Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 18 From a famous teacher, learn the art of the emperor (4)
At this time, I saw a young disciple raised his hand and left the seat and prostrated himself on the ground: "Master! I have something to report to you: A few days ago, I was traveling with my classmate Liu Yinjun. Liu Yinjun picked up a bag of copper on the side of the road. So I kept guarding the place for nearly three hours, and finally returned the bag of copper baht to the loser when the lost person found it along the way. The lost person took out several strings of copper baht from the bag to thank Liu Yinjun He just didn’t get any money, so he said goodbye to the apprentice and left. The apprentice thought Liu Yinjun was good at picking up money, so I came here to inform the master today, and ask the master to praise him!"

"Huh? Liu Yinjun has such kind deeds? I am very pleased to be a teacher!" Guan Ning raised his eyebrows, his face was full of joy, "Liu Yinjun, come out of the line, and I have something to say to you face to face as a teacher."

But Ke Ling approached a step from the side, and said in a low voice: "Report to Master: Because Liu Yinjun's mother suffered from an emergency yesterday, he asked for leave to take care of his mother at home, so he didn't come to school today to attend classes."

After hearing this, Guan Ning's face froze, and he immediately calmed down.After a while, he said leisurely: "Liu Yinjun has always been in a poor family and has always kept his righteousness. It is really rare. Ke Ling, after class, you should bring twenty catties of dried meat, twelve stones of white rice and eight strings of copper baht on your behalf. The master went to his house to greet him, and conveyed to him the teacher's praise for his righteous deed of collecting money."

"Okay. I have written it down." Ke Ling leaned slightly and replied loudly.

"Is there anything else you need?" Guan Ningfu turned to look at the disciples in front of the case again, and asked politely.

"Little, little, I have one more thing." I saw a fat apprentice dressed brightly and dressed as a businessman standing up with his face blushing and raising his hands, and said, "Little, little, little disciple: the world has been declining recently, It's really inappropriate to lose people's hearts. Two or three of the cows raised in the pen in the apprentice's mansion have been stolen by thieves in the past half a month... I also ask the master to give the apprentice a dose of cattle protection .”

Hearing this, Guan Ning raised his eyes to look at the fat apprentice with a fat head and upturned nostrils, sighed secretly in his heart, pondered for a moment and said: "Of course it is very wrong for others to steal cattle from your house. Since you As a teacher, if you ask for advice on how to protect cattle, as a teacher, you will tell me frankly that if you want to keep the cattle in your pen, you have to hide the cattle from the people, there is no other way.”

"Hiding the cattle for the people?" the fat apprentice asked in astonishment.

"Yes!" Guan Ning looked at him directly, and said solemnly, "How can your family take care of so many cattle? Now it's time to use cattle for farming, and you will lend the extra calves in your house to The neighbors and villagers use it...to ensure that your cattle will not be stolen by anyone, and will be taken care of by the villagers."

"Oh! Master's idea is quite reasonable!" The fat apprentice scratched the back of his neck with his hand and said in a low voice, "It's just...it's just that our family lends those cows to the neighbors on weekdays." , they all need to collect some copper baht as rent..."

"You disciple, at this time of the year, you are lending the cow out and asking someone to take care of it for you." Guan Ning raised his eyebrows, and said to him in a serious manner, "Are you still ashamed to collect the rent from others?" ?”

As soon as he said this, the Ming Dao Hall suddenly burst into laughter.The fat apprentice also looked very embarrassed, looked around, smiled silly for a while, and sat down embarrassingly.

After seeing, hearing, and laughing, Zhou Xuan, who was sitting in the corner of the front hall, rubbed his lower abdomen that hurt from laughing just now, straightened up and panted to Sima Yi and the two beside him while laughing: " Hahaha... This gentleman is really funny! He seems to take care of these trivial and trivial matters with relish, and he really makes people laugh when he teases this fat man."

After hearing Zhou Xuan's words, Sima Yi seemed to have no expression on his face, neither surprised nor smiled, and did not answer, but just glanced at Hu Zhao who was sitting beside him.After Hu Zhao met his gaze, he also withdrew his smile, turned his head, and whispered to Sima Yi: "Mr. Zhong Da, there is a saying in the "Tao Te Ching": 'Governing a big country is like cooking a small delicacy.' According to Hu As you can see, Mr. Xuan Tongzi is able to teach great things while living in the grasslands, and he is actually showing his great talents in the trivial details——it really makes people "longing for it, wishing to come"!"

Hearing this, Sima Yi turned his head with a slight smile, looked at Hu Zhaolue and nodded.

At this time, the class was quiet again—Mr. Xuantongzi Guan Ning finally started to give a lecture: "...the state has four dimensions, if one dimension is destroyed, it will fall, if two dimensions are destroyed, it will be in danger, if three dimensions are destroyed, it will collapse, and if four dimensions are destroyed, it will be destroyed." .Incline can be upright, danger can be safe, overthrow can be raised, and destruction can’t be remedied. What are the four dimensions? One is propriety, the other is righteousness, the third is honesty, and the fourth is shame. , Integrity does not cover up evil, shame does not follow injustice. Therefore, if you do not exceed the festival, the superior will be safe; if you do not advance yourself, the people will have no cunning and deception;

After hearing this, Zhou Xuan couldn't help shaking his head slightly and sighed: "Alas... I didn't expect that Mr. Xuan Tongzi, who is called by the world to have profound virtues and skills, is like those ordinary school teachers who can only preach such clichés. Really disappointed Zhou."

Sima Yi and Hu Zhao sat aside, didn't say much, just listened silently.

