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Chapter 330 The Prelude to the Rise of Guan Xue

On the shore of Liang Shanshui, Zhu Quanjian was going all out to train the Dashun Forbidden Army.On the other side, the memorial written by Fatty Lu was finally sent to Lu Chengqi through Pegasus Express.Don't blame the slow work efficiency in this era, but that the official road, after passing through the Yellow River's breaches again and again, has become a yellow mud pond.If you want to send it to the capital as quickly as possible, you have to make a detour.In this way, the time spent will be longer.

And Lu Chenhuan clearly told Pegasus Express that this is not an emergency military situation, so you can take it easy.Fatty Lu is not afraid that Pegasus will be tired from the urgent report, but he feels sorry for those post horses. After being tortured so many times, they don't recover in a month, and feeding them with concentrated feed must be useless.Fatty Lu loves horses like his life, so why would he look at these fine horses and consume horsepower for delivering an unimportant report?

Of course Lu Chenhuan didn't know, it was because of his whim that almost ruined Zhu Quanyuan's future.Who is Lu Chengqi?A reborn person, of course he knows that talent is the most important thing.If this ruins a talent who knows water warfare, Lu Chengqi can't get rid of his hatred by skinning and deboning Fatty Lu?
It turned out that Pegasus Express thought it was just an ordinary memorial, and of course it was misled by Fatty Lu.When he handed the memorial to the cabinet as usual, he went back in style.If it weren't for Xu Chongguang, the very responsible chief minister of the cabinet, who was on duty today, I'm afraid it would have to wait another month before seeing the light of day again, and then the ticket was going to be handed over to Lu Chengqi, and then re-ordered to the Imperial Army in Dongping Mansion. It's simply not possible in the next month.

Xu Chongguang's actions indirectly saved Fatty Lu, probably even Xu Chongguang himself didn't know about it.Seeing that Xu Chongguang returned the paperwork as usual, Lu Chengqi felt a little tired.He is not a machine, even with the establishment of a cabinet, the daily workload is still more than eight hours, and he never rests, and he works normally on weekends.If it was in later generations, Lu Chengqi would have applied for labor arbitration long ago.But sitting on the throne, you can enjoy both pain and happiness. In your spare time, you can have fun while suffering. What's the big deal?

What gave Lu Chengqi a headache was that since the "Dashun Minbao" published the Guozijian's defense, the newspapers and periodicals run by the gentlemen have concentrated their firepower and violently criticized Zhang Zai and his Guan Xue.Especially after the "Dashun Minbao" wrote the four sentences of Guan Xue's gist, it made those idle Juren scold them bloody.Coupled with Lu Chengqi's decree to bestow Zhang Zaitong's Jinshi background and the title of Secretary and Provincial Editor, it made many scholars who failed the exams envy, envy and hate, and almost turned red.

As soon as the "Dashun Min Bao" came out, the "Shizheng Bao" wrote an article scolding: "This man is bold enough to deceive the emperor and spread fallacies and heresies. How did the most holy and sages ever say, 'Build a heart for the world, and a life for the people,' These four sentences for the sake of the past saints, and for the peace of the world'? It is nonsense, and it is misleading the world! If the saints do not imprison this official and let his demonic words confuse the people, the world will be in chaos!
Sad husband, since Dashun created the imperial examination, I have always respected the sage Confucius.But I don't hear about the rest of the disciples, is it not the Taizu who doesn't know evil?No, it's all because Confucianism is the essence of governing a country. People who are kings don't follow the will of heaven and seek their own way of destruction.There was a chariot of tyranny in the past, and I must not repeat the same mistakes..."

After Lu Chengqi finished reading the latest issue of "Shushe Bao", he had to admire those scholars who had put in all their efforts to defend the orthodox position of Confucianism.Zhang Zai's Guan Xue takes "Book of Changes" as its sect, "The Doctrine of the Mean" as its body, "Li" as its application, and Confucius and Mencius as its method. This makes some officials with vested interests feel a little uneasy.Seeing that the little emperor valued Guan Xue so much, he moved his mind to completely discredit Guan Xue.They hired someone to write it, took it out of context, and tried their best to smear Guan Xue, hoping that the little emperor could see it and find out in time.In that case, their interests will be preserved.As for the people who took the lead, Lu Chengqi knew it without asking, it must be those high-ranking officials.They were afraid that there would be fewer latecomers and that they would not be able to share authority, so they smeared Guan Xue like this.

