Chapter 159(1/2)
: The Falling Ceremony
The daylight in mid-spring is still very short.
When Emperor Liu Chan and his party crossed the Zhuma River and the Chengdu city was reflected in their eyes, the sunset was already traveling thousands of miles outside the sky.
Zheng Pu couldn't help but smile when he got the doubt that the emperor said that there was no hatred in his heart.
How could he be without hatred in his heart!
There are two people who are irrelevant, but this old thief repeatedly provoked and slandered him in words. Who is unbearable?
It is just a plan to retaliate without thinking about all revenge, and it has not yet been waiting for the opportunity to make it fall into a slump.
Facing such a vicious dog, if it is injured but not killed, wouldn’t it be more criticized?
"I have hatred in my heart."
He laughed and said slowly, "People are not plants and trees, I am not sages. Generals of chariots and cavalry insult me for no reason. How can I not have any hatred in my heart? However, this is my personal grudge with him; and he hurts others with words, which is a loss of virtue, not a violation of national laws. Even if I hate him, how can I ask Mr. Liu to govern him?"
"This is a great good word!"
After hearing this, Emperor Liu Chan praised him, "Zi Jin's distinction between public and private affairs is really heartbreaking! I have heard that Zi Jin's nature is similar to that of the law of filial piety and wise in the past, but now it is not like this. When Fa Xiaozhi was appointed as the Minister of the Shangshu, he used his power to repay his personal grievances, but Zi Jin was not like this."
After praise, before Zheng Pu could make humble words, his eyebrows raised slightly and a hint of joke appeared, "However, Confucius said that he would repay kindness with virtue and repay grievances with righteousness. Since Zijin hated him, he didn't know what he would like to repay him?"
"If you do unrighteous things, you will die!"
Zheng Pu nodded and smiled, "If one day he violated the law, I will definitely write a letter to ask Liu Jun to govern him! At that time, please ask Liu Jun to see that my wife is the sister of the queen, and punish him more severely."
Well.
Unable to help, the emperor was stunned after hearing this.
He praised him for his clear distinction between public and private affairs, and then he spoke out favoritism.
But, it feels so good.
Because Zheng Pu gave him the feeling that he was first regarded as a flesh-and-blood person, and then he was a monarch with great respect.
This is also a feeling that he finds hard to understand.
For example, the older prime ministers Zhuge Liang, Li Yan, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, etc., or Zhang Bao, Guan Xing, Fei Yi, Dong Yun and others who followed one after another, loved him, kissed him, respected him, admired him, and feared him.
But that's because he was the Emperor of Han.
So they just regarded him as the monarch.
Everyone was persuading and admonishing him that when the Han Dynasty was in decline, he should be a capable monarch and not let down the difficulties of the late emperor's business and the prestige of the Han Dynasty for four hundred years.
Although, this is his unshirkable responsibility.
However, he was first a person who ate grains and had seven emotions and six desires, and then he became the monarch.
Especially he is still very young.
He never experienced the young man's clothes and angry horses, young and frivolous, and arrogant. When he was designated as the crown prince, he was devoid of the emotions and desires of ordinary people, and could only study hard and prepare for how to be a good monarch.
Day after day, year after year.
After a long period of depression, he would occasionally feel the urge to leave.
If you have half a day of leisure, you can relax all your thoughts, quietly feel the four seasons of spring breeze, summer rain, autumn frost, winter snow, or temporarily remove yourself from your identity as a monarch, put yourself into another role, and experience another difference in life.
Heaven and earth are broad, and life is long.
When we were working hard to restore the Han Dynasty, we occasionally let our ambitions take a break, which was also for a better start.
For example, you can calm down, look back at the road you have walked, and then think about the journey you are about to embark on.
It is a good idea to make up for the missing and leaks. The lessons of the past are the teachers of the funeral.
However, he was the son of the Heavenly Herdsmen and was called the lonely and widowed Emperor.
Therefore, passively or proactively erases many human desires.
Only Zheng Pu dared to laugh with him and talk with him with jokes, which made him feel a sense of being friends with each other.
Perhaps, Zijin himself was unconscious.
This son treats people and things, and he has a vague respect of "being born into human beings", and then he distinguishes between talents, family, status, status, good and evil, etc.
Emperor Liu Chan vaguely made a conclusion in his heart.
Of course, he misunderstood.
Because in Zheng Pu's subconscious, people are no different.
A hundred years later, it is just a cup of dry bones in the loess.
Why is there a difference between high and low?
Life trajectories are different, but everyone is equal before death.
Furthermore, those who are poor and have little funeral can return to dust and soil.
Those who were born to be nobles and nobles could not escape the fate of being dug up to the grave after being buried in the ground for thousands of years.
