Chapter 405: Three Confucian Scholars Discuss Zhou
The solemn voice of Kui Shen echoed in the big tent, and the surrounding gods all had serious expressions. They could sense that after Kui Shen took the oath, the invisible power of faith surged towards the warriors in front of him like a tide. His flaming cloak stirred up ashes, and these ashes formed pictures in the air. The hundred years of struggle between the human race and the beastman race were condensed together, and finally gathered in the burning red flames, as if to burn everything.

Zhou Tieyi looked solemn. The other party had made a vow that he was willing to lead the charge in the battle against the beastmen. If he could really lead humans to break through this plain area and gain a wider living space, as a member of the human race, he would certainly not hesitate to contribute his strength.

However, after he appeared in the wild world, the gods of the Mang tribe prepared for such a grand war of gods, and there was no doubt that they had taken him into account. The uncertainty of being taken advantage of made him hesitate.

If possible, he would prefer a decisive battle with the Beastmen next year or the year after, so that he would be stronger and more fully prepared.

When Kuishen made this decision, he naturally considered Zhou Tieyi's feelings, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "God of the Yanhuang Tribe, this time we went deep into the Beast Plain and found your origin. That is where the true power of the Yanhuang Tribe is hidden. It is because of your appearance that I can make this decision."

"My origin?"

Zhou Tieyi recalled that when he traced back history, he found a gap in the Minotaur tribe, and the further past was blank. Even his own magical power of [Usurping God] could not be traced back. Judging from the power level he knows now, only the sub-sage level power of the Yellow Emperor's Sword can prevent his magical power from obtaining any information. Otherwise, even the second-grade gods such as the Huaihe and Qishui gods cannot affect the tracing of his magical power.

That is to say, the past of the Tauren tribe contains secrets of the sub-saint level!

Thinking of this, Zhou Tieyi looked solemn, "This is a serious matter. Can you give me more information to make a judgment?"

Kuishen's voice reached Zhou Tieyi's ears with a smile, "I can only swear that everything I said is true, and only by breaking through the Beast Origin tribes and rekindling the fire of the human race can we completely disperse the beasts and you can regain your lost memories. Before that, I can't give you more information."

Is the other party worried that after knowing the source, he will not be able to find his "self" for some reason?
Zhou Tieyi instantly understood Kuishen’s hidden meaning.

Especially, He used such a respectful tone of "you" to himself at the end, which also indirectly confirmed that the ancestral spirits of the Tauren tribe must have been very powerful. Such powerful ancestral spirits had to hide in the west mountain because of a "natural disaster", and even the entire tribe was reduced to only more than 400 people in the end.

This is not just a natural disaster, there must be man-made disasters as well.

And the source of the 'man-made disaster' that the original Tauren ancestors were hiding from is still alive!

Zhou Tieyi made a judgment instantly, "Okay."

Kuishen looked at Zhou Tieyi with a little surprise. He originally thought that he would need to produce more "evidence", but he did not expect that the Lord of Yanhuang would agree, so he did not have to waste any more words.

After Zhou Tieyi agreed, he and Kuishen immediately took over as the leaders of the entire tribal coalition. They quickly determined how many warriors the numerous tribes would send out and how soon they would reach the gap in Yixian Gorge to prepare for the attacks of the beast gods.

After finishing the discussion with the Mang tribe, Zhou Tieyi turned into moonlight and returned to the campfire pond of the Yanhuang tribe.

The bonfire was burning brightly. After Zhou Tieyi returned, he heard a lot of laughter and joy. Mixed in these laughter and joy were a lot of prayers and praises for him. Today, he used the method of "gathering people's hearts" to make the people of the Yanhuang tribe undergo a qualitative change. It was normal for the tribe to hold a grand celebration to commemorate this event.

This festive atmosphere also infected his emotions, making him make a decision instantly.

"Wu Mu."

"god."

Hearing Zhou Tieyi's order, Wu Mu stepped forward with a respectful look and leaned in front of Zhou Tieyi.

"You will start training everyone from today. Once I give the order, you must quickly gather near the bonfire. You must be quick and not hesitate at all. You can abandon all other property. Only people are the most important."

When Wu Mu heard Zhou Tieyi's order, his eyes were filled with shock and worry.

Zhou Tieyi said in a relaxed tone, "Just be prepared. Don't worry too much. Oh, bring a living creature up here. At the same time, order Yan Xing and the others to get ready. First, go to the Mang Tribe and meet up with the coalition forces there, and then go to the gap in Yixian Gorge together to resist the beast tide this winter."

