Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 246 The Unity of Knowledge and Action
Early the next morning, Chen Yunfu accompanied Shao Ning back to her mother's house, but Chen Yunfu did not stay in Shao Zhi's mansion. When the concierge of the mansion came and told that Yang Shiqi had arrived, Chen Yunfu said goodbye and went back to the mansion.

He has too many things to do, and there is really no extra time to rest.

"I will see the young master under the door."

Just as Chen Yunfu stepped into the main hall, Yang Shiqi, who was sitting here, stood up.

"Sit down, there is no need for too much etiquette in Honsuke."

Chen Yunfu directly called his servants to go to the study to get two copies of etiquette that had not been checked out yesterday, and then he and Yang Shiqi reviewed each item one by one.

"Every year after the Zhengdan Festival (the first day of the Lunar New Year), there is a five-day holiday, and the court resumes on the seventh day, and then when the Lantern Festival is approaching, there will be another ten days from the 22th day of the first lunar month, and the court will resume on the [-]nd day of the first month.

This month, the imperial court is basically not doing much work, and the government affairs are basically not being handled. This article has to be changed. After the Zhengdan Festival is over, the holiday will be on that day and the next five days, and the court will resume on the seventh day until the Lantern Festival. False, the rest of the time are not allowed to be false. "

"Then, what about officials from other provinces who have been admitted to Beijing or transferred to Beijing?"

Yang Shiqi hesitated and said: "There are many scholars who have been admitted to the Imperial Academy, and they use this time every year to return to their hometowns to fulfill their filial piety."

"Being filial, I think this assistant is showing off." Chen Yunfu said: "Don't forget, this assistant came from a clerk, but he often dealt with small officials.

Hanlin Lang is not a real job, he only has a false title to lead the imperial salary, and he can only take a donkey cart instead of a horse-drawn cart when returning home. Every year, I have never seen anyone leave Beijing to return home. Also nervous.

And those who have official positions can ride in a horse-drawn carriage with high heads, and they are so smug that they are blue and purple. They have both face and integrity when they return home. The local officials are always polite. "

Yang Shiqi looked embarrassed and dared not speak.

He is originally from Jiangxi. According to the usual practice, all yamen will choose officials from Beijing to stay on duty, and all those from other provinces will have a holiday to go home. , allowing officials from other provinces to release the five days in between.

In other words, you can come back when the dynasty is restored on the 22nd. The extra five days of vacation will be deducted during other festivals later this year.

For example, the winter solstice and the double birthdays of the emperor and queen are not holidays, and they stay in the Yamen on duty.

The purpose is to leave enough time for officials from other provinces to visit relatives back and forth.

But why did Yang Shiqi stay?

For all the young officials who have entered Beijing, none of them have the ambition to return to their hometowns in good clothes.

Face is very important.

There is nothing wrong with what Chen Yunfu said. The arrogance of literati is especially strong these days. Few people choose to return to their hometowns before they make a name for themselves.

Nine out of ten officials chose Jinyi to return to their hometown after they had settled down.

Of course, you can't kill everyone here with a stick.

But Chen Yunfu didn't intend to keep such a long yamen vacation for the sake of a small number of people.

"Those who are eager to return home can apply to the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Officials will let the Ministry of Officials consider it as appropriate. In the future, try to transfer Han Linlang, who has become an official, to a prefecture or county close to his hometown. Don't spend time studying in the capital. Wait for the position."

Since Chen Yunfu became an official, he has always been dissatisfied with the system of selecting or appointing officials in ancient dynasties, and the situation in Hongwu Dynasty was even more serious.

Because the Hongwu Dynasty was seriously short of officials.

Many Hanlin Lang studied in the Imperial Academy for a few years, and they were directly thrown into the fifth-rank and sixth-rank official vacancies, and there were even many examples of being directly promoted to be a servant.

Isn't this noisy?

It is true that officials need to learn, but what officials need more is practice. You must have impressive achievements.

If you talk about Xu Ben's kind, who can govern his subordinates to the point where he never closes his house at night and never picks up things on the road, it is naturally reasonable for you to promote such an official to be a minister and enter the cabinet.

