Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2517 What you choose will bring you (add more)

  In Qinglong Temple, there were some discordant voices.

  This discordant sound is somewhat accidental, but it is also inevitable.

   Zheng Xuan has a problem...

  A person, as long as he is not in the world of gods and monsters, and does not have the so-called unparalleled skills, there is a high probability that he will not be able to compare with a group of people.

  Whether it is hands-on or verbal.

  Hundreds of years ago, Confucius proved this point.

At the very beginning, Confucius said by himself, his voice was too low, and no one listened to him, so he thought hard and began to recruit disciples. After that, there were seventy-two sages and three thousand disciples, so he traveled to various countries. They are all treated with courtesy.

   Can you not treat him with courtesy?

  Confucius gathered his disciples with the courtesy and affection of teachers and students. There is Zilu who is unparalleled in faith, Duanmuci who is rich and wealthy, and Ranqiu who can reform the tax system with a spear in the field.

These disciples were all under Confucius, and Confucius came as soon as he was called, and he was able to fight when he came... er, he crossed the stage, but it probably meant that. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, some small vassal states only had one city, and they could fight in the city There were only a few hundred soldiers. In comparison, Confucius' voice gradually became louder. At least some people were willing to listen to what he had to say. They didn't drive Confucius away like a beggar after meeting him.

  A hundred years later, after Confucius started a private school, all the other schools came together.

Among them, Mozi focused on ghosts and gods, righteousness, and saving the world. He gathered a group of disciples no less than Zhongni's back then. The momentum was so large that the princes were frightened. Not only did he want to treat each other with courtesy, but even his own desires had to be restrained , the orders issued by the army to go out must be forced to withdraw.

After all, when the Qi State was first established in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, only three or four hundred soldiers were able to conquer Dongyi and eventually become a powerful country. At that time, Mozi claimed that he would meet with a cloud-piercing arrow. The nobles of the Warring States were all terrified.

  Cultural identity will bring powerful cohesion.

   In this regard, Confucius and Mozi are undoubtedly the two people who have done the best.

  There are many people in future generations who want to follow suit.

   It's like the current Qinglong Temple.

  Who wouldn't want to be heard by everyone with a single call?

  But these people are not completely clear, in fact, Confucius and Mozi, the two ways of thinking are completely different.

  Although the ideas of Confucius and Mozi were derived from the historians of the Zhou Dynasty, the foundation of their theories involved the understanding of the world and the expectation of racial value judgments, and then diverged.

  In fact, both Confucianism and Mohism can govern a country.

   But the direction is different.

  What you choose is what you will bring.

  Confucius kissed each other, Mozi admired the virtuous.

  Confucius is inferior, and Mozi loves both.

  Confucius promulgates rituals, and Mozi is used for festivals.

  Confucius was born in the early Spring and Autumn Period, and was of noble origin. At that time, the feudal lords separated their regimes, and rituals and music collapsed. Confucius felt this, so he advocated rituals and music, traveled to various countries, and appealed to benevolent government. I hope to return to the time when rites and music were prosperous in the Zhou Dynasty, so many of Confucius' thoughts emphasize rites and music. But Mozi is different. Mozi's ancestors were nobles, but when he came to Mozi, he was already a commoner. Mozi used to be a farmer and a carpenter, so his thinking mostly seeks benefits for the common people, starting from the interests of the common people.

Therefore, in fact, there is no problem with Confucius’s admiration of his ideas, and Mozi’s promotion of Mohistism is also without problem. They are all products at a certain stage, and they are different according to their personal growth and living environment. theory. It’s like someone from a mason’s background cares about the mopan stone trough; someone from a carpenter’s background cares about the beams of a car and house; someone from a smelter’s background cares about cast iron blast furnaces; a farmer’s background cares about Zhuanghe retting fertilizer;

  If you fail to realize this problem, you will have problems.

Everyone has different concerns and views. They are busy on weekdays. There is not much intersection. Of course, there is nothing wrong with each other. But when certain things have to start to fold together, the conflicting points of various interests cannot be solved. When there is complete compatibility, conflicts will naturally arise.

  And when Qinglong Temple brings together people from different environments, with different worldviews and life outlooks, there will naturally be conflicts, and Zheng Xuan encountered such a "conflict".

There are many things that can be debated in Qinglong Temple's great discussion. Whether it is the logic of the scriptures or the meaning of specific words, there is actually no big problem. The problem is that the person who opens his mouth may not necessarily say everything. It is the original intention, or the true meaning.

