Three Kingdoms: From Yinlin to Great Wei Xiongzhu

Chapter 402 Green tea and green plums are a natural couple

The next day, the sun had risen, and the Taixue in the land of Yongqiu was glowing with new vitality.

Jingshen Zheng Xuan pushed open the door, stopped outside the door, and stared eagerly at the eight characters "The Emperor's Assistant Prime Minister, The Country's Pillar" on the Taixue Stone Classic...

What do you seem to be waiting for?
Last night, the people who came to ask for a letter for Lu Yu changed after another, and their identities became more valuable than the last!
Is it time for the "righteous master" to come today?
At this time.

The clear and eager sound of horseshoes sounded in the direction of the single-plank bridge. Prime Minister Zheng Xuanqiao looked at the two horses galloping from afar under the shadow of the tree. Only the figures on the horses gradually became clear. One of them, Zheng Xuan recognized was Lu Yu, and the other One is a strong man with a strong back and a waist.

He didn't recognize him, but this was the "Ancient Evil Comer" who shocked Kyushu——Dian Wei!
"Has the Lord come?"

Zheng Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly...

And Lu Yu had dismounted from his horse, walked quickly across the single-plank bridge, and came in front of him.

"Junior Lu Yu pays his respects to Mr. Zheng."

"President Lu, you came early!" Zheng Xuan smiled slightly.

Lu Yu also returned a rather bright smile. "Mr. Zheng mentioned yesterday that he wanted to ask the students for advice. Naturally, the students didn't dare to ask for advice, but... it's better to ask for advice before it's too late..."

"Haha..." Zheng Xuan stroked his beard and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of please.

...

A table case.

Several scrolls of bamboo slips... Kneeling on both sides of the table are Zheng Xuan and Lu Yu.

And the two have already chatted, without exception, they talked about "The Analects of Confucius", they talked about Confucianism, and they talked about Confucian classics!
That's right...

Zheng Xuanneng came to Xudu because Lu Yu relied on a copy of "The Analects of Confucius".

What surprised Lu Yu was that Zheng Xuan had many unique insights into this "Analects of Confucius", among which there were many slanders and few praises.

Apparently...

For this classmate "Yu Dan", the author of "The Analects of Confucius", Zheng Xuan gave a severe criticism without saving face!

To put it bluntly, Zheng Xuan came to Xuducheng not because of the good writing of "The Analects of Confucius", but because... it was written nonsense and badly written, and he came to criticize it!
No wonder…

"The Analects of Confucius" is to interpret the needs of Confucius and the "Analects of Confucius" thought for modern people, ordinary people and modern society.

In this era at the end of the Han Dynasty... it is still a bit illusory, and even... I have overlooked one of the most critical words, which is also the most important word for Zheng Xuan-awakening!
Fortunately, Zheng Xuan agrees with a small number of opinions...

In-depth, simple and incisive...

In the end, his evaluation can be regarded as - mixed praise and praise!
But... After all these years, Lu Yu is the only work that can be evaluated by Zheng Xuan as "mixed praise and praise"!
certainly…

Lu Yu also humbly accepted this.

You know, in front of him is a master of philosophy, and the way to defeat the master of philosophy in a war of words... is only "facts"!

The so-called facts speak louder than words...

And Lu Yu boldly raised many new questions.

——"Mr. Zheng? Do you think...the Confucianism that has been 'taught' by Dong Shengren is still the same as that of the former Li Kong sage?"

——"Mr. Zheng, do you think the root of the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the Han Dynasty is the dispute between Confucianism and Taoism?"

——"Mr. Zheng, if Confucianism is constantly developing from Kong Shengren to Dong Shengren, then... after Dong Shengren's "divine right of kings", will any saint put forward a new point of view...such as "preserving the principles of heaven" , Destruction of human desires'? And then there will be opposing 'aspirations to investigate things' and 'unity of knowledge and action'?"

don't say...

Many questions raised by Lu Yu, in the eyes of normal people, feel ridiculous!

Especially the development of Confucianism!
But Zheng Xuan is not a normal person...

He has been studying Confucianism for decades, and many thoughts have already taken shape in his mind, and many words of Lu Yu have awakened his consciousness.

——"The Thirteen Classics in my understanding include self-cultivation, self-education, self-discipline, self-supervision, and self-improvement."