Before I knew it, Mr. Guan Ning's lecture this morning was over.With a bang, the bronze cloud board was knocked, and all the disciples got up and left one after another.After most of them go home for lunch, they will be led by Qiu Hong to help the villagers of Fangdou Village to carry water to relieve their difficulties before noon.The rest of the apprentices went home and went about their business.Suddenly, the huge "Ming Dao Hall" quickly emptied.

Read "Historical Records" and watch the world

Guan Ning put the jade-handled stag tail whisk on the side of the couch, picked up a cup from the ebony table, took a sip of green tea, and moistened his throat.He glanced down the hall, but suddenly stopped: Sima Yi, Hu Zhao, and Zhou Xuan were still kneeling and sitting in the corner of the wall, never leaving.

He slowly put down the teacup, thought for a moment, then reached out to take the jade handle and tail whisk, and waved at the three of them from a distance.Sima Yi and the three of them hurriedly got up and ran to his square couch and knelt down.

Guan Ning looked at them deeply, and said slowly: "From now on, the three of you don't have to go to this Mingdao Hall to listen to the teacher's lecture every morning like other disciples. You can go to any place in Ziyuan Academy by yourself. Practice."

Then, he took out a silk book from his big sleeve, and said to Zhou Xuan: "Zhou Xuan, this is the "Book of Changes" written and annotated by the teacher himself. Experience and comprehension—you can take it and study it carefully, and you can ask at any time if you don’t understand or don’t understand.”

There was no special joy on Zhou Xuan's face at first, he stretched out his hand lazily to take the "Book of Changes", flipped through a few pages on his lap, glanced at it, and suddenly his whole body shook, his eyes lit up , Tut Tut sighed: "What a wonderful review! What a wonderful annotation! What a wonderful analysis..." I was busy looking through it!
Guan Ning ignored him, took out another copy of "The Analects of Confucius" from his sleeve, and said to Hu Zhao: "Hu Zhao, this is the "Analects of Confucius" written and annotated for the teacher himself, and it also contains the teachings of the teacher about self-cultivation and self-cultivation. Some experience and understanding - you can also use it to study on your own, and if you don't understand something, you can ask it as a teacher."

Hu Zhao was overjoyed, took the book, and thanked Guan Ning endlessly.

Finally, Guan Ning turned his head to look at Sima Yi, pondered for a while, handed over a copy of "Historical Records", and said calmly: "Sima Yi, take this "Historical Records" and study it carefully."

Hearing this, Sima Yi couldn't help a shock in his heart. He thanked Guan Ning with great joy, took the "Historical Records" with both hands, and hurriedly put it in front of him and flipped it over, but couldn't help being stunned: he flipped through it more than ten times in a row. On the page, the lines and corners of the "Historical Records" are all blank, and Mr. Guan Ning has not approved a word or commented a sentence!
He raised his face and looked at Guan Ning in surprise, his eyes full of doubts.

"If you want to be wise, there is no better way to study the changes of the past and the present; if you want to study the changes from the past to the present, there is no better way to read history books. There is no other way to read history, but the word "put yourself in the place and enter the situation". "Guan Ning accepted his two surprised gazes, did not avoid them, and said with confidence, "Every time you read a part, you can concentrate on contemplation and imagine yourself in the situation of the emperors and generals in the book. How to deal with it? How is their response at that time better than themselves? And what is not as good as themselves? Look left and right, think before and after, until you find that person, that time, that situation, that Only when the best strategy is needed for the matter can we stop, and at that time, you can come and communicate with the teacher."

Sima Yi listened quietly. After a moment of silence, he suddenly asked softly: "May I ask the teacher: Can I imagine myself as anyone in this book? And, can I imagine myself as anyone in this book?" Strategies, all brought for your advice?"

"Yes, absolutely. You can imagine yourself as anyone in "Historical Records,"" Guan Ning stared at him quietly for a moment, then slowly replied, "You can also imagine yourself as anyone in the "Historical Records"." Conceive any strategy based on that time, that event, and that situation.”

Sima Yi bowed deeply and didn't ask any more questions.At this moment, he already deeply understood the meaning of Guan Ning's words.According to Guan Ning's inspiration, when reading "Historical Records", since you can imagine yourself as anyone, let alone Xiao He, Zhang Liang, Han Xin and other virtuous and good generals, even Qin Shihuang Yingzheng and Han Gaozu Liu Bang can also boldly imagine and substituted.

After adopting the method of reading history that Guan Ning said was "put yourself in the place and enter the situation", Sima Yi felt that his heart suddenly brightened, and he gradually understood many things that he didn't understand in the history books. .

He extended this reading method, comprehended by analogy, and drew inferences from one instance. He also used this speculative method of "putting himself in the same place and entering a different situation" with others in real life. , Even if you think about others, you can control me with this, and presuppose a defense; I can guard against others, and people can use this to guard against me, and add a defense against others; I break the other's defense, and the other breaks my defense , we should also add one to break the other's break; since he can break, set up another break to break the break, the broken break can be broken, but also can strengthen our break, to stop the other break and stretch our break, After all, it will not be broken by it. Pass the law to survive, follow the events, and it is deep and unpredictable."In this way, he felt that he could split himself into several clones in his mind, and ponder over and weigh the same issue repeatedly from different angles, aspects, and positions.Generally speaking, after thinking in this way, the countermeasures he finally came up with were quite comprehensive, profound, and mature.

At the same time, during the consultation and communication with Guan Ning, he felt the openness, depth, condensedness and subtlety of Master's mind.Every time Guan Ning gives advice, he feels suddenly enlightened, and always gives him new and fruitful gains.Guan Ning was also impressed by Sima Yi's way of thinking of "being able to release and receive, being able to broaden and be able to specialize, knowing the small to show, knowing the strong and knowing the soft", so he gradually led him to analyze and study the general trend of the world in front of him. come.

(End of this chapter)