Prime Minister

Chapter 550 Dun and Zeng Bu

When Zhang Yue heard that Zeng Gong was coming, he went out to greet him in person.

He walked out the door and saw a thin man beside Zeng Gong.

Zhang Yue looked at the man for a while, but saw that the man looked at a bunch of flowers and plants in his yard. This expression can be described as cold and stern.

Zhang Yue quickly looked away and smiled at Zeng Gong: "Brother Zigu!"

Zeng Gong said with a smile: "Come on."

The two smiled and held hands together.

After a few gossips, Zhang Yue said with a smile: "This brother is handsome and handsome. I wonder which relative or friend of Brother Zi Gu?"

Zeng Gong glanced at the other party, and the other party immediately bowed to Zhang Yue.

Zeng Gong introduced with a smile: "This is Xuan, a student of the house, and now he is transferred to Beijing to be the coordinator of the book."

Zhang Yue knew who it was as soon as he heard it. It turned out to be Zeng Gong's younger brother Zeng Bu.

They are all Jinshi in the second year of Jiayou, but Zeng Gong is only the top five guards, but Zeng Bu's ranking is much better than him.

It's also quite strange that the elder brother who is more famous in the article is not as ranked as the younger brother.

In another time and space history, the brothers of the Zeng family were all big bulls, the elder brother was the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, and the younger brother became the Zaizhi, the most powerful general of Wang Anshi's reform.

Unexpectedly, in this time and space, he was actually recommended to him by his brother.

That's right, I have nothing to say about my relationship with Zeng Gong, it would be weird if I didn't bring him to see me.

In fact, he has a good relationship with five of the Eight Great Families of the Tang and Song Dynasties. As for the other...

I remember that the kid in front of me has the habit of writing a diary... I don't know how he would evaluate himself in secret?
Zhang Yue and Zeng Bu greeted each other, and then invited them in to drink tea and chat.

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And at the moment in Wang Anshi's mansion.

Zhang Dun met Wang Anshi in his official uniform.

Wang Anshi did not face Zhang Dun directly. When Zhang Dun came in, his servant had just served Wang Anshi a cup of tea.

Wang Anshi noticed that he was thirsty, so he took tea and drank it.

Zhang Dun wanted to salute when he saw this, but he withdrew his hand and stood aside.

After Wang Anshi put down the tea bowl, he looked at Zhang Dun and asked, "Why aren't you polite?"

Zhang Dun replied: "Mencius said that adults should despise him, don't regard him as majestic, and the lower officials want to talk about neihan, so they don't regard him as majestic."

Hearing what Zhang Dun said, Wang Anshi had no expression on his face, but this was his first-class disdain for provocation. There are too many people who want to make big words in front of the old man, and you, Zhang Dun, are considered the oldest.

Wang Anshi said indifferently: "What words do you have to say about me?"

Zhang Dun said: "Neihan has held back the expectations of the world for 30 years, and the world regards him as Anshi. The prince is proud of the wind and the moon, sitting with his knees in his arms. After entering Beijing, the officials asked the prince for advice. The most urgent task of the prince is to 'change customs, Legislative degree'."

"I think the prince's consideration is inappropriate. It's better to change it to 'strict customs and strict laws'."

As soon as Wang Anshi heard it, he knew that Zhang Dun and Li Chengzhi in front of him were generally the people he was looking for.He said to Zhang Dun, "Zihou sit down and talk."

Zhang Dun said with an expected expression: "Thank you, Prince, for giving me the seat."

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On the other hand, Zhang Yue, Zeng Gong and Zeng Bu talked.

It turned out that after Zeng Bu entered Beijing, he wanted to try out for a post in the museum, and wanted to ask officials for recommendation.It turned out that due to Ouyang Xiu's relationship, this matter was not difficult for Zeng Gong at all, but now Ouyang Xiu has been demoted far away.

Zeng Gong thought of Zhang Yue, and wanted Zhang Yue to help find a recommendation from a senior official.

Zhang Yue didn't agree, but looked at Zeng Bu and asked, "Zixuan, how about the scriptures? How about the literature and history?"

Zeng Buqi said: "The job of the examination hall is to examine poems, essays, orthodoxy. Why do you ask me about Confucianism, literature and history?"

Zhang Yue couldn't help laughing, and Zeng Gong said: "Although brother She is stupid, what he said is also reasonable. I don't know why Du is laughing?"

Zhang Yue smiled and said: "I also ask the virtuous Kunzhong to forgive my sins. In fact, with Zixuan's talent, this poem and prose article is not a big deal, but is the post of the library just for composing poems and prose articles? The most important thing is to understand the classics, so as to prepare for the emperor's advisor. !"

Zeng Gong nodded and said: "So that's the case, what Duzhi said makes sense."

Zeng Bu on the side was very honest and honest: "I am telling you the truth, Bu thinks otherwise! The position of the museum is a noble choice, and it is important to prepare the emperor's adviser, but the most important thing is to use your own experience as an official to supplement the world's governance. How can it be just What about making a bookcase?"

Zhang Yue was stunned when he heard this, and he finally understood why Zeng Bu showed a look of disbelief from the very beginning. Officials, don't take it seriously.

Zhang Yue laughed when he heard the words: "Zixuan, what is the so-called governance? To put it bluntly, it is to solve the problem!"

"So we want to help the emperor solve problems, why use classics and history?"

