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Chapter 703
After discussing the business, everyone retreated, and Zhao Aqi came in quietly.

His face was a little ugly.

Anyway, every time I saw Zhao Ah Qi and Pang Qing, something happened, and the bad things outweighed the good things.

Zhao Aqi put a handful of white powder on the table, the white is slightly yellow.

"Five stone powder?" Yang Zheng frowned, and Zhao Aqi presented the thing with clear meaning.

"Exactly."

"Where did you find it?" Yang Zheng had banned it before, but he was not too firm, but this thing is pervasive, as long as it is a "celebrity".

Back then, He Yan had a lustful voice and took the lead in eating it, his physical strength became stronger, and he could court several women at night without getting tired.

The capital is in full swing, and the children of officials and eunuchs are vying to take it, and it has gradually become the fashion of "famous scholars".

When Huangfumi was young, his family was in decline. He was adopted by his uncle and moved to Xin'an near Luoyang. Affected by this trend, he also began to take it. As a result, he suffered from Fengbi disease. He was disabled, but he devoted himself to studying medicine because of this. , So he became a generation of masters.

"Qi, Prince Qi's Mansion!" Zhao Aqi wiped the cold sweat off his face.

Yang Zheng stood up from the soft couch with a "shua", "Yang Hong?"

"Yes!" Zhao Ahqi cupped his hands.

Yang Zheng sat back on the soft couch.

Jin Yiwei's news rarely makes mistakes, and every news sent to Yang Zheng is jointly and severally responsible.

False reporting and false accusations will be punished accordingly.

After all the calculations, I didn't expect my son to have a leak.

But that's perfectly normal.

In the past two years, Yang Hong has gotten the title of "celebrity". The so-called celebrity is nothing more than mutual praise and praise.

This is exactly the case with Wang Rong and Pei Kai, the most famous celebrities in the Central Plains.

Pei Kai boasted that Wang Rong's "eyes are rotten, like electricity falling off a rock".

Wang Rong praised Pei Kai as "as close to a jade mountain as it is to reflect people".

Blow it around and blow it around, and that's how the reputation grows.

Over the years, Yang Zheng has summed up the three methods of accumulating political capital in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, either becoming a celebrity, being a filial son, or being handsome...

Of course, not all celebrities have earned their fame. Ji Kang, Ruan Ji and others do have their own merits.

Xia Houxuan and Zhuge Dan of the previous generation are still worthy of the word "celebrity".

However, Deng Yang and He Yan, who are tied with Xia Houxuan and Zhuge Dan in the eight congregations, are too famous.

After the Sima clan usurped the throne, celebrities became more and more dehydrated.

Thanks to Sima Yan's powerful feudal gentry, there are more and more celebrities of the new generation.

Even Wang Yan, Wang Yi's ten-year-old son, became a "celebrity" because he was good at talking about metaphysics.

Isn't this funny?

Wushi San is just the beginning, and the unhealthy tendencies of "celebrities" are quietly growing in Qin.

"How many people take this stuff?" Yang Zheng, as the emperor, had to look at the essence through the phenomenon.

"Liu Buyi and Liu Buyi, the sons of former general Liu Heng, Zhang Gu, the son of Zhang Ting, Du Bin, the son of Du Zhonglang..." Since Zhao Aqi brought up the matter, he must have figured it out.

"Du Bin?" Yang Zheng almost gasped when he heard the last name.

Du Bin... unexpectedly jumped out again.

"Du Bin served as the captain of Poyan Zhechong, with outstanding political achievements. Last year's evaluation, he was promoted to Shangshu Shuibulang..."

"In this way, they are the celebrities of my new generation in Daqin?"

"Exactly..."

"I see." Yang Zheng didn't show too much anger or disappointment.

Maintaining majesty is actually controlling emotions.

With the prosperity of Daqin, these things will appear sooner or later.

Yang Hong was originally born by Jiang Ah Lian, but Xiahou Zhi was not born back then, so he was entrusted to her to raise him.

