Prime Minister

Chapter 159
Li Gou had just finished his lecture in the Chonghua Hall, and then returned to the official dormitory.

At this time, two imperial students, Zhang Yue, Chen Manzhou, and more than a dozen other scholars arrived together.

Seeing Chen Manzhou's bruised nose and swollen face, Li Gou couldn't help frowning, and then looked at Zhang Yue who was even more unhappy, and immediately asked, "Who can beat him?"

Chen Manzhou pointed to Zhang Yueyi: "This professor was beaten by this person, please uphold justice for me, it is really insulting to gentlemen."

Li Gou heard the words and said: "It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong, but it's wrong to beat people with your hands. Sanlang, how about your poetry and prose? If you don't pass the public examination, you will be expelled from the imperial school. I warned you again and again. Now it is also a matter of beating people." , if there is no explanation on this matter, then the public test will not be used.”

Zhang Yue said: "Students understand. People are beaten by students, and students are willing to let everything be dealt with directly."

Li Gou nodded and said, "Let's talk about the reason first."

The two Tai students told what had happened, and immediately presented the note.

Li Gou glanced at the poem on the paper and thought, isn't this a three-character poem?
Li Gou read it several times, and asked Chen Manzhou, "According to what you said, you submitted this matter to the prefect of Shuzhou?"

Chen Manzhou said: "Of course, when the student wrote this poem, there was a celestial echo. After presenting it, the prefect Wang praised a few words and rewarded me with thirty pennies."

Li Gou saw the seriousness of the other party's words, and sneered in his heart. This poem was given to Wang Anshi by Chen Shengzhi, so why did he give it to Wang Anshi after it got into this mouth.However, Chen Shengzhi said at the time that he was an unknown student from Pucheng, so he didn't ask in detail, and he didn't expect it to be written by a student of Tai.

Li Gou looked at Zhang Yue again and said in his heart, with your level of poetry and fu, can you write three-character poems?

But Li Gou thought about it again, Zhang Yue was from Pucheng, so maybe he knew Chen Shengzhi.

Li Gou immediately found a servant to give some instructions, and then asked him to go to Chen Shengzhi's mansion first, then looked at Zhang Yue and said, "What evidence do you have for saying that you wrote this poem?"

Zhang Yuedao: "This poem was indeed written by a student. At that time, the student saw that his classmates did not have a book of literacy enlightenment at hand in the private school, so he did not think about it. At that time, the student wanted to write a seven-character book, but the seven-character No, I want to write a five-character poem, and five-character poems are not enough. In the end, I thought that it would be like a thousand-character prose, and I would write four-character rhymes as an enlightenment, but I couldn’t do it after a lot of writing.”

Everyone shook their heads and laughed.

"That's why the students finally decided to learn a hundred surnames and write an easy-to-understand and catchy three-character poem to enlighten the Confucian children."

Li Gou thought of Zhang Yue's previous level of poetry and prose, and could only say that the format and rhythm were correct, but his literary talent was really mediocre.But although the literary talents of these three-character poems are not very high, they must have a considerable foundation in classics and history.

Zhang Yue said: "If you don't believe me, sir, you can ask the students to compare this student surnamed Chen with the content of the three-character poem."

Li Gou nodded, but Zhang Yue led him away unknowingly.From the examination of whether the poem was written by Zhang Yue, to the debate between Zhang Yue and Chen Manzhou who understood the three-character poem better.

Li Gou said, "Just ask."

Immediately Zhang Yue and Chen Manzhou asked: "This Su Laoquan, 27, who is the one who started to work hard?"

Chen Manzhou smiled and said, "It's Su Xun, a Jinshi in the second year of Jiayou, who wouldn't know that."

Zhang Yue asked again: "So at the beginning of human beings, what is the source of good nature?"

Chen Manzhou said: "It's what Mencius said."

Zhang Yue said: "Filial piety is familiar with the four books, which four books are these four books?"

Chen Manzhou smiled and said: "Analects, twenty chapters. Mencius, seven chapters. Do the mean, Zisi pen. Do university, it is Zeng Zi. Self-study Qi, to Pingzhi.

"Of course it's the Analects, Mencius, the Doctrine of the Mean, the University is the Four Books, haha, it's obvious."

Zhang Yue laughed and said, "Then do you know who these four books came from?"

Chen Manzhou was stunned and said: "The Four Books are the Four Books, what else can you say, don't make it farfetched."

Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "How could I presumptuously decide on the seat of the Four Books? Brother, you are short-sighted. You know that 'human nature is good at the beginning' comes from Mencius, but how can you not know who is the person who respects Mencius the most after Mencius?"

"This?"

Zhang Yue said: "Teach you a good boy. The theory of the Four Books comes from Han Tuizhi. The Four Books are the books of the four sons, namely Confucius, Mencius, Zisizi, and Zengzi."

Chen Manzhou was speechless when he heard the words, and then argued forcefully: "Do you say that the book of the Four Sons was written by Han Tuizhi or Han Tuizhi?"

Zhang Yue said: "The truth has its own opinion."

A senior student at the side said: "You don't even know what Han Tuizhi said, so why are you pretending to be someone else?"

The spectators on the side also said clearly: "Brother Chen, you are so shameless that you actually copied other people's poems."

"This person is really shameless. I will go back and expose him to my fellow countrymen."

"Let's go, let's go, I thought there was something exciting to watch."

Chen Manzhou panicked immediately when everyone left, then looked at Zhang Yue and said harshly, "I won't let this matter go."

After speaking, Chen Manzhou wanted to leave, but the two imperial students wanted to stop him, but Li Gou said, "Let him go."

As if being pardoned, Chen Manzhou left immediately.

Li Gou paced around for a while, and then said to Zhang Yue, "Is this poem really made by you?"

