"I want to change the Confucius Temple to a 'Confucian Temple' and build it in the Five Capitals, so that the world can be infected with the style of the ancestors, and there are five people who are worthy of the sages. However, since Confucius, there have been many Confucian scholars and descendants. Who is qualified to protect the 'Beichen' nearby? Everyone is different. Today, I invite all the famous Confucian scholars to gather in Qufu to discuss this matter!"

With the edict of the opening of the fifth reunion, the Qufu meeting, which was comparable to the "Qinglong Palace Conference" in the south, was officially held. The emperor fully exerted his democratic style and allowed the scholars to "speak freely", and only set three standards.

"The ancients said that the Supreme Master has established virtue, followed by merit, and secondly, made words. Even if he has not been abandoned for a long time, this is called immortality."

The fifth reunion said to everyone with a spring breeze: "In my opinion, establishing virtue means creating a system and preaching the law, and helping the people; making merit means saving troubles and eliminating difficulties, and helping the times; making words means saying the key words are essential and the principles are enough to be passed on. Everyone thinks carefully, who can meet these three points after Confucius' descendants?"

No one said a word for a long time. After all, the backbone Confucian scholars had run away as early as Wang Mang. Those smart and brave men had already played with prophecies and divination and became high-ranking officials. When the building collapsed, they died in chaos and were buried with Wang Mang. The rest were all old and in a dull and stormy persons. They were just scared by the fifth reunion "The Forbidden Prophecy and Edict", so how could they dare to emerge?

What's more, those who are a little more agile know what the emperor is doing with this "five-person enjoyment"... Even if they want to recommend their sect's ancestors, they have to lean back.

Seeing the silent sound in the hall, the fifth reunion, who was looking forward to the blooming of flowers, shook his head: "Since that's the case, then I will start with the head and nominate one..."

Here! The scholars were all muttering in their hearts, thinking that it must be the one. Unexpectedly, the fifth reunion smiled and said, "It's the sub-sage saint, Yan Yuan!"

For a moment, all the civil servants and scholars in the audience were secretly shocked. You must know that, not long ago, the head of the Yan family was severely punished by the fifth reunion for talking about prophecies and divination.

These days, the crown of the Asian Saint did not belong to Mencius, but was worn by Yan Hui. In Lu, Yan Yuan was the only one who worshiped Confucius. This incident was actually quite strange. Of course, Yan Hui was Confucius' favorite student. With his intelligence, if he could live for a few more years, he might be able to establish a sect, but he was gone at 29 and did not even leave much deed.

Confucius evaluated students in three subjects: virtue, speech and literature. Virtue was led by Yan Hui, but that was only a private virtue, which had nothing to do with the "creation and law, and the support of the people" required by the fifth reunion. As for merit, Yan Yuan did not serve as an official position and did not write, and he did not take any account. Although the "Yan Confucian" in the Warring States Period had something to do with Yan Hui, it had long disappeared.

So everyone thinks that the fifth relationship will definitely find fault and officially abolish Yan Yuan’s status as “Asia Saint” so that he can give his teacher Yangziyun a good place!

But I never expected that the emperor was so "tolerant".

For a moment, the scholars were silent, and the honest people who were preparing to fight for Yan Yuan were even more speechless.

But Wang Long knew why the fifth reunion didn't attack Yan Yuan, who seemed easy to bully.

When he was studying under Yangxiong, he wondered why Yan Yuan was so respected, so he asked Yangxiong for questions - the fifth reunion was right beside him.

I only remember that Yang Xiong replied: "When Confucius heard the son sing the song of Canglang, he was moved and said, 'Listen to it! It is enough to wash the tassels in the clear and the turbid, and it is enough to take it by yourself'."

"Overy Confucians need to make a choice in the clear and turbid water, but Yan Hui doesn't need it. He eats a bowl of food and drinks a bowl of water. In the humble alley, people can't bear the worries and Hui doesn't change his happiness. Yan Hui himself is just a clear spring! The Jianghan washes it, and the autumn sun is violent. The bright and bright one cannot respect oneself!"

Wang Long still remembered the teacher's expression at that time. He touched his lame leg, raised his head, and showed a look of longing.

This sentence reveals the reason why Yan Yuan is praised. Born as a human being, who will not get any stains? Even Confucius was in exile all his life, and even in order to do things, he was invited by Yang Hu to meet Nan Zi. When the Han Dynasty changed its days, Wang Mang, who once adhered to his ideals, Liu Xin gradually became unheard of, and Yang Xiong also got involved. Even Huan Tan, who wanted to stay out of the matter, was inseparable from the irony of a "san clan retainer" after three dynasties.

