It is a shame to say that for Yangxiong's most important knowledge, "Fa Yan" and "Taixuan", Wu Lun has not read it once in the past year, because he focuses on practical learning and is really not interested in obscure theories.

Until Yangxiong's funeral was almost the same, the three brothers took turns to keep vigil, and when the fifth Lun rested, they tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so they simply lit the lamp and candle, untied the rope on the bamboo slip, and began to try to read it.

"Fa Yan" is Yang Xiong's imitation of the Analects, similar in form to quotations, one by one, Wu Lun did not know what was in it in advance, only heard Hou Ba mention, this book covers a wide range of words, meaning to judge the wrong right and wrong.

Fifth Lun only found that the first article was called "Learning to Practice", which talked about the way of learning and being a teacher.

"Master! Teacher! Kiriko's life also. It is better to learn than to learn from teachers. The teacher is also a model of people. ”

Teachers are the foundation for the unbudding people to dispel evil and do good, and to live in peace. It is better to try your best to learn than to seek a teacher, because a teacher is a model for people.

The language is somewhat obscure, not at all colloquial and witty like the Analects, and even the text of the Spring and Autumn Period can be vaguely understood when read two thousand years later. Even if the author's name is hidden, it is still a high-level judgment, and it seems that the Analects are widely circulated, and the Dharma is not known to many people, not for nothing.

Fifth Lun still insisted on reading it, but saw Yangxiong emphasizing that as a teacher, he should not hide from his disciples, and should teach each other, thinking of himself, he only sighed: "I am fortunate to be a disciple of Yangzi in this life." ”

It can be seen that Yangxiong's ideals are condensed in the book, and the weapon of criticism is still too weak after all.

It's almost enough to read one article a day, but Wu Lun still can't sleep, he has been worrying about his plan, what if it falls through?

Just like that, half asleep and half awake until dawn, the door was slammed and slammed? But Wang Long came to the door with some anger? Woke up the fifth lun roughly.

"Boyu, what do you mean?"

"What's wrong?"

Wang Long waved his sleeves and said, "Don't pretend to be innocent? It's all spreading? You wrote to Your Majesty through the National Teacher, saying that you wish to make up for the mistakes that the Master failed to do? Asking to join the pig to fight against the Huns, the Son of Heaven has sent the message to the ministers? Everyone knows it! ”

"Announced?" The big hanging stone in the fifth Lun's heart was loosened? It seems that the matter is half done, the second and third sons born to them don't have to worry for the time being, they will be killed by projectiles flying from the shadows at any time.

Wang Long, who only knows how to resign, but he doesn't understand the good intentions of the fifth lun? only said angrily: "Do you know that the master will oppose the Northern Expedition to the Huns until his death? He even made an essay to satirize this matter, criticizing the reckless use of military force, and only burning it later for the sake of implicating us, how can you go against the Master's last wish and do such a thing that betrays the will of the teacher? Now it's all out there? Fifth Lun is worthy of being a disciple of Yangxiong, the same as his teacher? pretends to be quiet and filial, but in fact he is enthusiastic about meritorious service. ”

"Wenshan! Shut up! ”

Fifth Lun is not waiting to be answered? Hou Ba walked in, and he hadn't slept for two days and two nights? Still immersed in grief? Wang Long, who was too emotional.

Houba is the oldest? is already in his thirties, and he understands the difficulties of the world: "Wenshan, the reason why Boyu came forward is precisely to protect the master's posthumous affairs and protect us!" ”

Wang Long looked at Wu Lun in amazement, and then he got up and sat up: "I was in the prison of the county mansion, and I heard my brother Eighth Jiao talk about the arrest of Gongchong Mansion by Chen Chong, the Marquis of Tongmu, even if it was a blessing word, it became a great rebellion in his mouth. “

"Even if the master didn't hand over a word, he could be vicious and vicious, and he could also be charged with crimes. The Master has passed away, and we are soft-spoken, where can we cry out for injustice? The national teacher doesn't have much real power, and he can protect you and me for a while, but he can't protect him for a lifetime. ”

Wang Long is okay, there is a good uncle like Qiong Chenghou behind him who can say a word, but Wulun and Hou Ba are purely from a poor family and have no backing, if they don't want to be hurt again inexplicably, they can only save themselves.

