The Temple of Heaven Square is not the most lively place in the whole Chang'an, and when it comes to liveliness, it should be located in a food street that extends from a side road on Zhuque Avenue.
Since it is a food street, it is definitely a street full of various delicacies.
It is a straight street that stretches for about two miles, and is flanked by shops, each of which specializes in food.
In addition to the shops, there are also stalls in the food court, but unlike the orthodox food that the shops operate properly, the stalls mainly deal in a variety of snacks.
Due to the flow of customers in the food court day and night, the shops operate 24 hours a day in shifts, and the stalls are rotated by different owners.
It has been operating day and night all day and night, and the fragrance of various colors has never been cut off, and the people of Chang'an have given it an alias, called Piaoxiang Street.
There are only wrong names in the world, and there are no wrong nicknames, and Piaoxiang Street is indeed a street with the smell of food all the time, just like the other name.
The food street is not limited to all kinds of food in Zhuxia.
Since the Han Empire had been connected to the world, and at the same time, merchants from so many countries had arrived, and various countries were allowed to rent shops from the government, and they also began to deal in their own country's food, enriching the dishes of the food street, but the food of foreign countries may not be loved by the Han people.
If the food street is a place to have fun, then the Temple of Heaven Square is a place that leans towards seriousness.
The Temple of Heaven is a place of state worship, and the square is part of the Temple of Heaven, and it is absolutely impossible to say that it has become a place for wanton frolic.
I don't know who was the first to go to the Temple of Heaven Square to set up a fighting ring, and the government did not drive away or pursue it, so it has become the best ideal to conduct a cultural fight in such a serious place, and many literati will even think that they may be able to sense it by the heavens when they display their talents here.
Until a talented person was recruited to go to Miyagi to give a lecture to the children of the royal family, it really met their expectations, and no one knew whether there was an indescribable mysterious existence in heaven, but being called by the Son of Heaven to give a lecture to his children was no different from being favored by God.
With the first example, people who think that they have real talents and real learning, they are more enthusiastic about going to the Temple of Heaven Square, hoping that their talents can also be discovered by the Son of Heaven and become another world-famous existence, resulting in the four seasons of the year, and even day and night, the Temple of Heaven Square is full of people who open the screen like peacocks.
"What's going on today, how can there be so many dignitaries and dignitaries coming?"
"How did you find out that they were dignitaries?"
"Then don't you need to say more, it's not a dignitary, enough to be qualified to carry so many guards?"
"Ah, you have a point, I can't argue with it."
In the Han Empire, it was obvious what kind of title could have how many guards.
At the same time, if the knighthood is not high enough, but the current official position is high enough, it is still possible to have a temporary increase in the number of guards.
The difference is that once they step down from their official positions, what kind of treatment is the title, they will immediately return to their original shape.
When so many big people who looked like dignitaries and nobles came to the Temple of Heaven Square, the people who were originally showing themselves were instantly excited, showing themselves in the best posture.
At the same time, some people began to call friends, informing them that there were many dignitaries and dignitaries in the Temple of Heaven Square.
Waiting for Liu Yan to arrive, I was surprised to find that there was snow in the sky, but there were many people in the square.
"Originally, there weren't too many people."
After Liu Yan arrived, Ji Chang found out and gathered over: "It should be that I found that there are a lot of high-ranking people today, so let's look for opportunities." ” On this side of the Temple of Heaven Square, at a glance, there is an area of about 800,000 square meters, and in the center is the towering Temple of Heaven.
There are no other buildings in the whole square except for the Temple of Heaven, and it is all flat stone floor.
The literati came here to set up a ring, not to build a high platform or anything, but in fact, to find a place to provoke with their voices.
Their provocation is not to insult, but more to shout like a vendor, the difference is that the vendor shouts the name of the product, but they read their article aloud.
Liu Yan had been here a few times before, and he had some understanding of the so-called Wendou of the scribes.
At this moment, Liu Yan could hear the fierce competition just by standing on the periphery, and at a glance he could see several circles formed by the crowd of onlookers.
In those days, there was no television, and some public figures may be very famous, but they don't know what they look like.
Liu Yan doesn't appear many times, every time he appears on extremely important occasions, it's just too far away from ordinary people, and it's impossible for people to see clearly at a distance of enough distance, and then when he appears, he is basically wearing a crown dress, and his face is basically covered by beaded curtains.
