Chapter 608: The Prince's Disciple

"What on earth do they want to do? Don't they take us seriously at all?"

The people who were most affected by the Donggong's Zhaowen were naturally the several great families in Luoyang. When they heard about the series of operations carried out by the Donggong Mansion, they all became nervous for a while.

The one thing that the Guandong clans could not accept was the Confucianism unification policy issued by Chang'an.

They wanted to force the annotations of Confucianism and classics to be unified, and any Confucianism annotations must follow theirs.

Not only that, they also stated that in the future, whether it was the selection of Xiaolian or Xiucai, the knowledge they examined must follow the Confucianism annotations of the court. If you refuse to study the Confucianism annotations officially issued by the court, you will be rejected when you are selected as a Xiucai.

The people who were hit the hardest by this policy were naturally the scholars of the Guandong family. This meant that all the family studies and classics they had studied hard for more than ten years were wasted, and all the years of hard work were in vain, and everything had to start from scratch.

Such a great impact was no less than Qin Shihuang's unified writing. The public anger aroused by this is more than tens of thousands of people.

However, under the intimidation of Ma Su, the entire Guanxi clan basically acquiesced to this matter. And because Confucianism was compiled by the Guanxi clan, they can more or less see their own family learning from it, so they can accept it.

But the Guandong clan can't accept it at all. This is to kill their clansmen. This is why when the Henei clan nodded, they were as sad as if their whole family was killed.

However, in the eyes of the Guandong clan, this thing was only completed in Chang'an last year. At least it will take several years before it can be promoted to Guandong, right? So they still have some luck in their hearts.

Until this Zhaowen was announced, the Guandong clan completely recognized the reality!

The Guanxi gang didn't intend to give you a chance to react. It was only four months after taking Luoyang that they hurriedly opened the forum to give lectures.

Although this time was just a preparation for the opening of the imperial examination, the impact on them was not that serious. But this signal still made them shudder with fear and extremely nervous for a while.

"They are going too far! This is going to destroy Confucianism in the world!" A great Confucian said angrily.

"The words of the ancient sages, even Dong Zhongshu in the past did not dare to say that the explanation was all right! I didn't expect a group of Guanxi warriors to dare to speak so shamelessly, which is really a disaster for the country!" Another young Confucian scholar beat his chest and stamped his feet, saying sadly.

For a time, the students in Guandong expressed their dissatisfaction and wanted to fight with Ma Su, who was in charge of this matter. Even the Hongnong Yang family was scolded a lot, and a large number of Guandong clans hated the Yang family.

However, soon under the guidance of someone with a heart, a voice appeared among the Confucian scholars.

The emperor of Chang'an and the prince of Luoyang are both wise, and he also hopes that the country can be good. It's just that the emperor was deceived by a group of incompetent Confucian scholars in Guanxi, so he made such a stupid move.

Then how can the emperor understand that this is a traitor's trick?

As long as the orthodox Confucianism is told to the prince when he is giving a lecture, it would be great if the prince can turn back from his wrong path, stop the dross of Guanxi, and accept the orthodox Confucianism of Guandong.

As this message spread from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred, more and more Confucian scholars in Luoyang began to wait for the prince to give a lecture.

Outside Luoyang, many small landlords and children from poor families in Sizhou also began to flock to Luoyang. For people like them who have no power in the local area, the prince's lecture is their biggest chance to turn over.

Luoyang, undercurrents began to surge...

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At this time, the East Palace Mansion

"Hiss... Prime Minister, do I really have to give this lecture?" Liu Xuan felt great pressure in the face of the lecture, and was very nervous for a while.

Lectures were not uncommon in the Han Dynasty, and many celebrities had given lectures. But these people, without exception, were all famous Confucian scholars, and their Confucianism was the best in the country.

And what about Liu Xuan? He is still just a student. Although he has learned Confucianism well, it is limited to his peers. Let him go on stage to give lectures. Isn't this letting him show off his skills in front of an expert?

"Don't be nervous, Your Highness. I will let Qin Mi and all the great Confucian scholars come with you to give lectures this time." Ma Su could feel the nervousness of his apprentice, but he just smiled and comforted him.

"You just need to give lectures according to the usual norms, don't worry about making mistakes. Qin Mi and others will correct you and maintain the smoothness of the lectures."

"Is it necessary for me?" Liu Xuan was still very nervous and asked carefully.

"No discussion, Your Highness must go." Ma Su spread his hands and said helplessly.

To be honest, Ma Su wanted Liu Chan to come in person for such a large-scale, nationwide lecture. However, the court did not plan to move the capital to Luoyang after all, and Liu Chan could not come to Luoyang.

So there was no way, Ma Su could only pull the prince up as a mascot.

"Your Highness, don't be nervous. This is the key to whether the Han Dynasty can unify Guandong." Ma Su patiently explained to Liu Xuan in detail.

"You should know that the teacher-student relationship is extremely reliable in any era. And your Highness, you are personally teaching, and those who come to learn Confucianism can be considered your disciples."

"By then, they can all call themselves the prince's disciples, and when you become the emperor, they will call themselves the emperor's disciples, and share the honor!"

"If the court has tens of thousands of emperor's disciples loyal to Guandong, can Guandong still be in chaos? This is for the sake of the Han Dynasty, Your Highness should be patient."

Ma Su actually has no innovative ability, but he knows how to copy history books. It must be good for the emperor to have disciples in history and to bind the emperor to Confucianism.

In history, this kind of large-scale emperor personally lectured and the emperor's disciples appeared in the Southern Dynasty Bodhisattva Xiao Yan era. Relying on this emperor who was a Confucian scholar (in his early years), the unification of imperial power and Confucianism was initially completed.

To unify Confucianism, we have to wait until the unification of the Tang Dynasty.

But obviously Ma Su didn't have so much time, he hoped to start all this process as soon as possible. Even if it was just a start, it would be an incredible progress!

So, Ma Su prepared this Luoyang lecture. He just wanted to rely on his deterrence in Guandong to force the unification of Confucianism to be implemented!

As for how many big families would rebound, and whether it would trigger the resistance of the entire Guandong tyrants...

Ma Su: Is there such a good thing?

In short, for Ma Su, he was not worried at all about the gentry in Guandong causing trouble.

If it really didn't work, Ma Su wouldn't mind staging a Heyin Incident in Sizhou to change the blood of the Eastern Capital Luoyang!