Wang Can rest today and came to Zhang Heng Temple with a few friends to relax.
He is not in a good mood recently.
Although he became an official and a writer, it was not the result he expected. Especially after seeing Zhang Song becoming the chief of Situ, he was even more disappointed.
It is not as good as others. It can also be said that the emperor judges people by his appearance, but he lost his son Yu. Zhang Song is uglier than him, but he has gained the respect of the emperor, which shows that it is not that the emperor judges people by his appearance, but that he just looks down on Wang Can.
In recent days, he has been thinking about how to perform and take another try.
Seeing Cai Yan's carriage parked aside, he thought for a moment and guessed Cai Yan's identity. When he came over and asked, it was indeed Cai Yan, so he immediately signed up for a meeting.
He knew that Cai Yan was deeply trusted by the emperor, and if he could get Cai Yan's recommendation, the emperor might have made some changes to him.
He inherited half of Cai Yong's collection of books and was considered to be Cai Yong's disciple. This friendship has long surpassed that of ordinary teachers and students. In a sense, he is even more important than Cai Yan himself.
After all, Cai Yan is a woman and will get married in the future.
He even considered marrying Cai Yan, killing two birds with one stone.
He was the same year as Cai Yan and has not been married yet.
However, Cai Yan had already married once and had the experience of losing the Xiliang military camp. No one knew what happened during that period.
This made him hesitate for a long time and he never made a decision.
I met by chance today, and he felt it was necessary to chat with Cai Yan and talk about the past.
Cai Yan didn't think too much at first, but when he learned that Wang Can asked for a meeting, he agreed immediately. The two stood by the roadside and chatted for a few words, but found that they were not speculative.
Cai Yan was concerned about Cai Yong's collection of books and Wang Can's current situation, mainly academic.
Wang Can was concerned about the emperor's trust in Cai Yan and her plans for the future, and focused on his career.
Cai Yan was also a clever person. He quickly understood Wang Can's subtext and was disappointed.
Her father Cai Yong devoted himself to learning, but was not very enthusiastic about career. He admired Wang Can's talent and hoped that Wang Can could become a scholar, so he gave half of his collection of books. Unexpectedly, after seeing it, Wang Can was keen on career and was far away.
Exceeding interest in academics.
With Wang Can's current mentality and situation, if nothing unexpected happens, he will be a literati in his life. He will not achieve anything besides reciting poetry and essays.
For Cai Yong, this was simply a shame.
Despite this, Cai Yan still showed Wang Can a way out.
"I heard that Zhongxuan has the ability to remember everything he saw?"
Wang Can laughed twice, but was not too proud.
As far as he knows, Zhang Song also has the ability to remember everything he sees, Ni Heng and Yang Xiu also have such talent, and those people's careers are smoother than him, so he has nothing to be proud of, but he feels a little embarrassed.
"Why not study Western Regions' writings and classics with such good talent?" Cai Yan said calmly: "Although the emperor values Confucianism, he pays more attention to the world and attaches great importance to the writings and classics of the Western Regions. Zhong Xuan can devote himself to studying them.
, you will definitely be outstanding."
Wang Can's heart moved, and his mood that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly became clear.
I really found the right thing to come to Cai Yan today. I suddenly opened up my mind and found a new direction.
Although the emperor valued Confucianism, he was not very satisfied with the existing Confucianism. No matter how profound he studied it, he could not attract the emperor's attention. Instead, he studied the knowledge of the Western Regions and became even more inclined to the emperor's temper.
"The Legend of Fairy Wood"
"Thank you for your advice," Wang Can said immediately: "Ling Shi has been studying the Western Regions for a long time. Can he give me some advice and lead me to the introduction?"
Cai Yan smiled. "If you really want to do it, why not go to Tongwenguan, where you collect the most Western languages and the most scholars from the Western Regions, which are not comparable to Lantai. After all, Lantai is just a collection of documents from the palace, not
A place to study knowledge.”