——"The academic classics left over from history are that we perfect ourselves through learning, become ideal personalities, and achieve the perfect combination of the best, the most sincere, the most benevolent, the most Tao, the most moral, the most holy, and the way of combining the outside and the inside, and gain the right The law of nature is clear in the chest, and one can do things for the people when advancing, and a philosophical life of self-cultivation when retreating."

——"Everything in the world cannot escape the word 'law', and whether it is the 'preserving the principles of nature and eliminating human desires' you mentioned, or 'the ambition of investigating things' and 'the unity of knowledge and action', it is all due to the laws of nature. What you mentioned is very bold, but it does not prevent us from continuing to explore the laws that exist in the dark!"

Uh…

Regardless of whether others understood it or not, Lu Yu didn't understand it at all anyway.

Is this special meow philosophy?
It's almost like myself listening to a professor of philosophy!

Of course, if you talk to a great Confucian of this level, it’s okay if you don’t understand it...it’s strange if you understand everything!

but…

What Lu Yu didn't know was that, in fact... the words he mentioned, "preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires", "the ambition to investigate things", and "the unity of knowledge and action" have been silently imprinted in Zheng Xuan's heart.

He used the spring and autumn style of writing to avoid talking about this topic.

Because...he felt that what Lu Yu mentioned was something he was going to realize slowly.

"Master Lu asked me many questions, but I'm curious and want to ask Master Lu a question."

"Mr. Zheng may wish to ask..." Lu Yu waved his hand...

Zheng Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly. "Young Master Lu is the head of the Imperial Academy, and the Imperial Academy is the dream school of scholars all over the world. Chief Lu thinks, what should we do with the current knowledge? How should we learn it? What are the disadvantages of the current age? How can we get rid of it!"

Although it doesn't appear on the surface...

But in his heart... Zheng Xuan still admires Lu Yu very much, and thinks he is very bold... Perhaps, under his power, the great man has the hope of reform and the vision of recasting!

And precisely this question, this can be regarded as asking the question.

All the above is nonsense...

In fact, Lu Yu wanted Zheng Xuan to help him in a real sense, and that was the only thing.

"Mr. Zheng asked me how to do current knowledge? How to learn? I can answer only four words..." Lu Yu's tone became serious. "Practical and practical!"

"Practice the world..." Zheng Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly, pondering these four words carefully.

And Lu Yu's words continued.

"As for Mr. Zheng's question, what are the evils in this world? How can we get rid of them?"

"In fact, anyone can see that the disadvantages of the current world are not in the battlefield, but in the gentry! The gentry monopolizes land and officialdom, even if it is a prince, even the court, even the emperor, when faced with the problems of the gentry, they dare not go easily. Touching their interests, let alone ordinary people, they can only let themselves be fished and slaughtered in front of the gentry, as for the solution...the only word is 'awakening'!"

Speaking of this, Lu Yu paused.

As expected, Zheng Xuan repeated it.

"Wake up?"

"That's right, awakening, also known as enlightenment!" Lu Yu explained in detail. "Mr. Zheng, imagine the Yellow Turban rebellion in the first year of Zhongping. What was the cause of the rebellion? Drought, waterlogging, ice disaster, locust plague, and plague continued one after another. Food!"

"It's the emperor who is self-appointed to eat, drink and play. It's the powerful family who has read a lot of poetry and books... It's the eunuchs who hold great power to take over the people. , Huangtian should be established, the year is Jiazi, the world will be prosperous', this is the first awakening of the people to resist the gentry and tyranny! Finding that this day is impossible to pass, if you want to resist...you must overthrow!"

call…

It was just an ordinary chat, but Lu Yu's words lifted Zheng Xuan's spirit.

And Lu Yu's words continued.

"Later, some people further realized that because of their limitations, the peasantry could not lead the revolution successfully. This was the case for Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and the same was true for the Yellow Turban Rebellion...but? Who can overthrow this chaotic world? How about re-establishing order?"

"It's another wave of gentry. They didn't get the bonus of a thousand hectares of fertile land, and they didn't have the strength to take over the people. They refused to accept it, and they were eager to reshuffle the cards. So...there was Cao Sikong and Chen Liu's army, and there was the Tiger of Jiangdong After Sun Jian got the jade seal, he was eager to try. With Dong Zhuo’s Xiliang army entering the capital, until Luoyang, the imperial capital of the Han Dynasty, was burned to the ground by a fire... And these gentry began to quickly accumulate strength and occupy the territory! The lords competed, this is the second Dao enlightenment!"

Speaking of this, Lu Yu paused.

