Chapter 279 Reading for Sanctification and Pain for Profit
Although Emperor Hongzhi's mourning period on the 27th has passed and he no longer has to go to court, Zhu Houzhao, who lives in Chengqian Palace, still goes around Qianqing Palace every day, touching here and looking there, and he still visits from time to time. He muttered a few words. In the eyes of outsiders, he was not at all as grief-stricken as a son should be, so he muttered more about the little emperor. Even he refused to live in Qianqing Palace. This article has been discussed in private by many officials, with many shaking their heads and sighing.
However, when Jiao Fang sent a memorial, saying that the court meeting would be changed to every five days, and the Wenhua Hall would be restored for the court meeting, the court officials from top to bottom immediately stopped paying attention to those details. The pot exploded. Some officials who often avoided court meetings clapped their hands and cheered, some old ministers who were following the old ways were sad, and some were hesitant and thinking quietly... But more people were waiting and watching, waiting to see how many people agreed and how many people opposed it. , wait and see what the attitude of the big shots in the court will be, and wait and see what the attitude of the young emperor will be. Amidst this hesitant attitude, Wang Shouren's first lecture after the death of Emperor Hongzhi began.
To the north of Tongjiaqiao in the south of the city is Liulichang. Because there was a small puddle nearby, a merchant built a house in the early years. However, during the Zhengtong period, when the Wala troops came to the city, even the capital could barely save it, let alone other places, so the house was once It continued to be abandoned. Later, with the gradual peace near the capital, the number of businessmen traveling from north to south increased day by day. Some people also took a fancy to this abandoned garden. A few years after one of them renovated it, it was bought by Wang from the West Factory. He got it by sight, and then fell into silence for many years. However, in the past few days, a large number of people came. First, they demolished the wall and built a seven-meter-high brick building around a large locust tree with a cloud-like crown. The eight-lattice semi-circular staircase was planted with many trees all around. The rest were just some broken walls and flat land, which suddenly showed a somewhat different wild charm.
Early in the morning that day, people arrived one after another. At first there were only one, two, three or four people, but later there were more people, including many children who were still in the corner. Seeing this scene, several of them knew Wang Shouren. The young scholar couldn't help but feel strange, and he couldn't help asking about it. He learned that many people in the streets had rumored that Wang Shouren had taught the current emperor, and they couldn't help but look at each other. And when Wang Shouren arrived here, that The semi-circular steps with a height of seven or eight steps were already filled with people, and there were more than two or three hundred people in the darkness.
It is not that Wang Shouren has never given lectures in the capital before, but it is rare for dozens of people to attend his lectures on weekdays. On the contrary, Li Mengyang and others convened a poetry club and the response was even greater. Today, Li Mengyang and Zhan Ruoshui, who happened to be on vacation, He came with him and several friends. Seeing the crowded scene, everyone was shocked.
Wang Shouren originally agreed to Xu Xun's invitation because it was just a favor, but now this kind of prestige made him really feel excited.
Therefore, when he climbed onto the circular raised position in the middle, he glanced around at the hundreds of listeners. Somehow, a sentence he said casually when he was young came to mind strangely. So he made up his mind. After calming down, he said word by word: "I don't want so many people to come today, so the topic Wang originally prepared is inevitably a bit small. Looking at the people who come today, there are old and young, some are well-educated people, and some are ignorant children. There are court officials and exam-takers, but one thing is common to all of them, that is, they all have studied. So why have we spent decades studying hard in cold windows?"
After a pause, Wang Shouren once again uttered the same sentence from before. But now that such a sentence came out of his mouth, it no longer sounded childlike like it did before, but became more loud and clear.
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"We study to become sages!"
Xu Xun, who was hiding under a willow tree not far away, heard such shocking words and saw the countless people sitting over there in an uproar. He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. He had spent a lot of time building momentum for Wang Shouren's lecture.
, if he hadn't printed leaflets and distributed them casually these days, even if he had the emperor as his backer, he would have been drowned in the spit of the ministers. He wished he could distribute leaflets all over the city to promote Wang Shouren. And in order to have some boos today.
However, he secretly found a few people to prepare to oppose Wang Shouren depending on the situation. After all, reputation is often fought for and quarreled, but Wang Shouren himself dropped the most controversial bombshell. Those of his
The arrangements are all redundant.
Sure enough, someone in the crowd immediately jumped up and criticized Wang Shouren for being arrogant. What followed was a real version of a verbal battle with Confucian scholars. Wang Shouren went from being a sage to a sage without being born, to the point where he cannot achieve greatness without having great ambitions.
Then, when faced with a scholar who fiercely accused Wang Shouren of blasphemy, Wang Shouren, with his beautiful beard, finally showed his edge.
"Sage Confucius taught seventy-two disciples. However, throughout his life, none of the seventy-two disciples surpassed Saint Confucius. Later, there were sub-sages. However, in the past thousands of years, although there were many who could be called disciples, none of them could do so again.
Why are we called saints and sages? If there is no intention to establish learning, no fruits of enlightenment, and no deeds of assisting the sage and emperor in governing the country and bringing peace to the world, how can we call them saints? If only a person knows this, even if he can understand the most important principles in the world, he is just wise and shrewd.