Silly Wang Long still didn't understand too much, Hou Ba answered: "Does Wenshan know Yunchang? ”

"Pingling people are young and ru, they are celebrities in neighboring counties, and they know it!"

When he was young, Yun Chang worshipped Wu Zhang, a doctor from the same county, as his teacher and studied "Shangshu", and Wu Zhang also accepted another disciple: Wang Mang's eldest son, Wang Yu.

At the beginning of Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang was in power, Wang Yu and Wu Zhang wanted to persuade him to return to Emperor Ping and his relatives because of splashing dog blood.

More than 1,000 of Wu Zhang's disciples changed their names and became teachers. Shi Yunchang was the official of Da Situ Peng, and reported himself as a disciple of Wu Zhang, saying that although Wu Zhang was guilty, he could not abandon him as a disciple, so he buried Wu Zhang's body. At that time, Wang Shun, the general of the chariot cavalry, appreciated his Zhijie and recommended him as a doctor for Zhonglang. ”

"After the emperor Chan Dynasty, he admired Yun Chang's respect for his teacher, and once again promoted him to be the Great Yin of Lujun."

Hou Ba said: "In my opinion, Boyu's move is to follow Yunchang and advance as retreat." ”

He said it a little far-fetched, but he was right to advance and retreat, and the fifth Lun bowed: "Yes, I am trying to show my attitude to the emperor, although the national teacher has not wanted to cause trouble recently, but through his book, he can go directly to the heavens." ”

Before the other party applied eye medicine, he first showed his attitude for the deceased Yangxiong and himself.

As for success or failure, the fifth Lun didn't have a score in advance, but fortunately, at present, he is betting right.

"If this notice is announced today, on the one hand, I am glad that someone has taken the initiative to ask for help, and on the other hand, I am also warning Wuwei Si Ming, and this matter is over. Wenshan, Gongfu, and you are safe, and the master at least doesn't have to be accused of being snared behind him. ”

"As for the gossip of outsiders, let them go." Fifth Lun shook his head, the character he created, invited fame, and it would not collapse because of this incident, not to mention, Chang'an people, who have always been forgetful and sleek, who win will help whomever they see, really don't matter, just hold the lieutenant's territory.

What's more, the purpose of the fifth lun is not only to be thorough.

Wang Long suddenly realized, and bowed down in shame: "I am stupid, I actually misunderstood Boyu, and I am guilty." ”

Fifth Lun helped him up: "The master is gone, and in the future, the three of us will work together to tide over the difficulties." ”

He quipped: "For example, the huge amount of money that is buried in Shu County has to rely on Wenshan." ”

In order to send his two sons back to the ancestral tomb of Shu County, he exhausted the silk given by Emperor Han Ai fifty horses, ten catties of gold, which shows the cost of consumption.

Fifth, the small family has paid a wave of taxes for the villagers, and there is no surplus food. Hou Ba, a foreigner, traveled to study in Chang'an, and he didn't have much savings, so he couldn't take out so much money if he was emptied.

Fortunately, Wang Long's family is a big dog, although he can't make suggestions, but he is extremely generous to his own people, and he has long patted his chest and promised that he will take care of the cost of sending Yangxiong to the funeral!

The fifth Lun replaced Wang Long, who had not slept for too long, and returned to the mourning hall again, today is the last day of the vigilance, and tomorrow he will be able to go south to Shuzhong. The mourners should have come, at least today there is no need to keep crying and causing severe pain in the toes.

The hall is furnished with curtains, with dried meat, meat sauce, sweet wine to pay tribute to Yangxiong, and the offerings are placed on the east side of the coffin. Under the eaves on the west steps is a banner, which is different from the plain white of later generations, and is actually connected with black and red.

Bowing to Yangxiong's coffin again, Wu Lun said softly: "It is to abandon some original intentions, keep climbing upward, and seek power to protect yourself." ”

"Or silently stay where you are, guarding the 'quiet', trampled on the top of your head, and the day is precarious."

"Master, do you remember when you asked me how I would choose between the two paths of the national teacher and you?"

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Fifth Lun once put himself in Wang Mang's shoes and looked at this inexplicable war from Wang Mang's point of view.

"This is a Chinese supremacist."

"More of a paranoid."

"The planned things must be done, regardless of whether the reality is unrealistic or not, he will even deceive himself: the reason why I have not been able to achieve peace in the world is because I have not finished this matter, as long as I finish it, everything will return to the beginning."

