"Yuan Hui, what do you think of that Ma Zhi? Can he compare to the Confucian scholars of my dynasty?"

The topic of conversation between Wu Haogu and Mi Youren turned to Ma Zhi, a son of the Han clan from the Liao State who always left a deep impression wherever he went.

"Ma Zhi?" Mi Youren smiled, shook his head and said, "Teacher, why did you think of him and Confucius together?" ”

"What? Isn't he a Confucian scholar? He is proficient in the six arts, and most of them are also famous Confucians in the Northern Dynasties, right? ”

"The teacher is famous?" Mi Youren still shook his head, "Teacher, although the Liao Kingdom has also begun to worship Confucianism in recent years, their Confucianism and the Confucianism of our dynasty are still ...... It's still a little different. ”

"Oh?" By the dim candlelight, Wu Haogu looked at Mi Youren, as if waiting for his conclusion.

"The Confucianism of our dynasty is based on morality, followed by literature, and what is cultivated is Wende." Mi Youren said, "However, the Confucianism of the Northern Dynasty focused on military strategy, and it was not the great Confucianism that was raised, but the military generals...... These characters have some talents for governing the country with soldiers, but they are talented but not virtuous, but they are the root of the country's chaos!

The Liao Dynasty has a Confucian student like Ma Zhi, I'm afraid it's not a blessing for the country! ”

Wu Haogu nodded, what Mi Youren said was true, people like Ma Zhi were indeed not the blessings of the Liao Kingdom!

Mi Youren continued: "In addition, if Confucianism is to study the six arts at the same time, although the people educated are allowed to be literary and martial, but the cost of studying the six arts is too high, how many people in the world can afford it?" If Confucianism is based on the cultivation of the six arts, how can it undertake the principle of educating all people?

And if the best of the people can't cultivate Confucianism, how can they enter the imperial examination? If there is no Chaowei Tian Shelang, and the ladder to heaven in the Twilight Son Hall, the heroes of this world will be ......"

The purpose of the imperial examination is not all to collect materials, but to build a ladder to heaven, so that the heroes of the world are addicted to the scriptures and articles.

Only in this way can the interior of the Great Song Dynasty be easy to stabilize!

Mi Youren smiled and said: "And the way to enter the imperial examination is very difficult, and there may not be one among a thousand scholars who can get into the jinshi." Those Confucian students who failed to pass the examination should all be as civil and military as Ma Zhi, and they should be full of strategy...... Can the world be peaceful? ”

The answer is definitely no!

A "great Confucian" like Ma Zhi can not only be outside, but also chaotic inside! If they don't have enough opportunities to play with, they're ticking time bombs!

If there were tens of thousands of "Confucians" like Ma Zhi in the Great Song Dynasty, the Khitan and the Nuzhen would not be afraid, even if Temujin came, he would not be able to please him, but civil strife would probably come.

The root cause of the Han Dynasty's strong demise is probably that Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Huangshu, and Zhuge Liang are too capable of these "Han Confucians".

"But the Liao State is about to be in turmoil," Wu Haogu pondered and said, "The great chaos of the Liao Kingdom will sooner or later affect our dynasty, maybe it will be a great chaos in the world, if our dynasty does not have a large number of Confucian scholars who can bear the rise and fall of the world."

I'm afraid that with these great rivers and mountains, there will be no more peaceful days! ”

Mi Youren looked at Wu Haogu, who was the same age as himself, and couldn't laugh or cry, "Teacher, you are really ...... It's really heartfelt. ”

"How?" Wu Haogu glanced at his students, "Don't you know the truth that 'the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband'?" ”

"The rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible?" Mi Youren's face suddenly became more solemn, "That's a good thing to say, I don't know which Hongru said it?" ”

These eight characters are the famous sentences of the great Confucian Liang Qichao in Gu Yanwu at the end of the Qing Dynasty: "Those who protect the country, their kings and their ministers, meat eaters; Those who protect the world are cheap and responsible. "Summarized above.

However, Wu Haogu couldn't mention the names of Liang Qichao and Gu Yanwu with Mi Youren, so he thought about it, and found an allusion in his memory on "The Biography of the Daughters", and he said with a straight face: "In the past, the daughter of Lu Qi Muyi also knew that there were patients in the Lu country, and the monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons were all humiliated by it, and the disaster affected the people, and the woman avoided it alone!"