Hearing Zhou Tieyi's orderly instructions, Wu Mu temporarily put aside his worries, and then followed Zhou Tieyi's instructions and brought a living creature similar to a rabbit.

The half-real and half-virtual gate of the kingdom of God opened, and the bright light like the moon came in, completely embracing the rabbit. The next moment, Zhou Tieyi's consciousness returned to the Daxia world and returned to the space of the white jade chessboard.

Now, with just a thought from him, the entire white jade chessboard formed another portal to receive sacrifices. The moon-like light dissipated, revealing the hare inside.

success.

Zhou Tieyi said with certainty in his heart that there was no loss of matter and energy from the wild world to the Daxia world. He had previously used the chess soldiers on the white jade chessboard to allow the warrior consciousness of the wild world to descend here. There were no problems with these two experiments, which meant that the living people in the wild world could enter the Daxia world without any problems, and this was the solution he was prepared. The hidden danger in Kuishen's proposal was that once he obtained the power left by the ancestors of the Minotaur tribe, perhaps only a part of it, it would alarm the enemies of the Minotaur tribe, and he was too experienced in facing the power of the sub-saint level. It would take about ten to ten breaths for the opponent to locate the distance, and then it would be like a nuclear bomb. With his current strength, he could not bear it at all.

But being unable to bear it does not mean that one cannot avoid it. He can bring the entire Yanhuang tribe into the Daxia world and make it impossible for the other party to find any trace of them. Then he can try again to see if he can reposition this world through the great deeds he left in the wild world and open the doors of sacrifice on both sides. Of course, in this way, he will no longer be able to bring the people of the Yanhuang tribe back to the wild world, and can only develop believers again.

Zhou Tieyi looked at the rabbit that had just come out of the sacrificial gate. In a thought, the light of the bright moon wrapped the entire rabbit again and pulled it back to the wild world. But just like many experiments he had done before, although the matter and energy came from the wild world, after entering the Daxia world, it could not be reversed. The rabbit disappeared out of thin air during the transmission process without leaving any trace.

Zhou Tieyi closed the teleportation portal. Although he had to develop believers in the wild world again, compared to what he could gain, which might be sub-saint level power and priesthood, this deal would definitely be a win-win, so he agreed to Kuishen's invitation.

After coming out of the white jade chessboard, there was no need to think about the affairs of the Manghuang Tribe for the time being. Even if Kuishen decided to launch a Jedi counterattack against the Beast Tribe this winter, it would take at least two or three months for ordinary coalition soldiers to go to the front battlefield and weaken the power of the Beast Tribe gods through a series of small battles before the decisive battle. He only needed to take action at the critical moment.

On the first day of October, the weather had turned completely cool. Thanks to Zhou Tieyi's suppression of the affairs in Pingjindu, Sha Youcheng had completed the cleansing of the Zhenfu Division and the local clans that were involved in the Huxin Academy. He then confiscated property and invested it in the industrial development of Pingjindu. There was no need for Zhou Tieyi to be in charge in person. Sha Youcheng and Wang Mingyi only needed to supervise each other.

During this process, the three third-rank Confucianists often argued with each other, because their original political struggles could not even convince themselves in the face of Zhou Tieyi's righteousness.

Although Confucians believe that they have "righteous integrity", Zhou Tieyi has put a smooth road in front of everyone and is promoting it effectively. These three third-rank scholars also understand that Zhou Tieyi is not doing this entirely for himself. In their opinion, 70% to 80% of what Zhou Tieyi does is for the people.

Once they understand and confirm this point, the three Confucianists will naturally have a scale in their hearts to measure it, and their thinking day and night will constantly torture their hearts, so that they can not completely treat Zhou Tieyi as a political enemy, but at least want to see how far Zhou Tieyi will go in practicing this path.

Especially now that Zhou Tieyi will not take all power into his own hands, but will confidently hand over a pilot site for reform to the Confucian seed Wang Mingyi, and place it next to Huxin Academy. In this way, people like Yao Qin, the president of Huxin Academy, will have even less reason to object, both publicly and privately.

Similarly, as Shantong Prefecture was another place for the pilot reform, Lulin Academy also benefited. Cui Yu, Lu Shanqing's favorite disciple, is now in charge of the construction of the entire workers' college.