Since ten years ago, Wang Mang's restructuring has been interlocking: the restoration of Sanyong, Wang Tian's private belonging, planning of Jingtian, monetary reform, five equals and six reels, and the requisition and leveling of the four razes...... The ultimate goal is to achieve the perfect peaceful world, and Yi Di will enter the king, and the world will be the same as the big and small.

Under the retro appearance, it is to surpass the Han family in cultural and martial arts, to prove that he is the real Son of Heaven, and to be the ambitious ambition of a saint five hundred years later!

But the problem is that he is too anxious, and he doesn't care whether the previous thing is successful or not, as soon as the time comes, the next thing will be launched immediately, so the more politics and the more chaotic the world, there is today's situation.

In the fifth Lun's view, Wang Mang was actually very embarrassed in the crusade against the Xiongnu, and the situation of internal and external difficulties was there, except for himself, no one really wanted to start a war with the Xiongnu.

After all, this was when the other party wanted to make peace, and suddenly set up the Xiongnu envoy as a single Yu and brazenly started a war. It's like when the ambassador of a certain country comes to visit, but you directly detain him and announce that he will set up a separate central government for a neighboring country, and there are really few people who can do it except Wang Mang.

Ten years ago, the 12th Route Army, 300,000 people, opened the front line, but in the end it was fruitless and did not even come out, and the lesson is still in front of us. So this time, except for a few people such as Dasikong Wangyi, most of the courtiers kept silent even if they didn't dare to object, and as for the voices of the middle and bottom levels, they were completely missing.

Wu Lun had a thought: "If I were Wang Mang and insisted on doing this, I would definitely like to hear some praise to prove that I was right." ”

That's why Wang Mang listened to Chen Chong's words and ordered Yang Xiong to make a gift.

What he wants is not Fu, but a voice of support and praise in addition to his cronies and ministers.

Yang Xiong didn't hand over his works until he died, if someone took the initiative to invite Ying to fight at this time, or a young scholar who was quite famous among the people, would Wang Mang be happy or angry?

So, Fifth Lun decided to take a gamble.

There is a precedent for similar things, a few years ago, there was a great hunger and cannibalism on the northern border, and the army was still stationed in the border area. Today's single is in Xinhe, and it is appropriate to strike the army. ”

In the case that the Manchu Dynasty wanted a truce, there was a captain Han Wei who did the opposite, and wrote to Wang Mang and said: "Swallowing Hulu with the power of the new room is tantamount to fleas and lice in the mouth." The ministers are willing to have 5,000 brave men, who do not fight for food, but who are hungry for meat, and thirst for their blood, so that they can run amok! ”

Of course, this is a big talk, but Wang Mang made a bold statement and promoted Han Wei to be a general.

The same thing, Han Wei did it, but Wu Lun couldn't do it?

Coincidentally, the development of Wulun in his hometown has also fallen into a bottleneck, the clan has been integrated, the industry has been arranged, the people's hearts have been attached, and the food is being saved a little bit, but the most important thing about military training has not been seen for a long time.

Train with your family around Gyeonggi, and be blind when the emperor and Wuwei Si are blind? You don't need to organize thousands of people to prepare for thieves.

In the past, he always retreated as an advance, and resigned if he was undecided, but this time he couldn't sit still, so it was better to take the initiative to go further.

Fifth Lun does not seek to be like Han Wei and get the position of general, even if he is a small army and commands 200 people, he will accept it.

If you can get out of the way, you'll be able to master an arm.

If you can't get ahead, it's fine.

After all, in the case of a great hunger on the border, the people's distraction, the lack of fighting spirit, the unfair rewards and punishments, and even the money and grain had to be looted by the people, take the head to fight the Huns? This expedition, most of the time, is just a show, rushing to the border and defending it.

"Two hundred years ago, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang raised the banner of Daze Township, and Henkel Liu Bang slashed the snake Mangdang Mountain, how many people did they start the incident at first? Their status is just a disciple of Yongli, a small tun chief, a pavilion chief, higher than me? ”

As long as the fifth Lun is given a chance, he will return Wang Mang and Chen Chong to a pawn at the right time, Han Guju!

Let them know what TMD surprises are!

"Master, this is the path I have chosen."

Fifth Lun stared at Yang Xiong's coffin and swore secretly in his heart.

