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Volume 7: Joking and Talking about Drinking the Blood of Huns Chapter 10: Private Study

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    After Chen De finished dealing with Zhang Zhongyao and Li Si, he was still sitting in the flower hall thinking about the gains and losses.  After receiving the secret report that the generals wanted to get him drunk and wear yellow robes, especially the actions of Li Si and Zhang Zhongyao, Chen De was shocked and felt that he was being coerced by the entire sergeant class.  Only then did he make up his mind to remove Li Si from his military post and become a tax collector, in order to rebuild the increasingly marginalized civil service system in order to strengthen his authority.

    Huang Wen personally brought up a bowl of gruel and complained: "I know that the generals are going to pour you wine, but you don't know how to take care of your body." Chen De took the bowl of porridge and said with a smile, "I have lived in Bianliang for many years, and I rely on the generals everywhere.  There is a lot of hard work and merit in the strategy. I got drunk last night just to talk about my cousin's kindness." Huang Wen didn't want to interfere in political affairs, so she changed the subject and said: "The one who designed to frame you and your sister is really General Zhang.  With General Li?" Chen De nodded and said: "To pursue a great cause for the country, they often kill themselves and destroy their families, but it's nothing they use any means." Huang Wen saw that he was as if nothing had happened, and couldn't help but spat: "It's nothing.  If they let them succeed, how can you face your sister and the king?"

    Chen De was slightly jealous when he heard her words, and he felt happy and said with a smile: "Then I have to go to the king in person to plead guilty." He handed the empty porridge bowl back to Huang Wen and said in a deep voice: "He  The two of them are my subordinates, and those who conspired are also out of loyalty. How can I not be responsible for being the master of others?" But Huang Wen said worriedly: "The king has a deep misunderstanding, and I am now even connected to the king's presence in Dunhuang.  , and dared not let her sister know about it. If she knew that the king wrote a letter of divorce out of suspicion, how embarrassing would it be?" Chen De also had a headache. He couldn't tell the truth about this man and woman, scratching his head and said:  "For today's plan, let's wait until Li Yu's anger calms down first." Since he has decided to proclaim himself emperor, Chen De no longer maintains the status of emperor and minister. He just called Li Yu by his name in front of Huang Wen. Huang Wen was stunned and immediately understood.  He came over and looked at his husband with complicated eyes.

    Since that day when Chen Dequan walked in, the more Li Yu thought about it, the angrier he became. He couldn't figure out why Chen De teased and humiliated him like this.  For ten days in a row, my mind was hard to settle down in meditation. When I saw that the guard soldiers did not restrict my movements and only protected me from a distance when I went out, I walked out at will to relax.

    When I came to a tea shop, I suddenly heard the speaker clapped his hands and yelled: "Wang Ronglou's boat sailed down to Yizhou, and the king of Jinling lost his energy sadly. Qianxun's iron chain sank to the bottom of the river, and a stream of descending flags came out.  Stone. Ladies and gentlemen, this Southern Dynasty values ??literature over military affairs, and the people are weak, but there are also heroes who stand up to fight against the brutal army. We talk about heroes and Tao heroes. Today I am talking about "Chen Jiedu burned Caishiji, Xin  The hussar formation killed the King of Wu and Yue." The people around him cheered loudly.

    Hearing that the words were originally about old events in the south of the Yangtze River, Li Yu ordered a pot of tea and sat down, but the more he listened, the less interesting it became.  In order to please others, the storyteller avoided talking about the talents and achievements of other civil servants and generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty. He even described the leader of the Jiangnan Kingdom as weak, fatuous, stubborn and ignorant, as if this was not enough to set off Chen De's wisdom and martial arts.  .  After the fall of Jiangnan, Li Yu originally blamed himself a bit, but the speech script described his partiality as a very wrong thing. The more he talked about it, the worse it became, as if he was far from qualified.  It was a pity that the important ministers, especially Chen De, were loyal and courageous, but the ordinary people nearby listened with interest and believed it, instead of shouting "good!"  "How could the Southern Dynasty have such a soft-hearted emperor!"

    The anger that had just calmed down rose again, and Li Yu was about to get up and leave, but he heard the person at the table next to him sigh: "The Lord of Jiangnan is also a seed of articles. When it comes to the ability to write long and short sentences, he is even more talented than anyone else."  However, it’s a pity that I was born at the wrong time and encountered the age when a warrior ruled the country.”

    Hearing this, Li Yu sat down again, picked up the tea cup, and turned around to see two scholars drinking tea and chatting.

