The early morning in Luoyang is like this, when the day is not dawn, the husband of each square will ring the bell to announce the dawn, and the big fang where the noble doctors and doctors gather in Buguangli is even more early to ring.

The groom should prepare the horse and the saddle, the maid should prepare hot water and medicine, and the head of the house should get up and clean his face and clear his mouth, and enter the forbidden court. The man under the stove and the girl who burns the fire should also prepare food such as porridge and cakes, so that the master of the house will not lose his honor in the temple.

Of course, the officials must take care of everything before the rooster cries into the palace, and wait in front of the palace gate. In front of several city gates in Luoyang, they were almost crowded with people.

Outside the Guangyang Gate are large and small convoys transporting grain, rice, firewood, and licensed goods from Zhuzhou and counties; outside the Kaiyang Gate, there are officials and scholars who want to enter Luo, and white-bodied scholars with innocent family backgrounds; Xiaoyuan Gate has always been a place where mules, horses, cattle and sheep and other meat animals walk; and it is also a special point in Xiaoxianmen, where only the so-called "filthy meat" that nobles refuse to eat, such as dung trucks and pigs and dogs, pass here.

But today, in front of the city gates, there is something different.

Thanks to the auspicious tide of the past two days, waves of rumors have been spreading unstoppably. Whether it is an old man selling vegetables or a charcoal driver, when he sees acquaintances, he can't help but gossip. The topic is naturally the boiling strange things that have been spread in the past two days.

"I saw it with my own eyes, and that day when the sky was bright, there was an old gentleman in high-crowned ancient costumes who walked into the Luoyang Office with a few beautiful waiters. A jade bi was planted in the hall, and soon you will know that auspicious clouds fell from the sky, and a big melon was born in the Luoyang Department. It's amazing, this is the god who took the immortal melon from overseas that the old immortal family was born in peace, the Son of Heaven ate it, prolonged his life for three hundred years, and the traitor ate it, and he wore his intestines and rotted his stomach!"

"There is an old man in the palace with a bow Changzhang, who feels that he is a neighbor of the heavenly family, and he has a decent old man, and he also salivates and begs for a piece of melon to eat. Eat this, guess what? Diarrhea vomited blood and ran out of the stomach, and it has been carried back to the house, I can't say, there are only a few days left to live!"

"You ask me how I know, do you know that the Yue family of the third son of Xiao Ke's uncle is a doctor sitting in the horse market, and he went to Zhang's Mansion to ask for a consultation, can this matter be fake?"

"Your uncle's third son's Yue family is obviously the Niu doctor who treats Niu Ma in the horse market, and the Zhang Mansion has its own imperial doctor to serve you, so what do you want your old Niu doctor to see!"

"Look, people who have lived in the capital for a long time just don't know how to do it, right? Zhang Mansion also has a few sweaty and bloody horses from the Western Regions, and there is no living cow and horse doctor like my uncle's uncle's father-in-law, who is here to take care of the BMW in his house?"

"Master Ma, your uncle's father-in-law, the third son-in-law, doesn't dare to claim to be the ancestor of Doctor Niu Ma alive, right?"

...... Xiaoyuanmen, which is adjacent to the horse market, is so lively, and Guangyangmen is not far behind. In such a year, whether it is the establishment faction of the merchant gang or the guerrilla faction of the wandering merchants, they are all bold and far-sighted characters, and among the characters who are so prosperous, there is not the shadow of those Shixun clans in Nanyang standing behind them.

Although Qin used the policy of Shang Ying, and the merchants were the people of Su Feng, they were not allowed to be knights. However, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Nanyang Dajia lost financial resources to help Liu Xiuxing restore the Han Dynasty, and the status of merchants has also improved. In this era, most of the Han scholars who could not study and the hopeless concubines who inherited their family business were engaged in business.

These businessmen, who are more or less familiar with Confucianism, look at the auspicious tide in Luoyang City, and have a deeper vision than those ordinary people under the capital.

It is said that on the day of auspicious heavens, in addition to Jiahe and Jiagua, there are also several white jasmine plants in the Western Regions that are born in Ruiying......

"Before Emperor Xiaoxuan ascended the throne, there were insects eating leaves in Shanglin Yuan, and a five-character proverb had been established for Gongsun Disease. As a result, wasn't the one who wrote the book to talk about the proverb still beheaded on the charge of bewitching the public......"

"That's purely because the scholar is not well educated, Gongsun, the grandson of Liu Gong, but what does Gongsun say that he should be the emperor, not a nerd?"

"But you are not good at learning? ”

"A few of you are really bold, and you are not afraid that you will commit any taboos of big people when you talk about it?"

The businessman is rich but has no real reputation, and the word prudence is firmly in his heart. However, the children of those families who studied Taixue outside the Kaiyang Gate had a different style.

Compared with the later generations of the country's eunuchs, because the selection rules of the imperial examination system have been set, they are not very important, and even gradually become a training base for miscellaneous officials. In the Han Dynasty, Taixue was a clear place for the country to store materials and gather the world's talents, and there were faint hints of small Hanlin and small science in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Except for a few eldest sons of the big clans who can rely on their family background and Qing Dynasty to taste, they directly took the road of inspection and conquest, and most of the children of the family want to get ahead, and they have to go through the level of Taixue study. After all, it is much easier for a student to become an official in the county or a general, a general or a subordinate to a high-ranking official such as a general or a third duke.

