At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Of course what Yuan Si said is true. In the Western Han Dynasty, there were only more than 6000 officials in the country, but in the Wei Empire period, the number of officials was about to exceed [-]. There is no way for the two sides to compare.

But Mr. Guo still felt that it was not enough. If he wanted to build a powerful big government, the number of officials would have to increase.

More importantly, he needs more fresh blood to constantly replace the blackened and dead blood.

"Certainly not enough."

Guo Peng shook his head: "Yuan Qing, maybe in your opinion, this number is already a lot, but in Gu's view, this is not enough. Although hundreds of people have entered the officialdom as officials, is there any of them?" I don't know how many are competent and how many can be of great use.

Yuan Qing, this feeling is like you have a group of short people stand in a row, and then pick the tallest one out of them. Yes, in the eyes of these short people, he is tall, but in the eyes of the normal people, he is very tall. On the other hand, he is still very short. "

Yuan Si felt that what the emperor said was a bit convoluted, so he thought for a while.

"Your Majesty means that the talents cultivated in the Taixue are not the best, and His Majesty is not satisfied?"

"It's not that I'm dissatisfied. There are still talents. Things like village heads and township heads don't need a country's pillars to support them. However, the number of people is still small and not enough. Yuan Qing, what can you do to train more people?" Are there many students?"

"More……"

Yuan Si thought for a while, and said, "That's nothing more than increasing the scale of the Taixue, allocating more funds, and admitting more students."

That's what he said, but Yuan Si knew in his heart that there were actually many decisive factors in cultivating more and better talents, and the emperor was just throwing money at it, which was useless.

Even if Taixue is expanded to 10 people, it still cannot cultivate the talents that the emperor really needs.

The best teachers, the best educational methods and educational resources are all in the hands of the gentry, and they cultivate their own outstanding talents behind closed doors. If so many high-quality resources are spent, the efficiency of becoming talents must be higher than that of Taixue.

Moreover, although the educational resources in Taixue are not bad, most of them are specific affairs-oriented education, and those who are trained are those who can do things.

If you understand agriculture, handicrafts and commerce, you can manage a village, a township and a county well, and boost local production and economy, that would be great.

Politics is not taught in Taixue, nor can it teach politics.

Therefore, unless these officials are very talented or have some adventures to comprehend on their own, they will not be able to climb up if they can achieve a maximum of two thousand shi in this life.

Not understanding politics is very fatal in the officialdom. You can't do things just because you know how to do things. In many cases, you can't solve problems by doing things.

You have to understand politics.

This category is too big, it requires talent, but it also requires the most basic political enlightenment, even if you don’t have political enlightenment, you only know how to do things, that’s actually [officials], not [officials].

You must understand politics, know what politics is, learn to stand in line, learn to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and then you can enter the upper echelons of the empire, grasp real authority, and exercise real power.

Not just running errands for others, but being a [capable official], [dry official], and complacent.

And this kind of real elite education resources can only be mastered by the main line of a few elite families, and it is almost a hand-in-hand one-on-one elite education.

Little by little, tell him what is the human heart, what is the current situation, what is the overall situation, how to manipulate the human heart, conform to the overall situation, and get what he wants.

These are not taught in Taixue.

These skills are too important, they belong to the extremely scarce educational resources, and they do not belong to the educational category of Taixue.

The general education of Taixue didn't even teach some basic political principles, so most of the people trained were small officials who could only concentrate on doing things.

Only a small number of students with very good grades will be concentrated and cultivated, and the poor and scarce educational resources will be used to carry out a certain degree of political edification, give them political enlightenment, and help them open the door to a new world.

Their future is temporarily unlimited.

This kind of people are either very talented, they are the children of Li Shu from the level of village chiefs and township chiefs, or they are from good backgrounds, they are the children of officials from the poor family in the court, and they have a certain status.

For example, the children of the Xiahou family of the Cao family and the like.

Only they can learn these skills and knowledge, and there are only 30 to [-] such people every year, and the emperor feels that there are few, which is just as it should be.

And this is actually the emperor's biggest life gate.

Yuan Si knew that the relationship between the emperor and the officials of the gentry was not good. Since the founding of the country, he has been supporting the poor and the common people and suppressing the gentry, but he has too few educational resources of this type.

