one person's life

Chapter 424 Sweet and Sour Pears
Education must come from top to bottom, and the most important thing is to be lenient and strict in just the right way.

It is said that during the reign of Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty, there was a large family with nine generations living under the same roof, with as many as 900 people in the family.But for such a big family, they rarely have disputes. Instead, they live in an extremely harmonious atmosphere. This also makes the family's reputation spread more and more.This matter later spread to the ears of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi. Once he came to this big family under the guise of a Taoist priest and wanted to meet the patriarch who managed the family well.

"You must have heard this story when you were in school." Zhang Wang grinned slightly: "Outside the circle, it is said that Tang Gaozong met Zhang Gongyi, and that big family of 900 people was also the Zhang family, but there have always been other people in our circle. One version is that Li Zhi paid a private visit to Zhuge Bagua Village incognito, and the person who received him was the patriarch of the Zhuge family."

Tang Muzhi and Tu Junfang looked at each other, and the meaning in their eyes was almost clear. There are two sets of views on history within the circle and outside the circle. The history outside the circle is not necessarily whitewashed, and the history within the circle also contains a lot of biased fabrications. .So Zhang Wang said, just listen to the story.

It is said that Li Zhi pretended to be a Taoist and entered Zhuge Bagua Village. The person who came to receive him was a young man of fourteen or fifteen years old. He was handsome and personable. People Zhuge Yan.

Tang Gaozong Li Zhi was very puzzled by this. One is that he came to visit in disguise and didn't notify anyone. How could he be greeted by Zhuge Patriarch as soon as he came?Secondly, the head of the family is usually an older and highly respected person. How could a half-grown child like Zhuge Yan be allowed to run the family?
Seeing that the dignified head of the Zhuge family was just a young man, Li Zhi deliberately added more energy to his words and asked some difficult questions. Unexpectedly, the fourteen-year-old Zhuge Yan showed no timidity and answered Li Zhi's questions fluently, with an attitude that was neither arrogant nor arrogant. , and then respectfully invited him into the main room.

Li Zhi wanted to test Zhuge Yan, and Zhuge Yan wanted to knock the gong. More than 100 dogs from the entire family came over by themselves, but no dog was eating at will. He waited until all the dogs arrived. Start together.This incident surprised the emperor. He did not expect that Zhuge Yan could even manage the family's dogs in such an orderly manner.

After Li Zhi returned, he felt a little unhappy. After all, as the emperor, he went to a courtier's house to pay a private visit in disguise, but he was shown the sight of a dog eating.

Two years later, Li Zhi recalled the incident and decided to go to Zhuge Village again. This time he arrived as the emperor and wanted to see how the wise young Zhuge Yan would deal with him this time.

"I, Zhuge Feng, would like to pay homage to Your Majesty."

A young man's clear and bright voice came from the ground. Li Zhi looked down and saw a thin young man kneeling at his feet.

"You look up!"

Zhuge Feng raised his head, and Li Zhi saw that this young man was not the Zhuge Yan who received him back then. He was shocked, but he had already forgotten Zhuge Yan's name. road:

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. Zhuge Yan is the last member of the family, and he married and resigned as early as last year."

Li Zhi was very puzzled. If Zhuge Yan was smart and had outstanding management ability, it would be enough to let him manage the whole village. Why was this patriarch still a young man?

Zhuge Feng explained to Li Zhi: "Young people who have not yet been married and have just grown up under the strict ancestral precepts do not have too many human bonds, have the most energy, and do things the most fair, so the Zhuge family has always been young people. People are in charge of their families, and they have never violated this admonition for many years."

After listening to this, Li Zhi remembered that the relationship between monarchs, ministers, and subjects in the DPRK had long been complicated. Human relations were like an inescapable snare that always shrouded the power and interests that constantly weakened the balance. These things had already made him tired of dealing with them. , I can’t help but feel a lot of emotions at this moment.It's just that Li Zhi still had doubts about this method of governance, and he tried it with Zhuge Feng with some difficulty.

Li Zhi ordered his people to find a sour pear and a good sweet pear, and asked Zhuge Feng to distribute the pears to 900 people in his family.

Without saying a word, Zhuge Feng ate the sour pear alone, and then ordered his tribe to mash the sweet pear with the short branches and core into the water vat, and let the whole tribe come down to drink the pear soup.

Li Zhi praised Zhuge Feng's method very much, but he still asked Zhuge Feng's reason for doing so.

Zhuge Feng respectfully explained to Li Zhi: "Your Majesty gave you two pears, sour and sweet. The sour pear is because the envoy understands that as the head of a clan, you should not be slack in handling family affairs all day long; the sweet pear is a gift from your majesty, and you are honored by your majesty." The emperor never forgets the common people, and all the humble ministers are grateful."

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"It's not clear if the story is true or not, but Zhuge Village's system of young people being in charge of the family has indeed been preserved for a period of time in history, but it is not so exaggerated now. There are clan elder meetings in the village, and there are not many deacons at Zhuge's age. See you." After Zhang Wang finished talking, he looked at Tang Muzhi.

"Today's young people don't like this kind of thing anymore. In recent years, we can feel more and more that there are fewer and fewer people who are really practicing Qi. They are just like ordinary people who are busy with their own career ideals."

An interesting look flashed across Tu Junfang's eyes. Zhang Wang didn't seem to want to discuss the issue of why Tang Muzhi was not led out of the Three Corpses. Perhaps it was because he, an outsider, was present, so he deliberately changed the subject. Go to Zhuge Village.

But Tu Junfang is not ignorant, since people don't want to discuss with him, he won't intervene. Besides, for Tang Muzhi's situation, although he has no conditions to prove it, he can guess several possibilities in his heart—— The topic is quite serious, so it’s not easy to make any judgments.

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Now the lives of the Gu boys are on the right track, but their activities are still within the scope of Tang Sect and they cannot go out. However, after this period of adjustment and adaptation, most of them are no longer afraid of contact with strangers. Tang Sect has been injected with such a new blood , In addition, Yang Lie, who was the pillar of the Tang Sect, not only did not die in the fight for the origin of Qi Ti like in the original work, but he also took the position of the boss.

It is foreseeable that as long as the Tang Sect does not encounter any subversive catastrophe, it will definitely be the first flag for the rise of the old school in the country in the future. It may not even have the power to compete with Hezheng, Central Plains Buddhism or even all four schools.

However, Mu Xiu was destined to be destroyed by Lin Feng. Only then did Tang Muzhi get the news that a traitor had appeared in the company and that all information about Zhang Huaiyi's death had been leaked. However, Yang Lie made an unexpected decision.

(End of this chapter)