Three Kingdoms: From Yinlin to Great Wei Xiongzhu

Chapter 400 Listen to your words, like listening to a word
A call for thieves?

A call to action against Cao Cao!

When Yuan Shao's mission was passed on to Bo Chen Lin, he stroked his beard and smiled.

He's good at this.

You must know that Chen Lin was a world-renowned talented woman in the current world, with excellent poems, prose, and fuss. In terms of fame, she was as famous as Cai Zhaoji, who is second to none in the world.

In the past, he even served as the mastermind under He Jin's subordinates. It can be said that he not only has a brilliant literary talent, but also has a certain political acumen.

With one stroke, it looks like a runaway horse soaring into the sky and leaving in the dust...

The name of this call for thieves has already jumped out.

—— "For Yuan Shao's Yuzhou Wen"

——"There are extraordinary people, and then there are extraordinary things, and there are extraordinary things, and then extraordinary achievements are made!"

As soon as this starts...

Chen Lin writes with spirit, her writing is full of thoughts, without thinking... all in one go.

Jushou, who was summoning the message, was dumbfounded...

He wanted to remind, but in the end, he kept his mouth shut.

I'm afraid that this pot of cold water will dampen Chen Lin's enthusiasm...

Just now, he got a piece of information that Zheng Xuan, the god of spirituality, had already set off from Donglai and arrived in Xudu City. . .

It was precisely this information that made Jushou feel extraordinarily cold.

It is true that Chen Lin's reputation in the circle of scholars is comparable to that of Kong Rong, Zhong Yao, and even Cai Yan. Coupled with his sharp writing skills, a "Call to Thieves" is enough to make scholars stand in line with Yuan Shao. side.

But if Zheng Xuan joined Cao Ying, that would be another story.

With Zheng Xuan's reputation, a mere "Call to Thieves" is not enough...

Seeing that Chen Lin is still writing like a dragon...

"Ugh…"

Jushou heaved a long sigh, now that Tian Feng is in prison, the lord Yuan Shao is determined to go south for a decisive battle, and it just so happens that Zheng Xuan has arrived in Xu Capital again.

As Tian Feng said, the strong and the weak change easily!
This is not the scariest thing, the scariest thing is... the current situation is inexplicably shrouded in a haze, how many people can really understand it?

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Xu Capital City, fifteen miles outside the east gate...

It is very close to Taixue…

Even standing on the stone steps, you can see the banks of the Ying River and the roof of Taixue in the land of Yongqiu!
Because of the arrival of spring, the suburbs here have a pleasant scenery, with gurgling streams, weeds everywhere, and wild flowers in full bloom, creating a sense of spring.

At this moment, Zheng Xuan was sitting on a stone step.

Just a few hours ago, there was no one around here, but now... more than ten thousand people gathered around him in groups of three or four.

And, unbelievably...all of them were kneeling.

This is the highest respect given by scholars to Zheng Xuan's arrival - "Kneeling to the God".

Although many scholars could not understand what Zheng Xuan was talking about...

But they are willing to kneel here and see the demeanor of this half "mentor"!

Lu Yu and Cai Zhaoji have already arrived...

Under the guidance of a group of Tai students, they marched to a front position.

To Lu Yu's surprise, Sister Zhaoji also knelt down...

Perhaps, in her eyes, Zheng Xuan's status is like that of "Confucius", even if he is more respected than his father Cai Yong!
Lu Yu looked around...

He noticed that Cao Cao was there, and he looked extraordinarily serious, as if shocked by Zheng Xuan's arrival.

only…

His position was a little further away, and he thought that Zheng Xuan's remarks would be reported to him sentence by sentence by the summoned soldiers.

Lu Yu knew that even if it was just... 20 years ago, Zheng Xuan gave lectures in Luoyang for three days, which had a profound impact on Cao Cao's life.

now…

Zheng Xuan sat down on the stage, his eyes swept across the audience, it seemed... this crowded scene with over ten thousand people was not surprising to him.

"I haven't made any preparations today, but you are kindly invited, so I'll just say a few words." Zheng Xuan said...

It's not like those celebrities, who are full of arrogance when they speak.

On the contrary, Jung Hyun is very humble...

He started calmly: "It is a great honor to meet all the students in the outskirts of the imperial capital. Perhaps this capital city is unfamiliar to me, but the imperial capital and Taixue are not unfamiliar to me. I used to be the same as you, and I was also a scholar here. My son, also a student of Taixue, also wanted to serve the imperial court. It was only later that I became a gentleman by chance. The imperial capital and Taixue left me with too many memories, and they are the places where I am proud of. Today is a day worth remembering in my life, because no matter how far I have traveled, I have still come back here, back to this Taixue, and back to this imperial capital!"

