Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 383 We are too strong!

Liu Chang is worthy of being familiar with the classics, full of talents, and after a few words, the Huang Lao students present were speechless.

Wang Sheng, who was in charge of teaching the princes, raised a new topic at this moment.

"Make the people ignorant!"

Huang Lao is quite disapproving of the matter of enlightenment. After Shusun Tong started to organize the matter of enlightenment, the Huang Lao school began to criticize him. Of course, the Huang Lao school was not monolithic. There were various internal differences. They all carry the idea of ​​the weak.

"That's why the sage's rule is to empty their hearts, strengthen their stomachs, weaken their aspirations, and strengthen their bones, often making the people ignorant and devoid of desires!"

Huang Sheng approached the question from Lao Tzu's words, and immediately began to question whether it is feasible and beneficial to enlighten the world as today Tzu wants to do. In fact, many legalists also have this idea. For example, Shang Yang and Han Fei have mentioned this point. People who know too much will not be able to control it, and they will not obey the orders of the temple.

As for Confucianism, there are two different ideas. Some people think that Confucius said, "The people can be controlled by them, but they cannot be made to know them." Therefore, they support the theory of weak people. Yes, let it be, no, let it be known.” He also believed that Confucius had been enlightened by education and indiscriminate all his life, and it was impossible to support the policy of the weak, so he opposed the government of the weak.

Confucianism wants to make profits through enlightenment, and Huang Lao naturally wants to suppress Confucianism through this incident and establish his core position.

When Huang Lao and the Confucian scholars began to cite scriptures, attacked each other, and explained each other's ideas, Liu Chang was only at a loss for a moment, and then he ended up brazenly.

At this time, Liu Chang was of course on the side of Confucianism against the ignorant faction. Now that the Han Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger, there is a need for talents everywhere, and there is a very urgent need. , but to go directly to the county, the domestic talents are becoming more and more insufficient, and only by enlightening the world can the big man lose his troubles that no one is available.

What's more, in a big man who has entered a moral society, ignoring the people is not a glorious proposition.

While participating in the debate, Liu Chang also noticed a Confucian scholar who looked very radical.

The Confucian scholars sitting here are basically very famous, not to mention the uncle Sun Tong, and they are basically the representatives of various schools, and among these people, there is a person from Qi The Confucian scholar of the country shines brightly. This Qi Ru speaks fiercely, hits the key points directly, looks irritable, and even whispers a few words when he speaks. Liu Chang clearly hears the words clearly, which is very in line with Liu long mind.

Liu Chang saw that their debate was getting more and more intense, and he was almost ready to get started. Based on the principle of watching the excitement, he simply withdrew from the debate, sat in the upper seat with a smile, pointed at the Confucian scholar secretly, and asked, "Fuqiu Lord, who is that Qi Ru?"

Bo Fu Qiu laughed, he knew that this old scholar would definitely get the attention of Liu Chang.

The representatives of Confucianism are all kinds of strange, such as Shusun Tong, who is flexible, and Lu Jia, who is eloquent and eloquent, Zhang Cang, who is full of descendants, and Fu Qiubo, who specializes in learning. I debate the scriptures", and this Confucian scholar from the state of Qi is the most peculiar among many great Confucian scholars.

First of all, this old Confucian is very good at fighting, and secondly, this old Confucian has a very hot temper, and he will scold him at any time, and he will beat him if he can't scold.

"This is Yuan Gusheng from the state of Qi. He taught poetry and pioneered the poetry of Qi. Many disciples followed him to study.

Liu Chang couldn't help laughing when he looked at Yuan Gusheng who was yelling at the elder Huang in front of him.

Uncle Fu Qiu pointed to the others and said, "That is Uncle Gao Tang, the person beside him is called Fu Qing, and his grandfather is the great scholar Fu Sheng, you know that Mao Heng. These are all famous great scholars from all over the world. ."

Liu Chang didn't care about them.

"I didn't expect that there are still so many people who oppose my enlightenment world. Originally, I only contacted Uncle Suntong, Lu Jia, my teacher, and they thought that everyone in the world agreed, and it seemed that they were the people I contacted. Not much, even among you Confucians, there are actually people who oppose Enlightenment, so why come here?"

