Chapter 2389 The Real Fragrance Is About to Come Again

The news of the successive pacification of Hanzhong and Sichuan and Shu, not only the capture of the major rebel households, but also the defeat of the related surrounding tribes of Ti and Di people, reached the Sanfu in the first month of the sixth year of Taixing.

Although it is not completely settled at the moment, there are still some follow-up matters, such as the punishment and sentencing of those who rebelled, and waiting for the general to conquer Shu to escort the criminals to Chang'an, such as the Di people in Yinping and Daba Mountain. The people's mountain stronghold has not yet been completely conquered, but generally speaking, the chaos has gradually come to an end.

When the drama ends, of course some people will be happy and some will be worried.

The person who made the wrong bet looks pale.

When people encounter a loss, the first thing they do is to avoid the loss as much as possible. Then when they find that it is unavoidable, they start to think about how to reduce the loss...

The same was true for the gentry children of Hanzhong and Sichuan, as well as the local tycoons. When they concluded that Fei Qian might use General Zheng Shu to escort these rebels for trial, these people began a series of actions.

While there is still a little time, while the journey to escort these prisoners of war is not that fast, try to rescue them before the stones or knife edges fall.

Is it Chinese tradition? Find connections.

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, all kinds of relationships.

Chang'an Sanfu, the spring rain has been continuous these days.

Everything he looked at seemed wet.

Some people like spring rain and think it is as precious as oil. Similarly, there are naturally some people who hate spring rain and find such weather very depressing and feel uncomfortable wherever they go.

In the drizzle, a guest was welcomed into the courtyard of the Zhen family.

Uninvited guests.

The courtyard where Zhen Mi lives is not big, but it is extremely luxurious. Not to mention the carved beams and painted buildings, there is a roll of bead curtains in the hall that separates the front and back of the hall.

In the golden toad incense burner, there is a thin layer of sandalwood.

The bead curtain is shaking, and only a shadow can be seen between each other, which is not real.

The sound came and went without any problem.

Zhen Mi listened to the cry of the middle-aged man in the front hall. She sat on the desk and seemed to be recording something with a pen. After the middle-aged man finished crying and howling, she sighed slightly and put down the pen. Then he said in a clear voice: "Brother's words, I have also written them down here. Now that the matter is urgent, I need to make some preparations... But this matter is very important. I also live in Chang'an, and the people I know are also Most of them are merchants, so Brother Shi, you might as well visit a few more, maybe you can get some results..."

The middle-aged man responded repeatedly, and then expressed that he would be richly rewarded, but Zhen Mi declined politely. He just said that it was not easy for the middle-aged man now, and he should use his money in other places. The middle-aged people have had good business contacts and friendships before. If something is really done, if you are willing to repay them, you should not refuse.

The middle-aged man was helpless, but what Zhen Mi said seemed to make some sense. After pleading for a while, he said goodbye with many thanks and left.

When Zhen Mi saw the middle-aged man leaving, she picked up the pen again and started sketching. After a while, she seemed to have seen or thought of something interesting, and chuckled to herself.

"Here comes..." Zhen Mi put down her pen again and asked slowly, "Who is the concierge on duty today?" 』

The maid who looked like a little rabbit on the side replied softly: "It should be Zhen Twelve's turn..."

"Since you like to make your own decisions..." Zhen Mi said softly, "My pond is too small to accommodate this bastard..."

It turns out that when Zhen Mi was writing on the desk, she was actually not remembering anything the middle-aged man said, but was instead drawing a tortoise...

"I don't want to see him again..." Zhen Mi threw the paper on the ground, "Besides... I would like to warn the shopkeeper and team leader outside... Since you are a businessman, you should do your job well and don't pay attention to anything else except business... I think If you eat too much, it will waste your brain..."

"If you pass the order, tell me that I am not in good health... I will not see any outsiders!" 』

After what happened with Cui Hou, how could the leaders of various chambers of commerce in Chang'an still dare to show off?

