Prime Minister

Chapter 738
Hearing that Ouyang Xiu recommended himself in the suicide note, Zhang Yue couldn't help wondering, what exactly did Ouyang Xiu write?
But Zhang Yue definitely didn't know the content of this legacy table, because it was the last words a minister said to officials when he was dying, and it was impossible to disclose it to others, even Ouyang Fa didn't know it.

So what Ouyang Xiu said, I am afraid that no one except the officials knows now.

The official said: "I read Kong Ming's list of teachers, and recommended Guo Youzhi, Fei Yi, and Dong Yun are all famous scholars in Shu. I read the list of Ouyang Qing's family, and I also feel that I have read the list of teachers. He was ordered by Bole all his life, but passed away. At that time, I recommended Zhang Qing to me, and I firmly believed in it."

Zhang Yue said: "I dare not."

The official said: "This time when I called you back to Beijing, the most important thing is not to discuss the collection of the five prefectures, but now the new law has aroused fierce opposition from all over the world. Even the queen mothers of the two palaces have spoken out, asking me to stop the new law. It is also difficult for me to decide now, whether to take advantage of the great victory in the Northwest to temporarily dismiss the new law."

"I hesitated a lot in my heart about this matter, but I didn't confide a word to anyone. Today, I only asked Yu Qing's family. Please don't worry about the Qing family. Tell me everything you know, and talk endlessly."

Zhang Yue heard what the officials said, and knew that the officials' confidence in the reform had begun to shake violently at this moment.

Two years after I left the court, the government's attitude towards the new law has changed from a firm belief in the past to a half-belief now.

But I promised Zhang Yu before the king, and I would never say a word in front of the officials that was not conducive to the new law.

What now?

Now the official is asking me, and I am not taking the initiative to speak ill of Wang Anshi and the new law. To tell the truth is to break the promise, and to tell lies is to deceive the emperor.

The official continued: "There is still a humane Wang Anshi who will harm the country if he is in the country, and the world if he is in the world. What does Zhang Qing think?"

Wrong the country and the world?
The official's trust in Wang Anshi is not as good as before!

Right now seems to be a good opportunity to add insult to injury.

Zhang Yue thought about it, this is not an opportunity to add insult to injury, when it comes to the person who first recommended Wang Anshi to the official family, it was himself.

Han Wei, Sima Guang, and Lu Gong said that they lifted a rock and shot themselves in the foot, but they couldn't do it.

It is normal for the old king to turn his face and break up with others... From his time in power to today, which prime minister has started and ended with him?Even Han Jiang, the most staunch ally before, turned against him.

As for my father-in-law, apart from having a tacit understanding with him on the Kaibian Xi River, he is not in every other way, and he is on the verge of turning his face and breaking up with him.

But can Pharaoh go now?
Officials who came to ask themselves must be because they uphold a fair position.

Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, I have learned a lot from Xi Yi recently, among which Shao Yong is quite influenced."

Needless to say, Shao Yong's awesomeness, Fu Bi, Sima Guang, Wang Gongchen and other bigwigs are all vying to be friends with him.

When Zhang Yue was sent to the Guozijian, he invited Shao Yong to give lectures three times and five times, but the audience was overcrowded.

But Shao Yong felt too tired, so he stopped talking after a few days and went back to Luoyang.

During this period, Zhang Yue also asked Shao Yong for advice.

Zhang Yuedao: "I read Shao Yong's words, the foundation of the universe and the world, and the use of Kanli from the heaven and the earth. Therefore, "Yi" begins with Qiankun, middles in Kanli, and ends at the end. Among them, the head of the Xianheng Sutra is all about its use.”

"I think this statement is the most reasonable."

After hearing Zhang Yuezhi's words, the officials thought of Wang Anshi's words. Wang Anshi liked to use the two hexagrams of Futai in the Book of Changes to advise.

If you turn up and down, you will be good, if you close up and down, you will not.

