Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

Chapter 36 The Queen Mother is immortal (36)

The top Confucian leaders present knew very well that their greatest advantage was their willingness to pass on the classics of sages. When enough people studied their teachings, they would naturally have an absolute advantage, forcing the court to choose to use their people to govern the country. When people have an absolute advantage in the court, they will naturally be able to participate in formulating policies that are more beneficial to their school of thought.

Thus forming a virtuous cycle.

It's a bit like taking the market for free and then setting your own standards once you have a sufficient market.

Suppress or even eliminate peers.

In most cases, ordinary people and ordinary countries can only accept it and do not have the ability to overturn everything, set new standards, and at the same time re-cultivate user habits.

Once more than 90% of the people in a country study Confucianism, it is actually difficult for the country to completely abandon Confucianism and promote another theory to completely replace Confucianism without abandoning a generation.

Not to mention that it is difficult to have such courage. Even if you have such courage, the obstacles you encounter will definitely be extremely terrifying. After all, if the stubborn forces can be eradicated so easily, there will not be so many reforms that fail.

Although Confucianism does not yet have a very complete plan, they are indeed moving in this direction.

There is a high probability that this will be the development trend in the future.

But now Bai Sheng is printing books of other doctrines on a large scale, except for their Confucian books, and they are also selling them at extremely low prices. If things go on like this, the only remaining advantage of their Confucian school will be completely lost. Therefore, it is really They couldn't help but be in a hurry.

After a heated discussion, they generally felt that it was better to find ways to obtain forgiveness from the Queen Mother.

It is better to pray that the Queen Mother will die soon.

After all, she was almost eighty years old, and as the old saying goes, people rarely live past their seventies. In addition, she had been seriously ill a few years ago, so she might not have many more years to live.

Therefore, some people think that their Confucian school can endure for a few more years, torture the Queen Mother to death, and let Her Majesty take over all the Queen Mother's assets, including technology. Now the predicament will naturally not be a problem, and even more Confucian books will be printed and less printed. Other Baijia books are also available.

They've endured it for so many years.

No harm in enduring it for a few more years.

There are also people who think that it is possible to find ways to obtain the corresponding technology through His Majesty, but if that doesn't work, the Confucianists will print it themselves. Otherwise, even if the Empress Dowager passes away in a few years, there will still be many Huang Lao's theories and other hundreds of schools of thought on the market. Books, they can't forcefully take those books back and destroy them. The impact will still be huge when the time comes, so this matter must not be delayed.

In addition, there is also the inner volume school, which thinks that if it is not possible, they can buy more pens, inks, paper and inkstones and copy their own sages' classics themselves, or recruit more disciples and open more classes, which should also reduce the impact.

But no matter what the situation is, for them.

It is most cost-effective for the Empress Dowager to die as soon as possible.

After the discussion, they quickly got busy. Some of them sent their disciples, especially the younger disciples, to the Dou Bookstore to protest why they did not sell Confucian classics.

Some went to Emperor Jianyuan and asked corresponding questions.

Others bribed the eldest princess and others, hoping that the eldest princess and her relatives, who could visit the Queen Mother at any time, could help negotiate and eliminate misunderstandings and conflicts.

Maybe there are some who try to curse.

It can be said that they are really anxious. They don't dare to put their eggs in one basket, but attack in all directions.

Then, her daughter Liu, including her grandson and granddaughter, as well as Emperor Jianyuan and others were very sensible. They knew very well that Bai Sheng did not like Confucianism, and knew that persuading in the past was useless, and had made the Empress Dowager disgusted for nothing.

There is only one exception, and that is Dou Ying.

He didn't need anyone to come to him, beg him, or spend money to bribe him, he just found him excitedly.

The greetings upon meeting were quite respectful. But the words were indeed quite unpleasant. The first words he spoke were admonitions, saying things like how could you treat him so differently? It is obviously a great merit, but you deliberately left Confucianism behind. It really seems that you are too narrow-minded. Then he talked about how good Confucianism is, indeed superior to Huang-Lao's theory in many aspects.

At this point, Bai Sheng could finally understand why the original person didn't want to see his nephew. He knew that he didn't like Confucianism, but he still came to make some unfavorable advice.

Who cares about his so-called advice?

"Whether you say that the Ai family is petty or that the Ai family does not have all the merits, anyway, the Ai family does not agree with this matter. The Ai family is willing to sell paper, ink, pen and inkstone to the Confucianists without discrimination, which is the greatest kindness.

Don't push yourself too far. "

Bai Sheng didn't bother to reason with him. Everyone was in different factions, so there was no need. Bai Sheng couldn't change his attitude of supporting Huang Lao's studies, and her nephew Dou Ying couldn't change his position either. So what else was there to talk about?
  "Empress Dowager, why do you have to do things so absolutely? Your Majesty is undoubtedly close to Confucianism.

You can block Confucianism for a while, but you cannot block Confucianism for a lifetime, or for thousands of years. Your Majesty has the final say in the future of this world, what do you think? "

What Dou Ying said was quite explicit.

Undoubtedly, he felt that it was impossible for Bai Sheng to survive Emperor Jianyuan. Once Bai Sheng died, all the hard work and struggle he was doing now would be in vain. It would be better to compromise and end it as soon as possible.

Hearing this, Bai Sheng was in a bad mood and snorted coldly:

"It's ridiculous. Is there anyone in the world who can do anything Confucian? If Ai Jia remembers correctly, didn't Dong Zhongshu just propose to abolish all schools of thought and only respect Confucianism some time ago?

No matter how prosperous the Huang-Lao School was back then.

I never thought about deposing Baijia.

Not only have I given you Confucian living space, but I have even given you too much space, allowing you to develop and grow in recent years and have such ambitions.

This is because the other hundreds of families are now weak, and the Mohist family is almost extinct. If it were placed during the Warring States Period.

Look, Dong Zhongshu will be torn alive! "

"What does the Ai family do?"

"In addition, didn't Dong Zhongshu also propose some kind of Spring and Autumn Judgment? It was a good plan!

Use the Spring and Autumn Classics to judge the crimes of prisoners.

The Spring and Autumn Annals is your Confucian book, and even the annotations are your own internal annotations. It is not an exaggeration to say that the right to speak, or the right to interpret, is entirely in the hands of your Confucians. You really think that the Ai family cannot see this. Do you want to use this to seize the power of judicial interpretation?
  The Three Strategies of Heaven and Man, what Liu Che saw was the divine right of kings, and what he saw was that the emperor was favored by God.

But what the Aijia saw was Confucian ambition.

What I saw was an attempt to control the king with celestial phenomena.

Even going one step further, the power to interpret future celestial phenomena may fall into the hands of your Confucians.

If things continue like this, I really want you to continue to develop.

This world is not the king's world.

This is your Confucian world! "

(End of this chapter)