It's like two rumormongers attacking each other, pointing at each other and yelling that this is a "rumor" and this is "false", but they avoid talking about the truth, and the specific situation is understated. You can get away with it.

   Zheng Xuan is old, so he only gives lectures at some important nodes, and at other times, even if Zheng Xuan wants to do it in his heart, he lacks physical strength and energy.

  So, the sound is distorted during the transmission process.

   This is fatal.

  Zheng Xuan, to some extent, represented the will of Hussar General Fei Qian, and he was also the main character of this Qinglong Temple discussion, but he got out of trouble.

  Of course, for Zheng Xuan, he definitely didn't want to make such a mess.

  The basket didn’t come from Zheng Xuan, but it’s similar, because Zheng Xuan is so famous. It is just like Confucius back then, or in other words, most of the children of Confucianism have a "Confucius-like" dream. This is a good thing, but when it is used by some people with ulterior motives, problems arise.

   Or, in this respect, these guys who have read the scriptures have the ingenuity that they can learn without a teacher?

In Qinglong Temple, after Zheng Xuan officially preached the three rites, there were inexplicably many more disciples of Zheng Xuan's "true biography", "true biography", "personal biography", "authentic" and so on, and then named Zheng Xuan Head, expressing convincingly that he is the real one, and others are fake, and then there are great deviations in some scriptures and annotations.

There was even a situation in which "True Biography" and "Authentic Biography" were completely opposite, and then "Personal Biography" stated that the above two were false, and he was the real one, and then "Authentic" came out to refute the rumors, saying that other They are all false, you have to believe what the only "authentic" says is true...

   For a while, there were too many voices in Qinglong Temple under the banner of Zheng Xuan, just like a certain county hotel in later generations, everyone said that they were the most authentic and pure.

  Zheng Xuan has accepted disciples, and also taught scriptures in many places.

  After Zheng Xuan went on a study tour, he returned to his hometown for more than ten years. The family is poor, and the guest farms Donglai, and there are hundreds of apprentices accompanying him." When he was more than sixty years old, he recruited "thousands of disciples from far away". It can be seen from this that Zheng Xuan gave lectures privately at that time, and they were extremely prosperous for a while, and his disciples were numerous, and he went to various parts of the country several times.

   This has led to the fact that among Zheng Xuan's disciples, it is absolutely impossible to be of the same level, and naturally the good and the bad are mixed.

Among these children, there are those who devote themselves to learning, and of course there are those who are purely for the sake of fame, and Zheng Xuan certainly has no way to say one by one to screen, sometimes just take a look and ask a question, it is already It's very rare, and sometimes I can't even do this kind of reading and questioning, and I just charge the "lecture fee" to be regarded as a disciple who has attended the class.

Are these not Zheng Xuan’s disciples? These people can mention when they listened to Zheng Xuan’s lectures, when they gave the “Teacher Appreciation Ceremony” or “Lecture Fee” to someone, and even took a photo with Zheng Xuan …Well, is this really true? Anyway, there are people who have proved that these people are indeed certified and qualified "disciples of Zheng Xuan".

   Conversely, if these people are admitted as disciples, these people are making a mess of Zheng Xuan's original path...

Zheng Xuan has been in a lot of trouble these days. He is old, and his energy cannot be compared with that of young people. It feels like pressing a gourd to float a ladle. A new statement came out, which made Zheng Xuan and his disciple Guo Yuan busy with coping, even a little overwhelmed and flustered.

   Then, things got messed up.

  Because Zheng Xuan didn't know it himself, ordinary people couldn't figure it out even more.

One moment it is this statement, another moment it is another statement, and then they all claim that they are true and others are false. Under such circumstances, the public can't even remember what Zheng Xuan originally said. …

  『Duke Zheng said this before? 』

  『It seems...isn't it...』

  『Don’t seem like it, is it right? 』

"probably…"

  『…』

  For a while, the entire activity of Qinglong Temple seemed to be flooded with countless turbulent currents, and the sound suddenly became noisy, losing the original smoothness and order.

   When Fei Qian received the news, he was busy for a while, and then he realized that this matter was simple, but it was actually simple. It's just a pity that Zheng Xuan didn't realize the current problem of Qinglong Temple. This seems to be a problem of rumors, and it seems to be a problem of disciples, but in fact it is not, it is a problem of Zheng Xuan's own choice.

