"Have you taken a kid from the Khitan royal family to get in?" Su Dongpo lifted up the curtains of the carriage and looked at Wu Haogu who was riding a horse and frowned.

Mr. Dongpo has now followed Wu Haogu to the Jiehe North, and with them are Su Hui, Su Guo, Lu Haowen and more than a dozen disciples under Su Dongpo.

Among them, Su Xi, Su Guo and Lu Haowen were preparing to accompany Su Dongpo and Wu Haogu to Beijing to discuss the Tao, while the others went to the Jiehe Branch of Yuntai Academy Palace as professors.

Although the Jiehe Branch of Yuntai Academy has only one doctoral degree, it cannot be the only way to "suppress people with virtue". The Confucian principles are still necessary. Therefore, Wu Haogu transferred a group of "big Confucian scholars" from the Yuntai Academy in Haizhou to go north to Jiehe with himself.

This time, he walked north because he brought Su Dongpo and some other Dongpo who were not capable of riding horses, so he walked slowly. On the way, Wu Haogu also mentioned his newly acquired apprentice Dashitou to Su Dongpo.

However, Su Dongpo thought it was quite inappropriate for Wu Haogu to acquire a kid from the Khitan royal family.

"Teacher," Wu Haogu smiled indifferently, "The Khitan royal family has a large number of people. They are almost the two surnames of Yelu and Xiao. If they want to avoid the royal family, the Khitans will not be able to accept Khitans as disciples."

"Do you have to accept Khitan disciples?" Su Dongpo frowned.

"Of course," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Isn't the purpose of opening Jiehe Commercial City to use this as a base to penetrate Yanyun and spy on the Liao Kingdom? To achieve the goal, isn't the best way to use Yuntai Academy to recruit disciples?"

"That's it," Su Dongpo sighed, "but the treacherous party in the court will not let go of this excuse... Dalang, you must be prepared to be pressed by a bullet!"

In some people, taking disciples from the Yelu family as their disciples is a proof of understanding the Khitan!

"For the sake of the country and to recover the sixteen states, it's no big deal to recite some bullet stamps!" Wu Haogu didn't take it seriously. "If they wanted to impeach, Jiehe Shangshi is now a transit place for the Liao Kingdom's east and west grain transportation... Tongliao's crimes cannot be eliminated."

Su Dongpo frowned, "You are relying on the favor of the official family. I am afraid that one day the king's kindness will be gone, and these will be the serious crimes that can kill you!"

Wu Haogu smiled: "Teacher, what kind of person do you think the official family is?"

"Official family?" Su Dongpo looked at Wu Haogu and waited for him to answer this question himself. After all, Wu Haogu had become the number one confidant of the official Zhao Ji!

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "The official family is a person with great blessings. If you enjoy it, you will go far away from the previous generation. As for the governance, you can trust others, which is actually the same as the former emperor. Once you are appreciated by the official family, you will definitely trust it with great confidence and don't worry about slander. If the official family can get a name and assist you, it will not be certain. It's just this famous minister..."

Later generations had a low evaluation of Song Huizong, but after several years of contact with him, he found that Song Huizong was not bad. He was not as suspicious as many kings in history, and he was also very capable. If there were any shortcomings, one was frivolous; the other was that he felt too good that he had no suspicious illness. Perhaps the reason for his self-satisfaction was that he felt too good. He thought that the emperors of ancient and modern times had the best literary talent, but others were not as good as him?

In short, Song Huizong was an emperor who was both confident and trustworthy! If he could meet a few famous ministers, it would not be impossible to achieve great achievements. But the question is, in this era, who can be considered a real famous minister inside and outside the Song Dynasty court?

Faced with the cheating "Wanyan Gundam" people, traitors like Cai Jing, Wang Fu, Tong Guan couldn't handle it. Let Han Qi, Sima Guang, Ouyang Xiu be the prime minister, and let Bao Qingtian be the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor (Bao Gong once served as this official position) replace Tong Guan to host the Northern Expedition and defeat the "Wanyan Gundam" people?

In Wu Haogu's view, his loyal friend Song Huizong was also a scapegoat! He was the stake in the Song Dynasty's literati class after the rise of the policy of emphasizing culture over military and the imperial examination system, and the overall weakening of the literati and official class of the Song Dynasty was taking the blame.

The scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty did not need to be able to fight like the heroes in the late Han Dynasty and Guanlong in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. With the abilities of big stones, Jiang Hanzan, Yin Guan, and even Wu Yanchong, the Song Dynasty might be able to withstand it.

Of course, this situation is not a mistake of the scholars and officials themselves, but also the root of the ancestors of Song Huizong. They used the imperial examination system and brainwashing education to make the elite scholars of the Song Dynasty give up their force, and at the same time they also cultivated the imperial guards on which the country relied on to become waste.

In fact, Song Huizong took over a country that was basically disarmed...

So this name is taken as the scapegoat if you accidentally take the blame!

Su Dongpo touched his beard and laughed, not sure if he was thinking about taking the blame for the first time.

"Dalang," Su Dongpo said, "Since the officials believe in you, I won't say much more to my teacher.

You should talk to your teacher about the discussion. How do you plan to expose Cheng Yi’s pseudo-learning?”

