I received my adopted son in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 246
In a side hall of Taiwei's mansion, Tai Shici, who had washed up and put on a new robe, cupped his fists and bowed to Old Dong: "Father, it's a good thing the child is not disgraceful."

After saying that, he looked at Cai Yan who was on the side, thinking that he hadn't received the ceremony yet, so he said, "Cai..."

Cai Yan was stunned for a moment, and then realized: Okay, you are actually playing a match-fixing match!
At the moment, he interrupted with a cold face, and deliberately sang against the old Dong: "Call me mom."

Tai Shici was taken aback, and looked at others with a puzzled expression: he already knew from Old Dong that 'father' was the pet name for foster father in Hu dialect, but he still didn't know what 'mother' meant.

"If you want to call me that, hurry up." Lu Bu kicked him lightly to urge him, and then looked flatteringly at Cai Yan, "Is it? Mom."

"En." The young girl replied lazily like an old Buddha, making the nearly 40-year-old Hao Daer as satisfied as Cai Wan who was eating ice cream beside her.

It's not that Lu Bu has no bottom line, but that he has a guilty conscience.

The first time I met Cai Yan, I almost had a misunderstanding.In the days to come, I can't wait to quickly determine the status of "foster mother and son", so that old Dong won't think too much.

Old Dong was a little upset, interrupted Lu Bu's flattery, and tried to maintain his father's majesty: "Ziyi did a good job this time, next time..."

Immediately, he looked at Lu Bu and Dian Wei, feeling that it would be a little bullying for them to play, and then looked at Zhang Liao: "Wen Yuan, you will come next time."

"Wei." Zhang Liao nodded, seeing Tai Shici and Sun Ce's fighting skills made his hands itchy.

"Well, that's it for the time being. If he still refuses to accept, let Awei and Feng go first." Old Dong said, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up slightly.

"Cer came to Luoyang alone, and we must do our best to be a landlord. Let him feel the simple humanistic care of the Taiwei Mansion, and give him a complete childhood."

"Here!..." All the generals got the order, and after saluting, they all walked out of the side hall with smirks on their faces, full of the treacherous aura of being led by the old Dong.

Cai Yan was dissatisfied, and said: "Ce'er is only 15 years old, he is still a child!... How can you treat him like this?"

"This kid is different from the others."

Old Dong wanted to explain, but Cai Yan came here on purpose to find fault today, and insinuated: "Why, does he not only like to fight, but also likes to drink and go shopping in Zhangtai?"

The three words 'Traveling in Zhangtai' were specially emphasized.

Cai Wan, who was left licking the ice cream, realized that the atmosphere in the side hall was not right, and began to move out step by step cautiously.After reaching the door, she let go and ran out: "You adults talk, I'll go find Bai'er."

In such a hot day, I don't know how she is still so energetic.

Old Dong glanced at Cai Yan suspiciously, no matter how rough-hearted he was, he understood that the other party was playing with his temper.It's just that he really doesn't understand, why is Cai Yan angry?
Just because I held a martial arts competition in the Han Dynasty, I missed talking about punctuation marks with her?

Yes, I am indeed wrong.

The matter of punctuation marks was mentioned half a month ago, and it was delayed by beating Yuan Shu in the middle.Although I came back this time and released other people's pigeons, but... it was also for educating the children!

Putting the facts aside, couldn't she be considerate of her hard work?
"Uh... this old man drew up a list of people who will be promoted and transferred tomorrow, Yan'er, can you give it to the staff?" After thinking about it, Old Dong decided to repeat the old trick: change the subject.

"Since it has been planned, I must have discussed it with the brains under your command. Now there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the Taiwei's mansion, and there are a lot of talents. How can the little girl dare to use an ax in front of the class?"

Cai Yan was fooled, but not completely.

Glancing at the memorabilia, he tried his best to suppress the desire to spy, for fear that Old Dong would seize the opportunity to disturb him and mess up his momentum.

"In that case, you probably don't want to read this illustration of punctuation marks." Old Dong took out another piece of paper from his sleeve, and sighed, "I don't know if the things I made are right..."

Cai Yan pinched her palms in her sleeves, reminding herself that she must never take the bait.

However, seeing Old Dong's half-smile expression, he still couldn't hold back and said, "It's just an improvement of 'Ju Du', so what's so strange?"

The original punctuation marks appeared in the Han Dynasty, which is the so-called "sentence reading", which is some sentences added by scholars according to their own understanding of books.

