Prime Minister

Chapter 913 How to Fight
The day before yesterday, they just crossed Xianxia Ridge, and tomorrow they will ascend the Ridge and leave Fujian.

Zhang Yue couldn't help admiring that the officials are really good at making troubles.

The night before leaving Fujian, I usually stay at Yuliangyi or Manyoji Temple, and after building up my strength, I set off to climb the mountains early the next morning.

This time, Zhang Yue and Shi Qi Niang chose to stay overnight in Manyoji Temple.

This is also the place where the two met. The two lived in the temple and watched the waterfall. Although they did not return to their hometown this time, they were able to revisit the old place, which was a little fulfillment of their wish.

As for the two young gentlemen of the Zhang family, it was the first time they saw such a waterfall, and they were so excited that they didn't know what to say.In fact, there was little rain this time back home, so the waterfall was not as majestic as before, and it was a little regrettable that there was a roar.

It is true that revisiting after many years, it is difficult to look like I remember.

Shi Qi Niang looked at the waterfall for a while and got tired, so she went to rest early.Zhang Yue was a little disappointed, but it was the same as husband and wife for many years, Shi Qi Niang sometimes didn't understand her own feelings too much.

She is her good wife, but emotionally she needs to digest by herself.

Zhang Yue walked in the temple for a while, but saw Chen Guan debating scriptures with a monk, who was also staying in Wanye Temple.

Chen Guan said to the monks: "The essence of Buddhism does not lie in words, nor is it separated from words. There is no need to read more Buddhist scriptures, and only one Diamond Sutra is needed. Nine words."

"This is also the word for sincerity of the mean."

The monk praised: "The layman's words have already obtained the only clear method."

Chen Guan said: "The master is absurd. I have been studying and thinking for many years. I have studied hard and eaten lightly. I don't wave a fan in summer, I don't warm the stove in winter, and I don't sleep at night to seek the way. However, I have not learned the way."

Speaking of Chen Guan's resignation, when he walked to the side corridor and saw Zhang Yueli standing there, he couldn't help being surprised and delighted and said, "Mr. Zhang!"

Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Why are you here?"

Chen Guan said: "After saying goodbye that day, I thought about meeting Zhang Gong. But Zhang Gong must have worshiped his ancestors for a long time when he returned home, so I waited for news here at Wanye Temple. I didn't know that after a few days, I saw Zhang Gong again. male."

Zhang Yue smiled slightly and said, "I am now returning to Beijing by order."

"Congratulations to Mr. Zhang, you have been enabled by the emperor again."

Zhang Yue smiled faintly and nodded, "You and I are also destined to meet this time. Would you like to come to Beijing with me?"

Chen Guan said happily: "Students are willing."

Immediately Chen Guan bowed.

Zhang Yue helped him up and said: "I don't stick to formality, I don't pay attention to the etiquette of apprenticeship, there is only one way to come and go under my door, and the four words of loyalty to the emperor and love for the people are enough. It is a worthwhile trip to come back to the hometown and be able to recognize the young heroes."

Chen Guan was very happy and immediately said: "The students have been taught."

Zhang Yue really admired Chen Guan, and just happened to reunite with him in Wanye Temple today, so he took him into his family.

Zhang Yue said to Chen Guan: "Since you have joined my sect, how can you teach me?"

Chen Guan thought to himself, other people's recruits are always giving advice or preaching, and he has never seen someone like Zhang Yue asking for advice from his disciples.

Maybe this is just hypocrisy.

Chen Guan immediately said: "Students think that Wang Jiefu is now a prime minister, since he replaced Lu Xianggong to preside over the government, Zhang Gong may not be better than when he was with Lu Xianggong when he returned to the court and spent time with Wang Xianggong."

Zhang Yue nodded, Wang Anshi was more stubborn than Lu Huiqing, and even less listenable to others.