As for Zhang Yue's statement that Qiankun is the foundation of heaven and earth, and Kanli is for the purpose of the world, I don't quite understand it.

Zhang Yuedao: "Tai hexagram and Fu hexagram each use the two hexagrams of Qian and Kun as the upper and lower hexagrams, while Jiji and Weiji use the two hexagrams of Likan as the upper and lower hexagrams."

"Taking the hexagram Xiangqian as respect, Kun as humble, Qian as the king, and Kun as minister, then the Tai hexagram is the earth and the sky, the upper Kun and the lower stem, the earth's atmosphere rises and the weather sinks, and the up and down traffic is Tongtai. Otherwise, the hexagram Otherwise, the sky and the earth are not, the upper and lower heavens, the earth's atmosphere sinks, and the weather rises, so it is a sign of chaos."

"Therefore, the reform of the law is based on the image of the hexagram of Tai. From the top to the bottom, it is necessary to change the customs, legislate, break the gap between the upper and lower, and make the monarch and the people unite. This is the image of the hexagram of Tai."

The official nodded.

Zhang Yue said again: "As for the Li hexagram, it means smooth progress, while the Kan hexagram means ups and downs, and Ji Ji means that the Li hexagram is on the bottom and the Kan hexagram is on top, meaning that everything is going smoothly, but there is danger in the end. And Weiji means leaving the upper hurdle, it means that things are difficult at the beginning, but Weiji also has a reason to help."

The officials patiently listened to Zhang Yue's narration and asked: "Then Zhang Qing, after three years of reform, is it good or bad?"

Zhang Yue was silent.

The official thought for a while and said: "It seems that it is not enough."

Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty is a sage. Yi starts from Qiankun, middles from Kanli, and finally ends. The two hexagrams from Likan are for the use of heaven and earth. Your Majesty wants to change the law to make Qiankun peaceful, but it is difficult from top to bottom. , this has been going up and down, and finally became the Weiji hexagram."

"However, Your Majesty, there are also benefits in the midst of the unsatisfactory. I believe that if there is something to do, there will be something to gain."

The official asked Zhang Yue how about the reform?
Zhang Yue truthfully replied that the reform has indeed failed.

The original intention of the reform is very good, so that the government's government orders can be passed down from top to bottom. One of the very important purposes is to destroy mergers, break the barrier between the aristocratic family and the big clan, and let the country's interests be distributed evenly to the people at the bottom. .

This is the meaning of Shangxiajiaotai, which is used and the purpose of the reform.

When Wang Anshi first entered Beijing, he talked to the emperor about Tai Gua many times, and linked his ideas of reform with the meaning of Tai Gua.

As a result, in the process of implementing the reform, we encountered obstacles at various levels.

The hexagram Kan originally meant water, but the hexagram meant bumps and bumps. There were constant difficulties in the implementation of the reform, and the officials and ministers objected. Now even the queen mothers of the two palaces have stood up to oppose it. The officials are also hesitant and are about to retreat.

Therefore, it is a hexagram of failure to say that the reform has not achieved its goal.

Zhang Yue can't go against his conscience and tell the officials that everything is going well with the reform and the results are very, very strong, that's not acceptable.

Zhang Yue said truthfully that the reform is in a Kan Gua fortune, and it is very difficult for the reform to succeed if it continues as it is now.

But the hexagram of Weiji is also very interesting.

The Book of Changes talks about the way of one yin and one yang. There are uneconomics in the economics, and there are also economicals in the uneconomical. It means that disasters and blessings depend on blessings, and blessings and misfortunes subdue them.

Many times when we do something, it seems that we have achieved the goal, but at the same time, we lose a lot of unknown things in exchange.

On the contrary, it seems that the purpose of the reform has not been achieved, but is there no other gain for the country and officials?
Zhang Yue's answer did not say whether the reform is good or bad, but it just answered the official's question.

(End of this chapter)