Zheng Xuan returned to his residence, sat down, and beat his sore old legs, but his brows did not relax. For Zheng Xuan, after arriving at the Hussars General's Mansion, he actually did not say anything completely.
To understand Fei Qian's intention, I just generally understand that Fei Qian is not completely banning matters related to the Five Virtues, but wants to improve and develop.
China has always had the habit of overcorrecting. Just like Qin Shihuang decided to kill those alchemists just because he felt that he had been deceived by those alchemists. As a result, the people below wanted to please Qin Shihuang.
It started to expand...
One is banned at the top, ten is banned in the middle, and at the bottom it becomes a hundred, or even eleven million. So Qin Shihuang burned books, in fact, at first it was books on alchemy, but later on other books were also affected.
Zheng Xuan is most worried about this problem. Maybe Fei Qian just wants to illustrate the absurdity and problems of the theory of reincarnation of the Five Virtues, but for one purpose or another, the people below are expanding their goals, and may even ban the Yijing.
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After all, using chicken feathers as arrows is the favorite thing of lower-level political officials.
When he learned that Fei Qian did not say that he would veto the entire Yin Yang and Five Elements, and handed over the main control to Zheng Xuan and Sima Hui, Zheng Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, but he still had concerns.
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After all, this improvement and development is not that easy.
"Yi,shu..."
Zheng Xuan looked up at the sky.
Xi Lu walked forward and brought a tray, "Master, please have some tea..."
"Hmm..." Zheng Xuan took the tea bowl and held it in his hand, "Hongyu, how do you think about the sutras?"
Xi Lu was stunned for a moment, "Arithmetic? You know a little bit about it...Why does the master ask this question?"
Zheng Xuan glanced at Xi Lu, knowing in his heart that Xi Lu's slight understanding was not a sign of humility. After all, as a master, he would still know some of his disciples' situations. If it comes to scriptures, then Xi Lu can be said to be better.
Most of the gentry's children, but I'm sorry, they really only know a little bit about the scriptures.
Zheng Xuan suddenly felt something and sighed.
Xi Lu accompanied him cautiously, "I wonder, master... what are your orders?"
"Come, sit down." Zheng Xuan said, and then paused, "Hussar is not the ultimate five virtues, but the evil words of reincarnation..."
"Oh..." Xi Liu nodded, obviously feeling a little better.
Just like later generations often said that there is Yan Ruyu's Golden House in the book, and then some children will actually look through the book in an attempt to find Yan Ruyu and the Golden House. In the early days of learning among the gentry children of the Han Dynasty, many people would go out of their way to find it.
Look for the so-called "little words and great meanings" in the prophecies, and then quote them whether in daily debates or when writing articles, and use this to prove that you are knowledgeable and knowledgeable...
Xi Liu is one of them. Of course, Xi Liu is not the only one who does this. But now he suddenly says that things like the Five Virtues and Prophecy are fallacies and should be completely abolished. This will naturally cause worries and doubts among these people. Some people
People went to Qinglong Temple to argue with Sima Yi, while others, such as Xi Lu, got some inside information from his master.
"But... Hussar has something else to say..." Zheng Xuan held the tea bowl and took a sip.
Xi Lu blinked his eyes twice, then came to his senses, and said tentatively: "Could it be...calculating sutras?"
Zheng Xuan nodded slightly.
"Ah?" Xi Lu was stunned.
It felt like I had memorized the routines for many years, memorized the changes in the avalanche, and knew the final calculations by heart, and then suddenly I heard that this time I would not play Go, but chess!
This is so damn...
foul!
But Xi Liu never considered whether it was another kind of foul for him to compete with those who struggled to learn with something he was familiar with since he was born in an environment where he could study scriptures at will.
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"Calculating scriptures?! This is what a small official is using...what do you want to do with it?" Calculating scriptures and thinking about them is really not that good. When I think about the scriptures that I have studied for most of my life, if I really have to do it in a calculation one day
If you fall down in front of me, where can you put your face?
Zheng Xuan was not good at arithmetic either. He basically annotated various scriptures. Even the awkward and simple Yi Jing and the Book of Masters had no problems. But when it comes to arithmetic... there are only two words left.
hehe.
