Xun Yu was very familiar with Taiping Dao, not that he himself had ever been interested in it, but that one of his elders was named He Yong.
Xun Yu was sensitive and complicated in his heart. He complained about why his father matched him with a eunuch's daughter, and he was criticized in Yingchuan circles for this. But his father said that he had to pay for the family because of his family's education and kindness.
Xun Yu was silent, knowing that he was the price for his family's return to officialdom.
Although the Xun family is said to be the successor of Xunzi, it really started with his grandfather Xun Shu.
His family was not good at that time, but his grandfather Xun Shu was good at reading, so he was very knowledgeable. But to be honest, reading the classics behind closed doors caused a problem: he couldn't read a sentence, and his interpretation of the classics was completely different from that of other great scholars.
It's different. Then such a wild person will definitely be despised by the disciples of Confucianism.
But there was one thing about Xun Yu's grandfather that no one could point out, that is, he was noble and moral. This was appreciated by several famous people from his hometown at that time, and Li Ying, the then Shaofu, spoke highly of his grandfather.
As the core son of the family, Xun Yu was naturally well versed in the history of his family's fortune. Morality was one aspect, but the key point was that his grandfather had close contacts with party members all over the world at that time, and Li Ying, the then Shaofu, was one of the party leaders.
Later, my grandfather continued to live in the countryside until he was sixty-one. He was already an elder in the world, and all the heroes from his hometown took him as his teacher. My grandfather was finally taught by Qinghe Fangzhi, one of the founders of the party at that time, and Guang Guang, who was as famous as Li Gu.
Lu Xun and Du Qiao jointly recommended him and he was promoted to the court in the name of being virtuous and upright.
But before my grandfather left, he told all the clan members: He is already old, what else do he want.
Therefore, when he entered the DPRK to accept questions about national policy, he boldly ridiculed the powerful and powerful forces in the DPRK for their control of power, and pointed his finger at the then general Liang Ji.
Although he offended Liang Ji, his grandfather also gained a greater reputation. Later, he resigned and returned to his hometown, becoming a famous member of the Yingchuan Party.
After that, his family became a scholar and became a leader in Yingchuan.
You know, this is very extraordinary. Their Yingchuan is no different from other places. This place has more people and more nobles.
Yingchuan County belonged to South Korea during the Warring States Period and was later destroyed by the Qin Dynasty. Because there is Yingshui in the land, it was named Yingchuan.
Since the Han Dynasty, Yingchuan has been a major county. The most populous county at that time was Nanyang County, followed by Yingchuan, and then Runan. However, among these three, Yingchuan was the smallest, which shows that Yingchuan is densely populated. Yingchuan is densely populated.
The seventeen counties in Sichuan have an annual population of around 1.5 million.
In addition, because this place is in the middle of the world, it controls Ru and Luo in the west, and leads to Huai and Si in the east. Every year, boats and cars gather, and there is an endless stream of easy transportation. In addition, the wilderness here is wide and flat, and farming is convenient, so there are constantly
Rich families settled here.
Let's put it this way, there are seventeen counties in Yingchuan, and there are gentry in each county. There are thirty-eight families with names and surnames, and these are the families of officials, not rural tyrants.
My grandfather, on the other hand, was able to raise the family's reputation to such an extent just by running the business for one generation. He is worthy of being a divine king.
It was natural after that. My grandfather had eight children. He did not have any great achievements at that time, so he was called "Eight Dragons". These are the lingering shadows of my grandfather's reputation.
But as his own nephew, although he has to be kept taboo by the venerable, there is a saying that among the eight dragons, the third uncle Xun Jing Pingao and the sixth uncle Xun Shuang are famous. They are both dragons for a while, and the rest are mediocre and have nothing to do.
Yes. Including his own father. No matter how much he, Xun Yu, hopes his father will become a dragon, sometimes he has to say that he is indeed a worm.
In order to raise the family's reputation, the third uncle chose not to be an official like his grandfather. The most promising person in the family to enter the Taiwan Pavilion is the sixth uncle Xun Shuang.
It was originally like this. He had the reputation of his grandfather, and his fellow villagers discussed raising his reputation. The sixth uncle was promoted to be a filial and honest man and became an official at an early age, and he soon became a doctor.
But then things went wrong. First, the first disaster of party imprisonment broke out, but at that time it was mainly the party leaders who were hit, and the Xun family was okay.
But the great change in the family occurred during the second party imprisonment.
At that time, the country had just come to power. When General Dou Wu was assisting the government, he planned to contact the party members to eliminate the eunuchs. At that time, Dou Wu not only contacted the old party members who were imprisoned for the first time, but also some new key party members also participated in the plan.
.And this time, their Xun family was deeply involved in this matter.
But the plot was leaked, and the eunuchs not only eliminated the general group, but also launched the second party imprisonment. This time, the Xun family suffered heavy losses, one person was killed, and the most promising sixth uncle and fourth uncle were both imprisoned.
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At the same time, the Chen family of Xu County also joined their family in opposing the eunuchs. They had close contacts with their family since their grandfather's generation, and by his generation, he and Chen Qun of the Chen family were also close friends.
The two families have been friends for generations.
At that time, the Chen family was able to die in the prison of the party. Why? Because they had a good relationship with the eunuch Zhang Rang.