"Okay, let's continue to criticize."

Time passed quickly, the two of them were so busy that they forgot to eat lunch at one point, they looked at each other and smiled awkwardly when their stomachs were growling with hunger.

"Go, take a casual bite."

There were dumplings made at home, so Chen Yunfu asked his servants to prepare two bowls, and he and Yang Shiqi each had a bowl of dumplings, guarding two stacks of pickles to deal with.

"Shi Qi, please don't dislike the shabbiness of this book."

"No, no." Yang Shiqi swallowed whole, and hurriedly replied: "Young master is diligent and thrifty in managing the family, he is a role model for my generation."

"You also think it's a good thing to be thrifty."

Yang Shiqi smiled: "That's natural."

"Where's the good?"

Yang Shiqi was taken aback by this question, this kind of thrift is good in itself, why bother to ask what is good about it.

"Diligence and thrift can save food, you can, you can save unnecessary expenses, and use it to deal with sudden accidents. Isn't that a good thing?"

Chen Yunfu nodded, and continued to ask: "What is the opposite of diligence and thrift?"

"Naturally it is extravagant and wasteful."

Chen Yunfu continued to examine the school and said: "If you put diligence and extravagance together, what do they belong to?"

Yang Shiqi frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Trace?"

"Yes, both of them belong to a kind of behavior, belonging to traces." Chen Yunfu laughed: "Traces are the extension of the heart, where does diligence come from?"

Yang Shiqi knew that Chen Yunfu was testing whether he was qualified to be his secretary, so he immediately answered with a straight face.

"Diligence and thrift originate in self-denial."

"What about extravagance?"

"Extravagance comes from the heart of extravagance."

"That's right." Chen Yunfu appreciated it even more, and said: "The heart of self-denial will extend many traces, and diligence and thrift are one of them, and the heart of extravagance or greed will also extend many traces." , Extravagance and waste is just one of the behaviors.

We advocate diligence and thrift, not only to promote this kind of right behavior, but also to use it to regulate and temper the hearts of the people all over the world.

When the heart comes, one knows, and when one moves, one does it. When the heart and the track come together, it means that knowing and doing have reached a consensus, and it can be said that knowledge and action are united.

The most difficult thing in the world is precisely the inability to bridge the gap between knowing and doing. This is the case with people, and so is the country. "

Yang Shiqi asked curiously: "Dare to ask the young master, is the country also interested?"

"If the country has no heart, how can there be a national policy?" Chen Yunfu said with a smile: "The national policy is the trace of the country. If there is a trace, why is it unintentional?"

Yang Shiqi asked again: "Who can be the heart of the country, is it here?"

To this question, Chen Yunfu smiled but did not answer.

"Shiqi, Honsuke will tell you a story."

"The next officer respectfully listens."

"It is said that once a young scholar entered an official position and was selected by a superior official to be his secretary because of his outstanding writing skills. , Serve the people with a heart, be strict with self-discipline, and be correct in words and deeds, the young scholars have benefited a lot.

But guess what, within a few years, that Shangguan fell because of embezzlement, corruption, abuse of power and perversion of the law. "

Yang Shiqi couldn't help laughing: "That Shangguan even taught others that he was crooked."

"That's right, he himself taught others how to do that, and ended up with sores all over his body."

Chen Yunfu sighed with emotion: "Perhaps he had intentions, but he couldn't do it, why is that, because the story is a practical thing to be done, and the real thing will be interfered by many other factors that actually exist.

In fact, the same is true for the heart, which is also disturbed by ideology, but when many people educate others, they tend to abandon those bad ideological ethos and disguise themselves as a very virtuous appearance.

Therefore, except ourselves, no one can pry into our own hearts, let alone know whether we can achieve the unity of knowledge and action.

Others can't see it, but we need to know it ourselves. Therefore, Shiqi, Honsuke hopes that you and any officials in the country can straighten their hearts and follow their own tracks. "

Knowledge and action, unity.

Yang Shiqi nodded thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)