   Zheng Xuan himself missed the point.

   It seemed that he was very busy, but he didn't use his strength to the point.

   Tired to death, but the effect is not much.

  『Duke Zheng, please sit down...』 Fei Qian put down the pen in his hand, smiled slightly, and said hello, 『Come on! Serve tea! 』

   Zheng Xuan sat down.

  The aroma of clear tea seems to have relieved some of the boredom in Zheng Xuan's heart.

   Zheng Xuan didn't quite understand why things turned out like this...

  『Zheng Gong, I ask Zheng Gong to correct me for writing a few words. 』Fei Qian waved his hand, signaling to the attendant to hand over the paper he had just written on the table to Zheng Xuan.

   Zheng Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly. He was a little helpless, a little ashamed, a little suspicious, and a little angry about the affairs of Qinglong Temple these days. When he came to Huqi Mansion this time, Zheng Xuan also prepared his speech and was ready to have a good talk with Fei Qian, so When he came up and got the paper delivered by Fei Qian, Zheng Xuan thought it was some kind of "cheat book" written by Fei Qian, but when he saw it, it turned out to be a dozen scattered Chinese characters that didn't quite match each other.

  It looks a little strange, but still has the bones of Chinese characters...

  Zheng Xuan frowned and said, "Where is this word...?" 』

   Fei Qian smiled and said, "How many of these words does Zheng Gong recognize?" 』Actually, it’s just simplified Chinese characters. I haven’t written them for a long time, and Fei Qian is even a little unfamiliar. What I write is somewhat weird.

  『Plausible, I don’t dare to say that I recognize it, but I can guess how many...』 Zheng Xuan pondered for a while, and said, "Could it be that Hu Man imitated the words? 』

"Uh..." Fei Qian laughed, concealing his embarrassment, and then said, "This character is incomplete, and its structure is flawed, but you can still distinguish its shape and guess its meaning... In the past, when Cangjie wrote characters, ghosts and gods were shocked." , Shocked, and now if someone creates a new word... haha, why is it that the wind is still and there is no sound? 』

Zheng Xuan also laughed out loud, "The ancient sages and sages have many good books, but Cangjie is the only one who passed on his own. They are similar to Xi Zhong as a chariot, Houji as a crop, Gao Tao as a punishment, Kunwu as a pottery, and Xia Gun as a city." , are all the actions of future generations of Fukuzawa! 』

"What Zheng Gong said is very true..." Fei Qian nodded, and then said, "For example, in a village, there is no connection, and no one in the village can read and write. A certain person first wrote the word "Guang" and called it "Ming". , also in the meaning of Ming, as time goes on, the whole village will know that "light" means "Ming". , can you immediately identify "brightness"? 』

  Zheng Xuan was silent for a long time, "I can't make a distinction. 』

  『Huainanzi said, in the past, Cangjie wrote books, but it rained millet in the sky, and ghosts cried at night. Fei Qian said slowly, "What is the rain of millet in the sky? It is a person who suffers without words in the world. The millet pays Cangjie and comes like rain. What is the ghost crying at night? It is the generation of witches and gus in the world who know their power is falling. Ghost howling. Peaches and plums, the next from Seikei. Is there anyone under the tree who says all day long that the peaches and plums here are very beautiful? 』

   Zheng Xuan couldn't answer.

  『It is a coincidence to benefit others in everything, but it is clumsy to mislead others in everything. How can we abandon cleverness and act clumsily? 』This point, Fei Qian is deeply aware.

Take writing as an example. At the beginning, it was oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, which could not escape the hands of witches and Gu. Later, it gradually became Dazhuan, then Xiaozhuan. The fonts gradually became standardized, and finally evolved into the current official script. Later, it became regular script and running script, and finally simplified vernacular characters.

