Prime Minister

Chapter 572 Inspiring the Clan Nephew

Zhang Heng looked at Zhang Yue, he didn't expect that this little junior in the past would actually teach him a stern lesson now.

Zhang Heng picked up his old dignity and said, "Do you know what a lonely minister is?"

Zhang Yue said: "I know that the head of the house is a lonely minister, and Ouyang Gong was also a lonely minister back then."

Zhang Heng said: "That's right, Uncle Ouyang Yong was a lonely minister. Emperor Renzong was the lonely minister of Emperor Renzong, and Emperor Yingzong was the lonely minister of Emperor Yingzong. But now? When the new king ascended the throne, he abandoned him like a shoe. Now he is Ruin!"

"It's hard to be a lone minister."

Zhang Yue heard that Zhang Heng used to attend the Yamen of the Third Division alone, and even Cai Xiang, the envoy of the Third Division, and felt how awesome he was.

What he said to be a lonely minister still rings in his ears.

At the beginning Zhang Yue thought that Zhang Heng would only be released for a while, just like Ouyang Xiu, after a while the emperor would recall his kindness and call Zhang Heng back to Beijing, but what?
Zhang Heng was released for eight full years, and the three emperors never thought of transferring him back to the capital.

Other officials are fine, but he was the number one scholar in Jiayou's second year.

Zhang Heng said: "I also couldn't see through it back then. I thought that I had won the first prize. As long as I was a lonely minister, I would be like Duke Xi (Zhang Dexiang)."

"During it, once the emperor has a courtier, the lonely minister is like a concubine, serving the emperor with sex, and all the bowing is in the hands of the husband."

"As for Fu Han Gong, even if Han Wei Gong is not in court, the officials have to ask him repeatedly."

What is the difference between a concubine and a wife?
The wife has property rights, but the concubine does not. I only heard that the wife has a dowry, but the concubine has not heard of it.

Therefore, favoring concubines and destroying wives was not tolerated in ancient etiquette.

Seeing that Zhang Heng seems to be trying to snatch the wine from Zhang Yue's hand, Zhang Yue snatches the wine cup again.

"Duzhi, what do you want?" Zhang Heng was very displeased.

People's voices kept coming from outside the Fan Tower, and the kabuki who was playing for the two couldn't help stopping the pipa in their hands when they saw their voices rising.Zhang Yue pushed aside the bead curtain and signaled the kabuki to continue playing and singing.

When the kabuki saw a young man with an extraordinary bearing beckoning to her, she couldn't help being taken aback, knelt down on the mat again shyly, and then started playing again.

Singing the most seasonal ditty in Bianjing.

Zhang Yue remembered that when he came to Fanlou in the past, the kabukis first sang the lyrics of Yan Shu and Liu Yong, then Ouyang Xiu and Mei Yaochen, and now there are Su Shi and the Qingyu case.

Zhang Yue said: "Master Zhai, don't drink, I have a good word."

"People don't need to fantasize about what they want to achieve. You need to be calm and down-to-earth, and you can achieve your goal easily and without anyone noticing."

"But if you use too much force, make too much noise, are too childish, and are too ignorant of the world, you will just cry, shout, and pull, just like a child pulling a tablecloth, not only getting nothing, but also throwing away all the good things on the table. If you drag it to the ground, you will never get it (Note 1)."

Zhang Heng couldn't help being taken aback when he heard Zhang Yuezhi's words, these words really reveal maturity and sophistication.Has Zhang Yue reached this point now?
After all, it is not a fluke to be promoted all the way to the waiting system now. I have always said that he is just lucky.

But Zhang Heng still said on the face: "What? Have you taught me a lesson now?"

Zhang Yue said: "I dare not, it's just that the head of the house thinks about whether my words make sense."

Zhang Heng leaned back and sat slumped on the mat. At this moment, he was mostly sober. Thinking of being taught a lesson by Zhang Yue, who was not as good as him in the past, he suddenly felt ashamed.