Unless he gets off the field himself, it's not enough to teach someone talented enough to rise to a high position.

And more importantly, this part of the ascending channel is not completely in the hands of the emperor, but the main part is in the hands of scholars.

The ascending resources mastered by using the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law and subtle words and righteousness will never be open to outsiders, and you will not be able to grab them.

The rule is such a rule, unless you overturn the table and kill us all, that is your ability, if you dare not, then you must abide by the rules.

Do not understand the scriptures?

roll!

Yo, you are so talented that you can recite the scriptures?good!Come, let me ask you, what is the meaning of this word?

do not know?

roll!

Or—this is not my school of thought!

roll!

It is very simple to expel people who are not in the school, and prevent him from occupying even a little bit of rising resources.

Fourteen main passages, all roads lead to Rome, but none of them are open to you.

Just like the western aristocrats have deliberately created a set of extremely cumbersome etiquette norms that cannot be mastered from childhood practice to distinguish nobles and commoners, they always have some means to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and control the upward channels.

However, the educational resources possessed by His Majesty the Emperor are really limited.

Chapter 1136 One thousand 140 Liugu not only need martial arts, but also martial arts

Guo Peng defeated the Yuan family, left Yuan Si, kept Yuan Si alive, and did not let the Meng family Yi inheritance be severed.

Later, Yuan Si was asked to hand over the resources of Mengshiyi to Guo, so he actually mastered the channel of Mengshiyi.

It is a reasonable and legal ascending channel that can be grasped, accounting for one fourteenth of all channels.

But this one-fourteenth is not enough for the cronies around him, let alone expand the scale.

Your school wants to develop, but my school doesn't need it?

Be careful, we collectively unite to squeeze you out!

So even if the emperor mastered one-fourteenth of the ascending channel, it would not change the overall situation.

Because the remaining [-]/[-] is still in the hands of others, don't even think about it.

As for other second-rate books such as "Xiao Dulu", the ascending channels they occupy are inherently narrow, and they often have a fixed orientation. They are specially prepared for a certain position, which in the eyes of Confucian scholars is cruel. They don't care about cold rice, they just give it to you.

It's about the core position and the channel for the rise of core power. Your emperor still wants to use one-fourteenth of the power in his hand to make waves in our territory?

Don't dream, okay?

Yuan Si understood the emperor's idea of ​​wanting to contain the gentry, and there were not a few people who understood this idea. Isn't the emperor's vigorous promotion of humble officials and even increasing the number of eunuchs just to curb the gentry?How could this not be understood?

But, they all agreed that the emperor's idea was good, but it was difficult to implement.

How did the emperor rob them?

It's not like Yuan Shu, that dazed idiot who wanted to kill himself, made a big rebellion drama, let someone Guo justifiably destroy him, and even justifiably seized the inheritance of Meng Shiyi.

But if you want to seize others, you can see if it’s okay?

The wave of opposition from the masters and disciples of the remaining thirteen schools of law will swallow you up, no matter who you are.

Even if you can't beat you, if you don't help you govern the country, and your country is completely messed up, don't you panic.

Everyone collectively engages in the non-violent non-cooperation movement, you see whether you panic or not.

Yuan Si didn't look forward to the emperor's idea of ​​doing something, and didn't think he could succeed at all.

But His Majesty the Emperor seemed to have other ideas this time.

"No matter how much you increase the scale, it's useless. If you don't solve the most fundamental things, the problem will always exist. Yuan Qing, why did you say that the Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws were born?"

"why……"

Yuan Si was a little surprised: "Your Majesty means...how did the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law come into being?"

"You can also say that, but what I want to know is why there are fourteen schools of law. There are only five classics. Where did the fourteen schools come from? What's going on?"

Yuan Si blinked his eyes.

He was keenly aware that the emperor's problem was unusual.

What are the political intentions?

Or simply just want to ask?

This kind of problem can only be told according to the truth, and private goods cannot be carried.

"The Five Classics existed in the period of Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu adopted Dong Zhongshu's strategy to oust all schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone. In order to standardize Confucianism, he confirmed the Five Classics as five officially recognized theories.

In the later Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han Dynasty paid more attention to Confucian classics, re-established the education of Confucian classics, and preliminarily determined the Fourteen Schools of Law. The fourteen family laws are the family laws recognized by the court. "

"Well, very good, I already know all these things, Yuan Qing, what I want to ask you is why, in the Five Classics, there are fourteen kinds of family laws?"

