That night, Ying Zheng's bedroom was brightly lit.
That night, Ying Chen was sleeping peacefully in his chamber. He had a good night's sleep!
When the sun rose the next day, Ying Chen and Ying Zheng met again!
But this time, Ying Chen and Ying Zheng's condition had completely changed!
Ying Chen was young after all, and his strength could rival that of a Heaven Tier elite. Therefore, after a night of deep sleep, he was currently in a good state, and his spirit, energy, and spirit had already reached their peak state.
But Ying Zheng was completely different.
Ying Zheng was already in his forties. He was in a precarious state when he was young, and he had spent all his time and effort to unify the world when he was young. Although he had unified the world when he was in his prime, he had no choice but to tour the east several times to stabilize the world.
Although Ying Zheng had some foundation in martial arts, at his current age, he was obviously already in a state where he could not do anything about it!
Therefore, the whole night without sleep had obviously affected Ying Zheng greatly.
At this moment, Ying Zheng's eyes were dark green, and his face was sallow. He looked like a frosted eggplant, and he looked rather dispirited.
This comparison was very interesting.
Ying Chen and Ying Zheng, father and son, just looked at each other quietly!
Finally, Ying Zheng said," I've been thinking about it seriously for the whole night. Although this matter is an open scheme, it has indeed pierced into my heart!”
"There's no need to think about it. To be able to use such a thing to stir up the world and provoke me, it must be the Hundred Schools of Philosophy!”
"Only this group of people knows how to spread these rumors to the greatest extent!”
"Now, I want you to tell me how you would deal with the Hundred Schools of Philosophy if it were you!”
This was Ying Zheng's test.
After hearing Ying Zheng's words, Ying Chen could not help but start to think about this matter seriously.
The Hundred Schools of Philosophy would slowly evolve into aristocratic families that would influence China's history for thousands of years.
In the later generations, there was even a saying," A hundred-year-old dynasty, a thousand-year-old aristocratic family."
Many times, many people thought that after the Qin and Han Dynasties, or after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty abolished all schools of thought and only respected Confucianism, the schools of thought slowly declined or even disappeared.
This idea was actually wrong!
And it was extremely wrong!
Who were the Hundred Schools of Philosophy now?
The nobles and descendants of the Six Nations.
After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, it was impossible for these people to completely disappear from the stage of history for no reason.
In fact, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Hundred Schools of Philosophy were still around. The conflict between Huang Lao and Confucianism, as well as the appearance of the cruel official Zhang Tang…all these phenomena showed that the Hundred Schools of Philosophy were still active on the stage of history!
The reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty abolished the Hundred Schools of Thought and only respected Confucianism was because he wanted to raise the strongest faction of the Hundred Schools of Thought, Confucianism, and then use it to crush the rest of the Hundred Schools of Thought!
According to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's thinking, it should be easier to control the Confucians than to control the entire Hundred Schools of Philosophy!
However, he did not expect that there were also capable people among the Hundred Schools of Philosophy!
Therefore, the Hundred Schools of Philosophy outside of Confucianism had actually begun to change their appearance and slowly spread their tentacles to every corner of the world as aristocratic families.
As a result, with the passage of time, the Hundred Schools of Thought did not completely disappear. Instead, they slowly scattered among the various aristocratic families.
For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, the Zhuge brothers were divided into three dynasties. They were not just Confucian scholars.
Take Zhuge Liang for example. While he was based on Confucianism, he must have also studied Legalism and Mohism.
Sima Yi, Zhou Yu, Xun Yu…
The aristocratic families behind these people were the foundation for them to shine in that era.
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was the era when aristocratic families ruled the world.
Aristocratic families and imperial power ruled the world together!
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, their existence had already reached the point where they could determine the decline of a dynasty!
Therefore, this group of people had actually been secretly determining the direction of history!
At this moment, Ying Zheng had seen the terror of the Hundred Schools of Philosophy, which was why he had thrown out this question to test Ying Chen!
This was a problem that even he himself could not solve!
Even if he could suppress the Hundred Schools of Philosophy for a while when he was alive, could he possibly suppress them forever?
Once he died, the world would still belong to the Hundred Schools of Philosophy!
It had to be said that Ying Zheng was able to see this point, which was already worthy of his reputation as the First Emperor.
The later emperors, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, were still unable to do anything to the Hundred Schools of Thought and the later aristocratic families.
The most miserable one was Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. The first half of his life was like the sun at noon!
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was called the " Saint Khan " by all the countries. This was not much worse than the " Heavenly Khan " of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty!
And Emperor Yang was the first emperor to expand China's power to the Qing Ocean region!
Therefore, the Tibetan land slowly belonged to China, starting from Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty!
Unfortunately, Emperor Yang had offended the aristocratic families, and after Emperor Yang had attacked Goguryeo three times, the aristocratic families had backstabbed him!
In the end, the three expeditions to Goguryeo had wiped out all the elite soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, and the destruction of the Sui Dynasty was only a matter of time!
This matter was only considered to have hit the lifeline of the aristocratic families when Li Zhi and Wu Zetian appeared and attacked the aristocratic families for more than half a century!
The most important invention, especially during the reign of Wu Zetian, was engraving printing!
Although it could not compare to the movable type printing technique of the later generations, the emergence of block printing was epoch-making!
Its appearance determined that books, the most important carrier of knowledge, would no longer be as difficult to copy as before!
The aristocratic families 'monopoly of knowledge had been broken, which naturally meant that the aristocratic families were the only ones who could not be suppressed by the imperial power.
In the end, after more than 300 years of development in the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao's fire completely knocked the aristocratic families into the dust of history.
However, although the Hundred Schools of Philosophy were gone, Confucianism had become the only theory in the world that could be promoted because of the respect it had received from the government.
Without competition, without the influx of other thoughts, Confucianism was like a pool of stagnant water!
In the end, it became rotten and useless, and then became a tumor that hindered China's further development!
This was what philosophy meant. There would always be contradictions. Once the old contradictions were resolved, new contradictions would appear, and the cycle would repeat.
This might be the Dao of Heaven!
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