Chapter 21 The Long Way Ahead
It can be seen how dangerous it is to not understand the Fa, and if you are not careful, you will drag down the entire family.
The emperor himself wanted to grab the pigtails of his courtiers, but the emperor was very happy that someone actually sent such an obvious handle, but it really saved the emperor a lot of effort.
For example, if Wang Xifeng knew those laws, would he dare to do those illegal things?
I don't dare to believe it, after all, the imperial power is feudal and the dynasty is supreme.
Even if Wang Xifeng thinks of himself as high, he does not dare to confront the imperial power.
It's a pity that Wang Xifeng doesn't know the law, she doesn't know a few big characters, let alone the law, she hasn't read a few books.
In order to earn more money, he had to lend usury and take over lawsuits, and there was a death in the middle, which can be said to have touched the law many times, and was finally liquidated and abandoned by the Jia family, and even the only daughter was sold into the flower house by her uncle.
If Wang Xifeng had front and back eyes, he would definitely not do such bad things and accumulate virtue for his daughter.
That's why Yu Ying hopes that the people she knows will read more, learn more about the Fa, and not for anything else, but increase their knowledge, and know that they will do something but not do something.
Seeing that Wang Erhei on the other side was a little annoyed, and then scratched his hair, "Sir, I don't know how to read." Wang Erhei said.
When he spoke, Wang Erhei's face was full of discomfort, and even something with thorns seemed to appear under his buttocks, and the whole person couldn't sit still.
Because when the Xiao family lived in Beiyuan, there were no law books to sell, so Yu Ying asked Wang Erhei to buy a complete set of law books of the Great Liang Dynasty, so Wang Erhei also turned over the law books of the Great Liang Dynasty.
Don't talk about several thick books, the main thing is that Wang Erhei once opened a book, and I feel that I know most of the words, but I can't figure out what it means together, and it's a headache to read.
This situation is very deep in Wang Erhei's memory.
Although Wang Erhei said that when he was a teenager, his family was poor, and the money earned by his elders barely supported the family, so he had no money to go to school.
But later, after a little money, Wang Erhei still knew a lot of words, and finally got rid of the illiterate team, but after reading the law book once, Wang Erhei still admired the reader a little more.
It's really good to have such an incomprehensible thing, but it's really good to memorize it.
And he won't be killed, which makes me feel a little ashamed to think about it.
Yu Ying, who was sitting opposite, looked at him when he heard the words, speaking of which, Wang Erhei was a little older than he remembered, mainly because of his hairline, which had begun to move back.
But Yu Ying could see from the clothes he was wearing that he was living a good life now and was not short of money.
So Yu Ying said: "If you can't read, then study now." ”
"Huh?" said Wang Er.
Wang Erhei spoke with surprise in his tone, he is no longer young, a person who is almost forty years old, does he still have to study?
"Yes, people should live and learn until they are old. Yu Ying said lightly.
At the same time, Yu Ying said in her heart: If you start reading now, you can use your brain more, which is also conducive to the prevention of senile dementia.
Of course, Yu Ying didn't plan to tell her in her heart, after all, senile dementia is a word for later generations, and if you want to explain it, it is a huge project.
However, Yu Ying still believes that people should continue to forge ahead when they live in the world.
Wang Erhei has been taking root in the capital all these years, and even inquired a lot about the Xiao family for a long time, so Yu Ying ordered a little.
However, when she heard Wang Erhei say that she couldn't read, Yu Ying's heart moved.
You must know that Wang Erhei's thoughts are the thoughts of many ordinary people.
Nowadays, books, including books on the law, are all written in classical Chinese, which is relatively concise, but the meaning often has to be interpreted one by one, and ordinary people really have no desire to read it.
And there's also a big problem, there's no punctuation throughout the book.
In other words, everyone needs their own sentence breaks when reading.
This point is a bit troublesome, the same sentence in Huaxia text can often be broken into several meanings, no wonder other people find it difficult to read.
"In fact, as long as I see the books of the sages, I feel that I don't know how to read them. Wang Erhei said with some shame.
Speaking of which, Wang Erhei scratched his head, for those things in books, Wang Erhei had read them, and he knew most of the words, but when combined, it was one word: halo!
In the end, Wang Erhei could only throw the book aside impetuously.
Of course, it's not all useless, when Wang Erhei read it many times, he found an effect, which is particularly helpful for sleep.
Of course, this kind of thing, Wang Erhei will not tell others if he is killed.
