The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 229

Yang Tong was in Tsinghua Academy, so naturally he didn't know what happened in Fengyi Hall, and he didn't know how dirty the eldest wife was. He had more important things to deal with.

Today is the official opening day of the Tsinghua Academy, and there must be celebrations. This is a serious place for academics, and naturally there will be no singing and dancing performances.

There is only one way to celebrate, and that is academic debate.Liu Xuan, who advocated the rule of virtue, was the affirmative, and Wei Zheng and Liu Zhenghui, who advocated the rule of law, were the opposite.

All imperial examination candidates watch the 'battle'!
In fact, the debate between the rule of virtue and the rule of law has been going on for a long time, and no one can convince the other.

The idea of ​​the rule of virtue is obsessed with people's moral cultivation, emphasizing self-discipline and despising other laws; emphasizing education and despising supervision;Use persuasion to influence and improve the moral consciousness of the people, appeal to "conscience and conscience" and "moral conviction".It is mainly to stimulate the people's moral emotions, strengthen the people's moral will, strengthen the people's concept of honor and disgrace, and cultivate and form a "shame heart", so that the people can form moral behaviors in their hearts; The sense of responsibility makes the people realize that if they fail to fulfill their moral obligations or violate the moral requirements of society, they will be condemned by public opinion and criticized and cast aside by the people of the world.Public opinion can subtly change people's temperament and behavior, improve the atmosphere, and thus form a certain moral atmosphere.Public opinion can play a huge role when combined with inner beliefs.However, the pure rule of virtue has little reward and slow effect, and because there is no standard, it gives unjust officials the opportunity to take advantage of loopholes, and ultimately causes unfair social problems.

The rule of law sets the standard, and everyone must abide by this standard rule, which is fair to everyone.There will not be too much deviation because of the likes and dislikes of officials.However, the premise of the rule of law is that there are laws to follow, and the second is to ensure the integrity of the officials and the impartiality of the supervisory agencies. Compared with the rule of virtue, the investment in the rule of law is astonishing, but the results achieved are equally astonishing.

The rule of virtue is internal restraint, the rule of law is external control; the rule of virtue is the rule of high behavior advocacy, the rule of law is the rule of low behavior norms; Up to now, in fact, all dynasties have used "Confucianism outside and law inside" as the governance standard of the country, that is, Confucianism is admired on the surface, but in practice, it also relies on Legalism, often combining Confucianism and Legalism, and mutual assistance between Confucianism and Legalism.Political meritorious service and ethical persuasion are the two core means for the rulers of all dynasties to stabilize their rule, and they are also important causes of the formation of Chinese culture, which is Confucianism on the outside and law on the inside.Generally speaking, Confucianism emphasizes benevolent government and emphasizes the implementation of rule through ethical persuasion, while Legalism emphasizes the rule of law and emphasizes political meritorious service.However, these two ideas were mixed with each other in the Han Dynasty, forming a complementary ruling technique.

But in the ancient academic world, Confucianism and Legalism have been in dispute for a long time. Many times, some academic masters are arguing with each other for the sake of opposition. No one agrees with the other.Even if I can't argue with you, but I am not convinced, what about you?

But today's debate is very rational. Liu Xuan took Dong Zhongshu's views as the core idea; Wei Zheng and Liu Zhenghui took Shang Yang's reform and the current state of the Sui Dynasty as examples. Soul, Yang Tong was able to have a strong cohesion in Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, and some areas of Yongzhou because the Sui government had strong credibility among the people. People who are proficient in the law, such as Wei Zheng and Liu Zhenghui, did not expect such an effect. It can be said that as long as Yang Tong is still alive, if he wants to invade the territory of the Sui Dynasty, he will definitely not be able to do it without an army of hundreds of thousands.

Unless they dare to break the aristocratic family's monopoly on various resources, it is obviously good medicine for Sui, but it is poison for Li Yuan.

Similarly, aristocratic families and gentry are good medicine for Li Yuan, but poisonous to Yang Tong. Therefore, Yang Tong did not give the aristocratic family and great gentry the soil to survive!
Aristocratic families and noble families must have loyal ministers who are loyal to the country and the nation, and there are quite a few. Yang Tong has always known this.But he dare not use it!

Why?

Because if Yang Tong represents the interests of ordinary people and poor people, if he compromises with the aristocratic family and the great gentry, it will be two-faced... With the advantages of the aristocratic family and the great gentry in all aspects, once the restrictions are loosened, then their children will be in danger. With the advantages of knowledge and clan, they will quickly swallow up various positions, thus forming a huge network of interests.Therefore, if there is a compromise on this, then everything Yang Tong has done before will be completely meaningless. In the future, even if he wins the world, what is the difference from the Great Sui under the rule of Yang Jian and Yang Guang? An unbreakable vicious circle.

In the future, he will definitely follow the principle of employing the capable and the mediocre. Only in this way can the country and the nation make progress, but it will definitely not work before the unification of the world.

This debate lasted until evening!In the end, there was still no winner, but it was definitely the most exciting debate in the past century!
However, Liu Xuan insisted on supporting and affirming Yang Tong's attitude of paying equal attention to all schools of thought.

Today's earliest Confucianism still has the advantage of learning from the strengths of a hundred schools of thought, but since the implementation of the policy of exclusively respecting Confucianism, Confucianism has remained stagnant until now. Confucianism has lost its competitors, and gradually lost its motivation and pioneering spirit. Come another saint appears.

Although Liu Xuan is known as a master of Confucian classics and a great Confucian, he is not pedantic, and the legalist thought represented by Wei Zheng and Liu Zhenghui has achieved great results in Yang Tong, which is beneficial to both the country and the people. Harmful.

