"The old man persuaded him for four whole years, and he said that he broke his mouth, so that His Majesty could make a tour of the east to seal Zen, but what about you? But it only took two days to make His Majesty disgusted with the Confucianism and drive us out. Nowadays, the Confucian scholars who are most familiar with etiquette are not allowed to participate in the formulation of the etiquette of sealing Zen, which is really a big joke! ”

In the woods near the palace, the group of Confucians who were driven out of the hall by Qin Shi Huang were staring at each other with big eyes, but Zhou Qingchen, the servant of the doctor, was angry in the middle, but no matter how angry he was, Zhou Qingchen still carefully protected the Jinxian crown on his head and did not let it fall off.

Zhou Qingchen was not angry, when he was in Xianyang, more than 70 doctors, especially the Confucian scholars from Qilu, were also united, and every once in a while they had to advocate the fact that the seventy-two emperors of ancient times would seal Zen, so that Qin Shi Huang would follow suit.

Finally, when the emperor finished fighting the Xiongnu and Yueshi, he finally began to tour Zhang Luodong and came to the foot of Mount Tai with a large number of people, but the Confucians, who had sincerely cooperated, could not unify their opinions.

No way, Confucianism has branched out too many factions since Confucius, in addition to the "Confucian Confucianism" of Confucius's direct descendant Kong Kun and his disciple Shusun Tong, as well as Zizhang Zhiru; Confucianism of Zi Si; Yan's Confucianism; Meng's Confucianism; Confucianism of the lacquer carving clan; Confucianism of the Zhongliang clan; Sun's Confucianism; The eight major factions of the Confucianism of the Lezheng clan, as well as the Confucianism of the Xun clan headed by Fuqiubo, and the three families of the Ram, Guliang and Zuo who ruled the Spring and Autumn Period.

As early as a month ago, more than 10 schools and more than 300 people heard that the emperor was going to hold a ceremony that Confucianism had been looking forward to for a hundred years.

For a time, at the foot of Mount Tai, Qilu Confucianism realized the great tandem that Confucius had never had after his death, from the weak-crowned son to the white-headed old Confucian, everything, in their own words, that is, "the group of virtuous people, the young long and salty".

Qin Shi Huang recruited so many Confucian students, the original intention was to let them do what they are good at, and to formulate a set of etiquette for sealing Zen, and the doctor servant Zhou Qingchen took the initiative to ask Ying to take charge of this matter.

Probably because Zhou Qingchen had been in Qin for too long, and he forgot the urine nature of these Qilu peers, they began to discuss every etiquette procedure, which was not good or not, and until Qin Shi Huang arrived at Mount Tai, this group of people had not yet discussed a complete charter, which made Zhou Qingchen anxious.

Although it is rumored in the world that there were seventy-two emperors in ancient times who sealed Zen in Mount Tai, but most of them are shadowless things, as for the ritual of sealing Zen? It is even more difficult to examine, no one knows the details of etiquette, so the Confucian scholars can only find the foundation in books such as "Shangshu" and "Zhou Guan", and can make three interpretations in a spring and autumn period, not to mention the more obscure ancient books, as a result, more than ten Confucian schools have put forward more than 20 kinds of opinions.

People who engage in academics often have eyes smaller than the tip of a needle. This group of people, even if they are brothers in the same sect, because of the disagreement on a certain word and sentence on the "Spring and Autumn" and "Poems", they can break off their righteousness and quarrel for decades, and their disciples and grandchildren will continue to quarrel after death, not to mention this can be recorded in the annals of history.

Even because of whether the ceremony was held at the top of the mountain or halfway up the mountain, there was a big fight between the two schools! The two old Confucians tore each other's beards, leaving a bruise in each other's eye sockets, but they only dared to say that they were declining.

In the case of fruitless arguments, the Confucian doctors began to go their own way, writing to the emperor separately to sell their ideas.

The Confucianism of the lacquer carving clan who preached the rites for the Tao said: "In ancient times, the emperor wanted to take a car with a wheel wrapped in pampas grass to go up the mountain, which was afraid of hurting the earth, stones, grass and trees on the mountain, and must go up to the peak, sweep the ground and sacrifice, His Majesty should worship in the dust, and use it to ......be simple."

However, the Confucian of the Zhang clan thought that the emperor should hike the mountain, go up to a certain height, and when there is no wind and rain, he should immediately salute and sacrifice on the mountain.

The Confucianism of the Le Zheng clan turned over the ancient books to verify the practice of "looking at the sacrifice and shooting the cow", and also rushed to the ground to write and offer treasures, hoping that the emperor would adopt this complicated ritual.

These arguments are varied, unreasonable, pedantic and grotesque, or difficult to implement, and most of them are dojos in snail shells, which is obviously far from Qin Shi Huang's expectation of using Feng Chan to promote the grandeur of the empire.

Fortunately, Qin Shi Huang didn't expect this group of guys, and when he asked the group of Confucians to discuss, he also secretly asked the "Fengchang", who was in charge of etiquette, to prepare a set of rituals for the Qin Dynasty to sacrifice heaven and earth.

So yesterday, he issued an edict saying: "This proposal is different and difficult to apply." Instead, let Fengchang bring out a complete set of Qin Dynasty etiquette, and let the Confucian scholars evaluate the profit and loss.

As a result, the group of Confucians, who had been arguing for more than a month, and even fought for a certain etiquette, were united unprecedentedly at this moment.

Fu Sheng, a well-known Confucian scholar of the Qi Kingdom, glanced at the sacrificial vessels designed by Feng Chang and began to criticize, and the only reason for criticism was "different from the ancients". But what the real Zen sealing instrument looks like, he can't say why.

