Sun Chengzong was quite dissatisfied with Zhou Yanru's actions. At this time, of course he had to speak for Zhang Yuan and reported to the Crown Prince Zhu Changluo: "Your Highness, Zhang Xiuzhuan guides the emperor's eldest grandson to study with simple and easy-to-understand principles. This is teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. Previously,
Zhang Xiuzuan also told me about this teaching method, and I thought there was nothing wrong with it. Judging from these days, the emperor's eldest son was able to concentrate on his studies, which is due to Zhang Xiuzuan's sincere teaching. - Zhou Shi said
Perhaps it was because of a misunderstanding of Zhang Xiuzuan’s teachings and because of his eagerness to protect the emperor’s eldest grandson that he impeached Zhang Xiuzuan.”
Zhou Yanru cupped his hands and said: "Master Sun, the emperor Sun has read the post written by Xiaguan in person, and said that it was what Zhang Xiuzan said, and it is not that Xianguan misunderstood Zhang Xiuzan."
Zhu Youxiao, who was looking nervous, finally understood that Mr. Zhou was here for Mr. Zhang, saying that Mr. Zhang had taught him some bad principles and wanted to drive Mr. Zhang away. No wonder Mr. Zhou had to do it every time.
Asked him what principles Mr. Zhang taught him, but they were all deliberately designed to drive away Mr. Zhang. This made Zhu Youxiao very angry. The twelve-year-old boy had a clear distinction between love and hate. Mr. Zhang was his favorite lecturer. He had previously
I have never met a person like Mr. Zhang. He is gentle and approachable. He never pressures him with big principles and is quite tolerant of his willfulness. Therefore, every time he sees Mr. Zhang come to give lectures, Zhu Youxiao can't help but laugh.
He felt happy, or as he said, "heart happy." When he heard Zhou Yanru say that he had read the post and agreed with it, Zhu Youxiao really wanted to say loudly, "I didn't see clearly just now. Mr. Zhang didn't say that."
"But seeing his father's serious face, Zhu Youxiao didn't dare to come forward and deny it. After all, he just nodded and said "yes", and it was very bad, and his father would definitely punish him.
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Thinking that Mr. Zhang would no longer be his lecturer, Zhu Youxiao felt sad and felt very sorry for Mr. Zhang. He should not have told Mr. Zhang's words to Mr. Zhou.
Zhu Changluo only nodded slightly after hearing Sun Chengzong's defense of Zhang Yuan. He wanted to see how Zhang Yuan defended himself. Zhang Yuan was reading Zhou Yanru's post. Just then, the emperor's eldest son, Zhu You, stumbled to read it for two moments, but Zhang Yuan
It was ten lines at a time. After reading it quickly, he handed the post to Wang An, who forwarded it to the prince Zhu Changluo. Zhu Changluo asked: "Now that Zhang Xiuzan has read it, what can you say?"
Zhang Yuan said respectfully: "Your Highness, the remarks Zhou Shishuo asked and recorded from the emperor's eldest grandson did come from the minister's mouth. However, these were just fragments of words, distorting the meaning of the minister's speech at that time - "
Zhou Yanru sneered and said, "How did I distort your original intention? Please tell me clearly."
Zhang Yuan looked at Zhou Yanru and said, "I would like to ask Shi Zhou whether the late teacher Kong Sheng said this?"
Zhou Yanru didn't bother to answer, but he still couldn't be rude in front of the Crown Prince and said calmly: "This statement comes from the Analects of Confucius and is not complete yet. There are four more words after it-" He suddenly woke up and Zhang Yuan suddenly mentioned "
The meaning of the sentence "The Analects of Confucius".
How could Zhang Yuan give Zhou Yanru a chance to change the situation? He said loudly: "Of course I remember that there is another sentence at the end. Master's complete sentence should be: 'If you don't cultivate virtue, you won't learn it, you can't change it after hearing it, and you can't change it if you're not good.
"It's my worry." What if you remove the last four words and just tell the first four sentences to unenlightened children and say that these are what Confucius said? Of course these four sentences are what Confucius said, but
If the tail is cut off, it is completely contrary to Confucius' original intention. As a sage and sage like Confucius, there are still holes to be exploited in the essence of the Analects, not to mention the casual remarks made by Chen Jin when he lectured!"