Zhang Heng covered his face for a while, pulled back the hair hanging from his forehead and said, "What do you think I should do now?"

Zhang Yue said: "Master Zhai, are you sober? Follow me to a place."

Zhang Yue opened the curtain, but saw that the shopkeeper of Fanlou was waiting outside: "I don't know that Zhang Daizhi is here, it's really disappointing."

Zhang Yue thanked him not far away, and then left with Zhang Heng.

The kabuki at the side picked up the pipa, and couldn't help asking the shopkeeper who the young gentleman was just now...

Zhang Heng guessed where Zhang Yue took him, and after they left Fanlou, they drove south in a carriage.

Just when Zhang Heng thought that Zhang Yue was going to take him out of Bianjing, he saw the carriage turn around.

After getting off the carriage, Zhang Heng looked in front of him and asked, "Where is this?"

"Too learned!"

Zhang Yue said to Zhang Heng.

Now Taixue is under construction.

Today's officials followed Wang Anshi's advice after ascending the throne, and expanded the number of Tai students twice.

200 people at a time, 900 people at a time.

There are too many students, and there are not enough school buildings.

Now the nearby Xiqingyuan and Chaojiyuan have been demolished and merged into Taixue as the school building for Taixue students.

Today's Taixue is several times larger than the Taixue of the past, almost reproducing the prosperity of Taixue in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Looking at the high-spirited Taixue students and the construction of the middle school building, Zhang Yue feels that the changes are changing with each passing day. This earth-shattering reform actually started from this small place of Taixue.

Zhang Yue and Zhang Heng came to Taixue Sheyuan.

Several Tai students are practicing archery.Zhang Yue borrowed two sets of bows and arrows from several Tai students.

Zhang Yue wanted to pay each other with a sling of money, but he didn't know that the other party refused to accept it, so Zhang Yue accepted it.

He and Zhang Heng competed with each other with a pair of bows and arrows!
Just as Zhang Heng picked up the arrow, he saw Zhang Yueji raised his hand and shot.Seeing that Zhang Yue didn't aim carefully, he raised his hand and hit the bull's-eye.

The left and right Tai students all applauded when they saw this!

Zhang Heng is also good at archery. He used to practice archery day and night when he was not studying in Day Jintang, but now seeing Zhang Yue's ability, he became eager to win.

But Zhang Yue hit the bull's-eye again.

Zhang Heng is also the way of heart, learning is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.Back then Zhang Yue was a poor student, he made a living by copying books and even borrowed them from reading everywhere, so how could he learn archery, but now his archery is so good.

Although Zhang Heng hadn't raised his bow and arrow for a long time, a familiar feeling came back to him when he raised his hand.

Zhang Heng breathed calmly, and was about to shoot, but saw that Zhang Yue's third arrow had already hit the bull's-eye.

"This son... has come to this!"

When Zhang Heng raised his hand, it was an arrow... also a bullseye!
Fortunately, the skills were not wasted, otherwise today would be a big shame, Zhang Heng thought so.

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Zhang Heng and Zhang Yue had a lot of fun in this competition.

After the two of them shot arrows, Zhang Yue and Zhang Heng said: "How is the head of the house?"

A long-lost self-confidence came back to Zhang Heng and said: "If it wasn't for Du, I would have forgotten about it long ago. I think I put the most effort into this way at the beginning. Fortunately, I am not unfamiliar today."

Zhang Yue said: "Yes, the hard work done in the past will not be in vain."

"Master, there is a saying that I often encourage myself."

"What should be done by this body, should be taken up by this body, and don't push others."

"What should be done at this time, will be done at this time, without delaying tomorrow."

"What should be done here must be done here, and there is no excuse to do it in another place in the imagination."

Zhang Heng said: "This body, this time, this place..."

Zhang Yue said: "Just now when I was in Fanlou, the head of the house asked me what I should do now? I saw that the head of the house was depressed, so I couldn't answer it, but now I can answer it."

Only then did Zhang Heng understand why Zhang Yue deliberately brought himself to learn archery in the archery garden of the Imperial Academy.