"What's so strange?"

Old Dong laughed even worse, and said, "Then Cai Cai, please translate, how should the sentence 'the people can make them understand'?"

"The people can let them know, but they can't let them know?" Cai Yan smiled slightly, and he knew it well, "This sentence comes from "The Analects of Confucius*Tai Bo Pian", which is the original words of Confucius."

"It means that the rulers can let Li Shu follow the path guided by us, but there is no need to let them know why."

"I don't think it's right." Old Dong shook his head, took out a pen and paper while writing this sentence, and said, "As you said, Confucius' words are fooling the people."

"However, as the first great educator who advocated the establishment of private schools and teaching without discrimination, how could Confucius agree with the policy of obscuring the people? It is obviously contrary to his consistent philosophy."

"In addition, Mencius is a believer and successor of Confucius, who put forward the idea of ​​'the people are more important than the emperor'. If Confucius had the idea of ​​fooling the people, why didn't it reflect it in the theory of "Mencius", and it was the opposite?"

After saying this, Cai Yan's eyes widened: Didn't you cut people with a knife in the frontier before? When did you study the theories of Confucius and Mencius so deeply?

A big bastard who can't dance with a spear and a hammer actually read "The Analects of Confucius"?

"Well, how do you think... er, yes, how do you translate it?"

"The correct punctuation of this sentence is 'the people can, let them know it. If they can't, let them know it'." After finishing the sentence with punctuation marks on the paper, Old Dong continued.

"It means 'when the rulers think that the people's morality and behavior are in line with the norms, they should not interfere too much. Only when they feel that the people's behavior deviates and need to be educated, should they guide and educate them'."

"Only such an interpretation and translation is consistent with Confucianism's consistent spiritual core of moralizing politics and opening up people's wisdom."

As soon as the voice fell, Cai Yan's expression changed, and it became 'I don't read much, so don't lie to me'...

Immediately, he suppressed his mind, but couldn't help leaning over to look at the punctuation marks and said, "So, really?...So, what I learned from my father has always been wrong?"

"Where does the old man know?..."

Unexpectedly, at this time, Old Dong spread his hands again: "This old man is a reckless man who cuts people at the frontier, how can he know what the saint's words mean?"

"Perhaps your sentence translation just now is correct."

"You!..." Cai Yan suddenly became angry: "Just change the subject, and you're still whetting my appetite at this time? Say it quickly, say it quickly... Wan'er is right, so I can't get too used to you!"

Old Dong grimaced and said, "I can't blame this old man..."

"Who told the Spring and Autumn Period that they didn't even have a writing brush. If you want to record it, you have to cast it on a bronze tripod. If you want to carve a stone tablet, the most convenient way is to use a knife to scratch it on a piece of bamboo."

"It's so time-consuming and labor-intensive, naturally only the essence can be recorded."

"So "The Analects" is all the truths that Confucius said, without even a context. Who can know what the sage meant at that time?"

"Then what did you say just now?"

"It can also deceive you scholars. If it were an old farmer in the field, he would only use an iron rake to beat the old man, because he thinks that the old man is too full to get in the way."

Cai Yan was completely caught up in it, and couldn't figure out what Old Dong meant: "If that's the case, why do you want to improve the sentence pronunciation and make some complicated symbols?"

Old Dong smiled secretly, and finally saw it: "It doesn't matter how the sentence is broken, and it doesn't matter what the sage meant at the time. The important thing is who broke the sentence and how the sentence was translated."

Cai Yan seemed to understand, but he didn't fully understand: "You mean... after making these symbols, you can control the interpretation of classics?"

"That's right, if you control these in your hands, you can offset the influence of the great Confucian commentaries on the scriptures and commentaries among the gentry tycoons, and break their monopoly on knowledge."

Old Dong's eyes were wandering, and his hands were leisurely around Cai Yan's waist: "After all, I will hold the imperial examination in the future, and there must be standard answers in the exam."

"After the classics are defined with punctuation marks, the examination can be fair and fair, and the poor and the poor can use the scientific examination to leap the dragon's gate..."

"Well, very ambitious." Cai Yan nodded in approval, and then looked murderous, "It's your hand, can you stop thinking about the carp jumping over the dragon's gate?"

"It's changed, Yan'er, you've changed..."

Old Dong still wants to fight for it, but he obviously has his own ideas in his mouth, "Since watching Ziyi and Ce'er's passionate temptation, you can't be easily deceived."

(End of this chapter)