As we enter August, the temperature drops significantly.

Chang'an, it's not so hot anymore.

Even at noon, there is a gentle breeze.

The pace of autumn is getting closer and closer.

The most obvious change is that Changle Palace, one of the two palaces in Chang'an City, is noisy again.

The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, who went to Ganquan Palace for summer vacation, returned to the core of their power.

Every day, there are countless ministers and nobles, trying their best to squeeze into Changle Palace and show up in front of the Empress Dowager and her old man.

At the same time, the return of the Empress Dowager dealt a heavy blow to the Confucian faction.

Originally, the Confucian department wanted to make a big effort in this year's examination, and strive to defeat Huang Laoxue, who was in power, and become a prominent scholar -- at least let people see the power of Confucianism.

In the beginning, the Confucian plan was indeed very smooth.

Among all the reference scholars, the Confucian factions together account for almost sixty percent!

In other words, the references of other schools of Legalism, Huang Lao, Mo and other schools together are not as many as those of Confucianism.

More people is power!

As long as there is no leakage in politics in the end, Confucianism will undoubtedly become the biggest winner in this examination!

He can show his muscles in front of the world, and at the same time, he will gain more attention from nobles and important ministers.

It's just that......

It's just that there is a leak on the political zhì!

Lu Ru, the-stirring stick, fully inherited the-stirring spirit of their predecessors.

It's a mess of the good situation!

It took nearly fifty years for the Ram School and the Yanshi School to turn their image around. Destroyed by the Ru Ru overnight!

On the face of it, a brawl. The Son of Heaven is each playing fifty boards!

killed those murderous rangers, and gave severe punishment to the troublemakers of the Lu Ru family.

But actually......

The current Confucian factions. I'd rather let the Son of Heaven let go of those murderous rangers!

Because, first of all, putting a dignified scholar with a group of illiterate Qiu Ba is a matter of losing its value in itself.

That's it!

If you don't have face, you don't have face!

But on the contrary, Guanzhong, which has been transformed by the Qin people, has a tradition of brothers defending themselves outside the wall.

No matter what kind of pig brains he has inside, in the face of outsiders, the people in Guanzhong have never had anything to say, roll up their sleeves and fight first!

Not to mention the complex composition of the ranger. A group with a deep background!

The rangers in Guanzhong have a strange symbiotic relationship with the landlords, merchants and aristocratic class in Guanzhong.

Many Ranger are actually black gloves for some big guys, used to do dirty things that aren't meant for them.

The Son of Heaven cut off the heads of three rangers, exiled a dozen of them, and sentenced them to seven or eight.

The rangers did not dare to hate the Son of Heaven, so they had to point the finger at the trouble-causing Confucians.

In the eyes of the rangers in Guanzhong, the brothers who died were all killed by Confucianism!

They don't care. Your Ram Sect is actually similar to the Lu Ru Sect except for the books they read, but in fact, both their thoughts and deeds are completely different.

What's even more troublesome is that even the people in Guanzhong feel it. This incident is a provocation by the Lu people against the Guanzhong people......

And the rangers have a variety of channels to connect with those meat eaters.

And most of the meat eaters in the imperial court were born in Si. The Guanzhong people who grew up in Si - although most of the noble ministers were immigrants, they all made their homes in Guanzhong.

Thereupon. After this series of wonderful chemical reactions.

When Empress Dowager Dou returned to Chang'an from Ganquan Palace within two days, she knew about it.

On dissatisfaction and hostility towards Confucianism. Empress Dowager Dou is definitely the most extreme of all the Empress Dowagers in the Han family!

The old lady was old, her eyes were blind, and her heart eyes were as small as the eye of a needle.

Last year, Yuan Gusheng's offense to her made her always haunted and remembered in her heart.

She was even more disgusted with Lu Ru's rampant and arrogant.

Think about it, if you are a devout religious believer who believes in your faith, but there is another guy who attacks your faith in front of you and proclaims that his faith is 10,000 times higher than yours.

What will happen to you?

I'm afraid a slap in the face will slap this hateful guy out of the door!

But what if you're a big man in a country?