Zhang Yue said: "It is true that the student's writing was originally intended to be used as an elementary school and not to be famous, but who knows that someone actually steals the student's poem, and the student wants to seek justice."

"Really?"

Immediately, Li Gou picked up the three-character poem and asked Zhang Yue a few questions, which was actually more tricky than what Zhang Yue had just asked Chen Manzhou.

Fortunately, Zhang Yue now has a solid foundation in Confucian classics, so he was not passed the exam.

Zhang Yue knew that he had misjudged the situation.

If the general Taixue teachers knew about the students in Taixue, they wrote three-character poems that were praised by a magistrate, and promoted enlightenment in the local area, they would definitely want to write a special book and immediately play it to the court.

But Li Gou didn't, but was cautious again and again, and had to confirm repeatedly.

Zhang Yue wiped the sweat from his forehead. The other traversers didn't have any poetry skills, and they would get applause for any poems written by later generations. Why is it so difficult for me.What's more, I didn't want to copy it at the beginning, but just taught it to Zhang Qiu.

In fact, Zhang Yue's poems and prose are usually too poor. If it is usually written by a student of the Jinshi Department, Li Gou would not doubt it after hearing the discerning words just now.

Li Gou didn't say anything, and told everyone else to go back, leaving Zhang Yue alone in his academy.

Zhang Yue maintained a respectful posture, while Li Gou ate tea, ate some pastries, and wrote paperwork. Anyway, he just ignored Zhang Yue and said a word.

Zhang Yue didn't know what medicine Li Gou was selling in his stomach.

At this moment, a servant walked in from the outside and handed Li Gou a note.

Li Gou looked slightly relieved, then looked at Zhang Yue and said: "You go back first, is this poem written by you, and I will give you an answer after the public test."

When Zhang Yue heard Li Gou's words, what did he mean?
Zhang Yue saluted Li Gou and was about to leave the official dormitory.

"Wait!" Li Gou said a word.

Zhang Yue turned his head and said, "I don't know what else to tell me?"

But seeing Li Gou put his hands behind his back and said, "Don't advocate Mencius' words in front of me, I am not Mencius!"

It is well known that Li Gou is not Meng.

For example, I read Jin Yongli's criticism of Mencius.

'When a beggar ever had two wives, how could the neighbor get many chickens.At that time, there was Emperor Zhou, and people talked about Wei Qi about what happened. ’ It is from the words of Li Gou.

In addition, Li Gou also wrote a poem "He Mencius" "It's unknown if you don't know how to complete the donation. Meng Ke is convinced that he is still crazy."Yue Weng Fang is the son of heaven, how can the son-in-law be killed by his younger brother. '

This means that Gusou asked Shun to repair the roof of the barn and suddenly removed the ladder, Gusou asked Shun to fill the well, and asked his second wife and son Xiang to bury it with soil.

Li Gou said that the logic of this matter was wrong. At that time, Yao had already married his two daughters to Shun.Shun's father-in-law was the Son of Heaven, so Gusou would not have killed Shun even if he thought about it.So Li Gou said that Mencius was so confused that he could take these things seriously.

Li Gou looked at Zhang Yue's back, clutching the small note that Chen Shengzhi gave him before.

The note confirmed that Zhang Yue was the author of the three-character poem.

Li Gou believed it in the end, or he didn't know the twists and turns in the middle, but Chen Shengzhi said so, so there is probably nothing wrong.

Li Gou thought in his heart that he should report this matter to the imperial court. As for whether he can adopt it, it is up to Zhang Yue's fortune.

As for Wang Anshi, I have to say something.

By the way, the last time the primary school professor at Prince Pu's Mansion started to use this three-character poem to teach the clan's children.

Li Gou didn't know why he thought of this. In June this year, Prime Minister Han Qi, Longtuge direct scholar Bao Zheng and others proposed to the government to establish a reserve.The officials said that there is a woman in the harem who is pregnant, and we will talk about it later.

Just a few days ago, news came from the palace that another daughter was born in the harem.

So Li Gou took Zhang Yue's three-character poem to Wu Zhongfu, who was in charge of the sentence.

Wu Zhongfu was at odds with Li Gou, and when he saw Li Gou coming, he said, "Li Zhi said, what is the matter here?"

Li Gou said: "Report to the supervisor, this is a three-character poem written by a student of the imperial court. It was recommended by Wang Jiefu and quoted in Changzhou elementary schools. I want the supervisor to use it to inform the court."

"The reason why you went to Shushu is because of Wang Jiefu."

Li Gou said: "This poem is catchy and easy to understand. It is just used in elementary school. This is a contribution to the good fortune of the holy religion."

Wu Zhongfu took the three-character poem and read it: "Even seven words, five words are not enough, the words are so simple, how can they be played. Doesn't this make all the officials laugh? Li Zhi said, are you making me lose face in front of all the officials?"

Li Gou said: "The supervisor..."

"Okay, don't say any more, the official will not agree to you. You still have to pay attention to the public examination and have an explanation in front of the official. You know that the government and the public have long been dissatisfied with the imperial students' criticism of the government. I've said all the good things for you, I'm afraid I can't even do this Taixue. As for such tricky and flattering actions, don't bother to do it."

After Wu Zhongfu finished speaking, he put the three-character poem away.

Seeing this, Li Gou immediately walked away.

Wu Zhongfu shook his head and said, "Crazy student, what a crazy student."

But when Li Gou went back to his house, he and Wu Zhongfu had been in conflict for more than a day or two.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

Although he expected that Wu Zhongfu would not treat him well before he came, but now he is still very angry.

Li Gou immediately lost his temper, thinking that since you don't want to play, then I will list it alone.

Thinking of this, Li Gou did what he said, and immediately he mentioned writing on the official case.

(End of this chapter)