Chapter 969

Temple of heaven square is not the most lively place in Chang'an. When it comes to excitement, it should be a food street extending from Zhuque Avenue.

Since it is a food street, it must be a street full of all kinds of food. It is a straight street with a length of about two miles. There are shops on both sides. Each shop is a specialty food.

In addition to the shops, the food street also has stalls, but different from the orthodox food with standardized store operation, the stalls mainly operate various snacks.

Due to the passenger flow in the food street day and night, the shops are operated 24 hours in shifts, and the stalls are rotated by different owners.

Day and night all day long, all kinds of fragrance has never been cut off, and Chang'an people have given it a nickname, called Piaoxiang street.

In the world, there is only the wrong name, not the wrong nickname. Piaoxiang street is indeed a street with the smell of food all the time.

Food street is not only a variety of cuisines in Zhuxia.

As the Han Empire has been in line with the world, and businessmen from so many countries have arrived, all countries have been allowed to rent shops from the government. They also began to operate their own food and enrich the dishes in the food street, but the food from foreign countries may not be loved by the Han people.

If the food street is a place for fun, then the temple of heaven square is a place that tends to be serious.

The temple of heaven is a place for national sacrifice, and the square is a part of the temple of heaven. It is absolutely impossible to say that it can be a place where people play wantonly.

I don't know who was the first to set up a literary challenge arena in the temple of heaven square. The government didn't drive away or investigate, so it has become the best ideal to carry out literary struggle in such a serious place. Many scholars even think that if they display their talents here, they may be sensed by heaven.

Until a talented person was invited to give lectures to the Royal Children in Miyagi, he really met their expectations. No one knows whether there is an unspeakable mystery in heaven, but being called by the emperor to give lectures to his children is no different from being favored by heaven.

With the first example, people who think they have real talents and learning are more eager to go to the temple of heaven square, hoping that their talents can also be discovered by the emperor and become another famous existence in the world. As a result, there are people like peacocks in the temple of heaven square all year round, even day and night.

"What's going on today? Why are so many dignitaries coming?"

"How did you find out they were dignitaries?"

"Why don't you say more? I'm not a dignitary. I'm qualified to take so many guards!"

"Ah, you're right and reasonable. I can't refute it."

In the Han Empire, it is obvious what kind of title can have how many guards.

At the same time, if the title is not high enough, but the current official position is high enough, we can still have a temporary increase in the number of guards. The difference is that once they step down from their official posts, their titles will be treated as they are.

It's just that the dignitaries came to the temple of heaven square, and the people who were showing themselves were instantly excited to show themselves with the best attitude.

At the same time, some people began to call friends and tell them that many dignitaries came to 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 on the square.

"I'm not too much." After Liu Yan's arrival, Ji Chang gathered together when he found it: "I should find that there are a large number of high barons today. Come and find an opportunity."

On this side of the temple of heaven square, you can see an area of about 800000 square meters. In the center is the towering Temple of heaven. There are warriors on duty around all the time.

The whole square has no other buildings except the temple of heaven. It is all flat slate ground.

Literati came here to set up a challenge arena, not to build a high platform or something, but to find a place to challenge by voice.

Their provocation does not mean abusing, but shouting like vendors. The difference is that vendors shout the names of goods, but they read their articles aloud.

Liu Yan has been here several times before and has some understanding of the so-called literary struggle of the literati.

At this moment, just standing outside, Liu Yan can hear the voice of fierce competition. At a glance, he can see many circles gathered by the onlookers.

There is no TV these days. Some public figures may be very famous, but they don't know what they look like.

Liu Yan didn't appear many times. Every time he appeared, he was on a very important occasion, but he was too far away from ordinary people. It was impossible for people to see clearly at a distance far enough. Then, when he appeared, he basically wore a crown suit, and his face was basically covered by a Diao made of bead curtains.