Chen Guan said: "Students have read Wang Xianggong's Three Classics and New Meanings. This book regards the principle of life as the study of morality. If you want to make great achievements in the world, you want future officials to practice it on behalf of you. This so-called one morality is based on the principle of life. Learn one."

"In the future, people in the world who have the same customs will use the study of life as one. If you don't learn the study of life, you will become a study of music. Today, officials like Sima Junshi do not agree with the study of life, and are despised as vulgar."

"The new meanings of these three classics are complete. Whether there will be kings or princes in the future, the so-called state affairs will be based on the principle of life, so it is unshakable. From then on, scholars all over the world use this book as their source."

Chen Guan was talking about the problems that Zhang Yue had to face when he returned to the court. One was Wang Anshi, and the other was the new meaning of the Three Classics.

These three classics and new ideas are the condensation of the New Party's ideology, and they are more powerful than Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing.Chen Guan can see this, which is far beyond the reach of ordinary scholars.

The future state is learned from the new meaning of the Three Classics.

At that time, whether there is Wang Anshi or not, Lu Huiqing will be the same.

Just like Confucianism, Confucius has been there for many years, but his theory is still used in the court today.

Zhang Yue said to Chen Guan, "I learned from Guan Zhongye."

Guan Zhongzhi's study.

Chen Guan was refreshed when he heard the words, and immediately said: "The students understand, and with the teacher's words, they will have confidence in their hearts."

Zhang Yue said: "I'm not afraid of fighting. As the saying goes, you don't have to avoid a two-edged confrontation. A good player is like a lotus in the fire. It seems to have its own ambition to reach the sky."

The party struggle in the court is like a confrontation between two blades, and those who fall into the lower ranks in the territory will run away when they see it.

But those who know the cause and effect of coming and going don't need to avoid it, just like picking a lotus out of a fire. Such people have the ambition to reach the sky.

For example, although Zhang Yue was demoted, he returned to the court within a few months. Lu Huiqing spent so much effort and cost, but the damage caused to Zhang Yue was really limited.

But is this my own skill?
This is not the case, but determined by the political environment of the Song Dynasty.

For example, the Legalists want to flatten those with vested interests. The higher the position and the greater the ability in this system, the more dangerous it is.Just look at the political struggles of the Qin Dynasty. In the end, Emperor Shihuang himself became the victim of the struggle. As long as the other prime ministers, ministers, and clan relatives threatened the imperial power, they would be killed as soon as they wanted, without blinking their eyes. .

Ordinary people were not spared either. For example, the meteorite that fell from the sky that said "the first emperor died and the land was divided" was found out by Qin Shihuang, and he immediately ordered to kill all the people in a radius of ten miles around the meteorite.

As a minister, don't talk about opposing the state, even if the deer and the horse are wrong, they will be finished.

The comparison of political struggle here is who's methods are ruthless, hard enough, and hot enough, and who has no bottom line and principles.

But the Song Dynasty, on the other hand, protected those with vested interests, so the higher the official position, the safer it is generally.

Of course, there are indeed many problems in this way, but the advantage is that the bottom line is indeed relatively high.

Written by Sima Guang, Feng Jing, Wen Yanbo, Lu Gong, Zhang Yue lost like this, except for going out for a while, actually nothing happened.

Because of this kind of political struggle, the intensity is not too high.

Therefore, the profound meaning of political struggle here is not actually that one party destroys the other, because no one can eliminate the opponent, so how to obtain the support of a third party through struggle is the skill.

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"Mr. Zhang Xue has been reinstated."

The common people in the teahouses in Bianjing are talking about these things enthusiastically.

"That's right, I thought he was wronged when it came to the fire in the third division."

"You know that book anger, he was wronged and had to leave Bianjing, but he still has the ambition to serve the country in his heart."

"I've read that poem too, it's really well written... there are treacherous officials in the court."

Beside the tea shop, Lu Huiqing was sitting alone drinking tea, but at this moment, listening to the words of the common people, there was a look of disdain on his face.

"What do these Shengdou people know!"

(End of this chapter)