Fu Qiubo explained: "Your Majesty, it is like this. The pursuit of the school will change according to the needs of the temple. The legalists supported the weak people when they were in Qin, but now if you are looking for Zhidu, Zhang Shizhi, Zhang Shizhi and Zhang Shizhi No doubt they will ask, and they will definitely support your idea."

"Confucian people have support for the weak, but because His Majesty wants to enlighten the world, they can put aside their thoughts and come to help His Majesty. His Majesty uses the school, and they also hope that their school can be used. If no one is appointed, then the academics will lose their meaning no matter how advanced they are, and the knowledge that can only be talked about without practice will not last long. The reason Huang Lao opposes you so much now is mainly because you have not reused Huang Lao people. "

"Whether it's enlightenment or writing textbooks, you have chosen Confucian people, so Huang Lao will object. If you use Huang Lao's scholars for enlightenment, they will now change their mouths."

When Liu Chang heard this, he couldn't help laughing.

"Then if I go to debate with them now, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty is free to debate, as long as there is an old minister. It will be fine!"

Uncle Fu Qiu looked very confident, even if the people present were all famous celebrities in the world, he didn't take it seriously.

After everyone was tired from arguing, Chang Liu was still very excited when they went back to rest. Today, he followed Uncle Fuqiu and the two of them to kill each other.

"Hahaha, Shu, don't you know that today, I and Duke Fuqiu are fighting the crowd together, saying that they are speechless. When I join forces with Duke Fuqiu, no one can really tell us! We are! It's really too strong, full of experience!"

Liu Chang proudly talked about today's results.

Cao Shu's eyes were a little worried, "Your Majesty is not good at reading on weekdays. Today, in the face of so many people, don't say anything to make fun of you."

"Fuck! I'm obviously full of experience! Besides, who dares to make fun of me? I didn't cook him first!"

Liu Chang said, just when Cao Shu brought the food, Lu Lu walked into the hall with a person.

The man paid respects to Liu Chang and then to the Empress.

This man is not too young, but he is extremely tall, with a ferocious face. His physique is almost the same as that of Xiahouzao, and he is shorter than Liu Chang. His beard is also messy. The people who ran away from the Tang state.

Cao Shu was taken aback by this man's appearance. She had never seen a robber who looked like a great scholar before.

Liu Chang looked at the man in front of him, looking at his figure, the more he looked, the more satisfied he became, and he couldn't help shouting: "What a strong man!

Yuan Gusheng was stunned for a moment, but he still tried his best to cooperate with Liu Chang.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Why don't you go to fight in the Western Regions, but are you a great scholar in Qi?"

Yuan Gusheng replied seriously: "If Your Majesty orders, I will go to the Western Regions to fight now!"

Cao Shu rolled his eyes at Liu Chang and said, "This is a great scholar with a great reputation. You can ask him about the principles of governing the country!" After speaking, Cao Shu left the palace with the people. After Cao Shu left, Liu Chang recruited him. He waved his hand and let Yuan Gusheng sit beside him.

"Watching you debate today, I know you must be talented."

"I want to make you a doctor and keep you by my side, what do you think?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your love!"

Only then did Liu Chang ask: "Today, I see the famous people from many schools of Huang Lao, who are very disdainful of enlightenment and are unwilling to help. Is there anything you can do?"

Yuan Gusheng said angrily: "What Huang Lao's people said are just the words of some servants and servants, and they are not worth mentioning. They have no ability to oppose enlightenment, so they can only use words to confuse the world. , they lost the debate with me, so they went to the legalists and put me in jail!"

"What's the use of such people, Your Majesty wants them? Their greatest talent is to know some characters. Your Majesty can send them to Yunnan, Beiting and other countries, and let them be scribes who can carry a pen!"

"They have misinterpreted Lao Tzu's words. If Lao Tzu heard their explanation, he would have used his cane to beat them!"

"Lao Tzu said: If you don't honor the virtuous, the people will not fight. If you don't value the rare goods, the people will not be stolen. If you don't see what you want, the people will not be disturbed. This is the rule of the sages. Ambition, strengthen its bones, often make people ignorant and have no desires."