I think that Yu Ying left a strategy to guide public opinion, but it was all in the vernacular, and Wang Erhei understood it very clearly.
I saw Yu Ying's index and middle fingers tapping lightly on the tabletop, and then said, "In this case, you shouldn't be able to understand it." ”
Hearing Yu Ying's words, Wang Erhei nodded again and again, then he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then said: "If you can, books like the law, I hope there will be a version that the public can understand." ”
I saw Yu Ying's tapping fingers pause, then raised it and touched his own bottom.
"It's good, but it can only be done slowly. Yu Ying said
In this life, Yu Ying decided to compile a book, hoping that after many years, what she left behind would be useful.
In fact, Yu Ying once considered why the early text was so concise.
Probably because most of the early texts were on tortoise shells and inscriptions, the carriers were relatively small, not to mention, and an event had to be recorded, so the number of words in the text was naturally compressed and compressed.
This situation really makes future generations guess the records of their predecessors.
Later, the carrier of words was bamboo slips and wooden slips, and a book was a lot of bamboo and wood slips, which expressed many meanings and the number of words would not be much.
Of course, at the same time, there are people who use silk as a carrier, which is too expensive.
It was only with the advent of paper that the article finally had a better carrier, but there was no printing and the book needed to be copied.
So for a long time, words were required to be concise, not to be precise.
It wasn't until the advent of printing that vernacular writing finally began to appear.
Not only did the style change, but the characters also changed at the same time, from the golden script, the oracle bone script, the big seal, the small seal, and the official script after the unification of Qin, etc., until the simplified Chinese characters.
Even though the early oracle bone inscriptions were lost for various reasons, the inheritance of the text is a vein, leaving the key to deciphering the lost oracle bone inscriptions for future generations.
Of course, as time went on, eventually both the style and language moved in a direction that was more understandable.
Just like now, classical Chinese is still the mainstream of the scholars, and vernacular is more used by the Xia Riba people.
But many years later, it was the vernacular that prevailed.
After all, vernacular is more understandable to read, and classical Chinese is more of a classic book of the ancestors.
Of course, if someone just likes classical Chinese, it's not impossible.
"Xiao Langjun, if you have anything to do with errands, don't forget to find me Wang Erhei. After Wang Erhei heard this, he was overjoyed.
Yu Ying nodded and separated from Wang Erhei to do her own business.
After bidding farewell to Yu Ying, Wang Erhei still remembered Yu Ying's words in his heart, and decided to take his children and grandchildren to read some law books after going back, this decision made his children and grandchildren wail one by one.
But Wang Erhei's children and grandchildren are still in better conditions than Wang Erhei back then, and at least they have been sent to a private school to study.
I can barely read, although it is more difficult.
Of course, Wang Erhei understands very well that if he just reads it and there is no reward, his children and grandchildren must not have much enthusiasm, so he simply implements a reward system.
However, there was a grandson who worked hard to read through the law books for his reward, and he was actually on the road to the scientific examination.
It is also Wang Erhei's children and grandchildren who are much more interested in reading the law books.
The reason why this is the case is because when the emperor was trying Li Zhexuan's case, he suddenly discovered that if the imperial examination system only examines the four books and five classics, there are many protégés of the Son of Heaven who can only read.
It can be said that Li Zhexuan's case had a great impact on the emperor.
A man who is very good at reading, and even ended up being a Jinshi, actually relies on women in handling government affairs, and it is a shame to say it.
Even after arresting many officials involved in the case, the emperor investigated, although there are few strange people like Li Zhexuan who put government affairs aside, it does not mean that those officials have any ability.
And the emperor had an idea, so he picked a few officials of the Criminal Department on the spot and asked, and it turned out that there were not many who were really proficient in the law or something.
The emperor was so angry that he directly dismissed their officials and asked them to go home to read the law book, and they could only take up their posts after passing the exam.
As for why the officials in the court are incompetent? It still seems to be running well, because some officials rely more on their staff, and most of the officials themselves are strong people.
After knowing this situation, the emperor couldn't cry or laugh.
In fact, when it comes to staff, there should be money to invite them.
But the official's salary is not very high, and if you want to invite the staff, the official's salary is not enough, so where does the official's money come from?
The emperor pondered for a long time, and had some calculations in his heart.
There must be some black income, otherwise only relying on the officials' own little money, they are barely living at all, even if there are some routine benefits, they are not enough, so what does it mean, the emperor understands very well.
