As winter passes and spring comes, the grass grows and the orioles fly.
Li Dongyang, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, is still serving as his fire-fighting captain. When the Eight Tigers headed by Liu Jin want to kill anyone, he stands up to intercede, admonishing the emperor at the top, and pleasing the eunuchs at the bottom. The end result is often that the rescued targets suffer
After being tortured and then dismissed from office, he became a coward, but at least he saved his life.
Although he sheltered many officials, Li Dongyang was not favored by both parties.
The eunuchs thought he was getting in the way, and the officials ridiculed him for being weak, and he was nicknamed "the Prime Minister who accompanies food" for no apparent reason.
Even Luo Qi, a student of Li Dongyang, wrote a letter to sever all ties with his teacher. Luo Qi said, "All the upright ministers in the court have left, and it is embarrassing for you to stay. I will no longer be your student from now on!"
In the established impression, the cabinet seems to have great power.
But in fact, there are six ministries responsible for specific affairs, and the power of criticizing the red is in the hands of the eunuchs. Liu Jin himself is the eunuch Bingbi, and he also controls the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War, which is equivalent to directly emptying the cabinet. Li Dongyang, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, only has the power to discuss matters.
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Fortunately, Yang Tinghe has been pulled into the cabinet, and Li Dongyang finally has comrades to fight with. They are thinking all day long about how to bring down the eunuchs, and they have no energy at all, and they don't have the power to control the Guizhou rebellion.
Guizhou is still at war, from June last year to March this year.
The rebel army grew larger and larger, and its strength swelled to nearly 50,000. However, it soon became corrupted. Chief Sanmiao no longer had the ambition to be enterprising. His mind was all about the pursuit of enjoyment, and his level of exploitation of the people even exceeded that of the Song family.
The dragon slayer eventually turns into an evil dragon.
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Longgang Mountain.
Wang Yuan took his homework and went to the teacher for correction: "Sir, this article has been prepared."
Wang Yangming read through it carefully and commented: "Your articles have always been simple. This article is very precise and there is nothing to correct. But your writing style is a problem after all. After moving to Guizhou City, you should start to practice your rhetoric."
study."
"Sir, what book should I read?" Wang Yuan asked.
Wang Yangming said: "Memorize all the "Book of Songs", "Chu Ci", and "Yuefu Poems", and then choose to memorize some "Full Tang Poems". When you can recite a thousand poems, I will give you some poems from "Wen Xin"
"The Carving of a Dragon."
"Sir, do you want me to teach you how to compose poetry?" Wang Yuan asked again.
"Poetry is a small way, and it is only a part of the study of diction," Wang Yangming explained. "The five colors are mixed to form Fufu, the five tones are compared to form Shaoxia, the five emotions are generated to form diction, and the number of spiritual principles is also the number. The study of diction is based on
Emotion is the main thing. Your current article is more than enough to convey the truth, but lacks the emotions. It is convincing but not moving."
To put it bluntly, Wang Yuan's argumentative essays were dry and dry, and he could only understand them rationally, but could not move them emotionally.
Wang Yangming did not teach Wang Yuan how to write poems, let alone the contrast between oblique and oblique words. He only taught his disciples how to write articles that are full of emotion and emotion.
Wang Yuan resigned and went back to his dormitory to pack his luggage. He was going to study in Guizhou City tomorrow.
Wang Yangming picked up his disciple's article and read it again, a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.
This is a question from the Five Classics, and it is also a question from the Chenghua Dynasty's general examination. It comes from the "Book of Rites·Yue Ling": The emperor is a fresh lamb, opening the ice, and recommends it to the temple first.
When Wang Yangming was studying, he learned a sample essay on this question. He has forgotten the details, but he still remembers that the Jinshi named Dong Tao first discussed Yue Ling, and finally forced it to mention filial piety, which was criticized by the court bosses.
It was ranked first in the "Book of Rites" in the National Examination, and this model essay was immediately published across the country for students to appreciate.
Afterwards, when they encountered similar topics, the scholars followed the same example and insisted on filial piety. They were the same and had no new ideas. It was boring to read them.
Wang Yuan's discussion is refreshing. He also starts with the Lunar Order and turns to the world at the beginning of the title. The whole article has a lofty intention, but unfortunately due to the poor writing style, it always lacks a majestic flavor. That's why Wang Yangming asked his disciples to practice
The study of diction.
In fact, given the purpose of this article, the rigorous exposition, and the ease of transfer, it is certain that it will pass the examination.
This is not because Wang Yuan has mastered the "Book of Rites", but because he particularly likes this chapter of "Yue Ling".
In the entire "Book of Rites", Wang Yuan only loves "Yue Ling", and it can be said that he has memorized it by heart. This chapter talks about the changes in the four seasons, different seasons, what the emperor should do, and what the ministers should do. It combines nature and government affairs very well.
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For example, during the Meng Chun season, all things revive. The emperor should live in the Eastern Mingtang, wear green clothes, wear green jade, draw green horse-drawn carriages, ring green luan bells, and eat green dragon flags, and eat wheat and sheep. Three days before the beginning of spring, the emperor should fast
, led the three gongs and nine ministers to worship in the eastern suburbs, and issued a year's decree. Later, the emperor led the three gongs and nine ministers to personally perform spring plowing and set an example to develop agriculture. In this month, female animals cannot be used for sacrifice, it is forbidden to cut down trees, and it is forbidden to destroy bird's nests.
