At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Cai Mao, the governor of Jingzhou, went out of the city to greet the emperor together with the officials of Jingzhou governor's office, and met the emperor.

Only a few of these people have seen the face of the emperor, and most of them have never seen the emperor. They only have a vague concept of the emperor, and only when they have seen the emperor with their own eyes can this vague concept be truly formed.

Cai Mao was obviously not part of this group of people. He went to Luoyang many times to report on his work, met Guo Peng, had dinner with Guo Peng, and enjoyed singing and dancing. He knew everything he should know.

Therefore, under his leadership of the mean, Jingzhou has been in a stable state, and has survived the previous political storms relatively smoothly, without causing any terrible incidents.

Jingzhou has not experienced such a terrible cleansing incident like Jizhou, and the officials from top to bottom have almost changed, while Jingzhou is relatively better.

It is really inaccurate to say that there is no credit for Cai Mao. Cai Mao is like a wind and rain papermaker, doing his best to maintain the fragile superficial harmony between the emperor and Jingzhou scholars.

But as long as one of the parties is a little bit out of line, this situation must be irreversible.

Cai Mao, who was mixed in, was really dangerous and exhausted.

"You have been the governor of Jingzhou all these years. You have worked hard to maintain the situation and govern Jingzhou. I have seen your credit. You have done a good job."

Guo Peng asked others to follow behind, and he and Cai Mao walked ahead alone, pacing slowly and talking slowly.

"To be praised by His Majesty, even if I die, it is worth it."

Cai Mao's flattering skills have always been in place.

"What I want is not your kung fu of flattering, but your kung fu of governing the region and maintaining balance. When I had no spare energy to involve Jingzhou, your ability helped me stabilize Jingzhou. I am still very satisfied with this matter. , but that's not all I want."

Guo Peng turned his head and looked at the humble Cai Mao beside him: "The Xuexuetang should undergo some changes. The teachers in the Xuexuetang are strong and envious of others. Don't talk about the local schools and schools. Even the Central Imperial College is only relatively speaking. Do you think this is appropriate?"

Cai Mao was startled, and then sighed secretly, feeling that this day has come.

As the last stronghold of the scholars, the school hall gathered the last elite strength of the scholars, and the last fortress, of course, would enter the emperor's sight.

For several consecutive years of imperial examinations, Jingzhou scholars have occupied a large share in the imperial examinations, outshining others. If things go on like this, they will inevitably be dissatisfied with other regions.

In fact, many officials from other places have raised objections to this.

They believed that the teaching level of Jingzhou Xueyuetang was very high, while the teaching level of other regions was not enough, so that in the imperial examinations, candidates from Jingzhou always had an advantage, and even Luoyang Tai students could not compete with them.

If things go on like this, are there any upward channels for students from other regions in this imperial examination room?

This is the view of most mainstream officials in the current court.

Guo Peng thinks the same is true, the benefits can never be taken by people from one place.

In the next 20 or 30 years, if the court is full of people from Jingzhou Academy, that would be a bad thing.

In that case, there will be a school faction such as the Akamon Clan Inamon Clan in Japan, which will completely monopolize the room for advancement in a certain aspect of society, and it will be difficult for other students to see the hope of getting ahead.

And people from one place will also form their own regional faction. If the faction is too strong, it will affect the political balance of the court and threaten the imperial power.

So Guo Peng came to Jingzhou, firstly, to inspect the territory of Jingzhou and frighten the younger generation, and secondly, to dismember the Jingzhou Academy.

As a powerful emperor, Guo will never allow any institution that threatens to shake the foundation of his rule to exist.

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Guo Peng's policy, to put it bluntly, is to weed out the strong and support the weak.

In the court, whoever takes the lead will be suppressed, so that the regions will be more fair, and it is also for the better implementation of centralization.

Although Cai Mao had long expected that such a day would come, when this day really came, he still couldn't help but feel panicked.

Jingzhou Xuexuetang is the legacy of Liu Biao's era, and it is Liu Biao's best and last gift to Jingzhou people.

Many scholars relied on the help of Xueyuetang to achieve great achievements in the imperial examination, defeated the poor and muddy sons through the imperial examination, and entered the imperial court as officials.

But now, the emperor could not accept this situation.

In the face of such an emperor, the people of Jingzhou can be said to have no strength to resist. If they want to fight against him, it is tantamount to committing suicide. Therefore, they really have no better way to go than to obey.

Now I don't know how those old scholars will feel when they realize that their last shelter will be dismembered by the emperor?

Suicide?

Just like those old guys who thought scholars had no future?

Cai Mao didn't dare to continue thinking about it.

He just felt that if he continued to think about it, he might be able to think of even more terrifying things.