You and I are both eunuchs, how can people who read not know the relationship between the rise and fall of the world and the blessings and misfortunes of the people? If the world is overturned, you and I have to take a leisurely ride? ”

"What the gentleman taught." Mi Youren was sitting and talking to Wu Haogu just now, and now after listening to his remarks, he immediately stood up and saluted.

What Wu Haogu said now is all the truth, and it is the great truth of Confucianism!

Even if you take it to Guozijian and Taixue, you can also talk about it.

Wu Haogu saw that his students had such an attitude, and he also became energetic, where was there still a trace of sleepiness, and continued to say: "The situation in Liaoguo, if it is really as Ma Zhi said, it is a big chaos!"

For example, today it is divided into three parts, and the two dynasties of the north and south stand side by side. If the Northern Dynasty is in turmoil, how can our Dynasty stay out of it? And when the Northern Dynasty changes hands, it will be a new strong thief to replace the decaying and weak neighbor. ”

"Three points in the world?" Mi Youren muttered, "What the teacher said is right, if it is true that it has not been unified today, Yanyun has not recovered, and Lingxia has not recovered. ”

Wu Haogu nodded, "Besides, I have been looking north at Yanyun for more than a hundred years, if there is chaos in the Northern Dynasty, how can I not take advantage of the chaos in the Northern Expedition?" When the Northern Expedition wins, it will naturally be the reappearance of the heroes of the Han and Tang Dynasties. ”

"Teacher, do you think I can win the northern expedition to Yanyun?"

Wu Haogu shook his head lightly, the Northern Expedition Yanyun couldn't win. It is not possible to rely on the forbidden army that exists in name only in Kaifeng Mansion, and it is also not possible to rely on the elite of the seemingly powerful Western Army.

At least in their original history, they were badly defeated! The Northern Expedition army commanded by Tong Guan was not even defeated by the Jurchens, but collapsed at the hands of the remnants of the Liao State.

Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan easily smashed the army of the Northern Song Dynasty with a small number of troops that were crippled by the Jurchens, and completely displayed a weak Song dynasty that had completely collapsed militarily in front of the world.

Therefore, the Northern Expedition to Yanyun will not be able to win, and if you sit back and watch the Jurchens destroy the Liao State and take all the land of Yanyun, I am afraid that it will not be stable for a few years.

The Jurchens who have just come out of the Linhai Snow Plain are not Khitan people who have been fasting and chanting Buddha for many years!

Thirty thousand years of coins in a Chinese New Year's Eve can't send them away. Moreover, the alliance between the Liao and Song dynasties was also fought by the bloody battles of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers!

And now the combat effectiveness of the Song army can still be compared with the Zhenzong Dynasty more than ninety years ago?

"Yuan Hui, if the Liao Kingdom is really in chaos, it will also be a catastrophe for my Great Song Dynasty! You and I are both scholars, and we are also connected with the Great Song Dynasty National Movement, so we have to prepare early. ”

"Ready?" Mi Youren was silent for a while, "Does Mr. really want to enter the official career?" ”

Mi Youren's "real career" is of course not to be a "literary and artistic official" and a "nominal official" who doesn't care about business, but a real civil official in power in the imperial examination in the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the Song Dynasty was known for its "redundant officials", and the number of officials was large (in fact, it was only tens of thousands), but those who could really have a huge influence on the government were officials who were born in the liberal arts. The prime minister will be sent out by the jinshi! If you want to enter the center, you must be a Jinshi.

And to prepare for the future fate of the country, it seems that the only way to do this is to become the prime minister.

"What can you do if you really join the company?" Wu Haogu asked rhetorically, "Since Wang Jinggong changed the law to become strong, I have done a lot of things, the law has also changed a lot, and the state is enough to support the war with the Western Thieves for many years, and hundreds of thousands of redundant soldiers have also been reduced, and the "Art of War" has been implemented, and many generals have been rectified.

Yuan Hui, do you think there are any other strong moves in our dynasty that can be done and done? ”

Everyone in later generations knew that Wang Anshi's reform was a failure, but in the Great Song and Yuan Fu periods, people's views were just the opposite. Everyone thinks that the change has been made!

Because under the auspices of Wang Anshi's followers Zhang Dan, Zeng Bu and Cai Bian, and with the support of Emperor Zhezong, many of the new policies advocated by Wang Anshi have been resumed during the reigns of Yuan You, Shao Sheng and Yuan Fu. And the "Law of War" proposed by Wang Anshi has never been abolished.

Therefore, in the Yuan Fu period, Xining's reform can be said to have been successful. is to let Wu Haogu be the prime minister, and there seems to be nothing more to do.