Chapter 399 Green tea and green plum, born to be a pair
The next day, the sun had risen, and Taixue in Yongqiu was glowing with new vitality.
Zheng Xuan, the God of Scripture, pushed open the door and stopped outside, looking longingly at the eight characters "The Emperor's Assistant and the Pillar of the Country" written on the Taixue Stone Scripture...
What do you seem to be waiting for?
Last night, the people who came to seek help from Lu Yu changed one after another, and each one's status was more valuable than the last!
Today, is it time for the "rightful owner" to arrive?
At this time.
The clear and urgent sound of horse hooves sounded in the direction of the single-plank bridge. Zheng Xuan raised his head and looked up. Blocked by the shadow of the trees, he watched two horses galloping from a distance. The figures on the horses gradually became clearer. One of them, Zheng Xuan recognized as Lu Yu, and the other
One person is a strong man with a strong back and a strong back.
He didn't recognize that this was the "ancient evil man" who was powerful in the nine provinces - Dian Wei!
"Has the rightful owner arrived?"
Zheng Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly...
Lu Yu had already dismounted, walked quickly across the single-plank bridge, and came to him.
"Junior Lu Yu pays homage to Mr. Zheng."
"Director Lu, you're here so early!" Zheng Xuan smiled slightly.
Lu Yu also responded with a bright smile. "Mr. Zheng mentioned yesterday that he wanted to ask for advice from the students. Naturally, the students did not dare to ask for advice, but...it is better to ask for advice as early as possible..."
"Haha..." Zheng Xuan stroked his beard...reached out to make a gesture of invitation.
…
One table plan.
Several scrolls of bamboo slips... Seated on either side of the table were Zheng Xuan and Lu Yu.
And the two of them have already started chatting, without exception, talking about "The Analects", talking about Confucianism, and talking about Confucian classics!
That’s right…
Zheng Xuan was able to come to Xudu because of Lu Yu's "Experiences of the Analects of Confucius".
To Lu Yu's surprise, Zheng Xuan had many unique insights into "The Analects of Confucius". Among them, he slandered more and praised less.
Apparently…
For this classmate "Yu Dan", the author of "Experiences of the Analects of Confucius", Zheng Xuan gave a harsh and shameless criticism!
To put it bluntly, Zheng Xuan came to Xuducheng not because "The Analects of Confucius" was well written, but because... it was written nonsense and badly, and he came to criticize it!
No wonder…
"The Analects of Confucius" is an interpretation of Confucius and the thoughts of "The Analects of Confucius" that meet the needs of modern people, ordinary people and modern society.
In the era of the late Han Dynasty... it was still a bit illusory, and even... one of the most critical words was ignored, which was also the word that Zheng Xuan valued most - awakening!
Fortunately, Zheng Xuan agrees with some of these views...
Go deep into the simplicity and push into the inside...
In the end, his evaluation was-mixed!
But... Over the years, Lu Yu is still the only work that Zheng Xuan can evaluate as "mixed to both praise and praise"!
certainly…
Lu Yu accepted this with an open mind.
You must know that in front of him is a master of philosophy, and the way to defeat the master of philosophy in a verbal battle is... the only way is "facts"!
As the saying goes, facts speak louder than words…
Lu Yu boldly raised many brand-new questions.
——"Mr. Zheng? Do you think...the Confucianism that has been 'trained' by Saint Dong today is still the same as that of Saint Kong in the past?"
——"Mr. Zheng, do you think the root cause of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Han Dynasty was the dispute between Confucianism and Taoism?"
——"Mr. Zheng, if we look at Confucianism from Kong Sage to Dong Sage, then... after Dong Sage's "divine right of kings", will there be any more saints who will put forward brand-new views... such as "the principle of existence"
, destroying human desires'? And then there is the opposite 'ambition to investigate things', 'unity of knowledge and action'?"
Don't say...
Many of the questions raised by Lu Yu would seem to normal people to be nonsense!
Especially the development of Confucianism!
But Zheng Xuan is not a normal person...
He has been studying Confucianism for decades, and many ideas have already taken shape in his mind. Many of Lu Yu's words awakened his consciousness.
——"The Thirteen Classics as I understand them include self-cultivation, self-education, self-discipline, self-supervision, and self-improvement."
——"The academic classics left over from history are for us to improve ourselves through learning, to become an ideal personality, to achieve the highest goodness, the most sincerity, the most benevolence, the most Tao, the most virtue, the most sage, the perfect combination of external and internal principles, and gain the right balance."
