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"Whether I stay or not depends on whether the court agrees." Liu Qi pretended to be reserved. "As ministers, how can you and I decide on our own?"

"Yes. So if you want to stay, you have to show your attitude and prove that you are different from your father and have the idea of ​​serving the court. Only in this way can I recommend it to the emperor."

"I'm not very talented, what can I do?" Liu Qi smiled modestly.

"Do you think your father has tried his best?"

Liu Qi remained silent.

Where did Liu Biao try his best, he was just dawdling.

"It took your father half a year to draw a scroll. The emperor is very dissatisfied. If you can be faster than him, it is enough to show that you are more suitable than him." Yuan Shu picked up his wine glass and smiled. "After all, he is approaching sixty years old, even if he wants to, he has no strength. But you are in the prime of life, with a bright future."

Liu Qi smiled knowingly.

"Also, let me remind you. Although the emperor is dissatisfied with your father, he is still willing to give his old ministers a little dignity, and he doesn't want to make too much noise. This is true for monarchs and ministers, and even more so for fathers and sons. You'd better not tell your father, lest he lose face make life difficult for."

"Is this... appropriate?"

"What's inappropriate? You're making atonement for your crimes, and you can be regarded as being loyal on behalf of your father. It's an act of filial piety. Is it filial piety to see him go all the way to the dark?"

Liu Qi nodded in agreement.

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After the banquet was over, Liu Qi returned home, thought about it all night, and decided to accept Yuan Shu's suggestion and stay in Luoyang.

He didn't dare to discuss it with Liu Biao, but told his mother, Mrs. Chen, about it.

After Chen listened carefully, she was silent for a while and said something.

"Yuan Gonggong has been confused for half his life, but this time he is very clever. Boyu, you can stay. With your father, you don't have to worry, you have your mother to deal with."

With the support of his mother, Liu Qi no longer hesitated.

He immediately took action, organized painters, and quickly drew the picture scrolls, and painted a batch of houses designated by Yuan Shu into picture scrolls.

When Liu Biao was in charge, he procrastinated as long as he could, and these painters were happy to be at leisure.Now that Liu Biao didn't care about things, Liu Qi urged them to rush to work every day, somewhat complaining.

But Yuan Shu immediately resorted to his trump card, giving them allowances, and having a meal once every five days, and checking the progress at the same time, and those who achieved outstanding work results were individually rewarded.

With the stimulation, the painters immediately came to the spirit, braved the scorching sun, and hurriedly drew.

In order to catch up with the progress, the painters finished one piece, and Yuan Shu sent one piece to the Yinfang, who made a plate and printed a proof.

After only half a month, the draft of the fourth volume was completed.

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The weather was slightly cooler, and the emperor's edict to approve Liu Biao's official appointment arrived.

Liu Biao decided to set off and return to his hometown of Shanyang.

Coincidentally, Liu Qi was notified by Yinfang to proofread some texts, but he did not show up.

Yuan Shu, however, appeared beside the official road as promised to bid farewell to Liu Biao.

After some tit-for-tat cynicism, Yuan Shu gave Liu Biao a scroll of paintings for him to read on the way.

Liu Biao didn't care, and ordered someone to accept it and throw it in the bookcase.

Originally there were many people who saw Liu Biao off, but with Yuan Shu present, it was not convenient to say many things.Seeing the embarrassing situation, Liu Biao was in no mood to exchange pleasantries, and set off in a hurry.

Sitting in the car, Liu Biao closed his eyes for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes, and said to his wife Chen, "Boyu won't be returning to Shanyang, will he?"

Chen nodded. "You are not really sick, you want him to take care of you."

Liu Biao's expression gradually turned cold. "After all, father and son are not as good as monarchs and ministers."

Chen raised her head and looked at Liu Biao quietly. "Jing Sheng, are you a loyal minister?"

Liu Biao was slightly stunned, his fair face flushed red, almost bleeding.He sat up and stared at Chen shi.

"Could it be that in Madam's eyes, I'm a traitor?"

Chen's mouth curled into a slight smile. "In my eyes, you are still the elegant young man 40 years ago. Even in the face of your mentor, you can say 'no extravagance, no frugality'."

Liu Biao was at a loss for words, his eyes averted a little.

How could he have the confidence to say the same thing now.

"Jingsheng, you have your insistence, but the emperor also has the emperor's insistence, Yang Gong also has Yang Gong's insistence, you can say that they are all wrong? Gentlemen are harmonious but different. The emperor can tolerate you, why can't you tolerate uncle?" Jade has his own choice?"