Therefore, the emperor was preparing to revise some subjects of the imperial examination, increase the practical examination points, and reduce the sage books.
It is the Jinshi who was originally admitted, and the young ones have to take a special business exam, after all, the officials are here to be officials, not to be a master of calligraphy and painting, let alone a master of poetry.
If you have such a grand wish, then simply go home and do it.
The officials that the emperor needs can not have any good poems, and they may not be Danqing masters, but they must have real materials in their own work.
In fact, the emperor's move stuck the necks of many officials.
So some people retired directly, that is, they were not officials.
For this kind of emperor, there are many people who want to be officials anyway.
Some of them hurriedly studied their own work, and it can be said that the atmosphere in the capital has improved a lot.
This point, even the emperor did not expect, it was simply crooked.
It's just that the ministers of the court and the central government are all from Confucianism, and they are very opposed to the emperor's idea, after all, in their opinion, the book of sages and sages is the most important, not that there is a saying: half of the treatise rules the world.
In fact, the emperor also read the Four Books and the Five Classics, but when the emperor was alive, he said that the emperor should never follow the words of the sages in everything.
Even the first emperor gave an example, talking about the saints who were highly respected by Confucianism.
For example, Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, does have a shining place in his thoughts, but everything he has done can be called a sage, which is obviously exaggeration.
In fact, Confucius was indeed a great thinker and theorist.
But the time he was an official in his life was not very long, and he even had to leave his homeland because of discord with the monarch's philosophy.
Therefore, the Four Books and the Five Classics are more theoretical, after all, we must link them with reality in order to know whether they are good or bad.
When the emperor ascended the throne, he knew that he had to support Confucianism, because it was the cornerstone.
But if the real dynasty wants to go on, then the essence of the soldiers, legalists, and vertical and horizontal families must be there, and the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought must be gathered.
Fortunately, because of Li Zhexuan's case, many of the ministers in the DPRK and China were unable to protect themselves and were not in the mood to fight against the emperor, so the emperor's idea began to be implemented.
Of course, the emperor also knew that his actions had to be taken step by step, so he didn't change much.
And Yu Ying was staring at the Li family at this time, because after the Li family's affairs were committed, the emperor sent someone to arrest the other Li family members.
In fact, Li Zhexuan's family has never been separated, and the population is also quite large, and there are also people who are officials.
But most of the Li family doesn't know what's going on?
After all, transportation in ancient society was underdeveloped, so sometimes their family did not see each other for more than ten years.
Then they really have people who don't know the trick in it, and they have always thought that Li Zhexuan's wife is the rightful Mrs. Xiao.
When they were arrested, they knew that there was such a statement, and many people felt cold in their hearts.
After many Li family members knew what the Xiao family had accused, they were so angry that they were about to explode, saying that they couldn't split up the family, okay, now let people serve it in one pot.
So the Li family, who is with Li Zhexuan's parents, asked what was going on?
And Li Zhexuan's parents and the two of them are also frightened now, in fact, this whole thing was the beginning of the start, and then Li Zhexuan agreed, and waited until the original owner was killed before telling the two old ones.
It's just that it was too late to know at that time, so they could only help their son cover up, intending to cover up the whole thing and never mention it.
Even Mother Li is planning to find someone to suppress the soul of the original owner, in her opinion, since Mrs. Xiao has married into the Li family, whether it is a human or a ghost, the Li family has the final say.
Speaking of which, when the Xiao family didn't give their daughter-in-law the dowry, Li's mother still wanted to make a fuss, or Li's father knew how to say that his family was at a loss, and Li Zhexuan also knew that it was better not to provoke Xiao Weisong, so he pretended not to know the Xiao family's actions.
Now that she has been arrested, Mother Li is furious and scolds in her mouth.
So after many Li family members found out, they felt extremely ashamed. killed the eldest lady of the family, and still thought about the dowry of the dead, how big is this face?
I can't complain that Li Zhexuan and Yan Yanran dare to do this, it turns out that the roots are here.
As a result, many Li family members have to split up, and even if they die, they don't want to be in the same clan with Li Zhexuan's parents.
In fact, the emperor once asked Xiao Weisong if he planned to kill all the Li family?
Xiao Weisong didn't have this kind of thought, but hoped to take out the Li family who didn't know at all from the incident, after all, people shouldn't take the blame for things they never did.
is just like Xiao Weisong in the past, he is obviously an ordinary family, but there are always people who attack him with his background.