So he couldn't object, he could only mildly raise some trivial questions.

"Your Majesty, the school has been in operation so far and has provided a large number of talents for Wei Wei. Is there anything wrong with it?"

"Of course not. If things go on like this, all the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the court are from Jingzhou Xuexuetang. What do you think will happen? What will the people in the court think of Xuexuetang?"

Guo Peng looked at Cai Mao and sneered, "Degui, don't you think you are reluctant to part with Liu Jingsheng's legacy?"

Cai Mao was taken aback and quickly knelt down.

"No minister! Absolutely no minister! I hope His Majesty will find out!"

"Come on, I know you don't, you just don't want to part with the good thing of Xuexuetang, but Degui, you know, if Xuexuetang continues to exist for a day, I won't be able to eat or sleep well. What can I do?"

Guo Peng stretched out his hand to support Cai Mao: "The people who come out of the school are all future officials, but how can I let future officials learn from the same school? De Gui, do you think this is the case?

I managed to solve the problem of the Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws. Now, you tell me that the school is going to follow the old path. In this way, isn’t my previous practice meaningless? "

Cai Mao swallowed his saliva, and even claimed that it was true, saying that he would do his best to assist Guo Peng in dismembering Xuexuetang, and promised not to let Xuexuetang become a disaster for the empire.

"Hey, that's right."

Guo Peng patted Cai Mao on the shoulder happily: "By the way, speaking of Liu Jingsheng, where is his grave? Take me to see him. I have been against him for several years. I have not seen him until he died. It's a pity to pass him."

The emperor is going to see Liu Jingsheng's grave?

Cai Mao felt a little strange, but it was not a big deal.

Liu Biao died in Jiangling, and his tomb is located near Jiangling, a good place surrounded by mountains and rivers, which was chosen by Liu Cong himself for Liu Biao.

Now every year, Liu Cong and Liu Qi will be allowed to return to Jingzhou to worship their father to show their filial piety.

Guo Peng came to Liu Biao's tomb and looked at Liu Biao's tombstone engraved with the words of Jingzhou Mu in the early Han Dynasty, feeling a little dazed.

It's also quite interesting to say that at the end of the Han Dynasty, the heroes fought for hegemony, beat each other to death, and became enemies of each other, but they might not have seen each other even once from life to death.

For example, Guo Peng and Liu Biao have never met each other, Tao Qian has never seen each other from birth to death, and Sun Ce, Sun Quan, and Zhou Yu have never met each other from birth to death.

Be hostile to them, confront them tit for tat, meet them in battle, but have never seen them, and the impression of them in my mind is symbolic.

Liu Zhang is a little bit better. He didn't meet him before he failed and surrendered, but now we can see each other often.

This era is really interesting. Two people who have never met each other and don't even know what the other looks like or what their personality is, can kill each other and fight bloody battles.

In the end, the winner stands in front of the loser's grave, looking at the loser's tombstone and sighing in vain.

Guo Peng asked others to fetch a bucket of water, watered Liu Biao's tombstone with a wooden spoon, and cleaned Liu Biao's tombstone himself.

"Although Liu Jingsheng is my enemy, he has governed Jingzhou for more than ten years to protect the environment and the people, so that there is no major turmoil in Jingzhou, and it will not be severely damaged like Jiangbei and Hebei. This is also his credit."

Guo Peng gave Liu Biao a more pertinent evaluation, and asked Cai Mao to arrange someone to guard Liu Biao's tomb to protect Liu Biao's tomb from being destroyed.

Cai Mao didn't know why Guo Peng wanted to do this.

Is it a political show?

It seems that there is no need for it anymore. With his political status and power today, he does not need political showmanship at all.

So, what are the other reasons?

Feeling from the heart?

Cai Mao still doesn't know.

Back in Jiangling City, Cai Mao held a welcome banquet for Guo Peng. The scale was medium and small, and Guo Peng was quite satisfied.

Those who came here to participate in the banquet were all prominent figures in Jingzhou, officials, celebrities and dignitaries. Many of them saw the emperor for the first time, and some of them were very excited, even a little exaggerated.

But Mr. Guo still enjoys it quite a bit.

After the official speech on the stage was finished, and the official communication was almost done, Guo Peng felt that time was limited, so he started to get down to business.

Regarding the dismantling and dismemberment of Jingzhou Xuexuetang, and the dispatch of the strong teaching staff in the Xuexuetang to various places to enrich the teaching staff in the areas with backward education.

This matter may cause certain repercussions in Jingzhou and cause some people to protest, but it is useless.

Guo Peng decided to move all the non-Jingzhou household registration students back to their original places in the Jingzhou Academy.

Then, one by one, the masters in those school halls would be packed up and thrown elsewhere.