, but as long as you know and practice, practice and teach, and teach and govern, even if you cannot become a sage, you are still not far from a sage!"
After saying this in one breath, Wang Shouren almost paused briefly before saying fiercely: "If they don't have the intention to become a sage, they only study for fame and profit. Even if such people are established in the world, even if they can be famous for a while, they will not be able to do it in the world."
Time has changed, how many people's names will go down in history? When saints traveled to various countries, many of them were powerful and famous, but how many people still know their names today? Reading is considered to be a saint. What I said is not to seek the names of saints, but to seek the names of saints.
This is about establishing your heart and becoming a saint!”
At this moment, even Zhan Ruoshui, who was just here to listen, had a strange look on his face. If there were so many people sitting in a big room like before, interruptions would never be allowed, although there would be some afterward.
After all, questioning one or two statements or arguing with arguments is not the current atmosphere. Seeing Wang Shouren arguing with others again, he couldn't help but squinted his eyes and suddenly looked aside thoughtfully.
Li Mengyang.
"Brother Kong Tongxian, what do you think when you look at today's situation?"
In terms of fame, Li Mengyang is far more famous in the capital than Wang Shouren. Basically, poetry and articles are the biggest shortcut to fame. What's more, although he is a little crazy, he has more literary friends than Wang Shouren. However, facing today
In this heated debate, he was also a little skittish. After hearing Zhan Ruoshui's words, he smiled and said: "What do you think? Although it may not be appropriate, I am wondering if it was the same when hundreds of scholars met during their study tours.
Are you now questioning everyone without fear?"
"Brother Kongtong and I thought of going together! Of course, there are many people today, and the layout is empty and not solemn, allowing people to have room to talk. Plus, Wang Boan actually chose such an entry point, so naturally it was very intense.
." At this point, Zhan Ruoshui took a look around and saw that the green trees and the pond were so refreshing and there were no walls. He couldn't help but nodded happily and said, "Bo'an also mentioned to me today that if he
This lecture has a good effect, so he asked me to come here to give it, and now it seems that I really want to agree to it."
"He also lobbied you?" Li Mengyang's eyes suddenly flashed. Seeing Zhan Ruoshui's expression, he spread his hands and said, "Wang Bo'an also lobbied me to move the poetry club here. I was still hesitant at first.
But this place looks rough, but it is actually wild and interesting. When you say that again, I am moved! You don’t know, someone read me the poems and essays of a Hanlin Shuji scholar in Jinke a few days ago, which is really touching.
I would like to invite him to a club because of his appreciation. Brother Yuan Ming, would you be willing to be a witness?"
"Oh? Who can win your respect, Li Kongtong?"
"Jinke Chuanlu, Xu Zhenqing, one of the four great talents in Jiangnan."
In a hurry, Xu Xun just asked Mr. Chen to lead people to build a circular grandstand here. It could not let the echo penetrate into every corner like the famous amphitheater. The so-called natural wildness was just because of his
He only had time to transplant a batch of trees to serve as natural partitions around it. Moreover, the survival rate of transplants in summer was very low. He was even mentally prepared to scrap all the greenery afterwards.
And he was not a god. He did not expect that Wang Shouren would choose such a topic, nor did he expect that Zhan Ruoshui and Li Mengyang would be moved by Wang Shouren's persuasion and the on-site observation.
All he knew was that this first attempt was finally successful.
Wang Shouren, who was thirsty and tongue-tied, did not end until the sun was at the top of the sky. At this time, the scholars who came from afar were also hungry. Although some were dissatisfied and sought Wang Shouren's theory, more people dispersed.
There were many people who were hungry and stayed in nearby tea stalls, noodle restaurants and even a few small shops. Among the people, there was a lonely poor man, but there were also people from wealthy families. The popularity of the neighborhood suddenly increased.
In this elegant and clean restaurant, all ten private seats were fully occupied, not to mention the well-matched box dishes and the rented small square tables and small wicker chairs for the scholars to dine and rest under the shade of the trees.
Not only that, after the meal, there were people talking about where some famous scholars were planning to hold a poetry contest, where there were people who wanted to compete in essays, etc. There was even a rumor that Emperor Hongzhi once traveled incognito in an abandoned temple nearby.
In Mo Bao, one person said that he was going to commemorate and write poems in memory, and then there were many people in twos and threes traveling together, which was really lively.
Standing on the railing of a private room on the second floor of the Weijia Restaurant, Gu Dayong thought of the scene when the shopkeeper came up to report the accounts, and he was a little excited for a moment: "This is only the first time, these ten private seats plus the ones sold
From the box of vegetables, I can earn a total of fifty taels. Excluding the cost, it is not a problem for a building like this to earn a thousand taels a month."
"We can't calculate the accounts like this. Today, we may have such a powerful meeting once or twice a month, but it is impossible to do it every three or five times. The most important thing now is the businessmen coming from the south. Many of them have worked hard.
The purpose of transporting goods from Caohe to Beijing is to sell large quantities of goods in the capital.