With excited hands, Zeng Bu took from Lao Zongyuan the thin book handed from the hands of Empress Dowager Gao behind the curtain.
He took a deep breath, put the jade in his hand aside, and then opened the book respectfully.
The whole text comes into view.
The words circled in ink and the notes stuck between the words made Zeng Bu's eyes jump.
Although, the Empress Dowager said that the prince, Prince Yan'an, is already ten years old.
But everyone knows that it is a false year.
The prince of Yan'an County was born on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month in the ninth year of Xining, in the Zhu Cairen Pavilion of the imperial city of Da Nei.
Such important events are written in court newspapers and spread throughout the world.
Moreover, because before the birth of Prince Yan'an, the fifth son of the official family had all died in infancy, so the sixth son of the emperor was the eldest son of the emperor when he was born!
When it successfully grows to three years old, the officials can't wait to make it a Duke of Jun, a military inspector, and an envoy of the Taiping Army.
At the age of six, he was appointed as an envoy to the Zhangwu Army, granted the title of Prince of Yan'an County, and established the Prefecture of Yitong Sansi.
Last year, the emperor gathered Yan in the Ying Palace and summoned the world's most important ministers. The prince of Yan'an County was beside him to serve him, and all the ministers congratulated him.
These are all the contents of the morning newspapers.
Although Zeng Bu was in the world, he paid close attention to this information and kept it in his heart.
Therefore, Zeng Bu knew that the prince would actually be eight years and three months old this year.
Just because he was born in December of the ninth year of Xining, he was considered to be one year and one month old when he was less than a month old. Counting the false years, he was already regarded as a child without even opening his eyes in his infancy.
He is two years old.
And His Royal Highness, who is over eight years old, is actually reading "Spring and Autumn"?
Not just reading, but looking at the words marked by His Highness, as well as the questions and my own interpretations on those notes.
He may even be able to understand Spring and Autumn!
Even if some of the words look childish, even if there are some questions, they are extremely naive.
But...but...this is called a child's heart, pure and flawless!
Therefore, Zeng Bu bowed respectfully to the Empress Dowager Gao inside the curtain: "Your Highness the Empress Dowager, I read the words written by the Prince of Yan'an County with an innocent heart, speaking from my heart, and I am really frightened. This is truly a blessing in the world!"
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Empress Dowager Gao liked hearing such words and immediately said happily: "This is exactly the purpose of inviting the bachelor here!"
"Although the elderly, women and children admire the virtues of saints, it is difficult for them to follow the path of saints and sages, so they can only seek help from bachelors!"
"I don't dare!" Zeng bowed and bowed: "I will die to be loyal to the official family, Her Royal Highness the Empress Dowager, and Your Highness the Prince of Yan'an County!"
Empress Dowager Gao listened and sighed in her heart: "Sure enough, Sixth Brother has become the most popular person in the world!"
Zeng Bu was just a Hanlin bachelor who had just been discharged from service and returned from the local area.
But he still believed that the only heir to the emperor was the emperor's eldest son!
Even Zeng Bu was like this.
Not to mention others.
The new party and the old party will only recognize the emperor's eldest son!
Just like during the Zhiping period, even though the late emperor had three sons, both the government and the public only recognized the eldest brother, Prince Ying.
As for the second brother and the fourth brother?
Han Qi and Wen Yanbo, even if they were seen in the ban, it would be as if they had not been seen.
This is etiquette, this is Tsunade!
If we think about Taizong's story again, the whole world can only fight against it!
Fortunately, today's sixth brother is indeed smart, filial and sensible.
The birth of this child was not only expected by the public, but also made Empress Dowager Gao happy.
Then he said to Zeng Peng: "I am here to thank the bachelor for my sixth brother!"
"I also invite the bachelor to answer the prince's questions for the sake of Lao Shen Cao Chun Qiu!"
Zeng Bu bowed again: "Wei!"
