Chapter 546: Master of Scripture

It is said that three days later, the great Confucian Zheng Xuan came to Tianshui to give a lecture, and the leading figures in Tianshui participated, and Ma Yunluo was one of the heavyweight guests. Ma Yunluo agreed with the suitors that only those who participated in Zheng Xuan's lectures and answered Zheng Xuan's questions with qualifications could officially become one of the candidates for the competition.

Chen Long muttered, "Zheng Xuan? Zheng Xuan's lecture turned out to be a preliminaries, and it turned out that the husband in Ma Yunluo's heart also wanted to be both civil and military. Long Chen secretly rejoiced, if the paper is both martial arts, who in the world can compete against the Lord of the Green Dragon?

It's just that I want to participate in the preliminaries, and with my current status, I'm afraid that I will have to be driven away as a blind stream when I get to the door. It seems that further disguise is needed, Chen Long glanced at the timid Zheng Gan in front of him a few times, if he wants to successfully participate in Zheng Xuan's lecture conference, he still needs to find a way from this Zheng Gan.

Zheng Gan had already seen that Chen Long was interested in Ma Yunluo, and without waiting for Chen Long to speak, he took the lead in speaking: "Good man, if you let me go today, I will definitely have something in return." Three days later, at the lecture conference, the external security work was arranged by the city lord, and the internal reception work was carried out by my Tianshui Gang, and it was not impossible to sneak into the lecture conference. ”

Long Chen shook his head and said, "It's not enough to be just your guard. What I want is to be a decent contestant and be qualified to compete head-on with other candidates. If you don't have the means, I don't dare risk being betrayed by you. As he spoke, he sharpened the dagger in his hand on the stone beside him.

The steel dagger rubbed against the stone, making an ugly rustling sound, and Zheng Gan's hairs stood on end, and he immediately said: "Hero!" If you can give me a day, I'll figure it out for you. ”

Long Chen smiled and said, "How can I trust you?" Zheng Gan immediately said a series of addresses and said: "Good man! I still have my old mother and wife present at home, and I promise their safety that I will never dare to deceive Your Excellency. ”

Chen Long shook his head and said, "Do you think I am a robber who kills innocents?" I can capture you once, and I can naturally capture you a second time, I'm not afraid that you will lie to me. With that, he kneaded the steel dagger in his hand like a dough and threw it aside.

Zheng Gan looked at Chen Long in shock, stared at the dough dagger that was thrown aside, and said from the bottom of his heart: "Good man, you are so martial arts, I think you are very qualified to participate in the competition of the horse gang leader." It's just that at the lecture conference, there are all kinds of people, and even if a hero participates, I'm afraid it will be difficult to answer Zheng Xuan's question. Looking up, where was there still Chen Long's figure beside him, he only heard Chen Long's voice from a distance in the shadow of the tree: "I will look for you again!" ”

Zheng Gan let out a cool breath, picked up the dagger in the grass, and then stood up and left. In Zheng Gan's heart, he secretly picked up a small life, but he couldn't afford to resist at all, the heavy dough dagger in his hand was by no means something that he could resist, and he didn't want his head to be crushed like dough.

Chen Long walked out of the woods, patted the dust on his body, and walked along the road to the greenhouse. Zheng Gan's last sentence has been haunting Chen Long's mind, what is Zheng Xuan's question, which is difficult to answer? What should be the answer that qualifies?

Zheng Xuan, a master of scripture, is a native of Gaomi County, Beihai County, Qingzhou. Confucian scholars in the late Eastern Han Dynasty studied under the Fifth Yuan Dynasty to study "Jingshi Yi", "Ram Spring and Autumn" and "Three Unification Calendars", "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", and learned "Ancient Texts and Books", "Zhou Li" and "Zuo Chuan" from Zhang Gongzu, and finally learned ancient scriptures from Ma Rong. After returning from the study tour, he returned to Donglai, gathered disciples to teach, and his disciples reached thousands of people, and his family was poor and studious, and he finally became a great Confucian. The disaster of the party was imprisoned, and Du Men commented and devoted himself to writing. In his later years, he was forced to join the army, and finally died of illness in Yuancheng at the age of seventy-four.