Liu Biao let out a sigh of relief, sat back slowly, and leaned weakly against the wall of the car.

After a while, he said quietly again: "Ma'am, do you also think I am wrong? The emperor wants to wipe out all the party members, and I want to save a bit of decency for the party members, is it wrong?"

"This is your man's business. I'm a woman, so I dare not discuss it." Chen reached out to take Liu Biao's hand, and stroked it gently. "Why don't you leave it for future generations to comment on?"

The corner of Liu Biao's mouth twitched, but he hesitated to speak.

Leave it for posterity to comment?If you really want to record the party affairs truthfully as the emperor said, then there is nothing to say.

He waved his hand, indicating that he was tired and wanted to be quiet for a while.

Chen had no choice but to order someone to stop and go to another car.

Liu Biao sat alone in the car, thinking wildly for a while, feeling bored, so he wanted to find a book to read.Opening the bookcase, he saw the roll of paper Yuan Shu gave him, and felt uneasy.

He hesitated, opened the scroll, and glanced at it.

With a "boom", hot blood rushed to his head and spurted out from his mouth again.

The scroll was drenched with blood, and the red ink was mixed and blurred into a ball.

Chapter 1024

On the Congtai, the trees are like shade.

Liu Xie sat opposite Xun Yue, quietly listening to Xun Yue's explanation of the "Taiping Jing".

Xun Yue, whose name is Zhong Yu, is the son of Xun Jian, 15 years older than Xun Yu, and now over half a century old, still white.

The Xun family attaches great importance to learning, and almost every generation has one or two scholars who can be called great Confucians.The previous generation was Xun Shuang, and this generation is Xun Yue.

At the age of 12, Xun Yue could tell the story of spring and autumn, and had the ability of photographic memory.

But he is not a scholar who entertains himself.On the contrary, he is very concerned about current affairs and has written a large number of political articles, some of which have been published in the residence, which has aroused considerable admiration.

Many scholars have compared him with Wang Fu from Anding, and slightly inferior to Wang Chong from Kuaiji.

After arriving in Xingzai, he talked with Liu Xieshen several times, and was appointed as Shangshu, with attendants around him.

Today, he lectured on the "Taiping Jing" for Liu Xie.

Liu Xie has heard of the "Taiping Jing", but has not seriously studied the "Taiping Jing".I was not interested in the previous life, and I have no chance in this life. I can't even find the text of the "Taiping Jing".

He always thought that the "Taiping Jing" was a Taoist book, but after listening to Xun Yue's explanation, he realized that this was a misunderstanding.

At least people in this era did not regard the "Taiping Jing" as a book of Taoism.

"Taiping Jing" calls itself "Book of Heaven", and Xiang Kai, who admires "Taiping Jing", calls it "Shen Shu" and "refers to the same classics".Although Xiang Kai is good at alchemy, he is a Confucian scholar. Of course, the classics he is talking about are not Taoist classics "Laozi" and "Zhuangzi", but Confucian classics.

"Taiping Jing" also has a lot of content about respecting Confucianism and virtuous Confucianism, and its five elements thought also comes from Chenwei and Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Fanlu".

Therefore, although the "Taiping Jing" was regarded as a Taoist classic in later generations, it is now a hodgepodge of theology, alchemy, and Confucianism, and it also perfectly fits the knowledge structure of the middle and lower classes of the Yellow Turban Army.

The palace collected this book, not because of his ideological system, but because of the alchemy in it, which is actually the part of Guang Si.

Serious scholars look down on these things.

Xun Yue is obviously one of them.

He explained the "Taiping Jing" to Liu Xie, but he did not agree with the "Taiping Jing".

All in all, this is a miscellaneous book that can't even be said to justify itself, and it has no value of study at all.

Liu Xie listened, but didn't listen to everything.

In his opinion, even if the "Taiping Jing" itself has no academic value, it is worth studying if it can attract so many people to compile it and attract millions of people to believe in it.

Even if those people are low-level people with no culture.

Are the people at the bottom not the people?

Scholars don't regard them as human beings and think they are superior to others, but he can't have such an idea.

The strength of his confrontation with the scholar-bureaucrats is these low-level people who seem to be a little ignorant. His goal is to educate these low-level people into real scholars and responsible scholars, instead of monopolizing knowledge and relying on public opinion to respect themselves and the court. Fight for taxis.