In contrast, some ministers regularly show their faces in public, and the more well-informed people are, the more senior officials they know.
They told each other to make sure that at least half of the three orders and six Shangshu were here, and some big figures in the army also appeared in the Temple of Heaven Square, and they were both excited and confused in their hearts, and they really couldn't guess how so many dignitaries and nobles got together today.
The Han Empire was in the process of repeated restructuring, the original recommendation of filial piety was canceled because of the change of the system, the imperial examination system was not launched because it was not perfected, and the country's selection of talents actually fell into a state of pause that no one wanted to see.
When the formal channels for recruiting talents temporarily "disappear", there will inevitably be other channels that are not so formal, and coming to the Temple of Heaven Square to show their talents is one of them.
The snow in the sky could not stop the enthusiasm of those enterprising people, and the heat in their hearts could even evaporate the cold freezing gas, and Liu Yan saw with his own eyes that some of the scholars who were in the middle of the debate were steaming hot in their heads.
"Dahan is not without talent, but we have not tapped talents."
Ji Chang has a cheerful attitude towards so many scholars: "They are the future of the Han Dynasty" Liu Yan had a smile on his face, but he had a noncommittal attitude in his heart.
Most of the people who listen to the debate are debating something, basically "Zhongni said", "Mencius said", "Xunzi said" and the like, and very few people who "said it themselves" existed.
Those who "say" at every turn, a good debate is not like a debate, it is simply a tongue-like endorsement, what can show their ability is only to show the ability to memorize, and the best is to memorize by rote and understand the meaning of the words of the sages, otherwise there is no idea of their own.
"If the future of the Han Dynasty is like this, then hehehe" Ran Min walked over and just heard the tail of Ji Chang's words, and said with a disgusted face: "They are not Kong Qiu, nor are they Meng Ke and Xun Jing.
It's these sages, what good will they do to today's great Han?"
Ji Chang was a little furious at Ran Min for naming and saying the names of the sages, and said angrily: "General Ran doesn't know how to respect the sages?"
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"I really want to be respected."
Ran Min only picked his nostrils to express his disdain: "But do they have a place where they can make someone respect?"
"The sages inherited culture and studied literature, so that today's Zhuxia can be found."
Ji Chang's beard was so angry that he said: "Can't you let General Ran respect it?"
"Well, so-and-so admits that they have contributed, but most of them only chatter and don't actually do anything."
Ran Min made a thinking appearance and asked, "Can the sages have developed excellent equipment, so that Zhuxia has more weapons to fight against foreign races."
Ji Chang: "" "The sages who developed hundreds of craftsmen seemed to be looked down upon, and even stepped on the soles of their feet and ran again and again" Ran Min saw that Ji Chang couldn't speak, and said again: "The soldiers of the past generations can be regarded as sages" "Many sages did not develop a hundred craftsmen, nor did they wield the army" Ji Chang was almost encircled, and he reacted and said stiffly: "They have enriched the culture of Zhuxia and armed their will with culture."
Huayi's defense is the shield of Zhuxia, and the difference between Huayi is the sharpest spear. ” This time, Ran Min had nothing to say.
"The words of the Chinese book are sharp."
Xie An whispered to Liu Yan: "It's just hard to explain why we treat sages other than Confucianism poorly. ” Once upon a time, the sages referred to all those who had contributed to the Zhuxia, not only those who were powerful in Confucianism, but also anyone who had contributed to the nation.
However, with the dominance of Confucianism, the Confucian disciples overthrew all the people who were not "their own", and it was entirely the credit of Confucianism that Zhuxia could survive.
In the era when Confucianism was so exclusive that it was impeccable, if anyone dared to jump out and tell the truth, within two or three days, the corpse would definitely be seen in the wilderness, and even the corpse could not be found in the world.
Later, it was the Confucian disciples themselves who doubted whether Confucianism was really useful, and they had already found that Confucianism was in shackles in the Eastern Han Dynasty and tried to improve and improve it, so that the contemporary Confucianism of the Eastern Han Dynasty re-recorded books and commented on the scriptures under the guise of the sages.