"Teacher," Wu Haogu frowned, "In fact, Mr. Yichuan's theory of heaven cannot be considered pseudo-learning..."

"Why isn't it considered a pseudo-study?" Su Dongpo glanced at Wu Haogu, "Uncle Cheng Zheng's knowledge is not fake. Is your knowledge fake?"

Wu Haogu thought about it and shook his head and said, "What the student said is inappropriate. Mr. Yichuan's knowledge is indeed false, but it is useful, so it cannot be completely denied.

As for students' practical theory, it is a subject that requires hundreds of years of exploration, and cannot give a simple and easy-to-understand answer."

"I understand," Su Dongpo frowned, "You just want to integrate Uncle Cheng Zheng's knowledge into the system of Yuntai Academy.

But, how do you discuss this? How can this lies be fulfilled? Who is the master and who is the servant of Uncle Cheng Zheng?"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "What the teacher asked is determined by the discussion of the truth!

Mr. Yichuan wants to discuss the superiority and inferiority, but the students want to combine two into one... Only by combining two into one can Confucianism be spread outside!"

"What about new learning?" Su Dongpo sneered, "New learning is now a manifestation! If you don't defeat the new learning, even if you can integrate Uncle Cheng Zheng's fallacy into empirical theory, you will still be suppressed by the new learning!

Those who are new to learn are quite domineering!"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "There is always a way. They can't be domineering for too long."

He only said half of his words, and half of them were: As long as Zeng Bu, Xu Jiang, Zhao Tingzhi and others could not contribute money to Song Huizong to play "Fengheng Yu Da", then he and positivism would stand firm!

...

At this moment, just as Wu Haogu was thinking about how to integrate the empirical faction and Neo-Confucianism through a theory, those who were new party and new students had already won the first sentence.

On the first day of the second month of the second year of Jianzhong Jingguo in the Song Dynasty, the official Zhao Ji issued an internal system through the Hanlin Bachelor's School, authorizing the Zhengshi Hall and the Imperial College to prepare for the Confucian Taoist ritual!

"The book has been issued. What do you think should be done for this ceremony of Taoism?"

Han Zhongyan held a bowl of tea in his hand and glanced at the New Party priests.

Of course, there were letter exchanges between him and Su Dongpo and Su Che, and he also knew that the two Su brothers were planning to make a comeback in this discussion!

This was also their last attempt. Although "Theory of Empirical" is not the knowledge of the Er Su brothers, Wu Haogu, Su Feng and Su Guo are all from Su Xuemen. Therefore, Er Su can regard himself as a "empirical school" master.

Once the "empirical faction" defeats the new learning and becomes a new obvious learning, then the second Su Xuanma will inevitably be the argument of Taoism based on the standards of later generations. This debate is a struggle for politics! The winning party is of course the Confucian leader, and it is natural to replace the failed party to control the regime.

Moreover, the characteristic of the political arena of the Song Dynasty was that it basically did not participate in political struggles. Political struggles were just a scholar's mouth, so the power held by the New Party did not play a big role in the mouth war.

"Of course, we must set the topic first!"

Lu Dian replied.

Due to the academic struggle, Lu Dian, who was promoted by Han Zhongyan, has now completely turned to the new party camp. Therefore, the comparison of the number of new and old parties in the Political Affairs Hall is now 5:1!

Lu Dian said: "The Confucian Tao has ethical principles, moral cultivation, and strategies to govern the country. None of these three needs to be discussed!"

Of course, it is not just the world outlook and methodology that constitute Confucianism. There are also ethics and political science. Ethics stipulates the lifestyle and moral norms of the Han people. Most of the things that Chinese people think of incest come from Confucian ethics. For example, brothers and sisters, it was not incest in many places at that time!

Confucian political theory has been constantly absorbing the scholarships of various schools, and in the Song Dynasty it became a hodgepodge, which included both things that strengthened monarchy and restricted monarchy’s power; it also had the idea of ​​strengthening centralization and the theory of implementing local autonomy. It also had the idea of ​​the state monopolizing the economic route of the official business, and the argument that officials did not compete with the people for profit.

It can be said that any route you want can find theoretical basis in the hodgepodge of Confucianism, and even the truth of later generations of GCism can find a "Datong Thought" in Confucianism.

The main skill of the new learning is to be used on various Confucian political theories.

"Don't discuss ethics, morality, and governance strategies," Han Zhongyan asked, "Is it just a big way?"

"Isn't it enough to discuss a great way?" Lu Dian touched his beard, "The Confucian great way is not complete, so it was taken advantage of by Buddhism. Now, Luo Zhixue has proposed the theory of heaven and the Yuntai Academy has proposed a method of empirical evidence. Shouldn't they be allowed to discuss the superiority and inferiority?"

"Tao Shan said it right," Zeng Bu spoke, "One great way alone is enough for Su Xue and Luo Xue to discuss the Tao for ten years. Where can I discuss the Tao with Kung Fu?"

"That's right," Xu Jiang also said, "Let's talk about the great way this time."

"Yes!" Li Qingchen nodded and said, "Shi Pu, all Confucian scholars in the world now want to know who is right and who is wrong in the laws of nature or evidence?"

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Chapter completed!