There is a fundamental conflict between Confucianism and Legalism, and it is the natural conflict that allows Liu Xuan to gain a higher level of understanding in this debate.

The most direct insight is that Confucianism needs an opponent, otherwise it will become smaller and smaller, and eventually "die of ease".

This debate is not only the opening ceremony of Tsinghua Academy, but also the Great Sui Dynasty represented by Yang Tong. Famous, miscellaneous, vertical and horizontal, yin and yang families, etc. can write books and talk about it in the Qinghua Academy of Sui Dynasty, and open schools to help disciples!
Yang Tong founded "One Pavilion, Three Pavilions" to accumulate the faculty for today's Tsinghua Academy. A mainstream college can also be run, which is a huge result of the "Shenji Museum"'s accumulation of several years.

It is good news for all schools and factions other than Confucianism, but for other princes, it means that they will lose many talents.

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The process of this debate was quickly spread to Li Yuan. After all, there were tens of thousands of spectators, and even many people willingly stayed in Tai Sui after the debate, and studied and became teachers in Tsinghua Academy with Liu Xuan.

Li Yuan is not interested in this debate, he is more concerned about the meaning of this debate.

Maybe Liu Xuan started this big debate out of purely academic discussion, but without the strong support of Yang Tong, this debate would not have spread all over the world in just a few days. It is not that Liu Xuan is not famous enough, but that Liu Xuan Xuan is not capable in terms of financial resources and publicity.

This is Yang Tong showing to other schools in the world: Da Sui can provide them with the soil for survival, Da Sui supports the contention of a hundred schools of thought, as long as your school is capable and can benefit the world, Yang Tong will still use your views to govern the world.

It is good news for other miscellaneous studies, but for the princes from all walks of life, it means that a large number of talents, and even Confucian talents themselves will gather in Yecheng.

Chang'an, Xingqing Palace!

"It is said that a century-old dynasty, a thousand-year-old family, and a ten-thousand-year school. For this day to come, the Legalists, Mohists, doctors, and political strategists...have waited too long, and they will definitely flock to the Sui Dynasty! Look! Well, Yang Tong must have another trick!" Li Yuan rubbed his forehead and put down the information in his hand.

Although Li Yuan also wanted to follow Yang Tong's example in setting up free schools, cultivating the children of ordinary people, and providing a steady stream of fresh blood for the Li and Tang dynasties, he was unanimously opposed by counselors and gentry officials in the court, and even his two sons did not support him. The reason is very simple, this is a move that shakes the foundation of the family, and everyone does not support it.

As for Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's objections, firstly, they represent the interests of some aristocratic families, and they must stand up to oppose them; secondly, Li Tang is not the leader of the world. Once Yixue is established, the aristocratic families Li Tang relies on most will leave Lide.

"It was finally recruited, and it is this Mengxue." Liu Wenjing sighed, and put down a few "Mengxue" in her hands. It was a gift from the Tsinghua Academy to tens of thousands of spectators after the debate competition. Everyone had a copy, and Li Tang All the spies stationed in Yecheng participated in this debate and brought back several copies of "Mengxue"

"This book..." Li Yuan looked at Liu Wenjing suspiciously. He also has this book. It contains the "Thousand Characters" and the "Three Character Classic" and "Disciples Regulations" written by Yang Tong. In addition to each sentence, there is an explanation , as well as the compilation of the celebrity allusions and classic stories involved, there is no comment that is unfavorable to other princes, and the thinking is positive, which is good for the country, the family and the people.

"There are only three articles on Enlightenment, which are books used to enlighten children. I heard that Yang Tong is now planning to set up a village school, one free school in every five villages. If Yang Tong can really spread it..."

Liu Wenjing didn't continue talking, and Li Yuan also came to his senses. When Yang Tong founded the free "free school", many people ridiculed him. The same is true when he founded a middle school. Now this "Mengxue" is indeed suitable for young children to learn. A dedicated teacher will teach it, and anyone who knows a few words can teach it. The three articles are catchy, and children can recite a few sentences as long as they listen to it once.

And the content inside, even adults who cannot read, as long as they have life experience, they can understand the truth inside. Over time, the number of literate people will grow like a spring, and after ten years, these people will grow up , the governance mechanism established by Yang Tong mainly based on law, so that the efficiency of Yang Tong's entire force will be qualitatively improved due to the influx of a large number of talents, and then based on this, the people's livelihood, the administration of officials...

If everyone in the world is literate, the monopoly on knowledge represented by the aristocratic family will be gone, and this "Mengxue" is two hundred yuan a book, not only circulated under Yang Tong's rule, but also brought into their own power by booksellers of various forces The scope has a tendency to be promoted all over the world, and it can't be stopped, and I dare not stop it.Ten years later, even if Yang Tong has not expanded outwards, his dominant position is unshakable.

The ancient ruling class pursued the policy of ignoring the people and making it easy for the emperor!So before Yang Tong, even if there was Caihou paper, the ruling class did not think about promoting it, because they thought it would shake the status of the ruling class. Now Yang Tong has broken the monopoly of paper books, and there are high-quality and cheap books. Knowledge will gradually be produced in the hands of the people, and the people's ideas will naturally increase, and with the tax system of "split to the mu, and the government and gentry pay taxes together", after more than ten years, these policies of the Sui Dynasty will spread. Come on, how will the people choose?
Thinking of these things, Li Yuan and all the counselors around him took a breath of air. If it is said that "equaling the land to each household, sharing the land into the mu, and paying taxes to the government and gentry" is Yang Tong's weapon to deal with the aristocratic family, this "Meng Xue" and the joint "Village Learning" is a ruthless move to cut off the foundation of the aristocratic family. It will surely shake the foundation of the aristocratic family and let it belong to the public under Yang Tong's rule!

(End of this chapter)