Only Yan Yuan did not have it, and it was impossible for him to have it, because he passed away early and left a perfect back in "The Analects of Confucius". He has been frozen by fate, and no one can tarnish his innocence - except those prophecies and divination families who made up Yan Yuan's deeds.

In this way, Yan Yuan became the benchmark of the spirit and personality of Confucian scholars of all generations, and stood there, and with the sympathy of his death young, the fifth relationship really touched Yan Yuan because of Yan's relationship and kicked him out of the favor, that would be a fool!

Sure enough, after the fifth reunion selected Yan Yuan, everyone in the hall was very happy. After the ministers reacted, they said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise and Yan Zide is well-behaved, so it is worthy of enjoyment!"

The stone in their hearts fell quietly. It seems that the fifth reunion held this conference not only out of selfishness, but also that its fairness and authority can be trusted.

With this good start, the discussion gradually got on the right track.

The second person who was worthy of Confucius was also a disciple of Confucius and was also Zengzi who truly promoted Confucianism. This person was not significant in establishing morality and meritorious service, but he was very prominent in "making words". He wrote the "Great Learning". It is said that the "Analects of Confucius" was compiled with him, and the "Book of Filial Piety", which had a unique influence on the world, was also written by Zengzi. After all, the Great Wei Dynasty also "governed the world with filial piety", and Zengzi was selected as a reasonable thing.

After Yan and Zeng, everyone still tended to continue to choose among the Ten Philosophers of Confucius, or Confucius' grandson and Zengzi's disciple Si. However, Wang Long, who presided over the meeting for the Fifth Reun, directly skipped them and decided to a person that everyone had never expected.

"I think that since Confucius' death, there have been many scholars who have written literature. However, only Mencius has extensive knowledge and knowledge, and is well-versed in ancient and modern times. His words can be supplemented by the world, so he can be enjoyed by the public."

The scholars were in an uproar, so they could not blame them, because the fifth reunion was discovered only after this era that Mencius, who was known as the "sub-sage", was a niche school in the Han Dynasty. Not only did he write about the works as a scholar, but it was not popular in the world. As for his status, he was not as good as his teacher, and Zisi, who wrote the "Doctor of the Mean", was not as good as Xunzi, a later generation.

It was not until the Han Dynasty was about to perish that Liu Xin and his son and Yang Xiong suddenly valued Mencius and praised him very much.

But this does not represent mainstream opinions, and there are many opponents. Among the Confucian sects in the world, there are almost no direct descendants of Mencius. For example, the Gongyang Sect, and the people of the Liang Sect think that if Mencius could enjoy it, it would be better than their ancestors, Gongyang Gao and Liang Chishang!

Wang Long and everyone argued with the people: "During the Warring States Period, the rituals collapsed and music was broken. At that time, Qin used Shangjun to enrich the country and strengthen the army, Chu and Wei used Wu Qi to defeat weak enemies, Qi Wei, King Xuan of Qi used his grandson Tian Ji's disciples, and the princes faced Qi in the east. The world was committed to joining Lianheng and attacking as a virtuous person. Although Mencius knew that his words and deeds could not be used by the princes, he still insisted on the kingly way and talked about benevolence and righteousness, and described the virtues of the three dynasties of Tang and Yu, just like the only candlelight in the dark night, maintaining Confucianism indestructible, this is to establish virtue."

"In addition, at that time, there was Yang Zhu and Mo Di's learning blocked the road, which was like a world-renowned scholarship. Only Mencius could fight against him and verbally resist him, so that Confucius's way would be revealed, which was to make contributions."

Finally, there is a saying, that is the book "Mencius".

Although Wang Long had gathered all three immortals, it was still a bit far-fetched. Opponents muttered: "Wang Taichang admired Mencius so much because his teacher loved Mengxue. Yang Xiong even claimed to be 'Mencius in the current era', so this is true."

The two sides were quarreling, and the fifth reunion did not seem to want to interfere. However, as a listener, Feng Yan speculated about the emperor's thoughts and stood up and said, and he smiled and said, "Many chapters in "Mencius" are indeed worth savoring. Just as the "Edict on the Anti-Wang Mang" drafted for Your Majesty, the sentence "Punish the crime and swear the people, as if the rain fell, the people were very happy."

