Eternal Night

Chapter 134: The Voice of the Great Scholar Shakes Heaven and Earth (Fourth Update Completed Today)

(PS: Thanks to the leader Yoo~Dongcheng for the reward. I will add another chapter. Thank you again for your support.)
When the powerful begin to act for their own lives, how strong are their actions?

Within two days, all the famous Confucian scholars, Confucian schools, mountain gates, and academies in the Song Dynasty, even those that were nameless or had long been extinct, as long as they had even the slightest trace, were brought to Bianliang.

Nearly half of the purple and blue ministers, plus the emperor's rotten flesh, were still in the palace.

Wu Xianxiao dared to kill people, and he dared to kill them all.

The former emperor Zhao Huan and almost all the civil and military officials except a few ministers really made the wrong judgment.

Although they were afraid of Wu Xianxiao's strength before, they really thought that they could rely on the long-standing conventions, culture, and traditions to restrain Wu Xianxiao. The only thing they did was to be more respectful, hold him high, and make Wu Xianxiao into a god-like sculpture.

But who knew that Wu Xianxiao's reaction was so great that it was beyond everyone's imagination. He rushed directly into the palace and cleared out almost all the Ziqing officials who were present at the time. The emperor even killed two of them. And from the looks of it, it seemed that if things went wrong, the world would be destroyed.

They were really scared.

All the Confucian scholars, masters, Confucian schools, and Confucian students from various mountain academies who were "sent" to Bianliang by the officers and soldiers are still in a confused state.

Because as soon as I came to Bianliang, I immediately heard about the palace coup. All kinds of news were flying around, saying that Zhao Gou had launched a palace coup and imprisoned (killed) the previous emperor, that the northern Jin people had attacked again and replaced the palace, that there were military generals who were in turmoil, and the military warlords of the late Tang Dynasty were in power again, and that Zong Ze had rebelled and cleared out the royal family and established himself as king...

The whole people were in chaos, and it even began to affect the civilians and the military.

Then Wu Xianxiao took direct action and killed all the ministers who had passed the news outside. He then told Zhao Gou, Qin Hui, and Zong Ze with full justification, and told the army, the people, the Confucian scholars, and the whole world everything that had happened "verbatim" without changing a single word.

He, Wu Xianxian, why did he start killing from the north and go back, how many people he killed, who should be killed, and then what he did and said when he broke into the palace, and what the current situation of the Song Dynasty is, all of which were told directly without changing a single word.

"If you change one word, I will kill the person who changed it. If you change ten, misunderstand my actions, misunderstand my meaning, I will simply kill everyone, including you."

Wu Xianxiao spoke calmly to Zhao Gou, Qin Hui, Zong Ze, and all the civil and military officials who followed.

This is a very clear and unambiguous meaning. It must not be changed word for word so that no one will misunderstand it.

"...As for calling me a traitor or something like that...haha."

Wu Xianxiao shook his head, turned around and left the palace, leaving everyone completely confused.

"Believe it or not, you are the traitors?"

On the third day, which was the fifth day after Wu Xianxiao returned to this world, officials and eunuchs sent by the imperial court went everywhere in Bianliang City, holding official seals of the court and even imperial edicts with the emperor's jade seal, and began to tell the people, Confucian scholars, and everyone in Bianliang City what had happened.

Shocked!

Three views shattered!

Everyone felt that the world had become so strange in an instant, especially when Zhao Huan's body, a pile of rotten flesh, wrapped in the emperor's clothing that represented the supreme imperial power, was hung in the most conspicuous central area of ​​​​the center of Bianliang. Countless Confucian scholars knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, and countless gentry mourned the loss of their parents. The Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects, everything was gone, everything was shattered.

Then that night, shouts of killing were heard everywhere in the official residences of Confucian schools, including Confucian scholars, academies, mountain gates, and so on.

Wu Xianxiao killed tens of thousands of Confucian scholars, and it was not a so-called assassination. Instead, he walked into these buildings in full view of everyone and killed people one by one.

He couldn't remember many memories from the 21st century, but his memory was very good now.

During the day, anyone who cried in front of Zhao Huan, anyone who was in mourning, anyone who made derogatory remarks about the northern Han people, anyone who expressed dissatisfaction with his violation of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, and anyone who advocated the supremacy of education and imperial power... would be killed!

The kind that wipes out an entire family!

It was a waste of his entire day, as he used all his energy to wander around Bianliang.

It was a shocking tragedy, something that had never happened since ancient times. The people killed by Wu Xianxiao were almost all over the Song Dynasty, from south to north, tens of thousands of Confucian scholars, their families, their old friends, their teachers, from gentry to officials, almost all of them were killed in the net.

The next day, Wu Xianxiao found Zhao Gou, Zong Ze, Qin Hui and other court officials and made another request. "The propaganda team is very good. Today's propaganda task is that I will start to wipe out the demons in the world. I will visit all the Confucian scholars I killed, their families, the Confucian schools they belong to, their old friends, and their teachers and mentors one by one when I wipe out the demons. I will also publicize the original text without changing a word."

Then it was another day when the people of the Song Dynasty continued to have their worldviews shattered...

That night, Wu Xianxiao once again visited these Confucian scholars and the remaining Confucian schools. However, this time he did not kill anyone. Instead, he took out imperial wine and pork demon meat that he had specially roasted from the palace, and listened to several Confucian scholars of the Gongyang School, who were almost completely out of date, talking about the past and the present. He also called Confucian scholars from the Mencius School to drink the imperial wine and eat pork demon meat together. The sound of laughter resounded throughout Bianliang.