And the descendant of Confucius, the famous Lu Ru Kong Kui, shook his head after watching the etiquette of the Fengchang exercise: "It's not as good as Lu Li." Then he asked to use the ready-made Lu rites that had been passed down by the Confucian family for several generations to seal the Zen.

This kind of behavior provoked Qin Shi Huang, who hated people to criticize "the present is not as good as the past", and he immediately issued an edict:

"The Confucians are no longer able to distinguish the things of Feng Zen, and they are also confined to ancient poems and books and cannot be used, so I choose them!"

The Confucian scholars were all blasted out of the palace, and Zhou Qingchen was no exception, so there was this ridiculous scene: none of the Confucian scholars who specialized in etiquette could participate in the design of the Zen ceremony......

In the afternoon, the news came out that Qin Shi Huang did not use the words of Confucianism and turned to the old ritual of sacrificing heaven and earth in the Qin State to seal Zen.

When the news came, the Confucian scholars suddenly exploded and began to beat their chests, saying that the emperor did not listen to good advice, and actually used the wrong ceremony on such an important occasion, which was really a big mistake in the world, so they clamored to "admonish each other with death".

As a result, when they were still calling for a series, Lang Wei came, and the Confucian scholars thought that the emperor regretted it and wanted to call them back to discuss again, but Lang Wei had a gloomy face and arrested the two old Confucians who fought and beat each other because of the quarrel, saying that they would be sentenced to the crime of "private fighting".

For a while, more than 300 Confucian students became silent, and after watching the two old Confucians being arrested, after a long time, Kong Kun stomped his feet and said:

"Since the emperor does not listen to dissuasion, what good is it for us to stay? Waiting to continue to be humiliated? ”

He simply didn't need it, just go, and then flicked his sleeves and strode away with his disciple Uncle Sun Tong. Shusun Tong didn't raise any opinions in this farce, but just apologized to Zhou Qingchen embarrassedly, and persuaded his master not to be impulsive, and to leave without permission to anger the emperor.

The rest of the people looked at each other, and at this time no one mentioned the matter of "risking death to admonish" anymore, but the leader of the Confucianism of lacquer carving said loudly:

"The second and third sons, in the past, the Ji family traveled in Mount Tai, and Confucius asked Ran You: 'Can you persuade him?' Ran You replied that he couldn't, and Confucius sighed and said, although he can't, but Mount Tai is not as good as Lin Fanghu? ”

Lin Fang is a famous man of the Lu country in the Spring and Autumn Period, known for his etiquette, this sentence means that Mount Tai has the creation of heaven and earth, has its spirituality, and will never accept the sacrifice of indecency!

The implication is that Qin Shi Huang's words of deposing Confucianism today and using the sacrifice method of Kansai will not be accepted by Mount Tai either!

Everyone echoed in unison, pinning their hopes on the divinity of Tarzan. There are also people shouting that when they go up the mountain tomorrow to seal Zen, they should watch every procedure carefully, and after they come down, they will write down what they have seen and heard into a book, and ridicule the etiquette of making trouble, so that the people of the world can know that compared to Confucianism, the officials of the Qin Dynasty are a younger brother in the sacrificial etiquette.

Only Zhou Qingchen sighed: "Now that the matter is over, you should say a few words!" ”

It is not known whether Mount Tai accepted the sacrificial rites of the Qin Dynasty, but after this incident, Qin Shi Huang probably completely recognized that the success of the Confucianism was not enough and there was more than failure. In the evening, the emperor further announced that he would be able to seal Zen tomorrow, and only bring civil and military officials, Heifu, Zhang Cang, etc., were among them, but not a Confucian student!

At this time, the group of Confucians were all dumbfounded, they originally thought that when they sealed Zen tomorrow, they would watch the regular festival and laugh at it afterwards, but they didn't expect that the emperor would do such a great job, and all Confucian students could only stay at the foot of the mountain and not engage in it!

"How unreasonable!"

Qi Ren Fusheng was angry, he asked himself, he was recruited into Xianyang, endured the emperor's reckless military force, and tolerated that their more than seventy doctors were just decorations in the court. Isn't it just to introduce the Qin Dynasty into the political blueprint tailored for the future unified empire many years ago, so as to become their ideal state of etiquette?

But it is so easy to survive to this day, and the Confucians, who have worked hard for this goal, are neither qualified to design ceremonies nor have the right to climb the mountain to witness this scene that has not been seen in 800 years?

This is really the biggest joke in the world! Confucianism's sworn enemies, Huang Lao and Mo, will definitely laugh off their big teeth when they know about it.

In addition to being shocked, Qunru also had a strange change in his heart about the matter of sealing Zen.

In the eyes of everyone, without their participation, Feng Chan is no longer a real Feng Chan, but a kind of sacred and undesecrated Mount Tai, the ancient holy king ritual system......

"Humiliation!"

They are excited, they can't do anything.

Shouting slogans in the air will also consume physical energy, and soon, when the night is getting deeper, the empty stomach of the group of Confucians will disperse, different from the high spirits when they came, they are all a little depressed.

This was the biggest failure of Confucianism since the establishment of the Qin Dynasty. However, except for a few people such as Zhou Qingchen and Shusun Tong, the vast majority of Confucians did not find the reason from themselves, but complained angrily:

"Qin Shi Huang is stubborn and self-serving, does not need to be virtuous, and insists on going his own way, he is really a hopeless lone husband and tyrant! The sinners of the true three kings are also lacking in virtue, and they are also worthy of being enshrined in Zen!? ”

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PS: For examples in this chapter, please refer to "Historical Records. Feng Zen Book