So, some ministers brought the copywriting, pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Zeng Bu sat on the floor in the palace, spread out paper and wrote.
Of course, who is Zeng Bu?
The top smart man in the country and the master of Confucianism!
He is also the biological brother of Zeng Gong and Zeng Nanfeng!
Throughout his life, Zeng Gong advocated restoration, advocated literature to defend morality, inherited and carried forward the ancient prose movement of Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan.
In the Song Dynasty, what did Confucian scholars mean by the so-called "retrospection" and "advocating the ancients"?
Anyone who understands knows that under the guise of retrospection, they take the right to interpret the Six Classics as their own.
San Su was like this, Er Cheng was like this, Zhang Zai was like this, and Wang Anshi was even more like this.
Going forward, the same is true for Hu Yuan, Zhou Dunyi, and Shao Yong.
Anyway, Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi would not jump out of the ground to beat them!
Therefore, like all other civil servants and officials, Zeng Bu was also good at stuffing private goods.
Moreover, Zeng Busai's private goods skills are very superb.
During the Xining Reform, Zeng Bu was promoted to a close friend by Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing.
When the market was changed, I realized that everyone was not in the same boat at all.
What Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing want to do is open source, especially Lu Huiqing, who is eager for success and pursues simple and crude short-term financial profits in order to achieve results in the short term and silence others!
But what about Zeng Bu?
Influenced by his brother Zeng Gong and his teacher Hu Yuan, he actually advocated increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, focusing on reducing expenditure. In his opinion, the market-for-profit law was too rough and too short-sighted!
Now that he has been given the opportunity, he naturally wants to quietly insert some of his personal opinions into it.
So, in just an hour, Zeng Bu had already written thousands of eloquent words.
They are all responses to the opinions and questions raised by the Prince of Yan'an County in the Chun Qiu Gu Liang Biography.
In order to take care of the little prince, and also to take care of Empress Dowager Gao.
In many places, Zeng Bu spoke very straightforwardly and concisely, without using too many fancy words or stacked words.
After the book was completed, Zeng Bu checked it over and found that there were no omissions or typos, nor any taboo words, and then he said to the Empress Dowager Gao behind the curtain: "I would like to write to Her Highness the Empress Dowager: The Prince of Yan'an County, the Prince
I have carefully annotated the "Chun Qiu Gu Liang Biography" and the accompanying text, and begged Her Majesty the Queen Mother to take a look at it!"
Empress Dowager Gao immediately ordered someone to fetch the text written by Zeng Bu.
Then read them one by one against the books of the Prince of Yan'an.
After just reading it once, Empress Dowager Gao was already overjoyed: "The bachelor's degree is really profound, I respect you!"
The words written by Zeng Bu are straightforward and simple.
At least Empress Dowager Gao understood it, and she thought it made sense.
In fact, if Zeng Buruo took Wang Anshi's views on the Spring and Autumn Period, concealed his signature, and showed them to Empress Dowager Gao, the result would be the same.
That's what Confucianism is like.
The general line is the same, the only differences are in the details, and the only differences in morals and opinions.
The best example is the Three Legends of Spring and Autumn Period.
Gu Liang, Gong Yang, and Zuo Zhuan are all interpretations of Confucius' Spring and Autumn Annals, and they are also re-annotations, re-interpretations and re-elaborations of Confucius' Spring and Autumn Annals.
However, these three biographies, which come from the same source, are almost three books in terms of morality and stance.
People who are not specialized in this field have no idea how many twists and turns there are, let alone the fact that in the past, Confucian scholars almost went crazy over the differences in these details.
The ancestors and masters have already done a good job, but how can the disciples and grandsons not learn from it?
Since the Qingli Education Movement, the literary world of the Song Dynasty has ushered in a situation where a hundred flowers are blooming.
The intensity of the collision of ideas is no less intense than the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
However, this time, everyone is using the banner of Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Jia Yi and Yang Xiong to defend themselves.
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