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Chapter 199 Jianning Stone Scripture (fifth watch)
Qiao Xuan died of illness, and the emperor worshiped Zhang Wen, a native of Rang County, Nanyang, as Taiwei. Zhang Wen was once recommended by Cao Cao's grandfather, Cao Teng, Marquis of Fei Ting. , servant and so on.

After Qiao Xuan's death, He Xiu, who was still a Situ, recommended this person. He said that this person is both civil and military, a rare talent, so he was reused by the emperor. After entering the temple, this person immediately reopened the Southern Army , The northern army camp, once again recruited soldiers as a reserve army. At present, Duan Yan is leading the elite of the Han Dynasty in the north, but there is some emptiness around Luoyang.

His proposal to recruit soldiers again was quickly approved. Seeing that this person is capable of doing things, Liu Hong felt at ease, and urged Xun You to prepare for the reading department and identify the series. It's easy, because some military works, which involve the content of the imperial internal history, cannot be circulated outside, and some ideological works left over from the pre-Qin period.

Theoretical works like the Mohist school, which everyone shouts and beats, naturally cannot be spread.

Even in the study of Confucian classics, due to the changes of the times, doctors of Confucian classics from all over the world passed on the scriptures, according to the method of family law, and the chapters and sentences have similarities and differences. , and even had some doubts about what he had learned in the past. In the end, he had no choice but to confess his guilt in front of the world.
Looking at the guilt-ridden young man in front of him, Liu Hong didn't blame him too much. Xun You was too young. Naturally, he was still deficient in Confucian classics. There was no other way. He asked him to come to distinguish, but what he didn't expect was that Cai Yong also fell into the same predicament as Xun You. After seeing six or seven versions of a scripture, this great Confucian also panicked.

However, the Great Confucianism is still a Great Confucianism. He identified the authenticity and formulated a version by himself. However, after the version he formulated was passed on to the officials for viewing, it suddenly caused a huge dispute. There are dozens of versions among them. The general meaning is naturally the same, but the chapters, sentences, and words are all different.

Among them, several big families were included, because in the past, they attached great importance to books and never exchanged books, but this time after the emperor collected books on a large scale, everyone discovered the difference. The books are wrong, and no one will admit that the Confucianism they uphold is wrong, and a mighty battle between the authenticity of the Confucian classics has begun.

In this war, there are too many camps. Almost every great Confucianist and every family has a different lineup. Even within the same family, there are two kinds of thinking, such as the Yuan family and the Xun family, because they are handed down from generation to generation. For a long time, there are so many side branches, and there may be mistakes in the transcription during the process of handing down the scriptures, so that the scriptures are different among the clansmen of different side branches and different lineages!

It's okay, no one will back down in front of such a major issue, even some great scholars of the same generation as Ma Rong stood up tremblingly, and participated in this war, and the eight dragons of the Xun family even argued with each other Incessantly, Liu Hong never thought that a simple order of his own would have such a huge impact. In just three days, the problem had already been solved in Taixue and Menzixue, and classmates turned against each other.

A dozen or so students were successively arrested by Zhang Yun.

Liu Hong was a little panicked, this is not going to work, all the officials are focused on arguing, how to govern the country, he was going to talk to He Xiu, but found that He Xiu had already rolled up his clothes, and went to debate with other great scholars, Even a great Confucian like Zheng Xuan is no exception. This battle has swept the whole country, but there is no way to end it, because once you admit your mistake, you will give up the tradition of belief that the family has inherited.

This is impossible.

Taixue and Menzixue also suspended classes immediately, because the doctors who taught them all went to the war, and they couldn't bear to fall behind, so they immediately followed their teachers and joined the battle. The addition of hot-tempered Taixue students only made the situation worse Chaos, even the government schools everywhere, the Huns in the frontier area, looking in horror at the usually smiling and teaching their sacrificial wine, rolled up their sleeves and started fighting with each other.

He was dumbfounded, completely unaware of what had happened.

After all, Liu Hong couldn't stand this kind of chaos. He ordered that the issue of the scriptures should not be discussed any more, and he called all the great Confucian scholars of the scriptures from all over the country to Luoyang. , came to discuss, and asked them to formulate a standard scripture, as a model, to end this chaos, because it involves Confucianism, and these great Confucianists are all leaving one after another.

When everyone rushed to Luoyang, these former friends and confidants did not talk to each other. They each had their own theories and regarded others as fallacies. The emperor did not want to see these great scholars, for fear that they would make noise in his ears He didn't know much about the scriptures, and he didn't want to be dragged into the water, so he directly ordered everyone to compile the scriptures, headed by Cai Yong.

Among them, the classics that need to be standardized and formulated include the five classics such as "Lu Poetry", "Shangshu", "Yili", "Zhouyi", "Spring and Autumn", and "Gongyang" and "The Analects". It is a bit big, and the opinions of all parties are different. This is destined to be a difficult move. The Confucius family in Qingzhou seems to have the most say in these few books. They have come up with the scriptures handed down directly.

Cai Yong and other great Confucians revised and formulated the scriptures on the basis of direct inheritance. Of course, the emphases of each great Confucian are also different. Cai Yong also listened to the opinions of many great Confucians. If there are differences, he will close the door. Let the two of them debate, the winner must be decided, and no force must be used, because no one else is watching, the winner is not hard to tell.

After three months, Cai Yong just took out the two biography of the five classics after the specification. After Liu Hong watched it in person, he ordered him to copy and carve the 46 stone tablets and set them up outside the gate of Taixue. The official Confucian classics in history are also known as Jianning Stone Classics, and Cai Yong deliberately wrote them in official script, so they are also called One-Character Stone Classics.

This stone scripture is extremely authoritative. After it was established, it attracted countless people to watch and copy it. It actually crowded the entire Taiyuan Academy, and the quarrel between various schools over the scriptures also subsided. Confucianism Thought books were preliminarily unified, and because the official script was used throughout the transcription, the status of the official script was greatly increased, and there was a faint tendency to become the official script.

Although there were many disputes among the great Confucianists during the process, it is undeniable that this is a shocking achievement after the stone scriptures were established, which will allow future generations to learn orthodox Confucianism. The different scriptures of the Stone Book will gradually withdraw from people's sight, and the Confucianism of various schools that have always been quarreling is likely to be unified as a result.

For Confucianism, this achievement was a milestone in the academic world.

(End of this chapter)