If Dong Zhuo ordered Lu Bu to dig an imperial tomb, or if the author Cao Cao set up an official position to obtain Ming utensils, Sun Quan occupied Jiaozhou and sent people to search for Zhao Tuo's tomb all over the mountains. Why are you so complacent when you were born a noble man?
A brief silence.
The emperor, who had been thinking about it for a long time, suddenly smiled.
Anyway, General Liu Yan of the chariot and cavalry was a guest of the late emperor, not his guest.
"Since Zijin has asked for a request, I don't want to refuse, so I'll just agree."
Emperor Liu Chan waved his hand, "If there is really a day, he will deal with it more seriously because of his unvirtuous behavior."
"good!"
Zheng Pu smiled and said softly, "Jun Liu, a gentleman's word is as good as a horse."
“Hahaha~~~~”
Such words also made Emperor Liu Chan smile loudly and raised his eyebrows and joked, "Is it because Zijin wants to clap my high-high with me and make a vow?"
Zheng Pu didn't say anything, just raised his hand.
"Bang!"
A loud cunch, accompanied by laughter, floated on the way home with the rays of sunset.
The moon rises on the treetops, and everything is silent.
In the small Zheng family house in the west of the city, the moonlight shone in through the window curtains, leaving a jagged and mottled white.
It also made Fu Qian, who was guilty, sleepless.
After returning from the outing, Zheng Pu called him to the study and gave him some guidance.
It was not that he was angry that he reported the hatred of "Scar Pu" to the emperor; it was because he had learned military strategies for several years, and he had no steady attitude when facing things, and did not think about it with a look back.
"The Book of Zhou says, 'If you want to defeat him, you must assist him; if you want to take him, you must accompany him.' Now the general of the chariot and cavalry insults me. Before the time of governance, what is the meaning of your report to the emperor? For example, when two armies are facing each other and the enemy is not yet able to win, why not be patient first and lure him and make mistakes again, hoping to get a certain battle?"
"General Cheqi is an old minister of the late emperor. If I am indignantly argue with him, even if the battle wins, it will also add a reputation for revenge. Instead of both sides being hurt, why not wait for the opportunity? Those who plan to the enemy should first plan for themselves. If you cannot protect yourself, what is the point of hurting the enemy?"
"If the general of the chariot and cavalry do not cultivate virtue, he will inevitably make more grudges with others. This is an opportunity for us to take advantage of. If a little trick to move flowers and trees, he can make a plan to kill people with a knife. Why should he report it to the emperor? If the emperor writes a letter to reproach it, he will definitely startle the snake and make him wary, and I can still repay the grudges?"
"Besides, now the court has accumulated strength to go out of Liangzhou, and the Prime Minister is working hard day and night. Although I have been humiliated, how can I worry the Prime Minister again because of my personal affairs?"
"Although Gong Yuan's advice was out of kindness, he was not careful and concise. He should take it as a warning in the future!"
All the words of both blame and teaching were expressed with some regrets of being angry and inconsistent.
Moreover, Zheng Pu did not hide his ruthlessness and prepared for Liu Yan's ruthlessness.
He also made it clear that he had expected Fu Qian to plan everything and acted on it one day, and he could grow into a commander who thought carefully in every detail!
Such a heart-warming and earnest anticipation made Fu Qian feel ashamed.
I feel that I have let down Zheng Pu’s full gift for several years.
Fortunately, he is still young and still has the opportunity to move forward.
And now he can't sleep. It was Zheng Pu's instructions and gave him a test.
He said, "You will be sixteen in a few months. I wanted to take advantage of the time when I returned to Chengdu and ask the emperor to give you the responsibility to join the army to practice. However, after this, I know that your knowledge is still unbearable, so I will give up. Since you reported this matter to the emperor, you will be unable to calm down. Then, I will give you an opportunity to come from the Lord to avenge the general of the chariot and cavalry. No matter how you do it, you do not need to report it to me. Whenever you succeed, I will ask the emperor to grant you the power to lead the army."
Master and disciple are like father and son.
Zheng Pu regards his own humiliation as a test and gives it to him for revenge.
This made Fu Qian both excited and frightened.
Excited, one is that as a disciple, he had been gritting his teeth at General Liu Yan, the chariot and cavalry, for a long time! Now that he was independently planning for revenge, he was naturally excited. The other is that he was asked for the first time, and Zheng Pu planned to let him lead the army and train.
After the general, how could a great man not look forward to the day when he is looking forward to the iron and iron horse?
The fear is that one is worried about his lack of talent or poor thinking, so he messes up the matter and makes Zheng Pu a laughing stock.
Especially he has already made a rash attempt once.
Therefore, he carefully recalled the military books he had read before and Zheng Pu's teachings to solve doubts, thinking about how to "transfer flowers and trees" and thinking about who could "kill people with a knife".
To be continued...