In the following words, the speed of speech slowed down a lot. "However, these gentry have established territories, and the lords compete with each other, so what? They conquered each other, and the whole Han Dynasty is still in dire straits, and the people still cannot eat enough. Why? This is because the princes of all walks of life want to rise, or rely on the clan Power, far away... let’s talk about Cao Sikong, can his rise be separated from the Qiaopei warriors? Can he be separated from Yingchuan’s talents? Can Yuan Shao’s rise be separated from the fame and connections accumulated by the fourth and third members of the Yuan family? ?”

"Once these princes hold great power and control the land, how can they take action against the gentry who help them, so...even though Cao Sikong's Central Plains military and civilian settlements are in full swing, the people are still being oppressed, and [-]% of the land is still in their hands. In the hands of a small number of gentry, a large number of farmers are still reduced to tenant farmers, and the food and grass in the treasury have improved, but they still haven't reached the expected level!"

"That's why I say that the current evil is that the gentry monopolize everything and the common people allow themselves to be fished by mermaids! And the best way to get rid of this evil is not revolution, not rebellion, but awareness, which is the awareness of every common people's thoughts and moral concepts. In the final analysis, it is the consciousness of human beings...it is the consciousness that Mencius proposed that the people are the most important, the society is the second, and the king is the least, and it is completely contrary to Dong Shengren's divine right of kings!"

Speaking of this, Lu Yu suddenly jumped up...

This time it's a chat.

Originally...he didn't want to talk about the issue of the gentry prematurely, because now...the northern border has not been settled, and the southern border has not been settled, so it is too early to talk about it.

But after all, this is a big mountain, a mountain that Lu Yu must overthrow.

otherwise…

Even if Cao Wei ruled the world, it would be just another reincarnation of the great man's tragedy!

And what can solve this problem...

Only Zheng Xuan can solve this problem from the source...

On the mountain of overthrowing the gentry, his support is extremely precious.

call…

call…

At this moment, Zheng Xuan was panting, his eyes widened subconsciously, Lu Yu's words made him shocked, shocking, and deafening!
"Is it a gentry?"

Zheng Xuan chanted these four words in his heart. His whole life has been in exile, from being persecuted by others, to being imprisoned by the party, to avoiding disaster for thousands of miles. Among them, which tragic past event did not have the claws of the "gentry" under the mountain Woolen cloth?

Can…

Even so, he never dared to propose to deny the gentry...

This charge is too great.

But now, the young man in front of him, who has not yet reached the crown, keeps saying that he wants to overthrow the gentry and make the common people wake up more violently...

What a lofty belief and what an incredible ideal is this?

"Mr. Lu? You... What do you want to do?"

At this moment, Zheng Xuan's tone was a bit stunned...

And Lu Yu's words continued.

"Today's big man is a rotten big man, and it is also an old house that is covered tightly by the gentry, moldy, sores, and pus. How can we let the awakened consciousness illuminate this dilapidated house like the sun? What about the house? In the past, the people tried to use the simplest method to knock down the old house, but even if they pushed it to this old house, the mold, sores, and pus are still hidden inside, and what grows out is still rotten dirty things!"

"Because what is covering the old house is the 'dirty' thing! So, in my opinion, what we have to do now is not only to overthrow the old house, but also to dig out the root of its decay! Let's do a thorough cleanup Awakening, so that every common people can participate in it, and thoroughly dig out the root of this corruption with a spark of fire!"

"I thought that in order to overthrow the gentry and awaken thousands of people, there must be six goals! First, let the people realize what is self-reliance and what is slavery! Second, let the people understand what is progress? What is feudal conservatism; Three, let the people be willing to forge ahead instead of retiring; four, let the people open their arms to face new ideas, instead of being closed and complacent; five, let the people get real benefits, not false ones; six, let the people dare to Practice, not talk on paper!"

"The six standards, and the first step in a hundred feet, I plan to abolish the military colony after the pacification of Hebei, and implement the 'spreading into mu',
Divide into the land, unite with the land, breed people, never increase the tax, divide the dime into the talent collection, and abolish the poll tax!Completely let the mountain of the gentry collapse, and awaken the self-awareness of the people!Mr. Zheng always talks about 'nature' and 'awakening? ', this junior's move is very dangerous, if you make a careless move, you may become the target of public criticism!But the younger generation is bold, and wants to invite Mr. Zheng to go forward side by side with the younger generation, to go up this mountain of swords and down this sea of ​​flames together! "

boom…

Rumble!
Lu Yu blurted out such a speech, to Zheng Xuan, it was tantamount to the roar of five thunders!