    "Brother Deng, you are obsessed with what you say. The so-called 'natural selection, survival of the fittest' has changed. Times have changed, and today's countries are all better than strength. The Southern Dynasty adheres to the culture of weakness and does not practice martial arts. This  Only then did the ancestral temple fall, and the country be ruined and the family be destroyed. In my opinion, the greater the master's ability to dance with words, the stronger the trend of literary culture in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the greater the harm to the country, but not as good as the talents of others.  "Wang Jian, wearing a cloth shirt, said quite excitedly.

    Deng Wei looked at his classmate and friend with some helplessness. Ever since he read some strange books said to be from the Western Regions, Wang Jian would fall into an inexplicable excited and argumentative state from time to time. "He has fallen into a devil's barrier," Deng Wei said secretly, but raised his  He took a sip from the tea cup and said in a deep voice: "Brother Wang, please don't quote those words and phrases from books on the Western Regions casually again, and be careful not to spread them to my husband's ears and make him angry." Speaking of Mr. Liang Zuoqiu, Deng Wei  There was a look of respect on the faces of Liang Zuoqiu and Wang Jian. Both of them were poor students. Liang Zuoqiu took them in the academy and placed them under his protection. He only assigned some tasks of copying books, but in essence he cherished them.  The talents of the two helped them study.

    After moving from Lanzhou to Dunhuang, Liang Zuoqiu and his friends raised funds to open a sand beach next to Thousand Buddha Rock at the foot of Mingsha Mountain.In the state academy, the inscription "Those who speak in the academy are not guilty" written by Chen De were erected in front of the academy, which indeed made the discussion and debate in the academy almost unlimited.  A few days ago, several crazy students from Suiyang Academy came here to study. When they saw the stone tablet, they became more emboldened to provoke a debate with the words "Chen Denai is a traitor and traitor who stole the border village." Wang Jian and other local students from Shazhou naturally stepped forward to fight. During the debate  , Wang Jian inadvertently revealed his understanding of the so-called "dialectics" and "form-name logic" from the Western Regions book, which made those crazy students speechless, hid their faces and left in shame, but Wang Jian's private study of heresy was also immediately revealed.  Mr. Liang Zuoqiu realized that he came down and reprimanded him, pointing out that Wang Jian's basic knowledge base was not deep, and he could easily go astray by delving into the fascinating knowledge of the Western Regions.

    After listening to his friend's advice, Wang Jian's eyes darkened: "If you succeed in applying for the tax collector's office this time, it will not be as easy as before to listen to Mr. Zuoqiu's teachings." The two of them did not want to live under others for a long time, and Li Si happened to be the tax collector.  When the government advertised for a job, they made an appointment to go to the city to take the examination for tax collector. Then they came out of the examination room and rested for a while before returning to the academy.

    Li Yu also heard about Liang Zuoqiu's name in Dunhuang, and he was known as Wenzong. However, because of the military government's enforcement of the lack of handwriting, he angrily changed the academy to a private school.  go.  Liang Zuoqiu took advantage of Chen De's charter of scribes who could protect thirty households, and vigorously recruited friends and disciples who were not familiar with archery to the academy to build momentum. He even wrote to the military government and argued hard, forcing Chen De to issue a decree that no matter whether it is an official school or a private school, he  , all can obtain free land for building school buildings.  Since only Quebi characters were taught in official schools and the military, wealthy families in Anxi prefectures and counties set up private schools one after another to allow their children to learn both the Quebi characters in Anxi military schools and the original Chinese characters.  Official schools can now only teach soldiers and civilians who are forced to be literate by law, or poor children who cannot afford private education. Official schools were originally filled with children from rich families. These people had no books to read and were illiterate for life, but now they have benefited.

    This Mr. Liang Zuoqiu is actually a scholar with character. Li Yu secretly thought, and he couldn't help but become curious. He stood up and bowed his hands to Wang Jian and Deng Wei and said, "My surname is Li."  , named Jia, courtesy name Zhongyin, I have long admired the name of Mr. Zuoqiu, could you two introduce me to him?" He has a face as beautiful as a crown jewel, as if he is a well-educated Confucian scholar. It is often said that there is poetry and calligraphy in his heart, and others are just pretending.  Unable to pretend, Wang Jian and Deng Wei were not suspicious as soon as they met. They stood up and greeted each other politely. During the chat, Wang Jian mocked the nonsense in the speech book, which made Li Yu very happy. The three drank tea for a while and then set off.  Go to Shazhou Academy at the foot of Mingsha Mountain.

    After arriving at Shazhou Academy, Deng Wei took Li Yu to visit the study.  Liang Zuoqiu and Li Yu were both knowledgeable people. They felt like old friends when they met. After the greetings, they both felt late. After talking about poetry and essays, Li Yu saw several books on Liang Zuoqiu's desk. The strokes were all so crude.  He couldn't help but be surprised and said: "I heard that Mr. Zuoqiu strongly opposed Anxi's implementation of the "missing" calligraphy, accusing it of drinking poison to quench thirst, relieving temporary worries, and leaving eternal regrets. Why are you still looking at some "missing" characters?  Anthology?"