As soon as this word comes out...

Lu Yu felt trembling all over, feeling infected from the inside out. It seemed that Zheng Xuan's words had shortened the distance between him and the students a lot.

As expected of a person in today's world who is more famous than Yin Lin, Lao Cao, and Sister Zhao Ji, even if it's just such an opening statement, this "spiritual" name is well deserved.

And at this time... Zheng Xuan's words continued.

"Today, there are more than [-] disciples who followed me from Donglai to Xuducheng. They are at the foot of Nanshan Mountain in Donglai. In addition to reading and listening to lectures, they also have to do farm work for others every day. Their hands and legs are stained. The dirt in the fields, they have to be like this, only by working in the fields, raising sheep, and herding pigs can they barely survive."

"As for you in the Central Plains, according to my book, benefiting from this stable current situation, you can study and study steadily, but just like this, there are still many students who are not serious about their studies, and even if they study, they don't seek the truth. relationship, the door to official career has already been opened for them. What they have to worry about is not more about being an official? The true meaning contained in a sentence."

Having said this, Zheng Xuan paused.

"Lao Tzu once said, 'Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature.' So, how do people learn from the earth? What do they learn from the earth?"

When this question was raised, Zheng Xuan asked the scholars to think for a while, and then took the initiative to answer.

"The virtues of heaven cover all things, the virtues of earth carry all things, the virtues of heaven and earth are great virtues. People must learn the selflessness and nourishment of the earth, without seeking or complaining!"

hear here...

Lu Yu noticed that whether it was Lao Cao, Sister Zhaoji, or famous scholars like Kong Rong, as well as countless scholars around them, they all listened so carefully that they were even fascinated.

Obedient…

Lu Yu's heart was extremely shocked.

perhaps…

In the past, from ancient books and documents, he could know that Zheng Xuan was a great scholar of Confucian classics in this era, loved and admired by thousands of people!
However, how strong is this kind of admiration and love?
Then... no one knows!

But when I really saw such a scene, and really heard his lecture, I could only feel shock, shock, and deafening in my mind.

even...

Lu Yu suddenly had a bold idea.

If Zheng Xuan, the God of Jing, is only allowed to preside over Yuedan's review, it will feel like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer.

At this moment... what Lu Yu thought of was... the newspaper office!
That's right, publishing, newspapers...

Relying on Zheng Xuan's reputation, as long as there are his articles, the newspaper can be easily promoted and transmitted to various lands throughout the Han Dynasty.

How powerful is public opinion?

Lu Yu, who has been a man for two lifetimes, knows best... and those who can control and guide public opinion must be invincible in this troubled world.

Zheng Xuan may not be a qualified president of a newspaper, but if he is the editor-in-chief, this newspaper will not be popular if it wants to!
certainly…

This involves many technologies, such as the improvement of papermaking and the promotion of printing, but... In Lu Yu's view, these are just a matter of time.

call…

He exhaled heavily.

Lu Yu's eyes narrowed, although this was just a thought, but... Lu Yu felt eager to try.

Specifically... I still need to discuss it with Sister Zhao Ji, and seek the opinion of the God of God Zheng Xuan.

but…

Before Lu Yu finished thinking, Zheng Xuan's words recited again.

"Then, let me raise another question, how does the earth learn from the sky? What does it learn from the sky?"

"Learn the vastness of the sky, the infinity of the sky, the boundlessness of the sky, the inexhaustibility of the sky, the heart of the sky, the power of creation, and the selfless love of the sky for the earth and all things."

There was still a short pause, Zheng Xuan asked and answered by himself.

"Heaven follows Tao, and what is Tao? Is Tao an infinity greater than the sky? Or is it a particle smaller than dust? Tao goes from infinity to infinity. There is no Tao, and if there is no, there is endless existence..."

Word came out...

Let alone ordinary scholars, even well-educated people like Cao Cao, Cai Zhaoji, and Kong Rong were a little dizzy.

But Lu Yu can understand, isn't this philosophy?
At a deeper level, it is materialism and dialectics...that is Marxist philosophy!

Who would have thought that at the end of the Han Dynasty thousands of years ago...

Zheng Xuan can use such a dialectical philosophical method to teach and give lectures. Judging from ancient books and documents, he really underestimated this great scholar of Confucian classics!

And over time...

Zheng Xuan stripped away the profound truth bit by bit.