"The so-called virtuous does not mean that the people do not respect virtuous talents. This virtuousness is the meaning of treasure, so there is a feeling of not being expensive and rare. These words of Lao Tzu mean that we admire wealth and show off wealth, which is to disturb people's hearts. The reason for the unrest!"

"Therefore, when the sages govern the world, they should eliminate treacherous wisdom and greed and selfishness, and restore the simple folk customs of the people, so that the country can be greatly governed."

"And now these idiots are stunned to interpret this sentence as weak people, and weak people are what the Legalists do! Besides, the weak people of the Legalists only require that laws and systems be strictly enforced, It is to ask the people to obey the orders of the temple, starting from this, and now these Huang Laos are not!"

Liu Chang didn't know if what this guy said was true. Anyway, everyone from these factions has their own set of rhetoric, and each of them will make the other party feel that what they say is very reasonable. After all, if you can't do this, you don't deserve to be a master, and with Liu Chang's current cultural level, it is even more difficult to figure out the many theoretical segments among the weak. .

Therefore, Liu Chang can only nod in agreement.

Liu Chang didn't know this irritable old Confucianism. In the original timeline, this old Confucianism played during the period of the chess master, debated with Huang Sheng, and then met the Queen Mother Dou, because he insulted Huang Lao in front of the Queen Mother. Zhixue, the queen mother was furious and asked him to fight the wild boar with his bare hands.

The chess master threw down his weapon for him and asked him to deal with the wild boar. The old Confucian pierced the wild boar with one blow and killed it, thus saving his life. When doing these things, it is said that this man was already 70 years old. old age.

He is not just a simple scholar, he also has political ability, but not as good as academic ability. Of course, the strongest should be his force.

Liu Chang chatted with him for a while, but he had his own thoughts in his heart.

After sending off the new doctor of classics, the next person Liu Chang met was Huang Lao's king and Huang's two masters.

Wang Sheng is okay. He has been lecturing for the princes in Tianlu Pavilion for a long time. He is also a pillar-like figure in the theory of Huang Lao. At the same time, there is no place for people to be framed in terms of personal morality. He is still relatively familiar with Liu Chang. When he lectured with the princes in Tianlu Pavilion, he often used Liu Chang as a negative teaching material.

As for Huang Sheng, as a young master, he does not have the status of a prince, so naturally he is not as confident as he is. Sitting in front of Liu Chang, he looks a little uneasy and very scared.After all, he had just offended Liu Chang, for fear of retribution.

Liu Chang looked at the two of them, but his eyes still fell on Wang Sheng.

"I originally thought that Wang Sheng was teaching the prince in the palace, and he must have understood the matter of enlightenment. I thought that you should be responsible for this matter, but I didn't expect that you are so opposed to enlightenment. It seems that you cannot let you Huang Lao The people of the school have come to handle this.”

Wang Sheng had already thought about a lot of words to persuade Liu Chang, but when he heard Liu Chang's words, he suddenly fell silent.

There was a fierce ideological struggle in my mind.

"Actually, Your Majesty, enlightenment is not impossible."

"The matter of selecting talents for the country is not very related to the government of the weak."

Liu Chang shook his head and asked, "Do you know why Huang Lao is weak now?"

Wang Sheng glanced at Liu Chang, and he wanted to answer: it was because of you.

But he couldn't say that because he was old.

He said seriously: "This is probably because of the rise of Confucianism and Legalism."

"No, it's because you have too few talents."

"At the time, Mr. Huang was full of talents. If nothing else, Cao Xiang alone could stand above everyone here today, right? But what about now? Liuhou ignored these things. Those of you who came to debate, some Which is their opponent? It's just that the two of you can barely argue, but you're not an opponent."

"Old Huang lacks talents, this is the reason why you are gradually losing power. The rise of Confucianism is because of the emergence of people like Shusuntong, Fuqiubo, Lu Jia, and Jia Yi. But you ignore the cultivation of talents. What are the policies of the weak, how many people have been enlightened by Uncle Sun Tong over the years, and how many future Uncle Sun Tong will emerge from these people, Uncle Fu Qiu, if things go on like this, Mr. Huang is going to completely decline."