Hanging this guy on a street lamp can already be regarded as a mercy.

It's just that the one who lives and dies does this kind of thing.

If this can make Empress Dowager Dou feel comfortable, it would be strange!

To make matters worse for Confucianism, the vast majority of them did not know about it, so the name of Yuan Gusheng was prominently listed in the lobbying team organized by Confucianism.

Then, this matter was stabbed in front of the Empress Dowager Dou by someone with a heart.

After the Empress Dowager Dou learned the news, she compared it with the news of Lu Ru's troubles that she had just learned, and immediately burned the Thunder Cliff.

immediately called Liu Che over and reprimanded him.

If it was just like this, Liu Che would make a show and symbolically give Confucianism some painless punishments, and this matter would probably be over.

But the problem is that when the report card of the second round of the examination was announced, this matter immediately and inevitably slipped into a situation that Confucianism absolutely did not want to see: among the reference number of scholars in the second round of the examination of a total of 3,000 people, the total number of Confucian factions added up to more than 1,800.

The results of the second round were announced alone, and among the 1,500 scholars who were promoted, Confucianism accounted for almost 900!

This is a hornet's nest.

In the first round of examinations, you Confucianism accounted for the majority, so forget it!

After all, few of the children of the aristocratic vassal group are willing to go to the grassroots level to endure hardships, and everyone is looking forward to becoming an official in the Jiuqing Yamen or a comfortable department in Chang'an.

But, you guys can't be too ugly, right?

You're going to take half of the seats in the second round?

Uncle can bear it, but aunt can't bear it!

You must know that more than eighty percent of the current aristocratic and courtier class of the Han family. They are all supporters of Huang Laoxue!

The contradiction of interests and the difference of political views immediately made the entire aristocratic and courtier class turn their guns at Confucianism. Fierce bombardment began.

As a central government, in addition to Huang Laoxue, there is another big faction: Legalism. As soon as he saw that Confucianism was actually menacing, he wanted to swallow most of the official positions in the examination.

The giants of the Legalists can't sit still!

In the battle of Taoism, line, and ideology, no one will be polite, let alone talk about any gentleman's demeanor.

As a result, between the government and the opposition, anti-Confucian public opinion quickly took shape.

And menacing.

In Liu Che's consciousness, he can almost be abolished with the Jianyuan New Deal. The various factions united to suppress Confucianism.

For a time, all kinds of black materials and 'reactionary remarks' about Confucianism were flying in Chang'an.

Decades ago, or even hundreds of years ago, the ugly and dirty things that Confucianism had done were turned over.

Among them, the Mo family contributed nearly seventy percent of the DPS output!

As the saying goes, it's not your friends who know you best. It's your enemies!

As a prominent scholar in the Warring States Period, Mohist was ranked alongside Legalism and Confucianism, how could it be in vain?

Although the Mo family is in decline, its inheritance has not been broken!

Don't talk about anything else. In a copy of "Mozi", you can find a lot of Confucian black materials.

Some even directly dug into some not-so-beautiful things that Confucius had done back then, and even directly hit Confucius himself. Behind the set of hypocritical tables xiàn.

There are pictures, there is truth, there are facts. There are illustrations, and there are even people of time and place.

Even if these are fabricated. But if Confucianism wants to wash white, it is not so easy!

Because, the name of the witness to these things is Mo Zhai!

What's even more troublesome is that these things are compared with the actions of Confucius's disciples and grandchildren one by one, and then, everyone sighed and showed their expressions like this.

That's it!

Who doesn't have a black history?

It is the norm to involve the battle of Taoism and smear each other's opponents.

In the past, Confucianism could have either been a high-minded and cold "My Confucianism has its own reason here, and such remarks are groundless and not credible", or simply ignore it.

They don't even need to scrub the floor.

Because, as long as it does not evolve into a national discussion, these problems are unlikely to cause the slightest harm to Confucianism!

But this time, Confucianism was angry, and this time, even if they wanted to wash the floor, no one wanted to listen.

This is the same as the public intellectuals on the Internet in later generations, if you want to refute the rumors, you have to make these guys willing to listen to you!

