"I heard that Teacher Xu once said,'Dong Zhongshu is a traitor of the country. His theory of the interaction between Heaven and man has poisoned the world and left behind a disaster for thousands of years. He used Confucian etiquette to steal the authority of the Son of Heaven.”
Liu Che looked at Dongfang Shuo and asked.
"Your Majesty, Brother Treeman did say that!”Dongfang Shuo replied.
Even though Prime Minister Wei Wan had ordered this matter to be sealed, no one was allowed to spread it.
However, there were more than a thousand scholars present at that time.
Even with Prime Minister Wei Wan's order, it was difficult to stop the world from gossiping.
Therefore, Dongfang Shuo didn't dare to hide or twist the truth.
"Then do you know why Mr. Xu would say such a thing?”
Liu Che thought for a long time and could not understand.
He could not figure out what was wrong with Dong Zhongshu's theory of Heaven's Perception.
He couldn't understand why Xu Yan made such an evaluation.
Dongfang Shuo didn't hide anything from Liu Che and answered directly,""Your Majesty, in the words of Brother Shu Ren, Dong Zhongshu's theory of Heaven and Man Perception is beneficial to the unification of thoughts, but his thoughts are harmful to the present generation and will bring disaster to the ages.”
" The core of the theory of Heaven and Man Connection lies in the fusion of Confucianism and mythology. It fuses the theological concepts of Taoism and Yinyang into Confucianism, promoting the idea of divine authority of the monarch, and turning the Son of Heaven and the Emperor into a god. This is used to strengthen the dignity of the Son of Heaven and the Emperor, and to intimidate the people at the bottom.”
"To be specific, the rise and fall of human society will affect the operation of the Heavenly Dao.”
"On the other hand, the heavens will also judge the governance of human society through disasters or auspicious signs.”
"And the Son of Heaven and the Emperor are the representatives of Heaven in the human world. Every action is related to the operation of Heaven and Earth and the rise and fall of the people.”
Dongfang Shuo talked about the core idea of Dong Zhongshu's Heaven-man Connection Theory.
Liu Che also understood this.
After all, Dong Zhongshu, as a court doctor, had told Liu Che many times about his theory of Heaven and Man Connection. In the previous question, he had systematically put forward the three strategies of Heaven and Man and the theory of Heaven and Man Connection. Although this system had not been perfected, the ideas inside had already been finalized.
Therefore, Liu Che was no stranger to Dong Zhongshu's theory of Heaven's Perception, and he knew that Dongfang Shuo, or rather, Xu Yan, was right.
However, he could not figure out what the problem was.
The emperor is the son of heaven!
Tian Zi, Tian Zi!
It meant the Son of Heaven.
Every action, every thought, was related to the world, the mountains, the rivers, and the state.
There was nothing wrong with that.
Why did Xu Yan feel that there was a problem?
And he criticized Dong Zhongshu as a traitor of the country, thinking that his theory of Heaven-man Connection would be harmful in the present era and bring disaster to the ages?
Liu Che was puzzled by this question. He frowned and asked,"Isn't that so?"
Dongfang Shuo couldn't help but sigh.
If he hadn't heard Xu Yan's explanation and analysis, he wouldn't have thought that there was anything wrong with it.
However, after listening to Xu Yan's explanation, Dongfang Shuo realized how big the problem was.
"Your Majesty, I once thought the same.”
" However, Brother Treeman told me that we shouldn't deify the emperor and the Son of Heaven, and we shouldn't associate the Son of Heaven's behavior with the operation of the Heavenly Dao. Otherwise, there will be endless troubles.”
"For example, if the climate changes and floods and droughts occur, whose problem will it be?”
"Could it really be because the emperor lost his virtue?”
"Or rather, if someone did what Chen Sheng and Wu Guang did, using the gods or the will of heaven to do something rebellious, what would the emperor do?”
"Also, the world is peaceful, but the constellations are different. Could this also be the loss of virtue of the Son of Heaven?”
"The Son of Heaven is also an ordinary person. He cannot control the clouds and rain, nor can he control the stars and the moon. He cannot guarantee that the world will not be plagued by natural disasters such as droughts, floods, earthquakes, locusts, and plagues.”
"If we forcefully link the operation of the Heavenly Dao with the behavior and morality of the Son of Heaven."
Dongfang Shuo paused for a moment before continuing,""From now on, whenever there are droughts, floods, earthquakes, plagues, locusts, and other natural and man-made disasters in the world, they can be used by those with ill intentions to carry out rebellious acts.”
"Because these represent the loss of the emperor's virtue!”
After Dongfang Shuo finished speaking, he lowered his head and stopped looking at Liu Che's expression.
Actually, there was no need to look.
Dongfang Shuo knew that Liu Che's expression would be very bad.
Because Xu Yan's words were just short of telling the world: Dong Zhongshu's theory of Heaven-man Connection was to take the blame on the emperor and give the world a reason for the emperor's lack of virtue.
As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, it would be strange if Liu Che could recover after hearing such an explanation.
In fact, that was the case.
After hearing Dongfang Shuo's explanation, Liu Che was so angry that his face turned green and his body trembled.
He had thought that Dong Zhongshu's explanation of the theory of Heaven's Perception was quite good.
After all, what Dong Zhongshu had told him at that time was how the identity of the Son of Heaven would be deified, how noble, and how the people would be awed after the theory of Heaven and Man Connection was accepted by the world.
How could the young emperor not be happy after hearing this?
However, now that he thought about it in reverse.
Once a natural or man-made disaster occurred.
According to the theory of Heaven's Perception, wasn't Tian Zi a scapegoat?
The natural and man-made disasters were not caused by Dong Zhongshu's misjudgment, but by the Emperor's lack of virtue.
Since the emperor had lost his virtue, what was there to hesitate about?
Once upon a time, Qin lost its deer, and the world chased it together!
Now that the Son of Heaven had lost his virtue, it was naturally the world's common crusade.
Most importantly, these natural and man-made disasters had nothing to do with Tian Zi.
Tian Zi was completely the scapegoat in these matters. He was the target for the people to vent their anger on and the scapegoat for all those who wanted to rebel.
Cold!
If this theory of Heaven's Perception were to spread throughout the world…
He was the emperor of the Great Han Dynasty, and he would probably never be able to stand up again.
In fact, Liu Che would even become the target of hatred and hatred for future emperors.
When Liu Che thought of this, he felt completely uncomfortable.
Dong Zhongshu was bullying him because he was young, treating him like a fool.
However, he knew nothing about it and regarded him as a good teacher and friend, a great talent of the country.
Now that he thought about it.
What great talent of the country?
He is obviously a traitor to the country.
Moreover, he was the country's great thief who treated Liu Che as a fool and pressed his intelligence to the ground.
Dong Zhongshu was not in front of Liu Che.
Otherwise, Liu Che would definitely cut him into pieces.
"Good, very good, very good!"
"As expected of my good senior brother, good teacher, good, really good!”
Liu Che was so angry that he laughed and said word by word.
Hearing Liu Che's words filled with killing intent, he gritted his teeth.
Dongfang Shuo lowered his head even more.
He felt that…
The world-renowned great scholar, Dong Zhongshu, would soon die…
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