Xuande

Chapter 603 The Political Path of Secularization
Apart from the changes to the core political concepts, there were not many changes to the other parts of the previous conventions at the Garter Palace meeting.

For example, on the issue of the Three Cardinal Principles and the Six Disciplines, the Jiade Hall meeting made some discussions and declarations, and made some fine-tuning of some of the expressions, but it did not touch on the fundamentals. The etiquette and law system of the common people.

There are also family system, marriage system, concubine system, concubine system and a series of content related to people's politics and all aspects of life, which were further emphasized and certified by the Jiade Palace meeting, but did not make any changes.

This set of basic concepts that constituted the actual structure of Han Dynasty society and was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people was not questioned by the Jiade Palace meeting. For most officials with a more conservative attitude, this is something that makes them feel gratified.

Conservative is what most people think.

Change is the pursuit of a small number of people.

Originally, some members of the neutral faction and external voices worried that Liu Bei would use his power to change the logic of the social operation of the Han Dynasty on a large scale at the Jiade Hall meeting, which would cause some social turmoil and unrest.

But he didn't. In addition to proposing changes in the prophecy superstition, in most cases, Liu Bei showed a conservative political tendency everywhere.

This tendency makes most people feel relaxed and relieved.

On other levels, the most important thing is that the Jiade Hall meeting did not question a series of questions about the Son of Heaven, but pushed up the status of the Son of Heaven, further recognized the sacred nature of the Son of Heaven, and established the basic rule that the Son of Heaven should replace the Heaven.

But this push also made the emperor himself more and more distant from daily administrative affairs in a sense.

Because the Son of Heaven is the will of Heaven, he naturally possesses supreme status and power. Heaven is the topmost existence of political logic in the Han Dynasty. It is absolutely correct and authoritative. As a manifestation of its will, the Son of Heaven naturally does not need to bear any responsibility.

Of course, at the operational level, few people dare to ask the emperor to take responsibility.

In fact, before and after the Jiade Palace meeting, the political operation logic of the entire imperial court has been changed by Liu Bei to "If you want to ascend to a high position, you must bear its weight".

The imperial court needs someone to take responsibility, someone needs to be responsible, and those who hold power need to take responsibility instead of ghosts and gods. Then inference, people who don't need to take responsibility have no actual power.

This is not overhead, this is "protection".

At the time, no one felt that this resolution was wrong. On the contrary, they felt that it was a manifestation of the "New Deal of the Ancient Literature School" that was different from the old system of the Modern Literature School, and it was a symbol of a better and better future.

The model of the Modern Literature School proved to be a failure and caused public outrage. It cannot be sustained. If it continues, it will be tantamount to denying the foundation of the Ancient Literature School in power.

Then there is nothing wrong with the ancient literature school making some targeted changes. Anyway, if you don’t know whether it is correct or not, just try it.

But in a deeper sense, few people immediately realized that the emperor was secretly pushed away from the actual responsible and ruling position in this link.

The most important change conclusion of the Jiade Palace meeting is that the emperor is far away from common affairs, and is getting closer and closer to the high "heaven".

Therefore, in the actual situation, the political structure and power structure of the Eastern Han Dynasty were getting farther and farther away from the "Sage Emperor Model" envisioned by Emperor Han Zhang.

Although most people only felt the strong conservatism tendency of this meeting, this Jiadedian meeting did in a sense end the Holy Eastern Han Empire that Emperor Hanzhang successfully built.

Under Liu Bei's impetus, the Luoyang court turned its direction from the Jiade Hall meeting, and slowly shifted its path from the pace of "deification of Confucian classics" dominating everything, and in fact ended the process of "sanctification of Confucian classics".

Under the promotion of Liu Bei, the Luoyang court embarked on a secular political path, although at that time, few people saw the uncertainty of this path.

The overall atmosphere of the Jiade Hall meeting is relatively friendly and harmonious, because the problems that should be solved have been almost solved by everyone, and those that can be brought to the table have already been solved, and those that cannot be brought to the table...are also buried. In the grave.