"Your Highness, I have something to say." Zhou Yanru was anxious and wanted to fight back.
Seeing that Zhou Yanru was about to interrupt to argue, Zhang Yuan held up his hands and said, "Shishou Zhou, please allow me to finish speaking. Shishuo Zhou is so well prepared for impeaching me, and has written thousands of questions about the emperor's eldest grandson every day."
"Why should I be afraid that the official will defend himself? Can't you wait until the official reports to His Highness the Crown Prince before you refute me?"
Zhu Changluo said: "Shi Zhou is speaking, please allow Zhang Xiu to write a self-defense."
Zhou Yanru had veins on his forehead, and Zhang Yuan's words were full of thorns. But as soon as the prince spoke, he had no choice but to shut up and glare at Zhang Yuan. The number one scholar in Guichou Branch and the number one scholar in Bingchen were mortal enemies.
Zhang Yuan faced the crown prince and said: "I did tell the emperor's eldest grandson those words that Zhou Shi said carefully and carefully recorded, but these words were not spoken by the minister in isolation. They have their own prefaces and afterwords. Please sit down, your highness.
My self-defense is relatively lengthy. I have no other merits. The best thing is to memorize it. I want to put all the so-called fallacies and heresies and deviants listed by Zhou Shi into their original context and restore their original meaning. Your Highness, Emperor Changsun.
Read Little Eunuch Gao, and Eunuch Zhong can tell me whether my memory is wrong."
Eunuch Zhong was secretly excited and thought: "Zhang Yuan is indeed eloquent. He first stole the words of Confucius and won the first place. Now he wants to show his unparalleled memory. I have heard Zhang Yuan recited for a long time. Today I can finally see it."
Zhang Yuan started from the first deviant saying recorded by Zhou Yanru. Not only did he accurately repeat what he said at that time, but he also recounted the questions asked by the emperor's eldest grandson. Even the emperor's eldest grandson's slightly childlike tone was
He imitated it for three or four minutes, and even said all the occasional interruptions made by Eunuch Zhong. After finishing the story, he asked Zhu Youxiao: "Your Highness, did I say that at the time?"
Zhu Youxiao saw that Zhang Yuan was calm and composed, and he also felt relieved and responded: "Mr. Zhang is absolutely right, every word is correct, just like reenacting the scene of the lecture that day."
Zhang Yuan asked again: "Where are Eunuch Zhong and Eunuch Gao?"
Eunuch Zhong praised: "Zhang Xiuzhan has a good memory. That's what the Za family said that day."
Of course, Xiao Gao also testified to Zhang Yuan that Zhang Yuan was right.
Zhang Yuan talked about the second deviant saying. After talking about it one by one, Zhu Changluo looked at Zhou Yanru's post and found that Zhang Yuan had embedded all the words Zhou Yanru had written down.
The meaning behind the impeachment of Zhang Yuan is completely different. At most, Zhang Yuan has some similarities with the thoughts of the Taizhou School founded by Wang Gen, a disciple of Wang Yangming, and has nothing to do with fallacies. In fact, Zhang Yuan still slightly changed his original words.
Yes, but there was no tape recorder. Zhou Yanru could not testify against him even if he stood nearby and listened. The emperor's eldest grandson, Eunuch Zhong and his son testified against him.
By the time Zhang Yuan reached the seventeenth point of his argument, half an hour had passed. Now the Crown Prince no longer doubted whether Zhang Yuan had deviated from the truth, but was shocked by Zhang Yuan's strong memory. Eunuch Zhong appropriately whispered in the Prince's ear.
He said: "Thousand-year-old master, Zhang Xiuzhan was famous in Jiangnan for his recital when he was a child."
Zhu Changluo asked: "Why is it so easy to recite after hearing it?"
Eunuch Zhong replied: "Zhang Yuan suffered from eye disease when he was young. He could not use his eyesight excessively. He asked people to read the Four Books and Five Classics to him. He worked very hard and finally developed the ability to memorize through memory."
