From Joy of Life, the Tian Gang is reversed

Chapter 248 Confucianism Under Heaven
The next day, Zhao Xun arrived as promised and began explaining the Confucian way to the scholars of Qingzhou from the Diaoyutai platform.

This lecture lasted for three days.

During these three days, scholars from Qingzhou and even from all over the country, as long as they could get there, did so. As a result, on the third day, 30,000 scholars gathered at Diaoyutai in Xiangfan City.

This time, he spoke in even more detail and with greater seriousness than he had at the Shangyin Academy.

Although Shangyin Academy gathers the most outstanding scholars in the world, their backgrounds are complex and their thoughts are different. It is easy to gain their respect, but it is still a long way from being subdued in one go.

But it's different in Qingzhou.

People from Qingzhou are known for their close-knit community.

Similarly, Qingzhou has been known since ancient times for its love of reading.

Qingzhou has been a place that produces scholars since ancient times; people are good at reading and love reading.

Where there are many scholars, there are naturally many officials. In addition, they like to stick together, and the officials from Qingzhou in the court naturally followed this habit, thus forming the Qing Party.

This is also the place in Qingzhou that Zhao Xun values ​​most.

Look at the vast Li Yang Dynasty, with countless prefectures and counties, why is there only one Green Party in the court and no other parties?
He really liked this custom in Qingzhou.

Because this is the fiefdom of the Prince of Jing'an, to put it bluntly, legally, this is his territory.

Previously, the Jing'an Prince's Mansion had never been able to integrate into the Qingzhou social circle, which was due to Zhao Heng's lack of ability.

But now that he's stepped in, all the difficulties have disappeared.

His goal now is not to integrate into the Qingzhou circle, but to lead it and become the person in charge of Qingzhou.

This is very simple for him.

Three days later, all the scholars from Qingzhou among these 30,000-plus scholars became his most loyal supporters.

Besides these scholars, the threshold of the Jing'an Prince's Mansion was also worn down by the crowds during these three days.

In a physical sense, it means to break through.

Three days later, among the 30,000 scholars, nearly half advanced to the ninth rank of Confucianism, the Enlightenment Realm, more than 2,000 advanced to the eighth rank of Self-Cultivation Realm, more than 300 advanced to the seventh rank of Benevolence Realm, and among the best, 12 advanced to the sixth rank of Confucian Scholar Realm.

Amidst the envious gazes of countless people, Zhao Xun brought these twelve people back to the Jing'an Prince's Mansion, making them his first disciples in this world.

Among these twelve people were scions of the three major families of the Green Party, scions of poor families, and scions of powerful clans.

On this day, Zhao Xun basically completed the unification of the scholars of Qingzhou. The Jing'an Prince's Mansion was officially integrated into Qingzhou, and he became the leader of the scholars of Qingzhou.

However, in the days that followed, Zhao Xun did not stay at the Jing'an Prince's Mansion. Instead, he found a deserted island on Chun Shen Lake and built a hut on the island with his twelve disciples. Then, a thick fog enveloped the deserted island, and he claimed to be focusing on training his twelve disciples.

A thick fog isolated me from the rest of the world.

A month later, a barefoot female monk in snow-white robes, with a white snake on her wrist acting as a rope to bite a white pot, came from the west. She sought an audience with Zhao Xun outside the island but failed. Seemingly unwilling to give up, she publicly displayed several Buddhist supernatural powers in an attempt to break through the dense fog, but was still blocked outside the fog. Ten days later, she left helplessly.

The following day, another young Taoist priest, who looked like a child, arrived at the island. He also used Taoist supernatural powers to bombard the island with dozens of thunderbolts, attempting to break through the dense fog. He failed and was unwilling to leave.

Afterwards, several more mysterious figures came and went in haste; each was a renowned first-rank master or a reclusive expert, yet none of them could break through the thick fog. At this point, the world finally gave up hope.

A year later, the thick fog suddenly dissipated, and a scholar arrived in Xiangfan City and Diaoyutai. In front of more than a hundred scholars who were admiring the relics at Diaoyutai, he explained the way of Confucianism and answered their questions.

Someone recognized him as one of Zhao Xun's twelve disciples. He was originally a poor scholar named Wang Zhongming, but he unexpectedly broke through to the Confucian scholar realm while Zhao Xun was lecturing there. He was then taken in as a disciple by Zhao Xun and followed him to the nameless island of Spring God Lake.

However, no one could discern his level of cultivation anymore.

Ten days later, Wang Zhongming left and returned to the nameless deserted island of Chun Shen Lake. But then another person emerged from the deserted island and began giving a lecture at Diaoyutai. This was Lu Chengshan, a member of a collateral branch of the Lu family.

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This continued for the next three years. These twelve scholars, who had followed Zhao Xun to live in seclusion on the deserted island, took turns appearing every ten days to preach at Diaoyutai. They attracted countless scholars from all over the country. Because there were too many people, the Prince of Jing'an finally ordered the demolition of one side of the city wall of Xiangfan City that was close to Diaoyutai. In front of Diaoyutai, a huge square was built with huge bluestone blocks for scholars from all over the country to listen to the teachings.

As scholars from all over the country continued to gather, Xiangfan City underwent tremendous changes.

The influx of people brought in customers, and the influx of customers brought in business opportunities. Xiangfan City became increasingly prosperous at a visible speed. In just six months, it transformed from a strategic location into a bustling economic center, and then quickly evolved into an academic center.

One library after another rose from the ground, rounds of philosophical discussions unfolded, and demonstrations of Confucianism took place one after another...

Of course, this is just the change in Xiangfan City over the past four years.

Besides Xiangfan, the overall situation in the country also underwent strange changes.

On the surface, everything seemed peaceful; the Li Yang Dynasty was still a unified dynasty.

But behind the scenes, a turbulent undercurrent was brewing.

At the Imperial Observatory, on the Tongtian Platform, the Confucian Pillar of Fortune changes three times a day, growing ever thicker and stronger.

Nan Huaiyu, the supervisor, felt suffocated every time he stood on the Tongtian Platform and looked at the increasingly thick purple column of air.

Horrible, terrible!

As Confucianism spread throughout the world, its fortunes began to devour those of Taoism and Buddhism.

Both Taoism and Buddhism seemed to be helpless.

Or perhaps, what big move are the two companies brewing?
If that's the case, these two families are quite tolerant, but the problem is, while they can tolerate it, the imperial court cannot!
Tai'an City, Imperial Palace

Emperor Zhao Dun of Liyang looked at the seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy in front of him with a grim expression. "I have already written to Zhao Heng, but Zhao Heng replied that Zhao Xun is not seeing anyone now, and even he cannot get to that deserted island, so there is nothing we can do."

"Powerless? What a load of rubbish! Isn't Zhao Xun his son? Can't he even control his own son?!" The young man's face was cold, and his tone was ruthless. "Do you know that his actions have thrown the world's fortunes into chaos? Does he really want to suppress all other schools of thought and exclusively promote Confucianism? Does he really want to make an enemy of the entire world?!"

"This, grandson doesn't know," Zhao Dun said with a wry smile.

"You don't know? You actually tell me you don't know? You're the emperor, the ruler of the world! How could you be powerless to do anything about this?"

"The female Dharma King of Landuo Monastery is gone, the young patriarch of Longhu Mountain is gone, and many others have gone, but all were powerless. And who could have imagined it?!" Zhao Dun's face grew increasingly bitter. "Who could have imagined that Confucianism, after acquiring Confucianism, would become so terrifying?!"

(End of this chapter)