As far as the royal family is concerned, there is only one little emperor Liu Xie and one empress dowager who only wants to live a comfortable life.

Should I say it or not, Liu Bei served the Empress Dowager really well, not only giving money and gifts, but also various folk juggling and fun things, but also food and drink.

In particular, the fried food menu developed by himself was also sent to the Empress Dowager Dong.

He sent the cook who was the best at these dishes in his house, and arranged fried chicken legs and fried chicken cutlets for the old lady, which made Empress Dowager Dong, who had eaten court dishes for most of her life, experience a completely different feeling.

That is to say, the technology of the iron pot has not been lit up yet, otherwise Liu Bei would have to arrange the eight major cuisines for the old lady, making her think about what to eat today when she opens her eyes every day, and she can't think of anything else.

Isn't this comfortable life the same as going to heaven?
Under such circumstances, the Jiade Palace meeting has nothing to say. The royal family fully accepts the results of the Jiade Palace meeting, and is willing to cooperate with Liu Bei and the ancient literature school to implement a new set of governance measures.

And this initial execution starts from Taixue.

In order to completely eliminate the imprint of the Modern Literature School, the Ancient Literature School spared no effort to remove all the classics and books related to the Modern Literature School from Taixue, and invited all the academic monographs of the Ancient Literature School into Taixue.

Since then, the teaching content in Taixue has nothing to do with modern classics, and everyone is a good student of the ancient literature school.

Liu Bei laughed at all the things related to the Jinwen School that were moved away from Taixue. Liu Bei also moved these things to a small courtyard outside Luoyang City, and handed them over to the sculptors for engraving and copying, and prepared to keep them as backup. , for storage.

No one knows whether these things will disappear in the years to come, but as the imprint of the civilization that once existed, Liu Bei hopes that these things can be left to future generations, so that future generations can know the imprint of civilization and how civilization has progressed evolved step by step.

All the Ph.D.s of the Modern Literature School were dismissed, and the related disciples and seniors were also driven away, losing the qualification to stay in the Taixue. The major families of the Ancient Literature School, under the auspices of Liu Bei and Lu Zhi, selected their own Dr. Pentateuch.

Then, all students in Taixue can choose a doctoral follower according to their own pursuits, learn ancient Chinese classics, abandon the previous modern classics, and embrace the new era in an all-round way.

Then, Liu Bei conveyed another order, ordering the governors of the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty to handle state studies in the prefectural offices to recruit students from each prefecture who are interested in studying.

Taixue will send excellent scripture teachers to each prefecture to start teaching, and then select every three years, and the outstanding ones can be selected to enter Taixue for further study, and after three years of study, they will be selected within Taixue.

The textbooks on which the selection is based and the questions in the exam are all related to ancient Chinese classics, and have nothing to do with modern Chinese classics.

What Liu Bei meant was to use this method to remove the influence of the Jinwen School from the local area as soon as possible, so that people would know the benefits of learning ancient Chinese classics, so that they would voluntarily abandon the Jinwen Classics and dig out the roots of the Jinwen School.

It is not enough to do it only in Luoyang, and it must be done at the local level, lest there are still some remnants of the modern literature school in the local area to continue to do things.

His suggestion was approved at the Jiade Palace meeting. Everyone agreed that the chiefs of the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty need to go to the prefecture office to study in the prefecture, and to absorb outstanding students from all over the prefecture to study in the prefecture, and then Luoyang Taixue personally dispatched them. Excellent ancient scripture teachers went to teach in order to control the education system and ensure the "purity" of Dahan's academic thoughts.

Many people are actually not very interested in handling education, but once the interests of the schools and their own interests are involved, they become very supportive of this matter.

At the same time, under Liu Bei's suggestion, the Luoyang court once again issued an order to "re-employ" Zheng Xuan, hoping that Zheng Xuan could respond to everyone's needs, return to Luoyang Taixue, and become a Taixue sacrificial wine, specializing in Taixue education construction work.

The personnel arrangements were almost completed, and Liu Bei announced that he would expand the Taixue.

(End of this chapter)