In contrast, some ministers often show their faces in public. The more informed people are, the more senior officials they know. They told each other that at least half of the three orders and six Shang books had come, and some big figures in the army also appeared in the temple of heaven square. They were both excited and confused. They really couldn't guess how so many dignitaries and dignitaries gathered together today.

The Han Empire is in the process of repeated restructuring. The original recommendation of Xiaolian was cancelled because of the transformation of the system, and the imperial examination system was not launched because it was not perfect. In fact, the state took talent and fell into a standstill that no one wants to see.

When the formal channels for talent acquisition temporarily "disappear", there must be other channels that are not so formal. Coming to the temple of heaven square to show talent is one of them.

The snow in the sky could not stop the enthusiasm of those enterprising people. Their inner heat could even evaporate the cold cold air. Liu Yan saw with his own eyes that some scholars in the debate were steaming on their heads.

"The big man is not a generation without talent. It's because we haven't tapped talents." Ji Chang has a happy attitude towards so many scholars: "they are the future of great men!"

Liu Yan's face was smiling, but his heart was noncommittal.

Most people who listen to the debate are debating, basically "Zhongni", "Mencius", "Xunzi" and so on. Few people "say themselves".

Those who always "say" to someone do a good debate. Unlike debate, they are simply learning to endorse. What can show their ability is just to show their ability to memorize by rote. Some of them are to memorize by rote and understand the meaning of the words of the sages. In addition, they have no ideas of their own.

"If the future of the big man is like this, then hehe!" Ran min came over and just heard a tail of Ji Chang's words. He said with disgust on his face: "they are not Confucius, nor are they Meng Ke and Xun Kuang. What good are these sages to today's Great Han?"

Ji Chang was a little angry about ran min's naming of the sages, and said angrily, "don't general ran know to respect the sages?"

"Someone wants to respect." Ran min just dug his nostrils to show his disdain: "but do they have a place where they can be respected?"

"Only by inheriting culture and studying literature can we have Zhuxia today." Ji Chang's beard almost cocked up with anger: "can't general ran respect it?"

"Well, someone admits that they have made contributions, but most of them just talk and do nothing." Ran min thought and asked, "can the sages have developed excellent instruments to make Zhuxia have more sharp tools to fight against foreign races?"

Ji Chang: "

"The sages who developed hundreds of workers seem to be looked down upon and even trampled on the soles of their feet and rolled over again?" Seeing that Jichang couldn't speak, ran Min said happily: "can the strategists of the past dynasties be regarded as sages?"

"Many sages did not develop a hundred works, nor did they wave their troops to Yanshi..." Ji Chang was almost surrounded. He reacted and said forcefully: "they enriched the culture of Zhuxia and armed their will with culture. The great defense of Hua Yi is the strong shield of Zhuxia, and the difference between Hua and Yi is the sharpest spear."

This time, ran min had nothing to say.

"The Chinese letter is sharp." Xie an whispered to Liu Yan, "it's just difficult to explain why he treats sages other than Confucianism lightly."

Once upon a time, sages meant all those who had made contributions to Zhuxia, not only those great powers of Confucianism, but also anyone who paid for the nation.

However, with the dominance of Confucianism, the disciples of Confucianism knocked down all those who were not "their own people", so that Zhuxia could exist entirely due to Confucianism.

In the era when Confucianism was so exclusive that it was impeccable, if anyone dared to jump out and tell the truth, he could definitely see the body in the wilderness in two or three days, or even evaporate from the world.

Later, it was the disciples themselves who doubted whether Confucianism was really useful. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, they had found that Confucianism was trapped in shackles and tried to improve and perfect. Only then did the contemporary great Confucianism in the Eastern Han Dynasty re record books and annotate scriptures under the name of sages.

What the Confucian Daniel of the Eastern Han Dynasty did was to renew the life of this school valve, but less than a hundred years later, in the two Jin Dynasties, Confucianism was once again at a loss. Especially in the face of the force of Hu Lu, not only the Confucian knowledge seemed weak and useless, but even couldn't get anything that could be self-armed in material terms to resist, Confucianism has almost peacefully evolved into metaphysics.

