The Great Grandson of the Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the slaughter of General Tiance's mans

Chapter 388 The world’s talents enter my urn

Di Renjie couldn't help but smile after hearing the concerns of the Minister of Punishment.

Then he said: "Did Master Shangshu forget about Jia Shizhong in the inner dynasty? Did he also forget about Wang Shilang and Fang Shilang? They are all my Confucian disciples!"

Upon hearing Di Renjie's words, the Minister of Punishment's eyes suddenly lit up.

The people Di Renjie mentioned are Jia Xu, Fang Xuanling, and Wang Xuelin.

They are all important officials of the central government and disciples of Legalism!

If they help, how can those Confucian people be weakened?

Who doesn’t know that the current Jia Shizhong is His Majesty’s confidant, with unparalleled kindness and honor!

"Okay, I will go visit Jia Shizhong in person right now, and you can contact some other great sages from our Legal family!"

The Minister of Punishment said without hesitation.

After that, after the two discussed some more, Di Renjie left.

The next day, the Minister of Punishment contacted Jia Xu, Fang Xuanling and some Legalist disciples in the court to plan a discussion.

It is understandable to support the academic thoughts of one's own sect.

Therefore, Jia Xu simply agreed, and other Legalist disciples in the court also expressed their support.

Suddenly, Legalism gained momentum.

In the past, every year's discussion was held by private Legalist disciples arguing with each other. However, this year, all the real bigwigs have come to an end.

However, Li Chengdao was still in a wait-and-see attitude and did not answer for a long time.

A few days later, in view of the emperor's delay in replying, the disciples of the Confucian and Legalist families inevitably started to argue.

One said that Confucianism was good, and the other argued that Confucianism was good. In the end, even Zheng Lexu, the official of the Chang'an Prefecture who came to break up the fight, was involved.

Yes, Le Xu is also a disciple of Confucianism.

Later, the new minister of Dali Temple realized that something was wrong: Okay, are you the Confucian disciples the only ones who have power?

Without saying a word, the minister of Dali Temple took the people of Dali Temple to support the Legalists.

Not to mention, Chang'an Mansion, as the government agency responsible for public security in Liangdu, is really inferior to Dali Temple.

But when the imperial censor also came forward to favor the Confucian children, the momentum of Dali Temple was inevitably blocked.

There is no way, the status of the Yushijian is too special, not to mention the Dali Temple, even the backer behind the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, cannot be offended.

After all, they are officials.

The speech officials in the Yushijian not only have the special power of "speech without guilt", but they are also very good at scolding.

The two parties quarreled until they started to curse each other in the distance. Except for a young Legalist like Di Renjie who could resist, the other Legalists really couldn't resist.

In fact, when Confucianism and Legalism were arguing, Mohists, famous scholars, etc. also expressed their voices.

However, their power was too small compared to the Confucian and Legalist families, so the Mohist family still had some influence.

After all, what is implemented in the Metallurgical Bureau today is Mohist thought.

The other schools were completely suppressed by the dispute between Confucianism and Legalism.

Seeing these usually gentle and elegant scholars standing in the street arguing and cursing at this time, the people of Chang'an found it very interesting and gathered around to watch.

A few days later, Feng Li, the commander of the Imperial Guard, couldn't stand it anymore.

He led a group of palace guards to arrest all the Confucian and Legalist disciples who disturbed the security of Chang'an and imprisoned them in the prison of the Arbitration Court. Chang'an Prefecture, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Punishment should have been arrested, but due to the special circumstances this time, they could only be imprisoned by the Arbitration Court.

Unfortunately, the literati seemed to have hard bones, or they did not think that the emperor Li Chengdao would accuse him because of the conflicts between their academic schools.

Therefore, although many people on both sides were arrested by the Imperial Guards, the momentum of both sides did not diminish at all.

It is worth mentioning that in the past few days, many officials from Chang'an Prefecture, Dali Temple, Ministry of Punishment, and Ministry of Personnel were arrested by the imperial guards.

These have become interesting things that the people of Daliang talk about after dinner.

Seeing that the situation could not be contained, Feng Li, the commander of the imperial guards, entered the palace to meet the emperor and said to the latter:

"Your Majesty, I think this matter needs to be judged early. If you don't come forward, the situation may be out of control."

Li Chengdao smiled and said nothing.

To be honest, it was not that he had not seen the chaos in Chang'an City these days, but he had no intention of intervening.

The reason is very simple, because this chaos, which in his opinion is just a farce, has affected the hearts of hundreds of academic schools in the world.

The bigger the fuss over this matter, the better. This can be called a prosperous era in the literary world!

"Those people arrested by the Imperial Guard should be released after a verbal warning. Wait a moment."

Li Chengdao said with a smile.

Feng Li couldn't guess what his Majesty was waiting for.

But since His Majesty ordered his release, he had no choice but to comply.

So that afternoon, Feng Li ordered the release of the disciples from the Confucian and Legalist families.

At that time, the Confucian and Legalist disciples who came after hearing the news welcomed back their companions who had been captured in the Arbitration Court like heroes, making Feng Li shake his head.

Of course, before leaving, the two families inevitably had another quarrel in front of the Arbitration Court.

About half a month later, literati from all over the country rushed to Chang'an.

Either to promote their own ideas, or to support the people of the Chang'an School.

This makes Chang'an become more noisy. In the streets, teahouses, and wine shops, you can definitely see people from different schools debating and quarreling with each other.

Don't say that a gentleman talks but doesn't do anything.

In fact, these literati will also take action when they cannot convince the other party or are angered by the other party.

Of course, they would never admit that this was a fight, but would rather be reasonable.

It has to be said that this is the worst public security situation in Chang'an in recent years after the opening of trade with various countries and the large number of foreigners and merchants from other countries entering the Tang Dynasty.

So much so that later even the imperial guards were alerted and were stationed in the streets and alleys of Chang'an.

——Lest those literati fight with each other regardless of severity and cause life-threatening lawsuits.

“It’s almost done”

After learning the reports from the Imperial Guard and the Arbitration Court, Li Chengdao nodded secretly.

(End of this chapter)