There are [-] Taixue students in Taixue, and hundreds of thousands of scholars in the world, so they can control the court.Even the emperor can't do anything against the entire scholar-official class, because you can't manage the world directly without officials.

The eunuch is a helper, but not a good one.What they can do to help is far less important than the trouble they cause.

But if you mobilize 6000 million ordinary people to become your basic base, then what are the hundreds of thousands of taxis?

Officials don't cooperate, have you ever seen the grand occasion of millions of people taking the public examination?

Although his purpose of educating the people was not to compete with the scholar-bureaucrats, he firmly believed in this advantage and firmly believed that this is the real bright future.

Even the best chance.

After all, there are no enemies around the big man who can threaten the big man. He has no imminent survival crisis, and he can deal with it calmly, step by step to lift the economic and ideological constraints of the scholar-officials.The goal was not achieved, but an indelible stain was left.

"Xun Jun, although the "Taiping Jing" is not of high academic value, it is the embodiment of the people's thoughts. By studying this book, we can understand what the people want. After all, in terms of the number of people, there are millions of Yellow Turbans in Jizhou alone. There are more scholars than there are scholars in the world. It is obviously not a good idea to ignore their ideas just because they are shallow."

Liu Xie looked at Xun Yue, and said unhurriedly: "Don't forget, the "Spring and Autumn" you are reading now is also compiled by Master. If you are asked to read the original records, you will also have shallow comments. If you don't believe it , you can go to the Taishi Department to borrow the daily notes to see, and most of the time they talk about trivial things that are not worth mentioning."

Xun Yue was noncommittal, but just cupped his hands perfunctorily.

Seeing Xun Yue's disapproving look, Liu Xie wanted to say something more, but Liu Cong walked over quickly, wiping away tears as he walked.

Liu Xie was a little surprised.

Who beat this kid to cry again?

"Your Majesty, I want to ask for leave to visit my relatives."

"It's neither the new year nor the festival, why do you want to visit relatives all of a sudden?"

"My father is sick, very sick."

Liu Xie was taken aback.Is Liu Biao really sick?

"What disease?"

"I don't know. The family letter from my mother only said that he vomited blood and was seriously ill. I hope I can ask for leave to visit my relatives, just in case something happens."

Liu Xie thought about it, and asked Liu Cong to read the family letter.

Liu Cong is a bit confused, often misunderstands the original meaning, and is not a careful person.

After reading the family letter, Liu Xie came to his senses.

Liu Biao may have vomited blood—this cannot be made up—but it was not a disease, but Yuan Shu’s anger.His wife, Mrs. Chen, wanted Liu Cong to go back to visit her relatives, but it was superficial. Her real purpose should be to let him know about it through Liu Cong's mouth, and then see his reaction.

How else could he react?

Since Yuan Shu sang the bad face, of course he wanted to sing the red face, so as to maintain the image of a wise king who cherishes his veterans to the end.

Although he hoped that Liu Biao would vomit more blood, or even die.

"It turned out that your father was worried about state affairs, and he became ill after working for a long time." Liu Xie sighed and put on a look of compassion. "Yes, go back to visit relatives as soon as possible, spend more time with your father, and come back for vacation after he recovers from his illness. In addition, I will ask the Imperial Medical Office to arrange an imperial doctor to accompany you back to your hometown to treat your father's illness."

Although Liu Cong was confused, he also knew that this was the grace of the emperor, so he quickly thanked him and turned around.

Xun Yue watched clearly from the side, but cold sweat broke out on his back.

Although he has been living in Yingchuan and never went to Luoyang, he also knows about Liu Biao's drawing of "Luoyang Picture Scroll" in Luoyang, and he is more aware of the reasons why Liu Biao was passive and sabotage.Now the Son of Heaven not only does not blame Liu Biao for perfunctory the king's order, but instead says that Liu Biao has become sick from overwork. Isn't this putting Liu Biao on the fire?

I heard Xun Yu said before that although the emperor is young, his methods are very sophisticated.

This time it was an eye-opener.

This is not only old-fashioned, but also vicious.

Xun Yue was a little worried.

I am a scholar myself, can I get along with the emperor?In the end, like Kong Rong, will he be forced to travel far into the rivers and lakes to visit some barbarian tribes to visit the ruins?

Chapter 1025

Seeing Xun Yue's complexion, Liu Xie asked with concern.

Xun Yue used the excuse that he was not used to eating, and his health was not very good recently.Liu Xie glanced at him, and said tactfully: "Mr. Xun, your body is not strong enough, you need to exercise more."