A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 893: The new job of the secretary is the same as the old one, who is the stupid one in the manager exam
After receiving Bai Jing's order, Bai Xin and Bai Zan prepared to set off for Tongguan.

Although Bai Zan holds a military post, the war has just ended and the soldiers are on rest. As long as the army is not mobilized and he returns to the camp within the specified time, it will not be considered as deserting his post without permission.

"Let's go, let's go back to the house." After drinking two more sips of tea, Bai Jing felt much more refreshed and called Bai Xian to go back to the yard.

Just as he stood up, a counselor came in and reported: "Master, Master Tong is here."

Counselor is a newly created position in the record room. Today's Bai's record room is headed by the chief recorder, with counselors and military officers as assistants, and the secretary has completely become an ordinary clerk.

Among them, the counselor is in charge of government affairs, and the military counselor is in charge of military affairs, each performing his own duties. This facilitates communication between the upper and lower levels, allowing Bai Jing to accurately control affairs in various places.

"Let him in." Helplessly, Bai Jing had to sit down again with the help of Bai Xian, and asked the maid to refill the tea.

Not long after, Bai Tong, who was already an old man, came slowly to the door of the room, supported by a servant from the main courtyard, holding a peach wood cane.

"Xian'er, go and help your Third Ancestor."

Bai Xian received the order and came to Bai Tong in two steps. He took Bai Tong's elbow from the waiter, bent slightly and helped him in.

"Okay, stop being so polite. If you have any problems with your hands and feet, sit down. Do you still need me to help you?"

Bai Tong chuckled, revealing half of his missing teeth, squinted his eyes, hunched his back, and sat down on the right with the support of Bai Xian.

Bai Jing looked at Bai Tong, who was holding the wooden stick with both hands, stretching his head and squinting his eyes, watching and listening to what he was about to say.

I felt both heartache and anger.

"How many times have I told you to take care of your health and not to spend the whole night reading books? You should focus on self-cultivation. Look at you. You are the youngest among the three brothers, but you are the weakest. Why is that?"

Bai Tong smiled and said, "My father handed the family to my brother and passed away with regrets. Although I am not in charge, I also want to make my own contribution."

"Alas." Bai Jing shook his head helplessly when he heard him say that. He had to turn around and tell Bai Xian to bring the main hospital's doctor to check him when Bai Tong left.

"You never come to the temple for no reason. Tell me, what is the reason for your visit this time?"

The two brothers chatted for a long time and finally got to the point.

After hearing this, Bai Tong took out a book from his arms and motioned for Bai Xian to take it.

Baekhyun hurried forward, taking the book with both hands, and then handed it to his great-grandfather.

Bai Jing used the sunlight outside the door to carefully look at the words "Managerial Examination" on the cover.

"What is this?" Bai Jing looked at Bai Tong and asked puzzledly.

"Twenty years ago, my father discussed the future of our family under the plum tree and established a system of nominal rulership. Over the years, I have thought about it and found that it is difficult to realize the idea of ​​a government for the public given the current state of society."

"then you?"

"So, in the past twenty years, I have been shut up in the academy's library, traveling back and forth to the Hanhai Library Valley, asking people to collect the books lost by the royal family, and finally I got this exam book."

Bai Tong became more and more excited as he spoke, as if he was back under the green plum tree 20 years ago and was explaining the "benefits of engineering" to his father and brothers.

"Brother, in today's world, everyone is based on their family. Most people serve as officials and do things for the sake of their family. Few people work for the sake of the world and the people. This is the world of the aristocratic families, and that's all."

"If our Bai family wants to realize a public empire and realize the system of a nominal ruler as envisioned by my father, we must break the old family ties and replace family ties with schools of thought."

"Just like during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, scholars were not limited to their family and country, but took doctrine as the foundation of their lives. Therefore, there were hundreds of schools of thought, such as Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, and Mohism. This was a great event in China, a scene that had not been seen in thousands of years."

While listening to Bai Tong's imagination, I flipped through his twenty years of hard work. The book detailed how to revitalize the learning style in various places, and the family will actively pass on new learning and overthrow the old classics.

Because Confucian classics are private studies and the foundation of aristocratic families, only those in the family or those who are dependent on the family can obtain the essence of it. Therefore, many famous people came from aristocratic families.

Bai Tong said that the new learning he envisioned would be based mainly in academies and would promote various ideas that would benefit the world.

The new learning will have no identity restrictions. As long as you can afford the tuition, you can enter the academy to study the new learning.

When the new students become the mainstream, Confucian classics will be completely suppressed, and the aristocratic families that rely mainly on Confucian classics will completely decline.

They were replaced by scholars who came from academies.

"I think that Confucianism is the only school of thought that is respected today. If we want to revive ancient thought, we must not use ancient names. Otherwise, we will be attacked by the moralists of the world, and the reform will be wasted."

"So I took Confucianism as the main body, integrated the theories of hundreds of schools of thought, and combined them with the new theories of the time to create a new Confucianism, which I called 'Neo-Confucianism'."

"Neo-science?" Bai Jing's eyes became brighter and brighter, but Bai Xian, who was standing behind him, was so shocked that he was speechless.

Looking at this man in his twilight years, the least famous of the three Bai brothers, he has now accomplished something great.

After reading to the last page, Bai Jing raised his head and looked at his third brother, who was in a daze and had clear eyes, and sighed:

"Among the three of us brothers, I never thought that you are the one who resembles father the most. Your article "Managerial Examination" will change the future of our family and be ranked on the same level as "Establishing a Political System with a Nominal Monarch" written by father."

Bai Tong felt a little embarrassed after hearing this and said, "Brother, you are exaggerating. You have made the greatest contribution to the family by completing our father's posthumous works."

"No." Bai Jing stood up holding the handle of the chair, walked to Bai Tong, held his hand tightly and said:

"If I say that with my father's 'Establishing a Political System with a Nominal Monarch', I have two levels of success in achieving the family's aspirations, then with your 'Management Examination', it is four levels. It must be one of the foundations of the family's future."

Bai Tong left. He said that after finishing "Managerial Examination", he no longer needed to stay in seclusion or read all night long. From now on, he could let go of everything and enjoy his old age, and Bai Jing wouldn't have to worry about him anymore.

Looking at Bai Tong's slightly chic back disappearing outside the doorway, Bai Jing sighed: "I have always thought that among the brothers in the family, I understand my father's ideas the most and I have inherited his ambitions."

"After seeing my third brother today, I realized that I was wrong. My third brother's talent is ten or even a hundred times greater than mine. I am just repeating what others have said. It is not worth mentioning."

"Great-grandfather."

Bai Xian behind him looked at Bai Jing, the pillar of the family, with some concern, fearing that he would do something stupid.

"Nothing, just some sighs. When I was reading my ancestor's handwriting, I saw that my ancestor Bai Chen said in the handwriting: 'I am a fool'. I didn't understand the meaning at first, but now I know the connotation."

"Xian'er."

"Great-grandfather."

"Never look down on the people in the world, and never look down on the people around you. Next year your father will report on his work and return home, and you will succeed the Eastern Court Envoy, so remember this."

"Grandson, remember this."

"good."

In the setting sun, Bai Jing, supported by Bai Xian, slowly turned around and left, disappearing in the empty room, leaving only two cups of steaming tea on the table, waiting for the waiter to take them back.

(End of this chapter)