"Nowadays, the number of people who can read is one or two out of a hundred. If in the future, a thousand people know the word "Ming" and a hundred people know the word "Guang", then is it true that the character known by the thousand people is correct or the word known by a hundred people?" Can words be true? 』

  『In ancient times, inscriptions were inscribed in gold, and enshrined in heaven and earth. They are known as inscriptions on gold. 』

  『Later, there are those who cited books, and they used bamboo and silk as seals. 』

  『Of course there are Han officials...』 Fei Qian said slowly, 『A scribe is an official, a vassal, a slave, but in today's world, how can there be rich writing? If all the Han people in the world learn Lishu, there will be neither cheap nor noble, so they will be Chinese characters. 』

  『Which character is true and what character is correct,』 Fei Qian looked at Zheng Xuan and said, 『It doesn't depend on you and me, it depends on the world. Since this village does not know the difference between "brightness", let it be, it is a hundred villages and thousands of villages that claim "brightness". Looking back, what is light? Does Zheng Gong think so? 』

   Open up your mouth to make rumors, run away to refute the rumors, busy to refute the rumors and forget what you should do, if it weren't for Zheng Xuan's age, you should really pick him up and make him sober.

  Competing with rumors, others say a lie, but if you have to explain ten truths, no one may believe it. Only Zheng Xuan, who is used to talking, would try to solve problems with words.

   But now, is it a question of truth or lies?

   Is it a word problem?

neither.

   is interest.

  Pull away all the appearances, lowness is all about benefits!

   So, simple, right?

   But sometimes what's on the surface can be confusing.

  Fei Qian cannot say that all of them can be exempted...

   This incident, in fact, Zheng Xuan ruined the jobs of many people!

   You know, if there is no Zheng Xuan, these people can still be happy, and for a lifetime, even father and son, old and young, the family inheritance will all live in one place!

   Just like the small village Fei Qian exemplified, light is light, and a deer is a horse!

  In fact, at the beginning, Fei Qian was also confused, mainly because Fei Qian did not expect to explode so early. Fei Qian's estimate for Qinglong Temple should be later. After all, Zheng Xuan just came to power not long ago, and the real conflict should normally break out when it is completely irreconcilable, that is, when it is almost near the end. get intense...

   Now, it seems a bit early.

Because Fei Qian had confronted Cao Cao overtly and secretly, so much so that he once thought that the spies sent by Cao Cao were making trouble again, so he immediately dispatched the Youwen Division to conduct an urgent screening, and caught some rumormongers People, but the whole situation cannot be calmed down, and there is even a tendency to intensify.

This made Fei Qian very incomprehensible. He wondered if there was something wrong with the news department. Later, after interrogating the arrested person himself, he realized that the problem was not Cao Cao or Sun Quan. These own people in Qinglong Temple.

   Or, "half" of one's own.

   That’s right, at most it can only be regarded as half, no more.

   For Fei Qian, Zheng Xuan’s serious and correct solution is of course very good, but for these half of them, no matter how correct or good Zheng Xuan’s words are, they are all wrong and bad.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. These people were originally in their own villages and in various counties. The country folk who didn't understand were stunned for a while, and now Zheng Xuan suddenly came, saying that your words before were all wrong...

   Can this Nima make people feel better?

Maybe at the beginning, these half-people didn't think about doing anything, but Qinglong Temple has a lot of discussions, various topics, and various discussions. There is no effective channel, and no corresponding regulations have been issued. There is only a general agenda, an overall framework, so these half-persons feel that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it.

  Misinterpretations, misunderstandings, various opinions, not asking for deep understanding, racing to sell solutions, disintegration, etc. It is not surprising.

Zheng Xuanyue explained among the gentry children in an attempt to gain the support of these half-persons. No matter how much emphasis or explanation is used, it is useless to a certain extent. There were more and more, and then I was devastated, I looked at one side, but I couldn't care about the other side.

  The enemy is obvious, but one's own people, especially half ones like this, are very difficult to deal with. Zheng Xuan didn't have the experience of being an upright official like Fei Qian, and he didn't have much experience in the court. Naturally, he was played around, and he didn't know what was wrong.

Because these sons of the gentry who conflicted with Zheng Xuan's interests, for their own benefit, they were submissive on the surface, but when they turned around, they said one thing and did another. After a few pieces of torn paper, they were hanged in their own village majesticly, as if they had followed the way of sages and represented the heaven and earth to impart the true meaning.

  If Zheng Xuan can't solve this problem, he will naturally be unable to solve the various confusions caused by it. To solve this problem, he must find the correct method.

  Zheng Xuan pondered for a moment, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "The old man now knows where the key lies!" These days of hard work are in vain! 』

   Fei Qian smiled. In fact, it can't be regarded as completely futile, at least Zheng Xuan has exposed some people either actively or forcedly, hasn't it?

   Now that the root of the problem has been found, it is natural to deal with it...

  (end of this chapter)