Perhaps before that, his purpose in coming to Xudu was to restart this scholar's Yuedan Review, at most, to host a Yuedan Review and comment for Lu Yu...

But now, after hearing Lu Yu's words, his eyes were shining brightly.

What kind of forward thinking is this?

What a young man with great determination and ambition?
He... Zheng Xuan?Are you really qualified to comment on him?

Even, is he, Zheng Xuan, really qualified to bestow letters for him?

- Yu!

At this moment, Zheng Xuan only thought of the word "Yu".

In his opinion, the universe, the universe... maybe... is his limit!
"Ziyu", apart from these two words, Zheng Xuan really couldn't think of... other words.

My son, a gentleman as gentle as jade!
Ziyu, a gentleman who takes the universe and the universe as his limit!
"Gudong!"

Zheng Xuan swallowed subconsciously... His eyes were especially shocked.

"President Lu is so ambitious, but awakening the people is far more difficult than awakening scholars? Does President Lu really want to set foot on this mountain of swords?"

"Mr. Zheng..." Lu Yu's tone became even more meticulous. "Mr. Zheng and I were both born in this troubled world. Unfortunately, we both understand the reason for the rise of this troubled world. It just so happens that we both have some reputation and some energy. So... in my opinion, there are only two meanings to live!"

"Or, set foot on this mountain of swords and let your reputation pass on."

"Either, it is to seek a little hope for the people in this troubled world, and to make a contribution to the coming of the next prosperous world!"

call…

Zheng Xuan exhaled again, and he murmured and repeated Lu Yu's words, "To seek a little hope for the common people? Make a contribution to the prosperous age?"

"But... I still say that, to make the people's minds awaken? It's still very difficult!"

"Difficult? Not difficult!" Lu Yu smiled slightly, "Actually, there is a way!"

He looked directly at Zheng Xuan. "If... I tell Mr. Zheng that there is a kind of paper called newspaper, he can copy tens of thousands of copies of Mr. Zheng's words in one day, and spread them to every corner of the entire Han Dynasty, so that Mr. Zheng's deafening words can awaken the world. , Awaken the world? Do Mr. Zheng believe it or not?"

This…

Zheng Xuan was a little surprised.

Is there such a strange paper in this world?Is it Cai Houzhi?But... Caihou paper is obviously very expensive, and because it is too stiff, it is not suitable for ink!

How can you transcribe tens of thousands of copies in one day?
Cao Ying, no... Could Lu Yu really create such a miracle?
Before Zheng Xuan could speak, Lu Yu's words came out one after another. "January, it only takes one month... I will let Mr. Zheng see the artifact called 'Newspaper' that I uttered today!"

"And the role of this artifact, coupled with Mr. Zheng's reputation, is worth millions of soldiers if he wants to rule the world... If it is about guiding the world, it can spread thousands of miles! Awaken the people and be invincible!"

In fact, Lu Yu quickly shouted that Zheng Xuan must believe in science...believe in the power of public opinion guidance.

But in the end, I still didn't call out these two fresh rhetoric. After all...Zheng Xuan is playing Confucianism, Confucianism...Compared with science, it has a bit of metaphysics.

now…

With a sound of "whoosh", Zheng Xuan suddenly jumped up.

"Good... good, good!"

After three good words in a row, Zheng Xuan's eyes froze. "If it is true as you said, then I will definitely write a text that can help you and Cao Sikong to rule the world, and you will spread it throughout the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty... so that the ideal prosperous age will come one day sooner! "

In a word, with a "gudong", Zheng Xuan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and put his hands on Lu Yu's shoulders.

At this moment... If he were asked to comment on Lu Yu, he would not be able to comment.

This young man is too mysterious, and it seems... even after such a conversation, his understanding of this young man has just begun.

"Young master Lu, you have too many things that make me curious! You also have too many things that I can learn from!"

"I like you!"

——"Definitely, fulfill the mission!" Lu Yu clasped his hands and replied, his eyes became much more determined.

Today, he visited Zheng Xuan...

I don't ask for comments, I don't ask for words, I only ask for Zheng Xuan's support.

and…

No one knows Zheng Xuan's energy better than Lu Yu...

Zheng Xuan is paired with newspapers and periodicals. It is conservatively estimated that this is worth 30 soldiers. It is even more natural than... green tea and green plums!
...

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(End of this chapter)