The system of recommendation that Emperor Wu began has its roots.

The system of recommendation comes from the recommendation system of the past. In the past, those nobles with reputation and status all had the right to recommend the king. They could recommend talents who they thought were talented to the king and their friends. Therefore, making friends with nobles is the best way to the powerful. Qin State set up a recommendation joint position in order to restrict the recommendation system. If the person who recommended made a mistake, then the person who recommended him had to bear the same crime as him. The well-known one is like Fan Ju, who caused trouble because the person who recommended him committed the crime.

The Han Dynasty established a moral society and attached great importance to the private morality of officials. The proportion of virtue in recommendation exceeded the talent for the first time, and only the merits are the ones to be promoted!

This is a good opportunity for the rise of the Confucian ritual school.

This is not to say that they are the most moral, but they are the best at formulating morality. What they say is morality is morality. And the greatest virtue of the Han Dynasty who governs the country with filial piety is of course filial piety.

Xiao Fen opposed this decree like crazy. After all, he had to object. In recent years, they have been influenced by the recommendation system of the Han Dynasty through their right to interpret etiquette and filial piety. They firmly believe that they can quickly reverse the entire society and make moral officials mainstream. In the future, if people want to become officials, the first step is to supervise their etiquette school. What height will this push the etiquette school to?

Facts have proved that history has indeed developed in this way. The Confucian ritual school, or the Li family, reached a high degree of unity with the nobles who had the right to recommend. They provided ritual and legal guarantees to these nobles. The nobles used their rituals to make profits for themselves, pretended to seek fame and reputation. In the political soil of the Han Dynasty, they could no longer tolerate ministers like the early Han Dynasty. They all turned into moral guardians, and in this strange development, the Li family's thoughts became more radical.

Not to mention anything else, it is just an allusion of Guo Ju burying his son, which makes people feel mysterious.

Twenty-four filial piety... Twenty-four filial piety?

Later, they were no longer limited and simple filial piety. They began to formulate a set of formal moral concepts and draped a set of luxury-looking moral crown suits on the entire body of China. The biggest function of this crown suit is to bind the person who wears it. The more they struggle, the tighter they become, until they strangle the people inside to death.

This development speed is extremely fast. During the reign of Emperor Wu, the system of filial piety and integrity began to be promoted. As for who is filial piety and integrity, it was the Li family itself, and then the folk began to chant: "If you pick up scholars, you don't know how to write; if you observe filial piety and integrity, your father will live apart."

Chao Cuo's decree interrupted this process. Funerals and grand funerals are the first ways for the rituals to select filial sons, and it is also a very important and fast way. Think about how long it will take to be filial to parents. It would be better to spend some money when they die, and there is an official to be a member of the government. How great is this.

It was in this case that the Li family established close contact with the nobles and began to move towards a new path.

As the goal gets closer and closer, the road is cut off by Chao Cuo. How can they not be in a hurry?

How can they not stand up?

This is already in their best interest, so they have to do whatever it takes.

If they lose this power, they will no longer be qualified to establish cooperation with the nobles, and there will be nothing in the entire school to climb up.

However, at this moment, Xiao Fen was cold all over and his hands and feet were numb.

He was already prepared for death. Faced with a cruel official like Chao Cuo, he felt that he might be killed by the soldiers who suddenly broke in at any time.

If he died like this, the Li family could continue to be strong, and he would be a sage who sacrificed his life for justice, and Chao Cuo would be nailed to the pillar of shame.

He values ​​status very much, whether it is when he is alive or after he dies.

But the development of things was not as he expected. Fu Qiubo did not fight back, the emperor did not intervene, and Chao Cuo was even more abnormal. Not only did he not take action, he was also arrested by the court guard...

The most deadly thing is the newspaper, the temple’s residence newspaper or the Confucian residence newspaper, there is no need to say more about which one is more influential.

Xiao Fen really didn't expect that those arrested people would have such evil deeds.

Did Chao Cuo think of the current situation when he first arrested people? Or did they later arrest these people to fight back?