Later Xiahou Zhi gave birth to Yang Xu, so naturally all his thoughts were on his own son, and he was not strict with Yang Hong.

Yang Hong is a person who is easily obsessed. He was obsessed with astronomy, mathematics, etc. in the past, and he followed Ji Kang and made many friends. It is not surprising that he was contaminated by these things.

But Wu Shi San is not something that cannot be quit, everything can be saved.

Judging from Zhao Ahqi's report, it is only just emerging.

The key is how to curb this trend.

Yang Zheng didn't have a good impression of "Celebrities".

Both Xia Houxuan and Zhuge Dan can be regarded as celebrities, but their abilities are just that.

The two brothers Wang Rong and Wang Yan are hard to describe, especially Wang Yan, who knelt in front of Shi Le and begged for mercy in history. In order to survive, his integrity was scattered all over the place, and he was still buried alive.

Celebrities are the fruits of the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System.

Of course, beating them to death with a stick is unjustifiable, after all, some people have real skills.

In order to curb this evil spirit, Emperor Cao Rui of the Ming Dynasty initiated the vanity case, and Xia Houxuan, Sima Shi, Zhuge Dan, Deng Yang and others were all deposed.

Could it be that Daqin also wants to build a prison?

After thinking about it again and again, I can only ask Lu Zhi and Wei Guan the next day.

Lu Zhi was born in a poor family, experienced hardships, and did things for the people sincerely. In Yang Zheng's mind, he was a real scholar, not a "celebrity" who was acquired by eating five stones, singing the wind and playing the moon, and being arty.

Thinking of this, Yang Zheng's heart moved, and he suddenly had an idea.

The right to evaluate celebrities and scholars is in the hands of the nobles themselves.

If it is brought back to the court, wouldn't it be another opportunity to weaken the gentry?

Why did the "celebrities" disappear after the Sui and Tang Dynasties?

Because of the large-scale rise of imperial examinations.

In short, if you want to be a celebrity, you must have real talents and real learning. Whether it is poetry, poetry, rhythm, Danqing, or Wentao and martial arts, you must have real things, and you must not confuse them with the same thing. people", the empty talk becomes a celebrity.

Thinking deeply, if you can control the evaluation power of celebrities, you can also reshape the spiritual outlook of scholars.

The "scholar" in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods and the "scholar" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties are definitely two things.

"Haha, Your Majesty's heart is like lightning, and what he thinks is unprecedented!" After hearing Yang Zheng's thoughts, Lu Zhi laughed with his beard.

"Uncle is absurd, so let's start with Wushi San?"

"It should be like this. Five stones are harmful to people, and they must not be flooded in Daqin." Lu Zhi said with a serious expression.

If the next generation and the next two generations of Qin State are all obsessed with this thing, they will be no different from the Sima family in history.

The state of Qin does not produce five stone powder, which is trafficked from Luoyang, and it is very valuable in itself.

In the past, smoking was fine, and it was not included in the Qin Law.

Now Yang Zheng has included the prohibition of taking fifty powders into the Qin law. Once it is verified, no matter what position he is in, he will be dismissed, eaten by the people, and half of his property will be fined!
As for Liu Heng, Yang Hong, Du Bin, Zhang Yu and others, they were severely reprimanded by Yang Zheng.

This time it is a reprimand, and the next time it will be handled according to the Qin law.

Even King Qi was reprimanded, and the officials who heard the news knew that the emperor was serious.

Afterwards, Yang Zheng announced that the palace examination will be held after the next spring.

The emperor himself will review the test papers together with Zhuping Shangshushi. In addition to the imperial appointment of the top three, "celebrities" will also be hand-picked!
Celebrities recognized by the emperor are naturally more authoritative than those praised by the countryside.

One stone stirred up thousands of waves, and within half a month, the news spread all over the country.

The impoverished families in the Central Plains and Jiangdong also came to Chang'an one after another.

(End of this chapter)