Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 844 Another Battlefield (4)

   Just when Fei Qian had not found the specific solutions to the previous problems, a new problem appeared in front of Fei Qian.

   Moriyama's school has a problem.

It's not about incidents such as beating and scolding students that are easily caused by the uproar. Such problems in later generations were absolutely impossible in the Han Dynasty. The teachers in the Han Dynasty had to be noble, but the masters in the Han Dynasty had the full right to choose, and they could choose to teach or not to teach.

  Naughty students do not exist at all. In the Han Dynasty, the status of knowledge was lofty. If someone didn't want to learn it, there would naturally be a lot of people rushing to learn it.

   Instead, there were some disputes and even mutual attacks in terms of Confucian classics.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the inheritance of knowledge was very difficult. In addition, the usage of words before the Spring and Autumn Period was quite different from that of the Han Dynasty, just like people in the 1970s never knew the word "囧". The extended meaning of the word "囧", and the post-90s and post-00s don't even know the original meaning of the word "囧". Those awkward and cryptic articles in ancient times were converted into a way that was easier for Han people to understand. This is the root of the differences in scriptures.

  Especially after Confucian classics became Chinese studies.

  If you don’t study the scriptures, how can you gain a foothold in the court?

  After Fei Qian arrived in the Han Dynasty, he realized that the so-called "burning books and burying Confucianism" and "respecting Confucianism alone" are terms specially invented by these Confucian scholars to gild their statues.

Qin Shihuang's "burning books and burying Confucianism" actually did not only rob Confucian students, but the vast majority of students and academic works except Legalists and military strategists. It's not that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty really respected and admired Confucianism. Like Qin Shihuang, it was all out of political considerations.

During the Warring States period, the Zhou Dynasty collapsed, providing a corresponding theoretical basis for the ruling classes of different princes to fight each other, so the Hundred Schools came into being, and they also received strong support from the princes from all over the country. After Qin Shihuang unified the country, these schools in various places The academic world is not liked by the upper class of the Qin Dynasty who ruled the country with legalists and military strategists, so there is a nationwide unified law enforcement action against illegal publishing of books and pirated publishers...

  In the Han Dynasty, Huang-Lao's theory obviously couldn't keep up with the ambitious needs of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. How could a huge imperial war be supported without plundering the people's property?

  Could it be that the cost of war between countries, or the cost of fighting each other, is paid by the upper-level vested interests?

   What a joke.

Therefore, in order to sweep out the Huang-Lao school of emphasizing compliance and recuperating with the people from the imperial court, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chose the Confucian students who had no foundation in the imperial court who were flattering at that time, and promoted these people , replacing the original Huang Lao figures of the older generation, this is the root of Confucianism.

It's just that the children of the Liu family who came after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't understand this point. They were fooled by Confucian students and couldn't find the north. It has become the only standard for a long time in later generations.

  The disputes that occurred in the academy were caused by different understandings of scriptures.

  In future generations, what should I do to attract attention and become popular?

   Rubbing the heat is the easiest way.

  Fei Qian’s master Cai Yong wrote a letter to resign from the imperial court. Although he gained the right to freedom, it also brought some disadvantages. Cai Yong is located in the academy, so naturally he also gives lectures and talks about some related scriptures, so in the process of telling, he naturally needs to explain some obscure aspects, so he was questioned by some personnel.

  If it is a simple question, it is still within the scope of academic mutual discussion, and Fei Qian has nothing to say, but it is annoying to carry out conscious attacks for political or selfish purposes.

At first Cai Yong thought it was an ordinary academic discussion, but then he noticed the change and deviation in the direction of this debate, especially the defense of the prophecy in the scriptures, how could this thing be so easy to say a few words Can it be argued clearly?

  But in the Han Dynasty, especially now, this prophecy, as a prominent study of the Eastern Han Dynasty, has had a huge and extensive influence on all the scholars who study classics today.

  Using prophecy and calamity to explain the scriptures is the main trend of the Han Dynasty. The meaning of the Five Classics is all determined by prophecy. This is the trend of the current generation, just like the decadent literature, postmodernism, etc. that were popular in a certain period of time in later generations.

On the one hand, Cai Yong doesn't like the theory of prophecy, but this method is the current mainstream method. Otherwise, Fei Qian would not send people to spread the rumor that "the one who replaced the Han should be Tu Gao", but on the other hand, It's not easy to argue head-on, because no matter whether the debate wins or loses, it doesn't mean anything to Cai Yong himself.

I won’t mention it if I lose, if Cai Yong wins, the other party can proudly declare that he and the Confucian Confucianism have a debate about what a certain prophecy did, as if he has become a person who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Cai Yong, and now the prophecy How preposterous, argue one today and one tomorrow, what will happen in that year and that month?

So Cai Yong just flicked his sleeves, the old man's temper came up, and he didn't want to pay attention to these guys who came up with prophecy words, but unexpectedly, these people gathered together and muttered, claiming that Cai Yongzhi's talent is nothing but hypocrisy, I don't even have the guts to participate in academic discussions...

   It's really annoying!

If Fei Qian hadn't read "Baihu Tongyi" before, he might have used tougher means to deal with this matter, but not now, because the "Baihu Tongyi" on the classics has adopted a large number of quotations such as "The Deed of Aid God". ", "Hou Ming Jue", "Han Wen Jia", "Yuan Ming Bao", "Ji Yao Jia", "Gan Jing Fu", "Gan Chiu Du", "Mobile Sound Instrument" and so on, not only that, but all When citing the classics, usually the prophecies are quoted first, and then the scriptures are cited. The most important thing is that this book is actually a large-scale debate on classics held in Baihu Temple during the reign of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty. The content of the debate meeting was compiled into a book, so it was equivalent to wrapping a layer of imperial power on Chenwei.

If you want to overthrow the thing of Chenwei now, what you have to face is not just a simple sentence or two of Chenwei, but the entire theoretical system that has lasted for a hundred years, and this system is a whole with the current Confucianism. , In other words, opposing Chenwei is tantamount to obliterating the theory of the emperor's heavenly grant, so although Cai Yong doesn't like this thing, he still won't stand up to refute it.

  Then now this difficult problem is also placed in front of Fei Qian. Should he let it go and go with the flow, or should he stir up some waves and make something happen?

  It's difficult...

  (end of this chapter)