Wang Can heard Cai Yan's meaning, but did not insist anymore and bowed to say goodbye.
Yuan Heng walked over and said softly: "I didn't expect that the prince would have such a child, and the king of Shanyang has not much wealth."
Cai Yan thought about it and suddenly said, "Human nature is to be lazy and hate labor, and to seek refuge easily, so everyone likes to be a Confucian scholar, scholar, and saint knowledge gradually becomes empty talk. Only those who are both wise and brave can face difficulties and temper them.
The body and mind are united by knowledge and action.”
"Isn't it? Mencius said that being born in distress and dying in happiness. This is true for people, and so is learning."
Cai Yan raised his hand and patted Yuan Heng on the shoulder, and smiled and said, "Fortunately, Yuan's family in Runan has you father, daughter and sister, who can survive the disaster and be reborn due to trouble, and the future is promising."
Yuan Heng gave her a blank look and smiled at each other.
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At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, Liu Xie received a good news from Liu Bei.
The army entered Mahan by sea, fought and won consecutive victories, beheaded more than a thousand levels, and destroyed the five countries. The other countries were very afraid and sent envoys to surrender. The two sides were negotiating, and if nothing unexpected happened, Mahan would surrender to the Han Dynasty.
After exploration, Liu Bei fell in love with a place and prepared to establish a country here.
This is a plain with a large water flowing down from the mountains to the east. The land is fertile, easy to cultivate and a relatively large population.
Liu Bei asked for an order to call the river Han River, and the city in Seoul, which was the capital of the country.
A map was attached to the good news. Liu Xie compared it with the peninsula in his memory. It is estimated that the Han River mentioned by Liu Bei should be the Han River, and Seoul is the Seoul in later generations. This plain is likely to be the Han River Plain, which is indeed a Lidu.
A good place.
Coincidentally, before becoming Seoul, the city was called Seoul for a long time.
Now Liu Bei plans to use this as his capital and name it Seoul, perhaps it has its own fixed numbers in the dark.
The name of famous water cities is not a big problem, but the name of Liu Bei's fiefdom has caused many controversy.
Some people say that Liu Bei ordered the water to be the Han River and the city to be the Seoul. Although he did not forget the Han Dynasty. However, the emperor was in power and the sect was in the Central Plains. At best, he was a small sect. How could he compete for the name of the Han Dynasty?
Does he still want to argue for the truth?
Liu Xie didn't take it seriously, but when he thought of Kong Rong's support for Liu Bei and a group of Confucian scholars living in Liaodong who followed Liu Bei to the south, he was around Liu Bei, so he had to consider this possibility.
His not caring does not mean that others don’t care.
Perhaps those Confucian scholars took advantage of Liu Bei's poor knowledge and secretly played word games to show that they were orthodox.
This good news is unlikely to be written by Liu Bei, but written by a certain literati, and then showed it to Liu Bei. It only mentioned the name of water and city, but it was not mentioned the name of a country. It is not ruled out that it has the meaning of temptation.
If the court recognized the name of Hanshui and Seoul, they would then request to add Chinese characters to the name of the feudal country.
As scholars, don’t they just like these little ones.
After some discussion, Zhou Zhong made a suggestion.
Liu Bei was named King of Zhongshan.
Liu Bei was originally the king of Zhongshan, but now he re-established the king of Zhongshan overseas, which is also the glory of restoring his ancestors, and there is no reason to refuse.
Last year, Zhongshan Kingdom was abandoned, and Jizhou only had Zhongshan County and no Zhongshan Kingdom, and there was no conflict in the naming.
In addition, the original vassal states in the mainland were transferred overseas, and the capital was expanded and no longer vassal states were no longer vassal. This can be used as an example. In the future, the king will be granted priority overseas, so as to show the Han Dynasty's ambition to explore.
Of course, the most important thing is to remind Liu Bei and the people around him that no matter how strong you are, you are just a vassal of the great man, so don’t have any inappropriate thoughts.