But who is Lu Chengqi?How could he be defeated by such little tricks?Lu Chengqi's biggest weapon of public opinion is the newspaper.With the influence of "Dashun Minbao", wouldn't it be easy to clean up the white Guan school?
However, Lu Chengqi did not intend to do this, but silently planned how to use Guan Xue as the bone, Confucius and Mencius as the body, and combine arithmetic to obtain real talents in the next imperial examination.

If all scholars in the world know that Guan Xue is a compulsory subject in the next imperial examination, will they not study it?Lu Chengqi has long understood the truth that what is good at the top must be followed by the bottom.

Seeing that "Dashun Minbao" and other newspapers and periodicals were silent, "Current Affairs Daily" either switched to reporting other things or avoided talking about them.This made "Shizheng Bao" more aggressive, and almost all said that if the little emperor did not return to the right track, Dashun would perish.

Seeing their madness, Lu Chengqi sneered.To kill it, you must first make it crazy. The crazier the Times, the worse it will fall in the future.

No, Lu Chengqi asked Zhang Zai to come up with a whole set of test questions, using the excuse that he was testing himself.Zhang Zai was naturally happy that Lu Chengqi was eager to learn, and spared no effort to compile a set of test questions.Needless to say, after Lu Chengqi finished, hand it over to Zhang Zai for correction.After Zhang Zai finished the correction, he handed it back to him again.After going back and forth, there is a standard answer.Lu Chengqi didn't know this trick, and who knew it?
Although this set of questions is not too difficult, the main point of view lies in the remarks of the sub-sage Mencius. Once this becomes a scientific examination question, it will definitely stump many students who have not read the book "Mencius".After that, the focus is on the simple "Book of Changes", which is a unified topic for debate, and you must have a solid foundation in "Book of Changes" to be able to answer it fluently.Those who haven't seen it are naturally blind.

After Lu Chengqi took the complete test questions, he smirked in his heart: "Look at your tricks, it's still my tricks that are good enough!"

In this time and space, because the rulers were afraid of the view in "Mencius" that "the people are the most important, the country is second, and the emperor is the least", they criticized "Mencius" as heresy. Recognized by the great Confucianism among the people, but not welcomed by the court.If Lu Chengqi really planned to test "Mencius", there might not be half of the 1 scholars who could meet his wishes.

How to reduce the difficulty of the test paper has become a headache for Lu Chengqi.It can not only ensure that the recruits are all talents, but also ensure the rise of Guan Xue.In this time and space, since Zhou Dunyi's "Confucianism" has not risen, it is saved from being poisoned by the extreme Neo-Confucianism of "preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires".

Just when Lu Chengqi was having a headache, he received a memorial from Fatty Lu, so he had no choice but to put down the pile of test questions, spread out the memorial and read it.When he saw a water thief leader voted and asked if he would accept it, Lu Chengqi immediately made a decision, criticizing him and said: "Immediately seal Zhu Quanyi as an Instructor of the Imperial Army, and if you break Liang Shanshui's pirates in the future, you will be rewarded for your merits."

After finishing writing, Lu Chengqi felt very strange. This should be the urgent report from Pegasus for hundreds of miles. Why did Fatty Lu write it more than 20 years ago?And it was even more strange that Xu Chongguang handed it in.Is there any misunderstanding in this?
Lu Chengqi couldn't figure it out, and didn't want to study it carefully.When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people observe it, there will be no disciples.Whether it was Xu Chongguang's dereliction of duty or Lu Fatty's dereliction of duty, it was a trivial matter.Therefore, the hearts of the two were chilled, and it was a bit uneconomical.

Thinking of this, Lu Chengqi summoned Xiao Huangmen and asked him to paint his face with wax, put it in a wooden box, and send it to Pegasus Express.Poor Pegasus Express was sent back to Dongping Mansion again before he sat in the hot chair.With this heavy wooden box in his arms, Pegasus Express was also a little scared, thinking: "Commander Lu misunderstood me, if it wasn't for your majesty's magnanimity, I would have to eat the army stick..." With lingering fear in his heart, he hurriedly told his wife, I ran to Chang'an station again, ready to go...

(End of this chapter)