Ran min almost participated in the fall of China north of the Yangtze River, and was absolutely qualified to have enough disgust with Confucianism. He didn't know what Confucianism brought to the nation or what inheritance it would have. He only knew that Confucianism did nothing in the face of alien invasion, and even some so-called Confucian celebrities scrambled to work for Hu Lu and poison their peers.

"Brother Tai'an, I'm not aiming at anyone alone..." ran min Huan pointed around and raised his chin a little: "anyone who can only moan without illness is rubbish."

To be reasonable, Ji Chang is not a loyal Confucian disciple. He has not even studied many Confucian masterpieces. He just subconsciously protects the sages who have made noble achievements in literature out of the sentiment of literati.

"Isn't the Hussars general crazy?" Sang Yu was never afraid of Ran min. he came to listen to ran min for a while. Seeing that ran Min said too paranoid and absolute, he asked, "according to general hussars, do you want to ban writing? And then burn a lot of literature?"

Ran min replied, "most of them can be burned."

They competed almost in a dispute here, slowly attracting onlookers. Many people were eager to try, but they retreated when they knew that one of them was ran min.

Ran min's reputation was tainted by the literati in the south of the Yangtze River in the early days. Later, he presided over the war of extermination against the Capricorn people, and was very polarized with the names of God of war and butcher.

People who think that ran min is the God of war also hate and hate Capricorn. To say that at least 99% of people in the north of the Yangtze River hold a praise attitude, at least 40% in the south of the Yangtze River think that ran min is a butcher.

Although the people in the south of the Yangtze River have been facing the threat of the Capricorn for a long time, they really don't have much skin pain, let alone have personally experienced the rule of the Capricorn. They only think so when they put themselves in the position of "being away from things".

No matter who regards ran min as a god of war or a butcher, anyone who faces ran min will be afraid. Scholars pay attention to judging the situation, and only a very few people will spare themselves for persistence. It seems that the surrounding scholars have not directly choked on ran min's courage for academic purposes.

Liu Yan has his own view. For a country (Nation), pure literature is actually useless in most, but it is also an indispensable part.

Like novels, movies and series, can they create anything except that creators and participants can make profits? I'm afraid the vast majority of works can't even bring people to think, just to achieve the effect of entertainment. But can you say they shouldn't appear?

No matter what literature it is, since it exists, it will be more or less useful. Ordinary works can enrich ideas, excellent works can bring people to think, and handed down works will become a part of the spiritual civilization of the whole nation.

Liu Yan kept observing the people around him. After waiting for a while, he didn't see who stood out to participate in the debate. He didn't even see who showed a thoughtful expression. It's false to say that he is not disappointed.

"Never had a madman, nor was it paranoid." Huan Wen has been standing on Liu Yan's side for a while: "he has a first glimpse of what industry is and believes that only the theory that can be created is the real theory."

"Science." Liu Yan said a name, turned to look at Huan Wen and asked, "do you and Yong ever hold the same view?"

Huan Wen whispered the name "science" several times and replied with a smile, "science can strengthen the army and also invest in construction. I think science is the future of the country."

Liu Yan doesn't know that science is the future. Although the rest is inheritance, it is only inheritance.

"First of all, we need to know who we are. We can't forget that."

Liu Yan thought of something

Someone who wants to eliminate Chinese characters and fully use Latin letters.

Another major event of completely negating its own culture occurred.

One thing after another, some happened in Zhuxia and some in neighboring countries.

The so-called Chinese cultural circle is that with the surrounding countries abandoning Chinese characters, they either use Latin letters or make their own characters blindly, and "wash" the traces of Chinese on their bodies in a few years.

"Be sure to know who we are!" Liu Yan said with great determination, "if you don't know your roots, any strong power can be subverted at any time."

His words have already spoken out the importance of those seemingly useless cultures