What's more, businessmen are all pursuing profits. Therefore, regardless of the fact that these businessmen and the people in Hanzhong and Sichuan were the most eager and had the best attitude before, they nodded and bowed and made countless promises. But now these promises are all overturned and they say no. What counts doesn’t count.

Although most businessmen would not like to see these people from Hanzhong, Sichuan and Shu who came to build relations, but before the generals of the expedition to Shu arrived, the new caravan in Chang'an was already unbearably excited. , began to form a fleet...

Get in the car!

No time to explain!

Treason, no matter what happens, is an unforgivable sin.

In the feudal dynasty, it was called unpardonable evil.

In various countries in later generations, it is called treason.

No matter what kind of government it is, no matter what system it is, no matter what time period it is in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, people who betray their own camp are extremely disgusted, and will not forgive the crimes of such people.

These rebellious people in Hanzhong and Sichuan will inevitably usher in a large-scale purge, and during the purge process, a large number of business opportunities will appear. As long as you seize one, it will mean getting rich and making money.

Houses, fields, title deeds, shops, all kinds of utensils, even slaves and tenants, etc., are like pieces of plump meat, attracting the attention of all kinds of people.

Therefore, caravans of all sizes rushed to Hanzhong, Sichuan and Shu...

Isn't it nice to be busy making money? Who has time to "fight the injustice" for these guys?

Businessmen are like this, and the other two departments, agriculture and industry, have no time to pay attention to this matter, because these two departments are busy with spring plowing and preparing for production, and they don't pay attention to these messy matters at all.

During this period, many diligent agricultural scholars were promoted and sent to Hanzhong or Sichuan and Sichuan to serve as local minor officials. Although the power may not be very great, it means the transition from clerk to official. Many agricultural students saw hope and became more diligent.

After all, the "work performance" of a bachelor's degree in agriculture is very straightforward. It is very clear at a glance how the harvest of the acres of land he is responsible for compares with the same period last year, and whether he has done anything or not.

The same goes for Bachelor of Engineering.

After Huang Chengyan took the post of Da Kao Gong, he expanded the hierarchy of craftsmen from the Huang family to all craftsmen. When these craftsmen reached a certain level, they not only received a salary, but also a certain position. Although it is more difficult to pursue an official career than Zhengwen Ba Jing The difference will be quite a bit, but it will be enough to motivate these engineering bachelors and craftsmen.

Therefore, in the cities, farmers and small craftsmen with a large population base are simply not in the mood and have no time to listen to the complaints of these powerful locals from Hanzhong, Sichuan and Shu. They may even take a sip and give some saliva as a gift...

Therefore, among the four peoples, the remaining ones are naturally the "scholars", and the only way to find them is to find these "scholars".

The most direct way is to find powerful people in the officialdom.

After all, China is still related to society. The so-called disciple system left over from the early Han Dynasty has been implemented for three to four hundred years. Coupled with various marriages, many people can always find some people despite twists and turns...

Then these guys suddenly discovered that some relationships were no longer useful.

The so-called disciples, of course, must have the leader of the family, so that the disciples can protect each other and cooperate with each other, but now the biggest "leader of the family" in Chang'an is of course Fei Qian, and these rebellious guys are the same as wanting to be disciples. Lifting Fei Qian's underwear, and the official under Fei Qian dared to cover it up?

Wei Duan had already closed the door of his palace and expressed his attitude when problems arose in Longxi. How could he stand up and speak out now for the more remote relations between Hanzhong and Sichuan? What's more, he had just stood on the stage and recited the "Law of Corruption". If he collected some money and then involved the fate of his whole family, children and even his descendants, it was obvious that as long as Wei Duan was not suffering from brain damage, he would never do it. made.

As for Du Ji, Li Yuan and others, they either had already avoided it early on, or they were the beneficiaries in the Battle of Hanzhong, Sichuan and Sichuan. How could they say anything for the sake of "dead fellow Taoist"?

