At this moment, the temple examination has ended.

After attending Cao Chao's banquet, the scholars left separately and waited for news.

Cao Chao was in charge of checking the recital they finally handed in.

This is the first time they have presented the emperor to the table, and it cannot be said that they are not serious.

But before Cao Chao had time to read this, he got several explosive news.

The first is the death of Xiahouba.

For this, Cao Chao can only express regret.

He actually wanted to take this old man back and let him live in his hometown, but unfortunately, he was already old, and he was riddled with illness, so it was not easy to persist until now.

Then there was the death of Chen Qi.

Cao Chao was quite surprised to learn the news, he knew that Chen Qi did not live long, but it seemed to be earlier than he remembered.

Is it because the situation in Shu is more dangerous now than it was at the beginning, and he needs to do more?

Cao Chao let out a long sigh and shook his head.

Although he was happy about Chen Yi's death, he was also a little regretful.

This person is also a talent, although being close to Huang Hao left a notoriety, and is generally considered by later generations to be the culprit that led to Huang Hao's rise to power, but Cao Chao feels that this is somewhat wronged.

Huang Hao's position was not given by Chen Qi, even if Chen Qi didn't befriend Huang Hao, he would suppress and attack him everywhere, would Liu Chan kill Huang Hao for Chen Qi?

On the contrary, Liu Chan likes Chen Qi because he never makes trouble for himself, and he plays well with his henchmen, Huang Hao says good things about Chen Yi in his ear every day, which allows Chen Yi to stabilize the situation.

If Chen Qi wanted to execute Huang Hao regardless of it, so that the monarchs and ministers were jealous of each other, then the Shu Kingdom would perish faster.

Huang Hao's power can't be relied on Chen Yi's head, it can be said that he was derelict in his duty and failed to get rid of this thief, but his later successors, including Jiang Wei, also failed to get rid of this person?

Even after his death, they couldn't even do it.

The death of Xiahou Ba only made Shu one less Jiangling who could serve as the commander, and Chen Qi's death basically caused the stable situation of Shu to collapse directly.

Although Shu originally had a struggle between localists and outsiders, and there was also an endless debate on the issue of the Northern Expedition internally, but relatively speaking, their struggle was not so open, at least in the temple, they were relatively peaceful, but after Chen Qi's death, the eunuchs took power, and many issues suddenly became intense.

Liu Chan's extreme favor for eunuchs put everyone in danger, and the scholars began to feel disappointed in Liu Chan's rule and confused about the future.

At the time of the fall of the Shu Kingdom, among the new triumvirates in the temple of the other party, except for Zhuge Zhan, Fan Jian and Dong Ju both chose to surrender.

Another thing, Jiang Wei also lost supporters in the DPRK.

His relationship with Huang Hao will become more and more stiff, until a few years later, he asked Huang Hao to be executed, and then the conflict between the two sides was completely made public, and Huang Hao was ready to support someone else to replace Jiang Wei, Jiang Wei did not dare to return to Chengdu

After reading the news, Cao Chao sighed and put the paperwork aside.

Zhang Hua and Guo Zhi stood in front of him separately.

Zhang Hua had a smile on his face, and he could see that the things he and Liu Lu should have done very smoothly.

Zhang Hua looked at the documents that were put aside by Cao Chao, and then said: "After Chen Qi's death, Huang Hao will definitely not let go of this opportunity, and the government affairs of Shu will fall into the hands of the eunuchs from now on, and they will no longer be the opponents of Great Wei." ”

Cao Chao shook his head and said disdainfully: "The decline of Shu has something to do with Huang Hao, but it's not all because of him, Huang Hao is just a slave who came to the throne through flattery, in the final analysis, he just helped Liu Chan do what Liu Chan wanted to do." ”

"After he ascended the throne, he dismissed and exiled those ministers who were not close to him, and promoted his own people, and which of the people he promoted was not close to the emperor?"

"Liu Chan wants a group of people who won't annoy themselves, won't advise all day long, write books, and talk about governance, if Huang Hao doesn't have Liu Chan's nod, can he make such a personnel transfer?"

Cao Chao concluded: "Speaking of which, this is still because of Liu Chan's problem. ”

Zhang Hua and Guo Zhi naturally agreed with this statement.

Cao Chao didn't pay attention to this matter anymore, Chen Qi's death was just the beginning, the road to destruction had just begun, there was no need to keep an eye on it, I had to believe that Huang Hao could still do more work.

Cao Chao looked at the many tables on the side again.

In the previous palace examination, Cao Chao mainly did two things.

Further spread the influence of Wang Xue, and at the same time see if these young scholars can come up with some understanding of their own.

Cao Chao barely achieved these two goals.

First of all, Wang Xue, the scholars who can go to the palace to test here are almost all from top families, and their classic ability is undoubted, besides, as a younger generation, they have a stronger ability to accept, after a short period of viewing Wang Su's re-annotated Taixuan, these people suddenly boiled.