Compared to Chao Cuo's far-sightedness, he still believes that this is a temporary remedial act.

The Li family, which attaches the most importance to filial piety, wants to rescue some unfilial people. This is a huge joke. The reputation of the entire school has suffered a huge blow. If it is not handled, the Li family will have to have a big problem. Xiao Fen hurriedly pointed the finger at Chao Cuo. Chao Cuo has a very poor reputation and there are so many ministers in the court who hate him. It should have played some role, right?

However, before he could contact those people, Chao Cuo was arrested.

They were just speaking on impeachment, not trying to tell Chao Cuo.

But Tingwei obviously didn't think so... it's hard to choose now.

In order to discredit Chao Cuo, they placed countless charges on Chao Cuo, but who is Chao Cuo? There are countless people in the world who hate him, but none of them can kill him. This person has almost no selfish desires, does not like money, does not like land, or beauty. His whole mind is on state affairs, has no friends, and the places where he lives are given by the emperor... Want to find his black material???

Now, these smears have begun to backfire.

According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, they sued Chao Cuo what crime they were. If Chao Cuo was not, they would deal with the crimes they brought up.

All his followers have become appellants. If they lose the case, he and all their followers will sit back and kill the clan!!!

Xuan Moru is still waiting for his answer.

He smiled very gently, but seemed to point his sharp knife at Xiao Fen's heart.

If the lawsuit is withdrawn, their reputation will be over. A group of schools that want to rescue the disobedient filial piety and a group of schools that slander the three masters but dare not die. They will be ruined with their personal reputation and the entire school.

If the lawsuit is not withdrawn, there is almost no chance of winning. Once the lawsuit is lost, they will all be killed, and the entire clan... In that case, the entire school will die here, and even the successors will not be left...

Xiao Fen felt a buzzing sound in his mind. He wanted to draw out his sword and give it to himself.

If you die now, can you keep the school and the clan?

Xiao Fen was extremely entangled. He looked at Xuan Moru directly, unable to say anything. The people who were clamoring on weekdays seemed to have held their breath at this moment, trembling all over. Some people finally couldn't help it and stepped forward and said, "After all, it was confronting the third master..."

"Shut up! Do you think the laws of the Han Dynasty are unfair? Do you favor the three ministers?! Are you going to tell the Tingwei now?!"

Xuan Moru looked at the man suddenly, and the man started to tremble again.

"Don't dare."

But someone still came out, "Mr. Xiao, please withdraw... you can't win."

This time, Xuan Moru did not interrupt him again, just smiled.

Those who speak may not be afraid of death, but they are just unwilling to implicate their clans. After all, they still have family members. If they die with their family members... they would not dare to imagine it at all.

The second person who spoke tightly grabbed Xiao Fen's hand, "I am willing to go on the road with you, but my parents at home really don't want them to suffer because of me..."

Xiao Fen seemed to have found something, raised his head again and said sadly: "If I lose the case, I don't know how many parents will suffer because of their children's affairs. How could I do such an unfilial thing? I... withdraw the case."

Xiao Fen gave up telling Chao Cuo. At that moment, all the Confucian scholars gathered down their heads in despair, and they were finished.

The entire school is over, and withdrawing the lawsuit means that they were talking nonsense before, and Chao Cuo did not make up. They really wanted to save those disobedient people... They were going to become rats crossing the street that everyone shouted and beat, just like the Legalists after the fall of Qin.

Xiao Fen took a deep breath and glanced at his sword.

Death is the only one!!!

Just as he was about to reach out, Xuan Moru grabbed his arm.

He was surprised

Looking at Xuan Moru, he said angrily: "I have withdrawn the lawsuit on behalf of the school, and we have not formally appealed to the court guard. What else do you want to do?!"

Xuan Moru laughed loudly, laughing unscrupulously.

"You have withdrawn the lawsuit, but Chao Cuo has not withdrawn the lawsuit yet... He told you to falsely accus, slander, and slander the Three Dukes... Since you withdraw the lawsuit, then false accusations can be banned, but slandering the Three Dukes cannot be banned... If you want to die, you have to wait until the lawsuit is over."