So these people can only settle for the next best thing, like Shen Yi, and find some middle-level or lower-middle-level relationships in a roundabout way...

But not everyone has Shen Yi's "luck".

These middle- and lower-level officials are not like Pei Heng, who know how to rescue in curves, or who are ready to run away if they are ready to do something big. Most of them are still pushy and do not dare to take responsibility.

Therefore, in the end, these people can only go to the opposition party, which is these "idle immortals" in Qinglong Temple.

But when these people wanted to make trouble in Qinglong Temple, they suddenly found that no one was interested in their so-called "tragic experiences". Almost everyone's attention was focused on the latest big news and hot search headlines. superior!

"Re-Correction of Scripture Commentary"!

Led by Zheng Xuan and Sima Hui, with the participation of Jingxiang Pangshi, Hedong Peishi, Guanzhong Weishi and other classics aristocratic families, they discussed the annotation of the scriptures, eliminating the clutter and keeping the right meaning, without making any extensions or prophecies, just the most basic direct explanation.

In the previous academic circle of Han classics, some conflicts often occurred due to the different meanings of the scriptures annotated by various families. Even in the previous inspection and promotion system, this problem still existed. Certain special idlers, er, great sages, generally do not have this problem, but after all, a small number of them, most of the nobles who were promoted, need to take an assessment before they go to Chang'an to see the emperor.

On the one hand, it is to ensure that these people are the real people and not pretended to be assassins. On the other hand, it is also necessary to ensure that these people understand some scriptures. Don't go to the palace and ask questions without knowing anything. Then you will not only lose your own people, but also lose the recommendation. the face of the person.

In such an assessment, it is very important to use which family's scripture annotations are used as the main judging criteria. Sometimes, because each family's annotations are different, the elders of the family who are officials in the court will even argue with the assessor in advance. Hello……

Among the three paintings of Chang'an now, the examination and examination system is in decline. Although it exists in some cases, the main body is still the official examination system of hussar generals. This examination system has been implemented for several years. Basically, it has become a fait accompli whether these gentry children are willing or not. However, during the examination process, the same scripture still appears with different annotations, so that Up to now, when assessing scriptures, only the body of the scriptures, that is, the memorization part, has been assessed, and there is basically no assessment of the understanding of scriptures.

In the early stages of the implementation of the examination system, it was possible to screen talents based on policy discussions. However, as the number of references continued to increase, it was too inefficient to only use recitation and policy discussions to screen. Therefore, if it is necessary to use scripture understanding questions for screening, then it is natural to require that the relative standards for scripture annotations should be relatively uniform.

Ever since, although it was just a matter of letting out the wind and starting to build a grassroots team, and it had not yet entered the formal discussion and collegial process, it had already caused an uproar in Qinglong Temple...

That family also doesn’t want the scripture annotations that have been passed down in their family for decades, or even hundreds of years, to be excluded from the collegial discussion and then rejected! That is almost equivalent to the disaster of one's own family's classics!

When facing such a huge change, almost all the nobles were extremely excited. Those who managed to get ahead and lost half their lives on the road, the gentry children sent by the Sichuan and Shu families in Hanzhong to ask for help cried pitifully. I'm sorry, but this little thing can count for nothing?

This is a life-and-death battle related to the inheritance of one's own Confucian classics!

Are there any opponents to this revision of the commentary on the Classics?

Of course there are many.

But just like the outcry against the "Xiping Stone Scripture" back then, it was of no use.

It is nothing more than a waste of people and money, time-consuming, futile, etc. Even these people themselves feel a little guilty when they say it.

In fact, these opponents have an obvious characteristic. Except for some families with great classics, the rest are concentrated on the families that inherit Jinwen classics.

The reason for the opposition of the scripture family is simple, because it is not good for them.