Zhu Changluo sighed: "What a rare genius."
Eunuch Zhong said: "You are loyal, filial, benevolent and righteous, and your character is also good."
Zhu Changluo nodded and said to the eloquent Zhang Yuan: "Zhang Xiuzuan no longer needs to defend himself. Zhou Shijiao has misunderstood you."
Zhou Yanru knew that his impeachment of Zhang Yuan had completely failed. Yao Zongwen was absolutely right. Zhang Yuan was extremely cunning, and indeed he had extraordinary abilities. Let’s not forget this, this calmness is hard to match, and
, the emperor's grandson and the two eunuchs were obviously partial to Zhang Yuan. They all nodded in agreement no matter what Zhang Yuan said, no matter how he argued. It seems that he was too rash in impeaching Zhang Yuan this time, and underestimated Zhang Yuan's cunning. Now
The situation is very bad——
Zhou Yanru immediately knelt down to the Crown Prince and said: "Your Highness, I am ignorant. I heard a few words without paying close attention to them. I wrongly blamed Zhang Xiuzan based on my loyalty. I am willing to accept the punishment of Your Highness."
Seeing Zhou Yanru's sincere words, Zhu Changluo just thought that Zhou Yanru had misunderstood Zhang Yuan, so he asked Zhong Benhua to help Zhou Yanru up and said: "You don't have to blame yourself for giving the lecture. You and Zhang Xiuzuan are both lecturers in the East Palace.
They have worked hard to teach my son, and they are both loyal. Don't let this matter create any estrangement between you, and we will work together to educate my son well in the future."
Zhang Yuan immediately expressed his position: "Since Shijiao Zhou has admitted that he misunderstood Xiaguan, how can I dare to complain? In the future, I hope Shijiao Zhou will point out if I have anything wrong with him."
Then change it, if not, then encourage it."
This was really awkward to hear, but Zhou Yanru had no choice but to endure it and apologize to Zhang Yuan. He had to do this in order to keep his position as an official in the East Palace and to restore the emperor's grandson's impression of him.
Zhu Changluo said: "Don't tell anyone what happened today, lest there be rumors that our officials in the East Palace are not in harmony."
Qian Longxi, Sun Chengzong, Zhou Yanru, and Zhang Yuan all bowed and said: "I obey."
Zhu Changluo said again: "The misunderstanding has been resolved, let's continue the lecture as usual today." He asked Zhong Benhua to accompany Zhou Yanru to the Zhujing Hall to teach Zhu Youxiao. After Zhou Yanru left, Zhu Changluo comforted Zhang Yuan and praised Zhang Yuan a few times.
, and asked the chamberlain to escort Sun Chengzong and Zhang Yuan out of the palace. On his side, Qian Longxi gave a lecture on the Book of Changes.
At the end of the hour, Zhang Yuan and Sun Chengzong left the Donghua Gate. Zhang Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief and said to Sun Chengzong: "Thanks to Mr. Sun for reminding me in advance, I am covered in cold sweat."
Sun Chengzong's dark face shone under the scorching sun, he touched his beard and said with a smile: "Zhang Xiuzhan's self-defense was so wonderful that it opened my eyes."
Zhang Yuandao: "I'm ashamed. I was so thirsty that I barely passed the test - I don't know what happened. Is it because I'm unsophisticated or not tactful in dealing with things? Someone always jumps out to criticize me, which makes me unable to guard against it and makes me very troubled."
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Sun Chengzong said: "There are quarrels between parties in the DPRK, there are many selfish people, the government is deteriorating, famines are everywhere, the armaments are not repaired, and the border captives are rampant, but few people pay attention to these things. I know that Zhang Xiuzuan is not willing to be mediocre and only pursue himself.
Nowadays, high-ranking officials and wealthy people are jealous of others if they want to do something, but Zhang Xiuzuan also knows that wherever there are enemies, there are friends, so don't pay too much attention to some unwarranted impeachment remarks."
Zhang Yuandao: "Master Sun's advice is correct." He thought to himself: "I wonder how Zhou Yanru can teach the emperor's eldest grandson?"
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