If you have a clear understanding of the laws of nature, you can advance by doing things for the people, and when you retreat, you can maintain an optimistic life of self-cultivation."
——"Everything in the world cannot escape the word 'law', and whether you mentioned 'preserving the laws of nature and destroying human desires', or 'the ambition to study things', and 'the unity of knowledge and action', they are all due to the laws of nature.
What you mentioned is very bold, but it does not prevent us from continuing to explore the underlying laws!"
Well…
Regardless of whether others understood it or not, Lu Yu didn't understand it at all.
Is this really philosophy?
It’s just like listening to a philosophy professor’s lecture!
Of course, when talking to a great scholar of this level, it’s okay if you don’t understand...it would be strange if you understand everything!
but…
What Lu Yu didn't know was that... what he mentioned about 'preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires', 'the ambition to investigate things', and 'the unity of knowledge and action' had been silently imprinted on Zheng Xuan's mind.
He used Spring and Autumn style to avoid talking about this topic.
Because... he felt that what Lu Yu mentioned was something he had to slowly understand.
"Master Lu asked me many questions, but I am curious and want to ask Master Lu a question."
"Mr. Zheng, you might as well ask..." Lu Yu waved his hand...
Zheng Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly. "Young Master Lu is the president of Taixue, and Taixue is the dream school of scholars all over the world. Mr. Lu thinks, how should the knowledge of the world be done? How should it be learned? What are the shortcomings of the world? How should we do it?
get rid of!"
Although it doesn’t show on the surface…
But in his heart... Zheng Xuan still admires Lu Yu very much and thinks he is very bold... Perhaps, under his leadership, the Han Dynasty has the hope of reform and the vision of recasting!
And precisely this question can be regarded as getting to the point.
What I said before is all nonsense...
In fact, this is the only thing Lu Yu wants Zheng Xuan to help him with in a real sense.
"Mr. Zheng asked me how to practice knowledge in the world? How to learn it? I can only answer in four words..." Lu Yu's tone became serious. "Knowing the world for practical use!"
"Effectiveness in the world..." Zheng Xuan narrowed his eyes and considered these four words carefully.
Lu Yu's words continued.
"As for...Mr. Zheng asked, what are the shortcomings of the world? How to get rid of them?"
"In fact, everyone can see that the shortcomings of the world are not in the battlefield, but in the gentry! The gentry monopolizes land and officialdom. Even the princes, even the court, and even the emperor do not dare to deal with the gentry's problems easily.
If their interests are touched, let alone ordinary people, in front of the nobles, they can only let themselves be slaughtered and slaughtered. As for the solution...the only word is 'awakening'!"
At this point, Lu Yu paused.
Not surprisingly, Zheng Xuan repeated it.
"Awakening?"
"That's right, awakening is also called enlightenment!" Lu Yu elaborated. "Mr. Zheng, just imagine, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the first year of Zhongping. What was the cause of the rebellion? Drought, waterlogging, ice disaster, locust plague,
Plagues continue one after another, alien races invade the border every year, and the people are homeless and desperate... until the couple cannibalize each other!"
"It's the emperor who has accepted his destiny to eat, drink and play, the rich man who has read poetry and books has thousands of hectares of fertile land...it's the eunuch who holds great power and robs the people, it's the bottom-level governance that is completely disordered, anomie, and dysfunctional, so some people say that 'the sky is dead'
, Huang Tiandang will be established, he will be in Jiazi, and the world will be prosperous.' This is the common people's first awakening to resist the gentry and resist tyranny! They find that this life cannot be passed, so they must resist... and overthrow!"
call…
It was just an ordinary chat at first, but Lu Yu's words lifted Zheng Xuan's spirit.
Lu Yu's words continued.
"Later, some people further realized that because of their limitations, the peasant class could not lead a successful revolution. This was true for Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and the same was true for the Yellow Turban Rebellion... But? Who can overthrow this chaotic world?
What about re-establishing order?”
"It was another wave of nobles. They did not reap the dividends of thousands of hectares of fertile land, and did not gain the strength of the people. They were dissatisfied, and they were eager to reshuffle the cards, so... Cao Sikong and Chen Liu raised their troops, and there was the Tiger of Jiangdong.
Sun Jian obtains the Jade Seal
Later, they were eager to try, with Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army entering the capital, until Luoyang, the imperial capital of the Han Dynasty, was burned to death by a fire...and these nobles began to quickly gather strength and occupy the territory! The heroes competed for the throne, this was the second awakening!
"
At this point, Lu Yu paused.
