We just crossed Xianxia Ridge the day before yesterday, and tomorrow we will climb the mountain again and leave Fujian.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but admire that the officials were really good at tormenting people.
The night before leaving Fujian, you usually stay at Yuryang Station or Man'yoji Temple. After you have enough strength, you can set out to climb the mountain early the next morning.
In this chapter, Zhang Yue and Qi Niang chose to stay overnight at Wanyou Temple.
This is also the place where the two met before. After staying in the temple, the two watched the waterfall. Although they did not return to their hometown this time, they were able to revisit their old place, which was a little fulfilled.
As for the two young men of the Zhang family, it was their first time to see such a waterfall, and they were so excited that they didn’t know what to say. In fact, there was less rain this time when they returned to their hometown, so the waterfall was not as majestic and spectacular as before, and the roaring sound was a bit unsettling.
Showing regret.
Indeed, it is difficult to revisit the place as it was in memory after so many years.
After looking at the waterfall for a while, Seventeenth Niang felt tired and went to rest early. Zhang Yue was a little disappointed, but the couple had been like this for many years. Sometimes Seventeenth Niang was not very understanding of her own feelings.
She is his virtuous wife, but Zhang Yue has to deal with it emotionally.
Zhang Yue walked in the temple for a while, and saw Chen Guan debating scriptures with a monk. It turned out that the monk was also staying in Wanye Temple.
Chen Guan and the monk said: "The essence of Buddhism is not in the words, nor is it separated from the words. There is no need to read too many words in the Buddhist scriptures. There is only one Diamond Sutra. The key point of this sutra is 'Anuttar Samyak Sambodhi'."
Nine characters.”
"This is also the mean word of sincerity."
The monk praised: "The layman's words have revealed the only clear method."
Chen Guan said: "Master, you are ridiculous. Over the years, I have read carefully and thought deeply. I have struggled with hardships and food. I don't wave my fan in summer, don't warm the stove in winter, and restless at night to seek the way. However, I have not yet attained the truth."
Speaking of Chen Guan's resignation, when he walked to the side corridor and saw Zhang Yue standing there, he couldn't help but be surprised and happy and said: "Mr. Zhang!"
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Why are you here?"
Chen Guan said: "After saying goodbye that day, I thought about paying a visit to Zhang Gong. However, Zhang Gong's return home in rich attire must be to pay homage to his ancestors, so I waited for news at Wanyosi Temple. Unexpectedly, within a few days, I saw Zhang Gong again.
male."
Zhang Yue smiled slightly and said: "Now I am returning to Beijing according to the order."
"Congratulations to Mr. Zhang, for being appointed by the emperor again."
Zhang Yue smiled languidly and nodded: "It is fate that you and I will meet each other this time. Are you willing to come to Beijing with me?"
Chen Guan said happily: "The student is willing."
Immediately Chen Guan paid his respects.
Zhang Yue helped him stand up and said, "I don't stick to formalities, and I don't pay much attention to the ceremony of apprenticeship. There is only one way to enter and exit my door. The four words of loyalty to the emperor and love to the people are enough. Returning to my hometown this time, I can meet the talented people who will come after me. It is a worthwhile trip."
Chen Guan was very happy and said immediately: "The students have been taught."
Zhang Yue really appreciated Chen Guan, so he happened to meet him again at Man'ye Temple today and took him under his tutelage.
Zhang Yue said to Chen Guan: "Now that you have entered my sect, what do you think I can teach you?"
Chen Guan thought to himself that other people who accepted his disciples only had to give advice or teach others, but he had never seen anyone like Zhang Yue asking for advice from his disciples.
Perhaps this is just a matter of humility.
Chen Guan immediately said: "Students think that Wang Jiefu is now the Prime Minister and has replaced Lu Xianggong to preside over the affairs of the court. When Zhang Gong returns to the court to get along with Wang Xianggong at this time, he may not be better than he was with Lu Xianggong."
Zhang Yue nodded, Wang Anshi was more stubborn than Lu Huiqing, and even more intolerant of others.