Xiao Fen suddenly reacted. He was furious and widened his eyes. He stared at Xuan Moru in front of him, and his hands pointing at him began to tremble.

"You!!! You!!!"

"take away!!!"

With the order from Xuan Moru, the soldiers immediately began to pull these people away. At this moment, they were no longer plaintiffs, but turned into defendants...

Seeing those Confucian scholars who were so depressed that they were taken away by the soldiers, Xuan Moru shook his head disdainfully, "Why don't you learn the law if you have time to read rituals? It's stupid."

The soldiers of the Arctics were going to arrest many people, not only those in the Imperial Academy, but also those outside. Xuan Moru was also busy, but he was still very happy. This was a great achievement. Seeing the Confucian scholars who were arrogant not long ago being taken away in a daze, many Taishen students from other schools were watching around, but they did not sympathize with these Confucian scholars in their hearts, but instead secretly praised them. Although Confucianism highly binds filial piety to itself, in fact, each party has its own understanding of filial piety. These people actually want to rescue a group of disobedient people? And have the face to say filial piety??

Some even spit in their direction.

Shameless!

Their reputation of the entire school had fallen to the bottom. Xuan Moru was about to leave, but someone stopped him. The same Confucian scholar was also a Confucian scholar, but Xuan Moru's attitude had improved a lot.

"Shen Peigong!"

The person who stopped him was Shen Pei. Shen Pei frowned and looked at the people who were taken away, asking, "What crimes are these people going to be convicted?"

"It's hard to say... According to the Han Dynasty's law, smearing a person to let more than three people know that it is a serious crime, and a five-year corvee sentence is sentenced to... The greater the impact, the more serious the judgment is, and smearing the ministers in the court will have to increase the disposal... They are slandering the three ministers of the dynasty, and making it known to the world... At this level... a sentence of abandoned market may be the virtues of their ancestors... and they are all rumor-mongers, and they are all rumor-mongers, not unintentional listeners... It's hard to say, but they still have to look at the lawsuit... However, they took the initiative to withdraw the lawsuit and saved the three tribes, otherwise they would probably have to turn all the fifth ancestors into their false accusation..."

"They deserve this. I know you are a sage, so you shouldn't be too..."

Shen Pei shook his head, "No, no, I'm stopping you, not to interfere in the affairs of the temple, I just want to consult with you..."

"Oh, please say it."

"I'm just that now they've been arrested, can I still sue them?"

"ah??"

Xuan Moru widened his eyes, "What did you say?"

"My teacher is already 86 years old, but he is humiliated by them at such an age. I originally wanted to kill them, but my teacher doesn't allow me to do this... As soon as you said, I suddenly realized that they also slandered my teacher! Although my teacher is not as good as the third minister, he also has official titles, and they are also causing a lot of controversy, which is known to everyone in the world... Can you still appeal now?"

Xuan Moru was stunned for a moment, then nodded and explained, "Of course...not to mention just being taken away for the verdict, even if the verdict is over, you can still appeal. The Tingwei will return Fuqiu Gong's name to punish him for multiple crimes... However, I suggest you don't have to do this."

Shin Pei was furious, "My teacher tried every means to protect them. They repaid their grudges and revenge. Why can't I appeal? Why are you, as a magistrate official?"

Xuan Moru smiled awkwardly and explained: "I mean, someone has appealed...that includes the case of Fuqiu Gong, you don't have to appeal..."

"Who is it?"

Xuan Moru looked around and whispered:

"Floating Hill"

The man whom I have been praising..."

Shen Pei was shocked, "But why did he want..."

"They scolded Fu Qiu Gong, and even the one who scolded him... The one who didn't know why, wrote a letter to the Tingwei directly... Yes, it was really a letter... The Tingwei was frightened and knelt down and listened to his telling... This one really... does whatever he wants...

Shen Pei laughed, "It seems that His Majesty not only wants to govern female thieves, but also wants to make the court officer deeply rooted in the hearts of the people..."

"No, then why didn't you tell Xiao Sheng just now?"
To be continued...