Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 107 A Saint Has Words?

"presumptuous!"

"Shuzi is rude!"

"The court is the most important place, how can you allow you to talk nonsense?!"

Before the young man arrived, he spoke first, but what he got in return was a series of furious reprimands from the court ministers.Yang Biao's face on the side seat was full of remorse, knowing his son is like a father, he knew that his son was stubborn, but he didn't expect Yang Xiu to be so bold that he came up and slapped himself so hard.

However, compared to those angry ministers and Yang Biao who could fry eggs on his face, Liu Xie's face suddenly became alive.He fixed his eyes on the young man who walked into the hall, and the more he watched, the happier he became, the corners of his mouth even grinned to his ears.

Because Yang Xiu dressed so casually, he was more comfortable than Liu Xie was that Chang'an son on the street.Especially in his hand, he was still holding a shaking cup, and the dice inside were shaking happily.What's more interesting is that although Yang Xiu looks a bit like his father, his eyes are slightly raised like a fox, which immediately makes him look like a smart and conceited guy.

Yang Xiu walked into the hall nonchalantly, looked around, but didn't pay attention to those courtiers.It wasn't until he took a look at Liu Xie that his fox eyes narrowed slightly, and he bowed and knelt down in a dignified manner: "Craftsman Yang Xiu kowtowed to His Majesty, and heard that His Majesty summoned a villain to come because there is no one around who can write. gone?"

Yang Xiu's mouth is really stinking, and there are well-educated people in the court at this moment, but he just said that there is not even a person around the emperor who can write.One sentence offended all the people in the hall, and even Ma Ridun, who was still on the front line with Liu Xie, was a little angry, and said to Yang Biao: "Master Yang, this is the talented son you recommended. ? Veteran, let’s not talk about this son’s talent, but just talk about his crime of disrespect in front of the palace and slandering the courtiers. How can you explain it?”

At this time, Yang Biao was so regretful that his intestines were a little green. He knelt down in front of the hall with his legs and feet ten times faster than before, and said to Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, forgive me. Don't notice, I am ashamed of the grace..."

Before Yang Biao finished speaking, Yang Xiu gave up, turned his head to Ma Rixun and said: "There is a saying in "Huainanzi": To value the law and abandon righteousness is to value the crown and forget the head and feet. Today, the boy was killing all directions in the gambling house. Hearing that the emperor was summoned by the emperor due to state affairs, he abandoned his winnings and rushed to the palace. He put the state affairs first. As the old man said, the villain still needs to stay at home when he hears the holy order Bathing and changing clothes, burning incense and praying, wouldn't you value your crown and forget your head and feet?"

"Nie Zi, keep your mouth shut!" Yang Biao, who has always been low-key, finally revealed his weakness. This son seems to be his nemesis.

Ma Rixun has also reached the age of licking the calf. Seeing that although Yang Xiu is unlearned and incompetent, he seems to be quick-witted and eloquent, so he can't help but feel motivated to take the school exam.Just as he was about to bring out the allusion and try this kid out, before he could speak, he heard Liu Xie on the throne humming slightly, and his hand unconsciously touched the pen holder again.Ma Rixun was taken aback in horror, thinking that he was the elder of Sangong, and Liu Xie was only a 12-year-old boy no matter what, if that stroke was thrown down, Liu Xie would be scolded a few times at most, but his prestige would be completely wiped out .

At the moment, the old man was also smart, and his expression changed and he pretended to be amiable: "You boy, you are naughty. Your Majesty called you here today to test your talent. Don't rely on your father's help." Yu Yin, playing that youthful and frivolous trick. Just now you bumped into Mr. Yang, why don't you apologize quickly?"

Seeing that Liu Xie liked Yang Xiu, Ma Rixun's remarks were actually sloppy and sloppy, but how could Liu Xie let this matter go like this?Immediately interjected: "Dezu, how much did you win today?"

"It's not much. Those small coins minted by Dong Zhuo will cost a lot of money to buy a pancake." Yang Xiu replied with a smile.

Liu Xie loves Yang Xiu so much, this guy is not all fake smart, he hit the point in one sentence.Immediately, he put on a pose and lowered his face again, and viciously swept around the ministers who scolded Yang Xiu just now. His intention was very obvious: you people who are dead and vegetarian, scolding each other, but you are even entrusted to you. There is no mention of minting small money privately or disrupting people's livelihood. How dare you say that Yang Xiu is not doing his job properly? !
Under Dong Zhuo's subordinates, the courtiers have long developed the ability to adapt to the wind, and their brains are also good.As soon as they saw Liu Xie's expression, they didn't know what was going on, and all of them died down immediately.

Only Yang Zan was insulted by Yang Xiu just now, and he would not let it go, he stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the important place in the court, is talking about major affairs in the world. This son is crazy and rude, and he was only called by His Majesty to serve the pen and ink , but humiliated the subordinates. If everyone is like this, then what prestige is there in the court, and what is the legal system and etiquette?!"