However, the current top classics family, the Yuan family, has fallen. The remaining Yuan Shang is in Feixiongxuan. Even if he has opinions, no one will listen to him. The other Yang family is under the quilt. I cry secretly, and when I show up, I have to put on a smile to show that it’s okay. This big thing really doesn’t hurt at all…

As for those Shandong nobles, they didn't take those people to play with them in the first place. Even if those people jumped up and yelled, their voices could not be heard by Chang'an Sanfu.

As for those families who mainly study and teach Jinwen classics...

In fact, as Jinwen Jingxue has developed to the present time, it has obviously shown some signs of fatigue. After all, the prophecy is great for a while, but it becomes troublesome when it comes to explaining it. At the beginning, there were not many such prophecies that were similar to lies, and there was no connection between them. But now, over the past hundred years, there have been so many self-contradictory prophecies. I am afraid that these sons of aristocratic families who mainly study Jinwen Confucian classics I couldn't explain it clearly, and when others caught me making mistakes, I was slapped in the face and was extremely embarrassed.

Therefore, great Confucian scholars like Zheng Xuan are basically not completely biased towards modern classics. Many of them walk on two legs: ancient classics and modern classics.

In history, in the middle and late period of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Fang of Wei State launched a "Three Body Stele" that was biased towards ancient classics. It can also be regarded as a side explanation of the current attitude towards modern classics.

In addition, if there are opponents, there will naturally be supporters, and the number of these supporters is quite amazing...

Anyone who is not a fool can clearly understand how beneficial this measure is to the vast number of ordinary noble disciples and students from poor families.

Why are these scriptures so difficult to spread?

Isn't it because these scriptures have no sentence reading and are obscure and difficult to understand? Without the annotations kept privately by each school, even if you get the scriptures, you may not know what the words in the books mean!

Therefore, in ancient times, the first step in learning scriptures was called "enlightenment."

Now if the "official" corrects the annotations of the scriptures, it means that as long as you can read the characters, you can cross the threshold set by the original scripture family and directly see the information conveyed in the scriptures!

And once the annotations of the scriptures are corrected and determined, according to the habit of the Hussar General, even if it takes a long time to carve the second batch of "Xiping Stone Scriptures", some "paperbacks" will be released in Chang'an Bookshop in advance. …

This is an absolute benefit for the vast majority of ordinary families and disciples from poor families!

Therefore, as long as these children from ordinary families and poor families are not stupid, they are firmly on Fei Qian's side, and the number of these people far exceeds those of the "family elites".

There were a few who were dizzy and couldn't sit upright, but they were sprayed by the supporters of Zheng Xuan and Sima Hui to the point where they could hardly take care of themselves. Zheng Xuan has been doing the work of annotating scriptures throughout history, from the Book of Changes to the Book of Songs to the Book of Rites. He did this even without Fei Qian's support.

As for Sima Hui, when Fei Qian was still in Jingzhou, he heard that Sima Hui attached great importance to the annotation of scriptures and even went around to fight against Zheng Xuan. Now he has the opportunity to sit on an equal footing with Zheng Xuan and work together to correct the scriptures. Wen Anjie, how could he object so easily and then give up the glory he had obtained?

The Shanxi nobles would not object, because this is almost a perfect opportunity to have the right to speak in scripture annotations!

From Taiyuan, from Pingyang, from Hedong, from Longyou, there are students who say that they represent a certain family and arrive at Qinglong Temple. Regardless of whether their level can meet the standards of "correction and annotation", they have to look good first. Let’s talk about it later!

Then, when the second Qinglong Temple Forum was still a year away, the popularity was already rising...

Everything is going crazy. Those aristocratic families and powerful families from all over the world who previously said with gritted teeth that they would never participate in the second Qinglong Temple debate, now can only say with tears in order to prevent their families from losing their right to speak. One sentence: "It smells so good".

When faced with suffering, some people grit their teeth and persevere, some people face it head-on, some want to escape, and some people only think about how they can be exempted, so on the surface it seems Chang'an Sanfu, who seemed to be calming down, actually started to have a new undercurrent...

In the sixth year of Taixing, spring.

There is still one year left before the next Qinglong Temple lecture.