When Lu Gongzhu returned home, it was already evening.

His youngest son, Lu Xichun, led someone at the door to welcome him in.

Lu Xichun is not yet thirty years old this year, but he changed his official position in the capital early, and now his official rank is Xuan Yilang from the eighth rank.

Compared with his elder brother Lu Xizhe, Lu Xichun looks a little thinner and has shrewder eyes.

Lu Xichun supported his old father, entered the door, and asked in a low voice: "Sir, what have you heard from serving the officials and rewarding the army today?"

Lu Gongzhu recalled that when he saw him at the school, he said: "Senior Li died unjustly!"

Lu Xichun raised his head, wondering why his old father suddenly mentioned Li Ding, who had died in Yingzhou.

"You will know in the future what I said today." Lu Gongzhu did not directly answer Lu Xichun's question.

As the prime minister, he naturally has to keep his mouth shut - if the king is not secretive, he will lose his ministers, and if his ministers are not secretive, he will lose the king.

"Where's Lu Xizhe?" Lu Gongzhu looked around and didn't see Lu Xizhe, not even Lu Haowen.

"Brother went to Taixue at the invitation of Da Sicheng..." Lu Xichun replied.

Lu Gongzhu frowned when he heard this: "Why did this traitor go to Taixue to fool around again?"

The so-called Da Sicheng is another name for the Imperial Academy's sacrificial wine. This is a title passed down from the Tang Dynasty.

The person who is offering wine at the Imperial Academy today is none other than Lu Dian, the former minister who claims to be the heir to Duke Jing's mantle in Bianjing City.

Under the leadership of Lu Dian, the current academic style of Taixue is very active.

The students of Taipei University actively participated in politics, and their subjective initiative was the highest in history!

A few days ago, there was an uproar in the Imperial Academy due to the incident at Jing'anfang.

In the end, it was Lu Gongzhu and Han Jiang who took action personally and put the prime minister's reputation on the line to suppress it.

Lu Xichun listened, shrank his neck, and quickly smoothed things over for his brother: "My lord, I don't know something. My brother went to Taixue to explore knowledge."

"Humph!" Lu Gong raised his eyebrows: "Are you going to discuss Wang Jiefu's new learning?"

Lu Xichun had no choice but to lower his head and replied: "Replying to your lord, it's really not the case."

"Brother, Da Sicheng and others, in Taixue, are discussing the method of studying things to achieve knowledge..."

"Huh?!" Mr. Lu looked at Lu Xichun: "How did you know?"

"After my son returned to Beijing, he went there twice with his elder brother and listened to the lectures of the sages from the Imperial Academy."

It is now popular in Taixue to study the study of things to achieve knowledge, and there are even signs of becoming a prominent scholar.

This is normal.

If you learn martial arts, you will be able to belong to the emperor's family.

Today's officials, whether at sutra banquets or in private on weekdays, have hinted and even expressed their praise and admiration for the sage's path of "studying things to gain knowledge".

The other side of the world will naturally take action upon hearing the wind.

Especially those scholars who sacrificed their lives in the Imperial College and those who are preparing for the Long Fei Ranking exam two years later.

One by one, they dug into the pile of old papers and began to search for the views and explanations of "studying things to gain knowledge" from past dynasties.

Under the influence of this trend, many schools of thought such as Hengqu, Anding, and Lianxi showed signs of resurgence.

Because these great Confucians have all discussed and explained the study of things to achieve knowledge.

After hearing Lu Xichun's words, Lu Gongzhu became serious and asked: "How did the sages from the Imperial Academy comment on Shen Cunzhong's "Ge Wu Lun"?"

What I saw on the school grounds today was really shocking - studying things to learn is so terrifying!

Reality impacted Lu Gongzhu's mind.

It even gave him the urge to add a lot of discussions about studying things to achieve knowledge in his writings - the Prime Ministers of the Song Dynasty naturally had the pursuit of three immortals.

So everyone writes books and biographies.

For example, Lu Gongzhu's father and brother both left personal collections of essays and published them in the world.

Of course, Lu Gongzhu is no exception. He also hopes that a hundred years later, his collected works can be published all over the world, and even become the reading list of future emperors and princes like the collected works of Cheng Hao, Li Gou and others. This is true immortality!

And Shen Kuo presided over the bureau dedicated to manufacturing weapons, and achieved countless achievements by studying things to gain knowledge.

Apart from other things, a method of immersing copper in water will benefit the country and the people, and it will be famous in history and be famous for generations to come.

Thousands of years from now, Shen Kuo and Shen Cunzhong may still be remembered.

They even built temples to offer sacrifices, and the incense never faded.

Nowadays, powerful firearms have been produced.

It can change the battlefield situation!

Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet!

Lu Gongzhu was keenly aware that "studying things to gain knowledge" might become a new trend in Confucianism in the future.

Just like after Huang You, reform and reform became the focus of the Song Dynasty.

Eventually, the Qingli New Deal and Wang Anshi's Reform were born.

Under this trend, great Confucian scholars such as Li Gou, Zhang Zai, Hu Yuan, and Zhou Dunyi took advantage of the trend and rose rapidly.

Wang Anshi even took advantage of this to send his own theory to Taixue, where it became an official school.

What about studying things to achieve knowledge?

I'm afraid it can also create a new era and give birth to new Confucianism and doctrine.

Of course Mr. Lu wants to take advantage of this hot spot.

Lu Xichun listened and replied: "Reporting to your lord, all the sages in Taixue think that what Shen Zao said is ignorant and not worth refuting..."

"Oh!" Mr. Lu nodded.

I have also read Shen Kuo's "Ge Wu Lun" written by Lu Gong.

Although it's really not very well written.

But it's not like he's being belittled so much.

However, it's understandable.

Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second!

What's more, Shen Kuo had a lot of dirty stuff under his belt, and his personal morals were almost bankrupt among scholars.

How could the Taoists of Taixue like him?

etc……

Lu Gongzhu came to his senses.

"Is it true that all the sages of the Imperial Academy said this?" Lu Gongzhu asked.

"Wei!" Lu Xichun replied honestly: "All the sages have indeed said so!"

Mr. Lu took a deep breath.

This shows what?

This shows that the Taoists in Taixue are studying "the study of things to achieve knowledge", and they are doing so with Shen Kuo's "Theory of study of things".

Otherwise, how could they ‘think that Shen Kuo’s words are ignorant and not worth refuting?’.

As a scholar-official, Lu Gongzhu knew the group of scholar-officials in the field very well.

Both proud and reserved, both arrogant and humble, both noble and shameless.

To put it simply, it is pretentious, arrogant and hypocritical.

This is especially true for the old academics in Taixue.

Therefore, when Mr. Lu heard what Lu Xichun said, he almost immediately had such a picture in his mind.

In Taixue, the great Confucian scholars with high official titles and doctoral degrees shook their feather fans and denounced the various shortcomings in Shen Kuo's "Ge Wu Lun".

But all eyes were fixed on the Bureau of Ordnance Manufacturing.

Just waiting for Shen Kuo to come out and argue with them.

This is the old trick of those people who are too imitated.

It's just a porcelain!

The purpose is to draw the high-ranking officials of the imperial court into the track they are good at, and then use their rich experience to defeat these high-ranking officials.

Use this to build your reputation and establish your own prestige.

Therefore, the courtiers basically ignored the noise from Taixue.

For example, when Wang Anshi was in court, he didn't care what people in the Imperial Academy said about his new learning.

Don't be fooled by this at all.

But the old scholars in Taixue don't care either - you don't refute? That's because you are afraid and don't dare to debate with us!
To be continued...