Yang Biao hurried into Zhou Zhong's bedroom, looked at Zhou Zhong half-lying on the bed, with his eyes closed, and then looked at Xuan Bo standing aside with an awkward expression, confused.
He knew that Zhou Zhong did not like Xuanbo, and could not understand why Xuanbo appeared in Zhou Zhong's bedroom with such a private place.
Zhou Zhong heard the sound of footsteps, opened his eyes and looked, and raised his hand.
"I'll bother the Tingwei and tell me the matter again."
"Here." Xuan Bo bowed his hand in embarrassment, and then told him about Guo Tu's suicide in prison, and deliberately emphasized that it was on the night when Mrs. Yuan went to visit Yuan Tan, and the porcelain piece that killed him was also Yuan.
The bowls used for the wine and food sent by the lady broke the income.
After hearing this, Yang Biao changed his face. He was silent for a moment, bowed to Xuan Bo to apologize, and promised that Mrs. Yuan would not visit Yuan Tan again, which made Xuan Bo embarrassed.
Xuanbo was very grateful and bowed away.
Yang Biao sat down beside Zhou Zhong's bed, looking at Zhou Zhong, feeling inexplicably uneasy.
He thought of Zhang Xi.
"Jiamou, you won't be in a hurry. After all, the emperor is a young man. He is so angry that he doesn't have any objections to you."
"Wenxian, I'm not worried about myself." Zhou Zhong struggled to sit up. "I'm worried that the longer I delay, the greater the loss. If other people are as discouraged and self-destructive as Guo Tu, we
Even if you want to save them, you can't save them."
Yang Biao nodded. "What are your plans?"
"Two benefits and power are the most important, and two harms are the least important. Between the honor and disgrace of Confucian gentry and individual families, we can only take the former. Make a case as soon as possible to make peace for the people of the world. As for the responsibility, it is up to me to do so.
Come and take care of it. As soon as the spring of next year, I will ask to retire, return to my hometown to live in seclusion, and be an idle person."
Yang Biao stroked his beard, was silent for a moment, and sighed softly: "I just feel wronged."
"I have nothing wronged." Zhou Zhong smiled bitterly, raised his voice and shouted: "Wen Hui, come in."
Gao Rou, who was standing outside the door, flashed in and knelt in front of Zhou Zhong's bed.
Zhou Zhong pointed at Gao Rou. "Wenxian, although my Zhou family in Lujiang is not a high school, my children are still very successful, so I don't have to worry about it. But this kid is a pity. Please help me to support him and don't let him bury it."
Yang Biao looked at Gao Rou for a moment and waved his hand. "Wenhui, you go out first."
Gao Rou bowed and bowed again, stepped out, and brought the door with her.
Yang Biao watched Gao Rou leave and turned to look at Zhou Zhong. "Jiamou, you have decided to leave."
"I'm tired and don't want to fight hard anymore." Zhou Zhong shook his head helplessly. "I'm not as good as you, and I'm wrong again and again. This time I'm so embarrassed, I don't know how to advance or retreat. I take the initiative to go to the office while I have a few years to live.
, From now on, it is a good thing to express your love for mountains and rivers. There is nothing else, but Wen Hui is limited by her family background and no one supports her, so it is difficult to make a comeback. I think about it, but I can only entrust her to you."
Yang Biao shook his head. "Jiamou, do you think the emperor knows whose son Wenhui is?"
Zhou Zhong's eyes flashed slightly, and hesitated for a moment. "It should... know. Even if he doesn't know him, Cai Yan also knows him. She and Wen Hui are fellow villagers."
"Yes, so you think, if the emperor takes preconceptions and thinks that he is Yuan Shao's party, he can keep him by your side forever? Even if he is not explicitly told by your face, Wen Hui can stand up with me with my support?
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Zhou Zhong was stunned and didn't say anything for a while.
"You, you're still too prejudiced." Yang Biao patted Zhou Zhong's shoulder and stood up. "If you want to rest, you can take a few months off to rest after completing this matter. Don't mention it if you retire.
