The goal of creating a school, especially a school that wants to surpass Jixia Academy and push the controversy of hundreds of schools of thought to a higher level.

Zhao Kuo remembers a famous saying, "Every time you have to be calm."

The meaning of this sentence is that the more important things you encounter, the more you need to calm down, sort out the things carefully, arrange them calmly and then start taking action, so that you can truly be prepared for any trouble.

The first thing to be determined is of course the most important candidate - the future Academy Grand Priest.

Sacrifices are very sacred in this era, so the high priest is the undisputed leader and the de facto principal of the academy.

Zhao Kuo looked at Xunzi with a smile and said, "Doctor Xun, this marquis has recommended it to the Empress Dowager and has received approval. You are the first high priest of the Great Zhao Academy!"

Xunzi was naturally prepared for this and said seriously: "I thank you for your kind words."

Zhao Kuo took a sip of sour plum soup and said slowly: "In addition, since the Academy wants to accommodate many talented people in the world, after its establishment, it must recruit some powerful figures from various schools of thought.

But no strange people can be recruited. Judging from this marquis, there must be a standard for recruiting.”

Xun Chu thought for a while and said, "Actually, I also know many scholars and powerful people from other schools in the Jixia Academy... I wonder what the standard is Junhou's?"

Zhao Kuo smiled slightly and said calmly: "There are only two standards.

First, those who are enemies of me cannot enter the academy; second, those who are enemies of Doctor Xun cannot enter the academy."

As mentioned before, Zhao Kuo proposed to establish a school for two goals. The first is to continue the controversy among hundreds of schools of thought and the second is to cultivate his own power in the ideological and public opinion circles, and these two goals do not conflict.

Unlike later generations, the current situation in the ideological circle of the Warring States Period is that Confucianism is far from being unified. On the contrary, the world-class powers like Qin and Zhao took the Legalist route, and many other schools of thought also have their own survival soil.

Therefore, there are actually many people from various schools of thought, but on the contrary, there are still many.

Since there are many people, there is a lot of room for choice.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo could not have allowed anyone who opposed him to enter the Zhao National Academy. Anyway, I have people to choose! When Li Si heard this, he finally couldn't help but interject: "Jun Hou, if this is the case, will it arouse Shilin's disgust?"

Zhao Kuo and Xunqiu looked at each other when they heard this and laughed out loud.

Xunzi shook his head and said, "Crazy! What is the most lacking in this world is the icing on the cake. Do you think the Jixia Academy in Qi was so prosperous back then?

It’s not because Qi State was under King Wei of Qi and King Xuan of Qi at that time was the most powerful country in the world! Now that Qi State is in decline, what if you look at the current Jixia Academy?

If the King of Qin had not been obsessed with the Legalists, the various schools of thought in the Jixia Academy would have gone to Xianyang to seek a new way of life."

When facing Xunzi's words, Zhao Kuo also smiled and nodded.

It is true that the powerful people of various schools of thought are indeed a brilliant and brilliant mark in Chinese culture, but first of all, they are also human beings, and they also have seven emotions and six desires. They also hope to live a good life and have better conditions to do research.

To give a very simple example, why did many scientists abandon their nationality and go to developed countries in later generations?

It is because developed countries have higher technology and more advanced instruments, and the living conditions given are more generous and comfortable.

As the most powerful country today, Zhao State is actually the same as those developed countries in later generations.

Of course, there must be those who are very patriotic and not moved by the treatment of developed countries, but it has to be said that those people are actually a minority, and even if that kind of people comes to Zhao Kuo, it is difficult for Zhao Kuo to control them.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo only needs the icing on the cake.

Moreover, scholars these days have a trend, that is, "If you don't leave me here, you will have a place to leave me."

Like Shang Yang, the Xiangbang of Qin, was a native of Wei, Fan Sui of Xiangbang, was also a native of Wei, and the general Meng Ao was a native of Qi.

When Zhao State said that Han Xuwei was from Korean, and Yan State's former general Le Yi was from Zhao State, and so on, there are many similar examples.

In this era, the entire scholar class actually did not have that strong recognition of their origins in the motherland. What they were more eager to achieve the improvement of their self-worth.

Simply put, inspired by the atmosphere of this era, more people will be willing to choose to add icing on the cake! Therefore, Zhao Kuo is not worried that the group of people who add icing on the cake will lack talent, not to mention that character is really something that cannot be equated with talent.

To put it simply, the Zhao State's academy must be all Zhao Kuo's "people"! Of course, Xunzi is - no objection! You should know that Xunzi was also a high priest in the Jixia Academy of Qi, but was eventually excluded by a group of Confucians and resigned from Qi in shame. Now Xunzi makes a comeback in Zhao State. Of course, he doesn't want those guys to come to Zhao State again. If they are excluded once again, Xunzi will really be in tears.

Zhao Kuo paused for a moment and said, "Then, I will give you another opinion.

Since we want to prosper the situation of a hundred schools of thought, we should not be dominated by Confucianism like the Jixia Academy.

My suggestion is that in the future, every family in our academy will send a representative to serve as the sacrificial wine. All sacrificial wines will form a sacrificial wine group. Everything that involves major affairs in the academy must be passed by the sacrificial wine group. I wonder what Doctor Xun thinks?"

The second restriction is also Confucianism. Since Confucianism has successively produced two figures that are rare in China in 5,000 years, Confucius and Mencius, although the major powers use Legalism, Confucianism is not weak in the literary and ideological circles. The hundreds of schools of thought in the Jixia Academy have always dominated the controversy, and other schools of thought serve as foils.

Zhao Kuo, who knew what kind of virtues of Confucianism in later generations, certainly did not allow this situation to happen.

Each school has one vote, and in this case, Confucianism has only one vote in the sacrificial group. No matter how many people there are, it is difficult to affect the overall decision of the academy.

As the person in charge of the establishment of the academy, Zhao Kuo must be Zhao Kuo's own people, so it becomes very easy to control the academy.

In general, it’s just a saying that hundreds of schools can argue, and the academy can flourish, but they all have to listen to me, Zhao Kuo! Zhao Kuo thought Xunzi would be hesitant and hesitant as a Confucian scholar, but he didn’t expect Xunzi to nod and agree quickly: “Please rest assured, this is absolutely fine!”

Hearing this sentence, Zhao Kuo immediately smiled.
Chapter completed!