Zheng Xuanzhi mainly focuses on ancient scriptures, and also adopts modern scriptures. He devoted his life to sorting out the ancient cultural heritage, so that the study of scriptures entered an "era of small unification". He is the author of "Seven Political Treatises on Astronomy", "Zhonghou" and other books, a total of more than one million words, known as "Zheng Xue", a "Book of Ring Zi Yi'en" is famous all over the world, and is the master of the Han Dynasty scriptures. During the Tang Zhenguan period, Zheng Xuan was listed among the twenty-two "ancestors" and deserved to enjoy the Confucian Temple.

The biography of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty summarizes Zheng Xuan's achievements in scripture and says: "Zheng Xuan encompasses the canon, gathers all opinions, deletes and reverses complicated things, changes and omissions in publications, and chooses the good and follows it, and he is a scholar who knows a little about it." Zheng Xuan's greatest achievement is to edit and annotate the "Three Rites". Although the name "Three Rites" was proposed by Ma Rong and Lu Zhi, it was determined from Zheng Xuan's annotations to "Zhou Li", "Rites" and "Rites".

The Zheng family is in the middle of the road, Zheng Xuan's grandfather Zheng Ming and father Zheng Jin are not from the public, they only work in the countryside, and the family lives in poverty. Zheng Xuan has been gifted and intelligent since childhood, and likes to read, learning the study of books and mathematics since he was a child, and is proficient in arithmetic and the five Confucian classics of "Poetry", "Book", "Yi", "Book of Rites", and "Spring and Autumn". At the same time, Zheng Xuan also liked to delve into astronomy, and mastered some techniques such as "fortune telling", "wind angle", and "hidden art" to guess good luck and evil based on changes in weather and wind direction. By the age of sixteen, he was not only proficient in Confucian classics, familiar with the ancient classics, but also proficient in the study of the art of weft and weft, and could write good articles, which made him famous in the local area and was known as a prodigy.

At that time, Du Mi, a famous scholar who served as Taishan Taishou and Beihai Xiang, met Zheng Xuan when he went to Gaomi County to inspect and thought that he was a rare talent, so that he entered Taixue and got the opportunity to study and further his studies. His teacher, the fifth Yuanxian, was the surname of Jingzhao Pingling at that time, and he was the assassin of Yanzhou, and he was a very learned doctor of scripture. Zheng Xuan studied under the fifth Yuan Xian, and successively learned "Jingshi Yi", "Ram Spring and Autumn", "Three Unified Calendars", "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", etc., all of which reached the level of proficiency. After a long time, it took Zheng Xuan ten years.

He studied the fifth yuan successively, and learned from Zhang Gongzu of Dongjun "Zhou Guan", "Book of Rites", "Zuo's Spring and Autumn", "Han Poems", "Ancient Texts and Books" and other books, which are all important classics of ancient literature and classics except for "Rites" and "Han Poems". After Zheng Xuan learned from the Fifth Yuan Xian and Zhang Gongzu the important scriptures of the two schools of modern and ancient literature and classics, he was not satisfied with this, and received employment from Chen Qiu and learned the "Law Order". During this period, he also traveled to You, He, Yan, and Henan Prefectures for the purpose of studying the Ming scriptures and the Temperance Exercises, visiting famous Confucians, turning to many teachers, humbly learning from them, and discussing academic issues together. Reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles, working tirelessly, and diligently seeking the Tao, Zheng Xuan's youth passed in such a hurry and fulfillment. By the end of his life, Zheng Xuan had become a scholar with deep attainments.

