Chapter 475: The academy opens and a chaotic fight breaks out!

Liu Xiang's appearance was a great shock to the people from all walks of life in the city.

If it were just him, it would be fine. He was well-versed in Confucianism and Legalism, and was familiar with Taoism and Mohism. He had friends among scholars from all schools of thought.

But he brought with him most of the Qin and Jin Legalists, which was something no one had expected.

How dare you?

This level of explosion is no less than that of the mustache man delivering a struggle speech in the Kremlin.

Although the Luo family has always been tolerant of ideas and never punishes people with words as long as they do not take any substantive actions, there are still countless scholars from other families and countless common people in this city.

A spit from each person can drown out those Legalists!

The prejudice in people's minds is like a mountain. Just based on the great achievements of the Legalists of the Qin and Jin Dynasties, it would be harder than climbing to the sky to get the hundreds of schools of thought to put aside their prejudices.

Liu Xiang had known that this would happen, but he did not care. Instead, he smiled at the people who followed him and said, "This is the reputation of the Legalists in the world today. If we carry this heavy yoke, how can we achieve success?

If we cannot break away from our wrong past, how can we win a bright future? "

The Qin and Jin legalists were verbally attacked, but they only responded: "The classics we study are not about law, but about criminal law. You may have found the wrong person."

This is equivalent to a Mencius saying that the classic he studies is not Mencius, but Theory of Righteousness and Dao. Liu Xiang did even more radically. He directly discarded all the ideas about governing the people and the country in the Legalist classics, leaving only the aspects about law.

Criminal law is the weapon that the Legalists use to conquer the world and is a way of applying knowledge to the world. The grassroots officials in the counties and prefectures of the Han Dynasty all relied on these laws to govern the country. If they were not proficient in them, they could not be called Legalists. Naturally, it was impossible for Liu Xiang to lose this advantage when he reformed the Legalists.

Liu Xiang’s purpose is very simple. You come here to talk about laws, but you have found the wrong person to accuse of atrocities. I suggest you leave Zhaocheng, turn right and walk thousands of miles to Guanzhong to find the Qin kings of all dynasties and Emperor Liu Dan. We have never done what you said.

Which Confucian or Taoist student has a problem in his brain to talk about law with the Legalist students?

In the past, some famous people could touch it, but after a hundred years of the Han Dynasty, no one knew where its remains were buried.

Qi Fa can be touched upon, but it is not necessary. It is also good to let Qin and Jin Legalists kill the enthusiasm of other factions, in case they can turn the tables and become the master.

Liu Xiang has been working hard for many years and has developed a good appearance.

No matter what opinions the Confucian disciples expressed, he would smile and say, "Classics, worthy of being a Confucian disciple."

There was no response, but it seemed like everything had been said. Usually, people who are not good at cultivating their Qi would get anxious at this time, and then Liu Xiang would add a knife, "Why are you so anxious? The truth does not lie in the loudness of the voice, speak slowly."

If there were other factions he was familiar with who joined the crusade, he would retort, "How filial."

Ji Zhaoxian, who had been paying attention to the debate, shook his head speechlessly. Ji Lingjun, who was standing beside him, gnashed his white and fine teeth and said, "You really deserve a beating."

After all, the inn was not a formal place for discussing the Dao, and the Qin and Jin legalists' avoidance of war did not affect anything, so Liu Xiang's strategy was very successful. Everyone could only say viciously, "On the day when the academy opens, let's see how you can still avoid war."

The academy is about to open!

As more and more scholars from various factions arrived, everyone knew that the academy was about to open. After a hundred years of development, it would soon be clear who would be the best in the world and who would be able to defeat all the other schools and become the top candidate.

Although Zhaocheng is wide open, it still has many restrictions compared to other cities with free entry and exit. Not to mention the extremely strict security, the inner city is also not open to the public.

However, there was nothing in the inner city except the ancestral temple, the storage room, etc. In theory, the sons of the Luo family should live in the inner city, but in fact they all lived in the outer city. It was the daughters of the Luo family who often performed sacrifices and lived in the inner city.

Even in the outer city, brave warriors can be seen parading on the streets and alleys. Most of the people who came to Zhaocheng this time are scholars. Scholars are talented, but they are also people who can lie with open eyes. Moreover, scholars are bad. The people of Zhaocheng are simple and honest, and the women are gentle and virtuous. It would be bad if they were deceived by the sweet words of outsiders.

After the students from various schools arrived in Zhaocheng, they first went to the Temple of the Scholars to worship. Many of those who came to worship had been there before. Although Zhaocheng was strict in the past, it did not forbid people to come.

But this was naturally the first time for such a large scale, and Luo Shizi brought brave warriors to maintain order and lead the way.

Although not many people have been seen in the past hundred years, the Luo family has been repairing it all the time. Apart from the traces of time left behind to highlight its heritage, the temple has always been magnificent and classy.

The Luo family has a long heritage, and once the scale of time is stretched, it will give people an immense shock. This is the natural awe of the power of time that the short-lived species have. This is a major advantage of the Luo family, so it is demonstrated all the time.