Some of them even affected their performance in the exam because of this.

But they all thought it was worth it.

They were also very curious about this classic, but they never had a chance, and they didn't expect that the palace examination would become such a good opportunity.

Cao Chao also looked at their faces.

Wang Su is the first Confucian of the Great Wei Dynasty at this moment, his knowledge is called Wang Xue, and Zheng Xuan is alongside, no one is his opponent, even if Du Pre grew up to the peak, he became a great scholar, he wrote "Spring and Autumn Zuo's Classics Collection Explanation".

This book is also a hodgepodge, but unlike Wang Su, Du Pre's hodgepodge mainly absorbs many Confucian classics.

The level and influence of the pure classics are worse than those of Wang Su.

In addition, Du Pre's behavior of blending multiple classics, rearranging and fabricating them is very similar to Wang Su, and it is difficult not to doubt whether Du Pre was influenced by Wang Su in the process of governing the scriptures.

Although the academic theories of the two sides are different, even Wang Su was partially influenced by Zheng Xuan, and it is almost impossible for Du Su not to be affected.

Every generation of scholars will learn from the experience of their predecessors, and even if you want to oppose it, you have to read and learn first.

Du pre-governed the classics when he was old and idle, and now he has not yet reached the point where he can delve into them, and the rest of the scholars, such as those buddies in the bamboo forest, speaking of which, their talents in poetry and writing are higher, and the classics are actually a little difficult to even annotate Taixuan.

Wang Su's level represents the strongest level of today's Great Wei.

Take his knowledge to these hairy boys, it's a dimensionality reduction blow, and you want to refute it?? Let's go and understand Taixuan first.

They quickly became obsessed with what was in it.

The greatest role of Wang Xue is to solve the confusion in the hearts of scholars.

As strong as Du Zhu, his heart is actually very complicated, he adheres to Confucian doctrine and morality, but he can't use that set of doctrines to verify what he sees, so he finally tries to explain it himself.

Wang Su directly used the third and nine praises to untie the knot in their hearts.

This is really a sharp weapon, Cao Chao can see the ecstatic look on the faces of those scholars, and the recital they handed in is also very interesting.

Some people feel that the great unification should be completed as soon as possible, so that the great unification can see the peaceful world.

Some people think that the income of temples should be increased and the amount of arable land in the world should be increased, so that we can see the peaceful world.

Some people feel that they should be summoned to continue their studies, and only the scriptures can lead them to see the peaceful world.

These recitals, to be honest, are not ordinarily big compared to Shangshutai's recitals.

However, Cao Chao was overjoyed.

Finally, these people no longer say that they should live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, or that everyone should take care of their own absurd things!

Even if it's the classics, it says that the classics should be studied, right? As long as you do things, you are pragmatic!

Cao Chao liked these pragmatic answers very much.

He looked at the recital on the side, and the smile on his face never disappeared.

The third year of Zhengyuan was really a very good year for Cao Chao, everything went very smoothly, and after paying the price of a large number of officials' lives in the previous two years, this year finally came to work.

This shows that Da Wei's carriage has been pulled out of the quagmire and is back on the right path.

And Wang Su pointed in a direction for everyone.

Looking at the smile on the emperor's face, Zhang Hua couldn't help but feel happy.

When Cao Chao put down another table, Zhang Hua said: "Your Majesty, after those scholars went out, they all talked about the new content of the Taixuan Sutra with their close friends, Luoyang was shocked, everyone wanted to get the book, and Zhong Gong's mansion was even robbed!" ”

"Now almost all the scholars are talking about these three worlds, and they all hope that the prince will come forward and tell everyone about this knowledge."

Cao Chao laughed.

"Okay, what about the attitude of the ministers?"

Zhang Hua said: "The prince said before that these studies were sorted out by the ministers and written by him, so the ministers were very happy."

Cao Chao shook his head, "Just rewarding Situ Gong, even if they are happy now, they will definitely have opinions in the future, and they can reward the rest of the ministers again, I just hope that they can help the prince build momentum, all the ministers involved in this matter have sent a set of books, telling them that they are not allowed to go out, even the children of the family, it is best not to pass it on." ”

Zhang Hua laughed and hurriedly said yes.

At this moment, part of Wang Xue's content has been passed out, and this part of it alone has already caused fierce controversy.

The Bamboo Forest brothers couldn't bear it anymore, and they had begun to take the initiative to find this classic at this moment.

Cao Chao finally put his mind at ease, this Wang Xue's matter, there is no need to think of a way by himself, and then he will hand it over to Pei Xiu to handle it slowly, you have to believe in Pei Xiu's ability, although this person looks out of tune, but the operation is really good, and he lives up to his name.

Next, it's time to draw up a new goal.

Destroy Shu.