Chapter 56 Everything has advantages and disadvantages
The person who came was none other than Zhang Laodao. He waved his hand and said, "Don't be too polite. You can go and discuss matters when you need to. Lao Dao, I can just walk outside the hall."
Zhang Yunyi said hurriedly: "What did the great master say? Please come in and sit down for a while, and we will respectfully receive the holy teachings of the great master."
Wang Changyu also said: "I haven't seen the great master in person for a long time, so I still ask for his advice."
Zhang Laodao scratched his head: "Oh my, I came early and disturbed your discussion."
Zhang Yunyi said: "Master, please don't speak like that. It really offends us. There happen to be some things that we can't decide upon, so I would like to ask Master to give us more details."
Zhang Laodao thought for a while and said: "It just so happens that I have something to discuss in your True Master Hall, so I will go in and sit down. How many things will you discuss today?"
Zhang Yunyi said: "Two pieces."
Zhang Laodao nodded: "Then my matter will be ranked third, okay?"
Zhang Yunyi and Wang Changyu said in unison: "Of course we will talk about your old age first."
Zhang Laodao shook his head like a rattle: "That won't work. It's not good to break the rules. The True Master Hall is where our Taoist sect's final decision is made. We old guys have to bow our heads and obey orders. If you still treat me like this, Old Taoist
I will wait at the door until you have finished discussing it before I go in."
Zhang Yunyi and Wang Changyu had no choice but to agree. After much talk, they finally invited Zhang Laodao into the Zichen Hall. After a lot of trouble arranging the seats, they finally couldn't resist Zhang Laodao and let him sit on a futon next to Zhang Yunyi.
So the discussion continued, but before the discussion, Shao had to tell Zhang Laodao again the reasons why the emperor wanted to give his biological father a posthumous title. Zhang Laodao kept waving his hands to show that he did not listen, and even stretched out two fingers of his left and right hands to block his ears, but Zhang Yunyi and
Wang Changyu ignored him and still finished the matter.
Zhang Laodao listened helplessly, and finally lost his temper, saying: "Hurry up, just say what you have to say, and leave me alone. If you do this again, Lao Dao, I will have no choice but to go back and forth. The most annoying thing is you."
It’s really unpleasant to have so many etiquettes!”
He lost his temper, and Zhang Yunyi and Wang Changyu had no choice but to accept the advice with trepidation and continue the discussion.
Zhang Laodao then sat down with satisfaction, took off his two cloth shoes, picked at his feet, rubbed the plaster, and looked around.
Chen Shandao is a monk in the Heavenly Master Realm, and his eyesight is needless to say. He looked at the dirt picked out between Zhang Laodao's toes, the mud rubbed off the soles of his feet, and fell on the shiny black floor tiles in his main hall.
I was so worried that I couldn't help but look at each other with Guo Jinghong, secretly thinking that this senior patriarch is really as the rumors say... his behavior is different from ordinary people...
The discussion resumed. Wuyang Zhongzheng was about to refute Guo Hongjing, but he saw Xu Yun'ao, the real person sitting in the Leixiao Pavilion, stood up and said: "In the past two days, I was chatting with a junior disciple, and I accidentally mentioned that when something happens, I can't make a decision.
, how it should be. He talked about a very good method, which I think is suitable for today's use, so I will refer to it in detail with you."
As he spoke, a wooden board as tall as a person flew out of his sleeves and floated in the hall. The board was covered with a large piece of rice paper. The rice paper was divided into two columns with straight ink lines, and the word "利" was written on the top of the left column.
The word "disadvantage" is written at the top of the right column.
Xu Yun'ao said: "Everything has advantages and disadvantages. This has been true since ancient times. The same is true for today's decision on the posthumous title of King Xing. We all can think about the benefits if we agree to the emperor's posthumous title of King Xing as the 'Emperor Examination'."