After entering the Temple of the Philosophers, everyone was shocked by the detailed statues and countless magnificent murals depicting stories.

A true saint may not need a tall statue, but we should never forget that human nature is engraved with the yearning for height and size.

The Luo family has spent thousands of years promoting Ji Zhao, and they know this point too well. Therefore, when building the Temple of the Philosophers, they must shock people's hearts. During the hundred years of expansion and renovation, countless mathematicians have participated in it. The Luo family even mastered extremely strong architectural knowledge.

The effect achieved was very good, and many scholars even lost their voices.

“This is the Holy Temple of the Sons!”

"Teacher, I am honored to be able to enter this place in my lifetime. Your wish can be fulfilled."

"So this is what the ancestor looks like. He is indeed a saint, extraordinary."

Countless voices rang out in people's hearts. Although the hall was extremely quiet, everyone could feel waves of complex sounds reaching their ears.

Luo, who was in charge of leading everyone here, was very satisfied. They had been accumulating aspirations for a hundred years. If the Temple of the Sons could not satisfy everyone, it would have the opposite effect. But now, the Temple of the Sons perfectly met everyone's imagination!

Such a huge temple is naturally not just one room. In addition to the main hall where all the saints gather, there are also branch halls of each family. The main hall is limited in size and cannot be used for performance, but there is no such restriction in the branch halls.

The Confucian hall is painted with exquisite murals, the most important of which is the picture of the two sages Luo and Confucius writing the Spring and Autumn Annals, followed by the picture of Confucius traveling around the countries to give lectures, the picture of Confucius becoming a saint in the Academy, the picture of Mencius's eloquence, etc. The exquisite skills of the painters are vividly displayed in these images of characters and events.

Confucian scholars who came to admire the murals looked at them as if they had traveled back to an era hundreds of years ago, when sages wrote furiously, trying to end that chaotic world and record the ultimate truths of heaven and earth to pass on to future generations.

There are a large number of Confucian disciples, but there are relatively few people in many halls, and even the Yang Zhu School is empty.

"Hundreds of years ago, our Luo family ancestor once said that we should erect a tall stone tablet in Luo State to record the classics of the various philosophers, build a temple, and use metal and jade to cast the statues of the various philosophers, so that the glory of the various philosophers will forever glorify the world and shine for thousands of years!"

Luo Shizi walked forward, looked at the figures and murals and said with some emotion: "Now we have fulfilled our promise. Regardless of victory or defeat in the outside world, at least there is still a legacy in Zhaocheng, and people still remember their names and deeds."

One side is deserted, while the other side is crowded with people. This huge contrast and strong comparison makes people who come to pay homage to the sages feel a sense of enlightenment and urgency.

Passing through the Temple of the Philosophers, a vast academy appeared in front of everyone. This was certainly not the earliest academy, but the mottled and mixed traces on it made people know that the academy was here in the past, and the walls had the oldest stone bricks.

“Boom!”

Several brave warriors stepped forward and pushed open the heavy door of the academy. When the academy was not open, this place was not abandoned. Gifted children in Zhaogong Kingdom received their education here. It was a private academy of Zhaogong Kingdom.

Baijia walked in with some excitement. Almost every family's classics had the appearance of a school. Now, looking at the school in front of them, they had a feeling that fantasy was reflecting reality.

“This must be the morning bell!”

The big clock in front of the main hall of the academy attracted everyone's attention.

Morning bells and evening drums!

"King Su established rites and music, which permeated every aspect of the Luo family. When the morning bell rang, the sages entered the palace, and when the evening drum rang, the sages left the palace.

So people use morning bells and evening drums as a warning. "

Some people talked about the origin of the morning bells and evening drums, and some added with emotion: "It is said that in the past, debates in Luo's Academy would start with the sound of bells and end with the sound of drums. Everything was done in accordance with the order of rituals and music. It was a wonderful era."

We prefer the past to the present, and this is true for both the past and the present. For the Han people, the sages of the Zhou Dynasty are the ancients, and many people miss that era.

When everyone walked into the academy, they saw a figure kneeling at the highest point in the palace. The brave warriors stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Greetings to the head of the family."

Head of the family?

Everyone was stunned, then they all bowed and saluted, and voices rang out one after another, "Greetings to the Grand Duke, Grand Duke Ankang."

Luo Sheng looked at the crowd in front of him and said loudly: "Everyone is well, everyone is well, please take your seats."

Teams of beautiful girls led everyone into the seats.

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Xia civilization is a typical ancestor-worshipping culture, which naturally attaches great importance to funerals. In certain periods, it even reaches the point of "treating the dead as if they were alive." The Xia people believed that a sacrificial object called "incense" could communicate with their ancestors after being lit, so they widely used this spiritual object.

The Xia people even referred to the successor as "extending the burning time of incense." Whether it was the inheritance of a family or the inheritance of a school, the Xia people had a sense of mission. Therefore, the academic struggles of the Xia people were always extremely bloody and confrontational, even reaching the level of religious war. ——"Global History: Ancient Chinese Civilization"

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