Li Su didn't take it seriously when he heard Zhang Liang's mention of the guys who questioned the blessings of the Dianxing theory.

This situation is expected - most great scholars who are rigorous in their academic research and focus on the right path do not want to question the theoretical basis of the blessing of the palace, because they know that the points they want to question are politically rebellious. It is better to hide it in their hearts and not talk about it, or wait until they abandon their official position and hide in a safe place in the future.

People like Dong Fu, Hua Xin, even Wang Lang, who has not been promoted by Tao Qian, are all more famous people in the late Han Dynasty who like to predict the "destiny of heaven".

They always predict where there is a pride of emperor, or they say "the number of days changes, and the artifacts are easier". Scholars of this type like to pretend to recognize the theoretical basis of "the theory of "the palace is prosperous and blessed" to conduct historical case analysis, and use a "friendly academic exchange" attitude to find out the contradictions between Li Su from specific cases.

To put it bluntly, it is an enhanced version of "Question on Cai Li Gong".

Come on if you want to! The truth becomes clearer the more you argue.

Although Shizhong Dong Fu has high prestige and seniority in the academic world, he is too old and has poor combat effectiveness.

As for Hua Xin, haha, now a Shangshu Lang is not worth worrying about - don't think it's awesome to take the word Shangshu, and adding a "lang" is not worth it. Basically, the filial and honest person has accumulated three or five years of qualifications after entering the officialdom, and he is a Shangshu Lang. For example, Zhong Yao, who used to copy books and get a pen for Li Su, was also a Shangshu Lang.

Of course, Hua Xin's threat is not just based on his official position, but rather that he has a relatively high academic qualification.

He and Guanning, Liaodong, were both under Ma Rong's disciples, and were considered one of the youngest disciples of Ma Rong, so in theory they were of the same generation as Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan.

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Li Su was lingering in Luoyang for two days and was looking forward to the emperor summoning him alone before he performed his merits in the court to understand the situation.

But it seems that he has prepared in vain.

Perhaps Emperor Ling was not very concerned about Zhang Ju's teachings, or perhaps he felt that reading Liu Yu's written memorial was enough.

After Li Su finished the procedures for his arrival in Beijing, the eunuch on duty just gave a few words casually and asked him to go directly to Taiyitan, the southern suburbs on the day of the Yuan Dynasty, and wait for the meeting with him according to the call.

Li Su also wanted to ask about the arrangements for the grand ceremonial meeting that day, but was told that there was no separate ceremonial meeting.

After the Emperor completed the Yuan Dynasty ritual at Taiyi Temple, he would handle some important important court affairs with all officials on the spot, even if he had held a court meeting.

Considering the usual absurdity of Emperor Ling of Han, and for many years, he had not personally participated in the court meeting and only let the Ten Generals communicate with him, Li Su immediately believed that he could do such a thing.

The emperor is willing to listen to all officials with his own ears and is already very proud of his appearance, and he still wants to choose a place?

On the day of the Lantern Festival, before dawn, it was almost the early morning, when Li Su got up actively, and took Zhao Yun alone, wearing a red court uniform, rode out of the city to wait in line for a short distance.

Zhao Yun was only responsible for protecting Li Su along the way, and in addition to being responsible for the wooden box holding the head for a while, so he was not wearing armor, and was also in a red robe, and only had a sword. When it was time to face the Saint, the sword would have to be saved from a distance.

The official uniforms of the Han Dynasty did not have the level of birds and beasts. The Eastern Han Dynasty had the virtue of fire and all officials wore red robes, so it was not easy to see the level of the official position from the clothes.

Li Su and Zhao Yun are both facing the saint for the first time, so a little nervousness is inevitable.

Li Su: "Fortunately, thanks to Your Majesty's power and the destiny of the Han Dynasty. After listening to his ministers' explanation of the destiny, Wuhuan Shanyu Qiu Liju felt that Zhang Ju was punished by heaven and could not have a good ending in cooperation with him, so he was killed and sent. In addition, the lack of food for the rebellion of the Wuhuan tribes was also an important reason."

Li Su spoke very steadily, and finally he did not forget to add the sentence Wuhuan had shortage of food, so as not to lose weight, and actually criticized him for flattering the emperor and being criticized as a "flattering minister."