A word woke up the dreamer. Those ministers and scholars who had not looked down on Mencius suddenly realized and quickly changed their words to support them.

That's right? Back then, the fifth reunion was to worship the slogan of "suppressing the people and attacking the crimes", bypassing the embarrassment of using ministers to attack the kings that are difficult to avoid these days.

That was the battle of the Great Wei Dynasty. The words "killing a husband" in Mencius were like the program of the fifth reunion to attack Wang Mang. They regarded themselves as the Tang and Wu Revolution. Now that the "revolution" has been successful, how can we not repay the favor and lift Mencius up high?

However, some people are worried that in "Mencius", there are many ordinary people who say that they will inevitably make up a rebellious word, such as "If the king treats his ministers like grass, then the ministers will treat the king as enemies", "If the king has a big mistake, he will advise him, and if he repeats it and does not listen, he will change his position", etc., which are simply teaching people to rebel. Isn't the emperor afraid of shooting himself in the foot?

But they didn't know that the fifth reunion liked was Mr. Meng, who was pedantic and bold in speaking. He hated the divine power of the monarchy and divine family, and had more people-oriented theory. After all, what the fifth reunion wanted to see most was that hundreds of years later, there was really a group of people who could rush into the Weiyang Palace and push the last reactionary emperor of the Wei Dynasty to the guillotine who had killed Lao Wangmang...

After deciding Mencius, before the ministers recovered, Wang Long launched the next candidate: Xunzi.

Although Xunzi respected the king and respected the rituals, he also taught two Legal disciples, not one "mediocre Confucian", at least not as pure as Mencius, but the ministers and scholars did not have much opinion on the Confucius Temple and agreed. Why? Because of the interests.

The scholars around the CPC were very different from later generations. They were selected into the Thirteen Classics of the Taixue, "Lu Shi", "Han Shi" and "Mao Shi" were all passed down from Xunzi. The founder was either Xun Qing's disciple or was passed down from another disciple. The ancestors should still respect it. The masters should respect it. The "Book of the Great Dai Li" and "Book of the Little Dai Li" and other outstanding scholars also inherited a lot of Xun's studies.

In addition, the current mainstream thoughts tend to be evil in Xunzi. After witnessing the failure of Xinmochun to govern the world with the kingly way, everyone began to feel that the "monarchy and overbearing" of the Han Dynasty seemed more appropriate, and this move was also necessary for the ancestors to tell Xunzi.

But some people are worried that: Mencius and Xunzi, these two views are almost opposite. Later, great scholars who had been competing for hundreds of years, would enjoy the Confucius Temple together. If there was a spirit under the spring, according to the fighting spirit of these two people, they would probably have to fight! And as the two people enjoyed each other, their theory would inevitably become popular again, and they might be listed as the scope of civil servant examination by the emperor. How should they choose when facing conflicting views?

"I'm going to fight for it." The fifth reun smiled and said, "Xun Qing, Meng Ke, the talent of Saint, was a family law, and the career of the saints of Ming Dynasty, wrote by their names, but still to the present. In ancient times, there were hundreds of schools of thought, and now that the hundreds of schools are united, there should be a debate among scholars. There are no need to have one but abandon the others. Xun and Meng can continue the dispute!"

The fifth reunion likes Mencius, because he loves the people and lets Xunzi enjoy it, because he likes the practical use. In addition, the materialistic thoughts in Xun's studies are extremely positive. He hopes that future generations can choose the good ones and follow them.

The meeting has reached this point, and there are four of the five places left, only one left.

Among all of them, there were teachers and leaders of the Three Pagans of the Spring and Autumn Period, disciples of Han Shi, Mao Shi, Lu Shi, and Qi Shi, as well as descendants of various rituals, Shangshu, and Yi. They all hope that their ancestors, such as Zuo Qiuming, Gong Yang Gao, Han Ying, etc., could be included in the list of gifts, but at this moment, everyone stopped fighting and remained silent because everyone knew that the fifth person who gave the gifts had already been decided and was only waiting for someone to propose.

But the fifth reunion had not yet expressed his opinion. Although Wang Long suppressed his excitement, he did not say anything. Instead, he had just listened and rarely spoke. The Taixue priest stood up.

Huan Tan walked to the middle of the hall, bowed to the fifth reunion, and then spoke in a loud voice that he had not been able to express to his old friend back then:

"Yangziyun's talent and intelligence are opened, and he can enter the holy path and is outstanding among the public. There is no such person since the Han Dynasty, and he is worthy of enjoyment!"
Chapter completed!