The giants of Confucianism, in the face of this menacing public opinion, are at a loss, the six gods have no master, and they don't know how to deal with it at all.

However, as long as they are not idiots, everyone understands: if this continues, Confucianism will not let alone rise, and I am afraid that it will immediately face a situation where everyone shouts and beats!

Now, there are already signs of this.

In the court and the opposition, there are already some people who are talking about some of Emperor Gao's remarks about Confucianism in a weird way, and some impatient guys simply turned out the bad deeds of Lu Ru who stood on Xiang Yu's side and stubbornly resisted Wang Shi!

If this matter continues to ferment, Confucianism's 50 years of efforts will become a vain.

Even the Taoist system is at risk of being cut off!

Qin Shi Huang has done the act of burning books and pit Confucianism!

Regardless of which faction Confucianism is, it is absolutely unwilling to face the blow of the iron fist of state violence again!

As a result, Yan Yi was regarded as a hope by Confucianism......

Now the situation of Confucianism has really reached the moment of critical survival.

If we can't win the protection and wings of the Son of Heaven, those forces that are still testing now will definitely attack it in groups.

At that time, the best fate of Confucianism may be just the same as that of the Mohists.

It is unknown whether he will become a second famous master, be swallowed by others, and become a branch of Legalism or Huang Laoxue!

When it came to the survival of his own Dao system, Yan Yi didn't dare to slack off, and immediately entered the palace to ask to see the Son of Heaven.

When Yan Yi asked to see him, Liu Che was playing with Chen Ajiao in the Qingliang Palace.

Chen Ajiao, the future queen who has been decided, no, has been determined, now, she doesn't look like a queen at all, and she is very innocent and frolicking in Liu Che's palace.

For this cousin and the future queen, Liu Che still has great pity and sympathy.

Therefore, she is also extremely tolerant and pampered.

This tolerance and pampering is not a fake. Rather, it is the expression of true feelings, therefore. In the eyes of others, when today's son. For the future queen, it is indeed cherished to the extreme.

Donggong is very satisfied with this!

After playing with Chen Ajiao for a while, Liu Che got the news of Yan Yi's visit.

"Announce him in!" Liu Che picked up Chen Ajiao and walked to the dragon couch and sat down.

His wedding date with Chen Ajiao has been confirmed, on the sixth day of the next month, Zong Zheng said that this day is very good.

But Liu Che is still very awkward in his heart!

Marrying a loli who is less than twelve years old is simply a crime!

Therefore. Recently, Liu Che has been a little upset.

However, this kind of thing, for Liu Che's identity, is at most similar to a general idea: smoking is harmful to health, but I still suffer from smoking.

What Liu Che really pays attention to is the recent situation of Confucianism.

To be honest, Liu Che has no sympathy for the situation of Confucianism!

Murderers are always killed!

On the monopoly of the right to speak. Confucianism is a real master!

Not to mention, they can force Huang Laoxue, a school of philosophy and politics, into a religion that pretends to be a god, which is the first time in human history.

Even the Legalists who are extremely practical. They all have to put on a layer of Confucian skin to fool people!

And their own internal tearing is even more jaw-dropping.

Niu Li party dispute. The old and new parties are fighting, the Zhejiang Party, the Jin Party, and the Donglin Party. In the history of China, the lower limit of politics has been constantly refreshed. Those who educate the people about what it means to sacrifice the country and the nation for the sake of political struggle are the disciples and grandchildren of these guys.

Therefore, seeing the siege of Confucianism, Liu Che was still quite dark in his heart.

However, as the emperor, Liu Che could not influence the country's policies and strategies because of his private feelings.

In that case, what is the difference between him and the Niu Li Party, the old and new parties, and the Donglin Party, which he is most ashamed of?

Moreover, in all fairness, the position of Confucianism in China's political territory is still very important.

The role of Confucianism in local administration, the popularization of education, and the progress of civilization is irreplaceable.

Therefore, Liu Che had actually decided to let Confucianism pass the siege.

Otherwise, why do you think that the public opinion of the government and the opposition has not yet shown the posture of exterminating Confucianism?

