The scholars on both sides of the city gate are divided into two factions, Taixue and Hongdumen, everyone stands on one side, and the shouts are deafening. Not for anything else, just to invite Mr. Xu to his own school.

Ma Riyan is a contemporary Confucian, Le Song and Jia Hu are also celebrities, and the three of them each gave their own reasons and tried their best to invite Xu Shao.

Xu Shao said with a smile: "The three adults don't have to fight, I study the Book of Changes, of course, I live in Taixue." ”

Several Taixue directors who followed Ma Riyan were ecstatic when they heard the words and rushed to report the news. Suddenly, the shouts of the Taixue students rose to the sky, and the sound shook the sky. The beings of Hongdumen were suddenly discouraged, and their shouts immediately became quieter.

Le Song hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Mr. Xu, Your Majesty has a message, I hope that Mr. can stay in Hongdumen......"

Xu Shao waved his hand and said slightly apologetically: "I'm a civilian, it's okay if Your Majesty doesn't listen to it, I'm sorry." ”

Then he said in a stern tone: "Our Confucian disciples take scripture as the foundation of their lives, and the Great Han Kingdom also takes scripture as the foundation of politics and religion. But when today's son turns a blind eye, openly contradicts it, and forms the Hongdumen Academy with a group of literary courtiers and haiyou, this is really contrary to the general situation, and it shakes the foundation of my Han Kingdom. Calligraphy and painting, in fact, are small carving insect skills, small talents, learn them, can you govern the country? ”

Le Song and Jia Hu didn't expect that Mr. Xu Shao, who was famous all over the world, had not yet entered Luoyang City, and he would evaluate Hongdumen as useless. The two of them looked at Xu Shao stupidly, stunned.

Xu Shao glanced at the two of them, slightly angry, and continued: "The children of Hongdu are unlearned, and there are many people who take advantage of the camp, which is the root cause of the troubles in my Han Kingdom. If you don't go to such a filthy place, you can't go. ”

He Hao laughed and said, "Someone is coming, immediately pass on Mr. Zijiang's comments on Hongdumen to Luoyang City." Hurry, hurry, this is Mr. Zijiang's first comment when he came to Luoyang. ”

Kong Rong gently pushed Le Song, and said with a smile: "The two sacrificial wines can enter the palace to reply to Your Majesty, and they will say that Hongdu Gate can be closed, haha......"

"Brother General, please, please ......" Ma Riyan pulled Xu Shao with a smile and said, "Please get into the carriage." ”

Xu Shao met him for the first time, and when he heard this, he politely refused: "I'm not used to riding in a carriage." Let's go back with the children of all living beings. ”

A group of people walked into Kaiyang Gate and walked into Luoyang City, where tens of thousands of Taixue scholars and scholars from all over the country shouted and followed behind, which was very lively.

Although the scholars of Hongdumen were in a very depressed mood, they were still excited and cheered when they saw Mr. Xu walking into Luoyang, and went behind. If you are lucky enough to get Mr. Xu's comments, it will be a fish leaping into the dragon gate, worth a hundred times.

Le Song and Jia Hu looked at each other speechlessly. A look of inferiority and helplessness. Jia Hu smiled bitterly: "How do you explain to Your Majesty?" ”

Le Song sighed: "Let's go, go into the palace and ask the emperor for guilt." Since the establishment of our Hongdumen, when has it been seen by the eyes of others. It doesn't matter if we lose face and are scolded and scolded, but how can Your Majesty's face remain? ”

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Hongdu Gate Learning. Located outside of Taixue, when Jinzi was founded in the first year of Guanghe (178 AD), it was the first literary and artistic college in ancient China.

Cifu is a unique literary style of the Han Empire, and the words and sentences of Cifu are laid out beautifully. It's catchy to read, melodious, and fascinating. Soul-stirring. Today, I especially like to do Fu.

Cai Yong, the teacher of the Son of Heaven, told the Son of Heaven that resignation is a small skill, and morality is the foundation; The rhetorical technique of Cifu is the last verse, and the great truth of the Tao is the one contained in the text.

Cai Yong's preaching made the Son of Heaven very disgusted, and he couldn't even understand it. The Son of Heaven admired his talent, but his teachers Yang Ci and Cai Yong were unimpressed, and the Son of Heaven felt that he was being despised for it. He thinks that although the great Confucian scholars in the court have scriptures in their mouths and look dignified, they are actually all hateful and unintelligible.

So, a whimsical idea popped up in the mind of the Son of Heaven. He wanted to start a new school to fight against Confucianism.

The Son of Heaven immediately found the servants of Jiu Lesong and Jia Hu, and asked them to gather people who are good at writing dictionaries and art characters such as odd characters, Miao books, birds, fish and insect books, and wait for the Hongdu Gate to be established under the Hongdu Gate.

Unlike Taixue, this new school specialized in diction and calligraphy, and became the first academy of literature and art in Chinese history, and today Zi is the president of this academy.

The Son of Heaven also specially ordered the scholars of Hongdumen to paint portraits of Confucius and 72 disciples to hang them above the hall, indicating that this school has also learned Confucian skills.

The Son of Heaven exhausted his efforts, forgot to sleep and eat, and personally wrote a 50-chapter-long "Xi Chapter" with the theme of ancient history. He ordered the Hongdu Academy to use the "Xihuang Chapter" as the teaching material of the college.

At this moment, the Son of Heaven really set a precedent for the scholarship of the Great Han Kingdom, and the academic circles of the Great Han Kingdom were in an uproar, and the voice of criticism reached its peak for a time.

