Han Dao world

Chapter 741
Xu Jing was sitting in the hall, stroking his beard with one hand, and holding a volume of "Shuowen Jiezi" in the other, chanting words, shaking his head, enjoying himself.

"This book is really well printed. You should buy a few copies, keep one as a treasure, read one often, and keep a few as gifts."

"You don't even look at how much money you have left in your pocket." His wife Liu said angrily, "It's hard to come to Taixue and settle down, so you don't look for old friends to find a teaching position. I know that I read every day. Nowadays, people come every day, who knows when there will be no shortage, and it depends on what you do when the time comes."

"A woman's opinion." Xu Jing was very unhappy. "It's not that you don't know that my situation is special. This teaching can be done if you want to do it? If you don't know the situation, you can recommend yourself. If you are rejected, wouldn't it be embarrassing."

"Wouldn't it be embarrassing to visit friends when it's time for dinner? Isn't it embarrassing to bring some home after eating by yourself?" The more Liu said, the more angry she became, and she pulled her son Xu Qin over. "Look, Qin'er has been too embarrassed to go out these two days."

"Why are you embarrassed to go out?" Xu Jing asked.

Xu Qin pursed his lips and was about to speak when there were footsteps outside the door, and Kong Rong rushed in with strides. "Wenxiu, you are here, great, great, I'm here as your guest today."

Xu Jing was startled, and then forced a smile and said: "I can't ask for it, I can't ask for it. Madam, why don't you prepare wine and food to entertain Wen Ju."

Mrs. Liu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but she bowed politely, took Xu Qin to the inner room, rummaged through the box, found a pair of half-worn clothes, held them in her hand, looked at them for a long time, and sighed.

"Qin'er, go and sell the clothes and bring back some wine and food. If there are any leftovers, buy two more fruit to eat."

Xu Qin responded, wrapped up his old clothes carefully, and went out quietly.

Mrs. Liu prepared tea, brought it to the hall, and sat beside Xu Jing.

"Why is the teacher free to come today?"

Kong Rong shook his hands and sighed, "I'll tell you my wife, I'm here to avoid disaster."

Liu was taken aback. "Avoid disaster? Who did you offend?"

"Who?" Kong Rong rolled his eyes and pointed with a bit of pride. "Son of Heaven."

Xu Jing and his wife looked at each other, not knowing what they meant.

Kong Rong was teaching at Taixue. He was knowledgeable and famous. He was usually full of friends and everyone at Taixue knew about it.It stands to reason that he should be a scholar valued by the emperor, how could he offend the emperor?

But thinking about Kong Rong's stinky mouth, it's understandable.

"The emperor ordered someone to invite me to be the editor-in-chief of what times, but I refused." Kong Rong picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and then spit it out again. "Wen Xiu, you are really ignorant of world affairs. You can be cheated even if you buy tea. It's a pity that you didn't come back from Yizhou. This kind of tea table can be sold for a pound. You must be cheated."

Xu Jing blushed, and was about to speak when Liu's sleeves were pulled.

"It's not Wenxiu's fault, it's because I don't understand and was deceived." Liu said with a forced smile, "It's true that there is no business and no adultery, bullying us as newcomers and unfamiliar with the place."

"I'll just say it." Kong Rong waved his hand. "I'll ask someone to bring you some good tea later. Sigh..." He suddenly pointed to "Shuowen Jiezi" in front of Xu Jing. "Wenxiu, be careful, don't let the tea splash on the book. Such a good book, leaving tea stains is not beautiful. A catty of tea is only worth half a page."

Xu Jing was taken aback. "So expensive?"

"Of course." Kong Rong rushed over and took the book carefully. "This is a high-quality book produced by Wenxiu Bookstore in Hedong. One volume is five hundred yuan, and one book, plus a cover, is one gold. In order to buy this book, I asked someone and entrusted a relationship. "

Xu Jing's cheeks twitched.

How much does a book cost more than [-] yuan?This is too outrageous.He also said just now that he would buy a few copies as gifts, but now it seems that this is really a dream.

Mrs. Liu was also very surprised and didn't speak for a long time.

"What...what is the main writer?" Xu Jing hurriedly changed the topic to cover up his embarrassment. "What does it have to do with the emperor?"

"It's a long story." Kong Rong sighed and talked about the whole story.

He was quite happy when the emperor sent someone to invite him to be the chief writer.

Such things have always been done by great scholars. For example, Huan Kuan was in charge of "Salt and Iron Theory", and Ban Gu was in charge of "Bai Hu Tong".

The great Han was revived again, and the emperor intends to reopen Taixue, starting with a lecture, and it will surely be remembered in the future.In addition, it is also convenient to print books now, and this book will surely be issued to the world.

However, when he heard that the emperor wanted him to write the final draft of the book, not the final draft of the book, but the daily commentary, which would be published to the states and counties, he immediately refused.

Without thinking too much, he knew that this was not a good job.

No matter what the emperor asked, the virtuous literature that comes to Taixue to talk about is still dominated by scholar-bureaucrats.When the scholar-bureaucrats gathered together, they naturally fought for the interests of the scholar-bureaucrats, and conflicts with the emperor were almost inevitable.

The emperor came up with this idea, obviously because he knew that he could not speak well of the scholar-bureaucrats in the lecture hall, so he had to write down the content of the daily lectures and announce it to the world in time.

Once it is announced to the world, it is not only the scholar-officials who know what the scholar-bureaucrats said, but also ordinary people.

At least in Guanzhong and Hedong.

These places have been promoting enlightenment, and there are many literate common people.I can't understand the advanced articles, but I can understand what Taixue is arguing about.

Those people could not stand on the side of the scholar-bureaucrats. They were more willing to support the emperor and Du Tian, ​​and some even got the land.If you see scholar-bureaucrats coming all the way to Chang'an just to oppose Dutian, what will your reaction be?
Kong Rong thought with his toes, and he could also think of the result.

What's more, he is the one who has seen the emperor's lips kiss.

He rejected the emperor's invitation without hesitation, but he also knew that the emperor was not a person who would let it go.Now that the hole has been dug, he will definitely find a way to let him jump into it.

Unless he leaves Chang'an, leaves Taixue, and escapes to a place where the emperor cannot find him.

He paid close attention to the movement of the emperor, and when he heard that the emperor had come to Taixue, he knew that something was wrong, so he immediately found a place to hide.

Hiding here with Xu Jing, apart from the fact that Xu Jing has just arrived and the emperor may not be aware of it, it also has something to do with Xu Jing himself.

Xu Jing is from Pingyu, Runan, and has a very good relationship with Chen Ji from Xu County, Yingchuan, and is Xu Shao's elder brother.However, both Chen Ji and Xu Shao were hated by the emperor.Chen Ji's son, Chen Qun, has been stranded in Jizhou so far because of Xun Wenqian.Xu Shao, on the other hand, ran all over Zhang Xi's affairs and refused to let it go.

Because of these two reasons, no one dared to invite Xu Jing to teach at Taixue, and many people intentionally or unintentionally kept a distance from Xu Jing.

It's safest to hide here.

Of course, these words cannot be told to Xu Jing. Kong Rong only said that he wanted to concentrate on doing some learning and didn't want to participate too much in the discussion, so he rejected the emperor.

Now that the Son of Heaven is here, it would be impolite to refuse in person, and it would be against one's own ambition not to refuse, so we had to hide to avoid embarrassment for both parties.

(End of this chapter)