"Because the scriptures are horizontal, history is vertical!"

The so-called classics are horizontal and history is vertical, which means that we look at problems from two perspectives: horizontal and vertical.

What is it?
In other words, the Confucian classics are an ideology. The so-called ideology is a conventional method to solve this problem, so that it is so convenient for the upper and lower levels to coordinate, so that one person does not have a solution.

For example, when making friends with women in brothels, one thinks it is romantic, and the other thinks it is immoral.

There are plenty of people with both opinions, but ideology is to unify everyone's opinion that it is wrong to do this thing.

What is the so-called sutra?
That is, when we politicians want to solve a problem, we must take into account the views of the majority.

For example, if I want to go to a brothel, you have to use your brain to know that it is wrong. If your good friend goes, you must persuade him. If you are an official and have scholars under your rule who stay in brothels all day and night, you can get This thing spanks his ass.

As for history, it is vertical.

Politicians solve problems in the present, and all past events can be used as a reference.

Since the classics is to understand ideology, why do we need to generalize history?
Zhang Yue said to the brothers of the Zeng family: "In the past, Kumarajiva's high-footed monk Zhao said in the theory that things do not change. don't go."

"Why do you say that, if you ask for something, you have nothing to do with it; if you are responsible for something now, you have never had it now. If you don't have it now, you know that things won't come; if you don't know what you want, you know that things won't go away."

What Zhang Yue said was very mysterious, but it was actually very simple.

Seek the present from the past, so you know that things don’t go away. People think that things in the past have passed away. This thing seems to have gone away from you, but it is not. It is like the books you have read, the meals you have eaten, The road you have traveled, even the losses you have suffered, and the tricks you have suffered.

These seem to have passed away, but they have all become a part of your body, and become your experience, knowledge and nutrition to stay with you.

Therefore, when a person encounters a problem now, the methods and means to solve the problem are actually judgments based on your past experience and practice.

Conversely, seeking the past from the present is not to go.

There are always various regrets in life. For example, if I work harder in 20 years, I will definitely not be the bird I am today.

Back then, if I didn't say the words that made the girl angry, she would already be my wife now and so on.

If you take the question more seriously during the exam, you won't be wrong.

But it’s actually not the case. Even if you live again, those who deserve to fall will still fall, and that girl will not become a wife. When you encounter that problem, you should still be wrong.

why is it like this?Because the conditions and environment you are in today are different from those in the past.

It's like we often feel sad for what happened in the history books, and always think about what I should do, but history is not accidental but inevitable.

Of course, unless you are a time traveler, because people are not the same people as before.

So don't regret the past, because there is no second reason to say except for your own food.But you learn from it, and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

This is the essence of the non-transfer theory.

If things go but don't come, where do things go now?

If the past does not become who you are today, where will you be today?
Why is the national policy of our Song Dynasty to strengthen the weak branches and use literature to control military affairs?Knowing that the trained soldiers are so bad that they can't fight, why not return to the pattern of the Tang Dynasty and let the soldiers lead the army?
After Zhang Yue finished speaking, he said: "The scriptures are the vulgar, and the common principles are established for the world. History seems to be far away. We don't use it in ordinary times, but when we encounter difficulties, it is the true truth!"

"If people act in disregard of common sense, no one will believe what they say, but blindly following common sense is like succumbing to popular customs, and they are farther and farther away from the real way. Therefore, history must be used to correct the meaning of the scriptures. absurd."

"We are in the library, why do we have to study classics and history well, so that we can prepare for the emperor's counsel? Has Zixuan understood?"

Zeng Bu stood up at this moment, without any arrogance from just now, and said with a look of admiration: "Zhang Zhengyan has a great opinion, Bu has been taught!"

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Zhang Dun said to Wang Anshi: "I have heard that sages and gentlemen know the way of ups and downs, know the number of success or failure, judge the trend of chaos, and reach the principle of going and going. Therefore, I live in secret and hold the way, waiting for the time."

"It's the right time for the prince to come out of the mountain. It is the time for us to make great achievements. There is no other person in the world except the prince. The way of ups and downs is related to the number of successes and failures, and the trial is related to the affairs of chaos."

Wang Anshi nodded slightly when he heard the words, but his face was noncommittal.

Zhang Dun ignored Wang Anshi's indifferent expression, and continued: "The so-called changing customs, what is a custom, is the tradition of following the old ways in this dynasty for a hundred years. The autumn of critical survival."

"The scriptures will not change, the customs will not change, and the dead spirit of conformity in the court will not dissipate! Therefore, we must write new scriptures and clearly implement them in the world. If the word change is too slow, it is better to be strict! Scholars do not Those who learn the new scriptures are not allowed to be officials!"

"As for the degree of legislation, the prestige of the imperial court is gone. Without prestige, there is no law. Shang Yang's south gate is erected, and what is a thousand dollars and a promise? Because the law is to be made, and it must be done, and it must be effective!"

"At the time Fan Wenzhenggong reformed the law, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty opposed it. The officials were all at odds. How can it be blamed that people in the world are skeptical, and the new laws and regulations promulgated by the imperial court are ambiguous. Why is it so? It is because the prestige of the imperial court is not established."

"Therefore, I propose to the prince that in the future legislation will be made. Anyone who makes a false statement about the new law should be immediately executed outside the south gate!"

"Presumptuous!" Wang Anshi was furious.

(End of this chapter)