How about asking each Taoist friend to write down what he thinks and thinks about the disadvantages, and then go through the pros and cons in detail one by one?"
As he spoke, another jade inkstone flew out of his sleeve. The inkstone was filled with thick ink, and a large wolf hair was placed on the jade inkstone.
The great monks thought, Master Xu seems to have been prepared for this.
Then Xu Yun'ao asked, "Which one of you will come first?"
In this kind of thing, whoever comes first will naturally take the initiative. Guo Jinghong said first: "I'll do it!" With a finger, the Langhao pen filled the jade inkstone with ink, and wrote three sentences in the column of "profit".
He hesitated for a moment and wrote a sentence in the column with the word "disadvantage".
As Xu Yun'ao said, everything has advantages and disadvantages. If he only writes about the advantages but not the disadvantages, Guo Jinghong himself will not be able to live with it.
After Guo Jinghong finished writing, Chen Shandao took over the pen and added a sentence in the column with the word "profit".
Then Sima Tianshi and Yang Zhenren of Qifu Pavilion each added a sentence in the column with the word "profit". After thinking about it, they did not write in the word "disadvantage".
Tianshi Li from Dongji Pavilion stepped forward with a smile, added a sentence in the column with the word "profit", and handed the pen to Du Tianshi from Leixiao Pavilion.
Du Tianshi pondered for a long time, and the Langhao pen stayed on the column of "disadvantage" for a moment, but finally did not write it down, shook his head, and passed the pen to Song Tianshi of Jiuzhou Pavilion.
The Langhao pen was passed around, including that Wu Yangzhong and Xu Yun'ao had written it themselves, and then it was passed to Zhang Yunyi and Wang Changyu. The two great monks did not add anything more, and nodded, indicating Xu Yun'ao to continue.
Xu Yun'ao then said: "Everyone has finished writing, let's go over the details together."
Everyone's eyes were focused on the whiteboard, and they saw that the column of "advantages" was filled with words, but the column of "disadvantages" only contained one sentence.
Xu Yun'ao looked up at the whiteboard floating in the air, nodded and said: "In your hearts, there are so many benefits of agreeing to the emperor's religious conversion... as many as thirteen..."
"Perform the emperor's filial piety so that father and son can be fulfilled..."
"To reunite mother and son and help the emperor enjoy human relations..."
"Encourage filial piety and think that the world will follow an example..."
"Follow the imperial edict..."
"The emperor's order is right, and the common people are the order of the world..."
"Pingtianxia Youyou's mouth..."
"To quell the imperial strife..."
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After reading each one, Xu Yun'ao turned to the "disadvantages" column and said: "If we agree to the emperor's change of posthumous title, the only disadvantage in your mind is that the rules are messed up."
Yes, there is only one sentence in the "Disadvantages" column, and this sentence only has four words - "disorders."
Chen Shandao and Guo Jinghong looked at each other and smiled. They agreed with the emperor's idea that there were so many advantages. They believed that there was only one disadvantage to the emperor's posthumous title and the emperor's examination. The difference between the advantages and disadvantages was extremely large. It was done!
Seeing that the other true masters were looking at the whiteboard and thinking carefully, Chen Shandao transmitted a message to Guo Jinghong and entered the secret path: "Junior Brother Guo, this matter is almost done, what do you think of the next thing? Zhang Yangming brought a layman who was watching.
, it is said that it must be explained in public by the common people."
Guo Jinghong replied in secret: "Don't the monks in the pavilion go into the jungle of ten directions? I'm afraid this matter is a bit difficult. I think it's better not to interfere. Let's listen to what Wang Yangming and Shen Yunjing said. This is the article they read in the newspaper.
If we can succeed, we will succeed, and if we can't, it doesn't matter. In short, we have won this game, so we should give up when things are going well, and don't let small losses lead to big setbacks."
Chen Shandao nodded secretly: "Junior brother and I see the same thing, just sit back and watch the success or failure."