Although Zheng Xuan has learned five cars, he is not satisfied. When he felt that there was no one to consult with the scholars of Kanto anymore, he left his homeland through the relationship of his friend Lu Zhi and traveled thousands of miles to the west to enter Guanzhong, where he became a teacher and sought further study. Ma Rong was the most famous master of scripture at that time, and he was very knowledgeable. He studied the Confucian classics all over the world, and brought the study of ancient scriptures to a mature state. He had thousands of disciples, and more than 400 of them had been with him for many years, and more than 50 of them were excellent.

Ma Rong is more arrogant and exquisite, although there are many disciples, he only personally teaches a few high-achieving students, and the rest of the students are transferred to teach by these high-achieving students. After Zheng Xuan joined the school, he was not valued by Ma Rong for three years, and he never even met him, so he could only listen to the lectures of his high-level disciples. But Zheng Xuan did not relax his studies because of this, and still studied and recited day and night, without slackening. Once, Ma Rong and some of his high-level disciples were calculating the problem of the heavens together, but they encountered difficulties and could not solve them by themselves. Some people said that Zheng Xuan was good at mathematics, so they summoned him to meet him. Zheng Xuan quickly and satisfactorily solved the problem on the spot, which made Ma Rong and the disciples present shocked. Since then, Ma Rong attaches great importance to Zheng Xuan, and Zheng Xuan has sought advice from Ma Rong one by one on the difficult problems found in his usual study but not solved.

Zheng Xuan studied under Ma Rong for another seven years, and because his parents needed to be raised due to their old age, he said goodbye to Ma Rong and returned to his hometown in Shandong. Ma Rong already felt that Zheng Xuan was a great talent at this time, and he would even surpass himself, and he said to his disciples with deep emotion: "Zheng Sheng is going now, and I will go to the east!" It's a pity that after Zheng Xuandong returned, he suffered the disaster of the party, and was confined at home and was not allowed to go out to study as a professor again.

Zheng Xuan was imprisoned from the age of forty-five to the age of fifty-eight, and was granted a pardon for 14 years. During this period, he broke the family law of scripture, annotated and wrote "more than a few hundred thousand words", and finally founded "Zheng Xue", which became the "Confucianism of the world". After the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the imperial court was forced to grant amnesty to the party. After the party ban was lifted, the rulers of the imperial court had already heard of Zheng Xuan's name, so they vied to hire him to serve in important positions. However, Zheng Xuan sought fame rather than officialdom, was ashamed to be with his relatives in the temple, and never wanted to get involved in the official career, but repeatedly refused to recruit and devote himself to the academic work of writing books and lecturing.

Although the Yellow Turban Army was fierce and tyrannical, they respected Zheng Xuan very much: "When they see Xuan, they all worship, and they dare not enter the county border", Gaomi County, because of this, was not plundered by the Yellow Turban. At that time, Beihai Prime Minister Kong Rong treated him very well, and told his subordinates to call him Zheng Jun and not to call him by his name. In this way, Zheng Xuan finally ended his exile life at the age of seventy, and his only son, Zheng Yien, was promoted to filial piety by the Beihai Prime Minister Kong Rong at the age of twenty-three, but unfortunately was besieged and killed by Yuan Shao's son Yuan Tan when he led the Yellow Turban to attack Beihai. In the third year of Jian'an, the emperor conscripted Zheng Xuan as the great Sinong, which was a high-ranking official in Jiuqing, Zheng Xuan worshiped at home, and then took the car to Xuchang, but immediately excused himself to be sick, and asked to return to his hometown. Although he did not take office, he had already received this order, so the world called him Zheng Sinong. Zheng Xuan finally died in the late Han Dynasty, and was initially buried in Judong County, and later buried at the foot of Liu Zong Mountain, fifty miles northwest of Gaomi County, becoming the hometown of Zheng Gong in history.

Chen Long finally finished reading Zheng Xuan's life in his head, but he couldn't be happy in his heart, he still didn't know anything about the scriptures that Zheng Xuan studied, let alone answer the scriptures correctly. Could it be that in order to chase Ma Yunluo into his hands, he still has to make up for the scriptures and fail to learn?

Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.