This concept of worry is also the concept of most nobles in China. The purpose of studying scriptures is to become an official, a high official, the kind of person who has one thousand stones and two thousand stones. But what can you do if you are proficient in scripture calculation? Be a small official with three or four hundred stones.
?Then he spends his days checking with the farmers in the fields to see if there is less grain or no less wheat?
Sutras are not mainstream! Or strictly speaking, sutras are the mainstream, and everything else is just twigs, which can only add icing on the cake, but cannot bring glory to the ancestors.
Unlike later generations, big men are found in all walks of life. Many times they are subject to various restrictions, age restrictions, learning restrictions, etc., so that for ordinary people, being able to be proficient in a certain aspect is already very important.
It's amazing, so when the children of the noble clan are young, they often choose scriptures to focus on their studies, because the return rate will be the highest if they take this path, and what about the others...
How many Zhou Lang are there in the world to learn music?
Studying astronomy, how many Xu Yues are there in the world?
Studying any other subject, including sutra arithmetic, involves a huge investment, but little gain. Only sutras, and maybe one or two poems that day, can be eaten and drank, and there is no chance that you can become an official...
No matter how proficient you are in music, no matter how clear you are in arithmetic, at most you are just a small official, as Xi Lu said!
Zheng Xuan frowned slightly and did not comment on Xi Xi's words.
Zheng Xuan was dubious about Fei Qian's words of inheriting the legacy of his master and inheriting Liu Hong's legacy. However, one thing is certain, General Hussar must have his own considerations, and there are some things that he would not say out loud, and Zheng Xuan
What is considered are those aspects that Fei Qian did not mention.
In a daze, Zheng Xuan suddenly thought of something, and then turned to stare at Xi Lu.
Xi Lu was startled, shrank his neck, hesitated, and said: "Master... Is there anything I can do for you, disciple?"
Zheng Xuan said: "Just now you spoke to me as a junior official..."
"Uh..." Xi Lu hesitated, "Here... this..."
Zheng Xuan nodded slowly and sighed for a long time, "I see..."
"Huh? Ha?" Xi Ru was confused.
Zheng Xuan looked around and Xi Lun understood what he was thinking. After first dismissing the servants, he sat next to Zheng Xuan again and respectfully asked for advice.
Zheng Xuan said slowly: "Originally, I was too thoughtful and didn't know the true intention of Qiao Qi... However, your words made me feel a little bit..."
"Master, could it be...a minor official?" Xi Lu asked.
Zheng Xuan nodded, "Exactly. Now the hussars are cracking down on corruption and getting rid of corrupt officials..."
"Oh! I understand!" Xi Su nodded and suddenly realized, "Those who don't know how to calculate the accounts naturally don't know the accounts, which means it is difficult to eliminate corruption... Qiusi's move is because of this!"
In the current Han Dynasty, all prefectures and counties have basically the same structure. Officials are above the political level and must be proficient in scriptures, while petty officials are generally responsible for the collection of various local taxes and materials...
Of course, there are some people who are good in both aspects, such as Xun You and others, but after all, elite talents like this are in the minority.
"Besides..." Zheng Xuan nodded slightly, and then glanced at Xi Liu, "Most of the people serving in the court today... may not be proficient in calculating scriptures, so... once the news that Hussar promotes scripture calculations comes out... this
The big gentry families in the upper and lower reaches of Hedong suddenly lost everything they relied on..."
"This..." Xi Lu's eyes widened, "This... is really..."
Because many petty officials do not understand the scriptures and the channels for upward advancement are congested, they often end up pursuing personal pleasure and becoming corrupt.
In addition, petty officials are not like officials who serve in the court and need to be deployed in other places. Therefore, it is often easier to form local gangsters, which will lead to various problems. Now Hussar said that the status of sutra calculation has been improved, which is invisible.
This opens up the space for promotion of ordinary petty officials. Then for the sake of greater goals, some of these petty officials will naturally be unwilling to indulge in the small profits in front of them.
At the same time, the big noble families in Hedong joined forces to resell ordnance. Isn't it just to bully some people who can't understand the accounts? On the other hand, Hedong is a major grain-producing area, so how much can be used as a threat. However, now Fei Qian wants to recalculate the accounts, so naturally
In order to seize this opportunity, some petty officials will abandon their original interest ties...