The thing is, Zhang Rang was also from Yingchuan, and his father was buried in Yingchuan after his death. However, no local celebrities came to express their condolences. Only Chen Qun’s grandfather, Mr. Chen Shida, attended Zhang Rang’s funeral. So
Zhang Rang felt deeply for the Chen family.
Chen's incident undoubtedly inspired their family, and soon he, Xun Yu, married the eunuch Tang's daughter. In this way, the Xun family finally had someone who could continue to serve as an official.
At that time, this incident also aroused great opposition within the clan.
Some people say that I, the Xun family, belong to a pure family. Even if I don't become an official, I don't want to collude with the eunuchs.
Then these people were immediately scolded by the clan leader at the time, Xun Yu's father, Xun Nu.
Since my grandfather passed away and my uncle passed away early, the eldest son in the family is my father, so he naturally became the head of the Xun family.
The father scolded these people:
"What do you know about family management? Do you think that if no one in the family is an official, who will continue to come to our Xun family to study. They have traveled thousands of miles to study in the Xun family just because the Xun family can find them to be officials.
Now if Mr. Xun himself cannot be an official, how can he check his disciples? Remember, the scriptures that do not allow his disciples to be officials are the dead scriptures."
My father's words are undoubtedly deviant, but the Yingchuan people are just like the ancient Koreans. They don't care about false fame, but value practical benefits above all. They are rampant in Legalism. So everyone in the tribe knows that what my father said is right.
Another point is that for the sake of the clan, my father didn't reveal it clearly, but the clan members all knew it.
That is, their current Zhongmingdingdingshi relies on Xun's Confucian classics. If Xun's knowledge becomes a dead science, their lives will be very unsatisfactory.
Therefore, the matter was finally passed. And because his father was the clan leader, he was directly responsible for the marriage with the Tang family. In the end, the clansmen were satisfied, and only he, Xun Yu, became the price of the family. Having such a stain on himself
In the future, don’t think about raising your reputation and becoming an official through the Qing Dynasty.
But fate played another joke on him here. He was appreciated by a veteran party member, who evaluated himself very highly and called himself a talented person who could assist the emperor. This was the material he expected to be able to assist the emperor.
And this veteran party member is He Yong.
Later, he excitedly told his father this criticism. Unexpectedly, his father laughed and said:
"Do you know who was the last person who was called a talented person by their party members?"
Xun Yu didn't know.
"It's Yan Shujian. But in the end, this person could only be a servant at the highest level, and later he went back to his hometown to teach. This is what his party members say, a deceitful ghost."
Xun Yu was shocked by these words, but he still felt that the senior He Yong's words were more structured and insightful than his father's, and sounded much better.
After that, he often followed He Yong and hung out in Runan for a long time.
It was also there that he knew how powerful Runan Taiping Road was and what veteran party members like He Yong were thinking about.
Let's put it this way, the population of Runan is about the same as that of Yingchuan, with more than one million, but they have 400,000 followers of Taiping Dao. In Runan, except for the families of officials and scholars, it can be said that every family believes in Taiping, and every household has a yellow card.
Flags. Every morning, the sound of praise from their Taiping Dao followers resounds throughout the whole city of Runan.
And He Yong and other imprisoned party members also have close contacts with these Taiping Dao believers. What are their plans?
Even with Xun Yu's knowledge, he could see that these Taiping Roads had been a scourge for a long time, and the country would definitely have to liquidate them in the future. Why?
Because Taipingdao is competing with the country for money.
Those heads of Guizhou who believe in Taiping Dao must offer sacrifices to Taiping Dao, and if they give sacrifices to Taiping Dao, they will have to pay one less tax to the country. And in the long run, when these people are powerful in the local area and can compete with the Han court,
How could they still pay taxes and serve the country?
Therefore, the contradiction between Taipingdao and the state is irreconcilable.
Because of this, when he saw He Yong and a series of other imprisoned party members interacting with Taiping Dao, and even funding and helping Taiping Dao to enter the upper echelons, Xun Yu wondered whether these people were resentful because they were imprisoned by the state and wanted to
Rebellion with Taipingdao.
It’s no wonder that Xun Yu thought this way. In the gentry circle, the two party rebellions at that time were so serious that they even began to think about whether Liu’s world still had destiny.
Since Dong Zhongshu, all famous religions have taken the connection between heaven and man as their spirit, believing that the Liu family and the world were given by heaven, and that the country is the representative of heaven.
But after two party bans, they had doubts. Is the Liu family really the emperor? How could there be such a confused person who couldn't distinguish between pure and dirty? And this person was chosen by God.
Does this mean that heaven is punishing all people? But heaven is extremely benevolent and merciful to all people, otherwise there would be no heaven and earth to be kind to all people.
Since God is most benevolent and merciful, it can only mean one thing, that is, this person is not the chosen one. There are others who are the chosen ones, and it is time for the Liu family to abdicate in favor of others.
But no matter how he looked at it, Xun Yu felt that Taiping Dao did not look like a person who could achieve anything. In gratitude to He Yong for making him famous, Xun Yu once advised He Yong and asked his party members to be cautious.
Unexpectedly, He Yong burst out laughing after hearing this.