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Chapter 833 Dongpo's Death Part 2

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His tuberculosis had already exhausted his body, and it was not too much to say that the oil was exhausted. Now it was just a chance for God to say goodbye to his younger brothers, nephews and students, and to explain his last words.

Su Che, who was still the Minister of Rites, has also taken leave these days to accompany his brothers, Su Mai, Su Chui, and Su Xun (Su Che's third son) at Su Dongpo's mansion. He heard that Su Dongpo woke up, and they all knew that he was looking back and came to his house to see him off.

Several Su family disciples who were officials in Beijing also arrived one after another, including Chao Buzhi, Zhang Lei, and the young and powerful Wu Haogu, but they did not see Deputy Prime Minister Li Gefei and Imperial College Priest Huang Tingjian, who are the pillars of Su Dongpo's party. Li Gefei could serve as the right prime minister after Su Dongpo's death, while Huang Tingjian was the general who presided over the reform of Imperial College and controlled the Biyong Academy!

Don’t think that it’s not important to think that the Biyong Academy is far inferior to the Yuntai Academy in academic terms. The Biyong Academy is the original combination of Imperial Academy, martial arts, and Imperial Academy. In the Song Dynasty, the students of the Three Studies were very pissing. They were known as the Censorate without an official! Once the three students were buried in the palace and wrote a letter, the prime minister would be in a state of great anxiety.

In contrast, it is not very useful to add a doctoral group of two Yuntai Academy. It would be too far to go to the book of the sect and would not have such influence.

"Where is Huang Luzhi?" Su Dongpo's heart was caught in an ominous sign.

"The official family has recruited him into the palace." Wu Haogu lied quickly, actually Huang Tingjian fell ill, just like Li Gefei, he couldn't afford to be ill... Maybe he's going to leave in the past two months!

At that time, not only will there be two magistrates fighting for the position, but even the Imperial College will have to be tear up for a while. Wu Haogu thought to himself: I don’t know how long that guy Cai Jing has been holding it in, but now Su Dongpo has to go!

Su Dongpo looked at the student Wu Haogu, sighed and asked, "Did Huang Luzhi fall ill too?"

"No, no, he's pretty good..."

Su Dongpo raised his skin-skinny right hand and waved it hard, "Dalang, remember... the Imperial College must hold it in his hand! You are not afraid of the censor's bulletin seal, and many officials will suppress you. But next year, there may be a bus to write a letter to the Ministry of Rites. At that time, you can only use Taishen (referring to the Biyong Academy) to write a letter to fight back!"

The party struggles in the Northern Song Dynasty were carried out with verbal cannons, and the usual tool of struggle was the censorship system. However, the struggles in the censorship system were basically controlled by the officials. Unless it was impeached by the secret seal, Zhao Ji would have no further information if he stayed at the end of the Communist Party of China.

It is useless to impeach Wu Haogu and Gao Qiu, who are in charge of external offices, who have a small territory. Wu Haogu didn't go to the office of the Coastal Maritime Control Department. Even if he knew that he was impeached and had to avoid suspicion and not go to work, it would not affect his control over the Coastal Maritime Control Department. As for the two positions of the Head of the Jiehe Shang City and the Chief of the Great Doctor, the two positions are not imperialists at all, so naturally they cannot be impeached by the Censor.

Moreover, the struggle between Wu Haogu and Cai Jing was mainly a school struggle, and the Confucian empirical faction would not stop its activities because of the impeachment of the censor. Zhao Ji would not label the empirical faction as a pseudo-education because of the impeachment of the censor. After all, the empirical faction is more practical! The one-night city in Yinzhou, the one-night city of throne, the expansion of the Xicheng of Kaifeng Prefecture, the construction of the Qionglin Palace, the training of new vassals, the opening of Jiehe, the two major commercial cities in Jingdong, etc., all have to rely on the empirical faction.

Therefore, the only tool that Jinggong’s new school can use to fight against the empirical school is the ultimate killer weapon of the mouth-bending struggle. The bus will be published in the public car!

Because in the Han Dynasty, public carriages and horses used to pick up scholars who were eligible for the examination, they later used "public carriage" to refer to the candidates who entered Beijing or the representatives to go to Beijing to take the examination.

The juren who came to Beijing to be the representatives of scholars all over the world, so the public car can also be regarded as the collective will of scholars all over the world. Most of these juren who came to Beijing to be the new scholars in Jingzhou! Therefore, the Caijing sect can easily mobilize them.

Even if he is not a scholar from Jing Gong’s new school, except for a very small number of students from Yuntai Academy, all the scholars in the world are actually academic rivals of the empirical school.

This empirical school is now a very small number of schools that master the truth. Not only the scholars of Jinggong's new scholars opposed them, but even disciples of Neo-Confucianism and the authentic Su-Shu studies were very disgusted with the empirical school. Therefore, to defeat them, the best tool is of course the leisurely mouth of the scholars in the world.

Su Dongpo had actually expected this situation. His level of governing the country was actually not as good as Cai Jing, but he was a school clan before the rise of the empirical faction. He was a school clan of Su and Shu studies, and had a great influence in the academic community! The main reason why he was sent to Danzhou by the New Party was actually his influence in the academic community.

