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His tuberculosis had long since drained his body, and it would not be too much to say that he had run out of oil. Now it's just a chance for God to give him a chance to say goodbye to his disciples, nephews, and students, and to explain his last words.

Su Zhe, who is still the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has also taken leave to accompany his brother in Su Dongpo's mansion these days, and Su Mai, Su Yu, and Su Xun (Su Zhe's third son) are also in Su Dongpo's mansion. I heard that Su Dongpo woke up, and they all knew that his old man was back to the light, and they all came to his house to see him off.

Several Sumen disciples who were officials in Beijing also came one after another, including Chao Buzhi, Zhang Lei, and the young and strong Wu Haogu, but they didn't see the deputy minister Li Gefei and the Guozi priest Jiu Huang Tingjian - these two people are the pillars of Su Dongpo's party. Li Gefei can serve as the right minister after Su Dongpo's death, while Huang Tingjian is the cadre who presides over the reform of Guozijian and controls the Biyong Academy!

Don't think that the Biyong School Palace is far inferior to the Yuntai School Palace academically, it is not important, the Biyong School Palace is the combination of the original Taixue, martial arts, and Guozi Studies. In the Song Dynasty, the students of the three schools were very prickly. It is known as the unofficial imperial history platform! Once the three students are in the book, the prime minister will be anxious.

In comparison, the two Yuntai Academy Palaces plus a doctoral group are not very useful, they have too far to go to the book, and they do not have this kind of influence.

"What about Huang Luzhi?" Su Dongpo's heart was enveloped by a bad omen.

"The official family recruited him into the palace." Wu Haogu hurriedly lied - in fact, Huang Tingjian also fell ill, and like Li Gefei, he couldn't afford to be sick...... It's going to be gone in two months!

At that time, not only will there be two positions to fight for, but even the national eunuch will have to be torn up for a while. Wu Hao Gu said: Cai Jing didn't know how long he had been holding back, and now he has to go to Su Dongpo!

Su Dongpo glanced at the student Wu Haogu, sighed and asked, "Is Huang Luzhi also sick?" ”

"No, it's not, he's fine......"

Su Dongpo raised his skinny right hand and waved it vigorously, "Da Lang, do you remember...... Guozijian must be held in his hands! You are not afraid of the bullet seal of the imperial history, how many officials will press it down for you. But next year, before the Ministry of Rites exam, maybe there will be a bus to read the book, and then the only way to fight back is to use the Tai student (referring to the Biyong School Palace) to write a book! ”

The party struggle in the Northern Song Dynasty was carried out with mouth cannons, and the usual tool of struggle was the Taiwan admonition system. However, the struggle of the Taiwan admonition system is basically controlled by the officials, and unless it is impeachment, Zhao Ji will not be able to follow up if he stays in the middle and does not send it.

And Lu Zhang's impeachment is of little use to military attachés who have a small territory like Wu Haogu and Gao Yu. Wu Haogu didn't go to the Yamen of the Coastal City Shipping Department to work, even if he knew that he was impeached and wanted to avoid suspicion and not go to work, it would not affect his control over the Coastal City Shipping Division. As for the two positions of the head of Jiehe Shang City and the head of the Great Doctor, they are not imperial differences at all, and naturally they are not impeached by the imperial history.

Moreover, the struggle between Wu Haogu and Cai Jing was mainly a school struggle, while the Confucian positivist school would not stop its activities at all because of the impeachment of the imperial history. Zhao Ji will not brand the positivists as pseudo-academics because of the impeachment of Taiwan's admonition - after all, the positivists are more practical! Repairing the city of Yinzhou overnight, blowing up the city wall of Tongwan, expanding the west city of Kaifeng Mansion, building Qionglin Palace, training new government soldiers, opening the two major commercial markets of Jiehe and Jingdong all have to rely on the positivists.

Therefore, the only tool that the Jing Gongxin School can use to fight the positivists is the ultimate killer weapon of the verbal cannon struggle - the book on the bus!

Because the Han Dynasty used public cars and horses to pick up and drop off the taxis, and then the "bus" was used to refer to the entry into Beijing or the lifting of people to enter Beijing to take the examination.

And the people who should be promoted in Beijing are regarded as the representatives of the scholars in the world, so the books on the bus can also be regarded as the collective will of the scholars in the world. And most of these people who went to Beijing to take the exam were from the Jingzhou Gongxin School! Therefore, Cai Jing's faction can easily mobilize them.

Even if they are not scholars of Jing Gongxinxue, except for a very small number of students who were born in the Yuntai Academy, all the scholars in the world are actually the academic opponents of the positivists.

This positivist school is now a very small minority of the school that has grasped the truth, and not only the scholars of Jinggong Xinxue oppose them, but even the disciples of science and authentic Sumen Shuxue are very disgusted with the positivists. So to defeat them, the best tool to use is, of course, the mouth of the world's scholars.

Su Dongpo actually expected such a situation. His level of governing the country is actually not as good as Cai Jing, but he is also a school of scholars - before the rise of positivism, he was the student of Sumen Shu Studies, and he had great influence in the academic world! The main reason why he was sent to Danzhou by the New Party was actually his influence in the academic circles.

