Your Majesty, there is a sentence just now that is extremely true......" Wang Shi Zhengse said.

"Which sentence?"

"Whether it's Confucianism or Confucianism, I still want to do something for this world in my heart." Wang Shi nodded and said.

"So Wang Fu means ......"

"Those Confucianism and senior citizens are indeed very tricky, but ordinary Confucian scholars may not be unwilling to practice this imperial examination system, maybe they are the same as the Son of Heaven thinks." Wang Shi explained.

Liu He was silent, he understood that what Wang Shi said was true, if the Confucian scholars in the world were really like a monolith, how could there be many schools?

In the original timeline, Confucianism, or scripture, completed the final convergence and unification, which was also dominated by the imperial power.

"Just to do this, Your Majesty may have to take some risks......" Wang Shi said with some desolation, and there was worry in his words that could not be hidden.

"What risk?"

"If this matter fails, your majesty's majesty will be damaged; If Your Majesty wins, I am afraid that he will be infamous as 'burning books and pit Confucianism'. ”

Liu He chewed on Wang's words, and involuntarily turned his gaze to the palace gate.

Sitting here and looking out, only a narrow stretch of the sky could be seen in the upper part of the temple gate—the rest was obscured by the eaves of the palace wall in the distance.

In the past, Liu He felt that this Weiyang Palace was like a huge prison, but now that he looks at it, it is more like a bottomless dry well.

The clear blue sky as far as the eye can see is the mouth of the dry well.

When he did not enter this dry well, Liu He would also fantasize about leaving a good reputation in the history books, at least later people would give him a temple name.

But sitting in a dry well for a long time, the world outside the well is already another world, what does it have to do with the square inch of land in this well?

As for Weimo's posthumous affairs and posthumous name, it is even more irrelevant.

The first emperor swept Liuhe and unified the Central Plains; The book is the same text, the car is the same track; fixed weights and measures, county system; Build the Great Wall......

In just a few decades, I have done an unknown number of things for the world.

But in the thousands of years that followed, I don't know how many people cursed the First Emperor as a tyrant!

It wasn't until Confucianism and Confucianism really declined that the First Emperor got his name - the First Emperor could be righted, so why should Liu He be afraid.

"Does Wang Fu really think that the people of the world will say that I am a tyrant?" Liu He asked.

"At least some people would say that." Wang Shi replied truthfully.

"Those who know my sins are the only ones who have spring and autumn." Liu He once again gave his own answer in one sentence from Zhong Ni.

"Your Majesty forgives the old minister for vain his holy will." Wang Shi hurriedly thanked, he heard the determination and courage of the Son of Heaven, and he was very moved.

"Wang Fu, this debate is like leading troops into battle, you are my military advisor and vanguard, I want to hear you talk about the current battle situation." Liu He brought the topic back to the topic.

"Your Majesty can train you, and the old decay must know everything." Wang Shi replied.

"I want to know now, who are my enemies?" Liu He asked.

Liu He knew that the enemy he faced was the great Confucianism of the world, and he also knew that the great Confucianism of the world was divided into various factions, but the history books of later generations recorded very little about this, and he could not see the whole picture clearly.

"Does Your Majesty want to know the outline, or do you want to know the details?" Wang Shi smiled.

"Concise and to the point, it is naturally best." Liu He replied.

"The old man understands, I'm afraid it can't be said in a few words, the old man wants His Majesty to give tea." Wang Shi suddenly straightened the way.

Ask for a full order!

(End of chapter)