Wang Sheng was thoughtful, he stood up and said: "If Your Majesty does not give up, the minister is willing to help Duke Lu and jointly take charge of enlightenment."

Only then did Chang Liu laugh with satisfaction. He had previously thought of letting all the factions get involved, just right.

After comforting the two, Liu Chang also sent them away.

At this time, Liu Chang finally breathed a sigh of relief and moved his body tiredly.

Today's tongue-in-cheek battle made me a little tired, so it's best to go out for a walk.

Liu Chang did not drive. Following Zhang Meng, Liu Chang walked out of the palace.

Liu Chang's figure is too conspicuous. It is easy to be found when walking on foot like this. Fortunately, Zhang Meng opened the way ahead in time, allowing the soldiers to block the people in front, giving Liu Chang a chance to take a walk, but This kind of walk is not what Liu Chang wanted. Liu Chang likes to be lively, but every time he walks out, the whole street is empty, and he can't see half a person. Liu Chang just took a few steps. So he called a car in the name of obstructing the people.

Naturally, you can't take the emperor's car, that will only make it more conspicuous, so you can only find a prince's car. Fortunately, princes are not uncommon in Chang'an, even if someone finds his frame, it will not disturb the people.

Liu Chang hid in the car, secretly watching the lively situation outside, but couldn't go down and have fun.

As soon as he appeared, it would disrupt the lively and harmonious situation.
Liu Chang looked enviously at the young people who gathered at the door of the wine shop to brag. It was only when Lu Lu asked him where he was going next that Liu Chang just responded, "Give me the car first. who?"

"Chengyang King Liu Zhang's."

Liu Chang just came to Liu Zhang's mansion by returning the car. Liu Zhang's mansion is relatively remote. When Liu Chang arrived, Liu Zhang was already waiting for him.

"Father Zhong!"

"Ah."

"Father!!"

Liu Chang lowered his head, looked at the little Shuzi in front of him, and picked him up with a smile. This Shuzi was called Xi, the same name as Liu Chang's uncle, Liu Zhang's eldest son, and Liu Chang's grandson every time he saw this Shuzi Liu Chang would feel very unaccustomed to it when he was with him. After all, this is a big father, and it sounds very strange. However, there is no way, who makes Elder Liu high.

This little guy is also very well-behaved, and he has nothing to do with those sages on weekdays.

Liu Chang kindly reminded: "Don't be bored in the house alone, go to your Zhongfu more, and give them some benefits, you know!"

Just when Liu Chang was about to have dinner at Liu Zhang's house, someone came to the door.

The person who came was Zhao Mo, and Zhao Mo invited Liu Chang to go to his house, saying that the eldest father held a banquet to entertain him.

Liu Chang didn't refuse either, Zhao Tuo seemed to want to stay in Chang'an and not leave.

When he came to the mansion where Zhao Tuo was currently living in the Zhao family's car, it was Zhao Shi who came out to greet him.

In these days, because of Zhao Tuo's presence, Zhao Shi rarely showed up, and he was serving his father.

"Okay, sir, I heard about what you did today! It's a pity that I'm not here. If I were here, we could debate with them together!"

"These people are actually debating the classics in front of you, it's just a Xi Shi imitation!"

Zhao Mei frowned, but decided to shut up.

Zhao Shi pulled Liu Chang inside and walked to the southwest corner of the courtyard. Zhao Shi couldn't help laughing and frowning, looking unsure, "Chang. Look, I also raised some sheep here. , they were all taken from the Tang country. I have inquired about it, and the sheep of Jiancheng Hou's family were bought from there. I have raised a lot of them. If you want to eat, you can take whatever you want. If you are finished, I will go and get it. some come"

"I know you've been busy with things recently. If you feel bored, come to me and I'll keep it for you."

"I don't know if it's delicious or if I bought it right"

There was a trace of unease mixed in Zhao Shi's smile.

"Hahaha, it should be the right one, come on, let's eat one first and then talk about it!"

Liu Changda smiled and put his arms around his uncle's shoulders and pointed to a sheep in the sheepfold.

(End of this chapter)