Just imagine, originally he was just a local official, at most he was in charge of a warehouse. The warehouse owner Cao Cao was the top of the sky, and at most he was only half an "official". Now if he is proficient in arithmetic and is familiar with the accounts, he will have
Maybe he suddenly turned into a serious "official" who checks various places!
From clerk to official!
It’s like reaching the sky in one step!
Can the nobles of Hedong, no, the nobles of the world, stop him?
Anyone who objects will have trouble with these petty officials under him!
Xi Lu couldn't help but shudder when he thought of this.
"In this case...isn't it, isn't it...this, this, the Qiusi's move..." Xi Lu's eyes widened and he said, seeming to have a lot of meanings that he wanted to express, but in the end it became
In one sentence, "This, in the future... it will be more and more difficult to become an official?!"
Zheng Xuan took a long breath and sighed, "Oh... it's hard to be an official... it's hard to be an official... this hussar... hussar... Hi! Hongyu, if you have free time,
, you might as well read more arithmetic scriptures..."
Xi Lusheng lowered his head helplessly, "Disciple, I obey..."
Zheng Xuan nodded and said, "Hey, it's a pity that Zini is not here, otherwise his calculations..."
Xi Lu: "..."
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Brother Zhu remembers that there were many cases in the Chang'an Martial Arts Lecture Hall.
Even about Fei Qian himself.
This made Brother Zhu very memorable...
After all, anyone with a certain status is not willing for others to know something about them when they were not successful, and they are even taboo about this. However, Fei Qian generously recorded the things he experienced in the martial arts hall.
, provided for others to study.
Of course, this also allows others to avoid some embarrassment. After all, not all cases are successful...
Brother Zhu knew Fei Qian’s intention of taking him to the martial arts hall.
Because there are some, or even many, young people who always look down on this or that. Most of them think that they are the most powerful. When they see others making mistakes, they either get angry or sneer.
They shouted, "You are so smart! How can you not recognize this clumsy strategy?"
Therefore, Fei Qian took him to the Martial Arts Hall to let him see clearly that maybe if the fire at Hangu Pass were stronger, maybe the Xianbei people's battle axes would be more biased, maybe there would be no hussars in the world.
Of course it can be said to be luck or something, but if everything we do depends on luck...
Just like Zhuge Liang now, he feels that he cannot leave everything to his own luck. In other words, he believes that he will definitely turn bad luck into good luck, but he should have considered the danger from the very beginning.
Where and how to avoid it.
The danger in Hanzhong does not lie in things, but in people.
Or a tiger.
Crouching Tiger, Zhang Ze.
When a tiger lies in the grass, it means it is full or ready to hunt.
When the Hussars marched into Hanzhong, they needed to further march into Sichuan and Shu, so they adopted a strategy of reusing the local people in Hanzhong and focusing on appeasing them. Obviously, this strategy did achieve good results at the time.
, not only allowed Sichuan and Shu to be further included in the territory of the Hussars, but also supported Guanzhong through the initial difficult period.
But just like most temporary policies, there are certain sequelae. Now in Hanzhong, this strategy of reusing local people is slowly showing its drawbacks.
The old problem of local snakes.
This problem was common in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and then it was infected in the Qin and Han Dynasties. It is unknown that it will continue to be transmitted until later generations coax you to drink, and so on...
Infectious diseases are difficult to cure. Especially someone like Zhang Ze, who has been infected for a long time, and no longer even thinks that he is sick, but that others are sick.
Therefore, Zhang Ze wanted to cure Zhuge Liang.
Naturally, the prescription requires gold, silver, treasures, singers and dancing girls.
Because Zhuge Liang is young, young people, who doesn't like money and beautiful women? I think Zhang Ze himself had a hard time crawling out of the pit of gentleness. Now that he thinks about it, he naturally feels that he can cheat Brother Zhu without any discussion.
After Zhuge Liang arrived in Hanzhong, Zhang Ze used the name of hospitality to seduce Zhuge Liang with various overt and covert benefits. On the other hand, he always dragged Zhuge Liang away and did not let him have time to go to other places.