The next day, the imperial court issued an edict ordering all Confucian schools to debate in the Purple Palace in the imperial palace in order to determine the orthodox moral principles of China, the future destiny of the Han family, and the national destiny of the Song Dynasty!
The content of this debate will be disseminated to everyone in Bianliang in real time by a large number of officials and eunuchs.

Then Zhao Gou, Qin Hui, Zong Ze, and all the remaining civil and military officials listened in amazement to the debate among the great scholars.

"Zhao Huan is not worthy of being called an emperor! He is not even worthy of being buried with civilian rites! This tyrant should be burned to ashes!"

This was the Lu Confucian faction, which was almost wiped out by Wu Xianxiao. The few remaining ones happened to not live together. At this time, their faces turned red and they cursed the Zhao Song court. They even believed that Zhao Huan was a tyrannical dictator and that the people of the world should have attacked him long ago.

In the end, the surviving Lu Confucian even knelt on the ground and knocked his forehead, demanding that Zhao Huan's body be whipped to pieces and then fed to dogs. Otherwise, it would be against the will of all Chinese people in the world.

Soon after, Confucian scholars from various factions, academies, and regions began to appear on the stage. They either cursed Zhao Huan or the officials in the court, denying their "indulgence" towards the north and scolding them for their despicable behavior of abandoning the Han people in the north. All of these Confucian scholars stated that they would record their traitorous acts of selling out their race and country in literature and history, and that they would be insulted by future generations thousands of years later.

Some of the wealthy Confucian scholars in Jiangnan even said that when they returned, they would cast these pigs and dogs in brass and iron and make them kneel to the north forever.

Confucian scholars, great scholars, and masters, one after another, cited scriptures to prove that Zhao Huan was worse than pigs and dogs, and that all the civil and military officials in the court were traitors. They said that such a person could sell out his country and his people was simply not of the literati lineage. They refused to acknowledge any decision made by Zhao Huan and the civil and military officials in the court, and during the debate, they unanimously agreed to expel them from their status as Confucian scholars and literati. Many Confucian scholars even tore off their sleeves on the spot to indicate that they would never have anything to do with them again.

At the same time, all Confucian schools and Confucian scholars united under the banner of the Gongyang School and the School of the Second Sage Mencius, and discussed the Confucian classics with them in a friendly manner. They also stated that the Confucian classics of their own schools must be wrong and must be changed now, immediately, otherwise it would bring shame to the saints and they would no longer be worthy of being true Confucian scholars.

The Gongyang School and the Mencius School suddenly had dozens of great Confucian scholars, dozens of masters, and tens of thousands of Confucian students. They were familiar with explaining the ideas of their own schools in the classroom. Although there was confrontation between the two schools, they also sought common ground while reserving differences. They all believed that the barbarians who were not from the Han family were not human beings. They just happened to have a human-like appearance. Of course, if they were inclined towards Han culture and tried to integrate into Han culture, then those who enter China will become Chinese. After three generations, it is not impossible for them to evolve into humans.

Then, the people are the most important. They must be the most important. All the gentry in the world must listen to the teachings of the saints and reduce taxes. They must reduce taxes. If anyone does not reduce taxes, then let the immortal visit his house... No, if anyone does not reduce taxes, then the court, the policies, and the military strength must be used to reduce them.

Then the court...

From morning to afternoon, Confucian scholars from all over the country went from being reserved at the beginning, to subconsciously trying to please the royal family and the court when they were unable to let go, and to Pa Pa Pa... to later quoting scriptures, discussing loudly, and after Wu Pa Pa's applause, Zhao Gou's sensible banquet, and the announcement in court that such and such Confucian scholar had entered the court, with such and such rank and position, all these Confucian scholars let go.

From morning to night, when the sun sets, the Senate composed of the Gongyang School and the Mencius School, the House of Representatives composed of the elected persons selected by the city of Bianliang after listening to the entire debate, the surrounding village elders, and the village elders who would join from all over the country in the future, together with the civil and military officials headed by Zong Ze in the court, successfully divided up almost all the power of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, they were definitely not called the Senate and the House of Representatives. Even the two factions of Confucianists and villagers had not yet given their groups a name. But there was no doubt that under the witness of Wu Xianxiao, the two groups successfully obtained some of the power that originally belonged to the powerful.

Wu Xianxiao left satisfied. He still had three days left in the ten-day holiday, and these remaining three days finally belonged to him.

On the other hand, Zong Ze and other civil and military ministers have all turned into Qin Hui of the original time and space. They can fully foresee what image they will become in the history books. All of them have ugly faces, but they are also grateful that at least they survived and their power was preserved.

Zong Ze stared blankly at the bright moon outside the palace. Only now did he understand what Wu Xianxiao meant when he said that the great scholar's debate shook the heavens and the earth. After a long while, he murmured, "Really, the world has changed..."

On the other side, Zhao Gou and Qin Hui were also talking.

Qin Hui bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty... No, Zhao Huan just didn't recognize all this, so he died without a complete body. Your Majesty must not do this."

Zhao Gou nodded immediately. He sincerely said to Qin Hui: "What Huizhi said is very true. Brother just doesn't understand the situation. How can we mortals fight against immortals? How can we fight against heaven?"

"Those Confucian masters were right. Their debate today really enlightened me!"

Zhao Gou said viciously: "I will love the people like my own children. I must love the people like my own children. I must severely punish the barbarians. Anyone who stands in my way..."

"All nine clans must be exterminated!!"

On this day, the great scholar's voice spread throughout the Song Dynasty, and then continued to spread to the surrounding areas.

Its sound resounded between heaven and earth!
(End of this chapter)