The next words were spoken much slower. "But these noble clans have established territories and the heroes are competing with each other, so what? They are conquering each other, and the entire Han Dynasty is still in dire straits, and the people still don't have enough to eat. Why is this? This is because each country has its own territory.
Road princes
If you want to rise, you still have to rely on the power of the clan. Let's not talk about it... Let's talk about Cao Sikong. Can his rise be separated from Qiao Pei Wuren? Can he be separated from Yingchuan Caijun? Yuan Shao's rise can be separated from the four members of the Yuan family.
Is it the fame and connections that Shi Sangong has accumulated?"
"Once these princes have great power and control the land, how can they take action against the nobles who help them? So... even though Cao Sikong's military and civilian villages in the Central Plains are developing vigorously, the people are still being oppressed, and 80% of the land is still in their hands.
In the hands of a small number of nobles, a large number of farmers were still reduced to tenant farmers, and the state treasury's grain and grass supply has improved, but it still has not reached the expected level!"
"So I say that the shortcomings of the world are that the gentry monopolizes everything and the people are free to eat! And the best way to get rid of this shortcoming is not revolution or rebellion, but awareness, which is the awareness and moral concepts of every common people.
The awakening, this final awakening, in the final analysis, is human awakening... It is the awakening that Mencius proposed that the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least important. It is an awakening that is completely contrary to the divine right of kings given by Dong Shengren! "
At this point, Lu Yu suddenly stood up...
This time it’s time to chat.
Originally... he didn't want to talk about the issue of noble clans prematurely, because now... the northern border is not yet settled, and the southern border is not peaceful, so it is too early to talk about it.
But after all, this is a big mountain, and it is a big mountain that Lu Yu must overturn.
otherwise…
Even if Cao Wei unified the world, it would be just another tragic reincarnation of the Han Dynasty!
And what can solve this problem...
Only Zheng Xuan can solve this problem from its source...
On the mountain of overthrowing the gentry, his support became extremely valuable.
call…
call…
At this moment, Zheng Xuan was gasping for air, and his eyes widened subconsciously. Lu Yu's words shocked, shocked, and deafened him!
"Are you a noble?"
Zheng Xuan chanted these four words in his heart. His life was full of ups and downs, from being persecuted by others, to being imprisoned by the party, to avoiding disasters for thousands of miles. Among them, which tragic past event did not have the claws of the "gentry" under the mountain?
Woolen cloth?
Can…
Even so, he never dared to deny the gentry...
This crime is too big.
And now, the young man in front of him, who has not yet reached his prime, keeps saying that he wants to overthrow the noble clan and make the common people awaken more violently...
What a lofty belief and incredible ideal this is?
"Master Lu? You...what do you want to do?"
At this moment, Zheng Xuan's tone was already a little stumbling...
Lu Yu's words continued.
"Today's big man is a rotten big man, and he is also an old house that is covered tightly by the nobles, with mold, sores, and pus. How can we let the awakening consciousness illuminate this ruined house like sunshine?
What about the house? In the past, people tried to use the simplest method to knock down the old house, but even if they pushed it down, the mold, the sores, and the pus were still hidden inside, and the rotten dirt that grew out was still there!"
"Because what is covering the old house is the 'dirty' thing! So, in my opinion, what we have to do now is not only to overthrow the old house, but also to dig out the root of its decay! Let's do a thorough overhaul
Awakening, let every common person participate in it, and use a spark to start a prairie fire to completely dig out the root of this corruption!"
"I believe that in order to overthrow the gentry and awaken thousands of people, we must have six goals! First, let the people realize what is independence and what is slave! Second, let the people understand what progress is and what feudal conservatism is;
Third, make people happy to go
Progress rather than retreat; fourth, allow the people to open their arms to new ideas rather than being closed-minded and complacent; fifth, allow the people to gain tangible benefits, rather than illusory; sixth, allow the people to dare to practice, rather than be in vain.
On paper!"
"Six standards, and the first step towards making progress, what I plan to do is to abolish the military settlements and implement the 'dividing every man into an acre' after Hebei is pacified.
Divide people into the ground, unite land and ground, breed people, never add taxes, put people into talent tax, abolish the head tax! Completely collapse the mountain of gentry, let the self-consciousness of the people awaken! Mr. Zheng
Is it about 'nature', 'awakening?', this move of the junior's game is extremely dangerous, if you are not careful, you may become the target of public criticism! But the junior is bold and wants to ask Mr. Zheng to go forward side by side with the junior, go up and down this mountain of swords together.
This sea of fire!"
boom…
Boom!