The Son of Heaven saw that the entire dynasty was mired in academic controversy, and his mouth smiled crookedly: Who said that I am not a genius?

Hongdu Menxue's sacrificial wine Le Song and Jia Huben were literary courtiers, born in commoners, and with their fame, they would never be able to summon celebrity-level figures.

At the beginning, there were only forty or fifty people in Hongdumen, which was very depressed, but with the addition of Zhang Zhi and a group of celebrities, Hongdumen suddenly developed unprecedentedly. Cifu, calligraphy and painting, and music all represent the highest level of the Han Kingdom. The number of bachelors who came to him soon exceeded 10,000, and there was a vague momentum of fighting with Taixue.

Inevitably, the debate between scholarship and values began.

Speaking of which, we can't fail to talk about Zhang Zhi and cursive writing in the Han Dynasty.

In the Western Han Dynasty, cursive writing was mainly from the hands of soldiers and apprentices, and it was a typical folk calligraphy style, which developed by Du Cao in the Western Han Dynasty and Cui Ying in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Legend has it that Cui Ming's "Cursive Script" came out in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and by the time of Zhao Yi's "Non-Cursive Script" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the cursive script of the Han Dynasty had become popular in the world.

With the emergence of calligraphy innovation, cursive script rose rapidly, forming a fanatical and long-lasting cursive craze throughout the scholarly class. Cursive calligraphers represented by Hongnong Zhang Zhi and his brother Zhang Chang even did not hesitate to abandon their careers and dedicate themselves to the art of cursive. This choice of life value also greatly influenced the students of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who abandoned their careers and devoted themselves to cursive writing, which attracted fierce attacks from Confucian scholars.

Zhao Yi said in "Non-Cursive Script" that calligraphy is a tool for the art of Taoism, and it is the foundation of the king's government, and cursive writing "is neither good nor political, but clumsy and does not affect governance", so it is not the business of a saint.

Zhao Yi's purpose in writing Non-Cursive Script was to reaffirm the dignity of Confucianism, to calm the cursive enthusiasm that pervaded the Eastern Han scholars, and to re-establish their faith in Confucianism.

Zhao Yi's orthodox stance on Confucianism made it impossible for him to recognize and understand cursive from the perspective of calligraphy aesthetics. Zhao Yi's conservative concept did not hinder the in-depth development of cursive writing in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, which reflected the aesthetic trend of the times, and the cursive craze not only did not cool down among the scholars, but intensified, reaching its glorious peak during the Xiping and Guanghe periods (between 172 and 184 AD).

The scholars' acceptance and opposition to cursive writing led to the division of the scholar class into two distinct camps. This is no longer a simple question of artistic stance, but two different life value choices, two different cultural and artistic concepts, and two diametrically opposed political stances.

The academic controversy had just begun, and the Son of Heaven immediately led the struggle to politics again.

The Son of Heaven found his own value and realized his ideals in the Hongdumen Academy, which was something that Confucian students did not expect. The Son of Heaven has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and the success of establishing Hongdu Gate School made him feel fresh and satisfied. So he rewarded those who helped him heavily and gave them a high status.

In the second year, the Son of Heaven was even more obsessed with running his college, issued an edict to recruit students from all over the country, ordered the central and local bureaucrats to recommend, and made a vow that as long as the students of Hongdu Gate School were successful in their studies, they would all be high-ranking officials and Houlu, and if they went out, they would be assassins and taishou, and if they entered, they would be scholars and servants, and they could even be awarded marquis.

The Son of Heaven also asked the portraits of 32 doctors of Hongdu Sect, including Le Song, Jiang Lan, and Zhang Zhi, to praise them, and exhorted students all over the world to take them as examples.

This move by the Son of Heaven seriously undermined the talent selection system of the Han Dynasty, and moved the cheese of the gate valve clan, which can be regarded as a hornet's nest, so what?

The ministers wrote letters one after another to persuade them, admonishing the Son of Heaven to focus on social and etheric learning, and to quickly abandon the learning of Hongdumen in order to eliminate the slander of the world.

But who is Emperor Han Ling? That is also a master who will not die until he reaches the Yellow River, and he will not shed tears when he does not see the coffin, he does not listen to all the books and exhortations of these ministers, and he is stubborn.

The results are obvious.

The eunuchs couldn't reach out and learn too much, but they easily controlled the Hongdu Gate School, and countless unlearned, unskilled, and corrupt people entered the hall with a plagiarized resignation and a ghostwritten calligraphy and painting, and turned into bureaucrats of the Han Dynasty. Hongdumen became a cornucopia of eunuchs for a while, a filthy place to hide filth and dirt, and the students of Hongdumen became the protégés of eunuchs, and the scholars and gentlemen all spat and denounced.

But interests drove countless people to flock to it, and Hongdumen became more and more prosperous.

Xu Shao's comments made the Son of Heaven furious, he spent countless efforts in Hongdumen, he very much hoped to get the "world's first comment" Mr. Xu Shao's affirmation, but Mr. Xu Shao was merciless, and even the city gate of Luoyang City did not enter, so he commented that Hongdumen was a dirty place, the root cause of the chaos of the Han Dynasty. This is no less than giving the Son of Heaven a slap in the face, and his hard work for several years instantly turned into a bubble with Xu Shao's words.

From today on, the former glory of Hongdumen will become a thing of the past, and Hongdumen will also become the laughing stock of the world.

"The world's first comment", no one can shake its influence. (To be continued.) )