Zhang Heng took a deep breath, hesitated for a long time, and then said to Zhang Yue: "Is the Xipu City Order stating that Gu Ke is Duzhi's teacher?"

Zhang Yue didn't expect why Zhang Heng mentioned Chen Xiang suddenly?
It seems that Zhang Heng and Chen Xiang have no intersection at all.

Zhang Heng said: "When the teacher set up a county school in Pucheng, Wei Cai recruited county students from poor families. At that time, I was studying at Rijintang. One day, the teacher read my article and called me to the county school. Ask me if I want to worship under his sect?"

Zhang Yue was surprised that there was such a thing?I have never heard the teacher say it.

But looking at Zhang Heng's appearance, it seems that he didn't like it at the beginning.

That's right, Zhang Heng definitely didn't like it.Day Jintang is the study of Zhang clan, and Zhang Youzhi was invited to teach it. In all aspects, it is definitely better than the county school.

Didn't Zhang Dun want to enter the Zhang Clan School from the county school at the beginning?
Since the Spring and Autumn, Wei and Jin Dynasties, the most important thing about reading is the origin of family education, which is not easy to spread like martial arts secrets.

Most people can't read a book even if they can read it, because they can't break sentences.Like a private school, it starts with the Three-Character Classic, Hundred Surnames, and Thousand-Character Classics, and then proceeds step by step with the Four Books and Five Classics. This method is aimed at students with relatively average aptitude and no famous teachers. It lowers the threshold for people to come in and learn something.

The first book that the scholar-officials taught children to read in the Spring and Autumn Period was the Book of Changes...

Even if modern people complete the third year of senior high school, even if they add annotations, their reading of the Book of Changes will still be muddled.

As for the county school, what is it?
It was advocated vigorously by Fan Zhongyan after Qingli established the school.

In the eyes of the children of the scholar family, is someone who doesn't even have a family history worthy of being called a scholar?Also worthy of being called a scholar?
Then Zhang Yue heard Zhang Heng talk about the reason.

Although Zhang Heng joined Chen Xiang's school at that time, he didn't take the county school seriously, and didn't even go there a few times.After Zhang Heng won the first prize, he had very little contact with Chen Xiang.

Compared with Zhang Yue, Sun Jue, and Lin Xi, they were far worse. Even Zhang Yue didn't know that Zhang Heng had worshiped under Chen Xiang's family, and Zhang Heng never mentioned it to himself.

Looking at Zhang Heng's attitude, Zhang Yue thought, your problem is a bit big.

But Zhang Heng's willingness to let go of the self-esteem of the scholars' children is still commendable.

What is not a lonely minister, Zhang Heng thought at first that it would be enough to be appreciated by the emperor, but now he understands that there is no one to lead the way in his official career, and it is difficult to move forward.

After Zhang Yue agreed, he asked Zhang Heng again: "What do you think of the new law being deliberated by the Three Divisions?"

Two new laws are currently under discussion in the Division of the Three Divisions.

One is the exemption law, which has been discussed since the fourth year of Zhiping until now. After Han Jiang and Zhang Yue's proposal, it has entered the process again. Today, the emperor has issued an edict for dispatch envoys, transfer envoys, third-division envoys, and officials above the deputy envoy Talk about the pros and cons of slavery.

One is the reform of the imperial examination. Wang Anshi wanted to abolish poetry and fu, the default imperial examination method since the Tang Dynasty, and change it to select scholars based on classics and righteousness.

This article is not new. Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu have always emphasized the suppression of the status of poetry and prose in imperial examinations, and increased the weight of policy articles.

This line of officials has already planned to issue an edict to let officials above the third hall to speak out.

The rest of the new laws have not been lifted, but only these two courts are already arguing.

Zhang Yue said to Zhang Heng: "You choose things to be careless, and you must use your words to impress the officials!"

You must know that a shortcut to the end of the Shenzong Dynasty is to agree with the new law in Shangshu.

Ps1: This remark comes from Kafka, I forgot who said the following sentence.

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