Chen Guandao: "Students have read Wang Xianggong's New Meanings of the Three Classics. This book uses the principles of life and fate as the theory of morality. If you want to make a big difference in the world, you must have future ministers practice it from generation to generation. This so-called morality is based on the principles of life and fate."
Learn one.”
"From now on, people in the world who share the same customs will all follow the study of life and life. If they don't learn the study of life and life, they will become Quxue. Today, officials like Sima Junshi do not agree with the study of life and life, and are despised as a popular custom."
"Once the new meanings of these three classics are completed, no matter whether there are kings or ministers in the future, the so-called state affairs are all derived from the principles of life and fate, so they cannot be shaken. From now on, scholars all over the world will take this book as their source."
Chen Guan was talking about the problems that Zhang Yue had to face when he returned to the court. One was Wang Anshi, and the other was the new meaning of the Three Classics.
These new meanings of the Three Classics are the condensation of the New Party's ideology, and are more powerful than Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing. Chen Guan can see this, which is far beyond the reach of ordinary scholars.
Later, the state of affairs was derived from the theory of life and life in the new meaning of the Three Classics.
At that time, it will be the same regardless of whether there is Wang Anshi or Lu Huiqing.
Just like Confucianism, Confucius has been gone for many years, but his teachings are still used in the court today.
Zhang Yue said to Chen Guan: "I learned from Guan Zhongye."
Guan Zhong's studies.
Chen Guan perked up after hearing this, and immediately said: "The students understand, and with the teacher's words, they feel confident in their hearts."
Zhang Yue said: "I am not afraid of fighting. As the saying goes, there is no need to avoid the confrontation between two blades. A good hand is like a lotus in the fire, as if it has its own ambition to reach the sky."
The party struggle in the court is like a two-edged confrontation, and those who fall into the lower class in the country will run away after seeing it.
But those who know the cause and effect of exchanges do not need to avoid it, just like catching a lotus from the fire. These people have the ambition to reach the sky.
For example, although Zhang Yue was demoted, he returned to the court within a few months. Lu Huiqing spent so much effort and cost, but the damage to Zhang Yue was really limited.
But is this your own ability?
This is not the case, but was determined by the political environment of the Song Dynasty.
For example, Legalism aims to eliminate those with vested interests. The higher the position and the greater the ability in this system, the more dangerous it is. Just look at the political struggle of the Qin Dynasty. In the end, the First Emperor himself became a victim of the struggle, and the other prime ministers
, Ministers and clan members who threaten the imperial power will be killed without blinking an eye, and they will be killed in a river of flesh and blood.
Ordinary people are not spared. For example, when the meteorite fell from the sky that said, "The First Emperor died and the earth was divided," when Qin Shihuang found out about it, he immediately ordered that all the people within a ten-mile radius of the meteorite be killed.
As a minister, don't say anything against the country. Even the deer and the horse will be ruined if they say something wrong.
The political struggle here is about who is ruthless, tough, and spicy enough, and who has no bottom line and principles.
But the Song Dynasty, on the other hand, protected those with vested interests, so the higher the official position, the safer it was.
Of course, this does have many problems, but the advantage is that the bottom line is indeed relatively high.
Sima Guang, Feng Jing, Wen Yanbo, Lu Gongzhu, Zhang Yue was defeated in this way, except for being temporarily out of town, actually nothing happened.
Because of this kind of political struggle, the intensity is not too high.
Therefore, the secret of the political struggle here does not actually lie in one party destroying the other, because no one can destroy the opponent, so how to obtain the support of a third party through struggle is the skill.
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"Sergeant Zhang Xue has been reinstated."
The people in the teahouses in Bianjing were talking about this enthusiastically.
"Yes, we all thought he was unjust when it came to the big fire in Sansi."
"You know that Shu is angry. He had no choice but to leave Bianjing because he was wronged by others, but he still has the ambition to serve the country in his heart."
"I have also read that poem, and it is indeed very well written... There are treacherous ministers in the court."
Beside the tea shop, Lu Huiqing was sitting alone enjoying tea. At this moment, listening to the words of the common people, there was a look of disdain on his face.