What he saw and heard this year made him see clearly that the new dynasty was already a broken ship that was rotten to the bones, and it might sink one day. In the process of climbing up, even if you are lucky enough to avoid political tilting and stand at the top of the flagpole, if you tie it too tightly, it will only overturn with it in the end, so Liu Xin's road will not be taken by the fifth Lun.

But don't do anything, hide in the mountains and forests to be a hermit, or hide in the market like Yangxiong to seek quiet, the wheels of the times are rolling, no one wants to stay out of the matter, so the way of Yangxiong, the fifth Lun will not be repeated.

"If you want to avenge you, if you want to change the world and the world, can you just rely on "Fayan" and "Taixuan"?"

"Inheriting them is the business of Hou Ba and Wang Long, and I will use a language that Chen Chong can understand to talk to him!"

The weapon of criticism, of course, cannot replace the criticism of weapons.

Material power, which can only be destroyed with material power!

At this moment, there was a shout from outside the door.

"On the orders of the Son of Heaven, Doctor Huan Tan of Zhangle came to mourn the late Doctor Ziyun!"

……

According to the etiquette system, the monarch sent people to mourn and remove the curtain of the mourning hall, and the fifth Lun and Wang Long, Hou Ba and others came to greet them outside the dormitory.

The content of the edict is that the emperor sympathized with Yangxiong for a long time, decided to restore Yangxiong's position as "Zhongsan Doctor", and sent Huan Tan to mourn the emperor, give him a coat, a prison in the shrine, and mourn 100,000 yuan.

The three disciples cried, kowtowed, and cried, but the fifth Lun was a little confused, what did Wang Mang mean when he suddenly came to such a play?

When he got up and looked at Huan Tan, Huan Tan also looked at Fifth Lun inexplicably.

Fifth Lun understood at once.

This is probably the result of Huan Tan also trying to protect Yangxiong and the three disciples, and Wang Mang in exchange for the letter, right? I don't know what Huan Tan said, the Son of Heaven sent people to mourn, which basically means that the previous matter will not be investigated.

But Wang Mang doesn't pursue Yangxiong, and the fifth Lun will pursue Wang Mang!

All in all, this is a situation where Huan Tan did not communicate with Fifth Lun, and the two of them worked hard, but the two of them collided, which was a little more useless.

By the way, it also disrupted the desire of the fifth Lun to join the army and grasp the military power as soon as possible.

But he heard Huan Tan change a silk and read: "There are three books of rites, heaven and earth, and the foundation of life; The ancestors are the foundation of the kind; The master is also the root of the rule. ”

"Yu Zhi Fifth Lun is eager to serve the country, but the teacher is important, Yun Ru first helped the teacher to return to Shuzhong for burial, and it is not too late for the first month of the first year of the emperor to go to Rong."

Fifth Lun didn't understand, but after Huan Tan entered the house and worshiped Yangxiong again, he said in a low voice: "Your Majesty was very relieved when he saw the book, and he sent a copy to the palace, and even sent one to Wuwei Siming Mansion." But I still want you to be filial to all your disciples, go and return quickly, and don't delay both things. ”

Seeing that Wu Lun was still surprised, Huan Tan sighed: "Do you think it's strange? ”

Fifth Lun nodded, it's quite strange, is this Wang Mang's style of acting?

Huan Tan sighed with emotion: "Your Majesty is such a person, Boyu, whether you believe it or not, in some things, he is indeed a 'good person'." ”

Killing sons and grandchildren, making the people of the world unhappy and having a good life? Wu Lun was noncommittal, he only felt that it was a cat crying rat fake compassion, and lowered his head and said: "It sounds like Dr. Huan knows the current day very well. ”

"That's nature." Huan Tan was stunned: "After all, I have experienced the world of success and mourning, I know the fall of the late Han Dynasty, and I have witnessed how he became the emperor as a saint." ”

Huan Tan is actually full of questions, and wants to ask Wu Lun, why did he join the army for no reason and enter the deep pit of the Northern Expedition? But don't worry, in the next two months, he will have time to get along with this son, although they have not been able to deal with each other.

"This trip to Shu, I will go with you."

Huan Tan didn't ask if Wu Lun was willing, so he patted him on the shoulder and said unashamedly:

"Don't be polite, Ziyun's disciple is my disciple!"

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PS: The second chapter is later.