    Liang Zuoqiu looked a little more weathered than when he was in Lanzhou, but his bearing was even better. He picked up a book and handed it to Li Yu, saying: "Although this missing calligraphy is crude, it still has the original character."  Brother Zhong Yin, please take a look at this book first, and then comment with me." Li Yu took the book and looked at the three words "Theory of Elements" on the cover. When he saw two words that were exactly the same as the original, he felt relieved.  Read from the beginning.

    The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water. When Liang Zuoqiu saw him reading a book, he also took another one for himself, sometimes flipping through it, sometimes closing his eyes and meditating.

    Li Yu looked closely at the book called "The Theory of Elements", and the more he read, the more frightened he became. According to the book, everything in the world is composed of 118 elements from seven families. Not only are these elements attached like stairs,  The table also lists some examples of elements constructing objects and elements reacting to each other to transform objects.  It is quite similar to the Waidan Taoism that talks about turning stones into gold, but it is explained clearly, as if the person who wrote the book saw it with his own eyes.  After reading this book, Li Yu sighed and said: "Strange talk and strange theories, this is what Mr. Wang said, a fascinating book on the Western Regions, right? It is true, I don't know if it is true."

    Liang Zuoqiu saw that he had read the most difficult "Theory of Elements" in the Western Regions book at a glance. He secretly praised it and said in a deep voice: "Recently, someone has collected materials based on the examples in "Theory of Elements". All things change like this book."  What is said in it is at least more realistic than those golden elixir Taoist books." Pointing to several other books on the table, he said: "After Anxi sent envoys to the West to obtain books and scrolls, Chen De arranged for officials and academies to collect them one by one.  Translated into Chinese characters, all other books have both missing characters and Chinese character versions. Only these five books, Chen De only ordered to print the missing characters version, not the Chinese version for the time being. Although I object to the missing characters, but  After carefully reading these five books, I still agree with his decision." Li Yu carefully looked at the names of the other four books, which were "Theory of Heavenly Evolution", "Logic", "Dialectics" and "Mechanics".  law".

    Liang ?Qiu pointed to the "Lun of Heavenly Evolution" and said: "The opening line of this book clearly states, 'Natural selection, survival of the fittest', which seems to be similar to what the Book of Changes says, 'Heaven moves vigorously, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement', but the author has developed  What it is about is the way to manage the world and govern the country by getting rid of shame and upholding utilitarianism, which is learned from the survival of animals." Pointing to the "Logic", he said: "This book talks about the science of form and name, the chapters and sentences are plain, and the meaning is very clear.  Deep, we often see words criticizing the Master. It is probably the old works of famous figures from the Warring States Period that were spread to the Western Regions. They were added, deleted, and then circulated back." Pointing to the "Dialectics", he said: "If a traitor learns from this book, it will be enough to confuse right and wrong.  Confusing right and wrong, referring to a deer as a horse." Pointing to the "Laws of Mechanics", he said: "This is about the study of things to achieve knowledge. I have verified the method with several disciples, and it is quite true."

    Li Yu listened to Liang Zuoqiu's introduction to the books and couldn't help but wonder: "Since it is a strange book, why is it only published with missing characters and not widely disseminated?" Liang Zuoqiu sighed: "Brother Li, you haven't read it.  After reading the "Tianyan Lun", the words in it are really shocking. In the past six months, I have been studying these strange books from the Western Regions. The more I think about them, the more I feel that their essence is completely different from the teachings of the saints, and runs counter to the principles of cultivating Qi and Zhiping. Say something.  'Transforming barbarians into summer' is not a pretense of sensationalism."

    "Since the chaos of the previous dynasty, the Central Plains has been in chaos, and foreign races have invaded each other. China's vitality has been greatly damaged, and rituals and music have collapsed. The world has been slightly stable, but the Khitan people have relied on the Yanyun Sixteen Provinces to achieve success. This has not happened for hundreds of years.  If the situation changes, if these five strange books flow into the Central Plains together and enchant the ears and eyes, they will only disturb the Chinese people's hearts and cause many disasters."

    "The only way is to first expand the influence of a few books, and then invite all the famous Confucian scholars in the world to eliminate the unnecessary and retain the essential, eliminate the false and retain the true, and incorporate them into the system of our fundamental Chinese learning. Only then can we reap the effects of others. Right.  It is for this reason that I agree with Chen De and publish these five rare books from the Western Regions only in inscribed scripts, so that their influence will be limited to Anxi and not spread throughout the heart of China. I have been here these days  Send excerpts of the words and sentences to scholar friends and invite them to Shazhou∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷┃

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