It's just that, it's a pity that although Zhuge Liang's name is similar to Brother Zhu, he is not like Brother Zhu. Therefore, he instinctively felt disgusted with Zhang Ze's wooing and bribery, and even some arrangements similar to house arrest, and he sensed the danger. Goodbye
Thinking of what happened to the hussar general in the martial arts hall, Zhuge Liang made a decision...
"Servant..." It was still dark before dawn, and Zhuge Liang's close guard just saw that there was no one around, quietly came to the window and whispered, "Everything is ready..."
With the sound of the window lintel cracking, Zhuge Liang opened a gap and said, "I know, wait a moment..."
After a while, Zhuge Liang opened the window, stood out from the window, and said, "Hurry up!"
In the early morning mist, Zhuge Liang walked through the small courtyard, walked through the corridor, and then went straight to the backyard. At this time, a servant who got up early discovered the fireworks coming from Zhuge Liang's room and shouted.
Got up and immediately caused a commotion!
"It's gone! It's gone!"
The courtyard suddenly became chaotic!
Zhuge Liang looked back, then lowered his head and ran directly to the courtyard wall, and then climbed out of the wall with the help of his close guards.
Outside the courtyard wall, there were several other guards waiting. They stepped forward to pick up Zhuge Liang, then met the man behind him, put away the climbing hooks and ropes, and looked around to see if there was anyone in the back alley.
To attract anyone's attention, Zhuge Liang surrounded Zhuge Liang and went directly to the city gate along the alley, and then headed straight out of the city as soon as the Fangmen gate opened...
After Zhang Ze woke up in the city and waited until the flames were extinguished, he received the report that Zhuge Liang was missing, and some of Zhuge Liang's guards were also missing. He became furious and ordered people to rush to the mansion.
I searched everywhere, but where can I find it?
Zhuge Liang's sudden fire escape disrupted Zhang Ze's arrangement.
Zhang Ze had no idea that this young man, who seemed to be slow in everything he did and spoke, would make such a decisive move in the blink of an eye!
"Your Majesty! What should we do now?"
If you run away, of course you have to catch him.
Even if he is arrested across provinces... cough cough cough, if he cannot be captured anyway, he cannot be allowed to come back alive!
Zhang Ze frowned in thought. Returning from Hanzhong to Guanzhong, there are now two main roads. One is the original road that Zhuge Liang used to enter Hanzhong, which is also a diagonal road that has been continuously opened and repaired. The other one is through the Tangluo Road. The diagonal road
The Tangluo Road is relatively easy to walk, but the Tangluo Road is relatively difficult to walk due to the large amount of work required to open mountains and build bridges.
As for the Ziwu Valley, firstly, there are frequent rains in spring, and secondly, it is too rugged and unmaintained, and most people will not walk on these roads.
Of course, it is also possible to detour through Yangping Pass, but Yangping Pass is a pass after all, and the detour to Longyou is too far, so Zhang Ze clapped his hands and said, "Come here! Hurry to Xiedao and Tangluo Road. If you see him,
You will be arrested on the spot! If you disobey, you will be killed for treason!」
Zhang Ze's confidants were about to leave after being ordered to do so, but were stopped by Zhang Ze again, "Come back! I almost forgot, I've also sent people to pursue the road to superiority!"
Huang Cheng was training troops in Shangyong before. Although Zhang Ze wanted to change, it was not easy to find any handle or reason. He could only move slowly, so there are still many soldiers and captains from that year...
"Obey the order!" Zhang Ze's confidants left in a hurry.
Zhang Ze walked around the hall twice with his hands behind his back, and then thought, "Wait a minute, will this... go south to Sichuan?"
Zhang Ze subconsciously wanted to call someone again, but after thinking about it, he retracted his outstretched hand. Going to Sichuan and Sichuan is more difficult than returning to Chang'an. Will Zhuge Liang leave? Young man, didn't he eat it?
Why don't you just go back and find the adults? And you can't make too much noise here. If you become completely restless...
That means you can’t even hide it even if you really want to!
Keeping an eye on two or three intersections is already the limit. If we block other intersections in Hanzhong as well, it will probably cause unnecessary trouble.
Sichuan, Shu, and Guanzhong were both in trouble, and Zhang Ze was in trouble, but after thinking about it for a while, he still felt that Zhuge Liang had the greatest possibility of escaping back to Guanzhong...