As an old minister, don’t act so impulsively, otherwise I can’t let you go even if the emperor doesn’t care.”
After saying that, Yang Biao raised his hand and pushed the door out.
When passing by the courtyard, he saw Gao Rou standing in the corridor. After thinking about it, he stopped and called Gao Rou to the front.
"I heard it just now?"
Gao Rou nodded. It was not that he listened intentionally, but that Yang Biao didn't want to hide it from him at all, and the voice was very loud.
"Do I make sense?"
"What Mr. Yang said is naturally reasonable."
"Don't say these scenes." Yang Biao stretched out his finger to Gao Rou's heart. "Tell me what you really think and ignore that Lao Hutu. Otherwise, how will you face the emperor in the future?"
Gao Rou looked awkward.
He knew that Zhou Zhong was interested in cultivating him, just like he was his own children, and therefore he was full of gratitude to Zhou Zhong. Naturally, it was impossible to say that Zhou Zhong was not, especially in front of Zhou Zhong.
Yang Biao smiled. "Those who are close to the red are red, and those who are close to the black are black." Then he raised his voice again. "Jiamou, you are really misleading your children." After saying that, he raised his sleeves and turned around and left.
Gao Rou watched Yang Biao go out, turned around and returned to the bedroom, and knelt in front of the bed.
Zhou Zhong narrowed his eyes, pondered for a long time, and slowly let out a breath. "Wenhui, do you think he is right?"
"How dare you?"
Zhou Zhong shook his head helplessly. "He is right, because I thought too much, which has delayed you."
"Zhou Gong..."
Zhou Zhong waved his hand, sat up, and looked at Gao Rou with bright eyes. "Tell me, what did you think about this?"
Gao Rou did not dare to be careless, and after considering it, he said in a deep voice: "Rou thought that the reason why the emperor was angry was not because he wanted to kill people, or even because he was to cover up each other for the Kanto gentry, but because he used the scriptures to explain the law, which varies from person to person.
, It is difficult to unify. Today, the emperor is still in the Central Plains, and the Shandong gentry dared to regard the edict as if nothing was left, causing the fugitives to return home thousands of miles away, but no one opposed it. In the future, the emperor will be in charge of the three officials of the government in the future. How can he believe that today's politics is not
Will it become a false text?”
Zhou Zhong narrowed his eyes. "So, he emphasized that there is a law that must be followed?"
"Yes, only by governing the country according to law can we avoid people from losing politics and abolishing politics."
"But, law is dead, man is alive. Everything in the world is mixed, how can the law be included? What is the difference between being bound by law and Qin's government? Qin's second generation died, and the lessons of the truth are ahead, so how can we ignore it?
?”
Gao Rou shook her head. "Duke Zhou, the emperor emphasized that there must be law, but he did not say that he would follow Qin's politics. According to the foolish view, even if there are similarities, it is just enforcing the law, not legislating the law."
“How to say it?”
"The evil of Qin's government is not about enforcing the law strictly, but about enforcing the law evilly. Shang Yang's legislation was to drive the people to farm and fight, so that he had no way to escape except farming and fighting. If he was to write legislation, he would be based on the people and think about the people everywhere.
, Even if the law enforcement is stricter, how can it harm the people?"
Zhou Zhong thought about it and nodded slowly.
After a while, he sighed faintly. "Situ is right, I am really old Hutu. I haven't figured this out for so long. Instead, you..." He smacked his lips and said repeatedly: "Your generation is terrifying, and you are terrifying.
.Wenhui, let me talk about it, how should this case be judged?"
Gao Rou hesitated for a moment. "After this matter, there is probably no better way. She can only deal with the persons involved in the matter according to the law and broaden the scope of the law. However, this may not be a bad thing."
“How to say it?”
"The emperor is determined to expand his territory and urgently needs talents. Although exiles abroad are hard, it is not a bad opportunity. Duke Zhou felt that in a hundred years, the territory of the Han Dynasty will increase by a few percent. How many overseas places will now become the new land of China?