Prime Minister

Chapter 860 Wang Anshi's Regret
It seems that Lu Huiqing has already told Wang Anshi the news that he is going to abolish the Market Exchange Law.

Zhang Yue said to Wang Anshi: "Report to Mr. Xiang, I have no such plan right now."

Wang Anshi thought to himself, this is so different from what Lu Huiqing said.

Zhang Yue said: "Master, you know that Su Zizhannai and I were also good friends in the same year. He has a saying that I highly admire, and that is 'Efforts are the difference'."

The friendship between Zhang Yue and Su Shi was known throughout the Song Dynasty. Su Shi and Su Zhe brothers opposed the new law, Su Shi went to Hangzhou to serve as a general judge, and Su Zhe took Zhang Yue under the curtain.

"Efforts are enough! This statement is similar to the words of Buddhism and Taoism, not my Confucian words!"

Zhang Yuedao: "Buddhism says to follow fate, but the Tao Te Ching does not care about the word "effort", but it is completely different from the word "effort" in my Confucianism, but they have something in common."

Wang Anshi said: "As Yiduzhi said, strength is meritorious deeds, but is not meritorious deeds?"

Zhang Yue smiled, and it is another time and space history. When Su Shi was dying, a monk friend of his said to him, Duanming (Su Shi’s highest official position is a Bachelor of Duanming Palace), don’t forget the West.

Su Shi said that this should not be done.

Another friend said, you have been practicing like this on weekdays, and you should put more effort at this time.

Su Shi said: "Effort is the difference."

After talking about Su Shi died of illness.

This sentence is also practiced by Su Shi all his life. Zhang Yue occasionally mentioned this sentence to Su Shi in his letters.

In fact, Zhang Yue agrees with this statement very much. Many things will be deviated if they are too deliberate. For example, the more you want to sleep, but with that intention in your heart, the more difficult it is to fall asleep.

Put it on Wang Anshi, the more you want to reform the law and strengthen the country, but if you are too deliberate and put too much effort, it will backfire in the end.

In Su Shi's eyes, he is very opposed to this kind of tossing and tossing, which is why many people fail more and more the harder they work.

Regardless of people, things or countries, we must return to our own direction in the end, rather than relying on temporary force.

Zhang Yue said to Wang Anshi: "Master, for example, if you hit the wall with your palm, but the wall will also hurt your palm in turn. Even if you use force, the wall also exerts force to you."

"It's like reforming the law with good intentions, but you use that force, like hitting it with a palm, but how to resolve the force when you push it back?"

Zhang Yue put it bluntly, it is Newton's third law, the action of force is mutual.

The reform seems to have solved a disadvantage, but soon a bigger disadvantage emerged.Huang Zongxi once concluded that every reform of the tax system in Chinese history was aimed at alleviating the suffering of the common people, but the result was that with each reform, the common people's life was better for a while, but the taxes they borne were even heavier afterwards.

Why is there such accumulation of irreversible harm?
This is called Huang Zongxi's law.

Zhang Yue said to Wang Anshi: "My lord, I didn't think so when I talked with Su Zizhan at that time."

"There is a lazy student in the same township of Xiaguan who wants to study. His father tells him that he must sleep until the third watch every day when he studies. Then the villagers say that sleeping at the third watch will hurt his health, and he is really busy studying. Why bother with the lights at the third watch and the chickens at the fifth watch? If you really know the beauty of reading, it will come naturally."

"Forcing people to study until the third watch is just like the reform of a gentleman, but the villagers who persuade them are like Sima Junshi and Su Zizhan. Although the words of the villagers are right, they are not beneficial to others. It is good for scholars to know the beauty of reading. , but if you don’t know the beauty of reading, will you stop reading for the rest of your life?”

"Confucius taught people that there is 'both words and deeds'. Teaching by deeds lies in subtle influences. This is teaching without teaching. If you intend to do so, you will fail. But words and teachings are like King Kong's roar. It is to make people vigilant. Although it is focused, it is intended. Words and deeds are lacking. One must."

"Besides, people who are just beginning to practice Taoism also eat fast and recite scriptures. This is also the focus of it. Could it be that all the monks in the world have taught it wrong?"

Wang Anshi smiled happily upon hearing this.

Zhang Yuedao: "My lord, Zhang believes that those who want to achieve success in the world must agree with their hearts, so it is effortless and easy to achieve success. We often make mistakes when we study hard. This is not bad."

"But I still believe that deeds will lead to merit! For example, the books I read when I was young, and the hardships I endured, are not useless. Just now, my husband asked me if I want to abolish the market and change the law? I think that if it will come to fruition, it will be abolished. Arrive Time is not the meaning of one official, but the meaning of the people of the world."

"This is what the subordinates want to do. I don't know if the gentleman is satisfied?"

Wang Anshi said: "It's really not easy to hear Du Zhi's insights before being dismissed. I risked the world's dissatisfaction and forced a new law. How do you think the old man will end up in the future?"

Zhang Yuedao: "When Mr. Xiang was in power, he never asked about the affairs behind him. Why do you ask now?"

Wang Anshi said: "I don't ask anyone else, I just ask one person if it's okay?"

Zhang Yue thought about it and said: "When Sun Shu'ao was young, he went out and saw two snakes killed and buried him. When he returned, he wept. His mother asked how? Sun Shuao said that anyone who saw two snakes would die. I was afraid that others would kill them and bury them. His mother said, I heard that those who have yin and virtue will be rewarded with blessings, and you will not die. Later Sun Shuao is the chancellor of Chu, so you can know that what his mother said is true."

Wang Anshi smiled.

Immediately Wang Anshi sent Zhang Yue out.

The people in Wang Anshi's mansion were stunned when they saw it. You must know that none of Wang Anshi's other guests sent him off, except Zhang Yue.

When it was time to leave, Wang Anshi said to Zhang Yue: "At the beginning you wrote a letter to the old man in Xihe. The old man knew that it was against your will, so he didn't take it seriously. It was already burned at that time."

"Duzhi, don't worry about these things. When you hold the aspect in the future, let it go, don't take your original belief for granted."

The letter Zhang Yue wrote to Wang Anshi is a bit like a letter of guarantee, saying that I will never abolish your new law and so on.Now Wang Anshi told himself that he burned his guarantee letter?
Zhang Yue said: "Why do you need to tell the lower officials about this matter?"

Wang Anshi said with a smile: "I treat people with sincerity, and I recommended to the officials that I went to Beijing to reform the law. I only know about it until now. It's really..."

Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Actually, it was not just Zhang who recommended Mr. Zhang."

"Yes, there is one more thing. Can Du Zhi tell the old man, what did you write in the letter to the old man?"

Zhang Yue was surprised and said, "Master, didn't you read the official's letter?"

Wang Anshi nodded and said, "But today I want to listen carefully."

Zhang Yue was a little disappointed and regretful when he heard the words: "The lower official has a shallow view, and he has not entered into the eyes of the Xianggong. At the beginning, the Xianggong said, "The wealth of the people in the world is the one who manages the wealth of the world." The official also quite agrees, but I secretly think The words 'taken from the people and used for the people' should be added."

"How to take it from the people and use it for the people?" Wang Anshi looked a little stern.

Zhang Yuedao: "Guan Zi said that 'wealth can be seized, and poverty can be reconciled, it can be for the world. It is still on the basis of 'the poor and the poor', so that the whole country can be rich and the bottom of the foot."

"All in all, only seizing the rich and not giving away the poor is to accumulate wealth rather than reform!"

When Wang Anshi heard Zhang Yue's words, his expression suddenly became very ugly.

(End of this chapter)