Through the correspondence with his apprentice Cui Yu, Lu Shanqing also felt the vitality in his apprentice's letters, which was a vitality that had never been seen in the entire Confucianism before.

Three people sat together in the flower hall. There were a lot of documents piled around them, including letters from Shantong Mansion, and basic drawings left by disciples of Mohist and Gongshu School who came to explore the Pingjindu factory land enclosure these days. Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, like a huge steam engine, carrying the people to the distance with the continuous injection of power.

After they compared one by one, Deng Zhenquan sighed quietly, "I am not as good as him."

Yao Qin was silent for a while before saying, "The first railway track has been opened in the five provinces in the north. Fang Tong wrote to them, talking about the benefits of the railway track. In the letter, he made no secret of his admiration for Zhou Tieyi."

There are many factions within Confucianism, and because the five northern provinces have been threatened by Yuan Meng for many years, the Confucian scholars and schools there are more resilient. Now that they see a way to completely resolve the threat of Yuan Meng, or at least connect with the hundreds of barbarian countries and cut off Yuan Meng's retreat, the Confucian schools there are naturally more respected.

The Confucian schools in Shantong Prefecture and Tangzhou Prefecture actually began to lean towards Zhou Tieyi, because Zhou Tieyi's reforms started in these two places, and these two places naturally gained a lot of benefits.

However, the Confucian schools outside Tianjing, the five northern provinces, Shantong Prefecture, and Tangzhou Prefecture were full of curses against Zhou Tieyi. First of all, it was because Zhou Tieyi's promotion of the vernacular reform caused the value of Confucian scholars to decline. If it were not for Dong Xingshu's "turning the tide" and curbing the development momentum of vernacular through this autumn examination, it is unknown to what extent vernacular would have been developed in newspapers across the country.

Moreover, because Zhou Tieyi asked He Qigong to promote the new phonetic symbols and phonetic characters in Shantong Prefecture, this news naturally could not be concealed and spread to the ears of Confucianists far and wide.

These Confucian schools have begun to put pressure on Lu Shanqing to refuse phonetic notation through academies across Shantong Prefecture and label it as "heresy".

If it were in the past, Lu Shanqing would certainly agree without hesitation, but it is different now. His most promising disciple Cui Yu has written several letters in a row, emphasizing that this kind of phonetic symbol itself has no harm and can help young children better recognize words and pronunciation. He even did not hesitate to argue with Lu Shanqing in his reply.

Lu Shanqing certainly knew the benefits of phonetic notation, so in his reply letters to academies in various places, he expressed the attitude of the Lulin Academy faction in Shantong Prefecture with an attitude of neither support nor opposition.

Ultimately it comes down to interests. Cui Yu took over Zhou Tieyi's Workers' College, even if it was only on par with Mo Tianheng's literary and military colleges. However, the emergence of this new-style college did not require financial support from the local education administration and was supported by the factory itself. For Confucianism, it was naturally beneficial and harmless, especially when there were no Confucian Workers' Colleges elsewhere and only Shantong Mansion had one. This was a huge temptation of interests that the president of the academy could not directly refuse.

Even when Lu Shanqing tossed and turned for several nights, he would have an idea, that is, to keep Zhou Tieyi in Shantong Prefecture and let the reform of Shantong Prefecture completely surpass other places. Twenty years later, their Lulin Academy may become a new Confucian holy land, second only to the place where Confucian saints taught.

You should know that in the past, although Lu Shanqing was a third-rank Confucian scholar, when he was studying with other great scholars, when they heard the homework of the students of Shantong Mansion, the contempt in their eyes was not concealed at all, and it pierced Lu Shanqing like a needle.

There was no way before, so Lu Shanqing pretended not to know. But now, industrial development started from Shantongfu, and the coal mines provided subsidies to local students, so the power of their Shantongfu school would increase greatly. If they could really establish a new doctrine, and not seek the doctrine of a saint, even if it was the second saint of Confucianism, then the situation would change drastically in the future.

Thinking of this, Lu Shanqing couldn't help but say something that was inexplicably conjured up in his mind, "Do you think it's possible for Zhou Tieyi to rejoin our Confucian school? After all, the Taoist Yulong also thought about sending him here. Would it be useful for us to write a letter to his mother to persuade him to study now?"

After he said this, the remaining two people fell silent. Finally, Deng Zhenquan said, "We should at least try this stupid method. It's just a letter anyway."

(End of this chapter)