For example, Bingzhou, such as Youzhou and Pingzhou, such as Liangzhou, such as Yunzhou and Jiaozhou.

These places with backward education and economic backwardness need these descendants of Confucius to carry forward the educational spirit of Confucius and change their spiritual outlook.

Since they must say what they say, they must follow the educational spirit of Confucius, go to educate the world, travel all over the world, and spread the education to all the world.

They must not refuse to go because the place they are going to is too wild or cold, and they must not refuse to go because the people they meet are uncivilized savages in the backcountry.

Could it be that my Buddha does not overcome the poor, and the master does not educate the poor?

Is it true that Confucius' educational philosophy is limited to the rich, and does not include the masses of hardworking people?

That was not allowed by the emperor.

If they want to be decent, help them to be decent, and if they don't want to be decent, then help them to be decent.

If you don’t teach, then you will be forced to teach, to help you improve your thinking and cognition, and help you improve your academic level.

After the grand banquet, Guo Peng left behind Jingzhou celebrities and academic leaders, including Huang Chengyan, Zhuge Liang's father-in-law, Pang Degong, the head of Jingzhou celebrities, and Sima Hui, a Yingchuan celebrity who lived in Jingzhou.

These three are the leaders of the Jingzhou Academy, and they can be regarded as the last hope of the Jingzhou scholars. They surrendered with Cai Mao, Kuai Yue and others and survived.

In the subsequent political storms, they hid in the Jingzhou Xuexuetang and were not affected. It feels as if the Xuexuetang has become a shelter for Jingzhou scholars.

Although Guo Peng didn't like this kind of thing, he had to admit that, in a sense, the Jingzhou Academy had really become a refuge for scholars, educating the last elite scholars of the Wei Empire.

This is not in the interests of the Wei Empire.

So in this discussion meeting, Guo Peng made some small demands on the leaders of these scholars.

Ask them to leave Jingzhou and lead some of the teachers in Jingzhou to areas with weak educational resources.

The celebrities were stunned on the spot.

"Educating all people is the bounden duty of Confucian students and the greatest wish of Confucius. As disciples of Confucius, we should inherit the unfinished business for Confucius and set an example for future generations. The disciples of Confucius can only talk, but not do."

Guo Peng said with a smile: "Nowadays, the world is stable and the world is peaceful, and it is the time when Wenzhi is flourishing. We have to open the imperial examinations and recruit talents from all over the world, but we have to consider whether the world can cultivate enough talents for Gu.

Like Yunzhou, Jiaozhou, Pingzhou, Youzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Mozhou, and the Western Regions, these places have a small population, inconvenient transportation, slow development, and most of them are bitter cold places, lacking academies, schools, and more famous teacher.

It’s not enough just to have books and schools, you need famous teachers, how can you teach excellent students without famous teachers?Gu dispatched many famous teachers from Luoyang to these places to serve as school officials, broadcasting and teaching, but the power is weak and the number of people is small, which is not enough to change the situation of the local barrenness.

At this moment, I think of you alone. The students taught by Jingzhou Xuexuetang are outstanding in the world. In the imperial examinations over the years, Jingzhou students have been among the best. The standard of Jingzhou Xuexuetang is naturally recognized by people all over the world.

Therefore, I think that if you each go to those wild places to broadcast and enlighten the local barbarians, so that the local wild people can be educated in the Central Plains, then the mission of evangelizing the world will definitely be completed quickly, and Confucius' wish will also be fulfilled. "

After Guo Peng talked, the leaders of the scholars looked at me and I looked at you, with panic and despair that couldn't be hidden in their eyes.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty means... you want me to go to these wild places and broadcast enlightenment?"

"That's natural. I want to go, but I have other things to do. I can't just be a teacher. You are a famous teacher who has been famous for a long time. You alone are worth thousands of troops. The local wild people are convinced."

Guo Peng said with a smile: "Since that's the case, you have all made great contributions to the country of Wei and Confucius' ideals! Your actions and efforts will surely last forever!"

Anyway, bragging does not pay taxes, and the high hat is put on their heads hard.

Do not agree?

Awkward?

That's toasting and not eating and eating fine wine.

If you are told to go, if you don’t want to go, wouldn’t it be nice to order you to go then?

I told you in advance that it was to give you the last bit of face. If you don’t want this face, then don’t blame me for forcing you to go with an administrative order.

The emperor has a faint tendency to threaten like this.

He can definitely do such a thing, everyone believes it.

Fortunately, this is just a negotiation, not a specific order, and it seems that there is still a turning point.

So after the tea party ended, Huang Chengyan and the other three immediately found Cai Mao, and Pang Tong, the attendant of the South Study Room who was patrolling the world with Guo Peng.