As an old academic clan, he certainly knew that the empirical faction was a school that was hated by many people. So after he took power, he tried every means to firmly control the Imperial College system. Because only the Fuque Book of the Students of the Biyong Academy can the Book of the Bus of the Scholars against the Bus of the Scholars of the World.

But man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. Huang Tingjian, the Imperial College Priest, couldn't afford to get sick after the New Year!

Therefore, Wu Haogu must now launch a senior civil servant who is qualified to master the Imperial College and is willing to fight against Cai Jing to replace Huang Tingjian.

Now that Su Dongpo is about to die, he mentions Wu Haogu at the end and tells him how to fight against Cai Jing.

"Students know." Wu Haogu stood up and bowed to Su Dongpo with gratitude, "The students will never forget the kindness of their mentors for supporting and protecting them."

Su Dongpo nodded and looked at Su Zhe who was sitting next to his hospital bed without saying a word. Su Zhe was actually an opponent of the Empirical School. He had discussed this issue privately with Su Dongpo more than once. In Su Zhe's view, the Empirical School only has "Tao" but no "benevolence", and is more inclined to "Huang and Lao learning", and pursues the Tao that "Confucius asked about Tao Lao Tzu". Moreover, the "small paths" sought by the Empirical School seem to be used in both making money and fighting!

In addition, the high cost of the empirical faction and the subsequent problems of falling into money-seeking have made Su Che even more disgusted.

In Su Che's view, Confucian education is not only for pursuing Tao, but also for the poor scholars in the world to have a path to rise in exams.

The empirical school does not serve poor scholars, because this school takes the "high-end route". Basic education of Liuyi must be started from the elementary school stage. Primary school stage (Liuyi Academy) requires proficiency in Six Arts, and the university stage is even more outrageous, with six basic disciplines plus more than a dozen junior colleges... Traditional Confucian education is only equivalent to the two basic subjects of "Confucianism" and "literature" of Yuntai Academy. Therefore, the cost of empirical education, such as several times or even dozens of times that of traditional Confucian education. Now it does not include the expenses of the doctoral troupe and Liuyi Academy. The two Yuntai Academy plus seven junior colleges will cost millions of yuan in a year! And there is a growing trend.

After spending so much money, the Wuhan University’s unscrupulous businessman must find a way to get some back. Otherwise, he would not be able to afford it himself, it would be millions of yuan in a year! And in the future, he will pay more and more!

Therefore, after the Jinshi class on the right list appears, the "free trial period" of Yuntai Academy will be over. Unless particularly outstanding freshmen (old students who enter the school for free will continue to be free) or special relationship households (mainly knights of the corresponding Knight Academy), they will have to pay high tuition fees!

Especially those rich businessmen who have not had good exam results, they all spent a lot of money to buy them, of course, some of them have good school students, but the right list has not yet attracted the hearts of the people, so the first choice for good school students is the traditional left list. Those who are not sure about the left list come to study Yuntai Academy. Most of them do not understand the Six Arts, and the exam results are of course poor. So donate money, and then go to the preparatory course (quick six Arts), and then go to the Academy. Anyway, it is normal for a rich n generation to spend tens of thousands of knots... But tens of thousands of knots can "buy" a Jinshi, even if it is a recommended official who climbs up from a muya, it is completely worth it for rich but not expensive businessmen.

By the way, the Song Dynasty also had a "donation class", but the Song Dynasty's donation and awarding officials had a very low status, far from being as good as military merits. It was a good candidate for the imperial examination, let alone a Jinshi.

So in Su Che's opinion, Yuntai Academy's approach is undoubtedly to treat knowledge as a commodity trading, and even suspected of indirect sales of officials. It is simply a gentle and polite way!

If it weren't for Su Dongpo's face, he would have gone to study the ancient book of Wu Hao.

Su Dongpo knew his younger brother's thoughts. But at this point, there was nothing to say, so he waved his hand to everyone, "Other than Ziyou, you all go out!"

This is to explain the last words to Su Zhe alone!

Everyone in the room could only stand up and leave according to Su Dongpo's words, and in the end, only the brothers Su Dongpo and Su Che were left.

"Ziyou," Su Dongpo sighed, his voice very soft, "After I die, you can ask for a job outside. With Wu Dalang's real school being carried in front, Cai Yuanchang must be in a hurry. As long as you don't stay in Kaifeng Mansion, he will not have time to deal with you."

Su Che looked at his brother. Although Su Dongpo was dying, he was still worried about the future of the Su family, but he no longer had the world in his heart. He sighed: "Brother, Wu Dalang's way is probably not as good as Cai Yuanchang, right?"

Su Dongpo shook his head, his voice was too veritable to hear: "Ziyou, don't think about the scholars of the world... and take good care of the Su family! Uncle Li Wen is afraid that you will not be able to enter the Political Affairs Hall again. Bo Chong has a bright future, but unfortunately he is too young, but he is in his thirties and has to experience it for ten or eight years. Before Bo Chong becomes noble, you must not fall, you must not fall..."
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