Lu Yu's words were like thunder to Zheng Xuan!
Perhaps the purpose of his coming to Xudu before was just to restart the scholar's monthly review. At most, he would host a monthly review and comment for Lu Yu...
But now, after hearing Lu Yu's words, his eyes were shining with a dazzling light.
What kind of forward thinking does this have?
What a young man with such heroic determination and ambition?
He...Zheng Xuan? Are you really qualified to comment on him?
Even more, is he, Zheng Xuan, really qualified to give him a calligraphy?
——Yu!
At this moment, Zheng Xuan could only think of the word "Yu".
In his opinion, the world, the universe... maybe... is his limit!
"Ziyu", apart from these two words, Zheng Xuan really can't think of... other words.
Son, a handsome gentleman as gentle as jade!
Ziyu, a gentleman who takes the universe and the world as his limit!
"Gudong!"
Zheng Xuan swallowed subconsciously... His eyes were extremely shocked.
"Director Lu is so ambitious, but awakening the people is a hundred or a thousand times more difficult than awakening the scholars? Does Director Lu really want to set foot on this mountain of swords?"
"Mr. Zheng..." Lu Yu's tone became even more meticulous. "Mr. Zheng and I were both born in these troubled times, and unfortunately we both understand the reasons for the rise of these troubled times. It just so happens that... we both have some fame and energy, so...
In my opinion, there are only two meanings of living!"
"Either, step onto this mountain of swords and let your reputation pass on."
"Either, it is to seek some hope for the people in this troubled world and make a contribution to the coming of the next prosperous age!"
call…
Zheng Xuan breathed out again, and he murmured and repeated Lu Yu's words, "Create a little hope for the people? Make a contribution to the prosperous age?"
"But...I still said the same thing. It's still difficult to make people aware of their thoughts!"
"Difficult? It's not difficult either!" Lu Yu smiled slightly, "Actually, there is a method!"
He looked directly at Zheng Xuan. "If... I tell Mr. Zheng that there is a paper called newspaper, he can copy tens of thousands of Mr. Zheng's words today in one day, and quickly deliver them to every corner of the Han Dynasty, so that Zheng
Mr. Zheng’s inspiring words can shock and awaken the world. Do you believe it or not, Mr. Zheng?”
this…
Zheng Xuan was a little surprised.
Is there such a strange paper in this world? Is it Caihou paper? But... Caihou paper is obviously very expensive, and it is too stiff to leave ink!
How can you copy tens of thousands of copies in one day?
Cao Ying, no... can Lu Yu really create such a miracle?
Before Zheng Xuan could speak, Lu Yu's words came out one after another. "One month, only one month...I will let Mr. Zheng see the artifact called 'newspaper' that I chanted in my mouth today!"
"And the effect of this artifact, coupled with Mr. Zheng's reputation, is worth millions of soldiers if he wants to dominate the world... If he is to guide the world, he can spread thousands of miles! Awakening all people, he will be invincible!"
In fact, Lu Yu quickly shouted that he should make Zheng Xuan believe in science... and believe in the power of public opinion guidance.
But in the end, he still didn't shout out these two fresh terms. After all... Zheng Xuan was playing with Confucian classics, and Confucian classics... compared with science, it has a bit of a metaphysics flavor.
now…
With a "whoosh" sound, Zheng Xuan suddenly stood up.
"Okay... okay, okay!"
After saying three good words in a row, Zheng Xuan's eyes condensed. "If it is really as you said, then I will definitely write a text that can help you and help Cao Sikong dominate the world, and you will spread it throughout the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty...
So that the ideal prosperous age can come one day earlier!"
In one word, with a "gudong" sound, Zheng Xuan swallowed a mouthful of saliva and put both hands on Lu Yu's shoulders.
At this moment...if he were asked to evaluate Lu Yu, he wouldn't be able to do so.
This young man is too mysterious, and it seems that... even after such a conversation, his understanding of this young man has just begun.
"Master Lu, there are so many things about you that make me curious! There are also so many things that I can learn from you!"
"I'm optimistic about you!"
——"Yes, we will fulfill our mission!" Lu Yu replied with his hands in hand, his eyes becoming much more determined.
Today, he visited Zheng Xuan...
I'm not asking for comments, I'm not asking for words, I'm just asking for Zheng Xuan's support.
and…
No one knows Zheng Xuan's energy better than Lu Yu...
Zheng Xuan paired with newspapers and periodicals. It is conservatively estimated that this is worth 300,000 soldiers. It is simply better than...green tea and green plums, they are a perfect match!