Therefore, in examining the morale of the Han Dynasty, that is, the students of these bureaucratic reservists were the most conspicuous in all political activities---writing and knocking, and doing whatever was easy to attract attention. In a sense, the group of Tai students is the biggest mouthpiece of the party that connects the court, the scholars and the people.

Today is still Zhao's old store, and there is still such a group of students, and the atmosphere is three points more dignified than in the past. Not for anything else, just to teach in today's Taixue, not to talk about anything else, but to talk about Dong Zhongshu's "Three Strategies for Heaven and Man"-

Although later generations have been calling for Dong Zhongshu to be criticized since Song Confucianism, coupled with the black account of "deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", in the end, he directly stepped on this Han Confucian leader who likes to set up an altar to attract dragons and seek rain, and said that he was a Confucian master but was more like a Taoist leader. However, Dong Zhongshu's theory of "sympathy between heaven and man" has been inherited and followed by the Confucian-born civil and official group for thousands of years and refuses to relax even a little.

Needless to say, now that the Three Gorges Dam is being built, there are also a group of celebrities who are full of the smell of zombies, shouting warnings about disasters and accidents, which shows that this set of theories is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has strong vitality.

The civil officials and scholars have a blue eye for Dong Zhongshu's theory, and they do not really have a preference for ghosts and gods and mysterious things, just because in the entire long feudal era, the authority of the emperor has become more and more perfect with the centralized system, so that the civil officials and scholars no longer have the relative freedom of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. As a result, the sympathy between heaven and man, the emperor has the Tao auspicious Rui in the world, and the emperor has no way to disasters occur frequently, this theory has become the only weapon to restrict the imperial power of the civil officials and scholars.

This is also the fundamental motivation of the great Confucians of the Han Dynasty who were often enthusiastic about the creation of weft books and diagrams in addition to governing the scriptures. There is no other reason than that the civil and official clique must grasp the right to interpret the "will of heaven."

However, if a set of theories wants to really become a noose to restrain imperial power, the pseudo-believers who rely on this theory are far from succeeding. The liars who go to the rivers and lakes deceive people, and they also pay attention to one who deceives himself first, and then deceives others. Han Confucianism talked about the catastrophe of the Wei Wei and deceived a few faint monarchs, and it is true that there are British masters such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, and they are inevitably a little suspicious of this thing, but throughout the Han Dynasty, the most enthusiastic about this set of theology are the Confucian scholars themselves.

Turning over the thick history of the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, in addition to the peasant uprising, there is also a very strange and endless branch, called the Confucian Rebellion. For no other reason, many old Confucian students who have studied the Wei Wei all their lives accidentally obtained a book of partial doors, and got some of the above prophecies of "who will be the king", so they immediately regarded it as an oracle from heaven, and happily publicly established themselves as emperors. Of course, such a foolish emperor was like those rural kingdoms that were exterminated by the police in the later generations, and they were basically suppressed by the local pavilion chiefs and villagers.

Even so, it also shows how the Han Confucian's habit of talking about disasters has been deeply rooted in his bones.

This is not a popular and fancy divination game such as horoscopes and fortune palaces played by young people in later generations. If the horoscope weekly and master's divination programs in later generations say that Mars is guilty of the Aries Palace, which is very unlucky, the prime minister from Hefei should step down and get out. Not to mention that this show will be taken down immediately, even the audience deeply feels that they have encountered the magic stick of the cult, and they have to spit to get rid of the filth.

However, at this moment, the Han Dynasty has to have such a trillion as the guest star is too micro and the city gate is full of Chiquan, which will provoke the panic of the people and the discussion of Shilin, not to mention that the prime minister will get out of power, even if he is the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, he must also avoid the court to show his piety.

In such an atmosphere, the strange auspicious tide appeared wave after wave, for the ordinary people who were not literate and literate, the auspicious birth was just three more points of surprise, three points of surprise, and the rest was just a conversation. Xiangrui is a thing that the emperor's heavenly family values, but it may not have any positive significance for ordinary households.

But for the courtiers in the court, the Confucian scholars in the scholars, this auspicious wholesale that came out of thin air, brought suspicion and fear.

Today, the person who talks about the "Three Strategies of Heaven and Man" in Taixue is a member of the Yuan family of Runan, a famous family of scriptures, surnamed Zhang Mingjin, and also holds the official title of Doctor of the Five Classics of Taichang Temple.

Most of the doctors of the Five Classics like Zhang Jin are extremely respectful of etiquette and humility, and Confucius Ziyun "can't cut properly, don't eat", and "don't eat and don't sleep", and this kind of place is really inappropriate with orthodox scholars and doctors like Doctor of the Five Classics.

Don't say that at this time, it was the Northern Song Dynasty Bianliang in later generations, and it was still an unseemly matter for a Zhengtu scholar with status to buy food from a wine shop to entertain guests.

However, now that the morale has been destroyed by the party prison twice, it has become a big deterioration, and it is not uncommon for the Doctor of the Five Classics to enter a liquor shop to drink for fun.

In terms of age, Zhang Jin is not too old, he is in his thirties, and his demeanor is not bad, and he always maintains a three-point smile on his face, which makes people feel amiable at first sight. He sat in the middle of the wine shop, looked around, and said with a smile: "Li Sheng, Fan Sheng, today you are the east, I will ask you for a glass of wine." ”