Guo Peng looked at Yuan Si expressionlessly.

Yuan Si swallowed his saliva.

"The Confucian classics were passed down from the pre-Qin period to the Qin Dynasty. When the first emperor burned books to bury Confucianism and prohibited the spread of Confucianism, the Confucian scholars hid the scriptures or recited them desperately. Only then did they survive the crisis and pass on Confucianism to this day.

However, in the process of inheritance, due to various problems such as memory, font shape, pronunciation, and personal understanding, many different versions of the five scriptures appeared, and their meanings are also very different, which can even affect the meaning of the scriptures.

Therefore, under such circumstances, after Confucianism became a national art, each school had different theories, disputes, and personal identities. In order to alleviate disputes, they allowed family laws to be passed on to each other, so as to calm disputes. "

"So in the final analysis, the reason why there are fourteen schools of law is because those who want to unify their views have no courage, and those who are unwilling to unify their views also have their own concerns and self-interest, right?"

The emperor simply and thoroughly explained the problem clearly, which actually made Yuan Si feel a little embarrassed.

"What Your Majesty said... is indeed true. The differences in the theories of different schools are problems left over from the process of dissemination. Many problems have lasted for hundreds of years and have not been answered."

Yuan Si explained his views.

"Looking at it alone, it's not that there is no way to solve it, but that the interests cannot be reconciled."

Guo Peng sneered and said: "Every family has its own believers. If there is a unified statement, which one should be chosen as orthodox? Your family is orthodox, what about my students? Do you accept it? ?How to distribute the benefits?

These are all problems, and they are big problems, almost irreconcilable problems, which could have been solved, but because some people are afraid of trouble, unwilling to take responsibility, let alone let the Confucian scholars continue to strife and lose face, this is why With the mutual compromise of the fourteen laws. "

Yuan Si felt apprehensive and kept silent.

"What academic disputes, what disputes about different characters, what trivial words and great righteousness, on the surface are all benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust, but inside are all conflicts of interests. They are said to be Confucian scholars, but they are just a group of gamblers blinded by profit."

Guo Peng gave his own definition very simply, which made Yuan Si even more worried.

Could it be that the emperor is planning to make a move against the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law?

Could it be that the emperor wanted to suppress certain schools of thought and cut off the survival of certain schools of thought?

This... the problem is really big.

Civil strife will definitely break out among the Confucian scholars, and the Confucian scholars who have relied on Confucianism for many years to become bloodline nobles will definitely be in great chaos!

Yuan Si suddenly raised his head to say something, but suddenly saw Guo Peng looking at him with cold eyes.

At that moment, Yuan Si only felt that he had fallen into the ice hole, and his whole body felt cold.

"Yuan Qing, I think that a sage must not want his academics to be distorted by later generations and lose their original meaning, so that what later generations learn are false theories that deviate from the sage's original intention. It's so disrespectful."

Guo Peng grinned: "Yuan Qing, what do you think?"

Yuan Si was so frightened by this smile that he trembled all over.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty's words are justified."

"That's right, that's what Gu thinks. The good Five Classics are originally the meaning of the sage. Later generations have to distort the meaning of the sage and turn it into fallacies and heresies. Who is right? Who is wrong, actually does not admit it.

In this way, are the students learning the sage's learning, or the fallacies and heresies compiled by unfilial descendants at will?Did the Fourteen Family Law really follow the sage's original intention?Have you distorted the original intention of the saint?In my opinion, this is debatable. "

Questionable?

Is the emperor really...

The more Yuan Si thought about it, the more afraid he became.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean..."

"Didn't Emperor Xiaozhang of the former Han hold a meeting of the White Tiger Temple and then finalize the laws of the fourteen families? At that time, the laws of each family were in dispute. Emperor Xiaozhang had that meeting in order to let you Confucian scholars not quarrel every day.

Now that many, many years have passed, Gu suddenly felt that among the Fourteen Schools of Law, there must be some theories that deviated from the original intention of the sage, and if the Fourteen Schools of Law continued to exist, it must have allowed some false teachings to exist. It is disrespect to the saint, and Gu will never allow it. "