"This is Tao. It makes you seem to understand everything, but it seems to be impossible to understand. It is always like a masked woman, with the beautiful face you want and the mystery you want to feel. But you You can never see its truth, you can only imagine it, and you can only understand it according to your own ability and height. There is no clear answer to the 'Tao', no uniform solution to the problem, and you need to comprehend it based on your own experience."

Speaking of this, Zheng Xuan slowly got up...

It seems that this lecture is coming to an end, and he will talk about the last topic.

"Since Tao is already infinitely large and infinitely small, how can it learn from nature? So... what is nature?"

"Nature is the actual existence, including what we can see and what we can't see, what we can think of and what we can't think of. Nature includes everything! Nature has always existed, and it will exist without human beings. Maybe human beings will not exist in the future , it will still exist. Nature has mysteries that make us humans always worth pursuing."

"In the vast, all-encompassing and boundless nature, there are profound natural laws. This law can be the alternation of day and night that we can feel, the change of seasons, the change of sunny days and rainy days. Exchange can be the birth, old age, sickness and death between us and all things in the world. No matter whether it is an emperor or a commoner, no one can violate the nature! Change the laws of nature! Everything has an internal connection, and all connections are attributed to the 'laws of nature'."

Uh…

After listening to this passage, the entire surrounding scholars fell silent, quietly listening to Zheng Xuan's lecture, as if they were still thinking carefully.

Only Lu Yu...

He feels... this kind of philosophy, he can't appreciate it a little bit, it's like "listening to what you have to say is like listening to what you have to say".

That's all...

who cares.

It's still a commonplace topic, once a person is famous, everything is right, "Zhou Shuren" can have two jujube trees in front of the door, but we can't have one in front of our house, and we don't deserve it!

In the same way, because such words are spoken by God Zheng Xuan, then... it cannot be "listening to what you say is like listening to what you say", but "listening to what you say is better than reading ten years of books!"

I understand everything...

"Cough cough..."

Lu Yu coughed lightly, no matter what, the editor-in-chief of this newspaper must be Zheng Xuan!

now…

Zheng Xuan waved to the students, and immediately walked down the stone steps.

But at this moment, Cai Zhaoji grabbed Lu Yu and walked towards Zheng Xuan.

Lu Yu was taken aback, what's the matter?
Sister Zhaoji, is this considered star chasing?
"Miss Zhaoji..."

Don't wait for him to ask a word.

"Hush..." Cai Zhaoji held out her index finger. "Brother Yu? Have you forgotten... This year is your year to be crowned. A man needs to be crowned before he can get a 'word'. God came here...just to ask him to give him a word."

Oh…

It turned out to be words!

In fact, this thing... is not so strict among ordinary people, and even some upstart families don't value it so much, such as Cao Cao... used to be called Cao Man, nicknamed Geely!
If it hadn’t been for the dragon boat murder incident at the Dragon Boat Festival, the name had been changed to Cao Cao, with the word Mengde... Most likely, Cao Cao would have been called Cao Man all the time, and when he reached the crown, this "auspicious" nickname would naturally become "Zi"...

In the same way, sister Zhaoji had her own characters when she was six years old when she began to discern the piano, which Cai Yong picked up in advance. "Zhaoji" was her nickname when she was a child, but she changed it to characters when she was 20 years old and crowned.

Of course... Lu Yu, a child without a father or a mother, naturally wouldn't have a nickname, but now... it's a little more troublesome, and he has to ask someone to give him a nickname.

But... God Zheng Xuan bestowed word, this is going to spread... very pretentious!

I blinked my eyes...

Cai Zhaoji had already pulled him to walk in front of Zheng Xuan.

She didn't ask for words in a panic, but cupped her hands and bowed... "Your Excellency, sure enough, you didn't let the students and I miss you. I...Cai Yan!"

This is out of the way...

Zheng Xuan pondered for a long time, Cai Yangui was the head of the Taixue, and he called himself "my subordinate", the kindness can be described as extreme!

"I met President Cai..."

Zheng Xuan cupped his hands slightly, but his eyes noticed the handsome man Cai Yan was pulling.

This face... He has an impression, having seen the portrait.

"This is probably Lu Yu, the other head of Taixue, right?"

"Juniors pay homage to Mr. Zheng!" Lu Yu also cupped his hands... With so many people watching, the atmosphere was also heightened here.

And just then...

A vigorous and powerful voice came out.

——"I'm waiting to welcome you, sir!"

The voice appeared very suddenly. Lu Yu and Cai Zhaoji looked for the reputation, but saw... led by Kong Rong... countless middle-aged men bowed their hands to Zheng Xuan.