It is forbidden to kill female animals, small animals, and chicks. It is forbidden to build city walls and palaces, gather people to delay the farming season, and bury dead bones and corpses.
This description contains many simple ideas of the ancients.
Even the emphasis on burying corpses means that spring is here and various diseases are prone to break out.
Of course, there must be something wrong with some of the content. Not only is it prohibited to kill young animals during the Mengchun season, but also larvae are not allowed to be killed, so should locust cubs be killed?
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The people in Longgang don't know whether the baby locusts should be killed, but the wild boar that comes to their door should definitely be killed.
Before Wang Yuan could finish the ceremony, he heard shouting from outside.
Li Ying and Li Zhong, a scholar, carried a half-size wild boar on a bamboo pole and walked out of the nearby bamboo forest.
Song Ling'er followed happily, holding a bow and arrow in her hand, and loudly showed off to everyone: "I shot the fatal arrow, and I hit it three times in total!"
Li Ying threw the wild boar to the ground, stepped on the pig's head and said, "My classmates, we will move out of Longgang Mountain tomorrow. We should have a good time to celebrate today!"
"How do you eat this pig?" Chen Wenxue squatted over and asked.
Wang Yuan came out with a knife and laughed: "Of course it's hot pot!"
Yue Zhen immediately clapped her hands and agreed: "What a great idea. I haven't eaten hot pot for a year."
"I'll be the commander in chief of the kitchen."
Wang Yuan began to give orders: "Brother Boyuan, you take people to pick vegetables in the fields. Anyway, we will move tomorrow and pick all the vegetables. Brother Zonglu, you take people to pick seasonings in the mountains. Brother Wenshi, you collect all the vegetables."
Raw food and seasonings. Brother Liangchen, go negotiate with Sheng Miao and see if you can buy some fish..."
After everything was arranged, the Wang family servants began to boil water.
The dead pigs were scalded with boiling water, their bodies were scraped open with steel knives, and their bodies were quickly cut into pieces.
Wang Yuan endured the stench and used salt to clean pig offal, attracting various onlookers. At least in Guizhou, ordinary people do not eat pig offal. It is too difficult to clean, and the salt is extremely expensive - cleaning pig intestines.
The amount of salt used is enough to buy half a catty of good meat.
After tinkering for a long time, Wang Yuan began to boil lard again, and then used lard and vegetable oil to fry the hot pot base.
I just threw in whatever was available, mainly Sichuan peppercorns, ginger, and garlic. Unfortunately, I couldn't find peppers, or even substitutes for peppers.
When Uncle Wang smelled the aroma from the bottom of the pot, he rolled up his sleeves and came out, holding a knife and saying, "Master, I'm here to help."
Wang Yuan was not polite and ordered: "Cut all the meat into thin slices."
After Uncle Wang had eaten the shabu-shabu meat, he and the students used knives to cut the wild boar meat into thin slices. The remaining bones were thrown into another pot by Wang Yuan to make soup. The aroma was overwhelming. It really looked like that.
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Including Song Ling'er, there were only a dozen students left on the mountain at this time.
Probably until the evening, several bonfires were set up and everyone sat around to eat hot pot.
The dipping dish was also prepared by Wang Yuan. Since the sesame oil was not enough, he boiled the vegetable oil and cooled it, then added some salt, minced garlic and wild coriander.
Song Ling'er took a piece of pork belly, rinsed it in the pot a few times, and rolled it in the dipping sauce. Her mouth was full of oil after eating it. She nodded repeatedly and said: "Well, well, this thing is delicious. Wang Yuan, you are so awesome!"
Fish, pork and vegetables are very popular, but pig intestines and pig brains are not popular.
Wang Yuan took the lead and ate a piece of pig intestine, which made the others sick. But seeing that he was eating happily, everyone couldn't help but try it and praised it "it's so delicious".
Li Ying suddenly stood up: "Everyone, we are going down the mountain tomorrow. We will rest after getting drunk tonight!"
"Dry!"
Even Uncle Wang immediately finished a bowl, hit the dishes with chopsticks, and took the lead in singing a Jiangnan tune.
Everyone showed off their singing voices. Wang Yuan also wanted to sing a song called "Serve the Country with Loyalty", but unfortunately he only sang two or three lines and forgot the lyrics.
The remaining jars of wine were all consumed. Song Ling'er leaned on Wang Yuan, rubbing her belly with drunken eyes: "Wang Yuan, I'm so full. The hot pot is so delicious. Can you eat it every day from now on?"
"Okay, eat...burp every day!" Wang Yuan said confusedly.
Wang Yangming was also very drunk. He got a bamboo branch from nowhere, danced with the sword crookedly, and sang loudly: "When I was drunk, I lit up the lamp to read the sword. I dreamed about blowing the trumpet company. Eight hundred miles away, I burned under my command, and fifty strings were played."
The sound of breaking through the Great Wall, the autumn troops on the battlefield..."
"good!"
All the students clapped their hands and cheered.
Regardless of the cold weather, Li Ying took off his shirtless clothes, beat his chest and shouted: "Who will play with me?"
"I come!"
Tang Zhen, who was focused on studying, took off his shirt at this moment and volunteered to wrestle with Li Ying.
After living in the mountains for nearly a year, everyone was exhausted. Today they all vented their anger and had fun. Even Wang Yangming rarely lost his composure.
Wang Yuan lay with his back on the ground, looking at the stars in the night sky, wondering what night it was.