As an old scholar, he certainly knew that Positivism was a school that was hated by many people. Therefore, after he took power, he used all means to firmly control the Guozijian system. Because only the students of the Biyong Academy can write on the bus against the scholars of the world.

But people are not as good as heaven, and Huang Tingjian, the priest of the country, couldn't afford to get sick after the New Year's Festival!

Therefore, Wu Haogu must now introduce a senior civil official who is not only qualified to control Guozijian but also willing to fight with Cai Jing to replace Huang Tingjian.

Su Dongpo, who is now dying, is to mention Wu Haogu at the end and tell him how to fight against Cai Jing.

"The students got it." Wu Haogu stood up and bowed to Su Dongpo gratefully, "The grace of the teacher brings protection, and the student is unforgettable." ”

Su Dongpo nodded, and glanced at Su Zhe, who was sitting beside his hospital bed without saying a word. Su Zhe is actually an opponent of the positivist school. He discussed this issue privately with Su Dongpo more than once - in Su Zhe's view, the positivists only have "Tao" and no "benevolence", and are more inclined to "Huang Laozhixue", pursuing the Tao of "Confucius asked Lao Tzu". Moreover, the "small paths" sought by the positivists seem to have been used for both making money and fighting wars!

In addition, the high cost of positivism and the consequent problems of falling into the eyes of money made Su Zhe even more disgusted.

In Su Zhe's view, Confucian education is not only for the pursuit of Taoism, but also for the world's poor scholars to have a path to rise in examinations.

The positivist school did not serve the poor scholars, because this school took the "high-end route". The basic education of the six arts should be started from the Mongolian school stage, and the primary school stage (Six Arts Academy) requires proficiency in the six arts, and the university stage is even more outrageous, with six basic disciplines and more than a dozen junior colleges...... The traditional Confucian education is only equivalent to the two basic subjects of "Confucianism" and "Literature" in the Yuntai Academy. Therefore, the cost of positivist education, for example, is several times or even more than ten times that of traditional Confucian education. Now excluding the expenses of the doctoral group and the Six Arts Academy, the two Yuntai Palaces plus seven junior colleges will cost millions of dollars a year! And there is a growing trend.

So much money was spent, of course the Wuda profiteers had to find a way to get some back. Otherwise, he can't afford to pay it himself, it's a million a year! And there will be more and more losses in the future!

So after the appearance of Jinshike on the right list, the "free trial period" of Yuntai Academy Palace is over. Unless the particularly outstanding new students (the old students who enter the free period continue to be free) or the special relationship households (mainly the knight children of the corresponding knight college), they all have to pay high tuition fees!

Especially those children of wealthy businessmen who do not have good test scores, they all spend a lot of money to buy them - of course, the children of rich businessmen also have good reading, but the right list has not yet entered the hearts of the people, so the first choice for good reading is the traditional left list, and only those who are not sure of the left list come to read Yuntai Academy. Most of them are also not proficient in the six arts, and of course their exam scores are poor. So donate money, and after donating the money, you will go to the preparatory department (accelerated six arts), and then go to the school palace. Anyway, it is normal for a rich N generation to spend tens of thousands of yuan...... However, tens of thousands of people can "buy" a jinshi, even if it is a security officer who climbs up from the shogunate, for rich but not expensive businessmen, it is completely worth it.

By the way, the Song Dynasty also had a "donation class", but the status of the Song Dynasty's donor officials was very low, far inferior to military merits, shadow supplements and baoju backgrounds, let alone jinshi.

Therefore, in Su Zhe's view, such a method of Yuntai Xuegong undoubtedly treats learning as a commodity transaction, and even has the suspicion of indirect selling officials, which is simply disgraceful!

If it weren't for looking at Su Dongpo's face, he would have to go to the martial arts to join the ancient book.

Su Dongpo knows his younger brother's thoughts. But now, there is nothing to say, so he waved his hand to everyone, "Except for Ziyou, you all go out!" ”

This is to explain his last words to Su Zhe alone!

The people in the house could only follow Su Dongpo's words and get up and leave, and in the end, only Su Dongpo and Su Zhe brothers remained.

"Ziyou," Su Dongpo sighed, his voice was very soft, "After I die, you can ask for a foreign appointment." With Wu Dalang's real school in front of him, Cai Yuanchang must be in a hurry, as long as you don't stay in Kaifeng Mansion, he won't have the strength to deal with you. ”

Su Zhe looked at his brother, although Su Dongpo was a dying person, he was still worried about the future of the Su family, but there was no longer the world in his heart. He sighed: "Big brother, I'm afraid Wu Dalang's Dao is not as good as Cai Yuanchang, right?" ”

Su Dongpo shook his head, and his voice was already inaudible: "Ziyou, don't think about the world's scholars...... Let's take care of the Su family! Uncle Li Wen is afraid that time is running out, and you won't be able to enter the political hall. Bo Chong has a bright future, but unfortunately he is too young, but he is in his thirties, and he has to go through ten or eight years of training. Before Bo Chong is noble, you must not fall, you must not fall......"

At this time, Su Dongpo felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and the last bit of strength in his body had been exhausted, and now he was just thinking about a good night's sleep.