It turned out that these were Zheng Xuan's disciples more than ten years ago, and now they are officials in Xu Capital City...

"you…"

And just then...

"Ta Ta Ta Ta..."

The sound of continuous footsteps came, and a group of tiger and cardinal troops walked quickly in front of Zheng Xuan, and opened a road. At the end of the road... Cao Cao was walking quickly with his head down.

That's right...

Cao Cao walked over with his head down, which was the first time in Lu Yu's memory.

Not long after, Cao Cao walked up to Zheng Xuan, cupped his hands and said, "Sir, do you still remember that daring imperial student who dared to openly challenge Mr. Zheng when he was giving lectures in Luoyang 20 years ago?"

This…

As soon as this statement comes out…

Zheng Xuan seemed to have thought of something.

That was 20 years ago, when he was giving a lecture at Luoyang Taixue, a rather bold Taixue student challenged him, and Zheng Xuan was refreshed by his new understanding of nature, Tao, heaven, earth, and people.

"Are you the Tai student who put forward that 'nature has its way, and the way contains heaven and earth, and people are the most precious in the world. The world is ruthless, but the true love in the world exists'?"

Zheng Xuan asked a question...

Cao Cao still bowed his body, pretending to be humble.

"It's...disciple Cao Cao meeting Mr. Zheng!"

"Twenty years ago, the students didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and played games with their husbands. They proposed that 'the sky is not old, the sky is ruthless, and geniuses never die. , Emotions are mutual and communicated. Only when we have feelings, can we feel the existence of the feelings of heaven and earth. If there is no emotion in our chest, not only the heaven and earth, but all things will become ruthless."

20 years ago…

What Zheng Xuan said was still fresh in Cao Cao's memory.

To know…

This is the first time he heard the voice of a "sage" and felt the feelings of a "sacred man"...

It was also his first awakening of "self" consciousness!

It was these words that made Cao Cao grow into a man with true temperament!
Cao Cao recalled that Yuan Shao at that time still sighed, "No wonder there are thousands of students in Mr. Zheng's private school. Taking his class is really a kind of enjoyment."

And good classmate Hu Muban also praised, "Crouching tiger, hidden dragon in private school..."

It was Zhang Miao who reminded Cao Cao, "Mr. Zheng has ten years of teaching experience in government schools..."

At that time, Cao Cao realized why Mr. Zheng can be called a master of Confucian classics. This is because...his knowledge has the rigor and breadth of official learning, and the flexibility and elegance of private learning. It can be called a double masterpiece!

It was at that time that Cao Cao made up his mind to follow Zheng Xuan to Donglai to learn from his teacher!
but...

Yuan Shao was very disdainful, and said, "Pull it down, Man, it's just you, walk the door and pick the lock to steal the bride, don't spoil Mr. Zheng's students!"

After Yuan Shao finished speaking, he ran away, and Cao Cao chased him, laughing and playing!
It can be said…

Because of Zheng Xuan, from the bottom of Cao Cao's heart... the memories that had been buried in the dust for 20 years surged out.

Times have changed...Mr. Zheng is getting old, and the classmates who used to listen to his teacher's teachings and play with him, now...have to fight for life and death along the Yellow River...to decide the ownership of the world!

"Unexpectedly, there are such outstanding disciples as you among my students."

Zheng Xuan looked at Cao Cao with a slight smile on his lips...

However, in the end...he still looked at Lu Yu.

"I didn't want to come here at the time of the emergency, but... President Lu sent a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" to Donglai. I don't agree with some of the views, and there are some views that are in-depth and simple...I benefited from it So shallow!"

"I never thought that the person who wrote this "Analects of Confucius" would be such a young master... President Lu, I hope to have the opportunity to ask you for a lesson or two!"

Such a big talk... Zheng Xuan told Lu Yu eloquently.

It really surprised a lot of people.

Especially... the five words "I didn't want to come here" are even more surprising.

Especially Cao Cao...

Sure enough, as expected... Zheng Xuan was able to come to Xu Capital City because of Yu'er!

Is this unexpected or reasonable?
but…

Cao Cao frowned slightly, he also had something on his mind.

Yu'er is his son...

Seeing that Yu'er was about to reach the crown, Cao Cao wanted to ask Zheng Xuan, the god of scriptures, to bestow this "character" on Yu'er!In today's world, no one is more suitable than him!
Thinking of this, Cao Cao's eyeballs rolled, thinking in his heart, how...speak?
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(End of this chapter)