Although this was said to Liu Xie, Liu Xie knew that he didn't need to speak at all.Sure enough, Yang Xiu narrowed his fox eyes again, looked at Yang Zan and said, "The road is uneven and someone will step on it. You carnivores have short-sightedness. Don't you have to wait until you have wiped out the 400-year foundation of the Han Dynasty, and then you will kill it with your neck? Is it okay to leave the eternal infamy?"

"You?!" Yang Zan had never been so humiliated before, and immediately blushed, and angrily said to Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, this son is so disrespectful and disrespectful that he cannot be used. I beg Your Majesty to take him out of the palace and never talk about it." use!"

No wonder Yang Zan was so angry, and even the other ministers in the court also changed their colors. In this strange era of the Han Dynasty, it was walking in an intermediate stage of inheriting the Qin Dynasty's imperial system and Confucianism's benevolent rule. And there is no tolerance in the Song Dynasty for not killing those who wrote letters, and the right to speak about state affairs is mainly in the hands of scholar-bureaucrats and relatives, that is, on the surface, these officials with a rank of more than two thousand stones in the court.Although Yang Xiu is not a scholar, but at present he is just a commoner, and he acts perversely. He broke the sense of superiority of these scholar-bureaucrats and officials, which naturally annoyed the court.

But Liu Xie knew very well that if the Han court continued to operate like this, it would inevitably lead to a predicament of occlusion and short-sightedness.As a result, Boss Cao saw this drawback very early on, and clearly stipulated in the Order of Seeking Talents that "only talents should be promoted", so as to spread the word and appoint wise people.

Therefore, although there are thousands of difficulties ahead, but everything is difficult at the beginning.Since today's unexpected incidents emerged one after another, Liu Xie still took the responsibility of being willing to be the first in the world, and took care of this calamity for Yang Xiu.Just when the other courtiers were eager to agree with Yang Zan's words, Liu Xie looked lonely, sighed leisurely and said to the court official: "The sage has something to say, the old is my old, and the old is the old. The young is my young, and the young is the young." Let’s not talk about whether what Dezu said is reasonable, but just talk about Dezu’s heart of serving the country with sincerity, don’t you have a little bit of sympathy?”

This sentence is obviously biased, and it is impossible to convince the court ministers.However, if Liu Xie dared to say these words, he naturally had a backhand. When the courtiers of His Highness were still as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, they finally threw a blockbuster at the right time, and said earnestly:
"My dear friends, as scholars, you should stand up for your words, meritorious deeds, and virtues. If you take it from me, at this time when the Han Dynasty is in decline, you should even more regard it as "establish your heart for the world, establish your life for the people, and serve the future." The sage follows the unique learning and strives to create peace for all generations. If people are like this, so should the Han Dynasty. Although Dezu is crazy and rude, but the heart of "the rise and fall of the world is everyone's responsibility", everyone should have compassion. Even if he said It’s unreasonable, don’t you even have the tolerance to teach and rectify?!”

As soon as these words fell, the hall was immediately silent, no matter how tall and poor the scholars were, they all lowered their proud heads in shame.It's not that Liu Xie's words are so subtle, it's the uplifting grandeur that came out of them, which deeply shocked their short-sighted cognition.

In their minds, although they all more or less think that Liu Xie is a capable emperor, but this emperor is not the high-end image of an emperor in their ideals.But when Liu Xie said these words today, they felt that it was not that Liu Xie was too qualified, but that their vision, heart, and knowledge were not worthy of standing on the same level as Liu Xie!The grandeur of this emperor has long exceeded their cognition and expectations, but they are still sitting in the well and watching the sky, shameless!
Seeing those ministers of His Highness acting like the little daughter-in-law who was being scolded, Liu Xie felt both lucky and regretful.After all, although there was only one sentence just now, he threw out two classic sentences of later generations of universities one after another.The four words of Zhang Hengqu in the Northern Song Dynasty and the quatrains of Gu Yanwu in the early Qing Dynasty have long been engraved in the souls of Chinese people. How can these people not be moved and regretful?
Liu Xie knew the reason for this.At this time in the Han Dynasty, the Confucian trend was still in the conflict between the ancient text school and the modern text school.Liu Xie doesn't know much about the ancient text school and the modern text school, but the general idea is that it is the same as the Protestantism and the Orthodox Church. What a big deal.

However, whether it is the ancient school or the new school, they only stop at the level of inheritance and interpretation of Confucian classics.And what Liu Xie said just now is when Confucianism has developed to the extreme, and those great Confucians reconstructed and established the Confucian classics.Such a high-level thought and an attitude of being in harmony with the world were beyond the imagination of these Confucian scholars in the Han Dynasty.Therefore, this effect is self-evident.

His words will inevitably surpass the words of any celebrity in this era, and will be engraved on the stone tablet for later generations of Confucian scholars to look up to.However, the only price is...these famous sentences are really no better than those Tang and Song poems, just one sentence less.

At least I hope that the phrase "worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joys later" will not have to be sacrificed prematurely...

(End of this chapter)