It's not that he, the emperor, is pressing, those speculators are already ready to move, okay!

But if Confucianism wants to pass the test without paying a price, it is impossible.

The aristocratic and courtier class of the old Huang faction joined forces with the Legalists, as well as the support of the East Palace, and the tendency of local public opinion in Guanzhong, to be honest, it was not Liu Che who was the Son of Heaven, and he had a firmer grip on the military power, and replaced other people, I am afraid that what we have to consider at this moment is to fall into the well and conform to the will of the people.

Even so, if he wanted to smoothly appease the dissatisfaction and opinions from all sides, Liu Che could not directly protect Confucianism with a wave of his hand.

……………………

......As soon as Yan Yi entered the hall, he immediately knelt down and cried: "Please save the Confucian Sect!" ”

In Yan Yi's view, the situation in Confucianism is indeed extremely bad.

It's just that the East Palace, like a mountain, is pressed on top of the heads of all the factions of Confucianism.

The empress dowager's malice towards Confucianism that circulated from the East Palace has been clearly revealed.

It is said that even the Son of Heaven was reprimanded by the Empress Dowager for this.

As for the public opinion of the government and the opposition, it is very unfavorable to Confucianism!

The rangers gave full play to their network of relationships, and carried out various kinds of black indiscriminate against Confucianism throughout the Guanzhong.

However, the Mo family also came up with real materials, examples and stories, which are vivid and immersive.

And Confucianism put his butt on Xiang Yu's side during the period of Chu and Han hegemony, which became a stain that Confucianism himself couldn't explain clearly.

After all, of all the schools, only Confucianism was the one who had openly fought against Emperor Gao......

And Huang Laoxue and the Legalists took the opportunity to fall into the well, which made matters worse.

At this moment, the entire Confucianism does not have the domineering spirit of the little pig to dominate the public opinion of the government and the opposition.

Although they were numerous, they did not have much influence in the north, especially in Guanzhong, and had almost no influence on the army and the upper nobles.

Under such a shape, many factions of Confucianism have clearly realized that the entire Confucian ideology and positioning need to be adjusted again!

This is not too difficult for Confucianism.

From Confucius to the present, in fact, the Confucian ideological system has completely changed.

Don't talk about Confucius, even if Zixia and Mencius crawled out of the grave, they may not recognize it.

As a result, after this blow, the intelligent people within Confucianism quickly began to evaluate their own thinking and course of action, and many began to adjust to better meet the needs of the nobility and upper rulers of the Guanzhong region.

This is the same as Dong Zhongshu who immediately revised his system after observing Xiao Zhu's thoughts and gave him the gift package of 'Heaven and Man Induction'.

This is the result of the evolution and evolution of Confucianism over hundreds of years.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest.

It's not just species, it's minds.

Not to mention, it is the later Celestial Empire, if the Celestial Empire Taizu gets up from the grave one day, do you think he can still know the Celestial Empire in the new century?

Even Taizong is estimated to have the impulse to go to Jinggangshan again and defeat the reactionaries......

Unbeknownst to Liu Che, Confucianism had already begun preparations for self-innovation and self-evolution.

But he knew that Confucianism had to change.

Not only Confucianism, but also in the future, Huang Laoxue, Legalism, Mohist and even farmers need to change themselves to adapt to the development of the future era.

The world is always moving forward.

Last year it may have been very advanced, but next year, I'm afraid it will be rotten.

Liu Che hopes that the ideological circle of the Han family can always maintain its vitality.

That's why he wants a hundred schools of thought to contend.

Otherwise, with his own preferences, he will definitely fully support the Legalists, and the examination will also be inclined to the Legalists.

After all, whether it is Huang Lao or Confucianism, they will have their own ideas and small actions.

But the Legalists will not have it.

Legalists will only listen to the emperor, even if this emperor is an idiot, stupid tyrant, and his orders are full of mistakes, which may lead to turmoil in the world.

For a reborn traverser like Liu Che with foresight, the Legalists are naturally the best choice.

But in that case, Liu Che knows very well that at best, his achievements are at most Qin Shi Huang, who died and died, and ended up in the second generation. (To be continued......)