But Liu Yu made up for the Wuhuan people’s owed wages, which was absolutely impossible to say, so the money was all credited as “Qiu Liju also believed that destiny was always in the Han Dynasty, and there would be blessings in the palace.”

After hearing this, Liu Hong became more and more arrogant: "You are very good at speaking. You can convince the Hu people by just speaking. It hasn't been seen in the world that such a verbal debater in decades."

Li Su: "I dare not, the destiny of heaven is in the Han Dynasty, but the barbarians and ignorant people do not know how to interpret it. My words are like seeing the sun when they see the sun when they see the sun when they see the clouds. How can those who clear the clouds be greedy for their own achievements?

What's more, killing Zhang Ju was just a small achievement. After Zhang Ju's death, the rebels in the counties in the Youbeiping and western Liaoning still existed. It was all up to Liu Envoy, Liu Duwei, Gongsun Changshi to take his life together to recover the counties."

Destiny and truth were there, and Li Su was just interpreting it, not inventing the truth.

Confucius said that "telling without doing" is also the same principle. People regard themselves as those who discover the way of heaven, rather than those who invent the way of heaven.

Liu Hong became more and more happy when he heard this, and the other court officials were even more shocked.

Because even though they knew in advance that Zhang Ju was killed by diplomacy, they didn't know what Li Su and Qiu Liju said before Li Su explained in person.

Now Li Su explains the inside story in person, and actually talks with Hu Qiao to surrender. What an exaggerated political philosophy and orthodox theory foundation!

"The Palace has a blessing theory. Is it so powerful for recruiting surrender and rebel in actual combat? Can it be used in the future when fighting against the Qiang people in Liangzhou? Let the chief of the Qiang people find that he has no future and surrender directly." Many great scholars who were not optimistic about Li Su thought maliciously.

"Since he is so bragging, he will instigate His Majesty to send Li Su to other difficult Hu Ke, and let him make unreasonable and excessive demands one by one. When those Hu Ke can't stand it, they will chop Li Su with one knife, so we won't have to defend him with verbal advantage." The other court officials who claim to be extraordinary in eloquence and debate are even more vicious. After all, they are enemies.

It's like a sinister barrister's resentment against another sinister barrister, and there is no reason to do so.

Fortunately, before they could speak, Liu Hong had a heartless heart and caused a trouble for Li Su:

"Li Aiqing, you and Cai Yong have a question and asked you to tell me about the "On the Palace of the Palace of the Great Restoration" and I have also asked the staff of Zhao Chang to tell me. It is indeed quite interesting. I want to ask, since my great man won the world back then because Emperor Gaozu was blessed, then do we need to sacrifice to Chen Sheng again? Chen Sheng is just a person who was punished by God. In your opinion, it is no different from Xiang Ni."

Li Su felt a little nervous. He probably could not think of such a problem. It must have been the great scholars in other courts who took advantage of the opportunity to tell stories to plant the seeds of doubt and wanted to give the rebuttal of the Dianxing Youfu Theory.

Before this, the Han Dynasty had a relatively positive attitude towards Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. After all, the people first advocated anti-Qin and were killed by the Qin army. Liu Bang no longer needed to conflict with Chen Sheng when he fought for the world.

After Liu Bang became emperor, he enclosed land in Mangdang Mountain and set up thirty families to guard the tomb for Chen Sheng. The taxes of these thirty families were not required to be paid, and they were all considered expenses for maintaining the tomb. By the time of Emperor Wu of Han, there were additional sacrifices, and the Han Dynasty did not treat this sacrifice unfairly.

It is obvious that the person who came up with the idea did not want to refute the positive rebuttal of "the palace is blessed", but instead wanted to extend this theory to the edge, and even switched the concept to lure the enemy into the depths, forcing Li Su to take one more step.

After all, truth also has a scope of application, and taking one more step is not the truth.

Li Su took a deep breath: "Your Majesty, I think that according to the theory of blessings in the palace, Chen Sheng's sacrifice should be the same as Xiang Yu."

"What? Isn't this a change of the rules since Emperor Gaozu? It's so rampant!" The crowd was in full swing, and soon two great scholars wanted to jump out.
Chapter completed!