What the Confucian bull of the Eastern Han Dynasty did was to let this scholar get a new life, but only less than a hundred years later, in the two Jin Dynasty Confucianism fell into confusion again, especially in the face of Hu Lu's force, not only Confucian learning seemed weak and useless, but even could not come up with the slightest thing that could be used to arm itself materially to resist, so that Confucianism was about to peacefully evolve into metaphysics.
Ran Min participated in the fall of Shenzhou north of the Yangtze River almost the entire time, and was absolutely qualified to have enough disgust with Confucianism.
He didn't know so much what Confucianism had brought to the nation or what inheritance it would have, but he only knew that Confucianism did nothing in the face of foreign invasions, and even some so-called Confucian celebrities rushed to serve the Hulu and poison their fellow clansmen.
"Brother Tai'an, I'm not targeting anyone alone" Ran Min pointed around and raised his chin slightly: "Anyone who can only moan without illness is useless to the doctrine of the Great Han to gain national strength, it is all rubbish. ” To be reasonable, Ji Chang was not a loyal Confucian disciple, he didn't even study many Confucian masterpieces, but out of the sentiment of a literati, he subconsciously defended those sages who had lofty achievements in literature.
"Isn't the hussar general crazy?"
Sang Yu never scared Ran Min, came to listen for a while, and saw that Ran Min was too paranoid and absolute, and asked: "According to what the hussar general said, do you want to ban writing and burn a lot of literature to the ground?"
Ran Min replied: "Most of them can be burned." ” They were arguing almost in an argument here, slowly attracting onlookers, and many people were eager to try, knowing that one of them was Ran Min but retreated.
Ran Min's reputation was stinked by the literati south of the Yangtze River in the early days, and later he presided over the war against the Zhan people, and he was very polarized and had the name of the god of war and the butcher.
If you want to say that at least 99 percent of the people north of the Yangtze River have a favorable attitude, then there are at least four adults south of the Yangtze River who think that Ran Min is a butcher.
Although the people south of the Yangtze River have been facing the threat of the Qiang people for a long time, they really do not have much pain, let alone personally experience the rule of the Qiang people, they put themselves in the position of "being out of the body".
Whether Ran Min is regarded as a god of war or a butcher, anyone who faces Ran Min will be frightened, literati pay attention to judging the situation, only a very small number of people will not hesitate to die because of persistence, it seems that those literati around do not have the courage to directly choke Ran Min for academics.
Liu Yan has his own opinion, for a country and a nation, pure literature is actually useless in most places, but it is an indispensable part.
For example, novels, movies, series, etc., in addition to the creators and participants can make a profit, can they create anything?
But can you say that they shouldn't be there?
No matter what kind of literature it is, since it exists, it will certainly be more or less useful, ordinary works can enrich thoughts, fine works can bring people to think, and works that have been handed down from generation to generation will become a part of the spiritual civilization of the entire nation.
Liu Yan kept observing the people around him, and after waiting for a while, he didn't see anyone standing up to participate in the argument, and he didn't even see anyone showing a thoughtful expression, it would be false to say that he was not disappointed.
"Never crazy, not paranoid."
Huan Wen stood beside Liu Yan for a short time: "He had a first glimpse of what industry was, and decided that only a doctrine that could be created was a real doctrine. ” "Science."
Liu Yan said a name, turned his head to look at Huan Wen, and asked, "You and Yongzeng have the same opinion" Huan Wen whispered the name "science" several times, and replied with a smile: "Science can strengthen the army and can also be invested in construction, and I think that science is the future of the country." ” How could Liu Yan not know that science is the future, and although the rest is inheritance, it is only inheritance.
"The first thing is to know who we are.
This cannot be expected. ” Liu Yan thought of something Someone who wants to eliminate Chinese characters uses the Latin alphabet in full.
There was also a major event of a total negation of its own culture.
One thing after another, some of them happened in the land of Zhuxia, and some of them happened in neighboring countries.
The so-called Chinese cultural circle is that as neighboring countries abandon Chinese characters, either using the Latin alphabet, or making a few characters by themselves, it will not take many years to "clean" the traces of China on their bodies.
"We must know who we are" Liu Yan said with great perseverance: "If you don't know your roots, any strength can be subverted at any time." ” His words already speak to the importance of those seemingly useless cultures: