Sima Hui went to Jingzhou at the beginning of the third year of Jian'an.
In fact, he was also a well-known Confucian scholar in the world. He taught many students and was known to all the scholars in Jingzhou.
For example, Liu Gong, the later minister of Cao Wei, studied under Sima Hui in Yingchuan when he was ten years old, and Xiang Lang, an important minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, also worshiped under his disciples when he was young.
In his early years, Pang Tong heard of his name, so he went north to visit him, lived in Yingchuan for a year or two, and studied carefully with Sima Hui.
There are also a large number of students whose names have not been left in history, especially Jingzhou scholars. There are many under his disciples.
Therefore, even if Sima Hui had never appeared in Jingzhou, Jingzhou Shilin had already known about his reputation. Now that they knew that Sima Hui was coming, all his former students came to greet him.
When Shen Chen and the others arrived at Xiangyang Wharf, they saw hundreds of scholars waiting on the dock in the north of the city. The leader was Xiang Lang of the Xiang family.
From the time Shen Chen started teaching and educating people last year until now, there are no more people in Jingzhou Shilin who want to cause trouble for him. But that doesn't mean that no one wants to cause trouble for him, but that no one is willing to go to Suiting and be humiliated.
Now, they suddenly saw Shen Chen appearing in Xiangyang City. The crowd was quite surprised for a while. They didn't expect that he would also come to greet Sima Hui. Everyone couldn't help but talk about it.
"It's the kid from the Shen family, he's here too."
"What is he here for?"
"No matter what he is here for, my brother was completely refuted by him last time. This time I will make him look good."
"Why does Brother Zhou Lang want to argue with him again? This person is not kind to others."
"Before, it was because I was studying in Jiangdong and not in Jingzhou. Now that I'm back, I'm still afraid of him."
Someone said that and walked towards here.
Seeing the excitement, everyone came over one after another, and at once there were more than twenty people cheering.
Xiang Lang in the distance is now the county magistrate of Linju County. He heard that his teacher Sima Hui was coming today and took a temporary leave to greet him. However, he did not expect that it was quite noisy here, so he couldn't help but look over.
He saw a large number of soldiers approaching the group of people aggressively, and asked curiously: "What happened over there?"
There was a student of Song Zhong next to him, named Li Ren, whose courtesy name was Dexian. When he heard that Sima Hui was coming, he also wanted to ask him to study ancient Chinese as his teacher. When he heard Xiang Lang's words, he smiled and said, "Isn't it possible that Juda doesn't?" Do you know the famous Shen Xiaolang from Jingzhou?"
Xiang Lang nodded and said, "I seem to have heard something. I heard that he is a student of Mr. Zhongzi. He is already a rich man at a young age. Even when I was in Linju, I knew his knowledge."
Li Ren said: "My junior brother is indeed very knowledgeable, but he is not tolerated by Xiangyang scholars because he strongly advocates resistance to Cao Cao and advocates being an enemy of the imperial court."
"An enemy of the imperial court?"
Xiang Lang frowned, this was not a trivial matter. The current atmosphere among the scholars in Jingzhou was to persuade Liu Biao to serve the imperial court. Suddenly someone came out who was against the imperial court. No wonder he was not tolerated by the scholars.
Li Ren explained: "It's not that he was an enemy of the imperial court, it was just that he had a blood feud with Cao Cao, so he often detailed Cao Cao's faults, saying that he was a traitor around the emperor, and Liu Shijun should fight against him. This is probably because Personal grudges but no anger.”
This is the current thinking of the entire Xiangyang Shilin people. They all believe that Shen Chen did not deal with Cao Cao because of his personal enmity.
Little did he know that in the future, after the Yidai Zhao incident occurred, Cao Cao would kill the queen, his uncle, and the prince, and coerce the emperor to expose the true colors of the princes to everyone. He didn't know how many people who were so-called loyal to the court would be slapped in the face.
"Um."
Xiang Lang nodded slightly and looked over, wanting to see what Shen Chen had to say.
The person who came to the door was a descendant of the Nanxin Zhou family, named Zhou An. His younger brother was embarrassed by Shen Chen's refutation last year. At that time, he was visiting Yuan Zhong, Xu Jing, Huan Shao and other famous people in Jiangdong. Now he has returned. I must seek justice for my brother.
They saw Zhou An, about thirty years old, with a goat's beard, walking over with great momentum. Shen Chen stepped out from the crowd and stood in front of Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu, Pang Tong and the others. Facing the crowd, he was calm and unafraid.
"Are you Shen Chen?"
Zhou An came up to question.
Shen Chen had a sword hanging on his waist and was dressed in a powerful outfit. He raised his hands and said, "I am Shen Chen. I don't know where to start?"
"Nan Xin Zhou'an."
Zhou An arched his hands, which was quite polite, but he quickly said: "I heard that you are bewitching the villagers from all over, is this possible?"
Shen Chen smiled and said: "It's just the world's misunderstanding of me. Candlelight blocks light, and rice doesn't wait. Duke Zhou released the call, and he became prosperous. The knowledge I teach are all the sage words of sages, so how can I confuse the world?" "
There are two misunderstandings in his words. One is that Mengchangjun's guests misunderstood that the food given by Mengchangjun was unfair. Mengchangjun kept his own rice to compare with his food, and the guests committed suicide in shame.
Another story is that Duke Zhou assisted King Cheng of Zhou in managing state affairs. Some people spread rumors that Duke Zhou was going to usurp the throne. Even Zhou Gong's younger brother Zhao Gong became suspicious. So Zhou Gong and Zhao Gong had a heart-to-heart talk all night long to resolve the misunderstanding.
Zhou An saw that his speech was very organized, and he lost his initial momentum. He cupped his hands to the north and said, "In this case, Duke Cao welcomes the emperor in times of crisis and can be called a minister of the country. Why do you want to spread rumors and slander his name?" ?”
Shen Chen shook his head and said: "Whether Cao Cao is a traitor to the Han Dynasty or a minister of the Han Dynasty, it will be decided by himself. What's more, everyone in the world can be a diligent king. Cao Cao can do it, but I can't. A man is in troubled times. He should carry a three-foot sword to see if he can stand. The Honor of the World. Cao Cao is serving the Emperor today, and he is not attacking me in the name of the Emperor. How can I not attack him? When he bullies the Emperor in the future, it will be the time for me to go to Luo with my sword to seek justice for the people of the world! "
"Hahahahahaha."
The crowd suddenly burst into laughter.
Someone ridiculed: "You alone can carry a sword to Luo?"
Shen Chen said coldly: "Huh, a sparrow knows the ambition of a swan. I came from Xuzhou and saw Cao Cao massacre more than 200,000 people. I'm afraid you have never seen 200,000 living people, let alone 200,000 people." Tens of thousands of people died? Cao Cao's younger brother Cao Ren and general Le Jin were killed by me, and I fought against the brutal Cao army alone. Doesn't this prove that I have the ability to go north to serve the king?"
Everyone who had been laughing just now paused for a moment, and then they remembered that the person in front of them was a god of death.
Zhou An frowned and said, "Do you think Mr. Cao can't help the universe?"
"Why can he?"
Shen Chen asked back.
Zhou An raised his hands to the north and said: "The emperor is behind you, and Cao Gong is in front. He rules the four directions with a royal way. Isn't this the courtesy of Dian Si?"
"How can a cruel person take on the responsibility of governing a country?"
Shen Chen shook his head: "I actually don't understand. Is today's morality so corrupt? The law that once punished murder with death may have collapsed due to the advent of troubled times. I can't judge whether Cao Cao's massacre of hundreds of thousands of people was right or wrong, but This is not the reason why you advise me not to take revenge, is it?"
"Forehead"
Zhou An thought for a moment and was at a loss for words. After a moment he sighed: "You are right. You have your opinion and we have ours, but this does not mean there is a mistake between us."
Shen Chen nodded and said, "You can be considered a sensible person."
Neither of the two people could convince the other.
But for those diodes that are either black or white, Zhou An can be considered a celebrity this year.
Because the two people look at the problem from different perspectives.
Zhou An believed that Cao Cao served the emperor, held great righteousness, and was a minister of Zhongxing. Even if he had flaws, he should not criticize him for the sake of the stability of the country.
However, Shen Chen had a personal grudge against Cao Cao, and he believed that Cao Cao was cruel and could not shoulder the task of being a minister of Zhongxing, so both of them had their own opinions.
But compared to other scholars, Zhou An is indeed a well-known scholar who has traveled all over the world. It is already very good to admit that Shen Chen's words are correct, so he can be regarded as gaining Shen Chen's respect.
After watching the debate in the distance, Xiang Lang turned to Li Ren and said, "It seems that Shen Chen is not as unbearable as everyone said. How can it be wrong to criticize cruelty out of benevolence and righteousness?"
Li Ren sighed: "Junior brother Ah Chen has improved a lot. He didn't have such great ambitions before. He just kept talking about Cao Cao's cruelty, but now he says he wants to go to Luo with a sword and has the ambition of a man. He often talks about the unity of knowledge and action. Such lofty words and ambitions now put my peers to shame."
“What is the unity of knowledge and action?”
At this moment, someone behind the two people suddenly asked.
Xiang Lang turned his head. He was a little unfamiliar at first, but after looking at it carefully for a moment, he suddenly said in surprise: "Master!"
Behind them was a middle-aged man who was probably in his forties but not fifty. He was very kind-looking, with a goatee on his chin, and was wearing an ordinary and simple gown. He was looking at them with a smile.
This person is none other than Sima Hui, a famous scholar from Yingchuan.
No one expected that he suddenly arrived and was already standing in the crowd.
He didn't bring anything long with him, just a few family members and a dozen servants, holding large and small packages in their hands to salute.
For other celebrities, this is already considered the poorest celebrity.
However, all scholars know that Sima Hui has never been poor, it's just that he has always been so simple. Even though there are countless fertile fields and mulberry gardens in Yingchuan, he works in the fields himself every day and never considers himself a celebrity.
"Master."
"Master."
"Master."
Almost as soon as everyone realized that Sima Hui had arrived, people in the crowd started calling them "teacher" one after another.
Although Sima Hui is not from Jingzhou, he has taught many Jingzhou scholars. There are at least twenty or thirty students who have studied with him here to welcome him, such as Xiang Lang, Liu Ma and others.
Sima Hui and their students had not seen each other for many years. Looking around, he sighed when he saw these familiar faces and said: "I just asked Ciming to help me buy a remote property in Xiangyang for my living. I didn't expect that You are all here."
The student named Ciming, whose real name was Huang Hui, was a member of the Huang family. He studied under Sima Hui in his early years and had a good relationship with Pang Tong and Xiang Lang. He said with a smile: "I didn't publicize this matter originally. That day, Juda saw the letter, and he told Shiyuan, Shiyuan told Wenqing, and Wenqing told him."
"Forget it."
Sima Hui felt a headache after hearing this, waved his hands and said, "I should have expected this when Shi Yuan wrote me a letter."
At this time, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, Shen Chen and others came over, bowed their hands to him and said, "Master (Master De Cao)!"
"Excuse me.
Sima Hui raised his hands in vain, smiled and motioned for them to stand up, then looked at Pang Tong with the crown on his head, looked at him and praised him: "I haven't seen you for two years, but now I have reached the crown, and I am already an adult."
"Master, you are so complimentary."
Pang Tong cupped his hands again and said, "Thanks to Master's teachings, I can understand the principles of life."
Sima Hui nodded, then glanced around, noticed Shen Chen among the crowd, and asked curiously: "Little friend, I heard you said that knowledge and action are one, and I want to know what is knowledge and action."
Shen Chen stood up solemnly, raised his hands seriously and said: "Being righteous and uniting knowledge and action is a criterion for the harmony between conscience and what you do. It does not mean that you know the unity of knowledge and action, you have achieved the unity of knowledge and action, but This can only happen if the morality in your heart and your personal attempts go hand in hand."
"for example?"
Sima Hui asked.
Shen Chen thought for a while and said: "For example, I heard that a drought occurred in a village in the north and the people were displaced. I happened to have thousands of stones of food at home to help the people. And I know benevolence and righteousness and want to practice benevolence and righteousness. So he used tens of thousands of stones of food in his house to help the victims, and in the end, countless people survived. This is the unity of conscience and action, which is called the unity of knowledge and action."
"Is this the unity of knowledge and action?"
Sima Hui opened his eyes wide, and suddenly felt that the young man in front of him had thoughts as deep as a mountain.
Shen Chen cupped his hands and said: "Master Dong regarded "benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness" as the model of a gentleman, and all scholars in the world also took this as a criterion. But in today's world, etiquette has collapsed, and people in the world actually feel proud to defend those who massacre the common people. I have completely forgotten that the sages once taught that "the way of a university lies in clear virtue, in being close to the people, and in striving for perfection." I am always worried, so I am willing to use my actions to teach the world what it means to unite knowledge and action."
"They all say that you are fighting against Cao Cao. Do some people say that you are fighting against Cao Cao and going against the will of the emperor? Do you think this is correct?"
Sima Hui actually listened to half of it. Although he didn't know what happened specifically, he vaguely learned that Shen Chen had tried his best to resist Cao Cao. Some people in the crowd were also talking about it, so he asked curiously.
Shen Chen said seriously: "It is said that "the destiny of heaven is constant, but virtue is the supplement." Just because Cao Cao welcomed the emperor, everyone thinks he is good, nor can people think that just because he welcomed the emperor and had a righteous name in his hands, people You should obey orders."
"The Duke of Zhou and Marquis Bolu are praised by the world because they have noble moral character. Sages will only love the people and will not be cruel. Wang Mang and Dong Zhuo have power, but they have subverted the country. Do people still want to listen to them even if they hold power? "
"Someone told me that Cao Cao massacred hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou, perhaps as a last resort. But I personally experienced it and knew that he just wanted to scare Duke Tao and plunder food and grass. Isn't this his cruel nature? ?”
"A poisonous snake will disguise itself as dead wood in order to hunt prey, but no matter how well it is disguised, it cannot hide the fact that it is a poisonous snake! So I never think that Cao Cao is a minister who can assist the king well. He is dormant now just to It will only seize more power in the future, and I believe that time will prove that what I said is not wrong."
These words made countless scholars around him start to think deeply. They actually felt that Shen Chen's words were very reasonable, and they were convinced by him unconsciously.
Sima Hui sighed: "I used to think that Shi Yuan was already the most famous person in Nanzhou, but when I met my little friend today, I realized that I was short-sighted. Even a ten-year-old boy can be so thorough, but I thought about it. It took me many years to understand that I am not as good as you."
The crowd was suddenly in an uproar. You should know that there were many students of Sima Hui here, but Sima Hui said that he was not as good as Shen Chen. For a while, the scholars and students around him felt ashamed and surprised.
Shen Chen cupped his hands and said, "Gong Mu praises me. It's just because I often think about the principles of being a human being."
Sima Hui looked at him sincerely, and invited Shen Chen: "I just arrived in Xiangyang today, and I still need to settle in. When I move into the house, I hope that in the future, you can come to my house often and have a chat together." , explain my doubts."
These words immediately shocked the crowd. Sima Hui, a famous Confucian scholar, actually invited a teenage boy to answer his questions. This simply made so many scholars around him die of shame.
Shen Chen said: "It's not enough to solve the confusion. The principles of the sages are all in the book. Everyone's interpretation is different. It's just that for most people, the life they yearn for is different from mine, so the ideas they have are also different from mine. There is a big difference.”
"What's the difference?"
Sima Hui asked. He felt more and more that the young man in front of him seemed to be full of treasures, which made Confucian scholars who pursued the truth like them feel that the truth seemed to be right in front of them.
Shen Chen said sternly: "Some people think that if you can live your life well alone, there is no need to be immortal throughout the ages." Some people think that we should "serve the king and assist the master and serve the country." Some people think that "dying due to ignorance will decay with the grass and trees; living after enlightenment, "It is for eternal life." But I feel that in addition to the country and oneself, one must also have the heart of a master who can help the world, like the Master, raising one's head to embrace the universe and lowering one's head to comfort all people."
"Easier said than done."
Someone said: "The world is so ruined now. If you want to save all the people, what's the use of just talking?"
Shen Chen smiled and said: "Look at a person's shortcomings, there is no one in the world that I can be friends with; look at a person's strengths, everything in this world is our teacher. There is a way for everything, but we have not found the direction, and what I want to do is The thing is, as I said, the unity of knowledge and action is to find a way to save all people. At least I am already on this path, but you don't even have this intention, don't you feel ashamed?"
As soon as this statement came out, the crowd was suddenly shocked.
Everyone was talking a lot.
"What he said seems to be correct. People want to save all the people, but we don't even dare to think about it."
"Although I want to say it's nonsense, I don't know why, but I feel that what he said is the truth, and what we learned before was just knowledge from books, and it didn't teach us the true meaning of being a human being at all."
"Brother Lang, I even want to be his disciple."
"I think so too"
The scholars only felt that Shen Chen's words were as deep as the sea and as high as the mountains. They seemed to have endless truths, which made them enlightened.
In an instant, many people changed their misunderstandings about Shen Chen.
Sima Huichang sighed: "My little friend's words are thought-provoking. If one day it is true as you said, and you can combine knowledge and action to help all people, then you will be a model for the world."