Straight man of steel

Chapter 268 Undercurrent is turbulent
The most important thing in today's court meeting is to open Taixue.

It seems that Zhang Yuan just attended a court meeting and settled the matter, but in fact, it was a wrestling between Liu Che and Dong Zhongshu in private.

Dong Zhongshu wanted Liu Che to respect Confucianism alone, to consolidate Confucianism's number one position among the schools of thought, and to suppress other schools of thought by the way.

And what Liu Che really wants is Confucianism on the outside and law on the inside, not Confucianism on the inside and outside.

Confucianism can help him determine the legitimacy of the regime. Otherwise, some great king will rebel every now and then, and the people will trust and support him foolishly. Then the emperor will have to think about suppressing the rebellion all day long.

It is mainly because of the divine right of kings and the unified theory advocated in "Gongyang Chunqiu" that Liu Che yearns for it.

A king's lifelong pursuit is to maximize the centralization of power, and an ideological theory that can be matched with it will naturally flourish.

But Liu Che didn't want these Confucianists to really use Confucianism to brainwash the people. What Liu Che wanted was to brainwash the people and at the same time establish his image of supremacy.

In this way, it is very necessary to suppress these masters of Confucianism. After helping Confucianism to be established as a national study, those Confucian masters will use the contents of Confucian classics to attack the emperor.

There is one thing to say, Liu Che's worry is not unreasonable, which led to Zhang Yuan being promoted to be the person in charge of Taixue.

In this way, the doctor of the Five Classics can only engage in teaching work, and cannot intervene to interfere with the selection of officials.

Zhang Yuan's power is great, but Zhang Yuan has no family background. Liu Che wants to kill Zhang Yuan. Except for Wei Qing, everyone in the court will applaud.

What Liu Che wanted was a lonely minister, not a capable minister, but at this time most of the ministers only cared about the prosperity of their own family, not the interests of the emperor.

After discussing these things, there was nothing more to do next, except that Dou Ying mentioned that Liu Che should re-appoint Guan Fu.

Then Tian Fu jumped out and strongly objected, listing Guan Fu's many crimes. In the end, Liu Che could only stop and let everyone stop talking about this topic.

So everyone broke up again, Zhang Yuan patted his ass and followed Wei Qing and slipped away, but on the way out of the palace, wave after wave of people came to congratulate Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan had no choice but to return the salute to those people one by one, and then smiled awkwardly.

"Brother Yuan, you are amazing now.

Everyone knows that if you want to send someone into the Imperial Academy, you have to have a relationship with you. "

Zhang Yuan shook his head helplessly. Now that he said so, the number of officials appointed by the big man is 10, and how many people can be trained by one Taixue.

There must be some who have no ambition to be officials at all. Most importantly, it is impossible for Liu Che to let all the officials of the Han Dynasty be composed of students from Taixue.

If this is really done, it would be more appropriate to say that the ancestor of the great man is not Liu Bang, but Confucius and Mencius.

"Your Majesty will not let me control Taixue. In the end, you will see that Taixue must be separated from the imperial court, otherwise it will not last long."

Wei Qing also nodded.

"Brother Yuan should consider everything comprehensively and do it step by step.

Brother Yuan, what are you going to do next? "

Zhang Yuan spread his hands and said with a smile.

"The next step is to go and see those five classics doctors who are almost buried in the soil, and ask them to go to Du County to see what the deserted Du County looks like now."

Zhang Yuan of Du County passed by countless times, but it was an empty city, and no one would be interested in exploring it.

Just looking at it from afar, the city walls are covered with vines, and a city will quickly become a part of nature after no one lives there.

"Do you want me to send some people to clean up for you?"

"No need, those five classics doctors will definitely have students, and His Majesty will send me some craftsmen then."

"That's fine."

Talking while walking, seeing that the gate of the palace is about to arrive.

Zhang Yuan and Wei Qing also mounted their horses and planned to return to the city directly.

"Tai Xue Ling wait a moment."

When Zhang Yuan and Wei Qing heard the shouts, they looked back together and found an old man running over panting.

Zhang Yuan still has an impression of this person. Just now in the hall, this person is with Hu Wusheng, and he should also be a doctor.

Thinking that Zhang Yuan still needs a minimum of respect when he is getting older, so he turned over and got off the horse.

"Sir, are you looking for me?"

"Yeah, I'm calling you."

"Old man, you don't need to be polite, I am much younger than you, and you are more than enough to be my grandfather at your age.

If you don't mind, just call me Ayuan. "

Zhang Yuan thought he couldn't offend all the Doctors of the Five Classics, so he lowered his posture and said to the old man.

"Okay, that old man will rely on his old age to sell his old age."

"Dare to ask what is the matter with the boy?"

"The old man is Han Ying, the doctor of "Poetry". I believe this is the first time you have heard the name of the old man, Ayuan."

Zhang Yuan nodded awkwardly.

"I'm a rough person, and it's true that I only saw the demeanor of a few great Confucians today."

"Don't be humble, you kid is much better than us old men, and we will need to rely on you in the future."

"Mr. Han was joking."

"The old man came to you not because of other things, but because of your remarks in the court, which really shocked the old man and made him feel a lot.

Dare I ask if you have already read "Mencius" and "Yi"? "

How could Zhang Yuan dare to take this kind of thing on himself, a bad thing would make these old scholars come to him every day to discuss knowledge.

"I just glanced at it briefly, but found that the content is extremely mysterious and obscure, and it is beyond the comprehension of a rough person like me."

Han Ying and Zhang Yuan did not continue to flatter each other, but said to the point.

"The old man just decided to use the four sentences of Taixue Ling as the foundation of Taixue's scholarship. I don't know what Taixueling thinks?"

Zhang Yuan bowed his head and pondered for a while, then he felt that it was feasible. No matter what he said, he said it himself. Hanging it in a conspicuous place and seeing it every day would make these students respect him more.

"Okay, just as Mr. Han said.

By the way, there is one more thing I would like to ask my husband to help me. Please invite me to make an appointment with the other four doctors tomorrow morning. We will not go to the morning court tomorrow. How about going to Du County together? "

"Okay, the old people originally thought that Tai Xueling would not take this matter to heart, but I didn't expect your character to be so swift and resolute."

Zhang Yuan smiled and led the horse out of the palace with Han Ying, Wei Qing also dismounted earlier, but he couldn't get in the conversation between the two.

(End of this chapter)