Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 655 The battle between the old and the new
In the middle of summer, it was very hot.The pro-army on duty inside and outside the Forbidden City, under the bright armor, has long been washed like water.

However, Zhao Mingcheng, Minister of Rites, and Fan Rui, Secretary of Xuanzheng, who were summoned to the palace for an audience, had no heat in their bodies, and there was no trace of sweat in their bodies. They only entered the Xuande Pavilion secretly nervous and apprehensive.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Mingcheng/Fan Rui, pays homage to your Majesty."

Lu Qian raised his eyes to look at the two people below, and said after a while, "Do you two know why I asked you to come here?"

The fact that he didn't grant the seat immediately had already shown Emperor Lu's attitude. Although his voice was calm, his eyes fell on Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui, which gave them a sense of nothing to hide.It seems to be standing naked in front of the public, which is too revealing.

"The ministers have already heard about it." Chen Guan, Ren Boyu and others all wished to beat the Deng Wen Drum, but Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui didn't know.

"Wait." After speaking, Lu Qian continued to look down at the report of Chen Wenzhao, the first governor of Jiangnan province.

This Chen Wenzhao is more knowledgeable about current affairs than Zhang Shuye, Lu Qian asked him to serve under Hu Cheng, and later he was transferred to Yidu Prefecture.This man was a fair and honest official, with a strong sense of city government and moral integrity, and was proficient in political affairs. Therefore, Lu Qian first promoted him to be the inspector of the Central Plains, then moved to Huainan to be the governor of Zuobu, and finally he was promoted to governor of Jiangnan Province.

Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui didn't dare to meet each other's eyes, they waited in the hall respectfully, until Chen Guan and Ren Boyu, who had a lot of white hair and beard, came with Fan Zhengping, and Lu Qian raised his head.

Who Chen Guan and Ren Boyu are is described in the previous article.Fan Zhengping is the eldest son of Fan Chunren, and Fan Chunren is the second son of Fan Zhongyan.Fan Zhengping is a standard descendant of a famous family.It's a pity that Cai Jing was offended, and he was framed by him to falsely spread the meaning of the second sage's emptiness, so that he was detained in Xiangzhou, that is, the guest of Guangxi in later generations, and more than ten family members died.Wipe away the affection between him and Zhao Song.

After Fan Zhengping returned to his hometown, he wrote books and biographies, including "Xunli Tuiju Bian" and "Biography of Song History".

After Lu Qian ascended the throne, people invited him to be an official in the court. He had no important job and taught at the Imperial Academy.Based on similarities, he came to Yidu not long ago, and he had a very good friendship with Chen Guan, Ren Boyu, Chang Anmin, Bi Zhongyou and other "old friends" on the stele of former Yuanyou party members.He is the backbone of the Zhicheng Society formed by the latter.

This time, there was a conflict between Zhicheng Academy and the new faction represented by Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui. From their point of view, it was because the latter was deceiving people too much.

"Your Majesty, I believe that the selection of the newly compiled teaching books is flawed and cannot be used as a compendium. Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui are harboring evil intentions and have ulterior motives." Fan Zhengping was the first to fire. This was due to his character. It is because this is a battle of ideas.As soon as Emperor Lu's theory of meritorious service came out, they knew that the decline of Zhou Cheng's Neo-Confucianism was inevitable.

This battle of Chinese school ideas has always been based on the will of imperial power.Neo Confucianism was not designated as an official school earlier, but it was also not suppressed by the court, and was even accepted by the emperor to a certain extent.

If the current situation continues like this, it is inevitable that Neo Confucianism will officially flourish after a hundred years.

But the appearance of Emperor Lu interrupted all this.Emperor Lu not only sang "the study of meritorious service" loudly, but also sneered at the meaning of Neo Confucianism. It is inevitable that Neo Confucianism will decline, and even be lost in history like many schools in history.

Chen Guan and Ren Boyu did not have the courage to stand up to the emperor, but they were also unwilling to surrender. What they had to do was to infiltrate the essence of Confucianism into the study of meritorious deeds.This is a huge project, and it will take a long time to completely integrate the two, and to be able to overwhelm the knowledge of meritorious deeds in terms of reason.

This newly compiled textbook is a contest between the two, and it can even be said to be the first wave of challenges launched by the reformed old school to the new school that easily occupied the commanding heights of the court.

"...Such vulgar people occupy high positions in the court and are established in the country's civilized places. They work like flies and dogs, and exercise power and abuse..."

Lu Qian had already closed his ears. Fan Zhengping's rhetoric was powerful, but whoever called him Emperor Lu had already made up his mind.

"Your Majesty is the ruler of a country, and you must not act on your emotions to the detriment of the rules. Even if the Minister of Xuanzheng was your confidant in the past, you must not indulge this kind of person who despises people with low morals and harms the country and the country."

Leheren left early to the gate of Xuande Pavilion, bowed his head and remained silent.In my heart, I felt emotional towards Fan Zhengping, dare to say anything, very powerful!

This is a big hat for Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui.

Lehe has been by Lu Qian's side for a long time, how can he not know the weight of these two people?Then Zhao Mingcheng was the former governor of Lu Dadu who put up a signboard, but he never thought that this man was very knowledgeable, and he was very fond of Lu Qian.Therefore, in the past few years, from a signboard to an important minister in the court, even the Minister of Rites, which ranks the lowest among the six, is still a minister.What's more, Zhao Xianggong married a good wife.

Two years ago, with the support of the masters of the harem, a girls' school was established in the city.It is full of daughters of powerful and important ministers, and it is said that the eldest princess will also be sent in soon.

In a sense, that Mrs. Li is already equivalent to Wang Fu.Otherwise, during the four seasons and eight festivals, why would the nobles in the palace always bestow important gifts?
As for Fan Rui, needless to say, he was an old brother from Liangshanbo back then, he was closely related to Xue Yong and the Ruan family brothers, and he was also one of the confidantes of the Holy Majesty.He is also very close to Gongsun Sheng.It's just that Ruyunlong has a heart for Taoism, but Fan Rui has already married a wife and had children.

These are all important ministers in the court.One is the six ministers, and the other is the Secretary of Xuanzheng.If Fan Zhengping hurts people like this, isn't he afraid that the Ministry of Rites and the Department of Publicity and Political Affairs will join hands to find fault in the future?For the latter to expand their own influence, running a newspaper is the first element.Now the imperial court has gradually loosened the official system of newspapers. In addition to official newspapers, private newspapers have appeared in Yidu, Jinan, Cangzhou and other places.

Now that Fan Zhengping and the others have offended Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui to the death, aren't they afraid that they won't get a place in the newspaper?You should know that the Information Administration is a subsidiary of the Publicity Department.

Lu Qian looked at Fan Zhengping, who had bulging veins on his forehead, and really didn't know whether to be angry or amused, he was a gentleman.Li Ruoshui and Zhao Ding in a room not far away waved away the servants who came to report, one with a relaxed expression, and the other shook his head with a smile.

"Brother Yuanzhen really knows people, I might as well." Li Ruoshui smiled relaxedly. He was so worried about Fan Zhengping before, but now it seems that his worries are unfounded.

"This is dumb. How can your majesty tolerate it?" Moreover, Fan Zhengping has a family background, and Fan Zhongyan's name is enough to protect him.

Zhao Ding put down the teacup in his hand. After drinking this tea for a long time, he felt that it was even more beneficial.Then he said: "You should know that among the descendants of the old school, there are many who stand in the court. Not to mention Chen Zhenghui and Chang Tong, Ren Xiangxian and Ren Shenxian are not mediocre either. But they just pushed Fan Zhengping to open the cannon, and they are not without people. He cares about it. "The academic dispute has never been the result that can be seen in a moment, and there will be conflicts in the future. "

"But Your Majesty is a born hero, and he doesn't like moral preaching, it's in nature." Everyone can see that Emperor Lu is a person who prefers hands to words.This kind of character is naturally very repulsive to "convincing people with reason", just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was to Di Shan. "But it is difficult to determine the character of future emperors. Who doesn't want to be an emperor's teacher?" There are rumors that newly compiled textbooks will be used for the education of princes and princesses.It must be known that the eldest daughter of the emperor has turned three years old so far. The girls' school run by the Li family has a six-year-old admission age, but this is a false age, and the real age is five years old.What's more, the eldest son of the emperor is almost three years old.

There are only two years left.Two years may seem like a long time, but it is actually very short.Because the newly compiled textbooks have to be tested with practice, and then make changes based on the response.

So, this is an opportunity that both factions old and new must seize.

According to Emperor Lu's instructions, the elementary schools are divided into six categories: Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Martial Arts, History, Nature, and Talent. One year is divided into two semesters, each with a textbook.That is extremely important.

Because you can only be selected to teach in the palace if you have compiled the textbooks.

What's more, Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui's methods are also speechless. The two used their power to pick on the teaching materials compiled by the Zhicheng Academy more than once, and several times they were considered to be picky.Then use the stamp of not changing after repeated teaching to classify the textbooks compiled by the old Confucianism into Category B.

Compilation of textbooks is not just done by the old and the new.In the past two years, Lu Qian allowed 'intellectuals' to set up many academic societies. Although there are not many famous people in these academic societies, there are some, and they are almost all involved in this matter.

Therefore, there are quite a lot of sources of teaching materials, so it is necessary to preliminarily screen and classify A, B, C, D and four grades.The bottom class is directly eliminated, and the corresponding review treatment for the top three classes is also divided into high and low.The textbooks produced by the "Zhicheng Xueshe", which has concentrated a lot of the essence of the old Confucianism, were dropped to the second class. This is not only a dirty method, but also deeply shameful to the old Confucians inside.

Lu Qian's face here is very exciting. He gathered the two sides together today, and naturally he wanted to settle the case.Naturally, the textbooks produced by Yuanyou Academy cannot fall into the second class, the standard is there.It was also because they knew that Emperor Lu must know everything about it, that Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui acted like a fool.

"Haha, Mr. Ziyi, please calm down. The textbooks compiled by Zhicheng Academy have merits. If you fall into the second class, you will pass it."

"Don't worry. The "Accountability Regulations" of this dynasty are not just a show. I have sent it to the [Supreme Court] of Dali Temple and asked it to re-examine. If there is any violation of law and discipline, I will not tolerate it and will definitely punish it severely." Lu Qian believed that Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui would not be so stupid, so they left something for others to catch.

Fan Zhengping couldn't get a definite answer, so of course he was not satisfied.But no matter how much he was dissatisfied, he could only hold back, "Follow the law!" What's wrong?

What enmity do you, Fan Zhengping, have with Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui?Can it be bigger than the law of the country?
Fan Zhengping and his party retreated, Lu Qian looked at Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui, "Do you know what's wrong?"

"I know I was wrong, and please forgive me." This matter is not illegal in the law, but it is actually a loophole in the law.It is estimated that when the two were doing it, they did not expect that those old men from the Zhicheng Academy who buried their necks in loess had such guts to bring the matter to Lu Qian.

In the final analysis, this is the two of them 'abandoning the public for private reasons'.

"You wait to back down." The punishment will come soon, but it's not too heavy.After Zhao Mingcheng and Fan Rui retreated, Lu Qian sent someone to recruit Zong Ze.Since the law has loopholes to exploit, it should be plugged, right?

(End of this chapter)